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Cabinets, and could only lead, definitively, to a negation of the most elementary principles of diplomacy. The general uneasiness, which I never cease to combat in every way, but which I find everywhere around me, still more aggravated by the last news received from Utaheite. For some days past Lord Aberdeen has had in his hands the minutes of a dispatch prepared by him self, announcing to Lord Cowley the resolution of the Cabinet to sera Mr. Pritchard back again to Otaheite, at all events, on board an English vessel. I still hope and trust that the inspirations of prudence and modera tion may yet prevail ; but I meet no one who does not speak o the present situation of affairs with the liveliest apprehensions. se. 14.—THE COUNT DE JARNAC TO N. GUIZOT. London, Aug. 28, 1844. Monsieur le Ministre,—My interviews with Lord Aberdeen upon each of our present difficulties, and par ticularly upon the affairs of Otaheite, have continued to be frequent and of the most intimate nature. Having remarked, only too often, that the Chief Se cretary of State looked sometimes to solutions which your Excellency would not accept, and sometimes to measares taken directly by England to repair what the Government and the country consider as a national affront, I have been happy to find that his ideas recur now and then to a species of satisfaction which could in no way impugn the honour of France. As soon as I saw in him the impression that a pecuniary compensa tion to Mr. Pritchard might, according to numerous precedents, be looked upon as an essential part of the solution which the Government Is now irrevocably de cided to effect, I hastened to inform your Excellency. I have never left out of sight since then the prospect of an arrangement of this kind, whenever it appeared to present itself to Lord Aberdeen's mind. I have reason to believe that a simple pecuniary compensation for the damage and suffering which Mr. Pritchard may have experienced, but which would have left France and the King's Government still responsible for all the treatment which he has undergone, would not be considered as a satisfactory solution in England. But if some of the ex pressions of disapprobation and regret which your Ex cellency addressed to me from the very first wore to be officially communicated to the British Government in the name of the King's Government, perhaps the proposi tion of an indemnity might be simultaneously presented to the Council by Lord Aberdeen, as a satisfactory offer on.l arm. en f ata lly engage d both . siries'iii `miller? I cannot, at the same time, wholly affirm that after the first violent manifestations of the English Gonrern ment and public, and the perseverance with which a very influential portion of the press has demanded the sodemn disavowal of our agents as an indispensable condition of every arrangement, a similar solution would be received in London, or be satisfactory to general opinion ; but certainly it woulfi bo conformable to the impression which, from the first, your Excellency expressed upon these events. The gravity of the present circumstances authorises me in submitting these considerations toy the particular attention of your Excellency. NO. 15.—THE COUNT DE JARNAC TO H. GUIZOT. London, Aug. 28, 18 , 4.4. Monsieur le Ministre,—Thesituation of foreign stt:airs, which in general occupies so small a portion of the public attention, has become for some days past the object of general interest and solicitude. Already, and without speaking of the incessant provo cations of the press on both sides, the projects attributed to France with regard to the regency of Tunis and the empire of Morocco, the reports spread about as t.o the fresh activity visible in our arsenals, and the armament projected at the same time by England, have excitel the liveliest uneasiness and the most evil presentiments. At the news of the destruction of Mogadore, and the ottcu pation of the island which closes its harbour a still m ore alarming impression was excited. From the very begin ning it was said that the great interests of England-- those which rendered legitimate and, perhaps, even ne - cessary an appeal to arms —were, from the very natur e of thins, engaged in this war. These very interest 3 are no, they say, placed almost in direct conflict witls those 'Nf France. And now the want of all official com munication from the King's Government with regard to the last events in Otahoite, after the delay of almost a month, has again led to the belief, that in spite of the desire of the two Sovereigns and of the two Cabinets, a rt.- lure is on the point of breaking out between the two countries. It is my duty to inform your Excellency,and I am certainly not the only ono so to do, that war, its probable nonsequencea, and the force, resources, tunt respective alliances of the two countries, have becon re here the general theme of conversation, and that the classes which from their habits and interests would be trine least inclined to admit so formidable an event, are now constantly ready to look forward to it, and discuss it. I cannot see, in the really influential portion of the public, the least animosity against France, or any ties ire to push on the Government to any premature dem, in stration of measures of provocation ; the prevailing i ca pression appears to me to be, that by the very fsrce of so many adverse circumstances, and in consequence of the state of the public tilled in France, a struggle is en the point of becoming inevitable for England. The whole Council, and the Chief Secretary of Stele for Foreign Affairs particularly, are evidently in the greatest degree occupied with the consideration of this state of fueling, as well as with all the difficulties which appear to arise on every side, as if to throw down the -work of the two Cabinets. But, of all these serious questions, that relative to the imprisonment and expul sion of Mr. Pritchard is the one which has never ceased to occupy the first place in Lord Aberdeen's mind. It is not necessary for me to tell your Excellency, that the prolonged delay in any official steps on the part of the .King's Government to disengage from the affair the honour of England, eve,y day increases the uneasiness expressed from the very first by Lord Aberdeen. Your Excellency must have yourself remarked, that the re cal of Lord Cowley has been formally pointed out, if not called for, by the principal organ of ,public opinion. I know, moreover, without a doubt, that the most influential members of the Council are much agitated with regard to the situation of affairs, and that a complete change in the exterior policy of Great Britain is daily discussed ; that the most ex treme measures—those in fact which would render per haps impossible the maintenance of diplomatic relations between the Courts—are constantly passed in review. I have every reason to fear, that if no arrangement of the present differences can be decided upon a policy in the highest degree compromising to the relations of the two Courts will shortly get the upper hand in the Council. Whilst awaiting the decision of the King's Govern ment, which all the friends of an intimate union with .France, and even those who cannot look upon it without some dislike in the most favourable circumstances, en treat me to demand of your Excellency as speedily as possible, I neglect no endeavours to re-assure and repress the apprehensions and impatience which I find on every side of me. I remind people, that after the solemn an nouncements made but a few months ago by the two Sovereigns of the existence of the cordial understanding between them, it would be deplorable if the year should pass over lith the lie being given to those royal assur ances. I repeat also, that the present difficulties are so serious, that they evidently cannot fall of themselves into forgetfulness, and that they must necessarily arrive either at a solution satisfactory to both parties, or to a rupture. In the first case, shall we regret, once such a result obtained, a few delays, a few confidential explana tions, without which such an end could not be attained ? and if, on the contrary, wo are to be driven to extremi ties, what would not be the reaction which would after wards break out on both sides the Channel, and with what severity would not history and public conscience call for a reckoning from each party for every step, every word, which may have precipitated such a for midable issue ? M. Guizot replies to these animated letters by the following dispatch : No. GUIZOT TO THE COUNT DE JARNAC. Paris, Aug. 29, 1844. Monsieur le Comte,--I have laid before the King in Council an account of the conversations I have had with the AmbassadoAf her Britannic Majesty relative to the sending away of Mr. Pritchard from the island of Otaheite, and the cinumstances which attended that measure. The King's Government did not desire to express any opinion, or come to any resolution, upon this incident, before having taken every information which it could have, and duly examined all the faces of the ease, for it has at heart to prevent everything which may effect any change in the good feeling between the two States. After this examination the King's Government is con vinced—. lit. That the right to send out of the island of Ota beite any one who might trouble or endeavour to trouble and overthrow the established order of things belonged to the King's Government and its representatives, not only in virtue of the common right of regions, but ac cording to the very terms of the treaty of the 9th of November, 1642, which institutes the French protecto- Tate, and expresses that " the direction of all affairs with foreign Governments, as well as all that concerns foreign residents, is placed at Otaheite in the hands of the French Government, in the person appointed by it." 2dly. That Mr. Pritchard from the month of Nevem her to the month of March, 1844, was constantly endea vouring, by all sorts of acts and intrigues, to prevent, trouble, and overthrow the French establishment at Utaheite, the administration of justice, the exercise of the authority of the French agents, and their relations with the.natives. When, then, in the month of March last, an insurrec tion broke out in a part of the island of Otaheite, and was commencing is Papeiti itself, the Fr e n c h au th or ities bad legitimate reasons, and were neces s arily o bli ge d to use their right to send Mr. Pritchard away from the territory of the island, where his presence arid conduct cemented a pernanent spirit of resistance and sedition among the natives. As to certain circumstance% which preceded the send ing away of Mr. Pritchard, more especially the manner iand place of his temporary imprisonment, and another ,public proclamation about him publish e d at P apeiti on . the 3d of March last, the Government sincerely 'egrets them, and the necessity for them seems no way Nistified by the facts. Governor Bruat, upon his return as Papeiti, hastgied to put a stop to these unhappy pro oeedings by ()raring the embarkation and departure of :Mr. Pritchard. The King's Government does not hesi tate to express to the Government of her Britannic Ma jesty, as it has made known at Otaheite i tself , its regret at, and disapprobation of, the circumstances I have just entioned. The King's Government has given in the Society lands undeniable proofs of the spirit of moderation and equity which has influenced its conducts It has con s tantly taken care to assure to foreigners, as well as its own countrymkn, a n ent i re liberty of worship and the niost efficacious protection. This equality of pro f, ctiorl for every religious belief is the common rig ht and the honour of i France. Th e Ki ng ' s Government bus consecrated this principl e , an d appl i ed it where ever its authority s exercised. The English mission aries themselves have acknowledged it, for the greater liars among them have held back from the i ntr i gues o f safr. Pritchard, and many have given useful aid to the French aaithoritiee. The King's Government will soru- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J'ANUARY 14, 1845. pulously maintain this liberty of conscience and their respect for all rights, and at the same time it will also maintain and enforce respect to the rights indispens able for the maintenance of order at Otaheite as well as for the surety of the French who reside there, and the authorities investedwith the exercise of the protectorate. We trust that the intentions of the British Cabinet agree with our own, and that, actuated by a proper esteem the one for the other, the two Governments have the mutual desire of inspiring their agents with the same sentiments that animate themselves, to interdict in them every act that may compromise the relations between the two States, and to strengthen, by an equal respect of their dignity and their mutual rights, the good intelli gence which happily reigns between them. I beg of you to communicate to Lord Aberdeen this dispatch, and leave him a copy of it. NO. 17.—M. GUIZOT TO TII Jig COUNT DE JARNAC. Paris, Sept. 2, 1844. Monsieur le Comte,—ln expressing to the Govern ment of her Britannic Majesty its regret and disapproval of certain circumstances which preceded the sending Mr. Pritchard out of the island of Otaheite, the King's Go vernment showed itself desirous to grant Mr. Pritchard an equitable indemnity for the damage and suffering which he sustained under such circumstances. We have not here the means of ascertaining what might be the amount of this indemnity, and we cannot rely upon the assertions alone of Mr. Pritchard. It appears to us, consequently, to be as well to place the appreciation of it to the two commanders of the French and English sta tions in the Pacific Ocean—Admiral Hamelin and Ad miral Seymour. I beg of you to make this proposition, oa our side, to the Government of her Britannic Majesty, and to let me know immediately its answer. Lord Aberdeen's instructions to Lord Cowley, upon the receipt of these dispatches, are in the following terms : No. 18.—LORD ABERDEEN TO LORD COWLEY. Foreign-office, Sept. 6, 1844. My Lord,—l subjoin here, for the information of your Excellency, the copies of two dispatches addressed by M. Guizot to the Count de Jarnac, and which have been Put into my hands by the French Chargi d'Affaires. Your Excellency will see by the first of these dis patches that M. Guizot, although complaining of the conduct of Mr. Pritchard at Otaheite, and justifying his expulsion from the island on account of the acts of hos iieltt...aztron t i b n e . F ,D rea z h t a h u p th i o n r c i e ti r e e s r i e m , p re u t te o d f t t o h e h i F m r , e d n o c e h s G n o ot_ vernment for the circumstances Willey. aueu,dnieu affair : and M. Guizot adds that these proceedings have already incurred the blame of the French Government. In the second dispatch M. Guizot announces that, in consequence of the damage and injury which the pro ceedings in question may have occasioned Mr. Pritchard, the French Government is disposed to give him an equitable indemnity. He suggests that the exact sum should be fixed by the two Admirals commanding the French and English squadrons in the Pacific Ocean, and desires to know the opinion of her Majesty's Government in answer to this proposition. In order to enable your Excellency to conform your self to the demand of M. Guizot, I consider that I can not do better than to refer you to the terms of the speech pronounced yesterday in the two Houses of Parliament by the Lords Commissioners, in the name of the Queen, as expressing the entire satisfaction experienced by her Majesty's Government at the result of the discussions which have recently taken place between us. My conviction is that the sincere desire of the two Governments to cultivate the best and most cordial un derstanding renders it almost impossible for incidents of this nature, when viewed dispassionately, and treated in a spirit of justice and moderation, ever to terminate otherwise than in an amicable and fortunate issue. As to Mr. Pritchard, it is due to him to say, that he has constantly denied the truth of the accusations brought against him, and that he demands the strictest investigation into his conduct. But, as he received another destination before the events to which we allude, and as this nomination has been since confirmed, her Majesty's Government has not considered it necessary to enter into a stricter examination of his conduct at Otaheite. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A new drama from the French, which is now at ,racting all Paris, was produced here last evening, under the title of Monseigneur, or Paris in 1730, with James Wallack as Monseigneur, the hero. Monseigneur is a chevalier d'industrie comme it y en a pea—gay, generous, light-hearted, and quasi honour able and honest. A gentleman in the strictest sense of the term ; a civilised Robin Hood, who robs from the rich to give to the poor; an advocate of moral in oppo sition to physical force ; an aristocratic thief who bath a dignified contempt for bankers, merchants, and tradesmen, who rob according to law; the Lord Chan cellor, who redresses by equity the wrongs committed by law—the Deus, albeit a black one, of the piece, and who is proud of being so considered, for when one of the characters says to him, " You must be the Devil," he almost pleads guilty to the soft impeachment, and opening his gold snuff-box with an air, and taking therefrom a pinch between his kid-gloved finger and thumb, replies, in the softest accents, " You flatter me." In the first scene we are introduced to the gang of Monseigneur, who are assembled in the market-place of the Inno cents (admirable locality, although somewhat of an anachronism). The different members place the produce of their industry in the hands of Bernard (Mr. Walton), a French Peachum, for realisation. As Peachum found fault with Macheath for neglecting his duties for his pleasure, so does Bernard find fault with Monseigneur, and hints that it would be ad visable to choose another chief, who would be more attentive to his duties. A sedan crosses the stage. It is stopped with the old challenge, " Your money or your life." Monseigneur emerges from the chair, upbrails them for their vulgarity in attempting to rob by force, and to prove the superiority of moral over physical force, engages to put them in possession of 150,000 crowns in five minutes. They retire. Germaine, a jeweller's apprentice, enters ; Mon seigneur runs against him, begs his pardon, enters into conversation with him, gets from him the de scription of 150,000 crowns' worth of jewellery which he is taking to the Regent, remonstrates with him on his imprudence in venturing abroad unarmed with such valuable property in his possession, lends him a pistol to defend himself, and shouts lustily for the police, and on their entering, declares that Germaine has robbed him of the jewels, which he describes accurately, and which are handed to him by the police, while poor Germaine is taken off to prison. Monseigneur, amidst the cheers of the band, gives the casket to Bernard, and hastens off in his sedan to the opera. We are then introduced to the saloon of Labarre, a rich banker. He has applied for a soldier to be stationed in his house to protect his riches from the band of Monseigneur. Monseigneur himself enters as the soldier, and is placed en faction over the pre cious deposit. Labarre is informed that Law, whose Mississippi bends bore in the morning an immense premium, is bankrupt, but that the bankruptcy will not be declared for some hours. He goes out to make some mercantile arrangements, and Germaine, whose innocence has been recognised, enters. He is the bearer of a note from Rosaline (Miss E. Stanley), an opera dancer, for whom he has expressed a penchant, beseeching him to lend Germaine a sum of money to rescue him from the ruin which is impend ing over him, in consequence of the loss of the jewels. Monseigneur discovers that poor Germaine is his own brother, and that Germaine's marriage with Annette has been put off in consequence of his loss. Without discovering himself to Germaine, he bids him marry Annette at once, order a sumptuous wedding dinner at a guinguette which he names, and promises to meet him there, pay for the wedding dinner, and restore to him the lost jewels. Germaine leaves the banker's to do as he has been ordered, and Labarre enters, accompanied by Bernard, who has ap propriated the jewels to his own use, and offers them for sale to the banker. The wily banker declares he has not cash sufficient for the purpose, but offers Mississippi bonds, which are accepted by Ber nard, and the jewels are dispatched by Labarre as a present to Rosaline. Bernard in the meanwhile has given information that the soldier at Labarre's is the redoubted Monseigneur, who is, therefore, locked in the room, but makes his escape up the chimney. The next scene takes place in Rosaline's boudoir. She hates Labarre, but she loves the jewels. She delibe rates whether she shall ;not return them, but retires to adorn herself with them, leaving the casket on the table. Monseigneur enters through the window, seizes the casket, but finds it empty. Rosaline comes in wearing the jewels; in Monseigneur she recognises the handsome incognito who had won her affections at the opera. Labarre's voice is heard without, and to escape from him she consents to fly, j ewe l s an d a ll, with M onsiegneur. They arrive at the gui ngue tt e w h ere th e marr i age party of Germaine are assembled. Monseigneur has the opera dancer and the jewels, but the puzzle is how to separate them. Fuming with rage, Labarre arrives, and loudly calls for the police to restore to him his jewels. He is followed by Bernard, who also calls for justice on the swindler who has given him worthless Mississippi bonds in exchange for his jewels; and, to the surprise of all, Monseigneur himself, who is recognised, joins in the cry. "Do you call f or th e police to take yourself into custody ?” asks Rosaline. " No, Madame," replies he, "to take you into cus tody ; you stole these jewels from the banker." She restores them to Labarre. " You swindled them from Bernard," exclaims Monseigneur ; and the banker, compelled to disgorge, restores them to the cashier of the band. " Meanest and most contemptible of thieves, thou who would'st cheat thy brothers, hide thy head where they may never find thee," says Mon seigneur to B ernar d , as snatc hi ng t h e casket f rom him he restores it t o G erma i ne , at th e same t i me or dering his brother to quit Paris for ever, and go down and . comfort his old f a th er i n B r itt any. M on - Yeigneur the drama, and Wallack acted Monseig neur admirably. Nothing could be finer than the reckless nonchalance whi c h h e threw into the cha racter; and the little touches of pathos in the inter view with his brother, when he inquir es a ft er his old father, w ere beautifully g i ven , an d affected many of the audience even to tears. His Monseigneur is, if possible, superior even t o hi s D on Caesar de Bazan, and the piece will no doubt have a long run. Wallack and Miss Stanley were called for at the fall of the curtain, and the piece was announced for repetition four times a-week amidst the unanimous applause of a crowded house. Now reedy, Itt 2 vols,, pest Sve., with tumorous Illnstratiops by Leech. The FORTUNES of THE SCA fiEI - Cdo - 6D FAMILY. By ALBERT SMITH, Esq., Author of " The Adveuturee of Mr. Ledbury," " The }'assail Bowl," &c. Riahard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had at all the Libraries. MR. MILTON'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., L ADY CECILIA FAR.RENCOURT. A NOVEL. By HENRY MILTON, Esq, Author of " Rivalry." " She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; She is a woman, therefore may be won."—Shakspeare. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Seria, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; Moncenigo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Poole. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinade, called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CRUSOE. Robinson Crusoe. Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell; Columbine, Miss Carson. .. _ . The Box:office is open aily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, tad Tickets may be had on appkcation to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket Mr. Strickland Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Matheii s V. Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren; The Countess of Ebnipion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, bliss Julia Bennett. After which a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. Ring Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Di , chess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC TORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Pnvate Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half each. nckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office. A•lm Ten till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by specialpermission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE C H IMES. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. o i rnith; Alderman Cute, Ir. VricrhAi Tuaby.,,yr Wilkin. • — s:C" A r All u son ; Richard , M r. by; eggy Vec k, M iss _ ort'scue ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which: NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bed ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the King of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lons. dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanaers. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odice open from Elevon u 4 Your. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an English Version of the ce'ebrated Opera Bufla, in Two Acts, called THE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. The Music by Rossini. Mustapha, Mr. P. Corti ; Lindor, Mr. Allen; Taddeo, Mr. Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattacks ; Isabella, Mdlle. Helen Condeli ; Elvira, Miss Grant; Zulma, Miss Brentnall. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr. Corti, Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Havina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, es.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2a. lid. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, W. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Tneatre. HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews, Collier Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden, Miss drove, and klrs. Keeley. Atter which, a Now Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Mss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Histaricil, Romantic Pantomirnlcal, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND uRSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keel_ey , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF . 4-I.oo.l.lSSlo24.—Baicony tioxes. 4;.; Upper Boxes, ?a. ; Pit, ts. / Gallery, M. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2r. ; Upper Bozos, Is. lid.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the it..-ucony Tier t.olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second rier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the bier (holding six persons), One Guirea. Tne i ox.o.rcei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent.garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows t the Grand Christmas Holiday Noveltie;, and I reble Rotation of Er.tertaininents at ASTLF.Y'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Spe3tacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living For and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse nianship. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, c: lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, dr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. - • - Acting and ste.manager:, Mr. W. a Broadfoot. Vox-office open from Eleven till live. I.cs4ions in the Art of Riding by Mr. R. Smith daily. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. M usual, the beet Pantomime of the Seagoe A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved I I Laughter, Wonder, and Delight !I ! The Fust Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New I ! I ! THIS EVENINII Will be repeated THESKVE3IAoiOF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corri (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Homier, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Horner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To he fol'swed by THE WET NURSE. Supported lay Mows. Neville, W. Smith. and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS:, sHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corfi; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Mice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity, and the Ncw Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will be repeated NIATII;i.SINE; or, the Child of Charity. Sup. ported be Mr. o,baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Mi s s Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, and Miss Treble. Attie; which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PALACE OF GENEVA. Characters by Messrs. Herbert and J. T. John. son, Miss E. Terry, and Miss Treble. To conclade with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT COD LINS ' • or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle, Le Fite, THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, JAN. 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 47 ; Noon, 40, BAROMETER, 29.72.—W1ND, E. Yarn.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and " Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather when the mercury falls below 30. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-ERIDGE THIS DAY. %limning ... 57 minutes after 5 1 Evening ... 19 minutes after ft 4, /,,, • ira . %, 4 , :t , t . " - k . VI . 01 ' 1 ( \ tll,,A, __.. . )()\‘; :: S rik • , '1 . , ,,, , : 1 A 03 ~ :040 4, 7 4.106 - ,A x i o . ..N.,*t ut f is . ol , :f ... cw „.,••• r , ~ _ ~... . , , t ...„, , • ...••:.-- - . 1. - •• . ‘-' ' IJi ' ~ . " Ili k = e.,-,,..*-' 0s . 4 r•in 0 s ''',,'" Sr b al "7;' -vr- _ t• , - 4 :*.N . -'. 4 • ,, .. SECOND EDITION:. etenins .sint LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1845. Together with the second and " special " Message of Mr. President TYLER on the subject of the tone assumed by the Minister of Mexico, in his corre spondence with the Minister of the United States, accredited to that Power, we yesterday published, from the New York Herald, a curious article headed " European Interference in American Affairs." It will be remembered that this correspondence regarded what Mr. TYLER is pleased to call " the extraordi nary and highly offensive language which th e Mexican Government has thought proper to employ in reply to the remonstrance of the (United States') Executive, through Mr. SHANNON, against the renewal of the war with Texas, whilst the question' of annexation' was pending before (the United States') Congress and the people." What the nature of the Mexican Minister's language may have been is one question. What the proceedings have been, in reference to Mexico, and of the Ame rican Legislature and Executive, is another and very different one. The first involves considerations merely of the good or bad taste with which Senor REJON may have given utterance to the views entertained by his Government in relation to the underhanded in trigues of Mr. TYLER with certain Mexican sub jects, for the dismemberment of a large section of the Mexican empire. The second question is nothing less than one of absolute wholesale spoliation, by the stronger upon the weaker of the twd Governments concerned, in appropriatin g, under the mockery of a Legislative sanction from the representa tives of its own population, of that dismem bered territory, and incorporating it into its own dominions, in open defiance of the protests and recla mations of the despoiled State. Is Mexico an in dependent Government, or a federal member of the United States, or a tributary and dependent Power in relation to them ? If she were a federal member of the United States, she would be justified in resenting, if she thought proper, the proposed annexation of Texas to the Union. If she were a tributary and a dependent, then, indeed, her repudiation of the project, " in language unknown •to the courtesy of diplomatic intercourse, and offen sive, in the highest degree to the (United States') Government and people," might properly have called for and sufficiently justified Mr. TYLER'S violent philippic against a bearing and a tone that independent nations only can he permitted to assume. But Mexico is an independent nation. All the cunning and trickery developed in the PRESIDENT'S Message cannot grapple with or escape from this fact. So far from it, he complains that " she has added insult to injury," in her dealings with the American Minister, charged to remonstrate with the Mexican Government "in re spectful though decided terms"—by " not even deign ing, for months together, to return any answer to such representations;" and by other acts, both of commission and omission, which all combine to prove at least this :—that any defect, either in her character of independence, or any feebleness of tone in her mode of vindicating it—has never once occurred to the American Minister or the meddling President to suggest. Now, Mexico being thus, in fact, de jure, and, by the acknowledgment of the United States, recognised as an independent Power; what degree of blame or astonishment can it excite that she should have indignantly and vehemently re sented so intolerable as intervention with her rights and her dignity as the cool and impudent pretension of another Government to dispose, by an act of its own Legislature, and to itself, of an enormous portion of the Mexican dominions ? It is, indeed, " to add insult to injury"—on the part of the United States' executive—to talk of the question of annexa tion of the territory of an independent and friendly Power, "as pending before their Congress and people," in the teeth of that Power's decisive and urgent pro testations against such a proceeding. Mr. TYLER, who seems to be about as bad a jurist as he is an un principled politician and moralist, affects to put the defence of this enormous violation of National Inde pendence, on the plea that Mexico had avowed her determination to recommence tnat norrioie moae or making war, against which our readers will remember we have so often, in the name of humanity, indignantly appealed to the execration of all civilised na tions. " The war," writes Mr. TYLER, in that peculiar style and language the nationality of which it is al ways so difficult to determine, "the war thus threat ened to be renewed was promulgated by edicts and decrees, which ordered on the part of the Mexican military, the desolation of whole tracts of country, and the destruction, without discrimination, of all ages, sexes, and condition of existence.' " Horrible decrees, indeed, neither to be excused on the ground of the Mexican irritation, nor of the defensive re action they might in execution effect on the secret intrigues of the American " annexers," diplomatic and other, with Mexican subjects; nor yet to be jus tified by the example of those previous unatoned excesses of wanton and wholesale extermi nation in which the " United States' military" had indulged in their wars upon the red men of their western and north-western frontiers, But the wolf was a sorry casuist with the lamb, from all time; and President TYLER talks more angrily than logically of Senor REJON. The plea about the Mexican cruelty would have been all very well, if it had been entered in time ; if it could have been shown that the annexation project was the consequences of these " edicts and decrees,"—that it was post hoc; ergo, propter hoc. The President has admitted in a former part of his Message that, previously " Texas," (i. e. the annexation party in it) " had entered into the treaty of annexation, upon the invitation of the American Executive," and " was, for that act, threatened (by Mexico) with this renewal of the. war," &c. The plea of Mexican cruelty operating on the sympathising tenderness of American humanity is, thererefore, as worthless—and as out of date—as a Pennsylvanian bond. Coupling this flimsy complaint of this " Special Message" with the strange article in the New York Herald, we can detect something like, we think, a " foregone conclusion." Is it meant, in the event of the good sense and sound principle of the calmer sections of the American public rejecting a proposi tion founded on such a palpable reliance on mere physical strength to accomplish the ends of a faction's ambition, to alarm their good sense out of its pro priety by raising this phantom of European interven tion ? We feel more confidence in the good sense of our American brethren,—we have less doubt of their inherent sagacity—than to feel much alarm about the accomplishment of Mr. President TYLER'S annexation policy, or the success of his Message mystifications I Some well-meaning people and Puseyites, in the disguise of Protestants, look upon the " EXETER agi tation" as settled. The Primate has`directed Dr. PIMA.- POTTS to retrace his steps ; the Bishop has apparently yielded obedience, and all again is in the right train. The real friends of the Reformed Religion, however, are not to be deceived by such shallow pretences, nor to be stopped in their right course, by vague, un meaning, and equivocal letters from archbishops and bishops. It is of these very men that the Church has so much reason to complain. They have winked at, nay, cherished dangerous and wide spreading heresy ! they have, in defiance of all the rules of prudence, and in utter contempt of Christian precepts, and the example of the great Founder of Christianity, attempted to force upon their flocks ceremonies and practices which they admit are of no importance, but which they know the people detest as the emblems ana harbingers of Popery. What has been the result ? There have been meetings of laity and clergy. The former u n a n i mous , an d th e l a tt er divided in their opinions. Many staunch Protestants have been forced to desert their parish churches ; pe titions from large assemblies have been prepared for presentation to the Head of the Church, and to both Houses of Parliament. A universal combination ap peared all at once, as if by natural impulse, to be formed throughout the country to resist the innovations and at the same time the insolent authority o f the bishops. No one cried them " GOD speed." It w a s then, and not till then, that they saw the danger, and orders were issued from head-quarters —n o t t o y i e ld, to stop proceedings till th e " present gentle phrase) should b e ad j usted by d b i a v t ers s i i t m ie p s ly (a some general measure which shall have the sanction of the whole Church." Now, what is meant by the whole Church ? The people, the aggrieved party are not regarded as the Church, and will not be heard, nor will the deans and chapters—much less the clergy, or deputations from the clergy, be admitted into the council which is to adjust the "present diversities"—in act, the Church is a very snug, small body, consisting of twenty-six individuals, who will meet privately at Lambeth Palace, talk over the questions of the surplice, the offertory, genuflexions and burning tapers, and then issue an episcopal bull for the edification of their obstinate and misguided flocks. But the people can have no confidence in such a conclave, nor do they virtually care one straw about the mummeries which the Puseyite bishops would re-establish. Were all the orders issued by CHARLESJAMES LONDON and H ENRYEZETER,aIid other Puseyite bishops, declared null and void, the great grievance would remain intact. A large body of cler gymeng exist in the Established Reformed Church, havehurch, denouncedwho are professed ferrnfoaltl Reformation n er a s s ofa re men at crime, and that openly professed their ardent wish to be again united to the Roman see, in defiance of their ordination vows by which they renounced the Romish doctrin es con cerning purgatory, pardons, worshipping and adora tion, as well of images as of reliques ; and a l so invo cation of saints ; and above all, transubstantiation, declared repugnant to the plain words of Scripture. But even these Romish doctrines are not so alien to the minds of Protestants as the spirit of that religion of which they are outward signs, whose object is to bind the human will in fetters, to crush free inquiry, and smother that liberty and independence which have wrought such wonders in England and Holland. These are the real grounds of apprehension, and the very general anxiety on the subject speaks well for the country, and does immortal honour to the laity who have had the courage to rebel against their teachers, and think for themselves. What have these teachers done ? While publications, which are a dis grace to the Protestant Church, have have been written and circulated—while men holding valuable livings, and the professed teachers of Protestant youth, have openly renounced their faith, the bench of bishops remained silent, apparently watching w ith interest the progress of the scheme, and never inter fered till the people roused them to a sense of danger. Contrast this supineness with the lively interest they display in things temporal. When a Bill was brought into Parliament for the better management of Church lands, whereby provision might have been made for the repair and maintenance of churches and glebe-houses, and church-rates been abolished, in a few days afterwards a conclave of bishops as sembled at Lambeth, denounced the plan, and thereby kept up one of the most unseemly causes of strife in a Christian community. " They are greedy dogs, which never can have enough," says the Prophet, when describing the degenerated sons of the Levites, " and they are shepherds that cannot understand ; they all look to their own way, every one for his gain from his quarter." If self-interest, or love of ease, or the natural longing of the human mind for power and authority, have prevented the bishops from beginning at the right end—if they have stood by while the bul warks of Protestantism were undermined by traitors at Oxford, and the majority of the Bench is now justly suspected of favouring the new doctrines, do they vainly imagine that the people will be lulled to security by a few unmeaning phrases about the surplice and the offertory, or the indiscreet zeal of the Bishops of OXFORD, LONDON, and EXETER ? The very letter of the last Bishop, pro fessing penitence, is only a specimen.of what they may expect from the whole body. The principles of Church authority he will maintain to the last, and he stops his innovations only "in the prospect of these principles being, ere long, practically asserted and en forced by our Reverend Primate." Does this show any symptoms of yielding ? Does he thus give up the surplice or the offertory, or any one clause of the rubric, which he evidently regards as more sacred than Holy Writ ? What absurdity to infer from his Jesuitical letter that the affair is settled. According to accounts just received from Exeter, some of his young Puseyite clergymen have taken him at his word, and " continued the services in their churches as they now are." The church of one of these hope • ful sycophants has in consequence been deserted, and he has been hooted and "mobbed" in the streets. Such are the efrocos or tne I,ccter, yet ho ie osid by his humility and repentance to ha-T cast oil on the troubled waters. If we recur, often, to the aspect of our relations with the United States and to British colonial ques tions, it is not only on account of our deep sense of their general importance, but because they are be coming, with every post, as it were, of more impres sive interest. We lately announced, on the authority ofadvices from New York, that "the Americans in the Oregon terri tory have formed themselves a government, elected executive and legislative officers, and established courts of justice." It is in this, or some such man ner, we have no doubt, that the "settlement" of the Oregon question will be precipitated; and if it be, its results must tend, inevitably, either.to dishonourable concessions on our part, or to a repression, of the most hostile character, of the attempts at Ame rican occupation of which these proceedings, if truly stated, are but the forerunners. The tardy di plomacy of the old Court of Spain, under the LERMAS and the D'OLIVEREZ', was surely not more halting in its progress, in the early part of the sixteenth cen tury, than that of our Foreign and Colonial De partments apparently is in the nineteenth century. Why has nothing been done in the shape of some distinct attempt to adjust this Oregon question, since it so largely occupied the public attention in the spring of last year ? Our Government, as we re marked a few days ago, seem to labour under a spe cies of mania for unsettled or open questions. Be they boundary line—right of search—construction of treaty —or territorial occupation disputes—the one great maxim in Downing-street seems to be, "Leave them all to take their chance. It will be time enough for us to go into the merits when the matters are forcibly pressed upon us for our immediate examination and defini tive settlement, either by a violent action from with out, or by the recorded opinions of Parliament from within." That does not seem to be a received axiom in our s 3 stem of diplomacy which is a practical truth in the working out of these affairs—namely, that this country, in nine cases out of ten, is a sufferer by its delay in meeting and closing questions of dis puted principles. Our reclamations are always too late. The aggressions of which we complain have always been abruptly, if not unexpectedly committed. Pretensions are set up against, say our national sove reignty over a certain district. We hold our title to be so good, that we seem to think it would be a stigma upon its legitimacy to defend it. :America, France, or Russia, as the case may be, takes advan tage of this neglect, by making a second move in advance on the board, in the shape of some preposterous extension of the original pretension. America has done this, in more than one instance, with the avowed and bargain-driving purpose of leaving herself suffi cient margin, in the event of failing in her second, to carry her first set of demands. By the time the American Government have acted upon President TYLER'S significant suggestion of providing a chain of military forts to the Oregon territory for the re freshment and protection of emigrating citizens of the United States,% t we shall be beginning to put ourselves on the alert. It is notorious that the fur trade of that region, and the occupation of the hunt ing-grounds about the mouth of the Columbia River, are becoming of hourly augmented importance since our new and improved relations with the markets of China. Is it meant to abandon this lucrative peltry trade—(if the questions of possessory title and our national honour are really to go for nothing)—to the Americans, without an effort to accelerate the official machinery of Downing-street? For our own parts, we confess with pain that both on this matter, and on that of the annexation of Texas, we regret profoundly to observe, in the House of Representatives, the pre• valence among a majority of its Members of a spirit towards England which cannot be mistaken. This does not seem to be limited to simple hostility. There is a sustained effort to do things in the way which may be most offensive to the feelings and the dignity of the English nation. This is short-sighted policy, indeed, on the part of a somewhat over-shrewd and under-scrupulous political assembly. If they foment this spirit, until from the spark which is now discernible it kindle into a flame, the United States must inevitably be the real sufferers by the conflagra tion. We will not allude to a case of active hosti lities, though it is not gravely to be assumed that the most outrageous insanity of Tylerism would commit the States to such a suicidal trial of strength with Great Britain. But we will put the hypothesis of a reaction on American produce, trade, and society. Two articles of the intelligence we have so lately published have a bearing on this view of the matter, too illustrative to need much of commentary from us. One of these is from Brown's county, in Ohio; the other from the Cape of Good Hope. The one regards the terrible insecurity of all social order and institutions under Governments which tolerate negro slavery ; the other'demonstrates the precarious con tinuance of that staple -trade to the United States, through which she at present derives so vast a pro portion of her commercial wealth and prosperity from Great Britain, that staple being raised by negro slaves. Both of the articles we advert to have this bearing in common ; they show that it is at any time in the power of this country to effect the reaction we speak of on American interests, whenever the dis position of the American Government or people to perpetrate such acts of territorial aggression and aggrandisement shall have developed itself in overt acts, the hostile tendency of which we shall find our selves no longer able to permit, or to overlook. In the course of the sanguinary affrays between some ruffians, slave-holders from Kentucky, and " negro hunters," as they designate themselves—and certain abolitionists, resident near George-town, in Brown's county, Ohio, human lives were sacrificed, houses burned and sacked, and the whole neighbouring dis trict thrown into commotion by atrocities worthy of the horrible campaigns of the " soldiers of the Church" against the Albiganses or the Vaudois. Slaves, it appears, following the first and most holy impulse of our common nature, were in the habit of escaping out of Kentucky into Canada and freedom, through the State of Ohio. Two well-known abo litionists dwelt on this border land, near George town. To their houset, the "party of Kentuckian negro hunters" repaired to look for runaway slaves, and of these unfortunates discovered two in the resi- dence of a Air. MILLER. 'Whilst this man was gene- rously aiding one of the slaves to get away, he was knocked down, and repeatedly stabbed by the Ken tucky people, and presently expired. The ruffians then proceeded to the other house, that of a Mr. KING, carrying with them the two slaves, bound. At KING'S, they were stoutly resisted by four or five armed L uen, who declared that the house should not be searched. In the fierce conflict that ensued, a son of a certain " Colonel" Townes, a Kentucky slave holder, was killed on the spot, and KING, whilst re loading the arms of his companions, was shot through the window and left for dead. The sheriff at length appeared, and took the " ringleaders" on either side into custody. But sheriffs and their posses are held as cheap, and are as utterly repudiated in the Slave States of the Union, as human liberty, negro life, or Pennsylvanian bonds. Another body of Kentuckians ' came up and recommenced the slaughter. " One of the slaves was hung without ceremony" for hav ing resisted " Colonel" TOWERS, who had captured him, and therefore was one of the ruffians engaged in the first affair. The brave Kentucky hunters then entered the house of another obnoxious abolitionist, and beat him till his life was despaired of. The New York Sun makes these hideous outrages the ground, not of rebuke and denunciations of shame to their compatriots, but, forsooth, of absurd accusations and childish menace against England. Let us remark, in Perfect calmness, that if the wise editors of these journals will cast their eyes over the map of the Western hemisphere, and note the proximity of San Domingo to the Southern States of the Union, and consider the character and free condition of the com patriots of the " blacks " of San Domingo or Jamaica, and all the British West India Islands, they will find more substantial grounds for appre hension and alarm, as well as accusation and menace, in respect of and against their own unpardonable treachery to the cause of human liberty, and their own inexcusable blunder in the toleration within their own territory of negro slavery. But we fear that considerations founded on the rights of man—in the black variety—are lost upon a vast community of American citizens. Let us put one of another kind, calculated to appeal to their more active sympathies. Can they afford to lose their inordinate exports of raw cotton—of that slave grown staple- r-. the English mark e t? By a righteous dispensation, it seems as if England were destined soon to release slave-labour from its cultiva tion in one hemisphere, and to employ free black labour in its cultivation in another. We quote, with unfeigned satisfaction, from the City article of a Morning Contemporay, the following remarks on its last intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope : " We some time ago mentioned that some experi ments had been made in the cultivation of the cotton plant last year, which had produced rather promising results, and we now find that an association has been formed for the purpose of continuing the experiments on an extended scale. Some districts in the new province of Natal are represented as offering every facility for the growth of the cotton plant, and it is a species of production in which the labour of the aboriginal tribes can be rendered available with advantage to themselves as well as to the colonists who may employ them. We have seen a letter to-day from an intelligent observer in the colony, who is exceed ingly sanguine on the subject, and who looks for ward to the extended cultivation of cotton as a most useful auxiliary for the civilisation of the natives, and, in time, for rendering the mother country less dependent on foreign supplies. There may be something too san guine in these anticipations ; but it ought to be recol lected that thirty years ago few persons would have be lieved that this country and the rest of Europe would have been dependent, to the extent they now are, on the production of this staple on the great plain of the Mississippi. It must be further borne in mind, that between Algoa Bay and Port Natal about 100 streams of varied capabilities discharge them selves into the ocean, which may yet be destined to pro duce as astonishing results as the development of the re sources of the Western and South-Western States of the North American Union. " But the modus operandi may be made as different as light is from darkness. In the one case the extension of the cultivation of the cotton plant has not only propa gated but refined upon the cruelty of domestic slavery ; whilst the other, under the guidance of the enlightened Government of Great Britain, may render it subservient to the civilisation of the African race in the south, and thereby, in time, penetrate to the stronghold of slavery iu the centre of that continent." Judging from the proceedings in the Committees in both French Chambers, the leading and most in teresting subject in the discussions on the Address will be the right of search. The public mind appears to be bent on annulling the treaties of 1831 and 1833 ; and the Chamber of Deputies so far concurs in the general wish, as to insert paragraphs similar to those adopted at the commencement of the two last sessions, and expressing a strong hope that negotiations on the subject with England may in time lead to the happy result of placing French commerce under the protec tion of its own flag—in other words, abolish the treaties concluded between the two I'owers fur the suppression of the slave trade. The Americans have successfully objected to all such treaties, and the French see no reason why their flag should be treated differently. The paragraphs, however, are of the mildest character, merely expressing wishes in which the Chamber, and, perhaps, the Ministers themselves, cordially concur. The paragraphs are as follow :-- " Struck with the inconvenience revealed by expe rience, and even for the advantage of the good intelli gence so necessary to the accomplishment of the common object, we shall hail with all our wishes the moment when our commerce shall be replaced under the exclusive guardianship of our flag. "This good understanding will no doubt aid in the success of those negotiations which, whilst they gua rantee the repression of an infamous traffic, must tend to replace our commerce under the exclusive guardian.. ship of our flag." According to the Presse, the Marquis DR BOISSY presented a similar amendment to the House of Peers, but without any hope of its adoption. It runs thus : —" The Chamber of Peers invokes and anticipates with all its wishes the day on which a negotiation so long commenced shall have the effect of replacing our marine under the exclusive protection of our flag." The affairs of Otaheite will form another subject of discussion. A long list of documents on this subject had been laid before the Chambers, and the more im portant of them have appeared in the Government journals. The following paragraph, in one of M. GulzoT ' s letters to the Count de JARNAC, will afford the Opposition an opportunity of renewing the charge that in everything the Foreign Minister yields to England :—" As to the circumstances which have accompanied the sending away of Mr. PRITCHARD, I cannot pretend that they can all and entirely be jus tified, and that there are not connected with them certain proceedings and expressions which are con trary to all equity, humanity, and propriety." The Paris papers contain no news ; and the interest in the fate of the Ministry is evidently dying away—for the best reason in the world:—All know that a change of Ministry will not lead to a change of policy. No business was done in the Funds at TORTONI'S on Sunday. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY. The election of Directors has been completed. In Carrick on-Suir district the votes were as follows for a single director :—Mr. Galwey, Glen Lodge, 1,224 ; Mr. E. Power, Mount. Richard, 530. The following is the result of the retnrns from the various districts :—Waterford— Messrs. Meagher, Strangman, Milward, Simon Newport, and John Power. Clonmel—Messrs. Davis and Riall. Caher—Mr. Bianconi. Carrick-on-Suir—Mr. Galwoy. Limerick—Messrs. Gearey, Monsell, and P. Gabbett. WEST LONDON RAILWAY. - -Yesterday a special general meeting of the proprietors of this Company was held at the offices, in Abchurch-lane, Mr. H. Grcds presiding, to consider th e t erms o f a proposed gre ?en' with the London and Birmingham Railway oinpallY, i. for leasing the West London line. Th e Di ceO l rere'- port entered at length into the embarrassed condition of the Company. The debts and liabilities amounted to 60,0001., an execution was upon the line, and the property seized was advertised for sale. Four judgments had been entered against the Company, the bankers' account was overdrawn, and the line being worked at a loss of 501. per week. Under these circum stances the railway was closed, and an offer subsequently made to the London and Birmingham Company, who, on the payment by them of 60,000/. in liqui dation of the liabilities of the West London, are to take a lease of the railway. The Directors now recommend the ratification of this agreement, and suggested that the adjustment of the various in tezosts of file shareholders should be left to the arbitra tion of Mr. Glyn, the Chairman of the Birmingham Com pany, Mr. Hudson, Chairman of the Midland Railway Company, and Mr. Robert Stephenson, the engineer. The Company was established ten years ago, with the view of furnishing a west-end terminus for the London and Birmingham and Great Western Companies. The undertaking failed to meet with support from those Companies, and the work s c o n ti nue d i n a b e y ance until a year and a half ago, when they were constructed by Mr. Robert Stephenson, and the line thrown open to the public. A protract e d di scuss i on , i n w hich Mr. Whit church, Mr. Whit e , M r . Husking, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. Roy took part, ensued. Ultimately, the report was passed, and the Directors were empowered to conclude the negotiations. LARGE IMPORTATION OF VENEZUELAN SUGAR.— The recent decision as to the admission of Venezuelan sugar into this country, upon the most favoured terms, is now well known the mercantile interest. Hitherto, however, there has been no large importations of it ; b ut on Friday a cargo o , f about 300 tons arrived i n th e b r i g, Gr Warman from La u!tyro.—lllanche.str Guardian. Mr. Horace Twiss, the new Vice• Ch anc el lor of tho Duchy of Lancaster , has appointed Mr. Hoyle, soli citor, Commissioner for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for taking a ffid av it* in the Ceurte at Lancaster, TUIS DAYS - 4 - v4 QUEEN'S BENCt._(THIS DAY ) ean l l ' o he b r e e fo was ert h oct;loiiiugt -d ofo "a. s mallest gene ral inter e - IL) BAIL COUItT.—(THIS DA t o) (Sittings at Nisi Fritts, befot Mr. Justice WIL DUNN V. lIMPIIBIES. efl° °d This was an action to recoer a certain sum , ih oloi for work and labour done. ) e fendant pleaded ' I was never indebted. PO ° Mr. Allan appeared for the,laintiff, and M r. ,1 0 Mr. Wordsworth f o r th e defedant. 4 ,4 The plaintiff, a master plasirer, had been e 4 d u° complete the interior of s ome remises belong, Pt defendant, in Dorchester-place Blandford-srb;;;* funds had, before October, 184, been suPPl i s b s tS ° s Nicholas, as agent for the d e fadant, but he ' the tts', time failing to supply sufficientnoneys to PRY 00"; men, the plaintiff stopped workand then the, _ bo ss himself ordered him to renew it stating that e r , ier ,o: would provide future payments, These, ho l . „ e d litsii not kept up regularly, and the plintiff agsals , "'" o los threw up " the job ;" and it ws for con 3 P e F ri lif the work done from the period d the order gi defendant that the present actionwas brought' ,t lost The bill of particulars laid theamount due f' so , Evidence was adduced to provethe labour a: 4 .' O A Mr. PLATT, for the defence, ccntended teaef,,, tract for the completion of the liaises hsd e. asPil into with Mr. Nicholas, and not vith plaintutefisii, therefore, to him, and not to the lefendants vu eo ,o o l . , should look for payment. But thefacts of the jo i; that, on the 27th of November, M. Nieh °lBs o 171 4 covered that more money had been rec ap be er , plaintiff, in partial payments, than work 1 1 10 05 by him on these premises, and therefore he fa 00 off, and a fuither sum of 501. was expende d ite ing the bad work made by him. • peso' d I'll d After an elaborate address to the jury, Ole' 0 called to support the d e f en d an t' s case ; sl i ret i r ed, Learned Judge had summ e d u p, the jury e els , had not returned a verdict wh en we wen t° ' iS 0 COMMON PLEAS.—(T— it (Sittings in Banco.) is it BURGESS V. GRAY. ilo I I This was an action to recover comPepsasseg,s mages for injury sustained by the plaintiff, c o pofro overturning of a chaise in consequence of a d s ti4 4 bish improperly left in tho road by servants. IC Ol ',O The verdict was for the plaintiff—Pan!no, ,e, ,y Mr. Sergeant BYLES obtained a rule 1 ` 1 " - , in d ss es'" the verdict, as against evidence, on the grtd do' heap was laid in the road by a person nsw who was not the servant of defendant. ~, si ELLIOT V. ALLEN AND OTTlgft a 1101 3 o r i This was an action for trespass and in - dical,a ment, brought against the overseers and M ig cos of the parish of Islington, under the lOW stances : s s . ',OH 1 l i It appeared that the plaintiff, who -, 11 0 0 pr,„10 clerk to the eminent solicitors, Austin an„cl i gfar:s ing let a part of his house in the parish of ',oo'oo repeated quarrels with his tenants, who en - 01; 0 0 actually locked him out of his own 11 ,.° 11 ogl e so that he was compelled to Isres* ss eo 101 street-door. These quarrels caused Isi WS, in the neighbour, and as the conduct e. Id tiff was somewhat eccentric in o tilf ? r t iei Te it was represented to the parish authorloosoY was dangerously insane, and ought to be se r , biloj ; this information, the parish officers causeli t i, vot' taken to the workhouse, confined as a h* t 0 ii in a strait-waistcoat. Ho was discharge d e t tis ' a week. For the trespass and imprisenta e s e e was brought, when the jury found for 41 %lea/ the dere damages 4001. On Saturday, Mr. Serges t r„ S dat),,` whom was Mr. S e r g e an t Sh ea , f or the denie s , tioned the cause, whi c h was aga i n p a rt hear ri Al This application was for a ru l e f or a new • I d e ,lo t ground that the verdi c t was aga i n st evi hearing was now resumed. Ail Mr. Sergeant TALF OURD , a t gr eat let2s,,s. cause why a new trial should not be grannie tended that there was e ver y evidence tha t 0 0 1 1/ was not insane at the tim e o f th e t res pass, ° r ot, , before it, and further, that he was not at o_l 4 destitute circumstances such as could warrs„ l/ 51 1 " interference of the parish authorities. 3 ..,%'" ii t,„i' ) the son of a judge in India, but, having a gP t ii s tn,?l! tendency, went out to Canada to preach , the Indians. On his retu rn , h e took tb io0 0!), clerk to the solicitors, that being the profes s dej he had been brought up. It was not to he be disappointments respecting property wh ie s: h ss s o li he was entitled to in India had rendered sur 600 1 able, and that temper was aggravated by ti -1 , 8 , 0 0. it i of his tenants. At the time when the P e ,;" atrkf, the parish to take charge of him as a lanass e ek i t was sitting quietly in hies parlour, W a ld , ' 1 affairs with his brother-i n -l aw , w h o wag 8 ,1 0 0, s and who remonstrated w ith th e c onstav pee them that the plaintiff was not insane. . 00 big) workhouse the plaintiff was a ll owe d to T 1 and was otherwise treated aerhyssetimaturt.casehasaedai distress the utti t iho l ii i ,se a ot t nhrwee t o h s air e tslkhtl fi aheeg r no s eau t fetsalec n o,tn i b g hyt l te i hh t abaitteth,c putting was thought u a gh straight" ne c e 4l. r le i s s t t e c ci l ea became after e a s v d e circumstances, in consequence of what he '' and he was obliged to apply to the parish fb r ) ,A .e i Mr. Sergeant STIE,t, in repl y , 0.,,,, t0n a0'l i ti , W deuce for the defence fully established h 2. i gerous state of mind and tho destitution, abbe the interference of the parish. lie d Mr. Justice CRESWELL asked, had t— je i f i, shown that the pl a i n tiff was at t h e tire e t y of, so pressingly dangerous as not to allo e l officers time to do as th e y requ i re d—naeli , for an order to tak e hi m t o a mag i s trate', „' confiring him on their own responsibility- ti t ts;" , Mr. Sergeant SHEA argued a t l e ngth -- el Mr. The s C e o r u g r e t an w t er T e A o L f r o o p u i ß n D io , n f , or th t a h t e the sari a proved in evidence. t il e p se la n i t n e t d i , ff a w nd ou th ld e .0t consent verdiet A t r o as ta e k n e te d re a d m a a pc g le e ao s i in .. , the defendants malice which did not 1, should be discharged, not otherwise. ''''' ... it 0 , D g ZXCHEQIJER.—(THIb rndt , I : I:II , (Sittings in Banco.) tO O, WADE v. 6INEON. ro le aj . In this ease, Mr. MARTIN moved for a rol' cause why an order of Mr. Baron Alderge„'ool chambers, on the 6th of December last, 131 1 5 41/ i l , set aside on such terms as their Lordships ° OOP, The action was commenced on the 14th e'' ' see a' It was brought upon two cheques , ber i . " on the 25th of May, 1840, and sear, on the 14th of July, in the ' in s eat and amongst other pleas, there were pleas 7,04 that these cheques had been given for re' o tsist'li hazard in a gambling-house in St. Jai:o ol. o s 4li case stood for trial as a special jury cas e h - e 0 /5 December last. All attempts to obtain t f pv i o; evidence having failed, on the 6th °OO Or. the day before the, trial was to 0 0 s the plaintiff's attorney consented to o f e i b o je g , of Mr. Baron Alderson, for the payment op pirj and costs. On the 7th of December a Pe,'" t bss It, the attorney from the defendant, and stateu , : d Ar o ol_,! and various other persons whom he nail l _ s ;g 4 ; 7 1 pared to prove that the money had been t i 0° ii ii St. James's-street, four years before, a i li fa 11 ,4 ~, so, but that it was foul play, sn' a i) . V) were used. He (the Learned Con n "; Ives pared now with the affidavits confirnsieW lie' ment, and stating further that the action „O r ti st i in collusion with Davis, the man who 1 100: 00 .0 1 ) An officer who was employed to procure Le 0 re j v the subject, and every possible means no p o les ' without effect. The money had since Dt 7 ro o of Court, in pursuance of an order of Mr.,,"'„ m eit° I The case went off in order that the g li r 4 0 i . to by the Learned Counsel might be fil e w t .oP . , i TEE REVENUE FRAUDS.---TIIE ATTon 24- , or r i . off e s s In this case, which SMI was an info 4. • i aileg e ea the Attorney General, for certain — O , II ;If ,ow against the excise-laws by the defends% ilic to t i recently carried on the business of se n plig*st the east end. The Solicitor-General *Leona?' Court to fix a day for the trial of the i, " t plPr 1 —Thursday, Feb. 6, was appointed for t :, 9 ;01 11 ' rei b in e " d e el t i Shortly after the above applicatior,l4 0 0 1 'itS tl ; l oyete T s l I hd E o wtATTORNEY-GENERAL eatuksthe defendants why p said, in a case of the Attorney - ul, b e 1,041 George Smith and James Scott 6,..., 1111 . 6 1) fro,l arti o e f uh-ce : r e t fo ili fr d ars f ); ! of duties alleged in the last count of the ;og' of 00 have become due to the Crown, with the t i s 4o l ,o such duties became due, and also why Pa r 0 0 0 00 1 0 0$ tain spirits alleged in the third and othe r • dirtier' i t / ting 10 . information to have been removed from - 0 00'_ a ,, 0 the rectifying house, and the time or times pliq, gp removal was supposed to have tal eri r y, g p os f i was certainly one of the most extraorsllolo,l 0 "is stood, unaccountable prosecutions that o f silt sr? , instituted. The information consisted 0 o are io s,d and in the first five of these counts 0 (1 , 0 V s 4 00 that the defendants had used and carried ". 0 a b e d 0 with l Est o certain premises used as a distillery, _ 0 03, i s li e of a - mile of certain _ other prenl to , the or y 0 01 a rectifying-house, and that, contrary cii ,sb,, i. is i ? there was a communication between the sn its s ,stiol w co h n ic s' b el s iAo l e i s wash,the re rectifying-house, f d y i e n t g b - e h r ou a s v e tiel b e y s m ha e d a n b s ee o n f e th em an me b n y ieft w ti a e g r g i on w s, as and ata o t n ed the in puh o l n_i i e e Ilac e vei j oili o i by a pipe under-ground, 01 T t he Le o pi by means of a trough ; anv, o f o,,ecl‘f pi sought to be recovered on eaev iio t 0 ~,'. 0 04 , 0 00 1 , counts amounted to 75,000 L—that is, 5 ' l a st 'iv " f e o the space of nearly three years. I n lbe ea i ri ....o gee the penalties, the defendant wail char y 0 be P O - 0 0 .0 11 general form. The whole amount sough t am c0,.,1 v A , by the two informations filed, including,' c s an;SliAi penalties, was 309,000/. The Learn eu f the ,il e A ~, , '. prooeeded to state at length the history e son ect7her s e ments with which the defendants are cv_ ~,,00,. petrel the house had paid, tnimbhuaeissnieyifai form r s f s mme r o i l f loimf a o ne d srd i esut had y l ta l h e da r n h a l d oo been years,ce r r i s e n d d oy S ol ef ootio ; 1,0001. per day. In 1817, for obvious of be tr t; ; o f most to le parretlobi joeovntie,, legsrt 40,0o1; was passed to prohibit the carrying or i e polo' c ose q ) of a distiller and rectifier on the sir e . s. the 0 tot, ...0 a saving clause was introduced exec! ) ex pess ti r „, Messrs. Smith on account of the gre a lri sboi etw i ds,.." they had been at in the rectifying est u n i ng ig eot ifil however, the l e . . 4 the passing of the Act, , s , the to tosA gates, coanecting the distillery is' vvi er ,, eot see .. „ 0 OP house, were blocked up to the P, 1 _44.0 1 P upon te b r ee tnhe paid spirits. of the excise officers, and then had pliluv /Ili