The Sun. — London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE GUNSMITH OF ORLEANS; or, The Dead Woman's Secret. In which Messrs. Hicks, Forman, Searle, Bird, Howard, Miss Vincent, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Pearce will appear, After which, THE DUKE OF SHOREDITCH, Supported by the entire Comic strength of the Company. To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, en 1, !TI ITIRTLI OF TIIE STEAM ENGINE ; or, H a rlequin 'lead." and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown. Mr. T. Barry. THE . tl -7-------- .,.., ..___. ATION AL DEBT.—The annual account of the sums received the reducti on of the a dPended by the Commiasio n ers f or national Debt in the year ended the sth ofJanuary, 1 847, has b e en prepared and presented. The cre ditor side of th e account exhibits a sum total of 3 ,57 8 ,7' ) 1/, arising fr.tn cash received ,atsundry times from the Exche quer, and interest on stock fAlowing items :—viz., a ,m, &c. o,Trhoe,7Lebitorr,asiTefosrhollov.slt;ohle. Reduced /km1;1441.9; 263,1091. -i t for 718,353. Reduced ; 46,9 15 ( ;: r f 2 . 73,819 /Consols ; 689.7 . 97/. ° S : t t o i ck So ; u 3 tl , l Bo B 2 e l. Stock ; 149.609/. for 157,900/. NewrS'f,4ni'llt)sli„a f,r 4,0001. Three per Cent. Annuitle.s_.( l7s l); 1-1,8491. for 13,6441. Three per Cent. Annuities (1726); a n d 2,400 ,000/. for xeque7-bills. SURGICAL OPERATIONS UNDER TILE INFLUENCE 0 ETHEIL—Tues were .lay afternoon two m ore operations r ceFsfully performed in the l arge theatre of the Charing-cr B'l : - Hospital, on patients w h i le un der the influence of ether • The lirst operation was performed by Mr. Avery vapour, , and con •isted in the removal of the large toe nail of the left foot—a very painful process; and in the second case, Mr. Stegliall, the house surgeon, extracted several teeth from a young man who had inhaled the ether. In both cases the patients acknowledged that they had not felt the slightest pain during the operation. THE DISTRESSED IRISH AND SCOTCH..—Mr. Bunn, of Drury-lane Theatre, has, in the handsomest manner ap propriated the receipts of Monday next for the benefit of the Irish and Scotch. The committee of the theatre have agreed to allow the use of the theatre free of rent, and every artiste and employe of the establishment have consented togive their services gratuitously on this occasion. THE SUN,_ LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY I4ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. MRS. GORE'S NEW WORK. The following outline of the ARRANGEMENTS for the SEASON Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 1847 is respectfully submitted to the Nobility, Patrons of the Opera, fl EMPTALUWAN AND ATONEMENI'. and to the Public. it is presented wit h the confident hope, that the By Mrs. GORE. successful ex !rtictis made to secure. under circ umstances of peculi a r Authoress of Th e atre in " difficulty, a ooinpany still more worth y of the first iimmt on Mothers and Daughters," " The Ba n k er ' s Wif e, " & c. Europe, and &its distinguished Patrons will insure the coi Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough street. of their support. ENGAGEMENTS FO R THE OPERA. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE . IVIESSAS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAT Mdlle. Jenny Lind (her first appearance in this country), Madame del Carmen Montenegro (her first appearance at this Th fi e r a s t t r a e) . ; Fagiani, and Madame Solari (their p SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends e inu s ed ales sup o p f or n t all asi w d ay patros Mollie. Stanchion, Mdlle, pearance in this country) ; the Contralto, Mdile. Yietti and Mdlle. ro. an t n h 3 e ut l ce 'ubll t c ha t t br the tn ir etr pu co b i ii it Daicascio (their first appearance in this country) ; and 3laclaine a Shares, e & a . d , flastellan. Signor Fraschini, the great Tenor of Italy (his first ap- , take__ of Place every Tuairear and Flt LIDA, at One o'clock, at tlic pearance in this country ) ; a n d the favourite Tenor, Signor Gardoni, !lanCornuieru, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, wof the Italian Oper a, Paris, having lately withdrawn, at a great favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfttlly ipecuniary sacrifice; from the Academie Royale de IVlnsultle (his first j leg/tested to be addressed. ance in this country) ; Signor Superchl, the distinguished All scrip and Share Certificates mast be deposited, the day appear ß ar itone (his first appearance in this c ountr y ) ; Si g nor F. Lablache ; previous to their being offered ; an d a d v i ces o f resu lt s w ill b e signor Borella (his first appearance in this country) ; Signor Corelli ; I brwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds 'male the celebrated lia3tto Cantante, Herr Staudigl (his fi rs t a p pearance ) ; Gately disposed of according to hastrcctions. and signor Lablache. In addition to the above, arrangements are i Ofilccs, Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. London. pending with Signor Coletti, of the Italian Opera at Paris. --- That great composer, the Chevalier Meyerbeer, has arranged to visit this country, to bring out the CAMP DE SILESIE, and another of his admired chefs-d'oeuvre ; the principal parts in the Camp de Silesle, by Mae. Jenny Lind and Signor Fraschini. The celebrated Dr. Pelts 3lendelssohn Bartholdy will likewise visit England, and produce an Opera expressly composed for her Majesty's Theatre, the libretto founded on THE TE3IPEST of Shakspere ; written by M. Scribe. Miranda.. Ferdinand • • .. Caliban ....... Prospero •••••••• •• • • • • Sig. Lablache. It is likewise announced, with great satisfaction, that Signor Verdi, having recovered from his severe illness, has expressly composed for this theatre a new Opera, of which the plot is founded on the ROB BERS ef SCIIILLER. Rossini's Opera of ROBERT BRUCE, lately produced at the Aca demie Royale, has also been secured. Mesdames Castellan, Sanclsioli, and Montenegro ; Signora Gar den!, Superchi, and Fraschini, will appear before Easter. Mdlle. Jenny Lind, whose engagement commences in March, and extends until the end of the season, will appear immediately after Easter. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 3. TnEn.nomvrint, Lowest, 30; Highest, 39 ; Noon, 34 BAROMETER, 29 96.—'WIND N.N.W., rain and sleet. ifrGti WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TElls Morning .. 17 minutes after 4. I Evening .. 35 minutes after 4. Director of the Music and Coniuctor, Mr. BALFE. In addition to the above, several Operas, new to this country, will be produced, and the repertoire will be selected from the chef§• d'ceuvro of Mozart, Cimarosa, Rossini, Douizettl, Mercadante, Bel. UM, &c. The strictest attention has been paid to all the details, so that an ensemble may be prestatted perfect in all its parts. A NUMEROUS ORCIiESTRA, _ . . . of the most distinguished talent and power, has been selected from some of the best Orchestras of Europe. TIIE CHORUS has been chosen with the greatest care from Italy, Germany, and England ; and will comprise upwards of Eighty Per formers. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled RALY RATTLER; or, The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole stgength of the Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Deulin ; Pantaloon, Herr R. Deulin ; Columbine, Mdile. Theodore ; Clown, Herr N. Deulin ; Punch, Herr E. Deulin. the ruinous effect that the diminution of the duty on rum would have on the distilling trade throughout Ireland, and to claim, on grounds of justice and sound policy, that the projected diminution of duty should be of a te.n porary, and nct of a permanent character." Hitherto the extraordinary duty charged on rum has nearly banished it from the Irish market. In 1809, the average annual consumption of rum in Ireland amounted to no less than one million gallons, whereas for the last four or five years it has diminished to thirteen thousand, twelve thousand, and even eleven thousand gallons in each year: this was owing chiefly to the duty being Gs. Bd. per gallon higher than that on spirit manufactured in Ireland. It was not for the purpose of encouraging the consumption of ardent spirits, or the trade of the distiller in that country, that the duty on Irish spirits was fixed at the low rate of 2s. Bd. per gallon ; of all articles it was that which might most justly be taxed, and the diminution in the production of which would be hailed with the greatest delight by the philan thropist. But its use could not be wholly abolished, or even materially checked, by any amount of tax ation, or any restrictive measures. An attempt to do so would inevitably lead to illicit distillation on a gigantic scale, and the demoralisation of vast num bers of the peasantry—indeed of all classes of society. As the Chancellor of the Exchequer most truly stated, " the only limit to the amount of duty on spirits is the risk of illicit dis tillation ;" the measure of the duty should therefore be the facilities and opportunities afforded in each of the countries for the production of contraband spirits. This varies materially in different localities, for while 7s. 10d. per gallon can be levied in England, it was found that 3s. Bd. was the maximum that could he obtained in Scotland, while any attempt to raise a higher duty than 2s. Bd. in Ireland was invariably defeated, and led to the most injurious results to the fair trader, and occasioned the working of an in credible number of potteen stills, and almost universal breaches of the Excise•laws in that country. For that reason, therefore, and that reason only, the duties in the several parts of the United Kingdom were fixed at 7s. 10d., 3s. Bd., and 2s. Bd. respec tively, and a great boon was thus given to the Irish distillers, which it is not desired or intended to take from them. The reduction now about to be made in the duties on rum is a just debt due to our West Indian colonists. They are our fellow-subjects, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of British citizens. Up to the last session of Parliament a certain pro tection was afforded to the staple commodities of the. West India islands, which was than withdrawn for the general benefit of the entire kingdom:; the colonists had a just claim for the abolition of all injurious restrictions on the use of their produce. It should, in justice to them, have been contemporaneous with the withdrawal of protection. But, although the equity of the claim was acknowledged, and a Minis terial, indeed a legislative, promise given for t their re lief, the measures calculated to effect the object were necessarily postponed to the present time. A differential duty of sixpence per gallon, it was, on due investigation, found, might justly be retained as an equivalent for the disadvantages to which the home distillers are subjected by the Excise regula tions, and that is given to the Irish and Scotch as well as to the English distiller; and, therefore, none have any just cause of complaint. If the Irish dis tillers sought an abolition of the restrictions on the use of Irish spirit in this country, and that (on pay ment of the difference of duty) the same freedom of transit from Ireland to England should be allowed that is now sanctioned from one part of Ire land to another, their claim would receive the sup port to which it was justly entitled, and its concession would lead to a great increase in the quantity of Irish spirits consumed in this country. Holland the entire possession of Sumatra, anti to England that of the peninsular of Molacca. It confirms the rights of Great Britain to Singapore and the abandonment of all pre tensions on her part to the islands situated to the south of that establishment; it stipulates the reciprocal admission of the vessels and subjects of the two Powers to all their pos sessions, except the Moluccas; it treats of the Celebes, Timor, Ceram, of little isles like Battam, Bintang, or Lingin, but it says not a word of Borneo, and contains nothing which can apply to the present matter. In even reading attentively the treaty, and the documents annexed to I', in studying their spirit, and seeking to explain the results which they are destined to produce, it is difficult for an impartial mind not to arrive at the conclusion that in what concerns Borneo and the isles dependent on it, the intention of the negotiators was to reserve the question, or still better, to allow it to follow its natural course without making it the object of any particular stipulation, and to have recourse for the future to the pre scriptions of the law of nations." The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Address commenced on Monday, but as the Address is debated paragraph by paragraph, it is supposed that the discus- sion on the Spanish marriages will not take place until Thursday. The following addition to the paragraph in the Address on the Montpensier marriage will be pro posed by MM. BILLAULT and Durauna " If, on the occasion of that event, any difference has ma nifested itself between your Government and that of a neighbouring people, France has a right upon reckoning that the good relations shall be re-est a bli s h e d , w i thout costing anything either to her i nterests or her dignity." On Monday, M. ROGER (du Nord) opened the de bate by censuring the conduct of the Ministry, in regard to the occupation of Cracow, as wanting in dignity; he was followed by M. DESMONVEAUX DE GIVRE, who de fended the Ministerial policy with regard to Cracow ; and after a speech from M. GARNIER PAGES, the general discussion closed, and the first paragraph of the Address was agreed to. The Three per Cents. fell 60c. on the Paris Bourse on Monday, apprehensions being entertained that public tranquillity might be disturbed in that capital in conse quence of the increased price of bread. As measures of precaution, the military posts had been doubled and the troops had been confined to their barracks. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 77f. 70c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 80c.; the Otzleans Railroad Shares, 1,220 f. ; Rouen, 875 f. Havre, 680 f. ; Great Northern. 606 E 25c ; Avignon, 820 f. ; Vierzon, 570 f. ; Bourdeaux, 540 E; Basle, 205 E; Paris and Strasburg, 4701.; Tours and Nantes, 466 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 4801. ; Bourdeaux and Cette, 450 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 34. MARSEILLES, JAN. 27. Marseilles and Avignon, 842 f. 50c. ; Northern, 620 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 2. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 12% —Dutch Rhenish, 4—East Indian, 36—Great Southern of Madras, I ,6—Namur and Liege, 2 3 ,6—Northern of France, 12 1 ,6—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 Sambre and Meuse, 6%—Tours and Nantes, 3}6. It ►ill be remembered that one of the first acts of the Provisional Government of Geneva, after the late revolu tion, was to declare that it would hold the members of the last Council re:ponsible for all the damage caused by the troops in the attempt to resist the - insurrection. The amount of damage having been estimated at 42,000 f., the members of the late Council were ordered to pay it. They refused, on the ground that their condact in the insurrection was imposed upon them by the law for the preservation cf public order; but a decree having been obtained from the tribunal for immediate payment, they yielded to force, and paid the money. A few days ago several of the citizens of Geneva held a meeting for the purpose of raising a subscription to repay the sum thus unjustly wrung from the members of the late Govern ment. The latter, however, have, in an address to their fellow-citizens thanking them for their sympathy, de clined receiving the proposed reimbursement. Madad papers to the 26th ult. have arrived. They cont in no intelligence. No Ministry bad beentformed up to that date. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 26.—The Three per Cents. closed on that day at 31 15.16; the Five per Cents. at 21 15-16; C.tupons at 181. Accounts from Constantinople, dated 13th January, announce that the Circassians hare gained a brilliant victory over the Russians. On the 19th December they stormcd Marquki, having completely defeated /he Rus sians, and killed great numbers of them. The loss of the Circassians was 300 men. When the accounts left they were preparing to attack Abouhour. We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The note of M. GUIZOT, in reply to Lord PALMERS• TON, is the subject of comment in all of therm. The Debats, the Epoque, and the Presse are the only papers that support M. GulzoT, and it is easy to judge of the necessity to which they ate reduced, when we find the Epoque actually praising M. GUIZOT for the " can dour, uprightness, and frankness" which he has ex hibited from the beginning t) the end of there nego tiations. The Opposition papers of all shades 'consider this last note as a failure. The Constitutionszel says of it— r• There is nothing new in this fresh pleading of ➢f. Guizot, no serious refutation of the conclusions so clearly to 1)t) drawn from the documents produced by each party ; nothing can be more empty than this last document, drawn up ns if by a Procureur, who fancies he is refuting arguments 'by pre tending not to have heard them." The Sicie comments on it in the same strain, and adds the following:— " M. Guizot devotes a great portion of his dispatch to prove to Lord Palmerston that it is the latter who, by direct ing several of his criticisms against the acts attribn ted by him to inviolable persons, has dictated the principle art Emitted iu England as in France, that the King can do no wrong. This argument would make a good article in the columns of the Journal des Dibats ; but it is not the less true that the only means of seriously carrying this principle into practice is never to speak either of the acts or personal opiniaus of the Prince, and to deliver up to controversy only the ;acts and opinions of the Government." The Commerce considers the conduct of M. 4 G UIZOT from the moment Lord PALMERSTON entered office to be proof that the French Minister, and the with whom he was acting, were engaged in an intrigue to overthrow the Whigs and to bring back the Toees. The Quolidienne and the France are to the full as severe in their strictures on M. GUIZOT as the liberal papers are. Speaking of the justification offered by the Deka for M. GUIZOT'S reserve to Lord NOR MANDY, the France says— " Nothing authorised M. Guizot to reveal his sal ets to the English Ambassador; nothing prescribed an imp - rudent confidence in the man charged viith the support of ri val in terests; but there is a distinction between the reserve com manded by policy and the mesquineries and f a l se h oo d s dis avowed by a sense of dignity, which M. Guizot appoars to have disregarded." The Presse is outrageous with England for - .taking possession of Labuan; and, following in the wake of the National of the preceding day, splutters a vast de:il about the violation by England of the treaty of 1824,1 u such taking possession. It is evident, however, fro m the manner in which the subject is treated, that the It :arned Theban who wrote the article has never read the treaty. This argument from the treaty of 1824, which wat; used by the National of Sunday, is disposed of by the Jinzrnal des Debats in the following satisfactory manner r— "All the argumentation of the National consists in this —the occupation of the island of Labuan by England is an usurpation committed in direct violation of the treaty passed in London on March 17, 1824, between England and. Hol land, of which latter country the treaty guarantees tag rights 1 over Labuan. The National appears to think aat we are ignorant of the existence of this treaty, andi of the representations which the journals of the Maggie and Batavia, in grounding themselves on it, have put forward whenever there was a question of Labuan. It is nm•staken. As we said on Saturday, it is a long time since Vita matter has been projected, and however ill-informed we :may be thought, it is not reasonable to suppose that some neat the discussion that has arken in England and 801 l and on this subject should' not have reached us. Far from. that, we desired to search into the matter ourselves, and we 'aaye done what the National ought undoubtedly to have dime before launching forth somewhat rashly into the quest. 4 .ori. We have read the treaty of 1524, the basis of the diseu. isi on and of the rights of both parties. 'We have it at this; :moment before us, and we affirm that in none of its 17 articles is it possible, unless one is blinded by personal inter( ;at or by foolish passions, to find anything that is contrai:y to the creation of English establishments at Labuan, or e stem in the independent part of Borneo. This treaty, which re gm fates at present in a sovereign manner the respective sits tat ions of England and Holland in the Malay archipelago, iillows to MAGAZINES CONTINUED. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S. By far the most important article in the present number is the one entitled " Prospects of British Commerce in Japan." We entirely agree in opinion with the author of this article, that the fact of the failure of the American and French missions is a reason why no time should be lost in sending an English mission, organised upon a proper scale of magnificence, to the Court of Juddo, and we also believe that such mission would be successful. France has so little connexion with the East that it is not likely the Japanese Government would pay much deference to any mission from a nation with which she is so little acquainted. The Americans have appeared in the Eastern seas much too recently to have made any deep impression on the minds of a people who look with reverence on anti quity. The Dutch, self-degraded by their unworthy concession to Japanese prejudices, ate looked upon with sovereign contempt, as beings of an inferior race. The Spaniards and Portuguese are hated, on account of the attempts made by their Priests to subvert the Japanese Empire, and which led to the expulsion and exclusion of foreigners from the Japanese terri tory. Indeed, we suspect that the profession of the Roman Catholic religion by any nation, would be a bar to its entering into any relations with Japan, for the present at least. Certain we are that the appear ance of a Roman Catholic Priest, as, an attache to any mission to Japan, would be a serious obstacle to its success. England, however, is not Roman Ca tholic. Unlike Holland, she has never succumbed to Japanese prejudices ; she is an ancient nation, having heretofore had treaties with Japan upon perfect equality. Her flag is well known in the Japanese seas. Her success in the Chinese war, her moderation in the hour of victory, and her faithful adherence to treaties are known and appreciated by the Japanese. The great majority of the nation, it is evident, are most anxious to be permitted to trade with strangers, and from the tenour of his answers it is manifest that the reluctance of the Emperor to re-establish commercial intercourse with the rest of the world arises more from a respect for the old traditions than from conviction of the truth of the arguments ad duced in favour of the policy of exclusion ; and when he shall be solicited by his ancient ally to again enter into terms of amicable relationship, on a footing of perfect equality, there can be but little doubt that he will listen t) the overture, and, giving way to the representations of his subjects, consent to renew his ancient treaty of commerce with England. Before the exclusive system was adopted the Japanese were among the most enterprising traders of the world, trading even as far as Java in their junks. Of the value of the Japanese trade we may judge from the fact— "That the Portuguese, when they first opened a trade with Japan, made prodigious fortunes in the course of a few years. Macao was entirely built with the profits of this trade, which, during a certain period, were literally incredible, upwards of three hundred tons of gold having, it is said, been shipped off annually. The lowest gain upon which the merchants reckoned, as the result of a voyage of two or three weeks, was cent. per cent. both ways ; and the D u t c h, w h en they succeeded to the Por tuguese, being a still more needy and unscrupulous peo ple, sometimes raised this to five hundred per cent. Nay, one of the most respectable writers who professes to based his statements on the commercial archives of the Dutch Company, avers that occasionally as much as five thousand per cent. was cleared. " These facts we mention, not as aiming at or desir ing such gains, but merely by way of ill us t rat i ng t h e value of the epadese trade, the riches and extent of which, in the present state of our information, it is im possible to calculate. Nearly all the latest accounts con cur in rspresenting the population of the group at be tween forty-five and fifty millions, aIL of whom have made some progress in civilisation, and might become customers for the good of Europe and America; though, from indications not to be mist:4l:(.n, we may conclude that English manufactures and the productions of India would be the universal favourites." Such is tha market which if we employ the proper means will most assuredly be open to us, and there fore do we trust that the Government will lose no time in employing for us those means, and achieving for themselves one of those bloodless victories, the glories of which far transcend all the triumphs of war. " The Dreamer and the Worker "is continued in this number. The story does not advance a step, but we have some pretty descriptions of Welsh scenery. Angus Reach contributes a pleasant prolusion, entitled " John Bull and his Bul locks," the bullocks being the denizens of the Smithfield Bullockery, against which Angus Reach, in common with every other sensible man, raises his voice, and raises it in vain, for Smithfield will not be put down until an alderman shall have been tossed up ; then, and not until then, will the nu i sance b e abated. The remaining articles of this number are of average merit. We, however, miss St. Giles and St. James. , ,- • ._..,,..A.; , • r. . „,, - ,;-_-v i, , -....pv : ; • ,1 ....,_./ •4, 6 ..... ..,... .., ' - 3 '....,,' / ....,. ' 5141111116 , ~. . , : b , ..t.:,_,,, ..,46,110111tab ,;:! • ......6 - : i e , , 1 111, . 1 ,, , e d e,_. -,,, . a i •. 4 ' •Fiz, - ::...*-- '-‘ t • '';'.5:...._ intattin _sltutt LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1847. On presenting two petitions from certain growers of malt in Linlithgow and Dalkeith, Lord STANLEY availed himself of the opportunity to throw some im pediment, if possible, in the way of the Government, by inveighing against the Ministerial measure for the admission of sugar in the operations of brewing and distillation. The Noble Lord appeared to protest against this proposition simply for the purpose of indicating his continued adherence to the obsolete principles of Protection. There was no necessity for this parade of pertinacity. The imperviousness of Lord STANLEY'S mind to the convictions which, to other men are inevitable, from the combined argu ments of reason and experience, is thoroughly com prehended by the mass of the population. It needs neither such observations as those uttered on Tuesday night in the Upper House by Lord STANLEY, nor such demonstrations as the memorable whitebait dinner o' last season, to convince us of the obstinacy of the Noble Leader of the Protectionist Oppo sition. There is an insurmountable barrier— a sort of moral chevaux-de-frieze—between the Noble Lord and the free-trade movement—the alternate cross-bars of the chevaux-de-frieze being hi 3 egotism and his ambition. Every sensible observer of the fluctuations of our statemen will acknowledge at once that nothing short of a political miracle can remove the scales of agricultural prejudice from the eyes of Lord STANLEY, or pour the light of true com • mercial knowledge into the wilful darkness of his judgment. Even if the flourishing state of our na tional revenue, and the increased prosperity of our native and colonial agriculturists, and the improved condition of our labouring classes, and the extended comforts of our shopkeepers and manufacturers, at tested at this moment the advantages of free trade, Lord STANLEY would still require some preternatural transmutation of his whole nature before he could avow himself a conrert to the doctrines of mercantile freedom. The whole individuality of Lord STANLEY would be annihilated in the change. He would be metamorphosed into somebody else by the abandon ment of all his old and cherished phantasms. Like RIP VAN WINKLE on awaking from a trance of years, Lord STANLEY would be bewildered as to his own identity. Who does not remember the exclamation of RIP VAN WINKLE-- " I'm not myself; I'm somebody else ; that's me there!"—pointing to a neighbour. Inevitably, Lord STANLEY would find himself in a state of incredulity quite as extravagant as that imagined by WASHING TON IRVING. He would behold himself surrounded by the manifestations of the blessings consequent upon an emancipated commerce, and be loth to credit his own stolid loyalty to the cause of protection. That would be inevitable, supposing the advantages of free trade could be obtained at a bound, instead of gra dually and progressively. As it would be out of the course of all nature, however, to realise the benefits of the new system suddenly, Lord STANLEY must cun tinue the same pertinacious upholder of the monopo- list creed. He must wait for the miracle we speak of .although the Noble Leader of the Protectionists endeavoured to disguise his objections to the proposed admission of sugar into distilleries, under the plea of it; being calculated to injure our colonial cultivators of sugar and our native growers of malt, the mssk ‘N as too transparent to screen his real purpose. The ist of Lord STANLEY'S objections amount, in fact, to the advocacy of those old principles of monopoly ,Ahich were finally exploded by the Legislature (luring the course of last session, and which have been cleansed from our commercial code. Allow the introduction of sugar to our distillers, and permit at the same time the gradual reduction of duty upon sugar grown in foreign plantations from 21s. to 145., xo as to be upon an equality with our colonial pro duce, and what will be the consequence ? Why, ex claims Lord STANLEY, the consequence is ob vious ; the facilitation of the purchase of foreign sugar will naturally and necessarily deteriorate the interests of our colonial planters, and the extended employment of that commodity in distillation will prove equally prejudicial to our growers of malt. The proposition, we will admit, is plausible enough at a superficial glance, but its sophistry vanishes 'upon a closer examination. It is reported that grain is now so far reduced, and the duty upon sugar still con tinues so considerable, that there is no inducement whatever to our distillers to forsake their system of extracting saccharine matter from malt for the pur pose of obtaining it directly from sugar. Besides this, the argument of Lord STANLEY against the dimi nution of the duty upon foreign sugar to the amount levied upon colonial sugar, is nothing more than a revival of the old Protectionist howl. Because it suits the purpose of the discomfited mono polists, they altogether throw into the back. ground the ob.ect of the Administration in intro ducing this measure in reference to the employment of sugar in distillation--that object being to afford brewers and distillers a substitute for malt whenever a panic has so far acted upon the corn-market as to carry grain up to the enormous price of 70s. or 80s. per quarter. That is the grand intention of the Government, and that is the inten tion which Lord STANLEY and his followers would misrepresent as a wanton interference with the inte rests of our English growers of malt and of our colonial cultivators of sugar. The logic of the Pro. tectionists has become too threadbare, however, to cover their insidious attempts with anything like decency. We have zealously advocated the interests of Ire land on all occasions, to the best of our ability ; we have urged the adoption of all such measures as may be calculated to afford relief to her suffering children, or to be beneficial in any respect to the Irish gene rally, or to any particular class of Irishmen, unless some great principle of national policy, or national justice, should be infringed on, or violated by the concession. When demands, unreasonable in them selves, and in direct opposition to the reco,;nised principles of legislation, are made, it becomes our duty, as public journalists, to expose the fallacies of which they are founded, and to enter our protest against the evil precedents of again recurring to ex ploded doctrines and vicious principles. The session of 1846 was remarkable for the total abolition of monopoly, and what has been most improperly termed protection. Class legislation received its death-blow; and we could scarcely have supposed that gentlemen, who were arrayed in the ranks of the free-traders in their glorious con flict and triumphant victory, should be found seriously pressin g upon the attention of the Government the propriety of preserving for their own exclusive benefit a taxation, not for the purposes of re venue, but of protection, amounting almost to a prohibition, and practically creati ng a monopoly i n an article of very general consumption. Yet such has been the conduct of the Irish distillers, and such would be the result, if any weight were given to the arguments of the gentlemen forming the deputation fro m that body, w h o waited on the Secretary for Ireland on Saturday last. The object of that deputation was "to represent ARRANGEMENTS FOR TILE BALLET. 31dlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Lucite Grahn, and Mdlle. Cerito; in addition to which an engagement has been mac with Mdllc. Caroline Rosati (of La Scala, at Milan, and other great theatres of Italy), who will make her first appearance on the first night of the season in a New Ballet, expressly composed and arranged for her, by M. Paul Taglioni ; Mdlle. Wauthier, of La Scala (her first appearance in this country); Madame Petit Stephan, Millie. Honore, Millie. Elise Montfort ; Mdlles. Thevenot, Julien, Lamoreux, Emile, Fanny Pascales, and Bertin ; and 31dlic. Caroline Baucourt, of the Academie Royale, andoLa Scala, Milan (her first appearance in this country). In consequence of the enthusiastic manner in which this eminent artiste was received last season, hopes arc entertained that Taglionl may be induced to appear for a limited number of performances. 31. St. Leon, 31. d'Or, of the Ac.ideinie Royale, Paris (his first appearance in this country), M. Gosselin, M. di Mattis, Sig. Venafra, M. Gouriet, M. Paul Taglioni, and M. Perrot. - - Composer of the Ballet Music, Signor Pugni Principal Artist, Mr. Marshall. Maltres de Ballet—M. Paul Tagiioni, M. Casati, of La Scala ; and M. Perrot. Sous-Maitre do Ballet, M. Gosselin ltegissetir de la Dame, M. Petit. _ An Original Grand Ballet will be produced, written expressly for her MajesWs Theatre, by the celebrated poet, Henri Heine, on a subject selected from the Old Legends of Germany. A Novel and Poetical Ballet, for the subject of which the establishment is in debted to the kin tuess of a noble and distinguished Poetess, entitled EGERIA. . _ . . The celebrated Pas de Quatre and Pas de Deesses will be revived, and an entirely new Divertissement, introducing another Grand Pas by M. Perrot, which, uniting all the peculiar attractions of the Pas des DEesses and Pas de Quatre, will present a novel feature of strik ing originality, and will combine the talent of all, to be entitled LA CONSTELLATION. The Subscription will consist of the same number of nights as lasl season. The Theatre will open in the middle of February, when will be produced, for the first time at her Majesty's Theatre, Donizetti's adm red Opera of LA FAVOItITA, in which Signor Gardoni and Signor Superchl will make their first appearance in this country, and an entirely NEW BALLET, by M. Paul Taglioni, in which Mademoiselle Caroline Rosati will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LA.NE THIS EVENIUG Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, called THE FAVOURITE Alplions° XI, air. Strettoa ; Balthazar, Mr. Boma' ; Ferdinand, Mr. ravers ; Don Caspar, Mr. Horneastle ; Leonora, Missßomer ; Iris, Miss Collett. Are: which a new Ballet, called THE PRETTY SICILIAN. In which M. Croce, M. Basis, and Ile. Baderna will appear. To conclude with the Third Act of DER FREISEHUTZ. Adolph, Kr. King; Ca , par, Mr. Stretton ; Ziuniel, 3fr. Payne; Linda, Miss Mess. nt ; Rose, Miss Poole. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. I. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Comedy, calle,l THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far rell, Webster, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal. Mrs. Clover, Mrs. Hamby, Mrs. Yarn°ld, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &c. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture. " Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and " Helen" Polkas, &c. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Hiss P. Horton, Sirs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. LAST THREE NIGHTS OF " THE BATTLE OF LIFE." THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Conde Drama, called .£5OO REWARD. Characters by Me:.srs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, IL Butler, Mif:s Irtliars, and Miss Forster. ARK : which a new Farm, called THE WIGWAM. Characters by Messrs. Matthews, Oxberry. Kedby, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To conclude with the Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual or Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permissim. of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albert Smith, I.:sq.. called TIIE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha• racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly; Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. LINDEP. THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. TIIIS EVENING Will be perrormcd the Drama, entitled the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Characters by Messrs. Wiight, Boyce, Worrell, Cul lenford, 0. Smith, Madame Ce!este, Miss Harding, Mrs. Matthews, Ddlas Chaplin, &c. After which, the Farce of A NAROB FOR AN HOUR. Mr. Frampton. Mr. Worrell ; Sam Hobbs, Mr. Lambert ; Dick Dumpy, Mr. Muoyant; Miss Leslie, Miss Harding; Nancy Scaggs, Mrs. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTOATILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Mallow, will ex hihit their wonderful Jena Gynnastiques. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded en the Ballet of LA wsELf.E, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Nail Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Collen'ord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S T EATRE, D-STRE ET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. JUVENILE NIGHT. THIS EVENING Will be p , rformed the new Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS Of MtJNI ll ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Col. Bertrand l, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Artnincourt, Mr. Barker ; Capt. Bellejamb:, Mr. Delavanti ; Lieut. Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; Cornet Grosdos, Mr. Compton ; Baron Bristlelach, Mr. Walton ; Bumps, Mr. Honner; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, E. Honner, Mucks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte; Ertel, Miss Marshall ; Madame Grouts, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which Herr STEINL, from Stockholm, will exhibit the Feats of Eight Automatons. To - be followed by the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime; en. titled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE or, The One-eyed Gent. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbldge ; Sprite, Mr. U. Marshall Clown, Mr. Flexmore. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. To conclude with the new Comic Drama, entitled the KING OF THE BRIGAN DS. Lete'liar, Mr. Compton r- Marronard, Nr. Granby; Bernard, Mr. Ryder; Do Bregy, Mr. Fisher; Pierre, Mr. Honner ; Helena, Mrs. Hughes ; Dorethea, Mrs. Fusbroke. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed the popular Drama, called LE DOCTEUR NOIR Principal characters by MM. Lemaitre, Cartizny, Pascal, Loden, Dav d, Dumery, Rem, Mime. Grassau, 3ldlles. Clarisse, and Vallee. Boxes, 65., Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stubs, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN :IERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat ing Their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING (Thursday), and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Ilali-past Eight. And, in consequence of the continued demand for places, will repeat their DAY PERFORMANCE on Wednesday Morning next, Feb. 10, and every Wednesday Morning until Easter. Doors open at Two o'clock, and the performance commences at Half-past Two. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, t 3. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor. Mr. W. Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family.—Mr. BATTY respectfully begs to acquaint the public that he purposes giving a free night, for the relief of the destitute Irish and Scotch, on TiIURSDA Y, Feb 11. The evening's receipts will be given, and the extensive resources of the Theatre will be brought into.action. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Coarse Of Ifen and Steeds. Entire change of the SCENF:S .... of the CIRCLE, To conclude with the successful Comic Equestriatilairy Pantomime entitled THE FORTY THIEVES ; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Roches ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. Box -ottce open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and c , m►nence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. B roao.foo t. MEXICO. The following important hews is posted at the North and South American Coffee House. ARRIVAL OF THE LONDON PACKET-SHIP NORTHUMBERLAND, CAPT. GRESWOLD. NEW Yonx, JAN. 12.—The Mexican Congress has decreed that they will not think or treat of peace until every hostile foot has cleared Mexican soil, and every vessel that lines her coast is withdrawn. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of last Night.) The Cotton -market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet. Sales, 1,500 to 2,000 bales only, of which speculators took 600 bales American. Railway Shares were lower generally. Accounts, per Northumberland packet-ship from New York, have been forwarded to the North and South Ame rican Coffee-Hoge. The dates were January 12th. The corn trade was dull, and cotton was quiet, though it main tained its value. The Mexican war was likely to continue, as the Congress had adopted Santa Anna's view, and decided that there should be no treating for peace while the American troops were in the country. Respecting the Government pecuniary wants, we are advised that— The refusal of Congress to levy a duty upon tea and coffee has defeated all the calculations of the Secretary of the Treasury, and compelled him to look about for other ways and means to raise the revenue and to increase the credit of the Government. It appears that Mr. Walker assured those who took tjse last loan that a duty of twenty five per cent. should he placed upon tea and coffee, and it was upon that assurance the favorable bids were made. We have no doubt but that the depreciation in the market prices of the new United States 6's has been in a measure produced by the vote in the House of Representatives upon the reso tion to tax tea and coffee. _ Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor write from Manchester:— "There is certainly nothing in the aspect of our foreign or colonial markets,nor in the social condition of our home popu lation, to encourage a hope of that large demand immediately springing up which would fully employ all the productive resources of our cotton manufacturers. On the contrary, the likelihood of high prices for food continuing, at least for some months, to rule in this and neighbouring nations, must tend materially to abridge demand for manufactures; the drain of money in payment for imports of foreign grain, to supply the national loss of several millions of wealth, occasioned by the failure of the potato crop in Ireland ; the necessary increase in the ratesof discount, and accompanying contraction of the springs of commerce ; the uncertainty of an increase in our local and national burdens, consequent on the calamity which has fallen upon Ireland in the first place,—all these cir cumstances conspire to render highly probable the fact of a diminished consumption of goods, and a consequent decline in their value. On the other hand, the opinion is pretty generally received that there will be a deficient sup ply of cotton, and that the present high rates will be firmly upheld; and this fact is relied on by many who infer that a limitAtion of production will, before long, be rendered ine vitable, and that the downward tendency in the prices of yarns and goods will be arrested. The ultimate supply of cotton yet remains problematical, and, as we have no longer any confidence in manufacturers regulating their production by the circumstances of the times or the simple rules of commercial policy, we cannot at present venture to suggest been p pear rather t h t to r bear bitter - d t a h y ; f thoughut future." r e." to our friends how best to time their invest men ts, w hilst so manyTheEnglish conflicting un t influenceshave a still somewhat fluctuating. Consols have been 90% to 91 1 / 9 for present transfer and time. New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. have been 92% to 93V 5 •, and the Three per Cents. % 90% to 91 1 %. Bank Stock has b een fi rm at 203 to 204. Exchequer-oills have been 3s. t o 6 s. prem i um. The Foreign Bonds have been very d u ll. S pan i sh Three ,111/2, andavebe Brazilian en 3 4%, a n d M ex i can 22. Chilian 85. Shares have been rather firmer. have p er C b e e n e t i: 94 BRIT ISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .• • • • • • • •• • . •• 204 203 BRI , IES. Three per Cunt. Reduced Ann!ilties .. .. 203% 91% 90% 911 91 91% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities . .. 91 907/ 'y 116 ' • New Three-and -a-Quarter per Cent. Anus• 93 920 93% 91 1 ,8 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5 ,1860 •• 0 0- ,,, N. 93 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .• .• 0% '"' 9% India Stock • • • • • •• ••, • • • • _ 9% Consols for Account • • • • ••• .• • .. 90% 91 _ . 250 Exchequer Bills• 1N d. 91% 1,0001... .. .... 6 116 3 d ;••• _ 6 pnl. 5001. •• .• .... 5_ _ _ pm. 3 Ditto, Small • -- •••• 67 4 pm, 5 4 ONE FOREIGN' FUNDS. O'CLOCK . CLOSING Braz ilian Bond;, 5 per Cent •• .. 85 PRICES. Chi Nan Bonds, 6 per Cent ..• .. 94% 85 Mexican Bonds , 1846, 5 p er C ent .. 22 94% Ditto, for the Account .... .. 22 22 22 R uss ian Bonds .. ~ .. .. _ Spanish Bondi, 5 per Cent ~ .. 111% Ditto, Three per Cent „ .. .. _ _ _ , Ditto, for the Accou n t .. .• .. 34% 34 Dividend. 4 on the above payable in London. 34N Belg i an Four-and -a-Ralf per Cent .. 943{ Dutch TWO-and-a-ltalf per 94% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. .... 92% BUSINESS PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT CLOSIIICI RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Birmingham and .... 13% %• • .... . 13% Wolves'., and Dudley.. 423..... 4% p........ 5 , A p Birmlng., firming., Wolver.,& Stour Valley 5•• ~.. 7.. .. .... . 7 xf ß or e d st j n un i Junction 5 Bucking ........30 .... 26% .• •... 2614 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. —2%,.... 214 %• • ...... 2% Cheltenham and Oxford .. .. 2 .... ........ 1% Cornwall .. • • • • ...., 2% ... 2% Caledonian Ambaele. • • Direct Northern Scrip .. • • .• xy, 5% ,rnhaNmsjoutniliticirlegioo.n,.. .. .. .. 84s. .. .. _ .. .. .. .. .. 14 p 4 .... 4 3, .. ..... .. 4 3 / Ditto, York Extension • • • • is . ,4 50 .... • ..... Edinburgh and GlasgoW • • • • Shares .. .. 12% .... 18%. Ditto, Quarter Edinburgh and Northern .• .. 12% .... i E D a u st bl em in acnodunlitelleis'ast...Jun.c.tion.. .... 2 1 0 2 .........: 21 % IA •• • • • • • • • : .• 21 2% .... a • .. •••• •••• 3 Ditto, New .. .. . • • • • • . Ely and Huntingdon .• • • •• • so -,3 u _ •• • •--13%.. Great Northera (London & York 2% .... 2% % ..... • • 2% Regd.) .. ..• • • • • • • • Do., do (Direst Northern Regd.) 3 % ••• • . 3 .1 4 , X•••• • • • • 3% Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 27 54 •• • • • 22 '• •• • ... ••• Great North of England . — lOO 5 •••• —5 9% •: .. 26;4. •.. : T 9% Ditto, New .. .. • • • • • • 72 73 • • • • .• .. 3 Ditto, Half Shares .. .• • • 59 •• • • 1914 _ Ditto, Quarter Shares .. Great Western .. .. .. —B5 ....124 125........ 1 7 25 Ditto, Fifths _ .. „ _2O •• • • Leeds and Bradford .. .. .. 35 •• " 817 ' 4 ...• •• .... % 8 ( 1 • 14 Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 4 34 •• " 9 , 8 % •••• • • • • 8 % Leicester and Bedford .. .. .... 1 1:: °•.• il 2-1) •••• •••• ri ii ii 2915. L L Li e o e yne d drp s on a .. 7 Thirsk —.. .. 22% •• • • — ;', L '' '••• • ' • • — 414 Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 24,3 •• • • "••• • • • 97 Ditto, Branch Half Shares • • 5 '• ••••• • • • • • X' Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. • • 3 54 •• • • '' ••••• • • • • • -'' London • • • • • • • a 3l3 n i 1 l i a North- Western gnheht4n&anNde'Sv C' jo Ditto. Consol. Fifths.. _5O .• .• 53% ••••• • • • • • 53 % Ditto, Quarters .. , .. 2 .• •• •••• • • • • • 2 .... 14 q 14 •. 14 Ditto ditto, New Shares :: • • 19 Ditto, Fifths _ 2 •• • • 194 19 Lynn and Dereham . .. London and South•-iVeeiern-41/. 65110 d.• • "• ' ..100 ....191 192 192 Ditto, i i tat Ditto : Ten ths S cri p . . .. .. .. : . . .. .. 5 5 .• .• .• 5 5u s i4 : .• •. : : .• : •• 55 3 4 Manchester and Leeds .: . . as un t c . t . . 5, 154 ....... 5 .. .. .. .. 55 2% .... • • • • • • 2% London and York Extension Scrip 25• ii •• " Londonderry and (2 1 i o era HO •• 17% .... 1054 Newcastle and Berwick '• • • Manchester and Southamp ton •• 2 " • 1 • • ••• • . Midland .. „ . - ..100 ..• • 12354 124.••••• 124 : : 82 13 •• .• •. 10 16 8 %: : ................ 10 1 8 6'4 Ditto, New • • • •• • _3O ••• • 3 ••• • ' ..... 35 Ditto, New .. •• • • .. 2 •• • • 6sh•• • • • • . 5 3 4 North British .25 •• •• 3 4 1 ,4 •• .• • • • • n ,, .. 20 .... 32 4 k 31% 32 .. .. 3 3 4 2 4 Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • • `5, •* •• 4 1 1 1 ••••• • • • • • 4114 Ditto, Exten.sion . .. • - 73 •• • • ~1 , - •••••• '' '' 1 % Ditto, Thirds .. • • • •• • 1 •• " ' 72.. •• "• • • 314 North Staffordshire :• • • • ' 5 •• • • 8 North Western .. . • . • • 2 14_ •• • • 2 % ••••• • • • • • 2% Scottish Midland .. • • 1734 .... 21 20% 21... , 21 4 Shrewsbury and Birmingha m •• •• 3 ••• • 4 • • • Shropshire Union .. . „, 425. ••• • % dis. ...... % dis. South Eastern and • Dovor • :: • • 33% •• • • 37 la • • • • •• • • • • 37 4 • Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 3 1i •• • • 7„, ••••• • • • • • 4 South Wales _ • .. .. 10 •• •• 4 N ..... ••• •• 7% South Yorkshire, Doncaster , and Goole .. .. . • 2.. • • 1 % 2 lli • • 1% York and Newcastle .... • • 1: 25 .... 37 3 . , % ...... 37/ 4 i Ditto, New.. • • • • • . 5 .... 11% Ditto, Preference . • • • •,. 2 •• • • 6% T's • York aisd North .Midland • • .. 50 ••• • •• '• • Ditto, Half Shares :: .25 .... 45 44% •• • . 4434 Ditto, Selby • • • 5 0 .... 89 .... • ..... 89 Ditto, Extension :• • • :: 20 •• • 3614 3t, 36 Ditto. Preference . • .• , 2 .:.. 11 % % ... • .. 12 Do. E. and W. lilding • E;t • en,... 5 .... 17 16% .. •:: 10% FOREIGN' RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 18 13% 104 14 Dutch Rhenish .. 7 4y, 4LA 4 1 4 Luxembourg • 6 1 2 2 Northern of France 8 • 12 11N 12 l2 Rouen and Ilavre .. 20 26 ...... • MIRES. Real del Monte, Unregistered • . •• •• .• • • 334 SIMAIIONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. Instead of being deteriorated by any preposterous fragments of verse, we find the February Number of Simmonds's Colonial peculiarly characterised by the excellence of its prose articles. The editor has looked up his contributors through a clearer speculum than in the preceding number. The magazine no longer contains anything in direct violation of all the prin ciples of good taste in literature. " Life in the Jungle," and the " Sketch of an Australian Convict," are amongst the most meritorious papers ; and the Colonial Intelligence is grouped together with the usual amount of care and discrimination. 7HE SPORTING REVIEW. With a couple of clever engravings, the " Otter," and " Who's up for the Rescue ?" the Sporting Re riew has its average number of sprightly and amusing articles. The old band of contributors, including Craven, Scribble, Harry Hieover, Cecil, Castor, and Oxonian, remains undiminished, and that is a gua rantee that the magazine is in no measure deficient in talent, or drollery, or sound and useful informa• tion upon sporting matters. TIC B - MAN IN 7 MOON. Edited by Alber, Smith and Angus B. Reach. This, the second number of "The Man in the Moon," is a glorious sixpennyworth of fun. As a sample, take " ANOTHER WRETCHED RIDDLE. " Why is a surgeon, since the mther discovery, like a swindler ? "Because he cuts off without payike (pain). " N.B. We are convinced that our readers won't stand many more of these." The illustrations, too, are excellent. " The Foreign Gentleman in London ; or, the English Adventures of M. Vanillo," engraved by the celebrated " Cham" of the " Charivari," is worth more than is charged for the whole number KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME. No. CLX. BRITISH WORTHIES. Vol. X. We have so repeatedly noticed this periodical on its original publication as " Old England's Worthies," that nothing remains for us to observe saving that the reprint is clear, and of a more convenient size, than in the former appeara►;ce of the biographies. • THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. The proportion of articles for February is—three upon religious subjects, and five otherwise. Each of those articles has an importance and an excellence of its own, but, to our thinking, the most important and the most excellent of them all is the last, devoted to a consideration of the "Characteristics of Crime." It is suggested by the volumes lately written by Alex. ander Dumas and Aurelius Ritter Von Fenerbach. Despite the repulsiveness of the theme, the reviewer has penned his observations with so much grace, and has illustrated his criticism by so many felicitous and sagacious ideas, that it possesses a considerable degree of fascination. "Lunacy Relieved by Musi cal Exercises" is clever and curious. We are glad to find the reviewer dissenting from that rash decla ration of Thomas Moore's, that " music is not an in tellectual thing." " Wild Sports of the highlands," and " The Minstrelsy of the English Border," are agreeable and entertaining chapters upon poetry and field exercises. " The Fawn of Sertorious," the " Preadamite Earth," and the " Correspondence of John, fourth Duke of Bedford," are admirable criti cal articles. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON ALMANACK. Among the numerous specimens of cheap but l la v i s h illustration, this beautiful almanack is not the least striking. Besides a variety of minor embellishments — astronomical, ornithological, and botanical—there are twelve engravings of the peculiar sports of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Persia, Africa, India, South America, North America, Norway, and Switzerland, namely, of hunting the stag, the otter, the fox, the wolf, *the wild boar, the wilvl ass, the lion, the tiger, the wild horse, the buffalo, the bear, and the chamois. The animation of these woodcuts is really ad mirable, and the graver and the pencil have been equally well handled in their production. Ia addition to what we have already mentioned, there are twelve historical ;ketches of various merit, some of them being worthy of the high advancement of the art of engraving. Whether we examine it as a meteorological, or an astronomical, or an agricultural, or a mercantile almanack, we find each de partment elaborately drawn up, and with a large supply of miscellaneous information, the publication presents a very useful and interesting appearance. VITAL CHRISTIANITY. By Alexander Vinci. This is a republication in an English version of a book already known most favourably to the ethical scholars of every European country. The translator is Robert Turnbull of Boston and we must acknowledge that he has rendered his author into our mother tongue at once faithfully and elegantly. To those who are unacquainted with the volume under notice, it may sound like an as. u ran e that its tendency is exclusive and sectarian when we say, that Dr. Vinet is the profussor of theology at Lausanne in Switzerland. The religious animosities which have embroiled the inhabitants of the Confedera don, would seem at first to justify that _suspicion. But emphatically such is not the case. The book is ad dressed to no particular class of religionists, it does not inculcate doctrines peculiar to this creed or to that creed, 1841. 3 it does not even touch upon the merits of the different sections of christendom or eulogise any one of them at the expense of the rest. Dr. Vinet regards Chris tianity in an aspect truly sublime—apart from every thing conventional. He appeals to the hears of ail christendom, he considers the Church cstablishcd by the fishermen of Palestine in its comprehensiveness, not in its exclusiveness. His writings speak at once to the imagi nations and judgments of all the believers in christittnity without distinction. The very mysteriousness of hip theme does not involve his lucubrations in mystery ; his ideas are clear and distinct, and he expresses them in the most limpid dictiop. Of the generous characr of the volume then is no necesii'y to speak, seeing that we can refer the reader at once to the chapters entitled " Power of the Feeble" and the "Box of Ointment." "Vital Christianity" is altogether a singular composition ; but its moral objects—namely reconciliation and incitement —are eminently good. MUSIC. TILE MUSIC BOOK. Part IV. This number contains two pieces of music by Mrs. G. A. a Beckett (one a beautiful duet, from the opera of The Young Pretender, the words of which are from the pen of Mark Lemon); one song by 13alfe, words by Barry Cornwall ; a song by Romer, words by Mark Lemon ; and a set of quadrilles by Tully. These names are alone sufficient to prove the spirit with which this excellent musical periodical is con ducted. This, the fourth part, fully sustains the high fame which the work has already acquired. THE ANNEXATION OF CRACOW. PROTEST OF THE PEOPLE OF CRACOW. We, inhabitants of the town and territory of the little republic of Cracow, being unable to resist force or to es tablish our just rights, are reduced to the necessity of resorting to the stratagem of anonymous writing in order to communicate to the world, our protest, and to make known the truth, so atrociously perverted by those who, having power in their hands, need not employ calumny and falsehood against the victim whom, after long tor ments, they have finally sacrificed. We consider it the more our duty now to protest, inasmuch as our feeble state is exposed to the same intrigues, the same perfidies, the same wicked drama which was performed at the downfall of our great country in 1773, 1793, and 1795. We shall confine within the inmost recesses of our hearts the expression of the sentiments which pervade us—a mere exposition of facts will be most eloquent. Fur some years past our independence has been, in fact, completely destroyed ; .our president, the Abl e Schindler, was an officer in the employment of Austria, so also was the Chief of the Police; the head of our clergy, the Able Letowshki, is appointed by Russia, and to that Government he is entirely devoted. The soldiers of our militia are all obtained from the Austrian army, and the officers are all German, selected from the troops of the three Governments called our " Protecting Powers." We have a D.ctator, who, though keeping in the shade, is nevertheless the more powerful and active. He is the Austrian President, who concen• tratee all the authority in himself. Such is the rigour of the police and of the censorship of our protectors, that not only in Gallicia and the kingdom of Poland properly so celled, but even in our unlieppy provinces of Lithuania, Volliynia, Podolia and the Ukraine, travelling and printing are more free than in our republic. Our political existence was strictly re duced to the liberty of commerce, to the privilege of coining money, to exemption from recruiting, and to the use of our language in the acts of the Government, as well as in the schools and in the university. Enthralled as we have been, how can we have merited the charges set forth against us in the manisfesto published on the day of our incorporation with Austria, and in articles in the German journals preceding and fidlowing that incorporation. It is false that our city aver was a focus of revolution, and that arms and warlike ammunition have been collected there. It is also false that it has been a place of meeting for the emissa ries of zany propaganda ehatever, as our pretended pro. tectors allege. As to the part taken by this little State in the attempted insurrection in February last, the fol lowing is a recapitulation of the facts : Apart of th e P o li s h em i g ration—its least numer o u s portion, the least prud en t an d the least patriotic, but that portion which had always been the most busy and violent—wished at all risks to organise an insurrection in Poland in the course of the year 1846. The par tisans of this movement unfortunately succeeded in drawing into their scheme a considerable number of the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Posen, and some of Gallicia. The Russian Government speedily became acquainted with this conspiracy, and resolved to make it serve its own purposes. Russia immediately sent to Cracow an exciting agent, Edward Donibrouski, a man of great energy and activity, and one well calculated to give extension to the conspi racy, and to organise it in the most demagogic style. His energy and s kill h a d more success i n Gallicia than with us, where he was only able to seduce a small number of individuals. The Austrian Government, though perfectly aware of the proceedings of the con spirators, took care not to disturb them ; it seemed, on the contrary, to wish that the conspiracy should not be defeated before it reached maturity. What could be the motive of this? What was the motive of Russia? This time will some day disclose. At length, on the 18th of February, the first movement for carrying the plot into effect was made near 'ramie*, in Gallicia. Cracow was perfectly tranquil. But this tranquillity was not of long duration ; for the Austrian General Collin immediately arrived and took possession of the city. He entered at the head of two battalions of infantry, three squadrons of light horse, and three pieces of artillery ; and, to his own force, he joined our militia, amounting to about 500 men. The inhabitants received notice that they were not to quit their houses ; that doors and windows were to be kept close,l ; that the patroles were ordered to tiro on any one who might come out at a door or look out at a window; and that all the windows were to be lighted throughout the night. This last was an effectual precaution fcr preventing the inha bitants from moving about, or peeping furtively into the streets. Two men and three women, who were impelled by hunger to venture out in quest of food, were killed by musket shots. During the sight some pla toons were firing on the Grand -square, and in the ad joining streets. This firing was returned by a party of police spies and some Jews, poSted in a place of conceal ment. A tavern-keeper, named Wogt, and some pet sons who were in his house, being deceived by this trick, fired from the windows some musket-shut on the mili tary, several of whom were killed and wounded. A farmer of the environs of Cracow, named Bela, also thought the combat a real one, and, followed by his farm servant, rushed out and attacked a post of light cavalry, killing one of the soldiers and dispersing the rest. He then dismounted from his horse, to collect the arms of the fugitives, and whilst thus engaged he was himself killed by some infantry, who at that moment arrived. These two men (the farmer and his servant) were the only enemies whom General Collin had to encounter iu the streets of Cracow. Nevertheless the repeated firing of the platoons was kept up, and the old walls of our city were shaken by discharges of cannon. On the night succeeding the third day after his entry, the Ge neral furtively quitted the city, and proceeded to Pod gone, having caused the resident ministers of the Three Powers and the principal member of our Government to precede his arrival thither. He took away with him all our militia, without leaving a man to guard the pri sons. Thanks to the precautions which had been adopted, two hours elapsed before any one dared venture into the street, and consequently before there could be any certain knowledge of the retreat of the Austrians. Never was astonishment equal to ours when we found that the Austrians had fled, that no one was in pursuit of them, and that we were left without either govern ment or militia. But astonishment was doubled when in the guard-houses of the Grand-square, and in the Dominican church, arms and ammunition were disco vered which had been left behind by the Austrians. General Collin had retired to Podgorza, a suburb of Cracow, subject to Austria, and which the Vistula (very narrow in that part) separates from the town. The only communication between Podgorza and Cracow is by a pontoon bridge, which opens in the middle to admit the passage of trading boats, and which is entirely removed on the occurrence of great swells of the river. Some of the populace having made sure of the retreat of the Aus trians, took advantage of the darkness of the night to remove some of the boats which support the bridge, so as to cut off all communication. General Collin fired upon these people, though it was evident that they had no intention of passing the bridge for any hostile pur pose. Next morning the General gave the order for re tiring, and though there was not the shadow of an enemy, either before or behind him, yet he did not halt until he arrived at Wadowice, the chief town of the cir cle of that name, situated about 14 leagues from Cracow, on the road to Vienna. At Cracow, meanwhile, the first interval of stupor being passed, measures were taken for the maintenance of order and public safety. A pro visional guard was formed and . p 1 teed under th e com mand of Count Joseph Wodziske a veteran of 72 y ears of age, whose Conservative opinions admitted of no question, for the Count never took any part i n any o f the r evolutions which agitated his country during his long life. Suddenly a party of young men were observed going about from house to house, announcing that the nation had formed a government, and h a d pl ace d at i ts head a man named Tyssowski, an obscure individual, totally unknown in Cracow, where he had been only for the space of a fortnight, and then for the first time in his life. This man had always lived either at Lemberg or at Vienna ; and no ono knew by what means he had been elevated in the space of a few hours to the head of of the government. Be that as it may, the public were, at one and the same time, made acquainted with the cre ation of a dictatorship and the name of the dictator. An army of from 300 to 400 men was hastily assembled, and with part of this force it was determined to make a reconnoissance in Gallicia. The bridge was crossed, and at Podgorza some ammunition was found which had been left behind by General Collin. At Wisliezka some provisions were found. Some leagues further on, at the village of Godow, on the road to Lember, the advance guard of the little army of Cracow was unexpectedly attacked by Colonel Benedik, the chip of the staff of the general in command of Gallicia. The colonel was at the head of a party of infantry and cavalry, followed by a troop of drunken peasants, blind instruments of murder and pillage, misled, excited, and paid by the Austrian authorities. After a brief resistance, the Cra covians retired in hurried disorder to Cracow, leaving behind them twenty or thirty killed, and upwards iit eighty prisoners, whom the soldiers and peasants of Col. Benedik coolly murdered in the most barbarous manner in front of the inn at Godow, during a brandy-drink irg orgie. Colonel Benedik and Ge3eral Collin then marched back to Podgorza, where, after the lapse of a few days, the Gener a l, h ear i ng o f t h e approac h o f t h e Russians, and losing all hope that the pi asantry and the populace of Cracow and its territory would imitate the atrocious excesses of the p easan t r y o f th e ci r c les of tar now and Bothnia, resolved on entering Cracow. It is but just to render a tribute of commendation to our people, inhabitants of the town as well as of the countr places. Though instigated by incendiary speeches, an the example of their neighbours, though completely left to themselves, they were not guilty of the slightest ex cess. In their march into Gallicia our volunteers ob served the strictest moderation, not only to their coun trymen, but also towards the Germans, and even towards the officers of the Austrian Government. Person and property were everywhere respected ; General Collin, less serupuleus, promised his soldiers a day of liberty, as he called it, that is to say, a day devoted to the sacking and destruction of Cra caw. But God hari pity on us, and a verted the commis sion of this hideous crime. The Russians, who were not expected to arrive before three days, marched with a de gree of speed which outstripped all calculations, and their light cavalry entered Cracow several. hours before the Autriaes. They were received as deliverers, and such they really were ; for General Collin, wishing to attract numbers to the city, had spread the report that it was to be given up to pillage. The arrival of the Russians has established order, rendered all pretext of taking by assault, and consequent plunder, absurd. This com pletely defeated the projects of General Collin, who now commands, as he before did, his troops at Wadowiee, where he has received the approbation of, and has also been well paid by, 16s Government. Th e re st of our hi s i tory is well known. The above i s a t rue narrative o f the conspiracies of our protectors against their unfortu nate protege. Alarmed by the phantom of Polish liberty, Austria thought she could escape from her terror and remorse by annihilating at a single blow what she r e ' gards as a living reproach of her sin against Poland'' namely, the republic of Cracow and its wea lthy in Gallicia. As to our people—victi ms o f t he most un heard of political iniquities, deliv,red, without defen ce : into the most ferocious and perfidious hands, we m ils. submit without murmuring to the decre es o f ProvideProvidence.We await until time and the aid of ge n e rous Wien.° shall avenge our wrongs. and call into a c ti on that 1 11.1$ within us which seems to acquire n ew s t reng th in pro" portion to the efforts made to extinguish it. patriots SOMETHING ABOUT BULLION. Bullion is, commonly understood to be a generic tern * for uncoined gold or silver, in bars, plate, or eth er masses; but by the Bank the name is used to elphrnl both coined and uncoined metals. The word ‘• bullion f first became familiar to English ears when an "order 0 Council " was issued that th e B an k s h ou ld di s continn „ the 'redemption of its notes with specie from 1797 t v 1826, when specie payments were resumed—by a f l 8; vious law the Bank was a u th or i se d to re d eem i ts 1 10,„ n fineness' The uncoined gold and silver, accordi ng t o i ts fineoe3,- The bullion off s 1 ice of the Bank of England i s i n a part „" the original Bank struct ure erec t e d i n 173 4 . It 03 " . sits of three spacious apartments—a public roll for business transactions, a vault for the p deposits, also one for the private stock of tu t , Bank. Superintending these are a principal, deln it A principal clerk, assistant clerk, and a number porters, the government of the entire bank being ullar, a governor, directors, and th e i r su b or di nates . The alive' deposits in the bull ion-office consist chiefly i n oblong " pigs" from South Ame r i ca , an d sma ll er semi glob ular masses from Valparaiso —the former weighing, On $ f average, 651bs Bee silver, also from South Arnerici , n a finer quality—Plata Petr a , or R oc k Sil ver , a nam e given to silver, that is not in a consolidated or nfr„"j i pletely metallic state. Sy cee s il ver — a name w ith w° l ." the public has become pe r f ec tly f am ili ar s i nce t he re c eip t of Celestial ransom money from China. Sycee, strictl rendered, means "fine silk "—but is also construallite fine silver, that which has been properly purified. proper Chinese term for it is Winyan, and the ave!egi, quality is said to b e 13 d w t s . b etter t h an British standard. It contains an average of 12 grains gold n i r pound troy. The i ngo t s , or s h oes o f t his sil ve j are stamped with the name of the assayer 1n . 1 , 1 reigning Emperor, th e y ear an d mont h w h en assaYri; also with the words " a ssa y e d an d cas t," wh p le g s signifies that the silver is o f th e p ro p e r finen'is and purity. Spanish dollars—th ese are b rou ght to t is, bank in immense quantiti es p ac k e d i n k egs acd barr e b They are then assorted a n d p u t i n sac k s o f 1,000 ea o weighing 211bs. These are piled in stacks of 2 00 ea in the bullion vault. Following these are Alel l F, 11 , o 0 : Brazilian, Peruvian, Bolivi a n, and North Aw erl- 10 dollars in lesser quantiti es . D o ll ars b rou ght by' t a r bank are melted and refined at the establishment rs', "Brown and Wingrove," Wood-street, Cheapside , wh e 4 rare specimens of " bogus " are sometimes found.--5:, the Sycee is always sent to Cc Mint. Native sde er o . this is now procured in several of the northern O n o ties, especially in the N ort h um b er l an d lead coine9' has a place in the va u lt s . I t i s state d that -r-an.,iatae products enough native silver to manufacture ,n`^id ie plate made in Lond on w i t hi n any g i ven period. Gold 0. almost exclusiv e ly o bt a i ne d b y the b ank i n b a rs or -- weighing about 161b 5 ., va l ue d at 800 i. No form' b sl a bs ever, of the preci ous me t a l s i s rejected, these a re understood to b e th e genera l arrangement of die bail' , Nei., York Sun. Madame Bishop has been drawing excellent at Liverpool in Balfe's opera of The Maid Arr. bas just NEW WORK ON PORTUGAL.—A vr° , r _ een w ith a appeared, entitled " A Journey Overland to le from 3 .:; " hich is Picture of the Actual State of Spain and the pen of the author of " Revelations of 1- pblic respecting likely fully to gratify the curiosity of the . nations. T h. the present crisis in the affairs of these natiof the author's journey was performed during t h e height he ferment occasioned by the Montpensier marriage, and arrived at Lisbon on t h e very day of the outbrea k of ' IL late Revolution, of which he has given the history in following the present civil war th roug h a ll i ts incidents. "- have here, for the first time, authentic revelations of Porto' gal by one who has a perfect knowledge of that country' derived from a previous residence in it of six years, duni which time he enjoyed the best position for securing cor n icformation relative to all that took place at Court, and becoming acquainted with the movements of political °T r and parties. The whole hist or y o f th e M on t pen sier 1. 7 0 riage, and the international law which it violates, is g,o, in the chapters on Mad r id, w h ere th e ques ti on i s more it' of discussed than it has hitherto been ; and to a num_bel t d e curious anecdotes, and much secret history connected Wash both Courts, the author adds personal sketches of the t ,nb . el l, Families, and of every leading man in Spain anil.Por" 4 " taken from the life. THE TRENT S TEAMER .—S OUTHAMPTO N, FR B ' A meeting of the directors of the Royal West India lito Packet Company is about to be h e ld here to inveetigate„o cause of delay of the Trent steamer up on her recent a ` home between Havannah and J ama i ca f rom want 01 On the third.day after leaving Havannah it was tiscov ;,. i the coal would not last out to t a k e th em sa f e to le-ne - t eitl when orders were given for the fore-orlop deck, sPe rti ; go nla empty casks to be cut up, but findi ng thi s a ddition abo ut not be sufficient, the captain ordered the ship to Pu t f o od to a piratical island called Grand Caiman's, where theY e asia a cargo of wrecked wood, of abo u t 100 t ons. The e qteeSt then sent on shore fifty of his crew, who, with the Iti' d far cut 300 tens of wood, consisting of eb on y, l ogw ood, a n tis fee, tick. The captain paid 2.f. per ton besides heavy vi,es and labour. Three days were consumed at this operati e "'were one day in cutting it afterwards into junks—many iu e l n thie compelled to take to their berths from over fatigue- thol e' island the inhabitants live by wrecking. It was once sidence of the notorious pirate Captain Mitchell. ISO DEATH OF SIR V ALENTINE B LAKE. —A fs ir received in town this morning, announcingg th e death ° o w Valentine Bl a ke, B ar t., whose resignation of the repr es , c jeco tion of Galway has led to the c on t es t w hi c h i s to take P in that borough.—Dublin Paper of Monday. is PRICE OF GO LD .—The p rem i um on go ld a t ra r 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of ' of 10 1 4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchangejog 25.40; and the exchange at P ar i s on L on d on a t short part 25.32 k, it follows that gold is 0.30 per cent. dearer is;at than in London. By advises from Hamburgh the price is 431 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31 et Of 10%d. per ounce f or s t an d ar d gol d , g i ves an exchalliort 13.8; and the ex c h ange at Hamburgh on London a t being 13.41, it f o ll ows that gold is 1.53 per cent. de arer Hamburgh than in London. Of ill' THE BLE SSINGS OF ETHER.—A variety -- ft/ stances have lately been recorded in the public journals,d, which severe surgical operations have been per/015e without the - patient having the consciousness of P o e The principle seems capable of being extended I , : d e te farther. A few days ago, Professor Simson stet ess , his class, that he had practised with entire su e ce t eti the inhalation o f sulphur i c ether in a case of the most difficult form of labour, and where otherwise eit , sufferings of the patient would undoubtedly have bee e tet ele treme. The mother was l ame and deformed. A remar"es, circumstance pointed out in the case by Dr. Simos° l l oo es that, whilst breathing th e e th er , th e l a b our pa i ns o r t f og continued, and yet the mother (to speak paradoxicailY i l r ' t eiS no pains. This is, w e b e li eve , th e fi rst i nstance i n which new and extraordinary agent h as b een emp l oye d in the tice of midwifery.—Caledonian Mercury. lrOrig MENDELSSHON.— I yesterday" (says n New „ os el , publication) " visited Mendelsshor, the celebrated e Olll , Having heard some of his music this winter, part: c f .- e a to that magnificent creation, the Walpurgisnacht, I sv , s' i t hat obtain his autog rap h b e f ore l eav i ng, and sent a note for purpose. He sent a ki n d of note in answer, adding 3 ChiSri out of the Watpurgisnacht from hi s own h an d. After t Ile could not repress the desire of speaking with hi,; 1 1. 0 0% received me with t rue G erman cordiality, and on lo ad to I was an A mer i can, spo k e of having been iev7, iv ited attend a musical f es ti va l i n N ew Y ork. : - e ie e t me to call o n hi m if lie happened to be in Le'P e olto Dresden wh en we s h ou ld pass t h rough, and seen!. particularly of the fine music there. I h a ve rarelY„ man whose countenance bears so plainly the st e r. e r e gioll genius. He has a glorious d ar k eye , an d Byron's eNPrieteli of a 'dome o f th oug ht' cou ld never b e more apPr ° P a lt, the applied than to his lofty and i n t e ll ec t ua l forelle by the marble whiteness and p o li s h o f w hi c h are heightened the raven hue of his hair. lie is about forty years of ontoage'g• noon of his fame, and the full maturity of his e w hiell Already as a boy of fourteen he composed an oeerefii, first was played with much success at B er li n ; h e is no wt he eels'living composer of Germany. M oses M en d e l s sohn, ' nti d brated Jewish philosopher, was hi s gran dfather; 7,, tit h be father, now living, is accustomed t o say th a t in his )"„ ee e he was spoken of as the son of the gre at M en d e lssohh is known as the father of the great Mendelssohn inquest REMOVAL OF THE POOR.—Yesterday an inqu . ` cern i l ig held by Mr. Baker, at the Queen's Head, Poplar, coL on ths , the death of an infant named Louisa Banner, aged I° 'L a . ! to who died on board a Gravesend steain-boat, on her e e s e t e It Blackwell. Tile inquiry excited considerable in ter m othe r appeared the child was illegitimate, and was with the he birth; removed to St. Martin's Workhou se soon after „ a ge , ' They remained there for tw o mon th s , w hen they wer e i; t a S , by an order of removal to Ch a th am , w here they , re Auer re short time, and were sent b ac k t o St. Martin se , fi i eves maining there two months, another order of ren. l° , % ,chat: obtained, and the mother and child were sent back a w e „ail ham for a second time. They remained at ChattraTi " w i t h the 23d ult., when the mother was directed to ret rt,lroes her child to Westminster again. She proceeded to The end by the coach, and there embarked on a steamer d to b e day was very cold and damp, and the child app eare labouring ruder severe ill ness on l ea ving Ohathain c . eru - Zoe riving at Blackwell it was found to be dead. A s . ate d from the surgeon at Chatham was Pn'thiCed' wluh that the infant co u ld no t b e i n j u red by the j o ur ney,e vest' who mao proper care. Mr. Bain, surgeon, of Poplar, 2noetem examination of the body, said that its death a _ . 7' so re celerated by exposure to cold on the journeY, a . P " it other witnesses confirmed the statement, and said tu a re turn mother to undertake suchretiime highly improper for the while the child was in the state it wag. The jciler3tl from Dr the following verdict That Louisa Banner a an was not In t" . tural causes • and added that the child proper state 'to be removed.