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wise dismayed by the annoyances, and even periis, attending a winter sojourn in such an inhospitable climate, set sail from Copenhagen in the autumn of 1834, and arrived at Reikiavik, the chief town in Iceland, after just such a rough voy age as was to have been eNpected, and spent there the ensuing winter, occasionally amusing his lei sure by making excursions into the interior. His sketches of the landscape scenery of this inclement storm-swept region, are clever, and particularly graphic and impressive, when he describes the mountain chain of which Hecla forms the most re markable feature. Reikiavik, according to Mr. Dillon's account, is but a very poor place, little larger than a good-sized English village ; as, however, he got an excellent breakfast there the day after his arrival, " seasoned by copious liba tions of champagne," he speaks of it in terms of respect and gratitude, as a town which has left a pleasing impression on his mind. At a few miles distance from Reikiavik some wild scenery is to be met with, which our author sketches con amore. The manners of the people he describes as simple and unassuming ; they are content, it seems, with their lot—hard though it be—and desire no change of fortune. A great portion of the first volume is devoted to details of the early history of Iceland, and in the second Mr. Dillon gives some brief, but intelligent and animated, account of a hurried ex cursion he made to Lapland and the northern parts of Sweden. THE SAUCY JACK. 2 Vors, Bentley, London, 1940. A very rambling and amusing tale, well calcu lated to wile away an idle hour on a winter evening. Some of the incidents arc sketched with vigour, but there is not much attempt at portraiture of character. The writer shows, in ei cry page, that he is one who has been long used to the sea. LETTERS OF HORACE TVALPOLE.—Var,. L Bentley, London, 1840. A complete edition of the Correspondence of Horace Walpole—the most delightful letter writer in the language—with sententious notes, ex plaining such aliresions in the text as time may have rendered obscure, and giving brief biographical notices of those among the many personages referred to, who are now well nigh forgotten, has long been a de.sideratunt in our literature, and the present carefully digested edition bids fair to supply the deficiency. Not only have we ail Walpole's best and most popular letters, including his " Reminiscences of the Courts of George the First and Second," but much of his correspond ence is added, now first published from the ori ginal manuscripts. To this is added a neat, temperately-written memoir of the author, toge ther with several engravings, finished with much skill. The Editor's explanatory notes are in general pertinent and amusing, and show various, if not profound, reading. But why does he rake up the old calumny, borrowed from Wharton, of Pope having accepted a thousand pounds from the Duchess of Marlborough to suppress the satirical character of Atossa ? Vie can assure him that there is not the slightest foundation far the an ecdote, and that it has been exploded long ago. But even were it not generally given up by Popta's best biographers, common-sense would at once show the utter absurdity of it ; for, in the first place, old Sarah, at that advanced period of her life, was the very last woman in the world to have devoted such a sum to such a purpose ; and secondly, Pope, it is well known, though he was by no means indifferent to money, had an innate horror of receiving it i n this contraband manner, especially when it could scarcely hare been kept a secret. In his short, biographical sketch of young West, the friend of Gray, the Editor makes no mention of his hav ing translated Pindar, which he should have done, for it is on this performance that his claim to the notice of posterity chiefly rests. On the whole, however, the notes are well selected and arranged, and the edition is by far the completest that has yet appeared of Horace Walpole. EBENEZER ELLIOTT'S POEMS. Tait, Edinburgh, 1840. We have here, in one octavo volume, containing one hundred and eight pages, printed in double columns, and in a type which, though rather small, is perfectly distinct and legible, the whole of Ebe nezer Elliott's poetical works ; and the price of the volume is only four shillings, notwithstanding that there is as much matter in it as, ten years ago, would have been comprised in not less than half a dozen duodecimos ! The works of this sterling poet will now be perused by as many thousands, as they before had hundreds, of readers; for it is the price only that has hitherto prevented them from acquiring that wide-spread popularity which is no more than their due. Elliott is not a mere spinner of smooth, dainty, elegant couplets ; but puts a sinewy vigour and earnestness into his rhymes, calculated to make a profound and lasting impres sion on the reader's mind. His " Splendid Vil lage has all the fancy and kindly feeling of Gold smith, with far more fire and energy than that ac complished poet possessed. In some of its terser and more emphatic sketches of humble life it re minds us rather of the " Parish Register," than the " Deserted Village." The volume is embel ashed, with a portrait of the author, which, we un derstand, is a strong, characteristic likeness. SIMPSON'S HISTORIES OF EA GLAND AND SCOTLAND. Oliecr and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1840. These histories are well adapted for the use of schools, for they are penned in a concise, familiar style, and give a clever bird's-eve view of the pro ,,,ress of public events in both countries, from the earliest periods down to the present time. Of course they are merely introductory, that is to say, sketched in outline ; but this is ail that is .;ceded in such elementary works ; the young reader, as his powers of observation and re flection become enlarged, will afterwards turn, for a fuller and more explicit record of facts, to the pages of Lingard and Robertson, for which Mr. Simpson has adroitly paved the way. The ques tions attached to each chapter on the chief events therein narrated, will have the effect of impressing tiem on the mind of the pupil. ACCOUNT OF THE EDINBURGH SESSIONAL SCHOOL. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1840. A useful, unpretending work, in which are to he found many serviceable hints respecting &in chtion. The account of the system of instruction pursued at the Edinburgh Sessional School is in teresting ; but the best portion of the volume is contained in the Appendix, which treats of the training of teachers, briefly, but in s tn earnest and enlightened spirit. SMITH'S STANDARD LIBRARY. Smith, London, 1 84 O. Three Parts of this Oteap and well-printed miscellany are now lying before us, each Part c omplete in itself : one, containing Pope's transla !ion of the Iliad ; the second, Beattie's and Blair's poetical works ; and the third, the Life and Ad ventures of Peter Wilkins—a romance, modelled on Gulliver'is Travels, and with which most school boys are familkr. Each of these Parts is got up with great elegance ; and is of a convenient octavo size. PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE, PART XV. C. Knight, London, 18 - 10. The present Part contains the whole of that noble play, Cymbeline, to which a variety of useful explanatory notes are attached, together with origi nal criticisms on the principal characters, wherein some of Dr. Johnson's harsh animadversions are justly denounced. The pictorial embellishments are, as usual, of a superior order of excellence. A MANUAL OF THE DISEASES OF THE EYE. By S. larrELL, M.D. Revised and En larged by Huai" Housro.v, Esq., M. R. C. S., Surgeon to rite Western Eye Di spensary. Churchill. Loudon. Dr. Littell s Manual is a work so well known, and so highly esteemed by the faculty, that it would be superfluous to enter upon a minute examination► of its merits, even were the columns °Fa newspaper the proper place for such an undertaking. Suffice it to say, that it contains, in a concentrated furm, I the substance of many elaborate treatises, ineludin, , th.:)sc of Mackenzie, Lawrence, Travers, and Mid dlernore, the most distinguished names in this de partment of surgery. It was not to be expected, however, that the contents of so many volumes could be compressed within the compass of 250 small pages without some omis s i ons , an d to supply these, as well as to introdu ce suc h ot h er improve ; imil ts as may give a complete view of the present I state of o2hthalmic surgery, has been the object ofi Mr. Houston, in giving to the public another edi tion of this excellent work. He has executed his task well, selecting with judgment from the latest publicatithls the information necessary to complete the plan he had laid down for himself, and adding to this the results of his own observation and re searches in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, St. George's Hospital, the Royal Westminster Opthal mie Hospital, and the Metropolitan Free Hospital, in London. We are glad to perceive that the for nzula are, in this edition, inserted at the proper places in the text, instead of being appended col lectively to the end of the volume. This will save the reader much time. An alphabetical index to the Optbahnic Formulary, and an index to the nume rous affections of the eye treated of in the body of the work, are also among the improvements for which the present edition is indebted to Mr. Hous ton. This manual is now the most perfect work of the kind in this, or perhaps any other language, and ought to be in the hands of all who are engaged either in the study or practice of medicine. COMPENDIUM OF THE LAWS OF ENG LAND, SCOTLAND, AND ANCIENT ROME. Fraser and Crawford, Edinburgh, 1839. The first volume of this work treats of Marriages according to the English, Scottish, and Roman forms. The compiler commences with this part of the law, because lie considers marriage forms the foundation on which civil society is built, and the descent of real and personal property depends. It forms the very primum motile of the law, and he has, therefore, appropriately placed it at the head of a publication, which is to contain an account of the laws of the three countries, together with the most important cases decided within recent years. Mr. Logan, the author, begins by explaining to the uninitiated, some of these strange terms and modes of practice still retained in the English law. Those fictitious characters, John Doe and Richard Roe, he regards as a disgrace to the age, because the necessity for this mode of proceeding no longer exists, and a simple action must be far preferable to a fallacy. The minute details and the nume rous cases cited under the head of English Law of Marriage are well arranged, and made intelligible to general readers, who may thereby save them selves the expense of professional advice in ascer taining the state of the law as regards even the in tricate and numerous relations arising out of the married state. There are also some curious de tails given in the history of the Scottish Marriage Law. Among other peculiarities he states, that though the law is most simple and irregular, marriages are valid ; yet, notwithstanding, if any persons procure themselves to be married without proclamation of banns or by a regular clergyman, they are liable to three months' imprisonment and a fine, according to their station, and the celebrator is to be condemned to perpetual banishment. A brief outline of the Roman Law on the sub ject of Marriage is given, as it is conceived to be the model on which all the European laws have been founded. POPULAR LIBRARY OF MODERN AUTHORS. IVhittaker, London, 1840. The present Number of this Miscellany consists of Garrick's Life of Wallace, which is penned in a temperate spirit, and does every justice to the illustrious Scottish hero, without elevating him, as Miss Jane Porter has done in her well-known It omance, into a paragon of perfection, The Memoir is written with skill and care, and exhibits much curious research. STRIVE AND THRIVE. Tegg, London. 1840. An entertaining little child's book, from the pen of Mary Nowitt, and embellished with two pas sable engravinos. A TITHE REBEL.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE' —At Dublin, in the Court of Exchequer, last Saturday, a poo r old man named Darby Gilmore, was brought up. Mr. Brooke , Q.C., applied to have him discharged from custody. He had been arrested under a writ of rebellion, for non-payment of tithes claimed by the Marquis of Westmeath. The sum due was just an attorney's fee, Bd. The costs before the bill was filed amounted to 241. He had been arrested under the writ, and, having rescued himself, was bound over in his own recognizance to stand his trial at the assizes of Westmeath. In the mean time he was arrested under the same writ of re bellion, and brought to Dublin. Counsel applied for his dis charge, on the ground that the third arrest was illegal. Mr. Brewster, Q.C., opposed the application. The Court directed the immediate discharge of the prisoner, and the plaintiff un dertook to strike him out of the bill without costs. So that poor old Darby Gilmore has beaten Lord 'Westmeath hollow in this little tithe campaign. Casks of provisions, lard and butter, have for the last few days been coming ashore in the neighbourhood of Kul rush, supposed to be part of the cargo of the brig Quivedo, which foundered off Bayle Bar about four years ago. he recent heavy gales, it is thought have broken her up. On Monday afternoon, as the Chichester coach, Duke of Richmond, was stopping at the Bear, at Esher, on its road to London, cne of the leaders kicked the coachman, John Bramble, who was adjusting the reins, so severely as to break his leg. The Earl of March, who was coming to town by the coach, after requesting attention to be paid to the sufferer, took the reins, and brought the coach safely to town. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, JANUARY 27.—There has been a visible improvement in t.he market to day ; the attendance of buyers has been more numerous, and considerably more flannels have been sold than on the two pre ceding Mondays. In prices there has been no change. The wool market has been rather dull, and the prices the same as last week's. The Countess of Wilton has left town for Wal rner, where her Ladyship's family have been since the summer. The Earl of Wilton is among the party at Belvoir Castle, on visits to the Duke of Rutland. COLLISION BETWEEN THE INSOLVENTS' AND TIIE B A NKR U PTS' COURTS.-Ott Tuesday Wm. Potts applied to the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court to be dis charged. The insolvent, it appeared, had, on being taken in execution, filed his petition in this Court, and obtained an or der for hearing. He had been discharged on sureties, and now came up fir examination. It turned out that on Friday last he had been made a bankrupt, and the administration of his estate taken from the Court. There was 1081. in Court for the creditors, arising from the sale of furniture by an officer of the Court. Mr. Woodroffe said if there had been no money in Court no fiat would have been issued. The chief practice of late of the other Court seemed to be to plunder the estates of this The• Chief Commissioner remarked that there were other interests than those of creditors to serve. 'fhe sum could have been divided by this Court at a very small expense, but it would now be swallowed up in law expenses. Mr. Commis sioner Bowen—How much is there in Court ? Mr. WoodrotTe -108/. from the sale of furniture—a sum usually required to work a fiat. The insolvent was ordered to be discharged. He is of course amenable to the bankrupt laws. No fiat could have issued after the adjudication by this Court. THE DIGNITARIES OF TUE CIIURCII.—They intreat us (says John Milton in his " Reformation in England") that we should not be weary of those insupportable grievances that our shoulders have hitherto cracked under; they beseech us that we would think them fit to be our Justices of Peace, our Lords, our highest Otlicersof State, though they come fur nished with no more experience than they learnt between the cook and the inanciple, or more profoundly at the college audit, or the regent house, or to come to their deepest insight, at their patron's table; they would request us to endure still the rustling of their silken cassoes, and that we would burst our midriffs, rather than laugh to see them under sail in all their law and sarsnet, their shrouds and tackle, with a geometrical rhomboides upon their heads ; they would bear us in hand that we must of duty still appear before them once a year in Jerusalem, like good circumcised males and fe males, to be taxed be the poll, to be sconce(' our hcadmoney, our twopences, in their chandlery shop-book of Easter. They pray U 3 that it would please us to let them still hale us, and worry us, with their handc,gs and pursuivants; and that it would please the Parliament that they may yet have the whip ping, fleecing, and flaying of us in their diabolical Courts, to tear the flesh from our bones, and into our wide wounds, instead of balm, to pour in the oil of tartar, vitriol, and mercury ; surely a right reasonable, innocent, and soft-hearted petition. O the relenting bowels of the fathers ! Can this be granted unless God has smitten us with frenzy from above, and a dazz!;ng giddiness at noonday ? PERTINENT QUERY ON TIIE SUBJECT OF EDUCATION. - And now how teach religion? By ply ing with liturgies, ca techisms, credos ; droning thirty nine or other articles incessantly into the infant ear ! Friends ! in that case why not apply to Birmingham and have machines made, and set up at all street cor ners, in highways and byways, and to repeat and vocife:ate the same, not ceasine , night or day ? The genius of Birming ham is adequat e to that. Depend upon it, Birmingham can make machines to repeat liturgies and articles : to do whatsoever feat is mechanical. And what were all schoolmasters, nay, all priests landVoethensr n eh ft e w s, n c m om ili p in a n re s d in w a i i t d h n t f h t i i s te ßirmingha m iron something. You order, at so many pounds a head, so many iron parsons as your grant covers; and fix them, by satisfactory ma sonry, in all quarters wheresoever wanted, to preach there in dependent of the world. In loud thoroughfares, still more in awakened districts, troubled with argumentative umentative infidelity, you make the windpipes wider, strengthenwl,ltheyou Church give a him cylinder: enal your and parson preaches, to the due pitch, fears no man or thing. Here w ere extension," to which I, with my last penny, did I believe in it, would sub scribe To " teach " religion, the first and, also, the last and the only thing, is findingthingneedful, has religion. All else follows from this, of a manurch who church-extension , whatever else is needful followjhuwtiiiinogu't this nothing will follow.— Carlyie's Chartism. SETTLEMENT IN PETERCULTER PARISI!. We noderstand that the Rev. Mr. Thomson has been the suc cessful candidate for the church and p aris h of Petcrculter. The patron, we believe, arranged that the heads of families should have the appointment, if unanimous ; but, if otherwise, that they should be bound by his appointment ; and, under this ar rangement, a very unanimous call will be given Mr. Thomson. The contest lay between him and Mr. Dymock, who, in the first instance, was the greatest favourite; but, in consequence of his support of the wild, party in the Church, all the Alode rates deserted him, and gave their suffrages to Mr. Thomson, who, we arc glad to say, belong s to this p art y , and he carried his election by a great majority—the minority ultimately giving up Mr. Dymock, and supporting Mr. Thomson, FO as to make the election unanimous.—Alerdeen Herald. Prince Alfred tie Schcenburg, Chamberlain and Privy Councillor to the Emperor of ti ustria, died suddenly on the 14th inst. The Prince had just dressed to join a grand dinner party given by Prince Met;ernich, to which he was going with Prince Puckiar .Muskau, when he fell down in an apoplec tic fit, and expired immediately. Kx:Ft.• N -- "tV,t• ' - ‘7 LT ' 1 1 ~ / 4 ... - - 7 .. L Y 's 4 . , 4: ~,, . .4.7•- • "^:... tety) , l ?N.. ... : 's:k..4; c- '4,.c.. , ' :::: , ,,,e --- ), iir , :112.-.2:--z=P-1(1, C LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1840. The Judges yesterday delivered their judgment in the case of FROST and his fellow-prisoners, to the Secretary of State for the Horne De partment. It will be remembered that on the trial the great objection made by Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK was, that the list of witnesses was not delivered to the accused at one and the same time with the indictment, according to the statute. This was the great legal question so elaborately argued in Westminster Hall from Saturday till Tuesday. The Crown Lawyers contended first, that the objec tion made by Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK was not tenable ; and next that, supposing it tenable, it was made too late. On the first point the following Judges, being nine in all, were of opinion that the objection was good : Baron PARKE. ILLIA NIS. Mr. Justice N' Baron ALDERSON. Mr. Justice PATTISON. Mr. Justice LITTLRDALE. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE. Who were on the Special Commission Mr. Justico ERSKINE. Mr. Justice COLTMAN. Mr. Baron ROLFE. The following were of opinion that it was not good : Chief Justice DENmA:sr. Chief Justice TIN UAL. Chief Baron ABINGEK. Mr. Baron GURNEY. Mr. Justice MAULE. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET. On that ground, then, as all criminal statutes are construed strictly, the prisoners are entitled to an acquittal; and we cannot suffer ourselves for one moment to believe that the argument, that the objection was not made in time, will be allowed to influence the ultimate fate of the prisoners. But the succes s o f t h e C rown L awyers o n that point is a curious m a tt er , an d compl i cates Jud.;the question very much. The th ree f o ll ow i nn - es having in the first instance decided that the objection was good, joined the six who decided that it was not good on the second question, and came to the opinion t! at the valid objection was not made in time : Baron ALnrnsoN, Baron RoLrE, Mr. .Jutice COLTMAN. Thus a majority of nine held tile objection to be good, and a majority of nine that it was not made in time. On what trifles—if this he law—are the lives of men made to depend ? As we said long ago, when we first heard that the objection was taken, it will not, we believe', he possible to execute men on a decision of this character. It is very remarkable that two out of three of those Judges who were on the Special Commission, namely, Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Justice WILLIAms, held the objection to be good on both questions ; and on this ground—as the majority of the Judges on the Commission would give judg ment—the prisoners would be entitled to an acquittal. They ought of course not to lose the benefit of the doubt in the breasts of the Judge , ; who tried them, and not to be placed in a worse situation than they woull have been under the Com- mission. Moreover a writ of error on any question of fact might have been brought into the Court of Queen's Bench. It is oven yet in the power of the ATTOR NEY-GENERAL to bring tha case before the Bench by such a writ; and if that were done, as four of the Judges of the Bench were in favour of the prisoners, namely, Mr. Justices LITTLEDALE, PA r'r [SON, WILLIAMS, and Co LER I DG E, they would then ob tain an acquittal. Altogether this case now becomes extremely curious as well as interesting, as showing the very uncertain operation of the Treason Law, and the other laws on which Coercionists rely for protection and safety, instead of seeking it in the contentment, attachment, and affection of the people. We know not tha we should now plead for mercy, because we hold, and we hope that it will be so held, that the great legal objection taken by the prisoners' Counsel being valid, the minor legal counter objection, that it was not taken in time, will not be regarded, and that consequently the prisoners are entitled to an acquittal. We hold that, and we hope the Government also hold that, to be law. Lest, however, the Ministry should, as we think unfortunately for itself, decide otherwise, we must enforce to the utmost of our power the recommenda tion of Col. THOMPSON'S well-timed and excellent letter. We make no apology or excuse for Mr. FROST—We deprecate with intense sorrow the threats by which some misguided people have of late apparently sought to goad the Government into acts of cruelty ; but we deliberately and solemnly affirm, from what we know and hear of the opinions and feelings of the masses, that never was an act of mere;---if it is to be mercy—more neu:ssary for the future welfare of the upper classes and future welfare of society, than mercy to the prisoners con victed at Monmouth. Few of the upper classes are, we are afraid, aware of the intense feeling of the multitude on this point ; still fewer are aware how deep-seated and wide-spread is the basis of that contest in which htosT and his fellows ap pear, to one party, to be martyrs, and very few are therefore convinced, as we are, that great and overwhelming danger, if not immediately, yet at no distant day, would be the consequence of putting them to death for treason. A strong Go vernment, with a good cause, can afford to be mer ciful ; to carry into execution a sentence vitiated by the legal doubts and difficulties w e have explained,and after the prisoners have suffered a fortnight of intense mental agony, would be held to be a proof of weak mess and cruelty, anti would at once invite and pro voke wide-spread opposition. The fate of the country bangs in a balance, but, happily for it, the blessed virtue of mercy will make the scale of evil kick the beam. The Lords did not meet yesterday. After the presentation of a number of petitions in the Commons, Mr. LEADER gave notice that he would move oa Tuesday for a return of the money paid out of the Consolidated Fund to the King of HANovee. The debate on Sir J. Y. 13ur.LEe's motion was re.• sumed by Mr. LITTON, and occupied the whole evening. Tho other speakers were Mr. DENISTOUN, Mr. G. KNIGHT, Mr. E. RICE, Mr. PAKINGTON, Mr. MUNTZ, Captain BERKELEY, Mr. PARKER, Lord HOWICK, who explained his reason for leaving the Ministry, but declared he should vote against the resolution ; Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who made, in the Tory sense, an effective speech against the Ministry ; and Mr. MA CAULAY, who made an able speech in their defence, and attacked the Opposition, The three last speeches gave sonic animation to the debate, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM received considerable applause from his own party. He indulged somewhat in personalities. Mr. MACAULAY was not well received by the Tories, and had some difficulty at first to procure a hearing, as the Tories seemed to like to hear only their own friends. The Right Hon. Gentleman persevered, how ever, and commanded the attention of the House for an hour and a half. When he sat down the debate was again adjourned. The manner in which the more moderate and ra- tional of the Tories disclaimed the sentiments avowed in the name of the party with respect to her MAJESTY, by - Messrs. BR ADsHA w, Iton Y . , M'NEI LE, and CII A NDOS POLE, made us inclined to give them credit for more loyalty than we now find they possess. If the abusive language of some out of Parliament was monstrous, we expected that their conduct in Parliament would have set them right with the QUEEN. What, then, has that been? On the first day of the Session, the Duke of WEL- L INGTON demonstrated his want of confidence in her MAJESTY, by insisting on inserting in the Address a word which implied that her MAJESTY did not care whether her future husband were a Protestant or a Roman Catholic. On Tuesday, when the second reading of the Bill for naturalizing Prince ALBERT was moved in the House of Lords in o l l . t o , rs i l t rip w s a la was postponed o d s u t e po n n o ed tice fro ta t that a % t va d s a3 t b clay till e brought , 1 , due course, with no pr e cipit a ti on , w h en t h e i r m-.:rely to suit the convenience of one Lord. It is no excuse to say that the Tory Lords were not aware of the contents of the Bill, it was their duty to have made themselves ac quainted with them ; and for theta to plead igno rance is an acknowledgment of the grossest ne glect of their duty as Legislators. For the con venience, then, of one Tot', Law Lord, who had some trifling pleasure to chase , a measure necessar y to be passed befo re h er Majeety's marriage can be celebrated, w as put o ff three days. Certainly if this be respect—if this be loyalty—if this be duti ful, t have the Tories in the Commons attachme n t — wor d s h ave changed their meaning since the To r i es h ave b een out oroffice. What, done? What is Sir JOHN YARDE BULLER'S and, if p oss ibl e , e mbarrass her MAJESTY ? it motion but an attempt to b r eak up the Govern ment,too, Certainly 1 - by no means tends to promo te th e tranquillity happiness. A ga i n, w h at did t h e Tories about the of th e countr y, or her MAJESTY'S grant ? Remember that Sir R O BERT PEEL ex pressly disclaimed all regard to the distress of the people in supportin g the reduction. Remember , too, that the Tories have always been sturdy op ponents of economy in every s hape, ridiculing it as penny 7 rise, and resisting it whe never t h e y could. Wh a t can we i n f er , t h e n, from their sudden attachment t o economy, but a pretence , in order to have an opp ortun i ty to ma ke the QUEEN feel their power in Parliament, as out of Parliament they had made her MAJESTY feel their abuse? We look on their proceeding's since Parliament has met, as fully confirming the opinions the rabid amongst them avowe d, and the hypocritical amongst them di sc l a i me d, before Parliament as sembled, and as stamp i ng the whole party with all the disloyal guilt, whatever it may amount to, of Messrs. BRADSHAW, APNEILE, and RoBY. If the Tories professed liberal or republican opinions we sho u ld pra i se their love of economy, and their attachm ent to what is, by prescriptive right, the religio n of freedom, though it no longer i merits that high character. But being professedly divinc•right men, bating libetalism, deriding re publicanism, canting perpetually about the advan tages of mo;iarchy, and the duty of loyalt, their present conduct contrasts strikingly with their profes sions. Under this aspect alone, and not as thinking it ourselves any offence for either P:2ers or Com nion:rs to pre er what they suppose to be for the public advantage to her MAJESTY'S pleasure, we notice their conduct. Their present proceedings add to the many proofs which are continually forced on us, that this coercion-loving faction is essentially as hypocritical as it is arbitrary and cruel. The Paris .Tournals of Monday were received last night, but their contents are of little interest. A des patch from Marshal VALLEE, dated the 18th ult., announces the continuance of tranquillity in French Africa. The Marshal was,however, without late news from Bona and Oran. The Constilutionnel affirms that the great importance of toe embassy at London, at the present moment,when Russia is supposed to have obtained such an ascen dancy over Lord PALMERSTON, has given rise to long debates in the Council about the appointing a successor to M. SEBASTIANI. One section of the Cabinet declared in favour of M. GuizoT, while another were for M. BRESSON. Everything, it was said, roust yield to the Royal pleasure. Louis PHILIPPE is the most complaisant of Monarchs, so far as regards the mere listening to the opinions of his councillors, but he adopts only his own. On Sunday Deputations from the Chamber of Peers and Deputies waited upon the KING to felicitate him on the proposed marriage of his son, the Duke DE NEStouns, with a Princess of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. They met with a most gra cious reception. As for the opposition Journals they ridiculed the idea of the marriages of the younger branches of the Royal Family being of any importance to the French nation. In this they are not far wrong, unless it is intended to nurture such an useless brood of Royal Princes as devoured the finances of the country during the reigns of Louis XIV. and Louis XV. The saoner the collateral branches of Royalty are made to descend to the rank and pretensions of simple citi zens the better for themselves and for their country. Letters from Constantinople of the 2d instant, re ceived in Paris, state that, notwithstanding the want of cordiality between the French Ambassador and the Porte, RESCHID PACHA is pursuing his plans of reform with great earnestness. The Ulenias aro less hostile to the new order of things than they were r..t first ; and, as they are the most influential of the Mahorntnedan priesthood, any mitigation of their fanatical opposition is important. The Oriental question appears to have made no progress. RESCHID PACHA is neither on good terms with the French nor the Russian Ambassadors. He suipects both, and they each other. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us' We have likewise received the Echo de ?Orient - , the ,rournal de Smipue, the Semaphore de Alarseilles, and the Harlequin, a Maltese Journal, all filled with the common place gossip about the probable settlement of the Oriental question. The rumoured alliance between England and Russia has given rise to a thousand con jectures. M. Gutzor,is reported to leave all but ac cepted the Embassy to London. This appointment is an untoward one. M. GUIzOT is the zealous partizan of Russia, and may ft!' into the error of outbidding Lord PALmEasToN for an alliance with the CZAR. France ought not to allow herself to be discomposed by idle rumours. British alliances must harmonize with 13ritish feelings, and this we think is a sufficient gua rantee against any cordial intimacy between the British Government and the destroyer of the liberties of Poland. The Maltese Journals mention the discovery of a plot in Athens far destroying King Onto unless he consented to embrace the Greek religion. had the alternative been unless the KING displayed some ap proach to common sense in his conduct, it would have appeared to us not very unreasonable. The execution of the plot was fixed for the 13th inst., and the number of persons implicated in it considerable. A Russian agent was at the bottom of it. The Memorial Bordelais states that the Queen of SPAIN has conferred the Order of the Golden Fleece on Prince ALBERT of Saxe Coburn. General ALAVA has Been charged to invest the Prince with the insignia on the day of the Royal marriage. _ _ From Madrid the account; are of the 21st inst. They are of no moment. The Fives were at 28i for cash, and 2nk at 60 days. BOURSE. P AMS, TUESDAY, JAN. 28. .tirst highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price react) S per Cents ll2 15 ... 112 25 ... 112 15 ... 12 25 4 per Cents 1(X1 95 (3 95 ... 103 95 ... 103 05 3 per tents Eiri 90 . 31 95 ... SO 90 ... 811 90 Bank of eranee Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sli 1055 ...1055 ...WO ...I'so 5,000 f. sh 511.5 _5935 —.5015 ...5185 Belgian 5 per Cents 1 0 .234 ... 103. ... 10 % ... 102% 3 per Cents 7ll 55 ... 50 53 ... 7. 55 ... 70 55 Bank 925 ... 935 ... 917 50 ... 022 50 Spanish Active 27 ... 27 ... 26y4 ... 25. 1 4 Passive ll% ... 6 7 4 ... 6.14 ... 6.4, Old Deferred 7 ... 7 ... 7 ... 7 Don Miguel . 2% ... 2X ... 2% ... 21i : , ea..010.411 floinan li ) Ai ... 1 0 2 1 4 ... 102% ... 102% _. ...... ___. A N T a Numerous and Respectable MEETIG of the INHABITANTS of the WARD of FAR RINGDON-WITH IN, held at the Queen's Arms Tavern, in Newgate-street, on Wednesdav, the 29th day of January, IS4O, The Right Worshipful THOMAS KELLY, Esq„ Alderman _ . . Of the Ward in the Chair, It was resolved unanimously, 1. That this Meeting deems it necessary at this momentous time to declare its unqualified respect and veneration for the Law of England, as established by the three estates of the realm, and administered by the concentrated learning and wisdom of her Majesty's Judges, and further to declare that it is incum bent on the officers of the Courts of Justice, particularly those who, by oath as well as office, are bound to execute the Queen's writs, to perform their duties manfully and uprightly, a wilful neglect of which justly subjects them to imprisonment for con tempt, to amereiatnent, and to moral as well as logal censure. 2. That while this Ward Meeting sympathises most deeply with their fellow-citizens William Evans and .Yohn Wheelton, Esquires, for the sufferings which they are enduring for having thus honestly, fearlessly, and faithfully performed their duty, it cannot but express the pride and gratitude which it feels for men who have, in the exercise of the high and important office of Sheriff, firmly determined to perform their duties to their Sovereign and country regardless of all corvequences. 3. That the above resolutions be fairly transcribed, signed by the Ward Clerk, and presented to Wm. Evans and John Wheelton, Esqrs , by the Alderman, Common Council, and a deputation of the inhabitants of the Ward. 4. That the thanks of this Ward Meeting are justly due and are hereby given to the Eight Worshipful Thomas Kelly, Esq., the Alderman of this Ward, for his readiness in consenting to call this Meeting, and for his able and efficient conduct en this and all other occasions. That the foregoing resolutions be published in the usual Daily Papers. J. WARREN, Ward Clerk. BLOSSOMS INN, LAWRENCE-LATE, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. CHARLES RADENHURST (late of the New Royal and Nelson, Hotels, Birmingham) having entered upon the above establishment, situate in the very centre of business, near to the Guildhall, Bank of England, Post office, &c., respectfully solicits the support of his friends and the public, assuring them, that nothing on his part shall be wanting to render every convenience and accommodation to those who may favour him with their patronage. The Coffee Room, having undergone considerable alterations, is made elegant and spacious, and a large commodious apart ment is appropriated for a Dining Room. Dinners provided at Two and Half-past Five o'clock. Fish, Steaks, Chops, &c., on the shortest notice. Wines and Spirits of the choicest Vintages. Bottled and Draught Ala, Stout, &c. &c. All Articles of the best quality and moderate charges. Private Sitting Rooms. Well-aired Beds, &c. B RITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL. The GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS ot BRITISH ARTISTS will be OPENED on 310 N DAY next, Feb. 3, and continue open daily from Ten in the Morning until Five in the Evening. Admission Is. ; Catalogues Is. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. COMPLETION OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. In Seven Vols. Bvo., price 10s. 6d. each, THE HISTORY of ENGLAND from the Reign of GEORGE 11., 1760 to 1835. By the Rev. 'F. S. HUGHES, 8.D., Prebendary of Peterborough, late Christian Advocate at Cam bridge, &c &c. To range in size with the various Octavo Editions of HUME and SMOLLErf, to which it form a CONTIN U :lON to the Present Time. London : Printed by A. J. Valpy, M. A. ; sold by H. \Via, Bridge-street, and all Booksellers. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Svo., with Portrait, 21s. bound, f%j EMOIRS of MADAME MALIBRAN _ By the COUNTESS DE MERLIN, AND OTHER INTIMATE FRIENDS : With a Selection from her Correspondence, and Notices of the Progress of the Musical Drama in England. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ,To be had of all Booksellers. IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of JIAL AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) 3ffer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, IIEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG 11, ire NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purcha, may receive, PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR TICULARS, upon addressing* WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. P. S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED. TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, &c. &c. THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and Shares clearing off most rapidly, A RISE IN PRICE will soon occur. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER 'CHE MANAGEMENT OF MADIAME VESTRIS. TO-MORROW, JAN. 31, 1840, Will be repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written by James Sheridan Know►cs, called LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert of Loreh, Mr, J. Vining; Huon, Mr. Anderson ; the Countess of Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. To conclude with the New , Grand Comic azistmas Panto , mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE AIERRIE DEVIL OF ED. MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. cx6rely New Scenery. Machinery, Dres',23, and De. cora t ions. Har.equin, Mr. C. J. Sini7ll7(2lown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Cu umbine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, wh". re Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Sixth Week of the Grand Comic Pantomime, universally a llowed to be the Lest in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows ever witnessed, and will be repeated every evening. THIS EVENING, JAN. 30, Will be acted, an entirely new Drama, called CARL CARLSRHUE ; OR, THE PAINTER, THE PUPIL, AND THE PRINCE. After which, the New Legenda►y Drama, called TILE LAPIDARY — OF LEYDEN. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and . - Sprite, by the liolero Family. Messrs. Sam% of St. James's-street ; Andrews. I:hers, and Mitchell, Bond-street; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A " Correspondent from the City" is informed that we are rot acquainted with the amount of the sum he inquires about. HIGH-NV/VI ER AT LONDON BRIDGE T0. ,, 011110 W. ninr Sk minutes alter 11 1 Evening 0 minutes mut' 6 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain • sris 7.. -7 5 ... 565 ... f 63 Versailles, It. B 495 ... 493 ... 485 ... 493 L.ll Nlulhausen to Thann ASP HA LTES AND LI-Eu d ENS. tarn (Maberly's) erELGI AN 4. UNDS—Baussm.s, JAN.2B. Actual Debt, 24 per Cent.. 534 Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93 ----- 3 per Cent. 70% Lean of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 4 per Cent 10•J Bank pt Belgium, 5 per Cent 944 National Society . — Exchange on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Jan. 2F.. DUTCH FUNDS.—AnsrEntram, JAN. 21., Money. Bit e. Actual Debt, 24 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 4 4 per cent 93% 92 1 4 Ditto, ditto, 34 per cent 76 764 Commercial Company, 4'4 per cent 169 1714 DEO (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. ....... Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. 9 9 1 .4 984 Loan 1837, 51er cent.. 6 1 Exchange on London, One month II 074 TWO MOH th 3 —Dutch Papers, Jan. 25. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 20. Five per Cents. Metalliques Fever per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares :6324 --Allgemeine '/.titling. Jan. 25. HAMBURG BORSEN H ALLE, JAN. 21. Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares An 10-Russian Loan l l ,B ~, 108% Itussit.n 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cartiticate Inscription, Ist Series 1034 Itu scion 5 per Cent. How: and ,:0.:33 and 4th Se, la 98% Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual.Deht, 24 pe Cent 51% 51 Ditto o per Ccri• 9B -- Polish Bonds New I icket Anglo- t:anish Loan, 3 per Cent 734 73 Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Cent...... S,:anisli, New .3 per Cents. EXCHANGES O' 1,0 ~ DON. 1/ AMBITRO, JAN. t.:1.-13. 7—Two months, 13 L. agituri, JAN. 21.—'Into mouths, 6. 21%; STOCKHOLM, JAN. 1 I .—Seyenty-tive.days, 11. 4". PItUSSIAN FUNDS.-13caue..1s N. 21. Bids. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 1 % . per cent. 1044, 103 N, Prussian English Loan, 1530,4 per cent 10311, 102% i:xvhange on London, three mont'as 6 21% —Prussian State Gazette. San 92. ... 415 THE MARKETS. -(THIS DAY ) lIUNGERFOfiII MARKET. The market was well attended, and there was a goad busi ness done. Fish scarce and dear. Turbot, Bs. to 30s. ; Cod, ss. to 15s. ; Soles, 10d. to 4s. 61 per pair; Lobsters, ls. to 53. Beef, 7d. to Bd. ; Mutton, 7id. to 8 d. ; Veal, Bd. to Skl. Poik, 7d. to Sid. per lb. Vegetables very dear. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Very short supplies again,l and prices high ; trade tolerably good. Cod, 3s. to 18s. ; Soles 10d. to 4s. 6,1. per pair ; Lobsters ls. to 4s. ; Turbot, 83. to 255. ; Whitings sd. to Is. ; Haddocks Is. to 2s 6d. Oysters 203. to 60s. per bushel. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were moderate, but the demand was tolerably good. Prices much as before. TEA MARKET. The holders would not sell at lower prices, and the buyers lid not purchase largely. Prices very firm. TALLOW NIARK The price of this article fluctuates, and where saki are forced lower prices are taken, 494. 3d. has been paid for P. Y. C. COLONIAL MARKET. But little done in any description of Colonial produce. B.P. Sugar sells slowly at say 555. to 565. for low brown ; 595. to 635. for yellow; and 68s. for fine. In other kinds of Sugar prices were firmer. The Coffee market presented no novelty, and there has been little done in it. Nothing done publicly in Rice, Cocoa, or Spices. Imports light. DEATH CON S EQUENT ON DESTITUTION AND DISEASE.—An inquest was held on Wednesday in the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, on the body of John Pritchard, aged 32, formerly an artillery man in the East India Company's service. From the evidence it appeared that de ceased was committed on the 15th, from Bow-street, as a vagrant, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. When admitted, ha was in such a destitute and disabled state that he could not walk without assistance, and was immediately placed in the infirmary, where he lingered until the 25th, during the night of which he was seized with fits, of which he expired. Mr. Chesterton, the Governor, said when the poor fellow was admitted he appeared fitter for an hospital than a House of Correction, which was never meant to be a refuge for the destitute. The Coroner thought the workhouse would be a proper place to send persons whose only crime was wandering ab mit in a sate of destitution and disease, and that the Magis trates had the power of insisting on their admission into the parochial asylums for th? poor. The master of a workhouse efusing to take in a case o f d es tit u ti on , and devil in the streets - following that refusal, might, if the law were enforced, find himself, in twenty-four hours, the tenant of a prison.— Verdict, " Died in a fit." • FATAL ACCIDENT.—A Coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday evening at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Mary Ann Penn, aged nineteen years. It appeared that on Wednesday two men were lowering a bag of wool from the thin 1 story, when it wafc tunately fell and struck her with such violence as to fracture here spine and collar-bone. She was immediately taken in a coach to the above hospital, where she languished until Monday morning, when death terminated her suffering. Verdiet—" Accidental death." FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morning, as the train of waggons was approaching the Brighton terminus near New England Farm, a railway labourer, named Smith, incautiously jumped from one of the waggons, and was thrown with great violence upon the rails, falling upon his head. Mr. Long, surgeon, was sent for ; but the unfortunate man was dead before he arrived, having survived the accident only about a quarter of an hour. The waggons had passed over his body; and one of his arms was dreadfully crushed. LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(THIS DEAL, JAN, 29.—Wird W. N. W., moderate —Arrived the Fa!rlic, Agar. from Cal.:t.wa ; .11,ry Catherine, Gal loway, Cale of Gxy - ! Hupe; Ann, Messina Sailed the Mary, Kols°, ; E:lterprize, P.g.con, River Gambia ; Nymph, Bayley, Africa; Ontario, New York; St. Vincent's Planter, Jamaica; M‘Money, Grave, Sydney; Pcrrock Hall, MAuritius; Lion Cope packet ; Duchess of Kent ; and several others. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 29.—Wind W.N.W..—Arriced the Appleton, from Jamaica ; Terranova, Barclay, Naples; Sias Richards, Dickinson, Charleston. Powrsluctmr, JAN. 29.—Wind W. N. W., squally.— Arrived the Barello, jun., steamar, from Gibralter— sailed the 12th instant. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind W. N. W.— Arrived the Ellen, Hippinstale, from Odessa, leaky. FALMOUTH, JAN. 28. —Wind W. S.W., strong gales and squally. —arrived the Maryanne Redwig, Riesebiek, from Rio Janeiro, with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c., having been struck by a sea, and n.ust discharge part of her cargo ; Firefly, Easter, Liverpool to Constantinople, with loss of jibboom, bulwarks, &c., and leak•, must discharge part of the cargo. Put back the Opossum, packet, for Havanna. CREEK, JAN. 29.—Arrived the Duke of Sussex, Taylor, from Mogadore. CLYDE, JAN. 27.—Arrived Harmony, Brown, Palermo. CiRK, JAN. 27.—Sailed the Minctrlo, Tilgarthen, fur St. Michael's. KINGSTOWN, JAN. 27.—Artived the Three Sisteu, Dyer, from Seville. ACERDEEN, JAN. 25.--Arrived Morgan, Dunn, Lisbon. COWES, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Destandes, Vibert, from Rio Janeiro; Margaretta, Dale, Odessa. ILFRACoNIBE, JAN. 28.—The Thomas Lowrance, Dehl, from Messina to Copenhagen, has put in here with loss of foremast, bowsprit, &c., having been in contact with a large barque on the 21st inst., forty miles N. of Selby, the latter apparently received no damage. The Bee, Cornish, from Liverpool to Lima has put in here with loss of bulwarks, anchor, and cable, &c. MONEY A ND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVEIIPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY —The sales of this day are 2,500 bags at Saturday's prices, buyers not being inclined to give the advance in prices on Monday. Two Hamburg mails have arrived ; one still remains due. HAMBURG, JAN. 21.—Exchange on London 13 51, higher than the last arrival ; gold same as per last, 430. Accounts from Hamburg state that there were 70 vessels at the entrance of the river at Cuxhaven, but the river was covered with ice, which caused their being detained ; since which it has thawed, and if it lasted one week the naviga tion will again be free. The D..tch mail of the 25th inst. has arrived ; by it we have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday, whit'.•: brings the Dutch prices from Ams erdain a day later, of the 25th January--Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52-; Five per Cents., 98k; Ardoin's, AMSTERDAM, JAN. 26.-o,ving to the Funds coming higher from London on Thursday, our local Funds were in demand, and a great deal of bw.iness was done in Inte grals ; there was also a demand for the Society of Com merce Actions, at an improvement of a per Cent. The French courier had not arrived, and the uncertainty of Cabrera's death continues, in consequence of which Ar doin's Spanish was not in demand, and rather lower, ow ing to the price coming lower from Antwerp. ANTWERP, JAN. 27.—Yesterday, about four o'clock in the afternoon we experienced a terrible storm, as well as in the environs, of rain, with thunder and lightning, ac. eompanied with violent gusts of wind. A person who came by the railroad from Brussels, states that all the fields: about Brussels were inundated ; each side of the railroad appeared like a sea, and a great number of trees have ten blown down. By the intelligence from Antwerp, it appears that they have experienced the same unfavourable and stormy wea ther as we had here. In Holland the Second Chamber of the States General has been prorogued to the 15th March. We have several arrivals this morning of foreign mai!s, French, Ostend, Dutch, and Hamburg, but their contents are not of much importance, with the exception of the prices of the Funds from various quarter. reat expectations were anticipated yesterday on the result of the meeting of the Spanish Bondholders, but we are much afraid they will be disappointed, at least for some time to come; we must repeat again, that all the money that the Ministers can scrape together will be required for the supply of the former. Sell preservation is the first law of nature; the proper time for the Spanish Bondholders to claim their just debts would have been when the civil war in the South of Spain had terminated. Consols, which left off yesterday at 91i Money, opened at 911 for the Account, 911 Buyers. Exchequer Bills, 19 21; Bank Stock 179 180: Spanish Active not quite so good as it left off at. 26:- ; at present , 261 i : Deferred, 12 ai , Passive, 6a li i ; Por tuguese same as they closed, 34k ; Three per Cents. 234 ; Colombian, 27k; Brazilian 70k 7 ; Dutch Two anii-a-Half per Cents., 52t- a . ; Five per Cents., 1011. PRICES OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 179 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cues. 3. , ,, 2 per Cent ( 19,,,1...i , Old Annuities E 9 ,54 Ditto Red. 9 , 1 3 0 i , New Ditto New 3 pet Cent 997 i 9 3 per Cent. Annuities, 171 New 5 par Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 -.Xi 19 pm. Jan; 3, 1960 l4 1-16 ; Ditto Small N is pm. Oct. 10, 1859 13;4 ? Ditto Commercial di,. JAI. 5, ISl:ii 13 13-le4 Ditto Advertised ...... -- Jan. 5, ISM Bank Stock for Account ... Aprils, IPSO. — I ndia Stock for Account .. Jan. 5.1870 — Consos for Account ....... . 90, PRICES Or FOREI6N FU NDS THIS DAI AT ONE O,CLOCk Austrian Bonds — . Peruvian Bori,ls ............... ;:c!gian Rends ............... Ditto Account — Pm . tuguese Boliti . ........... Firazil4 - .1 Bonds Ditto Accoulit 3iieno.; .kyteL 13oolt litis 9 3 Ditto Icant ... .... OLlian 3ond t — Prussian Bonds ... .. ............. Ditto lo^cc.. or —' Russian Bonds IS2' . . ... :e.:amtian B<7lcis ..... Ditto Ac c0unt................... . Ditto izof, - , lit _,, Ditto Metallic ............... Columbian . ..1: 7 (13,1Zit24 0 714 ..i ,Sp :nisi] Bondi ........... .anise Bonds Ditto i.- i., lit —' Deforreil t; reek Bonds — French, 5 per cent."... —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, IS"S — ---- 4 per cent. — f. c. Ditto Account ' ------- 3 per cent. f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. , ----- Exchange. —f. —c. . lin to Account — . Dutch, ‘'N, per cent. 5:2; ( 2% , Ditto, S per Cent. Ditto Account Kespolitan PRICES tie SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share., Brighton Railway .................80 London and Blackwall Railway 17% 17% London and Birmingham Railway Company kthtralasia Bank 4) 57 IA Colonial Join Stock Bank IMLF-PAST ONE. We have seen a letter from Cork this morning, stating that the New York packet ship, which sailed from Liver pool on the 7th instant, after being 20 days out, way obliged to put into Cork, owing to the boisterous state of the weather. (The above ship is named the New York.) Extract of a private letter from Amsterdam, of the 27th Jan. :—" We learn from a certain source, the difference which existed between the Court of Holland and that of Brussels on the subject of the sequestration of the property of the House of Orange, has been entirely arranged to the satisfaction of both parties." Accounts from the Hague state that several members o' the Second Chamber have left their residences, and on their return the Government will present the financial law. We are impatient to learn the resolution of Government on the subject of the :revision of the fundamental law; ac cording to report all the sections egree on that point. On the above date the Two-and-a- Half per Cents, were e 5- re 1 5 6 0 . 9-16 ; Five per Cents., 981 ; Ard o i n ' s Spanish, 2 We have received a Charleston Paper a week later, to the 2i January (the Charleston Courier), brought by the Silas Richards, arrived at Liverpool. Yesterday and the day previous were holidays, and the streets, churches, and places of public resort were filled with numerous strangers, now in the City; the President's house was thronged wi:h visitors, and Mr. Van Buren ap peared in excellent health and spirits. Latest dates from Liverpool, 22d November ; latest from Havre, 17th Nov. EXCHANGB.—The demand has been quite fair during the week, and it will be seen rates have still further de clined, except in New Orleans, which has advanced 1 to 1 per cent. FREIGHT. —Some activity prevails in this line. Three ships for Liverpool, a barque for Greenock, and a ship for Havre, have been taken up during the week. Little business has been done in the course of the morn. ing. - Consols may be quoted at 91i for the Account ; and 91i for. Money, rather a shade lower than in the early part of the morning ; Exchequer Bills rather lower, 18 17 19 prem. ; India Bonds, 6 4 prem. ; India Stock, 249; Bank Stock, 179. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active rather lower, 261; Passive 6i ' • Deferred 122 ; Portuguese 34 ; Th ree per Cents. 234 , ; Columbian rather better, 27i ; Dutch Two-and.a- Half per Cents., also improved, 521 ; Five per Cents., 1001, not so good as in the morning, when they were 10111. - CLOSING PRICES. pftrrtsia FUNDS Rank Stock 179 1 India Stack 249 3 per Cent. Red 9ly, . Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Ccus sq per Cent. Red 90N )Ditto New Annuities New 3 .', per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d......10 pm, New 5 tier Cent Ditto 50 7 l9 pin Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 1860 0ct.1859 Jan 1860 FOltElO N FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent — 11:1.1gian, 5 per cent — Brazilian Bonds — Buenos A yrcs, 6 per cent IS Chilian, 6 per cent — Colomh.an, 6 per cent 25!%1. Ditto, 1824 9.7% Danish, 3 per cent... ...... Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent. 18•25. Peruyian,lB2s.6 per cent — SH.. Eastern Counties Railway , , •••••Cer ............ 11 4 Great western Railway . London and Brighton It iilway ..................... . ......... i London and Blackwall Railway .. .......................... 15% London and Birmingham Railway ........................ 1375.6 LDitto New Shares . . .................................... 43 ii ondon and Greenwich Railway ........................... 12 Ditto New Shares ......................................... 1734 ................_ Portuguese Bonds, piper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russiais Bonds, 5 per cent , Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent. Ditto, Deferred French, 5 per cent. ......... 11 If 7:.e. Exchan.e ..................... —f. —c French, ' 3 per cent .......... —f. Dutch,2,4 per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. lO l l4 lit ES Mary Stuart was performed at Drury-lane Theatre last night to a crowded audience. The scene in the fifth act, between the Queen and Ruthven, made a powerful impression on The audience. The tragedy was followed by a comic opera, in one act, called My Lord is not My Lord ; a sort of version of a French piece produced some five-and-twenty years ago. The music is not bad, nor is the piece itself. A meeting of the Peers of Parliament now in town, and of the Members of Parliament and other landed pro prietors of that country, was held on Wednesday last, the Marquis o f D owns hi re in the chair, to take into consideration the Bill introduced by Mr. Labouchere, the President of the Board of Trade, for the repeal of the law which prohibits eth importation of foreign flour into Ireland. II OUL4E OF COSIMONS. (THIS DAY.) The Speaker tool; the Ch;jr this morning at half past ten o'clock, and shortly afterwards, accompanied by several members, proceeded to St. Margaret's Church. for the purpose of attending Divine Service, this being the anniversary of the Death of King Charles I. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning Herald of this day, speaking of the judi cial result of the argument before the fifteen Judges in the case of the Newport Charti s t s , o b serves :—" We ta k e it that the fifteen Judges did not sit either as a Court of Ap peal from the Special Commission, or as a Court of Error. The other twelve Judges were called in, as we consider it, to give their advice and assistance to the three Judges who tried the prisoners; and when we find that after hearing the question solemnly argued by able Counsel during several days, before themselves and all their venerable brethren, the majority of the Judges who sate on the Special Commission, decided both points fa favour of the prisoners, it should be followed by the sime consequences as if the majority had de cided in the same way at Monmouth—that is, a verdict of acquittal should be recorded i n all the three cases."—The Mornin7 Chronicle remarks, with reference t, Sir John Yarde Buller's motion While the Tories are mooting in the House of Commons the question of confidence isv the Government, the people are mooting, in different ways, the question of confidence In the Tories. A tolerably distinct answer in the negative has been given by the late elections. They show no symptoms of the boosted reaction ; and the reply is not confined to the electoral bodies. The non-electors have given their voice by the operative anti-Corn-law meeting, held at Manchester on Monday night." The Times. corr menting on Sir John Buller's motion, observes, with a shrewd eye to consequences ;—the discussion is in this case everything—the division nothing. The object is to expose the disgraceful history of a Cabinet, which came into office by fraud, and has sustained itself there by a wicked compact with the sworn enc mica of Queen and people. No detached or partial questions could have served as the fair occasion for such an act of retributive justice to a Government which has failed as a whole, and as a whole, has disgraced this country beyond the measure of all preceding shame." The Morning Post thus alludes to Lord Howick's speech in the Commons last night :—" His opinions and arguments were very Conservative; and if the conclusion he an nounced, be that which he will ultimately come to, how ever we may respect his Lordship for the consistency of his ancient friendships, we shall not be able to give him A very high place as a logician." COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held. a Privy Courncil yes'erday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Depa r t men t s , th e Ch ancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the India Board, the President of the Board of Trade, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Secretary at Wax, the Loid Stew ard, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. At the Council her Majesty pricked the list of Sheriffs for the English Counties during the present year. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Lord Weruock to be Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of the County of York (in the room of the Earl of Carlisle, K.G.. resigned), his Lordship took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon. The number of seamen was declared. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting, Her Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Uxbridge, and Viscount Melbourne. The Court was attended by the Treasurer of the Household and the Comptroller of the Household. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton was the Lady in Waiting; the Earl of Fingall, the Lord in Waiting ; and Sir Fred. Stoven, the Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty rode, in the afternoon, in the Riding School. The Earl of Erroll and Viscount Melbourne joined the Royal Circle at dinner in the evening, at Buckingham Palace. The Princess Augusta visited her Majesty the Queen Dowa ger yesterday, at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Glouces ter yesterday, at Gloucester House. A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Hoare, Tulk, Hall, and Strachan, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home Office. The Lord Chief Justice Tindal, Sir Frederick Pollock, and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Q. C., had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of Normanby at the Home Office. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have issued cards for dinner parties this evening and on Satur day next, at Landowne House. The Marchioness of Normanby had a soiree musicale at the family residence, in Hill-street, last evening. Her ladyship Iv s evening parties every Wednesday in FebruarY. Lord and Lady Maryborough hada distinguished party to dinner, on Tuesday evening, at their residence in Sa' The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are enter• taining a select circle at Badininton, Gloucestershire. The Noble Duke and Duchess intend to be in town by the 12th of the ensuina, month. The Earl and Countess of Clonmel have arrived in Dublin from the continent. Lord and Lady Sydney have returned to Foots- Cray, from a visit to Lord and Lady de Gray, at Wrest Park. Mr. C. W. Codrington, M.P., arrived in town yesterday, from Dorington Castle, Gloucestershire. Lady Guorgian a C o d r i ngton remains at the Castle. The Duke and Duchess de Coigny, heiress of the late Sir John Dalrymple, Bart., have left Dover-street, for Paris. The Marchioness of Cholmondeley has been rather unwell since Saturday, but we are happy to state her Ladyship was much better yesterday. The funeral of the late King of Denmark took place, with great ceremony, on the 16th inst. The cortege se t out from the palace of Amalienburg, on the evening o f that day, and the body was deposited next morning in the vaults of the church of lloeskilde, in presence of the new King. PETITION FROM BIRMINGHAM IN FAVOUR OF FROST AND NIS COMP A NIONS.—A petition to the Quee n in favour of Frost and his companions was brought to London to-day by a deputation from the above important place. In the course of six days upwards of 30,000 signatures had been obtained. Miny respectable persons, who usually object to sign any petition on political business, signed with avidity. There is not such an instance on record of a petition from this place having obtained so many signatures in so short a time , and the fact can only be explained by the increasing aversion to the punishment of death. The petition was presented to the Marquis of Normanby to be forwarded to the Queen by the new Member for Birmingham, G. F. Muntz, Esq., accom panied by Mr. Warburton, who was entrusted with the pre sentation of the Memorial' from the Members of the House of Commons. APPREHENSION OF THE VILLAIN.—Were' joke to learn that the cold-blooded highway robber has I t length fallen into the hands of justice. He was arrested on Wednesday at Bristol, and is now in safe custody. The clothes he is supposed to have worn on the night of the robbery hoe been found at the pawnbroker's where he had pledged them and provided himself with fresh habiliments. The young women at. the public-house at Coombe Hill, who supplied him with the glass of gin he drank before starting to walk to Cheltenhalt with Mr. Yarworth, has positively identified him ; and thong the wounded man, w h o, we regret to say, remains in a very dangerous state, was not in a condition to see the robber to Wednesday, it is hoped he will rally sufficiently to-day to ad mit of his b e i ng i ntro d uced i nto his chamber for the purposes of, recognition. Worcestershire Chronicle. We (the Worcestershire Chronicle) learn that forty special constables for each ward of the city are to be sworll in forthwith, whether in compliance with a mandate from tho Home Office, or from the misgivings of the authorities we can not inform our readers. Neither can we tell them for what purpose these precautions arc taken, whether on account of the anticipated execution of the Chartists at Monmouth, or to keep the peace on occasion of the Queen's marriage, we know not. To our thinking, there is just as likely to be a disturba n ce on account of the one event, as the other. If the latter be the cause of their appointment, it is paying a very ill compliment to her Majesty's Loring subjects, we are sure. PATENT LEVE.TA WA TCHES. .....,.............•.- -.--- With silver double-b o tt om cases ... £6 6 0 With silver hunti ng cases This celebrated construction eta most accurate on which a ,watch can be made) is now offer7.l, with the latest improve ments i. e. the detached oscapeu,snt, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mac the seconds, hard enamel dial, and main taining power to continue going sal.lle winding up, at the above price. A printed T. COX SAVORY'S , Watches will warranty lllalays is receigviveeanny'‘h fixed attention .it needed, on which the ,at Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London, (Seven doors from Gracchurch-street). N.D.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. B IR TII S. On the 25th inst., at Cawthorne Parsonage, Yorkshire, a e lady of the key. Arthur Parkinson, of a dau g ht er . On the 27th i ns t., at Northwick'-terrace, the lady of J. B• Elyndman, F.sq., of a son. On the 27th inst.,_ the wif e o f John Griffith, Esq., of her Majesty's Ordnance London, of a daughter.. MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at St. Paul's, Southsea, R. R. B. HopleYt Esq., A ssistant-Surgeon, of Greenwich Hospital, to M a rgaret Eloise, daughter of the late Captain John Mascole, of the Royal Marines. On the 29th inst.., at St. James's, Westminster, by the Rev' J. G. Ward, Rector, Mr. George Mottl e y, surgeon, of D u ke' street, St, James's, to Miss Peat, of Piccadilly. On the 29th inst., at 13elsize Pork, Hampstead, Juliana , daughter of John Wright, Esq., to Frederick Cayley Worsley , Esq., brother to Sir William Worsley, Bart., of Hovingdara Hall, Yorkshire. On the 25th inst. at Stamford-hill Ch urc h , Arthur Rober t, third son of the Rev. William Goodday, Vicar of Terling , Essex, to Miss Wrangham, of Clapton-terrace. On the 27th inst., Air. Herbert Spring, of Park-place , Islington, to Eliza daughter of Wright Crane, of Thornei Abbey, Peterborough, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Limerick, of typhus fever, 11 1 1. ' Ebenezer Wallace, of the Nati ona l B an k there, formerly of th e Ship Bank, Glasgow. Oh the 26th inst., Fanny, relict of the late Edward Walle r ' Esq., of Burfords, Hoddesdon, Herts. On the 26th inst., at Park Villas, Maida-hill, Phoebe Susan' nah, the wife of Edward William Gooday, Esq., of Gray's-inn' and only child of the lat e M r. James Dowsing, of s wish' merchant, aged 22. On the 25th inst., at Worcester, Cecilia Marie, relict of Joh," Macdonald Thinnier, E sq . , of Thihnier, and Sanda, Nor th Britain, aged 81. On the 27th inst., a t S pr i ngfield, Upper Clapton, the in-ant daughter of Charles Bischoff, Esq, On the 25th inst., at Peckham, the beloved wife of Mr. W. Gull, of Old Broad-street. London: Print e d an d Published by 11117R1)0 YOUNG , or te No. 112, Stra n d, a t The Sun Office, No. 112, St ra nd in county of 111id dlesex. - -Thursday, January 30, 1840. NEW TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND. 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