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soma noeLAMATION. " Who'll kill the dragon ? I"Orme he shall gorge ; I, says St. George, I'll kill the dragon."—Old MS. Arming of St. George for the approaching right. Latest odds at the " Corner," 1,000 to 0 on the Dragon (takes). " May the best Lan win." Scene S. Tax DRAGON'S IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY.— Mow the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " country quarters ," how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished); how he and th e D ragon fall in, and then fall eat. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not ezi/y elevates St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five shilll'ag pieces" of England, but at the same time introduces the itUdjence to Scene 9. GRAND HALL Or CHIVALRY.—How St. George receives tits " Sattle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends in New Characters. Harlequin. •.. Mr. Howell, Clown •• • • Mr. T. Matthews. P antaloon.... • Mr. Priorson. I Columbine Miss Hicks. &SUS 10. Mum= IN CURIOSITIZS AND IRONMONGER AND CUT- L=ie's Suor.—lmproyed Surgical Instruments. " H o ldi ng th e m i rror tik to nature." " Families furnished" on a novel principle. A loud 7 r 4 Port on the New Houses of Parliament. A. fashionable complaint ties to the Clown's head. Scene 11. C ORNCHANDLRE ' d SHOP AND GEANIIIT.—More ways than *De of being "in clover." Specimen of the very b es t " Britannia Instal." Plenty game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of " chaff " in both. Harlequin gives Clown " the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. (1* •-•• 2 IESE VILLAS AND NURSED'S GROUND.—" To be let, te. tether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. " Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker," and make way Mr " Patent *lulls India-rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet in it." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish siut and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINDICAN AND TAILOR'S SHOPS.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot- In." Grand Experiment* in Gun Cotton, ending in an awflil Catas trophe. Scene 14. INTERIOR op BRITISH AND Foaziow TOT Waamnousz.— Toys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack in the Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn out. " See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene IS, Tea STATV2 AC ST Is ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park corner. Scene 16. THE STATUE AS IT WAS ; or, Wellington at Waterloo, " Look hers upon this picture, and on this." ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA COVENT GARDEN. The nobility, gentry, and public are respectfully informed, that the New Theatre will Open the first week in Aoril, for the per formance of the Lyrical Drama, on a scale of efficiency in every department never before attempted in this country. The Ballet will include the names of the most celebrated Artists. The Prospectus for the arrangements of the Season will be issued in due coarse. January 9, 1847. M. BEALE, Director. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'Under the Management of Mr. is. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF WRONG ; or, a Fireside Story. Sir Arthur Foljambe, 31r. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Br. Buckstone ; Harwood, Mr. Howard; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds. After which (by desire), the Farce of NICOLAS FLAM. Nicolas Man), Mr. Farren ; Shrimp, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Puddicombe, Yrs. Clifford. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, " La olyadere," " Italians in Algeria," " Guillaume Tell," and a Po lonaise. To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, railed the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. J,. F . Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. K ee l e y. Mumpb'ant success of Boz's new Christmas Piece. The new and splendid Pantomime every evening. A great hit. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., end adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albeit Smith* Esq,. called TIIE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the Farce of MRS. WHITE. Characters by Messrs. Turner, Kinloch, and Oxberry ; Miss Viliars, Miss Turner, and Miss Arden. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled TIIE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr, J. Collier ; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss 0. Hicks ; Attendant !Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING 'frill be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LOMRA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Ch arac t ers su pp or t e d b y Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. lletween the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lers and his three Pupils—the Masters Hankins, will ea- AMR their wonderful Jetta Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Yr. 0, Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Aliss Marian Taylor, Is Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. • PRI NC ESS'S T/I EATRE, OX FOR 0 -STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENINGgina Will be perf ormed a new and oril Musical Romance, entitled TIM SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNICH ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Cfil. Bertrand, Ur. C. Fisher ; Capt. trArmincourt, Mr. Allen ; Capt. Bellejarnbr., Mr. Leffler ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; Cornet ..rona, Mr. Campton; Baron Bristlebach, Mr. Walton; Bumps, Mr. Horner; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, N. Howler. Ilincks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte ; Uriel, Miss Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which a new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAIN BOWS. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Cowell, Granby ; Mrs. H. ilughest, and Miss E. Bonner. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMTNG and his ta lent..ed CHILDREN will go through their wonderthl performances. To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCMANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; •r, The One-eyed Gent. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, 31Ise Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. H. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. FleXmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S 'r IIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING will be perf ormed the Drama, entitled DON CESAR DE 71AZIN. The character of Don Cesar de liazan by Mons. F. Le maitre; supported by MM. Langeval, Masquillier, Dumery, Car tigny, Pascal, BeKou, Fella. Dorgebret, Tourilion, Grenet, Lucien, Sole, Palen* Mdlle. Clarisse, Madame Grassau, and Mdlle. Vallee. Boxes,. Gs.. Pit, 3s. ; Stalls, he.: Gallery, 23. Doors op ene d at half-past at•ren, 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 repeating their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENT at the above Theatre, TO MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during the Christmas Holidays. Doors open at Eight, and the En tertainment commences at Half-past Eight. And will (by desire) rz7,a, a n GRAND DAT PERFORMANCE , on SATURDAY MORN eoni"l. Jan. 13. Doors open at T wo , an d th e P er f ormance to "" at u ha lf - Past Two. Private 11,4:zeg, Is. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. " Lo yal Libr ary ,alitalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's and Mu5tc,, n .4. 3 . • Old Bond-street ; a t a l l the principal Libraries and at the liox-office. ARTLEY'R ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. w, Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, Prince of Waits, and Royal Yam'lv. The new Grand Christmas Pantomime increases in attraction., and is pronounced to ',almost magnificent for novelty, scenic, and mechanical effects. Tilts EVENIXO Will he performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance tn.. titled THE DEMON NORSE ; or, The Tav el who,es and. , ti,,,, charmed BIL Batty's SCFES of the. CIRCLE ; with To he followed by the performances of Laureatz Wain', the great Iteigian horsetr,a,„ Ti eonciude with the successful Comic EquestrianPairy pe.,,fßim., entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin ar_mi Ay. Baha and Clown, Mr. Iteth.",z Harlequin, air. W. Ilan_ the Robber's Cairo. Mr. Laffarini; Columbine, Mists Loui sa W a i te. vily ; Pantaloon, ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lase., Mrs. Frances Davie" THIS EVENING, • =lrtu be pee Orin•A er.iginal Dr am.'entitled THE HAND OF B_•Aigz, LIFE, STAKES, H LATII. The characters will ported by tho whole of the, talente•A! Comsny. To oonclado with a grand Miry P7tatornime, called THE KING or TILE CASTLE ; or, Harloquir in the Land of Dreams. Has. R. Denim ; Columbine, loves. Herr Donlin ; Pantaloon, Theodore; Clown, Aorr ti. Doulin ; Punch, Herr E. Detain. LOYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Mzu, 13,, Half-price, 6d ; Pit. 6d.; Gallery, 3d., THIS EVENING Will be perforMed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss lla ma,- Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Ricks, /toward, Bird, Searle, Forman, Sze., will perform. After which will he produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled TIM ElltTli OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harloquila Not_a-galt."_aait Jes Millet sad his 3fen, gown, Mr. T. Bann TATRE RYAL, DRURY- The e ithtellt PANTOMIME O THEATRE, and LINE. the FIRST PANTO MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be Performed Belle's Opera. entitled THE BONDMAN. Ifarquis de VernonZMr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, Mr. Hollicastle; Ardenford, Mr. D. W. King; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. r iaricY; Madame Corinne,. Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss R. Isaacs ; Parole, Mrs. Hughes. After which will be pred.r.Zed the Grand Comic Christmas Panto- Esinuk, being I, mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled ItAnLxquni - AND SIT. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The *Tonere aid Must* composed by Mr. R. Hughes ; the new and ex tensive Seenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Tslbin, and numerous as- Me e _ ; the Trickles and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma elltdery by Mr. R. Sloman ' • the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey, Mrs. Balls, land a heat of auxiliaries. The wkole produced under the superin tiladisase of Mr. W. West. Beene 1. Asoox OF KALTRi, TAM ENDKANTRISSI.--Date and la sedity not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society to have been discovered " Somehow or ether," " some time or other," ksear " someiyhere or other." K a l y b a (the Enchantress, not by Balfe, mistress Of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," hiVlng miss I:W364le:dated her power), Mr. M. Horncastie ; Fiends and Fo lios (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but oentraon expression of Countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and H. Payne; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele- ' manta, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the March of Intellect (travelling "incog." as" Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, oat of Per seVerance, has never been beaten, and can be matched a.gainst, anyteing), Mi ss A nn i e Payne.—How the March of Intellect rillll3ll lying visit" to K a lyb a; an d h ow, being empowered by the Censmittee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Ilene 2. ferneries or INFANT SCHOOL.—Schoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, Who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys half•holiday on the occasion. Beene 3. EXTIZIOIL AND BARBACAN OF COVENTRY CASTLE.— The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own hinto the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni; the Countess of Coventry (a good o usewife, and suppo se d t o h ave been the inventor of the celebrated Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character *ore her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without im knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful knights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the 'Awns by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas t",. Seven, Dix, Welsh, Desborg, Francis.—llow the youthful merge is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and mserlY his " last" appearance ie public on the occasion—how his su usinc " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony Come to wish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of child ren " b y t a ki ng th e " w h o l e br o od u n d e r her wing." N° Tice.—" Nothinge material to our historic" occurring during a Period of fifteen yenrs, the author trusts that the audience will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KAL111•11 HOD3N or Coaaamort !—St. George of Eng land (a rtun'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Payne ; It. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland it. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy (all Pretty much of the same kidney I) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks. Mr. Chapin, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and kis brother champions (considerably grown since their last ap pearaneci in public) are kept in durance vile, and on " very short eeninraorte" by Ealyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George can't abide her"—in short, bow—but we won't anticipate— reaeledy observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and Ike Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom Seen. a. Dovla Roaos.—How the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management baying, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for thattile. purpole with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Con) pan &lane 6. BANKS or THE Nux.—Almanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, &e., on his way to Xing Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. ,Matthews; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Pacha, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How Almanzor eame to Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not Laving even " dipped" into the question of " lights," runs his sterAmer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. ekiene 7. GRAND HALL IN THE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FIRST, Tuts of EGYPT.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar ried to the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the ellgestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious allowance of jaw enables him to speak far himself), Mr. Wiel‘nd. Dow this " marriage in high life" is suddenly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not only forbids the banns; but:elopes with the bride; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &c. (vide Morning Papers). THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANATARY n, 1847 NEW BIOGRAPHICAL WOR K S. paid "the cost of many great public works of a per- JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. BENTLEY. manent nature" Still we must believe that Sinde is I. Sir HARRIS NiCoLAs's LIFE TOPHER HATTON. Bv o . with Portrait, 58. b0 TIMES und. OF so CHRIS- a most co s tl y appen d age ! B es id es t hi s, Sir CHARLES has supported ' a police of 2,400 men, 1,000 beim , - THE LIFE OF CIPAL MILITARY AN GENED POLITRAL PEPE ICA, C L OMPRISINGEVENTS OF MODERN THE PRPA- cavalry, out of the revenue s o f Si n d e ." S o muc h ITALY. Written by Himself. 3 vols., post 8.0., 11. 1 Is. 61. for the burden of this new conquest; so much MEMOIRS OF THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY. By ROBERT for the extravagant disbursements required annually ROUIERE PEARCE, REL. second Edition. 3 vols. avo., with for the continuance of British authority along the Portraits, 2/. 2s. banks of the Indus. But what is the reverse calcula tion advanced by the historian of the Peninsula ? Why, it is to the effect that Sir CHARLES Name, has paid into the general treasury the following perio dical surplus :—For 1844, 2,7001. ; for 1845, nearly 200,0001. ;7, for 1846, 310,0001. And it is antici pated that on the conclusion of the ensuing year, ending in April, a surplus of somewhere about 360,0001. will be forthcoming. So much for the truthfulness and the precision of the depreciators of Sinde. Their figures are as vapoury and fluctuating as an ignis fatuus ; their picture of Sinde is as un real and visionary as the) pictures disclosed by the Fata Atorgana. Instead of a province calculated to exhaust the exchequer of British India, we dis cover in Sinde a province, which, within a few months of its occupation, is capable of supporting its own institutions. Instead of requiring a payment of her expenses, the Government of Bombay is considerably indebted to its new territories for its affording support to an extensive civil de partment and a numerous police. In simple terms, the deficiency of from 3,000,0001. to 4,500,0001., is transformed into a surplus of 512,700/. ! After con quering the country of Sinde by military stratagies and personal prowess, Sir CHARLES Narme, has had to conquer the opinions of his countrymen by the internal administration of the territory with which his name is so honourably and brilliantly associated. IT. THE DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OP THE EARL OF A/ALMESBURY. Edited by his GRANDSON, the THIRD EARL. Second Edition. 4 Tole. Bro., with Portraits, 31. MISS COSTELLO'S MEMOIRS OF EMINENT ENGLISH WOMEN. 4 vols. Bve., with Portraits, 21. 16s. TI. MEMOIRS of RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH, BEGUN by HIMSELF, and CONCLUDED by HIS DAUGHTER, MISS EDGE WORTH. Now Edition, 1 vol. Bvo., with Portraits, les. 6d. VII. 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" While the social scenes make this one of the most amusing of Mrs. Trollope's productions, the grayer portions of the narrative, as exhibiting the most ardent passions, and the severest struggles of the human breast, give the work a higher character, and entitle it to be placed among the best examples of modern romances." — Britannia. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlboreugh-street. A LISON'S HISTORY of EUROPE, IN MONTHLY VOLUMES. This Edition is handsomely printed in Crown Octavo, price Six Shillings each Volume; the First is published, and may be had of all Booksellers. Volume Second will be published on February Ist. William Blackwood and Sons, 45, George-street, Edinburgh, and 37, Paternoster-row, London. THE DRAINAGE ACT. We return to the subject of reducing the duty on tea, in consequence of a deputationfrom the London Association, formed for the accomplishment of this object, having last week waited upon the Premier to represent the existing state of our commerce with China, and the benefits to be derived from a sensible diminution of the duty upon one of the chief articles of consumption in this country. Our anxiety to enforce the importance of this matter continues un abated, and we feel assured that a Free-trade Govern ment will not be found hesitating to give their sanc tion to the fiscal modification respecting the import of teas, and in preference, we should hope, to a reduction of duty upon any other article, so soon as the state of the revenue will justify the recommendation. The hopeful condition of the revenue, as recently in dicated by what has been officially laid before the public, serves to enliven our hope that the national exchequer will, without any considerable interval, be so far invigorated, that the large deficiency which must, in the first instance, attend a relaxation of the duty to the extent desired, could, with a due regard to public credit, be safely encountered. There are some people who have been arguing that any approximation to unrestricted commerce in tea would not benefit the consumer, but only the grower, for that the increased demand which would follow the reduction of the duty, would only serve to enhance the price in China. This is an exploded dogma of the old school of political economists, whose principles are being in rapid succession almost daily consigned "to the tomb of the Capulets." It is pos sible, and natural, that where there is a sudden de mand, and only a limited supply of any article, that the effect would be as indicated by these wiseacres, but then it would be only temporary. The resources of nature and the energies of man soon regulate production by consumption, to the reciprocal benefit of all parties interested in any particular branch of commerce. But these sudden demands are of rare occurrence. Not only, however, is a well-regu lated commerce antagonistical, generally speaking, to inequality between demand and supply, but laws affecting staple commodities, and in respect to which a most extensive trade is carried on, are not hastily repealed in a country whose commerce is in a highly artificial state ; and the thousands of miles that lie between China and England imposes another salutary check against the existence of those com mercial irregularities, on the assumption of which it is contended that a reduction in the duties leviable upon tea would not advantage the consumer. The best practical answer to be given to the ridiculous apprehension entertained that China will be unable to provide for our increased demand for tea, should the duty be considerably diminished, is furnished, as Sir GEORGE LARPENT aptly observed to Lord JOHN RussimL, by the Custom-house returns, which "show that while the consumption in this country had in creased from 5,000,0001b5. to 50,000,0001b5., the price in China, so far from being raised, was at the present moment rather lower than at the period when our imports of tea only amounted to about :5,000,0001b5. annually." It appears, moreover, that in years when the trade has doubled itself, and when there has been an extensive demand for any peculiar variety of tea, our demands have been readily met, without any advance in prices. Looking at the vast expanse of the Chinese empire, its variety of climate, its amazing population of four hundred millions (equal to one twenty-fifth of the supposed population of the whole earth), to the activity, intelligence, and indefatigable industry of the inhabitants, it appears to us to be the height of folly to assume—in opposition, too, to our actual experience —that China would be unable to produce tea in the quantity we should desire, under the auspices of an amended tariff. We rejoice that this subject is to receive "the fullest consideration of her MAJESTY'S Government." Upon the moral and commercial benefits that would accrue, if the duty were to be only Is. per lb., we have frequently enlarged, and need not therefore re peat our observations. It is a lamentable fact that the import returns are considerably below the quan tity of tea sold under that name in this country, so that the poor must purchase a deleterious article, and the honest dealer be defrauded. Another grievous circumstance is, that, owing tothe dearness of tea, the humbler classes are prevented from using a whole some beverage as a substitute for the noxious stimu lants to which they now have recourse. Let but the revenue continue to prosper, and we shall soon see our countrymen relieved of these impediments to their social comfort and prosperity. I. AN ANALYSIS and EXPOSITION of ACT 9 and 10 VICTORIA, Cap. 101. With an APPENDIX, containing THE ACT, and OFFICIAL FORMS and DOCUMENTS. By WILLIAM S. WALKER. Price 25. 6d. AMANUAL of PRACTICAL DRAINING. By HENRY STEPHENS, Esq., F.R.S.E., Author of " The Book of the Farm." Price 3s. 6d., with Sixty-two Engravings on Wood. William Blackwood and Sons, 45, George-street, Edinburgh, and 37, Paternoster-row, London. 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THERMOMETER, Lowest, 25; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 32, BAROMETER, 30.18.—WIND E., fine. HIGH WATER. AT LoN1)ON-13RIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 4 minutes after 8. I Evening .. 40 minutes after 8, The general meeting the Peers, Member s o f Par ament, and landed proprietors of Ireland has been fixed for Thursday next, the 14th t ins ant, and is to be held at the Rotunda, in Dublin. Circulars have been forwarded to all parts of the country by th e secretaries of the Reproductive Employm en t c ora . - mittee, requesting the attendance of the parties to whom they are sent, and that they should commu. nicate the contents to the several landlords in the neighbourhood, and urge their attendance also at the proposed meeting, admission to which can only be obtained by tickets. By a very proper resolution of the committee the proceedings are to be confined exclusively to the consideration of the social condition of the country, and all extraneous topics and party politics are to be strictly excluded. We do not, however, coincide in another determination that has been arrived at. It has been decided that the public press is to be excluded, and that no part of the pro ceedings is to be published except the resolutions agreed to and the names of the parties who may attend. Now this we think a most injudicious course. The great value of such a meeting is the full publicity, the extensive circulation that may be afforded to the sentiments of the several speakers. A very small proportion only of those interested in the land will be able to attend ; many will be compelled to remain at home, attending to the pressing wants and im perative necessities of the poor on their own and the neighbouring estates, while many others will not feel themselves justified in expending anything that could possibly be avoided, and which they would regard as wantonly abstracted from the exigencies of the suffer ing poor. All such persons would anxiously look for, and would be entitled to receive, a full and copious report of all that may take place. The very differ ences of opinion may lead to something beneficial ; but that is to be withheld, and the advantages of the general assembly is to be restricted to the compara- tively small number who may be enabled to attend on the occasion. This is not as it should be, and we trust that an alteration will take place that will give the public generally full information. The meeting is not solely one for conference and discussion ; elaborate preparation has been made, the very reso lutions that are to be proposed have been already prepared and circulated throughout the country, and their adoption or rejection will be of little use unless it is known what can be urged pro and con., either in their behalf or in opposition to them. The proposed resolutions are thirteen in number, they chiefly relate to questions that have already been. considered by the committee and distributed through the country. Some of them contain excel lent suggestions, which may be most beneficially adopted, while others are of a more doubtful charac ter, and will require some modification and discussion before the principles involved in them are sanctioned or approved of. They relate chiefly to temporary mea sures, rendered necessary by the present emergency,and are thus termed in the circulars in which they are enclosed. The first four of these resolutions are di rected to the supply of food. They assert the signal failure of the present system, and call upon the Go vernment, in the most imperative terms, to take such measures as will secure local supplies of food suffi cient to keep the people alive, and to sacrifice any , sum of money that may be necessary for that pur pose, and declaring that any neglect or delay will render them responsible for the safety of the people. There appears in this something too much of the de pendence on others, that we have so often lamented in the Irish nation. They seem to expect that every thing is to be done, that Government is to be all powerful, and that they themselves are to be spared from all trouble—to have provisions made for the people without any exertion on their own part. If Government provide them with means which, if duly used, will enable them to provide for the wants of their own poor, it is all that can be reasonably expected; and the at tempt to cast the responsibility of providing for the safety of the people on the Executive appears an un fair attempt to evade and escape from their own so lemn duties, and to shift them on other shoulders. We agree that everything should be done for the miserable and starving people ; that no expense should be spared to provide for their wants, and to alle viate their sufferings ; that not one single human being should be suffered to perish in a Christian land, no matter what may be required for the purpose ; but the means must be fully and maturely considered. There must be no grasping at temporary expedients that may eventually lead to mischiefs of a more dangerous character than those they are in tended to provide a remedy for. And the landlords must consider that they themselves are the parties on whom the first duty of providing for the poor of their respective estates devolves, and that they should be grateful for the assistance rendered to them to enable them to discharge that duty effectually, They call also on the Government to remove all artificial impediments to the supply of the deficiency , of food, by the temporary suspension of the naviga tion laws and the duties on the importation of corn, and to permit such vessels of her MAJESTY'S navy as can be spared, to be employed in the transport of provisions ; and also demand that the unrestricted use of sugar and molasses should be permitted in breweries and distilleries, and that relief committees should be allowed to sell food at less than first cost to the destitute in their respective neigh bourhoods, and that their doing so should not disentitle them to Government contributions in aid of, their funds. Every one must assent to the object proposed by these several measures, but very serious questions will arise as to how far the means S an o d m t e ha o t f t m h a e ,baet least,calculateda u t d o m a a t t t a u i r n e e t h e n a t a d o e b r j a e t c i t e . n the possible evils that may arise from their adoption, may be fully inquired into. The fifth resolution re commends that seed dep4ts should be established by the Government throughout the country. We are convinced that every means will be adopted by the Government to assist the landowners in having due preparation made for the ensuing harvest, that the frightful miseries of famine may be averted. But we must again remind the landlords that it is they them selves that should take the first steps; that they can only expect to be aided in that which is wholly beyond their power, and that they are not to look on in helpless imbecility while their lands are lying waste and uncultivated, calling on others to do that which they should at leas _ attempt in the first instance. The next four resolutions are directed to throw the burden off their own shoulders, and to make it fall on the empire at large ; and not exclusively on Ire land more particularly, not upon the lands which would certainly appear to be responsible in the first instance. These propositions, too, would require some discussion, in order to convince those not now responsible of the justice of the substitution. To that part of the tenth resolution that declares that each proprietor should be enabled to take upon him self his proportion of the baronial assessment, to be expended in reproductive works on his own property, and that he should be enabled thereby to discharge himself from any further taxation in reference to that assessment, we fully and entirely assent. We have long advocated its adoption, and we are con vinced that, if judiciously brought into operation, it would be most advantageous to the country. The state of preparation for the ensuing harvest, loans by the Government to railway companies, and a system of emigration, form the t o pi cs o f t h e ot h er three resolutions. We think the discussion of every one of these proposals would be useful ; but to make it really so, the press should be freely admitted, and full publicity given to all the proceedings. Tiflis, relative t o the affairs of the The German Journal of Frankfort ha s th e fol lowing c aueais u from s : ___ operationslatest ce o in s receivedthat quarter from havethe Caucasus, ‘‘A cc or According not been interrupted b y the winter season. Th e Chi e f of the Mundes has not been discouraged by th e v i c t or i es gained by the Russians in northern Daghe s t an , f or some days after the combat which took p l ace near Rataschi, which cost the Russians more th an 1,500 men, 4,000 of the Tschetschenses p assed the Terek, carr i e d t h e ad vanced posts, and marching forward as f ar as the environs of Kislar, made a consider a bl e b ooty i n the mountain. At th e sam e time a body of Schamyl's forces spread terror to the very neighbourhood of Gromaza, and although a larger body of Russians advanced against them, they were not repulsed until after some severe fighting, in which the loss on both sides was very considerable. Camil Bey, at the head of 2,000 Tschetchenses, made a fresh irruption into Cachetin, where he was carrying on the war against the Russians with alternate success and repulse. On the Kouban the intrepid M . ansour Bey had again t a k en up arms against the Russians. It is said that he has rallied around him a great part of the tribe of the Abchuses and the warlike race of the Übichs. He has already suc ceeded in taking a fortress on the Kouban, and has even threatened Jckatchergeod. er. These events on the left wing of the Russian position has compelled the General in-Chief to dispatch considerable reinforcements to that quarter. The energy of Schamyl and of his partisans, who have resumed the offensive against the R uss i ans, l ead to the presumption that operations on an extensive scale will shortly take place. " The Russian officers who reckoned on getting some repose at Tiflis look very sad at these accounts. Schamyl has dispatched numerous emissaries even as far as the environs of Erzeroom, to preach up a holy war against the Russians. He has lately made several expeditions even under the walls of the Russian forts, and has in flicted a severe chastisement on those tribes who have been faithless to his cause, w hich has spread g reat dis couragement amongst them, seeing that the Russian forces have not been able to protect them. The par tisans of Russia are far from satisfied, and in spite of the bombastic bulletins which are published at St. Petersburgh, announcing the successive defeats of Schamyl, affairs in the Caucasus are really anything but favourable for Russia." Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 6th January by the Achilles steamer. The Miguelite General, MACDONNELL, had been defeated by CASAL, and exp e ll e d f rom Braga, w i t h a l oss o f 240 kill ed. The Mi gue li te force amounted to 2,000. M ACDON- NELL, at the h ea d of 1,200 men , fell back u p on Guimares after the action, and eventually retreated to Amirant e . D AS ANTAS had not ma d e any stand at Coimbra, b u t, w i th the Marqu i s of Lou La's con • tingent, was cont i nuing his retreat on Oporto, fol lowed by S ALDANIIA, whose f orces were in possession of Coimbra. Several of DAS AN TAS'S men had deserted to SALDANHA. The troops under VASCONCELLAS, after evacuating Santarem, have retreated upon Abrantes, where they are fortifying themselves. The Count De MELLo still occupies Evora, and commands the provinces of Alemtejo and the Algarves. SCHWALEACK is ad vancing against him from St. Übes. Negotiations are still going on between the Miguelites and the Junta of Oporto to form an union. To this, however, SA DA BANDEIRA refuses to listen, and declares that should it be carried into effect, he will resign his com mand and leave the country. The number of volun teers in garrison at Oporto does not fall far short of 8;000 men. In Lisbon everything was quiet, but there was no business transacted. The discount on bank n o t es h as got up to 26 per cent. Messrs. BARING, Brothers, of London, have con tracted for the completion of the next dividend. Madrid papers of the 2d have arrived. There were 150 Deputies assembled in the capital. The election committee of the Chambers was busy in the verification of the qualifications of the newly-elected Deputies, and considerable curi osity was excited as to the manner in which they would deal with the case of Senor OLo- ZAGA, hut, as the names are arranged alpha betically, some days will probably elapse be fore they come to his name. He has, it is said, addressed a petition to the Chamber demanding to be set at liberty, or sent back to France. He passed through Aranda de Douro on the 30th, so rigorously guarded that it was with difficulty he was permitted to send a verbal message to his family. Among the first measures submitted to the Cortes will be those for reforming the tariff, the tributary system, and the monetary laws. MADRID BOLBA 7 JAN. 2.—The Three per Cents. were done at 31i ex. div. for cash; the Five per Cents, at 20 ; the Coupons at 18i ; the Debt without Interest at 6 ; and the Vales at 81. it is :supposed to settle the draft of :the Royal Speech to be delivered on the opening of the Chambers on Monday. This royal speech wig' said, be of a remarkably reserved character. No allusion whatever will be made to England, except the usual paragraph announcing that the relations of France with the different foreign powers are of such a nature as not to permit a doubt of the maintenance of peace can be described as such. The Montpensier marriage will be alluded to merely as yet further strengthening the family bonds that unite France to Spain, and the incorporation of Cracow will be spoken of as an event to be regretted (un erenement regrettable), against which, as having violated the sanctity of treaties, France had, as in duty bound, protested. These, it is said, are all the allusions to Foreign affairs which the speech will contain. The Minister of War has directed the intendants of military divisions to forbid the victualling agents under their orders to purchase any wheat in the markets of towns, as the grain necessary for their purposes has been provided through another channel. The distress among the working classes seems spread ing in all parts of France. As might be naturally expected, distress has given rise to disturbances. According to the Journal des Debats serious emeutes have taken place in the department of the Vienne, in consequence of the high price of corn. Several National Guards who attempted to prevent sacks of wheat from being pillaged were disarmed ; and even a body of gendarmes were obliged to re treat before the victorious mob, and to intrench themselves in their barracks. These occurrences took place at the market of Leucloitre, near Chatel Herault. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Debats and the Presse still continue to specu late on the alleged schism in the Opposition camp, which as they contend, notwithstanding the denial of the Constitutionnel, still exists. The most important document to be found in these papers is the circular note of M. GUIZOT on the in corporation of Cracow, an imperfect copy of which appeared some time since in the France, and the authenticity of which was denied by the Ministerial journals. The France of Friday publishes this famous note textually, introducing it by the following re marks : "On the immediate approach of the session, at the moment when the Chambers and committees shall have to take into consideration the diplomatic documents re lating to the question of Cracow, we feel ourselves bound in conscience to publish integrally, and without a word more or a word less, the famous circular note, on the subject of which the Cabinet of the Tuileries ventured but, timidly to contradict us. M. Guizot, we hope, will appreciate our scruples on an incident which has occupied the whole of the European press. He will comprehend that there is in this more than a question of amour-propre. It is a question of honour; for, though there may be journals which occasionally show themselves to be but little anxious about the honour of the press, we hold ourselves bound, both in our honour and in the honour of our friends, and in the honour of the flag under which we march, not to leave the slightest doubt upon our truth and probity. The first note that we published contained, it is true, some trifling omissions, but those, though modifying the text, made very little alteration in the tenor of the document. We were the first to recognise these omissions; but, to deprive the organs of the Mi nistry of every pretext for denegation, we have procured a new and perfectly correct copy, which we have now lying before us. We publish it entire, in order that we may this time give complete satisfaction to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and at the same time spare the Deputies the trouble of going to search for it among the bundles of papers that are about to be deposited in the Chamber." The France then gives the note, as follows : " Sir,—The Austrian Charge d'Affaires came to me on the 18th of the last month to communicate dispatches from Prince Metternich, dated the 6th, announcing to the King's Government that the incorporation with the Austrian empire of the city and territory of Cracow had been decided upon by the Courts of Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh, and explaining the motives of this re solution. Annexed I transmit you a copy. On the 20th the Prussian Minister and the Russian Chargai d'Affaires made me a precisely similar communication. .1 rendered an account of this to the King in Council. The King's Government experienced from it a profound and painful surprise. We received in February and March last, as in 1836 and 1838, the assurance that the occupation of Cracow by the.troops of the three Powers was a mea sure purely military, and not political, commanded by necessity, and that it would cease with that necessity. It is now said that a temporary occupation was not suffi cient, and that the measure adopted by the three Courts is indispensable for guaranteeing definitively in their states order and peace, incessantly disturbed by the conspiracies and insurrections of which Cracow had be come the permanent focus. But, for the suppression of the small state of Cracow to put an effectual termination to these disorders, its independent existence must be the only, or at least the principal, cause. This supposition is not admissible. The frequently recurring,fermentation of the ancient Polish provinces arises from a cause more general and more powerful. It comes from the scattered members of a great state violently destroyed, which still agitate and attempt to rise again. Treaties which show the existence of such facts cannot make the wounds, and the agonies resulting from them, at once disappear. Time, equity, a constantly active benevolence, and long-continued good government alone can succeed in doing this ; for these are the only means which the present civilised state of Europe renders possible and practicable. The sovereigns and statesmen assembled at the Congress of Vienna judged thus. They wished, even at the moment when united Europe was decid ing the partition of Poland, to give to the Polish nation, and to the conscience of Europe, disturbed by that par- tition, a certain moral satisfaction. They had, at the same time, held out to Polish subjects a perspective of ameliorations in the institutions and internal government of their country. Serious disturbances may have inter rupted the course of this wise, and at the same time generous policy, not, however, to cause it to be entirely abandoned and abolished. Nothing can more ccmpro mise a Government than for it to declare that it is not in a condition, even slowly, and by force of time, to fulfil its promises, and the hopes which it has itself raised. The destruction of the small state of Cracow may create for Polish conspiracy and insurrection some means of action ; but it may also keep up and even irritate the feelings which these deplorable enterprises so obsti nately excite and revive. In the meantime it takes from the influence which • might prevent them a great portion of its authority. It weakens throughout Europe in this painful question the principles of order and conservatism, to the strengthening of blind passions and violent designs. Article 9 of the Treaty of Vienna imposed upon the republic of Cracow the obligation of expelling from its territory all perturbators; and the three protecting Powers had an undoubted right to insist upon this obligation being fulfilled. But were there not, for attaining this end, other means than an annihilation of the independence of this small state, and the suppression of it? The narrow limits of the republic, the immense strength of the three great Powers in the states within which it is enclosed, the rights of protection conferred on these same Powers by article 6 of the treaty, everything, in fact, leads to a conviction that measures carefully combined and vigi lantly watched over in their execution would have been sufficient to combat the evil with efficacy, with- FIRE IN THE STRAND.—This day, at about hal. out having recourse to these extreme measures ; past twelve o'clock, an alarming fire broke out on the which, while overcoming some dangers, frequently premises of Mr. Taylor, who carries on an extensive create other and serious evils. It was, in any case, the business as a printer, at No. 1, Pickett-place, Strand. incontestable right of all the Powers who were parties Considerable alarm was created when the flames first to the Treaty of Vienna to interfere in all delibera- burst forth, owing to the inflammable nature of the tions and decisions by which the republic of Cracow goods on the premises, chiefly consisting of books, papers, might be affected. Prince Metternich says, in his &c., and also from the fact of its being almost in con dispatch of November 6, that the three Powers had, by tact with the large printing establishment of Mr. Nex, their own will alone, on the 3d of May, 1815, created which extends from the termination of Pickett-place the small state of Cracow, and that they had afterwards nearly to Clement's-lane. Immediately after, the fire, ' presented to the Congress of Vienna, for enrolment, which apparently commenced in the underground por the convention entered into between them.' The King's tion of the buildings, had been discovered, messengers were dispatched to the diff eren t fi re - eng i ne stations, and Government knows not how to admit an assertion so foreign to the principles, and even to the arrangements several engines were speedily upon the spot. A plenti which constitute the public law of Europe. Independ en t - ful supply of water bei ng o b ta i ne d, at a quarter to two Powers, who treat on a footing of perfect equality, and all danger of further extension was at an end. Consi discuss their common interests, are never called upon t o derable damage, h owever , appears, we regret to say, to enrol determinations and acts adopted without their p ar - have been done to th e f urn i ture an d stock in trade, both ticipation. So far as regards Cracow and Poland, remi- by removal and water. A large body of the F division niscences and public documents attest that prolonged of police were in attendance, and succeeded in keeping incertitudes and long dis c ussi ons b e t ween t h e representa- order, and dri v i ng b ac k t h e i mmense number of persons tives of all the Powers at the Congress of Vienna pre- who thronged round the premises. ceded the conclusion of the special treaty of the 3d May, We read in a letter from Berne of the 4th : which is now said to have regulated the interests of the " Scarcely had the new Directory been installed in three Powers co-participators in the division of Poland, office, when its attention was excited by grave events in without any concurrence of the other Powers of Europe, the canton of Fribourg. It will be remembered that The very text of the Treaty of Vienna shows that the about a month ago two popular assemblies were held lot of Poland was settled by an European deliberation. at Morat, and that an address was voted to the Grand It was with Poland that this treaty was first occupied, Council _of Fribourg, demanding that the Canton as being the most important of the general questions 1, 2, 3,4, and should cease to form part of the Ultra-Montane league. 5, upon which it had to decide. Articlesl n order, however, to strengthen this application, a define the portions which each of the three co-participat- popular meeting was held soon afterwards at Este ing Powers were to have of the territory of th e G rand coyer, the chief town of a district bordering on the Lake Duchy of Warsaw. Articles 6,7, 8, and 9 co ns tit ute the of Neufchatel, and another took place in the district republic of Cracow. There is not the slightest difference of Gruyere. At both these meetings resolutions were The Council of between these articles and those which gave to Prussia a further • part of the states of the King of Saxony. The founds- State of Fribourg interfered to prevent inani tion to similar to those of Morat. tion of the republic of Cracow is placed on the same line festations, and the Prefect of Estavoyer was ord ere d as the stipulations which formed oth er states, created to arrest the t w o m ost influential members of th e Li kingdoms, recognised the free town s o f G ermany, an d beral Comm i ttee,la on the 31st ultimo, but th e y were no sooner ce Fusel and M. Duruz, Th ese established the Germanic Confed era ti on . T wo art i c l es arrests of the general treaty of June 9— ar ti c l es 1 0 an d 118 — r kn o wn than the people rose, the t ocs i n was took s make mention of the special treaty conc l u d e d on M a y 3, sounded, marched to Estavoyer, singing the Marseill a i se . The and several hundred men from th e v ill ages and they declare that th e p rov i s i ons conta i ne d i n t hi s t treaty shall have the ' same f orce an d va l ue as if t h e y had insurgents demanded the release of the prison ers , an d the prefect, taking alarm, set them at liberty. The been textually inserted in the general act.' Most assur- Council of State, when informed of these events, sent edly, far from rendering the existence of the republic o f commissioners to Estavoyer, and adopted means of Cracow more precarious, these words, adopted and . repression which have occasioned great signed by all Europe, had for their object to give to h i e t It is said that there was a meeting yesterday at excitement,Bulle much stronger and more authentic guarantees. the chief town of the Gruyere country, at which was resolved to support the demands of the Libera ls i t King's Government is only exercising an evident d right, the and, at the same time, fulfillingEstavoyer, and it is added that the Governmentof canton de Vaud has given notice to the Government of the an imperious u y, r i e. solemnly protesting against the suppression o f t h e Fribourg, that if it attempts to send troops to put down public of Cracow—an act directly contrar o the letter the liberal manifestations, they will not be permitted to as well as the meaning of the Treaty of Vienna of the passthrough th e Vaud territory, without doing whi ch 9th of June, 1815. After long and redoubtable agi r ta e s • they cannot get to .Estavoyer. The affair is now before leh tions, which have so profoundly ha.ken Europe, it is by spect to treaties and the rights s hey have rendered sacred founded and can be main- the Vorort, but as yet no decision has been come to as to the course to be pursued." that the order of Europe is t tained. No Power can force itself from them without at the same time setting the other Powers free. France 1:11E WEATHER AB ROAD.—It appears by a l etter has not given any l exa mple of such an attempt upon the w l3 a contempor ar y h as pu bli shed, that even in Genoa, policy of conservatism and peace. Franco has not to r - so much resorted to by invalids for winte r quarters on posed upon her by th e account of its mild el:mate, there has been extremely gotten the painful seen and even the treaties of 1815. She might rejoice at an act which severe frost, and all the adjacent heights, - would authorise her, by a just reciproc i ty, never to con- shipping in the h ar b our, were covered with snow. The sult henceforth. an ything but provident calculat i ons her own interests. And y et, she itis who calls t o a th e gar d ens, have been destroyed. This int ense co ld faithful observance of these treaties those Powers wh o w as p rece d e d b y a fearful and destructive hurricane, h av e gathered from them the principal advantages ! She which took place on the 14th ult. with the maintenanco f it is who is occupied, above all, e REPEAL OF THE MALT TAX —On Friday, the acquired rights and the respect due to the independence Bth instant, at a meeting of the Cheshire Agricultural ci stateety,fp " GUIZOT. Protection S • held üb a li t e C u r ff e a w ir e s , , it . . w as resolved that Dl' states. in the present o "Paris, Dec. 4, 1846." it la inexpedient to ,& Council of ministers was held ou Thursday, promote any l UoTewent for a meal of th e m a lt Tax. A letter from St. Aignan, dated January 3, which is published in the l?eforme, says— " Disasters of every kind are being accumulated on our heads. Inundations, dearness of provisions, and riots,—l repeat riots; simple peasants, ordinarily most peaceable, have had the great temerity to complain too loudly of their sufferings, to menace the authorities, and to destroy some measures used by dealers in corn which were found to be deficient in capacity. This demon stration produced a visit from the officers of the Crown to St. Aignan, accompanied by an immense military force, when some poor wretches were arrested and con demned to pay fines and suffer imprisonment, whilst the inhabitants are compelled to feed and lodge the troops dispatched from Blois. Our small town presents the most afflicting spectacle. At Tours the prisons are filled to excess. All the towns in the neighbourhood, as Romorantin, Chatillon-sur-Indre, and Montrichard, are treated with equal severity. When will all this finish 2" In the same journal we find a letter from Yvetot in Normandy, which says— " The misery existing in this country is frightful We reckon 300 indigent families out of a population o 10,000. Charitable workhouses have been established where all the unemployed are received, but those houses entail considerable expense on the inhabitants ; and, notwithstanding the collections - made, and the other means adopted to procure funds, it is to be feared that the available resources of the town will be speedily exhausted." The Courrier Francais says— "M. Olozaga did not apply for his passports at the Embassy at Paris, as is stated in the Spanish journals. M. Olozaga had not received at Paris the official docu ments connected with his election ; they were not sent to the Embassy at Paris, but to the Consulate at Bayonne. It is, therefore, only at Bayonne that he could ask for a Spanish passport. Hs left Paris with his French one." The Council-General of the Roads and Bridges have reported to the Minister of Public Works that in their opinion, the site of the grand terminus of the Paris and Lyons Railroad should be established on the Boulevard Contrescarpe, near the Place de la Bastile, and will require the construction of a costly viaduct over the streets Moreau and Tra versiere, and the grounds of the new prison of La Force. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 79f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 25c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,242 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 907 f. 50c. ; Havre, 691 f. 25c ; Great Northern, 636 f. 25c ; Avignon, 865 f. ; Vierzon, 600 f. ; Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c. ; Basle, 217 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 482 f. 50c ; Paris and Lyons, 507 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 485 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 487 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 452 f. 50c. ; Spanish Passives, 5 3 4. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 1514 ? —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 13 1 / 4 --Dutch Rhenish, 4%—Jamaica South Midland Junction, I %—Luxembourg, %—Northern of France, 10 1 4—Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Over Yssel, 2 j 4 dis.—Rouen and Havre, 27—Sambre and Meuse, 5%. REPRESENTATION OF MID DLESEX. The lamented death of Mr. Byng, which we this day announce, causes an earlier vacancy for the county of Middlesex than was anticipated. That Mr. Byng did not intend to offer himself again has been for some time known, although the public announcement by himself was only made on the 31st December last. A requisi tion to Lord Robert Grosvenor to come forwitra on the first election, had been in course of signature by the electors, and had the full concurrence - of Mr. Byng himself, who highly esteemed and valued the Noble Lo rd. That requisition was in the following words:— " TO THE LORD ROBERT GROSVENOR. " We the undersigned electors of the county of Mid dlesex, having heard with much regret that it is not the intention of our highly valued and faithful representa tive in Parliament, George Byng, Esq., to offer himself again for re-election, and having, from your known character and public services, a full conviction that we shall find in your Lordship a successor worthy to follow him, and fitly to represent the Liberal constituency of this county, do hereby request you to come forward as a candidate, and pledge ourselves to give you our full and earnest support." This requisition had been most numerously and respectably signed, and left no doubt of the unopposed and triumphant return of Lord Robert Grosvenor, if the invitation were accepted by him. Until the last melancholy duties are paid to Mr. Byng, no further public demonstration can be made, but we can state without doubt that Lord Robert Grosvenor will accept the requisition, and that his return is sure. ~ • ~ . ..'ti. • , -.1 • 1 • , .. I ,f, '• •;i ' ' 'o.4johibiAts7:arZ, 4.IIIINEK .l 4• A 7' '.• A. 6, , 1 4 ; ‘ , ,IrTip ja k -7.,,-- ,, ,, - ' ''" "'VIV•bao ...•*". •-•C;PICErSIke, •.- n.- "4.17333.$ '. 1 , 5 1 : Iln iTield ~i LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1847 It will be perceived, from a letter addressed to ourselves, by his Excellency the Governor of Guern sey, and published in another column, that the cal culations latterly advanced by some of our Contem poraries as reasons for the retirement of the British troops from Sinde, are, as we insisted on the 6th ultimo, altogether garbled and fallacious. We are always disposed to look with suspicion upon state ments advanced with so much egotistical positiveness in reference to a country so remotely situated and so recently annexed to the dominions of British In dia. Again, it was manifest that a territory of such considerable dimensions, and of such unquestionable fertility, could not prove so entirely an encumbrance to its conquerors, or that, presuming it did at the commencement of the occupa tion necessitate any remarkable disbursements from the Exchequer, it must ultimately, and very speedily, repay that outlay by extraordinary and remunerative contributions. Much stress has been laid upon the Parliamentary returns by those who are solicitous for the abandonment of Sinde; indeed, it is upon those Parliamentary returns that the arguments of these dissentients are based. "Let us re joice," they exclaim, " let us rejoice that there is at last a feeble approximation to sanity in the councils of Bombay. Yes, the legislators of our Oriental possessions are beginning to recognise the i r execrable nature of their bargain along the banks of the Indus ; they perceive that since the period of its invasion, namely, for three whole years, Sinde has been nothing better than a maelstrom to our Indian treasures; that for three years it has been sucking in rupees at the rate of a million and a half pounds annually ; that during those three lamentable years it has required an outlay of between 3,000,0001. and 4,500,0001. per annum. The Government of Bombay are at length becoming aware of their egregious blundering—the troops stationed upon the Indus are to be diminished by a withdrawal of 7,000 soldiers. Yet, alas !" they continue, " there is scarcely any substantial cause for self-gratulation. The Hydra's head is scarcely lopped off, when another starts from the bleeding cicatrice. Eight thousand men are scarcely removed from their expensive quar ters upon the Indus to their original position in Bengal, when nine thousand are absolutely imported to Belooch. Still there is to be a reduction in our Sinde expenditure notwithstanding. But such a re duction! We are no longer to be annually drained of a cool million and a half. No ; but we are still to be out of pocket every year just one million sterling." There is something positively amusing in this dogmatical manner of arriving at conclusions. It is about as comprehensible and satisfactory as the anal opinion entertained by the drunken Mr. WACKFORD SQUEERS, when musing over his plight in the station house :—" A double L, all—everything, a cobler's weapon. U, P, up, a d ver b , not down. S, Q, U, double E, B, s, Sque ers , noun substantive; total, all up with Squeers." Not one jot less preposterous is the mode of drawing inferences adopted by the advocates for the evacuation of Sinde. There is no raisingof hypotheses in their consideration of the question. There is merely a dogged, blundering misstatement of facts. Nevertheless, it may be insisted, those facts and those arguments are many of them taken from the Parliamentary returns. The perpetual stress laid upon data derived from these official sources would lead one to imagine that there must be some very prevalent and very popular superstition as to the infallibility of Parliamentary returns, than which superstition nothing could be more frivolous. Now, it is very plainly stated by Major-General Sir WILLIAM NAPIER, that the Parliamentary returns relating to Sinde are flawed with many egregious inaccuracies. In 1843, those papers apportioned to Sir CHARLES NAPIER 6,137 ,3 moren. more soldiers than were actually under notwithstandin his direct i o n, lll‘n 1844, 8,705, more ; and in 1845, :hshall waive this point, however, 3 shall facility it affords us for worsting rnent of Sinde. strangely desirous for the abandon these who are s g o . the pu rpose of waive the point f or curecting particular counter-as sertions of s. attention to the CHARLES NAPIEB," h e as u• WI LLIAM N APIER. " Sir " po has • penes of the civil govern m erit ." -P az d all the ex positively assu re d that Sinde is • And yet we are about the n ec k of the Si Bri tish Lion" virtu ally a mill-stone i the East! Verily the ill stones are n into bladders: Sir NAnart Sir C expanding _ zut has nioreover, THREE 09, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE " CITY, QUARTER TO 0 The Cotton' mark e t a t Li verpoo l on S a t u rday , I ',, dull, and prices were ra th er i n f avour o f b uye rs. P' o f sales were 3,000 to 4,000 bales, including 700 bale ' * Surat on speculation. 1 , 000 p a l es S urat rea lised to skd. per lb., and American sold at 6d. to 71d. per Railway Shares were rather better. tb. There are very che er i ng accoun t s aga in from s o Cape of Good Hope a n d N ew Z ea l an d , w hi c h shnit_.,l, success of our arms at the C a p e , an d the virtual tell ) nation of the war. The New Zealand dates er e _„, September 19, and th e y notice a revival of confid e ''' which cannot but be pleasing to all friends at home. _., A correspondent writi ng f rom T r i ncoma l ee , obser:, —" Everything rendering a port important for the c e , pose Trincomalee possesses, or could obtain in to Its harbour is unequ a ll e d i n I n di a , an d a ff o rds se w anchorage at all seasons of the year. As in C010 . 1 0 7 ‘ boats from or to the s hip h ave no t t o vo y age a nol e e. two, nor in any season are the waves so high as t e :ts to danger the boats' crews and car goes . Ido not het s il to say that there is no harbour in the island that isu:A, the same facility to exporters and importers of g OO The distance being so small from the ships to the e11...i f the damage done in the rainy season will be infin it e less than that of the driest season iu Colombo. Dee " The repairing of the fortifications and building n or batteries here has been a very fruitf u l topic of con y p cation among the natives. There have not been !S i ing persons to attribute an expected invasion or . 5 island by a f ore i gn na ti on as th e cause f or t a king 1;,, e , steps ; some of th e d e l u d e d p eop l e h ave l e ft the I•• others are preparing to g o, a ll are secur i ng their 111, " -- bles as fast as possible. WO The corn trade in M ar k-l a n e thi s morn i ng has -- e j, firm, and the advance of Friday last is fully maintewo Of barley the supply c on ti nues ver y s h or t, an d it ist o maintained that there will certainly be a great deficit s : f i e in the quantity required by th e br ewers , an d that tuL i is every probability of permission b e i ng g iven to w. . sugar in distillation, &c. The English Stocks are to-day rather quiet, tht . . 4 0 0 steady, at about Saturday's rates. Consols have P . 4. 931 i for transfer to-morrow, the New Three-en d ' f Quarter per Cents. have been 951 i, and the Three Cents. 93i to 94. Exchequer-bills hare been mar t •• 12s. to 15s. premium, a further improvement, arieillhe may be presumed, from the reduction in the ficiency" bills effected by th e i nvestmen t s therein so surplus revenue, and which may cause the other bill! • be taken up by the Bank of England, where there IL• necessity for placing their ass e t s . Th e prem i u m or East India Bonds is quoted 21s. £here has been a moderate business done in the I lr hes tl reign Investments, but pri ces are aga i n rather io The improvement at the Paris B ourse on S a turday : a t so far not had much influence here. Spanish Fiv. vio, Cents. have been quoted 25t, and the Three per V II at 35g. The market for Railway Shares has in some e s° . e been a little firmer to-day. Aberdeen, 24 ; Birup ham and Oxford, 12i to 13-1- ; Eastern Counties, 2 2 4 1 23 ; Great Northern (London and York), 3 o _7 lo , Brighton, 58 to 58 4 ; South-Western, 65 ; hlannbc',4 and Leeds, 112 ; Midland, 128 to 1281 ; NewcastleLf Berwick, 34i to 354 ; North British, 35,i ; Shrewbe w ' and Birmingham, 5/1- ; York and Newcastle, 38i. ~,I) ~./. .. ONE cLOS PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. TRIc 3 per Cent. Red uce d Anns 93% 94 93 97 14 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 3 5 / a% 96 New 34 per Cent. Annuities 95Ai % Long Annuities to expire J an .lB6o 9 13-16 % 91 9 1 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 9% 9-16 9 21 India Bonds, 1,0004. ....... ..... 11 Ditto under 1,000/. .. ...... Exchequer Bills, 10001.1%d.... 15 12 —— p it F Ditto, 5001 - p 0 I Ditto, Small ... .. .. 15 12 —— p A% _ iii M ONE - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK rsica Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 42 2 4 0 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent........... D's Ditto Deferred — 2 0 Granada Bonds, 1 per Ceat. 2O ••• Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —9 34 k Ditto, Account 23%% 3 0 ' Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account 3B 37% Russian Bonds ........ 111% 11A 2 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Do., 1838-40, div. frm. May, '4l Do . 1844 Ditto, Passive Ditto, Deferred — Ditto 3 per Cent. 40 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4O Dividends on the above payable in London. 6914 4i 59% 59 59 1 4 Dutch 214 par Cent. . Ditto, Account 59 , fl are PRICES or BUSINESS DONE em,,or . , R &ILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. l' , " - 0 Aberdeen Amber., Nott., Boston, 2% and Eastern Junction 2% 2 34% Belfast & County Down 4% • ...• Birmin. and Gleucester..loo Ditto New 17% — ...... ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley 425. ... .. 6%% p Birming., Wolverh'pton, and Stour Va11ey..... 425. ...... Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.... 2 3 1 4 — Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. — Bristol and Exeter 75 Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 32 ...... Buckinghamshire Caledonian Ditto Half Shares— 2% Ditto, Clydesdale Jane 25 ...... Chester and Holyhead... 27% 25 %% 4 Cheltexham and Oxford 2 Clarence lOO Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 — Do.2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. - 10 ..... Cork and Killarney ... 2% — Cork and Waterford ... 1% — Cornwall q,Ditto, Half Shares Direct Northern Scrip.. 2% 2% Direct Norwich I Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dundalk & Enniskillen 10 Eastern Counties 141. 16s 22% 23 22%... Ditto New l2l. 16s 7% p Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1. 61.135. 4d... Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... X% p Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3% Eastern Union Ditto Quarter Shares 10 Do. Ditto, 1 Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2 % ...... East Lancashire Ditto, New Do., do., New Scrip l4 East Lincolnshire ...... 1 ! d i. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ........ .... .• Ditto Half Shares ... 10 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 1 ,( ...... ... ....... Edinburgh &Northern.. 12 1 / s 15% Ditto, New Ditto, Newport Ditto, ditto, New .... . 1% • — Edinburgh and Perth... 3 Ely and Huntingdon ... 12% 13% 13 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 2% Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 — Ditto, New Do., .i Shares (5 per cent. guar.) ......... 12% — Great Northern (London and York Regd.) 2%..... 3%!,f 3 Do. (Direct Northern Regd.) . 3% 4%!,‘ 4 Great South. and West. P 14 ~. ~ / I*O 54 ..... 13 1 / 4 ' (Ireland) Great North of England -100 Ditto New Ditto, New . Ditto, New Great Western 85 Ditto % Shares. 5O Ditto 4 Shares 12% Ditto Fifths 2O - ........ Ditto, New ". 4% •••••••• ...... Huddersfield & Manche s . 13 ....... .. ••• .. Ditto, Extension 3 — Hull and Selby 5O Do. Half Shares 25 — ... . .......... Ditto 4 Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14 . — ............... Do., do~ and Norwich 5 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Do. New ..•• •••• •• •• Leeds and Bradford 3O ...... 77 77 Leicester and Bedford l6s. %IA dis. 4 di°. Leeds, Dewsbury, &c 27% ...... . Do., Branch % Shares 2% ... Do., Branch (Blue) ... 2%........ —. •••••• Do. Ex tension( Green) • N.. Leeds and Thi r sk 17% ••• Ditto •••••• 16%% , New ............ 5 ... ........ Do., Prefer., 6/p er Ct. 3% ... 5 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .... .......... 2 Liverp., Mnchstr& New . ' castle Junction ..... 2%. ..... 2 3 A London and Bl ackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d 8% Do. New ............... 4 •••• •• "-- **** *** Ditto Extension ...... 7%•••••• London, Brighton, and ~....... Ollllllr-....- South C oas t 5O .... 587 , 8 58 . Ditto, Fifths '..'•'.' Do. Consol. Eighths lO Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d 9% Do. Preference ...18117s 2d — .•• London:and N. Westernloo 197% 197 Do. Quarters Do., do., New Ditto Fifths Do. IA Shares (G. J.) 10 Do 401.Shares(L.M.) 8 — Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 D D o o . . 1 1 0 0 1 / . . q ii r .. . &&& BBB...))) C. 5 5 1 12 5 a Do. 104— London, Oxford, and ..• Cheltenham Loud. & S.Western 411 6s 10d...... 65 ... Do. New Consol. Bths 40 ...... 49 Do. New Do. New Ditto Tenths Ditto Tenths ... ..... 4 ...... Ditto Scrip Ditto ditto ••••••. .••• 4 • ..... •• I,' ndon and York Scrip 2%..... 3 ‘ l /„... . .........•. Do. Extension London, Salisbury, and Londonderu&Coleraine 15 ..... ...•••• Londonderry and Ennis killen 19% .• •-• 94, 197 2314 1415 12% oa. 64% b% 6 3 1 / 4 2% [, it is Irish ' caater,;; Avail s . 8, zneron's Tap Vale Aleut Valle Gnd Ju Vale ra of Ne Wakefield, W aterford W▪ aterford Waterfd,W and Dubl "Word, .t• est Ridin West Co rm , Windsor, South W Wilts, Som, mouth York and N Ditto Ne, Do. Piet York aid N Ditto %.c. Do. Selb3 Do. Exte Ditto, Pr' Do. East ing Ex Australasia British Nor liational of . rr P rovinci a l ' ni°l : l of L, _ adon & Cmerci a C nial.. , l' o ndon +National Pr tr niola of Ai 1441 del hi Loy Lo N breeze, an : Of 20 to stern, tw" middle of tatn th 5 0 Liverpoc DEAL, l oderat karia eastle• Colo 4 liew 0 ,Cow curiae.' OFI ealcu p o , Kern ttio liar Act , • ?b 17 12% 0? i ,* i ~~ i ,' 20% 9% ---4!‘ ..... 4% 161 5 1 4 8