The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

rir gieeemoseeeee--•---_ _ THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FIRST PANTO MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's Opera, entitled rTIIREatellO; Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Florevillei Mr. a-Propos, Mr. .11r. Horncastle ; Ardenford , M r. D. W. "MoMrliAeNre, Barley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, 3 Miss R. Isaacs ; rrivole, Mrs. Hughes. After which will be produced the Grand Cahoma iice,Cheurdisatrym,asePhtiantateod mime, being a mixture of the historical HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGMErADHuTgires ;DthßeAhGeOwNh.hdTehxe. Overture and Music composed by tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, 31r . .T e h lb y in A sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations r.B andl a mi re numerousthe M a a s 2 chidery by Mr. R. Sloman ; the Dresses and a host of auxiliaries. The wholessepsrobdyu3clerds.utiveerY'thMerssUpßealrilns: endence of Mr. W. West. te and lo- Scene 1. ABODE OF KALYBif,T n Malty not exactly known, bu t co nsideredENcbirthreninsstrqu—aailan Society to have been discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other,'' near " somewhere or other," Kalyba (the Enchantress, not by Belle% mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," and having qu it e miscalculated her power), Mr. H. Horneastle ; Fiends Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and 11. Payne ; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele ments, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the March of Intellect (travelling " mcog." as " Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, out of Perseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect pays a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. INTERIOR OF INFANT SESlOOL.—Schoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half-holiday on the occasion. Scene 3. EXTERIOR AND BARBACAN OF COVENTRY CASTLE. — Ilia Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni ; the Countess of Coventry (a good noasewife, and supposed to have been the Inventor of the celebrated " Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character r.•om her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele trated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any 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 natives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas ters Coyle, Savell, Dix, Welsh, Desborg, Francis.—How the youthful St. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and nearly his " last " appearance is public on the occasion—how his " cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony come to e ish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba sb )ws her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under ht r wing." NOTICE.—" Nothings material to our historie" occurring during a period of fifteen yell's, the author trusts that the audience will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KAnrise's HOUSE OF CORRECTION !—St. George of Eng -1.-Jld (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Payne; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland Ft. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Anthony of Italy (all rretty much of the same kidney !) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapino, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his brother champions (considerably grown since their last ap p.:arance in public) are kept in durance vile, and on " very short e. , minons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate — merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom! Scene 5. DOVER Moons.—flow the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose wills the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com panies." Scene 6. BANKS or THE NlLE.—Almanzor, King of Morocco (his own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, 8.7. e., on his way to King 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. l'riorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &e. How Almanzor came to Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not having even " dipped" into the ouestion of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Scene 7. GRAND HALL IN THE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE 'FIRST, RING OF EGYPT.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar ried to the King of Morocco, hut patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious allowance of jaw enables him to speak ter ahnself), Mr. Wieland. New this " marriage in high life" is sud4enly 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). ROYAL PROCLAMATION. " Who'll kill the dragon ? " Or me he shall gorge ; I, says St. George, I I'll kill the daagon."—Old MS. Aiming of St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at the "Corner," 1,000 to 0 on the Dragon (taken). " May the best man win." Scene 8. THE DRAGON'S HAUNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY. — flow the Dragon introduces the Princess Sabra to his " coantry quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished) ; how he and the Dragon fall in, and then fall out. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not only eleva:es St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five Shilling pieces" of England, but at the same time introduces the audience to Scene 9. GRAND HALL OF CHIVALRY.—How St. George receives the "Rattle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re a;pearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends New Characters. V Harlequin.... Mr. Howell, C10wn.... Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon..... Mr. Priorson. I Columbine Miss Hicks. Scene 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CET SHOP.—lmproved Surgical Instruments. "Holding the mirror na to nature." "Families furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint flies t 4 the Clown's head. Scene 11. CORNCHANDLER'S SHOP AND GRANARY.—More ways than one of being "in clover." Specimen of the very best "Britannia metal." Plenty of "game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures Ltd corn measures. A lot of "chaff" in both. Harlequin gives Clown " the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND.—" To be let, to vther or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. " Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker," and make way for " patent elastic India-rubber boots." Effects of " putting your feet in it." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish fiat and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN AND TAILOR'S Smors.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot tnj." Grand Experiments in Gull Cotton, ending in an awful Catas tt ophe. Scene 14. INTERIOR OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN TOY WAREHOUSE. — Toys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." in the Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn out. " See tbe Conquering Hero comes." .Icerie 15. THE STATUE AS IT Is ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park- et rner. .scene TIIE STATUE AS IT WAS ; OT, Wellington at Waterloo " •.00k here upon this picture, and on this." THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE P )UND OF WRONG ; or, a Fireside Story. Sir Arthur Foljambe, r. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; rclekS, Air. Buckstone; llarwood, Mr. Howard; Lady Charlotte Woughhy, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Furtescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds. During the evening the Bard will perform the Overtures, "La tyad, re," " Italiana in Algeria," " Guillaume Tell," and a Po lotaise. After which the new Faroe, called SPRING GARDENS. Lord .urting•ton, Mr. Holt Sr; Arthur Lovel, Mr. Ilowe ; Scoreup, %i r. Buckstone; Lady Clarissa, Mrs. Buckingham ; Mrs. Scoreup, 3! Julia. Bennett. To conclu.le with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, c[,:led the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil IMights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, 'Miss P. Horton, /Yrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reyno!d:, and Miss Julia Bennett. 111-1 TEE iii)YAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. Triumphant 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., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albert Smith, Esq., called TIIE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha• raeters 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 Villars, Miss 'turner, and Miss ♦rden. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Clown, Mr. J. W. Co'lier ; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss Laidlaw ; Attendant Sprite 3, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. THEATRE RGYAL„.IDELPIII. UNDER THE DiIH,CiIoN OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LO:MBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &c. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils--the Masters lianlons, will ex hibit their wonderful Jeux Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GrSELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the W!113 Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Collenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, 21:sa Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. 'Maddox, sole Lussee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Musical Romance, entitled TILE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNI.2II ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Cot. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Armincourt, Mr. Allen:; Capt. Bellejamb:, Mr. heftier ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn ; Cornet tir,s,los, Mr. Compton ; Baron Bristlebach, Mr. Walton ; Bumps, Kr. Horner; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, E. Homier, Blacks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte ; Uriel, Miss Af rshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which a new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAIN BCWS. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Cowell, Granby ; Mrs. H. Hte4hes, and Miss E. Honner. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta ler ted CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame- TIC in Polka," introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chratmas Pantomime, enti tle i The ENCHANTED BE.VUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; ct, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr rlioo ; Columbine, Miss Burbldge ; Sprite, Mr. 11. Diarshall Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. M. PERLET'S FAREWELL BENEFIT, and positively his last Appearance but One. THIS EVENING Will be performed the favourite Vaudeville of LA FAMILLE INt PRO V ISEE. Characters by MM. Dumery, Dorgebret, David ; ;INli•lame Grassau,. Mdlles. Leyder and Celina Fouquet. 4. fter which Moliere's celebrated Comedy of L'AVARE. liar (l'Avare), M. Perlet ; the other characters by MM. Berm. P gebret, Langeval, Cartigny, Pagenier, Tourillon, Lucien, Felix, .L.-a ;id ; Mdlles. Va'lee, Angels, and .Amelie Khin. conclude with the Comic Operetta of LES RENDEZVOUS rtr,_ - rtGrors. M. Dugravier, M. Cartigny; Cesar, M. Dumery; rice, M. Heron ; Jasinin, M. Pagenier ; Bertrand, M. Tourillon ; .124: ie, Mdlle. Fouquet ; Louise, Mdile, Vallee ; Julie, Mdlle. Khin. p ,xes, es. , Pit, Is. Gd. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at hail .past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. • ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS (Pell, Harrington, White, Stanweod, and Germon) will have the honour of repeating their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENT at the above Theatre, TO WORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday dur!lig the Christmas Holidays ; doors open at Eight, and the Enter tain sent commences at Half-rast Eight. And will (by desire) give a %RAND JUVENILE PERFORMANCE THIS MORNING. open at Two, to commence at half-past Two. 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A3IPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Aibert, Pri n ce raPatronisedPatronised b her Most Gracious Majesty the of Queen, Prince Wales, and Royal F am il y. Unrivalled success of the Grand C hristmas Pantomime, acknowledged by the Pry's' and the public to surpass all others f or magnificence and novelty. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en tttle,i THE DEMON ROUSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the ClArmed Bit. To be followed by Ilatty's SCE.I.TRA of the CIRCLE ; with h orous performances by Mr. Henderson, as Clown. To conclude with the successful Comic EquestrlanPairy pant:teem,. enti Ito t led T er' H s Cave. E FORTY THIEVE M S ; or, harlequin and All Baba and the bb Clown, r. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; P.mtaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss L ouisa Waite. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, entitled THE HAND OF CARDS—GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEATH. The characters will be supported by the whole of the talented Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING or THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dream. Har lequin, Herr Deulin : Pantaloon, Herr R. Deulin ; Columbine, Mdlle. Thoudere ; Clown, Herr N. Deulin ; Mr. Punch, Herr E. Deulin. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Reduction of Prices.—Boxes, is„ Half-price, ad ; Pit, 641.; Gallery, 3d. ; Private Boxes, 2s. The Victoria again victorious. Decided success of the new grand " Go-a-Head Pantotnime." " The best pantomime ever produced at a minor Theatre."—" The oldest in: laabitant of Lambeth cannot remember so excellent a Panto inime."—Vide Public Press. THIS EVENING dpi Ibe performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin cant, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, Ed. ward , , Bird, Searle, Forman, Scc., will perform. After which will be produced a 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 ; Tent+ loon, Signor Oaroncle ; Lupin° ; Colurabiut, IL4llc. Adel. Lauri. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESIAY MORXi_NG, JANUARY _6, 1847. Now ready, in Svo , with Portraits, price 15s. bound, MEMOIRS of the LIFE and TIMES of SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON, K.G., Vice-Chamberlain and Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth. INCLUDING ls SECRET LETTERS TO TIIE QUEEN. By Sir N. HARRIS NICOLAS. G.C.3.1.G. " One of the mo-t valuable of our later oontributions to English history."--Literary Gazette. " Hatton's Letters to lilizabeth are curious, and display vividly in what style her favourites and lovers carried on that platonic corres pondence which is so much lauded by certain historians."—Sunday Times Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and' Co., RAILWAY SILtRE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &,c. • take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY. 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 addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day orevlous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be brwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds !Jame eiately disposed of according to instructions. OfficEs. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. 1 HE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, JANUARY 5. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest, 42 ; Noon, 44. BAROMETER, 29.93.—W1ND E.,rainy. 111uit W ATEIt AT LONDON-1314100E TLIIS DAs. Morning .. 4 minutes after 41. I Evening .. 59 minutes Y fter 4. r ,.... .4 ; • F•lf% 4-1 r .9 31' : ' 4 ' . 1. - ' if : 4 .1. a , **&,•,' ,i - '- . - . 1 4 ; -. . -7, - ',,,?$- :iii- 47, 1A1k.v , $-, ; o, ; :o' 7!1:ft•.; , 5 „ 6 44 ' 1;2‘ . 17 ,071111 - r 7 --r" , z,.., ~...c, , .. r ....e. , 4 ,:, J. ' ' ' AI N . '''... ' ' ' ! Vl3-.±: . ; , 7 7 , • et, f 1,% :..,-' '''"' Mani 4mt. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1847. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. The state of the public revenue, as exhibited by the returns for the year and quarter ending January 5, 1847, proves still further, if further proof were wanted, the soundness of the principles of financial and commercial policy which have of late years been adopted by successive administrations in this country. The Customs, the Excise, the taxes, the property tax, the Post-office, all exhibit an increase, both on the quarter and on the year. The Stamps ex hibit a decrease on the year of 220,7001., and on the quarter of 51,7151. A decrease which can be more than accounted for by the activity of rail way operations last year as compared with this. But even allowing for the decrease en stamps, and also a decrease under the head of miscellaneous of 38,955/. on the quarter, the increase on the revenue for the quarter amounts to 19,8731., and on the year to 13,0321., and this without the aid of the Chinese ransom, the receipt of which tended to swell the gross amount of increase as exhibited in former returns. The amount of Customs' revenue for the quarter is 4,514,721/. ; for the year, 18,310,865/. ; showing an increase on the year of 205,6591., and on the quarter of 159,932/. The Excise shows an increase on the quarter of 269,318/., on the year of 344,138/., the revenue for the quarter being 3,608,155/., for the year 12,521,250/. This is most satisfactory, as showing that, notwithstanding the severe pressure of distress, that pressure is merely partial, and that the great bulk of the people are sufficiently prosperous to be enabled to indulge in the use of those exciseable commodities which constitute the luxuries of the in dustrious classes. The revenue derived from stamps for the year is 6,931,414/., for the quarter 1,740,687/., showing, as we before stated, a decrease on the year of 220,7001., and on the quarter of 51,7151. The taxes show an increase in the quarter of 33,8481., and on the year of 48,5661., the total amount received being, for the year 4,272,4081., and for the quarter 1,909,8991., a state of the revenue that proves that the middle classes of society are in a prosperous condition. The Property tax has yielded for the quarter, 450,219/. ; for the year, 5,395,3911., showing an increase on the year of 368,8211., and on the quarter of 63,2341. The Post•office revenue still continues steadily on the increase, and now that Mr. ROWLAND HILL is once more restored to office, we doubt not but that each quarter will show a much larger increase than here tofore, provided he is permitted to carry out his plans unfettered by the bureaucracy of the department. The increase under this head fur the quarter is 14,000/. ; for the year, 85,000/.; the total amount for the quarter being 203,0001., and for the year 816,000/. The Crown lands show an increase on the quarter of 5,000/., the revenue derived from this source being, for the year, 120,0001.; for the quarter, 30,000/. Under the head of Miscellaneous there is an increase on the year of 196,7731., and:a decrease on the quarter of 38,9551.—the total amount of revenue for the quar ter under this head being 29,657/. ; and for the year, 317,0901. The total amount of the ordinary revenue for the year is 48,604,4181.; for the quarter, 12,486,331. the revenue returned under the head miscellaneoui, is exclusive of the China money. As no money has been received from China during this quarter, of course, a deduction must be made for the amount received during the corresponding quarter of last year, that deduction amounts to 475,2801. for the year, and to 300,859/. for the quarter, we have also to deduct 32,2001. for the quarter, and 131,397/. for the year for imprest and other monies, and 408,5481. for the year, and 101,7301. for the quarter, for the re payments of advances, yet, notwithstanding all these deductions, we have an increase on the total national income on the year of 13,032/., and on the quarter of 19,873/. Now, when we consider the great reductions which have been recently made in the Customs and Ex cise duties, we cannot but consider the state of the Revenue as most satisfactory, proving, as it does to demonstration, the soundness of those financial and commercial principles which Sir ROBERT PEEL laid down and acted on in 1845 and 1846, and which must henceforth form the basis of the financial and commercial policy of this country. The surplus of Revenue, after providing for the charges to the con solidated fund, and for the payment of supply ser vices, in the Quarter ending sth January, 1847, is 1,365,455/. There are certain individuals who are the victims of impatience, and who are not only victims them selves, but would willingly render the Governments of the earth victims likewise, and thereby produce national bankruptcies. The fabulist has told us of the old gentleman cutting the goose open to get all the golden eggs at once ; the persons to whom we allude would have strangled the goose because it didn't lay fast enough. If they were haymakers, they would burn the grass out of sheer vexation that it required something longer than two minutes to ripen. If they were planters, they would inevitably demolish the sprouts, from the cir cumstance of their not giving forth branches and blossoms and fruitage in a twinkling. If they were weavers, they would damage the threads for not weaving themselves into an elaborate woof on the in stant. In writing thus we are not exaggerating in the smallest particular. We are only forming some illustrative hypotheses upon those disciples of im patience, who are unhappily so prevalent, and in accordance with whose advice the whole framework of society would be joltered into inextricable confu sion. After indulging in their own lugubrious fancies, they are resolute in the promulgation of their pernicious advice. They would say to Ireland, " Your potatoes are liable to a periodical murrain— therefore destroy the healthy seed which is still remaining." They would say to the Legis lature, " The details of your Constitution re quire continual modification—therefore utterly abandon the principles of that Constitution." They would say to Sir ROBERT PEEL and Mr. COBDEN, " Bread is by no means cheaper nor more plentiful since the abrogation of the corn-laws—therefore let us be at once restored to the Protective system." Dor SAY to the Government of Great Britain, " Sinde has be longedloo,:xo. t o opooeonull..assitssteultrnerlrcielnei sterling r 4 , a n it n annum s during required th that t n e r outlay io d of r according to a yet more unfavourable calculation, an expenditure have, anvoet therefore, h le e s r s e f r t e h ,a been e e h l r 0 consumedO o/n already by this unprofitabletconquest.h hypothecation L ot o ru o a l w c ' dh a o t a h ro . the batta, look at the advances for food, o solicitloouosk— fora for rational Heaven's economysake, l oionke the disbursements , theor ioniary of the national treasury—look at the extraordinary expenses entailed upon the exchequer by paigns undertaken against the Seikhs. There's m- a pretty bargain ! Those are the advantages resulting from territorial aggrandisement! Those are the A very respectable and numerous meeting took place on Monday evening, in the National Hall, High Holborn, to consider the question of the abolition of capital punishment. Resolutions were passed fas our able to the extinction of the present extreme penalty of the law. It was announced that a similar meet• ing will be held to-night, to be presided over by Mr. liumn, M.P., at which, we doubt not, they will come to a like decision. Though we cannot coincide in the extent to which these gentlemen are prepared to mitigate the criminal code, nor in the soundness of their proposition, nor in the arguments by which they support it, that the punishment of death is "inde fensible on the grounds of policy, morality, and re ligion," still it must be conceded that their resolutions reflect the highest honour upon their feelings 01 humanity. The pure and benevolent motives which govern their proceedings must necessarily engage a large portion of public sympathy, and naturally and in the most agreeable manner predispose every one ariously to weigh every species of information which may be elicited in support of the cause which they philanthropically espouse. These meetings can do no harm, and may be productive of much good. In the discussion of the interesting topic of capital punishment, a review of our criminal code in general is necessarily introduced : in this way many crude deformities and unnecessary severities, by which it is at present characterised, come to be analysed, and, by a seasonable exposition of them, the path is cleared br reformation. Any spontaneous effort to diminish the ten sive powers of punishment conferred by law, with a due regard to existing circumstances, and a well established recognition of improved morals throughout the community, cannot be too highly lauded. It must not, however, be overlooked, that the task is one of extreme ninssteodtnoa d tnw i h ffi c eh e Tcw u hh l hiu t t y re, hne, difficulty ffixhee as m eett ui a lol n ectnv d lyae i csuleasguentnsot consists ft s n hi i ia c cun e hy s nicest suffered, p determining particularwi n civilisatione r p s re o . f eht discrimination. h ias e se p er o ua i society. We are not without the hope that we may hereafter attain to a pitch of civilisation when, con sistently with the protection of life in general, the infliction of capital punishment may be safely dis pensed with ; and that inferior penalties may, by reason of the universal prevalence of more refined feelings of morality, and their social reaction upon whooruetsruagltes which law, iehare p a r t tie d s sameof those preventive t od p u re c s e en in t more or less solely secured by th e d rea d of the gal lows. But we cannot " lay the flatt er i ng unction to our souls" that the existing phases of society would warrant the State in depriving itself of the power of subjecting the authors of heinous crimes to condign punishment. It must be remembered, that those who take the opposite view enter the discussion with great advantages. Most specious and popular argument lie W ithin their reach, and of which they never omit to avail themselves. The disputant can so inge niously arrange his premises that, if you once un warily admit them, there is no conclusion to which he cannot drive you by force of abstract reasoning. A well-turned sentence will often cause a whirlwind of applause; but when we come to test it by dispassionate reflec tion, we as often discover that approbation has been injudiciously bestowed. Precisely such a sen tence was uttered last evening by Mr. C. GILPIN : " Before man assumed the power of Omnipotence he should possess the wisdom of Omniscience." This is language that would captivate any popular audience. Its value, however, is derived from the assumption which is directly involved, and lies concealed at the bottom, that capital punishment does not, for in stance, deter a man from committing murder. But this is begging the whole question ; because, as suming, on the other hand, that man is deterred from committing murder by the dread of capital punishment, then, although we are certainly neither all.powerful nor all-wise, yet it is conceived we best exercise our limited power and limited faculties, and work out the merciful ends of PROVIDENCE, when we have thus, by virtue of our laws, indirectly saved the life of an innocent man from the murderous assdult of either his avowed or hidden enemy. Other examples of a like spurious tendency are contained in the speech of Mr. FREDERICK ROWTON. " When, however," observed this gentleman, " life was publicly taken it was im possible that life could be held sacred." Though life is not held sacred, yet the words quoted do not prove that life is not better protected 14y the existing law than it would be without it. But this is precisely the onus probandi that rests with Mr. Row- blessings consequent upon the prowess and the wisdom TON. Again, " when the l'aw was guilty of public of Sir C. NAPIER. Sinde, we were assured, would murder, where was the greater enormity of the open to our enterprise the markets of Beloochistan; offence committed by individuals ?" This pseudo the possession of Sinde, we were told, would give our argument is vicious and dangerous in the extreme. merchandize freer access to the cities of Caubul, it Moreover, it is nonsensical. The law can would enable us to advance from the Delta of the not be guilty of murder. Rightly or Indus to the shores of the Persian Gulf, it would en- wrongly, as to the effect, the law proceeds able us to find purchasers even in the citizens of upon a good motive—the better security of life by Ispahan. Three years have elapsed since the occupa- the force of stern example. Can the same motive be tion of Sinde—actually three whole years, and, assigned to the murderer ? These are speci instead of increased pecuniary advantages, we are mens of the fallacies into which the best -3,000,0001. out of pocket. Our increased territory has intentioned men are apt to fall. But, whilst afforded us a decreased exchequer. In Sinde we we feel it to be our duty to guard the only grasped a handful' of fairy gold ; our hand is public against being misled by such objec empty, the gold has vanished. From Kurachee to tionable methods of reasoning upon a most momen- Bahawulpore, from Jullundur to Duree, and thence to tous subject, we would hail with delight the day Tatta, the population have been during that calami- when " swords shall be converted into ploughshares, tons interval the spectators of our delusion. The spears into pruning -hooks, and when man shall not apple was blooming, but it has turned to ashes on our destroy in the whole of GOD'S universe." lip. Let us cast from us this ruinous appendage, for .... what is the utility of a further reduction of Sinde ?" Those are the arguments employed by the individuals whom we have already designated as the victinasof im patience. And never in the records of monomania were arguments advanced more impregnated with foolish ness, more closely approximating to the utterances of insanity, more indicative of a contemptible short sightedness. They have not even the redeeming qua lity of speciousness. What ! are men ignorant enough to imagine that the riches of a country like Sinde are to be diverted into a new channel with a celerity like this ? Why, the smallest shopkeeper in the meanest street in the poorest district of the metropolis might give these dissentients a wholesome lesson as to the time required between the first out lay and the first profit in any novel undertaking. It is not in a single day, says the proverb, that Rome was built. The wealthiest mine ever excavated re quires capital to penetrate into its veins of metal, labour to bring its ore to the smelting-furnace, time to put its whole machinery into operation. As well might a person plant an orange pip in the ground, and sit down until it has sprung into existence, and borne fruit, as anticipate the immediate realisation of commercial and social benefits from the occupation of Sinde. Men cannot be reclaimed from barba rism in a lunar month, much less can the evils of a spurious civilisation be eradicated from a community like that dwelling upon the banks of the Indus in three preliminary years. Besides this, is the Government to be scoffed into the abandonment of a territory so situated, so fertile, and so gained, merely because there are persons sufficiently feeble in intelligence, and sufficiently cursed with impatience, as to murmur ever the tardiness of the remuneration from that quarter ? Shall the fruitfulness of Sinde be poured into the lap of another nation at the very moment when it is about tumbling into ours ? Is the blood which was shed so copiously upon the invasion of Sinde to have Wen poured forth in vain ? Is the prowess of our soldiers only to be the precursor of our disgraceful retirement ? Is the skilful generalship of Sir CHARLES NAPIER to be followed merely by the withdrawal of our forces from the land, for the possession of which that skill was alone displayed ? Is a land situated as Sinde is, to be forsaken merely at the quer rulous suggestion of a few malcontents ? Placed in the very centre of southern Asia, with the territories of Hindostan to the south-east, with the sandy desert, Caubul, and the Punjaub to the north, with Beloochistan to the west, and the Indian Ocean to the south, Sinde affords us at once an almost impregnable barrier against incursions from the direction of Persia and the surrounding countries, while it opens to us a new channel for the further extension of our Oriental commerce. Beyond this, it is an instrument for the diffusion of the blessings of civilisation among the uncultivated intellects of the East. Shall the good of millions be abandoned , with Sinde, for the gratification of a foolish timid*" and the nourishment of a diseased morality ? The accounts received from Ireland every post, we regret to say, still exhibit a fearful state of destitution and distress existing in that unhappy land. The ex- .raordinary exertions of the Government, the large amount of money distributed every week in payment of the wages of the men employed on the public works, the assistance afforded by the several relief committees and the poor-law unions, although all ex- tremely valuable, are yet insufficient to meet the emergency, and to provide such a moderate supply of food and raiment as will avert the constant repetition of deaths from famine and the inclemency of the weather, or from pestilence occasioned by their com bined operation. These painful results are not re stricted to the poorer districts. True it is that the west of the county of Cork and the county of Mayo have attained a sad celebrity for the unprecedented amount of human suffering that has unhappily fallen upon the inhabitants of these localities ; but other and hitherto more favoured counties have contributed their quota to the tales of misery and destitution. Even Armagh and Fermanagh have not been exempted from the occurrence of deaths from want. A few short months, and a statement, if sufficiently authen ticated, of a single life having been lost from such a cause would have excited the public mind to the highest degree, and stimulated every one possessed of the commonest feelings of humanity to exert himself to the uttermost to prevent the possibility of a recurrence of an event so horrible in itself, and so disgraceful to the entire community ; investigations of the most searching character would have taken place; every circumstance connected with the case would have been minutely inquired into, and every precaution would have been taken to guard against the repetition of a similar event. But, alas ! the frequency of such occurrences has considerably abated the intensity of the feelings that are thereby awakened. Not a day passes but accounts, not resting on mere statement, but given by sworn witnesses, and con armed by the verdicts of sworn juries, of many deaths from starvation are recorded in the daily press ; and for every case that obtains such publicity man _ _ others are passed by in silence, and the wretches victims are consigned to their humble graves without the causes of their premature end being extensively known. It is, indeed, a frightful state to whicl our Irish brethren have been reduced, and fearful have been the straits which even the more fortunate have had to encounter in their struggle for a precarious existence. Who can picture the feelings of the strong man worn down by degrees from the effects of inanition, regarding the partner of his cares and sorrows, and his helpless children crying for the food with which he is unable to supply them, and finding his strength ebbing away and gradually sinking, enduring day by (lay the agonies of hope deferred, and protracted fa mine ? It would be impossible to do so. A veil should be drawn over that to which expression could not be given. It would also be vain to dwell on in dividual cases, when hundreds of a similar character Are simultaneously occurring in many different parts •f the country. What, then, is to be done to mitigate, to remove this fearful calamity ? The Home Secretary has truly stated that it is impossible for any Government by any means to meet all the eases of severe priva ion and distress that are to be found in Ireland. The Ministry will do much, but they must be aided and as listed in their work of benevolence and charity ; publir relief must be•tied down and restricted within certain limits, within which it will be impossible for every case to be included. A general, indiscriminate relief afforded to every one, whether earned or not, would lead to an entire disorganization of the framework of society, would damp and check the exercise of private charity and private exertion, and would speedily lead to evils even greater than those for which it was intended to provide a remedy. All that can be done by the Executive is to afford employ ment on an extensive scale, and to grant funds in aid of those that may be procured by private subscrip tions. And well have those now in office discharged the duty they owed to the country. It would be ri diculous to expect that they could pour provisions into Ireland sufficient to supply the wants of all, and if they entered the field as competitors they must do so, for that competition would at once discourage the private trader, and prevent him from dealing in a commodity in which he would have to encounter so powerful an opponent—a rival who would be contented not merely to reap no profit from the speculation, but to sustain a loss that would be ruinous to any possessed of less gigantic re sources. \Ve doubt not that the entire policy of the Government with res p ect to I reland will herea f t er, when everything can be more maturely conside red and calmly inqu i re d into, rec e i ve un i versa ll y th e ap probation that has been accord ed to it by those com petent to arrive at sound concl usions. The suggestion we ll in E ng l an d as i n I re l an d o f o f r Sir raising GEOItGa: Guar, " that me ans s h ou ld b e t a k en contributions for the relief of extreme cases by des t t h it e utio existing n poor-law, or destitution, not capable of beingnfwant rnetliev andd by the works in p ro g ress or hereaf t er to be sanc tioned," appears to p resent the most f easible means of supplying the desid eratum, and p r oviding in the leas t objectionable mann er the re q uire d and neces sar y e assistance to the Government measures; and this, we are happy to say, will take place on the most exten sive scale, and under the highest and most propitious auspices. Already it appears that a committee is being formed here of men of rank and benevolence, some of them named by and on the part of the Go vernment, who will not only contribute themselves largely, but from their character, influence, and the prestige attached to their names, but above all the sacred cause in which they are about to act, will afford an ample guarantee for the judicious applica tion of the sums that may be collected, and secure an amount adequate to the purpose and honourable to the donors. The funds so collected are to pass through a committee in Dublin of men of rank and station of all classes, creeds, and parties, who will distribute it through the relief committees, according to the exigencies of their respective districts. There will, therefore, be no possible excuse for any with holding of contributions from a fear that they may not be duly applied to the purposes contemplated. We will not so far wrong our countrymen as to doubt that they will come forward speedily and efficiently, that they will from their abundance spare a portion to the unhappy and wretched. They may do so with out the ne cess i ty of an abstinence f ro m any:of the com forts or necessaries of life : from their superflui ties they may provide necessaries for thousands and tens of thousands of their fellow-creatures who are now in the lowest state of misery and destitution. By so doing, by acting in a manner wort h y of Chris tian men, they will add a fairer page to their national history than ever celebrated the triumphs of conquest, or the acquisition of territory, by war or diplomacy. That benevolence that has been extended to the most remote parts of the earth, that has soothed the afflic • tions of the unhappy in every clime, that has pro vided instruction for the heathen, and struck the fetters from the slave, that has been extended to the brute creation, and has endeavoured to prevent unne cessary suffering from b • em g in icted on any of GOD'S creatures, will be extended to our Irish brethren in this season of trial and sore affliction . W e trust, ere many days have 1 d e apse , that it will be our pleas ing duty to record a general and liberal subscription from all, according to their means. Promptitude and dispatch is all important; when once a collection is in progress through all parts of the kingdom, a QUEEN'S Letter may fairly be looked for in its aid, and from what the Government has d a rea y done, and what fell from Sir GEORGE GREY ) in his letter, we 'may predict, with the utmost certainty, that such will then be granted. Let every person act as if the mat ter depended on his individual exertions, and the resu It will more than fulfil our warmest anticipa tions, and bring consolation to the abodes of misery and destitution. Accounts have been received from Portugal by her MAJESTY'S steamer Rattler, which left Lisbon on the 27th, Oporto on the 29th, and Vigo on the 30th. The intelligence she brings is important. On the 22d an action was fought at Torres Vedras between the forces of BOMFIM and SALDANHA, in which the former was totally defeated, owing principally to the desertion of a portion of his troops (700 men), and his forces completely dispersed. BONIFIM and his staff were taken prisoners, together with 2,000 his followers. The action was well fought on both sides, and BoMrsf and his officers were allowed to retain their swords. The official dispatches of SAL DANIIA, announcing his victory, will be found in ano ther column. Of the QUEEN'S army there are 57 killed, 316 wounded, and 13 missing. Of BONIFINI'S 280 were killed or escaped, and the rest either surren dered or joined SALDANIIA. BOMFIM and his staff were conducted to Lisbon, and he is now a prisoner on board the Diana frigate, off Belem Castle. While in the custody of SALDANHA the prisoners were treated in the kindest manner, but since they have been on board the Diana they have been used with great harshness. Bomilm con trived to send off a dispatch to DAS ANTAS, Who immediately commenced a retreat, at the head of 300 regulars, on Coimbra, to effect a junction with LOULE. He sent dispatches to VASCONCELLAS, at Santarem, who evacuated that place at the head of 2,500 men and 100 cavalry, having previously spiked all the guns, and also fell back on Coimbra, SALDANJIA having embodied in his army the 700 deserters from Bora:7l3l's troops, marched from Torres Vedras on the 28th in pursuit of DAS ANTAS. It is said that DAS ANTAS will, when he has effected a junction with LouLE and VAS CONCELLAS retire on Oporto. Casa', has expelled the Miguelite forces under M'DONNELL from Braga. The Miguelites and Insurgents are negotiating a junction. Things are in statu quo at Oporto. BOMFIM has written to Sir W. PARKER, soliciting his good offices to procure for his companions and himself some mitigation of the sufferings they are en during. lie states that they aro crowded almost to suffocation, the ship being already nearly full of political detenus, and that they are fed upon brown bread and the coarsest fare, and are not allowed to procure for themselves, even with their own money either food or beds to lie upon. The Duke of TERCEIRA is still a prisoner at Oporto. Madrid papers to the 28th have arrived. - - >,~~ The commerce states that a plan is in agitation for a large increase in the steam navy, and that the visits of the Prince DE JOINVILLE to the French sea ports is connected with the carrying out this plan. The receptions at the Tuileries, announced for the 31 January, have been postponed to the sth, in con sequence of a slight indisposition of the QUEEN of th• FRENCH. The French Government has just named two new agents in China a King's Commissioner, M. FORTH-ROUEN, formerly Secretary of Legation at Lisbon ; and a Consul at Changhai, AL DE MONTIGNY, formerly atttached to the Embassy of M. DE 1.4 AGRENE. In addition, M. LEFEVRE DE DECOURT is appointed to the post of Consul at Canton, the functions of which he has been performing for some time. The same decison has been come to relative to M. FABRE, lately carrying on the business of the Consulate at Manilla. The salaries for the French agents in China are said to be con siderable, the King's commissioner receiving 60,000 f. a year, the consul at Canton 30,000 f., and the consul at Changhai 20,000 f.; in all, more than 100,000 f. for three agents. A considerable falling off is stated to have taken place in the cotton factories in the neighbourhood of Rouen. A letter from the valley of the Andelle states that several manafacturers have resolved either Ito reduce the number of their men or to work short A preparatory sitting of the Senate was held on that day, at which the Duke DE CASTRO TORRENO resided. A deputation of twelve was ap eointed to meet their Majesties the QUEEN and the KING CONSORT on the 31st. A meeting of about one hundred Moderado deputies was held on the same day, at which Senor PACHECO an nounced his intention of opposing the present Minis try. A Cabinet Council was to be held in the even ing to settle the wording of the QUEEN'S speech, and to decide as to who should be the Ministerial candi dates for the Presidencies of the Chambers. The Three per Cents. were done on Sunday at 80f. 50c. for the end of January. HAMI3URGU, DEC. 20.—Hamburgh-Bergsdorf; 97 ; Ham burgh-Berlin, 99; Altona-Kiel, 110; Copenhagen-Roths child, 73; Mecklenberg, 72k; Madgeburg-Wittenberg, 891. FRANKFORT, DEC. 31.—Lous Bexbacb, 95; Frederick William, 76%; Taunus, 372. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE, JANUARY 4. Dutch Rhenish,4 s —Luxembourg,3i—Northern of France Constituted, —Orleans and Bordeaux, 8 5 /—Rouen and Havre, 26 1 ,—West Flanders, 3. MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 28.—The Three per Cents, were done on the 28th at 331 ; the Five per Cents., 20 13-16 ; Passives, 6i ; Coupons, 19. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday The New Year's-day addresses to the KING and the Message of the President of the UNITED STATES are the subjects of comment in them. In commenting on the latter, the Journal des Dads, in strong lan guage, condemns Mr. Pomes attempted vindication of the Mexican war. The Constitationnel says that the Message is intended as a refuta tion of the charges brought against Mr. FOLKS' administration by the Whigs, and sneeringly adds—" It may be thought this refutation is more long than conclusive." With regarded to the ad dresses, the Debats says— "W e must call the attention of our readers," "to the address of the Nuncio, marked as it is by a noble and frank cordiality, and expressing faith fully, we arc convinced, the real opion of all the nations in Europe. The answers of the King produced an ex traordinary impression, particularly that addressed to the worthy president of the Chamber of Peers. May these wishes and these lessons, so appropriate in the mouth of an old and great King, be heard by nations and their princes ! May Europe escape, by the conciliation of monarchy and liberty, from the double plague of anarchy and despotism. France has given the world cruel examples. The happiness which she enjoys under a liberal monarch, under a prince who justifies every day, by his profound wisdom, the choice of the nation, will be, we hope, the most effectual of propagandisms. We have never been amongst the number of those who can only behold a vain ceremony in these solemn com munications between the Prince and all the bodies of the State ; but if we had entertained that opinion, we should not have held it any longer, after the speeches of Friday, and the King's answers." The Constitutionnel, in commenting on the addresses, says that the address of the Nuncio was submitted to the Marquis of NORMANDY, and was by him altered _ in such a manner as not to compromise the English Go vernment on the subject of the Montpensier marriage. The following is the article of the Coestitutionnel : " The publication of the harangues presented to the King on the occasion of the new year by the Pope's Nuncio, and the Presidents of the two Chambers, was expected with some curiosity. It was the first manifes tation of official sentiments in the midst of the grave cir cumstances in which France is placed. It was known, besides, that the words which the representative of the diplomatic corps was to pronounce had been the subject of a sort of negotiation between the Nuncio and Lord Normanby. According to established custom, the com pliments which one of the members of the diplomatic corps addresses to the King on the jour de l'an and similar occa sions are not the object of any previous communication between the various ambassadors. All deliberation on this subject would seem to impart to such harangues the character of a collective note, and might give rise to de licate questions amongst the Governments. It is, there fore, usually agreed that the speaker is to take counsel only from himself, and from his ideas of' propriety, and not to share with any one the responsibility of his words But on this occasion the congratulations addressed to the King by the Apostolic Nuncio relative to the Duke de Montpensier's marriage, in presence of the representa tive of the Britannic Cabinet, who protested against this marriage, might place Lord Normanby in a difficult situation. It appears, at least, that he thought so, for he demanded and obtained a previous communication of the Nuncio's address. It is certain that, in con sequence of this kind of negotiation, a phrase of the address relative to the Priqae's mar riage was suppressed ; and another war so modi fied, that it can be interpreted in all the ways that may be applied to it. Whilst Lord Normanby was thus making, in the name of England, corrections in the di • plomatic address, M. Guizot ought in the name of France, were it only by way of compensation, also to have demanded from the Nuncio some changes and erasures. The French nation, which has seen with so mournful an indignation the suppression of the Polish nationality, the fall of Cracow, the murders in Galicia —all that slow agony of a generous people under the blows of oppressive Governments, will not read without astonishment this phrase addressed to the King of the French It is with a profound satisfac tion that it congratulates you, Sire, on the maintenance of the general peace, the admirable result of the wis dom of your Majesty, and of the other Sovereigns and their Cabinets. It is the finest title to the grati tude of nations whose glory and happiness are promoted by this happy harmony. To demand at the present moment, for the Cabinets of Europe, the gratitude of their people, to congratulate on their glory and their happiness the oppressed who perish, to boast of the har mony existing in the world, and to say all this in France, whose Government, on bad terms with all the Cabinets,re ceives or sends forth protests and complains of violated treaties and of the contempt of sworn faith, is in sooth to carry irony to excess. The Ministerial journal (the esse) desires to consider the Nuncio's address as a well-considered manifestation of the whole diplomatic body. In that case it must be divided into two parts: the silence on the subject of the Duke de Montpensier's marriage as a renewal of the protest of England ; whilst the amplification on the wisdom of the Cabinets, and on the happiness of nations who owe so much grati tude to their Sovereigns, is a reply to the protests of Franco against the destruction of Cracow. We have but little to say on the other harangues. Those of the Presidents of the Chambers are distinguished, as usual, by ridiculous bombast, vicious style, and incorreetion. One would imagine that one was reading some panegyric of the middle ages. It is the same turgid, empty, cold, but sounding language. Everywhere the remembrance of Cracow is absent ; there are only in the King's reply counsels to the European Cabinets in favour of liberty— counsels which the destroyers of Poland are scarcely disposed to follow." The Moniteur contains various other addresses pre sented to the KING on New Year's-day. In his answers to many of these addresses his MAJESTY made allusions to the Montpensier marriage. To the Court of Ac counts, LOUIS PUILIPPE said, among other things : —" I am equally touched with the congratula tions with which all the ' corps' of the State so eagerly surround me on the occasion of my youngest son's marriage. It is a great consolation i:o me, and a happy addition to my family. This There is the case in a nutshell. and we think its settle; marriage can but contribute to drawing closer the moot might be as brief as this description." ties which unite France and Spain, without ever in so !n th tli \ e v paper on the capital of proposals of and t e r t n h , e Great wrire r lik e Western,likewise and recommends Bristol the slightest degree impairing their independence Exeter lines co s i:: and freedom." His MA JESTY likewise told the promise. We have in this number w a chronicle of the Prefect of the Sine, who had assured him of the result of the past session of Parliament, as far as rail great satisfaction the marriage had given to the way matters are affected, and a prophecy of the pros' acts of the coming session—besides lists of contracts , Parisians, that "it wou ld d raw c l oser t h e un i on I) &c., and the usual railway intelligence of the month. between two countries b o th en j o yi ng cons ti tut i ona l liberties, and which must more and more appreciate their alliance." TIJE MIRROR. A new tale from the pen of Mr. Percy St. &hut entitled the " Miser's Will," is commenced in this number. In this tale Mr. St. John has abandoned hi° stronghold of America, and has laid his scene in England, in London. His power, however, is not diminished one jot. In the present number we have only four chapters, but the interest of the reader is completely excited. His descriptions are as graphic/ his characters as completely individualized, and bio reflections as philosophical in this as in any of V° preceding tales, and he is quite as much at home i n the streets of London as in the prairies of America' In the first chapter we are introduced to a stria)" and eccentric rich man, who shuLs himself up in 111 / old house in the Borough, much after the fashion 0 ,, the Colonel in Eugene Sue's tale of " Mathilde. In the second chapter we are introduced to the hero. " About the middle height, certainly not more than one- and- twenty in age—his features were neutral handsome, though the good effect of them was mac h marred, either by the effects of dissipation or of poor had unwholesome living. His eyes, in which lurked* hidden fire, were somewhat sunken, which with his hollow chocks was almost proof sufficient of his povertil if indeed his sudden interest in the beggar woman boo not made the supposition almost a matter of certaintft for none sympathise with the poor so readily as those who feel the most. His hair was black, and fell in hug° matted clustres over his shoulders, while a shabby bag , rejoicing in a rim with no particular bias up or down. but rising here and falling there according to fancy, wra, li of very 'material assistance in rendering his natura l q good looks of little moment. A blue Taglioni of 00' quated fashion, in the pockets of which his gloveless hands were thrust, plaid trousers, boots with more boles than sole leather, completed his attire, save only a shirt collar of large dimensions and very yellow tinge, whit fell over a black silk handkerchief that encircled bas neck. "Such was Frederick Wilson, student-at-law, as b e called himself, reporter as his friends denominated hill' while penny-a-linner was the highest epithet which his enemies could ever allow him. Whatever his profession' however, he did but little credit to it ; his whole appear' ante was that of one whose breakfast was rare, will dinner was matter of irregular occurrence, and who, 1 „ he ever supped, did so at intervals of very great extent; Wilson renders a service to a young girl, who is going home alone, is by her introduced to her mother , a Mrs. Cartwright, and it is evident that before they part Wilson and Miss Cartwright are in love. A l ; apothecary, with whom the Cartwrights' lodge, waylar Wilson, in order to pump him, and they adjourn to. gether to a night tavern in St. Giles s, where the author leaves them. There is one retrospective char ter, detailing the revenge of a husband upon his Or posed unfaithful wife, and with this adventure We imagine that the Cartwrights and the mysteriou s man in the Borough are concerned. This tale is illus' trated by several wood. cuts. " The Eagle's Nest 15 , continued, and we have several other light and amusiob tales. Among the papers of more permanent vaill e are an article on " Education in Greece,' in whic°, free use has been made of the valuable and excelle ub i work of Mr. J. A. St. John, on the " Manners a l l Customs of Ancient Greece." A "Memoir of Gene'', Demetrius Kalerges," one of the liberators of Greec e :, and a review of "Lewis's History of Philosophy' in which we are glad to find the reviewer taking . 11 P the cudgels in behalf of Locke against Victor Cousin' and Whe well. As to Victor Cousin, the review er him accurately, when he says, " he is a D e ' reasoner, and a bad writer, a faithless translator' and a disengenuous commentator ;" while the se 1 1 (. sufficient, vain, dandy philosopher of Trin. Ca , l Cans., having first mis-apprehended and mis-state Locke's meaning, applies himself vigorously the refutation of his own mistake. Proffessor Whewell does very well as stage manager ° l d the British Association, but no superficial man sha ll venture to meddle with Locke. The Mirror L in ; proves month by month. This is the best nati ve that has yet been published. MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED). DOUGLAS J.ERROLD'S. We are sorry to see, from an announcement on the cover of the magazine, that the writer of a " History for Young England" has abruptly brought his labour to a premature close. As, however, the publisher states that this series of papers will shortly be re-pub lished and completed in a separate form, we hope that the " abrupt close" alluded to only concerns the magazine, and the world will not be deprived of this which promised to be an excellent abridgment of English history. The illustrations to St. Giles and St. James are also discontinued. Of the story itself, however, we have the 35th chapter in this number, which thus commences : "We will not linger with Snipeton. For why cast away sympathy—that essence of our moral being—upon an old, money-loving man, gulled of his youthful wife ? Wherefore pity him, made, by the lucky boldness of hired knavery, retained and paid by scoundrel cowardice, the living joke of the best society, shaking its sides at the best of clubs ? Had the miserable man been left upon the road, with out-turned pockets, and a medicable bruise or gash or two, why, there would have been no jest whatever in the dull mishap ; the robbery and the wound might have passed among the serious things that lengthen even careless faces. But how different the casualty ! A man—an old man—and the quintessence of the droll( ry lay in his wrinkles—had been robbed of his other self ; had had his very being rent in twain, and to think of his loss was rarest comedy—to picture him writhing in the agony of that forced separation was to crow with laughter. Such was the compassion bestowed by men upon the old 'money-merchant, as rumour, like a wild-goose, cackled as she flew. Therefore, for a time, we will leave Snipe ton at his solitary hearth. No; not solitary. For now the figure, the features of his wife—the run-away; yes, there was the horror; there the burning truth that poi soned the wound—were multiplied about him. It would have been some relief to the tortured—a passing breath cooling the damned—to think that beautiful mischief the victim of violence: but no; she had clubbed her share of cunninei she had played a free part in the wickedness; she had fled from him; and lie could hear her laughter at the trick. And then those very numerals—things that in pleasant idleness of heart he had jotted down, as fancied guards, and retinue of wealth, to glorify and do homage to that idol of his home— they rose in his brain like sparks of fire, and he howled and whined like idiotcy. And at the same time, as we have said, there was great laughter—very great enjoyment at the clubs." The scene then shifts to the house of Shoveller, to which poor Clarissa has been abducted, and Shoveller and Crossbone are congratulating themselves on the cleverness with which they have managed the affair when young St. James enters. Crossbone meets him, and St. James is scarcely able to conceal his disgust when he learns that Clarissa has been taken off by violence, and is at that moment a prisoner. Seizing the key of the chamber in which she is con fined, he rushes up to her prison, leaving Crossbone alone in Shoveller's parlour, where he is soon joined by the housekeeper, Mother Daws, an ugly bunch of an old woman, who would in days of yore have been burned as a witch. A new story, entitled " The Dreamer and the Worker," which will be com pleted in the present year, is commenced in this number. It opens with a description of shipwreck, which is written with great power, and which introduces to, as we suppose, the Dreamer and the Worker—the Dreamer being Archer, a passenger, in the shipwrecked vessel, who keeps his post by Miss Walton and her aged father on the deck of the shipwrecked vessel, and refuses to leave them ; the Worker being Harding, a ship-carpenter, who forms a raft, which he is about to launch, but is restrained by Archer, who demonstrates to him that the time for launching it is not yet come. The Worker takes the advice of the Dreamer, delays his launch until the proper moment, and both Worker anti Dreamer, and Miss Walton, and her father, are saved and hospitably received by the inhabitants of a Welsh hamlet, near the spot where they are cast on shore. Forty persons, however, have perished. " Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued ;" and Paul Bell, in " Heads and Tails of Families," ad mirably satirizes the " unco gude," in the person of Mr. Dabley, a man of substance and a pious man, who always has " family devotions" at night, and always occupies a handsome pew in the church on a Sunday, but who is a domestic tyrant withal, and makes his home such a perfect place of torment for his children that they all quit it as soon as possible— (the girls elope, one with a common soldier, and another with a German adventurer)—and all turn out badly. There are, we fear, too many Dableys in the world. The " Pharisees of the Rail" is a smashing philippic on the Sabbatical Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The following is the concluding passage "But, for the present at least, the pharisaical star is in the ascendant. They have it as yet all their own way —these modern representatives of the mad bigots of old, who raised their Exeter Hall like brayings, when the Founder of Christianity healed disease and rebuked devils, and soothed suffering upon the Sabbath-day. The four Scotch Popes are issuing their bulls, and ful minating their edicts, triumphing over the free exercise of common sense and reason ; reviling the creeds, and slandering the motives of all who attempt to stansi by their own rights and those of society. How long shall tifeir reign last ? How long shall these particular dogs have their day ? Their overthrow is no doubt fast coming. The sense of mankind is arming and mar shalling itself against them; but until the decisive mo ment is at band, be content, Scotsmen, to remain what you are—the objects of the mingled pity and derision of the civilised world; be content to be tyrannised over by four Ra ilway Directors; be content to hand yourself over, body and soul, to Blackadder and Co.; though sickness and death smite your friends, dare not to stir—you have spiritural dictators—crouch and obey; keep the Sabbath as you are ordered—attempt to think or act for your selves at your peril—lurk in your crowded Glasgow courts—your loathsome Edinburgh closes: the country air—the bright sunshine of the first day of the week, were not intended by their Creator for you; or if they were, four Railway Directors have decided that you shall not enjoy them!" The best of the light papers of the present number is a graphic sketch of London skaiters, by Angus B. Reach, entitled "Winter in the Parks." SPIERS' UNIVERSAL ALMANACK and BO UP -of GENERAL REFERENCE for 1847. o f The title of this book is an accurate d escr i p tiorl „ its contents. It is an universal almanack and bo.o', of general reference, and contains every species of 100 formation that those who refer to an almanack CY expect or desire in such a publication. COMMERCIAL MAGAZINE. f In addition to the usual commercial intelligen ce the month, this number, on the " Law and Equita ble t Mortgages," shows what the state of the law is the present time, as laid down in all the recent cice'. sions. Hotel, Upper Bel ' o f ICTiasn a Excellency itthee, leftE arl E o a f r rEa Governor-Genersl. grave r - i s e t a r a . eet, on Monday, for Live r p ool, en route f THE TEA TRADE, JAN. 4.—The deliveries of tef last week were smaller, being about 350,0001 b. The market is quiet, though steady. The first samples of sugar from Brazil, under new law were exhited last week at the office of 11 Bramley Moore ; and as the sugar crop of this year Brazil is most abundant, large imports may be expec ted ' —Liverpool Mercury. pcol ,l° DESTITUTION IN THE HIGHLANDS.--A MEETING IN MussEniunan.—A meeting called by t o provost, magistrates, and council of Musselburghl /1 , 1 , 0 held in the Town-hall and Assembly-room there, on "o, evening of Monday last, for the purpose of taking O m snres to raise a sum towards the relief of those 1 0 t o Highlands and Islands of Scotland who are at prel he suffering from the want of the necessaries of life. A l is meeting was one of the most numerous ever these rooms. In the absence of the Provost, O l th e Campbell was called to the chair. After prayer by Rev. Mr. Beveridge of Inveresk, resolutions were Bui e , sively proposed and seconded by that Reverend Gesitiol man, and by the Reverends Mr. Langhorn, EpiecLr 0 Chapel; Mr. Robin, North Esk; Mr. Glass, of the .r l- 9 , Church; Mr. Robertson, Secession; Mr. Livingst ee o Relief; Mr. Mann, Congregationalist; and by M I Kemp, Esq., Robert Wilson, Esq., &c. Collecting co mittees and a secretary and treasurer were a ppoiet do The committee are to prosecute their labours on Mon 4 and Tuesday next. A resolution was passed that ti amount collected shall be remitted to the Edinber t t, committee for distribution. Owing to the want of el° to ing also in the destitute districts, an appeal was mad e 0 the ladies to use their endeavours to collect as much" possible of this necessary article, which the commit w " will be happy to send off.—Scotsman. ' ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE FOOLHARDY.—.. v a- 11 l a , through the ice has the handsomest etcouragon e " „ o Every gentleman who falls through the ice falls into tb b. newspapers, with his name and address at full leog. s l o It is notorious that folks in France commit suite merely for the honour of a mention in the jouret ti t l; and more phlegmatic Englishmen may be tempted sit GI take a cold bath for the same sort of renown. "- oPl e praise is given to the Humane Society for fishing pe out of the water who would never have fallen into 0 except for the reliance on their aid. Where there 151 4 Humane Society with its apparatus and its warm ba t ; at hand, folks take good care not to venture on the l e o when it is no thicker than an egg-shell. We 01 , answer for it, that if the Humane Society withdrew servants from one of the sheets of ice—the Serpenth4 for example, as the most dangerou s , on that lea ,tv iit fewest accidents would happen, probably none. P m ," c l due notice should be given that no help or as s i s t an ce w— to be had, and that no beds or warm baths were at be // —Examiner. IMPORTATION OF ORANGES.—Three vessels arr i v ed from St. Michael's, on Monday, at the Wharves adjoin' ing the Custom-house, having together 1,477 arse _ boxes, and 209 small boxes of the superior kinds of oranges, the production of th a t pl ace , an d on the fol' lowing day five vessels arrived from the same place,' having collectively 2,201 large, and 267 small boxes or l this esteemed description of fruit, which are now ja sS becoming in a ripe state. MUNICH, DEC. 25.—JENNY LIND.—Tn consequenc e of the extraordinary sensation she created on her las t appearance, as Suzanna, in Mozart's Figaro, the rots, management of the theatre, by particular desire, induce d this inimitable artist to appear once more in the sam l opera, on the 27th, to the delight and gratification of lovers of the musical art. On Christmas eve, about fifty admirers of the Swedish nightingale prepared a feast 8 6 the Odeon, in honour of the queen of song. On bet entering the saloon, which was splendidly decorated, ec: companied by the celebrated historical painter, KaulbseP and his lady, she was taken by surprise, with a Weih: nachtsbaun (the German Christmas tree) ornamented with valuable presents. Among these was a most s pier . did troche from his Royal Highness the Duke of Bove; ria. The entertainment was enlivened with toasts and poetical effusions, in honour of the fair guest. HUMANITY OF BRITISH SEAMEN.—LateIy, whilst her Majesty's steam-sloop Bloodhound was lying at anchor in the Bosphorus, a Turkish caick or small ski o " laden with pappucci, or slippers, was observed from O . board the steamer to have capsized off the Seragli o Point, and three men and a boy were seen buffetting with the current. Half- a-dozen British tars, as though with one accord, immediately plunged overboard to rescue these unfortunate beings from a watery grave. 12 ' stoker, of the name of Rowe, showed himself to be the most expert of the party, being the first to reach the spot, when he had the satisfaction of seizing two men by the hair, whom he contrived to keep afloat until he reached the steamer. The third man was also saved , but the boy, from his diminutive size, was lost sight of hi the seamen in the water ; not so, however, from the ves' eel ;—Captain Phillips, seeing that there was not a racr ment to be lost, threw off his coat, instantly jumped over" board, and, making direct for the urchin, reached him at the very moment he was sinking into a watery grave ' . This act of humanity was for several days the sole su b ject of conversation in the Turkish capital ; but, strang e to say, his Highness the Sultan—by no means parsime: nious in costly gifts for services of much less importanonc ; —did not mark his sense of the gallant act in the w . which it richly merited. RAILWAY MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This is a new candidate for the favours of the rail way world. It opens with a paper, illustrated with a map, on the South-Eastern Company and the New Kentish schemes, in which the schemes of that company, as opposed to the schemes of the Brighton Company, are advocated with energy and ability. We then have a paper on the Birmingham and Oxford Rail way, which is at present the great bone of contention between the North Western and the Great Western Companies. After giving a history of the various negotiations which have taken place on this subject, the writer proposes the following compromise between the conflicting claims of the two companies : " The London and North Western Company think they ought to have joint possession of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway. We think they are reasonable in that desire. If our surmises are accurate, the Great Western Company are not indisposed to acquiesce in the arrangement upon one condition—that condition being the UMW= of the broad guage to Birmingham. Th will ii heir his E Viraiti and S Tln attend a fter w Mr. Grey Lord Russell street. The at the the ens Disp office. 1 the Go Lord hotel A Nornina weigt Ist of The fa this race Martin, former ii Banana MAD A n a holders Dr. of the taken a disc necess Mr. their were the IV] no. , e the L Th lii; S INT E tect t condt ls. a Af Riche X this not I tion M in he that In 66,01 E Mr, that