The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DitußY-LANE. The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FIRST PANTO MIME COMPANY. THIS EVENING Will be performed Balfe's Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon,:3lr. Weiss ; Floreville Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, kr. Horncastle; Ardenford, Mr. D. W. K ing; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne,i Miss Romer; Grisette, M 133 B. Isaacs Frivolo, Mrs. Hughes. After which will be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Banta m/lime, being a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled lIARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The Overture aid Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes; the new and ex tensive aieenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Telbin, and numerous as sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma shidery by Mr. R. Roman • the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey , Mrs. Balls, and a rat of auxiliaries. ' The whole produced ander the superin tendon's of Mr. W. West. Scene 1. ABODE or KALYJA, Tan ENCRANTRISS.—Date and lo entity not exactly known, but considered by the Anti q uarian Society is have been discovered "somehow or other," "some time or other," asar "somewhere or other." Kalyba (the Enchantress, not by Balfe, mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having %nits miscalculated her power), Mr. H. Horncastle ; Fiends and Fu ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but a mammon expression of countenance), Messrs. J. IV, Morgan, Burt, Connell, and H. Payne ; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele- Aleuts, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the March of Intellect (travelling " incog." Ai." Young England," a true bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science, cut of Perseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect says a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to Scene 2. Irritants or IstrataT ScnooL.—Schoolmaster, Mr. Big wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys a half•holiday on the occasion. Beene 3. EXTERIOR AND BARBACAN OF COVENTRY CASTLE. The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own Into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni ; the Countess of Coventry (a good housewife, and supposed to have been the inventor of the celebrated "Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character trom her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful knights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the natives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas ters Coyle, Savell, Dix, Welsh, Desborg,Francis.—How the youthful St. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and nearly his " last " appearance is public on the occasion—how his "cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony some to a ish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba shows her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under her wing." Nothinge material to our historic" occurring during a period of fifteen years, the author trusts that the audience will al low him to cut it, and come again to Scene 4. KALTEE'S HOUSE OF CORRECTION !—St. George of Eng land (a rum'un to look at. but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Payne; St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, at. Anthony of Italy (all pretty much of the same kidney !) Mr. Heath, Mr. Douglas, Mr. Marks, Mr. Chapino, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George and his brother champions (considerably grown since their last ap pearance in public) are kept in durance vile, and on " very short commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate— merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom ! Scene 5. DOVER Roans.—Flow the Seven Champions of Christen dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com- . . parties." Scene 6. BANKS OP THE NlLE.—Almanzor, King of Morocco (his Own Lord High Admiral, Commander-in-Chief, &e., on his way to King Ptolemy's Court, to court King Ptolemy's daughter), Mr. T. Matthews ; Ptolemy, King of Egypt (rather a remote ancestor of Ibrahim Pacha, better known as Abraham Parker), Mr. Priorson. Moorish Sailors, Attendants on King Ptolemy, &c. How Almanzor came to Egypt to be married—the Princess having a decided objec tion to their being " bound in Morocco ;" and how St. George, not Laving even " dipped" into the question of " lights," runs his steamer on shore, and saves himself on the funnel. Seene 7. GRAND HALL IN TEE PALACE OF PTOLEMY THE FIRST, KING or EGYPT.—The Princess Sabra, Mr. Hance, about to be mar ried to the King of Morocco, but patriotically devoting herself to the digestive organs of the Dragon (a gentleman, whose prodigious allowance of jaw enables him to speak fcr himself ), Mr. Wiel'tnd. How this " marriage in high life" is sur,enly interrupted by the Dragon, who, not only forbids the banns ; but elopes with the bride ; thereby plunging " her illustrious parents and several families of dis tinction at the west-end of the town into the deepest affliction," &c. (vide Morning Papers). NEW BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS. JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. BENTLEY. I. Sir HARRIS NICOLAS'S LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR CHRIS TOPHER HATTON. Svo. with Portrait, 15s. bound. THE LIFE OF GENERAL PBPE, COMPRISING THE PRIN CIPAL MILITARY AND POLITICAL EVENTS OF MODERN ITALY. Written by Himself. 3 vols., post Bvo., 1/. I Is. 6d. MEMOIRS OF THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY. By ROBERT ROUIERE PEARCE, Esq. Second Edition. 3 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, 21. 28. IT. THE DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OP THE EARL OF MALMESBURT. Edited by his GRANDSON, the THIRD EARL. Second Edition. 4 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, 31. V. MISS COSTELLO'S MEMOIRS OF EMINENT ENGLISH WOMEN. 4 vols. Svo., with Portraits, 21. 16s. Yr. 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Volume Second will be published on February let. William Blackwood and Sons, 45, George-street, Edinburgh, and 37, Paternoster -row, London. ROTAL PROCLAMATION. " Who'll kill the dragon ? " Or me he shall gorge ; I I, says St. George, l'll kill the dragon."—Old MS. Arming of St. George for the approaching Fight. Latest odds at the " Corner," 1,000 to 0 on the Dragon (taken). " May the best nun win." Scene 8. THE DRAGON'S HAUNT IN THE DESOLATE VALLEY.— How the Dragon introduces the country quarters ;" how St. George follows on horseback (the railroad not being quite finished); how he and the Dragon fall in, and then fall out. The Battle (for particulars of which keep your eyes fixed on Messrs. Payne and Wieland). How the result of the last round not only elevates St. George to the " Crown" of Egypt and the " five skilling pieces" of England, but at the same time introduces the audience to Scene 9. GRAND 11.4.1. L OF CUIVALRY.—TIOW St. George receives the " Battle Money" (alias the hand of the Princess Sabra). Re appearance of the March of Intellect. Introduction of Old Friends In New Characters. Harlequin.... Mr. Howell, C10wn.... Mr. T. Matthews. Pantaloon.-- Mr. Priorson. Columbine Miss Hicks. Scene 10. DEALER IN CURIOSITIES AND IRONMONGER AND CUT LER'S Snor.—lmproved Surgical Instruments. " Holding the mirror up to nature." " Families furnished" on a novel principle. A loud Report on the New Houses of Parliament. A fashionable complaint files to the Clown's head. Scene I 1. CORNCHANDLER'S SHOP AND GRANARY.—More ways than ene of being "in clover." Specimen of the very best " Britannia Metal." Plenty of "game" in high preservation. Cabinet measures and corn measures. A lot of " chaff " in both. Harlequin gives Clown " the sack." Abundant specimens of the New Tariff. Scene 12. SIAMESE VILLAS AND NURSERY GROUND.—" To be let, to gether or separate." Ethiopian Serenaders provided on the shortest notice. " Get out of the way, Old I)an Tucker," and make way for "patent elastic India-rubber hoots." Effects of " putting your feet in it." The Spanish marriage horticulturally illustrated. Spanish nut and Orleans plum. " A plague o' both your houses." Scene 13. TINMAN AND TatLoa's SHOPS.—The original little Tin Kettle. Water always hot. A grate mistake. " Going out a shoot ng." Grand Experiments in Gun Cotton, ending in an awful Catas trophe. Scene 14. INTERIOR OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN TOT WAREHOUSE. — Toys for the Million. Magic Cards. How to " cut and shuffle." Jack in the Box and out of it. First-rate teem and turn out. " See the Conquering Hero comes." Scene 15. Tim STATUS AS IT IS ; or, Wellington at Hyde-park sorrier. Scene 16. Tux STATUE As IT Was ; or, Wellington at Waterloo. " Look here upon this picture, and on this." ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT GARDEN. The nobility, gentin , and public are respectfully informed, that the New Theatre will Open the first week in for the per formance of the Lyrical Drama, on a scale of efficiency in every department never before attempted in this country. The Ballet will include the names of the most celebrated Artists. The Prospectus for the arrangements of the Season will be issued in due course. M. BEALE, Director. January 9, 1847. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING _ . Will be performed a new and original Drama, called TIIE ROUND OF WRONG ; or, a Fireside story. Sir Arthur Foljambe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Ruckstone ; Harwood. Mr. Howard ; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds. After which (by desire), the Farce of NICOLAS FLAM. Nicolas Ylam, Mr. Farren ; Shrimp, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Puddicombe, Mrs. Clifford. During the evening the Band will perform the Overtures, " La Rayadere," " Italiana in Algeria," " Guillaume Tell," and a Po lonaise. To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, galled the INVISIBLE, PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranaul Delights. Principal characters by Mr. .James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynoldi, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM Under the Manazentent of Mrs. Keeley. Triumphant success of Boes new Christmas Piece. The new and splendid Pantomime every evening. A great hit. THIS EVENING _ . . Will be performed a Drama, lotiided on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and .adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permission of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albert Smith, Esq.. called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha. seaters by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the Farce of MRS. WHITE. Characters by Messrs. Turner, Kinloch, and Oxberry ; Miss Villars, Miss I urner, and Miss Arden. To" conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri ; Clown, Mr. J. W. Cogier ; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss 0. Hicks ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. TIIEATRE ROYAL. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LOMBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. characters supported by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, kc. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Leas and his three Pupils—the Masters Hanlons, will ex hibit their wonderful Jena Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA GISELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Yr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Illsa Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. Tins EVENING "Will he performed a new and original Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF ; or The Ghost's Tower. Col. Bertrand, Mr. C. Fisher ; Capt. d'Ar;nincourt Mr. Allen ; Capt. Itellejamhe, Mr. Leffler ; Lieut. Ad o l p h e, Mr. Wynn; Cornet Grosdos, Mr. Compton ; Baron Bristlebach, Mr. Walton Bumps, Mr. Homier ; Seven Maids of Munich, Misses Sara Flower, Rourke, E. Ilonner, Elincks, Millar, L. Marshall, Laporte; Uriel, Miss Marshall ; Madame Groutz, Mrs. Fosbroke. After which a new Comic Drama, entitled THE TWO RAIN BOWS. Characters by Messrs. Compton, Cowell, Granby; Mrs. 11. llughes, and Miss E. Honner. In the course of the evening Professor HEMMING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. To conclude with a new Grand Comic Chrstmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Barbidgo ; Sprite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama, entitled DON CESAR DE BAZAN. The character of Don Cesar de Bann by Mons. F. Le i:mitre ; supported by MM. Langeval, Maqquillier, Dumery, Car :ivy, pascal, Berou, Felix, Dorgebret, Tourillon, Grenet, Lucien, Mole. Pagenier ; 3ldlle. Clarisse, Madame Grassau, and Mdlle. Vallee.. Boxes, 6s. , Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seyen, and the per f orm ances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeating their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENT at the above Theatre, TO MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during the Christmas Holidays. Doors open at Eight, and the En 121fiturnent commences at Half-past Eight. And will (by desire) ‘ND DAY PERFORMANCE, on SATURDAY MORN- Voram .iie.t, J an . 13. Doors open at T wo, an d the Performance to • at half-past Two. ao rriyat e Box t i '4 l „ . . 4 s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. and Places yal Library, M usi e- sell e may he engaged at Mitchell's , Old Ilond-street • e aid " and at the ' at all the principal Libraries ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Patronised P roprietor, Mr. W . Batty. Albert, Prince by her of WaMosles, t Gr acious Maje s ty t h e Queen. Prince and Royal Family. The new Grand Christmas Pantomime increases in attraction, and is pronounced to be most magnificent for novelty, scenic, and mechanical effects. TIIIS EVENING titlWe d ill be H performe ON d a grand new l'agic al Equestria n R omance, T en- Charmed Bit. DEM MORSE ; or, The T welve Wishes and the To be followed by Patty's SCENES of the CIRCLE ; with the performances or Liurentz Walff, the great Belgian horseman. To conclude with the successful Comic Equestrian Fairy Pantomime, entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. LAffarini ; C o l um bi ne, Miss Louisa Waite. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, !rs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, entitled TM& HAND OF emmDs—GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEATH. The characters will be supported by the whole of the talented Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF TIIE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Derain ; Pantaloon, Her R. Deuliti ; Columbine, leldlle. Theodore; Clown, Herr N. Dentin ; Punch, Herr E. Deulln. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Beim lo„ Half-price, fd ; Nit, 6d.; Gallery, 3d.. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin cent, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. flicks, 110 TV ard, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which will be produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled THE BIRTH OF TIIE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin ant Jos Killer and his Men: Clown, Mr. T. harry, Itenin \LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1847. It will be perceived, from a letter addressed to ourselves, ioy his Excellency the Governor of Guern sey, and published in another column, that the cal culations latterly advanced by some of our Contem poraries as reasons for the retirement of the British troops from Sinde, are, as we insisted on the 6th ultimo, altogether garbled and fallacious. We are always disposed to look with suspicion upon state merits advanced with so much egotistical positiveness in reference to a country so remotely situated and so recently annexed to the dominions of British In dia. Again, it was manifest that a territory of such considerable dimensions, and of such unquestionable fertility, could not prove so entirely an encumbrance to its conquerors, or that, presuming it did at the commencement of the occupa tion necessitate any remarkable disbursements from the Exchequer, it must ultimately, and very speedily, repay that outlay by extraordinary and remunerative contributions. Much stress has been laid upon the Parliamentary returns by those who are solicitous for the abandonment of Sinde ; indeed, it is upon those Parliamentary returns that the arguments of these dissentients are based. "Let us re joice," they exclaim, " let us rejoice that there is at last a feeble approximation to sanity in the councils of Bombay. Yes, the legislators of our Oriental possessions are beginning to recognise the execrable nature of their bargain along the banks of the Indus ; they perceive that since the period of its invasion, namely, for three whole years, Sinde has been nothing better than a maelstrom to our Indian treasures; that for three years it has been sucking in rupees at the rate of a million and a half pounds annually ; that during those three lamentable years it has required an outlay of between 3,000,0001. and 4,500,000/. per annum. The Government of Bombay are at length becoming aware of their egregious blundering—the troops stationed upon the Indus are to be diminished by a withdrawal of 7,000 soldiers. Yet, alas 1" they continue, " there is scarcely any substantial cause for self-gratulation. The Hydra's head is scarcely lopped off, when another starts from the bleeding cicatrice. Eight thousand men are scarcely removed from their expensive quar ters upon the Indus to their original position in Bengal, when nine thousand are absolutely imported to Belooch. Still there is to be a reduction in our Sinde expenditure notwithstanding. But such a :e -duction! We are no longer to be annually drained of a cool million and a half. No ; but we are still to be out of pocket every year just one million sterling." There is something positively amusing in this dogmatical manner of arriving at conclusions. It is about as comprehensible and satisfactory as the final opinion entertained by the drunken Mr. WACRFORD SQUEERS, when musing over his plight in the station house :—" A double L, all—everything, a cobler's weapon. U, r, up, adverb, not down. S, o, v, double E, R, s, Squeers, noun substantive; total, all up with Squeers." Not one jot less preposterous is the mode of drawing inferences adopted by the advocates for the evacuation of Sinde. There is no raising of hypotheses in their consideration of the question. There is merely A dogged, blundering misstatement of facts. Nevertheless, it may be insisted, those facts and those arguments are many of them taken from the Parliamentary returns. The perpetual stress laid upon data derived from these official sources would lead one to imagine that there must be some very prevalent and very popular superstition as to the infallibility of Parliamentary returns, than which superstition nothing could be more frivolous. Now, it is very plainly stated by Major-General Sir WILLIAM NAPIER, that the Parliamentary returns relating to Slade are flawed with many egregious inaccuracies. In 1 843, those p apers appor ti one d to Si r C HARLES N Arten 6,137 more soldiers than were actually under his direction. In 1844, 8,705, .more ; and in 1846, 9,336 more. We shall i . ve this point, however, notwithstanding the facility w it . affords, u s for worsting meat of Sind e . those who are so strangely the purpose of directing Faire de counter-assertions of Pg-shall afro:do for the abandon particular attention to the waive the point for ~, .11:Ir WILLIAM NAPIER. " Sir CHARLES NAPIER " h as ~ paid all the ex ft. . And yet we . are penses of the cir:a gover nme nt." positively assv.red that Sin H d rn e is virtually . a mill-stone about the neck of the "British Lion" in the East ! * Verily, the millstones into bladders! Sir CHARLES NAE 4 are expandi ng a has, moreover, paid " the cost of many great public works of a per manent nature." Still we must believe that Sinde is a most costly appendage! Besides this, Sir CHARLES has supported " a police of 2,400 men, 1,000 being cavalry, out of the revenues of Sinde." So much for the burden of this new conquest ; so much for the extravagant disbursements required annually for the continuance of British authority along the banks of the Indus. But what is the reverse calcula tion advanced by the historian of the Peninsula ? Why, it is to the effect that Sir CHARLES NArna has paid into the general treasury the following perio dical surplus :—For 1844, 2,700/. ; for 1845, nearly 200,000/. ;: for 1846, 310,0001. And it is antici pated that on the conclusion of the ensuing year, ending in April, a surplus of somewhere about 360,000/. will be forthcoming. So much for the truthfulness and the precision of the depreciatory of Sinde. Their figures are as vapoury and fluctuating as an ignis fatuus ; their picture of Sinde is as un real and visionary as thel pictures disclosed by the Fata Morgana. Instead of a province calculated to exhaust the exchequer of British India, we dis cover in Sinde a province, which, within a few months of its occupation, is capable of supporting its own institutions. Instead of requiring a payment of her expenses, the Government of Bombay is considerably indebted to its new territories for its affording support to an extensive civil de partment and a numerous police. In simple terms, the deficiency of from 3,000,0001. to 4,500,0001., is transformed into a surplus of 512,700/.1 After con quering the country of Sinde by military stratagies and perspnal prowess, Sir CHARLES NAPIER has had to conquer the opinions of his countrymen by the internal administration of the territory with which his name is so honourably and brilliantly associated. We return to the subject of reducing the duty on tea, in consequence of a deputation - from the London Association, formed for the accomplishment of this object, having last week waited upon the Premier to represent the existing state of our commerce with China, and the benefits to be derived from a sensible diminution of the duty upon one of the chief articles of consumption in this country. Our anxiety to enforce the importance of this matter continues un abated, and we feel assured that a Free-trade Govern ment will not be found hesitating to give their sanc tion to the fiscal modification respecting the import of teas, and in preference, we should hope, to a reduction of duty upon any other article, so soon as the state of the revenue will justify the recommendation. The hopeful condition of the revenue, as recently in dicated by what has been officially laid before the public, serves to enliven our hope that the national exchequer will, without any considerable interval, be so far invigorated, that the large deficiency which must, in the first instance, attend a relaxation of the duty to the extent desired, could, with a due regard to public credit, be safely encountered. There are some people who have been arguing that any approximation to unrestricted commerce in tea would not benefit the consumer, but only the grower, for that the increased demand which would follow the reduction of the duty, would only serve to enhance the price in China. This is an exploded dogma of the old school of political economists, whose principles are being in rapid succession almost daily consigned "to the tomb of the Capulets." It is pos sible, and natural, that where there is a sudden de mand, and only a limited supply of any article, that the effect would be as indicated by these wiseacres, but then it would be only temporary. The resources of nature and the energies of man soon regulate production by consumption, to the reciprocal benefit of all parties interested in any particular branch of commerce. But these sudden demands are of rare occurrence. Not only, however, is a well-regu lated commerce antagonistical, generally speaking, to inequality between demand and supply, but laws affecting staple commodities, and in respect to which a most extensive trade is carried on, are not hastily repealed in a country whose commerce is in a highly artificial state ; and the thousands of miles that lie between China and England imposes another salutary check against the existence of those com mercial irregularities, on the assumption of which it is contended that a reduction in the duties leviable upon tea would not advantage the consumer. The best practical answer to be given to the ridiculous apprehension entertained that China will be unable to provide for our increased demand for tea, should the duty be considerably diminished, is furnished, as Sir GEORGE LARPENT aptly observed to Lord - JOHN RUSSELL, by the Custom-house returns, which " show that while the consumption in this country had in creased from 5,000,0001b5. to 50,000,0001b5., the price in China, so far from being raised, was at the present moment rather lower than at the period when our imports of tea only amounted to about 5,000,0001b5. annually." It appears, moreover, that in years when the trade has doubled itself, and when there has been an extensive demand for any peculiar variety of tea s our demands have been readily met, without any advance in prices. Looking at the vast expanse of the Chinese empire, its variety of climate, its amazing population of four hundred millions (equal to one twenty-fifth of the supposed population of the whole earth), to the activity, intelligence, and indefatigable industry of the inhabitants, it appears to us to be the height of folly to assume—in opposition, too, to our actual experience—that China would be unable to produce tea in the quantity we should desire, under the auspices of an amended tariff. We rejoice that this subject is to receive " the fullest consideration of her MAJESTY'S Government." Upon the moral and commercial benefits that would accrue, if the duty were to be only ls. per lb., we have frequently enlarged, and need not therefore re• peat our observations. It is a lamentable fact that the import returns are considerably below the quan tity of tea sold under that name in this country, so that the poor must purchase a deleterious article, and the honest dealer be defrauded. Another grievous circumstance is, that, owing tathe dearness of tea, the humbler classes are prevented from using a whole some beverage as a substitute for the noxious stimu lants to which they now have recourse. Let but the revenue continue to prosper, and we shall soon see our countrymen relieved of these impediments to their social comfort and prosperity. The general meeting of the Peers, Members of Par lament, and landed proprietors of Ireland has been fixed for Thursday next, the 14th instant, and is to be held at the Rotunda, in Dublin. Circulars have been forwarded to all parts of the country by th e secretaries of the Reproductive Employment Com mittee, requesting the attendance of the parties to whom they are sent, and that they should commu nicate the contents to the several landlords in the neighbourhood, and urge their attendance also at the proposed meeting, admission to which can only he obtained by tickets. By a very proper resolution of the committee the proceedings are to be confined exclusively to the consideration of the social condition of the country, and all extraneous topics and party politics are to be strictly excluded. We do not, however, coincide in another determination that has been arrived at. It has been decided that the public press is to be excluded, and that no part of the pro ceedings is to be published except the resolutions agreed to and the names of the parties who may attend. Now this we think a most injudicious course. The great value of such a meeting is the full publicity, the extensive circulation that may be afforded to the sentiments of the several speakers. A very small proportion only of those interested in the land will be able to attend ; many will be compelled to remain at home, attending to the pressing wants and im perative necessities of the poor on their own and the neighbouring estates, while many others will not feel themselves justified in expending anything that could possibly be avoided, and which they would regard as wantonly abstracted from the exigencies of the suffer ing poor. All such persons would anxiously look for, and would be entitled to receive, a full and copious report of all that may take place. The very differ ences of opinion may lead to something beneficial ; but that is to be withheld, and the advantages of the general assembly is to be restricted to the compara tively small number who may be en abled to attend on the occasion. This is not as it should be, and we trust that an alteration will take place that will give the public generally full information. The meeting is not solely one for conference and discussion ; elaborate preparation has been made, the very reso lutions that are to be proposed have been already prepared and circulated throughout the country, and their adoption or rejection will be of little use unless THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1847. it is known what can be urged pro and con., either in their behalf or in opposition to them. The proposed resolutions are thirteen in number, they chiefly relate to questions that have already been considered by the committee and distributed through the country. Some of them contain excel lent suggestions, which may be most beneficially adopted, while others are of a more doubtful charac ter, and will require some modification and discussion before the principles involved in them are sanctioned or approved of. They relate chiefly to temporary mea sures, rendered necessary by the present emergency,and are thus termed in the circulars in which they are enclosed. The first four of these resolutions are di rected to the supply of food. They assert the signal failure of the present system, and call upon the Go vernment, in the most imperative terms, to take such measures as will secure local supplies of food suffi cient to keep the people alive, and to sacrifice any sum of money that may be necessary for that pur pose, and declaring that any neglect or delay will render them responsible for the safety of the people. There appears in this something too much of the de pendence on others, that we have so often lamented in the Irish nation. They seem to expect that every thing is to be done, that Government is to be all powerful, and that they themselves are to be spared from all trouble—to have provisions made for the people without any exertion on their own part. If Government provide them with means which, if duly used, will enable them to provide for the wants of their own poor, it is all that can be reasonably expected; and the at- ' tempt to cast the responsibility of providing for the safety of the people on the Executive appears an un fair attempt to evade and escape from their own so lemn duties, and to shift them on other shoulders. We agree that everything should be done for the miserable and starving people ; that no expense should be spared to provide for their wants, and to alle viate their sufferings ; that not one single human being should be suffered to perish in a Christian land, no matter what may be required for the purpose ; but the means must be fully and maturely considered. There must be no grasping at temporary expedients that may eventually lead to mischiefs of a more dangerous character than those they are in tended to provide a remedy for. And the landlords must consider that they themselves are the parties on whom the first duty of providing for the poor of their respective estates devolves, and that they should be grateful for the assistance rendered to them to enable them to discharge that duty effectually. They call also on the Government to remove all artificial impediments to the supply of the deficiency of food, by the temporary suspension of the naviga tion laws and the duties on the importation of corn, and to permit such vessels of her MAJESTY'S navy as can be spared, to be employed in the transport of provisions ; and also demand that the unrestricted use of sugar and molasses should be permitted in breweries and distilleries, and that relief committees should be allowed to sell food at less than first cost to the destitute in their respective neigh bourhoods, and that their doing so should not disentitle them to Government contributions in aid of, their funds. Every one must assent to the object proposed by these several measures, but very serious questions will arise as to how far the means may be calculated to attain that object. Some of them, at least, demand mature consideration, and that the possible evils that may arise from their adoption, may be fully inquired into. The fifth resolution re commends that seed depOts should be established by the Government throughout the country. We are convinced that every means will be adopted by the Government to assist the landowners in having due preparation made for the ensuing harvest, that the frightful miseries of famine may be averted. But we must again remind the landlords that it is they them selves that should take the first steps; that they can only expect to be aided in that which is wholly beyond their power, and that they are not to look on in helpless imbecility while their lands are lying waste and uncultivated, calling on others to do that which they should at least attempt in the first instance. The next four resolutions are directed to throw the burden off their own shoulders, and to make it fall on the empire at large; and not exclusively on Ire land more particularly, not upon the lands which would certainly appear to be responsible in the first instance. These propositions, too, would require some discussion, in order to convince those not now responsible of the justice of the substitution. To that part of the tenth resolution that declares that each proprietor should be enabled to take upon him ...self his proportion of the baronial assessment, to be expended in reproductive works on his own property, and that he should be enabled thereby to discharge himself from any further taxation in reference to that assessment, we fully and entirely assent. We have long advocated its adoption, and we are con vinced that, if judiciously brought into operation, it would be most advantageous to the country. The state of preparation for the ensuing harvest, loans by the Government to railway companies, and a system of emigration, form the topics of the other three resolutions. We think the discussion of every one of these proposals would be useful ; but to make it really so, the press should be freely admitted, and full publicity given to all the proceedings. The German Journal of F ran kf or t h as th e f o l- 10 Tiflis, i rel a ti ve t o t h e a ff a i rs o f th e Caucasusec from or ding to the latest a ccoun t s rece i ve d f rom th e Caucasus, the military operations in that quarter have not been interrupted by the winter season. The Chief of the Mundes has not been discouraged by the victories gained by the Russians in northern Daghestan, for some days after the combat which took place near Rataschi, which cost the Russians more than 1,500 men, 4,000 of the Tschetschenses passed the Terek, carried the ad vanced posts, and marching forward as far as the environs of Kislar, made a considerable booty in s pread terror to the very neighbourhood of the mount ain. At the same time a bod y of Scham y l's fGmorrcoesaza, and although a larger body of Russians advanced against them, they were not repulsed until after some severe fighting, in which the loss on both sides was very considerable. Camil Bey, at the head of 2,000 Tschetchenses, made a fresh irruption into Cachetin, where he was carrying on the war against the Russians with alternate success and repulse. On the Kouhan the intrepid Mansour Bey had again taken up arms against a great the r e warlike part of the lt tribe id of the Abchuses lli and the Russians. is sa that he has raed ra ce of the Übichs. Ile has already suc ceeded e a fortress on the ouban, and has even h e i d cata j k a i ll g K tchergnoder. These events on the left aroundttt ni h n wing of the Russian position has compelled the General in-Chief to dispatch considerable reinforcements to that quarter. The energy of Schamyl and of his partisans, who have resumed the offensive against the Russians, lead to the presumption that operations on an extensixe scale will shortly take place. " The Russian officers who reckoned on getting some repose at Tiflis look Very sad at these accounts. Schamyl e has dispatched num erous emissaries even as far as the of Erzeroo m, to preach up a hol y war against the Russians. He has lately made several expeditions even under the walls of the Russian forts, and has in flicted a severe chastisement on those tribes who have been faithless to his cause, which has spread great dis couragement amongst them, seeing that the Russian forces have not been able to protect them. The par tisans of Russia are far from satisfied, and in spite of the bombastic bulletins which are published at St. Petersburgh, announcing the successive defeats of Schamyl, a ff a i rs in the Caucasus are really anything but favourable for Russia." Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 6th January by the Achilles steamer. The Miguelite General, MACDONNELL, had been defeated by CASAL, and expelled from Braga, with a loss of 240 killed. The Miguelite force amounted to 2,000. MACDON NELL, at the head of 1,200 men, fell back upon Guimares after the action, and eventually retreated to Amir an t e . D As ANTAs had not made any stand at Coimb ra , b ut, w ith the Marquis of LotLE's con • tingent, w as cont i n uing his retreat on Oporto, fol lowed by S ALD ANIIA, whose forces were in possession of Coimbra. Several of DAS AN TAS'S men h a d deserted to SALDANIIA. The troops un d er V ASCONC ELLAS, after evacuating Santarem, h avQ re t rea ted upon Abrantes, where they are fortifyi ng themselves. The Count DE MELLO still occupies Evora, and commands the provinces of Alemtejo an d t h e Al garv es. SCIIWALBACK is ad vancing against him from St. Übes. Negotiations are still going on between the Miguelites and the Junta of Oporto to form an union. To this, however, SA DA. BANDEHLA refuses to listen, and declares that should it be carried into effect, he will resign his com mand and leave the country. The number of volun teers in garrison at Oporto does not fall far short of 8,000 men. In Lisbon everything was quiet, but there was no business transacted. The discount on bank notes has got up to 26 per cent• Messrs. BARING, Brothers, of London, have con tracted for the completion of the next dividend. Madrid papers of the 2Clhave arrived. There were 150 Deputies assembled in the capital. The election committee of the Chambers was busy in the verification of the qualifications of the newly-elected Deputies, and considerable curi osity was excited as to the manner in which they would deal with the case of Senor OLo- ZAGA, hut, as the names are arranged alpha betically, some days will probably elapse be lore they come to his name. He has, it is said, addressed a petition to the Chamber demanding to be set at liberty, or sent back to France. He passed through Aranda de Douro on the 30th, so rigorously guarded that it was with difficulty he was permitted to send a verbal message to his family. Among the first measures submitted to the Cortes will be those for reforming the tariff, the tributary system, and the monetary laws. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 2.—The Three per Cents. were done at 31iex.div. for cash; the Five per Cents, at 20 7 - ; the Coupons at 18' , 1 ; the Debt without Interest at 6,i ; and the Vales at 811. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Debats and the Presse still continue to specu late on the alleged schism in the Opposition camp, which as they contend, notwithstanding the denial of the Constitutionnel, still exists. The most important document to be found in these papers is the circular note of M. Gutzox on the in corporation "of Cracow, an imperfect copy of which appeared some time since in the France, and the authenticity of which was denied by the Ministerial journals. The France of Friday publishes this famous note textually, introducing it by the following re marks : " On the immediate approach of the session, at the moment when the Chambers and committees shall have to take into consideration the diplomatic documents re lating to the question of Cracow, we feel ourselves bound in conscience to publish integrally, and without a word siore or a word less, the famous circular note, on the subject of which the Cabinet of the Tuileries ventured but timidly to contradict us. Al. Guizot, we hope, will appreciate our scruples on an incident which has occupied the whole of the European press. He will comprehend that there is in this more than a question of amour-propre. It is a question of honour; for, though there may be journals which occasionally show themselves to be but little anxious about the honour of the press, we hold ourselves bound, both in our honour and in the honour of our friends, and in the honour of the flag under which we march, not to leave the slightest doubt upon our truth and probity. The first note that we published contained, it is true, some trifling omissions, but those, though modifying the text, made very little alteration in the tenor of the document. We were the first to recognise these omissions; but, to deprive the organs of the Mi nistry of every pretext for denegation, we have procured a new and perfectly correct copy, which we have now lying before us. We publish it entire, in order that we may this time give complete satisfaction to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and at the same time spare the Deputies the trouble of going to search for it among the bundles of papers that are about to be deposited in the Chamber." The France then gives the note, as follows : _ " Sir,—The Austrian Charge d'Affaires came to me on the 18th of the last month to communicate dispatches from Prince Metternich, dated the 6th, announcing to the King's Government that the incorporation with the Austrian empire of the city and territory of Cracow had been decided upon by the Courts of Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh, and explaining the motives of this re solution. Annexed I transmit you a copy. On the 20th the Prussian Minister and the Russian Chargii d'Affaires made me a precisely similar communication. I rendered an account of this to the King in Council. The King's Government experienced from it a profound and painful surprise. We received in February and March last, as in 1836 and 1838, the assurance that the occupation of Cracow by the troops of the three Powers was a mea sure purely military, and not political, commanded by necessity, and that it would cease with that necessity. It is now said that a temporary occupation was not suffi cient, and that the measure adopted by the three Courts is indispensable for guaranteeing definitively in their states order and peace, incessantly disturbed by the conspiracies and insurrections of which Cracow had be come the permanent focus. But, for the suppression of the small state of Cracow to put an effectual termination to these disorders, its independent existence must be the only, or at least the principal, cause. This supposition is not admissible. The frequently recurrineermentation of the ancient Polish provinces arises from a cause more general and more powerful. It comes from the scattered members of a great state violently destroyed, which still agitate and attempt to rise again. Treaties which show the existence of such facts cannot make the wounds, and the agonies resulting from them, at once disappear. Time, equity, a constantly active benevolence, and long-continued good government alone can succeed in doing this ; for these are the only means which the present civilised state of Europe renders possible and practicable. The sovereigns and statesmen assembled at the Congress of Vienna judged thus. They wished, even at the moment when united Europe was decid ing the partition of Poland, to give to the Polish nation, and to the conscience of Europe, disturbed by that par.. tition, a certain moral satisfaction. They had, at the same time, held out to Polish subjects a perspective of ameliorations in the institutions and internal government of their country. Serious disturbances may have inter rupted the course of this wise, and at the same time generous policy, not, however, to cause it to be entirely abandoned and abolished. Nothing can more ccmpro mise a Government than for it to declare that it is not in a condition, even slowly, and by force of time, to fulfil its premises, and the hopes which it has itself raised. The destruction of the small state of Cracow may create for Polish conspiracy and insurrection some means of action ; but it may also keep up and even irritate the feelings which these deplorable enterprises so obsti nately excite and revive. In the meantime it takes from the influence which might prevent them a great portion of its authority. It weakens throughout Europe in this painful question the principles of order and conservatism, to the strengthening of blind passions and violent designs. Article 9 of the Treaty of Vienna imposed upon the republic of Cracow the obligation of expelling from its territory all perturbators; and the three protecting Powers had an undoubted right to insist upon this obligation being fulfilled. But were there not, for attaining this end, other means than an annihilation of the independence of this small state, and the suppression of it? The narrow limits of the republic, the immense strength of the three great Powers in the states within which it is enclosed, the rights of protection conferred on these same Powers by article 6 of the treaty, everything, in fact, leads to a conviction that measures carefully combined and vigi lantly watched over in their execution would have been sufficient to combat the evil with efficacy, with out having recourse to these extreme measures ; which, while overcoming some dangers, frequently create other and serious evils. It was, in any case, the incontestable right of all the Powers who were parties to the Treaty of Vienna to interfere in all delibera tions and decisions by which the republic of Cracow might be affected. Prince Metternich says, in his dispatch of November 6, that the three Powers had, by their own will alone, on the 3d of May, 1815, created the small state of Cracow, and that they had afterwards presented to the Congress of Vienna, for enrolment, the convention entered into between them.' The King's Government knows not how to admit an assertion so foreign to the principles, and even to the arrangements which constitute the public law of Europe. Independent Powers, who treat on a footing of perfect equality, and discuss their common interests are never called upon to enrol determinations and acts adopted without their par ticipation. So far as regards Cracow and Poland, remi niscences and public documents attest that prolonged incertitudes and long discussions between the representa tives of all the Powers at the Congress of Vienna pre ceded the conclusion of the special treaty of the 3d May, which is now said to have regulated the interests of the three Powers co-participators in the division of Poland, without any concurrence of the other Powers of Europe. The very text of the Treaty of Vienna shows that the lot of Poland was settled by an European deliberation. It was with Poland that this treaty was first occupied, as being the most important of the general questions upon which it had to decide. Articles 1,2, 3,4, and 5, define the portions which each of the three co-participat ing Powers were to have of the territory of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. Articles 6,7, 8, and 9 constitute the republic of Cracow. There is not the slightest difference between these articles and those which gave to Prussia a part of the states of the King of Saxony. The founda tion of the republic of Cracow is placed on the same line as the stipulations which formed other states, created kingdoms, recognised the free towns of Germany, and established the Germanic Confederation. Two articles of the general treaty of June 9—articles 10 and 118 — make mention of the special treaty concluded on May 3, and they declare that the provisions contained in this treaty shall have the • same force and value as if they had been textually inserted in the general act.' Most assur edly, far from rendering the existence of th e republic o f Cracow more precarious, these words , adopted a nd signed by all Europe, had for their obj ect to give t o __ n it much stronger and more authentic guarantees. right, King's Government is only exerci sin g an evident and, at the same time, fulfilling an im re p s e i rrou of d t u h t e y, r in solemnly protesting against the su ppres si on e .. public of Cracow—an act directly contrary to the etter as well as the meaning of the Treaty of Vienna of the 9th of June, 1815. After long and redoubtable . ! agita tions, which have so profoundly shaken Europe, it is by re spect to treaties and the rights they have rendered sacred th a t the order of Europe is founded and can be main tained. i No Power can force itself from them without at the same time setting the other Powers free. France has not given any example of such an at tempt upon the policy of conservatis m and peace. Franc e h as not for gotten the painful s acrifices imposed upon her by the treaties of 1815. She might rejoice at an act which would authorise her, by a just reciprocity, never to con sult henceforth anything but provident calculations of her own interests. And yet, she it is who calls to a faithful observance of these treaties those Powers who have gathered from them the principal advantages ! Sh e it is who is occupied, above all, with the maintenance of acquired rights and the respect due to the independence of states. " GUIZOT. " Paris, Dec. 4, 1846." ,A, Council of Ministers was held on Thursday, it is :supposed to settle the draft of :the Royal Speech to be delivered on the opening of the Chambers on Monday. This royal speech will, it is said, be of a remarkably reserved character. No allusion whatever will be made to England, except the usual paragraph announcing that the relations of France with the different foreign powers are of such a nature as not to permit a doubt of the maintenance of peace can be described as such. The Montpensier marriage will be alluded to merely as yet further strengthening the family bonds that unite France to Spain, and the incorporation of Cracow will be spoken of as an event to be regretted (un evenement regrettable), against which, as having violated the sanctity of treaties, France had, as in duty bound, protested. These, it is said, are all the allusions to Foreign affairs which the speech will contain. The Minister of War has directed the intendants of military divisions to forbid the victualling agents under their orders to purchase any wheat in the markets of towns, as the grain necessary for their purposes has been provided through another channel. The distress among the working classes seems spread ing in all parts of France. As might be naturally expected, distress has given rise to disturbances. According to the Journal des Debats serious ementes have taken place in the department of the Vienne, in consequence of the high price of corn. Several National Guards who attempted to prevent sacks of wheat from being pillaged were disarmed ; and even a body of gendarmes were obligEd to re treat before the victorious mob, and to intrench themselves in their barracks. These occurrences took place at the market of Leucloitre, near Chatel Herault. A letter from St. Aignan, dated January 3, which is published in the Worm., says— " Disasters of every kind are being accumulated on our heads. Inundations, dearness of provisions, and riots,—l repeat riots; simple peasants, ordinarily most peaceable, have had the great temerity to complain too loudly of their sufferings, to menace the authorities, and to destroy some measures used by dealers in corn which were found to be deficient in capacity. This demon stration produced a visit from the officers of the Crown to St. Aignan, accompanied by an immense military force, when some poor wretches were arrested and con demned to pay fines and suffer imprisonment, whilst the inhabitants are compelled to feed and lodge the troops dispatched from Blois. Our small town presents the most afflicting spectacle. At Tours the prisons are fiiled to excess. All the towns in the neighbourhood, as Romorantin, Chatillon-sur-Indre, and Montrichard, are treated with equal severity. When will all this finish ?" In the same journal we find a letter from Yvetot in Normandy, which says— " The misery existing in this country is frightful We reckon 300 indigent families out of a population o 10,000. Charitable workhouses have been establishe d where all the unemployed are received, but those houses entail considerable expense on the inhabitants ; and, notwithstanding the collections made, and the other means adopted to procure funds, it is to be feared that the available resources of the town will be speedily exhausted." The Courrier Francais says— " M. Olozaga did not apply for his passports at the Embassy at Paris, as is stated in the Spanish journals. M. Olozaga had not received at Paris the official docu ments connected with his election ; they were not sent to the Embassy at Paris, but to the Consulate at Bayonne. It is, therefore, only at Bayonne that he could ask for a Spanish passport. He left Paris with his French one." The Council-General of the Roads and Bridges have reported to the Minister of Public Works that in their opinion, the site of the grand terminus of the Paris and Lyons Railroad should be established on the Boulevard Contrescarpe, near the Place de la Bastile, and will require the construction of a costly viaduct over the streets Moreau and Tra versiere, and the grounds of the new prison of La Force. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 79f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 25c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,242 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 907 f. 50c. ; Havre, 691 f. 25c ; Great Northern, 636 f. 25c ; Avignon, 865 f. ; Yierzon, 600 f. ; Bordeaux, 557 f. 50c.; Basle, 217 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 482 f. 50c ; Paris and Lyons, 507 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 485 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 487 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 452 f. 50c.; Spanish Passives, 5 3 y. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 15'x,—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon ), 13k—Dutch Rhenish, 4 3 %—Jamaica South Midland Junction, I%—Luxembourg, %—Northern of France, 10M—Orleans and Bordeaux, B—Over Yssel, 2 3 / 4 dis.—Rouen and Havre, 27—Sambre and Meuse, 5%. REPRESENTATION OF MID DLESEX. The lamented death of Mr. Byng, which we this day announce, causes an earlier vacancy for the county of Middlesex than was anticipated. That Mr. Byng did not intend to offer himself again has been for some time known, although the public announcement by himself was only made on the 31st December last. A requisi tion to Lord Robert Grosvenor to come forward on the first election, had been in course of signature by the electors, and had the full concurrence of Mr. Byng himself, who highly esteemed and valued the Noble Lord. That requisition was in the following words:— " TO THE LORD ROBERT GROSVENOR. " We the undersigned electors of the county of Mid dlesex, having heard with much regret that it is not the intention of our highly valued and faithful representa tive in Parliament, George Byng, Esq., to offer himself again for re-election, and having, from your known character and public services, a full conviction that we shall find in your Lordship a successor worthy to follow him, and fitly to represent the Liberal constituency of this county, do hereby request you to come forward as a candidate, and pledge ourselves to give you our full and earnest support." This requisition had been most numerously and respectably signed, and left no doubt of the unopposed and triumphant return of Lord Robert Grosvenor, if the invitation were accepted by him. Until the last melancholy duties are paid to Mr. Byng, no further public demonstration can be made, but we can state without doubt that Lord Robert Grosvenor will accept the requisition, and that his return is sure. FIRE IN THE STRAND.--This day, at about half past twelve o'clock, an alarming fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Taylor, who carries on an extensive business as a printer, at No. 1, Pickett place, Strand. Considerable alarm was created when the flames first burst forth, owing to the inflammable nature of the goods on the premises, chiefly consisting of books, papers, &c., and also from the fact of its being almost in con tact with the large printing establishment of Mr. Nex, which extends from the termination of Pickett-place nearly to Clement's•lane. Immediately after, the fire, which apparently commenced in the underground por tion of the buildings, had been discovered, messengers were dispatched to the different fire-engine stations, and several engines were speedily upon the spot. A plenti ful supply of water being obtained, at a quarter to two all danger of further extension was at an end. Consi derable damage, however, appears, we regret to say, to have been done to the furniture and stock in trade, both by removal and water. A large body of the F division of police were in attendance, and succeeded in keeping order, and driving back the immense number of persons who thronged round the premises. We read in a letter from Berne of the 4th : " Scarcely bad the new Directory been installed in office, when its attention was excited by grave events in the canton of Fribourg. It will be remembered that about ov a at, m a o n n d th ago two thatana popular ddves address was es Morat, t w he ere Gv h a e n ld d a C t o M UnCil of Fribourg, demanding that the Canton should cease to form part o f the In order, however, to strengthen thisUltra-Mon p ta l n ie e at l t e o a n gue , a popular . at Esta.on the Lake voyer, the chiefmeeting as tow w nof h a el d d i s t s r c L o t n af bordering terw aar At both these meetings resolutions were of Neufchatel, and anot her took p lace in the district of Gruyere. similar to those of Morat. The Council of State come to Fribourg interfered to prevent further mani festations, and the Prefect of Estavoyer was ordered to arrest the two most influential members of th e Li beral Committee, M. Fasel and M. Duruz, These arrests took place on the 31st ultimo, but they were no sooner known than the people rose, the tocsin was sounded, and several hundred men from the villages marched to Estavoyer, singing the Marseillaise. The insurgents demanded the release of the prisoners, and the prefect, taking alarm, set them at liberty. The Council of State, when informed of these events, sent commissioners to Estavoyer, and adopted means of repression which have occasioned great excitement. It is said that there was a meeting yesterday at Bulle, the chief town of the Gruyere country, at which it was resolved to support the demands of the Liberals of Estavoyer, and it is added that the Government of the canton de Vaud has given notice to the Government of Fribourg, that if it attempts to send troops to put down the liberal manifestations, they will not be permitted to pass through the Vaud territory, without doing which they cannot get to Estavoyer. The affair is now before the Vorort, but as yet no decision has been come to as to the course to be pursued." THE WEATHER ABROAD.—It appears by a letter which a contemporary has published, that even in Genoa, so much resorted to by invalids for winter quarters on account of its mild climate, there has been extremely severe frost, and all the adjacent heights, and even the shipping in the harbour, were covered with snow. The orange and lemon trees, and almost all the produce of the gardens, have been destr o y e d. Thi s i ntense co ld was preceded by a fearful and destructive hurricane, which took place on tie 14th ult. REPEAL OF THE MALT TAX.—On Friday, the Bth instant, at a meeting of the Cheshire Agricultural Protection Society, held at Crewe, it was resolved that in the present state of public affairs, it is inexpedient to promote any moyement for 6 raped of the ibal; WM I MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, QUARTER TO TIII?E. E., The Cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday re dull, and prices were rather in favour of buyers. sales were 3,000 to 4,000 bales, including 700 bales:; Surat on speculation. 1,000 bales Surat realised 4 0 7 . to 52e1. per lb., and American sold at 6d. to 7d. P er ; Railway Shares were rather better. There are very cheering accounts again from th et Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand, which show 11,1 success of our arms at the Cape, and the virtual torillio' I nation of the war. The New Zealand dates are.,, t September 19, and they notice . a revival of confidee" 1. which cannot but be pleasing to all friends at home. A correspondent writing from Trincomalee, obserfq, —" Everything rendering a port important for the p O . . pose Trincomalee possesses, or could obtain in t l _ A Its harbour is unequalled in India, and affords seca anchorage at all seasons of the year. As in Colonic; boats from or to the ship have not to voyage a inil e er two, nor in any season are the waves so high as Agitatete., danger the boats' crews and cargoes. Ido not 10,51`,41 to say that there is no harbour in the island that On e , the same facility to exporters and importers of 8,7 0 0. The distance being so small from the ships to the tali the damage done in the rainy season will be infinir ' less than that of the driest season in Colombo. e if " The repairing of the fortifications and building 110, batteries here has been a very fruitful topic of 001_4 sation among the natives. There have not been ris: l , 4 ing persons to attribute an expected invasion of e i l island by a foreign nation as the cause for taking l it u o steps ; some of the deluded people have left the r io r others are preparing to go, all are securing their il' bles as fast as possible." bee n The corn trade in Mark-lane this morning has , e4 l, firm, and the advance of Friday last is fully maintorw oi f Of barley the supply continues very short, and it i 51 1,4 maintained that there will certainly be a great defieite:b in the quantity required by the brewers, and that t ° o o is every probability of permission being given to sugar in distillation,' &c. D ' i The English Stocks are to-day rather quiet , t- ho ~,sti steady, at about Saturday's rates. Consols have 'ix 938 i for transfer to-morrow, the New Three -o '4 Quarter per Cents. have been 951 i, and the Threee Cents. 934 to 94. Exchequer-bills have been v ' ol d r 01 12s. to 15s. premium, a further improvement, aris it rae . t, , may be presumed, from the reduction in the . oh ficiency" bills effected by the investments there surplus revenue, and which may cause the other b l 'i l I be taken up by the Bank of England, where there , 0 0 necessity for placing their assets. The premius , 11 ; ' East India Bonds is quoted 21s. 1 0 ' (here has been a moderate business done in rho 4, reign Investments, but prices are again rather be' The improvement at the Paris Bourse on Saturday efi so far not had much influence here. Spanish Fif..."o Cents. have been quoted 251, and the Three per at 354. The market for Railway Shares has in some been a little firmer to-day. Aberdeen, 251 ; 1,41 0 ; ham and Oxford, 121 to 131 ; Eastern Counties, 2'"Al 23 ; Great Northern (London and York), 3 t ° 4 l‘ l l Brighton 58 to 588 ; South-Western, 65 ; MOO , oli and Leeds, 112 ; Midland, 128 to 1288 ; Newcas tle Berwick, 344 to 358 ; North British, 35,i ; Slire fib and Birmingham, 58 ; York and Newcastle, 381% 4 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CJ (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 3 3 /4 9 4 i 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 93% 1 ii New 3IA per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9 13- 1 ;1' Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 9% 9-"+" 1 India Bonds 1,0001 Ditto under 1.0001 Consols for Opening Exchequer Bills. 1 1 / 2 d. n o 1,000? - •"" ro. 500/. Ditto Small - •"*:: ‘ ,l, FRIOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'Cl , °' Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 42 Granada, 1 per Cent. ...... ...... ... 20 Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 23%% Portuguese 4 per Cents --- Ditto for the Account 3B 3714 - Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent lll% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 25% Ditto Passive Bonds 5% Ditto 3 per Cent... 3 5 34 . • Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Londoo' r , 591 Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto for the Account BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE 0' RAILWAYS. PAID. Pail SILO S ', Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 2 % . / , ‘ ,.... t O / Armagh, Coleraine, & Portrush 13' — ...... to, Belfast and County Down .. 4% .. Birmingham and Gloucester..100 , Do. New (iss. at 7 1 / 2 St dis.).. 1714.-- . ..... to gli Birmingham Oxford June-. 2 Birmingham, Wol., & Dudley 42s 1 6 " 4 1 %.... . / 'P . t: • Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 425. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and ,„ / Cheshire Junction 2% — ..... " / ' Boston, Stand., & Birming... 225. Bristol and Exeter ...... to , 2 Do~ New ...... to ...,' Bristol and Gloucester 3O ..... / Bristol and Liverpool June... 2% — ...... to / Buckinghamshire.. Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 25 Chester and Holyhead... 27%.••.. 27%77(;14 .. to "' Cheltenham and Oxford #, to Clarence. Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 .., Do„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 .. to Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 Cork and Killarney 2%...... ...... t° / Cork and Waterford l% ...._. ...... to / Cornwall Ditto, Half Shares Direct Northern 5crip......... 2 % %...... 2% ............ to /, Direct Norwich ... 1 Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 12 1 / 2 ..... .. .. .t° ; Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 2 1 / 2 — .... .. -. to • Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10 .... 04 Eastern Counties 141. 16s. 22% 23 t o / Do. New l2l. 16s 7% p... to ' Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d — ..... .- / Do., d 0....... ......... N 0.2,6/. 138. 4d r%P t 0 / Do., York Extension 2 Eastern Union .. 40 .. . ... : t o : 5 Ditto, Quarter Shares Do. Extension to Harwich 1% — ...... .- / Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% _ ...... to / East Lancashire ...... / Ditto, New ... .......... .... • 5 ...... / Do. (late Preston & Ormak.) 5 .....• ...... t ° / 3 ...... Do., do., New Scrip / East Lincolnshire ... IIA to 3% ...... / to Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — ..... / Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — ...... I, • Edinburgh and Northern ... 12% 15% ..... r'„ • Ditto, New .. 2% - -...... "e • Ditto, Newport .. ... ...... .. Ditto, ditto, New ... 1% — ...... t . / Edinburgh and Perth Ely and Huntingdon ....• tli / Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — .....• to 0 / Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle.. 5 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Ditto, New Do. IA Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 12% ..., — .. ••• ; / Goole,Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 2 , / Great Eastern and ~, Western... 2% — ...••• Great Northern (London and 9 to York Regd.) 2% ,, i 1 , ..., . i Do. (Direct North. Regd.) 3 3 4 4 %8 11.. t o o / Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27% - . •••• , 0 / Great North of England 100 ...... ..... ~, / Ditto, New .. to Ditto, New to Ditto, New 1%...... 19%.. •-• to / Great Western IN Ditto, Half Shares - / 50 l 0 12% — --- •• go / Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New -2 ...... .....• tu to / Huddersfield and Manchester 13 .. ... ...... • to / Dittc, Extension to / •-•": /, Hull and; Selby to '" ' / Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Half Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 14 Do. do. and Norwich to / Lancaster and Carlisle Do. New Leeds and Bradford 77 ... o / Leicester and Bedford l6s. dis• to / 4 / Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 27% ...... t tO / . Do., Branch % Shares 2;4 •........... ~. c Ditto, -Branch (Blue) - ...... I" / Ditto, Extension (Green).. 2 - ...... t o / Leeds and Thirsk ...»... Ditto, New -- ..... •• 5 . .... ...... / Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3% .... 5 ...... to Liverpool. Crosby, and South- to / ...... •••• port. •-• Liverpool, Manchester, and / Newcastle Junction 214 _2 8 3 / 4 . .. . .. .. • .: -. . t e re /// London )36 Blackwall...l6/ . 13 s. 4d D p o °. . N E e x w tension ...... ..... ............. 7 4 % .... ° .. to 55 Lond., Bright., & S ou th C oast 5O Do. Consolidated Fifths.. 40 ...... to Do. Consolid a t e d Ei g h ths... 10 • ..... go , Do. Guarant ee d 5 per C ent. 9 ...••• ...... to ", London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d 9 % ..... to ' Ditto Preference 18/ 17s 2d... ••••" go London and N or th W es t crn ..loo 197% ...... to / Do. Quarte r Sh ares .....• to Do. do. New ...... .... / ...... 2 Do. do. Fifths Do. Quarters ...... ... G. J Do. 40/. Shares.....L. &M. 8 Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 -..... .. to / Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . ...• ..... go / Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 5 Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1 -..... go , London, Oxford, and Cheltm. 2 ... . - London and S. Western.... 411.6 s 10d 65 ..... . , 1 7, // Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40 Ditto New 2 2 1 / 2- ...... go . Do. New .... .. .. 18 i' Ditto Tenths 5 -----5% • ..... to / 6 Ditto Tenths Ditto Scrip 5 ... 5%•••••• to -/ Ditto ditto 4 :.: ... to London and Y0rk........ 2% 3 l4Ys''' go - Ditto Extension London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% — .....- t o '3 Londonderry and Coleraine... 15 Londonderry and Enniskillen 15 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham Manchester and Leeds B2 .....112 ..... to / Ditto Half Shares .... 38 ...... 50%••••°' to . / Ditto Quarters ..; Ditto Fifths Ditto Sixteenths . ....... ... 6I — ...... t o Do. Extension Do. Liverpool and Bury... 24 Do., do~ Fifths Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 425. ..- 4 Midland, Birm., and Derby 110 ... ....... go 9 4 Midld. Great Western (Irish) 20 Newcastle and Berwick verhan Oxfd., W Portsmou Preston a Ditto, Readin g Royston, Scottish `Scottish Sbt&ield Goole Shrewshi Ditto, Shropshi South D South St South Ei Ditto, Ditto,: Ditto, Ditto 1 South W South Ti and 6, ovans. 3 Ineron' Taw Val Trent V i Grand Vale of / Wakefie] _Goole . Waterfo l Waterfo l Waterfoi Wexford D n'exford 'Patent West West Co Windsor Weate Wilts ' Sc York a ni Ditto, Ditto, York an Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto E Ester Anglo-I Barba& Belgian Bouiogr Bordeau (Mac BorAeat (Esp( Calcutti Central 4On; pladral Austr Britis Colon Cotn n Loud( Londe Natio Natio Prove Unioi Unio Real LL Lo bree2 of 201 Stern midd noun, lat. Live Di mod, Mari Cast Colo New K;1 Mar Cal Her Rio Phi her Act 7 the THE DRAINAGE ACT. AN ANALYSIS and EXPOSITION of ACT 9 and 10 VICTORIA., Cap. 101. With an APPENDIX, containing THE ACT, and OFFICIAL FORMS and DOCUMENTS. By WILLIAM S. WALKER. Price 2s. 6d. AMANUAL of PRACTICAL DRAINING. By HENRY STEPHENS, Esq., F.R.S.E., Author of " The Book of the Farm." Price 3s. 6d., with Sixty-two Engravings on Wood. William Blackwood and Sons, 45, George-street, Edinburgh, and 37, Paternoster-row, London. BIRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY, Persons requiring to Register Shares in this Company are informed that the BOOKS for TRANSFER are NOT CLOSED, and that Transfers can be registered till the 15th inst., without payment of the Call. Theyare reminded that, to prevent obstacles, the Registration Fee of 2s. 6d. had better be paid at the same time that the Transfers are deposited at the office of the Company in Birmingham. January 9, 1847. • RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. 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THERMOMETER, Lowest, 25; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 32. BAROMETER, 30.18.—WIND E., fine. III(Iki WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 4 minutes after 8. i Evening .. 40 sitnates after 8. Atq • 4` . 4( 4Z Aar e ;:; ,4 4- - SECOND EDITION. New ready at all the Libraries, la 3 vets., MRS. TROLL OPE' S NEW WORK, FATHER EUSTACE, A Tale of the Jesuits. " While the social scenes make this one of the most amu tisive, ng asof Mrs. Trollope's productions, the graver portions of the narra exhibiting the most ardent passions, and the severest struggles of th human brast, give the work a higher character, and entle it te e be placed e among the best examples of modern romauc ti es." — Britannia. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.