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------ - . i PRICES OF THE STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. lank Stock per Cent. Red. B2N% India Stock per Cent.ConS. l Per Cent. 9O' South Sea Stock shut htto Rod 5O 89% Old Annuities — % , 'Nper Cent.-- ..... shut New Dttto .......... . shut per Cent. Alan. 1726 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Per Cent. 1846 ' Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 8 9 PM. '4sok Long Ann. to expire Ditto..... .500 8 9 pm. Jau 5, 1860 l6 9-16 Ditto Small Oct-10 1859 l6 9-16 Ditto Commercial. p m. - - Jan.s, , lB6O Ditto Advertised — Pm. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Opening — Aprlls, um — India fer Acc0unt.......... ,tari. 5, 1870 — Cons. for:Jan. 19 E374%5 % exacts OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE D'CLOCE. k ~,,t rian Bonds — Neapolitan...-. .............. ... ielgian Scrip NTi pm. Peruvian Bonds kaulian rsonds 44% Portuguese Bonds hieeos Ayres Bonds... ..... . Prussian, Old 11 II an Bonds .— — 'Mao, New :olombian Bonds — tussian /Ito, 1824 . ) 5hi5h................ .. -- 1823 ;mei, Bonds — French Rentes, sp. c. —t. —c. :Mt°, 1825 . — Exchange - -f. --. 3uatimala. — 3 per cent —f. —c. V.exican Bonds — Exchange t —c. *it to. IBes — Dutch Scrip 4l!-.i PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE o'ctocx. Paid. Per Share. Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. tmsterdam C.F. 12 1 Leghorn 4774, Ditto, at sight '1 181 Genoa 25 70 Rotterdam 9 U 12 11 Venice 4 7 1,1 Antwerp 12 II Malta 46 Hamburg M.B. 13 12 Naples Altona 13 12 1 Palermo per oz. 11 9 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 Lisbon Ditto 2U. 25 '7O Oporto 47% Bordeaux 25 75 Rio Janeiro Berlin Bahia 2B Frankforton slaine, Ex. 51.152 Buenos Ayres Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Vienna effective 11. 2M. 10 3 Cork l% Trieste do lO 4 BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid 16% £. s. d. Cadiz 36% Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Bac a 3614 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 101 Barcelona 36 hew Doubloons 0 0 0 Seville 3614 New Dollars Gibraltar 4714 Silver bars, standard... 0 0 0 HAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. O America 0 0 Hamburg O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 o Jamaica 0 1 earth agena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 1 O Flanders 0 0 Malta ....... ......... ... 0 0 France 0 0 Sweden O Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford _ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mor ning ... 3 minutes after 3.1 Evening...2o minutes after 3. TWENTY-FOUR LARGE QUARTO PAGES, Equal to an OCTAVO VOLUME, for FOURPENCE. An Extra Sheet of EIGHT PAGES will be given on SATURDAY NEXT with the T H E N 1E U M. A In addition to the customary Reviews, Reports, Fine Arts, Theatres, &c. it will contain—Original Papers and Poems by Allan Cunningham Thos. Hood J. Hamilton Reynolds 'T. Carlyle T. K. Hervey Leitche Ritchie Rev. Hobart Gaunter Miss Jewsbury The late W. Roscoe Charles Dance J. Thos. Roscoe The Author of the W. J. Rev. H. Stebbing Dorninie's Legacy Charles Lamb W. C. Taylor James Everett The Author of Lon- J. Mackay Wilson Edw. Herbert, of the don in the Olden Old London Mag. Time , LONDON, • WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1832. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. , COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.) i DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES, 'SUNDERLAND, JAN. 2, 1832. Remained at last report 3 1 New cases 0 ____ Total 3 Died 0 I Recovered . - Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock a.st 1 From the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 26, )831. Cases, 530.—Died, 199. I NEWCASTLE, JAN. 2. j Remained at last report lOB New cases ls • 0 Total.. 126 Died 6 Recovered l2 • Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock a.ss 108 f From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831. I Cases, 437.—Died, 139. I GATESHEAD, JAN. 2. • Remained at last report 94 New cases lB Died R 3 Recovered 0' Remainin g a t this date B9 From the Commencement of the Disease. I Cases, 269.—Died, 83. f NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, JAN Remained at last report 3 New cases 5 V Died 0 0 Recovered 2 !t Remaining at this date 6 From the Commencement of th e Di sease. r Cases, 26.—Died, 12. 0 HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING AND PENSHER, JAN. 2. 60 Remained a t l as t repor t 8 New cases 4 Died 1 0 Recovered 1 Remained at this date lO 'O l From the Commencement of the Disease. Of Cases, 36.—Died, 17. ri HADDINGTON, N. 8., JAN. I. Remained at last report 5 ) 1 New cases 3 J Died 0 Recovered 0 4 Remaining at this date 8 I, From the Commencement of the Disease. il Cases, 17.—Died, 6. No other Returns received. 0 (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. 1 4 We bars ransm;yre..l ik.. ..........--- A._ A/f We have received by express the Messager des Chambres of Monday and yesterday. The KING received the deputation of the Corps Diplomatique on New Year's Day, and returned th e following answer to their address : " I am very grateful for the wishes you express for the happiness of myself and family, and for the prosperity of France, in the name of the Sovereigns you represent. " I rejoice with you that the hopes which I held out to you this day twelve months are realised. The concur rence of your Sovereigns will second with the same sincerity 7 f , as last y ear my constant efforts to assure to France and Europe the consolidation of the great boon of a general peace which you very rightly consider as the great ground work of civiliz a ti on ; and I h ave t h e strongest confidence that all States will conti nue to en j oy in the bosom of peace 7 --„.„,that prosperity which I shall be so happy to see them enjoy. --"" I thank you again, gentlemen, for the sentiments you express towards my person." It does not appear that this answer though be very pacific, was considered such on 'Change, for the French Funds, instead of advancing, fell half Jo a per cent.—to 67. to The position of Louts PHILIP is at present delicate in the extreme. While perfectly aware of the latent indisposition of Russia, Austria, e , Prussia, and Holland, to his person and Go tt vernment, he is either afraid or too prudent to avow his real sentiments. But the day is not far distant when events will speak for him. Italy, „! Spain, and Poland are now brewing the storm 0 , that will soon set Jesuitical protocols at defiance. The state of Ireland is at this moment pre cisely what it was just previous to the commence ment of that memorable session which witnessed the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Bill. Then, as now, the two great parties, the Irish Brunsvvickers and Catholics, were drawn up in all but battle array against each other ; then, as now, the violence of the Catholic was exceeded, if possible, by th e v i o l ence o f the Brunswicker ; a b°vo all, then, as now, the more timid and rational of both parties, whether con nected with were divinity, l a w, or commerce, their uy, f airly at th e i r w i t ' s en d ; una bl e to see through e coudy that n round th em th l ; and hopeless atmos almost phere of the approach of more serene weather. But the s ettlement of the Relief Bill for a time dispersed this very natural alarm ; and the triumph of the Reform Bill, we trust, will produce an equally beneficial, and far more permanent, effect. Meantime it would be perfectly ludicrous, were it not distressing, to see Ireland torn in pieces, as it were, by two such factions as those of the in fatuated repealers—for what is Mr. O'CON NELL'S new Political Union but an engine for furthering the cause of repeal, under the colour able pretext of extending that of Reform ? and the still more infatuated, and a thousand times more inexcusable and bloody-minded As cendancy men. These last have not the shadow of a shade of excuse for their pres ent incendiary declamations. Not one of their just privileges is proposed to be invaded ; their posse ssions, those at least in accordance with the dictates of impar- tial justice, are to be respected ; all they are called on to do, is to exchange the situation and character of tyrant for that of equal ; of " conqueror" for that of citizen ; all they are called on to resign is, the monopoly of the blood and treasure of Ireland. But these sacrifices they will not make ; these conditions they will not subscribe to ; hence the late noisy meetings at Dublin and Armagh, and the infuriate, the maniacal ha rangues of a Lord MANDEVILLE and a Rev. Hour WARING. On the other hand the Ca- tholics, though with a greater show of justice, are equally intemperate. Mr. O'CONNELL, for in stance, talks of the military position of Ireland, whose " every mountain is a fortification, every field a redoubt, every ditch a defile," by way, we suppose, of defiance to Lord MANDEVILLE'S exhortation to the Ascendancy-men, never to for get that they were " conquerors, and the de scendants of conquerors." We know but of one remedy to neutralize the mischievous effects of these appeals. That, however, is a sure one, and is so far from being complicated, that it actually lies in a nut-shell. It is by promptitude on the part of Government in hurrying through the Reform Bill. Let them create Peers, carry their measure at once and unemasculated through Parliament, and from that moment they are competent to put down all factious opposition that may rise to embar rass them ; to grapple with every difficulty ; to succeed in every patriotic undertaking; to excite esteem and affection at home, to extort respect and admiration abroad. Till they make use of this sovereign panacea, Reform, they can not but remain in an equivocal, not to say dangerous, position. O'CONNELL may have it as he daily shows, in his power to alarm them on the one side, and that very silly Peer, Lord MANDEVILLE, on the other. But let them pass the Reform Bill, and from that moment they stand on an imrerishable founds- tion. O'CONNELL'S cannon will be then a mere pop-gun, fired by the hand of a school boy against a wall of adamant. We know of no other remedy to quiet Ireland than this, but so convinced are we that it will be an effectual, not less than a lasting one, that at no long lapse of time we shall expect to see the lion lie down with the lamb, the Catholic become sworn friend to the Orangeman, Mr. O'CoN• NELL coquet with Lord MANDEVILLE, and the Dublin Morning Register sing the praises of those regenerated patriots, the BERESFORDS. In the German Papers received this morning we have an article dated Rome, which deals more in prognostics than facts. That the spirit of dissatisfaction stalks abroad through unhappy Italy we know too well, and it does not require much foresight to see that in a very little time the Austrians will be called in again, if they have not already volunteered their services, to support the dominion of the POPE, and uphold their own supremacy. But how long will such things last ? Human patience cannot endure for ever. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 3.—Wind S. W., light.—Arrived from the river and sailed the Lady Kennaway, Monereig, for Bengal. The tiphinstone, for India, is at anchor in the Gulls, and will sail this evening ; Somersetshire, Ross, and Llandovery, White, for Jamaica; William Manning, Queleb, for St. Kitt's. PLYMOUTH, JAN. E.S.E.—Arrived the Ceres, Dunn, from Quebec. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 2.—Arrived off port the Olive, Branch, from Savannah ; Jean, Hastie, from Halifax. LivEltrooL, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Two Sisters, Gray, from Jamaica ; and the Liberty, Adey, from Marseilles. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 2.—The Charlotte, May, from Li verpool, to Shoreham, has put in, with bows damaged and loss of bowsprit, have been foul of a schooner off Bardsey. The Nandi, from Bengal to Liverpool, was seen on the 27th of August, dismasted, and under jury masts, steering N.W. lat. 18. N. long. 88. E., by the Parachute, arrived at Boston. The latter had experienced a very heavy gale on the 23d, 24th, and 25th of August. It was expected that the Nandi would reach Sangor without risk. THE FUNDS.—(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLO CK We understand that the addresses of the Chamber of Deputies, the House of Peers, and the Corps Diplomatique on the new year to the King of France, have been received by express, as well as the answers to them by the King, which are of a pacific description. Letters from Brussels of the 30th December state, that the different branches of industry are again reviving at Ghent ; most all the manufacturers of cotton are in great activity ; it is likewise the same at St. Nicolas. At Liege the manufacturers of muskets and swords are prospering, which is owing to the measures which have been taken to do away with the prohibition of these articles going out of the country. A great quantity of oil which had been warehoused has been exported to Fraance. TILE FUNDS. At present we have no arrivals, not even a ship letter. Consols, which left off yesterday 83 7 184 for the account, opened at 83i, afterwards were done at 834 ;, at which price they are at present, with little doing. In the Foreign Market Belgian Scrip to 1 prem. IiALF-PAST ONE. Although the King of France's answer to the corps diplomatique is of a pacific description, nevertheless the French funds have lowered about per cent. We cannot find any cause in the French Papers for this decline, bet it is supposed to be in consequence of a great Bull account there. Our funds have also receded : in the early part of the morning they were 83i, since which they been done at 831; at present they are 83t sellers for account. Up to the present time we have no political news. In the Foreign Market little doing, except in Belgian Scrip, to premium. Consols for Account, 83i. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols { Danish ... THREE 0 CLOCK. Ditto for Account 834 Brazilian Bonds.. 441 Buenos Ayres.... Chilian Ditto .... Columbian, 1824 Greek, 1825.... Mexican, 1825. Peruvian .. ..... . _ Russian ...... .... Bpaoith ...... ... 14 SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER OF LORD BROUGHAM. (FOR THE SUN.) The elevation of Lord Brougham to the Woolsack, and the distinguished talents which have characterised his labours in the Upper House, have given the deepest interest to every thing which relates to the intellectual history of this remarkable man. His career at the Bar, his la- hours in the Senate, his efforts for the diffusion of knowledge and education, are well known in every cottage which the school. master has visited. We regret, however, to find that Lord Broupham is less known than he ought to be, in his scien tific character. While studying at Edinburgh, under Professor Robison and Mr. Playfair, he was known to be an ardent cultivator of the ma- thernatical and physical sciences. The optics of Newton had particularly attracted his attention, and he began his philosophical career by the in vestigation of some of the most recondite pro perties of light. These enquiries he pursued with the most romantic ardour, and the results of them were published in the transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1796 and 1797. The first of these papers is entitled " Experi- ments and Observations on the IVexion and Reflexion, and the Colours of Light;" and the second " Further Experiments and Obser vat ions on the Affections and Properties of Light, by Henry Brougham, jun. Esq." These papers contain some fine experiments, several new and interesting results, and many in genious and original views. In 1798 Mr. Brougham communicated to the Royal Society, General Theorems, chiefly Porisms, in the Higher Geometry, and he was elected a Fellow of that learned body, when he could scarcely have reached his twenty-third or twenty-fourth year, an age at which few, if any individuals, had received that honour. After the establishment of the Edinburgh Review he contributed to that work various scientific articles of extraordinary merit. Cha• racterized by elegant and powerful writing, and a profound knowledge of every subject to which they related, these articles too appeared to his scientific contemporaries more like the produc tions of some able and learned Professor, than of a young man who had so recently devoted himself to the study of nature. In discharging the duties of a laborious profession, Air. Brougham was obliged to moderate his love of science, and to direct his powers into new chan nels, but we know that he continued to pursue mathematical and physical studies in those lei sure hours which he contrived to create out of the momentary interval that separated his multi farious occupations. Since his elevation to the woolsack, and amid the political storms which agitate every one but himself, he has found it possible to pursue the calm researches of phy- sical science; and we have no doubt that those who have been admitted into his study may have seen the Lord High Chancellor of England with a Prism on one hand, and the Great Seal on the other. It has been said by those who know nothing of the matter, that Lord Brougham has be come averse to science. This erroneous con clusion has, we suspect, been drawn from a mis interpretation of his Lordship's speech at the dinner of the Literary Fund, in which he stated that public patronage was the only one for litera- ture. This is no doubt true of all those branches of literature and even of science which have a commercial value, and are therefore capable of being well remunerated by the public. But his Lordship never said that the higher departments of literary research and profound enquiries of a mathematical and physical nature, should be left to the patronage of a public which can neither understand nor appreciate them. The highest interests of mankind, as well as the national honour, have long and loudly demanded of Eng land some royal establishment for fostering those higher efforts of the mind which all other na tions have taken under their protection. When he is relieved from the pressure of his more immediate duties, we have no doubt that Lord Brougham will occupy himself with this great object, and that he will crown his services to the sciences and the arts of his country by the establishment of a Board of Commissioners for Patents, and a Board for executing the great purposes of na tional instruction. That he is able to effect these objects nobody can doubt, and that he is willing, may be inferred from the acts of public kindness which he has recently shewn several scientific men, and especially from the honours which have lately been conferred by the King upon certain literary and scientific individuals, a measure which it may be presumed was recom mended by the Lord Chancellor. If any further proof were wanting of his Lordship's love of science, it might be drawn from IVlrs. soincr ville's newly published volume on " The Me chanism of the Heavens." This admirable work, which no other woman, and not many men in Europe could have written, is dedicated to Lord Brougham, and is stated to have been undertaken at his express request. Such a man as this ought surely to be prized by his country—not by his friends and partisans only, but even by those rival Gladiators with whom he has had to grapple in the arena of public strife. Nursed as his political infancy has been amid the breakers of faction, and triumphing as he has done in every great mea sure which he has advocated, the public eye is already fixed upon him as the only pilot who can conduct the vessel of the State into its haven of still waters. Lord Brougham has been charged by his enemies with being an ambitious man. His friends and even himself will admit ' the accusation—his ambition is to destroy the hydra of ignorance and corruption—to embalm his memory within the heart of the nation, — and to inscribe an immortal name on the pedi ment of its renovated institutions. A report was circulated yesterday that several cases of cholera bad occurred in this city ; but, on inquiry, we find that there is not the smallest foundation for such statements..—Edinburgh Evening Courant. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of KENT entertained a select party at dinner on Monday, at her residence in the King's Palace, at Kensington. The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA walked for some time in Hyde-park yesterday. Earl GREY left his residence at East Sheen about eleven o'clock yesterday morning, for the Palace at Brigh ton, for the purpose of having an audience of the KING. Prince TALLEYRAND, the French Ambassador ; Prince ESTERHAZY, the Austrian Ambassador; and the Baron DE WEssENnuao, on a special mission from Austria, had a conference of some hours' duration last evening with Viscount PALMERSTON, at the Foreign-office. , .. ..,...,.,.. _ _ Despatches were sent off last evening, from the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, for Viscount GRANVILLE, our Ambassador at Paris ; and also for Sir CHARLES BAGOT, our Ambassador at the Hague. Sir GEORGE SMART presided at the organ, on Satur day evening, at the performance at the Palace at Brighton ; and, in the course of the evening, introduced the organ movement in the overture to Saul. Mr. F. CRaMER led the Queen's hand, who were in attendance. His MAJESTY was pleased to intimate, through the Duke of SUSSEX, his permission to Sir GEORGE SMART to wear the gold coro nation medal on all occasions. . The Judge-Advocate-General transacted business yester day at the Colonial-office. Viscount MELBOURNE left town on Monday evening, on a visit to Earl and Countess CowrEß, at their seat at Penshanger. A numerous deputation from the Board of Health of the City of London had an interview yesterday by appoint ment with the Lord President of the Council, the Presi dent of the Board of-Trade, and the Central Board of Health, at the Council-office, Whitehall. A deputation from the parish of Finsbury had also a conference yesterday with the Members of the Central Board of Health. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The weather having been foggy has prevented many vessels from getting up our river, and the fresh supplies to-day are in consequence small. The trade generally remains without life, the buyers purchasing to a very limited extent, and are unwil ling to give Monday's prices except for fine parcels. Flour meets a little better sale than of late. ARRIVALS. I Wheat. Barley. Oats, Flour. English Irish - 2,126 Foreign - brls. coat. THE MINOR THEATRES. The adjourned meeting of the managers and actors of the minor theatres, and of others interested in dramatic affairs, was most numerously and respect- ably attended, at the Freemasons'-hall, yesterday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Com- . . mittee which had been appointed to prepare a pe- tition to the Legislature. On the motion of Mr. DAVIDGE, CHARLES STUR GEON, Esq., barrister-at-law, was called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the meet ing. The attempt recently made by the patentees of the major theatres on the very existence of the minor theatrea reminded him very much of a pro clamation issued in the year 1790 by the button- makers, declaring a penalty of 5/. to be chargeable on every individual wearing covered buttons to hi. The enactments under which the penalty was chargeable were, however, repealed, and he did not doubt the same result would follow the present attempt to enforce an odious monopoly. Mr. SERLE, of the Coburg Theatre, came for ward, amidst loud applause, to move the adoption of a petition to Parliament, praying an abolition of the penal statutes now in force affecting minor theatres. Mr. GRAY (of the Coburg Theatre) seconded ' d the petition, which is the The adoption c ttAt n o In f A t the t p h e e t n i ti r o e n a as follows TO THE HONGURABLE THE COMMONS' HOUSE OF ENGLAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. "THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED VARIOUS PER. SONS, EXERCISING THE ARTS OR PROFESSIONS OF AUTHORS AND ACTORS, AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN OR FEELING WITH THEM IN THAT BEHALF, ASSEMBLED AT THE FREEMASONS' TAVERN, QUEEN-STREET, ON TUESDAY, THE 3D DAY OF JANUARY, 1832, " Most humbly showeth—fhat by an Act of Parlia. ment made so long ago as the tenth year of the reign 0 ! King George the Second, chapter 28, and in the year of our Lord 1737, it is in the first section enacted Tha every person who shall for hire, gain, or reward, act el represent any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce, or other entertainments of the stage, or any part therein, in case such person shall not have a legal settle ment in the place where the same shall be acted, without authority of letters patent from his Majesty, or without licence from the Lord Chamberlain of his Mtjesty's house hold, shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond within the statute of Anne,' which Act is repealed, but in substance re-enacted by the 17th Geo. 11. chap. 5, but which ba since been repealed by the sth of his late Majesty Geo. IV. chap. 83, so far as to take the stigma of the rogues and vagabonds away, but no further. " That by the 21st section of the said Act of 10th Geo. 11. chap. 28, it is enacted that if any person having or not having a settlement, shall, without such authority or licence, act or represent for gain any interlude, &c., such person shall forfeit 501. " That by the sth section of the said Act, it is enacted that no persons shall be authorized by any letters patent, or by the license of the Lord Chamberlain, to act or repre sent for hire, gain, or reward, any interlude, &c., in any part of Great Britain, except in the city of Westminster, and in such places wherein his Majesty shall, in person, reside during such residence only. " That by the 6th and Bth sections the said penalties may be recovered either by action at law or before two magistrates. " That by an Act passed in the 28th Geo. 111. chap. 30 power is given to magistrates in sessions to grant a licence to perform such plays as are represented at the patent theatres, so as such place be not within 20 miles of Lon don and Westminster. " That by the 25th Geo. 11., chap. 36, made perpetual by the 28th Geo. 11. chap. 19, the magistrates in London and Westminster, and within 20 miles, may, in sessions assembled, grant licences for music and dancing, and other entertainments of the like kind. " That at the period when the said Act of the 10th Geo. 11., chap. 28, was passed (nearly 95 years ago), peti tioners believe the Legislature enacted such a restricting clause to prevent rogues and vagabonds from strolling abi ut from place to place, and, as the Act expresses it, not having a legal settlement in such place.' " That petitioners humbly submit, that the present dramatic performers are now, and have been for some time past, a different race of men from what the Legislature contemplated : that their houses and performances are at tended by the nobility and gentry, and some of them have the Royal sanction, and are well known to many Member. of your Honourable House. " That by these statutes a monopoly has been crest , d of theatrical amusements within 20 miles of the cities of IA ra don and Westminster, which monopoly is, in spirit, en-irdy repugnant to the laws and customs of England, as declared in the Act of 21 James 1., chap. 3. sec. 4. " That in the most oppressive parts of their operation these statutes have for near 95 years been a dead letter, and have only within a few months been sought to he re vived ; but it being now declared upon a prosecution ins i gated by the patent theatres against a minor one, by the first legal authority, that the representation of any kind o f dramatic entertainments, even of such pieces as may have been denied exhibition at the patent theatres and actually purchased by the others, is an infringement of those statutes, and subjects all parties proved to be con cerned in such representation to a penalty of 501. for each performance,' and ❑otices having been served upon many of your petitioners by the solicitors for the patent theatres, to the intent that such prosecutions will be invariably pro- ceeded in, it is the bounden duty of your petitioners to b ring their case before the consideration of your Honour able House, and earnestly and most respectfully to solicit the repeal of enactments destructive of their own liveli hoods, and pernicious to the public at large. " That the art of acting is one requiring, besides the in dustry and assiduity needful to obtain success in any art, more fortuitous advantages than are necessary to the allot ment of excellence in any other profession. " That it is a monstrous and oppressive anomaly to sub ject individuals so circumstanced to a caprice which may affect their very existence at the hands of parties who, if not members of their profession, cannot fully appreciate their claims, and if themselves exercising it, are actually their rivals in public favour. ."That the same statement applies in its full force to authors, who need practice in their art to become emi nent, and whose efforts, if confined to the patent theatres, could not be encouraged in their growth, or be suffered to arrive at maturity. " That the livelihood of 2,500 individuals is dependent upon their exertions at the establishments sought to be put down. " That the question being thus fully re-opened by the efforts of the patent theatres to secure a monopoly, all the advantages of open, competition and the disadvan tages under which your petitioners, and the general cause of the drama, have laboured, may, without any shadow of injustice, be fully insisted upon. " That the poetical character of the British nation, and in that its store of wisdom in the claim of its language to immortality, are deeply involved in the higher class of its dramatic productions. " That the drama, in common with every other art, has progressed in the exact proportion in which its attempts have been free and unfettered, rising and becotn ing the glory of the Elizabethan age of British literature, when theatres were in existence, and languishing under the bondage of monopoly, until it may probably expire at the very time when all other arts are gaining new life under the influence of perfect freedom. " That the patent theatres are limited in their perform ances to nine months: the Haymarket and English Opera house to four and six months each ; so that there can scarcely at any time be a competition for talent of any sort between more than two rivals, and that the interests of these establishments being often considered to consist in a combination, it frequently happens that authors and actors are placed in the same situation as if but one theatre existed. " That all these, and the Olympic and Adelphi Theatres licensed to play burlettas, are situated at distances from many parts of this immense metropolis, utterly insur mountable to many of those who might wish to witness dramatic performances. " That the public is every way concerned in having the advantage of competition between those who offer to cater for its amusement. " That all the statements of fact, in this their humble petition, your petitioners are prepared to submit to the most rigorous scrutiny, and to verify upon the most per fect evidence. And, trusting to the justice of their cause, and to the undeniable claim which a just cause possesses upon the Legislature, they most respectfully and earnestly entreat that all Acts which confine, or tend to confine, the representation of the drama to a monopoly may be abolished. " Petitioners most humbly pray your Honourable House to take their hard case into the moat serious consideration, and be pleased to repeal the 10th George 11., chap. 28, . and to extend the powers of Magistrates, under the 25t1, George 11., chap. 36, and 28th George 11., chap. 19, enabling them to grant to such persons as they may think most proper, simil; licenses to what the Magistrates in the county, under the 28th George 111., chap. SO, have a power to grant. " Or such other relief es to your Honourable House shall in its wisdom seem meet. " And petitioners will erer pray." Mr. EUGENE MTARTIIY, as a member of the theatrical profession, did not think that the prayer of the petition had been urged to a sufficient extent, unl concluded a most eloquent address, by moving an amendment to the prayer of the petition to the effect that the patents of the two great theatres should be-revoked.—(lremense applause for several minutes.) Mr. NELSON seconded the amendment, which was opposed by Mr. Davidge, Mr. Elton, and Mr. Ray •ter, and Mr. M'Carthy eventually withdrew the amendment, which was unanimously agreed to, as cell also a motion of Mr. Davidge's that the speech of Mr. M'Carthy be printed and circulated. Mr. ELTON moved that subscriptions should be entered into to defray incidental expenses, and to defend any proceedings that might he commenced. Mr. W. H.WILuAms, of Sadlers' Wells, Mr. FAR RELL, of the Pavilion Theatre, Mr. M'FARREN, of the Queen's Theatre, and Mr. OSBALDISTON of the Surrey Theatre, each offered the use of their re spective establishments for one night, the receipts to 10 to the general fund. Mr. DAVIDGE made the same offer of the Coburg Theatre. Mr. SWIFT, of the Jewel-office, in the Tower, iffered the receipts for one day in that establishment. Mr. YOUNG gave the use of his theatre, the Rlyal Orange, Pimlico, for one night.—(Laughter.) Subscriptions were immediately entered into, and a sum of 521. was immediately subscribed, including donations from Messrs. John Re. , ve, of the Adelphi, Buckstone, Wilkinson, and 101. each from Mr. John Petry and Mr. Richardson (the late Under-Sheriff). DONCASTER ST. LEGER, 1832. YORK, JAN. 3.—The entry for the St. Leger Stakes of 50 SON'S. each, h. ft., for 3-yr. old colts, Sst. 61b., and fillies, Sot. 31b., St. Leger Course.. Duke of Leeds's b. c., by Swiss Lord Cleveland's b. c. Brother to Chorister, by Lottery Lord Chesterfield's ch. c. Non Compos, by Bedlamite bl. f. Olga, by Paulowitz b. c. Tintoret, by Rubens br. c.. by Whalebone Lord Sligo's ch. c. Daxon, by Langar b. c. Westport, by Langar Lord Kelburne's b. c., by Jerry Lord Exeter's Beiram, by Sultan -- Byzantium, by Sultan ---- Spencer, Brother to Green Mantle Lord Scarborough's gr. c., by Falcon Sir J. Boswell's b. c. Vyvyan, by Canteen Sir G. Pigot's b. c. The Grand Falconer, by Merlin Sir R. W. Bulkeley's b. c. Birdcatcher, by St. Patrick Sir K Dodsworth's b. c. Tartar, by Brutandorf b. c. Wildboy, by Whisker Mr. petre's ch. c. Beaufort, by Comus Mr. S. L. Fox's br. c. Julius, by Jerry ---- ch. f. by Whisker Mr. Edmondson's b. c. Richmond, by Jack Spigot Mr. T. 0. PoNlett's gr. f. by Figaro Mr. Tarleton's b. c., by Buzzard Mr. Wilson's b. c., by Whalebone Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. David, by Catton ----- ch. c. Trident, by Whisker Mr. Orde's br. c. Tomboy, by Jerry Mr. R. Harrison's h, f. The Maid of Oakes, by Brutandorf Mr. 11. Fawkes's ch. c. William the Fourth, by Blacklock Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Brother to Maria, by Whisker b. c. Burgomaster, by Brutandorf ch. c., by Whisker ch. c. Trustee, by Catton b. f. Florestine, by Whisker b. f. Saraband, by Tramp Mr. Vansittart's ch. c., by Whisker Mr. F. Richardson's b. c. Fang, by Langar Mr. Robinson's b. f. Bounce, by Brutandorf Mr. Gascoigne's b. c. by Whisker Mr. Skipsev's b. c. l'hysician, by Brutandorf ch. c. Peter Liberty Mr. Walker's ch. c. Conrad, by Whisker f. Francesca, by Partisan Mr. J. Scott's b. c. Novelist, by Waverley b. c. Seedmere, by Young Phantom Mr. W. Scott's b. c. Carlton, by Catton Mr. W. Ellis's b. c. Primendorf, by Brutandorf Mr. Armitage's b. f. by Saladin Mr. Watt's b. f. Sister to Memnon, by Whisker * The above is the entry at York, which closed on Saturday. Despatches were received this morning at the Colonial-office, from Bermuda. The answer to the numerous inquiries made yesterday, at the mansion of the Duke of WELumrroN, were invariably that " his Grace was much better." We have reason to believe, however, tkat his Grace has been much worse than is generally supposed, and that the laconic replies to the inquiries after his Grace's health have been dictated from a spirit more characteristic of the soldier than the statesman.—Morning Herald. We can state from authority that there is no truth in the report of the recall of his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador, Baron Butow :: —Morning Herald. It was announced early on Tuesday morning, in the city, that Mr. MABERLY had stopped payment, and the known magnitude and extent of his concerns, more multifarious than any one individual was ever perhaps be fore engaged in, gave much interest and importance to the event in the money market. Mr. MABERLY was engaged shortly before the close of the war in a succession of large Government contracts, which he carried into effect with consummate ability, and by which he is believed to have amassed a princely fortune. His employment of the wealth thus acquired was not equally fortunate, for he engaged subsequently in a great variety of speculations, of which scarcely one was prosperous. His operations in the Funds were notoriously conducted at a very great loss, though he made a few good hits at first, and for some years past he has not been heard of in the Stock-Exchange, except in connection with some of the foreign securities. He was occupied, it is said, in more than one negotiation with the Spanish Government for the acknowledgment of the Cortes bonds, and took the lead in a loan transaction to the Emperor of BRAZIL, for the purpose of sending an expedition to Portugal to place the young Queen on the throne ; but this fell to the ground, the contract having been rejected at the Stock Exchange, where it was treated as essentially of Portu guese origin, and therefore not admissable until the divi dends on the former loan had been paid. Very few sub scriptions were, under these circumstances, obtained for the loan, and of the amount subscribed still less was ac tually paid up. Mr. MABEKLY'S building specu lations are too numerous for recapitulation, but his principal undertaking of a commercial nature was the formation of a large linen manufactory in Scot land, and in connection with it, the establishment of the exchange and deposit bank at Aberdeen under the firm of JOHN MABERLY and Co., with branches in several other large towns in Scotland. So recently as the negociation for the Belgian loan in Calais, Mr. MABERLV is said to bee. been a competitor for the contract with the capitalists who were there assembled. It appears that he has ceased for more than six months to be a partner in the linen manufactory above-mentioned, and an announcement of the separation would, it is said, have been made at that time in the Gazette, bet that it was considered such publicity would have been injurious to the credit of tf thef a a v iiu the bank, in which he s till re t a i ne d hi s i n t eres t. Th e manufacturing concern i s b e li eve d t o b e s till p er f ec tly sol vent. Reportsedsroielere but vienrsyiigthas Bauchhais beent on in i ii t a she transactions, city ratned o a by c a t individuals who t thet n o s n e xto en t o must exceed 100,0001. Some persons, who are not likely, however, to be so well informed, mention a much smaller amount, but even the larger sum proves how materially his credit must have declined of late. Nevertheless, the ad justing of so many extensive and complicated transactions, and the determining in what degree, if any, they are af fected by the failure, make it an event of which it will be very long before all the consequences are perceptible. In the commercial circles of the city there are not many in dividuals likely to be affected by it.— Times. The statement given in the Courier of last night, respeat i ng M r. M ABIALY ' S h av i ng sus p en d e d hi s Payment s , i s i ncorrec t, as th e on ly concern in which he is en gage d t h at h as suspen d e d i ts payments i s t h e b an ki ng in Sc o tl an d. Th e h ouses i n L on d on , M on t rose , an d Aber deen, of great importance in the linen manufacture, con tinue with a very large capital, employing some thousands of persons. Mr. Manzatv has no concern in any army contracting house whatever, nor in any other business. The bazaar to which Mr. MABERLY advanced a consider able sum, to provide for an old and faithful servant (the late Mr. YOUNG), is now carried on by his administrator, who certainly has not, nor will not, suspend his payments ; and we may venture to say, that the statement with regard to his offer to the French and Belgian Governments of a loan is incorrect also, he having suggested to both Govern ments a plan which was to be carried into execution en tirely at the risk, and for the benefit, of those Govern ments, on con3mission.... Times Correspondent. CHOLERA MORBUS. That our belief that many cases have, from the commencement of this disease till this moment, been put in the official reports which are not cases of ma lignant cholera, but diarrhoea and bowel complaints merely, was well founded, we have now the with° , rity of the Board of Health itself for declaring. They have, within the last few days, issued a hand 'dill, in which they state that it is the opinion of the nedical members of the Board, that the cholera very 'requently commences with diarrhoea, and they there fore recommend every person who has the slig►h•est oomplaint in his bowels to apply without delay to the dispensary or any of the parish hospitals, where nedical assistance may at all times be obtained. It is perfectly clear, then, that they have classed all iuch affections under the general bead of cholera, and that it is to this we are to attribute the formic table appearance which the reports frequently dresent. We last week stated our conviction that diarrhoea was frequently a preliminary in cases of cholera,while we reprobated the hasty conclusion that t was therefore to be uniformly regarded as the be •inning of the more serious disease. Every thing .vhich tends to weaken the body must obviously predispose it to the reception of any prevailing dis order, and hence, though we do not concur in the sweeping inference drawn by the Board of Health, we think their calling on the community at this period to attend to and get slight ailments removed .vithout loss of time is very judicious. Another re commendation they have made on the advice of the Central Board of Health is, that persons should re frain from attending meetings or assemblies where many people are collected together, as at the Court of Conscience and the Quarter Sessions. This, we confess, we consider rather calculated to do harm than good by spreading unnecessary alarm. The disease, we regret to state, has, during the past week, considerably increased both in Newcastle and the neighbourhood, We can no longer say that the cholera is confined to the streets in the lower part of Newcastle. it has reached the Manor-chare, Low-bridge, Nesvgate street, Percy-street, Prudhoe -street, and some others. It has extended also to the Westgate. It has fol lowed the course of the river, and has not only at tacked the vilisges of St. Anthony, St. Peter's, Dent's Hole, Wallsend, Howdon, and NValker, but has appeared up the water at Lemington, Ryton, &c. At Seghill it still continues, though not so viruleut as it was. The cases at Throphill, near Morpeth, are represented to have been common,not malignant, cholera, and those at Hebburn, in the same neigh bourhood, a description of fever. Cases still occur in the county of Durham, at Houghton, and the dis ease is stated to have at length made its appearance at South Shields. But wherever it has extended in Newcastle or the surrounding neighbourhood, it appears to be attended with almost precisely similar circumstances. The trimmer in which the disease is stated to have been introduced into Lemington is deserving of notice, and seern.4 to add another fact to those already known, to shew that the complaint is com municable from one person to another. A woman, whose husband died in Sandgate of cholera, went after his death to visit his father-in-law at Leming ton. She was seized there with the same disorder, and though she had medical assistance afforded to her, and was apparently doing well, the inhabitants would not suffer her to remain. She was brought down in a boat to Sandgate where she died. Her father-in-law was similarly attaked at Lemington a few days afterwards and sunk under the disease. It seems to have gained a footing on Gateshead Fell a similar manner. The body of a young man who died from cholera at Springwell, near Wrekenton, was brought to his father's house at Gateshead Low Fell. When the disease broke out theme, it commenced in some cottages close to where the corpse from Springwell had been taken. To these facts, which favour the opinion of the disorder being contagious, are to be added the cases which have occurred both in Newcastle and Gateshead of dif ferent members of the same family, old and young, being attacked in succession.—Tyne Mercury. The Marquis of DOUGLAS, heir-apparent to the Dukedom of Hamilton, will come of age n.xt month. His Lord,hip is said to be a youth of high promise, and, in addition to the Dukedom of Hamilton and its vast do mains, will succeed to the immense estates of his grand father, Mr. BICKFORD, late of Foothill, bat now of Lans downe-place, Bath. Great rejoicings are expected to take place both in Scotland and at Ashton Hall, in Lancashire, to commemorate the event. The Earl and Countes of RADNOR, who are now staying at Longford Castle, in Wiltshire, intend to give a grand entertainment at in Berk shire, on the 13th instant. Preparations upon a most ex tensive scale have been for some time going on for these festivities. His Lordship's guests will include most of the resident Nobility and gentry of the country. A large party from town, it is understood, are also going do,vn to partake of the hospitalities, and, in the old English style, to mix with the neighbourhood. Although the Noble Earl is one of the privileged classes, his political principles are highly liberal. Some time ago the Earl threw open his extensive manors in Wiltshire, and conferred the right of sporting over them to his tenantry. Miss SMITHSON, the first female tragedian, as well as the first melodramatist, of the English stage, is, we are happy to state,engaged by Mr. DAvinax to perform at the Coburg, at a salary of thirty pounds per week. It is not yet determined when .he will make her appearance ; but it is expected that either on Monday next, or on Monday week, she will appear in a favourite character. The endeavours of Mr. Davrnott to procure the higheq talent for the theatre which he manages with so much ability do him the highest credit; and we have no doubt, that the first dramatist of the day—the lovely and talented Miss SMITIISON-will amply reward him by her bet exertions, which, if there be taste en the south side of the water, cannot fail to draw overflowing houses.--Morn. Advertiser. LINEN -DRAPERS, 11rncErts, SILKMEN, LAC EMAERRS, AND HOSIERS' SOCIETY.--A public meet ing of persons connected with these trades was held yester day, at the Loadon Coffee-house, Ludgate•hill, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of esta blishing an institution to provide for the 'lee eyed members of their trade, and for their workmen in advanced is,e and when labouring under unavoidable misfortunes. After s ome discussion a Committee Was appo i nte d , and the meet ing broke up.