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ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The Public is respectfully informed that Mr. BARTLEY will perform only Five Nights more, and that consequently the final re presentations of Shakespeare's Play of HENRY IV. will take place m Monday, Feb. 3, Friday, Feb. 7, Monday, Feb. 10, Friday, Feb. 14, and (for the last time) on Monday, Feb. 17. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LA-NE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servant' 14th time, a new Comedy, called, THE OLD LOVE AND THE NEW. Sir Algernon Conrtonn, Mr. Cooper; Major Stock, Mr. Emery; Captain Sidney Courtoun, Mr. J. Anderson ; Mr. Haythorn, Mr. Barrett ; Miss Trimmer, Mrs. Ternan ; Camilla Haythorn, Mrs. .Nisbett ; Cherry Bounce, Mrs. Walter Lacy. To be followed by a new Operetta, in One Act, called THE CADI'S DAUGHTER. After which an entirely lc ew Grand, Historical, Emblematical, Aerostatical, Gastronomical, Metaphorical, Musical, Poetical, Vocal, Municipal, Juvenile, Paatomical Pantomime, by E. Fitzball, the po pular author of " Za-ze-zi-zo-zu," entitled HARLEQUIN and HUMPTY DUMPTY; or, _ Bobbin de Bobbin and the First Lord Mayor of Lun'un. Private Boxes, 3/. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., 2/. 25., 1/. I la. 6d., and 1/. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; Mr. Sam's Libarary, St. Jarces's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell Ebers and Co.; Andrews and Alcroft, Bond-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent street ; Chappels, New Bond-street; Leader and Cocks, 63, New Bond-street; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street ; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, ss. Od. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, ls.; Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 22. 6d. ; Boxes, 2a.; Pit, Is. 6d. No Half-price to Upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from 11 till 4. It is respectfully intimated that seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the First Act ofthe Play. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. R. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT. Lord, Norland, Mr. Rogers; Sir Robert Ramble, Mr. Davenport ; Solos, Mr. Buckstone ; Placid, Mr. Howe ; Irwi n , M r. Stuart ; Lady Elinor, Mrs. Warner ; Mrs. Placid, Miss P. Horton ; Miss Wooburn, Miss Reynolds. After which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. principal characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckatone, Kra. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss P. Horton, and Miss A. Romer. To conclude with AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new grim," Drama, n 3 acts, entitled BELPHEGOR THE MOUNTEBANK; or, The Pride of Birth. Duke de Montbazon, Mr. Hughes ; Count de St. Cyr, Mr. Boyce ; The Chevalier de Rolac, Mr. 0. Smith ; Guillaume, surnamed Bel phegor, Mr. B. Webster; Ajax, alias Mr. Merryman, Mr. Wright; Captain Pufferes, Mr. Worrell ; Madeliene, Madame Celeste ; NMI Flora Aphrodite Stilz, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA; or, the Spider Ling. Characters by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Miss Woolgar, MissE. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Madame Celeste, &c. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kea' and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed AS YOU LIKE IT. Principal haracters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean, and Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. After which a new Comic Christmas Pantomime, called ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE ; or, Harlequin and the Baron all covered with Jewels and Gold. Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Massingham ; of whom also places may be taken at the Boa-office, Oxford-street, from Eleven till Fear o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestals. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HANDSOME HUSBAND. After which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza, to be called KING CHARMING ; or, the Blue Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, llomcastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Ilonner ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with THE RINGDOVES, In which Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Basil Baker. Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss M. Oliver will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. Great hit of the Romance of the Nose. THIS EVENING, Will be perfor ned ALL THAT GLITSERS IS NOT GOLD, After which LOVE AND CHARITY. - . To be followed by PRINCE DORUS ; or, The Romance of the N oso, in which Messrs. H. Farren, Compton, Shalders, W. Farren, Jun ~ Cooke ; Mesdames Louisa Howard, Ellen Turner, and. Madlle. dole will appear. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. THIS EVENING The Grand new Spectacle of KENILV{ ORTH; or the Golden Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes, ... .. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle. _ _ To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to be entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGHUE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney Box-effice open from Eleven till Fon!. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN will be found highly interesting during the present extraordinary Session of Parliament. The THIRD EDITION will contain the DEBATIS of the SAME EVENING up to the HOUR of POST; also, SPORTING of every description, with TATTERSALL'S on Monday and Thursday Evenings in time for Post; with the GAZETTES of Tuesday and Friday, con taining Army and Navy Promotions, Bankrupts, &c., and ALL NEWS arriving in London up to the Hour of Post. EXPRESS EDITIONS ON ALL IMPORTANT OCCASIONS. Orders received by all News-agents, and at the Sun Office, 112, Strand. Sun Office, ll2, Strand, JANUARY, 1851. A NOVEL BY WILLIAM HOWITT. Just ready, Ia 3 vols. post Bvo., M ADAM DORRINGTON, OF THE DENE. By WILLIAM HOWITT. Author of " The Year-Book of the Country," " The Hall and the Hamlet," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY —Morning 15 min. after 2 f Evening 32 min. after 2 To-; foazow—Morning 52 min. after 2 j Evening 9 min. after 3 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 1, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD& 41—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 37—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.4 8. WEID N.N.E.—fight breeze and fine. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. state of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. -The stations are arranged in order of latitude. KINGSTOWN (D UB LIN )-W ind S.S.E., gentle breeze partially cloudy. Pr,imoi; r Fl—W ind N.W., strong breeze -partially cloudy. POOLE -- Wind W., strong breeze-scud, rain. p imas3 „ ){sT ,___Wi n d N. W., gentle breeze -overcast. B I ITUN—Wind S.W., strung breeze-heavy rain. HASTINGS-Wind S. W., strong breeze-rain. bournam-roN-Wind S.W., strong breeze-rain. FOLKESTONE-Wind S.W. gentle breeze-overcast. BASINGSTOKE —Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. GREENWICH-Wind S., gentle breeze-heavy rain. SWINDON -Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. OXFORD -Wind S.E., gentle breeze-snow. CoLcunsTna-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-snow. Cammunua-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. Ruonv-Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. YAiLmourri-Wind S. W. strong breeze-cloudl es s. LYNN - Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. CONWAY-Wind S.E., gentle breeze-cloudless. HOLYHEAD—Wind S. h., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. LIVERPOOL—Wind S.E. calm-cloudless. BEATTOCK-Wind N.W., gentle breeze- cloudless. BERWICK Wind N.W., gentle breeze-rain. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Thursday morning at nine o'clock :- DUNDALK -Wind S.E., strong breeze-sleet, rain. Poout -Wind N.W., strong breeze-cloudless. Cum-it -Wind S.W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. YORK-Wind S. W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. DA RLLN GTON—Wild S.W., Stormy Partially cloudy. WHITEHAVEN -Wind S.W., gentle breeze- partially cloudy. r - ,II L Alk.'&l4";AAI, raNna LONDON, SATURDAY FEB RUARY 1, 1851. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has already be gun to receive his annual applicants for the aban donment of this part and that part of the existing system of taxation. Sanitary reformers want him to forego the duty levied on windows. N ewspaper proprietors, and publishers generally, want him to remit the imposts on paper, as a manufactured cor n .. modity. Some want him to run his pencil through the malt-tax, and others flesh.° the same thing to le done by the tax on advertisements. It must be ac knowledged that the Right Honourable Baronet has rather a Perplexing time ©f it, among so many, such diversified, and such persevering interro gators. Deputation after deputation is admitted to an interview with him in his official residence, and all to little or no purpose whatever. Keeping a steady eye on the loose memoranda to be afterwards gathered together for the formation of his Budget, he clings with a desperate and unyielding tenacity to every means— ;`lia" 'Matter how paltry or unjust—for swelling the 7scootin - "tof the revenue. Let it be demonstrated as that the .41logi h ea lth iA of the people is I f . !. _LX:L o / .• ..! 1 / 2 1 . A F Considering the many difficulties at all times sur rounding a Chancellor of the Exchequer—bringing him anxious days and sleepless nights, even un der the most favourable circumstances—it must be confessed that in the long run, and "in his own generation," he is acting wisely when thus ridding himself of these periodical deputations. Instinct assures him that only in this way can he re lieve himself from a multiplicity of embarrassments. Experience tells him that when once the revenue table is docked in one quarter, it must be forthwith added to in another. He knows that without this immediate and premeditated compensation, he runs the risk of finding himself a defaulter to the tune of an odd million or so at the end of the financial twelve months. To ask him, therefore, spontaneously to consent to the remission of such and such particular imposts is about as likely to elicit a favourable response as to ask a hungry giant to lay down his knife and fork at a banquet. The cravings of the financial appetite must be attended to ; and, unhappily, we English have found those cravings to be altogether insatiable. Speaking plainly, therefore, it is little less than mere waste of time, after all, to go down each January to Westminster for the purpose of laying the various grievances of the population before (of all men in the world!) the very man who, from his position and re sponsibilities, is the most solicitous to maintain those identical grievances to the very uttermost. One resource we have left, and the only one likely to prove effectual—the House of Commons. There we may look with something like confidence for the ultimate triumph of our opinions ; but even there only through the resolute application of agitators and petitioners out of doors. Without such preliminaries we may hope in vain for aid of this kind from the Imperial Legislature. True, that advantages indirectly arise to the cause we hold so much at heart from these annual deputations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It helps to rouse public attention to the existence of a great evil to learn that Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, and Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT, and Mr. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, and Mr. T. B, CROMPTON, and Mr. PETER BORTHWICK, waited upon the Right Hon. Baronet in Downing-street, for the purpose of suggesting to him the propriety of abandoning the paper duty as one pernicious in its influence on the morals and intellects of the commu nity. Equally advantageous in its effect is the an nouncement following the very day after of the Finan cial Minister having received the Hon. CHARLES VILLIERS, Sir JAMES DUKE, Mr. WILLIAM EWART, Mr. MURDO YOUNG, Mr. GRANT, and Mr. INGRAM, who attended upon him to the end that they might protest with all imaginable emphasis against the continuance of the duty levied on advertisements. The know ledge of the mere circumstance that movements of this kind are being made, with a view to forward the cause of reform in the prevailing system of taxation, acts as an encouragement to those who sympathize in any manner with the promoters of that essentially patriotic undertaking. Hence it is that we look with complacency on the annual flocking of deputa tions to the official residence of the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, satisfied that although he may (and inevitably will) remain inflexible to the force of the most cogent and persuasive arguments the public at any rate will be awakened from sluggish ness to the appreciation of Truth and Justice. The Ultramontanists, whose present object appears o be, so far as practicable, to allay the storms of in ! dignation excited in the hearts of the Protestant people of England at the recent Papal aggression, the attempt of a foreign potentate to exercise power and authority over the English soil, contend that it is merely " a spiritual and ecclesiastical supremacy" that is claimed—a supremacy which is inseparable from the constitution of the Roman Catholic Church, without which the schismatic body who resisted the assumption would be, to use the words of Dr. Cul.- LEN S " a branch cut off from the tree, or a stream divided from the fountain, or a sunbeam from the sun." The admirable pamphlet of Mr. EDWARD JAMES,* to which we directed the public attention in the early part of the week, however, furnishes the best answer to those allegations by showing, that even in what are now termed " the times of Catholic England," the Roman PONTIFF " had not by our laws and constitution any recognized or admitted spiritual authority in Eng land ;" but, on the contrary, that the spiritual claim which in these days was connected with the presentation to benefices, and the control of the Ecclesiastical Courts, was as strenuously and boldly resisted by our Roman Catholic ancestors as it is in the present day by every European nation, no matter what may be the dominant or prevailing religion. The " Voice from the Vatican" was indeed unceasingly heard, endeavouring to support the attempted usurpation, but there was a feeling of nationality, a manly and uncompromising spirit, that maintained the independence of the British people, and prevented them from bowing their necks to the Italian yoke. During successive ages, generation after generation, century after century, that independence was jealously and vigilantly guarded. Even when the " P apal ban" was more formidable, and carried with it greater terror than it could be supposed to occasion at the present day, the ancient British Church as.- serted its right to govern itself at all times. It con stituted a powerful and influential body even in the s i x th century, before the arrival of AUGUSTINE, who had been consecrated Metropolitan of the English nation. H e endeavoured to persuade the national bishops to recognise him as their spiritual superior,and dioceses a Both these demands, however, were st ea df astly op posed, and after ample discussion and calm a n d mature certain lso to rites adopt and in their observances. respec tive deliberation rejected in every particular. The supreme authority of the Bishop of ST. DAVID s, the then chief and metropolitan of the English Episcopacy, was boldly asserted, and it was declared that " it was not for British interest to own either the Roman pride or the Saxon tyranny." It was not, indeed, until many years afterwards, under the Raman dynasty, during the reign of the first HENRY, that the Arch • bishop of CANTERBURY was recognised as the English Primate. Shortly after that spirited assertion of the indepen dence of the British Church, PAULINUS, a friend and companion of AUGUSTINE, who had been appointed Bishop of Northumbria, by EDWIN, King of that district, was superseded by O S y, the successor of that Monarch, in favour of AIDAN, " to whom the KING oranted spiritual authority over his dominions, fixing * " Has Dr. Wiseman violated the Law ?" By Ed ward James, Esq., M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at-Law. London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly, injured, nay, that mortality is very considerably in creased by maintaining the abominable tax on win dows, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer still closes his eyes against the necessity for systematised ventilation, and virtually gainsays the benefits capable of being derived from a generous scheme of improvement. Remind him of the hideous Asequences resulting from the maintenance of the detestable impost on paper ; prove to him that through it the multitude are debased by the influence of a villanous and prurient literature; show how the miserable catchpenny periodicals are made up of obscenity and irreligion, and tell him, in words that admit of no denial, that these disseminators of the principles of depravity sell to the detriment of all wholesome publications of a cheap description, and to the incalculable injury of the community at large—and he will still maintain with an inflexible demeanour that the proceeds of the paper tax are necessary items in the catalogue of the revenue. Lay before him the injustice of the adver tisement duty, bring to his remembrance the severity with which it falls upon the poor servant-of-all-work seeking for a situation, imposing upon her demand for honest l a b our t h e same amount as is laid upon the capitalist announcing his wish to part with an estate of a thousand acres—and he will still remain blind to the force of every argument, and refuse to accede even to the minutest concession. He listens with unalterable affability— be can smile at a facetious observation, and sometimes, when in a more than usually good humour, crack a dry little joke him self; but the end of it all is, be bows you politely out of the reception-room, just about as wise as when you entered it, and with quite as vivid an idea of the time for the carrying into effect of all your long-cherished aspirations. " Thou cant sot, Cardinal, devise a name So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous To charge me to an answer, as the Pope. Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England Add thus much more,—that no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions; But as we, under Heaven, are s u pre m e head, So under Him that great supremacy Where we do reign we wilt alone uphold, Without the assistance of a mortal hand. So tell the Pope, all reverence set apart To him and his usurped authority." If such were not the genuine sentiments of English men of the day, this would not have received authority and currency from the hand of SHARSPERE. The ancient feeling is now restored. The English people are disposed to exclaim with HENRY " I may perceive, These Cardinals trifle with me. I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome." And that they may understand the true merits of the question and be enabled to give sufficient reasons for their sentiments and sustain these views against all opponents, we may again strongly recommend a close and attentive perusal of the able pamphlet of Mr. EDWARD JAMES. We are glad to find that the Freehold Land move ment is making great progress throughout the country. It is the true method by which, and by which alone, the working man can work out his political emancipation. It is to Englishmen, what from its name the Socititi aide toi Dieu t'aidera ought to have been to Frenchmen. The support which this movement receives from the veteran and eminently practical Reformer, Colonel Tuomrsom, is a sufficient guarantee to every one who may have before doubted of its feasibility ; a report of his admirable speech at the Bradford meeting, on this subject, will be found in another column, and we strenuously recommend it to the attentive perusal of every Free-trader,and Re former. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. M. CHAMBOLLE thus replies, in the columns of the Ordre, to the attack of M. DE LAMARTINE on the Committee of Permanence : " M. de Lamartine, making himself, after three months of scandals and calumnies, the plagiarist of the Decem brists, does not fear to denounce thirty or forty of his colleagues as having been concerned in manesuvres more or less secret, more or less culpable, which had perhaps the character, and, at all events, ought to have the effect of conspiracies. If we had not belonged to that Perma nent Committee, which is the principal object of his de nunciations, we might be indignant; but it is allowed to us who went neither to Wiesbaden nor to Claremont to smile and treat as it deserves this piece of calculated buffoonery, this ridiculous fable, the recitals of which, disseminated in advance, were to cover more serious faults and long-premeditated designs. When a man of M, de Lamartine's fame twice in a fortnight makes himself the echo of such silly assertions, it is natural to ask the question—How has he fallen into such an excess of blindness and passion-? flow? That would be a sad history to narrate, for, in looking closely we should find all the springs which, already under the monarchy, after having isolated M. de Lamartine, precipitated him into a wild and senseless opposition. What he reproaches M. Thiers, M. Berryer, and M. Dnfaure with every one knows or divines. For General Changarnier it is a difficult matter; he had a mass celebrated at the Tuileries after Louis Philippe's death. It is a great crime assuredly; but is it not a greater one to have displayed on April 16, 1848, with out any official title, sufficient activity, presence of mind, and energy, to have in a great measure the honour of the day's result. Another general (imprudent as he was) vent out to walk whilst M. de Lamartine was speaking! Oh! for him no mercy; he certainly conspired! But who is it? Is it by chance General Cavaignac, that Republican of tiers•parti, coterie, Divine right, who was shameful enough in the ter rible days of June to save Paris and France, whilst that glory belonged by right to the Executive Com mittee? Yes, certainly, all these party chiefs, since M. de Lamartine has such grievances against them, must be, whether aware of it or not, conspirators! And why should he show them any consideration? Is he not also as authorised to reproach them with having recently compromised the public peace, as he might be to accuse the chiefs of the old opposition of having agitated the country by banquets?—he, the author of that Histoire dos Girondins,' in which St. Just and Robespierre were so opportunely justified and glorified;—he, the chief speaker at the banquet of Micon ;—he, the ardent ad mirer of the socialist harangues pronounced at Lisle and elsewhere by M. Ledru-Rollin;—he who, on the eve of the catastrophes generally foreseen, and which others endeavoured with all their efforts to turn aside, made every exertion, with M. d'Alton Sh4a, to bring about that famous revolutionary banquet of the 12th arrondis sement, whence was to issue the opportunity for the plotters, the crisis for the king, and a long train of suf ferings for the people!" The Moniteur du Soir has the following : " The dotation of the President of the Republic was the subject of general conversation to-day in the Salle des Conferences at the Assembly. Several members, who pretended to be well-informed on the subject, said that the Bill would only be presented by a definitive Mi nistry, to be chosen from the old majority. In the prin cipal groups which were formed, the question of the do tation did not appear to excite so much opposition as M. Thiers appears to have anticipated in the tribune, except on the part of some Montagnards and ultra- Legitimatists." It was rumoured that MM. ODILON BARROT and LEON FAUCHER have been commissioned to form a Ministry out of th e o ld ma j or i ty, and that this Mi nistry will propose the Dotation Bill. On this ru mour the Presse makes the following sensible remarks : "It is evident that the majority, after having ad mitted its weakness, and submitted to its fall, will seek to resume by stratagem that which it is inca pable of acquiring by force. It will play a modsst part for a few days. It will applaud M. de Roger; it will caress M. Vaisse. It will put forth in its .journals that its divisions are at an end, and that it has reconstituted itself as before. Who knows? it will perhap s h old forth in its half-opened hand the charming seduction of dotation! Will the President of the lip public allow hi mself to ho taught in this En are.? Will ho consent to ali enn t e hi s right and his dignity for a hop e o f dotation. Will he choose his m in i s t r y in the ranks of the fallen majority? Will he restore to the Burgraves the influence which they re gret? Then we pity him, f or in delivering himself up to the fallen majority, he exposes himself much more than if be were to abandon himself t o t h e hostile majo rity; he yields to humi l iated enemie s who have not only an ambition to satisfy , but hav e a l so a humiliation to avenge. Such is the peril which the Pr es id ent of the madeßepublic e incurs strength by of abatnhdeonlng his situation. What has executive power in the con flict which has been going on before our eyes ? It is his right. Ile was attacked because he dismissed General Ch angarn i er; b ecause h e had disconcerted the hopes of the Monarchical parties; because he had returned t o t h e ground of the Republi c. Th ese attacks have only ser ve d t o enfranchise and to the seat of his authority at Lindesferne, instead of York, the former see." ELNAN, the successor of AIDAN, consecrated CHAD, a Northumbrian, to the see of London. From that time forth we find the Sovereign for the time being appointing and displacing prelates of his own authority, ut terly indifferent to the Papal behests the independent feeling being well expressed by the answer of ALFRED to the letters of the then PON TIFF. "I will never," said that English King, " re voke what my predecessors, by the advice of their counsellors and archbishops, have decreed in obedience to any mandates of the Apostolic see, as you are pleased to call it." From that time forth until the reign of HENRY 1., we find the English Kings not only asserting but continually exercising that power. In the reign of that Monarch, however, the notorious deficiency of whose title to the throne encou raged pretenders of every sort, we find ANSELM, Archbishop of CANTERBURY, " refusing to consecrate Bishops invested by the Crown." His brother of Yous; however, did not concur in these views, but was always ready to consecrate the bishops appointed by the SOVEREIGN, and the barons of those days, who assumed the jurisdiction of, and might almost have been termed petty kings within, their own domains, boldly resisted the encroachments of the Roman See. We cannot recapitulate the numerous instances of resistance to the Papal aggressions which th e extraordinary labour and research of Mr. JAMES has brought to light. For these we must refer to the pamphlet itself, which will well repay perusal, and which should be closely and atten tively studied by every man desirous of maintaining the independence of his native land. The Protestants will thereby learn the utter absurdity of the claim now preferred ; and the sincere and conscientious Roman Catholics—those who share in the honourable and praiseworthy sentiments of the Premier Duke, Earl, and Baron of England, and of his worthy associates, Lords BEAUMONT and CAMoTs, and a host of others, who feel and think as Englishmen owing allegiance to their ac knowledged SOVEREIGN, will derive additional encouragement to persevere in the course on which they have entered from the laudable conduct of their Roman Catholic ancestors. The great master o human nature, who ever preserved the utmost vraisemblance in all his works, showed the stern de. fiance with which even JOHN, at the time an usurper, resisted the arrogant assumption of the PONTIFF •,, itA • 40 AP I? o,l wir r —jo g . OA'? .0 4 ‘ e. , THE kr* SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, strengthen him. But if because ho has triumphed over the influence, the hopes, and the pretensions of the majority, M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte thinks to triumph over the rights, the dignity, and the sovereignty of the country, then in face of the Empire will rise up the people and Republic! Yes, behind that Parliamen tary rampart which has just crumbled away, there is an invincible and impregnable line of defence against which all ambitions and all usurpations will break; and that is the nation! In a word, M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte may impose all things on the fallen majority. Let him impose on it the Republic, universal suffrage, liberty, the destruction of misery, and- the reconciliation of classes; let him impose on it all that it has sacrificed, all that it has.rejected, all that it has disdained, all that makes Governments beloved, and revolutions detested !" The report of the Committee of Labour was pre sented to the Assembly on Thursday, and the debate on it was commenced by NI. NADAUD, the fallacy of whose Socialist theories were exposed by M. PEUPIN, himself a labouring man. NI. MADIER DE MONTJAU denounced the Assembly for doing nothing for the working classes, and was replied to by General LA• MORCIERE ; after which the debate was adjourned. Marshal JEROMB BONAPARTE, the last surviving brother of the EMPEROR, has left Paris for his seat near Chartres, on account of the state of his health. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has given notice to the central jury that they will have to proceed immediately to the exaaination and choice of the productions of French indattry destined for the Exhibition of London. M. CHARLES Dons is the president of the jury, which is b hold its first meeting on the Ist of February. The following are the princi?al items of the Bank account of the week : Franca. .., 356,157,081 ... 131,037,840 Specie in Paris Ditto in branches Bills in Paris portfolio Bills in branches .. Bills lying unpaid (none). Bank notes in circulation ... ... 423,978,800 Ditto in departments ... ... 90,753,150 Credit to Treasury ... 89,127,641 Private credit accounts ... 13,016,838 Ditto in branches ... 21,537,477 Specie has increased in Paris upwards of five and a half millions and one and a h a lf milli on i n th e de partments. Bills have increased nearly seven mil lions, which shows that a great increase of accommo dation must have been afforded to trading people in the city. The country portfolio shows a slight de cline. The note circulation has increased in the city three and a half millions, but remains stationary in the country. Thy credit to Treasury has not di minished. ... 67,303,346 ... 87,374,139 General LAPOY?E, the senior of all the French Generals, died at his seat in the Isere on the 29th, in the 94th year of h:s age. He was a general officer when BONAPARTE entered the College of Brienne as a student. General LAPOYPE had retired from active service in 1807. The Bourse was animated, and there was a con iderable amount of business transacted. Public se curities were remarkably firm. The Five per Cents. opened at 96f. 40c., and rose to 96g. 55c.; they closed at 96f. 35c. The Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 80c.; the New Loan at 36f. 25c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8701. ; Rouen, 6971. 50c.; Havre, 275 E; Great Northern, 475 f. ; Avignon, 190 f. ; Vierzon, 402 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 400 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 361 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 2501. BUSINESS DONE 1N FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 31. Boulogne and Amiens, 9 1 A—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 16 , A , —East Indian, 12—Namur and Liege, 8 1 ,4 --Norther n of France, 15 1 4—Faris and Rouen, 27% — Paris and Strasbourg, 9 1 / 2 —Rouen and Havre, 1118—Sambre and Meuse, 3 1 4—Tours and Nantes, 5. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have arrived. SALAMANCA has been elected Deputy for Calatuyd The Bolsa was closed. PORTUGAL. GERMANY. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Kolner Zeitung states, in its letters from Berlin, that the removal of the Danish " Casino Cabinet" must be considered as an essential condition to the arrangement of the Holstein question, accord ing to the spirit of the Tederal Resolution of 1846, and it adds that the question of the existence of this Cabinet is now being decided at Copenhagen. The majority in the Lower Hmse of the Diet is indeed for the Casino party, which insists on the incorpora tion of Schleswig into Denmark, and on its separation from Holstein. The Borsenhalle states from Rendsburg that the exchange of the Danish and Holstein prisoners was to take place at Kropp on the 30th and 31st ult. It is asserted that Mtjor-General WISSEL, late will act act as Secretary- a t-W ar thetCohi ef of ne t w h e p Artillery, rovi eo oal Government. The Austrian troops willleave a garrison at Ham burgh and Altona ; the bulk of their forces will pro ceed to occupy the fortress (f Rendsburg. A collision between the Danish steamer Geyser and sundry Prussian vessels has taken place in the harbour of Kiel. An inquiry has been instituted by the Prussian Government. CABINET COUNCIL.—(Tun DAy.)—The Ministers' summonses having been issue-I last evening from the Council-office, they again assembled this afternoon at two o'clock at the Foreign-ofice. There were pre sent the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Mint ) , Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Earl Grey, Sir Georg) Grey, Sir Francis Baring, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir John Hobhouse, and the Right Ho%. Fox Maule. The Ministers were sitting when we went to press. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTBRN RAILWAY..—III reference to a letter, purporting to be written by Mr. Knox, secretary of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company, to Mr. Stewart, secretary of the London and North-Western Company, ind dated 30th ult., which has appeared in some of the morning papers, we are authorised to state that no much letter had been received by Mr. Stewart at the time of our going to press. THE BRIGHTON MARRIAGE MARKETS.-Business in theSe markets, which opened so bristly at the beginning of the season, almost as suddenly grey dull, and has re mained so in spite of every effort to rev:ve it, up to the pre sent time. It is hoped that the holding of them in future in the royal grounds, in lieu of the old locality of Ship- street, may give an impetus to trade, especially as a much more equal rate of admission per head is to to charged, instead of the old and very unpopular tariff, or sliding scale, of from 2s. 84 1-13 d. to Bs. and ifs. 6d.; the latter being charged only on foreign stock, which gave local produce an advan tage of several shillings per head over the imported. The stock of all sorts has been but middling, and can hardly be said to have equalled that of former years; the bulk having been on hand many seasons, and deteriorating with age. The males have for the m)st part been short of stature, more under five feet four than a)ove that mark; and the principal features of the females have been long noses, which have much predominated; these, however, would not have en tirely prevented purchasers coming to the point, had they been accompanied by fewer short purses; though I should nevertheless say that, ttking a resume of the Brighton marriage -markets for 1 85051, the two greatest drawbacks to operating in them have been the long noses and short purses. Small brides have moved off fastest, but fat stock has no► been at all brisk. INNER TEMPLE, JAI , . 31.—The following mem bers of this society have been called to the bar, and were sworn in yesterday in the hall :—Eben Russell, Esq. ; Henry James Holthouse, Esq. ; John Hibberd Brewer, Esq. ; Wil liam Christopher Daniel IJeighton, Fellow of Queen's Col lege, Cambridge, M.A.; William Trevor Parkins, of M er t on College, Oxford, S.C.L. ; Fhi lip Anstie Smith, of University College, London, B.A. ; Granville Robert Henry Somerset, of All Souls College, Oxford, B.A. ; John Sidney Smith, Esq. ; John M`Gregor, of Trinity College, Cambridge, ALA. Robert William Harding, cf Balliol College, Oxford, B A. Parry William Corbett Jonts, of Worcester College, Oxford, 8.A.; and William Marshiter, Esq. DIED.— At Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, sud denly, on the 30th ultimo, Sr Francis Lawley, Bart., in his 69th year. THE GREAT NATIONA L EXHIBITION.—It is un derstood that 1,000 of the Irish constabulary are to come to London to assist the metropolitan force during the Great Exhibition. HE-OPENING OF OXFORb-STREET.—The portion of this important thoroughfare situated between the Hanover gates and the Regent-circus, which was closed for repairs, has been re-opened for public traffic, the authorities having found it advisable, on the repairs of half the roadway being completed, to open the line of road, in order to prevent the inconvenience experienced by the immense traffic of this part of the town. The Lord Chancellor entertained Lord Campbell and a select party at dinner, last evening, in E a t on - square; and Lady Tr uro h e ld a soiree, which wa3 also attended by a select circle. Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the 22d ult. Intelligence had been received that the Jupiter bad put into Corunna with her machinery damaged. The late monetary crisis has led to a Ministerial scheme for the increase of the export duty from 100 reis to 1,000 reis per mare on silver ore and bars. The price of sovereigns will remain at 4,500 reis. Other foreign gold coins will ba changed into Por tuguese gold. This raw has been submitted to the approval of the Cortes. The Upper Chamber of Prussia was engaged on the 29th ult. in discussing the law regulating the state of siege. Accounts from Vienna state that an Austrian army will enter Switaetland in the Spring. This an nouncement accounts for the rumours of sham plots concocted in Switzerland by MAZZINI, and supported by the money of the English clergy, with which the public has been so plied of late by those who are the agents of the Austrian Chancery. They con cocted and spread these rumours in order to afford an excuse for the perpetration of the violation of the law of nations, which Austria contemplated. FEBRUARY 1, 1851. 'CBE SHARE MARKETS, BRITISH RAILWAYS Zan way s. j Paid. Nominal Prices. Aberdeen.. .. • • •• k b 1 Do. Preference • • f Ambergste, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Ayrshire and Galloway • • Belfast and County Datva Berks and Hants Exten. (Great Western Per petual 5 per cent.) •• I Birmingham and Oxford Junction, calls duly paid, or with a guar. .. 21 Do, without a guar.• • 21 Birming., Wolverhamp ton, and Dudley, cana l duly paid, or with a guarantee •• • • •• Do. without a guar. •• Birming., Wolverhamp., and Stour Valley • • 13 1 , Birkenhead, Lances., and Cheshire Junction • • 24 Bristol and Exeter• • • • Hs Buckinghamshire • • • • II Caledonian . .. .. 51 Do. 101. Preference .. 11 Do. Clydesdale June. •• 51 Chester and Holyhead .. 51 Do. Preference .. • • L Clarence .. . • • • ,78 Do. Ist Class, 6 per ct. l 11 Do. 2.1 do., 5 per cent.; ji Do. Gov. 1.0an,4 pr. 11 Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Juuct. 4; Dublin and Kingstown.. 10 Dundalk and Enniskillen, 7 East Anglian (251. L. te E. and L. & D.) Do. (181. E. & IL) Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. Preference .. Do. (5/.) 7 pr. et. Pref. Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref. Eastern Counties Do. Exten., 5 per cent. No. Do. No. 2 .. Do .New Preference, 61 per cent. .. • • •• Do. North. and East. 6 per cent. • • • • Do. do. 5 per cent .. Do. do., New • • • 1 Eastern Union, class A,I late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares' Do. do., scrip, guaran. 6 per cent. East Lancashire • . • • Do. New quarters • • Do. 6 per cent. pref.' quarter shares.. East Lincolnshire, gua. 6 per cent •• •• Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. Exeter and Exmouth .. j Glasgow and South- West, Do. pref. consolidated ? Do. do. G. D. &C. stock Gloucester & Dean Forest Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred I Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. 1 , Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • 1 Great Southern and Western, Ireland • • 5i Do. eighths .. • • Great North of England . 18 Do. new 401. .. 4 Do. new 301. 3, Do. new 151. . j Great Western .. • • j Do. New, 17/. .. -• 1 Hull and Selby .. .. 5 Do. half shares • • • 2 Do. quarter shares -. 1 Lancaster and Carlisle .. bi Do. thirds • • • • •• 11 1; Lancaster and Preston .. 4' Lancashire and Yorkshire, 101 Do. quarter shares 1 .. 2 Do. fifths .. • • 1 Do. F. 20/. .. Do. new, guaranteed 6 per cent. .. • • 101 Do. Budders. & Shoff. 51 Do. West Riding Union 1 Leeds and Bradford • • 5 , Leeds and Thirsk • • • • 8 , Do. pref. 6 pct., No. 1 Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 1 Do. pref. 6 pct., No. 3 Do. pref. qrs., 1848 Liverpool, Cresby, and Southport .. 1 London and Blackwall • • 11 London, Brighton, and South Coast .. • • 101 Do. guarteed. 5 per ct., late Croyd•sn thirds • • ! De. preference, 8 p ct. bt Do. preference, cony. 5 per cent., 1852 Do. new guaranteed, • 6 per cent. .. London and Greenwich . 12 1 Do. preference . • • 2 London and N.-Western 10 Do. do. new quarters . 1 Do. fifths I Do. 101. sh., M. &l 5 (c London and S.-Western . IC Do. new 50/. Do. new 40/. .. Do. new preference ••1 Londonderry & Coleraine' Do. half shares .. Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct. Do. do. 6 per cent. .. Londonderry and Ennis-1 killen. .. • • Do. half shares •• Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, & • • • • ••I 6 1 61 .. ..1 2 2 3% 1% -1% 5 1 - I►% 2 .7i -1 it) 6% -6% 13 4 IA( % p ,3 4 I % dis. 36 P .. •• 1 4 De. quarters, No. 1 .. 2 Do. new, 101. preference I Do., 61. Preference • • Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union Midland .• Do. consolidated pref. I Do. 501. shares .. •• . Do. Birming & Derby II Do. Conseil. Bristol &, Birming., 6 per cent. I( Do. Bristol & Glouces. 4 Do. do. do. ••29 1 , Do. Erewash Yal. pref.l 51 Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. .• 10 Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) 4 Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. .. I Newcastle and Carlisle.. 10 Do. quarter shares .. r 2 Newmarket • • .• .. 2 Do. extension scrip ••1 2 1 Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford .. .. Newry & Enniskillen .. Newry, Warrenpoint, & Itostrevor • • .. • • Norfolk .. .. .. .. Do. New 201. shares.. Do. Extension .• .. Do. guar. 53{ per cent. Do. Waveney Valley.. Northern Counties Union North British • . .. .. Do. Preference .. .. North Staffordshire • . North-Western .. • • Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Preston and Wyre .. Do. Halves (A) • • • • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.. . • • . . Royston and Hitchin . Do. Shepreth Exten.c Scottish Central Scottish Midland • • 4 DO. new Shrewsbury & Binning Clas 3 A.. Do. Class 8.. .. Do. New Guarantee.. Shrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Alin.) .. .. pal Do. Hal res .. • • • . paii Do. Oswestry • • .. Do. New.. .. .. • . Do. 8 per cent. Pref. . Shropshire Union • • • • South Devon Do. Preference • • • . South Staffordshire • • South-Eastern .. Do. do. 4% par cent... South Wales.. .. • • South Yorksh. and River Shell., Roth., and Goole, N. Div., guar. 5 p cent. Do. do. South Div. .. Swansea & Loughor, &c. Paw Vale Extension Thames Haven Dock and Railway .. Vale of Neath .. • • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick Waterford, Wex., Wick., and Dublin .. Wear Valley, 6 per cent. guaranteed .. Do. do. Do. do. West Cornwall .. • . West London • • I 9 I do. .. do. .. to to tom li !‘ dit IN 5 % — 5 % db. %- 1 P. 29 -30 27 -28 L 5 ' 8 - 9 p L 5 7 - 8 p 10 -11 )0 78 -80 t7j 17 1 4 - 17% 50 104, - 10% [0 5 % -5% i 0 17% - 18 15 l5 - 1534 [0 1 - 10 10 H. b% 15 121 —22 Ma. 3 -3% 1% - 2 to I lox —ll Do. Ist Class Pref. (10I.) r . 1 [l3i 1.. _.. 10 1.. —.. 9% I 9 7 di,. [7% La d.x. '0 3 4 0 lf)% 16 7% •• -•• tO 8 - • 8% - Do. 2d Class do. (par) 20 Whitenayen and Furness 20 Windsor, Staines, and S. .. Western .. • • .. Wilts, Somerset, & Way. month • • • • • • • • York, Newcastle, & Ber wick .. .. • • •• Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preforenco .. ..1 Do. Hartlepool Dock and Railway .. to York and North Midland 51 Do. Fruferenco .. .. II 10 63 -64 10 65 -57 13 4 - 6 p 10 18% - 19 Z 5 13% - 13% 6% 2% - 356 74 -7% 4% -5% ?5 32 -32% i 0 29 -31 15 5% - 6 U ! " -•• 6 • • .••••• • • % 34 8 6 I 5 17% - 18% 1234 6% -6% 123 11% - 11% 1234 123 - 13% SO 40 -42 2 34 % - ii P. )O ;242 - 245 )0 87 —8 17 2% 2 diB i 0 102 104 15 f5l —53 2% 23 —24 , 0 69 —7l 3 4 6 7 p. 7}i 26 —27 p 0 57 —5B 5 10% 10 1 4 dls 1% 7 6 'l3O - 135 LIU Ali 514 din, .0 97 —9B io 15 - 16 9 3 3t 2 7 4 dim. 17 34 3 dis. 5 i% le die. 9 1 —1% p ai 7 N 94;. 953yx.d 9 ie 3 / 4 nux.d. 0 57 —6O x.d, 57 —6O x.d 10 136 —139 x.d. 15 4 11X 11% 0 233 24% 10 127 —l2B 7 4% —4% p. 2 4% p. I 12% p. 0 87 —BB 7 6 dii. 534 434 die. 2 —2% P• 1 14 -16 7% .. -.. 5 1 4% - 371 at. )0 27 -28 15 I -12% 0 10% - 11% 2 % % 0! di j , 154 —54% 1734 —l7 die. 27 —29 127 - 129 16 16 0 ~ .. )0 17% I .. -.. 5 - 534 12 0 i .. ,- •• )0 1 25 - l 5 1434 - 20 17 - 5 - 27 13% die. 18 5' L 5 8% —B% 5 431, —5 1 ,1, % 7% —74 dia. 1 .. —•• I 1514 —l6Ux.n. t 5.. 42 —43 0% I 8 - - 9 - p. NI 21 —2l3y 6M 7% 8 2% 1.!.4 —l% p. t 5 1434 154 I 5 514 7% 134 t 234 bN 5 3 6 5 dia. 12 3 5 4 dis 8 10 101,4 Id up 12 —l4 id u➢ 6 7 20 10 —ll 1 1 1 dig. 10 13% 14 6% 3!4 a dis. i 0 in —l6 :•5 14 —l3 9% —3% die. 10 24% 24% .. - .. 22 -23 LS I 4 3 dis, Boulogne and Amiens Central of France (Or. leans and Vierzon) Demerara .. Dutch Rhenish e. East Indian Do. do. do. •• Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .. Louvain ala Sambre .. Luxembourg Ditto • • •• Madrid and Valentia Maria Antonia .. Ditto, New .. Namur and Liege .. Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans • . Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre .. Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Basle .. Tours and Nantes .. Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-I den, and Ilasselt West Flanders.. 1% - 13 'OCK BANKS. 29 -31. X 4234 - 42 - 10 10 25 -25 14 0 18% - 19 :0 273 -27% 35 .. - JOINT .. - .. 22 -- 23 Australasia British North America. Colonial .... .•.. • ..... Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... 20 . -- cl •• ••• •• 42 % 43 2O }i .... 20% 10 1 4% 43( db. 17 9 16 I 2% 1 dls.l 2 7 % 6 4 —4% i 2 I 24 . 4 - 24-% . Vdis. )REIGN. I 16 -1f IA 17% • —• • 8 —4% dig. .1 —lip, 2 % 1 7% . 4 - 34 P. 1 ,6 - U P. %-156 21g -2% 8 .-104 15 114 4 3 7 4 3 Us. 34 36 27% 27% 6% —5% dis 11 —III,( 3 —3% .. .. 10;6 —9% die. Lonrion and )Vestminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New .. ...... .. 2 . . National of Ireland .. • • Provincial of Ireland.. • • l 0 - 12,i 17% -18 25 42 -4N [0 15% - 15 15 .. , 34% - 35 Do. New Union of Australia • Do. New • • • • Union of London ..... • Unipn of Madrid io lAN 13!,‘ =ie b % 18% 13% 14 18 % 11% 13 % 8734 89 7 1 4 14 l x.d. 28 27% 11% 10%, 8 %34 10% to X 16% 4 x.n 15% 16% 5 34 li 3 % % 16 12% 6 % 24N % % 20% % j 1534 N 6 % 24% N 9 % % 122% % 16% U 4 Business done to-day. 10% % dli. Anglo-Mexican(ls. 5/. p.) Asturian .... ••• • • . • Australian .... • . Barossa Range ....... Blaemarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scrip ...... • . • • ' British Iron .. .... • • Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) Do. Cocaes and Culabal 17% ,0 % % 17% 153,4 Do. St. John del Rey: Cobre Copper ...... ... Genera 1.............. Real Del Monte, ITRreg. Do. Black Debentures. Do. Red Debentures .. Santiago de Cuba ...... 6 % % 7 P P 71 70 6 p [57% 67% 57 58% ji Tin Croft United Mexican.... Canada ...... .... Gen. Steam Navigation . Penin. & Oriental Steam. Royal hall Steam Me cannot be answers will not be influenced by Weeks ended 1850-1 [130% 129% 129 22 % 88 )4 87y4[88% Paid. 1 13 0 13 5 2114 !28281 j j LISCELL. Lble for July 26th October 26 th November 23d December 21st January 4th )1 11 th 18th „ 25th interests, Paris on London. 3 Months' Date. 7. c. 25 27 25 10 25 25 24 77 24 75 24 80 24 82 24 77 Weeks ended 1850-1. HAM Hamburgh on London, 3 Months' Date. - July 26th October 26th November 23d December 21st January 4th ..... „ 11th PI 18th „ 25th 13 7A 13 5 1 13 21 13 O 12 15 13 1, 13 2 13 1 die. 54% 55 54% DSN 17% 27% - 2 14% - 13% 32% - 35 54 - 64 13% - 14 - PARIS. London on Paris, 3 Months' Date. F. C. 25 65 25 45 25 35 25 12 25 25 25 25 25 20 25 20 13 11 13 12 13 41 13 4 13 6 13 6 13 5 13 6 Nominal p rices Business do I to-day. 9 —7% I 1014 11 6% —4% ANEOUS. 42% 44 26% 28% 6Ssi 65 x. all 73 —69 ie errors of the Official Lists, and ;d correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TIVO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 3,000 bales. The market continued dull, and closed heavily.—Railway Shares were very active, and at higher prices. The decrease of the business of the Bank of England is still observable in the smaller amount of securities, and the curtailment of the circulation. The public de posits were diminished but slightly, and do not appear to be going much lower this quarter. The private lodg ments were larger, the amount of money in private channels being larger. The result of the weekly return to the 25th ult., compared with the previous statement, is as follows: Notes Issued Decrease Rest • 27,791,180 •.. 126,990 3,226,840 Increase ... 1,626 Public Deposits ... ..• ••• 5,756 995 Decrease ▪ 90,024 Other Deposits ••• 10,721,309 Increase ... 203526 Seven Day and other Bills 1,164,872 Decrease 41,553 Government Securities ... 14,145,156 Decrease ... 5,100 Other Securities ... ..• ... 12,339,494 Decrease ... 280,274 Notes ..• •.. ••• ... 8,298,980 Increase ... ▪ 327,840 Bullion ... ..• ••• ... 14,430.566 Decrease ▪ 95,881 Active Circulation ..• 19,492 200 Decrease ... •... 454,830 No important alteration occurred in the rates of the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon, but ninety days' paper on Hamburgh improved to 13 6i 4, and on Am sterdam to 11 18 to 18i. Antwerp was firm at 25 20, and Paris at the same rate. Frankfort was 1171 to 118, and Vienna 12 50 to 55. The Savannah Republican says one-half of the Loui siana banks are closed or worthless. Ot the three banks in Illinois, one is closed. Mississippi has but one bank called good. The banks of Florida are all bad, and those of Arkansas are no better. Of twenty-nine banks i❑ Georgia, thirteen are proved worthless, three more with bills too bad to be sold, and one doubtful. The course of the exchanges possesses so much in terest to the mercantile world at large, that we mat► usefully quote from the forthcoming number of the Banker's Magazine part of a condensed table, to illus trate the alteration during the present month and pre viously:— Premium on Gold per Mille at Paris. F. 9 3 51 par 31 2 dis. Gold dearer in Paris than in 1 London. MINES. URG H. London on Ramburgh, 3 Months' Date. PER CENT. .36 1.0 .80 " The influence necessarily attaching to the advanced rate of discount by the Bank of England, as intimated in our last Circular, with, according to our opinion, a needless apprehension that a further rise would ere this have taken place; the immense operations which were entered into in December, and the very general belief that the supply of Cotton would not only be materially greater than the estimates at and before the close of the last year indicated, and as a necessary con sequence, that the value of that article must not only de cline, but that lower rates for the manufactured one would be surd to accompany it, have, combinedly, pro duced a feeling of external and real inactivity in this market during the present month. " Notwithstanding these several causes and their at tendant consequences, the transactions of the month, though unaccompanied with animation, have been large, and where mainly, if not wholly, the proceeds of pre viously existing contracts, as purchases and none of them of any magnitude, have been cautiously limited to exist ing wants, under a very general impression that many descriptions of both cloth and twist would, from the real and prospective position of cotton, of necessity experi ence a decline." The English Funds continue rather heavy, but there is very little doing. Consols bring 961 Exchequer bills are 58s. to kits. premium. The New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. nave been 98 . 1 Bank Stock is firm at 2144 to 215. . . . Foreign Securities are lively. Mexican have realized 33i 1. Peruvian Four - and-a-Half per Cents. are 80i Spanish Three per Cents. bring 38k 4. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. have bean 58. Railway Shares have all been at advanced rates. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols 96i Ditto Account 96 1 i BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Hank Stock 215 214 1 4 8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97 14 VA3 3 per Cent. Console Anna Now 3 1 ,4 per Cent. Anne. Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 2 13-16 India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 6B p Ditto under 1.000/ - 7 O 7O 71 p South Sea Stock 107 5 ,E !onsols for Account 9 64 % E Kchequer Bills. 2d. March. June. 1,0601.... 5B 61 p 500/ 5B 61 p Small 5B 61 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. e,,5 per C0up0n5 t....47 Mszin— Buenos ca i3n Ayres o4B 1 8 8 0 4 n 6 d , 8, 6 Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent...... Ditto for the Account ...... 804 Ditto Deferred ..................... 36 36 1 / 2 Russian Bonds, 1i122, 5 per Cent... 1134 Ditto 44 per Cent. .......... .. .. 97%% Ditto, Small ...................... 97% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent........... 18% Ditto Passive Bonds... .................. 3 3 4% bonish Bonds,3 p er Cent,lB4o 384 ; ; f t Dividends on the above Payable in London. Dutch 24 per Cent., 12 Guild ... 58 1 /i Ditto 4 Der Cent. CerSificates ... 91 COURSE 01 Amsterdam •... 11 163( Ditto, throe months.. 11 17N Rotterdam .. •• • • •• 11 18 AntworP ••••••• • •• • • .. 25 20 Brussels •• • • ...• • 25 20 Hamburgh .. •• • • M.B. 13 634 Altona •••• •• -- Paris, 3 dayesight • 24 97% Ditto, 3 mouths .. • . 25 20 Marseilles • • •• •• 25 22v rrankforton Mains.... 118 Venus, effee. d 0...... 13 0 Trieste, ditt0...... .. 13 2 Petershurgl, , Rble •• 37% Madrid • • , • • 49% Haulms BeVillo •• ••...... EXCHANGE. Gibraltar.. • • „ • „ • „ • • • •• Leghorn .. ...... ••.. • . 80 65 Geaoa • „ • • ...... •• .. 25 55 Venice.. .. .• .. • • • • Naples .. .......... •• Palermo, peroz Messina Lisbon • • Oporto • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • Rio Janeiro •• .. •• • . Buenos Ayres .. ••.. •• New York, 60 daya'sigbt Philadelphia .... • • .... 41% 125 125 53&‘ 63% yawls OF BULLION, PER es, Foreign Geld in bars.. £l3 17 9 Portugal Gold. Coin 0 0 !;,pitnish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .• •• 0 4 114 Z Silver in bars ........ 0 5 14 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) light LONDON, F EB , I. —Wi n d a t n o on thi s d ay N airs, and dull weather. PENZANCE, JAN. 30.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Geovamia, Wrier, Constantinople, leaky. PARIS, JAN. 31.—A French vessel from Marseilles, Lacost master, was on shore on the reef of Ile Verte, near Algeciras, 14th inst.; crew (except master and one man) and a pa ss enger saved; the v esse l i s under water. DEAL, J AN. 31.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Christina, Murray, Rto Grande. Arrd. from the River, Ocean Queen, New York. Put back, Janes, Valparaiso; Patrick Henry (supposed). LIVERPOOL, JAN. 31.—Wind S.S.E.--Arrd. Usk, Valparaiso and Bahia; Sophia, Jonugo; Chaos, Sa• The view taken by the compiler of this table, and not an unreasonable one, is that the report of the French Demonetization Commission will have considerable in fluence on the Continent in allaying apprehensions, and that possibly, with the returning tranquillity of Ger many, silver will not maintain in London the price which at present it bears. The exports of the precious metals from London during the week to Thursday last were 29,000 ounces of gold to Belgium and Dunkirk, and 54,000 ounces of silver. The accounts from the manufacturing districts, as furnished by Messrs. M'lN'air, Greenhow, and Irving, of Manchester, state:— NEWPORT. rod; Beef, from 2s 6d t o 3 s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 35 Veal, 3s Od to 4 s Od ; P or k , 3e Od to 4s Od per 8110' WIEXTECRAPEL. d; Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3 5 -° Veal, 3s Od to 3s 8d; Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per 81be• NGSGATZ. Turbots, 4s Od BILL to 1 Is l Od; Brine, 8d to is 4d; S eles ' 6d to 28 3d per pair; Haddocks, 6d to Is each; Flound ers :. 10d to 2s Od p e r d oz , n; C o d Fi sh, 4s Od to 8s O d cal Whitings, 3s 6d to 6 s 6d p er 15 ; E e l s, 6d to 18 Per od Lobsters, is 3d t o 3 s Od eac h ; C rabs, 6d to 2s , each; Herrings, 2 s t o 4 s Od per 100; common 0Y8 7 . r. , ;: 6s to 12s per bush e l ; S me l ts, i s O d to 2s 0,1 pe r oti Salt Fish, 2d to 3d p er lb ; an d S prats, is 6d to 38 us per bushel. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis alb From 7d to 71c1; of Household ditto, od to 6id Pe r loaf. RIE E. Market hides, 50 D NIAR 1b to 601 b, 2d IC t oltd; ditto, 601 b 701 b, 2d to 23-d; ditto, 701 b to 80Ib, 2d to 3id; 801 b to 901 b, 2id to 3id; ditto, 901 b to 100 lb, 3d to 311 ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od; ditto, 100 lb to 11210'i; ' 3d to 4id. Calf Ski ns, li ght, Is 6d t o 3s 6d; tto full, 6s to O s Od ; H orn Hides 65 Od to Os Od; 14 Z ; Skins, Os Od t o O s Od ; Polled Sheep, 5s 8d to is Bents Kents and Half-brcd s , 4 s 1 0 d to 6s Od; Downs , 3 5 8u 4s 11d; Shearlings, 6d each. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY O r , ;Sittings in Banco, a ft er T erm, b efore Lord CA.3 tretii and Justices PATTESON. COLERIDGE and WIGHTMAN . THE LATE QUEEN DO WAGER ' S ANN 1-31 y B s THE QUEEN V. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS Of ~ Lord CAMPBELL deli TREASUR. urt ver Y ed the ta udg ment of the s. ,° is in this case thi s morn i ng. He said that the claim in t b case being mad e f or the arrears of an annuity of 51 3' 0 0 under an A c t o f P arl i ament, and chargeable upon Ike Consolidated F un d , t h e Court were of opinion that ti t application for a man d amus was regular. The right, f it existed, w as a l egal right accruing under the terms ° f the 4th and sth Willi am IV., c. 15, which enacted ' bat the payment o f suc h an annuity could only be obtaine d dot', by a warrant o f t h e L ords of the Treasury, and the °'', of granting th e warrant was imposed on them, whet' payment was due. It was contended, however, that: l . 4 the annuity w as p aya bl e quarterly and accruing d e in diem, an d therefore, being apporti ona bl e , t h e C 0111.6 , ought in the ex erc i se o f i ts discretion to withhold t"' mandamus by reas on o f t h e full quarter's Pariedtnt of the annuity ma d e to her late Majesty e Queen Dowager on the 30th June, 1837. •'`' Court was of o pi n i on t h at that payment • could o ° ,, be taken into cons id erat i on, for it was made in dischar q of a debt then d ue an d paya b le, and after a dispute c, whether in point of law it could be rightfully elaitne"; The late Queen Dowager was justified in applying & L b. money in works of c h ari ty, or i n any other manner hu' might deem fir, and i t cou ld not a f terwards be recovere d back from her nor set off against the balance of the ; quarterly payment of the annuity even after the payonl i a had been made. Th e A ttorney-General had truly Ps i that a suitor must do justice before he could reek f° r justice; but the Court was of opinion that it would be injustice to r equ i re t h at the sum of money so paid an d spent should a ft erwar d s b e demanded back and accounted for. It was upon that principle that the case of Skiriog v. Green had been decided. Therefore the fate of th e present rule dep e nd e d upon t h e question whether or no t the annuity w ere apport i onable. If it were aortionebr the mandamus mu s t i ssue; but after an attentive cons'' deration of the authorities cited during the erg„ 11 ; went the Cou r t was of opinion that the anntl", i l was not app ort i onable. The Learned Judge th e consider a bl e l ength reviewed the arguments wln,r: had been emp l oyed during the argument, and the authorities cited in their support, and then proceeded t° say that reliance had, on one side, been placed on the exalted rank of her late Majesty. The Court was at loss to know how that could advance a construction of the language of an Act of Parliament. They might S well have been told of her exemplary virtues and her saint-like death, which would ever make her memory cherished with aff‘ction by the English nation. Those virtues the Court was most willing and desirous to ac knowledge; but their Lordships sat there merely e s Judges to interpret the language of an Act of Perlis' ment; and according to the just interpretation of tha t , Act they were all c l ear l y o f op i n i on, that in the event which had happened no arrears of the annuity could be claimed subsequent to the 30th September, 1849. A ° both parties had declared that they should be contented with the opinion of the Court, without appealing to higher tribunal, the Court had now only to say that the rule for a mandamus must be discharged. Rule discharged accordingly. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) This was the first day of the sittings at Nisi Prius, st Westminster, after Hilary Term. The printed list contained an entry of 89 causes, 23 of which are remanets, and 66 new causes. Among Lb° revenue causes, there are, under the head of Custono, 11 instituted by the Attorney -General against th" London Dock Company, and 10 against the St. Katha rine Dock Company, in all, 21 causes. BO W - STREET.—(THIS DAY.) The two pri soners, Roberts and White, who stan d charged with the robbery of 601. from the Crown Ilcd, Punchbowl p u bli c-house, Holborn, were brought up and fully committed to Newgate for trial. Joseph Stanley, an attorney's clerk, and most respect; ably connected, was again placed at the bar, and charge", with stealing a quant it y o f p l ate from various taverns an d public-h ouses i n diff erent parts of the metropolis, the particulars of which have already appeared in The Sun: , 0 , The prisone r , w h o did not d eny the charge, was -.5") Cully committed for trial. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH AT WESTAIIIISTEA PALACE.—Men are employed in laying down, in Palace yard, on the north side, a number of wires to form an elec tric telegraph, which will communicate between the Min i , - ralty and Westminster P a l ace , w hi ch i s to be esta bli s hed for the purpose of any immediate emergency of a commutt,i; cation being nece'sary dining the att en d ance o f her Dillies* ' Ministers at the Parliament Houses. There are ten wire 22 which are covered with gutta percha, and which are carried through iron pipes. Au apparatus for the transmission of 2 correspondence will be constructed in a room in the West minster Palace, as als o a t t h e Admiralty. The pipes are about two feet from the surface. THE BOARD or CUSTOMS. —W e are informe d that Mr. T. A Mitchell, M.P., will give notice at the opening of the ensuing sessiuu of Parliament of a motion for a Conii mitten to inquire int o t h e constitution of the Boardl2 Curitow, vannah ; Fides, New York. Sld. Three Sisters, Para;"; Eery-rar :; Lucia • J'in" Kays Porto Rico ; Willi am btUrge:s.,, Boston. ' rut W. Brune, Bali iwore. CARDIFF, JAN. 31.—The Constantine of 1 , 0 0 1 hence to Ibr a il, struck on Lavemock Point last eig ht, ' leaky, and must discharge to repair. BELFAST, JAN. 30.—The Trafalgar smack, 0 ' a I for Fleetwood, from Glasgow, went on the rocks i d Ballycormick Point, near Grooms port, 27th fills with the tide; part - , of materials and cargo saved. COWEs, JAN. 31.—The Davenport, Havre to Cardiff drove foul of the Patience, Hartlepool to Odessa' in I gale of the 29th, the latter received considerable damage and must repair. PILL, JAN. 30.—The Seaflower, Cardiff to Ho's" has put back l ea ky, an d proceed to Bristol to discharge._ CUXHAVEN, JAN. 29.—Th ere h as b een a pretty sharp frost for th e l ast two days, but this morning i t is 431 soft and misty weather. KINGROAD.—Arrd. Commerce, Callao and Qtl' ens. town, for London. SWANSEA, JAN. 3 1.—Wind W.N.W.—Acrd. Ch ei r dra, Valparaiso. d. QUEENSToW N , JAN. 30 . —Wi n d S.W. to N.W. --Arr e Johann a an d H e l ena, Callao; Commodore, Constax36/I°Pl fur Tralee, leaky. YARMOUTH, JAN. 31.—The Floraville, of 31idddles; borough, b oun d to L ondon, was in contact Yestlr.:3l 111 " morning off C romer , w i t h the Bilbao, of Seaton 6' and received considerable damage; will repair. ; „, 0 AMSTERDAM, JAN. 29.—Th e All ersms, left SOT 31st August l as t .f or t hi s port,has notaince been bear"° MESSINA, JAN. 21.—Th e H avannah, h en ce to Terr a Nova, on sh ore near t h ere 11th inst., is a wreck. MARKET NEAVS.—(THIS DAY' ) co vErrr-Gaz.DEN. ble b For both Fruit and VegetAblee, the supplies of w were again extensive for the time of year, the den s ruled steady, at last week's quotations. 11 „ t Fruits—Pine Appl es, 4 s O d to 6s per lb; 1- u-11° Ibt Grapes, 3s Od t o 6 s; P ortugal, 8d to is O d pe-,. r Pears, is 6d to 3s 6d per dczen; ditto, 65 to 151 PI ; halt sieve; Appl es , d essert, 3s 661 to Is per bu sb i e cooking ditto, 3 s 6d t o 6s Od; Oranges, 6s Oil £ 0 os per 100; Lemons, 6i to lOs per 100; Pomegranat, to , to 6d each ; Al mon d s, 6 s O d to Os Od per peck; u 1.411 sweet, 2s ('d to 3s Od p er lb ; B raz il N uts, lOs Od to l_ r per bushel ; B arce l ona di tto, 20s Od to 225 Od Pc bushel; Filberts, 60s Od to 703 Od per 1001bs. s Vegetables—S avoy C a bb ages, 8d to is per Ar Greens, is 6d t o 2 s 6 d per dozen bunches; Broc 0; 6s Od to 10 4 p er d ozen b undles; Potatoes, 60s t°„,i-to per ton ; ditto 3 s 6d t o 4s 9 d per cwt; ditto, is '-‘,lfs 2s 9d per bushel; Turnips, is 6d to 2s fid per to' bunches; Cucumbers, 6d to is each; Leeks, Id to ) per bunch; C e l er y, 9d t o i s 6 d per bundle; Cisrr°4ll,; 2s Od to 5 s Od p er d ozen b unches; Spinach, 18% It is 6d per half sieve; Onions, 2s Od to 2s 6d p er A - f il t i• sieve; Sp an i s h di tto, 16s Od to 183 Od per box; 4'-od chokes, is 6d to 2s Od per half sieve; Endive, i s to is 6d per score; Horseradish, is Od to 4s Od r, bundle; Red B ee t , 6d to is Od per dozen; Mushroionlo:; Is 3d to Is 6d p er pott l e; S ea Kull, is 6d to 2s 6d r punnet. NE VIGATZ AND LEADEINIZAZIA „ e ke, Turkeys, 43 Od t o 10 s; Geese, 4s Od to 6s Od; It 9d to 2s 9d; Tame Rabbits, is 3d tols 9d• Wild uh' n - d 8d to Is; Pigeon s , 9d t o i s 3 d ; Roasting Pigs, 4s to 7 ° " 6 ,1 each; Surrey Fowls, 6s to lOs Od; ditto Chickens , 36 1 p. to 6s Od; Burn-door Fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od per COOI English Eggs, 9 s Od t o O s O d ; F rench ditto, 78 „t. 8- ; and Iri s h dit to, i s O d to 8s 6d per 100; Fres b ter, 10d to is 2d per ilb; Partridges, is Od to 18 6 Hares, 2s Od to 3 s Od ; L everets, 2s Od to 3s Od; Gr°,llls-tet; e2sOdto 2s 6d ; Ph easants, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Teal , t u ,d. Is Gd; Snipe s , is t o i s 6 d ; W ild Ducks, is to 23 tr-; "". goons, is to 2s Od; Plovers, 9d to is 3d; and v" ° cocks, 3s Od to 4s each. lILLY DICAZICETS. Clover, SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow H ay , 2 / 8s to 31 15i r d, 3/ Os to 4/ O s ; an d Straw, I/ Is to I/ 7s per log Both Hay and S traw moved off slowly, at our quOtstfl,. EMBEILLA.ND. M ea d ow H ay, 2/ 8s to 3/ i Clover, 3/ Os to 4l0s; and Straw, Il Is to I/ 8 3 per low Trade dull, at late rates. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay 3d. , 10 2/ 5 8 to 31 159 ; Clover, 3/ o s to 4 / Os • and Straw, I/ Os to 1175 per -- Supply good, and trade dull. t),, q Tr, /1, fro f or for