The Sun. — London, England, 1847-02-03 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The following outline of the ARRANGEMENTS for the SEASON 1847 is res . iecttully submitted to the Nobility. Patrons of the Opera, and to the Public. It is presented with the confident hope, that the snccessful exerticns made to tecare, u ider circumstances of peculiar difficulty, a company still more worthy of the first Theatre in Europe, an: of its distinguished Patrons will insure the continuation Of their support. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. Mdlle. Jenny Lina (iier first appearance in this co untr y ), Madame del Carmen Montenegro (her first appearance at this Theatre) ; Mdlle. Sanchicli, Mdlle, Fagiani, and Madame Solari (their first ap pearance in this country) ; the Contralto. Mdlle. Vietti and Millie. Daria Nascio (their first appearance in this country) ; and Madame Castellan. Signer Fraschini, the great Tenor of Italy (his first ap pearance in this country) ; and the favourite Tenor, Signor Gardoni, now of the Italian Opera, Paris, having lately withdrawn, at a great pecuniary sacrifice, from the Academie Royale de Musique (his first appearance In this country) ; Signor Superchl, the distinguished Baritone (his first appearance in this country); Signor F. Lablache ; Signor Boreila (his first appearance in this country) ; Signor Corelli ; the celebrated Basso Cantante, Herr Staudigl (his first appearance); and Signor Lablache. In addition to the above, arrangements are pending with Signor Coletti, of the Italian Opera at Paris. That great composer, the Chevalier Meyerbeer, has arranged to visit this country, to bring out the CAMP DE SILESIE, and another of his admired chefs-d'ceuvre ; the principal parts in the Camp de Silesie, by Mdlle. Jenny Lind and Signor Frascani. The celebrated Dr. Felix Mendelssohu Bartholdy will likewise visit England, and produce an Opera expressly composed for her Majesty's Theatre, the libretto founded on THE TEMPEST of Shakspere ; written by M. Scribe. Miranda.... Mdlle. Jenny Lind. Ferdinand • • Sig. Garden!. Caliban ............ Prospero •• .• ......... Sig. Lablache. It Is likewise announced, with great satisfaction, that Signor Verdi, having recovered from his severe illness, has expressly composed for this theatre a new Opera, of which the plot is founded on the ROB BERS at SC HILLER. Rossint's Opera of ROBERT BRUCE, lately produced at the Aca demie Royale, has also been secured. Mesdames Castellan, Sanchioll, and Montenegro ; Signors Gar' dont, Superchi, and Fraschint, will appear before Easter. 31dlle. Jenny Lind, whose engagement commences in March, and extends until the end of the season, will appear immediately after Easter. Director of the Music and Conductor, Mr. BALFE. In addition to the above, several Operas, new to this country, will be produced, and the repertoire will be selected fr.= the chefs d'oeuvre of Mozart, Unarm, Rossini, Donizetti, Mercadante, Bel lini, &c. The strictest attention has been paid to all the details, so that an ensemble may be presested perfect in all its parts. - - A. NUMEROUS ORCHESTRA, of the most distinguished talent and power, has been selected from some of the best Orchestras of Europe. THE CHORUS has been chosen with the greatest care from Italy, Germany, and England ; and will comprise upwards of Eighty Per formers. ARRANGEMENTS FOR TIIE BALLET. Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, and Mdlle. Cerito; in addition to which an engagement has been made with Millie. Caroline Rosati (of La Scala, at Milan, and other great theatres of Italy), who will make her first appearance on the first night of the season in a New Ballet, expressly composed and arranged for her, by M. Paul Taglioni ; Mdlle. Wauthier, of La Scala (her first appearance in this country) ; Madame Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Vonore, Melte. Elise Montfort ; Mdlles. Thevenot, Julien, Lamoretuc, Emile, Fanny Pascales, and Bertin ; and Caroline Baucourt, of the Academie Royale, and La Scala, Milan (her first appearance in this country). In consequence of the enthusiastic manner in which this eminent artiste was received last season, hopes are entertained that Mdlle. Taglioni may be induced to appear fur a limited number of performances. M. St. Leon, 31. d'Or, of the Academie Royale, Paris (his first appearance in this country), M. Gosselin, M. dl 3fattia, Venafra, M. Gouriet, M. Paul Taglioni, and 3i. l'errot. Composer of the Ballet Music, Signor Pugin. Principal Artist, Mr. Marshall. Maitres de Ballet—M. Paul Taglioni, M. Casati, of La Scala ; and 3f. Perrot. Sous.Maitre de Ballot, M. Gosselin Regisseur de la Dense, M. Petit. An Original Grand Ballet will be produced, written expressly for her Majesty's Theatre, by the celebrated poet, Henri 'Leine, on a subject selected from the Old Legends of Germany. A Novel and Poetical Ballet, for the subject of which the establishment is in debted to the kininesa of a noble and distinguished Poetess, entitled EGEBIA. The celebrated Pas de Quatre and Pas de Deesses will be revived, and an entirely new Divertissement, introducing another Grand Pas by M. Perrot, which, uniting all the peculiar attractions of the Pas des Deesses and Pas de Quatro, will present a novel feature of strik ing originality, and will combine the talent of all, to be entitled LA CONSTELLATION. The Subscription will consist of the same number of nights as last s.msoli. The Theatre will open in the middle of February, when will be produced, for the first time at her Majesty's Theatre, Donlictifs adm red Opera of LA FAVOItITA, in which Signor Gardoni old Signor Siperchi will make their first appearance in this country, and sa Nitirdy NEW BALLET, by M. Paul Tagliohl, in which Mad.4.lnratselle Caroline Rosati will appear. TIIEAIRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE THIS EVENING Will be performed the graml Opara of TILE BOHEMIAN GIRL, Comic Arnheim, Mr. i3on-apil ; Florestein, Mr. Harley; Thaddeus, lir. Rafter ; Deylishoof, Mr. Stretton ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mrs. Hughes; Arline, Miss Rainforth. After which, the Grand Comte Christmas Pantomime, bcing• a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND GEOIIGE AND THE DRAGON. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. inter the MaLagement o f Mr. B. IVehsu.r. sole Lessee, THE LAST JUVENILE NIGHT. THIS EVENING Will be !ler:brined the CoinedyoftiTiki STOOPS TO CONQUER. Mr. ilardeastle, Mr. W. Farrell; Sir Charles Marlow, Mr. lilbury ; Young Marlow, Mr. Boll; Tony Lunipkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Ilardeastle, Mrs. Glover; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Julia Bennett; Dolly, Miss Woulds. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, "Le Fidele Berber," " Antoinette" Cellbrtus , " Dublin ". Waltz, and the " Atnericati Polka." To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Rey,:olds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under tbe Management of 'airs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Comic Drama, called .£.300 REWARD. Characters by Musts. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, IL Butler, Miss Villars, mid Miss Forster. Alter which a new Farce, called THE WIGW kM. Characters by Messrs. Matthews, Oxberry. Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To conclude with the Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permlsslou of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albeit Smith, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha• ceders by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. THEATME ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER TUE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LO3IIIA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Hanlons, will ex hibit their wonderful Jeux Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet 0; LA (ESELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smtth, Mr. CAen brd, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. Pill NC ESS'S THEATRE, OX FOR 1)-STR EET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee ant Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Grand Opera, entitle,' ANNE BOLEYN. Henry VIII., Mr. Bodda ; Percy, Mr. Allen ; Rochford, Mr. Wal ton; Smeaton, Miss S. Flower; Harvey, Mr. Wynn; Lady Jane Seymour, Miss Rourk ; Anne Boleyn, Miss Bassano. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and hls ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entl tlAl The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; or, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbitige; S➢rite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular domestic Melodrame, entitled LA DAME DE SAINT TROPEZ. Georges Maurice, Mona. F. Le maitre ; Hortense d'Anberive, Mdlle. Clarlsse. To conclude with the favourite Vaudeville of LOUISETTE ; ou, La Chanteuse des Rues. Boxes, Gs. , Pit, 3s. Gd.. Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat ing their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Half-past Eight. And, in consequence of the continued demand for places, will repeat their DAY PERFORMANCE on Wednesday. Morning next, Feb. 3, and every Wednesday Morning until Easter. Doors open at Two o'clock, and the performance commences at Half-past Two. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the patrona"e of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family.—Mr. BATTY respectfully begs to acquaint the public that he purposes giving a free night, for the relief of the destitute Irish and Scotch, on THURSDAY, Feb 11. The evening's receipts will be given, and the extensive resources of the Theatre will be brought into action. THIS EVENING Wlll be performed THE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course of Men and Steeds. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To condole with the successful Conde Equestrian Fairy Pantomime entitle! TIIE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and All Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini; Columbine, 3E93 Louisa Waite. Box-edict open from eleven till rve o'clock.—Doors open at slit ant c mrnence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. France s D aY i dge. • THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled BABY RATTLER; or, The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole aigength of the Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land or Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Deulin ; Pantaloon, Herr R. Deulin ; Columbine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Clown, Herr N. Deuiln ; Punch, Herr E. Deulin. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE GUNSMITH OF ORLEANS; or, The Dead Woman's Secret. In which Messrs. Hicks, Forman, Searle, Bird, Howard, Miss Vincent, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Lee, and 3llss Pearce will appear, After which, THE DUKE OF SHOREDITCH, Supported by the entire Comic strength of the Company. To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled THE BIRTH OF TIIE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin .4 Go-a-Head," and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown. Mr. T. Barry. Boxes, Is., Half-price, 6d.; Plt, 6d.; Gallery, 31. COURT CIRCULAR. - - - WINDSOIt, . —, The Queen aad Prince Albert took e their usual early morning walk. His Royal H i ghness Prince of Wales al s o took walking exercise this forenoon in the grounds around the Castle. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will in clude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Count Alex ander Mensdorff, the Lady in 'Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Liverpool, the Rev. Lord Wriotheitley !tassel!, and Captain Francis Seymour. The band of the First Life Guards attended during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, dined, at the St. Mary's Hospital dinner, last evening, at the London Tavern. A deputation from the Corporation of the city of London consisting of Mr. Alderman Hunter, Mr. Prior, " Mr. Allen, Mr. Farrier, and the City Remembraneer, bad an interview with Lord Morpeth, and the other Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, yesterday, at their office i n Whitehall-place. Mr. Alfred Smee, the surgeon to tha Bank of England, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon at the ()Mee of the Board of Tracl9, yesterday, and exhibited specimens of the " Aphis Vastator,” the cause of the potato disease, with the effects of the insect on the potato, and various other plants. i Bishop Wi llson had an interview with Earl Grey, yester dav, at the Colonial-office. Dispatch es were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial• office for the Governors of New Zealand and Aus tralia. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday morning, nearly all the bakers in the Metropolis reduced the price of their bread from 9}.i. to 9d. best quality, and from Sid. to Bd. for household. Some few of the full-priced bakers are still charging► as high as 10d. and lid. for bread of a similar quality. Tne price of the best flour is 10d., and that of a second quality 9d. per quartern. RE-ISSUE OF BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY. Now ready, price 55., _ _ duty, as public journalists, to expose the fallacies of which they are founded, and to enter our protest against the evil precedents of again recurring to ex ploded doctrines and vicious principles. The session of 1846 was remarkable for the total abolition of monopoly, and what has been most improperly termed protection. Class legislation received its death-blow ; and we could scarcely have supposed that gentlemen, who were arrayed in the ranks of the free-traders in their glorious con flict and triumphant victory, should be found seriously pressing upon the attention of the Government the propriety of preserving for their own exclusive benefit a taxation, not for the purposes of re venue, but of protection, amounting almost to a prohibition, and practically creating a monopoly in an article of very general consumption. Yet such has been the conduct of the Irish distillers, and such would be the result, if any weight were given to the arguments of the gentlemen forming the deputation from that body, who waited on the Secretary for Ireland on Saturday last. The object of that deputation was " to represent the ruinous effect that the diminution of the duty on rum would have on the distilling trade throughout Ireland, and to claim, on grounds of justice and sound policy, that the projected diminution of duty should be of a tem porary, and nct of a permanent character." Hitherto the extraordinary duty charged on rum has nearly banished it from the Irish market. In 1809, the average annual consumption of rum in Ireland amounted to no less than one million gallons, whereas for the last four or five years it has diminished to thirteen thousand, twelve thousand, and even eleven thousand gallons in each year: this was owing chiefly to the duty being 6s. Bd. per gallon higher than that on spirit manufactured in Ireland. It was not for the purpose of encouraging the consumption of ardent spirits, or the trade of the distiller in that country, that the duty on Irish spirits was fixed at the low rate of 2s. Bd. per gallon ; of all articles it was that which might most justly be taxed, and the diminution in the production of which would PART 11. of BI:TAKE'S HISTORY OF THE - ________ _________ manner in which the subject is treated, that the learned Theban who wrote the article has never read the treaty. This argument from the treaty of 1824, which was used by the National of Sunday, is disposed of by the Journal des Debuts in the following satisfactory manner : "All the argumentation of the National consists in this —the occupation of the island of Labuan by E ng l an d i s an usurpation committed in direct violation of the treaty passed in London on March 17, 1824, between England and Hol land, of which latter country the treaty guarantees the rights over Labuan. The National appears to think that we 'ire ignorant of the existence of this treaty, and of the representations which the journals of the Hague and Batavia, in grounding themselves on it, have put forward whenever there was a question of Labuan. It is mistaken. As we said on Saturday, it is a long time since this matter has been projected, and however ill-informed we may be thought, it is not reasonable to suppose that some fragment of the discussion that has anien in England and Holland on this subject should not have reached us. Far from that, we desired to search into the matter ourselves, and we have done what the National ought undoubtedly to have done before launching forth somewhat rashly into the question. We have read the treaty of 1824, the basis of the discussion and of the rights of both parties. We have it at thi s momen t before us, and we arm that in none of its 17 articles is it possible, unless one is blinded by personal inte res t or b y foolish passions, to find anything that is contrary to the creation of English establishments at Labuan, or even in the independent part of Borneo. This t rea t y, w hi ch regulates at present in a sovereign manner the resp ec ti ve s i tuat i ons of England and Holland in the Malay archipelago, allows to Holland the entire possession of Sumatra, and to England that of the peninsular of Molacca. It confirms the rights of Great Britain to Singapore and the abandonment of all pre tensions on her part to the islands sit ua t e d to t h e south of that establishment ; it stipulates the reciprocal admission of the vessels and subjects of the two Powers to all their pos sessions, except the Moluccas; it treats of the Cel e b es , Ti mor, Ceram, of little isles like Battam, intang, or Lingin, but it says not a word of Borneo, and contains nothing which can apply to the present matter. In even reading attentively the treaty, and the documents annexed to in studying th e i r spirit, and seeking to .explain the result s w hi c h t h ey are destined to produce, it is difficult for an impartial mind not to arrive at the conclusion that in what concerns Borneo and the isles dependent on it, the intention of the ne go ti a t ors was to reserve the question, or still better, to allow it to follow its natural course without making it the object of any particular stipulation, and to have recourse for the future to the pre scriptions of the law of nations." The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Address ^ommenced on Monday, but as the Address is debated paragraph by paragraph, it is supposed that the discus sion on the Spanish marriages will not take place until Thursday. The following addition to the paragraph in the Adepts on the Montpensier marriage will be pro posed by'MM. BILLAULT and DUFAURE LANDED GENTRY. To be Completed in Ten Monthly Parts, price each. " A work in which every gentleman will and a dom,stic interest, as It contains the fullest account of nearly every knowa family in the United Kingdom."--Messenger. Ile ry Colburn, Publisher:l3, Great 3farlborough-street. PRESENT STATE OF PORTUGAL. Now ready, in 2 vols. small 8 1 73, AS OVERLAND JOURNEY TO LISBON, AT I HE CLOSE OF 1846 ; With a Picture of the Actual State •f SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. BY T. 3f. HUGHES, ESQ., Author of " Revelations of Spain." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough street. be bailed with the greatest delight by the philan thropist. But its use could not be wholly abolished, or even materially checked, by any amount of tax ation, or any restrictive measures. An attempt to do so would inevitably lead to illicit distillation on a gigantic scale, and the demoralisation of vast num bers of the peasantry—indeed of all classes of society. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer most truly stated, " the only limit to the amount of duty on spirits is the risk of illicit dis tillation ;" the measure of the duty should therefore be the facilities and opportunities afforded in each of " If, on the occasion of that event, any difference has ma nifested itself between your Government and that of a neighbouring people, France has a right upon reckoning that the good relations shall be re-established, without costing anything either to her interests or her dignity." On Monday, M. ROGER (du Nord) opened the de bate by censuring the conduct of the Ministry, in regard to the occupation of Cracow, as wanting in dignity; he was followed by M. DESNONVEAUX DE GIVRE, who de fended the Ministerial policy with regard to Cracow ; Ind after a speech from M. GARNIER PAGES, the general discussion closed, and the first paragraph of the Address was agreed to. The Three per Cents. fell 60c. on the Paris Bourse on Monday, apprehensions being entertained that public tranquillity might be disturbed in that capital in conse quence of the increased price of bread. As measures of precaution, the military posts had been doubled and the troops had been confined to their barracks. The Three per Cents, closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 771. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 1171. 80c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,220 f. ; Rouen, 875 f. ; Havre, 6801.; Great Northern. 606 f. 25c; Avignon, 820 f.; Vierzon, 570 f. ; Bourdeaax, 540 f.; Basle, 205 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4701.; Tours and Nantes, 4661. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 480 f. ; Bourdeaux sad Cette, 450 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 34. MAassittas, JAN. 27. Marseilles and Avignon, 8421. 50c.; Northern, 620 f. the countries for the production of contraband spirits. This varies materially in different localities, for while 75. 10d. per gallon can be levied in England, it was found that 3s. Bd. was the maximum that could be obtained in Scotland, while any attempt to raise a higher duty than 2s. Bd. in Ireland was invariably defeated, and led to the most injurious results to the fair trader, and occasioned the working of an in credible number of potteen stills, and almost universal breaches of the Excise-laws in that country. For that reason, therefore, and that reason only, the duties in the several parts of the United Kingdom were fixed at 7s. 101, 3s. Bd., and 2s. Bd. respec tively, and a great boon was thus given to the Irish distillers, which it is not desired or intended to take from them. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 2 Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 125(,,—Dutch Rhenish, 4 East Indian, %—Great Southern of Madras, —Namur and Liete, 2k—Northern of Franca, l 2 IA —Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 Sambre and Meuse, 6% —Tours and Nantes, :N. The reduction now about to be made in the duties on rum is a just debt due to our West Indian colonists. They are our fellow-subjects, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of British citizer z. Up to the last session of Parliament a certain pro tection was afforded to ti.e staple commodities of the West India islands, which was then withdrawn for the general benefit of the entire kingdom:; the colonists had a just claim for the abolition of all injurious restrictions on the use of their produce. It should, in justice to them, have been contemporaneous with the withdrawal of protection. But, although the equity of the claim was acknowledged, and a Minis terial, indeed a legislative, promise given foritheir re lief, the measures calculated to effect the object were necessarily postponed to the present time. A differential duty of sixpence per gallon, it was, on due investigation, found, might justly be retained as an equivalent for the disadvantages to which the home distillers are subjected by the Excise regula tions, and that is given to the Irish and Scotch as well as to the English distiller; and, therefore, none have any just cause of complaint. If the Irish dis tillers sought an abolition of the restrictions on the use of Irish spirit in this country, and that (on pay ment of the difference of duty) the same freedom of transit from Ireland to England should be allowed that is now sanctioned from one part of Ire land to another, their claim would receive the sup port to which it was justly entitled, and its concession would lead to a great increase in the quantity of Irish spirits consumed in this country. It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the Provisional Government of Geneva, after the late revolu tion, was to declare thst it would hold the members of the last Council responsible for all the damage caiesed by the troops in the attempt to resist the insurrection. The amount of damage having been estimated at 4.2',000E, the members of the late Council were ordered to pay it. They refused, on the ground that their conduct in the insurrection was imposed upon them by the law for the preservation of public order; but a decree having been obtained from the tribunal for immediate paymenr, they yielded to force, and paid the money. A few days ago several of the citizens of Geneva held a meeting for the purpose of raising a subscription to repay the sut a thus unjustly wrung from the members of the late Govern ment. The latter, however, have, in an address to their fellow-citizens thanking them for their sympathy, da dined receiving the proposed reimbursement. Madrid papers to the 26th ult. have arrived. They cont in no intelligence. No Ministry had been !ormed up to that date. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 26.—The Three per Cents. closed on that day at 31 15.16; the Five per Cents. at 21 15.16; Csupons at 181, Accounts from Constantinople, dated 13th 'Ja nuary, announce that the Cireassians have gained a brilliant victory over the Russians. Ou the 19th December they stormed Marquki, having completely defeated tli9 Rus sians, and killed great numbers of them. The Loss of the Circassians was 300 men. When the accoutt2s left they were preparing to attack Abouhour. We have received the Paris papers of Monday:. The note of M. GUIZOT, in reply to Lord PAL 'MRS-. TON, is the subject of comment in all of them. The Debats, the Epoque, and the Presse are the only papers that support M. G tazoT, and it is easy to judge of the necessity to which they a•e reduced, when e►.e find the Epoque actually praising M. GUIZOT for the 44 can• dour, uprightness, and frankness" which he hat: ex hibited from the beginning to the end of these !nego tiations. The Opposition papers of all shades COI2 eider this last note as a failure. The Conszitutionnel says of it— '• There is nothing new in this fresh pleading of M. Geraizot, no serious refutation of the conclusions so clearly to be cirawn from the documents produced by each party ; nothht o can be more empty than this last document, drawn up as if by a Procureur, who fancies he is refuting arguments by pre tending not to have heard them." The Siecle comments on it in the same strain, and adds the following:— "M. Guizot devotes a great portion of his dispatAlh to prove to Lord Palmerston that it is the latter who, by di irect ing several of his criticisms against the acts attribute I by him to inviolable persons, has dictated the principle adir lifted in England as in France, that the King can do no w rong. This argument would make a good article in the colure ns of the Journal des Debats; but it is not the less true the t the only means of seriously carrying this principle into prs , ctice is never to speak either of the acts or personal opinions ..of the Prince, and to deliver up to controversy only the ac is and opinions of the Government." The Commerce considers the conduct of M. G from the moment Lord PALMERSTON entered off ioei to be proof that the French Minister, and those with whom he was acting, were engaged in an intrig u e to overthrow the Whigs and to bring back the Torios. The Quotidienne and the France are to the I'll, l l as Levere in their strictures on M. GU/ZOT as the Lib eral papers are. Speaking of the justification offered by the Dibats for M. GUIZOT'S reserve to Lord 2 TOR MANBY, the France says— " Nothing authorised M. Guizot to reveal his secr.!!`..s to the English Ambassador; nothing prescribed an impre dent confidence in the man charged with the support of rivi d in terests; but there is a distinction between the reserve com manded by policy and the mesquineries alid falsehood s dis avowed by a sense of dignity, which M. Guizot app a Ars to have disregarded." The Presse is outrageous with England for taking possession of Labuan; and, following in the wake of the National of the preceding day, splutters a vast deal ;about the violation by England of the treaty of 1824, by • such taking possession. It is evident, however, fro. lA , the THE SUN, LO.NDON, WEDNE'SDAY Mi'ENING, FEBRUARY 8, i 847. Mr Bnekworth's Bashful beat Mr. Squire's Odessa. Mr. Vipan's Viola beat Mr. Fyson's Fatima. THE PORT STAKES. Lord Stradbroke's Mae beat Mr Dobede's Dunkirk. Mr. Gillett nd F'oxhuuter beat Mr. B. Smyth's Surrey. Mr. King's Rhea beat Mr. I'N - son's Fair Maid. Mr. Dobede's Destiny beat Mr. Fyson's Flash. Mr. Buckworth's Brutus beat Lord Stradbroke's Mintman. Lord Stradbroke's Mainmast beat Mr. Vipan's Varua. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QV:II:TER TO THREE. The Cotton-market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet. Sales, 1,500 to 2,000 bales only, of which speculators took 600 bales American. Railway Shares were lower generally. The sale of Railway Shares, yesterday, by Messrs. Lamond and Co., was well attended, and, although prices were a shade lower, a good business was done. Many purchasers for investment were present, who took off the better descrip tions of shares readily. The following are a few of tke principal sales : London and Manchester (Remington's) £0 7 6 Great Western of Bengal 0 5 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 18 0 Shropshire Union and Canal 1 8 0 Northern Counties Union Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. Northern and Southern Connecting Madrid and Valencia. 0 14 6 Buckinghamshire 4 6 0 Paris and Lyons Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 3 19 0 Eastern Counties, York Extension 4 13 0 Caledonian . Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham 6lO 0 Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 4 0 0 East Lincolnshire Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 2 17 0 Accounts, per Northumberland packet-ship from New York, have been forwarded to the North and South Ame rican Coffee-House. The dates were January 12th. The corn trade was dull, and cotton was quiet, though it main tained its value. The Mexican war was likely to continue, as the Congress had adopted Santa Anna's view, and decided that there should be no treating fur peace while the American troops were in the country. Respecting the Government pecuniary wants, we are advised that— The refusal of Congress to levy a duty upon tea and coffee has defeated all the calculations of the Secretary of the Treasury, and compelled him to look about for other ways and means to raise the revenue and to increase the credit of the Government. It appears that Mr. Walker assured those who took the last loan that a duty of twenty five per cent. should be placed upon tea and coffee, and it was upon that assurance the favorable bids were made. We have no doubt but that the depreciation in the market prices of the new United States 6's has been in a measure produced by the vote in the House of Representatives upon the reso tion to tax tea and coffee. Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor write from Manchester:— " There is certainly nothing in the aspect of our foreign or colonial markets, nor in the social condition of our home popu lation, to encourage a hope of that large demand immediately springing up which would fully employ all the productive resources of our cotton manufacturers. On the contrary, the likelihood of high prices for food continuing, at least for some months, to rule in this and neighbouring nations, must tend materially to abridge demand for manufactures; the drain of money in payment for imports of foreign grain, to supply the national loss of several millions of wea lth, occasioned by the failure of the potato crop in Ireland ; the necessary increase in the rates of discount, and accompanying contraction of the sprin4s of commerce; the uncertainty of an increase in our local and national burdens, consequent on the calamity which has fallen upon Ireland in the first place,—all these cir cumstances conspire to render highly probable the fact of a diminished consumption of goods, and a consequent decline in their value. On the other hand, the opinion is pretty generally received that there will be a deficient sup ply of cotton, and that the present high rates will be firmly upheld; and this fact is relied on by many who infer that a limitation of production will, before long, be rendered ine vitable, and that the downward tendency in the prices of ylltris and goods will be arrested. The ultimate supply of cotton yet remains problematical. and, as we have no longer any confidence in manufacturers regulating their production by the c,rcemstances of the times or the simple rules of commercial policy, we cannot at present venture to suggest to our friends how best to time their investments, whilst so many conflicting influences appear to bear upon the future." The English Funds have been rather better to-day, though still somewhat fluctuating. Consols have been 90% to 91 y s for present transfer and time. New Three .and-a Quarter per Cents. have been 92% to 93 1 / ; and the Three per Cents. 90% to 91 1 4. Bank Stock has been firm at 203 to 204. Exchequer-bills have been 3s. to 6s. premium. The Foreign Bonds have been very dull. Spanish Three per Cants ' have been 34% 3 /4, and Mexican 22. Chilian have been 941, and Brazilian 85. Shares have been rather firmer. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .: .• •• • • • • .. 204 203 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 91 1 ,6 90% 91 1 9 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 91 90% 91% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 93 92% 93% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-16 % Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, IMO .. 9% Consols for Account .. 90% 91 Exchequer Bills. 13( d. I%d. 1,0001. • • .. •• .. • . 63 pm. 500/. .. .... 5 pm. Ditto, Small •• .. .... 6 7 4 pm. PRICES OF WOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .• • . 85 Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent. •. • • 94% Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent •. .. 22 Ditto, for the Account .. .• 22 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. • • 34% 5 4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Fonr-and-a-Half per Cent. 94% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 5 .. 13%54 -to Birmingham, woiver., and Dudley 425... p• • to Birmingham, Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 .... 7 .• to Caledonian .. .. • • • • •. 30 .... 26% .... to Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • . 2 36 .... 214 %.. to Direct Northern Scrip .. .... 2% •. • • to Eastern Counties .. .• • • • • 20 .... 21% 3l .. to Ditto, York Extension .• • . 4 .. • . •. • • to Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • •• 50 .... ••.. to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • .. 12% .... 18% .... to Edinburgh and Northern 12 1 / .... to Ditto, New .. .. • • • . .... 3 .... to Ely and Huntingdon . • • • • 12% .... 13% .... to Great Northern (London & York Regd) 234 .• .. 2% 3.. to Ditto (Direct Northern Regd.) • • 3 3 4 .... 3% %••to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 27% 26% .. ••to Great North of England. .. • • • • 100 .... ...• to Ditto, New .. .• • • .. .. 5 .... 59% .... to Great 'Western •• • • • • .. 85 .. ..124 .. •• to 125 Ditto, Half Shares .. • • 50 .• • • 72 .• . to 73 Ditto Quarter Shares • . • • .. 12% .... 19 . % •...• to Ditto, Fifths .. .• .• • • .. 20 .29 ... •to Ditto, -- New •• .. •• .. .... 9 .... to 8% Leeds and Bradford .. .. 35 .... 81% .... to Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • . 22% —••. • to Do., do., Preference, • 6 per Cent .. 3 36.... 4% .... to Liverpool, Manch, and Ne wc . J unct. 2% .... 2 .... to Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .... 554 .... to Ditto, Consolidated Fifths .. .. 50 .... 53% .... to London and North-Western .. ..100 ....191 .... to 192 Ditto, Quarters .. • • ~ 2 .... to Ditto ditto New .. • . . 2 .... 1414 to 14 Ditto, Fifths 2 .... 19M . .. to 19 London and South-Western 411.65. 10d..... •• • • to Ditto, Tenths .. • 5 .... 514 %.• to Ditto, Scrip •• • • 5 .... 534%.• to London and York Extension Scrip .. 236 .... 2% .... to Londonderry and Coleraine .. .. 1736 .... 1034.... to Lynn and Dareham .. • • •. 15 . 16%.... to Manchester and Leeds . . •82 ....108 .... to Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% .... to Midland •• •• •• .. —lOO —.12336 to 124 Ditto, New .. .. • • • • • . 30 •• . • 35 •••• to Ditto, New 2 .... 6 .... to 5% Newcastle and Berwick .. 20 ....3234 3134 to 32 North British .. • • .. • • 25 .... 34 }4 14,.. to Ditto, Quarters • .. 234 .... 41 4.... to Ditto, Extension .. % 1% .... to Ditto, Thirds . • .. 1 3%.. • . to North Staffordshire .. .. 5 8 .... to North Western .. .. ••-... 2% .... .... to Scottish Midland .. • • • • • 17% .. •.2120 }. to 21 Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) .• 3 .... 4 .... to Shropshire Union . .• •• • • 425..... % di& .• to South Eastern and Dover .. • • • .331.25. 4d. 37 1 .... to South Wales .. .. • • • • • lO .. • • 7% .. ••to South Yorkshire, Doncaster, & Goole 2.. 1% 2.. to 1% York and Newcastle •• • • • 25 .• • • 37 .... to 36% Ditto, New, .. 5 .... 11% .... to Ditto, Preference .• ••••2 .. • . 6 3 4 .• to York and North Midland .. •• 50 .... ••.. to Ditto, Half Shares .• • • •25 .•• 45 .... to 44 3 4 Ditto, Selby .. .. • • • • .. 50 .. •• 89 .... to Ditto, Extension .. •• • • .. 20 .... 3636 ...• to 36 Ditto, Preference •• • • • - 2 .... 11% %.. to Ditto East and West RidingExtenslon 5 .... 17 .... to 16% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .• • • .. 18 .. • • 13%..., to 14M Dutch Rhenish ••..•••• • • 7 • • .• .• ••to 4M Luxembourg .. • • .. • • • . • . 6 •• • • 1% ...• to 1 2 Norther], of France • • ,• • • • • 8 .. • • 12 11% to 12 Rouen aad Havre .. . .. 20 .• 26; 1.... to MINES al del Monte, Unregistered • • • • •• •• 334 •• • to - COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 3% Gibraltar.. ...... Ditto, at sight ...... 12 % Leghorn ........ • • .... 30 45 Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 4 Genoa ............ •• .. 25 85 Antwerp 25 75 Milan .. Hamburgh .... • . MX. 13 834 Venice ........ ••• • • • Altona ......... .... — Naples ...... • • .... • • 40% hula, 3 days' sight ...• 25 40 Palermo, per 0z... . Ditto, 3 months.. 25 75 Lisbon... Marseilles .......• 25 85 0p0rt0.... .. .... •• 80urdeaux......... .. 25 85 Rio Janeiro • ...... • • 2'7 Frankfort on Maine.... 120% Bahia ...... BerlinPetersburgh, 3Us .... Buenos Ayres • Berlin .......... ••• • • • New York, 21 days' sight Vienn e, a, effec.flo.... • • 10 3 New .......... rriest ditt0...... • ... 10 3 PRICES OP BULLION, PER oz. Madrid ...... • 35% Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9 Cadiz .. •.. : .... •• . • 3634 New Dollars .... •• 0 4 10% 8i1ba0.......... •• • • Portugal Gold Coin Barcelona .........• Spanish Doubloons • • .........• • • Silver In !Ara •• •• 03 0% LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY) LONDON, FEB. 3. Wind N.E. by N., light breeze and hazy. DEAL, FEB. 2.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E., fresh and squally. —Arrd. Louisa Maria, Weuk, New York ; Anna Margaretha, Rumsden, New York; and both sailed for Antwerp; Mari ner°, Mendez, Havannah, and sailed for Hamburg ; Henry Skelton, Long, Baltimore. Sld. Sharp, Cape of Good Hope; Arab, Cape Coast Castle; Cato, St. Vincent's; Osbert, Do minica; Planet, Jamaica; Caroline, Havannah; Circassian and Corsair, New Orleans; Zealous, Charlestou. Foots, FEB. 2. Wind Arrd. Nymph, Thomer, Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, FEB. B.—Wind N.N.E.—Sid. John Oldham, Jamaica. FALMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind Glasgow,E.N.E.—Off Off port, Helen, of Moulmin, for London. Sld. Hindoo, Cape of Good Hoye. PORT TALBOT, FEB. I.—Wind E N.E.—Arrd. Dominica, Storach, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Daniel Webster, New York; Albion, Bowman, Quebec. BERWICK, Fan. I.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Margaret Hardy,' Mann, Callao. Exmourn.—Arrd. Northumberland, New York. CORK, JAN. Bl.—Arrd. an American ship, with loss of foremast and bowsprit. The Richmond Lass, water-logged and abandoned, was passed in long. 11 W., by the Susan Green, arrived here. Arrd. British Tar , Harris. Berbice , for the Clyde. Sid. Bartlett, New York; Indian Queen, Bar badoes. ILFRACO3IBE, FEB. I.—A portion of the quarter-deck of a small vessel, the combings of the companion, painted green, has been towed in from the Seven Hills. COWES, Fan. 2.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Emma, Honduras. SounitsirTorr, Fan. 2.—Slet. Avon steamer, West Indies. GRIMBSY, FEB. 2.—Arrd. Olga, Morrison, Richebucto. OFF TORBAY, FEB. 2. —Wind E. N. E.—Woodside, Guthrie, Rio Grande; Adolph, Behrens, St. Thomas, for Hamburg!). LIVERPOOL, FEB. 2.—Wind N.N.E., moderate. —Sid. Isabella, Demerara; Storm King, Vera Cruz; Cit y o f Rochester, New Orleans; James Bonham, ditto; Elizabeth Ellen, ditto; R. D. Shepperd, ditto; Medora, Charleston; Venice, Philadelphia. Off port, Joshua Waddington. Dispatches have been received at Lloyds from the Admi ralty reporting the damage sustained by shipping at Galway and Sligo, in the gales there of the 24th ult., particulars of , which have already appeared. 1 1 .1 T 7 ,7 1 IT T 71.". CORN -E t: N N SDAY Since Saturday evening the arrivals of English Wheat, especially from Kent, have been :artetAln.,t extensive, viz., 4,440 quarters, mostly in fair condition. The stands were heavily tilled with samples; at least four-fifths were those which remained unsold at the close of :Monday. This cir cumstance, together with the thin attendance of buyers, caused the demand for all descriptions to rule excessively heavy, and, to effect sales, a farther decline of quite 10. per quarter.must have been submitted to. In Foreign Wheats, the show of which was not large, exceedingly little business was doing, yet the holders were not to say anxious sellers; hence, in prices, we have no material alteration to notice. The receipts of English Barley have considerably exceeded those of many preceding weeks; but the imports of Foreign have been small. The Barley trade was dull, at barely sta tionary figures. The show of Malt was moderately exten sive. All kinds moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Oats, Beans, and Peas were easier to purchase. Flour dull, and the turn lower; 14,190 barrels have come from America in this week. ARRIVALS. I Wheat. Barl'y. Oats I Flour. English .... • • 4,440 qrs. 6,570 qrs. 5,930 qrs. I 4,370 ,lc;, Irish. ...... • • ---- -- i and Foreign •••••• 1,970 1,910 590 I 14,190br1s Malt, 5,560 qrs. WHITECECAPEL. We had a large supply of both town and country-killed Meat on sale. Generally speaking the demand ruled heavy, at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and Pork, as 6d to 4s 81 per Blbs., by the carcase. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. Busi ness, however, did not commence for twenty minutes after wards, as forty Members—the requisite number to make a House—did not assemble till that time. RAILWAY BILLS. On the motion of Mr. STRUTT, the following resolutions for the regulation of Railway Bills were severally agreed to :- 1. That a Committee of five Members be appointed. to be called the Classification Committee of Railway Bills, and that three be the quorum of such Committee. 2. That copies of all petitions for Railway Bills presented to the House be laid before the said Committee. 3. That the Committee of Classification shall form into groups all Railway Bills which, in their opinion, it would be expedient to submit to the same Comfilittee 4. That as soon as the Committee of Classification shall have determined what Railway Bills are to be grouped to gether, they shall report the same to the House, and all petitions against any of the said Bills shall be presented to the House three clear days before the meeting of the Com mittee thereon. 5. That there be no more than seven clear days between the first reading of any Railway Bill and the second reading thereof, except by special order of the House. 6. That the breviate of every Railway Bill shall be l a id on the table of the H o use, an d be printed and delivered one clear day before the second reading. 7. That such Railway Bills as shall have been read a first time before the House shall agree to these resolutions, shall be read a second time within seven clear days thereafter. 8. That such of the standing orders as relate to the com position of the Committees on Private Bills, and the orders consequent thereon, be suspended, so far as regards Railway Bills Feuding in the course of the present session. 9. That Committees on Railway Bills, during the present session of Parliament, shall be compc.sed of a chairman and four Members, to be appointed by the Committee of Selection. 10. That each Member of a Committee on a Railway Bill or Bills, shall, before he be entitled to attend and vote on such Committee, sign a declaration that his constituents have no local interests, and tl at he himself has no personal interest for or against any Bill referred to him ; and no slice C mittee shall proceed to business until the whole of the Mem bers thereof shall have signed such declaration. 11. That the promoters of a Railway Bill shall be prepared to go into the Committee on the Bill on such day as the Committee of Selection shall, subject to the order that there be seven clear days between the second reading of every Pri vate Bill and the sitting of the Committee thereupon, think proper to appoint, provided that the Classification Committee shall have reported on such Bill. 12. That the Committee of Selection shall give each Member not less than fourteen days' notice of the week in which it will be necessary for him to be in attendance, for the purpose of serving, if required, on a Railway Bill Com mittee. 13. That the Committee of Selection shall give each Member a sufficient notice of his appointment as a Member of a Committee on a Railway Bill, and shall transmit to him a copy of the twelfth resolution, and a blank form of the de claration therein required, with a request that he will forth with return it to them properly filled up and signed. 14. Timt if the Committee of Selection shall not within due time receive from each such Men.ber the aforesaid declaration, or an excuse which they shall deem sufficient, they shall report to the House the name of such defaulting Member. 15. That the Committee of Selection shall have the power of substituting, at any time before the first meeting of a Committee, another Member for a Member whom they shall deem it proper to excuse from serving on that Committee. 16. That power be given to the Committee of Selection to send for persons, papers, and records, in the execution of the duties imposed on them by the foregoing resolutions. 17. That no Member of a Committee shall absent himself from his duties on such Committee, unless in the case of sick ness or by leave of the House. 18. That all questions before Committees on Railway Groups or Bills shall be decided by a majority of voices, in chiding the voice of the chairman ; and that, whenever the voices shall be equal, the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. 19. That, if the chairman shall be absent from the Com mittee, the Member next in rotation on the list, who shall be present, shall act as chairman. 20. That Committees shall be allowed to proceed so long as three Members shall be present, but not with a less number, unless by special leave of the House. 21. That if on any day within one hour after the time ap pointed for the meeting of a Committee three Members shall not be present, the Committee shall be adjourned to the same hour on the next day on which the House shall sit, which had been fixed for that day. 22. That in the case ofa Member not being present within one hour after the time appointed for the meeting of the Committee, or of any Member absenting himself from his duties on such Committee, such Member shall be reported to the House at its next sitting. 23. That each Committee shall be appointed to meet on each day of its sitting not later than twelve o'clock, unless by. the regular vote of the Committee. 24. That Committees on Railway Bills have leave to sit in the present session, notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, if the Committees shall so think fit. 25. That it be an instruction to all Committees upon Pri • vete Bills not to hear parties on any petition hereafter re ferred to them, which shall not be prepared and signed in strict conformity with the.rules and orders of this House. 26. That all Select Committees on Railway Groups or Bills be empowered to refer; if they shall so think fit, to the Chairman of 'Ways and Means, together with the Members ordered to prepare and bring in each such Bill, any unopposed Railway Bill submitted for their consideration, and that such Bills be severally dealt with by the said Chairman, and those Members respectively acting with him, as other unopposed Bills are to be dealt with. 57. That the following clause be inserted in all Railway Bills passing through this House:— And be it further enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to exempt the railway by this or the said recited Acts authorised to be made from the pro visions of any general Act relating to such Bills, or of any general Act relating to railways, which may hereafter pass during this or any future session of Parliament, or from any future revision and alteration, under the authority of Par liatnent, of the maximum rates of fares and charges autho rised by this Act. Mr. 111 ME wished to know if the Government proposed to take any steps to carry out the principle agreed to by the private Committee, which sat last session on Railway Bills— namely, that some responsible board, answerable for those Bills, should be appointed. He wanted to know, therefore, whether any measures had been taken for the purpose of having preliminary inquires made with respect to the pro posed railways? Mr. STRUTT said that he himself was a member of the Committee referred to by the Hon. Gentleman, and con curred in the report that a local inquiry should previously take place before any steps were taken in that House. Such an inquiry locally on the spot would be more advantageous than any that might be made before a Committee of that House. Since the report of that Committee an Act was passed in the House to carry out the recommendation of that report, and, in accordance with that Act, preliminary inquiries had been made by two departments—namely, the Admiralty and the . Board of Woods and Forests. The department of railways was, he considered, one in which it was especially necessary that these prelimi nary inquiries should take place, and he begged to inform the House that the question was at present under the considera tion of the Government. He hoped shortly to be in a con dition to state that a measure' on the subject would be in readiness to be placed before the House. lie did not think it necessary, therefore, to make any further observations at present. CLASSIFICATION OF RAILWAY BILLS. Mr. STRUTT moved the nomination of the following Committee for the Classificatien of Railway Bills :—Mr. Wilson Patten, Lord Courtenay, Sir Robert Ferguson, Sir John Pakington, and Lord Dalmenv —Motion agreed to. Mr. HUME wished to know whether there was any pro vision that private Bills should be submitted first to a re sponsible Committee, as during last session? Mr. STRUTT quite concurred in the propriety of the question. By such an arrangement more points would be satisfactorily arranged than if an Act had been passed, by which preliminary inquiries on railway Bills should be made by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and by the Ad miralty. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for a copy of the information, and the punishment inflicted on certain parties who had left their masters' service in a manufactury. Mr. BANKES presented several petitions in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill, and for the amendment of the Poor-law Re lief Bill Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a petition from the ship owners of Drogheda, complaining of the light dues. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented several petitions in favour of the Ten Hours' Bill. POSTPONEMENT OF MOTIONS. Mr. HUME said he would postpone his motions fora copy of the returns of corporal and ot h er pun i shments on board each of her Majesty's ships in the royal navy, in each year, from the Ist day of J anuary, 1844, to the 31st day of De cember, 1840, stating the name, rating, nature of the offence, date of punishment, the number of lashes, and remarks of commander - in - chief or seni or o ffi cer, as to any excess of punishments or otherwise, according to the schedules pub lished and ordered in the Admiralty Instructions, dated the Ist day of January, 1844, for the government of her Ma jesty's naval ser v i ce; stating, also, the number of seamen and marines employed i n eac h year,and the average number flogged, distinguishing the number of commissioned and warrant and petty officers; also, specifying the name of her Majesty's ships and vessels, and the name of the commanders, in which no corporal punishments have been inflicted in any of these years—also for abstracts of the total number of men, rank and file, belonging to the Royal Marines, who, from the Ist day of Janua r y, 1844 , to the 31st day of D G December, 184 , have suffered corp ora l pun i s h ment or i mpr i sonment on shore, in e, showing th e na t ure o f the i r offences, in classes, f or such punishm en t h as b een awarded, and t h e num b e r h_ d of con class ; and showing the greatest and the smallest number of lashes inflicted; also, the longest and shortest p finement awarded as punishment to each person, and average period of confinement for each class o 1 number oCrank - s_ en : and the the average number flogged, stating the total the total commissioned officers on shore in each year: and file, and also the number of commissired and of ri-n- R03.al Artillery Ireland, number of soldiers belonging to the . and Ordnance corps in Great Britain and NEW HISTORICAL WORK BY MISS PARDOE. Just ready, in 3 vols. Svo., with numerous Engravings on Steel and Wood, by William and George Measom, 21. 2s. bound, LOUIS the FOURTEENTH, and the COURT of FRANCE in the SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By JULIA PARDOE, Author of the "City of the Sultan," &e. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CIUNCERT, made in a cause ROAKES against MANSER, the Creditors of WILLIAM MANSER, late of Rye, in the county of Sussex, yeoman, who died In the month of November, 1531, are, on or before the Ist day of March, 1847, to come In and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WiLsox, sue of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; or, in default thereof, they will peremptorily be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. GREGSON and KEWELL, 8, Angel-court, Throgmorton street, London, Agents for R. YOUNG, Battle, Sussex, Plaintiff's Solicitor. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. IviEssits. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TIIZSDAT and Panay, at One o'clock, at the Ball of Commerce, lureadueedle-street, London, to wbleit place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully •equested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day orevious to their being offered; aid advlces of results will be `forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds biome- Newly disposed of according to iustmetions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THE WEATHER.--SuN Orrzcz, FEBRUARY 3. THERUOMETEN Lowest, 30; Highest, 39 ; Noon, 34 BARONETEB, 29 96.—WIND N.N.W., rain and sleet. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE Tills DAY. llornlng .. 47 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 2 minutes after 4. ~., •:',..tx 4, A l • ~......., ---- i - „ f c ~,, , . ,tl.. Ai, 4-,Au..... <4lFik-- . •-.4,..!" . 7 1 . r . ,1i, • 4,* '7. l. T;gi-VA•4,111.101i A 7 4 , N e lgtf := ...* , ' ~,, _ ______. .. ...e , i.i , 7 1 RWFW•A ` ek ' . 4 ' ;" : ; ;P> 2. • . A1., - ; . ;1 . •••• ~.. AAIIIIMII,P.4O, . ~,,NOMMIIM -,So'iwin,--f* '1". --. ...- — •?7 , ; ". " ' . -,-. SECOND EDITION. awning 241 At LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1847, On presenting two petitions from certain growers of malt in Linlithgow and Dalkeith, Lord STANLEY availed himself of the opportunity to throw some im pediment, if possible, in the way of the Government, by inveighing against the Ministerial measure for the admission of sugar in the operations of brewing and distillation. The Noble Lord appeared to protest against this proposition simply for the purpose of indicating his continued adherence to the obsolete principles of Protection. There was no necessity for this parade of pertinacity. The imperviousness of Lord STANLEY'S mind to the convictions which, to other men are inevitable, from the combined argu ments of reason and experience, is thoroughly com prehended by the mass of the population. It needs neither such observations as those uttered last night in the Upper House by Lord STANLEY, nor such de mlndrations as the memorable whitebait dinner of last season, to convince us of the obstinacy of the Noble Leader of the Protectionist Oppo• sition. There is an insurmountable barrier— a sort of moral chevaux-de-frieze—between the Noble Lord and the free-trade movement—the alternate cross-bars of the chevaux-de-frieze being his egotism and his ambition. Every sensible observer of the fluctuations of our statemen will acknowledge at once that nothing short of a political miracle can remove the scales of agricultural prejudice from the eyes of Lord STANLEY, or pour the light of true com• mercial knowledge into the wilful darkness of his judgment. Even if the flourishing state of our na tional revenue, and the increased prosperity of our native and colonial agriculturists, and the improved condition of our lab-mring classes, and the extended comforts of our shopkeepers and manufacturers, at tested at this moment the advantages of free trade, Lord STANLEY would still require some preternatural transmutation of his whole nature before he could avow himself a conyei t to the doctrines of mercantile freedom. The whole individuality of Lord STANLEY would be annihilated in the change. Ile would be metamorphosed into somebody else by the abandon merit of all his old and cherished phantasms. Like RIP VAN WINKLE on awaking from a trance of years, Lord STANLEY would be bewildered as to his own identity. Who does not remember the exclamation of RIP VAN : WINKLE— " I'm not myself; I'm somebody else ; that's me there!"—pointing to a neighbour. Inevitably, Lord STANLEY would find himself in a state of incredulity quite as extravagant as that imagined by WASHING.. TON IRVING. He would behold himself surrounded by the manifestations of the blessings consequent upon an emancipated commerce, Itnd be loth to credit his own stolid loyalty to the cause of protection. That would be inevitable, supposing the advantages of free trade could be obtained at a bound, instead of gra dually and progressively. As it would be out of the course of all nature, however, to realise the benefits of the new system suddenly, Lord STANLEY must con- tinue the same pertinacious upholder of the monopo list creed. He must wait for the miracle we speak of. Although the Noble Leader of the Protectionists endeavoured to disguise his objections to the proposed admission of sugar into distilleries, under the plea of its being calculated to injure our colonial cultivators of sugar and our native growers of malt, the mask was too transparent to screen his real purpose. The gist of Lord STANLEY'S objections amount, in fact, to the advocacy of those old principles of monopoly which were finally exploded by the Legislature during the course of last session, and which have been cleansed from our commercial code. Allow the introduction of sugar to our distillers, and permit at the same time the gradual reduction of duty upon sugar grown in foreign plantations from 21s. to 145., so as to be upon au equality with our colonial pro duce, and what will be the consequence ? Why, ex claims Lord STANLEY, the consequence is ob vious ; the facilitation of the purchase of foreign sugar will naturally and necessarily deteriorate the interests of our colonial planters, and the extended employment of that commodity in distillation will prove equally prejudicial to our growers of malt. The proposition, we will admit, is plausible enough at a superficial glance, but its sophistry vanishes upon a closer examination. It is reported that grain is now so far reduced, and the duty upon sugar still con tinues so considerable, that there is no inducement whatever to our distillers to forsake their system of extracting saccharine matter from malt for the pur pose of obtaining it directly from sugar. Besides this, the argument of Lord STANLEY against the dimi- nution of the duty upon foreign sugar to the amount levied upon colonial sugar, is nothing more than a revival of the old Protectionist howl. Because it suits the purpose of the discomfited mono polists, they altogether throw into the back ground the object of the Administration in intro ducing this measure in reference to the employment of sugar in distillation—that object being to afford . . brewers and distillers a substitute for malt whenever a panic has so far acted upon the corn-market as to carry grain up to the enormous price of 70s. or 803. per quarter. That is the grand intention of the Government, and that is the inten- tion which Lord STANLEY and his followers would misrepresent as a wanton interference with the inte rests of our English growers of malt and of our colonial cultivators of sugar. The logic of the Pro tectionists has become too threadbare, however, to cover their insidious attempts with anything like decency. f Ire We have zealously advocated the interests o land on all occasions, to the best of our ability ; we have urged the adoption of all such measures as may be calculated to afford relief to her suffering children, or to be beneficial in any respect to the Irish gene rally, or to any particular class of Irishmen, unless some great principle of national policy, or national justice, should be infringed on, or 'violated by the concession. When demands, unreasonable in them selves, and in direct opposition to the recognised principles of legislation, are made, it becomes our MEXICO. The following important news is posted at the North and South American Coffee House. ARRIVAL OF THE LONDON PACKET-SHIP NORTHUMBERLAND, CAPT. GRESWOLD. NEW YORK, JAN. U.—The Mexican Congress has decreed that they will not think or treat of peace until every hostile foot has cleared Mexican soil, and every vessel that lines her coast is withdrawn. SPORTING ll'. TELLIGENCE. ACCEPTANCES FOR Age st lb. Sweetmeat 5 ... 8 12 Sir Talton Sykes 4 ... 8 11 Inheritress Dulcet... ...... 5 ... 8 8 lago 4 8 8 Sting Dolo 4 8 Pam 5 8 2 Doleful 5 8 () Mendicant Annandale ...... 5 ... 7 131 Faith The Conqueror 4 ... 7 1 St. Lawrence Newcourt a ... 7 10 Queen blab a ... 7 10 Queen of Tyne Monarch 6 ... 7 8 Antler Lady Wildair 5 ... 7 8 Jinglepot 5 ...7 8 Tom Tulloch THE CHESTER CUP. Age st. lb. Due an Durras 5 ... 6 12 Flahowlagh ...... 5 ... 612 Clumsy Cher tsev 5 ... 6 12 Jenny Wren 5 ... 6 12 Duke of Richmond 4 ... 6 12 The Premier 4 ... 6 12 Cawronsh I Queen Anne 4 ... 6 12 I Restoration 5 6 10 I Cherry 4 • . 6 10 'lEmigrant ..... a ... 6 8 /Red Rover 6 ... 6 8 6 6 8 Satyr Fatal Report Magnet .. 5 ”. 6 7 Little Jack 5 ... 6 6 Best Bower 6 ... 6 5 Sylvanus ..... 5 ... 6 5 Farthing Candle 4 ... 6 2 Camera Obscure 4 ... 6 0 Erin-go-bragh Mermaid . ... ... 4 6 0 The Lamb ...... 4 ... 6 0 Flitch ...... 4 6 0 Punch smuggler Bill 4 512 Headsman ..... 4 ... 512 Horn of Chase 3 512 Hannah Raine Chatterbox ...... 4 ... 5 8 Regalia Golden Bee 4 ... 5 7 Banana 4.. ...5 7 Pride of Eden 3 ... 5 7 Crozier 3 . . 5 7 Factory Girl Wave Devil-me-care Moodkee 3 ... 4 11 The Premier Pink Bonnet Moonlight Sir Martin ...... 3 411 So Nice Agnes Mtrmillo Bedlam cby Euclid 3 ... 4 9 Infringe Precocious Youth 3 ... 4 6 Emerald Isle Spem Gregis Bit-nibble T--- Mildew 5 7 7 Arthur 5 7 7 The Collier Winchester 5 7 7 Fitzallan Marq. Conyngham 4 7 6 Princess Alice 4 7 6 Jonathan Wild Lord Saltoun Intrepid Gwalior Campanile ...... 5 ... 7 5 Whinstone ...... 5 ... 7 5 Torn Tough a ... 7 4 My Mary Master Downes Crown Prince..... 4 .•. 7 4 Chamois Mickey Free 6 .. 7 3 Ratcliffe Comet ...... . Orlin Con 5 ... 7 3 Robin Burns 5 ... 7 2 Pal ..- 4.. 7 2 Maid of Lyme ..•••• 4 ... 7 2 Plaudet Woodpecker Roderick a ... 6 13 Councellor a 613 Ajax ............... a ... 613 M ar i an RaMSAy 5 613 B o urton ....•... ACCEPTANCES FO R R 'j Age. st.lb. Annandale ......... 5 ... 8 5 Queen of Tyrre ...... aged 8 2 Lord Saltoun ...... 6 ... 7 11 Refraction ...... 5 7 9 Miss Elis 5 ... 7 8 Crown Prince...... 4 ... 7 7 Mount Callan ...... abed 7 6 Ajax ................. 7 Clumsy 5 ... 7 2 Roderick aged 7 9 Humdrum ......... 4 ... 7 0 New Forest Deer 6 ... 6 13 Miss Bnrns ..... aged 612 Sir Simon 4 ... 6 11 Buttress 4 ... 6 11 Foxwhelp Morocco HE SOMERSETSHIRE KES. Age. sf. lb. .Voedpecker Magnet Camera Obscura 4 .. 6 9 Alliance ... Buscot Buck Nli-s Shirley Trojan 6 ... 6 0 Crozier 3 ... 5 9 Regalia Brave Buck 3 ... 5 2 Halo 3 ... 5 0 Daughter of the Star 3 ... 5 0 Moodkee 3 ... 5 0 Rosin the Beau c. by Euclid, NOMINATIONS FOR THE GRAND FRENCH STEEPLE CHASE. —Cavendish, aged—Maid of Llangollen—Sivitchar — St Leger—Little Tomm v —Cam pli ng—Avoca—Discoun t—Al bert—Christopher North—Jack—Culverthorpe—Brunetti Frederick—br g by Glaiscus, d by Belzoni—Mahomet— Gazeley— Salute—Golden Rule—Tramp—Latitat—Ragsm an —Gayhurßt—Forester—Matchless—Loto--Peter Sim ple— Sabine—Cicy—The Page—Young Lottery—The Orphan— Conservative Pioneer Linliboy Lucifer— Bachelor— Victress—br g by Tom Brown—Little John—The Roarer— Walter Gay—Little Ben—Hippolita. The above are the nomivations received in London, those made in Paris will be published as soon as they are received. --- TarritasAus.—Eattarum.—For even beta between " fif ties" and the field, read between "fifteen" and the field. Potentia, stated to have been bought in, was sold for 355 guineas. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER.--TUESD AY. (RECEIVED THIS DAY. ) CHESTER CUP. —2O to 1 agst Mend icant ( tak en) — 25 to 1 a gs t C amera Ob scura -25 to 1 agst Flitch- 3 0 to 1 agst The Lamb-30 t o 1 ags t Erin-go- bragh -35 to 1 agst Punch -35 to 1 agst B e dlam-500 to 30 agst Duke of Rich mond (taken)-1,000 to 15 agst Dolo (taken). METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 100 to 6 agst Bourton (taken)-100 to 6 agst Pink Bonnet (taken) -100 to 5 agst Meeanee (taken). DERBY.--15 to 2 agst Van Tromp (offered) -1 Ito 1 agst Epirote-16 to 1 agst Planet-20 to 1 agst Glentilt-35 to 1 agst Wanota-33 to 1 agst Allertonian (taken)-40 to 1 agst Lunedale-40 to 1 agst Bingham-40 to 1 agst Red Hart-50 to 1 agst P ro j ec tile-1,000 to 15 agst colt out of Calypso' s d am (ta k en). OAKS-20 to 1 agst Ellerdale (offers to take). NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.—TuEsp.tv. CHIPPENHAM FIELD. TH E DERBY. Mr. Fyso n 9 s Fireaway beat Mr. B. Smyth's Steamer. Mr. Fyson's Farmer's Boy beat Mr. Dobede's Director. Mr. Buckworth's Buonaparte best Mr. Dobede's Doubtful. Mr. King's Rhadamanthus beat Mr. Buckworth's Bachelor. Mr. Arabia's Auricula beat Lord Stradbroke's Mentor. Mr. Vipan's Valiant beat Mr. Gillett's Gentilt. Mr.: Vipan's Vampire TIME CUP. bea Mr. Arabin's All's Lnck. Mr. Dobede's Dowager Queen beat Mr. Gillett's Gold Finder. Mr. Dobede's Damask Rose beat Lord Stradbroke's Mills. Mr. B. Smyth's Spinster beat Lord Stradbroke's Mawworm. Lord Stradbroke's Mealey beat Mr. Fyson's Fenella. Mr. Vipan' s Vi ctor beat Mr. Buckworth ' s Backsheesh. Mr. Fyson' s F ancy Boy beat Mr. King s Rosetta. Mr. Moody's Regin a b eat Mr. B. Smyth's Sherwood. THE OAKS. Mr. King's Sile s i a b eat Mr. Dobede's Diana. ' Mr. Arabin's Ales beat Lord Stradbroke's Moss Rose. Mr. Moody's Revoke beat Mr. Gillett's Gipsey Girl. Mr. Dobede's Daisy beat Mr. B. Smyth'a Sorella. " li , ;, teen day of January, IS-14, and t.r p I , i . 1 )f. IThr, -41(1, have slitlred corporal utn,t,nn.,ut ioirri,onment ; sl.owing natme of the H 1 ce s, whidi such corporal punishment or imprisonment has been awarded, and the number in each class; and showing, also, the greatest and the smallest number of lashes; also, the longest and shortest period of califineine,,t awarded as punishment, the average numbe r dogged, and th e average period of confinement for each class o' off ogees; distinguishing also the total number of rank and tile liable to be flogged, and also the number of commis sione,l and non- commissioned officers in the - United Kigdoin in each of those y ears ; a l s o, returns of the sante tenor, of the Royal Artillery and Ordnance Corps serving abroad. Returns of the total number of soldiers belonging to regiments and depots hi Great Britain and Ireland, who from the Ist day of January 1844 to the 31st day of D ecem b er 1846 , h ave s uffered either corporal punishment or imprisonment ; and, wheneve r either col oral punishment or imprisonment has been inflicted on the same person more th an once , spec if y i ng h o w often it has been so inflicted; with ab s t rac t o f t h e tota l nu mber of sol diers, belonging to re g i men t s i n t h e co l on i es an d possession! of Great Britain, w h o , i n eac h year, from the Ist dal of January 1844 to the 31st day of December 1846, have silt fwred corporal punishments or imprisonments ; showing the nature of the offences, i n c l asses , f or w hi c h suc h corporal_ e punishment or imprisonment has been awarded, and th numbers in each class ; stating, also, the greatest number and the lowest number of lashes inflicted on any persee 111 each year; also the longest and the shortest period of numb;cO finement awarded as punishm en t, t h e avera ge eh flogged, and the ave r a ge p er i o d o f con fi nemen t for ea class in each year; also distinguishing the total num b er of rank and file, and also the number of commissioned sea non-commissioned officers, in each year. Of the ninn be f he soldiers, who, from the I s t d a y o f J anuary, 1844, t°,'. 31st day of December, 1846, h ave su ff ere d corpora l Punish,. 'Pent or imprisonment, and wh e th er e i t h er corporal punish ment or imprisonment has been inflicted on the sae inflict more than once, specifying how often it has been so n inflic' e . es and distinguishing the numbers in regiments in the colonies in posiession of her Majesty from regiments in depOts ot i s i Groat Britain and Ireland ; distinguishing, also, the t number of rank and fik and also the number of cotnau r sion,d and non-commissioned officers in each years stating the number or name of th e reg i ment or co rp, w l ,l the names of the commandi n g o ffi cers , i n w hi c h no corPor"" punishment has been inflicted in anv of these years (in„ e l l ; tinuation of Parliamentary Paper, go. 308, of session lo , "; He would, however, move for a copy of the corr espontle! l _,, c between the Consul of her Brit ann i c M a j esty an d t h e Austru' Government relative to the annexation of Cracow. DESTITUTE POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. ROEBUCK said he would move to-morrow, in CC mittee on the Destitute P oor R e li e f Bill , t h at t he Pow ,, ~.," v4ted in the Gove r n men t to ren d er val i d a presenting should be expunged. Ift YELLING ON SUNDAY. Mr. HUAIE said that, certain railway di rec t ors hail ;,,t fered with travelling on Sunday, which was considered tremely incommodious to the public. Now he desired a copy of the resolutions and orders of every railway com P i af where the travelling on S un d ay h as b een stopped whol'),rr partially, so as to show th e accommo d at i on affor d e d for veiling to the public generally, and to the Post-Dffice esrit cially on that day. He wo u ld t h en cons id er w h at step might be advisable for the Ho use t o a d opt i n re f eren ce to subject. MILBANK PRISON. Mr. M. GORE moved that the report made to her lthti a oestii by Mr. Escott, a Member of thi s H ouse, on t h e sta t e - bank Prison, be laid before this House. Sir G. GREY requested that the motion should be Iv drawn. A Commission had be en appo i nte d o f t h ree Commit, ' sioners, who were to make a j o i n t report. Now he Was 4 4 00 , willing to receive it in th e s h ape o f a l etter from the I Member, the only way, he a p pre h en d e d , that h e could re, ee , ceive it, and he would th e n l a y i t upon t h e ta b le o f t he 1 1 °_, e u Mr. B. ESCOTT said th a t hi s id eas o f what was corm differed differed from those of th e Ri g ht H on. B aronet. H e was I mauled to report by the Commission of her Majesty, M l „ v g did not think he would be fulfilling that command by Wr" i ,, °t a letter to the Secretary of State. Though he W B - 5 1,4 8 anxious to stand on ceremony, he considered that a prinC was involved • and he was not w illi ng t o conce d e it. Sir GEORGE GREY said he did n o t w i s h the 1 -l be Member to change a s i ng l e wor d o f hi s report, but 0111 Y form it. Mr. 13. ESCOTT replied. • tesa Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE was sorry t h at t h e House,'" geil of coming to the subj ec t- matter i tse l f ; should be "Fit'rsiof a matteswith a mere matter of f orm . B ut, spea ki ng o f a- form, he did think the Hon. Member (Mr. B. Escott) wl t he the. right, for it was in accordance with precedent an,re by commands of her Majesty, that a report should be ina"„ ae ot the commission. Such was the language of the dort - 0 to by which they had been appointed, commanding the the inquire into the matter, and make a report tonch in it i oot same. In fact the duties of the Commissioners Irria' ht be completely discharged unless they made and brougl he ir their report ; yet, so far from doing this, they had kept from report open till another was ready to be sent 111 se of another Committee. He reco ll ecte d t h at i n the ca `e a former commission, of which Sir Francis r a 't; r ta was a member, that ge n tl eman h a d sent i n a repo rt se row from that of the other commissioners, and he did not l i ten oe. stand how that should no t ru l e i n the presentl°' Indeed, without a report f rom the Hon. Member co he - chester, the papers of the c omm i ss i on would not be pleted. He at the same ti me cou ld not help sa ying tllo oion did not agree with that Hon. Gentleman in the ° r bleir which he had formed, an opinion, as it appeared to ll t he which he could not have arrived at, if he had read a tter of evidence over attentively. But to return to the 1 11 11 _„i i t, be form which was the subject before the House; it " c ola immaterial whether the result of the com before the House in the shape of a letter or of the pro Per but there could be little doubt that a report was form for the commissioners to adopt. e ' rouse Mr. ROEBUCK said in the instance hes a-e th ree Pe r " of a commission had been appointed, consisting_ t , g ether to sons, and power was given to any two of thew , tiler it was do certain things; unless two of them were t o f her clear that they could not legally and in fumitnen no Majesty's Commission do any act ; that if the instead of meeting together, should transact the business r quired of them, each in a separate chamber, the Acte °I? done would be illegal. By one clause of her Majesty's 00 03 ti missaionreport ; mission, power was given to any two of them together, ~,1 1° .,t n. , fewer, to discharge the duties of the Commission. P u ." when they came to another clause, requiring the Con a ;,- sioners generally to report, the construction of that claps-- must be ruled by the former clause, so that the meaning must be taken to be that not fewer than two of them "` s i gether could legally draw up a report on the transaction s the Commission. Mr. FOX MAULE was sorry that the House should Palf their time on a m at t er which would really come to no l ar t .v o It was agreed that a report from the Commission ought be laid bef o re the h ouse , and lie was of opinion that a r e Por ought to be made irrespective of the Hon. Memher„r Winchester. He recollected that in the case of the 1 _"„"„ Inquiry Commission appointed for Scotland, one cf the 1 11 . 7 1 .4 bets of that Commission was a dissentient from the re b te re but instead of interfering with that report, that Hon.tate, tleman sent in a separate report to the Secretary of '..„,ht and he thought that the lion. Member for Winchester oue to follow the same recedent. The motion was then withdrawn. MILITARY STATISTICS, the Mr. HUME inquired of tke Right Hon. Gentlettla n t her Secretary of the War D e p artment (M r. F. Maule) vlb,,e-bad the military statistics of I n di a, w hi c h M a j Rtr or Tulloch ben formerly enga g ed i n , wou ld b e resumed? These "be tistics were of the greatest importance, and ought t° bt forthcoming with ou t d e l ay . H e wou l d also ask the ilig re- Hon. Gentleman whether he had received the returns. garding the health of the troops in India, which be Hume) had moved for two years ago? bat Mr. F. MAULE s a id h e was not aware that t h e re""bot referred to by the Hon. Gentleman had been received, ts, he would inquire at the War-office. In reference to t li gitt tistics of Colon e l T u ll oc h , the other engagements o,ity Gallant Officer h a d f or a t i me i nterfered with the i r co r , r" ante, but they would be resumed as soon as possible. Mr. HUME gave notice, that on Tuesday next be Ni r c:iio move as address t o h er ..:lajesty, if found neces sar%i et , these statistics be conti nue d f ort h w i t h b y some pu blic onlbe for which duty he knew of none better qualified than Gallant Officer who had been referred to. The House then adjourned at Half-past One o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S STEAM_sLO S PHYNX j e PORTSMOUTH, TUESD AY, FIVE O'CLOCK, r.m.— Ti packet, just atrived, brings Mr. George liiddlecombe, ." - t ho Master of the flag-ship St. Vincent, with dispatches for , ost Commander. in-Chief at this port, from the senior @n o , operating at the wreck of the Sphynx, and the welcome l op telligence that the Sphynx had been moved this tid e oi feet nearer deep water. She would, doubtless, have been h $ off further, but one of the " camels" burst, and the ,h, sa t i be were consequently compelled to leave off heaving. 11 be 30 tons of coals now in her can be got out, and she can further lightened 30 or 40 tons more, success is looked 1 1 174 as certain. Wind and weather continue favourable, althoub the tide has rot risen so high as had been anticipated. The Medea steam-sl o op, C omman d er Mason, arrived 1•0 f morning, and came into harbour to fit for the reception Sir H. Seymour, the newly-appointed Minister at Lisboa. Mr. WALLACE'S NEW OPZRA.—The libretto r e d been read in the green-room by the author, Mr. Bunn , !.;* the opera is now in daily reh earsa l. Th e scene i s i n Bohe,' and the subject has been taken from history. Of BANK OF ENGLAND. — Accounts of the arnouri ie all Exchequer-bills purchased by the Bank of Eng l3ll ' of 1546, and of balances of sums issued for the dividends due and not demanded, from the sth of April, 11 to the sth of January, 1847, have been presented to nu b ijh ment, pursuant to the Act. The amount of Exchequer",iels and other Government securities so purchased, or on wl", ;s cl sums were advanced in the :rear 1847, altogether amore ed , to 4,660,919!., all of which has been paid oft' and dischargo e . The gross total amount of the dividends due and net, s/• manded amounted, on the sth of April, 1846, to 1,10 8, ' I ; be of which, 135,023/. remained in the hands of the Bank , , o f remainder being advanced to Government; on the sth b 0 July, 1846, 1,093,5561., of which 100,000/. remained in th 161 hands of the Bank ; on the 10th of October, hat t 10,017,980/., of which 100,0001. remained. in the 11,4 !` t of the Bank ; and on the sth of January lest F.ba 1,088,8194 of which 170,838/. remained in the hands of . Bank. ° I PaYlnent :nt THE NATIONAL DEBT.—The annual accou- , or the sums received and expended by t h e Commissioners 3 the reduction of the National Debt in the y e ar ended the . 5tlP of January, 1847, has been prepared and presented. The c or , ditor side of the account exhibits a sum total of 3,578,721 ' arising from cash received at sundry times from the Exche: quer, and interest on stock, &c. The de btor side shows tO7 following items --vie., a sum of 9,700/ paid for 10,I:3 0 '' Reduced Annuities 263,102/. tor 273,849/.Consols; 689,797 1 • for 718,3531. Reduced; 46,923/. for 49,2911. Old South Se! Stock; 149,6091. for 157,900/. New South Sea Stock; 303 2 : for 4,000/. Three per Cent.. Annuities (1751); 14,8491. 119 : 15,644/. 'Three per Cent. Annuities ( 1726 ); and 2,400,(?01• for Exchequer-bills. SURGICAL OPERATIONS UNDER THE INFLUENCE 4 : 314 ETllEM—Yesterday afternoon two more operations were Po!: cessfully performed in the large theatre of the Charing-er°,:; Hospital, on patients while under the influence of et e'" vapour. The first operation was performed by Mr. Aveq' t anti consisted in the removal of the large toe nail of the 1e f oo t—a very painful process; and i n th e secon d case, r ; Steghall, the house surgeon, extracted several teeth froan !: , young man who had inhaled th e e th er . I n b o th cases 9 patients acknowledged th a t th ey h a d not f e lt the slighl es pain during the operation. Information was yesterday received by the polic e , that, on the previous evening, some thieves obtained accos'' by means of skeleton keys, into the house of Mr. Lethbrid ge; No. 3, Manor Cottage, Kennington-oval, and carried f quantity of plate, consisting of silver spoons and forks of every description, a cameo brooch, a gold hair-brooch , ;2 1 with pearls, a Geneva gold watch, a gold brequet chain, / (1 a gold seal and key attached, a morocco purse, contailloti gold and silver moneys to a large amount, a number 0 other articles of Valuable jewellery, and a (palatal dW eat aPPArd f t ou du gil OCI let th NI al