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VALPY'S EDITIONS of GREEK and LATIN CLASSIC Au-mons, with Notes, &c., ; I fi n e the vise of schools and Colleges; and Valpy's Extensive - Series of Introductory Greek and Latin Works—Grammars, Exercises, &c. are now published by Messrs. Longma n , O rme , and Co., and may be had of all Booksel!ers, in Town and Country. Messrs. Longman and Co 's Catalogue of School Books, in ; eluding the above and several important New Works, may be Lad (gratis) of all Booksellers, in Town and Country. •.„` ,any person applying to tli , t Publishers by letter will reoeirelhe Catalogue free of hostage. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. tiNDER 'THE mANAGEIIENT OF MADAME 'TEST IS. THIS EVENING„TA N. 13, Will be per ormed Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLLT. Hamlet, Mr. Moore (from the Theatres Royal, Edinbnrgh • and 130)1n. his list appearance on this stage) ; Laertes, Air. .1. Vining; ; Horatio, Air. Selby ; Polonins, Mr. W. Farrel' ; First Gravedizger, Mr. Bartley ; Ghost of Hamlet's Father, Mr, Cooper; Gertrude, Miss C. Poole (her first appearance); Ophelia, Mrs. tValttacy a• L • • (la te Aliss Taylor, her first ap t paarance this season). eonchnle with the New Grand Comic CI - .thtmas Panto mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIF. DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF AVARE. 7, - t.ll en irely ,Ne..s- Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De corations. Ifer.equin, Mr. C. .T. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pernmlsson, Mr. Morelli ; llerrie Devil, Mr. Gibson; and Co ' •leralsine, Miss 'An-brother. ' Dress 1311X . 03, is ; riecond Price, 3s. tid. ; First and Second ; Sec,nd Prier, 2s. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, L.s.; Gallery. Is. Doors to he opened at Isalf-past Six—the performances to ro-aa-genee at. Seven o'Clock. Ticketa an places fur tha Boxes to be taken of Mr. Netter, nt tlh, from Trim till Four, wh ro Season 'rickets may be hail upon application. Private Boxes to LP, lia4 solely of Mr Andrews. bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Ti.. Grand Comic Pantomime, univertal:y allowed to be the beat in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows ever witrirvsed, and will be repeated every evening. The Three New Pieces have also been lire-eminently successfal. THIS EVENING, .1A S. 13. Wilt be rtrie.sted, an entirely new Legemlar v Drama, called THE LA PIDA R Y LEYDEN. :Vier which, the New Romantic Drama, called MICHAEL LAIILE, THE KAMM.; LOVER. tTharaoscrt by Messrs. Saville, H. Hughes, JNeville, John t , 00n, and Smith ; Mrs. Vinirpg, Mrs. 1)v, and Miss Martina To omehtlo with the New G ran d Ch r i,t mas P an t om i me , ca ll e d T 1 , 14 L QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. Tito splendid Scenery by Mr. Branning—The ms.gnifisent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, C:own, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Rotero Messrs. Sams of St. Jame-s'=-street ; Andrews, Ebers, and Mitchell, Bond-street ; and Seguin of Regent-street. Book settees, aro appointed tr, let Private and Public Boxes during ' the rum of the Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ( Those Correspondents who wish to see their communi cations insetted, must send us, in confidence, their names and addresses. Without that we have no guaratlee of t4e accuracy of the communication. The communication of a practical man comes too late. t The trials, meetings at Manchester, &c., crowd on the papers as much es if the Parliament were sitting. His letter is left in the office. H 1; lI.VVA I F.lt AT LOND , IN 111.10 GE OfttiO VV. Vo , sung 9 oinutes after 9 Evening 4l rrinuten atter 9 ' '`i A n , .1,4 . el ...4 - '','• . .-. ~, -.4 • ,N. ....:•;,.,''';'. „ : ,•._,, 7 - .„....,,,,:, , - ~......, .... „4e - :„ .. 2 ., .....r.:..., ..,fr r. • -,:7 , 1,, •*,. 7 " - r te' •.:-4 ., _ - (Z - 6,e LONDON : MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1340. FIFTEEN DAYS LATER FROM AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The long and anxiously expected steamer Liver- pool, and the packets Independence, Captain Nye, and Oxford, Captain RathLone, all arrived at this port about the same hour this day ; the Liverpool sailed from New York on the 15th ult., but owing /.-) a sticsession of easterly gales was compelled to put into Fayal, one of the 'Western Islands, where she arrived on the 29th ult., and whence she sailed again on the 3d instant, having received a large quantity of coals on board. The Independence sailed from New York on the 10th ult., and the Oxford on the 20th, and has consequently only been twenty-two days on her passage. The Liverpool has brought about 1,200,000 dollars in specie, the Oxford 110,000, and the In ! dependence about 80,000. By these arrivals New Yo►k papers have been received to the 21st ult., they do not, however, furnish us with that long expected doeutnetat—th e President's Meszage—it not having ken delivered at Washington on the 19th. Congress had not settled the disputed electio•,,s, but a speaker had been chosen, and t! elle.;ce had fallen upon a Mr. Hunter, a Wnig, .tut it. was expected that the message W .A3 d be delivered in a few days when the last accounts left Washington. The commercial :accounts by these arrivals are somewhat more. favourable than those received for some time vast. The advices taken out from this country by the Liverpool havin g been considered by f:ne Amerienn , , generally favourable. Most descriptions of Stock; underwent a slight ) itnrrov',rnent immediately after her arrival, but they subsequently fell, and when the Oxford sailed they were about the same:as before the Liverpool arrived. United States' Bank Shares stood at about 76 to 77. Seventeen of twenty-one Banks in Providence had resumed specie payments. " On all their liabilities," says the Providence Journal, " the Banks not represented at the meeting will, without doubt, we think, adopt the same course ; many other additional Banking Establishments had re sumed specie payments. The Havre packet, Ville de Lyons, about which so lunch anxiety had been felt, put into Ber muda on the 23d of November, with loss of sails, spars, &c., having experienced very severe weather. From Canada the news by the present arrivals is of considerable i►►terest. Governor TucorsoN had sent a message to the Legislature of Upper Canada, announcing the resolution of the Hume Government to unite the two Canadas under one Government. Governor THOMSON opened the Legislature of Upper Canada on the 3d of De , ember; his speech on the occasion will also be found below. The Itcport of the Survey of the North-Eastern 11 , :lindlry, made by Cr.i MuDGE and Lieutenant FEA THERSTONHAUGH has been published, and a public dinner was given to the latter gentleman Tl-1 P. SUN, LONDON, MoNnA V, J NtrA RY 1: PAO at St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 30th of No vember. By the Oxford, we have advices from Central America to the date of the 2d November, by V: hich we learn that San Salvador had been almost de stroyed by an earthquake, and that General CAR RERA, the leader of the party opposed to President MORAGAN, had been dangerously wounded in a skirmish near San Salvador in the beginning of September. On the frith of the same month, a body of Alo- RAGAN'S troops, who occupied the town of Santa Zosa for a few days, were defeated, and Colonels CAcHo and MILLA, commanding, were taken prisoners. At Newburyport, Massachuscts, a terrific storm had occurred, by which 22 vessels were totally wrecked, and 32 dismasted and driven out of the harbour. The loss of life was upwards of 20. The storm was severe in other parts of the United States. Tha Texian Congress had been opened by a Governor Lammer, in which he gives a flattering account of the po sition and prospects of the young republic. On the sub.. ject of Mexico he expresses a desire to avoid hostilities, but speaks doubtingly. A great number of emigrants, principally Germans, had arrived at Galveston, from the United States. There is a discrepancy in the statement given above with regard to the United States Bank shares, and the accounts received at New York on the 19th of December, as it appears from the New Ycrk Courier, that on the afternoon of the 19th the shares at the first Board sold at 81, and at the second at 82i. Girard had advanced to 35k. The Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada published a despatch, addressed to his Excellency by Lord John Rus sell, and dated the 16th of October, making know., to the colonists that in future all political offices held during the pleasure of the Crown, such as those of Colonial Secrets nes, easurer, or Receiver General, Surveyor- General, At torney and Solicitor- Generals, Sheriffs, Provost- Marshals, Members of the Council, and the like, may be declared vacated on the resignation of the Governor-General. This is a very politic and statesmanlike regulation. TEXAS AND MEXICO.-The rumour of the capture of ac town of Nlatamoras by the Texan troops under Colonel Ross, is confirmed by a letter published in the New Ur leans Louisiana Advertiser, and dated San Antonio, Oct. 25. NEW YORK MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 19. The business done in stocks to-day at the first board reached a moderate extent. Rates of some descriptions were better, of others worse. At the second board prices were ratherlower than at the first, and the general opinion expres3cd was that the Stock-market closed dull. RATE OF SALES AT THE STOCK-EXCHANGE, 971 THURSDAY. .500 Corporation 7 per cent. Bonds 60 Shares United States Bank 45() Do. Delaware and Huds in 50 Do. A:echanies' Bank 25 Do. Bank of Commerce s. 30 days 991 35 Do, North American Trust 10 Do. Ameliean Exchange Bank 50 Do. Kentucky opening 55 50 Do. Paterson 45 7 Do. Boston and Providence Railroad 25 Do. New Jersey 40 Do. Stonington l3l 150 Do. Haarlem Railroad s 30 days 481- 21 Do. Mohawk Railroad 57 30 Do. Canton Company 3o+ 100 Do. Farmers' Trust RATE OF SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. 25 Shares North American Trust Saturday 381 25 Do. Kentucky Bank 55 50 Do. Haarlem Railroad 47i 50 Do. Delaware) and Hudson next week 68 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19, P. u. Stocks at the First Board to-day declined somewhat on }rest .rday's prices, with but a very limited demand. At the Second Board there was a most active demand, and prices advanced rapidly until the close of all transactions. RATE OF SALES OF STOCKS AT PHILA- DELPHIA, Dcc. 19 18 shares United StAtes Bank Saturday 61 1 do. Vicksburg Bank 25 25,000 dots. draught°. New Ycrk, sight lO7l SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. 25 shares United States Bank....b. 10 days flat 82 28 do. Vicksburg 251 12,000 dols. draught at sight on New York lO7 After the Board, 125 United States Bank, 82i. RESUMPTION IN RHODE ISLAND.--The Providence Jour nal of Tuesday says—" All the Banks of this City, and we presume all in the State, have resumed the payment of specie for all their liabilities." The Newport Herald of Saturday says—" Several of the Banks in this town, amongst them the Rhode Island, Union, New England Commercial, and Traders, will re sume specie payments on Monday next." The two subjects on which most of the pro vincial papers we received yesterday and to-day expatiate are the great benefits conferred on the community by the Penny Postage, and the con demnation of Frost. On the former we are glad to see that the majority of the journals express a just sense of the gratitude due to the Ministers for having, in spite of the Tory opposition, and in spite of the difficulties wising from cole sklerations connected with the revenue, car ried this excellent, plan into effect. When all the facilities which belong to the use of stamps and to taxing letters by weight are brought into operation, we have no doubt that many minor mat ters, of which some persons complain, will be reme died. It was not to be expected that such an exten sive alteration could be brought into operation with out some little friction against the self-love or selfish interests of individuals. At the same time much less of that has taken place, and much fewer complaintshave been made, than were, we believe, anticipated. In politics, gratitude is properly described to be a lively anticipation of future favours, and what has been done or granted is generally very soon forgotten. At the same time every letter received will jog the me mory of persons as to the origin of Post-office Re form, and make, we should hope, the gratitude of the nation for what the Ministers have done ',Jri this important subject, as lively as its hop e of what they will vet do. On the second subject therq is one almost uni versal observation. FRO I T , it is said, must not lose his life. Dispose of him so that he can do but let no more blood b e s h e d i n no further har m , Wales. The people are strongly recommended to memorialize her MAJESTY in his favour, and to neglect no peaceful and legal means to save his life. Experience has convinced us that to shed blood is really to promote and provoke the crimes which life is taken to prevent ; and whatever may he the result, we trust that no blood will be shed for such a strange crime as trea son during her MAJESTY'S reign. We have been compelled much to abridge Mr. THOMAS'S speech in defence of ZEPHANIAH WILLIAMS, but we have left enough of it to show that the doctrine of constructive treason, on which Mr. FROST has been found guilty, is a disgrace to any body of law. Let it be always remembered that the treason dots not consist i n th e Violence or the bloodshed and devasta tion w hic:t violence may cause, but in the imputed purpose of attertpting to dethrone a Sovereign or chan ge the course of ti-,e Government—a purpose which, as in the case of the expulsion of JAMES 11., and as in the case of carrying the Reform Bill, the great majority of the nation, in spite of the law and the Judge s , i s somet i mes prepared to justify. We have placed these two subjects of Mr. FROST and the Post-office together, because we find them so placed in the provincial pap ers ; an d be cause we wish, by reminding the Ministers and the country of the great social improvement which has so happily marked almost the commencement of her AIAJESTY'S reign, to induce them not to cast a blot on it by any untimely severity. Ministers and statesmen generally are so much engaged with the practical busintss of Government, that they have no time to originate the conceptions of those grand schemes of social improvement which hand down the names of their fortunate inventors to the admi ration and gratitude of posterity. What they can do, however, and . 'what they are bound to do, is to give practical effect to such schemes when ' they are brought to light. _Nobly, and with out any low envy, have the Ministers so acted, by Mr. HILL's sagacious, and even magni ficent, conceptions. But we will undertake to say, that those benevolent spirits who have, from time to time, remonstrated against gam. , guinary punishments, and have demonstrated their inutility to society, have opened up as saga cious and as magnificent views of social improve ment as Mr. HILL. While the Ministers have so honourably adopted the one, it will argue in them a want of confidence in their own principles, and a hesitation, when a nobler sacrifice of an old official, and we will be hold to affirm, an un founded and unjust prejudice is required of them, should they, in opposition to the humane teaching of modern philosophers, use her MAJESTY'S au thority to shed the blood of her merely misled sub jects. Ministers have conferred an immense bene fit on the nation by the Uniform Penny Postage, let them confer a still greater benefit by abstaining from taking life for treason, by setting an example of an abhorrence of bloodshed, so softening the hearts of the people, and attaching them by firmer ties than brass and iron to the Throne of QUEEN VICTORIA. The letter of Mr. SANKEY, which we elsewhere publish, explains very clearly the object and de signs of the unenfranchised in opposing all mea sures brought forward at public meetings, unless they be connected with an extension of suffrage to themselves. This is a bold avowal of a bold scheme, by which the unenfranchised rre deter mined to obtain their ends. While we cannot approve of it, we arc not prepared to say that they can well be prevented from using the only " influ ential right of freemen they have left," that the en enfranchised may still be made sensible of their power. If there must of necessity be a contest ora con flict between the unenfranchised and the enfranchis ed, we would not assert that the unenfranchised take either an improper or the most objectionable method of carrying it on. But we think the unenfranchised have extended Mr. BENTHAM'S admirable advice, to make the ruling few uneasy, too far. The enfranchised, the bulk of the middle classes, cannot be called the ruling few. They have an interest in common with the unenfranchised to obtain cheap food, and that can only be obtained by making the real ruling few, the landed aristocracy, uneasy. The House of Lords—the landed aristocracy—are the great opponents of every measure for extending the Suf frage. It even threw out the Electors' Removal Bill, a poor boon that might prevent some dis franchisement ? If the Whig Ministers were not well convinced that the Whig landowners in the House of Commons would oppose them on any question for extending the franchise, they might be willing to extend it ; but they hold their places on condition of not acting contrary to the wishes of the Whig landlords. Clearly-, therefore, the great ene mies of the unenfrauchised are not the middle classes, but the landlords, Whig and Tory, and their power would receive a most serious blow by the abolition of the Corn-laws. The town population would in crease more rapidly than at present, and the rela tive importance of the landowners sink in the scale. It is not, therefore, consistent with the ultimate ob ject which the unenfranchised have in view to thwart the middle classes in their present attempt to wrest from the ruling few, by making them uneasy, the scoundrel tax they now levy on the people's food. Their conduct, as explained by Mr. SANKEY, seems to us not so rational as that of the blind-strong man who - 'certainly destroyed his enemies, but also destroyed himself. The-unen franchised would injure those who have, as far as the abolition of the Corn-laws is concerned, the same interest as they have to perpetuate the power of their most determined opponents. We will take the opportunity of informing a " Moral Force Chartist of Sheffield," whose com munication appears in the Spectator, that The Sun did not libel the working classes of Sheffield, on Tuesday last, by asserting that they arc " not Corn-law Repealers." We only expressed our re gret that they preferred a vain chase after Univer sal Suffrage to a practical repeal of the Corn-laws," which is certainly true of _ those who opposed the repeaters, and passed their own Chartist resolutions. Neither was our article, as the moral force Chartist says, a Tory one, but a rational one, in which, moreover, many moral force Chartists, we believe, agree with us. We showed that the unenfranchised now have no inconsiderable power ; their numbers arc sufficiently great to ensure them sway in the community, if they had also unicn and intelligence. It was not their want of the franchise, but their want of knowledge, which formerly kept them in a state of dependence and slavery. Now they are gather ing knowledge ; they are as well acquainted with po litical subjects as any other class of the community; and they may rely on it that knowledge will give them power whether they have the suffrage or not. In fact, it has already given their great power, power sufficient to prevent, • as they might have commanded, the repeal of the iniquitous bread tax, the brand Im which the landowners continually remit. d them of the servile condition of their ancestors. It will be perceived by the extracts which wt have given elsewhere from the Scotch Papers, tha the contending parties in the Kirk of Scotland are carrying on the war briskly. From the circum stance that the Commission of Assembly have deemed it necessary to send Missionaries through out the country to stir up the people in their cause, we are led to infer that they have some misgivinc as to the popularity of their conduct, and the support which the Church will receive in the pug nacious, not to say rebellious, course on which she has entered. Various towns in tile North havt been visited by the Apostles of the Commission, Messrs. CUNNINGHAM and CANDLISH, but we cannot discern, in the reports of their proceedings, any very striking signs of success. The greater portion of their friends belong to the Dissenters, and it is, we have reason to believe, of Dissenters that the meetings got up in their favour have prin. cipally consisted. They have met with little sym pathy among the adherents 'of the Kirk, because, as the Aberdeen resolutions very justly specify, their principles are subversive of a law-established Church. To be consistent, the Vetoists should instantly retire from the Establishment. They have de clared that the non-intrusion principle, as embodied in the Veto Act, is essential to the character of a Christian Church, and that therefore they cannot give it up—that it is, moreover, a matter which touches the conscience, and that, in such matters, they never can, and never will submit to the de cision of any earthly Judge, JESUS CHRIST being their only Judge and Lawgiver. This is their. principle ; and it is one - of which we highly approve, because we believe unrestricted free dom of conscience to be the only foundation for a religious association or Church which the New Testament. sanctions. But what says the law of the land on this important point ? that law which created what is called the Church of Scotland. Does it recog nise the jurisdiction claimed by the General As sembly in p ass i ng an d en forcing the Veto Act ? Does it pay any respect to qualms of conscience in Ministers •of the Gospel more than in other men ? These questions have been answered by the highest tribunals in the kingdom. It has been solemnly decided by the Court from which there is -.:-. no appeal that the Church of Scotland has no such right as that which she has presumed to exercise, and the Court of Session has interposed the autho rity of the State to prevent by force the exercise of the usurped right. We have here the question of the " independence' of the Church settled at onto It is proved that the Kirk, like every other creation of the State, is dependent upon its creator. Those, therefore, who talk so big about this independence, and pretend to hold it as an indispensable article of their faith, now that they see it is a mere fancy of the brain, and no attribute of the Church of Scotland, cannot remain members of that Estab lishment, without laying themselves open to the charge of something worse than inconsistency. They are bound, as conscientious men—and more especially as men called by their ministerial office to be "an ensample to others"—to quit a commu nion the terms of which they bold to be contrary to the Gospel, and hostile to its spread. Some of the Vetoists have threatened to take this course, except such an alteration be made in the law as shall give effect to their non-intrusion principle ; but a moment's consideration must show them that this exception can be viewed in no other light than as a subterfuge resorted to for the sake of temporal objects. It will be said that stipends, manses, and glebes are dearer to them than the cause of Christ, which they pro fess to have so much at heart. With what grace can those apply to the Legislature, who deny its authority, and have set its enactments at defi ance ? The very application would he the strongest possible condemnation of their own conduct. Be sides, can they fail to sec that, claiming, as they do, to hold the disputed right of jurisdiction directly rrom the Lord JESUS CURIST himself, it would he a virtual abandonment of the claim were they to consent to receive it from the law ? They have thus placed themselves in a situation of difficulty from which there is only one honourable means of escape. They must resign the;r benefices, take up their cross, and cast themselves on the care of Provi dence and the affections of their flocks. If they cease to be members of the Church of Scotland, they may becom e members of the Church of CHRIST, which is surely a far nobler distinction. By the arrival of the Iberia strainer at Fal mouth on Saturday, from the Tagus, we have re ceived Lisbon papers of the 7th instant, with the Speech of her Most Faithful Majesty, DONNA MARIA, on opening the ordinary Session of the Cortes. There were only thirty Senators and fifty six Deputies present when the Speech was de livered, which appeared to excite but little atten tion. However, on the 7th, there was a pretty full atendance ; and from the general aspect of the second Chamber, it was supposed that the Septem brist, or ultra-Radical party, out-numbered the Chartist or Conservative body, to which the Go vernment has a natural leaning. No business, however, save the election of a President and the appointment of the regular Standing Committees, was done up to the departure of the steamer for England. We have not space to-day for any com ment upon the QUEEN'S Speech, a copy of which we subjoin penses of the state, and the means which the differdat branches of the public revenue offer—being relieved from the burdens:with which until now they have been shackled— to ititisfy the obligdtiont contracted within and without the kingdom. I trust that the measures that will he bid IT fore you for the more convenient organisation of thla portant branch of the public service will merit the whole bt ypttr attention, and powerfully assist in the better col_ section tit thd tvvenuc and the estanlishment of the necessary equilibrium behvt;Ctl the resources and the bur dens of the state." The Session is open. Madrid Journals of the 4th inst, have been re ceived. They publish an Order of the Day fld• dressed by General O'DONNELL, by command of ESPARTERO, to all the military authorities within the provinces of La Mancha, Cuenca, Toledo, Ali cant, and Valencia, strictly commanding them to observe absolute neutrality at the elections, and to con fine the exercise of their influence to the maintenance of order, and the support of the civil authorities. A change in the Cabinet was still spoken of. but the Ministers were doing all in their power to retain their places. It is likely that they will cling to office till driven out by the Cortes. Letters from Saragossa of the 6th invant, announce that the garrison of Bexix had revolved against its Go vernor, Carmello, who had entered into a negociation with the Christino chiefs for the purpose of delivering that castle into their hands, and massacred him and his accorr, plices. The Carlist chief Arnau surprised, on the 22d, the town of Casas Ibanez, but was unable to gain pos session of the church, into which thirty infantry soldiers and sixteen horsemen retired, and there defended them selves, The assailants ultimately retired. The latter then proceeded to Loriguilla, near which they were en countered by General Aspiroz, and routed with loss. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday con tain no news of importance. " The opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, so formidable to the Court during the last Session under the leadership of M. THI ERS, appears to be completely broken up. This has not added one jot to the strength of the Cabinet, which has become alike indifferent to the KING and people. In the Chamber of Depu ties on Saturday, the debate on the Address, para ragraph by paragraph, was com.nenced. Respecting the Eastern question, Marshal SOULT stated that the greatesk, unanim;ty prevailed among the Great Powers. The following paragraph, which contains the only news from Africa, is copied from the Mord leur of Saturday:— " A report of :Marshal Vallee, dated Belida, the 31st ult., confirms the re,ults mentioned in the last telegraphic despatch from Toulon. A very warm engagement took place between a column commanded by the Marshal in person, and-a corps of Arabs, consisting of infantry and 1,500 cavalry. " The enemy was beaten, and left the field of battle strewed with a great number of killed. The environs of the citadel and camp of Belida were, after this affair, en tirely freed from the presence of the numerous sharp_ shooters who had long intercepted the communications." A private letter from M►lta published in the Phare des Pyrenees, gives the following news from the East:— " Ibrahim Pacha, it is said, has made a movement is advance towards Diabekir. A special Turkish agent is gone to Alexandria. We hear of an arrangement, by virtue of which, in cave Ibrahim should threaten Constan tinople, an equal number of Russian and English men-of war arc to enter the Bosphorus to protect the Turkish capital." The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 4th of this month, has been seized at the Post•oflice. According to the Phare des Pyrenees, of the Bth, this seizure was on account of the publication of an article, headed " Divide to Reign." Joseph de M'irenil, Secretary to the French Lega tion at Madrid, pasted through Behobia on the 7th, in the evening, on his way to Paris.—Le commerce. BOURSE.—PAttts, SATURDAY, JAN. 11. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price. rend) 5 per Cents lll SO ... 111 50... II t 70... I I :5 • 414 per Cents lO7 10 ... 14 111 ... 107 10 ... 107 10 4 per ( en , s a per ( cuts SO 70 ... go S i ... SO 6, ...a. • 5 •kinit of France 5i..... 2i 90 ...209i _309 , 1 ..3( 95 .affitte Caul, 1,.1001.1444 50 _04 . 2 50 ...!c4..! 50 ...1 -10 50 s+f; i United States Bank Loan ... 9; ... 05% ••• • , vigian Lank 849. s') 8:4) 54.2 50 ilLitiltsh AC. iye ..... Passive % 6+4 Ohl Deferred . P . ortnekwAe 3 per Cents Don Miguel Nea r oOtan Roman lO2 . ..; 102 ... 10.3 RAILWAY SUAIIEs. t;ermain Versailles, It. B 505 511.5 ... 502 no 3 , 2 011 L.B. 347 5C ...:317 50 ... 342 50 342 50 Orleans .. ..... qulhaugen to Thann . Stt.isburg. to Bale .. . ... 333 75 ... 3':5 SPEECH. S coot s,— With pleasure I witness this reassembling of the representatives of the nation. " The necessity of adopting various legislative measures increases daily ; and, without sour effectual and enlight ened co-operation, it will be difficult for the conntry to place itself upon a sound footing, and enjoy the benefits guaranteed to it by the representative system.. " No interruption has taken place in the friendly rrla tions which my Govermnent has maintained with the ye rious nations of both hemispheres. " Nevertheless, I am sorry I cannot announce to you, as I much wished, the conclusion of a treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the inhuman traffic in slaves. " Her Britannic Majesty's 'Government obtained from Parliament a Legislative Act to enable its cruizers to capture and to carry before its own tribunal.: for adjudier tion, all 'vessels under the Portuguese flag that might be met with south of the equator suspected of carrying oil the slave trade. " This act was followed by a protest on the part of my. Government, a convention which in the meantime was effected between the Governor-General of Angola and a commander of the British naval force, for the abolition of that traffic, was not ratified by ber Britannic Majesty's Government. " The more than hostile conduct of a British naval officer with respect to some Portuguese vessels in the waters of Angola, during the month of September last— conduct which could not arise out of the before-mentioned legislative act—compelled my Government to address an immediate and energetic remonstrance against such an act of violence ; and I confidently expect that her Britannic Majesty's Government will make due reparation. " Other important demands have been brought forward, causing a delay of the principal business; notwithstanding which, I trust these obstacles will be promptly removed, and in a manner satisfactory to both crowns, the national dignity and interests, which, above all things, I have at heart, being maintained. " Another question has arisen between my Government and that of Spain, respecting the right of either of the Powers to a small island situated in the mouth of the Guadiana. A topographical plan is ordered to be pre pared, and the most correct information to be obtained bearing upon this subject, in order that the whole may be laid before a commission which the two Governments have agreed to nominate to decide thereon. " Our relations with the empire of Brazil continue un interrupted. The Government has nominated a new di plomatic agent to that empire, with a view of obtaining :.he greatest commercial advantages for our produce in that market. Tne reciprocal interests of both nations dictate the necessity of an undertaking upon this most important object. " I announce to you with satisfaction that my Government has just concluded a convention with that of his Majesty the King of the French, in which the outstanding claims pending between the two Governments, founded upon former treaties and conventions, have been attended to. I have ordered my Ministers, in due time, to lay the coil vention before you. " The diplomatic relations between my Government and the Court of the Hague are happily re-established. Ne zociations arc going: or. with the Holy See, and I hope •hortly to see the best harmony re•estahlhzhed, and the head of the Church and the religious schism with which some adherents of the usurpation have endeavoured to mask their really political views, thus completely eradicated. The internal state of public security and tranquillity has not deteriorated since the last session. " The bands which have infested the Algarve and Alcon.. tejo have graduilly diminished. When they do appe tr they arc either defeated or dispersed; and dissifection has weakened their numbers since the mortal blow given to the Pretender's party in the neighbouring kingdom. For these reasons I trust, that within a short time, by means of force, combined and tempered with clemency, they will be subdued. regards the pmuebtlriiccaal. uniformityristratienw, i e th x experience has ~...sh as administration, ,ho"wll As that the s organized, attaching all the importance of superior courts, even to the most trivial territorial divisious, render a good ;overnrnent of the kingdom impossible. " The variety and short duration of the elective fran chise has rendered the exercise of political right, extremely burdensome to the people, and the electoral urn has on many occasions been completely abandoned. On the Abe r hand, the want of a fixed and solid basis for the qua lification I . th elect ors, and those to be elected, has g iven rise to the most repre h e n sible' fraids, disputes, and de ceptions. - - . _ .. I " ample and unlimited aut h o rit y g ranted to the municipal Ch am b ers in the l evy i ng of taxes, and the exe cution o f th e i r statutes and regu l at i ons , have produced se• riou s con fli cts and r e peated complaints . " The actual ad miu i s tiators of districts do not possess the essent a l qualities proper for admini strativ e magic trates, nor cal t h e direct agen ts of the Government in corpor a t e towns, or Ministers, b e res p orr ibl e f or th e effi cacy of authorities which the Government only constitutes, but does not nominate. " The uncer ai nty o f the jurisdiction in the Courts cf . litigation h as not been less prejudicial. The acts done under this head can only be du.y appreciated by the ad ministration itself. " It also becomes indispensable to establish a superior tribunal which shall be the true and legal council of the Queen in all important questions of the administration, which may assist the Government in the preparation of all p ro j ects of law and executive regulations, and to take cognizance of, and give final judgment in, cases proceeding from the Courts of litigation. 4 . Tne administration of just ce equally demands your attention, clearness, independence, and responsibility -qualifications with which society cannot dispense in the functionaries charged to watch over and maintain the liberty, property, and private and public security. Th e fiscal laws, the orpanological administration, demand im portant modifications. ‘ 1 have commanded my Ministers to lay before you various projects of law to serve as a remedy for the incon veniences alluded to. n' '"Experi ence h as shown that the regim en o f our coll.. f1',23 requir e ser i ous attent i on a nd a sp ec i a l l eg i slatior. The Governm ent will occup y itself in pro v idi ng a remedy for these ne cess i t i es, and t h e cessation of the s l ave tra d e renders many efficacious measures more urgent, in order to derive benefit from the natural richness and fertility of those places, the monuments of our national glory. " Agreeably to the spirit of the constitution of the monarchy will be presented to you the budget of the ex- THE NEW COMET. This recently discovered body was observed at the Cambridge Observatory on the mornings of December 28. 29, 30, and January 2 and 3. The apparent right tiSCCD mons and declinations (exclusive of corrections for paral lax) were found on those days to be nearly as follow, at the subjoined times, from Greenwich mean midnight Time from Midnight. Right Ascension. Declination. h. m. h. m. s. deg. m. s. 5 59,83 ... 16 29 50 ... 32123 N. 5 52,74 ... 16 37 37 ... 318 31 6 9,54 ... 16 45 15 ... 314 20 7 14,43 ... 17 7 3 ... 253 40 5 54,94 ... 17 13 29 ... 244 20 These places agree nearly with the ephemeris in the Times newspapers of December 27 and January 2. This comet is a brighter and more considerable object than that of Eneke, which appeared towards the close of 1838. It has a well-defined nucleus, which is either solid or consists of very condensed matter. The tail is well seen in a tele scope <4 very low power, extending in a direction from the sun making an angle of about 54 degrees with a cirek through the pole. Observatory, Cambridge, Friday morning. THE MAIRKIITS.-(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain and Flour last week were tolerably good; and a fair qinntity flesh up of most kinds of Corn. Good Wheat, both old and new, firmly maintained last quota tions, other qualities s.dd slowly. Fine malting Barley met a free demand at its former value, middling sorts met a very slack trade. Bemis and Peas unvaried from last :Monday's rates. A fair sale for good Oats, but other sorts experienced a slack demand, and hardly supported their late terms. The Flour trade heavy at last currency. PRICES ON BOARD OF 5111?. Wheat, Red (old) ' , ss. 725. Beans, Small snew) 44, ait -- White (old) 655. kills. — (old) —Rest ;1839) 545. (Os. Tick (new) _223 33. --- Fine (' 9 s 63s (old) 426.44s Superfine 665. 635. ---- Harrow (new) 185.4 c, White (1839) 635. 545. (01d)... ... 4 ts. sifis -- Fine tifis. 711 s Brink -- Superfine 725. 75*. Oats, Feed s ...,, --- Foreign free ON 82s. New '3,27. ltyt aos. Vs Poland Barley 301. 286 New 9(1 6 23*. Grinding 3os 23s Potatoe • 29•.325. Malting 'Ns. ins. Malt N(i t ,, o s Scotch ::°,.225. Fine New Psis. 14s Irish 225. ... 255. *27 v . Pease, Grey, New 70.'s Js. Flour Town ite.r sack).— 593 02,. Maple New 'Ss. 40s. Seconds 54...f4is Wh , te "Ss. 40s. —....-- Noirth Country._ 50. 52 . --- Boilers 40s. 4:26. Bran 9 lo ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK us heat. ~,,y-ky. • • L . 0,377 Irs I 9,401 qrs. - ;,702 qrs. 5,02(; sacks. (;,s;1 I 195 5,927 i 1.. English Irish Foreign - I 8421 SMITE :st [FIELD. Trade is dull for everything, and the supply being very large, a general decline has taken place ; in choice Beef of 4d., and inferior 2d. ; Good Mutton declined only 2d.; but inferior 4d., and Veal &l. lower ; York without alteration. Price per stone of Sibs., sinking the offal—Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, 4s. •'d. to ss. 2d. ; Alu.ton, 4s. to ss. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to 43. 6d. Head of Cattle at Market—Beasts, 3,391 ; Sheep, 426,220 ; Calves, 105 ; Pigs, 517. BILLINSGATE MARKET. The supplies were tolerably good with a brisk demand ; prices steady- Turbot ss. to 215., Cod 3s. to 155., some Sal mon as low as Is. 2d. per lb., and crimped ss. ; Oysters 20s. to 48s. per bushel ; Whitings sd. to 10d.; Haddocks 10d. to 2s. 6d. ; Soles 6d. to 3s. per pair. BERMONDSEY POTATO MARKET. The supply was good, but the demand languid. Prices firm. York Reds 635. to 725. Devons 58s. to 60s. Jersey 555. to 58s. Wisbeach 60s. to 655. HOP MARKET. Prices of good Hops very firm, and the trade improving. Little demand for the low and inferior sorts. In prices there was no alteration. SEED MARKET. The Market was flat, and more done in Linseed than any other, at 40s. to 435. per quarter. Rape 281. per last. Prices of other Seeds as before. The arrivals moderate. TALLOW MARKET. Rather more business done, and the price of P. Y. C. 48s. 9d. The Stock about 27,500. TEA SALE (SIXTH DAY AND CONCLUSION.) There was a fair attendance of the trade, but there was not much Tea sold. We attribute this to the heavy prompts which are now becoming due. These necessarily check public busi ness in this commodity. The market is firm at the prices established] on Thursday aid Friday, and will remain so until further news be received from Canton. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) BRIGHTON, JAN. 10.-Offport the Ellen, Rodger, from Singapore. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11.--Wind variable.—Arrived the Liverpool steamer, from New York—sailed the 15th ult., falling short of coals she put into Fayal, and left there on the 3d inst„ after b?ing detained five days; Independence, and Oxford, Rathbone, New York—sailed 20th ult. ; St. Lucia, Gnat, Africa ; Alice, Mauritius ; Gem, Riga ; Corsair, BatterF, St. JAn's, New Brunswick ; North Britain, and Harriet, Alexandria ; Triton, Snow, Sa vannah ; Hannibal, Mumford, Charleston ; Enchantress, Monte Video. Sailed the Dominica, Harrison, for Bar badoes ; Resolution, Forrest, Maranham ; Aurora, 'War ren, New Orltans. The Aretbusa, Cunard, from hence to New York, was driven on shore at Long Island, 9 h ult.—one of the crew drowned. A large bright sided ship was seen Nov. 19, cn Lanver Key, with only lower masts standing; and• a large ship on the Western Red with two wreckers alongside. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE' O'CLOCK At length we have the arrival of the Liverpool steamer, viith four other packet ships, from New York, as follow —The Independence sailed from New York, Dec. 10; Liverpool steamer, Dec.ls; and the Oxford, Dec. 20 ; and we hatre information this morning of the arrival of the Westminster, of the 20th, wh:ch passed Dover yes terday, as well as of the arrival of the Toronto of the loth ult. Neither of the above packets have brought the Pre &detit's M es sage, Upon the whole th e intelligenee re evived i)y ttie above arrivals, in point of commercial affairs, is favourable. The Otfcvrd, and Liverpool steamer have b ought over specie to the amount Of 1,375,000 dollars, likewise a large amount in remittances. 'An improvement his taken place in the United State Bank Shares, 76 to 78; Exchange Pto 9i. The letters and papers from the Post-office have been delivered very late. By the above delivery we have re ceiVed Jamaica Papers to the Bth December, and Barka does Papefa to the 24th November. From the Jamaica Papers.—The most perfect unanimity at present happily exists between the several branches of the Legislature. It is really most gratifying to perceive tne perfect peace and quiet which has taken place of differences and disputes in our island, No one who wishes well to the country can avoid congratulating himself upon the cir cumstance, and praying that it may contihtm and in increase to the benefit of all. The Currency Assimilation Bill has be' , n reported from the Committee of the whole House, and ordered to be engrossed. THE FUNDS 4 Consols opened this morning at 9211 for the Account, pith littlo doing as yet ; Money, 901 91 ; Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; India Bonds, par, 2 prem. ; Bank Stbek, 178 k 179 ; India Stock, 248 k 249/. In the Foreign Market the chief operation is in Portu guese Stock, which has receded about 14 per cent., left off 361, at present 341- to 35, owing to the unfavourable speech of the Queen of Portugal, a hich does not mention any thing respecting the Bondholders. Spanish Active, 24f1; Colombian, 244 264 ; Mexican, 34 ; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents. 511 Five per Cents. 991 100-1. - P ltli.:ES OF STOCiZs 'll-11S OAT AT uNE o'CLoCI‘ . . nail k stock ..... ... 17854 9, India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 9,3% 1 ' South Sea Stock — J,. 2 per Cent Old Annuities Ditto Red. 917 .';‘, N New Ditto New :1!4 per Cent iii.4, 3 per Cant.Annultles, 17n1 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500..... 9 II pin. Jan; 6, 1860.“ l4 :-10 1 ,4 Ditto Small . 9ll pm. Oct. 10, 18511.a....a. —' Ditto Commercral -- Jim 5, 180(1 oll.:;:i.I“ ;.. 6 . 4 . Ditto Advertised ...... . Jan. 5, ISM a Bank Stock tin Account ... 5 April , MO -- India Stock for Account .. ~, Jim. 5 . . 1870 i CdtteOs for Account...—. Olfi rlt ICES or FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAI AT ONE O,CLOCK. yustrian _ . Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds il4ll. Ditto AcCOUtit. Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds 41 3 4 'Ai i)itto Account luenos Ares Bonds Ditto AccfEtit hilian fond I — Prussian Ponds 1) tt3 I.= - , it •••••• Russian Bends, 1821.......... ol'unle t - _ li.. - ids ..= Ditto Account — Dltt3 tc:11 lit ,3 sr: 1' 3•!t15,18.24 ur.:l .u...:3 nt — Ditto Account. anish ke 1 ~.. ........... .... , Passive . Ditto 4:c:s.nt ;reek Bonds -;= French, 5 per cent. .-.f..—.C. Ditto Bonds, 18'25 Ditto Account 4 per 3 per cent. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. . ---- EitcPange. Ditto Account — Dutch, !,‘ per cent. 52 1 4% Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account - Ditto, 5 per cent 100!,,, !I losnolitan — Ditto Account......, ...... EVEN INg rl-0 QUEEN'S BENCI-f,-(1:INS DAY.) TILE QUEEN OP PORTUr3AL V. ROTHSCHILD. Sir F. POLLOCK moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict in this case, which was for the plaintiff, should not be sct aside, and a nonsuit entered. The circum stances of this case havo been already frequently - before the public, and the real question at • issue is whether Messrs Rothschild were entitled to interest upon certain bilis which the Portuguese Government had dishonoured. Lord DENMAN said the Court would take time to consi der its judgment. TUE QUEEN V, QUAIL, QUO W ARRANTO-CCRPORATION OF - eRIOEs oF SHARES THIS DAY AT vINIE cycLocri Paid. - - - Feri , i;P re. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 7CI ' 52 (4r. , :rt Weltern Hallway Company Ditto New . 19 Brighton Railway _,, .. ........ .. :W 18 , 1;i to i l London and Croydon Railway Corgiany • 11/. 183. 6d. 10 3 4% British North American Bank PRICES OF HUSH STOCKS. DUBLIN, JANUARY D. :3 per ,:ent. Consols }4 per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced - -- Ditto New MO ...... .11,4 per CenCDebentures :1 1 1 /4 ' National Insurance Company Bank Stock Grand Canal itock Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST ONI. • We have received Demerara papers to the 26th Nov. We have just learned that his Excellency the Gover nor has received a dispatch from the Colonial-office, di,- allowing certain resolutions of the Court of Policy, re specting the introduction of agricultural labourers into this colony from the island. The Court of Folic) is adjourned from 22d November, to meet again on the 12th proximo." We have received Trinidad papers to the 27th Nov. A public meeting took place which was numerously at tended, relative to the refusal of Lord John Russell to alter the arrangement by which the Government of this Island is annexed to that of 13.4badoes. There was a general expression of regret that those who had originated or signed the counter-petition praying that . the present vrangitiont might be adhered to, did not attend the Meeting. The following resolution was moved :—" That this meeting deeply regret th her Majesty's Government should have refused to make any alteration in the recent arrangement with respect to the rank of the Governor of Trinidad, and still more deeply regret that an opportunity should be afforded to ground such refusal on the plea of there being a conflict of opinions in this island on the subject. Consols are a shade ►ower than in the early part of the morning, when they were 921 for the Account; at pre sent may be quoted 92.1 ; for Money they co'itinue the 90i 91 ; Exchequer Bills 9 11 rem. ; India Thuds 2 prem., par; Bank Stock 178 179. In the Foreign Market little doing, with the excepting ) of Portuguese Stock; in the morning they were 35-, since which they have been done at 34, and at present may be quoted 344. The Queen of Portugal's Speech is the cause of this decline, as it does not hold out any favourable prospects for the Bondholders ; Spanish Active rather lower, 241-; Dutch Ttvc-and-Half per Cents 024-; Five per Cjots. 100+ I. In other F o r e i gn S ecur i t i es nothing doing to the pre sent hour. 'We hear that the packet-ship Toronto has 200,000 dollars on board. Lora and Lady Stanley are expected to arrive in St. James's-square, to-day, from Knowsley Park, the scat of the EA of Derby. ---,- Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley come to town to-day from Brighton, where•they have been residing during the nutumn. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry have arrived at Holderness House, Park-lane, from Paris, for the season. Viscount and Viscountess Maynard, and the lion. Miss Maynard, have arrived in town for the season. His Grace the Archbishop of York arrived at Nuneham, Oxon, from his palace at l3ishopsthorpe, but intends to stay at the former seat only a few days beore coming to town for the season. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT HALIFAX. —Last Friday the inhabitants of Halifax and its neigh bourhood, met and adopted a petition to Parlianiel t, for the abolition of the bread tax. STATE OF OUR OPERATIVES -Tlic ac counts from our manufacturing districts are most alarm ing. We are in a crisis of appalling and perplexing danger ; and it seems but too probable that certain parties of professedly the most opposite politics are mi uisterino•' to the peril, rather th an t h e d e li verance, of society from the impending calamity.—Scottish LONGEVITY.-The village and pariah of We have always been considered as very salubrious ; the population does not exceed 750, and yet there are thirteen persons living there between the ages of 80 and 90 ; sixteen between 70 and 80 ; and twenty-nine between 60 and 70. Western Times. PRINCE ALBERT AND TIIE ORDER OF THE GARTER.—We have reason to believe that her Ma jesty intends to confer upon Mince Albert the Order of the Garter. Mr. Bridge, of Ludgate-hill, has just completed, by her Majesty's direction, a splendid garter, corresponding with the costume of the Order. Tl►e garter is of purple velvet ; the motto of the Order, the border and buckle, are composed of diamonds, set in the most exquisite vyle, and forming altogether an or nament of the most brilliant and unique description. The General Steam Navigation Compaiiy's steam-ship Ocean, Captain J. File, arrived off the •Cus tom-house, from Rotterdam, on Sunday, after a fa vourable passage. FATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning vs lii!e Hyatt, about 26 years of age, was sliding on the Ro gent's Canal with other persons the ice gave way, .and several of them sunk. Two were taken out with great difficulty, but the unfortunate young man was drowned. Sir M. J. Tierney has given 50/. towards the fund for the erection of the Adelaide wing of oar County Hospital. The kind-hearted and respected Baronet had previously subscribed the same sum towards the Victoria wing. —Brighton Herald. Several musical amateurs of fashion have pro jected the construction of a magnificent Salle ill on the site of Jaunay's Hotel in Leicester-square, and the plans of Mr. Beazeley, the theatrical architect, have been adopted for the reconstruction of the building. It is to !contain 2,000 persons, and will be completed by the commencement of the next winter season. FOOL HARDINESS.--FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY. --- Uu - Friday evening an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Thomas Haywood, aged 22, a breaksman on the above line. From the evi'lence of Mr. Hargrave, one of the Green wich Magistrates, it appeared that on Thursday after. noon he was riding from London in the carriage next behind the.engine, when, between St. John's, Horsely down, and St. James's, Bermondsey, he perceived de ceived scr am bli ng a l ong t h e near side of ar riage f rom th e f ront towards the bac the c k f it. He was holdi ng b y t h e windows which o were down, and his feet were apparently on the springs. Deceased proceeded towards the front of the carriage, and witness, thinking he had reached there in safety, looked out and saw him lying on the path, strugging and rolling on the ground. A platela)er employed on the line said deceased was very imprudent and daring, and in the habit of climbing backwards and forwards from ono carriage to the other. His proper place was in front of tha carriages, and not Lehind them. Mr. Western, surgeon of the hospital, said no heavy substance had pased over deceased. His kidneys and liver were ex tensively lacerated, and his collar and blade bones frac tured in several places, which was caused by his being violently dashed against the wail of the line, or against the road. He died four hours after his admission of the frightful injuries received. Verdict—" Accidental death. LIVERPOOL Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT moved for a _rule, calling on the defendant to show cause by what right he exercised the functions of a Town councillor of the borough of Liverpool. It appeared that at the last election for Town Councillors in that borough the numbers at the close of the poll were, for Mr. Quail, 304 ; for Mr. Shad well, 303. But on examination it was discovered that one person had voted twice for Mr. Quail, arid that it bad been decidod by the Mayor and Assessors that a person named John Ashley bad no right to vote.—Rule granted. THE QUEEN V. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE MANCHFACER T MES.—CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Sir W. FOLLETT moved fur a rule calling upon the Editors and proprietors of the Manchester Times to show (nose why a criminal information should not be filed again ;t them fbr the publication of a libel reflecting on the cha racter of Sir Robert Holt Leigh, Bart., a gentleman of consid,l,bie property residing near Wigan. The publica tion question referred to certain transactions which had taken place as far back as the year 1811, and the publica tion in substance- stated that Sir Robert Holt Leigh. and the trustees of the public; school at Wigan, tcol at :bat period acted collusively together in afienating a certain portion of the property of the scliocid. for the benefit of Sir Robert Holt Leigh. It further in sinuated that 1.0001. of the school property had been. ex pended by the trustees for the purpose of obtaining an Act of Parliament to enable them to alienate the property•; and they had supported their assertions by certain garbled extracts from the Reports of the Commissioners of Charities. The proprietors of the newspaper, on being applied to, had published what they professed to call an apology or expla nation ; but this was accompanied by comments of a still more taolsive character, and which insinuated that, the editor still believed in the truth of the libellous matter. The facts of the case were then stated by the Learned Counsel. Application had been made to the editors for the purpose of setting them right, in answer to which they made an acknowledment of being in error on some points, but at the same time stated that the act of the trustees was more lor promoting the interest of Sir R. H. Leigh than for promoting that of the school, so that in fact they repeated the charge against Sir, R. H. Leigh. A second letter was written by the s citor of Sir Robert Holt Leigh detailing the whole transaction as it had really occurred, calling' 'on the proprietors to insert this statement as *an apology. They had not published the letter, but had taken tbt sub stance of it, and at the conclusion of the article had said, .‘ We shall make no further comment than this--if Sir Robert Holt Leigh has paid 7,0001. for 651. a year, he has made a bad bargain," thus insinuating that they did not believe Sir R. H. Leigh's account of the transaction. Rule granted. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS RAY.) BRIGGS V. GLOVER. This was an action brought by an attorney for his bill of costs, incurred in defending several actions for the defend ant. The defence set up was, that there was no authority given to the plaintiff to proceed. In the course of 'the trial, it was agreed by both parties that the revocation of the authority was upon the 23d July, and a verdict was taken for the plaintiff for 211, the costs incurred up to the time of the revocation. Mr. CROWDER now moved for a rule to show cause why the 23d July, in the order of the Court, should not be altered to the 28th, relying upon an affidavit, stating that the conversation on which the revocation took place was on the latter day, or fur a rule for a new trial, The COURT refused the rule, on the ground that the plaintiff was bound by his consent at tie trial. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then obtained a rule last term fora new trial, on the ground of the wrongful finding of the Jury. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS now showed cause against the rule, and contended that although evidence was given of many other vessels not being, obliged to put in, still, he argued, that it was evident the storm only affected the de fendant's vessel—that it was the only one that came within the circle of the storm. Mr. RICHARDS in reply, in the absence of the Seticker- General disputed the philosophy of his Learned Friend by argument and facts, contending that the other vessels which stArtPd, some before and some after the vessel in question had as much cause for putting -into port. He alto urged that, as the Captain's wife lived at Plymouth, there was more attraction than compulsion in the case. Their LORDSHIFS did not think sufficient grounds were shown to induce them to disturb the verdict.—The rule discharged. DART V. WESTCDTT. This was an action brought to recover the value of a cargo of oranges sunk in Plymouth harbour. By the charte party it was agreed that the vessel was nos so put into any port on her voyage from St. Michael's to London, unless compelled by stress of weather or other unavoidable cireumstanceF, The Jury found for the defendant. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) An elderly man, named Thomas Dunn, was brought up by 112 F division, who stated that at eleven o'clock this morning he saw him go up to the shop-door of 237, High Holborn, and, with the greatest coolaess, take a razor front his pr,cket, with which he cut off the making of a coat from a piece of cloth, which hung flaunting along the door post; and the robbery was committed in such a bold manner he hesitated for some time whether he would take charge of him, as Ike might be one of the firm to whom the property belonged. Tlrc shopmen identified the cloth as his employer's property, as also the cord attached to it, the price being' marked on it in his own hand-writing. The cloth was made fast by a piece of string, and was valued at 2gs. Several constables came forward to prove that the pri soner had been repeatedly in custody, on charges of petty thefts, but in consequence of the prosecutors not being able to establish the cases sufficiently against him, he had succeeded in escaping punishment. The prisoner said he had committed the offence through distress, and as other charges are to be brought against him at a future day he was ordered to be remanded. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MRS. .BROUGHAM , —The funeral of the late Mrs. Brougham, of Brougham' Flail, Westmoreland-took place on the Bth instant, at the hour of twelve at noon. This venerable and highly respected lady was buried in the family vault in the Church of Ninekirks, in the parish of Brougham• The chief mourners were Lord Brougham and William Brougham, Esq., the two surviving sons of the deceast , d• The funeral was attended by John De Whelpdale, Esq., 'l'. D. Bleamyre, Esq., E. W. Hasell, Esq., 1 7 - Iludleston, Esq., Major Aglionhy, I\Ll'., T. Fether stonehaugh, Esq., S. Rippon, Esq., Captain Jalmond , and the Reverends E. Harris, J. Lowry, and R. Robipsori ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF LICHFIELD. — On Friday, as Lord Lichfield was sporting in his pre' serves, with Lord Chesterfield and others, he was shot in the forehead and eye by Lord C. ; but we are happY to hear that there is nothing serious in the accident. Dr. Knight and another gentleman were sent for from Stafford on the occasion. One shot only, we believe , struck his Lordship on the eye. BANK OP IRELAND—ENGLISH REMIT', TANcEs.=—The Bank o f Ir e l an d h as l ate l y introduce d . at their coun t r y o ffi ces an i mprovement i n t h e mode 0 1t making remittances to England, which gives consider , able facility to importers, land-agents, and others h a ving .arge sums to transmit, by supplying them with bills at short dates, payable in London, and endorsed by the Bank, free of all expense, thus saving the commission and stamps beret Vere paid on English rem ittance s• plan has been for some time acted on in this city. and is now introduced at Cork, Limer'ck, Belfast, tke• —Waterford Mail. DEATH OF AN ALDERMAN FROM ABSTP HENCE.—Alderman Thorn lived in purely aldermanic style, until he arrived i at the age of fifty-four, when h e utterly repudiated not only all intoxicating liquors, but all animal food save that which existed invisibly in e eee , tables and water. Such a total change of diet at his age brought on almost. perpetual shivering, which, how ever, failed to induce him to forego his high resolve, which gradually killed him ; and while some held a minute post mortem examination to be essential to tbs 3 promotion of th e sc i ence o f pathology, others held i t I to he e ssen ti a l b y no means, it being clear that his living s, had caused hi s d eat h , or, in other words, that bis mentary canal h a d b een completely frozen overand, finally, that fie was bu r i e d w i t h appropriate pomv. out the ice. being th us sacr i legiously broken.—Shviith- Thorn (by Valentine Vo,r' in Bentley's Miscellany. TURKISH ORDERS.—A letter from Constm:" tinople, in the Scniapho're of Marseilles, says—" The Order of the Nichan Iftihar has been conferred on Soulier, the clown at the Circus, in token of the de light his feats have afforded to the Sultan, and it has also been promised to the juggler Rodolphe. The Eu ropeans who were so ambitious of this mark of distinc tion, and used gold and intrigue to obtain it, will no doubt now be disgusted, and cease their importunities." A WHOLESALE SHEEP-STEALER.—On Tues' day a quiet-looking country youth, who gave his n ame John Richards, was brought before the Mayor and Magistrates, for stealing upwards of3o sheep. H e was committed.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIT ED Bo° ROUGHS OF PENIEROKE, TENBY, MILFORD, AND ‘VIsToN.—A correspondent at Tenby writes—" A severe contest is expected to take place between Sir James Graham, the sitting member, and J, M. Childs, Esq., of Begelly House, who comes forward on Whig principles, and pledges himself to support Ministers. Both gentlemen have published their addresses to the electors, and on Tuesday last the friends of Sr James canvassed this town, in anticipation of a dissolution of Parliament, when a great majority kept their votes in reserve, as Mr. Child s h as only partially canvasse d here. I . cannot speak with so much confidence of the other part of the constituency ; but I understand Sir J. J. Guest H in treaty for the Orielton estates ; n , " l it that purchase is perfected, there can be no doubt but a liberal member will be returned for these boroughs."-- - C'ainbrian. ~ ~ ~... .~,~ a