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MR. JAMES'S NEW NOVEL. Just publishd, in 3 vols. post Sao. ' 1 ENRY of GUISE; or , THE STATES of BLOIS. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Recently published, by the same Author, THE GENTLEMEN of the OLD SCHOOL. 3 vols. THE ROBBER. 3 vols. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Price Is., No. I„ with Four lilustratiens by Stanfield, of jOORJ A C K. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, Foor Jack' opens very well, and we have made his ac q,aintance with a strong desire to know more of him Poor Jack ' will take a rank of his own, to which he is well entitled, quite apart from th;:se shoals of trash which we owe to Pick wick ' and Nicholas sickleby.' "—Examiner. London: Longman, Orme, and Co. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols. post Svo., E DIARY OF A NUN. " Friendship is con , Ttant in all other things, Save in the office aad affairs of love." SHAKSPEIRE. " A tale of' real pass on, ar:sa out of the events of real pleasingly and skilfully blenlrd with the actual details of a lengthened residence in Italy—the whole forming a very graceful, interesting, and touching - story."—New Monthly. Henry Co!burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. lINDEII THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JA N. 8, (BY SPECIAL DESIRE.) Will be performed nig BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Masheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachuru, Mr. W. arren ; Mr. Bartley; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachtim, Mrs C. Janw ; Pelly Peaehmu, Miss Rainforth; Lucy Lockit, Madame Yueris. After which, a Canis Burletta, celled PATTER vLasus CLATTER Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. Tu conclude witli the New Grand Comic 0-_iistmasi Panto- mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE NIERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON; OR, TIIE GREAT BED OF WARE. W i en•irely Nen- Scenery. Machinery, DreE,a, and De- cOrations. Har.equn, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Merric Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co urnbine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6 d. ; First and Second Circle, , . 5.. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, s.; Gallery, Is. Doors to be oi.iened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Bon-office, from Ten till Four, wh re Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely oaf Mr, Andrews. bookseller, 167, New Bond-stieit. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Ti! (rand Comic Pantomime, universally allowed to be the best in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows over witnessed, hundreds are nightly disappointed of obtain ing admission. The splendour of the Scenery and appoint ments surpass every other production. TIIIS EVENING, JAN. 8, Will be repe:sred, an entirely new Legendary Drama, called THE LAPIDARY OF LEYDEN. Aftr which, the New Romantic Drama, Galled MICHAEL EARLE, THE MANIAC LOVER. Ci:aracters by Messrs. Saville, H. Hughes, Neville, John sen, aid Smith ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, and Miss Martin. To cone!ude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The silenglid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. CAtmlnne, Miss Sharpe; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. cams of St. James's-street ; Andrews, Ebers, and :vlitchell, Boni-street; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book s,dlerF, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. H-WATE:it Al' LONDON BRIDGE TO. , IORRO VV. wog 50 minutes attcr •4 Evening...... ,7 minutes after 5. 6 , , t4' -*-Z11':-• ‘,s l ' • - -; 4, I' CI; ) LONDON : WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, i&4O. We called attention some time ago to the fact that the Duke of RUTLAND was the person to move in the Grantham Union to reduce the food ' 1 of the paupers to the level of the food of the inde pendent labourer, who had been compelled to sub stitute barley for wheaten bread. That fact found general currency, and provoked general comment. Mr. OASTLER, the Tory, and correspondent of the Times, held up the conduct of the Duke to repro bation, and pointed to it as one of the circumstances which made the people dislike and hate the Aris tocracy. To lessen the odium, probably, which that circumstance brought on his Grace, he has, we learn from the Times, " given the munificent sum of 100 guineas, to the fund now being raised for the relief of the distressed working classes of Leicestershire." But by now reminding the public of the former act, we shall, we hope, prevent that justly deserved odium being lessened by his Grace's present gift. His Grace, who gives 100 guineas to re lieve the distressed working classes of Leicester shire, is a great landowner and a great supporter of the Corn-laws. What is the exact amount of his rent-roll, and what is the exact sum the Corn-laws put in his pocket by taking it out of the pockets of the Leiustershirc distressed working men, we can- not saj ; but if we should estimate it at twenty times ICO gui:lcas, or 2,000 guineas per year, we shall certainly not he above the mark. The munificent 1 gift of 100 guineas is paragraphed, talked of, and ; stiffed off, so as to blind and delude the poor work -1 in who will btu taught to say, " Oh, what a area; benefactor to us is the Duke of RUTLAND. ) [IOW can we petition to diminish the revenue of so great and good a gentleman." His Grace then gives to the Leicestershire working men, with much ostentation, the twentieth part of that sum which he takes from them by the Cern-laws; atid with this pitiful poiticn of their own •toduce he and his like expect to bribe them into acq ,:iesconce under the most grievous spoliation that n vras practised by one cla ss o f soc iety on L:s 1 another. How the Leicestershire working classes and their triend::, may receive the " munificent gift" we know not ; but self-respect requires that they send it back to his Grace, and request him I to be just before he pretends to be generous. What is easily won is easily lost ; and so some auc l e n: barons or moch:rn highwaymen, who be ) stow ,d Ore whole fruits of their rapine on vassals depeno.ents, or scattered it with a free hand among rile poor and among menials, were reckoned ; aihungst the most generous of men. Our land owners, however, are much more prudent than their forefathers, and expect to obtain the reputation of generosity by giving up less than the twentieth part I of tho sum which they, by the law, take from the ' :)eopie. Their ingenuity a s well as their p ru d ence ' 3 r surpasses that of their ancestors The latter their lives on the cast, and plundered strong tyy the strong hand. Their ingenious descen- dants i7ertortn the same operation without encoun - the sin ,llest danger ; and no low pettifogging attorneys could enrich themselves with greater 1 safety. W e will take this opporamity of saying that we have been reproached with nut having made out Our charge against the Legislature of practising 1 theft by means of the C orn-laws. We took, how { evcr, the recorded admissions of the Cori:-law ad -1 Irecates, that the landowners would lose much of their present income, or would be ruined were it not . for the Corn-laws. The Corn-laws, therefore, zivs or grant, or secure to them the income they irtceive. But all wealth is the produce of labour ; ./xid the Corn-laws can only give them their pre .; se.at income by taking it from some other persons. ' The Corn-laws therefore do steal, or surreptitiously take away property from the rest of the people, to i give it to the landowners. We think the demon ; stration is complete. ,) There can be no pretence for saying that the Corn-laws C add to the whole sum of national wealth, and that the landlords only receive the addition. If 1 t h e y did so add to the national wealth, the land i lords would have no right to the addition, for they do not cultivate the soil. They are merely the 1 ieceivcrs of rent. The Corn-laws, however, are s restriction on industry, they prevent the mills in 1 Niar,,,,ester.and other places from manufacturing cloth for Poland and Hungary, prevent our mer chants from making many useful exchanges, and .our shipping from having much employment. They greatly diminish the sum of national wealth and the amount of well-being they destroy is greater even than the amount of property they plunder. Some people suppose that the stimulus they give to agriculture adds to the sum of national wealth. But all experience proves that individuals are better judges of the means of enriching themselves, and thereby of enriching the nation, than the Le gislature. The Corn-law, directs the employment of capital, and makes it flow in a less productive and less profitable channel than it would flow in were it left free. The true encouragement of agriculture is the increase of people, of manufactures to exchange for the produce of agriculture, and in the growth of a town population, all of which are checked by taking away property from the manufacturers to give it to the landlords. The Legislature has no means of adding to the suns of national wealth, except by removing its own restrictions ; and all that it ever does when it pretends to encourage this or that branch of industry, is to tax some persons to en rich others. That is the true operation of the Corn laws, and they are worse than all other laws of the kind, because they plunder the industrious to in crease the wealth of the idle. We affirm that this is a most heinous offence on the part of the Legislature. The law is made by those who profit by what it extorts, and the law makers make laws to enrich themselves. There is more danger in this than they are aware of. Ac cording to the universal creed, laws are the means of preserving the peace of society. If, by thus making laws to enrich themselves, they bring law-making into disrepute and jeopardy, they strike a heavy blow at the peace and order of society. In fact, they make disobedience a duty, and give a bounty on anarchy. Moreover, the law-maker asks obedience on the single principle of protecting the property of the people. According to Mr. LOCKE, that lies at the foundation of political society. For the Legislature to take a single farthing away from any person or any class of the community, except for indispensable public purposes, is therefore a grave offence ; but when it takes away property from one class to enrich its own members, it strikes at the root of social order. Many complaints are now made of the disobedience of the people. .Anar chical principles are gaining ground, and the anar chical principle which the Legislature has adopted of plundering one class to enrich another, is at the root of this frightful evil. All who have the peace of society at heart, all who desire to see property preserved and protected, ought to unite and compel the Legislature —which is the servant, not the master of the nation—which is bound to obey, and cannot alter, the eternal laws of justice— to return into the paths of honesty. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK'S defence of Mr. FROST is temperate and judicious. Whether he succeed in rescuing his client from the danger im pending over him or not, Sir FREDERICK has added very much to his own reputation. Not spe culating so much on what he has said and done as relying on the assertions of those who are on the spot, we continue to believe that Mr. FROST will be exonerated from the charge of treason. At the same time, the strong light which Sir FREDERICK has thrown on Mr. FROST'S objects, the doubt he has thrown on the evidence of TIIOMAS BEVAN OLI VER, and the discredit into which he has brought the testimony of MATTHEW WILLIAMS, of HA R FORD, and of the two boys, have not weakened but much strengthened that belief. It will, as Sir FRE DERICK said, be generally satisfactory to the public to find, from Mr. FROST being acquitted of treason, that the number of men assembled on the 4th of November had no such mischievous and even murderous object in view as would be implied in convicting him of the offence of levying war against her MAJESTY. In the course of his speech Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, in accordance with the views of the CHIEF JUSTICE, described the great meeting of the working classes, who carried their petition by assembled thousands to Lord MEL BOURNE, during the Reform agitation, as guilty of treason. Such a deduction we believe to be strictly in accordance with the spirit of the law, which is so hostile to our practices that it may be described as having almost fallen into abeyance. That, however, is of less importance than the impossibility of carrying such a law into exe cution, without causing all the mischief treason laws are intended to avert. The strongest 'Foiy Government which ever existed could not put down such meetings as the one Sir FREDERICK alluded to, and as are now holding in Ireland, which are said by the Tories to be treasonable But a law which cannot be executed, with all de ference to Judge TINDAL, who has strained it till , it has broken, is worse than no law at all, which is a sad and sorrowful conclusion for those lovers of coercion who now rely on the treason laws to pre serve the public peace. They are, and will be, ineflicacious ; they have never been tried against the irritated and .outraged mass of society, and we respectfully advise all those who have relied on terror to secure public tranquillity to bethink them of some rxore humane, more kindly, and more just tneaus. Towards the end of November the Standard, for some delusive purpose or other, grew quite mcderate and rational, and admitted that " the Act of 1829 destroyed the Protestant character of the Constitution through all its branches." It had a controversy with the Herald on the subject, and emphatically repeated " that the Act of 1829 did destroy the Protestant character of the Constitu tion." It explained, too, that the vicious and weak character of GEORGE IV. so degraded the Government that it had no power to resist, and we then praised the Standard for seeing at length the inevitable necessity of yielding. In six weeks what has appeared in the Standard, the Editor natu rally concludes, will be wholly forgotten, and, there fore, last night he wrote a long article to prove the continued existence of Protestant ascendancy, and that the Act of 1829 is only "an anomaly in our code," to be got rid of, we presume, like other ano malies, as soon as circumstances will enable the Pro testant ascendency boys to resume their tyranny. He even indicates by a quotation from Sir W. SCOTT, and by some extravagant praise of the Orangemen of Ireland, how Protestant ascendancy may be re stored by the re-conquest of that country. A change in the form of Government by violence a ce light suclr as is sought by the Chartists, seems to us evil compared to the reducing to abject slavery a large mass of the community, such as is demanded .by the Protestant ascendancy zealots. Food irately, however, for the public welfare the zealots are not united as to the means of accomplishing their object, nor of the same opinion concerning it for two months together. Society has, in fact, quite escaped from their control ; it is gone entirely out of their bounds, and they are as much alarmed and bewildered as a poor hen who sees her Brood of ducklings take to the water, and anxiously, but in vain, calls on them to return. • 1* It. is stated by a Morning Contemporary—We have reason to believe pretty correctly—that Lord PALMERSTON has acquiesced in the proposal made to the Representatives of the Great Powers on the Eastern question by M. BRUNOW, the Russian Envoy Extraordinary. That proposal is to the following effect :—That in the event of 'ME HEMET Am's army advancing upon Constantino ple, Russia shall be allowed to march a certain number of troops to defend the capital, and that the fleets of France and England shall enter the Darda nelles, but only in force and numbers, respectively, proportionate to the military strength employed by Russia. Our Contemporary maintains that by such a stipulation England recognizes the treaty Of UNKIAR SKELESSI. This is not the fact. Such an agreement has reference merely to a future and barely possible contingency. It recognizes no treaty whatever. By proposing it Russia admits that were the whole naval power of England and France to appear in the Sea of Marrnora, the question would be at once settled without her inter ference. 'v'4 hat she stipulates for is not the recog nition of a treaty, but a claim to a co-ordinate right of. interference !with the great Western Powers. That she will deceive us if she can we well know, but let us not aid her by the misrepresenta tion of facts, with the factious view of damaging an Administration. The British Government has officially refused to recognize the Treaty of UN KIAR SKELESSI, and whatever stipulation it may now enter into with Russia on the question of a joint protective force to maintain the integrity'of the Ottoman Empire, we have no hesitation in affirm ing, that were such a measure necessary to the. maintenance of the national honour and the safety of the Porte, the same British Government would soon convince Europe that that treaty was not worth the parchment upon which it was written. The debate on the Address, in answer to the Speech from the Throne commenced in the French • chamber of Peers on Monday. The principal orators were M. CHARLES DUPIN, who spoke against the Address and the Ministry; M. DAL TON SHEE, who attacked the Ministry only ; M. DUFAURE, Minister of Public Works, who de fended himself and his colleagues ; and M. MoLE, who spoke in favour of the Ministry of the 15th of April. M. CHARLES DUPIN reversed the argu ments of the British Tories as regards France, repre senting her as miserable at home, and contemptible abroad, while, on the contrary, England was pros perous and respected in every part of the world. There was nothing novel in the arguments on either side, and after a good deal of talk the two first para graphs of the address were voted without a division. The Colonial Council of Martinique has voted the e mancipation of the slaves in that colony to be impossible, without exposing the slave-owners to be massacred, and securing the return of the slaves to a state of barbarism. What an appallin g com mentary is this upon the horrors of slavery I The latest Lews from Africa is of the 28th ult. The colonists in the plains were continually ha rassed by the Arabs, who carried off their cattle, and hindered their defensive works. Several skir mishes had taken place, in which casual losseswere sustained on both &: dies. On the 26th, a French merchant vessel, the Frederic Adolphe , w hile teen miles from the shore, had been attacked and captured by an armed vessel from Cherchell, a point nearly half way between Algiers and Oran. The pliynx and Crocodile steamers, with a detach went of the 23d of the Line, went to Cherchell, and found the vessel ashore. She was therefore burnt. The Arabs resisted the burning of the vessel, and the French had four killed and 13 wounded. ABD-EL-KADER had received a deputation from the Sultan of Monocco, who recognised him as Grand Khaliff of Algiers. An attack on Oran was hourly expected. BOURSE.—PARIS, MoNDAy, JAN. 6. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. I rench 5 per Cents lll 80 11l 78 65 ... 111 65 4 per Cents lO2 50 102 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 3 per Cents so 70 ... SO 70 ... SO 60 ... 80 60 Bank of france Laffitte Bank 1,0006 Sh 1045 ...1045 ...1045 5,000 f. Sh 5170 ...5170 ...5165 ...5167 50 Belgian Bank Bl5 "' 645 535 835 5 per Cents 10244 102% ... 101 N ... 102% 3 per Cents 72 9.0 ... 72 21 ... 72 2,1 72 20 Spanish Active 24% ... 9.5 21% Passive ... 6 ... 6 Neapol Portuguitane 3 per Cent s 2.3 x, tnx, 2:3N se 102 6 0 ... 10'2 70 1(19. 60 ... 1(:2 =5 Boman lOll 102 ... 192 IiAILWAY SHARES. at. Germain Versailles. 11. L.B. • 3 ,5 3 , 8 75 ... 225 ... 327 50 Orleans . Strasburg to Bale 14:4 : 5 82 5 7 1 5 ) ' 42 50 4:4 1 1 2: r 5 l . 3 41 0 5 2 50 ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS. am (Mob er l y 's) AUSTRIAN •FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEC, 23. live per Cents. Meta Dives Fr.xr per Cents. Three per Cents. ...... Bank Sharer . J 3 lf66 Zeitung, Jai 2 THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh supplies of Grain and Flour since Wednesday have been small. The Wheat trade is firm, with little doing. Barley maintains its value. In Beans, Pease, and Oats, no variation. The Flour trade slack, at last quotations. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. A good supply of both town and country killed meat ; the demand was good, and prices much as before. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 'ls Bd. to 3s. 10(1.; Veal, 3s. 4d. to lOd. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Irish, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per stone of Blbs. Poultry and Game were in large supply ; the demand moderate, and prices have undergone no variation. BILLINGSGATE AI A lIKET. The supplies were limit: d. Trade lively, and prices rather high. Turbot ss. to 21 s . S a l mon 4 s . p e r lb. Lobsters 10d. to 3s. 6d. Cod 2s. 6d. to 17s. Soles 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. Whitings 4d. to Bd. Haddocks Bd. to 2s. ' Oysters 18s. to 48s. per bushel. SPIRIT 'MARKET. Not much done in any description of Spirits. The pri c e s asked fur proof Leeward Rum, was 3 s . 44ki. Goad Jamaica, 4s. 10d. to ss. 2d. The kinds of Brandy going fetch 3s. to ss. ; Gcneva, 2s. per gallon ; and British Corn Spirit, 10s. 241. ;TALLOW MARKET. Still very little done in this market, and the price of P. Y. C. is 4ss. 6d. to 495. 6cl. COLONIAL AI ARIOrf. Business very limited, and quotations of mast descriptions of produce ptationary. British Plantation Sugar sold steady at the prices last quoted. 50 casks British Plantation Coffee fetched about 113 s. to 115 s. ; 110 barrels Trinidad, and 130 bags Grenada Cocoa sold but in part at rather easier prices ; 5,000 bags Bengal Rice sold in part at 12s. to 12s. 6d. for fair quality ; :3,250 bags Saltpetre fet c hed, for what w as so ld, a b ou t 225. tid. to 235. The imports continue light. TEA SALE—( THIRD DA Y.) The continued absence of news from Canton keeps the trade in a state of great perplexity. The holders are firm, and very little was sold; we should say that about one-fifteenth of what is put up sells, prices continue much as they were. Common Congous have fetched 2s. 36d.. to 2s. 4d. .IVo Bohea has yet been sold. Gunpowder sorts fetch 4s. 6d. to 53..11; Ti.van kays about 2s. qd., and Imperials 3s. 9d. There was a very good attendance of the trade, and the attention of the whole mercantile world continues to be drawn towards this recently excited bat now dull market. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 7.—Wind S. S. E.—Sailed the Sophia, M'Nair, for Madras; Isabella Anna, Thompson, Valpa_ raiso ; Forester, M'Arthur, Tobago. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—Wind S. S, W.—Sailed the Sydney, Ellis, for Batavia ; Charles Eyes, Moss, Valpa raiso; Barbara, Webb, Bombay ; Euro, Rio Janeiro ; Warrior, Karnes, Tampico ; Rival, Barbadoes ; Agnes, Bainbridge, Mobile; Fanny, Charleston; New York, Barstow, New York; Flora, Canning, St. John's, N. B. Off port—the Florence, from Charleston. FALIIOUTII, JAN. 6.—Wind E.N. E. to E S.E., strong breezes.—Sailed the Jacoba Maria, Kramer, New York. SALCOMBE, JAN. 6--Sailed the Victoria, Osborne, for Terceira. _ BRISTOL, JAN. 6.—Sailed the William Miles, Pike, for Jamaica; Thomas Daniel, Cherry, Antigua. K IN GSTOIVN, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Reindeer, Kcmpt, f rom M on te Video ; Constitution, Shoull, Quebec. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 6. —The Expedite, from Marseilles to Hull, has put into this port with loss of bowsprit, cut water, headsails, &c., having been in contact, on the 3d inst., with a barque off the Wight. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—The Farmer, Wiseman, from hence to Portsay, was wrecked at Cromarty, on the 3d nst.—one man only saved. VESSELS SPOKEl•TlNtru.—Dependant, Martin, Bridge water to Ancona, 30th ult., and Clio, Liverpool to Lis bon, out four days, by the Emerald, Thomas, arrived in the River; Tobago, bound to Antigua, 20th ult., Marion, Clyde to Grenada, 26th, lat. 47, long. 17, by the Active, arrived off Cork ; Beverly (cottop laden), 27th ult., lat. 49, long. 15, by the Alice, arrived at Cork ; Philomel, of London, from Richebucto, °WI ult., hit. 49, long. 10, by the Mary Anna, arr i ve d i n t h e Cl y d e ; Idris, of London, from Alexandria, I st u l t., lat. 39 N., long. 5 W., by the Ide, arrived at Falm out h ; Vi scount Melbourne, of Lon. don, 13th Nov., lat. 17 S ., l ong. 33 W., by tho Ferris, arrived off Dover; Ringdove, Whitehaven to Cuba, 26th Oct., by'the Scotia, arrived in the Clyde. IRE ND. DUBLIN, JANUARY 6. It is said that Sir William M. Somerville is to second the address to her Majesty in answer to the speech from the throne, at the opening of the approach ing Session. The Hon. Baronet is to. be entertained at a public dinner by his constituents on Wednesday next, in Drogheda. Mr. O'Cormell has been invited as a guest, but the Hon. and Learned Gentleman has, we understand, been obliged to decline the honour in con sequence of other engagements. Tne Down declaration has already received 14,000 signatures. A general meeting of the subscribers will be held in Downpatrick on to-morrow, in order to ar range the further steps which may be necessary to take. in respect to that important document. The public dinner to the representatives of Kilkenny has been postponed until after the recess.—Pilot. THE LORD-LIETJTENANT AND MR. O'CONNELL.— Mr. O'Connell dined with Lord Ebrington on Thurs day, and the Evening Mail has issued its royal man date accordingly, forbiddinr , all gentlemen and no bl es of the land to enter his Excellency's dining-room for the future. " We hope and trust," says our Major Donto, " that there is enough of self-respect, enough of manliness and consistency among the gentlemen of Ireland to secure an empty board, as far as they are concerned, in Lord Ebrington's dining parlour hence forward. His Excellency has invited Mr. O'Connell as a guest to the Viceregal table of the Castle of Dub lin, and thus set the Viceregal seal to every syllable of that vile, inflammatory, and rebellious agitation (ex ceeding, in indecency and truculence, any thing on previous record)—which, for the last fortnight, Mr. O'Connell has been pouring forth upon the public mind from day to day, without even the exception of the Sabbath." On to-morrow the Honour-bic and Learned Gentle man will attend a meeting of his constituents in the A.delphi Theatre. On Friday be will attend the great meeting of the friends of Liberal registration through out Ireland. On Sa'urday he will be entertained at dinner at Morrisson's. On Monday he dines with four thousand Corn-law repealers in Manchester. On Tuesday he attends a public meeting on the same sub ject in the Manchester Corn-Exchange. On Tuesday evening he • dines with four thousand artisans, whose dinner will be provided for one shilling each, in the Pavilion now erecting in Manchester for that purpose. - -Pilot. THE QUEEN'S FRIENDS.—The grand feature of the new Society, and the one to which we:attach the highest degree of importance, has been postponed till after the Easter recess. The feature to which we allude is that providing for the permanent organization of the dele gates. We coincide filly in the policy which dictated this postponement, and at the same time we congratu late the Committee on their finding of the perfect legality of the movement, whenever it shall'be deemed prudent. —lbid. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL MIMS CITY, TWELVII O'CLOCK. LIVIRPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 7.—The sales of this day are 2,500 bags, without any change of prices. Arrivals this morning —The usual French mail. No ship letters. Disappointment continues to prevail from day to day in respect to arrivals from the United States, which begins to tire out the patience of the public And mer chants. The best join:wed in American affairs can not account for this extraordinary delay. We are also this morning without arrivals from any other quarter, with the exception of the usual French mail and express from Paris, which does not furnish any continental news of importance. TMB BONDI. Consols, which left off yesterday at 92/ for the Ac count, opened rather lower this morning, and may be quoted at 92 for the Account ; Money, 90i ex dividend ; Exchequer Bills, 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1781 ; India Stock, 250/ 251/ ex-dividend ; India Bonds, 4 2 discount. Hamburg, which is the chief exchange, was higher yesterday ; that of Paris and Amsterdam does not effect the exportation of gold. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active left off yes terday 24 f, and this morning it opened lower at 24 ; Portuguse, at the closing price, 36} ; Three per Cents. 24 25 ; Brazilian, 72f 73 ; Colombian, 24i 25 ; Mexican, 29/ 80e ; Dutch Two-and-a-Hall per Cents., 52 -a ; Five per Cents., 991 ; Spanish De ferred, llf ; Passive, 6 1. We have no accounts as yet of the overland express from India, which is much looked for. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS I)AY Al' ONE O'CLOCIt. Brisk Stock l7Byi i India Stock I par Cont. Red. ....... .....V1514% Ditto Bonds B Pon Cent. Cons. w•-•% 1 sou Sea Stock ___ 3 :6 per Cent — Old Annuities Ditto Red. NUL% % Now Ditto New 3% per Con' si34 34 3 per Copt. Anituitie; 1751 ___ New 5 per Cent. Bank LonsAnnuitiestoexpire . Ditto 500 ... 3 6 pm. Jan 5, HIM i,1 1 4 1-16% Ditto Small ~. a 6 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 —. Ditto Commercial — Jan. 5, 1860. — Ditto Advertised , Jan. 5, 1860 — Bank Stock for Account ... --- April 5, ISBO — Indira Stock for Account ... Jan. 5.1870 — Consos tbr Ace0unt........ 92%;;, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O,CLOCK Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds 16M4 Belgian BOnds Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds Brasilia n Bonds ... ....... .... Dit to Now Bonds ...... Ditto Account B u enos Ayres Bonds ..... .... —! Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account ......... .... Ditto Account t ‘ . 24"“ 2,- : 2IN Chili= Bond s • Prussilan Bonds ..., ......... .. _ Dstto A.c.so*. nt - Russian Bands, 1822 Coktrat t7.3: - .lds — . Ditto Account _ Ditto Accot nt La arr r X 3:: (16,182.4 n Y.:O Act 2 - .llt , Ai 78,2 Danish Licr d s _______— ~,' spr3 D rli i t t it t : o ., M ßelko et crci al t. l t ic . t , ',`;; Ditto Atur nr Greek Bonds . -- ' F . r p en e c f' b r , "4 s ' pea cobra. —l. _,... n 4..... IJ--' s, 1825. • _ --. 4 per cent. _IL —c. __. _ ; ___--- 3_ OF cent. _t.—c, . _ Mexicaut Bonds, 5 per Cent. ---- Exchange. '''''' f. ...r: Ditto Account ..—...., ..... . Dutch, `2,4 per cent 52% 4 Ditto Account Ditto. 6 per Cent. ...... _ "" 110,4 Ditto Account — ' Ditto, 5 per cant ` 9 M Ditto Account NeaPolitan ........ ................. --. PRICES OF SHARD THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid _ . Per Share. Ditto 10 18% 184 ?E, Is 50 2:15i S 434 Groat Western Railway Company 65 Ditto New ......... •......• 20 Brighton ltailvrety 'lt) Lennon and Birmingham 112ilnay Company... go Ditto % Shares 5 141. 18s. 6d. 13 uLonniodnonßaanndkCorof A yd u o s i t i ra ß li a a ilway C.o . rapa - sy . COURSE OF EXCHANGE, YE.....E.RDAI, Amsterdsm. ......... ...C.F. 1 , 2 Cii: Moran... ~.......,,............... 0 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam-- ........... 2U l2 7 cent, .. ~,,,, ...,..:., ~ „':5.,t Antwerp... •••••• ............. tte 6 • Marl .... •41,1•. ' ... 3 i Hamburg ....—. M.B. !:1 'ley, Venial. , .4.ltona ..... ................... . 11.1 Pe i NIL plea ................ _ . 1 ., N r i, 3 days' sight...—. 55 V) 1 ralerrno ~....,.....„,,:- 1:;,.., 32. .... 4 Ditto... .. .. 3 Ms. '..;5 75 1 Li,,,..., ..... ........_:.. . .. , 54 Marseilles. .............. ...... tif: 75 j0rit0......................... ..... 541 4 Bour,teaux ................... .1 , fig Rio Jalleirr ,_,......, ....,., , .. t 7 Frankfort on Mains, Et. M. 151 i.ati1..5........„,,,.............::: v, L'etershaigh, ruble 3' Us. 37 auctios Apes ..., • • ..—.. -. Berlin ViLynna, effective ti... 3 51 lv 4; IThilanc,prita .........., ..... i t , l'rkste......ditto .ri • I` kIC'S Ur et.: , ...1...it_ N. pe/.. CZ Madrid , Cadiz le./.4 i br.,ign G 0..; ... tAis... z. s: t Bilboa .... Oarcelona . New Dr!lus •_. ... ~„ u 0 0 %vine 36 Silver ... Bars ............... 0 5 L.!4, HALF-P.457' ONE. The chief feature to notice is the Bank of England, where a great bustle prevails ; crowds are flocking there to receive their dividends, which are now paying. To the present hour we continue without any in formation respecting the arrival of the Liverpool steamer or the other packets from New York. Consols, which were rather heavy in the early part of the day, are at present better for Money. and may be quoted 904 91, for the Account 921 ; Exchequer Bills, 3 6 prem., improved ; India Bonds, 3 dis. ; Bank Stock, 1781 ; India Stock, 251, cx. div. In the Foreign Market the chief business doing was in Portuguese and Spanish Stock, the former receded to 85i at present 36 ; Spanish was done at 0 4- since which it has improved to 24i ; Mexican, 304 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 521 ; Five per Cents, 99i ; Spanish Deferred, 11l We are very dull in the City for want of intelligence. --- The Earl and Countess of Jersey gave a splendid ball at Middleton Park, on Wednesday last, to a dis ringuished party. The festivity of the evening wa ptolonged until an eery hour in the succeeding morning COURT MARTIAL.—A Court Martial was held _ .._.- . - in Ipswich Barracks on private George Brown, of the oth Lancers, for desertion. He was foumd guilty and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. WALKING MATCH.. —Th e match on Tuesday drew such a concourse as has rarely been witnessed at such a performance. The match was one calculated to try the speed and lastin g po wers of the men, and was for 501. ; but, although the stakes were not so large as have been known in pedestrian struggles, the sporting interest was as considerable as though hundreds had been the a war d o f v i ctory. The contest Wll5 half back wards in walki ng , h a l f forwards, and the distance twenty miles. At t en m i nutes past twelve, in the presence of some thousands, th e two men came to the start i ng post, nearly facing th e S w i ss Tavern, in the New Avenue road, St. John' s W ood, and both looked conf id ent of success. Betti ng was 5 and 6 to 4 in favour of Townshend, but t h ere were plenty of good sporting men on the gro un d, who took the o dd s. T he dis tance was done on a half -mile out and hal&mile in. At the conclusion of the first mile it was difficult to discern which had the lead. At the end of the second mile Sutton had about 15 yards the lead. and at the time two more had been accomplished he increased it to about forty yards. The five miles for ward left Sutton eighty yards, or from that to one hun dred-yards, ahead. They t h en wen t off for fire mil es b ac k war d s, an d i n the first of these three Sutton in creased the adv an t age ; b ut in the l ast T owns h en d gained way consid era bl y, and the elevent h m il e , w hi ch was the second straight forward, Sutton did not head more than a hundred yards. These five miles brought the men much nearer each other. The last five miles were backwards, and at the conclusion of seventeen miles it was anybody's tvager. Both men were drelplz e fully distressed. S u t ton bed falleil twic froze weak nes9, and Townshend bad snarcely a leg to stand upon. At the conclusion of the nineteenth mile Townshend resigned, nature was exhausted, and the veteran was almost carried from the ground. Sutton was then three hundred yards ahead, and won with difficulty. • CIZEiIiNALc,uI; OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron GURNEY, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, and Mr. Justice ERSKINE.) Three young men, named Brown, Graham, and Hol liday, were convicted of coining, and sentenced by Mr. Baron GURNEY to fifteen years' transportation. Julia Smith and Henry 11PCave were indicted for having in their possession a mould for coining penny pieces. It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution that the prisoners were living together as man and wife, at No. 5, New-way, Westminster. In consequence of a little boy named William APCave, the son of the pri cone:B, attempting to pass a counterfeit penny, the lodgings of the prisoners were searched by a policeman nv.med M'Elleny, and there he found tvro moulds for coining penny pieces, and various counterfeit penny pieces of lead or pewter, and also a quantity of blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper, which being precipitated upon the counterfeit pieces; gives them the appearance of the genuine. Smith in her defence said that she had obtained the pieces of a boy, believing them to be genuine. MiCave said that he had separated from the other prisoner, with whom he had formerly cohabited, and knew nothing of the transaction, although he was in the habiting of visiting her. In his defence he called a witness named Venables, who stated he knew M'Cave, wly. , had recently been re siding with his father. He further stated that when the prisoner was first apprehended the policeman came to the witness and asked him if he could give any evi dence against the prisoner, as if he could it would be bet ter pay than for felony, as he would have five shil lings a day. The policeman asked him if he would not stand something, and although he had very little money he gave one policeman a quartern of gin, and the other a pint of beer. The policeman M'Elleny, being recalled, said, he did not recollect saying anything about the five shillings, but he would not swear that he had not. He admitted having gone into a gin -shop and drank with the witness. The prisoner M'Cave's father being called, said, that his son at the time of this transaction, was living at home with him. Mr. JusticeC OLERIDGE, in summing up, commented upon the manner in which M'Elleny had answered the questions put to him by the prisoner M'Cave, and also upon the fact of his having gone into a gin-shop to drink with Venables, after having satisfied himself that Venables's evidence would be of no importance. If the Jury entertained any doubt as to the fact of M'Cave being in occupation of the apartment at the time, they would give him the benefit of it. The Jury acquitted the prisoner M'Cave, and found Julia Smith, Guilty. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE sentenced her to two years' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Cor rection. (Befor v e Mr. Sergeant ARABIN,) ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Anne Brown, aged 22, was indicted for stealing four rings, one necklace, and other articles, value 301., the property of James Holder, her master. The case having been proved, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and she was sentenced to be trans ported for fifteen years. CUTTING AND MAIMING.—EIIen Johnson, aged 24, was :indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Charles Kingsbury, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. She pleaded Not Guilty. Charles Kingsbury keeps a public-house in Kent street, Borough. On December 25, between eight and nine in the evening, prisoner came into his house. She was quarrelling with a man named Walker. Witness separated them. She began quarrelling again, and wit ness put her out of the house. When he had carried her outside the door she stabbed him in the arm. Wit ness had not struck her at all. He then gave her i❑ charge to a policeman. Reuben Walker corroborated the prosecutor's testi mony, and stated that he saw the prisoner draw a smal penknife from her bosom while the prosecutor was eject ing her from the taproom. The policeman who took the prisoner into custody produced the coat and shirt of the prosecutor, the sleeve of which seemed saturated with blood. The surgeon who attended the prosecutor described the nature of the wound. The prisoner, in her defence, said she was so tipsy she had no recollection of what had occurred ; and she was very sorry she should have injured the prosecutor. Mr. Justice ERSKINE having gone through the evi dence, the Jury found the prisoner guilty of an assault. Mr. Justice ERSKINE in passing sentence said, that had the Jury convicted the prisoner of the more serious offence laid to her charge he.should have felt it his duty to sentence her to transportation, as the offence of stabbing with sharp instruments was so much on the increase in this country. As it was, he fait it his duty to pass a severe sentence on her, as it was evident sho had this instrument in her possession ready to stab be fore any provocation had been given her by the prose cutor. The sentence of the Court was that she be im prisoned in the House of Correction, and kept to hard labour, for twelve calendar months. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERJEANT.) James Turner, an ex-policeman, lately acting in the capacity of a broker's man, was indicted for stealing six printed, hooks. a broach, and other trifling articles, the property of John Bowes Iley. A broker, named Gingle, was emplo)ed to levy a distress in the house of the pro secutor, and the prisoner was put in as his man. After the distress was paid out the property named in the indictment was missed. Information was given to the former comrades of the prisoner, who went and searched his rooms in Gingle's house, and the books, &c., were there found. Verdict—Guilty. The L3arned JUDGE said it was highly necessary that those who were employed under the powers of the lAw should be honest, and he found it to be his duty to make an example of the prisoner. The sentence of the Court was—That he be transported for the term of seven years. Elfiabetli Morgan and Ann Perry, were indicted for stealing a tea-pot, a shift, a number of small pieces of ribbon, and a few artificial flowers, the property of Wm. Best Capper. The prosecutor resided in the Waterloo-road, where his wife carried on the business of a milliner. Being in want of a servant they put a bill in the window, and in consequence the prisoner Morgan called, and• mention ing the name of a friend of his, said she had a niece coming out of Monmouthshire, would he take her ? He said he would willingly, but he was ill off in the meantime. She said she had no objection to come till her neice arrived ; he was very glad of it, and she came on the same day. She frequently got drunk ;on the 27th December she was in that state when a shift be longing to Mrs. Capper dropped from her person. A policeman was called in, and other parts of the property were taken from her person. As a woman had fre quently called upon her, Mr. Capper gave or ders that she should be secured. Next morn ing the prisoner Perry called, and asked for Mor gan. She was given in charge, and, on searching her lodgings, other parts of the property were found. Mr. BEST addressed the Jury for the prisoners. He said he would be able to prove that Morgan had been six times in St. Luke's Hospital, and was at times to tally incapable of knowing right from wrong ; and he would be able to prove, with respect to Perry, that hitherto she had borne• an irreproachable character, and was incapable of stealing the trifling property found in her room. It was too unlike a thief to give her proper address in a moment, and thew was no attempt at hiding it. He then called Dr. Davis, the resident apothecary at St. Luke's, who had had Morgan six times under his care, and she at times was incapable of knowing right from wrong. Also Major Revel, who said lie had often left Perry and her husband in charge of his town-house for months together, in which there was much property, and he never found any thing wrong. He would take her into the same situation to-morrow, if discharged. She was sister to Morgan. The Jury acquitted both prisoners —Morgan on the ground of insanity. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHMAM RAILWAY.—An accident, likely to terminate fatally, occurred yesterday morning at the Euston-square terminus of the above railway. The down train had just gone out (nine o'clock), and the engine that works the towing rope had stopped, when a labourer on the line, named George Collins, and the foreman of the works, descended i n t o t h e we ll where is situated the horizo n t a l wheel on Which the rope coils, and by which it is connected with the engine. Collins got upon the wheel, with his legs between the spokes, for the purpose of examining and cleaning it. On a sudden the engine began to work, the wheel revolved, and, though an alarm of danger was instantly raised, and the engine almost immediately stopped, it was not before Collins had both his legs much crushed near the anel es. The poor fellow was conveyed with all possible dispatch to Middlesex Hospital. DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —On Saturday, Mr. Cove, a boot and shoemaker of Uxhi idge, made a desperate attempt at suicide. He was a her of the corps of Uxbridge Volunteers, and had for some time been subject to attacks of deii*nz tremens, occasioned by intemperate habits. On Saturday his wife accompanied him far a walk as far as Hillingdon, but on the way he appeared much excited, frequently exclaiming, " See, they are coming to take me to Han well," meaning the Lunatic Asylum. - On his return home he had not been many minutes in the p,aoour he, fore she observed him take down big b,ayenet and stab himself three times in alp 4toulach. She immediately seized his arm, preveated his repeating the thrusts, and tficors: *Namara ' Bullo c k, an d Sil vestre, surgeons of the town, promptly dressed the wounds, which may pro, bably not prove fatal. On being remon;toa.tetd with on the subject of th e rash attempt, 4e,sakk " E had wanted to kill myself instantly .4 cOlald have got my gun and shot myk)elf,"o Brave cut * my throat ; but I wanted ci . h.leed' a good deal, that I might have time to repent.' DEVONPOR ELECTION. JAN. 7.—The Reformers of Devonport are at length united, and the only hope of the brother-in-law of Sir Robert Peel is blighted for ever. Through jealous 3. the Reformers have hitherto suff,yred themselves to be divided on subjects of minor importance, whilst the Tory has congratulated hims:lf on this unnatural divi sion. But at length the Reformers of Devonport have cast aside all personal considerations, and have deter mined to support political principles. They have con cluded terms by which the only hope of the Tory is an nihilated. The united committees of Messrs. Tufnell and Leach have resolved to submit their respective interests to a Ballot, at which the:Liberals alone are to be admitted. Either of these gentlemen will exert his influence in behalf of the successful Reformer. It is now certain that a division among the Liberals of Devonport will never again be a temptatio❑ to Tory Dawson to offer himself to the constituency of Devonport. ANOTHER SUITOR TO HER MAJESTY. Thomas Richard Evans, a person dressed in a shabby suit of black, was brought before the Magistrates at the Croydon Petty Sessions, cn Monday, by one of the Croydon police, under the following circumstances : The constable stated that he was on duty at Nor wood last Thursday, when he received information that a wild-looking man had gone to several gentlemen's and tradesmen's houses and demanded food, and created great alarm. He made a search, and discovered the prisoner in the act of begging, and took him into custody. Observing something bulky about his person, he asked him to let him see what it was ; but the prisoner said he would rather die than allow his property to be taken from him, and made a violent re sistance. He was obliged to obtain the assistance of two other men to hold the prisoner while he searched him, and took away from him a great number of documents, apparently copies of letters addressed to different noblemen, and of the most extraordinary character. He bad since ascertained that the prisoner ent to the Beulah Spa, and inquired whether there were any single ladies there. He had also gone into a house where there was only a female, and demanded tea, and compelled her to give him a light. He then sat down and drank seven cups of tea. The prisoner here exclaimed in a )oud tone—l pro test against these proceedings altogether. I am no beggar, but was about my lawful business, and I don't see why my papers should be exposed. Mr. ADAMS—Why did you go into this woman's house and insist upon drinking' tea with her ? Prisoner —I did not do so ; I only asked her to lend me the utensils, and to give me some boiling water which was an act no Christian could refuse to perform. I found my own tea. The constable said that the prisoner had taken tea at another house a few minutes before. The Bench told the prisoner that he had committed an act of vagrancy, and they should commit him for a month to the House of Correction. The prisoner, as he left the bar, exclaimed, " This is a most cruel case, and I shall certainly write to Lord Brougham upon the subject." A great many letters, several of which were addressed to his " most especial friend, L or d J o h n R ussell, " are published in some of the Papers. They are evidently the production of a madman. In one of them he says-- I h ave to inform your Lordship that I have a great wish of marrying, and I believe there are several ladies that has a desire of me, but, my Lord, I will have no lady unless she is of the first distinction of rank and* quality. I have a very great attachment to her Most Royal Majesty Queen Victoria, and if your Lordship would interfere on my behalf' I would endeavour to re ward your Lordship. I have been informed that her Majesty is going to be married to Prince Saxe Cobourg. Please to acquaint her Majesty that I seriously object to it ; and my most serious advice to her is not to be married to him • upon any determinations, nor yet no German descent, for that would be the nation's down fall. Should her Majesty's determination, however, be fixed, would your Lordship inform me of any good lady of' distinction whom I could make my wife? And if you could at the same time procure me a Government of fice,4 should take it as a particular favour.—l am, my Lord, your Lordship's sincere servant, " T. R. EvANs." THE CHARTIST SPY SYSTEM JAN BIRMINGHAM. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY EVENING. While the Magistrates were proceeding with the pub lic business this morning, Brown, one of the delegates to the "new" Convention, accompanied by a man named Fussell, another Chartist leader, entered the office, when the former addressed the Bench, stating that lie attended for the purpose of soliciting advice under the circumstances he should relate, and wished •to know how he was to protect his character from calumnies which had been heaped upon it. He held in his hand a newspaper (the Birmingham Journal) containing a report of a meeting purporting to have been held ill Lawrence-street Chapel, at which it was said he had attended. He then read extracts from the newspaper, setting forth that the Convention would meet on Wed ' nesday, to consider what steps should be taken to re scue Frost—that the Convention counselled them to elect no delegates vho were not prepared to risk their lives in an organised attempt to rescue Frost if found guilty ; and, among other things, that he (Mr. Brown) had used these words, " Let the working classes sax' they will perish rather by the sword than by hunger." Brown said, in continuation, that there was not a single word in this statement but what was false. He knew nothing of the new Convention, or of their intentions. His object in going amongst the people was to protect , them from the spy system. He made a fellow acknow ledge last week, that he had been paid by Mr. Red fern, the Birmingham prison -keeper, so much per week for giving information of the proceedings of the Chartists. The man he referred to he knew had been inducing the working men to drill, in order that he might thus en trap and give information against them. A conversation here took place between the Magis trates and the complainant and the Magistrates' clerk, from which it appeared that the ,report had been co from some L on d on T ory Paper. p Mr. Lawrence, a Magistrate, was glad to hear Mr. Brown say there was, not a word of truth in the observations attributed to him nil the other speakers, for a greater tissue of madness and wickedness he had never heard. Mr. Edmonds, Clerk of the Peace, considered the question brought before the Magistrates as one of very grave importance. He thought the people of Birmingham ought to be protected from the horrors of the spy system ; and with that conviction on his mind, lie felt it to be his duty there pub licly 'to state that he bad been informed that the present applicant Brown, and his coadjutor Fussell, were themselves both spies in the pay of certain parties in the town, and that instead of going to the meetings of the working men in order to warn diem of their misconduct and danger, they insidiously led them i. e t„ the expression of violent opinions and into crime. for the purpose of betraying them, and reaping the reward of their villainy. Having made th:s charge, he would now at once give up the name of his author ; he was a working-mau named Tonne, and he was prepared to come forward and swear that Brown and Fussell were employed in the same way that he (Tongue), himself had been. He ( Mr. Edwards) made this declarati on o p en l y. I t was well known that Brown , had used as strong language as any man, and he felt that his conduct in giving information against the un fortunate and ignorant dupes of his wickedness and folly called for the utmost reprobation and exposure. Brown —I shall be. glad to meet this charge, and I trust the Magistrate will allow this person to be put upon his oath. He then added " the account published in the Standard is untrue, every word of it. statement is calcul ate d to The character, do a severe injury t o my character, an d to preyeat my earning a li ve lih ood. " Mr. Edmonds (addressing Mr. Redfern, the Chief of the gill police)—l should like exceedingly to ask Mr. Redfern a question or two in reference to this business. Mr. Redlern.-1 know this Tongue very well. He has been employed to give i n f ormat i on of the pro ceedings o f the Chartists, but when I discovered hat a • vagaliond he was, I was forced to g e t r id o f him, w and I had some trouble. The case here closed, and the complainants left the office. THE LONDON ALDERMEN.--A COrrepOildelit who gives his name, and who happened to be. on the Jury at the Guildhall Quarter tti'ssions on Saturday, complains grievously of the interruption caused to the business of the CP;urt by certain Aldermen who at tended, and who, having no duty to perform, tried to find some occupation to pass away the time. That occu pation, according to our Correspondent, is reading news papers, running out andlin together, throwing billetsaeross t4e Oourt, gossiping beside the Recorder, throwing about the folds of their blue pelisses, and altogether making a display which distracts the attention of the Jury. He adds that many of the Jaryman complained of the interruptiOn. It has always appeared to us very absurd to compel Aldermen to attend the Old Bailey and other Coutts in the City, where they hle 4b4cautely n o thi ng to do, and must, therefore, like idle childre n , b e gett i ng into mischief. The number of silk-looms in France is 84,640, producing annually goods to the value of 211,550,000 E, of which 78.,000,000/. are consumed in Prance, and 14 8 ,45.,4,000f, are exported. Th emloy 169,20 weavers, and 1;39 ,623,330f. 23,330f. worth of ey rawsilk ; and the labour amounts to 70,92 weaver. Th e interest 6,070 f., or about SOOL each and barked i s 21,000,00 W. 11! 00 manufactories of Lyons employ 40,000 loou9 w. 0411, ei silk. 00, 000, 000 f. sQt.,6opOr,owflotrkor4nenh,eancdappitraoldeumee- COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen walked this Inornmg on the Castle Terrace, and in the Slopes, at imied by the Hon. Miss Paget and Baroness Lehzen. Lord Byron (the Lord in Waiting) took his depar ture from the Castle this morning. Viscount Melbourne is expected to arrive this even ingC from town. With these exceptions, the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is expecte l to consist of the same guests as yesterday. Viscount Melbourne is expected to leave to-morrow for town. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, yesterday at Marlborough House. 'Foe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, dined with the Princess Augusta on Monday,- at Clarence House, Si. James's. The Duchess of Gloucester and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. Too Princess Augusta tool an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Royal Highness yesterday. A Cabinet Council was hold at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Oflice. It was attended by all the Minister 3, except the Marquis of Lansdowne and Sir John Hobhouse. The Council broke up at half-past four o'clock. Vis c•ount Melbourne left town soon afterwards for Windsor Castle, oo a visit to her Majesty. Major Charteris, Captain H. V. Huntly, and Mr. Young had interviews with Lord John Russell yester day at the Coloni4l Office. The Master of the Rolls had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing street. Mr. John Pereeval had an interview with the Mar quis of Norinatiby yesterday at the Home-office. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, &c., at his house in Bruton -street, on Saturday, the first day of Hilary Term. Viscount Melbourne will give a full dress Parliamen— tary dinner on the 15th instant at his official residencle in Downing.strect. Despatches •ere sent off' last evening from the Co lonial Office for Sir John Franklin, Lieutena-A•Go vernor of Van Diemen's Land. The Marquis of Huntley has arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Latitners, Buckinghamshire. TO FORWARD A SOVEREIGN.—W e were sen sibly made aware of the value of the change in postages by receiving a letter early in the week, from a lady, con taining a sovereign, for a year's subscription to the Bed ford Mercury newspaper. It was sewn across several times with fine thread, which kept it in its place, al though the letter travelled froth Bishop Aucklhnd, up , wards of 200 miles. Thus showing our readers a pound may be sent in a half sheet of thick post, or a sheet. of thin post paper, and be under half' an ounce or one post , age.—B e v ford Mercury. CALICO PRINTING IN NAPLES. —An eminent engraver to calico printers in Manchester is now exe cuting thirty-eight engraved copper rollers (9-Bths wide) for a calico printer in Naples. Messrs. M'Farlane and Briggs are making a three-coloured machine tor the same parties.—Preston Observer. ANOTHER REASON WIIY THE CORN-LAWS SHOULD BE TOTALLY REPEALED.—Every day brings additional facts to view, tending to show the rapid strides now making in every part of the globe, in the manufacturing of cotton, woollens, linens, &c. In proof, there is at this moment, an order in the course of execution for forty sets of cards, by Messrs. Bateman and Son, near Halifax, and our informant states, that the carding engines (cotton) are of a large size. But you will be asking for what place are these cards des tined? I answer Mexico ; yes, for Mexico. The entire machinery for the mill is now making in Belgium by English mechanics, from whence it seems machinery is permitt e d to b e exported. So that though machinery cannot be exported from England, it can, it seems, he made equally well, and no doubt cheaper than in this country. Is it not high time for the trading interest of the empire to bestir themselves ?—Preston Observer. MEMBER FOR PRESTON. —As it is more than probable that our worthy Representative, Sir H. Fleet-• wood, will be called to the Upper House under the tithe of Baron Rossall, the Tories of this town are on the quaff vice to secure a thorough-going candidate of their own kidney, to return him as Member for this borough, arid with this view have already sent off a requisition to I'. M. Gladstone, Esq., of Liverpool ; but this surely voill not be permitted by the Reformers of Preston. Have we not a cock to fight Mr. Gladstone ? Will the Re. formers not be on the alert, and equal the Tories in ac tivity? What do you say to Mr. Cobden, the Corn law repealer, and the working man's friend ?—Preston Observer. DINNER AT SHEFFIELD. —On Thursday a public dinner was given to our Borough Members, at the Tontine Hotel, when sixty gentleman sat down. Dr. Knight occupied tile chair ; John Parker, Esq., sitting on his right hand, and H. G. Ward, Esq., on his. left. Benjamin Seyle and William Fisher, Esqrs., acted as Vice-Presidents.—Sbdield Independent. THE UNEMPLOYED POOR.—The newspapers from the manufacturing districts are filled with details of the suffering of the unemployed poor. Meetings of the more affluent residents, to devise means of relief, are general, and subscriptions are liberal ; but. of course, inadequate for tho removal of the mass 'of human suffer ing and misery. A very important discovery is spoken of in Paris among scientific men : a gen tl eman has succeeded in making very excellent bread from beetroot mixed with a small portion of potato-flour, It is said that this bread is of very excellent quality, and can be sold to the public at so low a price as two sous per lb. FLUENCY OF SPEECH.—The common flue ncy of speech in m any men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas speakers hive only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in ; and these are always ready at the mouth ; so people come faster out of a Church when it is almost empty, than when A crowd is at the door.—Swift. On Thursday last, a requisition was present, i d to the Lord Provost, sgned by thirty-nine how s s; _ holders and electors, requestin g his Lordship to call t a n early meeting of the citizens of Glasgow, to consi ,dor the propriety of petitioning the Legislature for s.h e Charter. In his reply. his Lordship states, that „ He he considers it his duty to afford the inhabita nt 8 of Glasgow every reasonable opportunity of exi - t )re' their sentiments on public matters, yet, on th e pr esent occasion, looking at events which have occarred else where, in connection with the agitation of %his qv estion ssing (the Charter), he must decline calling '.he raeei ing.— Glasgow Herald. DEATH FROM FIRE.—On nondavi an iliquesc was held at the London Hospit'al on the body of Sarah Symmonds, mfed 39 years. The poet' woman mint into the shop of Mr. Childs, pawnbroker, in High-street, Shathvell, on Thursday afternivin, to pledge a locket, when one of the boys, in the act of li glaing the gas, set her clothes on fire. No time was ain convegirig her to the above hospital, where she e.pired the talowing day. Verdict Accident a l Accidental, Dear ,h." The Coroner and Jury severely reprimanded the_ boy for his careless. conduct. THE GREAT BANQUET or' .THE THE PAVILION.—The immense extent of this -erection( and the v as t mu l t i tu d e seated within it, will of theta, selves render it a spectacle of extraordinar y interee.. Exclusive of the store and ante-rooms, ierhi ch compre hend nearly 40 much more, the grand bi nac t uet hall will embrace ar: area of 50 by 35 yards. TI ie . re will be 25 tables-, which will run parallel to each across the halt, at one cud of which, on an elevat ion, there will be t t w at o ion tr s ai w is i v ll er b se e t a a e b e l o c i s n , m a o t da w:i crdc.h a go g e a st u s ery and ex dt extends along three sides of the wilion, ttie sp ace beneath forming spacious .passages of approach to the var i ous tables. Th e roof and sidesmf. the louilding are covered with white and pink c10th..., beautifully relieved in the more conspicuous parts by gorgeous draperies, ornamented with splendid arid appropriate devices, printed in brilliant colours in termiioed with silver. Groat attention has been paid to the preparation of the ground, which has been deeply laid with, ashes, and above this will be laid a flooring of thick planks. The pavilion will present the adre.ntagc of solid comfort tag well as the charm of elega:aee and sp'i en d our of its a tt ract i ons It ,and in the li s t would be ardon a bl e to f orget t h e Grace array of, <<unp Ladies fair" whom we expect to race the "v hole f ront of th.e extensive gallery. Tick e t s 1.1 of have h e ve e: a r l , aheadf our purchasedmost Corn-law Circular. DESEJEN SPI TOF disting u i s h e d DERS.----A on the I n d us, dated 17th Septa mbletter from Sukkor., er, mer.tions the fo/ - lowing phenomenon :--" I was t a ki ng a stroll into tile field s , when I found myself suddenly covered with a whole host of small and large spide rs. On lookin g about I observed that I was standi ng in the midst of a large cloud of these animals, wily) appeared descend ing in a filmy web of no small dimensions from the upper regions. H a vi n g extr i cated myself with some I took a p os i t i on from by%dy.ihilletenhucelemtY,larncodonautltodhestnieryeeaambsotbour:tciseime% without b e i ng annoyed ent I beheld descending maze within maze, and fold within fold, an innumerabl, e h ost o f spiders, all, suspended and dancing on the ir numberless tiny tikreads, which were at times seen to glance in ever variety of shade, the beam s of the r i s i ng sun, Ihe mernirig was somewhat dark and lour ing, and the stillness was now and then bro' K e n by some ei!tant rumblin g of thunder.". _ .T,rurtitd. NEWARK ELECTION. —On Wednesxlay M. D Hill, Esq., in the absence of the Solicitor-General, ad dressed the eivetors at the Town ball to the evening. The buildiug was crowded to excess, and the candi date's friends were loudly cheered on their entrance.— ..ITe.wark Gazette. EVENING EDITION. EDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 1840, ~`Y(h EVENING EDI rioN. d' 1 I A