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LITERATURE. . PRICES OF THE STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 3 per Cent. Red. 92N76N India Stock No. XL.—EDINBUR.GII, 1832. 3 per Cent. Cons. B2i %A Ditto Bonds 1 2 dis. 3% per Cent. South Sea Stock The pr e sent number of this valuable miscel- Ditto R e d 89 4 1( Y. Old Annuities B O ,A New 3%per Cent. 89%V, New Ditto .. - ....... -. . - laBY ) o f w hi c h it is almost enough to say in its 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... per Cent. Ann. 17511. 4 per Cent. 1826 99N% Ex. Bills, 41,000 10 9 pm. praise that Dr. Brewster is the editor, opens Bank Long An Jan. 5, 1860 n. to expire Ditto. . . ....500 10 9:pna. 16% 1 4 Ditto Small lO 9 pin. With a most satisfactory account of the pro- Oct. 10, 1859 16% Ditto Commercial.... ...... pm. Jan. 5, 1860 ;16% Ditto Advertised —0., ceedings that took place at the great scientific Jan. 5, 1880 Bank for Opening — April 5, 1884) lndia for Account. — meeting held at the city of York last September, Jan. 5. 1870...... Lord Milton in the chair. The writer advocates PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds !Neapolitan — the propriety of establishing similar meetings Bel gian Scrip throu g h o ut the country, and closes his details with lß razilian bonds Ayres Bonds Portuguese Bonds Prussian, Old — a C , ;ilian Bonds ..- ........... ... Ditto,. ,iisn New Colombian Bonds — few pertinent observations on the good effects— that would ensue from one grand national insti- u lD a it n tl i: , h 1824 -- 1893 — 11.11jon, to w hi c h th e p r ovincial institutions might 2z o k Bonds — French Rentes, s p. c. 95 f. 75 ,. . , 1825 — --- Exchange 2st. 30 :. Guatimala. — 3 per cent. —f. —C. act as auxiliaries : Mexican Bonds .... ...... ...... Exchange -.. —c. " Such is an outline of the formation, nature, and first itto. 189.5 — Dutch Scrip 4114 2 P r oceedings of the British Association for the promotion PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK of science. The time is favourable for the formation of Paid. Per Share. such a national institution. For if science in England be Hibernian Mining Co Oh the decline, as some maintain, what more likely to call PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 14. forth new efforts, b which it may be restored, than the Bank Stock 206 St. Patrick Insur. (per sit.) } Consols, 9 tier cent. Youthful exertions of a great scientific body ? If it be not Gov. Stock, 35,', per cent. 895 / i National Ditto — on ,, the decline, then the founders of the British Associa- l'e i tetro Newt Guy. D e eb. 354 per , Hibernian Bank "° ll have only adopted the wisest and most likely means . 1 ! r cent.... 847, Provincial Ditto to maintain and increase the reputation of the country ; Royal Canal Stock Royal Irish Mine and, b y g t r t ant e C:n 4 al Stock — Imperial Mine bringing forward the genius and seal of those de- City t 4 voted to philosophy, to silence the outcry, and disprove Ballast 0 p. c. 4 ,zi i m ni m ng er C cl ol e l3ll ll l . l e r l il n g d s — t he assertions of those who maintain science to be rapidly on the wane. In either view, then, the establishment of Amsterdam CoUßSE c O F F E I2 XC I HANGE h YESTERDAY. 47% t he society must be an unmixed good ; and it ought! Ditto, at sight '1 18 Genoa gorn .5 75 t herefore, to meet with the cordial support both of Rotterdam 0 U 12 11 Venice 4 7 1% th ose who assert, and of those who deny, the exis- An n tav b e u r! . , g 12 11 Malta 46 M B. 19. Naples . 4O tepee of a decline. Here is a neutral ground on which Altona 13 12t Palermo per oz. 119 both parties may meet and conjoin their most stre- Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 Lisbon Ditto 0U.25 70 Oporto 4734 OliOns exertions,—the one to maintain the present, and Bordeaux 25 75 Rio .Janeiro the other to restore the past, scientific eminence of Bri- Berlin Bahia 29 Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 1521 Buenos Ayres — ti 'h philosophers. The association having but one grand ohject in view, the promotion of science through the rVienna,rsbuergigilyi b e l-, 5. 32' Us.. 10 Dublin, ' üblin 21 days' sight l% 0.7. c ombined exertions of men devoted to different branches I Trieste do lO 4 BULLION, PER oz. ° f the same great study,—will pursue that end by the em- La c r i l i r z id 36% .Z. s. d. 36% Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Aliment of those means which the general opinion of the Bilboa roost competent judges shall decide upon as the most likely trg e lona '36 New Doubloons OO 0 36% New Dollars to effect the greatest and most permanent good. Minds Gibraltar 4 7 1% Silver bars, standard... 0 0 0 are already actively engaged and hands set busily to work , AILS. and when a few years shall have given time and opportunity Arrived. Du R e. Arrived. Due. for employing and giving efficacy to the various me th o ds 0 America 0 0 Hamburg of improving science which it has in view, we may hope 0 Braziluno Ayres 0 1 Holland 0 0 Jamaica 0 to find each succeeding anniversary more fruitful in new 0 Carthagena es and important results of scientific labour. 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 The remaining articles in the number contain o France o j 0 Sweden 0 Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 many varied communications on important scien- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. tific subjects. Morning ... 36 minutes after 3.1 Evening...sl minutes after 3. BRITAIN'S HISTORICAL DRAMA. LONDON, 1832. --'., Mr. Pennie, who is an antiquarian as well as Et e 4 ? C.- 4 - n Art .1:-.• • a poet, has here published a volume, which is as far superior to the pompous, inflated trash with - LONDON, Which we have been lately deluged usque ad WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18. 1832. nauseam, as Hyperion to a satyr. We do not approve the amphibious character of his compo- CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. sitions, half-poems, half-dramas, conceiving that COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY) they should be either decidedly narrative or de- DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. cidedly dramatic ; but, with this exception, we ---- .., I il , 4 • .''' •-, 7: ''' 1 ' 5 Can have no hesitation in saying that they would ~.., a -c., .. - Places. E a+ do credit to any poet now before the world. The 6 . .e . i 3 v .E 4 1,4 •• g '' 3 5 _., E b ,t, l Vv . E E c.° 2 . sentiment has no sickliness about it, the language ,--, ~. z g g ~,,L-4 ..4.- no inflation ; above all there is no painful wire- Jan. drawing of thought or imagery visible. Mr. Sunderland Penni e writes with ease, because he writes from Newcastle l6 75 21 12 21 63 737 229 the inspiration of a well-stored and imaginative Gateshead North Shields ana tnind ;in scenic description he is particularly ' ryaemouth l6 17 5 1 0 21 72 27 happy, he places the spot at once before the :". b, H ( Wall 14 24 80 35 10 5 5 20 10 aUsend) j 16 3 reader ' s eye. His females, too, are graceful ov Houghton-le-Spring creations, not made up of blue-gauze wings and D anAl a H m etton, &c l6 18 2 - ; 2 ) 40 15! 41 rainbows, but real flesh and blood, breathing H u addington and vi- 14 1 4 1 1 , 0 cinity, N. 8... life and animation, and full of affection, loveli- _ Total 132 55 27 36 168 2030 696 ness, hope, health, and beauty. In this, the A report has been received, stating five cases to have occurred brazen age of poetry, it is something to meet at Tranent, seven miles west from Haddington, two of which have proved fatal. With an author who reminds us of the older and (Signed; . WM. MACLEAN, secretary. better times. Most sincerely do we hope that _-_-__ __ - - ---- --- his volume—which, by-the-bye, is rather bulky The two Houses of Parliament met last night, - -may be successful. but little business of importance was transacted • •., TT I 1 • • -I Cl LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA. PART 26. LONDON, 1832. Comprises, within judicious limits, some cu rious particulars respecting the porcelain and glass manufactory, together with historical notices of the rise and progress of Potteries, and a general description of ingredients used in the manufacture of porcelain. O I3SERV.ATIONS ON THE MUSSUL- MA UNS OF INDIA. Two VOLS. LONDON, 1832. Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali—how strange is the union of Mrs. with Ali, the English Mrs. with the Mahometan Mr. ! has here produced two volumes, bearing in every page undeniable token s of research, and unwearied industry. The subject of her enquiry is a difficult and compli cated one, but she has not been appalled by the difficulty, but grappled with it in an inflexible spirit, with the energies of a Grotius or a Ca saubon. Indeed, in point of curious research, Mrs. Hassan Ali has produced a work worthy to vie with any two of the twelve volumes of the " Asiatic Researches." MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. A well condensed epitome of all that is ser viceable and interesting to students in this com prehensive department of knowledge. WORKING MAN'S COMPANION. LONDON, 1832. This work is published under the superin tendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the present number of it, entitled the " Physician," contains the best and most elaborate account we have yet met with, of that frightful scourge, the cholera. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. WAL, JAN. 17.—Wind W., light—Arrived the Mary and Jane, Winter, from the Cape of Good Hope. Arrived from the river, and remains, the Robert, for the Mauritius. STANDOATE CREEK, JAN. 17.—Arrived the Rachel, Dysart, from Cephalonia; Argo, Hammer, from Dantzie ; and Express, Jay, from Riga, after being assisted off the Alaplin Sand. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 16.—Arrived the Royal George, Sraife, from Charleston ; Elizabeth, Gillespie, from Ali cant ; and Fairfield, Bloom, from Riga. Off port—the •Julian from Africa. DuaLIN JAN. 16.—Arrived the Czar, Ashford, from Cadiz. DUNBAR, JAI?. 15.—The Thane, of Fife, from Banff t r' London, after discharging her cargo, had been floated °fl the rocks, and carried into North Berwick. BLAXENEY, JAN. 17.—The Oscar, from Stockholm to Redon, was brought in yesterday by some smacks. The Ruby Castle, from Stockton to London, came on 411ure yesterday, but got off the following tide and proceeded. Vitsm s SPOKEN WITII.-The nstitution, of White l'aven, from Trieste, 12th ult., 20 leagues S.W. of Lar -11,41e ; the Harriet, of Yarmouth, bound to Cadiz, 18 th 114 ., off Cape de Gall. The Gertrude, AlDonnell, from Gateway to Cork, I Prung a leak at sea 9th instant, and sunk.—Crew saved. To save his country CURTIUS jumped into a Suif--the just medium into our pockets.—Paris Figaro The two Houses of Parliament met last night, but little business of importance was transacted in either House. Lord ASHLEY in the Com mons announced his intention of retiring from the representation of Dorsetshire, in con sequence of the great expense to which the maintenance of his claims would expose him. Mr. HUME turned this announce ment very happily against the Anti-Reformers. The Right Hon. JOHN WILSON CROKER snapped and snarled as usual. The LORD AD VOCATE gave notice that he should bring in the Scotch Reform Bill tomorrow evening. The English Bill is to be proceeded with on Friday• Dutch and St. Petersburgh Papers have been received of late dates. The Dutch state that a courier had arrived from London with the answer of the Conference to the protest of the Dutch KING. From what had transpired at the Hague, it was inferred that the Con ference adhered to its original determina tion, and consequently rejected the protest or petition of his High Mightiness, who seems chiefly remarkable for obstinate effrontery. If we may credit the " conservative" oracle of the Ultra-Tories, the Emperors of RUSSIA and AUSTRIA both refuse to ratify. The King of PRUSSIA is put forward as willing to ratify, pro vided his two Allies of Austria and Russia join with him—and which he well knows they are resolved not to do ! If this be not juggling on a large scale, what is? The Holy Alliance and triple-faced hypocrisy ! THE HAGUE, JAN. 12.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange is expected here on the 16th, to be present at the celebration of the birth-day of his august consort. It is affirmed that a courier arrived yesterday from Eng land, with the answers of the Conference to the protest of the Dutch Government against the twenty-four articles. The Belgian Papers give only extracts from the answers, from which no just opinion can be formed of the whole. It seems, however, that we may infer that the Conference has not declared itself disposed to deviate from the resolu tions it had already taken. Accounts from Breda of the 11th, say—" The march of troops through this town continues without intermis sion; almost every house has four or six men quartered in it." The movement of the troops which we have al ready announced began on the 10th, and continued on the 11th. The troops are cantoned over a great ex tent of country. for the convenience of the inhabitants, and will be quartered in many villages now unoccupied, especially about Breda. The latest accounts from Maestricht say that all was quiet there. Belgian troops bad arrived at Belsen, on the left bank of the Maese, three leagues from Maestricht. Quarters had also been bespoke for them at Pietersheim, Hanaken, and Flocht, all places situated near the fortress. In consequence of the mildness of the weather, very little floating ice remained in the Maese before Grave on the 9th, so that the river could be passed without difficulty. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 12.—A courier has arrived here from London, with despatches for our Government, who immediately proceeded to the Hague. BaEna, JAN. 12.—The accounts from the frontiers, next Flanders, announce that the Belgian troops cantoned in those parts are again collecting near our frontiers. About 900 of them are assembled close to the Capitalen Dam. Meantime desertion continues among their troops : last week, eight men, one of them a seryant-major, de- Retied to us. It is reported, that a whole battalion of Bel gian troops which was on the frontiers in tended to desert to us, but the Belgian Government having received timely information, removed it to other quarters. In Dutch Flanders every thing remains tranquil. Workmen are employed in putting Fort de Ruyter, near Ramekers, in a good state of defence. It is reported at Flushing that three brigs and four frigates are to be got ready for sea immediately. The Java Papers bring accounts from Batavia to the 10th of September, 1831. They contain reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Elout, resident ou the west coast of Sumatra, from which it appears that the military opera tions, of which an account was given in the Papers of July, had been continued with success. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 13.—The Journals contain very long accounts of the festivities, which had continued for three days, in henour of the two hundredth anniversary of the High School, or Athenaeum Illustre, to which men of letters from all parts of the kingdom have resorted in very great numbers. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 13. Actual Debt, 9.% per cent. Arnort Syndic, 4% per cent 665 to 671,4 Ditto, ditto, 31% per cent. Voluntary Loans, 6 per cent 91,1; to 92V, Exchange upon London, one month ll 92 5-10 Two Months ST. PETERSBUAGII, DEC. 27.—The Emperor has ap_ proved of a plan of the Council of Ministers for the esta. blishment of a Lazaretto in the town of Gourieff, to pre serve the Government of Orenburg from the introduction of the plague, by the tribes which trade on the confines of that Government and of Persia. According to official accounts received by the Minister of the Interior, up to the 13th of December, the number of cholera patients remaining i❑ the different Governments was as follows :—Archangel, 32 ; Livonia, 3; Courland, ; Wilna, 712 ; Minsk, 427 ; Volbynia, 347 ; Tauris, 6 ; Bialystock, 30.—1 n all, 1,563. The interest that has been raised in this country by the suit for the annulment of the Duke de BounnoN's will is certainly greater than has been excited by any French trial since that of FUALDES. Political considerations have been so mixed up with the evidence bear-' ing upon the validity of the will, and the ques tion of the suicide of the Duke has been made so to turn upon a question from which it is in truth quite distinct, that people regard the trial with their own peculiar political bias, and in France the matter has been made one almost wholly of party. The advocates for the Duke d'AUMALE and Madame de FELCIIERES have thus had a great advantage over their adver saries, in so far as they have enlisted on their side all the partisans of the existing order of things in France, comprising a monstrous body of placemen and expectants for place—the bulk of the French stock-jobbing, or as they style them selves, moneyed interest—and a large class of easy, good sort of people, whose fears lest a worse thing should befal them, have attached them, for better for worse, to the powers that be in Paris. 'Whatever may be the result of the suit—and it is plain that the suicide or murder of the Duke of BOURBON can but very remotely influence that result—it will be quite impossible for Louis PHILIPPE to get over the effect of the letters originally cited by the Advocate for the Princes de Ro AN, tending to fix his MAJESTY and Madame de FEUCHERES with a combination to obtain the inheritance destined for another. It is one thing, whether or not the French tri bunal deems the evidence sufficient, according to the law of France, to upset the will, and another, what sort of judgment public opinion will pass upon Louis PHILIPPE'S conduct. The public are chiefly interested in the effect which a judicial proceeding has upon a man's public character, and that effect may be often as prejudicial and damnatory when the verdict is in his favour, as when it passes against him. The British public have very little concern with the character of Madame de FEUCHERES, late Miss DAWS or DAWES, or NESS CLARKE, or under whatever other name she may have re joiced. But they have a very great concern with the character of the King of the FRENCH, because, upon the opinion of his personal worth depends, more than upon any thing else, the prospect of the perpetuation of his dynasty. The PERIER Ministry we consider as having given up the ghost, or, at least, as being in a transitive state. The KING must, before long, provide himself with different advisers from those who, at present, guide his Councils. If he had had the sense to have chosen his Ministers from those who sought to carry into effect, not to annul, the prin ciples of the Revolution of July, Louis PHILIPPE would have had little to fear from the effects of the suit now in progress. But his proceedings being contrary to the general sense of France, it is not to be wondered at that there are many who lie in wait for an opportunity to fasten upon the faults and offences of a Sove reign, who, though assuming to be the choice of his people, is not in f'act beloved or respected by them. trickery and cunning, which is the best possible preservative of national morality. We have this moment received by express the ]%iessager des Chambres of yesterday : PARIS, JAN. I6.—The Iffessager des Chambres states that the Five Powers have never disagreed a moment about the affairs of Belgium, and that the public, there fore, may be fully satisfied about the favourable decision of the negotiations. The exchange at Paris was so quiet, that not even a rumour of the lea.t importance was circulated, and the funds fully maintained their rise, although the speculators who had bought a few days before, at four per cent. lower, had come into the market to realise their profits. The Prussian State Gazette, and the Augsburg Ga zette, begin to find out that they have been imposed upon in their private correspondence from Warsaw; they firmly contradict the reports of the cruelties that the Russians exerted towards the Poles, almost all the individuals who were alleged to be sent to Siberia, or in another manner torn from their families, having re-appeared again ; it was only the fear of a political re-action which induced them to leave Warsaw. We are in posses sion of a proclamation of Prince Paskewitch, grant ing assistance for three years to the widows and chil dren of the officers of the Polish army. The Prussian Gazette tells us to-day that the Commissioners named for the execution of this proclamation have already had their first sittings under the Presidency of Prince Galitzin. French Funds.—Three per Cents. 66f. 75c., Five per Cents. 96f. 60c. We direct attention to a letter which will be found in another column, under the head " Bris tol, Jan. 17." Some people in England, who having seen so many changes in France, think that changes in that country can only be from bad to worse, discountenance whatever tends to shake the Citizen KING'S Government, because they fancy, that if it were to fall, it would be succeeded by some power supposed to be highly abominable, and called by some the movement, and by others, the Republic. It is true, English morality always supports whatever is uppermost, and appreciates merit solely according to its success. We would venture to say that if the movement party could keep in power in France for a twelvemonth, they would have a host of worshippers in this country, composed principally of the same individuals who now cry up Louis PHILIPPE for better for worse. But, for ourselves, we are at a loss to compre hend that species of morality which is to up hold, for the purposes of assumed political ex pediency, a Government, in which both KING and Ministers have shewn themselves utterly re gardless both of honesty and of honour. The late exposure of M. PERIER by M. de 1110- LART, the Prefect of the Rhone, fits in ex tremely well with the developement which Louls PHILIPPE'S character has received in the Tribunal of the First Instance. The ad vancement of truth, and not the support of this or that Government, is the object of honest reasoners,—and those who strive to palliate or gloss over the inferences from this trial, do what in them lies to stiff virtuous sentiments among the people, by w ea k en i ng th a t gen eral feeling of indignation at the exposure of low FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry, at Battersea, from the Wilderness, Kent; the Earl of Brecknock, in Arling. ton-street, from a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Litchfield; IA the Earl of Chesterfield's seat, Bradley-hall, Derbyshire, from their seat in Staffordshire; Sir Richard and Lady Phillips, in Portland-place, from their seat, Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire; S. L. and Lady Fox, at the Duke of Leeds', Whitehall, from their seat in Devonshire ; the Earl and Countess of Sefton, the Ladies Molyneux, and the Hon. F. Molyneux, in Arlington_ street, from Brighton; Viscount Corry, at Symmons's Hotel, St. James's.street, from Southampton; C. Cooke, Esq., at ditto; from his seat in Hants ; Mr. and Miss Page, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, from Cambridgeshire; the Marquis of Lans downe, from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts; William Manches ton, Esq., at the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Kent ; the Earl and Countess of Harrowby, in Grosvenor-square, from their seat, Sandon-hall, Staffordshire; the Archbishop of Ar magh, and the Ladies Beresford and family, in Charles-street, St. James's, from the Palace, Armagh, Ireland; the Hon. Mr., Mrs. and Miss Tollemache, at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerroyn street, from their seat, Huntsmore Lodge. the• Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons and Mr& Manners Sutton, from Misley-hall ; the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen and Lord Claude Hamilton, at Argyll-house, from the Priory, Stan. more; the Earl and Countess of Jersey, in Berkeley-square, from Middleton Park, Oxfordshire; the Marquis and Mar chioness of Salisbury, in Berkeley-square, from Hatfield-house; Mr. and Mrs. Fox, at Mivart's Hotel, from a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Verulam, in Grosvenor-square from their scat at Gorhambury, near St. Alban's ; Colonel and Mrs. Llewellyn, at 15, Cumberland-street. DEPARTURES. Colonel Ready, from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Chichester; the Hon. Mrs. W. Knox and the Misses Knox, from Cavendish.square, for Brighton. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY.-(TIIIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR sat to hear appeals today. STATE OF THE COURT. The LORD CII4NCELLOR said that he was under the necessity of claiming the indulgence of the bar to be per mitted to deliver his jndgments at the rising now and not at the sitting of the Court, because his Court at West• minster was so extremely cold, that if on taking his seat he proceeded to give his judgments (in the course of which he must necessarily get a little heated), and continued to sit, lie became chilled, and in the end quite ill. There were two cases in the paper for judgment to-day, but which, for this reason, he could not give till the end of the day. Sir EDWARD SIAIDEN said, it was utterly impossible to suppose that the sittings could be continued in that Court unless it was altered. Some eminent person ought to be got to see it, and to say whether some effectual means could or could not be devised for the proper warm ing of it, and preventing the most injurious currents of cold air that were continually passing through it. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that he had made up his mind to get Sir Benjamin Stephenson (whom he be lieved was a very skilful man) to examine it, and to say how it could be altered and improved. CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivalsof grain this week are tolerably good, and there is a fair quantity of Flour. The Wheat trade for tine parcels remains firm at Monday's advance, but there is not much doing in other qualities. Barley, Beans, and Pease remain as last reported. The Oat trade is dull at Monday's terms. Flour unaltered. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour. English Irish 4660 505 7,963 Foreign - brlc. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have no arrivals this morning with the exception of a Dutch mail, by which the Dutch funds comes about three quarters per cent. lower. THE FUNDS. To-morrow being settling-day in the Consol Market we must be upon our guard against false intelligence and re ports, which are generally industriously circulated on the above occasion, either for the interest of the Bulls or Bears. An Evening Journal last night stated an express had arrived from Paris; this gave some alarm to our city speculators, and caused the funds to recede a little, but on due enquiry being made on the subject it was supposed to be a mere stock-jobbing concern. No doubt in a very few hours the truth will come out, as we under stind that an express has arrived from Paris, and it is said that the French Rentes come lower about 40 cents. Had the French Government received the official account that the Emperor of Russia had positively refused the ra tification of the treaty with Holland, no doubt the French rentes would have lowered considerably, and, ere this, we should have had the arrival of several expresses with the important information. Therefore, the well informed in the city are of opinion, that it is entirely a stock-jobbing concern. Consols, which left off yesterday at 831 for the ac count, opened at 834 afterwards were done at 831 to 84, at present they are 83k sellers. Little or nothing doing in the Foreign Market as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. As we predicted in our former article, the informa tion in one of the Evening Papers last night was a stock-jobbing manoeuvre, and has now come to light by the reception of the Messager des Chambres of yesterday, which is of a very pacific tendency. We have also private information from a high quarter, which states that the Five Powers have perfectly agreed on the treaty of Hol land, and given their ratification, but only through cour tesy leaving his Dutch Majesty to take his own time fur the ratification ; no doubt is entertained that it will soon be accomplished. Consols have improved on the above information to 84. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 84. CURE FOR THE TOOTHACHE.—Last week a person who was subpoenaed as a witness at the Wake field Sessions, was extremely unwell of the toothache, but no sooner was he placed in the witness-box than the toothache left him. In compliance with the desire expressed by the Bishop of DURHAM, that Divine Set vice should be performed once a week, in addition to the Sunday, until the pestilence which has lately visited our shores " be stayed," the churches in the city of Durham were opened for that purpose on Wednesday last, and the same was done in Sunderland and Bishopwearrnouth.-7yne Mercury. LIABILITY OF FENIALES TO CHOLERA.— In Sunderland the comparative mortality of males and females, from this disease, stood thus : Feinalec. Total 13 ars 36 15 and under 15 to 50 Above 50 Males 12 14 37 63 This statement only comprehends those buried at Sunder land between October 28 and December 22.—London Medical Gazette. IMPORTANT TO SCHOOLMASTERS,--A mechanic in America has invented a machine for semina ries, which by means of steam not only warms the room, but flogs the boy s on a graduated scale, according to their offences.—American Paper.—[Well done, Jonathan; the schoolmaster and steam are unquestionably on the march," if this be true.] MOTIONS Sir EDWARD SUGDEN was desirous of drawing the at tention of the Court to the state of the motions—they were very numerous and very heavy, and he really thought that some successive days ought to be appointed for hearing them. The expense to the suitors was immense. Every seal day the parties in all motions, notices of which had been given, were in attendance, and really very few motions had or could have been disposed of lately. The LORD CHANCELLOR said as to-morrow will be the seal, he would go on hearing motions till Saturday night from to-morrow morning—and if those three days should not be found sufficient pretty well to get through them, other days must be allotted for the purpose. Sir E. SUGDEN said three days would be nothing like ample. The LORD CHANCELLOR. observed that these sbould be tried first, and then a further arrangement could easily be wade. COURT OF KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) The Court were occupied in hearing motions for new trials, but they possessed nothing of any public interest. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ANKINS V. AUSTIN. Mr. PLATT stated the case. The declaration stated that the defendant, on the 19th of April, 1830, shot and killed a sow belonging to the plaintiff. The defendant pleader], first, that he was not guilty, and, in other pleas. a justification as follows, viz. that the animal was fero cious, mischievous, and accustomed to attack and bite mankind, and was a dangerous animal to his Majesty's liege subjects, to be suffered to go at large without being muzzled—(Laughter)—that before the said trespass and shooting she rooted up the soil and tore the hedges of a close belonging to the defendant, and put himself and his children in great bodily fear ; that the defendant frequently warned the plaintiff to keep his sow at home, but that dis regarding such warning, the sow continued eating and depasturing in the defendant's close, to the great danger o' himself and children ; that the animal was so ferocious he dared not seize and impound her, and that, for the preven tion of such trespasses he shot her ; it was also pleaded that the animal was a common nuisance, and for the abate ment of such a nuisance, he shot her. The plaintiff, who was a plasterer, had the sow in question, which would he proved to have been a remarkably peaceable and docile sow, but like all other female animals of the paucine tribe apt to have litters. On the day in question she took her family of seven little ones to the de!'endant's close; the defendant drove her out, and as she was midway out of the hedge, that is her head outside and her hind quarter,. inside, the defendant shot and killed her. A more cold. blooded act, Mr. Platt said, he had hardly ever known, and to which the defendant's pleas were no justification in point of law. The defendant was a cowkeeper, and ought to have more companion for dumb animals. However it was a case for the Jury to determine, and it was for the defendant to clear himself how he best could by the assist ance of his Learned Counsel, Mr. Huggins. William Butt proved that the defendant shot the sow as described by Mr. Platt ; and that she was a very docile animal. Cross-examined by Mr. Huccurs—The carcase was buried, and not sold. Another witness, who knew the sew ever since she was a little pig, also deposed to her peaceable disposition. Mr. HUGGINS, for the defendant, said, he would prevent the further display of " vulgar wit" by admitting th shooting, leaving the amount of damages alone to be de cided by the Jury. His LORDSHIP told the defendant's Counsel that be could not prove the justification according to the form of the pleadings. Mr. PLATT assured his Lordship that he could show a relationship between this vow and the celebrated learned pig. —(Loud laughter.) The value of the pig was then proved to be 31. The Jury, under his Lordship's direction, found for the plaintiff—Damages, 31. In the case of E. L. Bulwer, Esq., v. the Proprietors of the Gloucester Mail Coach, which was not concluded yesterday when we went to press, the jury found a verdict for the defendants. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Justice ALDERSON presided this morning at Nisi Prius. The other Judges were engaged in a writ of Error in the Court of Exchequer. LIBEL.-?RICE V. IVES. This was an action for libel. The defendant bad pleaded a justification, and that the libels were true. The damages were laid at 1,0001. Mr. Serjeant WILDE stated the case. The plaintiff was a medic il gentleman residing in Cannon-street, and the defendant was a publican residing in the Blackfriars road. The plaintiff was the owner of several houses in that neighbourhood, one of which had been occupied by a person named Marshall, and who had become a consider able debtor for rent, and because the plaintiffsought legally to recover that which was due to him, he had been made the subject of a series of libels, which consisted of hand hills and placards, posted about the neighbourhood, hold ing him up to the neighbours as a cruel and unrelenting man. He (the Learned Counsel) would not enter into the particulars of the libel, but with respect to the allega tions it contained, he would content himself by observing, that it was not until the defendant's goods were distrained for the King's taxes that he put in a distress for the rent. The defendant, with a number of others, rescued the goods in the night of the distress, and swore they would so liarlequinize the house as to render it unfit for occupation. They next circulated a report that the house was haunted, and actually engaged a man to personate a ghost, whirls appeared night after night in a white sheet in the balcony. The placards were widely disseminated about the neighbourhood. Although there was a blank left for the name, there were plenty who communicated what was intended. The Learned Counsel concluded by calling hie wit nesse.; after which the SITTINGS appointed in MIDDLESEX and LONDON before the Right Hon. Sir NICHOLAS CONYNGIUM TINDAL, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Common Pleas, at West minster, in and atter Hilary Term, IN TERM MIDDLESEX. Wednesday Jan. 18 1 Thursday JAIL 19 Wednesday I Thursday 26 AFTER Wednesday Feb. 1 TERM. Thursday Feb. 2 Lord MELBOURNE gave a grand dinner this day at Melbourne-house, in Parliament street, to all the Cabinet Ministers. There were no arrivals this day at either the Foreign or Colonial Offices. It is surprising to see the numbers of dis tresed men, women, and children that have, within these few days, applied at the Colonial-office, with a view to emigrate from this country. This morning the esta blishment Was literally besieged by them; they were chiefly natives of the Sister Kingdom. ASSESSED TAXES.—The following is not ge nerally known :.—.ALLOWANCE OUT OF THE ASSESSED TAXES.—Every person having more than two lawful children, maintained by him, and whose assessment does not amount to 40/. is entitled to an allowance of 4/. per cent. on such assessment, for every child above two. 21:launder's Treasury of Knowledge. IGNORANCE OF THE IRISH CROMWEL LIAN MAGISTRACY.—A worthy Magistrate having occa sion to write the word " usage," contrived to spell it with out using a single letter of the original word ; his improved orthography was yowzitch. When some remarks were made on similar feats, he averred that nobody could spell with pens made from the quills of Irish geese.— Taylor's Civil Wars of Ireland, Constable's Miscellany. LONDON. COURT CIRCULAR. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of KENT and the Princess Vicroala honoured Covent-garden theatre with ' their presence last night to see the pantomime, which commenced at an early hour of the evening owing to its being the juvenile night. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl GREY, Lord DURHA', Viscounts MELBOURNE, PAL MERSTON, GODERICH, and ALTHORY, the Earl of CAR. LISLE, the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, Lord HOLLAND, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Duke of RicnstoND, and Mr. STANLEY. The Ministers remained in deliberation till past four o'clock. The Bishop of LONDON and the Bishop of SODOR and MAN had interviews yesterday with Viscount GODERICI-I, at the Colonial-office. The Spanish Minister visited Viscount PALMERSTON on Monday, at the Foreign-office. The ➢Marquis of LANSDOWNE arrived in town from his seat at Bow-wood, Wilts. The son of one of the new Peers of France, it is said, demanded the hand of Mademoiselle TAGLIONI. He was attracted by the fortune of this young lady, and pressed by a position which was not at all in harmony with the elevated rank to which his father had just been raised. The fair artiste, however, after having learnt that the Noble Father of her lover had been arrested, and was about to visit the Pelagic, judiciously broke off the connection. Paris Paper. It has been remarked, as a singular coincidence, that the present overseer of the estate of Dunsinane, in the neighbourhood of Perth, should be Mammal—a family name now almost extinct i❑ this country. —Glasgow Evening Post. Most of our readers are aware of the unfor tunate circumstance of the failure of the Bangor Savings Bank to a very great amount, and to the very serious loss of the industrious poor of the neighbourhood. A subscrip tion has been entered into to alleviate the distress arising to the poor contributors. To this fund the Marquis of ANGLSSEA, though in no way whatever connected with the town, has subscribed the magnificent sum of 5001. Several others have also come forward in the most liberal manner. Carnarvon Herald. THE LOST MENIBER.—An old pensioner, named Jour; Dxxxis, who has for many years carried a basket of small wares about the neighbourhood of Newport, Gloucestershire (which was his head quarters), and at tracted a good deal of attention and pity, from his having lost a hand at the battle of the Nile, was taken suddenly ill in the village of Newport one day last week, and died soon after he was removed to his lodgings; when, to the astonishment of all, and particularly of those who had known him for thirty years past, his precious members were all perfect, and the pitiful stump was a good fleshy hand, fastened back round the wrist with a tight ligature —York Courant. ItiamAROLE.--The following somewhat ver bose description of a somewhat common offence appears in the Police Gazette of Saturday :—" THOMAS JOHNSON' with unlawfully putting his hand into the coat-pocket of a man whose name is unknown, in the Strand, with intent the goods and chattels therein being feloniously to steal, take, and carry away." SYMPTOMS OF A DETERMINATION NOT TO B E TRIFLED WITH. —At Nottingham and Derby purchases of muskets and other arms are yet male by the working classes, and by persons in the middle ranks of life. A new weapon has bees introduced, and from its superior contrivance is much sought after. It is a gun consisting simply of a barrel, without any stock or external lock. A ferule is screwed into the bottom, and a cap on the top, and when painted, it has all the appearance of a moderate sized walking stick or cane. It carries a half-ounce ball : it is fired with a percussion hammer. The weapon carries as well as a musket, and is as convenient as a pistol, and we are assured it is peculiarly adapted to street fighting. It may be used from windows, and through loop-holes, without the slightest exposure of the person. The prices at which these weapons are sold are from thirty shillings to three pounds, according to the workmanship. The majority, how ever, prefer the musket, which they understand, and which is sold, in very good condition, bayonet and all, for Examiner. On Wednesday morning a cruel and diabo lical murder was committed at Templemore. The victim was a young man named SHORT, apprentice to a brazier in that town of the name of GUNNING. While on business he was waylaid and murdered within a mile of Temple more. His body was found soon after on the public road, with a deep wound over his temple. Same day JAMES CORMICK and Mrs. GUNNING were apprehended on sus picion of being concerned in the murder, and on Thursday an inquest was held on the body, when it appeared that the evening before the murder, CORMICK was heard to say he would take SHORT'S life, and that Mrs. GUNNING had re quested another apprentice of her husband to fill a large stick with albs. of molten lead, the instrument with which it is supposed the fatal deed was effected—that Coitmlcx slept with the apprentice, and rose early in the morning, was absent some time, and returned to bed again. The Jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against Mrs. GUN NING and CORMICK, who were sent off yesterday morning to Clonmel gaol, under an escort of the 74th Regiment.-- Limerick Chronicle; STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IN LONDON. —lt is recorded in the Journal des Connaissunce s (huelies et Pratiques, that M. DARCET, in the course of his recent journey to England, having discovered effects in London, with reference to the buildings, which he con. sidered could only be produced by sulphuric acid in the at- - mospheric air, he attached to his hat every morning be fore going out a piece of paper made blue by turnsol, which was very soon changed to red, whilst similar pieces, that were exposed only for a few moments to the influence of the air, became studded by a great number of small red points. During the whole of his stay in Lon don, M. DARCET renewed his experiments every day, which were invariably attended by the same result, and he carried with him to Paris, on his return, a great number of the small pieces of paper alluded to. The sulphuric acid is, of course, attributed to the coal, and M. DARCET is stated to be at this moment occupied in analysing the Eng lish coal, in order to discover the quantity of sulphuric acid circulated in the air, which is supposed to have a great influence upon the health of our metropolis. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.-Last night an in quest was held at the King's Arms, King-street, Camden town, on the body of Mr. JAMES BROWN, aged 25, late of Queen-street, Camden-town The deceased was a young man of great talents and respectability, and was a clerk in the house of Messrs. COTTAM and ALLEN, of O:- ford-street; he was possessed of a great knowledge of ana tomy and medicine. On Saturday morning he was found dead in his bed-room, and on examination it appeared he had taken a quantity of Prussic acid. He was veryin timate with Professor DEWHIJAST, surgeon, of 8, Gower street, Bedford-square. For the last five weeks he had complained to his friends of a violent singing and noise in his ears; remedies were applied, but had no effect. He at times behaved strangely, which he afterwards said was occasioned by the state of mind to which the noise in his ears drove him. A few days before his death the Pro, fessor gave him an ounce of Prussic acid, for the purpose of destroying cats. He had then no suspicion of his in tellects being deranged, but on considering his conduct for a week before his death, he was convinced he had not b en in his right senses. He was a young man much respected, and his accounts were perfectly right.—Verdict, Mental Derangement. The Gazette des Tribunaux contains the fol lowing singular history :—" Madame DASSY had lived for some time on bad terms with her husband, when the revolution of July broke out. On the 4th of August she presented hsrslf in tears before a Commissary of Police, and made a formal declaration that M. DASSY had left his home on the 27th July, and had been killed at the attack of the Louvre. With a certificate of this fact, she pre sented herself at the office of the Constitutionnel, and ob tained a sum of 50 francs. Soon afterwards, the Com mittee of National Rewards being established, she obtained as a widow a provisional grant of 250 francs. But when the Commission came to decide upon her application, on behalf of herself and daughter, for the pensions allowed to the widows and orphans of the victims of July, her case was more a t ntivtly examined ; and suspicions were conceived, which were soon confirmed by a report from the Police that the pretended dead husband was still living in good health, and exercising his trade of shoemaker at Petit Montrouge, where he had resided since the 23d o f July, 1830. A prosecution for fraud was instituted against Madame DASSY, who appeared before the 6 th Caan bT, accompanied by her littl e g i r l. Both cried bit terly, wid the mother, for her j us tification, pleaded tier fl rm belief in what she had stated. I knew my Inisbauil s patriotism,' she said, ' and as he used to h e at we very often, I thought he had been fighting against the Swiss ,t . ul havingot al asl am nut h ot : however, l ucky enough to be acquitt e d." Xa Is t uhi since, e e. soldiers sht he thought ga sh Cf. t h w om K wy l es . Eye "f? •