The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

TO NEWSPAPEI PROPRIETORS. _ AGENTLEMAN connected with the Metropoli• tan Daily Press, ani who has for some years edited a Country , . . -, aper with great succus..._is an En,agement to . 7 . • Artides for a Provincial 2ap:r of sr.• •-• rate tenni. J. i. ii., Mrs. THEATRE , ROY A L. ORU RY-LAN E. 'FIDS EVENING WUI be repeated a G: and Optra Seria, called THE DAUG HT FR OF ST. MARK. Lusigtraiw. Mr. Burdici ; Andrea Cornara, M.. fiornmi • Moncenigor Mr. Weiss ;.Adolphe de Conley, Mr. W. Haarrisor; ;ttarina Omar°, Mida - Pante fu Oft eltuie with a GrJoil Comic Christmas Harlequin site, calk.il PUCK'S PANTOMDII,_:; or. HARLEQUIN AND hOBINS(IN CRUSOE. Robinson Crook , : Mr. W Payue; Harlequin. Mr. 'Wieland ; Clown Mr. 'l'. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Miss the Wu-office is open ally. from Ten in the Morning until Six m the Evening, whcrQ Private and Family Roves, Stalls Places, mad Tieketa may be had on application to Mr. John Pardon; THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER. ! HIS EVENING Will be perform - d a Nee and Original Comedy, in live Acts, caked OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEA RTS. Colonel Rocket Ir. S;rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe ,, s ; Tom Coke Mr. Webster ; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ; The Count.sa of t" -pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthori., Madame Voitris; Mi.:3 Rocket, Miss Julia ~ e nnett. Atter which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza, entitled GRACIOSA AND. PERCINET. Ring Uxorious Mr. J Bland ; Princes Gra:iosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, ',Liss P. Horton ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude wi.h a Gran, MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC. TORIA L TOURINs WITZERLAND. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and Una Guinea and a.Half each, T t keta and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office, *ow Fen till Five o'Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Fif ieth Night of the New Comedy of OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HE. RE'i, with GRACIOSA AND PERCINET, and PHILLIPS'S DIOR AM 1 of SWITZERLAND. The Public it respectfully advised to m ke early application fir places. I. T. ARCHER, Box Book-kesper. Jan '7,184.5. N.B. To prevent c,:n "uslon, carriages must draw up with the horses' heads towards Pall-mall. 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 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 ; Sr Joseph Bowley. Bart , Mr. Paul Redford ; Will Fern, Mi. Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Mrggy Vetk, Miss Fortescue; Mrs. Chickenstalknr, Mn.s Frank MA:thews. After which, NORMA, in which Miss Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bed ford, Mr. Wright, and 3liisto Reynolds will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Clyistmas Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the RI g of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lons dale ; Clown, fdr C. J. Smith; Pantaloon, Mr. Salvers. Prompter, Mr. (}allot ; Principal Paintqr, sir Pitt • ' Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-ortice open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxer to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEUR; or, PARIS IN 1720. Monseigneur, Mr. Wallack; Germaine, Mr. Oxberry; Rosaline, Mists Emma Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall. To be 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 Divertissem.nt, called LE 4ALON DE BAL Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Miss Marshall, Mdtie. leresine, M. J. Rou , set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Gilbert. After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather eratie Burlesque Extravaginza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Giindoff. Mr Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar, Mr. Granby; fiber, Mr. Corri , Golots, Mr. Walton; Claudine, Miss E. Stanley ; Ravine, Mrs. Fosbroke. Stage Manager, Mr. H. L Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emdeu, Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4a. ; Pit, 25.; Gallo Is. Half-price at Nine a'clock—Dress Circle, 2 s . 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 64. Private Boxes Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce. 'rum Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Halt: Doors to be opened at Half past S x , and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock. lhe Box-otlice, under the direction of Mr. W. Masaingham. Private ;loxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the Tneatre. IHE ~IRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. Under the Managewient 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 ; Mies Walcott, Miss Arden, piing Grove, and Mrs: Keeley. - After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Histories], Romantic Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews; Meadows, Wigan, Collier. Turner, Kinloch. Yarnold, and Keeley , Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs Usher, Mfrs James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—Raicouy noxes. 44.. Upper Razes, Se.; Pit, 23.; Gallery, ed. Second Price—Balcony B oxes, 2e. ; i..tpr Boxes, Is. tid.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the iiiiicony Tier ii , okiing eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boze4 en the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Gulrea. The Box.oaicei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre. Nightly Overflows t the Grand Christmas Holiday Novelties, and "I reble Rotation of Entertainments at ABTLEY'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 For and real Pack of Hounds, purchased by Mr. Ratty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production. tpsoto Races and other Sporting Features. New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse niansh p. To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, o lied HARLEQUIN ANDJOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the Bleck Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Hr. T. Barr 7; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury , • ohnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells. Acting vivid stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art e Riding by Mr. U. Smith daily. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. As usual, the best Pantomime of the Season ! A more brilliant triumph than ever before achieved I I Laughter, Wonder, and Delight The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and Every thing New !I THIS EVENIN' t Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End of Crivoe. Principal Characters ha Mr. Henry Corrt (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Meters. 'H. Hughes, Neville, R Howler, Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. It Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W, Daly, and Miss Martin. To be fbPowed by THE WET NURSE. Supported by Meters. Neville, W. Smith, and Lewis, Miss Martin &c. conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called POUNDS, 'HILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN L. S. D. HarTiNuin, Mr. H. Harvey; flown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss dialler. Places ale Yrivate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Whet, hem Eleven to Four, ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE Ex'.raordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity," and the New Comic Pantomime. TUI EVENING Will re repeated MARIAN NIE ; or, the Child of Charity. Sur potted by Mr. o.baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson, T. H. Niggle, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E Terrey, and Miss Treble. After which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PALACE OF fiENEV A. Characters by Messrs. Herbert and 3. T. John son. Miss E. Terry, and miss Treble. To conelnde with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIM HOT CODI.INS • or, The Little Old Woman and the Demon of the Metal Mine. 'Harlequin, M. Chapin(); Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle Le cite. THE WEATHER.—Stmt OFFICE, JAN. 17. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Higtiest, 45 ; Noon, 42. _ - BAROMSTER, 30.15.-.-WIND, E. NOM—The figures which folloyf 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 mae.e at noon. Water freezes at 32 ; 55 cn Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on Barometers " Fair" is geae , :ally 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. to lit minutes after 81 Evening Li) minutes after V, SECOND EDITION. - •t 4 - ... .11:1- i ..... 4 ._, ,. ,dg --Vt- ,% • 4 . '4.4 - ;.- :.‘-= .., -7 _4- • •.‘ . - . • ~ - : r • )f , - ' •• ''' . ' it -, - ,•_% , .•• • - ''• .% .- - •t. ~. 1)7 i% I, 1+;: .5 4;.i.,...,, .. : .„.1,,1 ` ;N . c.- T % , V . L,•,... .' --,_' . ..71. 40 , f , ;, --- ~...„..... 03 riling :7)Ant LONDON, FRIDAY, :JANUARY 17, 1845. The dire hostility displayed against England by almost every' writer in the Paris journals, forms a : singular anomaly in the history of the newspaper press. With the exception of the Journal des Debat9 •and the ,Globe, not one admits that the Government of this country and the people can perform one good action, or conduct any negotiation or speculation in ,trade in an honourable and straightforward way. There is always some chicanery, some deceit, some perfidy or brutality (we use their own phrase) lurk ing in secret, and all the malignity is directed only against France. Like lunatics, they believe their best friends to be their bitterest enemies. The Frei: e, the National, the Courtier Ftancaii; the Con.sti haionnel, the Comaterce, the Quutidientse, indeed every paper, whether professing Carlist, Its.- dica}, Republican, commercial, religious, or infidel opinions, never loses an opportunity of joining in.the cry against the nearest neighbour of France •An& her only ally. Like a spoiled child, Young France is peevish, froward, and ungrateful to her best benefactor. In every respect England has performed for the last fourteen years, not to go farther • back, the duties of a good neighbour. When the French people by acclamation rebelled against inroads on their constitution, defeated the troops of the despot in the streets of Pari;, and expelled the degenerate Bour bons, the joy displayed in this country could not have been . . surpassed had " perfidious Albion" herself been rescued from slavery. • The qO.. vernment, even a Tory Government, willingly and at once gave its adhesion to the new dynasty, and Whigs and Tories have ever since maintained the same principles and mani fested an anxious desire to be on good terms with Prance. What . other country has done the same ? What independent sovereign but Queem Vic]. ormt has visited Louts PHILIPPE ; and sanctioned, by his pre sence, the principles for which all these journals con tended ? Even at the present day, when his power is consolidated; and Franee submits willingly to his . sway, the great continental states still stand aloof. Austria, Russia, and Pru'ssiallave niidonimunion with the new dynasty ; they regard France and her ruler with a jealous eye, and would rejoice to see a rival placed on the throne. England is her only ally, and without England she would be as completely ; isolated as the little obscure, invisible, and nnapproach oble domain over which Dr. Fa A.NCTA. SO loog reigned. Even in our fl.reign policy we eofisuit th^ vvisbes French nation. When Algeria we-- firit occu pied, the French Government gave the ‘,..)st positive and unequivocal assurance that the occupation would be only temporary. It has since been declared per petual ; yet, though this important aequisition threatens British possessions in the Mediterranean, no objection has been raised against the change ; and these ungrateful journals, so far from being satisfied by this act of condescension, are eternally denouncing England because her Consul at 'Algiers has not done what he is not required to do by the law of nations — taken out his exequatur. As if Spain were an appendage of France, we have stood by calmly while ESPARTER.O was expelled, the Constitution destroyed, and the agents of LOUIS PHILIPPE installed as the des potic rulers of the country. Even on the most tender point England has yielded to France ; she has sacrificed her mis-ionaries in the islands of the Pacific, and given up settlements which had become sacred in the eyes of posterity, by the primitive labours of these teachers of Christianity ; and, to sum up our benefits, we have found a new market for French produce — given France three hundred millions of 'fresh cus tomers —done what all the other nations of the world together could not have done—thrown open China, and created a new world. To come nearer home, is it necessary to ask what aid England has rendered to France, in the con struction of railroads ? One half of them owe their origin to English capital ; English engineers lay down the lines, English labourers make the tunnels and cuttings; and not a little of the success attending► the lines which have been opened is owing to English machinery. In fact, our kindness to France is beyond all calculation, and our disinterested benefits so nu merous and so great, that these French writers give up all hopes of ever paying the debt, and their grati tude is turned into hatred :—"Natai beneficia eo usque eta aunt, dum videntur exsolvi posse : übi tnultum antevenere, pro gratia odium redditur." " The Game-laws," we are happy to find, appear to he attracting in all quarters that degree of attention which supplies the best guarantee that they will not be much longer tolerated in their present form, or endured under their present administration. It is not a bad beginning in the work of their modification or repeal which the correspondent of a Morning Con temporary suggests—namely, that game preserves should be rated, by the proper parochial authorities, to the poor-rate, according to the computed annual value of their game product. But the finest case to be made against these laws, we were always sure would be supplied by any advocate for their main tenance who could be brought to commit his views and his arguments to paper—and print them. In this point of view we deem Mr. GRANTLBY BERKELEY eminently entitled to the thanks of the public ; for he has just published "A Pamphlet in Defence of the Game-laws, in Reply to the (their ?) Assailants; and on their Effects upon the Morals of the Poor." In endeavouring to arrive at any sound adgment on the expediency or inexpediency of upholding such a code as that which comprises the laws relative to the pro. perty in, and protection of, game, it has always ap peared to us a preliminary of importance to get at the real animus with which game-preserving country gentlemen really regard—first, their title to that property ; secondly, its relations to general principles bearing on the moral and social condition and rights of their fellow-creatures. We were curious to learn whether gentlemen of large landed estate, in their passion for preserving game, really postponed the consideration of what might be due to the feelings, the wants, and the temptations consequent on those wants of their poorer tenants or neighbours to the paramount object of securing partridge, pheasant, and hare from liability to destruction—by uncer tificated hands. We were not uninterested about ascertaining whether, in this age of universal cant, the sacred cause of religion would be impressed into the service, even, of the Game-laws. On these and other such points Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY has cer tainly enlightened, if he have not satisfied us. To Nita BERKELEY we must concede the praise of being much in earnest with -his subject; but, had he par ticipated in the long nap of the Seven Royal Sleepers, or the fifty-seven years' unbroken slumber which PLINY pronounces EPIMENIDES to have en joyed, he could not have been, upon again awaking, more behind the spirit and intelligence of his age, than he has shown himself to be in his notions of the vtatus of the English labourer, or hind. Mr. BERKELEY clearly regards him in the light of a mere serf. He would have drawn up, we should say, had he been ii: contemporary of our Norman Princes, a most acceptable memoir to the hunting Conqueror, on the extreme utility of the newly afforested dis trict for the King's deer and other game, and "beasts of venery," for whose accommodation—and his own—a country of thirty miles in compass, largely sprinkled with towns, villages, and home steads, was laid waste—their inhabitants turned out houseless and ruined on the world, and six-and thirty churches levelled to the ground. To judge from the lachrymose affection with which he deplores the relaxed protection that that very forest now ex periences, he would have been eloquent indeed, seven hundred and sixty years ago, in pleading the in valuable advantage to the kingdom of the Monarch's enjoying his pleasure and his sport, at any price, and in showing how grossly the Saxon ceorles of that day misconceived the case in supposing themselves at all agg ieved, or that their interests were prejudiced by the institution of a royal preserve on this rather ex tensive scale. Bat we really fear that Mr. G. BERKE LEY is not alone in thus projecting his epitome of the merits of our Game-laws for the year of Grace 1085 instead of the year of our Lord 1845. He is but the .pokesman of a class. The truth seems to be, that game preservers are so utterly selfish, so absurdly selfish in the attainment of their one great end of se curing to themselves and a few bidden guests the ex clusive luxury of this particular class of sport—the bringing down with their own guns the feathered and the furry denizens about whom they have spread a protection, rigorously and wantonly severe, against all the rest of the world, that they never suffer their purpose to be ruffled by such unsportsmanlike re morse as other men would feel at being instrumental to the temptation which our Game-laws hold out to various classes of the community, the old as well as the young—the well-disposed equally with the pro digate—to dishonesty, to violence, and to the most fearful crimes. Your strict game-preserver, the capacity in which Mr. BERKELEY seems desirous most emphatically to record himself to posterity, has no eyes for the ruined peace of peasant families ; no ears for the wailing,s of wives and families whose husbands, brothers, and sons, are torn from their humble hovels to expiate their offences against the sacred majesty of game, or the polluting atmosphere of the county gaol ; no misgivings about the fate of innocent offspring thus deserted and left to destitution, disgrace, or death—as the case may be—by the committal of their natural protectors—for, it may be—a first offence ; for an ebullition of that natural and uncontrollable excite ment to pursue and destroy game which in the squire indicates "thorough-bred" sporting "strain," but in the peasant is that last excess of vicious propensity, known to the rural ethics of country gentlemen, which they call "the inveterate love of poaching." The pamphlet of Mr. G. BERKELEY might be rth analysing if we should be really justified in assuming that . .there are many English gentlemen who, af . this time of day, can gravely imagine that they may, with impunity, strain the distinctions of caste between the gentleman and the labourer, the game-owning landlord and the small tenant-farmer, to the extent which this Honourable Member yen hires to attempt. But on sober reflection we cannot believe that Mr. BERKELEY is more likely to find many abettors of his extravagant notions upon land lord prerogative, than he is to be extensively con firmed in such conclusions as these, which we extract at random from his pamphlet :—" .... So far from having a demorttlising tendency, or of (?) being in jurious to the welfare of the lower classes, the Game laws are founded on Bound and rational principles, and have a beneficial effect in regard to the pro prietor, the tenant, the yeoman, and the poor."— (P. 5.) " I have observed in each of the places I have rented a great improvement in the conduct and habits of the labouring population when the Game laws came to be enforced, and idle, poaching inclina tions restrained; the wholesome fact having also - been place-d before their ryes that it would be then intere:t as wed as their duty to cease" from the pur suit of game both by ni4ht and day. The hitherto syst' matic Sabbath-breaker returned to his church, and i have heard it from his pastor's lips that he had never seen the man so frequently an attendant on Divine service as he had since my arrival at the house."—(P. 14.) For our part we do not see much to marvel at in this sympathy between the opinions of the parson and the squire—on such a topic. But we find more difficulty in accounting for the trip which Mr. BERKELEY makes in his eager chase after proofs of his favourite theory, that the strict enforcement of the Game-laws eminently con• duces to the strict observance of the Sabbath. Ile says, in describing that facilis " descensus Averni" by which his poacher graduates from the evening ' relaxation of merely accompanying a friend in the small-poaching line to see him knock a rabbit over, to a degree entitling him to a fellowship—with resi dence, in Newgate, that—" step by step, the man be comes a Sabbath-breaker--a fault declared by crimi nals in Newgate to be the of igin of all their crimes. Instead of going to church, he takes his gun or mare," &c.—(P. 23.) But, alas ! the poor labourer is not the only Sabbath-breaker. Elsewhere, to write, " My brother, Mr. MORETON BERKELEY, de tected a man in the act of beating for game, with a lurcher, on a Sunday, during the time of Divine worship."—(P. 32.) Why was not Mr. MORETON BERKELEY there, attending that worship ? Is Sab bath-break:ng part and parcel of the reserved privi leges of the game preserver ? Perhaps the gentle man was ill that day, and taking a calm contem plative walk through his covers, to muse on doctrines he could not enjoy the happiness of hearing. Alas ! he had a desperate affray with this poacher, knocked h:m down, and captured him. And since the nian " was knocked down by the common policeman's staff, which my brother carried in his pocket," we fear we must infer that this was a malice-prepense occupation "during the time of Divine worship" on the part of Mr. MORETON BERKELEY. We must suppose him more given to catching poachers on Sundays than to hearing prayers. But woe to " the man of six days' labour who was tempted to desecrate the Sabbath." —(?. 35.) For such an " unpreserving" miserable offender, neither, like Mr. G. BERKELEY, "a game preserver on 1 is own lands," nor " in the administra tion of the law, as a county magistrate, over the estates of others" (p. 6), nor yet " one of us, the country and landed gentlemen" (p. 48) —to presume to break the Sabbath is a strong proof that " he must have been inflamed with the beastly dregs of the pot house," instead of having "got himself up" on a breakfast of kidneys stewed in champagne, or on a devilled fowl washed down with milk punch. We quite enter into all the intensity of Mr. BERKELEY'S reflection on the murder of a certain gamekeeper by a poacher, that, " in stead of the dread of the severity of punish ment consequent on capture leading to the deadly aim, the eye that glanced along the barrel of that gun was"—what ?—" bleared by the baneful fumes and libations of the beer-shop." The beer-shop, in deed ! Why cannot men, bent on desperate purposes, decently carouse beforehand in a carpeted private room, over a magnum of SNEYD'S finest claret, at the tip-top hotel of the neighbourhood—instead of pre senting themselves in gentlemen's preserves reeking from a Torn-and-Jerry shop, and with their eyes dis ordered by the combined pollutions of beer and tobacco. But we will add, without a word of further present commentary, Mr. G. BERKELEY'S summary : —"The Game-laws are to be regarded as laws founded on sound and rational principles—doing good to the community instead of harm."—(P. 77.) We have receiverl Madrid journals of the 9th inst. The Senate on that day had passed the Bill for the abolition of the slave trade with only one dissentient voice, and also a Bill for granting pensions to the families of the officers killed by the insurgents at Huesca. Senor MoN, in bringing forward the budget, made the following remarks, to which we call the attention of the creditors of Spain, and espe cially the second paragraph. It is hard, no doubt, that the present race should be compelled to pay the debts of their ancestors, but honest and prudent people, somehow or other, think this the best way to maintain public credit. So, apparently, does Senor MoN, but still his complaints about inherited debts, and the conduct of Governments that had contracted debts beyond their means, are ominous : " The good faith of the Government is above all pledged to satisfy the claims of both foreign and do mestic creditors. It is not our fault if we have inherited debts incurred by former wars, nor are we to blame for the conduct of Governments that contracted engage ments greater than their means, leaving to us the task of paying them. To begin by pay ing something, :and speedily-, and in the amount supplied to us by our sacri fices, and in a progressive manner, in order that that payment be no longer interrupted, and that our creditors may receive each day new proofs of our anxiety in their regard, of our good faith, and of the amelioration of our public fortune—such are our objects, and to attain them great prudence and perseverence are required from the Government, and support and confidence front the Cortes." The Three per Cents. closed on the Madrid Bourse on the 9th instant, at 303- for cash, an:l at GO days ; and the Five per Cents. at 23 for cash, and 23i at 60 days. sew In the French Chamber of Peers on Tuesday the Count de MONTALEMBERT made a speech in favour of the claims of the Church in opposition to those of the University, asserted that the clergy were the most ill-used class in France, and that the Conserva tives would one day find out to their cost the great error they had committed in treating with contempt the only body that had known how to respeat the temporal power by keeping it within proper bounds, and which had always shown itself the faithful ally of authority. " However," said the I oble Pecr in conclusion, " the Catholic Church had a certain re venge, which was to pray for them, and a victory not less sure, of surviving them." The Minister of Public Instruction, M. MART/Ii (du Nord), defended the course pursued by the Government, and believed the general feeling was that the clergy would obtain all the authority they had a right to by the Education Bill of last session. A brief discussion then ensued on the dissolution of the Polytechnic School, when Marshal SOULT said the affair ~vies not left to Government. Commissioners were apPointed to inquire into the state of the school, and their re port had been followed. Baron CHARLES DUPIN and Count MONTALIVET expressed great regret that clemency had not been shown towards those seven teen pupils who had been expelled. The latter said he had been a member of the school himself, with many of the Noble Peers he saw around, among others the son of Marshal SOULT ; many of them had at times been led into youthful acts of indiscretion, and as such subjected to the rigid discipline of the school. They had not, he felt assured, been the worse citizens on that account ; and he submitted to the Government that an act of clemency might be performed, without being in any way injurious to the necessary discipline of the institution. On Wednesday the Prince DE Moscowa, son of Marshal NEY, called the attention of the Chamber to the Morocco war, and blamed the policy of the Go vernment, which M. Gutzor defended. The discus sion was going on when the Fist left. IVe find little additional information in the papers respecting the Ministerial crisis, but M. Guner cer tainly gains character in public estimation, when contrasted with Count Mom:. Not one journal cor dially supports the latter. The real Conservatives denounce his policy; he is only endured by the Op position because he works with them for the time, and even one of the journals belonging to the latter party gives the preference to Guizor. The following extract from the National places matters in a true light :—" We should feel repugnance in coming forward to add to the load cast upon the Ministry, whom all the world is aban (liming. On Monday it was Count MoLE—yeater day the Count DE MONTALIVET ! The first at le;..st showed an openness and candour in his attack ; but M. DE MONTALIVET'S was raade with a perfidious politeness. How wretche I was this conflict! Can Count AIo.LE, who dared to tell M. GuizoT that lie must suppose that the country had lost its memory— can he have a right to rely upon the benefit of time ? Can Otaheite make us forget the evacuation of Ancona ?—the partition of Belgium ? Can the cor ruption of the Ministry of the 29th of October obli terate the audacious corruption of that of the 15th of April ?, Have the electoral manceuvres reve,d,d by; the inquiry amnestied the public frauds denounce., by the Chamber after the elections made by M. DE MONTALIVIT ? And it it 3 between men thus compro- THE SUN, LONDoN, FRIDAY EVENING, __JANUARY l7, 184 5 raised that the struggle for place and power is carried un ! Who ore you who put M. t; vizor on his trial ? What rrr your rights and title,. ? ',"here is your glory ? What have you, more tL i he, done to add to the power of your country ? Are your past deeds so great and high as to warrant your assuming this haughty tone ? You certainly are welcome to reproach him IN ith his politique a outrance—the country has every reason to complain of it ; but you, ye ungrateful and greedy Conservatives, do you not teel that this policy has no other wrong than being shown by bins in its true light? Have you not, like . 'dm, practised for peace d entrance ? llave you not, like him, been guilty of corruption a entrance Y Have you not, like him, drawn around a narrow and cupidinous oligarchy, the circle of immovability ? Does France stand indebted to you, any more than to him, for improvement in her laws and customs ? Have you, more than be, thought ..f those who labour, and suffer, and are productive, beyond the sphere within which you work your ambition ? What have you the right to reproach him with ? To show in all its nakedness the very system to which you are yourselves subservient—to talk about what he practises—le paix partout et tordeurs;—sexvile devotedness to England—contempt of public opinion—gratification of the grossest appe cites! But here is his merit. He has at least frank- ness with his theories. He lays them down boldly before you, and defends them with courage ; he boasts of having gone to Ghent ; he finds the treaties on the right of search admirable ; and he crouched to the earth that he might be received into the good graces of Europe! What right have you to cry out against him ? What do you require of hint? That he should continue to do as he has done, and what you have done yourselves, but that he shall not avow it, that he shall seek to excuse what is not excusable, and add hypocrisy to shame." The Globe, a Ministerial paper, thus turns into ri dicule the pretended policy .of the new candidate for the Premiership : "M. Guizot, the man who has so much lowered France, as every one knows, has another manner of comprehending the English alliance than that of M. Mole; he does not make it the object of a sterile contemplation; he does not want alliance for alliance ; he wants it to be of use in the affairs of the country. Our improved agriculture, our enlarged manufactures, demand impe riously that France should establish or fortify its moral authority abroad in the interest of her com merce. Our navy, destined to play so great a part in the future conflicts of the world, has need of a merchant navy to recruit it. All this requires every possible maritime extension to be attended to. Guizot and the present Cabinet have done so, and the acts accomplished is Oceania only wanted to be the work of M. Thiers, who understands admirably how to organise the claque of the journals, to have obtained from all quarters a universal approbation. M. Mole says that Otaheite is a rock. With submission be it spoken, M. Mold has shown himself exceedingly hasty in speaking of these matters. What are the Bermudas? A rock. What St. Helena? A rock. What New Pro vidence? A rock. What Malta? A rock. Propose to England to abandon these rocks! Is it possible that M. Milo feels esteem only for continents, as the Marquis de iJodelet did for full moons? But continents are beginning to become rare ; and, besides, if M. Mole fears to irritate Great Britain in taking a rock, what will he not fear in taking a country? The present Cabinet, then, had seriously thought of providing for the maritime wants of France ; it had founded a number of factories on the western coast of Africa; recruited the French flag at Madagascar; taken possession of the archipelago of the Marquesas; and had prepared the future possession of the archipelago of Otaheite. It knew perfectly well, and M. Mote has nothing to inform it on the point, that all these acts were viewed with a jealous eye in England, if not on the part of the enlightened men who govern the country, at least by the men of ardent passion who agitate it ; but it knew also that nothing grand and efficacious is done in politics without difficulties and struggles, and it is precisely with a view to diminish obstacles of this nature that the Cabinet had renewed and strengthened the English alliance. Such is the system of M. Guizot and his colleagues. It must be confessed that it is somewhat holder and more national than that of M. Mole It consisted in living on good terms with England, in giving it marks of esteem, In inspiring it with testimonies of confidence, in order to shelter, under this sympathy and under these good rela Lions, the aggrandisements necessary to the country. But why does M. Mole speak of Engli :h alliance ? He does not want it. From the moment he is decided to restore Otaheite to the missionaries, to evacuate the Mar quesas, to snatch away the French flag from all points where it could offend the eye of the English, he has nothing to do with an intimate alliance with them. As soon as alliances do not serve public affairs, and are re duced to a platonic adoration, they are good for nothing. We have no alliance with the Great Mogul, because we have no business to transact with him; but the English will become the Great Mogul for us, as soon as we withdraw successively on every point before them, from a fear of knocking against their policy or their commerce." The Aloaitear publishes returns for the year 1844 of the direct taxes, comparing them with those of some preceding years, and the result is highly favour able. The Customs and Excise have both greatly inexeased. They produced in 1844, 787,864,000 f. ; in 1842, 751,257,000 f. ; and in 1843, 764,573,000 f showing an increase comparatively to 1842 of 36,607,000 1 ., and of 23,291,000 f. over 1843. The following are the returns under the different heads of revenue : Francs. Registry duties, mert,gages, &c 214,082,000 Stamp duties 37,403,000 Merchandise Customs' duties on ). Colonial sugars Foreign . sugars Customs' duties on exports 1,249,000 Nnvigation duties 2,921,000 Other customs' duties and revenues Tux on salt Taxes on liquors Taxes on demestic sugar 9,022,000 Various other taxes and revenues Sale of tobacco 107,438,000 Sale of gunpowder Post-otliee Fares in mail-coaches Fares in mail•packets In all . 787,864,900 The increase in 1844 as compared with 1842 was 40,436,000 f. ; that on registry duties exceeded 11,000,000 f. ; on customs' duties it was 14,700,000 f. ; on the sale of tobacco, 6,724,0001. ; Post-oflice, 1,194,0001., &c. The decrease, proceeding principally from a falling off in the duties on salt, navigation, gun was 3,8'29,000f., leaving a net increase of The only items whi c h ex p er i ence d- a di -317;76d0e7r,0, t c f:: di minution as compared with 1843 were the proceeds of the duties on navigation and salt, which amounted to 1,646,0001. All the others exhibited an augmentation, the sum total of which was 24,937,0001., leaving a sur plus of 03,291,000 E, nearly a million sterling. TIIE BOURSE--WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15. First highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents• •.• 121 85 .. 121 85 •• 121 80 .. 121 8 5 Three per Cents..... 85 25 .. 85 25 •• 85 25 85 25 New Loan •• •• •••• 1.:6 45 .• 86 50 .. 86 45 .. SG 50 Ba.ik of Franeo• • ••• •• •••••;i2'S•O —3260 • 3260 ..3'260 Gouin Bank. I,ooof. Shares.. 1100 ..1100 •.1100 1100 Belgian Bank ..• ••••••• •• • • 620 630 620 .. 630 Belgian Fives, 1840 1842 •• •••• 106 1 4 •• 1063 •• Io6ls T w o-suet-a-iialf.... 62 .. 62 .. 62 • • 62 Spanish Threes ••••• • • • • 87 •• 37 .. 37 37 7.6 3 i 3.: is 36N .. 364 i Active • • • • • • • • • • Paysive . • • . • • • • • • • • . • 6 .. 6 '! , l • • New Deferred."... 16 16 — • • 16 — • • 16 Portuguese Five per Cents .• GO .. 60 60 .. 60 u ova ar, 104!4 .. 10-1! .. 101; .. 1 RAILWAY 3HARES. Versailles, R.B. ••• • . • ...... 500 .. 500 .. 490 480 L.B.•••••• ...... 395 .. 3 95 •• 375 .. 380 Rouen Rouen to Havre.. •• •••• 815 . 815 • 815 .. 815 Orleans •••••••••••••••••••1125 ..1125 ••1117 50 ..1125 Strasburg to Bale•••• ••.... 300 .. 300 •• 295 . 297 50 Avignon to Marsellles•• •• 945 .. 946 25 • 942 50 .. 942 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. JAN. IG. Versailles, 11.11.. ••• • • ...... 500 .. 505 475 450 L.B. Rouen Rotten to Havre.• Orleans —1132 50 ..1132 50 ..1117 50 ..1125 Strasburg to Bale•• .• .• 300 .. 300 •• 29S .290 25 Avignon to Marseilles MANUFACTURR Or CAMP nucE.—Mr. Ritchie, of . No. 34, St. Mary-at-iiill, has sent a letter for publication to the newspapers, stating that the reporter of the Gre a t proceeding.,Wardmote which appeared in Tuesday's papers, " had no doubt mistaken the subject of one of the presentments the other day, stating that a catnphine manufactory was carried on by bun (Mr.ltitGhie) upon certain illinsga pr t e o r , nis b e y which h s, viz'Stt.3fel lives -'t.it!fill' in the ward o f B her Majesty's subject.: were endangered," and requesting a contra diction to that statement, t: since no such camphine manufactory exists in that neighbourhood, the premises being simply used as a depOt wherei n the ar ticle is put in ; quare tin bottles and her meticall y se aled." Mr. Rit c h ie w ill are how far our reporter had mistaken the subject upon casting his eye over the following, which is almost a verbatim copy of t he p resentm ent itself: The inquest jury of the wa• d of Billi ngsgate doth rei'en o t n ( the; George Ritchie. (lay litch t, e f . dicc N, m o be 3 r 4, I' , ll, acid di vers fel , St. Mary-at-hill, f o r that, lowing days, in ant upon the duelling-hoLse and floors thereof, and in the warebeibes thereof, he did exercise. and carry on a certain trade or bu sine s s for the mann flic!tire eta certain spirit called camphine, or lamp spirit, and did permit and suffr the same to remain, an d d ot h i yet continue to retain the same n the said dwelling house, house, from the inflammable nature of which spi r i t , th e great quantity of it, and its liability to ignition, the lives and properties of the people there, and the premises ad joining thereto, are exposed to the danger of being burnt and destroyed by fire." • ARCHITECTURAL SHABBINESS.—The British Mu ,;pinri, when completed, will have a grand façade in front, and as mean brick building at the sides and back. It has been compw. - ed to a pers•in with a limited waidrobe, who, to hide a scarcity of linen, puts on a handsogie " aw4l."--,Pwtch, ARY OF Mt q 4) v 4 4.i. • V 14 it t VI tit to it. -VI . •c Who runs may read." r t:;) R. "2:1 Y.:1I:i;:. „ On Monday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the Duke de Broglie, Vis count Montesquiou, General Jacquinot, Ka'chlin and Martin (du Rhone), Deputies, and M. Adolphe Barrot. The Address Committee of the Deputies on Tuesday heard read the draft, as drawn up by its reporter, M. Hebert. The Chamber will be convoked for Thursday, to receive the Address, and to fix the day for its being taken into consideration, which there is no doubt will be Monday next. The Committee on the Bill for the supplementary credits for 1843 and 1844 has called upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs for documents relating to the affair of Portendic, referred to the arbitration of the King of Prussia. The King has granted his excquatur to G. W. Fea therstonhaugh, Esq., (her Britannic Majesty's late Corn misionor for the North American boundary, and author of an " Excursion through the Slave States of the United States"), to be her Majesty's Consul at Havre. Mr. Featherstonhaugh, having had the honour of being presented to their Majesties, left Paris on Wednesday morning for his post. Preparations are being made for laying the first stone of the tomb of Napoleon, a ceremony which is expected to be shortly performed by the King. A letter from Algiers gives the following as the French force now in Algeria :—Division of Algiers, in cluding officers, 37,000; ditto of Oran, 29,500; ditto of Constantina, 24,500. Total, 91,000; from which are to be deducted 13 000 on furlough, or in the hospitals ; making the effective force 78,000. The number of horses is 16,000, and of mules 5,000. The Augsburg Gazette mentions a report from Con stantinople that the Turkish army, which is only 100,000 strong, although nominally it is 150,000, is to be carried to an effective force of 200,000. Letters from Warsaw confirm the report that the Em peror of Russia has ordered the execution of the late Ukase against the Jews to be suspended for the present. " The causes of the recent rebellion in the Military School of St. Cyr," says the Preue, " do not appear to have been very serious in themselves. For a long time, the pupils of a certain standing in the School have, by usage, imposed upon the new comers, during their first year, a thousand unpleasant, and sometimes cruelly painful, obligations and treatment. Some of the last of the youths who entered having determined to resist these barbarous usages, were exposed to such violent treatment, that the lives of several were placed in dan ger. It therefore became necessary for the Commandant of the School to interfere. This gave rise to the re bellion ; but the punishment inflicted by the Minister of War, upon the most prominent culprits, has re stored order." The Revue de Paris says, that the announcement of its being the intention of the Government to put down the establishments of Jesuits that exists in France is not well founded, such a measure being impracticable, as the Jesuits hold their property not as a collective body, but in the names of individvals. His Excellency Sami Pacha, Privy Councillor of the Viceroy of Egypt, arrived at Marseilles last week, on his way to Paris. According to the last accounts from Switzerland, there is still great excitement about the Jesu its. The Govern ment of Lucerne was in daily expectation of an attack from the volunteer forces of Argau. A letter from Athens, of the 31st ult., announces that the chief subject of conversation in that capital is a note, said to be communicated by Austria to the other great Powers, directing their attention to Greek affairs, and suggesting that the following resolutions should be agreed to between them:—" 1. That considering the dis positions obligatory which established the Hellenic king dom, the 40th article of the Constitution should be sup pressed, which requires that the heir to the throne should be of the Greek Church. 2. That the Powers, being determined to regard the present boundaries of Greece as decidedly fixed, disapprove of any attempt to extend them. 3. That desiring the consolidation of the Greek monarchy, they should see with displeasure any attempt to disturb the tranquillity of the interior." There was but one British ship of war at the Pirteus, the Belvidere, Captain the Hon. G. Grey. The French Admiral Turpin re mained there with several ships of the line and one frigate. LAW AND POLION. Mr. Cowling obtained a rule in the Bail Court, calling on the treasurer of the county of Lancaster to show cause why he refused to pay to the coroner of one of the divisions of the said county the fees and expenses of holding 129 inquests. Under the new law an inquest might be held by any coroner in whose jurisdiction death took place, but previously if an accident happened in one county, and the person injured was removed into another county, but ultimately died in" a third, it was doubtful if a coroner had any jurisdiction, and it was for the pur pose of settling this point that the application was made. The Court of Common Pleas heard appeals from the decisions of the revising barristers. Robert Barrett, who lately kept the Saxe• Coburg Saloon, Windmill-street, was discharged by the Insolvent I Court. At the Guildhall John and George Axtell, two gen teel-looking youths, who were charged on a previous day with burglariously entering the chamber of Mr. Wise, a barrister, in the Middle Temple, were fully committed for trial. Ten male and three female paupers belonging to St. Luke's, Chelsea, the greater part of whom were about eighteen years of age, were charged at Queen-square with being disorderly and refusing to work in the house. The charge was clearly proved. It having been said that one of the male defendants could hardly be held accountable for his actions, he was discharged ; but the remainder of the male defendants were committed for fourteen days—the females for ten days. After the de fendants were locked up, they made such a noise by shouting and singing, that they could be heard a consi derable distance off. Yesterday, Mr. James Keech Buesel, who had for merly carried on an extensive business as a master tailor at Camberwell; was committed from Lambeth, on a charge of fraud, and embezzling various sums of money, to a considerable amount, the property of Mr. John Saunders, a tailor and draper, at Peckham-rye. COU'SZT-PJAMSZOITAIIII62I. The Duke of Norfolk has left St. James's square to join the Duchess and the Ladies Howard at Arundel Castle. The Marquis - and Marchioness of Normanby, who are staying on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, are expected to arrive at the Claren den Hotel to-morrow for the season. The Earl of Auckland and the lion. Miss Eden are staying at Woburn Abbey, on a visit to tke Duke and Duchess of Bedford. The Earl and Countess De Grey are expected in St. James's-square early in the ensuing week, from Wrest Park, Beds, en rolte for Brighton. The Noble Earl, we regret to state, is still in delicate health. The Earl of Abergavenny has arrived at Brighton from Fridge Castle. The Earl of Devon has left Powderham Castle, the Noble Earl's seat in Devonshire, where his Lordship has been sojourning during the last two months, for Dublin, to resume his duties as chairman on the Tenure of Land Commission. Viscount and Viscountess Adare are at Dunraven Castle. The Noble Viscountess is perfectly recovered from her recent accouchement. 252190)1367L11.1f MOUEI. In the report last week of the inquest on Thomas Staite, who was murdered by the poachers on the Earl of Coventry's estate at Croome, it was stated that a memorial was signed by the jury against the gams laws, which the Coroner was requested to transmit to the Secretary of State. Mr. Hyde, the Coroner, has complied with this request, and on Tuesday a letter was received from Mr. Phillips ac kuowledging the receipt of the memorial. The matter ' has been the subject of discussion before the magistrates of the city of Worcester, and a petition to the Legisla ture is now in course of preparation for a repeal of the Act legalising the sale of game. In answer to inquiries made yesterday, it was stated that a slight improvement had manifested itself in the health of the respected Member for Southwark, Mr. B. Wood, who has been seriously ill for some time past, at . his country seat, near Eltham, Kent. On Thursday afternoon, about five o'clock, the family of Mr. Inwood, a general dealer in Wood-street, Cromer street, Gray's Inn-lane, were thrown into great alarm by a fire in the shop. It originated through overcharg ing a naptha lamp, which Mrs Inwood held in her hand.. In a short time the contents of the shop were in flames ; they were soon extinguished, but the entire demolition of the stock and shop front was the consequence. Mrs. Inwood was much burnt. A fancy ball was given last night at the Princess's Theatre, under the auspices ()Isom nameless French lady. Each purchaser of a ticket was to be pre sented with " some works of art," which consisted of an album, with some good copies of the great masters. The notion is a good one ; but we are sorry to say, from want of sufficient publicity, or from some other cause, it did not take. The whole assembly, at twelve o'clock, consisted 'of two sets of quadrilles, one of which was evidently French, and the other English. We only wish our friends, the gentlemen who qualify- for Jullien's grand Lai masque, by a dozen Polka lessons, could see what French grace and esprit can do even for the staid quadrille. Assuredly in future years they would discard their old masters. Mr. Itansford, last evening, produced his new enter tainment, on Gipsoy Life and Character, at the Music Hall, Store-street, with great success. The company was numerous and elegant. LINENDRAPERS' AND SILIC•MFACERS' INSTITUTION. --The annual ball in aid of the funds of this tiourishi»g institution was held oft 'Thursday night at Willis's ltooms, an:l WAS patroniscA in a manner which proved the increasing estimation with which the princi. pies as well as the mode of carrying out the objects of the institution is regarded y by the 0 6 ve oe tradesry p n r u so ni n e s ro as u s s emi)ied and ex embraced deta the society. Na cl the highest sati,lfaction with all the ar rangements of the evening. Mr. Adams's band, and Mr. younghusband, as caterer of the refreshment, afforded equal satisfaction ; and it was not the least matter of gratification to tie mombers to learn, that notwithstand ing every aplii. - !ation Of reli,!f had hen attended to dim ing the year with the utmost libe - I. l ity• the permarie.it fund, required by the rule to be 20,0 , bad - reached uo lust a slim than 25,0001. Mr. Corrie acted as master of the ceremonies, V VICE-CHAN LRY.-(THIS DA (Before Sir J. 4\ 7 Rat.ol.) MAY V. SKIPWORTIL The Court was again occupied with hearing the argu ments in this case, which la3ted the whole day. A notice in Vice-Chancellor Bruce's Court st.ttes that bankrupt petitions will only he taken in the Court of Review on Mondays. QUEEN'S BF "NCH.-(THIS DAY.) The Court took the special paper to-day. Nothing of general interest came before the Court. BAIL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAms.) TITE QUEEN AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF SEVENOAKS. Mr. WATSON moved f,,r a rule to quash a writ of cer tiorari, issued in this prosecution some time ago, on the ground that the materials were insufficient. The affi davit necessary for the purposes of his motion showed that. notice of the intended applicaton had been given to two of the justices to bring up the order of session. The affidavit showed that notice had been served . , on two justices of the county then present at quarter sessions. He submitted, theretbre, that the materials were insuffi cient, on two grounds; first, because the affidavit merely showed that service had been issued on two justices at quarter session ; and, secondly, the person serving was not properly described and stated. These points were fully argued before Mr. Justice Matteson during last term. His Lordship, took time to consider, and in about a week after he pro nounced judgment, and decided that on the first point such notice was insufficient ; and he seemed to think the second a very grave question also, but forbore ex pressing an opinion on it. Mr. Justice WuxrAms —What case was that? Mr. WATSON—The Queen and the Inhabitants of Darton. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said he should consult his brother Patterson on the subject. THE QUEEN V. GRIFFITHS. Mr. EDWARDS moved for an order to cause Jones, the gaoler of the town of liaverford west, to deliver up the sum of 201., taken from the person of a prisoner named Griffiths, under the fc4llowing circumstances:—lt ap peared that, in 1829, Griffiths had rented two farms from a Mrs. Foley, and some time after, he being indebted to Messrs. Biddoes, the bankers, and being afraid of their putting in an execution upon his farm and stock, communicated with Mr. Harvey, the agent to Mrs. Foley, who recommended that he himself should put in a prior execution, and that a sham distress should afterwards take place, and the goods thus be beld secure until the bankers were paid. All this was done, and Griffiths, having afterwards settled with the Messrs. Biddoes, continued upon the farm till August of last year, when being apprehensive of a distress at the in stance of Harvey, he drove some cattle off the farm, leaving behind, however, enough for the purposes of the distress. On the 9th September, he was carried before a magistrate on a charge of stealing, and afterwards remanded. On entering the prison, he was, as usual with all prisoners, searched by the gaoler, and this 201. taken from him by the gaoler. Griffiths was afterwards bailed out, but on mak ing application for his 201., Mr. Jones refused to re turn the money without an order from the Court of Queen's Bench. That money was now required for his defence. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—I cannot interfere. Let an application be made to the Judge on Circuit, and he will, if the money is not connected with the charge, order it to be returned for the purposes of the defence. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) BREACH OF PROMISE-RUSSELL v. CLEMENTS. Mr. Sergeant Shee appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd for the defendant. The parties, in this case, are both in rather a humble condition, but, notwithstanding, the crowded state of the Court indicated that the cause had excited much interest. The assemblage were, however, evidently disappointed when it was announced to the Court by the Learned Sergeants that it had been agreed on both sides that plaintiff should take a verdict for 451. EXCHEQUER—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court disposed of several motions involving points of practice, and of no interest to any one except the parties concerned. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. Siace Monday large arrivals of English Wheat have taken place, chiefly from Lincolnshire. The show of samples of Wheat of home produce was extensive, owing to which, the demand for that article was exceed ingly dull, at barely Monday's prices. In Foreign Wheat we heard of no sales worthy of notice. The de mand for Barley was very limited, and only the finest qualities were purchased, at Monday's quotations. Malt was very difficult to sell, yet previous rates were sup pot ted. The supply of Oats was again large, and a de cline of 6d per quarter was submitted to by the factors. In other articles, no alteration. ARRIVALS. I Wheat. l'ar 4 l_ey. Oats. _Mtn f r tigish........ ..... 7,520 qrs. 4,0 24 ( 0 4r5. 2T,VO q". 5 ' 450 F0reign.....,... 200 __ _ 77 - 270 Malt, 2,640 qr s: SMITHFIELD. Although the snpp►y of Beasts offering to-day was but limited, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, at a depression of quite 2d. per 81bs. We had on sale twelve Beasts and thirty Sheep from Holland, in very middling condition. For Sheep, the numbers of which were small, the inquiry was somewhat active, at fully Monday's quotations. Prime small Calves sold readily at an ad vance of 2d per Sibs Other qualities of Veal were quite as dear. The Pork trade was active, at higher rates. Mulch Cows sold at 161. to 191. each. Malt, 3,r6 0 OIL Per Ellbs. to sink the efal. s. d. to s. d. r. d. to s.d. Inferior Beasts 2 6 21 Second qualityditto... 3 4 3 8 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 6 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 310 4 0 Prime large Oxen 3 A 910 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 2 Large Hogs 3 6 4 2 Prime small ditt0...... 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers 4 4 4 6 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 30 Quarter old Pigs, each 16 0 20 0 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 2 Lambs 0 0 0 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. f Calves. 745 2.9)0 : 117 30*EWCIALTZI AND LEADEN BAIL L. I Pigs. 1 375 We had a steady demand for each kind of Meat, at about Monday's quotations. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d . a. d, to s. d. iSeef, inferior 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior ...... 2 8 3 '2 - mithiling ..... - middling ..... 3 4 3 6 -- prime large - prime 3 6 3 8 -- prime Small ...... 3 4 3 6 Pork, large 2 6 3 6 Veil ..............»....«.. 3 6 4 6 -small ......... 3 8 4 4 HOHOUGH HOP MARKET. Although the supply of Hops on offer is comparatively small, only a moderate business is doing here, yet prices are steadily supported. Many of the holders are looking forward to higher rates. c:om SUGAR.---British Plantation has been rather lower this week, as the expected agitation about the duties already begins to tell upon the market. The sales to last evening inclusive, were about 1,100 hhds and tres. At auction too hlida 3 trcs Barbadoes realised 63s to GGs 6d for fine, and 53s to ,623 6d for low to good. EAST • INDIA.—Ten thousand — four hundred bags Bengal mostly found buyers, good and fine white at 64s to 68s 6d, mid at 61s to 635, mid yellow 55s to 57s 6d, brown 42s to 42s 6d, and damp and washed from 40s up to 66s per cwt ; 4,901 bags Madras in bond were taken in at 17s to 25s 6d for damp yellow; and 10,604 bags 414 casks Mauritius all sold at 58s to 64s for good and fine yellow, 51s 6d to 57s for low and mid, 45s to 50s foi brown, and 46s 6d to 61s 6d for washed; 5,423 bagS Manilla mostly sold, sound, in bond, at 19s 6d to 20s per cwt ; 1,502 bags Penang in bond went at 14s 6d to 19s 6d for damp yellow. FORElGN.—Privately 200 bags Java have been sold at 33s per cwt. REFlNED.—Standard Lumps have been 7s 6i per cwt. COFFEE.—The market has been tolerably steady. A small parcel Jamaica at auction was taken in at 35s to 60s per cwt for triage to good. Ceylon has been firm about 2,000 bags have been sold by auction Et 49s to 52s 6tl for low to good ord pale, at 85s 6d for mid green, and at 70s for low mid; 250 bags Manilla sold at 36s to 36s 6d for fine ord pale ; and 160 bags Bahia were taken in at 25s to 325, being above the value. In Mocha 124 bales partly sold at 62s 6d to 75s 6d per cwt; 15 bales Mysore at 44s 6d for sound, and 10 brls Java at 243 to 49s per cwt. C'Ocoe.-194 bags Trinidad have been taken in at 403 to 41s per cwt. There has been less demand geri rally for West India. SPlCES.—Malabar Pepper has been sold at full rates, 2,247 bags having realised 34d for half heavy clean brown, and 3kd for light. S: me white Pepper sold at 4W to 51d per lb. Pimento has been taken in at 4d per lb., and Cassia Lignea sold at 52s 6d to 63s per cwt. l{lCE.—Bengal has declined, mid white at auction having sold for lOs 6rl to Ils, and good mid at Ils to I Is 64 per cwt. COTTON.—There has been a moderate demand. Itum.—West India has been firm, and Calcutta proof has realised 2s to 2s Id per gallon. SALTPETRE,-1,360 bags Calcutta sold at 26s 6d for 5 : 1 refraction, and at 27s for 41 ; 200 bags Madras went ut 2Gs to 27s for 71 to 3+ refraction. 'l 4 }l4.—The transa(!tions have been on a moderate scale. Good common Congou has been firm at 11.1 to Is old per lb, and ord Twankay at is 3d to is 31d. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is dull, at 40s to 40s 3d per cwt for fine quality. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-4THIS DAY ) LONDON, J AN. 17.—Wind S. to S.E., fresh breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, JAN. 16.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Lady Rowena Miller, Calcutta. Sld. Ann, Hobart Town and Sydney, Centurion, Havre and Mauritius ; Hong-Kong :utd John Fleming, Madras and Calcutta ; John Calvin, Bombay ; Tahraaroo, New York, and the rest of the outward bound, except Sir E. Paget, Clara, Nancy, and Funchal. FALMOUTH, JAN. 16.—Sld. Penguin packet, Madeira and Brazili. BRIDPORT, JAN. 15.—Several pieces of loose wreck have uriven along shore to-day with a great number of loose oranges, supposed to be part of the cargo of the Design, run down off Exmouth, 10th inst. BELFAST, JAN. 13.—The Superb, Spearing, of this port. from Newcastle to Dublin, ,ail ,, d from Tobennory, c:. the 15th of October. and !La not since been heard of. LIVERPCOL, JA E.S.E., light.—Aral. Baptiste, Bot,clos Ayres ; Stt-wart , . Fisher, Pa raiba (9th ult.) ; Shenandoah, West, Charleston (26th ult.) Sld. Ann Bridson, China ; Ann, La Guayra ; (7. r4 C,re. ; Cajetl.l,,„ ; Th• •.--• v•. ,, aground Eii+i l ir , Is ..... .. .111 '. and... i. :, ': .: Yi .1.11.1 A 1-- , I'l-1 1 1 1 ' 8000 bales.—A large business %t as done i.sii'ill, The Cc.tton Tla i rL:t. t:24tULAiiser7p'E2ll. was l.(r) . 7 v erV_ l , fr : e s - , but the market underwent some fluctuation. -Drub?; ham and Glouccst.r, 10 8 2 - ; Bristol at-d Exl -4 c, r ' o 3 u B ,Bieit Bristol arid Gloucester. 441 ; Ea.tern-Li ~.0 d 16-1 1 171 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and; Grantcn, 15 . 1 u„";1 ; Juncti• •n, 228 30 ; Grand Juectioe, 11 lt, 1 ,: 6 Lancaster and Preston, 46i ; Liverpool and Hatchesnei Half Shares, 108 ; London and Birmingham, •.f.,%; Ditto, 321. Snares 401- ; Ditto, Quarter Sharli::ste7o, London and York, 3i 4 ; London and Suno co l l_ l „_ si 804 80 ; !Atte), New, Ili- ; Cambridge and'itin. 31. 6s. 3tl. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 5 3 1,;„ i sot Chester end Leeds, 125 ; Midland Counties, 41 43; North British, 101 i ; Sheffield and Mancheso r, ra i l South-Eastern, 4 9 1 43; Lyons and Avignon, 53 , i i i :. 4 or en ci an:l Lyons, 725. 6d. ; Paris and Rouen , 401,t.h 53''u NortiO rti Havre, 2-11-; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, ti; of Franct., 5/. 165.; Boulogne and Amiens, 4i- from the A notice was issued at a late hour yesterdayol,pi. Bank of England, announcing the intention .t,,. l Th st 9i rectors of the Bank of England to discount INIL' per cent. 1 rtan °Pe' Ni) question this notification is an i n apo. rt co o as it shows that a strong rivalry has bee of m 91 enced by the largest banking establisbra t. ri l ei the world with the private and Palddi_oo banks of the metropolis. The great ,s. oPe ti making to accommodate the public who 113 ,/, fig drawing accounts in the " Banking Depart ell. i t if indicates that the new system is working vve ii o tio not, supposed, however, that the effect of the r ye will have any material influence class fel Money Market, as advances upon first4ll,ol6l# curities can readily be obtaiued at other s , le i t b e establishments engaged in the discount bus i t le d, bis, City. It has, however, this feature, as allls.„l9iiiiir at, that competition with the other banking firm ' _,,, carried into effect most vigorouslv s o . • potis r There are no Colonial arrivalf the least On • .0) , this morning. • is 4111* 1 This is the Account-day. in Consols, and :.fac totl settlement has proceeded, it has gone off str a y Ili For the February Account, Consols are que l v"The „, and for Money at 100 to 1001. ,: e d . . 14 Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have res its a' 10 Exchequer Bills are heavy at 58s. _it Bed it b e d Bonds at 745. Bank Stock opened at 21 0 10,:•Setle e d since advanced to 211. The Three per Cenotith w. Annuities have fluctuated from 1001 to 104 :4 Stock is up to 1154. 4lO Fore Not much business has been transacted in pea e ' Funds to-day. The French Scrip has bee ° , 0 ,0 44- er at lk premium. Spanish Bonds have been ritteles at 26i to 27 for the Five per Cents., and th e S t o ts have risen from 37i to 381. The Dutch Fun t • re higher than they were yesterday, the Foe tge having touched 98 ; the Old Portugues e 4/ 1 4. Cents. are at 85 ; and the Converted Thre l j '' r ntP 591. The only quotation for the Five per ti, e ,. „91 cans this morning was 34k. ' isSeY A good deal of business has been done this - 404 the Railway Shares, but the tendency in th e b r n stri been rather on the decline, the last settleme9W after all, so satisfactory to many as might ha / ; : 9 4 r o ilo cipated. The London and South-Western ' • ili have advanced from 9 to 131 premium, the ftoo o l 27 premium, the York and Midland Extensite 0 to 14 premium, and the Great Northern of ._.,.'- fs' prem. Provincial Bank of Ireland are at 19 P 17,4 ass BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE lli (From the Official List.) 21 0 k i ll Bank Stock .. - ..... 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...........• .. ... 1 3 per Cent. Consols Anus O2 •• New 3'4 per Cent. Annuties I Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 -- - ,0 ' i ti Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859..• 446 Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860 ... 11 "` 10 1 ' India Bonds 1,0001 7B 7,1 ,/ Ditto under 1,0001 South Sea Stock IISN • Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 d. 1 1 c l ' „as 1,000/. - s o, 5001. - Poss Ditto Small — - 101. A Ditto Advertised ........ • ;.-. - OOP ls : PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE - 34 a 4 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cents t o Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. li ' .... 6 9 . • Ditto Converted , 11 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 ‘,6% Ditto for the Account : Ditto 3 per Cent * Ditto for the Account ''' 6 7 4 ! Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...:•• - e , 4 4, , ,- PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'Cilv- i pl. RAILWAYS. PAID. ?KO to, Birmingham and Gloucester 100 / Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln ...i to 1 • Chester and Holyhead 5 ( es"' et j ; Churnet Valley Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 54-%••t0 2 Eastern Counties 25 17% I °/* t $ 01; Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% — ...... Ditto, ditto, No. 2. - to , • / Ely- and Bedford Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 Ditto Additional Great Western Ditto, Half Shares Lancaster and Carlisle London and South Western.. 41% BO .."* 0 4 Ditto, New — London and Y0rk........ .... . 2 1 , ... „„ 3, 7 4.••" tO l O Manchester and Birmingham 40 Midland 100 l2B --"''' ' to / Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 Newcastle and Berwick - 1 / 2_ 9 9 y,i / . '': to/ North British Northern and Eastern. Portsmouth Direct Richmond and West End June. 1 Rugby South Eastern and Dover ... 33 1 York and North Midland ... 50 ~ ,•'''''' r, l'' Ditto Scarboro' Branch lO ' 33'721 i" Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. ts Boulogne and Amiens 2 ...... 4% 3 4'" to / Great Northern of France Lyons and Avignon Orleans and Bordeaux .....2 Pans and Rouen. JOINT STOCK BANKS. t o9 a if . Provincial of Ireland 25 ' 44 •'''. l di Fil MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE,. aM,Yat'tli i. t i have again had a large business, and prices - 41 well supported : 44 0 Birmingham and Gloucester, New Share ',,' 9) Bristol and Gloucester ................ ............ ',. l Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2. ....... ." , Manchester and Leeds, 16th Shares ........ ••• 9 Manchester and Birmingham ................ 7" .' ,f, , Ditto Quarter Shares • .... ..• ' f ................... .„• ,i , Midland Railway Consols ................... -• . l ' Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shat e 9 ..; I 1 ,7, , arrisley Junction; Half Shares ......... .••i 4 y l Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. Ju li .:.l l s, Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington ..... " * Pr/ Cambridge and Lincoln -1 ' .•. 4 , Churnet Valley. ............. ..., $4 .................. .. Dublin and Belfast Junction ............. :.. "'„ 9 Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston ......... •••, iti Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale ..... '.. ... , 0 Manchester and 8uxt0n................ .. .. •,••"'„ , l ii Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction •• 4j! 5,, , 1 'West Yorkshire ............................ •••'... au Great Northern of France ................... OcleMlS, 't ours, and Bordeaux ............ •''. ' o il • —s____.--- 11 all i. le'' . 5 ,...1 1 °,, e ere, ' • BILLS FOR THE ENSUING SESSION', werir close of the last session a 'number of 1 311 ' 5 0 4 ° ,0 1 ;1 ' to be printed for consideration, with the 4 se ° ie t o ' l , , e;' , . f o r I ', in g business at an early period of the" n 0 1 0 - order to preclude the objections which he ° ( IA fl 4 : e fe e It" f years been made, that massy. measures vi er tl , pi i ic e d the session had far advanced. There afFps, p i respect to railways, joint•stock cosuPa r ' i- afF Cl•fr,, which have for their object an uniforioi,tf,;(olol, f : these matters. The Bills are entitled `` l- b: 0 10 , il,, l ' e st Consolidation," " Companies Clauses Con' h ri#,W be , " Lands Clauses Consolidation." These t i ,,K ° ;,a t e'e g ; a t .) 4 A lt 1 to bring into consolidation the • laws. r e •osill Ir,r, ) jects mentioned, so that one law IllaY serePrvacle:oll t appointed to administer the laws on the l4 di Sk g " ) tt e Ile I have their attention directed to the gib co- ;lleoll', J sideration without, as now exists, being to 0 ..„, , 1 refer to several statutes having referce e 'el i oll c V ;as i ler 0/ subjects. The Medical Bill, which '''' 0 0 0 ": 0 :10 te discussed by the profession, stands for .c riso efi r ly e e' l 1 also the measure relating to the ajT° l 0 ibe....9,1 1 and other officers of petty sessions. • l b c ' e ar cle 9 ;i l .'ef ;l t. l the Mines 'Re , istration and the Field 1 1 30 a ri f „ 1 jest of the l'oriner is to give to th . e . ..,, toil e r o il 1 0 general power over all mines, which S'' ,: f the,„09 0 1 0( and subjected to the superintendencrtuvre of f 0 If f i order to prevent the useless expend'- rt of t. e ,f 0 0 011 reckless speculations ; and the pur v e lt c h the. s ,, l o , ,t 0r , 0 4 0 , obtain field gardens for labourers, 1 so d %le 1 firing their condition. These Bills.' c oes l h a 4 solidste parochial settlements, stand fi ' r re d to:1 0 0 IP f At ° 1 the House of Commons, and are ex P e 0.8e6 ocle forward at an early period of the ensuill;oed ii ,oV r i,j r The mackerel season has canin e , 0 0S oftear . fsvourable auspices for our roan a ll 0 111. 601#Poe j Samuel Andrews, the most lucky t',.. / 1,00 3 01)) I came on shore here last Friday wit% oa ts, Al I fetched 16s. per hundred. All our o rs - e i t ,4 4 ception of Andrews's, and one o therj ot . t osF oo i7 Plymouth, where there is a large fle e • s eV` V, from various places.--Brighton' Gazette. soo dof o . it? N ATTACK ON A GAMEKEEPER. - " Mi l o epe r t fAC i f . ,e!i t itautlisce.:. ,was bi ti l .ci ly ' , J R ? Henry Tebby, of Cottesford, Rousbey, Esq.. of Cottesford three men, and so seriously sitlered to lie in great danger. ra ol, a de A e e , t Willie, a young man of Het he, was II ) e g, c l o)'"ft°`. ci injured v6` ll ,goP i to u j ii: ; 1 •f r a -w e 11 . )'' ' gaol by the Biccster mag,istrates o a , toe t O. 0 2 l being one- of the men. The keeper v' t . was pn o d r e a l' d and a medical certificate to that eft`;' el , l ie ,lq i d pt•ared that the keeper heard a ,am en . 0 ,0 0 ,5' t going to the spot he saw three..,, by .0 he c o t 41 res., one of them, and call,d nu o tl he ` `' lief . Willie. All attacked him, and beat h „ r ing.' .t of 4 r sensible. On 'rebby somewtiat r e ., ° . ° :iic elio 111 P e ‘ the Rev. Mr. Maguire's house, Ca . 1 1 1 ,' : ,_„ .. VC ", o , ii F A , . j where eery help was afforded I! , y ure i _fs:' ,3 a ll ` c e l. A !Teller:dee] and identifietl bY °)*' .. l i t . j • of 1 - . W ' s i i .te 3 if 111 1 the affair took pl • ce, a large (11 1,1 n r ' is ;' ) ,,,r' _ of or Te o ° bliOgeons were, found. Tbe P not• . 0 d sp a o n n g d er e o d u w s i s t t h ate io , o i t a ‘m bo a u rl r ns i 4e u a n e d t e .h r P co ik &us elen 'ill