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.• I HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The following outline of the ARRANGEMENTS for the SEASON I, 1g47 is respectfUlly submitted to the Nobility, Patrons of the Opera, and to the Public. It is presented with the confident hope, that the successtid exertions made to secure, under circurristances of peculiar =lenity, a company still more worthy of the first Theatre in Xiirt9 3, and of ita distinguished Patrons will insure the continuation their support. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. Mdlle. Jenny Lind (her first appearance in this country), Madame del Carmen Montenegro (her first appearance at this Theatre) ; Mdlle. Sanchioll. Mdlle, Fegiani, and Madame Solari (their first ap pearance in this country) ; the Contralto, Mdlle. Vietti and d Madame tin Castellan. Signor Fraschin i, the great Tenor of Italy (his first ap pearance in this country) ; and the favourite Tenor, Signor Gardenl, now of the Italian Opera . Paris, having lately withdrawn, at a great pecuniary sacrifice, front the Academie Itoyale de Musique t his first appearance infiteittountry);SigniorSuperchi, this country) ; Signor Superchi, the distinguished Baritone (his first appearance in this country); Signor F. Lablache; Si gn or Borella (his first appearance in this country) ; Signor Corelli ; the celebrated Basso Cantante, Ilerr Staudigl (his first appearance); and Signor Lablache. In addition to the shove, arrangements are pending with Signer Coletti, of the Italian Opera at Paris. That great composer, the Chevalier Ileyerbeer, has arranged to t this country, to bring out the CAMP DE SILESIE, and another of his admired chefs-d'oeuvre ; the principal parts in the Camp de Male, by Mdlle. Jenny Lind and Signor Fraschini. The celebrated Dr. Fella Mendelssohu Bartholdy will likewise visit England. and produce an Opera expressly composed for her Majesty's Theatre, the lbretto founded on THE TEMPEST of Shaospere; written h i 31. i Scribe. Miranda. .. • • 3ldlle. Jenny Lind. Ferdinand • Sig. Gardoni. Caliban •• • • • • Proipero .• •.••• • • • • • . • .• • Sig. Lablache. It is likewlee announced, with great satisfaction, that Signor Verdi, 'Laving recovered from his severe illness, has expressly ' composed fur .his theatre a new Opera, of which the plot is founded on the ROB EIIS of SCIIILLER. Roasim's Opera of ROBERT BRUCE, lately produced at the Ace lemle Royale, has else been secured. Mesdames Castellan, Sanchioll, and Montenegro ; Signors Gar ton!, Seperchi, and Fraschinl, wdl appear before Easter. Mdlle. Jenny Lind, whose engagement commences in March, and extends until the end of the season, will appear Immediately after Easter. _ _. _ Director of the Music and Conductor, Mr. BALFE. Iu addition to the above, several Operas, new to this country, will be Produced, and the repertoire will be selected from the chefs l'omvre of Mozart, Cimaroea, Rossini, Donlzetti, 3fercadante, Bel- UAL Spc. The strictest attention has been pa:,l to all the details, so that an ensemble may be presented pertect in a r. *arts. A NUMEROUS ORCHESTRA, sf the most distinguished talent and power, has been selected from some of the best Orchestras of Europe. THE CHORUS has been chosen with the greatest care from Italy, fterniany, and England ; and will comprise upwards of Eighty l'er formers. ARRANGEMENTS FOIL TIIE BALLET. Mall*. Carlotta Grist, Millie. Lucile Gratin, and Millie. Cerito ; in addition to which an engagement has been made with Mdlle. Caroline Rosati (of La Scala, at Milan, and other great theatres of 1 , Italy), who will make her first appearance on the first night of the sea.son In a New Ballet, expressly composed and arranged for her, by M. Paul Taglionl ; Mane. Wauthier, of La Scala (her first appearance In this count* . ); Madame Petit Stephan, Millie. Vonore, Mdlle. Elise Montfort ; Mdllea, 'l'hevenot, Lalllorelll, Emile, Fanny Pascale., and Bertin ; and Millie. Caroline Baucourt. of the Academie Royale, and La Scala, Milan (her first appearance in this country). In consequence of the enthusiastic manner in which this eminent artiste was received last season, hopes are entertained that Millie. Taglioni may be induced to appear for a limited number of nextOrmancea. M. St. Leon, M. d'Or, of the Academie Royale, Paris (his first appearance In this country), M. Gosselin, M. di Mattia, Sig. Venafra, M. Goat - let, M. Paul Taglioni, and M. Perrot. Composer of the Ballet Music, Signor Pugni. Principal Artist, Mr. Marshall. Maitre; de Ballet—M. Paul Taglloni, NI. Casati, of La Scala ; and 3f. Perrot. Sous-Maitre de Ballet, 31. GOSselin Regisseur de la Danse. M. Petit. to Original Grand Ballet will be produced, written express'y lbr her Majesta 's Theatre, by the celebrated poet, Henri Ileine, on a subject selected dean the Old Legends of Germany. A Novel and Poetical Ballet, for the subject of which the establishment Is in debted to the kin ines3 of a popular and distinguished Poetess, entitled EGERIA. The celebrated Pas de Quatre and Pas do Deesses will be revived, and an entirely new Divertissement, introducing another Grand Pas by M. Perrot, which, uniting all the peculiar attractions of the Pas des Diesses and Pas do Quatre, will present a novel feature of strik irv: originality, and will combine the talent of all, to be entitled LA CON ST HLLAT lON. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will he performed Donizettfs Opera, called THE FAVOURITE. Alphonso XI., rah. Stretton ; Balthazar, Mr. Borrint ; Ferdinand, )Sr. Travers ; Don Gaspar, Mr. Ilorncastle ; Leonora, 'Miss Romer ; huts. Miss Collett. Aeer which a new Ballet, called THE PRETTY SICILIAN. In which M. Croce, M. B:asis, and Mdlle. Baderna will appear. To conclude with the Last Aet of DER FREISCHUTZ. Adolph, Air. King; Caspar, Mr. Stretton ; Zarniel, Mr. Payne; Linda, Miss Messent ; Rose, Miss Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far rell, Webster, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, itrindal. Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Humby. Mrs. Yarn°ld, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &e. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and " Mien" Polkas, &c. To ooncludo with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, exiled the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Trannnil Del`ghts. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. 'Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. EVENING Will he performe4 a new Comic Drama, crated £5OO REWARD. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, H. Butler, Miss 17111tu-s, and Miss Forster. Alter which a new Farce, called TILE Characters by Messrs. Matthews, Oxberry, Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Mimi Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To be followed by the Farce - ef TUE ETON BOY. Captain Popham, Mr. Wigan ; Dabster, Mr. Keeley ; Mies Fanny Curry, Miss Dickinson. To conclude with the Farce of MRS. WRITE. TFIEATRE ROYAL. AI)ELPIII. i*NDER VIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. express desire of the Conde d• Montemolin, who will honour the Theatre with his preseuce. THIS EVENING Will be performed the celebrated Drama, called TIIE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. With the original cast. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet at LA, GiSELLF., entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS; •r, the Wills Bride. Principal charactersby Mr. Wri g ht, Mr . P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford , Madame Celeste, Miss Mariau Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellett Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCES:4'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Bollni's Opera Sella, entitled NORMA. Pellio, Mr. Allen; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Flavius, Mr. Wynn ; 'Adelgisa, Miss A. Romer; Clotilda, Miss Rourke ; Norma, M as Illasano. In the course of the evening Professer HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go througk their wonderflul performances. Previons to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing "The Railroad Overture." To enwinde with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en titC'd The ENCPIANTED DEA.UTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or, The One-eyed Gent. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Burbldge ; Sprite, Mr. If. Marshall; Clown, Mr. Flextnore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed the popular Drama, called LE DOCTECR NOIR. Principal characters by MM. Lemaitre, Carnally, Pascal, Lucien, David. Dumery, Beres, Mdme. Orassau, 3idllea. Clarisse, six! Vallee. Rases, Gs. , Pit, 3s. Cd. , Stella, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven. and the performances commence at Eight. Private Bores, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-offlce. ETHIOPIAN SiERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, fttanwead, and Gannon, will have the honour of repeat 'ma their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING (Thursday), and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Half-past Eight. The Programme will be varied on euh occasion. Due notice will he given of their next DAY PER FOIt MANE E. _ . . Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, `2!. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family.- 1 / 2 1r. BATTY respectfully begs to acquaint the public that the performances will lie given In aid of the Funds for the RE LIEF of the IBIS!' and SCOTCH DISTRESSED DISTRICTS, when the extensive resources of the Theatre will be brought into action. THIS EVENING Will be performeel TIIE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course Of Men and Steeds. Entire cbange of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the successfU I Comic Equestrian Fairy Pantomime entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Itaba and the Robber's Cava. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. Box-office open trom eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and omunence et half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING WIII be performed a new Drama, entitled RABY RATTLER; or, "The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole strength of the Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF TIIE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Dentin; Pantaloon, Herr R. Dentin ; Columbine, Mdlle. Theodore ; Clown, Herr N. Dentin ; Punch, Herr E. Deulin. Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be pertartned TITEIIuEIiIk6TOR. In which Miss Vin cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, 'Toward, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which. the new and grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled THE BIRTH OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin Go-a-Head," and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown. Mr. T. Barry. To conclude with THE DUKE OF SITOREDITCII, Supported by the entire Comic strength of the Company. Boxes, Is., lialf-price, 6d.; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 13. The Queen of Prussia, according to accounts from Berlin, was taken suddenly and seriously ill at the com mencement of last week. Her Majesty, we are glad to learn by the bulletins issued by the Court physicians, is progressing towards convalescence. HANOVEZ-SQUARE Rooms.—Mr. Sidney Corrie, so well known as M.C., gave his annual ball on Tuesday night, at the above rooms, which was attended by a numerous and fashionable assembly. Mr. Corrie's abilities as a con ductor on such occasions are too well known, and universally admitted to need comment here. The selection of music was admirable, the band being under the direction of Mr. 'Weir). pert, and the supper and refreshments in a superior style of elegance. The thanks of all were due to Mr. Corrie and the several gentlemen who acted as stewards for their exertions to ensure comfort and enjoyment to all present. TAKING TITS VEIL. — Yest erda y morning two ladies, Miss Jones, of St. John's-wood, and Miss Colgrave, of Bryanstone-square, received " the white veil and the reli eus habit of our blessed Lady of Mercy , " at the Catholic Church, Bermondsey. The ceremony was performed by the Right Rea. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic Bishop of London, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. O'Dwyer , Butler. Moore , and other Priests. The postulants, habited in white, were intro duced to tbel3 - 1 at the foot of the altar by the Principal 1 of the Si of''!'op tical examination Mercy, and having, in answer to a cateche- i world and all :von\ expressed their readiness to give up the things, en tirely and unrese r r\ d -e l and to devote themselves gion, they were ly to the study and the practice of reli prelate. The invested with the veil by the officiating part in Latin. was of cere mony, an vrhich was conducted for the most of sacred music appropriatet imposing character, several pieces on the organ. The islitio c the occasion being performed 1 diction upon the newl - phaving - dispersed. 3-made " sisters " , the congregation Advices from Point-a-Pitre to De cember stare that the prospe c t s ' of , the 20th of ie satisfactory, and that nothing but thet coSugar crop wore wea ther Was required to complete the work, the of fin e having already com menced. The price of the manufactur e good was frotn >.;.5f. to 28f. The shipments for the descriptions 30th of November amounted to 25,527,290 kil ' o ea s. r ra to m the The rate of discount was 12 per cent. per annum • m--- ,bill s com manded 14 per cent. premium. The negotiations for an intermediate steamer to Boston and Halifax, has not, it :s said, proved successful; the terms demanded by the Cunard Company having been considered by the Government to be beyond the outlay that would be warranted.—Lirerpool Times. A Supplement to the London Gazette appeared last night, containing banker's returns, made in pursuance of the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 32. The returns were for the Na tional Provincial Bank of England, and the London and Westminster Bank. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1847. MR. DISRAELI'S NEW WORK. In the press, in 3 vols. post Bve., T A N C it OR, THE NEW CRUSADE. E A-, By B. DISRAELI, M.P. Author of " Conlngsby," " Sybil," &e. Henry Colbuna, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborottgli-stroef. MRS. GORE'S NEW WORE. Now ready at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., T EMPTATION AND ATONEMENT. By Mrs. GORE. Authoress of "Mothers and Daughters," " The Banker's Wife," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. NEW WORK BY MISS PARDOE. Just ready, in 3 vels. B;;;;Ts'itluumerouilr7irWings on Steel r. d Wood, by William and George Measom, 21. 2s. bound, LOUIS the FOURTEENTH, and the COUIt of FRANCE In the SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 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LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY JL SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support aRP: patronage, anti to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c.. take place every Ter.snae and Flimsy, at One o'clock, at the: Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place. favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addreesod. AR Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered; and advices of results will be lorwarded by the first poet after the sale, and the proceeds imme diately disposed of according to lastructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, FEBRUARY 11. THERPIOMETER, Lowest, 2S; Highest, 34 ; Neon, 374. BAROMETER, 29.82.—W1ND W.N.W., mild thaw. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAT. Iforning .. 37 Intrintes after 9. I Evening .. 15 antruatee after 10. adjourned till Wednesday next, and the House rose at Six o'clock. Session after session has the Ten Hours' Bill been brought under the consideration of Parliament. It has been repeatedly the theme of most earnest and eloquent discussion, it has been ably and vigorously supported, it has been resolutely opposed, and, though occasionally triumphant, it has been again and again rejected. Nevertheless, though continually rejected, it has been continually increasing in strength, it has been continually acquiring new sympathy and support, and is now awaiting its second reading in the House of Commons with every prospect of a favourable result. In a few days, it will, doubtless, be the law of the land. The long protracted, hardly won victory will be achieved, and though long protracted, it will be most welcome. If ever triumph was merited by patient endurance and persevering exertion, triumph has been indeed merited by the supporters of the Ten Hours' Bill. For long years have the anxious opera tives, for whose benefit it is designed, prayed and petitioned the Legislature for assistance, but they have prayed and petitioned in vain. For long years have the advocates of the measure brought forward the most unanswerable arguments and appa rently irresistible appeals, but their arguments and their appeals have been alike unavailing. And how is this ? Whence arises this determined and enduring opposition ? The cause is obvious. The opponents of the Ten Hours' Bill, beginning with false premises, have arrived at a false conclusion, namely, that such a measure would be most preju dicial to their own interests ; hence their opposition which is perhaps only natural. According to the way of the world, it is perhaps only natural, that men should oppose what they believe inimical to themselves. With this line of conduct we do not now find fault (that were indeed useless), but we find fault with the belief by which it is inspired. It is adopted on entirely mistaken grounds. A mea- Isure so obviously advantageous to the workman cannot and will not be found injurious to the master. The employer cannot suffer by what benefits the employed. And that the proposed altera tion wild benefit the employed, has been assuredly proved beyond all power of gain- saying. On an impartial investigation how does the matter lie ? what is the question at issue ? Simply this. The women and young persons em ployed in the manufactures are now compelled to work for twelve hours in the day ; they are com pelled, it is useless to gainsay it—their own neces sities render it imperative on them to obtain work, and the masters, generally speaking, will not, unless restrained by the law, give them work upon other terms. It is proposed, by the interference of Parliament, to relieve these " women and young persons "—for, be it remembered, it is only with these we have to deal—it is proposed to relieve them from two hours daily labour, and, we ask, how will this alteration affect them ? Will it prove a blessing or a bane ? Let us descend to particulars ; let us contemplate an individual case. Let us look on the wife and mother banished from her family, wearily working the whole live-long day, and then, wearied and worn-out, returning at a late hour to her roof—to her roof shall we say ?we are almost at a loss for a word by which to designate it—we cannot call that place her dwelling, where she never dwells ; we cannot call that place a lwme, from which every domestic happiness is banished. Let us picture this hard life of toil, and think, all she asks from us is two hours of rest. No, something more than two hours of rest, something more than the mere interval of two hours —she asks for an opportunity to hold communion with her family, to look upon her little children, to cheer her desolate hearth, and perhaps reclaim her now deserted husband—for in two hours it will be possible to effect all this. To those who consider the duties of domestic life entitled to a moment's considera tion, the proposed alteration must appear of incalculable advantage. If this view of the question had been re garded more, the opposition to the Bill must have been assuredly much diminished. And why has it not been regarded, is it after all but a minor con sideration? When NAPOLEON inquired of Madame CAMPAN what was necessary for the good education of the youth of France, " Good mothers," she replied. The Emperor admitted the justice of her observation. "We have here," he said, " a system of education in one word." It is this very system of education which our present factory regulations seem fitted to subvert. Their frames weakened by excess of toil, their understandings by neglect of culture, owing to the unceasing employ ments in which they are engaged from their youth upwards, the unfortunate factory women assume the arduous duties of wives and mothers, both morally and physically disqualified from fulfilling them aright. It has been proved by a late inquiry that out of every hundred deaths occurring in the manufacturing districts more than sixty-one are those of children under two years of age I Does not this fully prove the terrible effects of the present system ? But these and similar arguments have been already frequently brought forward by Lord ASHLEY and others, and although they cannot fail to arrest atten tion and excite sympathy, they have as yet been found inadequate to convince. Unanswerable as these arguments must appear, innumerable objections have nevertheless arisen. We are told perhaps that this is all very well, very humane, and 80 forth, but that it will never do in practice, that it is against all the principles of political economy. So far, in deed, has this last objection gained ground, that this seems to be now almost regarded as a question of Humanity, versus Political Economy—an antagonism which is absolutely impossible. Let us not regard this matter, as it is too often regarded, only in a superficial light ; let us not heed the specious phraseology of those who seek to disguise their own selfish schemes under fine sounding names : never mind what doctrines the so-called political economists may put forth, let us look at the principle itself. After all, what is political economy, and what does it teach Us ? Is not its first great maxim, the main object to which it tends, " the greatest good of the greatest number ?" Is not this the great ob ject of all Governments and of all laws, and shall we then be told that to increase the wealth of one particular class is Political Economy! No matter if the labourer suffer, if his frame be weakened, his heart withered, his intellect destroyed, no matter if he die, body and soul, so that his mas ter's business prosper—that is the great desideratum ! Let his hands " produce," no matter at what per sonal sacrifice, and let his master " consume" the profits—this is political economy ! In the same way men "call it freedom when them selves are free," or deem themselvea religious when they find fault with the creed of others. Children may be frightened by shadows, but men are not to be so deceived; the ignorant and unthinking may be confounded by the specious reasoning of these poli tical economists, but in this enlightened age their delusive doctrines cannot long prevail. We are inclined to think that the true principles of Political Economy, and at the same time the best interests of Humanity, had never a more powerful or more accurate expounder than ALEXANDER POPE. He has truly and beautifully shown how the good of one and the good of all are incorporate and indi eisable. lie has told us how "jarring interests" may produce " the according music of a well-mixed state." " Where small and great, where weak and mighty made To serre, not suffer; strengthen not invado ; More powerful each as needful to the rest, And, in proportion as it blesses, blessed." When the great principle of mutual depenGence and mutual co-operation is generally recognised, as it must be at no distant day, we shall hear no more of the contending interests of masters and men —we shall hear no longer that Political Economy is adverse to Humanity. We must refer our readers to the able and eloquent speech of Lord Jon MANNERS for a refutation of the fallacious arguments against non-intefereace. " Do we not interfere," he asks, " to regulate the speed of vessels in the river ? Did we wait for a mutual arrangement of master and men when we interfered to emancipate the negroes ?" It se:.ms almost ridiculous, however, to talk about non interference now. Why, if the Ten Hours' Bill be Hooted, because the notice must not interfere, • Act.; of Purliatneii• :}u tli rise twelve hours must be repealed on the same principle. As Lord J. RussELL said emphatically, at the close of yesterday's debate, "This is not a question of principle, but of degree." The difference between twelve, eleven, and ten hours, can only be a question of degree. As far as interference is concerned, there is no principle at stake ; but as far as the fate of the measure is concerned, there is a prin ciple, and a very great principle at issue, namely— Will the Legislature forget its noblest attribute, the power of protecting helplessness ? Will the representatives of the people refuse to hear the prayers of the humble, and only listen to those who are able to protect themselves ? That such will not be the result will be satisfactorily demonstrated on Wednes day next. In the Parliamentary notices of motions for to morrow evening we find the following members proposed by Mr. RICARDO to be nominated for forming a Select Committee on the navigati m laws :—Mr. RICARDO, Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, Mr. lIUMII, Sir ROIIERT PEEL, Mr. MILNER GIB SON, Mr. BUTT, Sir GEORGE CLERK, Mr. BROWN RIGG, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. M'CA.RTHY, Viscount SANDO3I, Mr. BROWN, Mr. LYALL, Mr. MITCHELL, and Mr. THOMAS BARING. The selection appears to be made with the view of combining the services of men upon an inquiry of the greatest importance, pos sessed of great ability and high integrity. We have no doubt they will enter upon the task, intended to be assigned to them, with an earnest zeal solely directed to promote their country's good, and a consequent spirit of impartiality that will not fail to impart the greatest weight to their future views and recommendations. Whilst we recognize by the names above enumerated an intention to constitute the Committee in the fairest manner, seeing that the op posite opinions which are entertained on this subject will be respectively and advantageously impersonated, we cannot but feel rejoiced, holding the impressions we have advocated with reference to the navigation laws, that Sir It. PEEL will be invited to give his va luable aid to the Committee. Our gratification at 1 finding his name among the proposed list is derived from the knowledge we have of his vast experience and judgment in all matters affecting our commercial prosperity, and from the certainty that, if any good grounds can be substantiated fur preserving the navigation laws, either in their en tirety or in part, he will scrupulously support them ; and from the conviction, on the other hand, that if those who support the shipping interests, whether from motives pu re ly erroneous, or pure l y selfish, should fail to m a k e out t h e i r case b e f ore hi s search ing mind, Si r R. P EEL w i ll a bl y, consc i ent i ous l y, an d manfully re s i s t any report which should be calculated to sanction the maintenance of laws no longer suit able to the objects for which they were originally enacted. However tardy Sir R. PEEL was in re tracing his former errors, yet did the country feel grateful, that when he became fully persuaded of the evils attendant upon a restrictive policy in relation to our extended commercial intercourse, he determi nedly splintered into atoms the wand of monopoly, at the evident risk of being abruptly hurled from the powerful position which he held as First Minister of the Crown. In vain, therefore, as it seems to us, will the hydra of protection attempt to rear its fallen crest whilst Sir R. PEEL and Lord J. RUSSELL, with his Liberal party, shall be found uniting their splendid talents in resisting every effort to ravive the crushed spirit of monopoly. One stronghold after another has been successfully besieged by the genius and indomitable energy of the British merchant, which has converted the most accomplished statesmen of the age to the enlarged and benevolent spirit, that animates its civilising and lofty enter prises ; and, in every instance, brief or pro tracted as may have been the several contests, have the enemies to freedom in trade and commerce been compelled to surrender. The friends of un fettered commerce have now fairly laid siege to the stronghold of the navigation laws ; and the day cannot be distant when their infatuated advocates will be forced to succumb, or to capitulate upon terms advantageous to our mercantile progression The history of the laws in question powerfully evi dences the weak foundations on which they were erected, inasmuch, as at different periods, and long previous to the great triumph achieved in 1846, in favour of the principles of free trade, their pernicious consequences imperiously indi cated the necessity of their being occasionally altered for the purpose of alleviating the burdens of indirect and unjust taxation, and of strengthening our mer chants in the race of competition that grew cut of the growing enterprise of commercial rivals. It is satisfactory to .know, that this question has been al ready to a great extent investigated by two former committees, who were unable to complete their labours, and that therefore the inquiry will necessarily not be of so protracted a character as it otherwise would have been. Hence, we hope, that the path for Legislation will be speedily cleared by the prelimi nary information to be laid before, and digested by, the Committee about to be appointed. Iter pigro ruin quasi sepes sptuarunt_ A letter from Berne, dated 4th February, contains the i g eo: — u tt n i c n i g l ofat Lucerne. It i s f rom t h at place that War of the ultra mon t ane f act i on is per manently directsf following:— in all has caused to be v isited b y experienced officers all the t vul nerable points o f the canton of Lucerne, an d h as ordered Thethe m ovements of the league. It is thus th a t it them to be fortified. Never, at any period of their histor3 • have the primitiv e cantons made militar y p re p aration s on; more extensive scale, and as all these arm aments are out of p ro portion with the feeble financial resources they possess, it is certain th at they receive foreign sub s idi es . I t i s eve n said that they intend taking the initiative in the struggle against the great cantons. In any case the members of the league appear shortly to expect decrees of the Diet with re spect to the existence of their associatio n , an d on t h e su bj ect of the question relative to the Jesuits; oppose by and they continue to announce bold l y that they w 1 force the em ployment of all me ans of coercion. The Grand Council of Berne has term inated its labours without the attacks of the conservat i ve party having, in any respect, succeeded in wea kening the Government. The income - tax decreed in pr i nc iple in one of the last . sittings, has not produced the effect that the adversa r ies of the new order of things ex pected. The populations have . understood that, in relieving them from the feudal rents which still weihed on them in several parts of the canton, the wants of the treasury required a compensation. That compensation however, not be e tax-payers, for the income-tax will never very onerous to th exceed one penny per thousand of the capital." Madrid papers of the 3d have been received. Senor MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA. has been appointed Chairman, and Senor BENATIDES Secretary of the Com mittee of the Chamber of Deputies, appointed to draw up the answer to the address. These papers state that Don Mioun. had been pro claimed King in several towns of the north of Portugal. The Portuguese Ambassador, the Conde DE TItOIeAR (COSTA CABRAL) had a long conference with the Duke of SOTOXAYOR on the Bd, fur tbo purpose, it is said, of demanding an armed intervention. MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 3.—The Three per Cents., 321 cash, 324 paper; Four per Cents., 204 cash; Five per Cents., 20 13-16 cash, 20i paper; P l osive, 64; Exchange on London, 37. ------- We have received the raris papers of Tuesday. The speech of the Finance Minister in the Chamber on the preceding day on the state of the French finances is thus commented on in the Constitutionnel "M. Lacave Laplagne endeavoured to our o the accusa tions which the deplorable management of our finances drew upon him from all parts of the Chamber, from M. de Castel lane, a Conservative, as much as from M. Ferdinand de Las teyrie, or M. Ledru Rollin. He endeavoured to show, by clumsily grouping together figures, that the situation is not worse now than it was when he succeeded to M. Humann. But some few words from M. Quinettee and M. Gauthier de Rumilly sufficed to destroy this position of his, by proving that the total of the augmentations of receipts, of the defi ciencies, and of the extraordinary works, representing all the expenses voted since 1841, exclusive of the amount of the ordinary expenses, such as it was at that period, was Upwards of two milliards ! It will of course be well understood that in such a situation the Government has an excellent excuse for adjourning the reforms so long solicited and expected. Why speak •f the conversion of the Five per Cents., of postal ref orm, of t.e dimi nution of the salt dui, &c. ? Can such things be thought of ? If s o, the Ministry immediately objects that the deficiency, which in its own work, prevents it, and thus it gets rid of measures which it has never thought seriously of realising. Wili it be believed, how ever, that the Minister of Finance this day dared to say that the Conservative party was alone capable of effect ing these reforms ? This embarrassment that the Minis try has introduced in our finances also affects the general commercial credit of the country. Fearlessly affirmiag that the economies of France are inexhaustible, that the purse of the public is sufficient for everything, it has occasioned a financial crisis which at presen t se riously injures industry and commerce en ma sse . T o this crisis is added that of food, which it renders graver by concealing the great insufficiency of the harvest, and thus preventing speculation from fur nishing a remedy ; so t h at t h e grea ter part of the responsi bilityc of the pre sen t di stress must b e certainly attributed to it Such is the sit ua ti on w hi c h t h e Ministry has produced for t S ' us; presence of a p o li cy w hi c h has isolated France in Europe, m we find ourselves with a budget in a state of normal deficiency, with finances in disorder, with a loan more or less near in prospect, with enormous works which profoundly enzage the fritore, and with credit deeply shsken: The speech of M. DE CA.STFLLANE, a Conservative of the Alo:6 party, produced a ~,;reat Sensation in the Cham ber. Net only did he declare that the finances were in a far worse position under the present Ministry than they had been under that of M. HUMANN, and that the financial state of the country was becoming every year more unsatisfactory, but he boldly declared that it was the duty of the new Chamber to strike at once at the root of the evil, and concluded by moving, as an amend ment, to add to the paragraph under discussion that "it is the duty of the Government to re-establish an equili brium between the expenditure and the receipt. The debate upon this amendment was adjourned to the next sitting. The Presse, the organ of the party of Count MOLE, thus speaks of the amendment of M. DE CASTELLANE:— " The remarks of M. de Castellane are worthy of atten tion. Speaking, as he did, in the name of the young, en lightened, and Progressist fraction of the Conservative party, M. de Castellane is not one of those who have taken their seats on the benches of the majority, in order to slumber more at their ease. Ills idea is that the promises made to the electors of Lisieux should be carried out ; he calls for all the reforms that time has matured, and the necessity for which cannot be contested. Postal reform—a modi fication in the duty on salt—a reform in the octroi duties — in the indirect taxes—in our immense military system, which embraces at present 100,000 men more than in 1833, and which absorbs upwards of 1,000,000 f. per day—these are the points which the Hon. Member expressed his desire to be first attended to. We completely participate, as our readers are aware, in the wishes thus expressed ; and to those who allege the difficalties of our present position as an argument against such changes, we must declare that of all the excuses that they could bring forward this is the one that can least be accepted. It is, in fact, precisely when times are hard, when food is dear, when taxes weigh the most heavily on the existence of the poorer classes, that there is an opportu nity—nay, an urgency, to adopt reforms of a nature to dimi nish their burdens. Did Sir Robert Peel wait until the situ ation was prosperous to commence his reforms? \o; it was in the midst of the very crisis that he acted. If remedies are necessary, it is when one is ill, and not afterwards. In favourable circumstances, when living is cheap, the weight of taxes is easier to besr, and we can conceive up to a certain point that such circumstances are taken advantage of in erder to postpone all change. But to seek in the difficulties themselves from which the people suffer a pretext for not reducing at all the charges that aggravate those difficulties, appears to us to be conduct as unreasonable as it is unsup portable by argument." It is not improbable that on this financial question the Ministry may go out of office, and a MOLE Ministry be appointed. It was rumoured in Paris on Tuesday that, in consequence of the gross and unprovoked per sonal attack made by M. GUIZOT on the Marquis of NOEMANIIY, the latter had suspended all offi cial intercourse with M. GUIZOT, and was about to retire from Paris, leaving Lord WILLIAM lIERVEY as Charge d'Affaires. All parties in the French capital are loud in their condemnation of M. GUIZOT'S conduct throughout the whole affair, and it is said that it has been settled in the highest quarter that Count MOLE is to be his successor, as M. GUIZOT has incurred the royal displeasure by having made an attack on the English Government in the Chambers, without orders, and without acquainting the liusa of his intention so to do. It is, therefore, not improbable that this amend ment, proposed by a partisan of Count MOLE, is intended to give the coup de grace to M. GUIZOT for this breach of discipline. The discussion was resumed on Wednes day, but the Chamber had not come to any decision at the hour the post left. It would appear from the following letter from Tunis of the 14th ult., which is published in these journals, that the PouTE, roused by the imprudence of the French Foreign Minister to the assertion of its rights, is about to take active measures to reduce its rebellious vassal, the BEY of Tunis, to obedience. "Three days ago, a vessel coming from Malta brought a chiaoux of the Grand Signor, but the Bey has hitherto re fused to allow him to land, end to receive the letters of which he is the bearer. Last week several English steamers arrived, bringing dispatches for the Bey, and each time he demanded several days to reply. Thi-y came to announce the arrival of the Turkish Envoy. The refusal to receive him may cause some embarrassment to the Bey, from which all the friend ship of the French Ministers may find it difficult to relieve him. The Bey was generous in France, but that was an ex ception to his general manner of acting. Ills voyage in France is con-iuered here a very serious fault; and is looked on as the prelude of great disasters for his people." Couas AUTHENTIQUE.—PARIS, FEM. 9.—Five per Cents., 118 E 1171. 95c. 85c. 90c. 85c. ; Four per Cents., 104 f. ; Three per Cents., 771. 55c., 80c. 75c., 70c., Bank Actions, 3,262 E, 50c.; Rent Ile Naples (Rothschild's) 101 f. .50c.; Romans, /01f. 100 3 / 4 f.; Belgian Five per Cents., (1840), 1014 f.; Ditto (1842), 102%; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 96. ; Belgian Two-and. a. Half per Cents., 54 ; Spa nish Three per Cents., 34% 3 / 4 ; Dutch Two-and• allalf per Cents., 57%; Exchange on London—one month money, 25f. 20c. ; three months, money, 25f. 2%c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEIIIILTART 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 14}4—Dutch Rhenish, 4%—Namar and Liege, 2%—Northern of France, 12;y—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7N. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 2,000 bales. The market was dull, and American sorts at 6 , 4 d. to to eid. per lb. were at a decline of '%d. per lb. Other de scriptions were at about previous rates. the chief sales of American were at 6 1[ Ad. to 7%c1. per lb. Railway shares were rather fiat. According to a statement compiled by the Dutch Consul at. Odessa, it appears that the shipments from that port in the month of December, comprising grain, wool, &c., were to the amount of 27,000,000 roubles banco, sent over in 1,382 ships. There were 150 vessels in port early in January, but it would require 1,000 ships to bring away the produce already available, so large were the supplies from the interior in consequence of the fine weather. Letters from Berlin intimate that a large number of the merchants of Cracow bad written to their correspondents to state that they were unable to meet their engagements, and offering a dividend of 5 per cent., though whether as an instalment or a settlement in full is not stated. If this state ment should prove correct heavy losses will fall upon Berlin, Breslau, and Hamburgh. The liabilities of the firm which failed at Breslau recently, are now stated at 800,000 dollars. There is rather a better market for the English Securities, and in some cases we notice a slight improvement in the quotations. Consols have been 9014 to 3 / I for resent transfer, and 90% for time. Bank Stock is worth 203►, 2 . The New Three•and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 92 1 7 i N. Exchequer-bills have realised 6s. to "s. premium. The Foreign Securities have been very dull. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 36, and Spanish Three per Cents. 34%. Mexican Bonds have realised 21% to 22; and Brazilian 85. Dutch Four per Cents. have been at 921 to 92%. The decree revoking the decima tax on Portuguese foreign debt is advertised to-day. The Share Market has been dull again, but generally, prices are much the same. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRI , 'ES. Bank Stock .. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 90% 91 90% 91 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 90N % % 00% New Three-and-a -Quarter per Cent. Anna. 92%!2 92% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 9-16 9 9-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 9 546 9 5-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .• • • .. 10 10 Consols for Account .. .. .• • • .. 90% N 90% Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1 %d. 1,0001... .. •• • • 69 pm. 9 5001. . .. .. " pm. 9 Ditto, Small .• .. —— pm. 9 ONE CLOSINt. FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK, PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 85 85 Ditto, Small • • • • Mexican Bonds, 1846, b per Cent .. '22 21% 21% Portuguese Four per Cent .. .. 36 36 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. _ Ditto, Passive Bonds _ _ 5% Ditto, Indemnity .. .. _ „ 67 Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • .. 34% 34% DiN Mends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-halt per Cent .. Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 92% % 92% BUSIN PRICES OF PAID, DONE ::SS AT CLOSII.IO RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES .ng.,.. .. .. .. 25 .... 22% • ...... ... 22% Amber.,Aber d e . N . Notting., Boston, and . Eastern Junction . . • • • 2 %. •• • 2 % • Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 •• • • 13% % ;•• • • 13 s, ilirming., Wolver., and Dudley.. a •. • • 9 i Wu •• • • 10% Birkenhead, Lancash., & Cheshire Junction .. 4 ••••• • • • • • 4 1 ,4 Buckinghamshire .. _ 845. •• • 34 p Caledonian .• •• •• 30 ▪ 261 , 4 ...• 26% Direct Northern Scrip .. •. 2 • • . 2% Eastern Counties • .. 20 .... 21 1, % %% • • 21% Ditto. New .. 20 .. 20% 21% 20% Ditto, York Extension .. .. 4 .... 45% • • 4% East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 14 •• • • 16 ...... •• • • 16 Ditto New .. •▪ 5..• • 6% • • 6% Ditto, ditto Ne w S cr i p . • • 2 East Lincolnshire ...... 6% •••• • .• 6 % Edinburgh and Glas gow .. .. 50 .. 78 Ely and Huntingdon •• .. 12% .. • • 7B • • • • " • • • • 13% Great Northern. (London & York Rea) • • • • . • .. 254 . . ...... Great North of England . ..100 . Ditto, New .. .. ••.. 5 • • • • 52% 59% Ditto New .. .• • • .. 20 .... ••• • • . Great Western .• • B5 • • ~124% • • .... • .. 12% .... 19 . • Ditto, New 8% •• .• 8% Leeds and Bradfo r d .. • • 35 .... 80%. ..• 80% Leeds and Think 22% —. . Llverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 2 % 2 London and Blackwell • • 161. 13s. 4d. 8 1 4 8 • • 8 Ditto, New, No. 2 0% 1 p.. 1% p Ditto, Extension 5 5 London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .. •55 .••• • • • • 55 Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. 10 . •12 ••••• • " • • 12 London an North-Western . ..100 ....190 189 191.... 188% Ditto, Quarters .. 2 ▪ 21 21 Ditto ditto, New Shares .. 2 14 ..........14 Ditto, Fifths .• _ 2 .. • • ••• • • • • 18 Ditto, 481. Sh ares M . & B. .. 40 72 1 ,4 72 •••• • • • .79 - Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (A) .5 .• 11% Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham 1% 13% .. . • • 1 Ditto, Tenths • •• •• •• •• 5 Ditto, Tenths 4 •••• •• • • •• • • London and York E x t ens i on Scrip 2 1 4 •• •• 2 1 ,4 2% • • 21% Lynn and Ely _ 20 • • Manchester and Leeds .. 82 •• • • • • Ditto, Fifths 5 1034 .•••• • • • • • 1014 . . • Ma nchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• • • %P" • " % P 124 Midland .. —lOO ... 122% • •• 514 Ditto, New • . .. ,• • • • 2 •• • • 5 % ▪ 31% Newcastle and Berwick • . •• 20 ••• • 32 'A North British .. • • 25 .. 34% % ..... • • 3414 • Ditto, Extension .. • • • • % .• •• 3 % 14% ... .. ... . 3 Ditto, Thirds • • 1 . 8% North Staffordshire .• • • ' • 5 •• • • 2% ••••• • • • • • North Western • • • • • • • ••" v_ •• • • Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 • •• „, , .......•• • - • • • • Scottish Midland .. .. •e• • 18.' • " 7w 4% Shrewsbury and Birmingham • • . 1la• • • • 1 Ditto, Class 11 .. • • • • • Shrewsbury and Hereford • • 425. •• • • %d.sd ••• • • • % 111 8 Shropshire Union .. •• " -334 " 23 .• •• ' ..... " • • South Eastern and Dovor • • Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No• 4 2 • 414 Do., New (do. 151.) • • NQ• : 10 •••••• • • •• S uth Wales • • '• • South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and _ 17, • 1% . .• Trent Valley and Midland 421. •• • • %P••• • • • • • % P Windsor, Staines, & S. Westerns 25 Goole • • • • • d • June. 425. .. • • % 1 1 •••• • • .. p York and Newcastle • • • • 5 • 11 6..••• • • • • 11 54 Ditto, New • • • • • • • • _4.. •• %•••• • • • • 8 ! • • 9 Ditto, Preference • • . York itrid North MidlLuid • ov 80 ... no 50 9v, Ditto, Selby • • • • ' 37 1 / 4 • • • • 37 I..xtensikt • • • 2 • • 11 % %•••- • . • • 11% /h.. 10 .... 21 74, !.. , .. • • 2174 . l an 're d ie w ret:c it e hung .. Ez . tc . D D Ditto s • • i r. ‘ * ` ll. 4 s ` .- ' t • • • lb -4=5v4,04,4. AtiErgt * " —• Olteening 2int LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1E47. LORD G. BENTINCK'S BILL. MEETING OF IRISH MEMBERS AT LORD JOAN RUSSELL'S.-(THIS DAY.) A meeting of Irish Members was held to-day, at twelve o'clock, at the residence of Lord Jot's RUSSELL, which was convened by his Lordship to an nounce to them the determination which the Govern. ment had come to with respect to the proposed measure of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK for the advance of money to assist in the completion of railways in Ireland. The PREMIER stated, that in the event of there being a majority in favour of the proposition of the Noble Member for Lynn, it was the determination of himself and his colleagues to resign immediately. Such a large amount of money as has been contemplated to be advanced by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK and his sup• porters, in addition to the immense sums that have already been expended in that country on Govern ment works, added to what will be required, would, in the estimation of the Government, disorder the finances of this country so much that they considered it impolitic, and even dangerous, to accede to the measure; and, as he had already stated, rather than submit to its being carried, they had unanimously determined to tender their resignations as .Ministers of the Crown. Several of the gentlemen in attendance addressed the meeting, and, it appeared by their observations, that with the view of obviating the necessity for his Lord ship having occasion to resort to the alternative which he mentioned, they would give him all the sapport in their power to resist the measure, which determination will be fatal to it. The House of Commons met yesterday at 12 o'clock. After the presentation of various petitions, the adjourned debate on the Ten Hours' Bill was resumed by Mr. Hvau, who opposed the second reading of the Bill on the ground that it was contrary to all the re ceived maxims of political economy, and that any attempt at Legislative interference between the em ployer and the employed, must end in disappointment. The lion. Gentleman concluchd, by moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Dr. Bow - RING seconded the amendment. Sir GEORGE GREY having paid a high compliment to Mr. lICME for his consistency, confessed that he would rather this question should have been settled by a volun tary agreement between the employers and the em ployed; but, seeing that there was no chance of such agreement, he should, as an individual Member of Par liament vote for the second reading of the Bill, with the intention in Committee, so to modify it, as to make an Eleven Hours, instead of a Ten Hours' Bill. Mr. BAN ES supported the motion for the second reading of the Bill, and said that those who supported it would not accept of an Eleven instead of a Ten Hours' Bill. The Hon. Gentleman then attacked Mr. BRIGHT for his opposition to a Ten Hours Bill. Lord J. MANNEns gave a detailed history of the agi tation in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill, and concluded by giving his hearty support to the measure of the Hon. Member for Oldham. The CiIINCELLOR of the EXCLIt QUER. would support a measure for limiting the time of the labour of children, but he would not interfere with adults. The workme❑ were, in general, in favour of long hours and more wages, and as the advocate of the interests of the working classes he felt found to oppose the measure. The Marquis of GRANBY supported the Bill. Dr. BOWRING, as the advocate of the working man, opposed this measure, which would deprive the work man of one sixth-part of his earnings. He was con vinced that it would be of no practical utility to the poor. Mr. P. HOWARD supported the measure. Mr. MUNTZ said that during an average of years the mills had not worked more than ten hours a day—to work beyond would affect the health of the work-people; and he had never given a vote with more honesty of feeling than the vote he was about to give in support of the present measure. Mr. BRIGHT said that the principles on which the agitation for this Bill had been conducted were unsound and rotten. He contended that the work of women employed i❑ factories was not laborious. The experi meats in France proved this, and it should be remembered that factory labourers were shel tered from the weather, and had plenty of light. It should be remembered that up to thirteen years of age children were exempt from the system now complained of, and he himself was an example that education was not necessary much after that age, for he never went to school after he was fifteen. Ile was as much the friend of the poor as any man, for he would give them votes to send representatives to that House, but he considered it a wicked delusion to represent to poor persons that they could get the same wages for ten hours' work that they could for twelve hours' labour. Wages were always reduced in the same proportion as time was reduced, and the reduction of time proposed would make a difference of 7,000,0001. in the revenue annually. If the Bill passed, the manufacturers would be obliged to combine in self de fence, and that would do away with the gvotl feeling between employers and employed. With regard to an Eleven Hours' Bill, he considered it a cowardly shrink ing from principle. If the petitioners in favour of the Bill were right, their demand should be granted, if they were wrong, it should be rejected altogether. He was astonished that the Noble Lord at the head of the Go vernment should have left this an open question. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to the attack of Mr. BRIGHT, denied that the question of ten or eleven hours, was a question of principle : it was a question of degree only. The question of the limitation of the hours of labour had been carried out by several old statutes. Neither was it a question of principle, as interfering between employers and employed, for the old law protected apprentices against masters. To be consistent, the lion. Member for Durham should propose the roefpe p al rin o c r iple th , ese the law G s. ove A rn s me i n t t that young persons of leasing it wa w s as not j u a stiti q e u d estio in n an open question . For himself, he con sideredworking for 1q • Pe .., 13, or 14 ho ur s d of thirteen years of age stand such severe lab ..or and that not sufficiently because the bodily frame was i give them more time for healthful matured to a ay were overtaxed, a short. _r period . would recreation, and fur 1 intellectual improvement. On the motion of S . r A. Lunt Mkt the debate was FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens :. --- .:..lii::::L .. .. .•• . . • 14 Dutch Rhenish .. .. .. .. 7 .. • • 4' %.• •• • • 4% Namur and Liege .. .. • • .. 8 .• .. 2% %..•• • • • • 2% Northern of France .. .. .. 8 .... 12% IA .. ••.. • • 12 Orleans and Bourdeaux .. .. 6 .... 7 .. • • ...... 7 MINES. Real del Monte, Unresristered —3% • • .• • • . • . • 3% LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY) LONDON, FEn. 11.—Wind N.W., moderate breeze and fine. DOVER, FEB. 10.—Wind N.W., strong.—Arrd. Union, Saintball, Jamaica, for Bremen. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 10.—Wind N. to N.W.—Sld. Mary Ann, Cape of Good Hope and Madras; Miranda, Antigua. BRIFTOL, FEB. 10.—Wind N.—Arrd. Sybilla, Mauritius. COWES ' Fan. 10.—Wind N.N. W.—Ar r d. L ou i sa Caesar, Weneke, Rio Janeiro; St. Thomas's Packet, St. Domingo. Livanroor. ' FEB. 10.—Wind N., f r e s h —Ar r d. W a lpole, Richardson, New York. Sld. Rimar, Valparaiso. The Charles Brownell, for Valparaiso, and th e Milton, for Bahia, were in contact last evening in the river, and both received some damage. CLYDE, FEB 7.—Wind N.—Sld. James Ewing, Jamaica; Agnes Sophia, Matanzas. WATERFORD, FEB. B.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E.--Sld. Mar garet, New York. CORK, FEB. B.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Panama, Wilson, Callao; Esk, Bahia. The Lovely Mary, Stanton, Waterford to Newfoundland, has put in here with masts cut away, and part of cargo thrown overboard in a hurricane, lat. 24, long. 37. CorooNnznztr.—Arrd. Canonicus, Copeland, New York. Sld. Maria. New York. LBITH, FEB. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Joanna, St. John's. BRIDLINGTON, FEB. 10.—The Charles, Clay, from Boston to Stockton, is on the south pier, and likely to be much damaged. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NirCVGATE AND IMADZNIIALL There was a very steady trade here, and prices were well supported. Beef, 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d • Veal, 4s 2d to 5s 2d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 10d per 811); by the carcase. _ MEAT =ARMLET S. SOUTHALL, FEN. 10.—Prime Beasts and Sheep com manded a very steady inquiry, at full prices. In all other kinds of stock next to nothing was doing. Beef, from 38 to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 4s to os ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs., to sink the otfals. RostFoßn, FED. 10.—We had an improved dmand for each kind of stock at our quotations : Beef, from 3i to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 4s to .4s 6(1 per Sibs. Sucking Calves, 18s to 29s ; quarter-old store Pigs, 16s to 18s ; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 each. - . LEWES, FEB. 9.—Beef, from 3s 4d to to 4s Gd ; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 2d; Veal 45 2d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s Gd per 811 n. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Feb. 11, 1847, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Exgland and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BAXLEY] OATS. STE. I BEANS. I TEAR. PRICE • . 73s 10d 53s id 33s Oct 55s 9d 545 3d 57s Eit The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House of Lords sat to-day to hear appeals. WILSON V. WILSON. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed this morning by Mr. TURNER, following on the same side as Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who addressed their Lordships yesterday on behalf of the appellants. The case came before their Lord ships upon an appeal against the decree of the Vice-Chan cellor of England, by which he had deserted specific per formance of certain articles of separation between these par ties. The bill filed by Mrs. Wilson stated that in the month of April, 1839, a marriage was solemnised between the plaintiff (then Mary Wright Wilson, spinster), and the de fendant, John Wright Hanniker Wilson (then John Wright Hanniker); that previously to and at the time of such marriage, the plaintiff was entitled under the will of Lady Frances Wright Wilson, deceased, to a certain freehold estate called Drayton Lodge, situate in the county of Southampton, and Mat she was also entitled under the will of Sir Henry Wright Wilson, deceased, for her life, with re mainder to her children and issue, to certain freehold estates in the county of York, and a small estate in the county of Essex, and to certain leasehold hereditaments situate in" the parish of Chelsea, and called the Chelsea Park estate, and also to a certain leasehold house in Grosvenor-place, and to money in the public funds. That previously to such marriage between the plaintiff and defendant a marriage settlement was executed, dated 27th of April, 1839, whereby it was,l amongst other things, recited that all the property of the plaintiff, except the Drayton Lodge estate and the Chelsea Park estate, and the sum of 3,0001. Consolidated Annuities, therein mentioned, should aft( r the solemnisation of the said intended marfage belong to Mr. Wilson, in his marital right. And the Drayton Lodge estate and the 3,()001. were then settl e d to the use of Mary H. W. Wilson for her life, and the Chelsea Park estate was vested in trustees for the residue of several terms of years therein subsisting, upon trust for John H. W. Wilson, for his life, and after his decease to Mary W. H. Wilson, for ber life, and after her decease, in trust, for her husband, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns. The bill then went on to allege that soon after the marriage unhappy differences arose, and on the Bth of May, 1843, the wife instituted proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court for a divorce, on the ground of impotency; that proposals to prevent the continuance of this suit, and to ob tain an arrangement for a separation, had been at first made by Mr. Wilson, but had been rejected by the lady, Ultimately, however, certain articles of agreement, dated June 2, 1843, were executed, by which it was covenanted that Wilson should allow his wife to live separate from him, that the estates in settlement should be vested in the trus tees of the settlement for her separate use during their joint lives, and that if he should perform the covenants therein contained he should be indemnified against the covenants on certain leases on which he was liable, and also against all his (this ought to have been her) present debts and liabilitie., and that whilst he should duly perform the covenants of this deed he should receive an annuity of 1,0001. during the joint lives of himself and wife, charged upon the freehold estates in the county of York, and that in the meantime proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Court should be suspended. On the execution of these articles of agreement all proceedings in that Court were stayed. Mr. Wilson afterwards repudiated this deed of separa tion, and Mrs. Wilson and her trustees filed this bill against him to compel specific performance of it. In this bill, after the allegations above stated, they prayed relief by a decree for specific performance of the deed of separation, and offered to correct the error as to the debts, and to execute any deed to indemnify Mr. Wilson against the present and any future debts of his wife. Mr. Wilson bT his answer alleged that the deeds had been obtained from him by fraud and intimidation, and under the pressure of the terror and degradation and ridicule, which the ground of suit in the Ecclesiastical Court would bring upon him, by which he bad been induced to give up the benefits he had acquired under the marriage settlement, his wife, all the while, knowing that the alleged ground of suit was false. Mr. Wilson also filed a cross bill containing the same allega tions, and further insisting that the articles of separation were contrary to public feeling, and praying that the deed of separation might be given up to be cancelled. The two suits came on to be heard before the Vice-Chancellor, who decreed that Courts of Equity had power to enforce the deed of separation, that in these articles there was nothing opposed to public policy, and that there was a sufficient consideration for the agreement, without a covenant to indemnify the husband against the wife's debts. He therefore decreed spe cific performance by the husband of the deed of separation. The address of Mr. TURNER, on behalf of the appellant, to-day, occupied their Lordships the whole morning. The case appears likely to take up two or three more days in argument. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to hear appeals. The Lords present were :—Lord Brougham, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Campbell), the Master of the Rolls (Lord Langdale), the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall (the Right Hon. Thomas Pemberton Leigh), the Judge of the Admiralty Court (Dr. Lushingtou), Sir Alex ander Johnstone, and Sir Edward Ryan. THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF GRENADA V. THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUTRE)IR COURT OF GRENADA. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed and concluded to-day. The case came before their Lord ships on a memorial and appeal presented to her Majesty in council by the House of Assembly of Grenada, complaining of the conduct, ever since his first appointment, in the year 1832, of John Sa n d erson , E sq ., Chief Justice of that island, and praying his dismissal from that high office. The conduct of the Chief Justice complained of by the memorialists and appellants may be thus summed up, from the statements in the case of the memorialists : Exhibiting habitually on the bench a harsh and offensive demeanour towards the bar, the magis tracy, and the grand juries, and addressing them in intempe rate and violent language, and expressions unbecoming his dignity as a judge: denying the co-ordinate and co equal jurisdiction of the Fuisne Judges, as established by statute, and taking constant occasion to assume a superior and independent authority: refusing to carry the statute law into effect, for which he was suspended, and only restored upon his undertaking to enforce it. Disbar ring Clement Thomas Richardson, a barrister. without notice given to him, or an opportunity afforded to him of justifying or defending himself. Ordering Fielding Browne, another barrister, to be committed for moving to have the p t re- . vious order of disbarment rescinded, and that a nwi standing the other judge of the court, who co-ordi nate jurisdiction, objected to such order being made. Procuring from the Governor of the island the suspension cf Mr. Justice Wells, for rescinding the above-mentioned was herorderwhich revoked jesty, under the advice of the law otticers of the Crown in England. Making without know or concurrence of the of Court, by which the puisne judges were forbidden s to transact any business at chambers; rules which were rescinded by order of her Majesty, under the advice of the judicial com mittee of this most honourable council. Sentencin g summarily, and without one Andrew Lambie, a witn ess for the defence on the t trial,rial of an indictment, to a month's i m p r isonment ! and a fine of 101. for prevarication ; a ti ne w hid, was directed by order of her Majesty's S ecre t ary of State for the Colonial Department to be repaid to him, an d an imprisonment which was on l y not re mitted because it had been suffered. Imprisoning John Ross al‘Combie for three months, and imposing on him a fine of 1001. for animadverting in a newspaper upon the committal of the said Andrew Lambie; an imprisor, ment which was likewise half suffered before it could be re mitted by the Governor, though the fine was by his order never demanded. Ordering Daniel M`Lean, a prisoner on his trial, out of court during the examination of the wit nesses for the defence ; and fining, in opposition to the opinion of the puisne judge sitting with him, Robert Gentle, Esq., and Jonas Browne, Esq., two justices of the Peace, for the alleged i'regularity of taking down in writing certain depositions of witnesses in the third person instead of in the first person, notwithstanding the custom had been to take such depositions in the third person, and no warning had been given to either of such justices that any alteration in such practices was desired ; a fine which, by authority of her Majesty's Colonial Secretary, and by the consent of the Chief Justice himself, was never demanded. I3y the memorial of the respondent, the Chief Justice of Gre nada, he insisted that a juoge was not legally liable for any thing done in the exercise of his office, unless chargeable with corruption, and complained of the numerous and Inveterate controversies in which it had been mis chievously contrived to involve him with vast trouble and ruinous expense in bygone matter since 1832, and which had from time to time been ffi-posoi of by competent authority, o p ened on,l re moved. With respect to the complaint of the re.spondt . n i t, the mt-noni-di , t , z asserted that the by,:•gona toattt.r , the respondent stated had been disposed of by competent authority, had not, in their effect upon his conduct and character as a judge ever been before consider td by 01 authority or tribunal whatever. Sir F. Thesiger and Mr. J. P. Vilde were core 2se/ for the memoralists ; and Mr. Sergeant TaZfourd and b. G. Shaptet appeared for the respondents. Their Lordships, at the conclusion of the arg =Ants to stated that they would consider as to 'what report the,' should make to her Majesty. WORSHIP-STREET.-(THLS ,'DAYS) Thomas Beasley and Francis Taylor were art rged with being concerned with others in stealing six chairs and four candlesticks from the Ragged Schools in VhilliTs-street' Kingsland-road. Police-sergeant Neale, N division, stated th lt, ut conse quence of information he received that the p risoners were concerned with two lads who were yesterday remanded en the above robbery, he proceeded to the house of Beasley's father. Witness, on seeing the lad, said to hit n, "I under stand you know something of the robbery at the Ragged School." He replied he did not. I said, "If you did not take anything yourself, you know who did." - The boy's father said that he had better tell the truth. Prisoner then said he was present when the first two chairs were taken by the other boys, and he (Beasley) received sixpence of the money. I then took him into custody, and subsequently the other prisoner, who, however, denied all knowl' dge of the transaction. Mr. Anxoeo at once discharged Taylor, as there was en evidence agair.st him. He (Mr. Arnold) then addressed the police-sergeant to the following elect :—Polio -.man, I must say that in this case you have exceeded you r duty. Yo u might perhaps have been led to put the questic ns you did to the prisoner Beasley, in order to gain the reqtrj.dte informa tion, but you had no right whatever to do so. Your duty was merely to tell the prisoner what you took him into cur tody for, and, if he chose to make any vOuntars• statement, well and good ; bat it is a portion of your duty to caution the prisoner that he is not bound to make any statemen t calculated to prejudice his case against him. I - have tors' heard Mr. Justice Parke severely reprehend the police for attempting to extort a confession from the inisoner. In doing so you place yourself in the position of a judge. I must sat you have acted very incorrectly. There is not sufficien t evidence against this prisoner either. I must therefore cal' charge him." —Discharged accordingly. MISSING Mait.s.—The following bags had 01 arrived at the General Post-office this rnoraing Margate, Ramsgate, Sandwich, Wingham, Lewes, Battle, D! Leonard's, Bilston, Bishopscastle, Brackley, Chirk, Belfast, Cork, Clonmel, Derry, Drogheda, Galway, Holyhead, boll' bridge, Limerick, Newry, Sligo, Wexford, Newport (Salop . (Monmouth), Newtown, Oswestry,Presteign!S . nail, Shrewsbury, Wednesburee Welshpool, Wellingto n (Salop), Bridgend, Cardiff, Chepstow, Cowibridge, Neath, Swansea, Taibach, Aberystwitb, Abergaven n Y , Balkh Burford, Brecknock, Cardigan, Carmarthen, C,oleford• Cluckwell, Havant, Haverfordweet, Horraiean, Liphooke Peterstield, Hobspoint, Kingston, Llandillo, LlandorreP Llangadock, Lampeter, Merthyr Tvdvil, Milford, Monmoutilt Narbeath, Pembroke, Northleach, 'Newham, Boss, Phaysderr S - . Clears, Tenby, Usk, Waterford, Amersham, Wycombe, Stokenchurch, Tetsworth, Tliame,Whately, Hun gerford, Arundel, Bognor, Chichester, Emawon.h, and 0 01 " mere. In addition, the following have been .due since yes; terdav, viz, Arundel, Cardigan, Emswortb, Lewes, go' llertir Ty-dvil, making a total of ninety-two mails due. MURDER.—A dreadful murder was committed oft Sunday evening at Newbrough, in the southern division the county of Northumberland, about four miles from ham. It appears there had been a christening that dais which in that part of the country is usually a season of flee tivity ; and after the parties had been at church they'r e e paired to an inn in the village of Newbrough to partake ! ' sonic refreshment. While there a man of the nal" of Welsh, who is a labourer in a quarry in the neighbour:, hood, took some improper liberties with the women u` the christening party, and made use of indecent bd re guage, which calle d . for the interference of the father el, the child, a person of the name of Proud. When Prot and his party left the le use, Welsh followed and went lie the same direction ; and some wrangling took place be: tween the parties on the read. They had not, however' proceeded far, when Welsh went up to Proud, seized hint b 1 the head, and pulling it back cut his throat with a knife 0 severely, that the unfortunate victim died almost immediatelf: After committing the horrid deed Welsh ran off, and calle d at the same public-house as the party had been at, where h e called for a pot of whisky, and having drunk it he stated td, the mistress of the house that it was the last time he woul d see him. He then left and hastened to the Fourstones stet?: on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. On reaching seems to have been entirely overcome, partly by the liquo r he had taken, and partly by the exertions be had made to flee from the locality of his crime. In the meentime in telll gence of the murder spread over the village, and the con stable was dispatched on horseback in pursuit of the MO: derer, whom he found in a public-house at the Fourstoon station, and immediately apprehended. An inquest was held on Tuesday, before Mr. Reed, the coroner for the county, /020 the facts above stated were detailed in evidence', and theidy, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the Eileen: who was committed on the Coroner's warrant to laorP"'" gaol for trial at the ensuing assizes. SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. W. Standfield, of the firn d l i of Newbould and Co., ma n uf ac t urers of cutlery, Sbef ge l was at the Duke's Arms, Ma r lb oroug h, last Thursday ;i7, up to seven in the evening, in p er f ec t health. He l walked to the post-o ffi ce, put in his letters, returned t° th e hotel, and was a corpse in less than an hour. Disease 14 1, 0 heart was the immediate cause of death. Deceased " e s thirty-five years of age, remarkably sobe r , and, in everi.:l„ spect, a quiet, abstemious mate Ile died in the commerc e room, in the presence of Mr. Dallimore and W O other UV yellers. NATIONAL EDUCATION.—The Lord Bishop of Worcester has convened a special meeting of the mem rof friends, and supporters of the Worcester Dioces an h the k, wit Education, to be holden at Worcester next Treasury ee on the view of memorialising the First Lord of propriety, in the future application of Parliamentary grants, of regarding the maintenance, as well as the esta blishment of elementary schools, and also of render i ng assiatance t o train e ing institutions. SELF-ACCUSATION OF A MUEDIIIIZE.-4M Sa •ba• tay evening, John Lincoln, of Thorpe, cattle-dealer and • butcher, met Allen, F 4, of the fire-brigade, and said he wanted to get a heavy secret off his mind. They went into the King's Head, in Davey-place, and there Lincoln told the constable, that his housekeeper h ad had a child by him, and that they had murdered it between them, in August last, by' immersing it in a tub. Allen, in consequence, went to In spector Copeman, and gave him information. They after• wards obtained a warrant, and both the man and womaa were apprehended on Monday, and brought before Mr. S. Bignold. After an examination they were remanded. 00 Thursday they were again brought before Mr. Bigneld; when Lincoln denied his former statement in foto, sat in' when he was drunk he was the biggest liar in Eng n There being no corroborative evidence, and no body havimi been found, the prisoners were discharged, on payment d i 40s. expenses. They stated before the magistrate that the/ were man and wife, and had been married about 11 years. Since this inquiry the police, Allen and Charlesworth, have been over to Blofield, and it appears that the body of a child • was found wrapt up in a cloth about ten years back. The matter remains a mystery at present, but further invest/VP' tion will take place respecting it.—Norfolk .Chronicle A INHALATION OF ETHER EXTRAORDIMARY- - :_T man was admitted yesterday into the Royal Free Hospit a l ' and on the arrival of Mr. T. Wakley, jun., one of the sure geons, it was found necessary to perform an operation , t 0 which the man at once consented. expressing a wish that It might be " done with ether." He was then removed to 1 11 e operating theatre, and Ferguson's apparatus being charged! the patient commenced inhaling, which he did most vigorously for half an hour, without any effect being ob served. 'Mr. IVakley, jun., thinking the case a failure al regarded the ether, was anxious to commence the operations but the man persisted in inhaling, and in thirteen minuted from that time he became quite insensible, and remained en for four minutes, during which time Mr. Wakley performed a very serious operation without the man betraying the slightest consciousness. Thus he inhaled for nearly three quarters 3f an hour, inspiring the vapour of three ounces of pure sulphuric ether. The man, however, explained the extraordinary fact by admitting that he was a " Wage r dram-drinker." The patient is doing well, and has ex perienced no inconvenience from the large dose. Several medical gentlemee were present and declared the case un precedented. How TO READ THE DEBATES.—As it is really a day's labour to read the debates—and it is a luxury which only gentlemen possessing 1,0001. a-year can afford—we advise persons who wish to acquire some knowledge of the Legislature of their country, and yet have their business or , pleasure to attend to, merely to glance over the " hears' and the "cheers," which are interspersed, like so many glow-worms, along the dark, interminable lanes • of type. The " laughs " also are worth stopping in One* dreary journey to listen to ; an d an " or d er f rom the Speaker" ' may also justify a momentary stoppage ; but when there is nothing but a gloomy expanse of level, un broken, barren-looking print before the reader, we recom mend him to run over it as fast as he can, not to make a single stop, but to jump over each member's style in the most expeditious manner. The spots we have marked are the only places worth halting at—the few oases in the grand Parliamentary desert— all the rest is dust, dust, dust, nothing but dust, which would blind in time the strongest pair of eyes, and lay up the most indefatigable reader. By pursuing this line of march the bold traveller who intends running through the Arabian Petrata of debates, will get to the end of his day's journey in the early part of the morning, and will have all the afternoon for resting himself. With a feeling of the truest benevolence we wish him a happy jour• ney.—Punch. Tun PARKS.—Yesterday the ornamental waters in St. James's and the Regent's Parks, the Serpentine, and the Long Water and Round Pond, Kensington Gardena, were completely frozen over, the ice being several inches in thick ness and perfectly safe, but the roughness of its surface un pleasant to skaters. From 8,000 to 10,000 persons are sup posed to have ventured on during the day without any accident occurring. CITY OF LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.— The Duke of Cambridge has honoured Mr. H. F. Richardson with his commands that the festival of this charity should take place on the 31st May, when his Royal Highness will preside. The illustrious Prince has before presided. Up wards of seventy merchants and others have already joined the stewardship, and by the period of the announcement of the list, it is anticipated it will be the largest of the season. Lord Ashburton is president this year, and 110 vice-presi dents adorn the publications issued by the society. The officers, non-commissioned officer*, &c., of the 53d (Shropshire) F oo t, are a b ou t t o erec t a monu ment . Shrewsbury Church, in honour of their brethren who fell in 'dia. BIRTHS. At Allaliaised, the lady of Captain T. M. E. Moorhousc, 35th Regi ment Ught Infantry, of a son. On the 2d inst., at Southampton, the wife of Robert Boncher, Eel , R.N., of a daughter. On the Gth inst., at Weimer, the wife of J. 11. Baker, Esq., Corn mender, R.N., of a daughter. On the Gth inst., at Norden Rectory, Surrey, the wife of the Rot. W. C. Rallies Flint, of a eon. On the 7th inst., in New CaYendlsh-street, Mrs. Lionel Booth, of a (laughter. On the 7th inst., at Rugby, Warwickshire, the wife of T. 11. Dakyns, Esq., of ;St. Viacent, of a son. On the Sill inst., at Bush Hall, Hatneld, the wife of Thomas D. Branton Day, Esq., of Mickletield-green, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., Mrs. Peter More, of a sun. MARIIIED. On the 24 inst., at Great Oakley, Essex, Captain Brook Bailer, of the Bombay Artillery, to Budly, youngest daughter (4 John Stumm, Esq., of llarwidi. DIED. On the 31st ult., the truly Venerable John Ohlershavr, 8.D., Arch deacon of Norfolk, aged b 3. On the 20th ult., at Cairo, Henry, eldest eon of s±r 11. Russell, Bart. On the 2d inet., at Yeahnpton, Dexon, Captkin Arthur Kay, ReYal Engineers, aged 51. On the sth inst., at Rose Cottage, New road, liammersmitb. It• Lyford, Esq , aged 57. On the sth inst., et Twickenham, Mr. Thomas Buck, aged 62. On Int , ~ tl, • , iaui lnac, ....df o o r tT..T. TTall, ion., Esq., of Itlackhcn„ ! b la: I.lio I 015N11, ca Is o. 112, Strand. Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112. Strand, In the Precinct of the Bevov. 1 tho County of 311ddleeez, Thuraday, Fe hruary 11,1 1841.