The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-13 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING '1 be repeatei a Grand Opera Soria, called THE DAUGHTER T. MARK. Lusiroano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Comaro, Mr. ikvearii ; :llonce-igo, Mr. Weis; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. tfr , icon ; at.rina ornaro, Miss ' • conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequinade, called K'S PANTOMI3IE; or. HARLEQUIN AND ROBINSON CIZUSOE. Robinson Crusoe . Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. Wieland ; Gown , Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Ce - ....abir , e, Miss Carson. Bux-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six m the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARILET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will he performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEART& Colonel Rocket air. S. rickland • Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathes. s • Tom Coke Mr. Webster; - Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren; The Countess of i pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn, _4f,dame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia isennett. -kiter 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 ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. CURIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas andi Ono Guinea and a.Half each. hckets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box.ottice, Prim "I'en till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Same Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. O. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin son ; Sir Joseph Bowley, Bart Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr. Hudson; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy Veck, Miss Fortescue ; Mr s . Cbickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woelgar, 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, Min Lens dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-orlice open from Eleven till Four. Private Bixos to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. AL MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be produced a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Monseigneur, Mr. Wallack ; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry; Rosanne, Miss Emma Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be followed by a new Divertissement, called LE SALON DE BAL. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Miss Marshall, Mdlle. i'eresine, M. J. Rousset, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert. To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lirimer, Mrs. Stirling After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extravagmza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Grindoff, Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Belmar, Mr Granby; Riber, Mr. Corti , Goiotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden, ::,,achinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Inc , o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. rd. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, M. Private Boxes, fwo Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half ; Prosce num 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_ottice, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. Private Boxes and I' roe Admissions for the Season to be had at the Theatre. '..:HEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE. Under the Management or 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 Grove, and !qrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO ti AllFt V. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Arden. and Mrs. Wigan. conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic ,toiairnicai,, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE ) ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; ,lows, Wigan, Culler, furner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley , Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usner, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. heeley. PRICES 01 , A OMlsslON.—Barcouy Boxes. 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; ►)ptFrer Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the rinicony Tier eight persons). Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second Fier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private 11 , xes the ✓it Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea. T as Pox.olicei s open from Ten to Four o•Clock, under the dtrec. t irm of Mr. Or.gan, late of Covent garden Theatre Nightly Overflows t the Grand Christmas Holiday Novelties, and I reble tation of Er.te•tainments at ttOl AL AMPHIrI HEATRE OF ARTS. Praprietor and Manager, Mr. W BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime, THIS EVENING Dill be repeated a New Spectacle, 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 -, nd in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased • 'Sr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. m R...ces and other Sporting Features. w Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse hip. conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, ;Ird HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the .Mack Witch of• Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ; Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting and stage.msnager, Mr. W D. Broadfoot, :sox.ottice open from Eleverr4lll Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding by Mr. it. Smith daily. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE As usual, the beat Pantomime of the Seasob4 ! A more brilliant trim - 111 , h than ever before achieved ! ! Laughter, Wonder, and Delight!! ! The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Everything New !!!! THIS EVENINII Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corti (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Me,srs. H. Hughes, Neville, R. Honner, Lewis. Hesiop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly. and Miss Martin. To he followed by THE WET NURSE. Supported ay Me.srs. Neville, W Smith. and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. Po onclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDi, HILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN Z. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. Paces and Pnvate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. 4.4 ti c ,, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Extraordinary Success of " Marianne; or, The Child of Charity, and the NEW Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING Will ne repeated MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Su-. rorbl N:r. 0 haldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson T. H. Iliggie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E Terrey, and :stir's Treble. Alter which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PALACE OF GENEVA. Characters by Nlessrs. Herbert and J. T. „tam. son, Miss E. Terry, and Miss Treble. To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. amply° ; Clown, INlr. Blanchard ; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney ; Columba r ne, Mdlle. Le S'ite, THE WEATHER-SrN OFFICE, JAN. ii. THT,?I3IOMETER, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 49 ; Noon, 46 BAROMETER, 29.72.-WIND, S. Nr•TE.—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 :he other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 en 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.TiRIDGE THIS DAY. ... 17 minutes. after 51 Evening : 4 1 minutes after b. ' , • X .1 ) ,••• i , . ' :-. ;:;-''' fr .- ~ •: ~- ,: z , S .. : I. 4 , 4 . j.. ,_., 4 ,,ip . . , p lli r l i ..„ • - - ' 411 ' • ' "'"• D/: A I, ~.. s .... A'r .m 05.... -..,,,." ~... . _ ' ''':-....' .1,.. . W ".• .. , . "Roll lc " ~..-.... ......... wc flm !dim riliv3 LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1845. If it was Sir ROBERT PEEL'S intention to waken the Irish Catholic party by dividing and sowing dis• s -Isions among them, it must be confessed that he haft succeeded to the fullest extent he could have an ticipated. The Charitable Bequests Act, like the apple of discord which ATE flung down among the assembled deities, has had the effect of producing a decided split among those who, till now, were united, and separating them into two distinct sects, each of which bears the same sort of goodwill towards the other which a High Church Bishop bean towards a Dissenter. But notwithstanding the untoward re sults that have attended the Act in question, it is in truth a very judicious measure—yet, in fact, what Doctor MURRAY described it to be, not devoid of blemishes which require a speedy removal, but sound in the main, and calculated to put Catholic charitable bequests on a safer foundation than they have yet been. hied it been projected and passed by a Government in which Ireland had the slightest confidence—had it emanated, for instance, from the Whigs during the Viceroyalty of Lords NORMANBY or FORTESCUE, it would not have been received by the more liberal members of the Catholic party with the scorn and indignation with which it has now been met, nor would Mr. O'CoraELL have deemed it expedient to denounce it in an elaborate epistle as long as that which TinEatcs dispatched to the Roman Senate from Caprm. But it has, unfortunately, proceeded from a wrong quarter. It is a " good " that has " come out of Nazareth "—a boon conceeded by the Greeks —and on the principle of " timeo Danaos et dona. ferentes," the great Agitator considers it to be Isis bounden . duty to oppose it by every means at his command. His letter on the sub ject, which will be found in another part of The Sun of this day, enters at considerable length and with a world of circumstantial minuteness, into the one sided character of the Charitable Bequests Act; but /he " head and front of its offending" appears to be thot it is a measure passed by a Tory Government— the enemies, from time immemorial, of Ireland—and therefure it is wholly impossible that a liberal spirit • , e pervade it, or that it can be productive of the ~htest substantial benefit to the interests of the L•-r country. " I object emphatically," says Mr. ) oNNELL, " to any connexion between the Catholic Prelates and the present Government. Was not the Duke of WELLINGTON bred up in the worst school of No-Popery politics ? And when he yielded Emancipation, did he not expressly retain al his prejudices against Catholicity? Is not Sir ROBERT PEEL the man who organised the Orange system in Ireland ? and ought he not to hate those who could not overcame the errors of his judg ment, but forced him against his inclination to grant them their political rights? We have humiliated PEEL, and it is utterly impossible he should ever for give us." It is here the shoe pinches. A Charitable, i"equests Act conceded by Whigs might bps bAen, tolerated ; but conceded by Tories it is—as honest DOGBERRY would phrase it—" most tolerable, and not to be endured." Now, we must beg to enter our most earnest protest against this course of proceeding adopted by Mr. O ' CONNELL, and the more inflam mable portion of the Catholics, over whom he exer cises an all but sovereign ascendancy. If a measure, despite a few acknowledged imperfections, be sound in the imain—and we contend that the Charitable Be quests Act is of this character—it should be received with favour by those for whose benefit it is intended, no matter whether its originator be Whig, Tory, or Radical. If the man is always to be taken into consi deration and not the measure, there must be an end to all chance of political improvement. The Irish Catholics were glad enough to accept Emancipation at the hands of the Orangeman, PEEL, why, then, cannot they accept without a murmur the present Bequests Act ? Having swallowed the camel, why do they now strain at the gnat ? We foresee that this determined op position on the part of Mr. O'CoNsinu. and his myr midons to a measure which has already received the sanction of three of the most eminent among: the Catholic Prelates—to say nothing of a large portion of the more moderate and enlightened among the Ca tholic laity—will occasion a world of jealousies and heartburnings in Ireland ; but assuredly no party will suffer so much by these dissensions as that of the more ardent Repeaters, who are unanimous in their hostility to the Bequests Act, and who will disgust many, who might otherwise be not ill-disposed to wards them, by showing how perverse, unjust, and ungenerous is the character of their opposition. 'We remark, in the columns of some of our Morn ing Contemporaries, some speculations, more plausi ble, perhaps, than probable, on the appropriation of his surplus of public revenue which Sir ROBERT PEEL will feel himself called upon to propose to Parliament. The " guess" which seems to be at once most dwelt upon and mos t favoured is, that this surplus will be devoted to the enlargement and increased manning of her ll&JEsTy's navy. Like all other sincere lovers of peace, it is very probable that our hopes and wishes wasp our judgment. We may feel every confidence in the permanency of our pacific relations with the Continental Powers, and with France more espe cially, because their maintenance is the object of our most profound solicitude. Nevertheless, it is impos sible to shut one's eyes altogether to the growing strength and extreme virulence of that party in France, so efficiently represented in the French Chambers, which is unfriendly to the present able Sovereign of the FRENCH, averse to his dynasty, and hostile to all monarchical government in the abstract. It is im possible to be blind to the identification of that unfair and rancorous opposition which is so unscrupulously engaged in the attempt to overthrow the Administra tion of M. GUIzOT with that bitter and ungenerous hatred of England—that restless jealousy of British power and grandeur, which seems to be the first doc trinal duty inculcated by the political credo of " La Jeune France." Having these considerations in view, we must own that the appropriation of the surplus of revenue to the augmentation and reinforcement of our naval strength appears to be an intelligible and very expedient course. If to these grounds we add others of equal significance and strength, and tending to the same conclusion, such as the unexplained activity and colossal preparations which are said to animate every department of the great naval yards and arsenals at Brest, Cherbourg, and Toulon, we may fairly infer that the present is one of those junctures at which the most certain guarantee for peace is a condition well prepared for war. If there really be, then, in the present posture of affairs, a more than ordinary degree of danger that the excitability of French feeling may precipitate its Government, with how little soever of real justifica tion for se extreme a measure, into hostilities with this country, we should not only support the appro priation of the Premier's surplus to a large surplus establishment and armament for the navy, but be content with the other, and we fear inevitable alter native, namely, the continuation of the property-tax, until the exigency of which we speak had pas se d away. Of course we assume, that to justify the pro longed existence of this last unconstitutional burden, the case of facts to which we advert as alone compe tent to establish its necessity, will be e stablished beyond doubt, dispute, or suspicion. In connexion with th;% subject, we may express our strong hopes that the proper authorities will take every care, and adopt every means, for the careful enforcement of •the provisions and enactments of the new Act for the registration of merchant seamen. The scheme of registration devised by that Act, and the machinery for carrying it into execution,. are well calculated to provide and keep up a permanent supply of experienced sailors, to conduct the infinite operations of our commercial intercourse with all the world, and to navigate our ships of war wherever the service and the honour of their country require. The tone assumed in the pretensions put forth by the Government of the United States in so much of the diplomatic correspondence between their Secretary of State, Mr. CALHOUN, and their accredited Ministers at Paris and at Mexico, on the subject of the proposed annexation of Texas to their territory and federation, is too remarkable to be passed over in silence. The Minister of the Goverment of Mexico; in replying to it, has not exceeded, however strong the terms in which he has expressed himself, the bounds of a just and natural indignation. Senor REJON broadly com plains of the " falsehood" and " treachery" which are apparent in the whole bearing of the American Go vernment in reference to this question, as they are to be collected from the declarations and admissions of its own agents. It is amusing, we must confess, to consider the political ethics avowed and vindicated by Mr. CaLuourt, by the instructions of his Government to its .esident servants in Mexico and in France, and by thy communications addressed by those servants to the arts at which they are so resident.. The noble region of the Texas formed—and, as Mexico con tends, still forms—an integral member of the Mexican dominions. The independence and authority o Mexico, and of Mexico as thus comprehending the Texas, were long ago recognised by the United States. Some citizens of the latter, with some refugees of other nations, settled on the thinly in• habited prairies of Texas, formed, in process of time, some political as well as commercial connexions there, and following the example of all American societies among which changes of Governments appear to develop themselves with almost as much frequency; and as little moral sensation, as changes of the seasons, erected a sort of republic, they de clared to be :independent, and on behalf of which they exercised various acts' of state authority, and established with various foreign Powers state relations. But Mexico was not one of those powers. She could never be brought to acknowledge the inde pendence of Texas, however fruitless her efforts have proved, from time to time, to'bring back the revolted territory under her de facto dominion and control. Those efforts have been pat alysed by her own internal disorganisation, her civil broils, and the fierce struggles of her impetuous factions. From whatever cause (and it is not necessary here to inquire, whether the movement, was suggested, or not, by intrigues fo mented under such extraordinary "secret instruc tions" as the President TYLER - has shown the world that American Chief, Magistrates do sometimes issue to the diplomatic representatives of the Federal Go vernment on their, own responsibility), there has grown up a cabal in Texas strong enough, with an ex-functionary at its head, to defy the de facto Go vernment of the country, and' to enter into secret but formal negotiations with the United States' emissaries, agents, and very estimable President (Luz's), for the annexation of Texas to that Federal Republic; and its reception and recognition as a member of the general Union. These negotiations, .their result, and the documents conveying, expounding, and affirming the offer of annexation, were, during its last session, laid before Congress, but the Senate never , took them into consideration. In what few preliminary steps were hazarded by the annexation party, rather as feelers than as substantive demonstrations or pro positions, the Senate clearly expressed its repugnance to entertain any such offer. It did not even recog nise it. Yet in the interval between the close of the last and the opening of the present Congress under the authority of the outgoing President, the same negotiations have been extended and reinforced, The incoming President, who will be inaugurated in March next, has been returned upon a pl e d ge t o carry into effect the " public opinion" of the Union, which Mr. TYLER himself, And the new American Secretary of State, choose to assume to be clearly pronounced in favour of the annexation. Suppose this to be the fact—ls Mexico, the primary party in the affair—the one most distinctly and deeply inte rested, and liable to be the most seriously injured— to have no voice in the matter ? " Not at all," ac cording to Mr. Secretary C►LHOUN and his official colleagues. Mexico may not have denuded herself of her sovereign rights over the Texas. The law of nations may recognise the validity of those rights. The existing de facto Government of Texas (which, being elective, must be as competently constituted as its predecessor, whose ex-President has put himself at the head of the annexation movemeat) may be, as of course it is, strenuously opposed to the sur render of its own existence and its country's independence ;—and, consequently, the aggression which the United States contemplates committing under the impudent pretext of the sanction of public opinion in the Federal Union, and the wishes of the Texian people may be, as it assuredly is, in violation of the rights and the pretexts both of the Govern ment de jure in Mexico, and the Government esta blished de facto in Texas. This may be all very true. But then Mr. CALHOUN has discovered that the Federal Union is " destined" to incorporate and possess Texas. As for Mexico, she really may do what she likes in negotiating with Texas to re turn under her allegiance; but then this can only be " pending the progress of the State question" in the United States' Legislature, for it is broadly ad mitted that some Members of it are disinclined to the spoliation. But when once these scruples are re moved—and they, too, are destined in Mr. CAL roux's prophetic ecstacies to be removed—any act of Mexico to interrupt the harmonious amalgamation of so magnificent a slice of the New World, with the already enormously expanded territory of the Union, will be regarded by the latter as a declaration of war. We must say, that amidst all the balderdash of these diplomatic papers about its being the destiny of the United States to cover the country to be an nexed with railroads, and cities, towns, and villages, land all the institutions of their religion, civilisation, &c., we never, detected such a rank exhibition of the unblushing principle of might against right—such a profession of that basest of political, as it is of moral and religious doctrine t " that the means justify the end." The vaunting and defying tone about the mode in which the interference of any foreign Power, on the part of Mexico, with the United States in carrying, into effect this notable plan of an nexation, is amusing enough, and characteristic withal. But we are inclined to hope, still, that the abundant good sense and right feeling of a large portion of the American public will never permit the recklessness or wickedness of their Government to hazard such flagrant experiments on the weakness of a neighbouring and friendly transatlantic State, with the mere object of ascertaining to what extent the po litical rapacity of one party, the slave-trading cupidity of another, and the commercial specula tiveness of a third, among them, may accemplish their several objects at the expense of the national character, and of all political justice. It would be painful—and we deem it, at present, unnecessary— to pursue the consideration of the other alternative which these proceedings may determine in ; or the prompt and decisive measures of repression• and re taliation which the success of s• fraudulent a scheme would inevitably provoke from other Powers, who could never be brought to compromise the first prin ciples of social and political Government by acqui escence in such a monstrous violation of them. We conclude, for the present, with the expression of our unfeigned regret and astonishment at these frequent manifestations of moral turpitude and State "treachery and falsehoood," to use Senor REJON'S words,. on the part of the Executive and other functionaries of a great Republic, which established its just claims on the sympathy, respect, and good wishes of free and independent nations, by a profession of political faith, and by political conduct so much more recon• cilable with the ancient nations of the distinctiop between rights and wrongs, than any indications we can find throughout this affair of Texas. , Madrid Journals of the 3d inst. have been re'. ceived. The discussions in the Senate on the Iteforrh Bill were continued on that day, when an amend ment was made to confer on Peers a hereditary right to sit in the Upper Chamber. A division took place, and the amendment'was rejected by a majority of 45 against 24. Several other clauses were adopted. among others, one conferring on the Senate the power to try Ministers impeached by the Lower Chamber, also its own Members, and persons accused of offences against the dignity of the Sovereign or State. The Gazette contains two decrees—one ratifying the Convention concluded between the Minister of Finance and the bank of San Fernando for a loan of 150,000,000 reals, and another sanctioning the engagement of the bank to pay into the Sinking Fund 60,000,000 reals, to I meet the dividends of the Consolidated Three pe r Cent. Debt, due in June and December of the pre. sent year. The Three per Cents, closed at 311 for cash, and 31 11-16 at 60 days; the Fire per Cents. at 22} for cash, and 32 at 60 days ; the Floating Debt at 78 at 60 days; the Coupons at 261 at 60 days; and the Debt without Interest at 6 15-16 at 60 days. The Paris papers, in the absence of all other topics of ;he slightest interest, continue their disquisitions on. :he state of the Ministry. The great object of the Opposition is the ejection of M. GUIZOT, for what reason no one can tell, except the mere love of change. The writers in these journals knoW well that M, GUIZOT acts only a very secondary part, that he., follows out only the policy prescribed by a' high authority, and that if Count Mane or M. TIIIERS were restored to office they must adopt the same ;policy, or walk out as they have done before. The KING, in fact, is everything, and though an adverse vote of the Chamber may occasionally thwart hisl views, he never:fails to return to the subject, and he is generally successful. The caldneSs of the. Court to M. Gurzur is therefore alarming to a man anxious to retain office; but. his position, however, is more envious than that of the man who would displace him, and for the sake of power and' place renounce opinions on many vital points of fo , , reign policy which for years they have advocated in. opposition to this able and fearless Minister. These opinions are well arranged by the Journal des Debuts —they are placed in full view before 'the Coalition, and deny them they cannot. On almost every sub ject that interests the public mind in France they are at variance with the policy of the, man they would oust from place.. ", There are at present," says that journal, " we will not sera•party, but men who pom pously deck themselves out with the name of Conser vatives; and who are the declared and open ene mies of that policy. These men believe that the policy inaugurated. by CASIMIR PERIER, and sup ported for fifteen years by Parliamentary majorities, is incompatible with the national honour and interest; they proclaim on all occasions that the English alliance, the entente cordiale, is a gross deception, a shame, and a humiliation for France. Listen to them, and you will ilea/. that in the affair of the right of search, - and in the negotiations opened for the revision of the treaties of 1831 and 1833, Eng land has from the first day juggled France, and con tinues to do so. The modifications demanded will not, they say, be obtained. In the affair of the British Consul at Algiers, England, they say, pro tests indirectly against the establishment of the French rule in Africa. Who , knows even if she does not pay AIIDEL..KADER ? In the affair of Otaheite and that 'of Morocco the same dupery—by sea and land, in Europe, in Africa, in Oceania. France is shamefully cheated by England. The KING'S jour ney and his reception is another mystification. The hope of maintaining pence between Eng land and France is a deplorable illusion„ and the war between the two nations an imminent danger. Such is,' according to these Conserva tives, the clear result of the entente cordiale. Thus they have placed themselves under the. colours of the Majorityonly to decry its policy, and attack it in its Principle! The policy of the Conservative party is founded on peace, and they declare peace to be impos sible, and war inevitable! The majority believes that the true interests of the country and the repose of Europe are engaged in the union of France and-Eng land, and they laugh openly at the entente cordials. What name must then be given to those men calling themselVes Conservatives, but who thus calumniate the policy of the Majority ? All that we an! say is that they usurp the name which „They are not of the Conservative party,; for, lon-Pchessen tial point of its policy, they are in daily and acknow. THE SIIN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1343. edged disaccord with the Conservative party. They Are not of the Opposition either ; they say so at least, and we believe them on their word. "J hey declare 'that they speak in their own name, and they find only themselves. In what party must they, therefore, be classed ? It is well-known that they are of the SPECIAL MESSAGE intrigue." These men and Louts PHILIPPE cannot agree without one party or the other abjuring recorded principles, and the KING, it is well known, is not the man to yield. From all accounts, his MAJESTY i, regarded as the prime mover in the affair. Both the 3ikte and the Constitutionnel assert distinctly, that M. GUIZOT suspects treason in the camp. The farmer says : " The entire Court is disturbed. The King's aides ' de-camps, his librarians, his personal friends, and even the intendant of the civil list, have become suspected by M. Guizot. It is not quite certain that his Majesty himself, notwithstanding the public declarations which his principal Minister conceived be had a right to re quire of him, as we were informed yesterday, has suc ceeded in completely re-assuring him. Is it true, that after an explanation, in which M. Guizot de manded perhaps a new public demonstration for his own personal security, the Minister having com plained with bitterness of the persons who surround his Majesty, the King exclaimed, 11 ! strike those who surround me, I abandon them to you !' If this report be true, and a number of Conservatives are of this opi nion, it is clear that Sir R. Peel, when he required the dismissal of the ladies of the Queen's bedchamber, did not in vain give M. Guizot an example of severity. It is true that Sir R. Peel did not Offer a dotation in return. It is true, likewise, that not finding a majority sufficiently strong to support him, the British Minister adjourned his pretensions to office. The Constitutionnel announces that Count Montalivet, in order to maintain the right to combat M. Guizot, had offered his resignation. If this assertion be confirmed, we would hold it up as an ex ample to the 180 functionaries who sit in the Chamber of Deputies. Let the half, or even the third, of tkese functionaries imitate his example, and we shall see what will become of that political system which is said to be supported by the majority of the country." The Presse, MARIA CHRISTINA'S paper, takes a cu rious view of the subject, and infers that the main objects of the KING and the Coalition are to settle certain points of foreign policy to which M. GUIZOT cannot consistently agree. It reasons thus : " These Conservatives sincerely believe that the Mi nister of Foreign Affairs committed a great fault in not retiring after the refusal of the Chamber to ratify the treaty of the 20th December, 1840, which extended the zones and aggravated the right of visit ; that this error still weighs upon M. Guizot, and is the principal obstacle to his having sufficient power to oblige the British Cabinet to place France, in relation to Eng land, upon an equal footing with the United States ; that the means of repairing this error, and of relaxing a state of things too tightly restrained, would be a change of Ministry, leaving leisure to M. Guizot to prepare for a return to power, a return which would be certain, and would be effected with all the advantage of the experi ence he had gained by having been engaged for four years in the direction of the affairs of State. These Conservatives think that,lin the first place, Count MoliS, whose judgment and capacious mind no one can deny or doubt, would be the statesman par excellence for getting rid of the difficulties which subsist between the two Go. vernments of France and England, without at the same time breaking the bonds which were drawn so closely by the visit to Windsor; that, secondly, he would on one side control the exaggerated pretensions of Great B r it a i n , and on the other side appease the irritation of our na tional susceptibility. Possiblythese Conservati ves ma y deceive themselves, but, admitting that they may be in error, will they be the less firmly attached to those in stitutions which are the guarantees of liberty by main taining order? Wishing earnestly for peace, partout et toujours, will they not know how to add to its stability by means more sure and less costly, without incurring any just imputation of intrigue and defection?" THE BOURSE--TuuRsDAT, JAN. 9. First Highest Lowest Lut Prica. Price. Price. prim French rive per Centa.• .. 121 15 .. 121 20 .. 121 10 .. 121 10 Four-and-a-Half.. • • 113 .. 113 .• 113 .. 111 Fours ... •.• . • ...... 108 .. 103 •• 108 .• 108 Three per Cents •• 85 20 •• 85 20 .. 85 • • 85 New Loan • 86 50 86 50 .. 86 45 .. Rfi 45 Rank of France • . 3290 ..3290 .. 3287 50 ..3287 50 Gouln Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1095 ..1100 ..1095 ..1100 Belgian Bank.," . 6lO .. 610 .. 610 .• 610 Belgian Fives,lB4o .• 104% .. 10414 .. 104% .. 041., 1842 •••• 1061 y, 1061 i .. 1061 i .. 1061 y, Threes . • 62 .. 61 .. 62 .. 62 Spanish Threes. ..... 37 .. 37 1 4 .• 37 1 4 37 1 ,4 Active .. 371, 37% 371 i .. 37 iy Passive 6% • • 6% .. .. 6% Portuguese Five per Cents— 593 .. 59 3 4 .. 5914 .. gcapolltan •• • • ••• • • •• 96 75 • • 96 75 • • 96 75 .. 96 75 stortan RAILWAY SHARES. Versa!Bee, R. 8.. • L.B. ...... 375 .. NO .. 375 .. 380• Rouen ..... .............1042 50 • 1043 75 —lO3O ..1030 Rouen to Barre. •.• • • • ..• 825 .. 825 825 .. 825 .•. 1131 25 ..1131 25 ..1131 25 -1131 25 r — its — bur - g to 8it1e•••....... 301 25 .. 301 25 .. 295 . 295 kvignonlo If arseinex .. 930 .. 940 928 75 .. 928 75 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, JAN. IG. Versailles, 500 .. 505 .. 488 25 .. 486 25 L.B ..... 385 .. 385 .. 377 50 277 50 aonen . ...... ....... —1035 ..103.5 ..1030 ..1030 Rouen to Havre BlO .. 812 50 .. 807 50 812 50 :Means • 1127 50 ..1127 30 ..1115 ..1115 itrasburg to Bale • kvignon to Marseilles ••• • .. 932 50 .. 932 50 925 .. 925 A MUMMY FROM ICHABOE.—Some time ago we de scribed a mummy specimen of the monkey genus, which had been dug up from some 20 feet below the surface of the guano at Ichaboe, and which must, therefore, have been buried for centuries, although it was in a perfect state of preservation. A human mummy, preserved in the same substance. has just reached Liverpool by the ship Colchester, Captain Withers, which arrived the other day from Ichaboe, and is now lying at the N.E. corner of the Queen's Dock. Captain Withers informs us, that the body in question appears from the name and date inscribed upon the stave of a flour barrel found along with it in the hammock, to have been that of Christopher Delano, a Portuguese sailor, one of the crew of an American whaler, who was buried in 1791. The body was originally discovered in March last, but was buried again at the back of the island, from whence it was finally removed by Captain Withers, who has brought it home with him for the benefit of some of our scientific institutions. The body was found about 6 feet 3 inches below the surface. Every part of it was in a state of perfect preservation. The hempen hammock and linen found with it were perfectly sound and strong, whilst the wool and flannel about it crumbled to pieces at the touch. The tongue of the mummy is as thin as a wafer, and the end of it wrapped over the front teeth, and the nose is slightly flattened, but in all other respects the body is perfect. It is about 5 feet 9 inches in length, and, appears to have been that of a young man.—Lirer pool Mercury. THE NEW NOVEL, " LADY CECILIA FARREN COURT."—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published " Lady Cecilia Farrencourt," a novel, by Henry Milton, Esq., author of " Rivalry," in 3 vols. post Bvo., which can now be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new novels:-2. Strathern; or, Life at Home and Abroad, a Story of the Present Day, by the Countess of Blessington, embellished with a fine portrait of the authoress, from a drawing by Edwin Landseer, RA. Hillingdon Hall, a T a l e o f C oun t r y Life, by the author of " Handley Cross."-4. The Palais Royal, an Historical Romance, by the author of " Henri Quatre."-5. Arthur Arundel, a Tale of the English Revtdution, by the author of " Brambleyte House."' —6. Parsons and Widows, by *the author of " Peter Priggins." DINNER TO St H. POTTINGBR BY THE ORIENTAL Cman.—On Friday a dinner was given by the members of the Oriental Club to Sir Henry Pottinger, at the 'Oriental Club-house, in Hanover-square. Lord Auck . land was in the chair, and among the company were— The'Right Hon. Holt Mackenzie, Sir E. Ryan, General Morrison, M.P., General M'Leod, Mr. J. D. de Vetre, Mr. M. de Vetre, General Sandwith, Sir J. Lushington, Col. Malcolm, Sir J. Campbell, Col. Limons, Gen. Caul field, Capt. Wade, Mr. Woosnam, Mr. Burgess, Col. Barnwell, Captain Barber, Sir J. Doveton, Mr. Prinsep, Captain Shea, Captain Eastwick, Mohun 'Lai. &c. Lord Auckland, in proposing the health of Sir H. Pottinger, said that the health of that distinguished had never been proposed by a more sincere admirer than he (Lord Auckland) was. He had had occasion to depend on his zeal, firmness, and ability in the public service, and hsd never found him wanting. It was therefore with great satisfaction that he had heard ef his appointment to China. His proceedings there were marked by firmness, acuteness, and foresight, that justified all anticipations.—(Cheers.) Sir Henry Pottinger, in returning thanks, said, that of all the ho nours he had received since he returned to England none had affected him more than those he had received on this, a eomparatively private occasion.—(Hear, hear.) Among the other toasts given were " The Directors of the East India Company," " The Duke of Wellington," and " Prosperity to the Oriental Club." Dr. Holt Mackenzie proposed the " Health of the Chairman," to which Lord Auckland responded, and the company did not separate till after midnight. The dinner (which gave high satisfaction to a critical company) was provided by Messrs. Bathe and Breach, of the London Tavern, who also supplied the gold plate with which the tables were loaded. Their wines also were 'en exception to the ge neral 'rule on occasions of public festivity. T Ila LATE MR. lIEINE.r—A correspondent writing from Hamburgh on the 2d instant states, that on the day 'when the will of Mr. Solomon Heine was to be opened and publicly read, the court in which this was to take place was found to be too small to con tain the multitude assembled, and therefore, the President adjourned to the spacious hall of the Court of Appeal. In the preamble of his will Mr. Heine says, that before his marriage he was literally worth nothing, and that it was with the slender d ewer of his wife that he laid the foundation of his fortune. Beginning with this, which scarcely amounted to 10,000 marks banco (19,000 f.), he raised his prOperty to 22,000,000 marks ( 41,000,0001 .) The reading of the legacies occupied an hear and a quarter. Not a single establishment in Hamburgh, either of charity or pUblic utility, has been forgotten by him, and he has even bequeathed 5,000 marks each towards the repairs of the Christian churches of St. Peter and St. Nicholas, damaged by the great fire in 1842. Every debt due to him that did not exceed 400 marks (7501.) is cancelle:l by his will. He desires to be buried by day break, without any pomp, and without any Pracion being delivered over his grave. Nevertheless, upwards of tea thousand persons on foot, and niiiety-two carriages, spontaneously followed his hearse to the Jewish com e . tery'; and on the d.sy of his funeral little if any busi- ness was done on 'Change, as very few persons attended. quire Texas was during the administration of a distin guished citizen from an eastern state, which was after wards renewed under the auspices of a President from the south west, she will awake to a knowledge of the futility ,of her present purpose of sowing dissensions among us, or producing distraction in our counsels by attacks either on particular states or on persons who are now in the retirement of private life. Considering the appeal which she now makes to eminent citizens by name, can she hope to escape censure for having ascribed to them, as well as to others, a design, as she pretends, now for the first time revealed, of having originated negotiations to despoil her, by duplicity and falsehood, of a portion of her territory? The opinion then, as now, prevailed with the Executive, that the annexation of Texas to the Union was a matter of vast importance. In order to acquire that territory before it had assumed a position among the independent Powers of the earth pro positions were made to Mexico for a cession of it to the United States. Mexico saw in these proceedings, at the time, no cause of complaint.. She is now, when simply re minded of them, awakened to the knowledge of the fact, which she, through her Secretary of State, promulgates to the whole world as true, that those negotiations were founded in deception and falsehood, and superinduced by unjust and iniquitous motives. While Texas was a de pendency of Mexico, the United States opened negotia tions with the latter Power for the cession of her then acknowledged territory ; and now that Texas is inde, pendent of Mexico, and has maintained a separate ex istence for nine years—during which time she has been received into the family of nations, and is represented by accredited ambassadors at many of the principal court. of Europe—and when it has become obvious to the whole world that she is for ever lost to- Mexico, the United States is 'barged with deception and falsehood in all re lating to the past, and condemnatory accusations are made against states which hare had no especial agency in the matter, because the Executive of the whole Union has negotiated with free and independent Texas upon a matter vitally important to the interests of both coolly tries. And, after nine years of unavailing war, Mexico now announces her intention, through her Secretary of Foreign Affairs, never to consent to the independence of Texas, or to abandon the effort to re-conquer that re public. She thus announces a perpetual claim, which, at the end of a century, will furnish her as plausible a ground for discontent against any nation which, at the end of that time, may enter into a treaty. with Texas, as she possesses.at this moment against the United States. The lapse of time can add nothing to her title to inde pendence. A course of conduct such as has been described, op the part of Mexico, in violation of all friendly feeling, and of the courtesy which should characterise the inter course between the nations of the earth, might well , justify the United States in a resort to any measure to vindicate their national honour ; but, actuated by a sincere desire to preserve the general peace, and in view of the present condition of Atcxjpo, tile Piecntive, resting upon its integrity, & n( pot tearing 1 )1 4 ow the judgment of the wori4 will duly 4PPreviate its motives, abstains from recommemli ig to Congress a resort to measures of redress, and content itself with re-urging upon that body prompt and immediate 4ctig n il, rici subject of animation ? B 1 trtia; Nealme OF THE PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS. The steam-ship Liverpool arrived in the Mersey on Saturday at a quarter past one. Our correspon dent has forwarded us a file of the New York _Herald up to the 24th December, from which we make the following extracts : (From the New York Herald of Dec. 24.) WASHINGTON, DEC. 17.—The plot is thickening, and it is impossible to predict what the morrow may bring forth. It is now, however, pretty well ascer tained that Texas will not be annexed during the pre sent session of Congress. The antagonist projects brought forward by Messrs. Benton and M‘Duffy will nullify each other; and if this were not so, the very extraordinary nature of the diplomacy between the United States and Mexico on the subject would produce that effect. Many of the most decided friends of annexation are brought to a stand by the difficulty and delicacy attaching to the measure in consequence of the threatening and portentous character of the correspondence. I advise you that to-morrow will usher forth a message from the President of the most angry and menacing nature—a quasi war message. The Cabinet are in council on the subject to-day, and perhaps the vote has now been taken on it, after considerable discussion by several members of the Cabinet. EUROPEAN INTERFERENCE IN AINIERI- CAN AFFAIRS. We have received private intelligence from London and Paris of such a nature as to warrant a belief that the European Powers are actually contemplating the policy of interfering in American affairs, and di recting the movements of this continent, on the same principles and with the same views as they have been managing the affairs of Europe during the present century. This will be indeed a new and interesting movement in political affairs connected with this country, to which the attention of the American people must be called in no trifling degree. The excuse for this European interference in Ame rican affairs, grows out of the movement made in this country for the annexation of Texas. The British Government dare not carry their opposition to an nexation to such an extent as to endanger the peaceful relations between the two countries. Their own ma nufacturing and commercial interests, and, indeed, we may say their internal peace, are so dependant on the maintenance of friendly intercourse with this country, that any interruption of it would be a most essential evil to them. In order, however, to check the pro gress and power of the United States onthisconti- THE SPECIAL MESSAGE. To the Senate and House of Representatives,— I transmit herewith copies of dispatches received from our Minister at Mexico, since the commencement of your present session, which claim, from their importance, and I doubt not will receive, your calm and deliberate consi deration. The extraordinary and highly offensive lan guage which the Mexican Government has thought proper to employ in reply to the remonstrance of the Executive, through Mr. Shannon, against the renewal of the war with Texas, while the question of annexation was pending before Congress and the people, and also, the proposed manner of conducting that war, will not fail to arrest your attention. Such remonstrance, urged in no unfriendly spirit to Mexico, was called for by considerations of an impera tive character, having relation as well to the peace of this country and honour of this Government as to the cause of humanity and civilisation. Texas had entered into the treaty of annexation upon the invitations of the Exe cutive ; and when, for that act, she was threatened with a renewal of war on the part of Mexico, she naturally looked to this Government to interpose its efforts to ward off the threatened blow. But one course was left the Executive, acting within the limits of its constitu tional competency, and that was to protest, in respectful, but at the same time strong and decided terms, against it. The war thus threatened to be renewed was pro mulgated by edicts and decrees, which ordered, on the part of the Mexican military, the desolation of whole tracts of country, and the destruction, without discrimi nation, of all ages, sexes, and condition of existence. Over the manner of conductiong war, Mexico possesses no exclusive control. She has no right to violate at pleasure the principles which an enlightened civilisation has laid down for the conduct of nations at war ; and thereby retrograde to a period of barbarism which, hap pily for the world, has long since passed away. All nations are interested in enforcing an observance of those principles, and the United States, the oldest of the Ame rican Republics, and the nearest of the civilised Powers to the theatre on which these enormities were proposed to be enacted, could not quietly content themselves to witness such a state of things." They had, through the Executive, on another occasion, and as was believed with the approbation of - the whole country, remonstrated against outrages similar, but even less inhuman, than those which by her new edicts and decrees she has threatened to perpetrate, and of which the late inhuman massacre at Tobasco was but the precursor. The bloody and inhuman murder of Fannin and his companions, equalled only in savage barbarity by the usages of the untutored Indian tribes, proved how little confidence could be placed on the most solemn stipulations of her generals, while the fate of others who became her captives in war, many of whom, no longer able to sus tain the fatigues and privations of long journeys, were shot down by the way-side, while their companions who survived were subjected to sufferings even more painful than death—had left an indelible stain on the pages of civilisation. The Executive, with the evidence of an in tention on the part of Mexico to renew scenes so revolt ing to humanity, could do no less than renew remon strances formerly urged. For fulfilling duties so impe rative, Mexico has thought proper, through her accre dited organs, because she has had represented to her the inhumanity of such proceedings. to indulge in language unknown to the courtesy of diplomatic intercourse, and offensive in the highest degree to this Government and people. Nor has she offended in this only. She has not only violated existing conventions between the two countrie4, by arbitrary and unjust decrees against our trade and intercourse, but withholds instalments of debt due to our citizens which she solemnly pledged herself to pay, under circum stances which are fully explained by the accompanying letter from Mr. Green, our Secretary of Legation. And when our Minister has invited the attent.on of her Go vernment to wrongs committed by her local authorities, not only on the property hut on the persons of our tel low-citizens, engaged in prosecuting fair and honest pur suits, she has added insult to injury, by not even deign ing, for months together, to return an answer to his representations. Still further to manifest her unfriendly feelings towards the Uuited States, she has issued de crees expelling from some of her provinces American citizens engaged in the peaceful pursuit.; of life, and now denies to those of our citizens prosecuting the whale fishery on the north-west coast of the Pacific the pri vilege which has, through all time, heretofore been accorded to them, of exchanging goods of a small amount in value at her ports in California, for supplies indis pensable for their health and comfort. Nor will it escape the observation of Congress, that in conducting a correspondence with the Minister of the United States, who cannot., and does not know any dis tinction between the geographical sections of the Union, charges wholly unfounded are made against particular States, and an appeal to others for aid ,and protection against supposed wrongs. In this same connext.'n sec tional prejudices are attempted to be excited, and the hazardous and unpardonable effort is made to foment, divisions among the States of the Union, thereby to em bitter their peace. Mexico has still to learn that, how ever freely we may indulge in discussion among ourselves. the American people will tolerate no interference in their domestic affairs by any foreign Government ; 'and in all that concerns the constitutional guarantees and the national honour, the people of the United States have but one mind and one heart. The subject of annexation addresses itself most for tunately to every portion of the Union. The Executive would have been unmindful of its highest obligations, if it could have adopted a course of policy dictated by sectional interests and local feelings. On the contrary, it was because the question was neither local nor sec tional, but made its appeal to the interests of the whole Union, and of every state of the Union, that the nego tiation, and finally the treaty of annexation was entered into; and it has afforded me no ordinary pleasure to perceive that, so far as demonstrations have been made upon it by the people, they have proceeded from all por tions of the Union. Mexico may seek to excite divi sions amongst us, by uttering unjust denunciations against particular states, but when she comes to know that the invitations addressed to our fellow-citizens by Spain, and afterwards by herself, to settle in Texas. were accepted by etnigrants from all the states; and when, - inauldition to this, she refreshes her recollection with the fact that the first effort which' was made to ac vent, and to limit the moral influence which the Re public exercises in Europe, we have little doubt but the British Government are endeavouring to form a coalition, on the part of the European Powers, for the purpose of intimidating our Government and prevent ing the annexation of Texas to this confederacy, or the extension of our territory to the Pacific, where we might interfere with England, Russia, and other Powers. Such is the amount of the information which we have received ; and we believe there is a great deal of truth in these representations. When the recent dip lomatic developments relative to Mexico shall have reached Europe, we have no doubt this plan of the foreign Governments will be more fully matured, and that we shall hear more of it by the next arrival. The power and progress of this country have struck terrors into the very , hearts of the monarchies of Eu rope, and we have no doubt that great things will soon spring out of the position which the two continents at present occupy. • United States will be in the exercise of an undoubted Ohio S.-mate, to,whoni was referred the subject of the right ; and if Mexico, not regarding that forbearance, di sa bili t i es o f peop l e o f co l our un d er th e ex isting 14, w oi shall aggr a vate th e i n j us ti ce o f h e r c o n d uc t by a declara tion of war against them, upon her head will rest all the of the State, have reported in favour of the repeal said laws.— New- York- Herald. - . = ••• - - • . '''.. '' responsibility. JOHN TYLER. Washington City, Dec. 19, 1844. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. B.—An exaggerated notion . 14 __. ° been formed of the f or t un e o f the late King Willls,° 1., Count o f N assau . M. Van Gobbelschroz, formerly of the Mini s t ers o f th e N e th er l a nds, who'll' Per fectly in a position to kno w th e facts, has publishe n _! , letter, in which h e s t a t es th e facts as they really s r ' , He premises a history which might be big% interesting. "It i s no t p oss ibl e no w," he s . g) o( !" to seek for the source of the fortune. ~ the late King in' th e co l on i a l reven ue, en wa derived. It has bee n affir me d that the w la h teP c . e. ! l ti I left a fortune of 100,000,000 fl or i ns . All Holiae, knows that it was only 30,000,000 (2,445,0001. st et . 1 ling), which does not s eem an i mmen se fortune )? a. King. But again, whence was it derived h M. Von Gobbelschr oz announces th a t the i: who was very simple in his tastes and habits, 0 7 ' . ,., as far as his own p erson was c onc erned, /.e',,( economical, .saved annually a cons id era ble sum cad; his civil list. During a reign of twenty-six r ail : took a share in all commercial and manufactur°o undertakings the object of which seemed te lin i be useful. . His capital served t o f ou nd an d t o sup p o rt as° 4 ' tions which, beca me th e s ource 'of a d egree o f er° 9l l:.; city unparalleled i n th e hi s t ory o f. the naul i te j which he governed. If he generously as l ! 9 t b i t private undertakings, it mus t be remembered,the he founded the t wq most, important institutions of ill country—rthe' general Society f o r th e E nc ourage° il l of Manufactures at Brussels, and the Comlne r f o Company at Amsterdam, which :owed their cres,%be to the King, nod becam e so p rosperous that ' f value of the orig n' inal shares increased 56 ,•Pg, cent. It ' WAS thus, Sir, .that the late es,'n e e always saving of a trea su r e 'd es ti ne d t o ineL r o the welfare of the country, was abl e t o leavel ufep • millions to be 'divided b e t wee n hi s th ree chir,, o f Everybody in Holland, all - partie s , th e OPposit'the 1844 as well as the Conservative, ,aCknowledg e _t accuracy of these facts, w hi c h cannot now be disp o 7 o , It is in contemplatio n i n th e department of th e ta , tenor to form a comm i ss i on to examine the 'V' of banks. of savings. . .„' tb° The Minister of the Interior 'gives notice , i , of 7 holders of coupons of int eres t s of t he Belgian 7d 50,850,000 francs Three per Cent. (ie onthe 0 0 February, 1845, that they may r ec ei v e pkymentrre this day of the Cashier-General of the State, etfi sels, and of all the agents in . the provinces. JIAMBIJFiGH AND DITTen . 14 .0 .. NIMEGUEN, JAN. 7.—The a ccou nt s o f the' 0° ) here and elsewhere are favourabl e . . The •Pe.'! ii quite free front ice ; on the Lower Itritiil4l l 7Alf everywhere in :motion, and in some. places liis, disappeared. ea to, THE HAGUE, JAN. 9.—The accounts reeek 10 , day of the state of the river s ; b r i ng th e favoureb,l e c O formation that the breakin g UP .o f th e Ice has tir' been attended with Any accident.. ' bil TEEi., JAN. B.—We ,ha ve b e f or e_ stated f +ba t oil! Majesty had directed the application 'of a ct re pt quantity of gunpowder to bl ow up the i ce i n dt.ol; parts of the river Waal. The firktattenipti PT? io but the following have been more successful, and i f intended to repeat the experiment in other place s . should be found necessary. ROTTERDAM, JAN. 9.—We mentioned som . e f ‘ si ago that a parcel of wine from Bordeaux, dire t Y arrived at Batavia, where it had been seized bye Government, and thrown into the sea, because 0 1; 44 0 found to be adulterated with deleterious substs The fact was denied, probably by some inte, , J parties. But a letter from Batavia, of the . 1 ° i t September, addressed to a resp ec t a bl e p ers on LO; 0 ) city, confirms the fact. It says that . a t','oo ship, direct from Bordeaux, ' lat e ly. br o ugbg ;lf hogsheads of wine, consigned to an eminent W this city. Portions were sold t o diff eren t per t o one of whom was the President of Batavia., hi ll gentleman, after having drank less ..thanjbirli a bottle, was suddenly taken ill,' and asu'per it to the wine, ordered it to be analysed by sotnejo, sons of the faculty, who' found that there war p4l drop of real wine in it, and th a t it contained ' l ite noxious ingredients that any one who should talte of bottles, might be considered as poisoned. Se tY persons had been taken. ill in consequence, 5 , 1 70, master of the band-of the general st a ff h a d ' ost nr dli tt 4 AMSTERDAM, J:Art. I I.—A royal ordinance, , Aid the 9th of this month, is publi s h e d, which eOur e cl regulations for the better observance of Sundar a ell on the holidays observed- by. the Christian u,P fr liii No Work is to be done,' nbgtods exposed for of!';' 10 0 public 'amusement/4 such as plays, concerts,,O.a n o to horse-races, 4c., to be allowed ; no public-hbuies; open during Divine service, &c. . , , 'lle ' BERLIN, JAN. '4.—Colonel' Von Skiratia, It. tit camp to the Emperor of Russia, arrived. here", (19;i: He has been on a mission' to the Skitittio u tti many, supposed to be relative 'to the &Taira:ill ' return of the Duke of LuChtenburgh. , ' / . „40 The day before yesterday Capt e i r l Guthrie 01'1 0 0 , express from St. Petersburgh, on hi s re t urn to 1 4, ( 1 f . 0 0 Several persons have also arrived belonging:— suite of the Grand Duchess H e l en . . ' fi at r 0. ., -:- COPENHAGEN, JAN. 3.-The 'financial ascot re' 1843 is very favourable; the p u blic d e bt his' r n so' duced half a million (in addition to the milVr o yer nually allotted for this purpoae); yet there is 1 0 , I plus . of 350,000 rix dollars. ' - , : st t Y , ! HAMBURGII, JAN. 1.--111 the course of last Y'k gir number of births here was 5,222, and of deaths 1 marriages' 1,832, christenings 5,012.'. : '-' ' . * ~,,,e ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 28.—An imperial ue , - - o te the 14th instant is 'of the following terms :—Lie elf nant-General' Baron Von'Rennenkamp has,pimii - ,, be laid before the Emperor a false report, in vil uv, ,,,,tit!' mentions, by name, several persons, as having 740 guished themselves in an action:With the moianttn' e s' near the Aul Blrik, who had no share in , it ;110 ample for others, lie is rem o ved f rom his, post, al' be tried by a court-martial. DUTCH FU' !O. -NDS.—AMSTEUDA.3I, JAN. 10. ' Actual Debt, 2 1 /, Per Cent ... . M 6 o 4 n r 1 1 `. 5i t Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto, 4 per Cent. 'o p) Ditto, 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic, 4 1 ,4 per Cent - - 99? I n4 °° - Ditto, 3% per cent. OnninercialGampany,4 l / 2 Peret 146 1 9; • • East India Loan, 4 per Cent 9B 4 ,2i Exchange on London, one month' 12 :/ 4 Two months At sight 7 5 On Hamburg Two months.... On Pans - Two months — • -Dutch Papers, Jan. 11. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERL!N, JAN. 7. ,„ fol l' „ 2 Bills, P 99 St. Schuld 314 per Cent 9 9 3 /4 , • Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Ct: • -- Exchange on London, 2 months 6 23 r 4 -Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 8. • HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Je.Y. 7 • 100 Bills. P - 3 11 • Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares • 1 696 1 114 Anglo-Russian Loan • [O5. _ _. /1 Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certifi ca t e 105 It , Ditto Ist series Inscripti on ---..-% Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series '99. ~.,.. f Ditto, in Certificate 9 9 14 gi l l 9 01 1 . D N i e t w to 4 S p ti e e r g e lit e z nt., Hope and Co 90% 21 1 4 Spanish New 5 per Cent • 22 ..., Ditto 3 per Cent. Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent. 6.5 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 631 87 Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent B7 o, National Bank Shares — Exchange on London. , Petersburg, Three months Bremen, Two months —Hamburg Borsenhalle, Jan. 7. , 1 :,unt V e MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION.—An, jos.- n o singular'description has occurred at the 8r0ad,. 4 - ,,g ,'6O fiery, where Messrs. Robinson and Co. are sin_7 4 - of to the Ruthy-park mine. It is now apa' 3l. , - r icit ii itY yards deep, and men have been engaged in „" r - e, , , i ,`" f ts portion of it, with a view of rendering it set, i -- ',44 men stand whilst working. upon' a scaffold - au h - 0 1 . ' , : 0 s feet square, and suspended by a rope atta,, c looo. capstan. Yesterday week the scaffolding, 'v it o . Alt tO.; upon it, was raised by horses ; and on arrift% three yards from the top (the scaffold not be lEit ' p ll/ 4,! come entirely out of the shaft without hei/ aec i 7 o .l edgeways), parti es were p re p ar i ng to make (I" all and to raise the pitmen, when the horse &lc - ,iagotr: . horses were attached to the capstan arms), suPiZ e nt , e was secure, disengaged the horses, and, in * to c ' do vo scaffold, with the two men, was precipitated b iiagie , shaft with fearful velocity. The underlooker to c 1 0 , the spot immediately tried to grasp the arms 1( 1 0 b b) ; 0 sten, to stay its progress, but was knocked ' l O Ol, O O He afterwards - succeeded in - placing - a Piet e ; , between the spokes of one o f th e p u lleys, wn' -„h n deo degree, checked the speed ; still th e men desceoto pr;.! rapid rate, catching the sides repeatedly, m e re 1 • reached the bottoM, when Scaffold and men i odistor . mersed in water; and wonderful to relate, 011,001 t a. couple of other men down by the engine, to ; 1 . 01 0 the poor men, they were found ,unhurt, only bf, cll ,;oo. ing had a severe ducking. They were sPeeu l 'as 0 ' t or, up, and the following day ptirstted their laboll e, to o a Their escape' is attributed, in a great rac • listi tia 4lls , presence of mind displayed by them c 'ow y . tightly to the scaffold rope, and there ticiag, g a r e rcitg lmg ,,le of water at the b o tt om o f the pit.--Liverpooc THE .ALLEG E D M URD ER AT SALT pi pe , wP_,„,, Sequent to the inquest on the.botty of Mary bee , was concluded on W e d ne sday last, it 11115 tamed Ters°l3,ll taed that on Wednesday, the Ist instan t ; the garb of a Q ua ker purchased" some of te. v Abe: 4 ;s to at the inqu es t as having caused" the destn i f ei i i t . , ceased wotnan, at the shop of Mr. Thomas,.?2,ll,idoolii druggist, Bishopsgste- ,treat, City, which to to be is believed, can be identified. Should it p ree it person who stands charged with the maro a 44oPF form an important pink in the eireuinstantP l ' already published. MONEY MARKET. MONDAY, DEC. 23.—Notwithstanding the un favourable advices received from Europe by the last steamer. the Stock Market to-day was quite firm, and prices had an upward tendency. Erie Railroad, Canton Co., Farmers' Trust, Pennsylvania Fives, Indiana U. S. Bank and Reading, c!osed firm at Saturday's prices. Norwich and Worcester fell off per cent. ; Stonington, i ; Morris Canal, 4 ; while Mohawk advanced 2 per cent.; Long Island, 1j ; Ohio Sixes, 1; Illinois, 11. The transactions were not very large, but we cannot conceive how it is pos sible the market can be sustained. The accounts from the other side, in relation to the Cotton Markets, were of so unfavourable a nature as to forbid the slightest hope that those in anticipation will be more satisfac tory. The immense supplies that have been produced in all parts of the world, and the moderate increase in the consumption, from year to year, must leave a sur plus at the close of the season larger than ever before known. It is the knowledge of this that will influ ence prices all through the season. 'We do not yet know the extent of the new crop in this country. It may possibly reach three millions of bales. The Acadia arrived at Boston on Saturday, the 21st, after a passage of seventeen days. The Caledonia, from Boston for Liverpool, arrived at Halifax on the 18th. THE SPECIAL MESSAGE .-4t is believed that the opinion of the President elect is now perfectly coin cident with that of Mr. Tyler with respect to his measure for annexation, and if such be the case, there is nothing to prevent all the members of that party who supported Mr.Polles election from going at once into the work and carrying out to completion the issue decided by the people at the polls. BLACK TONGUE.—This dereadful disease is raging with fearful violence in Gibson county, la. A great number of deaths have occurred, and some cases have proved fatal in four or five days from the first attack. THEATRICAL GUNS GOING OFF.—We understand that Hackett and also Forrest sail for England. They go to France and England, as the representatives of the American drama, Mr. Hackett occupying the dis tinguished position of the sole representative of the comic drama, and Mr. Forrest that of the legitimate drama. They have a mission to fulfil in England, but in the present condition of the Texas question, it is doubtful whether they will succeed. However, it will he all made up in Paris, Air. Calhoun having succeeded in securing the approbation of our foreign policy by Guizot and Louis Philippe. Both these dramatic gentlemen will, no doubt, create a great sensation in Europe. MORE OF THE ANTI-RENT OUTRAGES.—It is with extreme pain that we find ourselves compelled to re cord another bloody outrage by an " Anti-Rent" Party in Rensselaer county. The facts of the case (as have been partly related in the Herald), as nearly as we can ascertain are these :—Richard Knowlton, of Sand Lake, Rensselaer ccunty, purchased a piece of woodland from 'William Van Rensselaer, and had employed a man by the name of Elijah Smith to haul a quantity of the wood. While engaged in loading his team on Thursday last, Smith was accosted by a party of " some thirty in number, who threatened to take his life if he should venture to re move the wood. Smith, disregarding these threats, continued his work, and when his load was ready ,jumped upon the waggon and started his horses. He was immediately fired at by one or more of the Indians, and shot dead. OUTRAGES NEAR ALBANT.—We have received ac counts of more disgraceful outrages by the Indians of the Rent and Anti-Rent sections. On Tuesday, a meeting of the Anti-Renters took place in Smoky Hollow, in the town of Claverick, on the Livingston Track. About three hundred Indians were present; armed with pistols, &c. This assemblage gathered together in consequence of the appearance of the sheriff to serve a writ. They threatened - to shoot him if he did not give up his 'papers. The citizens in ' that vicinity, who were opposed to the lawless movements of the Indians, hearing of the difficulty, met in a body; numbering at least five hundred. One of them re monstrated with the Anti-Renters against their course, when one of the latter drew a pistol, and instantly shot the citizen. The unfortunate man's name was Rivenburg. . ANOTHER VETO.—We have some reason for believ ing that Captain Tyler will soon be under the neces sity of clapping another veto upon a law of Congress of some importance, which is now in the p rocess o f being matured, and passing both Houses. We allude to, the Independent Treasury Bill, which has just passed the House of Representatives by 'a large ma jority, and which will be introduced into the Senate this week, probably to pass there also. It is well known that Mr. Tyler and his Administration are in favour of an Exchequer system, and we have good reason for be lieving that Mr. Polk is also in favour of a similar scheme. Acting, therefore, under the impression that the demo cracy in the House have merely passed this law thus suddenly for the heroic purpose of heading Mr. Polk, and stopping the present Administration, we have some reason for believing that Mr. Tyler will pluck up a little courage, and veto it as soon as it passes the Se nate. Another reason we can give. The passage of this new law would be equal to another removal of the de posites—which now amount to seven or eight millions, and will, probably, be increased considerably in a few months—from all the banks, and private indivi duals in whose hands they are. By this law these deposites must he paid in the shape of specie, which would, of course, produce a prodigious drain upon the banks, and inevitably lead to a great revulsion in the money market. It will be seen, therefore, that the banking interests, in order to save themselves from the disastrous consequences of the passage of such a law, will, in all probability, unite in sending a depu tation.to Washington,' for the purpose of imploring Captain Tyler to veto the Bill. We expect, there tore, some very remarkable flare-ups amongst parties in the course of a few days, in consequence of the passage of this Bill. It must give rise to a great deal of discussion before it is all over.—Neze Fork Herald. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE, COLUMBIA, DEC. 16.—T0-day, in the Senate, Mr. Pickens intro duced resoluti ons on th e su bj ect of the abolition peti tions and the repeal of the 25th rule by Congress. In substance (for they are not yet printed, and I can. not get a copy), they condemn the action of the House, and declare that any movement by Congress ,toward the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, will be regarded by this State as a virtual dissolution of the Union. He sustained them in a very able speech,. and the Senate unananimously adopted them. The House has agreed to consider them tu , tuorraw, itth.—Charleston Courier. lIAVANNAH, Dec. 6, 1844.—Business here is ex tremely dull—no produce being in the•market. The coming crops will be late this season, and we do not anticipate any great stir in business before June. Exchange 'on London is down again to 10i a 11i per cent, Vessels are arriving in abundance, but can find no employment,' nor could we recommend any more coming out before April—those now in harbour having to pay their tonnage dues and port charges, will remain here. Freights to Europe are scarce.-- We quote freighta tc% Cowes and a market 2/. 10s. to 2/. Do. 6cl, - Mediterranean freights, none in market. Vol' the United States almost nothing can Le ob. , tamned, The fruit crops have all failed in eur neighbourhood this sekson. Our Government ofge•eva a nti the lo o k- out f or any wits Vorn Spain, being in expectation of hearing a'a•Oxange in the Administration. Tas BLAcit-LAW3.--The Select COininittee of the .*