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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Farewell Season or Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager. TIII3 EVENING, JAN. 28, Will bo performed the admired Comedy of LONDON ASSUR ANCE, by Messrs. I , eeley, Leigh Murray, Howe, Lambert, IL Bed ford, Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Rosa Bennett. Atter which, the gorgeous Extravaganza, entities LEO THE TERRIBLE. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, Will be performed the Comic Drama called A PHENOMENON IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Horneastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mitchell. After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza, enttled THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs. F. Matthews, Suter, Horncastle, and Templeton ; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Miss Ellis, Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss Rosina Wright w ill appear. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Sole Agent for the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Allcroft, 15, New Ttond-strcet. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, l'he second act of TILE GREEN BUSHES ; or, a Hundred Teat s% Ago. Supported by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Honey, Emery, & - c.; Madame Celeste, and Miss Fanny Maskell. To conclude with the succecsful new Comic Pantomime, called NELL OWYNNE ; or, Harlet,itin Menlo Monarch. Plincipal DAnseuse, Mdile. Auriol • Clown, Mr. Flexmore. To conclude with the Farce of .11Y PRECIOUS BET3Y. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. '. Kean. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, Will be periormed Shakarere's Comely of TWELFTH NIGHT. Principal characters by Mess:s. W. Lacy, Harley, Addison, baker, Graham, Ryder, Ito Heston, and Cathcart ; lilhses Heath, Murray, and Marshall, and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with the new and criginal Grand Comic Christ mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR STAR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the Singing Tree. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pan taloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine,, Miss Carlotta Leclercq. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lassee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, Will be presented LILIAN GERVAIS. Supported by Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, jun., Hoskins, Cooke, Edgar, Bender, and Clifton; Miss Anderton and Miss H. Gordon. To conch:de with ROMEO AND JULIET; or, Harlequin Queen Mab and the World of Dreams. Clown, Mr. Edwin Edwardes, with his highly-t-ained Dogs. Box-utlice open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence of Mr. Edward Chatterton. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. ,Crowded Nightly to witness the Extraordinary Holiday Attractions. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, I :nd during the Week, the Performances will commence Kith TyNCLE TOM'S CABIN '6oth time). AftAT which, Batty's peerless Scenes in the Arena. To conclude with the successful Pantomime of FORTUNIO AND rigs HORSE COMRADE; or, Harlequin and the Seven Gifted Dien. nvors open at Half-past Six o'clock. To commence at Seven. Box-office open daily from Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnts DAY Morning 0 min. after 4 1 Evening 19 min.aft. 4 Xo-Moaaow—Morning 40 min. after 4 1 Evening 57 min.aft. 4 DAILY WEA7HER TABLE. FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1853, State of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations are arranged in order of latitude. HASTINGS—N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. FOLKESTONE- 7 N.E., fresh breeze—cloudy with rain. TUNBRIDGE—N.W., calm—overcast. GREENWlCH—Calm—partially cloudy. STROOD—N.E., gentle breeze—overcast. LEIGHToN—N.E., calm—partially cloudy. CAMBRIDGE—N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. YARMOUTH— E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the weather on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock LIMERICK—S., calm—overcast. MULLINGAR—E., cairn—overcast. YARMOUTH—S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. LANCASTER—N., strong breeze—partially cloudy. WHlTBY—Calm—foggy. SHAP—S.E., calm—overcast. THE •WEATHER._SUx OFFICE, ItYr. 28. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 36—highest since noon yesterday. 30—lowest this morning and during the night. 38—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'82. WIND, N.E.—Clondy, with slight breeze. We had a eavy shower last evening. ~ I 1 i ?'~~y• ..`, 1131, Zfpz LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1853. Quibbles are already heard in one or two quar ters, in, answer (save the mark !) to that pamphlet of Mr. COBDEN'S, the argument of - which is as clear as a mathematical demonstration. Well, quibbles are the only things that can be brought to bear upon the question of the still obdurate, though long obsolete, apelogiste of the .twenty-two years' war against the French revolution. It may be worth while, therefore, considering some of them in de tail, as they appear, and treating them succinctly in the " way of exposure. An illustration may at once be afforded of the ehufiling insincerity evinced upon this subject by those who applaud as just, and as, indeed, inevitable, the last struggle against France and England—the struggle beginning in 1793, and end ing in 1815, a struggle which saddled England with a debt of 500,000,0001. sterling, and France with an old Bourbon Sovereign—France having shaken off the Sovereign since then, and not only the Sovereign, but both the elder and the younger branch of the worn-out dynasty, but England not having, by any means, yet shaken off the debt ! The illustration is one, it must be confessed, mewhat remarkable in its character. It has aken some little time, it would seem, to pre pare it ; for already this is our third day's reference to the brochure of the Honourable Gentleman the Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and yet it was only this morning that the first allusion to the pamphlet (an allusion containing the quibble about to be referred to) was made in the columns of our chief morning contemporary. Remember, therefore, that the quibble is not lightly advanced by the Times—it is only advanced, it would appear, after mature and lengthened deliberation. It is this. Mr. COBDEN is admitted, "for the sake of argu ment" (of course only "for the sake of argument"), to be correct in asserting that the rupture of 1793 was " our own doing exclusively," that England, in short, was the aggressor—BUT—the other war, the war which ensued a little later, meaning, of course, the war which followed the rupture of the Treaty of Amiens, was a war in which England stood simply on the defensive—a war in which the aggressor was France, or rather the chieftain of =,France--NApoLEoN. Now, this is the quibble. 2 -NVe have react Mr. COBDEN'S pamphlet very erro neously, if his argument does not go to show that the crime of the whole struggle, not the contest of the first eight or ten years, but .of the whole twenty-two years, beginning with 1793 and ending with 1815, devolves solely and directly upon the British Government. We have read history very mistakingly, if it does not prove this as clearly as any one of the rudiments of arithmetic, or as any one of the elementary truths of natural philosophy. It is the merest evasion to take Mr. COBDEN'S ar gument as applying simply to the contest prior to the Treaty of Amiens, instead of to the whole of the struggle from first to last, from Lours XVl.'e e:xecution to NAPOLEON L's avowed and final abdi cation. The pamphlet asserts this plainly enough throughout. The pamphleteer speaks over and over again of the twenty-two years' war, not of the nine years war, but of the war up to the night of the battle of Waterloo. England is shown by Mr. COBDEN, is proved by history, to have been guilty, before GOD aucl m an, of the enormous crime of provoking that struggle against the French Revolution. Here, however, in that very phrase—the "war again s t th e French the prevarication. discoverable the germ 01. the prevar ication. It is objected, that up l a to Treaty o f Amiens, it was, if you will, a war against the • F ren ch Revolution, but th a t after wards it was a war against—NAroLEoN. What miserable quibbling indeed is this ? Why, the struggle was renewed against NAPOLEON—simply because he was the incarnation or representative of the Revolution, the child born of it, the hero who reduced it to order, and therefore made i really formidable. It is merely begging the queaion, consequently, to maintain that the contest which followed the rupture of the Treaty of Amiens was a war against NAPOLEON, and not a war against the Revolution. The struggle both before and after was identical—and what history proves is this, that throughout, from 1793 to 1815, during the whole of those two-and-twenty years the crime of the war rested with England, because England was th e A. ggressor. It must be confessed that Mr. COZDEN has in a Droaore laid himself open in hiik Pamphlet to this THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1853. tallied without the sanction or intervention of ma gistrates for the sale of beer by retail, either for consumption on or off the premises. Such is unquestionably the case ; but, although the pri vileges originally conceded by Ist WILL. IV. c. 64, and subsequently regulated by 4 and 5 With,. IV. c. 85, and 3 and 4 VICT. c. 61, have in some degree mitigated the evil, they have not by any means supplied an adequate remedy. There are many stringent regulations with which the applicant for a beer licence must comply ; many certificates to be obtained before his request can be granted. When these difficulties have been successfully en countered, when his object has been achieved, he finds himself restricted to a single source of profit. His opponent, who is living in a house of no greater value, and who is not obliged to maintain a larger or more expensive establishment, can sell wine or spirits. One of a party may prefer the more exciting stimulant, and carry with him some half dozen companions to the place where any demand can be at once responded to ; so that although the beershop keeper may have his beverages " drunk on the premises," he frequently sees his best customers adjourn ing to the tap of his rival. Besides, it may be well worth the while of the latter to get rid of the opposition, 'by selling, for a time, his malt liquors without profit ; and it is noto rious that, in the case of proprietary public houses, the owner will bear a considerable por tion of the sacrifice necessary to " put down the opposition," and restore the previous monopoly. We do not offer these observations in any hos tility to the great body of Licensed Victuallers. We believe, as " a class," they are as respect able as any other that could be named. They have many serious vexations to contend with, and many temptations to resist. There are, of course, many exceptions to the general rule. Black sheep will be found in every flock. But, under all the circumstances of the case, it is very surprising, and, at the same time, exceedingly cre ditable to the body that the great majority of esta blishments should be as well conducted as they are. But it is for their interest, as well as for that of the community, that the licensing system should be abolished, and that they should not hold their property on a tenure so precarious as the caprice of any persons whatsoever, Magistrates or other wise. We believe that there are many persons of capital and respectability in the - trade who would willingly free themselves. from the thraldom in which they are placed, and that many more per sons would enter into it relying solely on the goodness and cheapness of their beverages, if theycould do without the influence of the " Brewo cracy" and . the Licensing Magistrates. Men will not embark thousands of pounds sterling in a concern when subjected to the loss of their entire property whenever some extraordinary fancy may enter into the minds of the Justices. Every risk attending capital, must of course be coun terbalanced by extra profits, which can only be regarded as an insurance fund levied on consumers to guard against contingen cies. The throwing open of the trade would then be as beneficial to the retailers as to the public. The only class interested in maintaining the present system are the monopo lists,--those who are now levying a species of black mail on the people ; and who, if they thought proper to combine for the purpose, and they could easily do so, might materially enhance the prices of all beer, &c., although there had been no adequate reason for such a rise. The Proctors appear to have forgotten Dame PARTINGTON and the Atlantic ; if report be cor rect, they have actually met and combined to mop away the wave of Law Reform. Chancery could not stand before it—no matter, they think Doc tors' Commons can. The Law Amendment So ciety, as we noticed a few days ago, has taken it in hand to get the reform of the jurisdiction and administration of the Ecclesiastical Courts in tel* tamentary matters, into working form for Parlia ment ; and the Proctors, full well•knowing that the Society's unobtrusive proposals have carried the day hitherto, may well quake for the reign of routine absurdity and exactions. • The Society, ) which has done so much to reform Chancery and Common Law administration, will not, we fancy, be easily deterred from meddling with Ecclesiasti cal Courts. There is indeed something appalling and mystic to common ears when they hear of Archbishops' and Bishops' Courts; we step unhesi tatingly into a law court s and feel tolerably at home, since Lord ST. LEONARDS' time certainly much more so ; but when we step over the thres hold ecclesiastical our steps begin somewhat to fal ter. Spiritual powers are a great mystery, what they cannot do no man knows—what they can do too many have felt—which side they will lean to, each unlucky heretic can tell. And then the Judge of the Court--there he sits judge and jury all in himself, deciding on the facts as well as the law of the case, living with his myrmidons out of the fees, interested very often indirectly, if not directly, against you. Oh ! there is something really awful, except to hardened old litigants, in the very thought of an Ecclesiastical Court and Ecclesiastical Judge. The Law Amendment gentlemen, hoNdever, have none of our laymen's timidity ; they are as cool and col lected in the presence of the half-spectral form as in their own debating-room, and we *stand by and witness their attack with the greatest satisfaction and delight, confident that they will gain a sub stantial victory for us at last. Mr. BETHELL has, in fact, summoned them to lie ato these his aid. He declared at Aylesbury, in the strong theneces the sityof eo r m ef p or reforming nd Courtsinjus tice C es h t r t is eins t r ian; denounced of dragging persons through two or three courts on one question, avowed himself in favour of concentrating all under the jurisdiction of the Westminster Courts, and especially included in his list, Church-rate cases,—vowing himself favourable, we are most thankful to see, " to de stroying the present levy upon such as do not go to church, and appropriating funds in the posses sion of deans and chapters to the repairs of the churches." Surely the Ecclesiastical Courts can not be in better hands. All who would reform them must make hay while the sun shines. They must furnish an amount of co-operation from without which will make Mr. BETHELL irresistible, in council, with his own colleagues. Mr. COLLIER, we are happy to see, does not merely debate in the society, but he has also given notice of a mo tion on the subject of these Courts. This is good; ventilate the matter in every form—daylight is the most sure reformer ultimately of the hidden and half-unknown evils of Ecclesiastical Courts ; Still we think it should be the object of the public to put their own men in the Ministry in power on the people's questions. It is the perhaps necessary misfortune of the present Minis try that almost every kind of reformer in it is neutralised by some anti-reformer on the same question. In the present case how will Mr. GLADSTONE, the Duke of NEWCASTLE, the Right Hon. SIDNEY HERBERT, and the other Puseyites, relish defrauding the successors of the Apostles of their testamentary and Church-rate jurisdiction, not to mention Admiralty cases and other things grasped by these courts ? We do not know their sentiments, but we cannot trust them. The testamentary jurisdiction of these Courts Christian grew up entirely out of the ignorance of the dark ages, out of laymen being unable even to write, and from priests' eagerness to grasp a very handsome " church's portion" out of the dying man's pro perty, ostensibly to purchase masses for his soul's salvation. Their testamentarykna,veri es became so glaring, that in EDWARD the Third's time anAct was passed expressly to prevent their taking the admi nistration of the property from the kindred of the deceased in cases of intestacy ; next, CHARLES 11. and JAMES 11. fixed by statute the distribution of intestates' estates. The Ist EDWARD VI., cap. 2, put the whole thing into the civil form, and forbade the use of ecclesiastical names and powers at all. MARY, of course, repealed this Act, but JAMES I. repealed again the Act of MARY ; ED WARD'S admirable law, however, did not revive, there would now have been nothing, so far as wills are concerned, for Mr. BETHELL to attack, or for the lovers of Anglican Popery to wish to retain. All this, however—this Popish origin, Popish recovery from Protestantism, and the over sight by which the Popish enactment was left un repealed, can but endear these precious Legisla tive relics of Popery to all those in the Ministry infested with the Anglo-mania ; they will neither like to give up these out-of-place semi-religious Courts, nor to subtract aught from the powers enjoyed by their specially beloved Hierarchical Dignitaries. It all goes, they will argue (falsely, we think, in a religious point of view). to make the Church of consequence; there fore, we will stickle for every antique ecclesias tical abuse. We will abolish Corn Laws—but catch us, if we can help it, abolishing a tittle of the secular jurisdiction of Bishops and Arch bishops. We hope Mr. BETHELL, the Law Amend ment Secretary, and the public will not let them " help it." We see with pleasure also that Lord BROUGHAM intends to relieve them of another labour, the business of divorce. At present, to accomplish this, in many cases, necessary act, no less than three costly steps are necessary; an action must be brought in a Common Law Court, another in an Ecclesiastical Court : and, finally, the Act of Parliament must seal the divorce. Hence, it is never thought of but amongst the rich. Some imagine, indeed, that if the legal process were not costly, there would be divorces for trivial causes. It might just as well be argued that, because the process at law is cheap in the County Courts, therefore people would be made to pay their debts when they could not be satisfactorily proved. Justice, which costs no thing to the parties, may be as rigidly administered as what costs thousands, and no English Judge or Jury would ever grant a divorce but on the clearest grounds. We have often wondered that the Dissenters, the Society of Friends especially, have not been more forward in the warfare against these courts. They share with the rest of her MAJESTY'S sub jects the annoyance of their costliness and com plexicy-_ they, all others, bequeath their real property under the jurisdiction of one Eet of Courts, their personal property under that of another. But the Quakers, as they profess to ignore all ecclesiastics and ecclesiastical authority whatever, must feel peculiar repugnance to Church Courts. Dissenters, too, of every sect, as they quit the Church and renounce her authority, must as 'naturally prefer the secular law courts, as they preferred liberty to celebrate a legal marriage without resorting to the parish church. So far as they are concerned, to relieve them from responsibility to Church Courts would be only carrying out the policy of the Test and Corporation and the Marriage Acts.* * We may refer all our non-professional readers to "The History of Church Laws in England," by Edward Muscutt, on the general subject ; and to his "History and Power of Ecclesiastical Courts"—for fuller informa tion on that branch. RAILWAY DEPUTATION.—A deputation from the com mittee of negotiation between the London and North- Western and Great Western Companies, appointed at an influential meeting held in Liverpool, had the honour of an interview with the Board of Trade on Wednesday last. The deputation (says a correspondent) were assured that the Government considered the subject of railway legislation as of imperial magnitude, the im portance of which could not be overstated. They were further given to understand that the labours of the com mittee of the House of Commons, appointed by the late and strengthened by the present Government, would be devoted to an earnest consideration of this momentous question, a satisfactory solution of which would be most gratifying to the Goverment, and that profiting by the experience of the past, it was thought a course might be devised which would, for the future, put at end to ruinous contests between rival companies, having regard to the interest of the shareholders and the public, which were in fact identical. FATAL DRINKING IN THE LONDON DOCKS. Last evening, Mr. W. Baker held an inquest at the Barley Mow Tavern, Cannon-street, St. George's-in-the-East, respecting the death of Robert Richard Vaughan, aged 45 years. The deceased was a labourer in the London Docks, and on Monday alternoon last was engaged with other men at the eastern quay. A. large quantity of white brandy was on the wharf in casks, and the bungs were out to allow the gaugers to examine the extent and quality of the contents, when one of the dock officers saw the deceased in a stooping position drinking brandy through a hollow piece of cane, which is commonly called " Sucking the monkey." The officer ordered the deceased away from the warehouse, and told him to leave the docks, which he did. About half-past three o'clock the deceased was discovered lying upon the pave ment in Chigwell-hill, Ratcliff-highway, quite insensible, in which condition he was taken home by four men to his lodgings; at No. 2, Russell-court, St. George's street, where he expired at an early hour on the follow ing morning. Mr. Richard Sharp, surgeon, of the New road, Cannon-street, said that he was called to the de ceased after death, and had made a post mortem exami nation of the body. On opening the stomach he found about five ounces of strong spirit, which seemed to be brandy. Witness had no doubt that the deceased had died from congestion of the brain produced by what he had drank. The Coroner having remarked on the case, the jury returned a verdict of " Died from drinking a quantity of over-proof brandy." BANKRUPTCY OF AN M.P.—A curious case in bank ruptcy has arisen in the Courts at Liverpool, and is now undergoing investi g ation. A fiat it appears, has been issued against the Hon. Edward Lloyd Mostyn, the member for the county of Flint, having, we presume, been applied for and obtained during the parliamentary interregnum, and it is sought to supersede it on grounds which have not yet been made public. The case was argued by barristers especially brought down from London, on Tuesday and Wednesday, but reporters were not admitted. HANGING AT PERTH.—On the last day of the old year an outlawed Hungarian was hanged at Pesth. Previous to the execution, he was taken about in a procession for two hours, during which he sang patriotic songs, and displayed a supreme contempt for death. At the foot of the gallows an officer read a prolix statement of his crime and sentence. The name of Kocsuth occurred in this document, and had no sooner escaped the lips of the offi cer than the prisoner took off his hat and reverently in clined his head. As the fatal rope was slipped over his head, he gathered up his strength and cried—" Magyars, keep up your, pluck ; we'll give it them yet ! " and died. A POISONING WIFE.—A letter from Tain, in a Paris journal, says, an attemp at poisoning has lately taken place at M.arges, a small village in the Drome, under rather singular circumstances. The wife of a carpenter, whose moral habits were not of the strictest kind, con- MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at from 8,000 to 9,000 bales, of which 1,000 American and 500 Bahia were taken on specu lation. The market closed with animation, and prices of all kinds were 1-16 against the buyer. The sales comprised 6,000 American, 1,000 Bahia at 6d., .600 Egyptian at 6d. to 9d., 500 Surat at 3d. to 4id., and 40 Sea Island at Is. Bd. to 2s. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull. This week, more has been done in the Colonial markets, and there is an advance in some few in stances. Sugar has sold well, but coffee continues rather dull. In tea there have been moderate purchases for consumption. Of tallow the supply is larger, and this prevents the favourable accounts from St. Petersburgh having an influence on the article. Cotton has been in more request. Spices have had a fair sale. Scotch pig-iron, which had improved early in the week, has gone back since. The value of guano as a fertilising compound has raised its price, in the absence of any extended means of supply, to a point that renders compe tition of great importance to the farmer. It is ascer tained that 150,000 tons were used last year, and probably as much more of adulterated and imita tive compounds professing to be guano. If to these be added the articles sold under their proper de signation, as bone or lime manure, arc., we shall arrive at an estimate of the vast opening for any . new article of proved value. The Chemical Ma nure Company has been formed for the purpose of manufacturing special manures superior, as is stated, to any previously submitted to the notice of the farmer, adapted to every soil, and combining all the elements of fertility contained in farm-yard manure, the most important being potash, phos phoric acid, and compounds containing nitrogen. These and the other substances necessary for the growth of plants will be economically concentrated in the combinations and proportions required by different crops, and adapted to the variations of soils and climates. These manures will be ma nufadtured in peculiar forms for the use of the sugar planter, combining powerful defacating and decolourising properties, which after being used for these purposes in clearing the crude juice of the cane, will, if applied annually to the cane stocks, cause them to rattoon each succeeding year with pristine luxuriance. The saving of labour so occa sioned, by preventing the necessity of recurring to frequent planting, will be well understood by all connected with the economy of cane plantations. The Company's special Manures will be sold at 71. per ton, deliverable at any railway station or wharf in London. Three cwts., or 21s. worth, will be sufficient to fertilise an acre, equal to the applica tion of 30s. worth of guano. All artificial Manures heretofore supplied to the public have been deficient in salts of potash, which all alkali forms the prin cipal mineral constituents of all crops. This defect will be removed in the Manures manufactured by this Company. The directors of the undertaking being mostly gentlemen connected intimately with agricultural pursuits, must be presumed to have entire confidence in the ability of their consulting engineer to perform what is promised, and this done, a good return upon the capital is assured. The Hamburgh mail of Tuesday last brings the rate of exchange on London, 13 1, being steady. Discounts were 2-i to 3 per cent. Money was very abundant. We understand that very reluctantly the discount brokers are now generally allowing 2f per cent. for money on " call. This is not because of any real pressure, but simply in consequence of the banks allowing 2,1 up to that rate. The opinion with the brokers still is, that when the numerous vessels on their way from Australia begin to arrive, cash will be comporatively abundant. The very satisfactory report received from the Paris Bourse has caused a much improved feeling here, and the increasing popularity of Louis Na poleon's marriage is regarded as an encouraging circumstance. Consols have been 991 g for Trans fer, and 99a rather buyers for Account. There is apparently a scarcity of money stock. The New 3 per Cents have been 103 k to n, and the 3 per Cents. 100 f to ? 2 . Bank Stock is nominally at the high rate of 227. East India Stock has been quoted at 270. On Exchequer Bills the premium is 58s. to 605., and on India Bonds 665. to 71s. premium. Foreign Stocks have been quiet, but rather tend upwards. The contract of a loan for 69,033,000 reals by the Government of Spain, on the security of the clergy lands, is not exactly understood here ; but as the interest on a larger portion of the debt is gradually coming upon the re venue, there may be a difficulty in meeting the additional burden. At least, the security offered. , must be good, Messrs. Baring Brothers, in con junction with O'Shea, an d o th er b an k ers at Madrid, being the lenders. The stock comes quoted as high as 22 1-16 from Madrid, and has advanced here to 22i for the Deferred. The certificate is at 51 to 51, per cent., also an improvement, and it would have been highly desirable that some recognition of them should have been obtained ere this new loan was made. Peruvian Bonds have been at 1021 to 1031 for the Active, and at 611 to 621 for" the Deferred. Grenada Deferred Stock has been at 118, and Equador at si. Sar dinian Bonds are 941 to 95. Dutch 24 per Cents. have been 971 to 981, The Gold Mine Shares are generally lower, including the Californian and Australian. Port Philip and Colonial, however, have not varied. United Mexican are better. The Land Companies are higher. Australian Agricultural have risen about 51., and Van Die men's Land 1/. , ceived the idea of getting rid of ber husband, in order that she might mith lea' restraint car:y on an illicit connection with another man. with whom she was The Australian Bank shares are rising. Austra lasia have advanced 11., and Union 10s. to 15s. Chartered are up i t to f Railway shares have been lower to the extent of to 1 per cent., but they are at present q uo t e d rather higher. French shares are improving, espe cially the Lyons and Northern, and both here and at Paris they are said to have been " over-sold." Hefice, the anxiety of the speculators to borrow them. known to be connected. For this purpose she went to an apothecary at Romans, and rskcd for some arsenic to kill the rats with which her house, she said, was swarming. The apothecary reused, saying that he could only deliver arsenic to her husband in presence of witnesses. A few days after the husband happened to come to the shop for some article when he was asked whether the rats still di s t ur bed him. "I have never heard any," was the reply. He was told what his wife had done, when he said : "Ah the coquine, she wants to poison me." It was then agreed that if she came again the apothecary should give her some harmless substance, and that when the husband had eaten his dinner he should fall down, and pretend to be dead in order to give his wife a lesson. This farce was carried on as arranged. Then came the performance of the wife. In order to make the world believe that he had committed suicide, she took a rope, and, making a run ning knot, p asse d it round the neck of her husband, and then went up into an upper room to the beam of which she had fastened the end of the rope in order to pull him up. The moment she left, the husband slipped off the rope from his neck, and tied it to the bench on which he was sitting. The woman began to pull, but finding the body heavier than she expected, she again came down to see what prevented her lifting him, when her husband gave her two or three hearty blows, and after wards had her carried to prison." LORD BYRON'S FAME.—It is not only because Byron was grand in his descriptions, sublime in his musings, and lashing in his satires, that he eclipsed all the poets ' of his day. I attribute his world-wide fame to the fact that he was essentially the man of the age. Purity of diction is, of n ecessity, almost lost in translation ; why was it, then, that, among foreign nations, and especially in France, whose language least of any admits of a worthy rendering of 33yron's glowing imagery, he occu pied attention almost to the exclusion of all his contem poraries ? because he breathed the restless, vacillating, superstiti ous , on -ward-tending spirit of the times ; be cause, in the midst of wars, and amidst rumours of wars. when Europe was convulsed, when no man could tell what was next to befal, when nations knew not what they would, nor whither they were tending, when opinions were shaken, when king doms changed hands, and crowns and thrones were tot tering —one man arose whose mind was convulsed as was the face of Europe, whose will was as powerful and ill ' directed as that of the raging nations ; whose opinions were as shaken, as vacillating, as uncertain as those of the fallen empires and trembling kings, one who breathed the pervadin g s pi r it o f bitterness, f discontent, and helplessness ; in whom all these feelings, all these emo tions found a living voice, and whose magnificent strain echoed and resounded through all those lands whose in terpreter he was ; therefore was he the idol of his own age, as he will surely be the wonder of future genera tions !—The Earl of Belfast on the Poets and Poems of the Nineteenth. Century. RA MERMAID.—An impostor at Barton, the other day, endeavoured to extract halfpence from the credulous by the exhibition of a mermaid, which he pretended had been caught "in the South Sea Islands." BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY, (Front the Official List.) Badness clone. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuitics..... ..... ... ..... Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 7-16 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO 66 70 Ditto, under £lOOO 7l Consols for Account 10th February 99g Exchequer Bills lid. March. June. £lOOO.. ___ £5OO 5B . Small 58 ___ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Equador Bonds 5l Grenada Bonds, Deferred, Peruvian 6 per Cent. Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent 624 14 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto for the Account,. 941 5 41 1, panish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 por Cent 22i Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup, not fun 5B i p 0 Dutch Exchange 2i per Ceut — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates.........., HALF-PA, T 7170. • Consols 99i g Ditto February Account LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK.—The London and Westminster Bank gave notice yesterday afternoon that the rate of allowance to their customers on deposit re ceipts will be increased from 14 to 2 per cent., and that the alteration is to date from Tuesday next, the Ist of February. Out of doors there was a slight increase in the rates asked for money, but it was still obtained at 2i. RATE OP DISCOUNT IN GLASGOW. —The Glasgow bank ing houses have followed up the measure of the Bank of England by raising their discounts A per cent. Scotch bills at four months and under are charged 4 per cent., 41 per cent. being charged for longer periods. London paper is discounted at I per cent. under these rates, viz., 3i per cent. up to four months, and 4 per cent. for longer dates. This increase in the rate of discounts has not been accompanied by any corresponding increase in the interest allowed on deposits and current accounts, which in the meantime remains as before.—Edinburgh. Witness. ASTLET'S AMPHITHEATRE.—As we predicted the juvenile performance of last night was most successful. The house was crowded in every part, and had there been half as much space again the sight-seers would have filled it All. The pantomime and the performances of the Living Marionettes of the circle found great favour in the eyes of the younger folks and were rapturously applauded. In consequence of this great success another juvenile performance will shortly be given, which will be the last under the auspices of Mr. Batty, who is about to retire into private life. LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Handel's Ora torio, Solomon , will be perfo rme d at E xeter-hall, under the direction f Mr. Surman, the founder of the Exeter hall Oratorios, by the above society, on Monday even ing next. This contains some of Handel's finest choruses. Principal vocalists, Miss Birch, Mrs. Temple, Miss C. Felton, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Lawler. SURGICAL OPERATIONS. —A singul ar pamphlet, we observe, has just been issued from the press in the form of " A Letter, addressed to James Syme, Profess i o of Clinical S urgery i n Edinburgh, " Bvo., pp. 32, n which a refutation is given of certain statements made in relation to a case of stricture of the urethra, in which th e operation of perineal section was performed by the author, Francis Burdett Courtnay, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. The letter is altogether very curious and otrildng in its character. for accidentally, as it appears, it was forgotten to repeal another Act of PHILIP and MARY, which placed the ecclesiastical jurisdiction on the same o1 , 4111a,c; as that on which it stood in the twentieth Fear of 11E - sitY VIII. But fdr this oversight quibbl e or prevarication. He contents himself with . demonstrating most elaborately and logically thatt he rupture of 1793 was attributable, not to the Fri ch, but to the English Government. He does it in a most masterly manner—setting facts in such a NI ray as to render them altogether incontroverti ble,. He sets out, as we remarked yesterday, by ass erting most earnestly—" It is not enough to say that France did not provoke hostilities—she all but went down on her knees (if I may apply such a phrase to a nation) to avert a rupture with this country." In testimony of this, Mr. CoB: DEN describes the whole of the conduct and treatment--the conciliatory conduct, the harsh, repi3lling, and even ignominious treatment—of M. CHAITVVLIN, the French Ambassador. He mentions the indefatigable endeavours made by that diplomatist, to guard against any rupture between his own and the British 1 Government—together with the haughty, and, at last, insolent rebuffs given to him by the then Foreign Secretary, Lord GnEyviLLE. He recounts the correspondence between Lord GRENVILLE and M. CHAIIVELIN, up to the 24th January, 1793, when the latter received the peremptory order of the Privy Council, requiring him within eight days to quit the shores of England. So far Mr. COBDEN justifies to the full, his strong but not extravagant assertion, that France (to use his own phrase) " all but went down upon her knees to avert a rupture with this country." But he con tentshimself withthis when he might have gonefur ther—little dreaming, possibly, of the wretched little quibble by which the whole of his power ful argument might be evaded—the quibble that the war was not the same war during the whole of the twenty-two years from 1793 to 1815, for that after the Treaty of Amiens it was a war against NAPOLEON, and not against the French Revolution. We say that had Mr. Con- DEN anticipated this most frivolous objection to the continuity of his argument, he might have gone further, instead of contenting himself with des cribing the conduct and treatment of M. CHAIIVELIN. He might have accepted, " for the sake of argu ment," the distinction without a difference of a war against NAPOLEON in lieu of a war against the Revolution, and might have proved as clearly and as logically as in the insta nc of the original rupture of 1793, that England was systematically the aggressor, the fomenter, the sustainer of the quarrel throughout. What are those three facts glaring upon us so reproach fully from the scroll of the Past, the records of that age of blood and disaster ? They are visible to every eye—those who " run rc-ly read"—they are three documents, documents from no obscure hand, documents penned by NAPOLEON, the Con queror of almost all the great powers of Chris tendom. Those documents are letters addressed by that great man, upon three very momentous occasions, to the Royal personage at the head of the British Government. Two of them were ad dressed to the KING, the other to the PRINCE REGENT. The two first were appeals made by NAPOLEON to England, appeals in the name of humanity that the war might cease—the earliest of these appeals was forwarded to the Court of St. JaMes's, when the great French chieftain was elected First Consul, the second, when his autho rity was rendered permanent. Observe ! so deeply was NAPOLEON interested in pressing his demand upon the attention of this country, that he broke through the rules of diplomatic etiquette, and personally addressed himself to the English SOVEREIGN. The third document we are all of us familiar with—that Letter to the PRINCE REGENT, in which the great EMPEROR likened himself to THEMISTOCLES, and in which he appealed not to our humanity but to our magnanimity. There is something de plorably "in keeping "in the result of all those communications. It is not sufficient' :- borne in mind in this country, and may here not unprofitably be recalled to the popular recollection. Not one of these three let ters was ever even answered. Courtesy, to speak of no other consideration, might have dictated some response, no matter how evasive, from the hand of the KING or of the PRINCE REGENT. But no, there they remain, those three documents, flaming reproach from the scroll of history—unanswered ! Were we wrong, therefore, in saying that Mr. ' COBDEN might had he listed, have gone yet further in his argu ment ? But, Heaven knows, he went far enough in the melancholy record of those atrocious wars —demonstrating as plainly as any fact can by possibility be demonstrated, that from first to last, throughout the whole of those twenty-two years, from 1793 to 1815, England was systematically the aggressor—and the aggressor because France had declared for freedom of opinion, and the principle of equality, and the right of self-govern ment. We yesterday pointed out how it was that the retail trade in beer was practically vested in the Ale-kings by means of the licensing system, and that any person who, despite the numerous impe diments in his way, succeeded in opening a free public-house was either crushed or bought off, according to his circumstances. The " unlimited competition," the proprietyand expediency whereof has been admitted by nine-tenths of the members of the popular branch of the Legislature, and by even a larger proportion of the community in gene ral, was thus effectually prevented, and the " thirsty souls" of every district were thus com piled to draw their supplies from the stores of the great monopolists, at any prices which they thought proper to demand. Hence it is, that no matter how the price of barley may vary, the charges for its liquid extracts remain un- altered. A reduction in price of twenty or thirty per cent. does not in any degree affect the consumer—its only effect is to enhance the previously inordinate profits of the brewer. Another evil of the system is, that it leads, in too many instances, to the adulteration or dilution of the beverage. The moment a public-house falls into the hands of one of the great firms, the oc cupant for the time being must submit ;to a com plicated and stringent code of rules and regula tions. He is no longer his own master. Any disobedience may be severely punishee, must not only purchase all his supplies from his landlord's brewery, but the rate at which he is to retail it is alto specified ; and between the two regulations, unable to gain a fair and remunerative profit if he distribute the beer in the same condi tion in which he receives it into his cellars, in self-defence he is obliged to tamper with his stock. To be enabled to live he must sell out of each cask many more gallons than it originally contained, and thus the consumer again suffers from the virtual monopoly—the deterioration in quality being even a greater grievance than the increase in price. It may be said that the evil is more apparent than real—that there is nothing to prevent any capitalist from entering into the brewing trade, and that if he supply a superior article at a mo derate charge, he may confidently rely on public support. Never was there a greater fallacy. No matter how sound and palatable may be his beer, or low its cost, he cannot find customers amongst those who, by the primary condition of their leases, are bound to draw all their supplies from an exclusive source ; and it would take much time and expense before he could establish a private connexion that would render his establishment remunerative." It may be said that good ale, like " good wine, needs no bush" ; but if there be no place where it can be obtained, either with or without " a bush," the adage falls to the ground. The licensing system prevents it being sold under a bush, because the magistrates will not allow the new brewer to open a house for the sale of his beverages if the number previously licensed were in their opinion sufficient for all the wants of the district. It matters not how unex ceptionable the character of the occupant, or un equivocal his testimonials, the invariable rule is appealed to. NO more than two or three houses will be tolerated, and nothing can shake the magisterial determination. On the other hand, the activity of the police effectually prevent the 20 ssibility of any considerabl e quan tit y b e i ng sold , without. " a bush," or, in other words, in an un- iceo , 1 house. - .Again, it may he said that licences may be ob LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY, (Before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices.) DERBYSHIRE V. HOLME. Their Lordships proceeded this morning with this part heard appeal, which would probably occupy them the entire day. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) SWINBURN V. NELSON. His Honour this morning delivered judgment in this case, which came before him on exceptions to the Mas ter's report. Both parties are manufacturers of isinglass, and the plaintiff conceiving that the defendant had in fringed a patent of which he was the holder, filed a bill to compel him to discover his transactions with respect to it. The defendant contended that he had no right to answer the interrogatories contained in the bill, and denied the right of the plaintiff. The question was, whether this was a sufficient answer to the plaintiff's bill. The defendant relied upon the case of Adams v. Fisher, in which Lord Cottenham laid it down that the right of a plaintiff to inspect books and documents rested upon the validity of his title, and upon its being undisputed. Upon this his Honour said, a question arose whether this rule, if sound, applied in the same manner to the answering of interrogatories as to the production of books and documents. Ho was of opinion that it would apply, and both cases must bo treated in exact) , the same manner. With respect to the Main question, he had consulted all the cases and books bearing upon the subject, and ho was of opinion that the weight of authority before the case of Adam v. Fisher was to the effect that a defendant who answered a bill, must answer it fully, that he could not answer one part and then re fuse to answer the rest. He himself inclined to this opinion, and it was of great importance to the preserva tion of the rules of pleadings in equity that this rule should be maintained. In the present state of authori ties, however, the exceptions must be dismissed without costs. Decree accordingly. QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHIPELAGO COMPANY.-JUDGMENT. This was a proceeding under a scire facias, at the in stance of Sir J. Brooke, for the purpose of rendering the royal charter incorporating the Archipelago Com pany void, on the ground that the conditions it contained had not been complied with. At the trial a verdict passed for the Crown, and a rule to arrest judgment was subsequently obtained, and argued at considerable length. The Court, having taken time to deliberate, now gave judgment ; but as there was a difference of opinion among the learned judges, each delivered his opinion separately. Mr. Justice Erie said it was contended on the part of the prosecutor that the letters patent granted to the defendants had become void, because, as had been proved by the verdict of the jury, they had failed to comply with the condition prescribed by the Crown —that 50,000/., being half of the capital of the company, should be paid up before it should begin business ; and it was also contended that the charter became void in consequence of such non-compliance, notwithstanding the Crown had failed to exercise the right which it had reserved to itself of annulling or revoking the charter by writing under the great seal, or sign manual, when any of the conditions were found to be unfulfilled. This construction seemed to him untenable, as it was unsup ported by authority, and against the principle generally recagnised in such cases. The will of the Crown as to the revocation of the charter could not be sufficiently expressed, except in the manner specified in that instru ment, and as it had not been rendered void by any writ ing under the great seal, or royal sign manual, he thought the rule in arrest of judgment should be made absolute. Mr. Justice Wightman entertained a different opi nion, and was in favour of the rule being discharged. Mr. Justice Coleridge agreed with Mr. Justice Erle— that the rule ought to be made absolute. Lord Campbell considered that proceedings under a wire facias could be properly instituted, although the Crown had not formally revoked the charter in the man ner prescribed, and that the writ was not, on the face of it, defective, because it did not contain an allegation of such revocation. After a very attentive consideration of the charter, he thought the provision as to revoking it under the great seal, or sign manual, in no respects limited the proceedings under scire facias, which other wise existed, and that such provision only gave an addi tional remedy to the Crown to revoke or modify the charter in a summary manner. For these reasons he was of opinion, with his brother Wightman, that judg ment should not be arrested ; but as the Court were equally divided, the rule would drop, and judgment would be for the Crown ; but he had the satisfaction to think that the case could be taken by writ of error be fore a superior court, who had power, if they thought fit, to arrest the judgment. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—TuuRSDA.T. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 10 to 1 agst Contentment. 30 to 1 agst Wedlock filly. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Oscar (taken.) 12 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray (taken.) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn. 30 to 1 agst Constantine (taken). 33 to 1 agst Tremble. 40 to 1 agst Contentment. DERBY. 11 to 1 agst West Australian (taken). 18 to 1 agst Sittingbourne taken). 1000 to 15 agst Contentment (taken). 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Sykes (taken). LIVERPOOL SPI WICDN HANDICAP for t. MEETING. te SPRING Cur. Yrs st lb Weathergage 4 8 7 Cariboo 6 8 0 Warhawk 4 7 12 Cha,seaway Warwick 6 7 Trosseau Kiteflyer ........4 6 13 The Bishop 4 6 13 Bellewsto wn Timid Fawn......., 5 6 11 Doubt . Needle .. Sister to Wanota 5 6 7 Earl of Warwick.. 6 6 6 Caliban.. ........... 6 6 6 Prestige......... 5 6 6 St. Michae1......... 4 6 6 Little Davie.. ...... 4 6 6 Caurire .............. a 6 5 Ringleader ......... 5 6 5 Victre55............. a 6 ' 4 Yrs st lb Worcester 5 6 4 Richmond 4 6 4 Harp Cheroot 4 6 2 Lalage 4 6 0 Happy Joe 4 6 0 Burndale 4 6 0 ch g by Harkaway, out of Puss 4 5 10 Corybantes 3 5 9 IPloughboy 4 5 8 Goorkah 3 5 3 Pastrycook 3 5 3 Monsoon 3 5 0 Master Norton 3 4 10 Miss Emma 3 4 10 Moselle 3 4 10 Pride 3 4 10 Charity 3 4 10 Llanforda 3 4 7 __ _ Mickey Free 3 4 7 HANDICAP for the Yrs st lb Truth 5 8 10 Wea.thergage 4 8 8 Duc - an-Durras a 7 10 Warwick 6 7 10 Koh-i-Noor 4 7 10 Lady Agnes 4 7 8 Mrs. Birch 5 r 4 Belle wsto wn 5 7 1 Needle 4 7 0 May Day a 6 11 Caurire Caliban 6 6 9 Worcester 5 6 9 Cheroot AINTREE PLATE. Yrs st lb Burndale ... . 4 6 5 Lalage 4 6 3 True Girl 5 6 2 May Blossom 4 6 0 ch g by Harkaway, out of Puss 4 5 12 Game Tommy 3 5 7 Gaffer Green Pride 3 4 12 Llanforda 3 4 10 Mickey Frce 3 4 9 br f by Gameboy, out of Maid of Monton 3 4 7 HANDICAP for the GRAND 5 ft. if declared or NATIONAL STEEPLECHAS E , or before Feb. 8. st lb Sir Peter Laurie 11 8 Warner 11 4 Vainhope 11 4 Knight of Gwynn° ll 2 Bourton ll 2 British Yeoman ll 2 Miss Mowbray 10 12 Lucy Neale lO 10 Peter Simple lO 10 Tipperary Boy 10 10 Ab-del-Kader 10 10 D uc-an• Durras lO 10 Melford 10 10 Montague ............ . lO 8 Fanny Elsler lO 8 Victress lO 6 Postilion lO 6 Maria Day lO 6 Augustine lO 6 Carrig . lO 5 Great Western ......... 10 5 Lamiame ............. 10 5 Half and-Half .. ....... 10 5 Laperelle ............... 10 5 Charlton .. ..10.... 5 Forest Lad lO 4 The Drag 10 4 The General 10 4 Wexford Tom 10 4 ' Field Marshal 10 4 Calmar • st lb 3 Reinark lO 2 Shinrone lO 2 L Rattrap .......... 2 Oscar 10 2 Maurice Daley lO 2 Geraldus lO 2 Betsy Prig lO 0 Slattern lO 0 Dearest Mae lO 0 The Brewer 9 12 Simple Peter 9 12 Benedict 9 10 Little Charley 9 10 The Rearer Poll 9 10 Vengean ce 9 10 View Halloo 9 10 Maley Kilquade Advance 9 10 Ringleader Clatterbox Odin 9 8 Friendless 9 8 Ringdove 9 6 Yorkshirenian 9 6 Crabbs Tempest 9 0 The Dwarf 9 0 Harmony 9 0 Mary Machree ...... 8 7 THE DOGS OF LINCOLNSHIRE.—The destruction of scores of dogs which infest Lincoln and its neighbour hood has become an absolute necessity. There are numbers of famished animals prowling about which have been discarded, and recently several children have been bitten. There have latterly been no less than five cases in the County Hospital of boys who have been seriously bitten by these wandering dogs. The other day one of these animals savagely attacked a man at Ingham, and the same dog attacked a little boy at Carlton, named• Kettleborough, and severely lacerated his ha n d. Th e dog was traced to Lincoln, And there hist sicrht Stamford Mercury. OVERLAND MAIL. The following telegraphic dispatch from Tries te has been received : TRIESTE, JAN. 27, ONE A.AI• i The steamer G erman i a h as arr i ve d . G e neral Godwin having i m p ru d en tl y s t a ti one d an a,dvalwe post of only 400 men at Pegu, sixty miles from Rangoon, and w ithi n a s h ort di stance of the 1113,,111 r body of th e B urmese aamy, t h e Burmese comminal!un ediately atta c k e d it, cu t o ff i ts commun i ca tions with Rango on , se i ze d an ammun i tion convoy, 3i1., invested the place, harassing the little garrison ( 13 . 7 and night. A nava l f orce; 150 marines, 300 Ell r f e the passage soldi ers , an d • a steamer, attempted to forcel2 passage to reli eve P egu, an d were driven back Wi,ll, loss. Two co l umns o f 2 ,400 men left Rangoon, ellt countered the Burmese, defeated them with grey loss, and succeeded in reaching Pegu. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, 'JAN. 27 ; The following had the honour of dining with her 3 1 - 3 jesty yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Prince Adelaide of Hohenl o h e , t h e D uke and Duches,s ~ Argyll, the Marquis of Breadalbane, th e L a dy in 1 Y 3 ,1, 1 ing to the Duchess o f K en t , the Baroness de Sl*" Viscount Canning and Mr. Gibb s . The band of Lie Grenadier Guards attended av played in the Castle during' dinner. Her Majesty's private band attend e d i n th e eveni l g and played the following compositions : Overture, " Marguerite d'Anjou" Meyerbeer. Chorus, "Nachtlager" Kreutzer• Marche, Chceur, et Duo, "Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Etd" Thomas.i Selection, " Le Cheval de Bronze" Auber. 1, Prince Albert, accompanied by th e D u k e of A r b'll 01 a went out shooting this forenoon, attended by Col. O , J , Hon. Charles Grey, Lord Charles Fitzßoy,. Lieut. Hon. N. Hood, and Lieut.-Col. F. H. Seymour. 4 , The following have received invitations, and ale a . petted this afternoon :—The Earl and Countess Gad vine, the Baron and B aroness B runnow, the Count 5 , 3 d Countess Lavradio, the Ri g ht H on. th e Speaker j, Mrs. Lefevre, and Sir Charles and Lady Mary Woo dha A deputation f rom th e b orough of Finsbury ter interview yesterday with Si r Willi am M oleswort h t Majesty's Chief Commissioner of Works and I'' J. Buildings, at his office i n Whit e h a ll- p l ace, on the i of Albert-park. The deputation was introduced bY,,,l;ht Robert Grosvenor, M.P., an d cons i ste d o f t h e Hon. the Lord Mayor, M.P. ; Sir James•Duke)„, 9 l o t, M.P. ; Mr. Apsley Pell,tt, • Mr. William 4 1 j3g r Mr. John Parson, M r . Stafford M.P.Allen, Mr. John nett, and Mr. James Lloyd. l ot The Earl and Countess G ranv ill e l e ft t own yes•+cry afternoon for Windsor Castle. fl° ° ' Sir James Duke had an i n t erv i ew w ith t h e R i g ht E. Cardwell yesterday at the Board of Trade. {e" Dispatches Dispatches were received at th e C o l on ial-office 9 - day from the Governor-General of Canada. We understand that at th e mee ti ng o f h er ggi t o Commissioners Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, held on lil' rog day, the l a t e Ch ance ll or o f th e Exchequer (Mr. Di' s ftY was elected a member of the Commission by virtu"' fat powers contained in the charter incorporating they' the purpose of carrying out their surplus scheme. FRANCESCO AND ROSA MADIAI. The Buona Novella, an Italian Protestant J ° publishes two letters, one from Francesco and th° ° from Rosa Madiai. The first is dated Noverab el" and is as follows : " Very honoured DT—, I would write more, but tb not, being in bed very ill. Ido not think, howcW e '' c iol , I shall die, but in all things let the will of God t e What I can say to you as a brother in J esus o ur i is, that the mor e myillness shall increase, the 131 °, 1 1. increase in me th e s pi r it o f G o d . My respects to 5" cannot write more.—Your faithful servant a nd bro Christ Jesus. - " FRA ivAJIY . NCESCO J.... " P.S.—Do not toll my wife how ill I am." j Oil The letter of the wife, which is without da te ' follows ; 110, 1 1 " Dear brothe r i n J esus Christ,—l reply a t -e oty,r your precious letter, which I received whilst I NO! 0 4 the Bargello. It is superfluous for me to relate it 0 4 1° ;i0 my vicissitudes, all th a t we h ave h ad to suffer boil). my husband ; but l e t G o d b e pra i sed, and let 11 „ Him together for havingm a d e us v i c t ors b y our 1 - 4c i ,5 ir isto Christ. They have stru c k an d th ey strike, butt'efro plies, ' none shall t a k e f rom me th ose w h om the s4clij,,lol given to me.' When we were accused o f having t the Apostles were despi ca bl e men , I rep li e d th: , 0 false, and by the words of the Gospel I was goin, Do whether it was possible for evangelical persons t° l oo of such a thing, but silence was instantly imPori 0 0 ,11 I was told, we do not speak of religion. I rePl' e t lto was accused of religion, that it was on that I 115 ior,e4 and defend myself ; but the Sovereign Ponti ff " 0 14 t, silence on me for the second time. We nr er° , 4 l 4 . 7' oo it of having only eight commandments, and in r J„:t' of annulling that which condemns forni c atiOD A ' t sh hat e l:p r e e n repeat lcihe Commandments, accusation inod t wa s r c ei ta • ther there were eight or ten. Silence I then added that it was not Justice to impose sonal defence. O u t o f modesty before - suell, a - r - v il ss auditory, a littl e; moderation was shown, 21111 ` asked wh e th er W e observed the Ten Comn3l-hesi ' Certainly,' I replied; ' such as God dictated 40 31 0 , Moses on Mount Sinai.' Silence, that is B- 0 01 1 01 was again heard. In shor t, dear brother, 11 , ui s F justice is for .the glory of God, be it wet° oli o r pray for us fervently, in order that Ntres, o ri at enabled to serve and honour Him in this nt, itt is tivity. My husband is very unwell, and t ' t hip,," greatest affliction ; for myself, lam very , IP4I better in health by the grace of the Lord Jon a fA that you and your wife are well • I shall 0 . 1 0, 0 4 how much she has suffered for me; 'lds3 your 01 1 ' r t o ,lo i me ; tell them that my husband and myself ein ° of rsy in their exile not to fear the great ones of this ,c world, for in a short; time they will be in the du su iesl e the cause of Christ alone they should have a holl i.;ji , in their hearts and in their action s , and that to u r ., the Father and the Holy Gho s t b e honour and gig, eso o, the Church pray for us ; we hope th a t, w ith the pi tlir God, who gives strength to weak mortals like 1.15 ' tp 0 ,1 any one should be called on to suff er f or Hi s caueei. or will call to mind how mu c h J esus h as suffered' 0 Your sister in Christ, "Rosa g'''l(3l'ti' __ap e t :4 . ' l CAMBRIDGE MATHEMATICAL EXAM INATIO N. lists were published this morning (Friday). received the names of the first 12 wranglers. ' . '' p eop is again first. Trinity is unfortunate this year bit two men among the wranglers and those low dowP iti ; 10 names are as follows :-1, Sprague, St. P 1 34 Batty, Emmanuel • 3, Newbery, St. John's ;,„, VoVe St. John's ; 5, Cohen, ' Magdalen; 6, Beasley, obije . d, 7, Roberts, Corpus ; 8, Wilson, Trinity ; 9, I), Trinity ; 10, Thorpe, Christ's ; 11, Stewart, S• , 4e 12, Wilkinson, Corpus. CLEW BAY COPPER MINES, MAYO, IRELAN o t , extra number of men have this week been put IVA mines to work the n ew ly di scovere d va l ua ble bel io'‘ copper, commencing two feet in width. At the w ird o r adit level, the workm en are ac ti ve l y pursu i n g tu joa rations under the directions of C ap t a i n Mates 11jely diminished success. The lode is widening, an"' e a large supply of copper of the very best qualiti' HIGH TlDES.—Yesterday afternoon, the tid e a ter such a height as to inu n d a t e th e w h arves an d premises, and to b ea t over th e r i ver b an k s ands e ? overflowing the m ars h es an d th ose p l aces s ituat e V high water mark. S o lit t l e was an extraordi ll , b ef i l ," of water a n ti c ip a t e d, th at persons residing on f banks negl ec t e d t o t a k e t h e usua l precaution ll ° , tl y , ming up the doors a n d ce ll ars, and securing ! tbe of their sinks. It was extremely fortunate tba',V; damagecrease o ft to propertyater t ook mustplace h i a n y t e h b e edenay extensive,o t le a r sii, " o ,: , l) o ; past three o'clock, nearly half an hour before h i g„ yt the tide was more than a foot and a half de e i te, extremity of the wooden platform .at Billings°3o4,j, at high water the plinth of'the ornamental colu ' l i e rb tween the arches at Bra"ckfriars-bridge, were s up- ogii The wind being E.N.E. forced the im men se l' or iv o water with great velocity up the river, a n d the ifig,(s of th e current was such, that steam-vessels g° oja a contrary direction, notwithstanding that th2ro obliged t o pu t on t h e i r f u ll power, could scar any headway. Vessels moored i n th e L owe r 1' s et" ° 4 order to prevent their drifting, h a d t o l e t go ~1dr);!, anchor, and even then, in so me i nstances , theW and occasioned much damage in spars and rigg 0 0 0 0 coming in contact with others. On the sout b d A be lf the river, under Bermondsey and Rotherhithe „r o cl. 4 ') basement floors and cellars of houses W ere h 3 ",r ail and wood, furniture, casks, &c., were, in n 1 3 ,1 1,0 floated away from landing places. The marke t in the localities suffered materially. The port the the Thames did not go wholly unscathed, as ill 0f nity of Lower Shadwell, Wapping, and the isl e ,4 0 ,/ houses and other pr em i ses were partially 011 - etrci Should the wind co n ti nue i n the same quarters, e , influx of water m ay b e expected this mor n' which the tide REPRESENTATI wi ON ll begin WEST WORCESTEE to " take off." ar tiSt,„ c to, ev Wednesday ev en i ng a meeting of Conservativf oir bi o t was held at the Star Hotel, Worcester, on t i l e ter fil lif The object of the meeting was stated to be to folf tba on the propriety of inviting Mr. Henry Lygen, , t s eo, l ,e l , l count Elmley) to become a candidate to rep,r:.', fAv d b! division, on the same principles as those of u l ,lo 3 ' t jer' the present Earl Beauchamp. The chair was Ce n t ' Of the hon.. and Rev. W. W. C. Talbot. D' f ' t d t ' e ei chairman of the provisional committee, repel . c o oe.ts, meeting that that committee had decided on r ec AO P . ing to the electors that Mr. Lygon should be r o # l , ll O to stand in the place of his father. WhereuP e ,,,,,`` fr p° H. Lechmere moved the following resolutio n eet if ?Bie j i Mr. Henry Lygon is, in the opinion of 0% 1 : fit and proper person to represent the weste r et ° tb ° , of the county in Parliament.' Mr. M. Pierr - e c u tli t poi;, that he had heard from his lordship's own der his principles were entirely in accordaneerthe P", professed by his father. It is stated in some el " qt that General H. B. Lygon wr,s M.P. for 0 11%4 tershire. This is a mistake the present Ear l -- „ree t iite r having represented the western division for a. eig otij ber of years. With the exception of a period „ o o months in 1831-2, G enera l L ygon has sat f°l- , in the House of Commons, and has alwaY.„ s l e s ; , &C' strong Coirervative and Protectionist Prineuirsit belt AUTHOR OF THE " CHRISTIAN PHILOSOP'%, '3%/ 0 1 The Royal Astronomical Society of Lond7 c i,, meeting on the 14th inst., elected Thomas P al Broughtz, Ferry, a Fellow of that SocietY deserved th e ag ed philos9o4g. honour richly i