The Sun. — London, England, 1840-01-15 00:00:00

EV EN IN G _EDITION. prrt themselves and families. No ; monopoli cpc", ; • greater sufferers are gene rall y the workin g classes are connected with them.—(Cheers.) We m fail in an a ppeal to the British House of Cum s, but if this failure should accelerate the obtaining ~1* your rights, and the breaking up of all rno : •.• ,olies, I know that you would be willing to .ntf,r s , tne prolongation of injustice if by these \ means you _ could secure to your children and chitdren's children equal and rppartial laws. — (Great cheering.) Therefore if a man of peace, who is opposed from principle to war in every shape, may borrow a simile from such an unrighteous system, I vi,ould say, " Nail your colours to the mast ;" and as demand is founded upon the immutable principles justice, accept of nothing less than the total and im m ,liate abolition of the Corn and Provision-laws.— , The Hon, Gentleman sat dawn amid loud and reiterated cheering. Mr. COATES, Delegate from the Tower Hamlets, came forward to move the next resolution, which was to following effect : " That this meeting of Deputies from the different parts of the Kingdom to the Anti- Corn-law League, again re cord their solemn protest against those unjust laws, which restrict the importation of food, and thus interpose a barrier betweeii the bounteous designs of Providence and the wants of the industrious millions of this empire. " That, during the past year, the baneful influences of Cie Corn and Provision-laws have been found estprting themselves with the utmost severity upon the middle and working classes, inflicting upon the labourers physical suf ferings and privations which have led to a great increase of crime, disease, and pauperism ; injuring our capitalists and merchants by the derangement of the currency, and enhancing the rate of interest, to the ruin of the humbler class of traders, and at the same time striking at the very stability of our institutions by impairing the revenue of the State. In the midst of such dangers the prospect of the next harvest threatens us wi th an aggravation of all • tbeae evils. 1 J‘ That, impressed more fully by the experience of the past year with the necessity of the most determined efforts [for the repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws, this meet !sine of Deputies pledge themselves to the continued sea -1 gort of the League until the object for whichit was estab listi'ed be attained." l' In the borough of the Tower Hamlets was located the London silk trade, the sugar refining trade, now de .,( pressed and almost destroyed by bad legislation ; and, Ilastly, they had the great port of the commercial ma ribe of London. Both the Members of the Borough m e the Tower Hamlets were triendly to the entire re peal' of the Co a n-laws, and Mr. Clay had requested him (Mr. Coates) to state to that meeting how much he regretted his inability to he present, and to assure ' him, that tit office, or out of office, they might calculate 1 o n his exertio ns to obtain the entire repeal of , t h ose obnoxious and accursed laws. (Cheers.) I He was glad to see so gr eat a number of the working o 1 classes present. The working classes were the life's iblood of the State.—(Near, hear.) He (Mr. C.) ; would nevsr separate the working classes from ether classes. Tense who would separate the working classes ;front the middle classes, the employed from the em- plover, were the equal enemies of both.—(Hear, hear.) Tee working classes possessed power, but that power w •0 best exercised wleien it went hand in hand with was the ~ e we r of the mi Idle classes.—(Hear, hear.) He 1 e t certain whether the landed aristocracy were not wo.•king an experiment whether they couldventured on do without t i, 1 people or not.—( Laughter.) If they set a. an experiment as that, it was possible the people m'etit .liseentr thesy could do without the landed arts .. • .(Cieere and laughter.) He was for carrying 1 erasa .-- - - but he very much sus ', every thint s by I :Pat.:cable means , 1 p e ace that h the janded aristocracy wished to have a fair stanil-up fight seith the people, they would only (L aug hter.) He did not pro come off second beet.--.etion in all its details and fess to be master of this qua bearings, but he did nodersteeel the common sense T he Cern-laws were it pro vaev of it.—( Hear , he ar. ) ection to one particular interest. ei7hat was the prin peaes,ction to one ei. le—( prig (Hear) —ad the principie of The ex , tr:ole was robbery to all o thers.—(Cheers.) elusive euppert of any one interest by legislation, tees se Imuch telt sn away from every other interest. In whose' ftvour were those protective Corn-laws passed ? Not k in fevour of the labourer, the tenant, or the farmer, for, gen, rally spea kin g , they had done him no good, but a 1 . e et 6. •al of evil ; therefore it was a protection in favour of t : , e „few, at the expense of the many.—(Cheers.) Nov. fete et ederstood the evil of all this—(Hear, hear)— ; and thereforse in his opinion those laws, as they existed, at the expssnse' of the great body of the community , I w, re against .- ea eon and justice, and opposed to the rights of men a.nd the laws of God.—(Cheers.) He felt that the Coen-fe'w question was a religious question, and he hoped the relic 01,3 feeling of the country would ho aroused on behalf of :he .poor.—(Hear, hear.) He , betel ed the advocates of tLe repeal of the Corn-laws the cause in evil were touch indebted to the polieeerance of the men k of Manchester, who had b een true' td report and in good report, who had .440 th t the battle i ~, eeaso n and out of season , and h e be.'"€= -1 firmly the ultimately, being serious in a righteo:'s caAse , t h e y oust prevail.—(Loud cheers.) f Mr. I.,” ES EY from Preston seconded the resolution. lie was a thorough going, tee-total, repealer of' the C o rr-laws, fro m a conviction of their bad effects. t 1 'Tense laws had been productive of the worst cwhile onse , ru .necs. Bread by them had been made s.rieses had been extremely low. In P threston every r` sp ecies of labour had been depressed by e Corn-laws. _ll e a ppeared before t hem that night for the first time 1 64 a Corndiew repealer.—(lmmense cheering.) He stood before them, therefore, with all the zeal of a new convert.—( Hear, at. `f cheers.) He was well known to them as an agitator ; sieliatever he put his hand to his heart was in it, and he ,"as never satisfied until he had accomplished it. Th e y s , quid recollect that other farticles of produce and food wesee,also heavily taxed. Every hundred weight of cheese pu i e :1 tax of 10s., and every hundred weight of butter was tax.*'d :205., and if ; they brought down the price of one article ,:sf food, the others would speedily follow. (L cheers'. if, therefore, they succeeded in getting the Corn-lawti r ' pealed, the hard-working industrious classes would o:.:-. taro their beef, breed, butter, milk, cheese, and every ' thing else at a lower rate.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) . lie had only one other observation to make. He stood there as the decided friend of the working classes, and as the advocate of a free trade in corn, and everything else. It vvas most unjust and iniquitous that bread, the ess ential element of hu man existence, should be taxed. !It should be perfectly free—free as the air they I breathed, or as the waters of the ocean.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. L. concluded by seconding the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. WARDLE, Secretary to the Working Men's Association of Sheffield , the n addressed the meeting. • He did not stand before them in the position of the last i ; meeker, for he was an old Corn-law repealer, and he had long exer t e d himself for the ace- mplishment of t, thee o lij...et. It was unnecessary for him to go into the ia ate i s I.f the question which had been already most ably discus: , d and illustrated. An address had been circu lated front the working classes that the repeal of the 1 '-lorn-laws would produce a reduction of wages, and can ine upon the operative classes to oppose the question. That, however, was a complete fallacy. The Mellowing resolution having been moved by Mr. Baines, of Leeds, and seconded, was declared by the I e..;liairrnatt to be carried unanimously : That the Deputies offer their grateful acknowledge - I ti erne for the valuable services of the several Anti-Corn las. Associations of the kingdom, in the dissemination of ?-.me( information by means of lectures and tracts; and they recommend the organization of similar Associations, -a be united wit h the League, in all towns where none Live been established. The Deputies urge upon all such :seceieties the paramount duty, et the present juncture, of coithwith calling public meetings, and of forwarding nu iss -cowl! si negd petitions to both Houses of arliament and Quetn, for the total and immediate P repeal of the t Corn-iascs." Mr. :OSEPII WALKER, of Wolverhampton, then tame forwaed to address the meeting. From the situa- ' t e ten in which he stood as a merchant and purchaser f,pam the manufecenrers, he flattered himself he knew $„,,,•• little as to thee bear i ng s o f this g reat q uestion. H o was in the habit o - f receiving orders from all parts Ireland, ant i foreign countries, and the of EaglaV d, latter were upon the orders he i-eceived from the le condi tion that he furnished the g ',eoda at such a price as enabled the Party ordering the to sell elsewhere. at the same price as ! hey did in Belgium ande 2ition with respect to Oeose orders ? Now, what was h is p o Why, he did not put them into hand, and ti; result was that the small manufactorers were ruined, tisey were without orders, trade was had, there was no JO. , mend for goods. This was ail owing to the Corn-laws. What, then, was the next operation ? Why, wages fell as the orders ceased.—(Cheers.) But then it might be said, that although he was obliged to sell his goods at the same price that he gave the manufacturer to the German and Belgium markets that he might get higher prices in Ireland ; now big. experience taught him he could do no such thing. The price at wieLeh he must sell his goods at Rio and New York must govern him in i selling them at Dublin and old York. It required no reasoning to prove this. He had in his own town many ! competitors, and if they found that he was selling goods cheaeer at old York than he was at New, they would aoon compel him to desist,—(Cheers.) What class, he would ask, was most interested in the repeal of the Corn-laws ? He maintained, the working men. — (Cheers.) Now what was the object of the Corn-laws ? Why to create a scarcity of food for the purpose of (ree fing high prices. The loaf was already too small, w ed, to use a vulgar phrase, some of the family of England ) mass t bite short.—(Cheers.) Who was it that was obliged to do so? Was it the rich ? No.—(Cheers.) i Was it the clergy? No —(Cheers.) Was it the ifLe :itidodiile:lahtsy [ es t ? he s N w o ea .- t iC t i: i r r s b .) ,Ow llt: G ou r g e h at c b h r e e e a r d was dear they could get enough to supply their daily wants,—..(Cheers.) It fell exclusively upon such men as composed the present meeting.—(Cheers.) Those er e . I * --' ic looked upon the repeal of the Corn-laws as ,- -- -- ; i . .. , 1 ~ „,- - 4 :,) ~ ,_ adic il measure, and cue that would lead to „, s 4 ~--' lira vhf What was it they 1 ', li , --4 a perfect equality on the subject of . - - •;:i 1 4 ' 47 , _ , ... i food,—(Cheers.) At the present moment the land lord's interest was opposed to the manufacturer's—he had the monopoly of food, but rob him of that and he would soon join in knocking down all other monopolies —(Cheers.) He would say we have got a Church, I find that's overpaid.—(Cheers.) He would say, the working men of Manchester, by their outcry, make me pay as much as men who have no Church to keep ; and I am sure, therefore, that there is something rotten in the state of things, and the sooner they are got rid of the better.—(Cheers.) He would therefore advise them by all means in their power to exert them selves in procuring the repeal of the Corn-law, and only show to the farmer that it was to his interest to have them repealed, and he would row in the same boat with them.—(Cheers.) He had no hesitation in saying that if they went sturdily to work they would obtain the repeal of the Corn-laws and with them that of all others that pressed upon the industrious classes of the community.—(Cheers.) Mr. Walker concluded, amid much cheering, by seconding the resolution, which was put by the Chairman to the meeting, and by him de clared to be carried unanimously. Mr. Alderman COBDEN moved the fifth resolution, which was to the following effect Tnat in the event of any vacancies in Parliament, or of a general election, the Deputies pledge themselves to use their best exertions in their several towns and districts to oppose, by all constitutional means, the return of any candidate who is a supporter of the existing law; and they call upon their friends in all parts of the empire to be prepared with candidates who are favourable to the abolition of the Corn and Provision-laws." It was now just twelve months ago since they had met in that place under similar circumstances. On that oc casion he told them that he would not intrude upon them with a speech, nor would he do so now, because he held it to be but right and just that they should give those gentlemen who were there as delegates an oppor- tunity - of stating their sentiments.—(Cheers.) — He held that upon this question the constituencies of the country were upon their trial, and he would give them till the next election to see how they did their duty ; f they send men opposed to the existing Corn-laws into Parliament, they will have done their duty manfully, and if they do not, they will act ,as traitors to their coun try and themselves.—( Great cheering.) He most cordially moved the resolution, and he was most happy to say a working man from Carlisle was there to second it, and to tell the meeting what they were doing there on this great question.—(Cheers.) Mr. EPHRAIM HARRIS then came forward to second the resolution, and was met with great cheering. He had been sent from Carlisle to tell them what they were doing there. The middle and lower classes were being united in interest and affection. They had had a fair trial, the middle classes could not do without them, and they could not do without the middle classes.— (Cheers.) The working men of Carlisle tried for the Charter last year, and the middle classes opposed them, and they were defeated ; the middle classes tried the Corn-law question, the working classes opposed them, and there they stood defeated—(Cheers) —so that they were a prey to the common enemy. They were all working men, but to be worthy citizens of the world they must be in order. About sixteen months ago they tried in Carlisle to get up an Anti-Corn-law As sociation. Circumstances overruled them ; but, not six months ago, they commenced another Anti-Corn-law Association. The working classes of Carlisle thought to confine it to themselves, but when they had esta blished it about six weeks they issued an address, de claring that restrictive anti prohibitory enactments ope rated most unjustly on mankind in general ; the question of the Corn-laws was discussed, and then it was that they called upon their fellow-workmen to join them ; and on the Ist of January the address appeared on the walls of Carlisle, and in a very short time they had no less than 1,022 members, and that they believed was not half the number included in the list.—(Cheers.) He was happy to say that they were united in Carlisle on this subject, and he had no doubt if all would follow that example, and join together heart and hand, they would carry this important question much sooner than many were willing to believe.—(Great cheering.) With these remarks he begged to second the resolution. The CHAIRMAN said he had now great pleasure in introducing to the meeting Mr. Chadwick, who had done /he most effectual service to their cause by the eloquent lectures he had delivered in different parts of the country in opposition to the Corn-laws. Mr. CHADWICI: then came forward amid the most enthusiastic cheering to address the meeting. He said—My friends, I stand before you as a Corn law agitator.—(Loud cheers.) I have been such for years—for years I have spent pounds upon pounds in agitating for the repeal of the Corn-laws— ( Cheers), and of all the things that have disgusted me most in my operations are the absurdities I met with on every occasion from our opponents.—(Great cheering. Sir Robert Peel tells all Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, that it is the Constitution of the most glorious empire in the world to tax the poor man's bread to support gentility.—(Great cheering.) What have I beard in addition to this, --why, the brother of a judge-advocate-general stand up at al pe blic meeting, and tell the men who had conquered ' , he ;hole of E uro p e,—men whose bloo heeia shed at Waterloo,—that every man must pay two-pence 2 :2r a penny loaf for fear that the Em p eror of Russia show ',I laud at Dover.—(Great cheer in g . ) I have also ta lk e d with clergymen of the C hurch of England on this subj ece ` . . men who on Sunday repeat numberless times that pra;'er which says, " Give us this day our daily bread," and they have said that the people were the better for makin this sacrifice.— (Cries of " Oh.") And the reason fog their saying that your bread ought to be taxed is one of tht: most curious I ever heard, and the most absurd. T he y say jf you spend all the money you get by your work in bred'', that then you will have no money to buy drink with.— (Great laughter.) Now, Gentlemen, lam a great ad vocate for what is called the Penny Trash.—(Cheers.) Some time ago we had a joint stock newspaper esta blished for the purpose of keeping up the present system at all hazards. The first page is filled with sham advertisements—(Cheers:—the next with what is called religion, telling you never to go to the beer-shop till after dinner.—(Great laughter.) Well, then, as the p emer must have some circulation, the third page is filled with sporting intelligence from Manchester — (lncreased laughte!)-- end then in the fourth there is what is called ; the editOrial retoarks, which, in common English, means the receptacle for 1, 11 the villany and rascality that can be scraped togethere --- Cheers.) In some of those re - marks I have been told ths.lt they would never spare me. I have accepted the gauntlet upon that, and depend upon it I will never surrendeal•—(Most enthusiastic cheering.) Now what is the reason we have such absurdity told us at pui,2ic meetings. If an idiot was here and was to attempt to speak, you would not hear him ; but if any fellow who vas little better was to get up and talk nonsense, you would hear him a great while ; there, and there alone, is the reason for all the absurdities you hear.—(Cheers.) Now 1 would apply to this country what Franklin did to America—that was the Penny Trash.—(Cheers.) That Franklin which established the independence of America, and saddled two hundred and fifty millions on your shoulders. Now I/. a week is 52/. a year, and that will distribute 50,000 copies of Penny Trash,— (Cheers.) Well, in that to-day you may have a good article from the Morning Chronicle.—(Cheers.) Next week a good speech from Dr. Bowring ; and if this accomplishes nothing else it will raise the taste of the people, and they will no longer sit down to hear silly stuff from a Joint-stock Journal.—(Cheers.) Now I should like that we should walk before we run ; if the people of Oldham choose, let them try it for one week ; let them first of all try it on blue paper one week, on yellow another, and on red another—only let them try the system, and at the next election, there is my hundred guineas down for the election of Dr. llowring. and the Corn-law repeal principle.—(Mr. Chadwick here sat down, amidst loud cheers, and cries of "Go on.") Mr. Chadwick again came forward, amidst most enthusiastic cheering. He said—Too much of a good thing, my friends, will not do.—(Laugl ter, and cries of "Go on.") You will hear plenty of good speeches to-night ; and, really to tell you the plain truth, if I was to rack my brain ever so, I have nothing more to say, but, Gentlemen, I wish you all a very good night. —(Great laughter and long-continued cheering, amidst which Mr. Chadwick sat down.) The Chairman then put the resolution to the meet ing, and declared it to be carried amid loud cheers. The CHAIRMAN—There is, Gentlemen, but one more resolution, after passing which, we shall conclude the interesting business of the day. I now call on Mr. Stansfield, of Leeds, to move that resolution. Mr. STANSVIELD then came forward, and was much c ,'.:eveel. He felt proud in moving the resolution en trusieid to his care. The present meeting had been called together to: the purpose of inspiring every one p r esent to exert themse;,:: to the utmost to remove the infamous oppression that ' a b out in consequence of the present existing ed upon the country r'orn-laws.— They bad met there that day to rai se their regret gyms, and even to swear not to disband the League, till they bad obtained their rights. — (Great cheering.) been said that they were the opponents of the l taristocrac yhad j—he denied that they were so ; the aristocracy were present were own opponents. — ( G r eat cheerin g.) All w ere desirous of protecting property and persons; they wished to support t h e Crown, but the y desir ed also that they should have their rights.—(Cheers.) H e stood forward in a good cause, and be warned the aris tocracy of this country to consider well the course they were pursuing, and retract ere it was too late. Let them le collect the warning to Belshazz ir—the hand writing upon the wall—" Mt ne, mene, tekel upharsin."— (Great cheering.) The resolution that he had to pro pose was as follows : " That the Council of the League is hereby autho rised and requested to summon a meeting of the League to assemble in London, at such time as shall be thought advisable, giving due notice of the same in the Anti-Corn law The Rev. P. Beewsirea, of Paisley, seconded the resolution. He stood there in a great measure as the representative of the working classes, who had joined this agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws in the town of Paisley, and as the time of the meeting had now been TI-11-4: SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, nearly exhausted, all he should say would have reference to the righteous cause of those who insisted upon the re peal of the Corn-laws. He would advise the people to stick to the great movement which aimed at another mono poly, viz., the monopoly of power.—(Cheers.) He had become an agitator for the repeal of the Corn !aw•s, from having witnessed the extreme destitution and suffering which those laws had occasioned in the district in which he was a Minister.—(Cheers.) They had been told that those men were enemies to the working classes who had been the means of separating them from the middle classes. Now, for his part, he :lid nct know how the working classes could be separated from the middle.—(Cheers.) This, however, he did know that the people themselves were the first to see the evils of the monopoly of the Corn-laws. — (Cheers.) They had been told that if the landowner would not see the justice of the repeal of the Corn laws, the people might at least find out that they could do without the landowner.—(Cheers.) Now, for his own part, he thought that the people had found that out long enough ago.—(Great cheering.) He would tell the middle classes that if they again deceived the people as they had done with regard to the Reform Bill —(Cheers)—if they made promises now which it was not their intention to fulfil, the) would find out that they could without one or the other of them —(Great cheering.) The people would easily find out. this. They were the producers of every thing.—(Cheers.) No one could entertain a doubt that the middle classes in their station were exceedingly useful—(Cheers) —and gladly would the people maintain a union with them ; but this he would say again, that if the middle classes should make such promises as had been made in good faith, and then broke them, they must look to themselves, for they might depend upon it the people would be no longer deceived.—(Great cheering.) He held the Corn-laws to be the worst monopoly in existence, and, therefore, it was that he joined heart and hand with those who sought their repeal. Those laws it was that were fast stealing away the trade and manufacture of the country.—(Cheers.) He warned, therefore, the landowners, to consider well what they were about, let them recollect that if the present state of things continued, the farmers would not be able to pay their rents ; and that with an impoverished middle class, and millions of labourers out of employment, the inheritance of the landowners must be forthcoming for the purpose of alleviating the dis tresses which their pernicious protective system had engendered.—(Great cheering.) If this system was continued, who could doubt that the property of the landowner must be appropriated to the support of the pauperism of the country The Rev. Gentleman con cluded amidst enthusiastic cheering by seconding the resolution. The CHAIRMAN, in putting the resolution, stated that he had pledged himself to give a hundred a•year in support of the repeal of the Corn-laws until they were totally annihilated, and he was most happy to say that several gentlemen to his right and left had pledged themselves to do the same thing.—(Great cheering.) In conclusion he had only to express his thanks to all present for the impartiality with which they had heard all who had addressed them. The resolution was then put- to the meeting and declared to be carried unani mously. The Chairman having left the Chair, and the same having been taken by the Mayor of Leeds, a vote of thanks was unanimously carried for his impartial con duct during the day. Mr. SMITH, in returning thanks, felt highly gratified that the glorious cause in which they were engaged, like the snow- hall, increased as it rolled along. The meeting then separated. PENNY POSTAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,-JObserving the warm interest taken in your journal on the subject of the Penny Postage, which may well be reckoned as one of the greatest achievements of the age, tending, as it will, to induce all classes to learn to read and write, and acting as " a great blow and a heavy discouragemont" to the wish of many to keep the lower classes in ignorance, I would beg leave, through your columns, to suggest to the enlightened part of the public, the propriety of rendering a na tional tribute of gratitude to the zealous and successful originator, Rowland Hill, and no more appropriate or effectual mode of doing so occurs to me, than by raising a penny subscription throughout the United Kingdom. A public meeting should be convened in the metropolis without delay, to take preparatory mea sures, and appoint a Committee of some of the most influential mercantile and other individuals, and let them request the Government to direct that all the Post-office boxes in the kingdom be open to receive the tribute-money for a week, and I doubt not that hundreds:,of thousands will not postpone beyond that time the prepayment of so small a sum, to testify the sense of the British nation of the great obligation they are under to the great Multiplier of Letters- And to induce an honourable rivalry, it should be under - - stood that the amount received from each town, with above a certain population, will, with the number of its inhabitants, be stamped on whatever offering may be deemed worthy of Mr. Rowland Hill's acceptance. E. J. D. Parthenon Club, Jan. 14, 1840. tin inserting this letter on account of admiring the in. tention, we must add, that it would be prudent to wait a little to see how the plan works —En. Sun] THE NORTH TERRACE—WINDSOR CASTLE --About five or six weeks since a fissure was observed in the wail at the north-western extremity of the north terrace, close to the Winchester tower, the residence o! Sir Jeffrey Wyattville. The opening on the northern s'de ekilended ft om the top of the wall to the surface of the earth on the outer side, a distance of some twenty or thirty feet ; and on the western side from the turrets down to the archway entrance to the vaults beneath, whieb eftcnd under the whole length of the terrace, thus coseplotely cutting off the corner in the event of that separatiso taking place which is now fearfully ex pected. The cause of the mischief is thought to be the sapping of the foo43tions of the wall, in conse quence of the recent formation of a ditch or trench, made to receive the water from the terrace after rain. DEATH OF MME. GANg.—IVIMe.Pans, a lady at Berlin, distinguished for her talents, her large fortune, and her encouragement of literature and literary men, on returning home Iraqi the theatre on the night of the 34 rest., found her house earrotinded by an immense crowd. Having with great difficulty tirade her way in, and reached ber chamber, she there saw 4 body of armed police engages' with five robbers, who had broken open t;.e doors and got io, whilst a sixth was dying on the sofa, the blood flowing from two wounds in his breast. The shock of ti; s horrible sight wins is severe, that Mme, Gans, who wag ;,:.1 her 74 th year, fell ti4vin in a fit of apoplexy, and expired a:zno st instantaneously. LAUNCH OF HER MAJESTY ' S PACKET LI ZAII.D.—On Monday 3 large assemblage of persons flocked to Woolwich to witoeas the launch of her 414.4 jesty's steam-ship the Lizard froto the Royal Dockyard, which took place at three o'clock in Clip afternoon. There were beveral distinguished persons pre444., the ceremony of christening was performed by is tive of the Earl of Derby, The vessel, on the blocks being removed, glided beautifully joto tbe water. No accident occurred, The Lizard is a very fii,iely-eon structed vessel, and has only been three ip building, Her engines aro tp be 100-horse power, and s h e w ill b e r eady for sea in a law 3veeks. There is another steam-ship building in the dock. NARROW ESCAPE.-z-wit. few days since curnstance occurred on the areePivich Railway which might have had a very fearful and Lie/ termination. o One of the evening trains, having left Greerew;44; ,fit the usual time of starting,iia.d made a great portion of ;is journey, when the engineer ctiaotiffi that he was on the wrong iiite of rail by observing th 4 4 train of car riages was meet'lls him from the oppos'ite Most providentially for the passengers in each tram the discovery was made in time to allow the one to back and the other is Slacken its speed. (in its arrival at Deptford, after some time, the train was repiaciA on the right line, but the passetiors aid not arrive in Lon don until one ixour after the usual time, There is f.otne idea of opening her Majesty's Theatre so early as the third week in February. 1a case this is carried into clffet, tb inimitable' Grisi, Mario. and F. Lablache will be herß C9r the opening. A young 144 from Italy will alsn make t first AP , pearance. M. Laporte is not yet arrived, but is daily expected. Some noise is making in the. fuhionabla world just now by the fact of a Russian nohleinan baying be- stowed very striking proofs of his attachment upon lady of high connection. Similar marks of affection have been long in vogue in Russia, though not quite in bon ton in Paris or London ; for our readsrs will recol lect that Catherine 11. expressed strong doubts of the sincerity of Prince Poteinkin's attachment towards her, -nund that he had nev9r givo her a beatingl— on the fp Ga/ig„nani. Madame D l Arblay ((ore the Friday previo us to the retn; leav i ng London merllYheMwisisll of the Burney i red before her family on for Bath, where they will be buried on iVednesday next. The personal estate amounts to about i5,01;9/. Three per Cent Stock , out of which she has be pwathed to Mr. Burney, the hz,irrister, her eldest neph ew , an a nnuity of 1001. a y ear for life ; and le gacies of various sums of money to other rteph,ews i - 47d nieces, leaving Mr. Barnett, her sister's grandspn, her residuary legatee. The Mail anathematised any one who would again dine with the Lord-Lieutenant after Mr. O'Con nell had dined with him ; the ;Ifni/ assured its friends and the public that no decent person would. Be it f.o. But what does th e Mail think of th e followin g per sons who dined with his Excellency since the fulmina tion ? On Saturday last there dined with the Lord, Lieutenant, Chief Justice Doherty! Mr. Justice Tor rens, Lord Clare —a n d on ly think of Sir Robert Shaw , the sire of our worthy Reorder!—Pi/o/. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause of HALL against GOUL TY, the Creditors of ELIZABETH GOFF, late of Clarence Cottage, Clarence-place, Brighton, in the county of Sussex, who died in the month of November, 1537, are forthwith to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ;or in default thereof, they Will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. Dated the 11th January, 18=10. CURRIE and WOODGATE, 3, New-squire, Lincoln's Inn, London, Plaintiff's Solicitors. 13, Great Marlborough-street. AIR. BREMNER'S RUSSIA. 11 THE SECOND and CHEAPER EDITION of Mr. BREMNER'S "EXCURSIONS in RUSSIA," in 2 vois. post Bvo. with Portraits, price 21s. bound, IS NOW READY, and may be had of all Booksellers. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ;)n Saturday, Jan. 18, in 'I vols. post Bvo., with Illustrations, 21s. bound, _ . 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DON'T HOLD THE COMMISSIONER SHIP, HARVEY—the ground is frail beneath; and, besides, remember your vow'— " I'll live and die Member for Southwark !" THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 15, Will be performed THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Macheath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Peachum, Mr. W. Farren ; Lockit, Mr. Bartley ; Filch, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Peachum, Mrs. C. Jones; Polly Peachum, Miss Rainforth ; Lucy Lockit, Madame Vostris. After which, a Comie Burletta, called PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with the New Grand Comic CF.ristmas Panto mime entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. entirely New Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De- eorations. Har.equin. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon. Mr. Morelli • Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co umbine, Miss Fairbrother. 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Hughes, Neville ' John son, and Smith ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Day, and Miss Alartin. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. rerunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. Sams of St. James's-street ; Andrews, Ebers, and Mitchell, Bond-street; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Those Correspondents who wish to see their communi cations inserted, must send us, in confidence, their names and addresses. Without that we have no guarantee of the accuracy of the communication. W. T. S. must see that if we were to insert his second letter it would be merely assertion against assertion, equally posi tive, and both made by parties who only give their initials. DIGILWATER AT LONDON BIS!DGE TO- , (ORROw. vo.ning 57 minutes after 11.1 Evenin' 0 minutesalter 0 -11 ':... *-- 4 _. I \ ll-i_ ,; --. 1 1-e" : I"'' .. • -) - - 'i - ti , Z . 4., 'e 7 t_s o 7.- N , .it-'4li)r' - ',..._ „Z 4 - ' '45,.. eI L , .4.=...,,k.;..-- ...-.' • \;)-- t #be:,- , , 4, k , - s ' - : j 2 -::: ' t - e l tt , '„ c ...:- r.:_tr‘ s ---SZA"In&-k . '-'--= ' ' [)A ray rn x + LONDON : WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1640. For several months the Tory Journals have been foaming and raving at Ministers for countenancing and encouraging the Catholics. In the last few months they have overflowed with gall and bitterness, because Messrs. WYsE, O'FE RR ALL, and SHIEL, three Catholics, were appointed to offices in the Government. The appointment was denounced as most unjustifiable, and the Ministers have been, over and over again, threatened with impeachment for violating the Constitution. For admitting Catholics to office, the hatred and ven geance of the Protestants have been invoked. But the Tories know very well that the principle on whiCh they have been blowing up strife and hatred cannot be acted on. It has become an impossibility. Accordingly, the Times of yesterday—the great leader in this crusade against the Ministers on ac count of religion—having found out that the time ig come to bolt away from the dupes it has hallooed on to the briiik of a precipice, published the follow ing declaration against its own and its party's principles : *hat ;44 2 we shonld be glad to know, have the framers of this address 1. 4 . ? gsfrihe . to any set of gentlemen in th e Queen's dominions a dosoo in " draw openly or covertly frprp poisoned sources," or to intlict polities' exclusions for r ,ti g ,t wl opipions?" The addressers are in a spheea of life where tt iv 44941(!!9911.b1e in them not to . know that the men to whom afoile this 1, - ,04)407 can look for a relief from the rpo7adininistration of the pNsi:nt Cabinet are persons alto gethef igr.9.4ble of adopting any . prinaipie oh rmigious ex clusion as a b 4 -4 9r Prion of their government. The Post took th 4 PC They ought to know very well, and we pymot help think 4k,Att they do know very well, that no party in the tat would if ati t eMpt to infl►ct political exclusion on the Roman Catholics of Ireia►s Jag gcgonnt of their religion. - - These observations were made t propos of the j.,EINSTER ' S and Lord CtimiLguoilfts address, which, ta i ; ether with the great meeting of Dublin, hare convinced a..; Tories that their henevotut ?pd Christian scheme of tcfritying Catholics, and exciting fide hatred of the Protest has failed. They now see that their avowed brutality ' 4 1 414 1.tP5 as a sentence of exclusion from office ; and they hasten to ggt their own words, to been m the patrons of toleration, to declare against e xclusiveness, 4 - ,jA to profess Chri stian love for their Catholic brethren, Th e ~,-;;4i4rfjmc and meanness of the 'Pries in s li n ki n g away from their own doctrines is more offeosive t han their bu ll y in g . A , more uncertain, disgraceful, disre t a ble party — while tivy always canting abou t reli g ion—never disgraced the di sgrace f u l hi s tory of faction . The y pu have excited religious of obtain ing palitieal power. l'riahtercydli;°arvetht:l:eankethe name of religion in vain, pal have proved that there is nothing holy or sacred which they go 1)0 ready to tr.implp on in order to step into office. Before we have found t'ong p..nd opportunity to 14V Pig contents of Mr. JONES LOYD'ii parn , plilet on tee Bank before our readers, he has published another oc, tbp me subject, ad ;tressed to Mr. J. B. SMITH, EN., the Nisi? dent of tj',p Manchester Chamber of Commerce The object of prOnction is to point out to p Chamber that other things, such as two ge4sisP b 34 h4TYests, the derangement of trade in to do with tho.4Fer 4po,cplqtipii,ll4ye had something America, and embarrassments 4P4 losses of PHr traders; and to get the Chamber of Cnninierge to exap mine the question with increased care. He says— " 1. Fluctuations in the amount of the currency are seldom, if ever , the original and exciting► cause of fluc tuations in prices and in the state u t feade. The buoyant and sanguine character of the hpman mind ; !piraicula : Lions as to the relative extent of supply and demand flue: tuations of the seasons ; changes of taste and fashion ; le gislative enactments and political events ; excitement or depression in the condition of other countries connected vrith us by active trading intercourse ; an endless variety of casualties acting upon those sympathies by which masses of men are often urged into a state of excitement or de pression ; these, all or some of them, are generally the original exciting causes of those variations in the state of tr,.de to which the Report refers. The management of the currency is a subordinate agent ; it seldom originates, but it may, and often does, exert a considerable influence in restraining or augmenting the violence of commercial oscillations." We think Mr. LOYD under rates the influence of an extension of the currency. When money is abundant, which may be caused by a slight in crease of the issue of credit notes beyond what commerce justly demands, it may be borrov:ed on comparatively easy terms. It is then borrowed, ar ticles are purchased on speculation, pricesimme diately look up, more money is required, more spe culations are entered into, and thus a very wide spread fluctuation and convulsion may be caused by the Bank issuing its credit notes over freely. Against fluctuations of the seasons human prudence can provide, for the causes are visible and measur able, but against the increase or decrease of the customary measure or value, performed in secret by an irresponsible body, no precaution can be taken. It is like the currents of the ocean, which carry away the floating bark without the pilot being aware that she has moved. If the management of the currency were so subordinate an agent as Mr. LOYD would represent it to be, why does he, who in this pamphlet de fends, as in the former he attacks, the Bank of England, lay so much stress on the extension of the country issues from the beginning of 1835 !ill June, 1836 ? Even for these the Bank of Eng land is responsible. If it had not procured its notes to be made a legal tender, these country banks must have supplied themselves with gold. They contented themselves, however, with Bank of England notes, which, report says, the Bank con tracted to give them at a low rate of interest. The Bank, therefore, as the report of the Chamber of Commerce stated, by throwing a large sum of money into the market in 1835, at a low rate of interest, enabling bill-brokers to discount American acceptances and bills re-issued by Joint-stock Banks, was the main cause of the increased issues of the country bankers, and the overtrading in that and the following year. Mr. LOYD makes some parade of the philoso phical and scientific knowledge now afloat on the subject of the currency ; he will not, we trust, be offended if we say that the error we pointed out some days ago, of confounding credit notes with money, makes many of his remarks in this pamphlet unsound. His perpetual wish is to make the credit notes of the community the mere representatives of so much bullion, and they are neither to exceed nor fall short of the coined nvaney that would be in circulation but for them : " If the bullion is diminishing, then the Bank ought to have no option ; it is bound to make a corresponding re duction of its issues, otherwise the paper circulation could not act as a metallic circulation would have acted. When ever the issues of the Bank fail to correspond to the fluc tuations of the bullion, spare not your censure—it is de served; but when the Bank act , .. in obedience to that guide, it is strictly discharging its duty, and the mercantile pressure which ensues, cannot be justly charged to mi.scor duct in that quarter." The fallacy of Mr. LOYD'S principle may be made apparent in a few words. Money is em ployed to exchange commodities alrosly in existence; credit notes,or promises to pay, are issued on commo dities hereafter to come into existence. There is every year, a few months or weeks before har vest, a comparatively small quantity of corn to be sold, while a large quantity is growing, which will in a few weeks be brought to market. Why should the credit notes representing this latter quantity be limited by the money required to purchase the lesser quantity ? It may be easily conceived, when great speculations have been undertaken, and great fleets are ex pected from abroad, which have perhaps been hindered from arriving by an east wind, that there may exist even a still greater discrepancy between the commodities actually to be exchanged, and those on their way to the market, than exists a few weeks before and after harvest. Now the ra tional rule is, in order to prevent a great fluctuation by the sudden increase of commodities without any increase of money, that the credit notes should, to a certain extent, be in circulation previous to the arrival of the commodities, or that the currency should be increased by them beyond what would be its amount, if it consisted wholly of the precious metals. In practice this actually takes place, for a great many agriculturists, and almost all mer chants and manufacturers, draw bills, and put them into circulation, or exchange them for the more convenient credit of the batils against the harvests, or the teas and cottons that are coming to market. Mr. LOYD would prevent that, however, by making these credit notes follow the exact fluctuations of money or bullion. He would regu late, which seems to us palpably absurd, coin and credit, which are two different things, by the same rules. We can show by another consideration that the c•arency philosophy, embraced by Mr. LOYD and the Bank Directors is incorrect. One great use of credit notes is to facilitate production. They dis pense with money, and to enable commodities to bc produced without being subject to the cost of keeping coin in circulation. But sparing expense auk" fuaitating production invariably increases the quantities of commodities. An increase of com modities requires an increase in the circulating me dium, which, according to Mr. LOYD'S rule, is not to be made, because the notes must be kept at Oic. same amount a the bullion would have been. The rule, then, of which ha and the Bank Di rectors are SO proud, ,if it could be acted on, would deprive credit notes of their most valuable property, 4)4t or first facilitating, and then ex panding with an increased production. Mr. Loyp exonerates the Bank to some extent, and throws the blame on the Government ; but the Chamber of Commerce is right, for the Bank has sufrcred itself to be seduced by the Govern ment, and must bear the blame which usually falls on those who depart from the paths of virtue. The Bank holds itself forth to commerce as its help and its agent ; in that character, and no other, it qbtpins credit and confidence ; such was its ori gin, and such it was in its best days t and if, as Mr. LOYD says, the connection of the Bank with Commerce it the leading cause of its mismanage ment of the currency, it must be condemned for now representing itself as a commercial body when it has heeorw the mere creature of the Government, and the pander to a vicious system. Mr. MONTAGUE GORE has just published a patopilk " Thoughts on the Corn-laws" under the impression that his eloquence will in duce the Legislature to resist the just demands of a starving people. How vain the hope, let the Manchester meeting prove. The manner in which he sets about his task is as curious, h s hor is vain. He makes long quotations from the Agri cultural Reports of 1833, to prove that then the fanners. and inhabitants of towns cormee'ted with agriculture, Were suffering great distress. What a pity he forgot to add that the blessed Corn-laws then existed, and we can tell him were the cause of that very distress. A wore unreasonable production to obtain a more stupid and iniquitous end has not frequently fallen under our notice ; Mr. GORE should study the subject before he writes about it, and he ought to study the feelings of the people before he recom mends the Legislature obstinately to persist in its injustice, and bring ruin on the empire. As a specimen of this gentleman's folly, he com plains that the land will fall out of cultivation, and at the same time he quotes a passage from the works of the late Lord SHEFFIELD, to prove that our people could not be fed by foreign cou tries, or by wheat imported from them. Does this sapient gentleman suppose then that the people would lie down and die ? Oh no He knows, as well as we do, that the asseition that the land would go out of cultivation in consequence of abo lishing the Corn-laws is a wretched piece of disho 7 nest humbug, which the landlords have put forth to terrify the people from demanding and obtaining justice to themselves. This humbug leads U 3 to notice another scare crow which the landlords have stuck up, thinking it would frighten men whose nerves arc strung by hunger. The home trade, it is said, would be d - suoyed by the repeal of the Corn-laws. So it would, if the farmers were to leave off culti vating the soil. But they will not do that ; the public may trust them. Now all trade ultimately resolves itself into barter, and unless the produce of the land, which is to be exchanged for manufactures, were diminished, the borne market for manufactured. goods would not be narrowed a single sovereign.- On the contrary, the farmers would produce more, the manufacturers would get more in exchange, and the home market would be extended by the same abolition which gave exten sion to the foreign market. We recommend Mr. GORE to rub his eyes till he gets wide awake, and then to resume his studies. The Rev. Dr. BRYCE, formerly Minister of the Presbyterian Church at Calcutta, and now the leader of the party in the Kirk who stand up for the supremacy of the law in opposition to Dr, CHALMERS, and the non-inttusionists who fight under the banner of " Independence," has pub lished an Address to the Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England on the present position of the Church of Scotland. To this step Dr. BRYCE has been led by the example of Dr. CHALMERS, who had thought it advisable to appeal to the sympathies of the Anglican hierarchy in favour of his independent principles of eccle siastical government. The one Address, therefore naturally produced the other, for Dr. BRYCE. from the station vthich he holds, could not see an attempt made to bias the minds of the English Clergy and of the public, without endeavouring to set things in their proper light. He has, accord ingly, subjected the appeal of his antagonist to a most rigid examination, testing his principles by the standards of the Church, and bringing to bear upon his various positions a formi. dable battery of facts drawn from the. history of the Scottish Establishment, and a no lest powerful array of arguments drawn from the same source. The result is that one can hardly • imagine a more complete " mol lishin than Dr. BRYCE has administered to 1)r. CHALMERS. Never was subject under the keen knife of the keenest anatomist made to un 'dergo a more thorough dissection—the very skelc• ton is separated bone from bone. We had made some extracts from Dr. BRYCE'S admirable little pamphlet, but our columns are so crowded with more pressing matter that we are compelled to postpone their publication. In the mean time we strongly recommend this brochure to all who desire to understand the true merits of the important question at issue between the contend. ing parties in the Church of Scotland. The Lon. don publishers are W. and D. ALLEN. We must again merely direct the attention of our readers to the important proceedings at the Corn Exchange, Manchester, yesterday. It is enough to say of them, that if they do not sur. pass in interest the proceedings o❑ Monday, th e y are not inferior to them. Some of the Morning Papers announced that slight apprehensions were last night entertained that the peace of the Metropolis Might be disturbed. Nothing, however, transpired to warrant the apple. , hensions. If any mischief were intended the know. ledge that the authorities were on the Alett a and that they had taken several precautions, sufficed to prevent it. There was a meeting of the work. ing-classes at the Hall of the Trades, Abbey-street Bethnal-green, but it broke up without the slight est tendency to riot. The news which our Journal contains from the manufacturiug districts of the disposition of the superior order of working men to agitate now for the repeal of the Corn-laws, in preference to the Charter, will separate them from the Chartists, and re duce the number of thi;se inclined to mischief to a small and impotent band. We are satisfied, from our knowledge of the working classes, that the majority of them are, by nature and disposition, the most determined enemies of disorder. Nothing but serious and long continued oppression and insult —such as the Tories were wont to practiee---will drive them to have resource to outrage. Let the Legislature only be just, and the Executive good-te►npered and firm, and there will be no thing to fear. We, however, would not answer for the peace of society, unless the Legislature set a better example. The article, headed " The Dissenters' Lea,' ders," which will be found in another column, deserves the attention of the Dissenting community, as it will assist them in appreciating the services rendered to the cause of religions freedom by a - lately-formed society, pro fessing to have. the furtherance of that cause far its object. The Patriot, a Dis senting. clique newspaper, has, it seems in summing up the merits of the Religious Freedom Society" included an item to which it has no itixt claim. This Society—of which by the bye the Editor of the Patriot is the Secretary-, .when applied to on behalf of the Qanadian prisoners, some of whom were Dissenters, could not " see anything on the face of the case to connect it with religion ;" and stated, as an excuse for its non-in terference, that " respectable people in general have a gre• t horror of civil war." It kept aloof from the unfortunate prisoners until its assistanee was no longer wanted, and then it all at once becaMe convinced that there was something in the case to connect it with religion. The moment that the Government intimated an intention of li berating the prisoners, the horror that •" respect able" people have of civil war vanished ; and " then it was," says the Statesman, "for the fisf.4 time the Society became 4ealoms irk their behalf. the Piacio# no , kv TecoAnA§ ki\Q tase* . , and as if it h a d di rected Ow proce&dings-, and , worked out the results." What shall thought of a public bod y w hi c h can thus Mittescend to bolster up its character, as the SSaieitzunt justly rematks,:with claims undischarged and duties unfulfilled ? What but this, that the Religious Freedom Society is got up for other purposes th an t h ose which it professes to the public to have i n v i ew ; and that its aim is to suppress," to " put out," and " to smother." Th speech of AI. THIERS in the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday, reported in ~. .:i: ` •Je .O the Pais Evening Journals of that day, is said to lave produced a profound sensation in the political circlers of the capital. The subject of debate, as we stated in The Sun of yesterday, was the para giaph in the address relative to the Oriental ques- tion, upon which the Ministers claimed for them selv s the merit of the wisest and Most upright policy. M. THIERs commenced his speech by observing that two courses were open to Ministers, the one active, the other passive, and that they had rightly adopted the latter. He accused them, how cvtr, of having committed two great errors ; the first consisted in not allowing MEHEMET ALI and the Porte to settle their own differences,without mak ing an European question of what never ought to have been one, and which by becoming one only became the more perplexed ; and secondly, in not coining to a full and amicable understanding with Great Britain, the natural ally of France, upon this question. M. THIERS confirmed a statement made sotre days ago by the Morning Post, and contra- dieted by the Globe, but which The Sun of the same date affirmed was perfectly correct— namely, that the Russian Envoy, M. Brturiovv, had proposed to the British Government that in the event of IBRAHIM marching upon Constanti nople, Russia should be allowed to occupy that capi tal, and that four British and as many French vessels of war should pass the Dardanelles. Such a convention M. THIERS maintained would make no alteration in the Treaty of Unkiar Ske lessi-- and this also was what we urged in answer to a contrary opinion expressed by the Poet; but, as the ex-Foreign Minister well oh s served, Russia once in possession of Const!,nti nople could shut the Dardanelles whenever she pleased, and of course add the four British and French ships in the sea of Matmora to the number of her squadron in the Black Sea. He therefore trusted that the proposal made by M. Bruniow would be at once rejected. M. THIERS went on to pronounce a glowing eulogium on the alliance with England, which he hoped the Government would do all in its power to strengthen and con solidate. The interests of the two countries were the same, and.l2e should regret exceedingly that any mere misunderstanding should impair an alliance so grand and noble. France ought to feel proud to unfurl her flag beside that of England the motto of which was " Moderate Liberty, and the Peace of the World." The wrongs justifying the breaking up of this noble alliance should at least come front England, and up to the hour in which he ,ascended the tribune the Hon. Deputy did not think there was one with which she could reproach. herself, NAPOLEON in exile had lamented that, he had failed to realize this great alliance ; and though, forty years ago, causes existed for estrange ment, yet these causes were happily no longer in. being. England, he maintained, was seriously at tached to the French alliance, and had given ample proofs of her sincerity by her conduct upon the Belgian question, the Spanish question, her friendly mediation between France and the United States, and therefore it was incumbent upon Ministers to act in cordial harmony with her, if they sought the honourable settlement of the Oriental question. In conclusion, the Hon. Deputy implored the Go vernment and the country to maintain the alliance with Great Britain—an alliance the most glorious, natural, and necessary to France, that she could possibly possess. These sentiments were received with loud cheers ; and throughout the delivery of his speech, M. TRIERS was listened to with the most profound attention., The Minister of th e Interior, M. DUCHATEL, followed, but he had merely ascended the tribune when the mails left. for London. We do not anticipate on the part of any member of the Government, a dissent from the eonvictions of M. TRIERS as to the importance of the English alliance. The friends of tie Orleans dynasty must be sensible, whatever the Legitimists may urge to the contrary, that England is the only power thitt sees in the social prosperity and repose of France a sure guarantee for the peace and progressive of the world. The trial of the secon'', batch of prisoners ac cused of participat:n_ in g i the insurrection of the 12th of M:„ y 1,4 was commenced on Monday in th:e Court of Peers. M. BLANQUI was among the number. Only the preliminary forms were gone through on Monday. The National Guards of Paris, to the number of 600, presented addresses on Sunday to IVINI. LAFITTE, ARAOO, MARTIN (de Strasbourg), and DUPONT (de l'Eure), thanking them for their labours as members of the Reform Com mittee for endeavourinct to obtain an extension of the suffrage. We have spoken of the recent appearance of some Eng glish men-of-war off the Dardanelles. This fact was not confirmed. Letters from Constantinople, received at Vienna on the 2d of January, state, however, that some English men-of-war had re -appeared at that station, but had quit ted it and gone to rejoin the squadron of Admiral Stopford. W e have pointed out all the phases of the movement, which was bringing England to an approximation to Rusais on the eastern question. The return of M. Brunow to London, seemed to be intended to hasten the result. The following paragraph is in the Revue de Park published yesterday " It unbappily-seems but too certain that the proposals of M, Brunow have been favourably received by Lord Palmerston, and the Anglo-Russian alliance seems to be now eompleted.—Gazett e de France. We have received this morning a letter from Algiers, dated the sth of this month. Nothing important bad taken place since the affair of the 31st of December. Lieut.- General Galhula had arrived at Algiers from Bona on the of January.—. Le Constitutionnel. MAS DE LAS MATAS — Brigadier-Generals Zurbano and Aleson yesterday attacked Moline; where Llaugostetia had two battalions and one squadron, which retreated at the approach Of the Christine troops. 'iive.rything is preparing for the siege of Segura. At the same time O'Donnell will besiege Aliaga, and Aspiros A Ipliente.—Phare des Pyrenees. SARAGOSSA, JAN. 2.—Cabrera has been conveyed from Harbes to Morella en a litter at the desire of his sisters, who did uc.l think him in safety. His life continues to be the. greatest ( ) Anger. The headquarters of the Duke do not move. The third division stationed between Mala and Los Omar Is ready at the first notice to move towards •Ejulve. The insurgents occupy Molinos, Ejulve, and the whole country as far as eastellote.—Le Commerce. • BOURSE.—PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 13. First Highest Lowest Last French Price Price. Price, P rice. per Cents ....... 01 112 ... 112 25 119 • 112 20 44 per Cents lO7 10 .., 107 10 107 10 107 1 4 per Cents lO4 50 .04 50 ... 104 40 104 ii 4 0 9 3 per Cent 5.......... SO 90 .• 30 93 ... SO ...80 Bank of France s9o ...3075 75 Lattitte Bank t,noor. Sh lO4O —.1040 ...1040 5,000 f. Sh 5050 ..▪ .5155 Belgian Bank 852 50 ••• 88 5 85 50 885 5 per t eems 8 102)4 104 102 3 per Cents 7! ". 71 ... 71 ... 71 Spanish Active ... 25 X ••• 23 % ... 25% ...25% Passive 6% ... Portnenese 3 per Cents ...... $1 , 1% ... 244 244 24ki NDon Miguel 3 ... 3 ltearolitan ........................ 103 ... If/3 30 • 10 ' 20 ••• !°,.3 30 otnan• •. ............ 101 3 4 ... 102 10.% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Goo-nein ................. 590 ‘. sgo 577 50 ... 577 5 ,1 Versailles. R. 13 .................. 414 505 ..• 502 50 ••• 509 5° L. 13. ............ ....„ 34C 340 M 7 50 MS 75 Orleans . • ... ............ 450 450 ... 450 ... 450 Strasburg to ....... 337 50 337 59 ... 3.31 M 3r1.2 It is slid that W. F. Campbell, Eso M.P. f or A rgyllshire, will ho vaised ." of Islay, the marriage of the Quezo.—G/- ‘, the Peerage at • 1 , 1 " WEA7kiRn. • isaoto Herald. THEPARKS, &c.—The weath er I wo a t - , th changed, and the frost has been on ivf thaw. The thermometer, a t t en o ' c l oc k .onday night, stood at 30 d egrees , t wo d egrees - below freezing point, at which time the frost was but very slight. About twelve o'clock the sky became over cast with dark clouds, and from that time the thermo meter continued gradually to rise, until four o'clock it stood at 36 degrees. Soon afterwards a light rain came on, which continued until a quarter -past five o'clock, • when for a quarter of an hour the rain descended in torrents, quickly altering the appearance of the face of the country. The rain continued with slight intermis sion until about ten o'clock, when the sun broke through, and the rain ceased. At that time the thermometer stood at 40 degrees, at one o'clock it was 46 degrees, and at six o'clock on Tuesday evening again 40 degrees. The ice in the various parks was covered with water, and the whole of the icemen of the Royal Humane Society were kept all day at their posts for the purpose of preventing foolhardy persons from venturing on it. T- ---- - r ~;l ~l