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NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. Now ready, Two Vols. Svo., with Portraits, MEMOIRS OF T HE REIGN OF GEORGE 111 By HORACE WALPOLE, Earl of Orford. Edited, with Notes, &c , by Sir DENIS LE MARCHANT, Bart. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street (Publisher in Ordirrxry to her Majesty). UNIFORM WITH TILE AUTHOR'S OTHER WORKS. A eh, ap Edition, in one vol., price only 12s. bound, of MR. LEVER'S NEW WORK, " ARTHUR O'LEARY," EDITED BY HARRY LORREQUER, AND ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROY A L, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a Grand Opera Sella, called THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusienano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Cornare, Mr. Borrani ; Monceingo, Mr. Weill ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Poole To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Harlequin.►de, 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. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will he performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts, called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket air. Si rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe” s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone ; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Countess of Forrpion. Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthori., Madame Vestrie; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. Ring Uxorious, Mr. J. Bland ; Princess GraAosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. TORIAL TOUR IN SWITZERLAND. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the Direction of Madante CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.) a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Storr of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck, Mr. 0. 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 ; Mrs. Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews. After which will be repeated a Sew Farce, called THE COR PORAL'S WEDDING ; or, a Kiss of the Bride, in which Messrs. Lambert, Hudson, and Selby, and Miss Woolgar will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the Kir.g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lons dale ; Clown, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Monseigneur, Mr. Wallack ; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry; Rosaline, Miss Emma Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To he succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling To be followed by a new Diyertissemmt, called LE SALON DE BAL. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Miss Marshall, Mdlle Teresine, M. J. Roirset, Mr. Marshall, and Mr, (Albert. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather Operatic Burlesque Extrayag inza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Otindoff, Mr. Compton; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Min E. Stanley; Ravin; Mrs. Fosbroke. • IHE ATRE 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 Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. After which. a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO M ARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Mss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with - New Grand Operatic, Historicil, Romantic Pantornimlcal. Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Furner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley MN. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mr; U,her, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. GRAND JUVENILE FETES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. W. BATTY. Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime. THIS EVENING _ _ _ Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX HUNT; or, The Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed ; introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage and in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds. purchased by Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production. Epsom Rsces and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entira change in the. Feats of Horse manship. After which, a Brilliant Military Cavalcade. introducing Thirteen Female E luestrians, entitled THE HUNGARIAN BRIGADE; or, Female Cavalry. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, cited HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury, Johnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE In compliance with the wishes of numerous Families, the Pantomime will be performed in the middle of the Evening.—Continuation of the most brilliant Success ever known. THIS EVENINit Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corti (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Horner, Lewis, Heston, and Seaman, Mrs. It. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W. Daly, and Miss Martin. To he fol owed by 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 Corti; Columbine, Miss Slaiter. To conclude with THE WET NURSE. Supported by Me'srs. Neville, W. Smith,.and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE Extraordinary Success of " Marianne; or, The Child of Charity," and the New Comic Pantomime. THIS EVENING. - - Will be repeated :MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Sun ported by Mr. o:baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson, T. H. Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E Terrey, and Miss Treble , . After which, MONSEIGNEUR. Monseigneur, the French Jack Sheppard, Miss Vincent. To conclade with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapino; Clown, Mr. Blanchard ; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney ; Columbine, Mdlle Le Fite. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to submit a list of the EN_ CIAGEMENTS, and an outline of the ARRANGEMENTS which be has entered Into for the ENSUING SEASON of FRIgNCH PLAYS, which will be commenced THIS EVENING, JANUARY 22, and which, he trusts, will be deemed worthy the distinguished Patronage hitherto conferred upon his Theatre. The Season will commence by the Engagement of Monsieur Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes), his First Appearance at this Theatre, for whose performance the popular Plays of " Le Che valier de Saint Georges," " Le Chevalier du Guet," "Pierre le Rouge," " Requeflnette," " Pere et Fils, &c , &c., &c., will be produced. Mademoiselle Nathalie (ef the Theatre du Gymnase) will also appear conjointly with Monsieur Lafont. After whom, the eminent Actor, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre (who has accepted an engagement for a limited number of Nights •nly), and Mademoiselle Clarisse, will appear, until the close of the Season at Easter. During the Engagement of Monsieur Frede rick Lemaitre, the popular Plays of " Don Cwsar de Bazan," and "Ruy Bias," by Victor Hugo, as originally performed by him with so much success, will be produced; as well as the last New Piece of the Porte St. Martin, which now excites such extraordinary interest in Paris, and in which M. Frederick has performed for Ten consecutive Weeks, entitled " La Dame de Saint Tropez." After Easter, the eminent Actress, Madame Albert (engaged for a few nights only), will appear in the Two New Comedies of the Theatre Francais, " Une Femme a Quarante Ans,'' and " Le Mari ala Campagne," in addition to " Mathilde, ou la Jalouise ;" arid Marie, ou les '''•ois Epochs ;" with other favourite Pieces of her repertoire ; and will be succeeded by the popular Comic Actor, Monsieur Ravel (of the Theatre du Palais Royale), who will make his First Appearance ;n this Country. The Engagement of Monsieur Ravel will be followed by those of Mademoiselle Plessy, and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Francais, his First Appearance in this Country). It is intended, at that period of the Season, to produce, under the superintendence of Monsieur Cartigny, some of the finest Comedies of the French Stage. In addition to which, Mr. Mitchell has the honour to announce, that an entirely New Comedy will be produced, written expressly for the Company by the eminent French Author, Mon sieur Alexandre Dumas, who will be present in London to direct the raise en scene of his New Composition. The Favourite Actor, Monsieur Achard, is also engaged for a few Nights, and will appear in the last New Vaudeville of Le Gymnase, entitled " Babiole et Joblot," by Scribe, " Ywan le Moujick," and other New Pieces, with the occasional Representa tion of some of the most popular Plays of that admired Actor's repertoire. The Season will terminate by the Engagement of Monsieur Arual (of the Theatre du Vaudeville), who will bave the honour of making his First Appearance at this Theatre, and during whose Engagement the following Popular Plays, as originally performed by Monsieur Arnal, will be produced :—" L'Homme Blase," L'Hureoriste," " Les Oants J iune," " Passe Minuit," " Les Cabinets Particulaire," " Renaudin de Caen," " Le Poltron," " La Mansarde du Crime," " Le Bal du Grande Monde," &c., &c. • The Company for the Season will be carefully selected from the Theatres of Paris, including M. Cartigny, M. Oudinot, M. De , bampes (of the Gymnase), M. Masquillier (of the Porte St. Martin), M. Lienard, M. Tourillon, M. Bizot, M. Bonnet, Mdlle. Eliza Forgeot, Mdme. Croset, Mdlle. Mery, Mdlle. Chaplin, Mdlle Gay (of the Varietes), Mdlle. Andrea (of the Porte St. Martin), Mdlle. Estelle (of the Palais Royale), Mdlle. Bonval (of the Theatre Francais), Mdlle. Valerie (of the Odeon), Mdlle. Lambert (of the Varietes), &c., &c., &c. Leader of the Orchestra, M. Burotte (for Twenty Years Second Chef d'Orchestre at the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Directrice, Dfdlle. Eliza Forgeot ; Regisseur, M. Cloup. The Subscription will be for Forty Representations, which will fake place on Mondays and Fridays; the Performances on Wed nesday Evenings will not be included in the Subscriptions, but Sub scribers will be allowed to exchange either the Monday or Friday Evening for the Wednesday, when they may desire to do so, for the accontraodation of their other engagements, an arrangement which, on former Seasons, has given such general satisfaction. Applications for Season Boxes and Stalls to be addressed to Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams, 1, St. James's-street ; and Messrs. Andrews and Ebers, Bond-street. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 21. TIEIERDIONETER, Lowest, 30 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 38. BAROMETER, 30.23.-WIND, N. NaTE.—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 geaerally 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-BRIDGE THIS DAY. lifornine .... IS minutes after I I Evening... 39 minutes after I. —.VR.:. • . Lt-{ \t"...t" . k.V.,:f • '..... . Air *, ~ •.,, - V: 't ~‘, 1 1 .*Z !...1 1.. .. 4. lk ,e , ;. , --. fil 0/nlin 14 *Mt LONDON, WT DNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1845. Extremes meet, they say, and we will just give a striking fact, or two, in illust ration of this old adage. On the very same da y that the columns of ou;. Contemporaries were filled with descriptions of her M AJ E3TY's visit to Stowe, and of the abundant signs of lavish wealth, luxury, and magnificence that every where met her eye ,as she traversed the halls of that prlocely fabric—the rare old pictures, the matchless marble statues, the valuable books and manuscripts, the golden candelabra, and numerous other costly articles ,of vertu—on the same day, we repeat, that she COltiljaliii of our Contemporaries were full of descriptions of these things, they contained also the following case of exquisite privation and suffering, which stands out in edifying contrast to their glowing details of the splendours and luxuries of Stowe. At the Canterbury Police-court a poor woman, named MARY HAMILTON, was charged with having stolen a broom, the property of a Mr. JACKSON. It appeared that she had gone into the prosecutor's shop on pre text of making some trifling purchase, and while there had purloined the article in question, which she sub sequently sold to a baker for eighteenpennyworth of bread. In her defence, the prisoner urged that she was goaded to the theft by intense hunger, for neither she nor her children had tasted any food since the preceding morning; but the fact of the petty larceny having been clearly established against her, she was committed for trial at the quarter sessions. " What rendered her case particularly affecting," observes the reporter, " was that she had a child in her arms, and was surrounded by six others, the eldest not eleven years old ; some were shoeless, others were without covering to the head, and all were in rags, the pic tures of misery and wretchedness, awaiting with excessive anxiety, and tears in their eyes, the fate of their distressed parent; and it was also known that there was another child of the same family in the hospital, and a ninth roaming about. The prisoner's cries of lamentation, mingled with those of her chil dren, were deeply affecting, and would have moved hearts sterner than those of the bench, all of whom felt much for the family." These cases of squalid, hopeless destitution are, unfortunately, daily becoming more frequent among us. Indeed, concurrently with the march of affluence and luxury appear to proceed the march of squalid, gaunt, bare-ribbed poverty ; and while one portion of society is absolutely rolling in riches, and scarcely knowing what to do with its superabundant wealth, another is a prey to distress in its most ghastly form, rotting by inches in garrets or cellars, devoid alike of food and raiment, and grateful for such broken victuals as" the lowest menial in respectability's kitchen would reject with contempt and loathing. As a necessary consequence of this state of abject destitution among the humbler classes, crime is increasing among them at a fearful ratio, and not only crime of an ordinary character, but cri:ne of the blackest and most hideous complexion it is pos sible to conceive. Parricide, observes a correspondent in a Morning Contemporary, rises into a common occurrence ; children slain by parents, themselves goaded by starvation and the workhouse into despera tion ; whole families extinguished by arsenic. In Somersetshire a daughter poisons her father, saying to her sister, "We shall do better without him." In Suffolk a grandmother destroys her grand-daughter by the same means, and for the same reason. Near Bridgewater a widow makes away with her daughter, mother, and brother, and she had probably made away with her husband. And while these horrid deeds, at which humanity sickens, are in course of almost daily perpetration, how are numbers of the upper and middle classes of society occupied ? In building new churches and chapels, forsoo'.h ; in mixing themselves up with questions of Tractarianism and anti-Tracta rianism ; and in sending forth missionaries to the East and the islands of the Pacific, for the purpose of affording religious and moral instruction to those who do not require it half so much as thousands of our own ignorant and demoralised poor ! It is clear that something must be done, and speedily too, to remedy this alarming state of things. It is vain to boast of the flourishing state of the revenue, and of the marked improvement that has lately taken place in the manufacturing districts, while thousands and tens of thousands of our labouring population con tinue in their present debased condition, without even the commonest rudiments of instruction, and ready victims of reckless desperation, induced by the iron pressure of distress, which suvests all sorts of atrocities. The " Condition of England" question is by far the most important—the most pressing ques tion of the day, and should be the first to engage the undivided attention of Parliament in the session which is so close at hand. The state of the Protestant Church now impera tively calls for the interference of Parliament. The Bishops hare been appealed to in defence of the Re formed Religion. The heresies of Oxford, the Popish rites and ceremonies practised in many churches, and the commotion excited among the people by the wicked attempts of perjured men to destroy the great work of the Reformation, have all been placed before their eyes in vain. Archbishops and Bishops are alike deaf to the voice of reason, and their own solemn engagements ; they have resolved to march to Rome, and rather than be defeated in their purpose are de termined to risk all consequences. The scenes which have been exhibited at Exeter for the last two or three Sundays reflect the greatest disgrace upon the order of Bishops. Striplings from Oxford imbued with the new doctrines, and looking up to their superiors for patronage, are encouraged to in sult the unanimous voice of the public, to treat with contempt the most respectful and urgent remon strances against a departure from the usual modes of public worship, to prefer the orders, or rather the well-known propensities of their patrons, to the well being of their flocks—and their just reward is universal execration. They are deserted in their churches, hooted and mobbed in the streets, and obliged to appeal to the civil force for protection even in their own houses. The patrons of church livings, the Legis lature, to which the Established Reformed Church owes its existence, and the QUEEN herself, the head of the Establishment, cannot any longer stand by inactive spectators, when the appointed shep herds of the flock have shown themselves rene gades, or incompetent to their duty. Let the people, therefore, throw the Bishops en tirely out of the question ; let them apply for pro tection to the right quarter; to the Crown and the two Houses of Parliament, and demand their rights as Protestants. To desert the Establishment or erect free churches would be a great folly and a great sin. This is what the new sect want. Could the Puseyite Bishops only get rid of the staunch sup porters of the Protestant religion, and be at the same time allowed to retain their large incomes and their enormous patronage, they flatter themselves that in time all would be right, that they would speedily assert their supreme spiritual authority, and again unite with Rome to elevate the Church above human laws, and put down that spirit of justice and independence which has ever been so fatal to ecclesiastical dominion. The people of the diocese of Exeter may rest assured that they have the sympathies of all good Protestants, that they will be supported to the utmost by the Legis lature, and in due time shall obtain their just reward. Never, perhaps, in the whole history of commotions in this country, and these are not few, was there ever such a general, a determined, and a cordial hatred of a new sect, as that which now prevails against these wolves in sheeps' clothing. Independent of the rumour of the Emperor of RUSSIA'S death, the accounts from St. I'etersburgh for some time have been of a very unfavourable cha racter. Sickness in the Royal Family, it is said, has prevented the usual routine of balls and Court amusements ; rumours of changes in the system of Government have prevailed, and it has even been in ferred that there is a party around the throne more powerful than the throne itself, and fully determined also to assert their power. Of the vast influence of the nobles and their retainers there can be no doubt, and a very striking instance of the fact has been fur nished within the last eighteen months. The EM PEROR, aware of the wretched condition of the serfs throughout his vast dominions, and anxious to raise them in the scale of human beings, as well for their own sake as the security of the throne, had issued an ukase, the object of which evidently was to prepare the way for their gradual emancipation. The lords of the soil took the alarm, rebelled against the royal will, and in a very few weeks afterwards the humane decree was withdrawn. Such a display of feeling on the part of the SOVEREIGN, however, could not fail to produce a strong effect; it showed these arbiters of royal destiny that the power, not the will, was wanting to interfere with their privileges, and led them to believe that, at a fit opportunity, the design might be carried into effect. Have they, therefore, been forming schemes to ward off the danger, to lay their SOVEREIGN under restraint, and remind him that he was placed on the throne, not by right of descent, b u t b y t h e i r sole will and pleasure ? Judging from past events, and present appearances, there is but too much ground for suspicion. The EMPEROR, it must have been observed, makes all his journies in the most expeditious manner; not one seems to know when he is to leave his capital or when he is to return ; he affords no time for preparing plots during his ab sence ; even when he undertook the important visit to England, and honoured our QUEEN with his pre sence, as little was known of his departure at St. Petersburgh as at London, where every one was taken by surprise. This is one of the penalties which despots pay for what has been called their unlimited power, though it is in reality the power of a system of which the Sovereign is the head. He bears all the blame ; he endures all the anxieties and horrors surrounding a throne unprotected by the lower and middle classes—unprotected, in fact, by any class ex cept that which reigns alike over the King and the peasant, and which sacrifices all others to its own selfish interests. He sits on a volcano, and every symptom of change, imaginary and real, overwhelms him with the terror of an explosion. Even the Emperor ALEXANDER, with all his good and great qualities, and after the immense services he had rendered to his country, was placed in this very situation at the hour of his death. The mine partially exploded soon after that event, and the throne was saved only by the courage and presence of mind displayed by his successor. Per haps his turn is now come ; but such mystery and secrecy prevails in all proceedings of despotic coun cils, and especially in those of Russia, that nothing like an ordinary calculation of results can be obtained. Two circumstances, however, throw some light on the present policy of the Russian nobles. They are determined to keep the peasantry down, and prevent a middle class, like that in England, from dividing authority with them. It is for the interest of the throne, on the other hand, to raise the in habitants of large towns to importance, to give trade and commerce its due share in the admi nistration of the affairs of the empire, and thereby to form a counterpoise to the influence which weighs down the energies of the most useful classes in the community. The nobles, like the old barons of England, will naturally struggle to the last against both Sovereign and people, and, unfortunately, they have more power now than even those haughty Eng lish despots had at any period, except when an imbe cile King was on the throne. They possess all the great domains of the country—they possess vast power in the army, and, unfortunately, the army at present is but teo ready to be tampered with by their machinations. Peace to Russian soldiers is the greatest of all evils. Both men and officers are, at the present moment, ill fed and ill paid—they are sunk in idleness and povsrty—they have had no wars for sixteen years, except the war in the Caucasus, where neither plunder nor glory is to be obtained, and they are naturally dissatisfied with a SOVEREIGN who would not take advantage of the helpless condition of the Turkish empire, when it was assailed by MSIIEMET ALI, nor of the intrigues of Russian agents in Persia against the British possessions in India. Peace abroad and tranquillity at home are incompatible in a country so purely military. The soldiers are open to any bidder, and possibly the nobles may be the purchasers. These remarks, of course, are founded only on cun conjecture, for the domestic policy of Russia is in volved in impenetrable darkness. Even the causes of her revolutions, the mode in which an obnoxious Czar is pushed from his throne, and the winding up of a vast conspiracy, which in France or England would astonish the world, are regarded in that be nighted country as matters of ordinary occurrence, and the great body of the people, like automatons, move on again with the new system. THE SUN, LON nON. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 22 1343. SPAIN. Madrid papers of the 13th inst. have been received. The Congress had closed the general discussion on the Dotation of the Clergy Bill, but the debate was of no interest. On the Bolsa the Three per Cents. were at 31k, at 60 days, 34-; Five per Cents. 2.41, at 60 days, ; Exchange on London at 90 days, 37k. FRENCH PAPERS. From the Paris papers of Sunday, which did not arrive until a late hour yesterday afterno•)n, we learn that the division in the Chamber of Peers on the pre vious day, was looked upon by the Ministry as a great triumph. The following appears in the Presse " It was confidently stated yesterday (Saturday) that the Minister Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty at Washington had received his passports after a very warm discussion, which he had with Mr. John Calhoun, Secre tary of State, and in which he declared to the latter gentleman, that if the United States should persevere in their intention to annex Texas, England on her side would resume the designs which she had formed relative to the island of Cuba, and which she had given up, with regret, only on the representations made to her by the United States. If our information be cor rect, it was in consequence of this declaration that the American Minister, after having defied the Britannia Envoy to realise his threat, signified to him that he had nothing el'e to do but to take his passport. Although this news came to us from a good source we confine our selves to stating it, without guaranteeing its exactitude." We do not believe there is a word of truth in this statement. The National publishes a report drawn up and signed by several French merchants and captains of ships on the Gambia, relative to the seizure of the Carieuse. They declared that there was nothing in the outfits of the Carieuse which could in the slightest degree lead to the suspicion that she was engaged in the slave trade, and that since ships are seized upon such frivolous pretexts, they tremble for the ships of which they themselves are the owners, or have the command. They also complain that in passing to Albreda French ships are obliged to de posit their papers with the English authorities. The National says that the only way of getting a remission of the treaties of 1831 and 1833 is by giving orders to French cruisers on that coast to give such trouble to all English merchantmen carrying on trade upon that coast as will make the right of search past beating. The Journal des Debats says, that on Friday, which was a cold frosty night, M. GUSTAVE D BEAUMONT and the Marquis DE LANGLE watched all night at the door of the Chamber of Deputies, in order that they might be the first to inscribe their names on the list of the speakers against the Address. A letter from Warsaw, of the sth instant, says that the Emperor of Itussi.t. was expected there in the beginning of May. Accounts from Switzerland says that several can tons are in open warfare. At Argovie the insur gents, after having taken the arsenal without any resistance being offered on the part of the Govern ment, seized on the ammunition and other stores, which were then collected in large quantities and marched towards Lucerne, where they were to meet the insurgents of the other cantons. The canton of Berne was taking measures to refuse a passage to persons coming from Friburg to join the other mal contents at Lucerne. NEWS FROM PORTUGAL. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 21.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Montrose, Capt. George Wilson, arrived this morning at half-past six o'clock, A.M., from the Peninsula. Her dates of departure are as follow :—From Gibraltar Jan. 12, Cadiz 13th, Lis bon 15th (no communication with Oporto), and Vigo 17th. Ships of War lying at Gibraltar—Scout ; none at the other ports. Vessels passed—ln the Tagus on the 15th, the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer Queen. Off Portland, the Great Liverpool. Specie on board-14 packages. Four passengers. From the intelligence brought by this acket, it appears that the project of law for the abolition of the foreign conservatorial courts was still under discus sion in the Chamber of Deputies. The privilege now about to be abolished, is to the British residents one of very great importance, inasmuch as it has hitherto been their only protection against injustice and oppression, and that the right of having mixed juries in some, but not in all, criminal cases, is far from being an adequate compensation for its loss. The tobacco contract is likely to turn out a losing speculation. The English transport barque General Palmer, bound from London, with a detachment of Royal Marines for the Island of Ascension, and stores for her Majesty's ships of war at Rio Janeiro, has put into Lisbon in a leaky state. We have heard with satisfaction that her Majesty's Ministers have made such an arrangement as will in crease the income of Mlle. D'Este to 1,0001. a year, being equal to that which she enjoyed during the life time of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. HAMBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JAN. 18.—The Chamber of Repre sentatives, in its sitting to-day, continued the discus sion of the project of law on the new method of sanctioning, promulgating, and publishing the laws. Articles 2 to 6 were adopted ; the other articles will be discussed on Monday. " We think it proper tomention an interesting inci dent in the last Secret Committee of the Chamber of Representatives ; it was completely passed over in silence in the different accounts given in the journals : " The Minister of the Interior made, as we are told, in this sitting, a very complete statement of all the circumstances which preceded the public debate on the 19th article of the treaty of the Ist of Sep tember ; among other things, he said that he had a a conversation on the subject with two members of the Opposition—M. Delfosse and M. Leiorrine—that he had acquainted them with the doubts which that article excited, of the means which he reckoned upon to remove them, and of the necessity which he felt of having a' secret committee, in which he would acquaint the whole Chamber with the state of the case. The object of the Minister in making this statement was to demonstrate that he had never for a moment thought of making a mystery to the Chamber of the state of affairs. "M. Delfosse, we are told, spoke after the Minister. That Hon. Member said that he might have many reasons to complain of the Minister of the Interior ; but that, in the matter in question, he should never accuse him of disingenuousness or bad intentions, and that, at the most, there might have been some want of consideration. M. Delfosse expressed himself in snch terms that the Minister was induced to rise, and to say to the Deputy for Liege, with much emotion, ' I thank you. " We mention this incident from respect to the truth, and because it tends to present the result of the dis cussion in a very different point of view from that in which it appears in some accounts before published."— Courrier Beige. BERLIN, JAN. 16.—Mr. Wheaton, Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of North America at this Court, has arrived from Paris. The Silesian Gazette says --" It is reported that the Duke of Leuchtenberg will shortly, on account of the health of his consort, go to settle for some years in a southern climate."—Humburgh Borsenhalle, Jan. 17. The Universal Gazette of the 16th and 17th has no news whatever from St. Petersburgh, or from any part of Poland and Russia. BERLIN, JAN. 16.—The Provincial 'Assemblies of the Provinces of Silesia and Posen are summoned for the 9th of February. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bnussms, JAN. 18. Actual Debt, 2i per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 98 1 / 2 Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto — Ditto, ditto 1840 Ditto, ditto 1844 Ditto of the City, 1843 lO3 Ditto, 1832 Bank of Belgium 6lO —Brussels Papers, Jan. 19. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 13. 5 per Cent. Metalliques 4 per Cent. Ditto lOl% 3 per Cent. Ditto 7B L0an,1834 Ditto, 1839 Bank Shares 1621 Esterhazy's Loan S 7 IA RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand Gloggnitz 126 M i lan llBl4 —Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 16. HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, JAN. 17. Bills. Money. 113 Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares 1650 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate 105 1 / 105 1 Ditto Ist series Inscription — 105 ;2 Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series 99% Ditto, in Certificate 9 9 1 /2 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co 91% Ditto Stieglitz 9l Spanish New 5 per Cent 20% Ditto 3 per Cent — Anglo. Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent — Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 63l‘ Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 87% 87% National Bank Shares — 134 Exchange on London. Petersburg, Three months — Bremen, Two months —Hamburg Borsenhalle, Jan. 16. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JAN. 16. Bills. Money. St. Schuld Sch., 3 1 / per Cent lOO% 99 3 / 4 Pruss. English Bonds, 1830,4 per Ct — Exchange on London, 2 months —Universal Prussian Gazette, Jan. 17. 6 24 CANTON RANSOM. The last, portion of the third instalment of the twenty-one millions to be paid to this country as the Canton ransom, has been received into the charge of J. W. Cooper, Esq., of her Majesty's Treasury, from on board her Majesty's ship Harlequin, Hon. G. Hastings, and the Pelican, Captain Justice. These ships delivered their valuable freight to Mr. Cooper at Portsmouth, and the whole of the treasure, in Sycee silver, has been brought to London, and de posited in the Royal Mint, to be credited to her Ma jesty's Exchequer. The Harlequin and Pelican quitted Canton at the same time, but the Pelican, a very old ship, being found leaky, the half of the treasure on hoard her was transhipped by Captain Justice to the Harlequin at sea. By this Captain Hastings became entitled to the freight payable under the royal proclamation for the conveyance of the treasure to England ; but it has come to our knowledge that he has abandoned all claim to it, and thereby placing Captain Justice in the same position as if he had conveyed home the freight. This conduct reflects the highest honour upon Captain Hastings and the service of which he is so gallant a member. It has been stated that the Pelican came into har bour in a dirty state, but this we can contradict from the evidence of an officer who boarded her imme diately on her arrival at Portsmouth. We can also bear witness to the activity of the authorities at Portsmouth on the occasion of the Pelican grounding on coming into harbour, although much has been said to the contrary. The Pelican has been built thirty years. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS . CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The Funds have been steady to the close. Consols have realised 1004 to loq for Money, and 1004 1 for Account. Exchequer Bills have been 575. to 555. pre mium; and New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. touched 1044. The Foreign Bonds have been quiet, but Spanish continued at the advanced rates of the morning, viz., 284 for Money,. and 401 4 for Account. Mexican Bonds were at a rise to 34; a ; Dutch Four per Cents. were 984. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these : —Birmingham and Gloucester were 7 ; Bristol and Exeter, 64 ; Churnet Valley, 3 ; Cale donian, 4 ; Eastern Union, 1 1 ; Edinburgh and Glas gow, Quarter, ; ; Great Southern and Western (Ire land), 6 ; Ditto, Extension, 34 4 ; Ditto, Additional, 6 ; Great North of England, New, 94. ; Great Western, 93 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 42 ; Brighton, 24 ; London and York, 21 to 2 ; Lynn and Ely, 21 to 3 ; Man chester and Leeds, 61 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 144 to 154 ; Midland, 31 ; Ditto, New, 8 ; New castle and Berwick, 10/ to 94 ; Northern and Eastern, 17 ; Ditto, Quarter, 15 ; Rugby, 11 ; South-Eastern, 154 ; Ditto, New, 171 ; South Wales 14 to 1 ; York and North Midland, Scarborough ' Branch, 25 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 51 to 52 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 3 ; Great Northern of France, 14 ; Paris arid Orleans, 241 4; and Paris and Rouen, 211 premium. Cornwall have been at par to 1 discount. Dublin and Galway were 4, and Eastern Counties, 54 4 discount. The Exchange on Amsterdam was rather higher this afternoon, but on Antwerp, Hansburgh, and Trieste. bills were taken at rather lower prices for the pound sterling. The following is the official return of the exports of Bullion from the port of London, for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Coin to Antwerp, 6,000 ounces. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The prices of Cotton at Liverpool. yesterday, were well supported, and the trade bought 7,000 bales, con sisting of 1,000 Egyptian, at 54d to 74d; 300 Maranham, at 41d to sd; 100 Bahia, at 51d to sd; 600 to 700 S ura t, at 21d to 31e1 ; and American, at 31d to 3d per lb.—There was a large business in Shares, at firm rates. Birmingham and Gloucester, 105 ; Ca ledonian, 54 ; Chester and Birkenhead , 37 4 ; Dub lin and Cashel, 101 a ; Churnet Va lle y , 4 /. 3 s. 9 d. ; Eastern Counties, 191 20,1; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 11. 65., 11. 7s. ; E inburgh and Glas gow , 63 1 . Grand Junction, 232 ; Ditto, Halves, 116 ; Great N or th of England, 1504 ; Great Western, 178; Ditto, Fifths, 404 ; Kendal and Windermere, 41 ; Lancaster and Car lisle, 251; Lancaster and Preston, 471 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 391 4; London and Birmingham, 238 240 ; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 414 42; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 1 ; London and 28:1 294 ; London and Brighton, 52 52 / ; London and South-Western, 794 ; Ditto, New, 13 York, 44 4 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 553 56 ; Manchester and Leeds, 131 132 ; Ditto, Halves, 57 571; Midland Counties, 129 1314 ; North British, 104; North Union, 148; Sheffield and Manchester, 100 1004; South- Eastern, 49 501 ; Ditto, New, 201 211 ; Trent Valley, 104 ; Lyons and Avignon, 24 21. I Is. 9d. ; Rouen and Havre, 244 25 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 8/ ; Northern of France, 54 6; Boulogne and Amiens, 5. There is an appearance of increased activity this week in the produce markets, but the business doing is, and no doubt will continue to be, almost exclusively for con • sumptiun until the Government has laid before Parlia ment the further tariff alterations, which it is reported to have in contemplation. Money is very easy, and as the uncertainty and full supply checks speculation in produce, Stocks and Shares are very generally resorted to. The Funds are to-day rather brisk. Consols for im midLite transfer realise 1001 to 1004, and for Time, 1004 to 104. Exchequer-bills have been quoted at 555. to 57:. premium, and India Bonds 71s. to 735. premi=l. Bank Stock is 212 to 2121, and India Stock 2871. 'I he New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are quoted at 1041 to 104, and the Three per Cents. 1004 to 1001. The Government broker is a daily buyer. South-Sea Stock is 117. Time bargains in Spanish Stock seem to have been renewed with some vigour within the last day or two, and the Bull party seems in the ascendant. The Five per Cents. have been up to 28k and 281, and the Three per Cents. to 401 and 41. Portuguese Converted Stock is firmer at 60 to 1. Colombian Bonds are 141, and Brazilian for Account 901. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 631 to !. Thu Railway Shares are lively again, and the old lines are still on the advance in some instances. The Churnet Valley, Cambridge and Lincoln, and South-Eastern, are very buoyant. PRICE OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO3/41X3 3 per Cent. Consols Arms lO O l/0, 1 1 /8 New 3 1 % per Cent. Annuties Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12% 3.48 India Stock 1 .'287 1 / India Bonds 1,0001 7l pm. Ditto under 1,0001 74 pm. South Sea Stock ll7 Ditto Old Annuities Bank Stock 213 Consols for Account India Stock 288% Exchequer Bills. INd. 1,000/. . . 500/. ... ........ ... .... ... Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ........ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. 14% Portug - uese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted 6 O l /2 60 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 2 B l / 84 Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds 6% Ditto Deferred _ 17 Ditto 3 per Cent 11,40 1 ,4 41 40 1 /, Ditto for the Account.; 401 A 41 1 / g 44 Dutch 2 1 / 3 per Cents PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILwAYs. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holy-head Churnet Valley Direct Northern 2 14 . 2 14%. _ ... to Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 SV,VA to Eastern Counties Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3N — to Ditto, ditto, No. q J ' /8 OVA... to Edinburgh and Glasgow Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 Great North of England 100 _ _ to Ditto _ 2 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Ditto Fifths Harwich 1 Hull and Selby London and Birmingham ...100 ` 0 35 London and Blackwall 16% 7 3 / 4%... to London and 8right0n.......... 50 London and Greenwich ...... 12 3 4 IIM to London and South Western.. 41%...... Ditto, New London and Croydon London and Y0rk........ 2%..... 4 1 / i % Midland lOO 133 132% to 134 Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby _lOO lOO Newcastle & Darlington ,Yunc. 24 ...... 65% to 66 Newcastle and Berwick North British 1 / 2 % Norwich and Brandon 8 ...... 154 to 14 3 / 4 Ditto New Shares 1 Rugby Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Bii in 2% 31%%... to South Devon lO ...15 14 15 3 / 4 to 15 South Eastern and Dover Ditto New South Wales Trent Valley Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Midland ... 50 lll Ditto Selby Scrip Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Great Northern of France ... 4 Lyons and Avignon Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans . 20 ...... 44 1 / 2 %... to Paris and Rouen Strasburg and Bale 11.11ANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 20.—Prices continue to advance, and there has been an immuise amount of business done : Eastern Counties, Perpetual, —.19 3 / 4 % 1 / 2 20% 20 20 1 A Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ~,. Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters 2 3 /4 Lancaster and Preston, New Shares, 6% 4 Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter Shares th 5 London and Birmins:ham, Quarter Shares 2B London and Brighton. . .. London and South Western, New l3 14 Manchester and Birmingham SSIA 3 % Ditto Quarter Shares Midland Rai:way Consols Ditto Preferential 3% Ditto 401. Shares 9 l/ 1 / 2 Preston and Wyre lB es South-Eastern Ditto, New Shares Ditto New Creation Belfast, Ballymena, and Carrickfergus 3 1-16 Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. Junct., 71 % Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington Cambridge and Lincoln Churnot Valley 4% 11-16 Leeds and West Riding Junction 4% London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby 418.6 d. 2 1 /s London and York 4 14 4 Manchester and Buxton 2 l /4 Trent Valley 9 3 / 4- 7 /8 10 West Yorkshire Great Northern of France CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... .. .. - • 3 per Cent. Reduced. ... 100% 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 1 4 per Cent .. ... 104 1% Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 12% 3—it India Stock India Bonds, 1,0001.. Ditto under 1,0001. .. Bank Stock for Account... ... 213 Consols India Stock for Account 288% Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 55 pm. Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian_Bonds 6 per Cent 14% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid 76% Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Catcdonian, 5 paid Churnet Valley, 2 paid Cornwall, 3 paid ... 2% Direct Norwich, 1 paid l% Dublin and Galway, 2 1 ,4 paid ... Eastern Counties, .25 paid... Eastern Union, 10 paid l l l4 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares, 12% paid 1 5 3 /4 Great Southern and 'Western (Ireland), 5 paid 11 Ditto Extension,2% paid 5% Great Western, 75 paid... ..... London and Birmingham (Stock) ... .. — Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid London and Brighton, 50 paid 5 2 3/ London and York. 2 1 ,4 paid Lynnan d Ely, 1 1 4 paid MaticheiLet and Leeds, 70 paid Manchester and Birmingham, 40 paid Midland, 100 paid ... Ditto New, 2 paid New,as; ic and I terwick, 1% paid ......... ... North British, 7% paid Northern and Eastern, 45 paid O2 Ditto Scrip, 30 paid • 45 Rugby, 1 paid 2% South Eastern and Dover, 3.3 i paid 48% South Wales, 2% paid York and North Midland, 50 paid Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 20 paid 45 FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid Great Northern of France, 4 paid Paris and Orleans, 20 paid Paris and Rouen, 20 paid 414 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibra1tar............... Ditto, at sight l2 6 Leghorn .............. 31 0 Rotterdam 2U. 12 8i Genoa 26 0 Antwerp flamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice .... ...,... ..... 47 Altona l3 14 Naples ..... ... ..... .. .. 39b Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80 Palermo, p•,,r oz ll9 Ditto, 3 months 25 0 Lisbon ........... ...... 53 Marseilles 261 0 Oporto ,••- • .. ... 53 Bourdeaux 26 10 Rio Janeiro .»........ 24 Frankfort on Maine 122 Bahia . . . Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos A f i'4B.. — Berlin 7 NewYork.::'dyssight Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 1 Philadt;rl.4l. — Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Foreign' ;old, bars. .£3 17 9 Cadia _ _ IX. uilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville — New ,oil.ioons 0 0 0 New p:.L'ars 3 4 33 Silver ,!, Clue 9 4 1:i LETTERS OF A GERMAN COUNTESS, WRITTEN DURING HER TRAVELS IN TURKEY, EGYPT, THE HOLY LAND, &c. 3 Vor.s.—This is a very spirited and into resting work, giving a graphic and unprejudiced picture of the scenery, manners, and political relations of the countries visited. The Countess is perfectly at home on every classic soil, enters con amore into the difficulties of an Oriental journey, and sees all that is worth seeing. She traverses the dreaded sea coast district from Carmel to Joppa, accompanied by an Arab Sheik, and the plains of Jordan and the Dead Sea, under the escort of Wild Bedouins ; crosses the Desert on a camel, ascends the Pyramid of Cheops, visits the Cataracts, and inspects th e sepulchral chambers of the Temples of Nubia and Egypt. Her Letters from the Holy Land are full of interest, in formation, and originality. The descriptions, for ex ample, of Balbec, Damascus, Carmel, and Jerusalem, ar e strikingly beautiful. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—The Great Britain steamer will leave liingroad next Thursday evening, for London. A vast numb , r of persons will be on the look-out for her at Hoyle. St. Ivei, the Land's End, and Lizard. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 17.—N0 im provement has taken place in our sugar m ar k e t, e i t h er as regards prices or demand ; the sales since our last are very limited, and the former currency is about supported. Rum dull, and rather easier. In Molasses there is nothing dving.—Bristol Mercury. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Their Royal Ilighnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the Castle this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yesterday, at Cambridge House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, went to Richmond yesterday morning, and enjoyed the sport of shoot ing, returning to Cambridge House in the afternoon. The Ecclesiastical Commission for England sat yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall•place. The Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Llandaff, and the Dean of Westminster. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Monday afternoon for his seat, Betchworth, Surrey. THE ROYAL VISIT TO STRATH FIELDSAYE. STRATHFIELDSAYE, M NDA NIGHT.—Her Ma jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accom panied by a limited suite, arrived here at a quarter to five o'clock this afternoon, having travelled the dis tance betty een this place and Windsor in rather more than two hours. Lord Charles Wellesley left Strathfieldsaye this morning, shortly after seven o'clock, for Windsor Castle, to resume his duties in attendance on the Queen. The Duke of lArellington was also out at an early hour, nersonally inspecting the arrangements for the reception of her Majesty, which were only finally completed this morning. The mansion has no external decoration consequent on the royal visit, but the interior has been refitted in the most complete and sumptuous style, since the fact of her Majesty's intention to honour the Noble and Gallant Duke with a visit became known to his Grace. Two or three marquees, intended for the constahu. lary force, have been set up in the park by Mr Benjamin Edgington ; but, beyond this, there is nothing to indicate a change in the ordinary quietude prevailing here. There is also an entire absence of display both in the village of Strathfieldsaye itself and in the adjoin ing hamlets, and it appears by general consent to be admitted that the present royal visit is to be consi dered more in the character of a private compliment conferred by the Sovereign upon a veteran and dis tinguished subject than some of the royal progresses which have preceded it. The royal party left Windsor Castle at twenty-five minutes past two o'clock, escorted by a detachment of the Roy'd Horse Guards (Blue), under the command of Lieutenant Hood, taking the route through the Great Park to Ascot Heath, and thence to Fern Hill, where the escort was relieved by a party of the 17th Lancers, under Lieutenant Haworth. From Fern Hill the cortege proceeded to the village of Bracknell, where the first relays of horses were taken on, and the escort again relieved. At this village some preparation had been made to receive the Queen. Arches were here and there thrown across the road, and the children of the charity schools of the neigh bourhood were drawn up in a position calculated to afford them the best opportunity of seeing her Majesty. The preparations were humble, but not the less loyal, and the reception which greeted the royal party as they passed through the village appeared to be very gratifying to her Majesty. The country from Windsor to Bracknell and on to Wokingha - n is not of a nature calling for particular remark. A rich arable district, varied by fine wood lands, extends nearly throughout the whole distance, and the roads are excellent. At Wokingham very considerable preparations had been made to receive her Majesty. Triumphal arches spanned the street in several places, and almost every house in this very neat town boasted more or less de coration in honour of the occasion. Opposite the Town-hall, where it had been arranged the address from the corporation and inhabitants should be pre sented, an arch of a very tasteful construction was erected, bearing a suitable inscription, and the royal standard floated from the summit of the hall. The cortege arrived at Wokingham shortly after three o'clock, and on reaching the Town-hall, in the front of which the corporation officers were assem bled, the carriage containing her Majesty stopped, and the Alderman (Mr. T. Creaker) advancing to the window, presented the mace to the Queen in the usual manner, which her Majesty was graciously pleased to return. The Recorder (Mr. Jeremy, of Greenwich) then advanced and presented the address. Her Majesty having graciously accepted the ad dress, the cortege again moved on, amid the cheers of the multitude assembled, in the direction of Arbor field Cross, where it was arranged the next relay of horses should he put to. The face of the country here improves, and the ride from Wokingham to Strathfieldsaye passes through a very pretty district- At Arborfield Cross the cortege was met by a troop of the North Hants Yeomanry Cavalry, under Cap tains Hooley, Hunter, and Mildmay, who relieved the 17th Lancers at this point, and escorted her Majesty thence to Swallowfield, a little village within leis than three miles of Strathfieldsaye, where another escort, under the command of Colonel Charles Shaw Lefevre (Speaker of the House of Commons), and the Hon. Captain W. Baring, M.P., were in attend ance to accompany her Majesty to Strathfieldsaye. The Duke of W e lli ng t on , the Marquis of Douro, the Right Hon. 11. Pierrepont, and Mr. Compton reached this place on horseback, from Strathfieldsaye, about four o'clock, and awaited the arrival of the royal cortege. The illustrious Duke entered into conversation with the Speaker, and several other gentlemen, who had assembled near the spot during the interval. It gave us great pleasure to observe that his Grace was look ing remarkably well. About half-past four the escort was observed ap proaching. The Duke of Wellington immediately rode forward to meet her Majesty, and on approach ing the royal carriage it was stopped by order of the Queen, who from the window shook hands and en tered into conversation with his Grace for some moments. The Noble Duke then put spurs to his horse and gallopped on to Strathfieldsaye, where he arrived in time to receive her Majesty, who entered the mansion precisely at a quarter to five o'clock. Her Majesty was received by a guard of honour of the North Hants Yeomanry, who, with band and colours, were stationed on the lawn, and as her Ma jesty alighted, the band played the National Anthem. A. royal salute was fired as the Queen entered the house, and the national standard was immediately hoisted on a flag-staff fixed upon the roof of the mansion. The Speaker and a few of the neighbouring gentry will join the dinner circle this afternoon. THE LONDON GENERAL ASSO CIATION OF ALL TR 4DES. Last night the Association established for shorten. ing the hours of business held a district meeting at the Saddlers' Arms, Swallow-street, Regent -street. The chair was filled by Mr. WHEATLY, who gave a detailed account of the progress of the Society since its formation. They had, he continued, met on a most important occasion—important, because it re lated to the well-being of thousands and tens of thousands, and he might say, in reference to the whole of the country, hundreds of thousands of their fellow creatures. The present late hour system had been inflicting, year after year, an incalculable amount of evil upon those who had filled the capacity of assis tants, and even on masters themselves, and for no other reason was it perpetuated but because those around them were doing the same—cer tainly a most flimsy argument in support of so evil a system. They naturally said that the monarch was responsible when he refused to listen to the voice of the nation, and that the minister of the gospel was responsible for the well-being of his flock; and upon the same principle of justice, that the employer was equally responsible for the well-being of his as distant. They regretted exceedingly that this system had been carried to such an extent as to give rise to 1 a movement amongst those who ought to be silent on public matters. They would much rather have seen the employers exercising the principle of sympathy, and come forward as a body to release those under them from this direful bondage. But, alas ! many of them had been looking forward to this step being taken, and the result had, unfortunately, been a cruel disappointment. Many of them had long borne the heat and burden of the day, and he might say, the night also, without even a murmur or a complaint to the public. They disclaimed all in tention of resorting to coercive measures to attain their object—they relied more on the humanity of the public and good feeling of their employers, and when they had acquired a little further strength, they in tended calling a conference of the leading firms of the metropolis, to see if they could not by such means obtain their object. A series of resolutions favourable to the objects of the Association were then moved, and after being ably supported by several victims of the system, were put from the chair, and adopted unanimously. An addition to the roll of members was subse quently made, and a vote of thanks to the press and the Chairman having been carried by acclamation, the meeting, whieh was very respectably attended, broke up. We understand Sir Robert Peel has recommended for the appointment of Queen's Proctor, Francis H ar t Dyke, Esq., a son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, Bart., a gentleman of 20 years' experience, and extensi ve p ract i ce iatthe profession.— Times. SUMMARY OF NEWS iOutittr piritaa. " Who runs may read.' ------- MAW AND POIAC3I. vers StiQ3 on e ° v,ct In the Court of Queen's Bench, a C h arose between the Bar and the Be nch, on ttithe of the case of Carus Wilson, when, oil account of to difficulty of communicating w ith Jersey , know what was intended to be done in respect f e r re , arrangement proposed the other day , the time en larg ed turning the second writ of habeas corpus was e n to Wanesday week. to The last of the writs of right came on for „ en . in the Court of Common Pleas. I t was the ,e" to heard case of Davis v. Lowndes. ancient custom, the knights appeared in the u r i o ce, wearing swords. Only three were in at E st however, instead of four ; and the dream, dr having been explained by the statement o f t r n i, op , cease of the said fourth knight, the default in n , ot ti , pearancs was directed t 9 be entered on the record d over' The case was consequently ordered to this mattern and thus further delay must occur before can be finally disposed of. f o r h ear' The case of Lord Huntingtower came ou Co nicr in gin the Bankruptcy Court before Mr , f , t ber sinner Fonblanque. The Earl of Dysart, th. e .„ tbe of the Noble bankrupt, was present lia at 581 proceeding, in the course of which t he b e e re, for Lord Huntingtower said, " I may sa Y, sing, once, Sir, that Lord Huntingtower has at ) " shilling of his own, nor any means of suPrposrl , cept what he receives from his mother, 1-ia d Y 0) 01 ' 3 and this I state boldly, and in the hearing ° ,, os re; Dysart, who is now in Court ;" to which foal' plied by Mr. Commissioner Fonblanquei ain tb ii think that if any right feeling were exercis e itte dN case, we should not daily and hourly be Per° code, see Lord Huntingtower held up as a P ublic s lit e ot when, at all events, we all know that he i s if n tO 570 , 0 son and heir to Lord Dysart 's title, else." The further hearing was t h en adj eourn sth of July next. A.t Guildhall, on Monday, Thomas DatidYA'illjerasa draper's shopmen, was brought before Mr• ' - i,vfee sf ; Challis, charged with having obtained fr° lll d, thr e ' Pawson and Co., in St. Paul's ChurchYart be we/ ready-made shirts by the false pretence that sent by Messrs. Luning and Blackburn, °1.114'41 qu itto Hampstead, whose service he had before. He was committed for trial. resi ding Mr. Daniel William Banbur an attorney' opal in Wharton-street, Lloyd-square,y' and 311% - w ere CrP oler Hicks, surgeon, of Field-terrace, St. 1 - t iri rrite fa at charged with being drunk and riotous. -`', str e _i` was also charged with having extinguish° 'pe sr lamp. The case was clearly proved, and it , 10 4°' also, that when in custody, the defendanis., e yee l r,' tempted to bribe the police to connive a tho an Mr. Greenwood fined Air. Banbury 40s " te(i. Hicks 55., which they paid, and were lih e- urg e- At Worship-street, George Fletcher, 6 01 5 i L ati A °ll ; assistant, was brought up for final e ° „vere i 'r, charged on suspicion of having stolen fiv," of of and a valuable breast-pin from the hou'i Wildbore, a surgeon, in Shoreditch , Bt ste j ti;; , having committed various depredation s in Hertfordshire. The police-sergeant lil t° vitl er ge he had been unable to procure any otherstepotrbe and Mr. Broughton said that, although h e ,,,, b bili t Plefe slightest moral doubt of the prisoner's cair ts . aee i c e lt considered it would entail upon the co mere , expense to send him for trial, and he, th ere bs i compelled to discharge him. W ho t he Jonathan Storey, a middle. aged Ma il ' a sis,, r (j o e been for many years a master butche r, an in landlord of the Jolly Butcher p u blic-ho use hp' port Market, was brought up at Lambeth, ''- • 0 1 Henry, on a charge of grossly neglecter c eps using his daughter Martha, a child of te,, n , f i se e ,f age, so that her life, for the last three wee. orit/ placed in great peril. It appeared that ti , j r t was in the habit of leaving her locked uP days, during the recent inclement weather,thing a morsel of food or any fire ; that the 014 atilt r , gave her to eat was a little bread and water ; 4 , ll .o ll ,ieg P o' was in the habit of beating and otherwise ip lea ded The tr prisoner, as on a former occasion, Pepingloi eme poverty as the cause of his not , e v ‘ifeo6 child as he should have done, and said h'solg of eloped from him about two years ago , tt °' rube her one of their children and nearly the . s trial to money. He was committed to take' hi s t bail ensuing Surrey sessions, but admitted t ° gi g' pear then. brig th e John Atkinson, the second mate of th e ,ve t nought, in the London Dock, was finecli -coe. 'Thames Police-court for assaulting Michaa' the cook and steward of the same vessel" foe' c °yaw .—ramiszorraas ib t ' 01). The Duke of Portland con tinues — o l fec e t ti )l health at Welbeck Abbey, Notts. 1 -1 . 15 ,.,,ds 5 4 ,1 01 been entertaining a small party of trlv- a 1' Abbey during th last week, including -4nsot'' cliffe, Mr. Evelyn, and Lady Charlotte V e t. ; I b e Marquis of Titchfield, Lord G. Bentinek, The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland b y C y 44 entertaining a succession of visitors a 11 $ 01; t e His $, Grace has received an invitation for theo Wellington's grand Ministerial dinner ,ieriing Monday week, the day preceding the g die' Parliament. th e The Earl and Countess of Fingall and a t°' Plunkett have arrived at Rome, fr °lll 0 , Switzerland. fne d o VI _ The Marquis of Downshire has rettjf. 03° Brunswick-house Hotel, Hanover-squa re ' to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. : H3 The Hon. Captain Frederick Villiers at Elizabeth Villiers are passing the Wi nter to° View, Towcester, Northamptonshire. t ,„.bel ls 'V e° The Earl of Kingston is still at 1‘ 1 „,"`",.1 Castle, county Cork, where the Noble •r'' e entertaining a succession of visitors. have it The Hon. Philip and Mrs. Pierrepol°' al at Bath. Colonel and Mrs. B. Drummond hav, e 4 of town from the seat of the Earl and Cou n ' eji a 4 38 co wicke. „, The Marquis and Marchioness of 1411— e ja ti ° ' o fl,v i Lad Louisa Fitzmaurice left Lansdo n ,,, n ing Sb Friday last, for Bowood, where the ch ris "'d infant son and heir of the Earl and C oun " burne is expected to take place. Os " ' e Viscount Melbourne is still at I3rocket . 0 Noble Viscount is, we are happy to sta te ' joyment of excellent health. aa The Earl and Countess of Macclesfiel- orig Louisa Parker have left Conduit-street O r , ti of The Earl and Countess Lisburne all oP — r os ( Vaughan are sojourning at their seat' j 1 ,. , 0 7 ,0f ) diganshire. The Earl of Warwick has arrivea cia ll duti es Castle Castle from Windsor, his Lordship's A in Waiting on the Queen having exP ire-. IfIX4ICEJNIaLIt 31110 1/.* o p c We understand that the 1-10°°;;:, bet i for Middlesex, George By g+ >p fan i 0 '" usual liberality, contributed t" ~ding sum of one hundred guineas to the hu" the Orphan Working School, City-r 05, ,,i1i , eF tended to be removed to Haverstock;';l ha`gbjee Weymouth, Esq., and John IL gills, .--' 9 - 11 : i ne ° co y; contributed one hundred pounds to the eclatit4 The Institution is for the maintenance an ao of two hundred and forty poor orph an 00 13 1°:1 11 , children of both sexes. Ibt oo- O A+ The want of a coal depot on the pnielfee,o for some time past caused great ;dela 0;1." royal steamers the Admiralt f Ditchburn and Mare. of BlaLwall, ~„t° „ to n,,s, ° lse l p floating vessel, capable of holding s,(N:diV`miie, which is to be moored off the lower Pia' d i s tiii r roel j l It is stated upon good authority, rr-iivirroe military officer, that the Coinni anue of ev ia strongly in favour of the abolition ho to o t 01 7 4 punishment in the British army, a P ur l th e a t ' I rr ' ' of it to be, according to the na ture °' Win e fa ° offeace, imprisonment with solitary °°P ,eAt' s °At. Uf periods varying from one month to tiv° t ocle" according as the sentence mat b e tivl ief"4. detachment of The La Belle Alliance, Govern with stockyard, 200 male convicts on board, l" c f ibo 6 ' fi ed t retit r; t e Woolwich, on Monday fl,„ o t fo" ~d of the 72d Regiment of -r s j. P O ° convict guard. 'active° l ti AA The whole of the low lands lying " 1 scr e jlord and Windsor are under water. ton ii .l neighbourhood of West Drayton 51 tt er l',,' o fit; and on the high road between the a the r itit;ll' Cowley,Uxridge' near to Taplin's mill, I c n oris s „ e ver Pj lit i the water passes across tile t he t ilo thed ins o e f pth th o e f twoutriipevwtehraardncsnoulonafel, in efeoehts,efgraoeillo et , of , hea l v l y e r s a e in ve s e . kli irtf, ~c 1 f l fifth election of children t g o en th e e ral3l took place on Monday at the Lon' - ' ° c tor' 0 t e e Smith, Est., presided. A most satisfo.ng bee ; o t o, the proceedings of the past -year ha/losiliiielecol°,o; and rinitiesehAtbengrFolereropoc :;1; approved, the officers for - the ce3 . l ; pre' 0 1 e* "1 0 ssaiied p ece o tte i i n vd t e r f d ergao a itzir n ndl d si ad. lis t thank;of twentyawarded . t w t 0 0 , 1: 1 t. st l e l v e e potii e 1 4 t0 4 e. The esulelcttiv‘o,answaaantsensot,hen proceeded scit"ttliirte.leetiP eleven years. the result was Previous u\n, v , heod et Otaogtehthseevcalrf°irseiedeofdropidsevetirti th e IS' ti cti : There are fewer unemployed 5e91111-elibiisnO P;Pcefit,ll: London than for man years Pas t ' (vs tc t ni tl itbr t3e ' ol iarly shown in the nuymber of udeliss°oot 5 -- c o; o :if tute Sailors' Asylum in Wells- s tree t, oy ereg e , v d for whilst in the winter of 1 8 43, the it 14. „. let i mates were 140, and lastnight this year exceeded 50 on SundaY jo g tO being 56. This circilinstitace is Qw i year lv., olio I