The Sun. — London, England, 1847-01-20 00:00:00

Its . power to render the son of Don Carlos possible. Would the House then believe that till the 26th June following the French Government, took no steps to forward the policy which had since been carriedout. in June. 1846, the French Government sub mitted to the Mar quis of Villa Franca, six propositions on the subject, promising the influence of the King of the French in favour of the Conde de Montemolin, Yet the French Government had taken the course which was so well known to them all, though the Conde de Montemolin had shown every disposition to do whatever was in his power to effect such an arrangement as would terminate the struggles and bloodshed that had hitherto characterised that he unhappy country. One thing wo u ld state to t h e House, t hat it warfare and strife again distracted Spain, the world would know that it did not rest with that much injured Prince, but would be charged to those Ministers who had not hesitated to pursue the policy they had done with no other object than to gratify one fatal ambition of the Napoleon of Peace.—( Hear. ) Lord JOHN RUSSELL, on rising, was received with loud cheers. He said—Sir, in rising to address the House, on the present occasion, and during a period of great calamity and dis tress, I must express my opinion that I think the disposition shown to consider not only the extent and character of the ca lamity, but the measures that are necessary to meet it, without party violence or blame, is such as to render that which, under any circumstances, would be a most difficult question, some what less difficult than it would otherwise have been. I cannot wonder at the observations which have fallen from the Hon. Member for Limerick, when he takes her Majesty's Govern ment sn severely to task on the policy they have pursued, be cause the opinions of that Hon. Gentleman are quite the oppo site of theirs. If his opinion was well founded, then the Government has been guilty of great neglect ; but 1 maintain that the policy of the Hon. Member for Limerick, supported as it had been by the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn (Lord George Bentinck), is a policy which no Govern ment should undertake. It is a policy that would lead to cer tain failure, and tried by the fairest test would lead to greater evils than those which existed. A greater number of deaths from famine would take place than had yet occurred. What would be the effect if the opinion was to get abroad that the Government of this country wante I to purchase food, that they were about to become bus ers of grain in the marke s of Europe in order to feed the people of Ireland. In the first. instance, as soon as the intention of Government was deciared—as de clared and known it would be—there would be an end of all private enterprise, of all application of the capital, and means, and skill of the mercantile classes ; all traffic in grain would be abandoned to a Government that had shown itself so presumptuous—(Hear, hear)—in having the orders of the Government coming in, with but a limited supply to meet the demand, what would be the price asked when it was known that the Engli'sh Government had become purchasers ? The Noble Lord talks of an increase from 3s. to 9s. on Indian 1 corn, but this was nothing compared to what the rise in price would take place then.—( Hear, hear.) But suppose the Go vernment undertook to supply the people of Ireland, they could not stop there. They must undertake all the retail trade, and supply every one that was in need of food. We have heard of the staff of officers now required, in connexion with the Board of Public Works ; but what is that staff, great as it is, compared to what it would be, if we un dertook the retail trade for the supply of the people of Ireland with food.—( Hear, hear.) He would further be expected to supply provisions at what were con sidered fair prices, and under prime cost. What would be the consequences of should a proceeding to the rest of the popula tion of the United Kingdom ? Why, we would be robbing them, as the price of food must of necessity be enormously raised in England and Scotland. The labouring poop eof other parts of the United Kingdom would thus be made to suffer, and they would have good reason to turn round and ask us why we had thus acted —why we should fly in the face of all principles of political economy in favour of the starving Irish people alone, and why we should not give the labouring, classes of this country, as well as the people of Ire land, the advantage of food at a fair price.—( Hear, hear.) Some Hon. Gentleman had said that the trade in different parts of Ireland had been interfered with, by the provisions which the Government had made for the supply of the people, and there were some instances in which it was possible that such might have been the case. There were 21 and 22 places west of the Shannon, where they had established depots; but they had chosen places where the provisions of the Govern ment would interfere as little as possible with private trade; and he had reason to know tbat in those places where depOts bad been established, several persons who intended to set up shops, had given up the design, as soon as they learned the intentions of Government, on the supposition that they would be altogether unsuecessful. 200,000 quarters of corn could not be issued into the country without disturbing the market, but then they had to feed the people of Ireland. There was cer tainly one point which arose out of the measure which had been passed during the last ses'ion of Parliament to which there was considerable ob:ection—that was, to employ the people under the Board of Works. N., man was more sensible than he was of the objeesiens in employing, the poor on unproductive works, for the matter was daily under his attention, and he only men tioned the facts now, in sailer to show the difficulties under which they laboured in elaVating the effects of the great ca lamity which hail bet - Alen Ireland, and he must at the same time say that the principle was a sound one. 'Their object was to employ the people on useful works, and the question was not whether they should be so employed, but the means by which they should be so engaged. The way in which they attemptedeo meet the case was not by throwing the people into workhousis, but by giving them employment. In this there was nothing which was at all novel, nothing which was not usual in the endeavour to obviate distress without disturbing industry in this country. It was a common course in this country when distress prevailed, to employ the people in breaking stones—not that there was any demand for broken atones, but that the labourer might be empire ed upon a Work in which the labour was the hardest, and the reward eas the worst, until more permanent enaployment could be obtained. As soon as a change came over circumstances it was fogad labourers entered into private employment, and the rates were relieved. But, in Ireland, he was sorry to confess, that such was not the case, for there the labouring population found the market and the public works the best, instead of the ia ore. they could find for their exertions ; and that. consequently, when other opportunities arose the public fund was not re lieved. He mentioned this, also, in order to show the diffi. culties with which they had to contend. In erni,loyin; 300,000 or 400,000 persons, it was necessary to employ also a number of persons to superintend them ; arid many of those persons vviire unquestionably people of objoctionahla character, yet it was necessary to have them ; anti he could not think that in the employment of 470,000 persons, representing, he conceived, a population of not leas than 2,000,000, that this was a draw ha k at all to be taken into consideration. He found by the last week's account, that no less a sum than 158,000/. hail been paid for work during that week. He quite agreed with his II .n Friend, near bun, that this calamity was to be looked upon as a national or general calamity, and not only as a ca;smi•y that had befallen Ireland. No mea-ures which the Government could adopt, would prevent severe suffering and mortality in many peaces. Seeine that there were not the ordinary resource- there which :hey had in this country; that they had no means on which to fall back on, the failure of th'eir staple food, he could not see that any measures which the Government could propose. would reach the nature of the present calamity. With regard to all they had done, he con sidered that they' alone were to be held accountable, and they did not consent that arty of their sub-ordinate officers should bear any part of the responsibility. Mr. Trevellyan hail been alluded to in the course of the debate, and of that tiller tie had to state that. he acted with the greatest inteldgence, judg ment, and indefatigable, and untiring zeal, both with regent to the orders he rec eyed, and the orders he transmitted. therefore, censure were to he passed let them bear the blame, not him. It hid been said with regard to the proposed sus pension of the duties on the impartation of grain, and the alteration in the navigation laws, that these duties should have been suspended in November last, and not now. In reference to that he had to observe, that that subject was carefully consi dered at that time, and it was considered unwi-e to ree-irt to such a course. He hail done so, acting upon the advice of the Government in Ireland, avid of every one if intelligence con nected with that country, who were all of opinion that serious injury would then result by the withdrawal from it of those who nceiipied seats in both Houses of the Legislature. Then with regard to the re-aver:ailing of Parliament, it bet ame a matter for consideration whether the distress hal reached such a height as to demand so unusual a course. The ditty than was not. 164. or 14s. per qua ter, as during the previous year, and although he thought it right t i recommend now the su=pension of the present duties, he did not think that the reduction of price, which would result from this, would be any thing consi derable. With respect to the supplies from America, he did not think tha - they would be accelerated in their course to this country from that cause, and in consequence of what hail arrived, prices in two or three weeks had fallen to 62.. For these reasons, and seeing that the benefit to he obtained would be so slight, they did not consider it advisable to call Parliament together till the present time. They did not think that the effect would have been such as to warrant so ex traordinary a course, or that the inconvenience attending it would have been commensurate will the advantage to be gained by it. With regard to some other points, there were a few to which he would briefly advert. The Hon. Member for Bath had alluded to the Nlontpensier alliance, and gave it as his opinion that it would have been desirable to have maintained a good understanding, and not to have interfered with the affairs of France. He should have been quite content to await the discussion of this subject till the correspondence of the Noble Lord had been laid before the House, but he could not assent to the doctrine laid down by the Hon. Member, that the British Government had no right to interfere in such matters. This, however, he knew, that if serious injury occurred to this country from a cause of this nature, public opinion would blame, and blame deservedly, the Ministers of the Crown by whose, neglect it had been produced. He could not bat regard the matter as one of the most se, ions moment, and deserving of the greatest consideration, and though he was of opinion that the attempts made by Louis XIV and Napoleon to bring about the union of kingdoms by such means rather tended to an opposite effect, still he thoueht that to obviate dangers that might possibly arise to the interests of the country from such a source was an object not unworthy of the attention of statesmen. The other subject to which he would turn was the marriage of the Infanta of Spain, and he wished to speak upon this subject because it had been reported, and was industriously set ab tut, that it was the desire of the Government to advance Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg as a claimant to the throne of Spain. He did not know the young Prince entertained any wish upon that subject, but he had felt it his duty to give an intimation to his Sovereign that it was not advisable to support Prince Leopold as a candidate to the hand of the Queen of Spain, and he must say that his Sovereign had acceded, in a most gracious manner, to the force of his representation. He was the more Particular on this point because it had been asserted that the desire of the British Govarnmen to advance a candidate to th, throne of Spain, in consequence of the impression that advra?" a wish on the part of the French Royal Family to so %c an did a t e o f t h eir own ; an d thi s was mad e t o appear as t he prop er • this proposition of the transaction. He did not conceive th it or that he was entertained at that moment by Prince Leopold, had recommended the course which had been pursued, beca use he con cerned in the future inte r na l t believed that we ought not to be at all government of Spain. His Hon Friend the Member fry University of Oxford seemed dis posed to say that at the De nt moment we ought to refrain from interfering or expres si n g n e it g w any opinion at all. But he (Lord John ilussell) thou tno: n e d frank t and more be coming to the character of this nat ionl'thes position, to state the objections which he entertained tomarriage or of the Court of f iese reas Infanta of Spain to the Duke de Montpensier. eons they had stated their objections to the France, because he perfectly agreed that with regard to these matters provided the Prince who remained in Spai n was not o n the vs one could ob j ect ;upituindcyleeatrhgezuhuniiltstesidt t t h h e ut t whom treaty, that they could not complain t ramoan importa nce to this of Spain must be considered of pa kingdom. Even th ose who most disputed the Treaty ° Utrecht admitted that on e and the s a me Prince ought U not t. . The e could b e no doubt reign bath in Fiance an d Sp ain of that. F or his own pa rt he wouia s h a e y that it Vias with found himself the most sincere regret that opposed in opinion to what had been done merely by the Government of France. He did, however. feel how desirable it was that this country should be on the best terms of friend ship with France This country hail never done anything which was calculated to disturb that understanding. He sn cerely lamented that by no fault cf theirs a separation of good feeling had taken place between them with regard to the late marriage.—(Cheers.) With , egarei to other subjects re lating to foreign affairs—the extinction of the free sate if Cracow—he thought there was so little difference of opinion in that House, or anywhere else, that he really felt it unnecessary to say, then, that it seemed as if from the first partition of Poland to that unholy act which was, perhaps, the most to he cieslemned of any act amongst the nations in the history of modern Europe—from that fatal day misfortune sion of Saxony to Prussia, for in that England, as a guarantee ing Power, was bound to go to war immediately if called upon In consequence of an infraction of the treaty. Lord P ALM ERSTON—There is no special guarantee in the Treaty of Vienna for the concession of the kingdom of Saxony to Prussia. Mr. DISRAELI—The Noble Lord would find it if he looked to the treaty when he left the House. He was now, for the first time, really alarmed at the state of the foreign affairs of the country, when the Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary had stated that there was no special guarantee of the kind he had alluded to in the Treaty of Vienna.—(Hear, hear.) Nothing was more important than a proper under standing of the treaties. If the country were to adopt the modern interpretations of those treaties, no language could express the mischief which would result. When he found that the Treaty of Vienna was so manifest, ho thought the inference was very clear. He thought, in determining upon this questicn, that they ought to take the authority of Cardinal Richelieu on the prin ciple involved in the question before the House at pre ,ent. It was most necessary for this country to have a good understanding with the great Powers of Europe. He did not regard the marriages that had taken place on the con tinent in the same light as others had done. He did not regard with jealousy the power of Russia in Germany, or of France in Spain. England held the balance of peace in her own hands, and they could have all the advantages of amicable relations instead of the evils or rivalry. Colonel CONOLLY said, in justice to the county he re presented, lie must deprecate the language of the Hon. Mem ber for Bath, who had made use of the most unwarranted language that had ever been used by a Member of the House, ss well as the greatest perversion of 'fact. He considered the statement of the First Lord of the Treasury as a vet y dexterous exculpation of himself, but he was of opinion that the country suffered severely from the non-interference of Government in the case. He hoped that Government would not be carried away by idle theories, but determine upon some com prehensive and efficient measures for the relief of Ireland.— ( Hear, hear.) He had been in that country ever since he had left that House, and he could confirm the patience with which seems to have attached to this last remnant of the Polish state, and to have induced the Powers who were parties to the an nexation of the free state of Cracow to the dominions of the Emperor of Austria, who seemed to have acted precipitately, and, as appeared to him, without any just motive to have used their power without considering the relations of justice in which they were bound. He did not knew that it was neces sary for him to address the House with respect to any other parts of the speeches which had been delivered that evening. He would have an opportunity very shortly of bringing for ward the separate measures of the Government. On Monday next he proposed to give an outline to the House of the various measures with regard to Ireland which would afterwards form the subject of separate Bills, and which would therefore come fully under the consideration of the House.—(Hear, hear.) If his Noble Friend the Member for Lynn had any better plan to propose, let him state it to the House, and let them all endeavour to find those measures which may best be calculated to raise the condition of Ireland—to unite her more closely to this country by sympathy and temperate govern ment ; giving her not only all that which bare justice would require, but giving that help in her necessities which he thought any part of the United Kingdom was entitled to claim if placed in a similar condition.—( Loud cheers.) He believed much injury had been done to the feelings of the people of this country by the language that had been used in Ireland with respect to the conduct of England during the past year. He felt bound to statethis. He believed that that language had induced many to forbear making such exertions as they otherwise might have felt inclined to use on behalf of Ireland at that moment; but still he believed that the general wish of the nation was to do everything that could by any pos sibility be useful to Ireland. --4 Loud cheers.) He believed that this was the desire of the country. He lamented that there was not in Ireland at that time so much of general combination and exertion as had taken place in Scotland—in those parts which were suffering from a similar calamity—bat he rejoiced to see, independently of the separate resolutions proposed and the various plans propounded, that at a meeting lately held in Dublin, men of all parties united—men of all 1 religions were combined together to endeavour to concur in plans likely to be useful to the country. He thought it was a good sign for the future welfare of Ireland. He thought, if Irishmen would allow him to say it, that what they had reason to complain of was not so much the hostility of England as the hostilities of parties of their own people.—(Cheers.) He believed likewise there was, with scarcely an exception, an absence from any language at that meeting either to wards the Government, or towards any with whom they might have relation, or who might differ in opinion with them of an irritating nature—(Hear,) He trusted that when they came to the discussion of those roe *sures, that a similar spirit would prevail—( Cheers) —and then, however great the present calamity . might be— however appalling to the imagination—however painful to dwell upon, he hoped that Ireland might yet prove destined to enjoy years of prosperity, and that in strict union with England, they should present the spectacle of a country whose freedom and civilisation had made admirable progress. (The Noble Lord resumed his seat amid loud cheers.) Mr DISRAELI would endeavour to imitate, though he feared unsuccessfully, the address of the Noble Lord who had just resumed his seat. As to what he had stated with re ference to one subject, namely, the condition of Ireland, there could be no difference of opinion. He was sure it was the desire of this House, and all parties in it, to assist in the set tlement of Ireland in a manner that would conduce to the future happiness of that country—(Cheers)—and in bring ing on such an occasion to the Ministers of the Crown a temperate, indulgent, sympathising spirit. But, unfortunately, that was not the only subject on which the Noble Lord had anticipated there could be no difference of opinion. He had, indeed, imagined that the subject of the Spanish marriages would not be brought under the consideration of the House that night, as the debate seemed to threaten a termination. The Noble Lord had ex pressed, with perfect propriety the general feelings of the House with respect to the subject of their foreign policy, which had been brought under their no tice by the Speech from the Throne. . _ It was certain, however, that the imprsvement of the condition of Ireland would not be assisted if differences existed between this country and France. The Noble Lord had laid down some principles of policy with which he thought no per son could agree. He said that France had no right to exercise a predominant influence over Spain. What he said with re spect to those marriages was not exactly apposite. The cave before them was this —They knew from authentic informa tion that an estrangement had taken place between the two countries, and were told in the Speech from the Throne that the Infanta of Spain had married a French Prince, and that in consequence some correspondence had taken place be tween the two countries. Now one would naturally have thought that the correspondence would have been of a congra tulasnry nature—( A laugh)—but they were not informed that the Noble Lord had protested against the infringement of the treaty, which he alleged to have taken place. ( Hear. ) But the Noble Lord had protested against the infringement of a treaty by the greatest Power in Western Europe, and they were informed in a paragraph which immediately followed that he protested against the violation of a treaty of more inaeortance by the greatest Power in Northern Europe. He believed there had been no violation of any treaty in either case. It was possible that the destruction of the political independence of Cracow might have been as great a blunder as the destruction of Poland might be a great crime, and if we protested against it such a protestation ought to be made on intelligible grounds, and not on perverted views of rights and privileges. He did not think that the object of the Treaty of Utrecht was to prevent an alliance between the French and Spanish families, because he could not agree that the object of the French Minister was to secure exclusive advantage to Philip and his posterity. The sixth article of the treaty positively declared that not to be the object of the treaty. Whether that treaty was right or wrong it was within their province to decide. It was the policy of Louis XIV. to promote an union by marriage or otherwise between the two countries, for the very first act of that Prince was to marry his daughter to a Spanish Prince. That alone was conclusive as to the meaning of those who signed the treaty. There was not, therefore, in his opinion, any violation of the Treaty of Utrecht; into the po'icy of the subject he would not then inquire.—(Hear, bear.) Was this a violationlof the Treaty of Vienna? Let them 1 0 ,1 merely into the legal merits of the question for that was the only way in which the question ought to be regarded. Of eourse he did not wish that any Gentleman should accept his opinion except as to the legal merits of the affair, but he would ask them, without prejudice or passion, to decide it merely on its legal merits. It was unnecessary for him to comment on the transactions of affairs at Congress; it would merely be convenient for him to remember its result. It was merely a treaty of the various Powers of Europe after a general war, in which these Powers settled the different questions of different treaties ; for instance the Treaty of Utrecht. They had nine different treaties all em bodied in that one. That final act which they called the Treaty of Vienna had in it seventeen treaties—diplomatic in‘truments of the highest class. When the Treaty of Vienna was negotiated it recited at its commencement that the powers of Congress were anxious to give the general result of various negotiations included in one cotr.mon ratifi ration for the settlement of affairs at Utrecht, and of the 181 sectinns of that treaty about BO were original stipulations, and the rest were merely quotations, or merely portions which had formed other treaties, and in order to prevent any misconcep tion in the 118 articles comprising portions of these, 17 treaties were Frecifically recitcd. The House would remember that of 'here 17 treaties three were Polish, negotiated between three Polish Powers, and not a single word in the Treaty:of Vienna, except the clauses in these instruments, were original stipu lations ; and any violation of these clauses would not be a violation of the original instrument. It also contained sti pulations for various personal rights, and for certain privileges to the provincial states of Germany, and by the principle of the present discussion any violation of these would be a viola tioe of the Treaty of Cracow. That instrument at this mo ment regulated all the rivers of Germany, and that regulation WA+ in the same category as the Polish treaties in the Treaty of Vienna. One of the stipulations of that treaty at the present moment enacted that a German P. ince could not appoint any inspector or sub inspector of rivers except the appointment was for his life, and there were many instances in which these in spectors h•d been appointed, and not for life, and that act was a violation of the treaty. There was immense difficulty at Congress to arrange the precedence arnnngst Remembers, and M. Talleyrand at last arranged articles of precedence by which the various diplomatic agents should be received, and if their claims were equal, they • were to cast lots for the precedence. That was one of our treaties in the same category as the Polish treaty; and if the Swedish and Spanish Ministers quarrelled about precedence, and one of them were to take precedence of the other without casting lots, the Treaty of Vienna would be violated ieltheir per sons. The King of Sardinia in his treaty, which was a basis of other treaties, agreed to give certain privileges to the Univer sity of Genoa, and within five years after those grants were vio lated. Could they believe that the great man who drew up the Treaty of Vienna, would make a stipulation like this a means of upsetting the whole, and that, too, after 30 years' constant communion with the greatest diplomati-ts? To his (Mr. Disraeli's) surprise, this fact was reverted to in the Queen's Speech ; but he was more surprised that the Noble Lord, who must understand the question, should so far have de ferred to public clamour as to have allowed any one of these circumstance; to be a breach of the treaty any more or less than the late events in Cracow, and should hive no better course to adopt than the present one. It was an acknowledged principle of public law that a superior instru ment could not merge into an inferior one, and he defied the Noble Lord to show him a single instance in which the solemn stipulations of any specific treaty of the time had not been re presentee, as embodied in the general stipulations of the final act at Congress. He could show the Noble Lord authentic precedents, but to prove the case beyond all question it was not necessary to do so, and he would only produce one of them. He did not mean to say that in a case like the present he sup posed that he ruled influence their opinion by foggy references to some obscure transactions. He would take public trans actions of as great importance as those in the Congress of Vienna, where the actors were eminent men, and dealing with circumstances as great as those in the Congress of Vienna. He alluded to the treaty of Westphalia. The treaty of West phalia was the foundation of the public law of Europe until the French Revolution, and was only suspended by the Treaty of Vienna. This question settled at Congress was an analogous instance in which the Powers of Europe were placed in the 1 same position as the one they were now placed in, and in which they were called violators of treaties. The question had been discussed by the first juris consults of that learned age, Cardinal Richelieu amongst the number, and they were called upon to act under circumstances of greater importance than those which had recently taken place at Cracow. He would put to the Noble Lord the particulars of Westphalia, negotiated at the Congress of Minister, when Germany was at the conclusion of a great war, and parallel to the late war when the greater Powers met. The treaty settled all the great questions with regard to the balance of power, but it was found impossible to deal with the affairs is` Germany, where firseof all religious grievances were to be settled between the Protestants and Roman Catholics, besides the claims of 150 German princes. They said that they could not settle all this at Minster, and that the con tending parties should go to Osnaberg, and hare a Congress, to be sitting at the same time as the one at Minster. The Emperors of Germany, the Princes of Germany. and the King of Sardinia, who afterwards got Pomerania, were parties to this treaty at Osnaberg, and all the affairs settled at Osnaberg were declared to be parties to the treaty of Minster, which was signed by all the powers of Europe. The Imperial cities of Germany obtained, through th e influence of the Swedish Court, the privilege of voting in the Diet, so that they should have a voice like German Sovereign States. The Emperors and Princes of Germany never allowed these free cities those rights guaranteed to them. The Diet was th e ar biter of all the differences on the ' ub j'et , and in three years, it the grievances of these cities were not settled, all the other German free cities We , • obli ge d to , declare war in their cause ant they entered into The parties to these of Craco w is a violation of treatiea," but noilllef the precedents of the same kind self act? Look at the disruption Nether lands. The Noble Lord g King of the Netherlandsinterfered, not u violation of the treaties of Vienna, but of treaties were nothing more than witnesses, ;leu w a h r e a n nt a e l : i whatever. edktoin The absorption the provisions of the "seventeen , a , t i, y l t il Vienna. There are several kingdom of the Nether- I t ' h °z ts 'r :E sistance ot o t z e did the Noble Lord him by the e e rund of the In the case of the partition of Cracow, it is not ee competenttreat tit; Cracow to call upon the guaranteeing powers, because they are not a party to the seventeen treaties. There was a great difference between the original stipula tion; of a treaty, and the clauses quoted from it, , as might be seen in the original stipulation, as in the conets. THEI SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY the people were suffering. He should be exceedingly sorry to embarrass the Government; he was ready to bear witness to their anxieties to meet the distress, but he conf 'seed himself to be much mortified at the flat refusal of the Noble Lord to make any exertion to keep the markets down. The prices of everything had nearly trebled, and the landlords had not re ceived anything like one-half of their rents. He would con jure the Noble Lord to throw his principles of political economy for once to the winds, and to listen to the voice of a patient and starving people.—(Hear.) He hoped that the House would be lieve his assertions with respect to the awful character o the distress. He stated it on his word and truth, and he hoped that the House would not listen to the virulence and unquali fied statements of the Member for Bath, who had calumniated the character of the country. --(Hear, hear.) Before he concluded, he desired to bear witness to the manful exertions of the Catholic clergy to mitigate the evils by which they were surrounded. Sir ROBERT PEEL said he was not about to interrupt the unanimity which seemed to prevail on all sides of the House with respect to the Address. They would be better able to discuss the topics which had been en tered upon in the Speech from the Throne when the promised information should be laid upon the table.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord had stated that with respect to the marriage which had been entered into be tween a son of the King of France and the Infanta of Spain, that the whole of the correspondence would be laid upon the table. That correspondence, which had appeared in the French papers, he apprehended was but a portion.—(Hear. ) He trusted that the Noble Lord would give, as freely as should be consistent with his duty, all the documents connected with the part the Government had taken in reference to that oc currence. Conceiving,as he did, that discussion would be the more satisfactory to all parties, he should therefore at present abstain from adverting to that subject; he would only observe that during the period that the late Government were in office, no attempt was made to advocate the connexion of a Prince of the house of Coburg with that of Spain. For his own part, he deprecated any such connexion, for he thought that the interests of the people of England would not be bene fited by any such alliance. He thought that its effect would be to introduce them more intimately into the domestic con cerns of Spain—an introduction which he considered would be anything but beneficial to the interests of England.—( Hear, hear.) It was his belief that her interests were, that , Spain should be really an independent Power, and that she should maintain the high character of an independent nation, and that she should conduct her own ad ministration without tolerating any interference. He hoped to live to see the day when Spain would place herself in such a a proud position, and become a powerful and independent country.—(Hear, hear.) But, speaking of the late Govern ment, he could with truth assert that not only did they not di rectly, by any official act, but he hesitated not to add, that net any indirect means were resorted to for the purpose of ad vancing the pretensions of a Prince of the house of Coburg. In referring to another portion of her Majesty's Address, he could not but express his regret that the extinction of the free state of Cracow had been determined on by three of the Powers which had been parties to the Treaty of Vienna. While be admired and acceded to certain portions of the speech of the Hon. Member near him (Mr. Disraeli), the Hon. Member must be aware that there was an assurance given to Europe at the peoriod when a settlement of its affairs took place—there was a public assurance given that that last rem nant of Polish independence should be maintained—(Cheers) —and that Cracow should not be annexed to another country as it had been lately annexed. There was therefore a distinct and positive departure from their engagements in the course lately pursued by the Courts of Vienna, Petersburgh, and Berlin.—( Hear, hear.) True, they assigned as a reason that Cracow had given refuge to insurgents in the last disturbances; yet, surely, they might have thought that these three great Powers might have protected themselves from any danger to which they might be threatened by an invasion from Cracow. —(Laughter.) Their true 'policy would have been to have given to Cracow all the rights arid privileges to which she was entitled, taking at the same time effectual security against any danger arising to their peace or prosperity from that re— public. If danger were really apprehended, a confer ence, with the sanction of France and England, might be held with the other European States, and a new arrange ment effected which would be deemed binding on the contract ing nations. But he could not find in the circumstances any sufficient justifieation for the cct wirieh had been committed, and he was grieved and astoni,hed that Austria should have consented to that distinct breach of the Treaty of Vienna. Such an act was inconsistent with true policy, and calculated to shake tl e confidence which ought to exist between the great countries of Europe.—( Hear, hear.) There was another subject adverted to in the Address from the Throne which he hailed with great pleasure—he meant the intention of the Government to introduce some measures for improving the sanatory condition of the people. No one could possibly exaggerate the importance of sanatory regulations as conducive to the wealth and greatness of a country, or to the happiness of its people ; and he trusted, therefore, that the measures in troduced would be of a most extensive character. It was not merely in large cities that such a measure was required—it was equally necessary that smaller towns should be benefited, and he trusted that power would therefore be given to municipal authorities in these smaller places to make such improvements as they might consider necessary. With respect to Ireland, he was disposed, from his knowledge of the difficulties all Governments had in dealing with this question, to make every allownnce fur the difficulties her Majesty's Ministers had to overcome. He knew how easily it was, by superfluous care, to create unnecessary alarm, and on the other hand the greater danger that might arise from a san guine idea of abundance. He could not, therefore, blame the Government 'that they did not anticipate in September the miseries which affected the sister island at this period. It was said that there were 420,000 persons employed upon public works, at an expense of 158,003/. Hear, hear.) New he thought measures ought to be taken to restore these people to their former position, for setting them to work to cultivate the soil, so that they might have a prospect of a future harvest, and next to improving and drain ing the land. It was perfectly legitimate ; perhaps it was the best means for a Government to employ the surplus labour of the country upon public work.. There were many public works which bad amply repaid the outlay, but still there ought to be a limit to this mode of employment. The time for intro ducing that limit had arr ved, and he thought, with the aid of the landed interest of Ireland, the labour engaged upon public works might , easily be transferred to the cultivation of the soil. The Noble Lord at the head of the Government proposed to suspend for a time the existing duties upon corn, the navigation laws, 111,C1 to facilitate the introduc tion into this country of other zrticles of food. Now, it was his intention to give these proposals his cordial support. He thought the advantages to be derived from them would not be as great as if they had been adopted at an earlier period. Cir cumstances were different now to what they were in November, 1846, but although the advantages to be derived from the measure might be less than if it had been adopted at an earlier period, before France and other countries had commenced im porting corn, yet he thought they were bound to do all they could to increase the supply of food in Ireland . There might be catgoes of wheat in this country which the measure would bring into use, while the suspension of the navigation laws would promote the transmission of corn front foreign countries. Therefore, seeing that a great many deaths were constantly taking place in Ireland for want of food ; seeing, also, that all this privation and suffering had been borne with the greatest patience. Looking to the 'general state of that unhappy country, and bearing in mind that the same distress and suffering was prevalent in the western parts of Scotland, he should be constrained to give these measures his most cordial support. With respect to the measures of a more permanent character for the improvement of , the condition of the people of Ireland, it would be time enough hereafter to speak of them. The Noble Lord proposed on an early day to state his plans to the House, and he would not be so ungracious as to say anything which was calculated to prejudice the House against them. He could not help thinking that whatever value might be attached to a national plan of emigration, it would be some time bef ere it could be brought to operate beneficially. He was perfectly willing that this part of the empire should be called on to take its just share of the evil that had overtaken Ireland ; but they must bear in mind that the Government had no money of its own, but must borrow, in older to make ad vances of food to the people. Still, he was willing that this should be done in the present crisis ; but with respect to the general improvement of the people, nothing could be more in jurious than ill judged liberality.—( Hear, hear.) Ireland should feel the necessity of making great exertions on her part; that she should not consent to depend on charity, which could never forward her real interest, nor seek to transfer her bur. Hear, hear.) He hoped, a d l e s n o s , t i t:t o t d h e e a p h e n op e go withft his thisc o unt ry. —( momentous question, that all party feelings and interests would be laid aside. They had all this deepest interest in contributing to the peace and prosperity of the sister kingdom ' • and if they were en abled b y wise and pro vident legislation to heal these evils, wh ilew, ould Cher y la ttme y the conserved the rights of property, they foundation of the permanent improvement a nd welfare of the at the eam % the people of Ire.aud —( Loud cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON said he did not wish to occupy the Howe at any length, but he wished to say a few words relative Mr. Di). . Hon. Member for Shrewsbury ( to the Treaty of Vienna, which had beensraeli referredTthoebeHtohne hGee(illoemrdapt%hiacodertsatlokoed)of the w wished to in the treaty, treatykoowwwashoaft npoo_rvtaioluoes. also says that there are no distinct engagements treaty there were that were valueless ? The Hr. Member On this nor general guarrntees ; that there were onl y some special arrangements that were agreed to b o carried out. was point the Hon. Member was quite mistaken on the treaty as only a treaty it regarded Cracow. He maintai ned that it binding on the three Northern Powers, without the interven tion of the others. If the Hon. Member could only to oral k to the 6th, 7th, Bth, 9th , and 10 th sections of the ge.ne treaty they would find that they related to the free and inde pendent_ state of Cracow. If that were so, then said the Hon. Member, the treaty would enforce also the free navigation of rivers. He (Lord Palmerston) admitted that it was so, that such was the construction of the treaty, and it had been so considered by all the states of Europe. The Ministers of a Court took precedence at the Courts to which they were accre dited from the time of their arrival. The fact was, that the first two protocols were not signed by himself, but by the Earl of Aberdeen, under the Government of the Duke of Wellington. The Noble Lord opposite (Lord George Bentinck) was mistaken in the supposition that the renunciations of the Duke of Orleans and the Duke de Berri were inoperative, because they did not form portions of the municipal law of France and Spain. That was a mistake, fait these renunciations had since been made parts of the law of those countries. But he wished it to be dis tinctly understood that it was not the treaty of Utrecht on which the Government took its stand. The ground which her Majesty's Ministers assumed was, that it was agreed that the two crowns of France and Spain should not descend to a rn , tu ber of the family of Orleans. But this was not the proper time for entering upon the subject, and when the proper time came and the papers were laid upon the table he should be quite prepared to defend the course which her Majesty's Go vernment had taken. The Address was then passed without a division, the depu tation to carry it up to her Majesty was appointed, and the House adjourned at a quarter past one o'clock. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen went in State yesterday to the House of Lords, to open the session of Parliament with a Speech from the Throne. Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the State Saloons at a quarter before two o'clock, preceded by the Great Officers of State and the principal Officers of the Household, and fol lowed by the Ladies in Waiting, her Majesty's train being borne by the Pages of Honour in Waiting. Her Majesty and the Prince descended the Grand Stair case and passed through the Library, and through a tem porary corridor, hung with handsome crimson draperies, and richly carpeted, which had been erected for the occasion across the terrace in the garden front of the Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted through the corridor to the State coach by the Lord Chamberlain. The Queen's Guard, composed of the Foot Guards, with the band of the regiment, stationed in the Royal Garden, received the Sovereign with the usual honours. The State procession left the Palace by the Garden en trance in the following order : A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying the Gentlemen Ushers, the Hon. Frederick Byng, Captain Courtenay Boyle, R.N., and Colonel Diggle ; the Exon in Waiting of the Yeoman Guard, Sir Samuel Hancock; and a Page of Honour. A carriage, drawn by a set of bays, conveying the Groom of the Robes, Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour; the Groom in Waiting, Colonel Berkeley Drummond; the Groom in Wait ing to Prince Albert, Captain Francis Seymour; and a Page of Honour, Mr. Forbes. A carriage, drawn by a set of bays, conveying the Comp troller of the Household, Lord Marcus Hill; the Master of the Household, Major General Bowles; the Silver Stick in Waiting, Colonel Bouvcrie; and the Field Officer in Waiting, Colonel Home. A carriage, drawn by a set of bays, conveying the Cap tain of the Yeoman Guard, Viscount Falkland, G.C.H. ; the Clerk Marshal, Lord Alfred Paget; the Treasurer of the Household, Lord Robert Grosvenor; and the Equerry in Waiting to the Prince ' Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon. A carriage, drawn by a set of black horses, conveying the Lord Steward, the Earl Fortescue ; the Gold Stick in Wait ing, Viscount Conibermere, G.C.8.; the Lord in Waiting, the Earl Ducie; and the Lord in Waiting to the Prince, Viscount Clifdeu. . The Queen's Marshalmen, two and two. The Queen's Footmen in State liveries, two and two. Yeomen of the Guard. The State coach, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, conveying her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G. and K.G.F., the Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Sutherland; and the Lady in Waiting, the Marchioness of Douro. The Crown was conveyed to the House of Lords by Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher. The State Procession retured to Buckingham Palace at five minutes past three o'clock. The Lord Chamberlain received her Majesty and her Royal Consort on alighting from their carriage and conducted them to the State rooms. The Yeoman Guard lined the lower rooms. Sir George Philip Lee the Lieutenant, and Mr. Ellerthorp the Adjutant of the corps, were present. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Douro, Earl Dude, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Pr:ncess Royal walked yesterday morning with her august parents in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. Dispatches were sent off last evening, from the Colonial office, for the Lord High Commissioners of the lonian Islands, and for the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar. PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS - - 'HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SIMS, and Mr. As sistant-Examiner FRERE.) GLASGOW, DUMFRIES AND CARLISLE, AND GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK AND AYR. The hearing of the, allegations in this case was resumed. It occupied nearly the whole of yesteiday. An allegation to the effect that the mode in which it was proposed to form a junction with the Clydesdale Junction Railway was not ac curately delineated in the plans and sections was sustained, as were also one or two otherallegat ions of minor importance. The next point raised was, whether the Clydesdale Junc tion Company, through a portion of whose property the scheme under consideration was proposed to pass, should have been referenced in tho plans submitted. The promoters of the Bill contended that such a course was not necessary, as the Clydesdale line was not yet con• tructed. The Examiners decided that, considering the contingent or equitable interest the Clydesdale Company had in the pro perty referred to, the name ought to have been inserted. After some further evidence was taken on the alleged in. accuracy of some of the levels, the Court adjourned till to. morrow. (Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY and Mr. AssistaW ..... _ THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. The Splendid Pantomime of " Harlequin and St. Geonce and the Dragon," is acknowledged to be one of the most successful ever produced. THIS EVENING • Will be performed the new Grand Opera of THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, Mr. Horneastle ; Ardentord, Mr. W . Harrison; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss R. Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, belng a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management sf Mr. it. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING • Will be performed a new and original Drama, called THE ROUND OF WRONG ; or, a Fireside story. Sir Arthur Foljamhe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynae, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Buckstone ; Harwood. Mr. Howard; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Fortescue ; Jenny, Miss Woulds. During the evening the Band wi❑ perform the Overtures, " Le Fidele Berger," " Antionee" Cellarius, " Dublin" Waltz, and " Ame rican Polka." To conclude with an Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, 7.liss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckin;ham, Miss Reynold 4, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM Under the Matnyzement of Mrs. Keeley. Triumphant success of Boz's new Christmas Piece. Last five nights of " The Butterfly's Ball." THIS EVENING Will be performed a Drama. founded 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 TILE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha. cadets by Messrs. Leigh Murray, Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeicy ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the snccessful Comedy of TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeiey will appear. To conclude with a New Comic Pantomime, entitled THE BUT TERFLY'S BALL. Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Clown, Mr. W. Collier ; Pantaloon, Mr. Gough ; Columbine, Miss 0. Hicks ; Attendant Sprites, Masters. C. and F. Lauri. NIEATtE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION' OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENING _ 011 be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO LOMB A, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Yates ; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, O. Smith, &a. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTORTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Hanlons, will ex• !)ibit their wonderful Jeux Gymnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA G!SELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Willi Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullenford,Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Grand Opera, entitled ANNE BOLEYN. Henry VIII., Mr. Ihxida ; Percy, %Ir. Allen ; Rockford, 31r. Wal ton; Smeaton, 3liss S. Flower; Harvey, Mr. Wynn; Lady Jane Seymour, Miss G. Smithson; Anne it oleyn, Miss Bassano. In the course of the evening Professor lIEM3IING and his ta tented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perlOrm " The Ame vcan Polka," introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; or, The One-eyed Gent. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. IL Marshall ; :lown, Mr. Flexmore. Examiner GU ?MILL.) The Examiner intimated yesterday morning that if his colleague, Mr. Smith, did not get through the Scotch case which was before him yesterday, he would on Wednespay enter upon b oth li ts, taking each petition in the order in which it stood on the general list. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH RAILWAY AMENDMENT (No. 2). This case was them resumed. An allegation was sustained, to the effect that a certain real, which was intended to be diverted, was not shown upon the plans. Other allegations of less moment were :tls• sustained, not, however, till after they had been severly con tested. The case closed with the memorials of William George and William Russell, in which several allegations were sus tained. The Court then adjourned till this day, at ten o'clock, Mr. May repeating the order of business he had named at the opening of to-day. PORTSMOUTIE, JAN. 18.—Captains Henry Drury and P. Ilaymes, and Commander E. G. Fishbourne, are ap pointed by the Treasury to assist in the distribution of pro visions in Ireland. T HE LATE ACCIDENT AT BLACKFRIARS. The three men who received such frightful injuries on Friday night last at Mr. Ainger's iron foundry, Blackfriars, are still in a very pr ecarious condition. The man George Richard son, who is in Guy's Hospital, remains without the slightest hope of surviving the injuries. The other two are likely to recover, and are in St. Thomas's Hospital. DEATH IN A POLICE STATlON.—Yesterday after noon an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Ten Bells, Church-street, Spitaltields, on the body of Elizabeth Dono van, aged 59 years, a clothes dealer. It appeared that the deceased was much addicted to drinking, and was seldom sober. On Sunday last she was discovered by a police con stable in a dreadful state of intoxication. She was very noisy and troublesome, am: she was conveyed to the police station in' Whitechapel, where she was placed in a cell. During the night she was visited by the policeman on duty, and was discovered lying on her side quite dead. Mr. Slears, b en rgon attributed excessive to apoplexy, which might have dealer) men was driving a valuable to a nobleman in a break along be accelerated by drinking. A verdict was re when opposite the end of the turned accordingly. the opposite direction FATAL ACCIDENT TO A VALUABLE HORSE.--Yes terday afternoon, shortly before two o'clock, as one of Mr. oaging the e n yi ni i ps e app t ir t erk ' r s i et pet(7dtrlaltileocoralsti r o etr r b s e °n e e .1 belong ing to a laundress, the driver of which appeared to be in liquor, came with great violence in contact with the horse. The shaft of the vehicle entered the animal's chest, and after a few convulsion s it dropped down dead. The animal was worth nearly one hundred guineas. • FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT DT THE FALLING OF SEVERAL TONS OF EARTH AT RANDALL'S TILE KILNS, MAIDEN-LANE. —Yesterday forenoon, an accident, which will probably be attended with fatal consequences to one poor fellow, happened at the back of Randall's tile kilns, in Maiden-lane, King's-cross. For several weeks past a num ber of men have been employed in " turning over" the clay used for making tiles, in order that the frost shall penetrate through it and make it 'lmre suited to the pur pose. In one part of the ground there has existed for some time an immense mound of clay, which has been brought from the various excavations for buildings in the neighbour • • many hundred tons. Yesterday morning hood, consisting o as the men were at work beneath this about eleven o'clock, so me of it for use, the whole of the mound digging out upper portion tell, and for several minutes it was supposed that five or six oft he men were buried beneath. Upon the foreman coming up and calling over the names, he found, th a t but one poor fellow, named Wm. Norris, fortunately, who had been but recently employed upon the work, was missing. A search was immediatlyecao_mm wash amongst the fallen clay, and the poor fellohw's.h d observed pro the remaining portion of trading through the mass of eart from view. r.: Wood, his body b e i ng completely. hid M I oered th • men the overseer of the works , immed o utiat e y , but r s d to o firmly was h lose no time in getting the man ailed to use their pickaxe embedded, that they were comp The time occupied i before they could release h im. tes, and when Norris wa doing this was nearly twenty min a axle, both got out he presented a pitiable specta d s being broken, one in three places, besides being leg r . n other moved with all possible speed parts of the body. He was re to the University College Hospital, w h er e he was attended by Mr. Quain and other medical gen tl e men, but from the serious expected to e s e rious character of his injuri es he is re cover. On account of the great advan to in the price of es to bear the loss they flour, and the incapacity of the parti for bread and flour apprehend in consequence, two contrac tors d for the Chelmsford Union have divontinue the supply and I d forfeited their contracts. The contracts vacate were taken on the Bth of December for three months; bread, first dis trict, 41b. loaf, 5 3 / 4 d.; second district, fidd; flourecon a d t district, Hour at 445. per sack; house bread at 51 4 s- 6d. contractor, has, at a Mr. Bryant, of Springfield, a former , very short notice, prevented the inconvenience which must otherwise have arisen by providing the necessary supplies upon very reasonable terms. The contracts are consequently again opeu.— Essex Herald. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN WELLS.STREET.—YeSter-. day afternoon a fire, attended with onsiderablo destruction of property, broke out upon the premises of Mr. Thomas Riddle, a cabinet-maker, at 54, Wells -street, Oxford-street. The flames originated in the second floor of theworkshops, at the rear of the drelling-house. An attempt was made to extinguish the flames by means of buckets of water, but owing to the inflammable nature of the stock-in-trade, the tire travelled with more than usual rapidity, so that in less than half an hour after the outbreak the flames had peqe trated the roof. Various engines arrived at the scene in rapid succession, but it was not until that portion of the works in which the fire commenced was burned out, and the roof destroyed, that the conflagration could be subdued. The damage done is very considerable, and, unfortunately, Mr. Riddle was not insured. The origin of the disaster could not be ascertained. "SCOTTISH BAPTISM. —Yesterday, at Stafford House, St. James's, was christened the second son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn, according to the forms of the Established Church of Scotland. The Rev. Dr Cum ming, of the Scotch Church, Crown-court, Covent-garden, officio! e 1. Notwithstanding the high price of provisions, some of the farmers of Bicester have recently reduced the wages of their labourers from 9s. to Bs. per week, and, startling as it may appear, one of them is paying able-bodied married men but 78. per week. Bread 8 1 hd. the 41b. loaf, and wages 7s. per week, ill accord. We believe that many persona. -around us are or the verge of .starvation.—such Advertiser and detyles*.y News. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular domestic Melodranze, entitled LA DAME DE SAINT TROPEZ. Georges Maurice, Mons. F. Le maitre ; Hortenie d'Auberive, Mdlle. Clarisse. Boxes, Gs. , Pit, 3s. Gd. ; Stalls, 36.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at !:alf-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. MORNING. JANUARY 20, 1847 ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, .Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeating their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENT at the above Theatre, on SATURDAY EVENING next (there being no performance To- morrow), Doors open at Eight o'clock. And will, In consequence of the continued demand for places, repeat their DAY PERFORM ANCE This Morning, Wednesday, Jan. 20. Doors open at Two o'clock. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphiteatre, 2s. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert. Prince of Wales, and Royal Family. Triumphant suc cess of the Christmas Novelties. Upwards of 30,000 persons have witnessed the new Grand Comic Pantomime, pronounced to be unequalled for magnificence and mechanical effects. The Boxes are nightly filled by brilliant assemblages of rank, and honoured by the presence of !IRA. Prince George of Cambridge, Earl of Strathmore, Lady Crewe, and a host of fashionables. THIS EVENING Will he performed a grand new Magical Equestrian Romance, en titled THE DEMON NORSE ; or, The Twelve Wishes and the Charmed Bit. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the successful Comic Equestrian Fairy Pantomime, entitled TIIE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. liar vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. Box-.duce open trom eleven till five o'clock.--Doors ~ p en o au c ••nmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, 3Ers. Frances Davidge. THIS' EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, entitled THE HAND OF CARDS—GAME, LIFE, STAKES, DEATH. The characters will 're supported by the whole of the talented Company. Atter which a new Drama, founded on Dickens' Work, called THE. BATTLE OF LIFE. Characters by Messrs. Neville, 1% ebb, Ileslop, Johnson, Lewis, Fredericks ; Mdmes. Saville, Vining, Daly, Williamson, Maynard, and Miss Torrey. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Deulin; Pantaloon, Herr R. Deulin ; Columbine, Milne. Theodore; Clown, Herr N. Death' ; Punch, Herr E. Deulin. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Boxes, ls.. Half-price, td. ; Gd.; Gallery, 3d.—" The Black Doctor," with the grand " Go-a-Head Pantomime," form the two most powerra attractions ever produced on any stage on the same night. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin cent, Airs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, !toward, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. Atter which will be produced a grand Christmas Pantomime, en tit;ed THE BIRTH OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin Go-a-head," and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown, Mr. T. Barry. THE ONLY AUTHOMSED ENGLISH EDITION. Now• ready, in Bvo., price only VOL. VI. of THIERS' HISTORY OF THE CONSUL ATE AND EMPIRE. A Sequel to his " History of the French Revo!ut ton." Translated by D. FORBES t'AMPBELL, Esq. With the sanction and approval of the AtitlWr. CONTENTS :—Ulm and Trafalgar—Austerlitz—The Confederation of the Rhine. Henry Colburn, PubliSher. 13, Great ➢farlborough-street. RAILWAY SHAIZES BY PUBLIC SALE MESSRS. LAAIOND and Co., RAILWAY FIIARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and use Public for their continued 'support and patrowage, and to anno:ince that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUMDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containing Instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip Mid Share Certificates must be deposited, the day previous to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post atter the sale, arid the proceeds 'Rune- Oately disposed of according to instil:along. Offices, Ball of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, London. HE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 19. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 19; Highest, 32 ; Noon. 33, BAROMETER, 30 18.—WIND E., busy. WA.TEA Al' 1)N0t,..-Bniutii. oAY. Iforning .. 5 minutes after 4. Evening .. 27 minutes after 4. ~ . . 41 'A& ir o , . a ), , ~ ....... .. ~ ..,,,t , „ ,„,.....,,„.,.._ ....„..„„); ~.,,A , . ~.,....4 . , -.. r f 9 -i-I,•iiv.ti. i :.. ; .,41 W t ., i' 4 011046 . <! , 44lkx , atc. _.•,..,,,, .:....-. -.. t .,,., .4..p.:1, . • , t, ...v.. , , XI II , . t'r .* , , ,l;) , ';'.' , .‘ • 'll, ,f,, , ',.. 4 r • DI 0 S j j" , ito 7 . ~. ''. - -fi l • -.". intrrnill4l Arl,lll. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1847. The annual ceremony of opening Parliament, and the delivery of the Speech from the Throne, are under the most ordinary circumstances matters which peculiarly arouse the attention of every intelligent mind in the empire. Even in the vague generalities enunciated by the SOVEREIGN on the inauguration of the sessional labours of the Legislature there are always materials sufficiently suggestive for serious reflection and definite anticipation. That the address uttered by her MAJESTY should constitute the very faintest indication of the intended policy of the Go vernment is what can alone be rationally expected. The suppression of everything like dictation to the hereditary and representative legislators, the avoidance of anything like a partiality for certain political creeds, the scrupulous and punc tilious restriction to those questions which are upper most in the popular mind, are invariably the prin cipal characteristics of the Speech from the Throne, and they are the only characteristics consonant with 1 the fundamental principles of the Constitution. While, however, it is impossible to deny that the Speech from the Throne is marked by the most tan talizing indistinctness, as far as the actual schemes of the Administration are concerned, it is equally impossible to assert that it deals only in unsatisfactory common-places. A reference to the address delivered yeserday, in the House of ILords, by our Gracious SOTEREIGN, and pub ished in another column, will be an ample refu tation of that very prevalent and very erroneous insinuation. It will be seen by that royal harangue, that without in any manner committing the Crown to this opinion or to that, to this measure or to that, to this particular policy or to that particular policy, ma y speak to the people the voice of the MONARCU that language of encouragement, and consolation, and promise, which such an em ergency as the pre sent renders more than advisable. It will be seen by the expressions wh ich have just proceeded from the lips of her MAJES TY, that the Sovereign may, with out exceeding the authority confided to her illus trious keeping , utter those words of sympathy, of assurance, and of earnest recommendation, which are so welcome t o a sufferin g and ex p ec tant population. Considering the destitution experienced in the sister island, and the sterility of a soil which, with proper management, would prove generous and pro litic, it was but reasonable that her IVIAJEsrr should , advise the thorough inrestization vi ti.e exigencies of Ireland, and the revision or re-organization of her agricultural system. It was but just that the patience of the unfortunate peasantry under their extraordi nary privations should elicit the approbation of the SOVEREIGN, and that, while scanning the positio!. of so many millions of her MAJESTX s subjects, lier ,\IAJESTY should demand from the LegisiaLure a pro portionate assiduity and a proportionate calmness in striving to diminish the lamentable effects of those privations, and to render their recurrence impossible. It regard to the recent occurrences upon Conti nental Europe, whereby the most bulemn treaties nave been violated, the most sacred rights invaded, and the peace of tne whole world endangered, it was alone to be expected that at least one paragraph in the Speech from the Throne would be devoted to their consideration. It was but right that the mar riage of an Orleans Prince with a Spanish ifrincess, and the incorporation of the Cracovian re public with the Imperial territories tit Austria, should command the observatimeof tier MAJESTY as the chief of this great and predominant nation. The treaties of Utrecht and Vienna conid not be violated with such flagrant contumely without drawing from one of the Governments most interested in their preservation the most emphatic and decisive protest. Still, the infusion of anything approximating to acerbity in the address formally delivered by her MAJESTY to the Legislative Houses of Great Britain would, to say the least of it, have been most injudicious. Under every circumstance of a similar character, it becomes the sacred duty of the SOVEREIGN to speak in those tones of moderation which are most suitable for the main tenance of the royal dignity, and best calculated to insure some rational and pacific settlement of affairs. In this particular, the Speech from the Throne will assuredly be found to have justified the anticipations of all sticklers for the sanctity of treaties and of all lovers of peace. When the odious restrictions still remaining upon the importation of food are remembered, and when, moreover, the imminence of the existing dearth is taken into account, it cannot be any matter for astonishment that the guardians of the national welfare should endeavour to sweep away such very removable difficulties. Upon this point her MAJESTY does not enter into details, it is true, but her MA JESTY'S address gives, we doubt not, more than an intimation of the salutary intentions of her MAJESTY'S Ministers. That the unnecessary and extravagant consumption of barley in the pro cesses of brewing and distillation should be prevented by the substitution of molasses and sugar ; that the navigation laws, which at present exclude from our markets many cargoes of moderately-i.riced and nu tritious provisions, should be temporarily modified to meet the wants of the existing scarcity ; and, above all, that the British ports should be immediately opened for the reception of grain from all quaAters of the globe—are the most ostensible mear 4 efor the amelioration of popular distress and the preVention of national famine. That there are perils of this de scription impending over Ireland, the Government itself has virtually asserted by transmitting food and money to her inhabitants, by proposing enormous loans to her landowners, by changing a large number of war-steamers into commissariat vessels for the 'victualling of the whole island. There must be some compensation for these generous endeavours on the part of the Administration—the people must be remunerated for these disbursements of the Ex chequer; and that there will be so - ne such com pensation as we have expressed, is certain from the declarations of her MAJESTY. As the official manifesto of the Russell Cabinet, if not as a programme to the session, the Speech from the Throne must be regarded as most satis factory ; for, besides the questions relating to Ireland, to Cracow, to the Peninsula, and to the full and perfect emancipation of commerce, it is unquestionable that Lord JOHN and his colleagues are now pledged beyond all re tractation to the two great reforms—educational and sanatory. The words spoken by her MAJESTY will be listened to with avidity throughout the country, and the more su because of the remarkable nature of the present emergency, and because in these words we have the first declaration of the kind issued by the Russell Cabinet. It would be frivolous and even un gracious to deny that in all essential respects the opening of the Parliament for the session of 1847 is consolatory and propitious. Cardinal FERETTI, the newly-appointed Legate to Urbino, has received from the POPE instructions recommending him to calm down as much as pozsible the minds of the population, and to re-establish the respect due to the laws and authorities. The Cardinal is empowered to state that his flousEss is disposed to accord to the inhabitants all the liberty compatible with the public good, but that he would never suffer any infringement of the law. The Universal German Gazette states that a rail way is contemplated between Vienna and Cracow. It is intended to effect at Oderberg the junction of the Northern line and that of Lower Silesia, and to prolong the latter by Kosel to Mislowits, on the fron tier of the ancient territory of Cracow. The Augsburg Gazette states that the new loan about to be contracted by the Austrian Government will amount to 40,000,000 florins, at an interest of five per cent. The Government proposes to issue the bonds at 108. According to the Observateur Rhenan the Austrian Government has decided on having a bridge of stone constructed over the principal arm of the Danube, like that of Pesth. This gigantic work is to be com menced in the spring. Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived. It is said that MoN and PIDAL are about to secede from the Ministry. IsTuanz would willingly retain the services of MoN, but the Finance Minister re fuses to remain unless nom, continues a member of the Cabinet; and as he is a Minister of whom all parties are anxious to be rid, MoN goes with him. It is generally supposed that CASTRO r OROZCO, the newly made Marquis of GERONA, will receive the the support of the Ministerial Deputies as candidate for the Presidency of the Chambers. The Chambers were still occupied in the transaction of merely for. mal business. The Three per Cents. closed on the Madrid Bourse of the 11th at 32 1 4 ; the Five per Cents. at 2U/8 ; Debt without Interest, 6 1 4 ; Coupons, 183%. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The Chamber of Peers assembled on Saturday in Committee, to hear the draft of the Address read. It is of course an echo of the Speech from the Throne. The debate in the Chamber was to be opened on Monday, by the Due DE BaoarAE, who will, it is said, discuss the question of the application of the Treaty of Utrecht to the Montpensier marriage. M. Guizor is not expected to speak until Tuesday. A courier extraordinary arrived in Paris on Satur day from London, with dispatches for the Marquis of NORMANDY. According to the Courrier Franrais "It is said, amongst those dispatches gas a fresh note from Lord Palmerston, relating specially to the docu ments presented to the Chambers and to the manner of their publication. This note is shortly to be communi• cated to M. Guizot. On the other hand we are assured flat, in order to restore the cordial understanding, a great personage enjoying the confidence of the Ministry is to proceed in a few days to London, to propose a treaty of commerce to the British Cabinet." The food riots continue to prevail to an alarming extent in the provinces. The Moniteur announces " Troubles of a very grave nature have broken out in the department of the Indre. Several carts of grain were seized on the night of the 13th, in passing through Cha teauroux, between 1.4 , -vroux and Buzanceais. The rioters sent the corn to Buzanceais, and forced the holders to sell it at a low price. The crowd of rioters increased during the night, and during the 14th the disorder as sumed a more decided character of violence. Five or six houses have been pillaged, and one of the proprietors having attempted to resist, was killed. The Prefect of the Indre went immediately to the spot with the Procu reur du Roi, but not having a sufficient force at his dis posal, he immediately applied to the Government, which ordered reinforcements to be sent, in order to re-establish order and insure an exemplary repression." The following is the description of the state and prospects of the country : " We will by no means attempt," says the Dawes, " to deny the rude shock to which the material fortunes of France are at the present moment exposed, and we have not to defend ourselves from the charge of having remained indifferent to them. Few years have been sso severely affected as 1816 ; inundations, penury of pro visions, political embarrassments, all have weighed upon it. And yet, notwithstanding all these complications, it is consoling to see how plentiful are the resources which the country possesses within itself, EYen if en this occasion be taxeii with f , Ptim i3lll, . we will not hesitate to eoclaro that the foundations its prosperity are not assailed in a manner that will l'-'ztvo any proffAind or Chrable traces, since the Move" aunt of affiirs, the activity of transactions. old th.e niched in this same year, have made a progress not infe . - arim_rouor,ittiot:tp:htilieichctaissuitenpintairt'fil,dininplace of being dim'. is the result to be dr.wri rev givyn by the Monitcvr. The genert.l receipts 01 the imposts and indirect revenue for 1846 I s 823,291,000 f., while that of 1845 was 803,902,000.. r which shows an increase of upwards of 19 millions is favour of 1846. The augmentation in 1845 over tu: previous year was only a little more than 15 millions, 5.: (nail thperetavbhlieusoyf•etahres.piph4ites, that the advantage is still more in favour or 1846. lt rf.tnarktl)le that the greater portion of the incrsao 10 ing the lag three mouths, which it might have beetil supposed would have ino , t seriously affected the marke, The first nine months gave an excess of 13.183,000 N while the last three gave au excess of 6,206,000 f." The Bank of Rouen, following the examp le of th; Bank of France, has raised the rate of disc ount 5 Pe cent.. I'ol ol The Three per Cents. were done in the Passag e de h tiu on Sunday at 77f. 70c., but had risen to 7 7 f. 80 c. At the Pt) post. vg'S BUsl NES DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS A- 1 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUAitY 18 ' rot Boulogne and Amiens, I4T B —Dutch Rhenis h, Indian, tA,l—Lotivain tl la Sambre, 15/81—Luxembourg,167, and a ß n ( u r ti d e a a n ti d x f . .l 7 e,., , l l, - 3 s n a ir n t d h e s rn t ra o s f b .h u ' r r a g n e 3 e x , 11 1 4 .1, -- o f e ; Havre, 26%—Sambre and Meuse, 4t/2. lib Se li t PLACES OF MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE. ---- usually appropriated to the leader of the Opposition, Id occupied by Lord Lincoln ; about three seats belov,f,_l',4o Lincoln. on the front Opposition bench, were Lord ( l i ps Bentinck, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Bankes; and on th e immediately behind sat Mr. Ferrand. this. MADAME BlSHOP.—During the past w --- L ts far-famed cantatrice has been fulfilling engsge° l „ e- 0 the Leamint_ ton and at Birmingham. At Leamington e leading members of the fashionable circles," sar i th b e r tC mington Courier, " were present at her concert, and root. ception was most enthusiastic." At Birmingham 5 %0 1 quite a furore, by her exquisitely:pathetic rendering 01 o f the beautiful ballad, " John Anderson my Jo." SPeak i t g ,gt manner in which this, the chef d'uavre of Buras , ,=,,g - ber, by Madame Bishop, the musical critic of the Dv " - A d it Journal says, " It is scarcely necessary to say `,,," Ode': not reasonable to expect that a vocalist PL-001 in the florid ornaments of the Donizetti s el ' o d be? music, can do justice to the simple and unad oro .or lads to which Burns loved to wed his matchleesdlis re' Yet " John Anderson my Jo " was thus treated. tr quires something approaching to genius. We ,4 wr t e peatedly heard this beautiful and touching air, y Itirm A tion tells us was at one time a chant in the " ?h i IP', sung by the bright particular stars of ballad 5 011 pad". until Wednesday night we had no conception of tbitobei of the music, or the potency of the verse. Madeol e i execution of it was toned to the very essence o' 1 1. No extraneous ornament was introduced, it Was 10 / 2,diste l / unadorned loveliness, and at the " rest" which jolw a ibi ~ precedes the close of the air, the most intense tijlT piar, manifested, and rendered the succee di ng burst o tar deafening in its intensity. It is such music ast 0 00 fudils the high purposes of the art, but its true intelT is rarely met with." isere OPENING OF THE PORTS.—TWO Illeeting,o6o9 held at Manchester, on Friday, for the purpose 0 , 1 i t itiO rializing Government to open the ports and admit ei e tb of provisions duty free. One meeting took Pie l e o e t ions i i l l Town Hall, and another in the open air. Reeeassee' accordance with the requisitions were unanimously' toirrf ARRIVAL OF THE GIBRALTAR PACILET. --- ' O O , O AMMON, MONDAY. —The Oriental CompanY's ste Ag ent ' Madrid, Captain Bingham_, COMmande,•, Admirslti ic•nes of 1 Lieutenant James Inglis, R.A. arrived here at he.."..„ 1 ,i1g,,, yesterday morning, from Gibraltar, ' and landed th d i s , et' the following dates :—Gibraltar, Bth January C l o Otto i l l January; Lisbon, 12th January; Oporto, 13th bodied'' Vigo, 14th January. Summary of cargo of the n d 001 Seven boxes of dates, full cargo of dates, orange° , ti P,,,elealr.., Weather during the voyage—Much fog and rain heq:„...-0 , ", Number of passengers-28. Shipping at the Pe r eo ftl oe ! raltar, her Britannic Majesty's ship Siren, and ateem 6 pole; Cadiz, Dutch frigate Prince d'Orange, and corvelluedroni Lisbon, the British squadron, and Portugue se (1 Oporto, her Britannic Majesty's ship Gladiator. rot; Loss OF THE SIRIUS STEAMER.--ACC" nt3 t hat 1- Dublin on Sunday, by the Cork mail, annotincing. WWI above-named steamer, which is engaged in the tratcl"ugbio to Dublin and Cork,-went ashore on the rocks near °node four o'clock on Friday morning. An attempt "Ighotrojtc:elit; get her off, and to push her to the termination o , n an ey d . wa S s he rn w n as n f n o s u i n in d r , e inju re h i o n w ß eyz e to o o tt m on uc ß h ay 111" already, it is said, gone to pieces. Twelve of the,, e o ' r e, Y. he tA passengers were drowned in the attempt to get on 0",„,4 11 Mr. D'Eyncourt has contradicesol'`-didAti report that he would nor o ff er himself as I I m ks . 3"" for Lambeth. le.', FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. BIN G , • ..g1 bi mortal remains of this venerable senator were int er... o oc terday forenoon, in the family vault, at Potter's 13;1 cony' near Wrotham. At eleven o'clock, the mourn consisting of the hearse, four mourning coaches, s od s e ( private carriages of the deceased, Lord Strafford , ioes Walter Stirling, moved from Wrotham Park to the Pa tbr, its destination. A large number of the tenant*" 1110100,7 last respects by attending the procession. The %ore' neing comparatively private, the attendants almoo, , comprised the immediate relations and friends of the ua t oce' Whitbread, tw Bc o including Lord Strafford, the Right Honourable :„liitigt BvngMr. and l is usual funeral service was read by the reverend ine°,74oce tt &c• Ravin Lord J. Thynne, Sir Walter PZ th e aft er which the body was lowered into the vault. and /140 near the remains of the late Lady Strafford and Lady Po Byng. Having arrived at the churcnoot,i day the quarterly court of the s ubscribers to the above seeL e e t, ROyAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—Yeett was held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's•S!,;:go Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, K.C.8., in the chair. ( 110 the balance-sheet presented by the secretary, it apPee r AP the income during the quarter was 1,1001., and the r e ,s• tare 603/. The receipts of the year were 2,9731., penditure, of which 1,944/. was in grants to distresseOo leg officers, their widows, and orphans, amounted to A . u f Wet! by 4971. The deaths and withdrawals during they el. o l $o only 62, while the new subscribers were 167. J‘ (lM ,rooto ° Charles Ogle was elected president, Admiral Sir.,./eoal Briggs, vice-president, and Admiral Sir Charles In p ; o lfe: trustee. On the motion of Captain Gardner, it wa s . efiL that the secretary should be defended at the expen e ` o , $i society in the action of slander brought against Joe Hoare. About 500/. was then distributed to distress's' cants, and the meeting broke up. r Ifor and 1704 PARLIAMENTARY CHANGES.--In the UP t;00 o°. the following Peers will have to take the usual oatt?f,oll seeding to their respective dignities at the o p e n i , present session :—The Duke of Atholl, the Marqui,,oo„`li mond, the Marquis of Ailsa, the Earl of Yarboroug"foooo; Earl Waldegrave. In the House of Commons th g , in t o ; changes have recently taken place :—Colonel pleVeoffefoi room of the late Mr. P. M. Stewart, for the coil ro ebl,t io . Captain Rushout, in the room of the late Mr. J. I for,',' s r East Worcestershire; Sir Montagu John ChollT2 of `llO colnshire, in the room of Lord Worsley "'" -- 11 t borough) • and the lion. Cecil Lawless for Clottille 0 0 % room of die Right Hon. D. R. Pigot. do eta' MAIL •COACH ACCIDENT.—On Wednus- Y oe , r od the south-going mail-coach was overturned neari.dept trs of Leman, and completely demolished. The s ee the l eti ,elll in consequence of one of the bars breaking , an“,„ r tties" 00 having set off, dashed into the field below. Iklost,egage'eota although the coach was f u ll of passengers and iis'"'',olo..`ere person sustained any serious injury. The ha, l l,7, , zsg e to tatters, although quite new. The mail aria i.e•' to conveyed to Arbroath in carts.— Ilion/rose Revi g b e o pr ie i t t, SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.lB.—The Oriental nt, steam-ship Iberia, Capt. Meeham (Admiralty oge for h fo ll Ravenhem), left the river at three P.M. this dn i f i ; s ils, raltar, with the Peninsular and Mediterranea n ro ars ~1 115 1 0 cargo, and twelve passengers. The Royal Wes t f , Adaw in clio packet Forth, Captain Ch a p man (Lieut. Brn yl- Weat: r go , agent), with the mails, left the river for the , 0 0d „ t oer Islands and Gulf of Mexico. The Forth has t i ,, ger . 0 0 and fifty one passengers. The Oriental Coutk e ,„, L " aad l Aio mails, The t e p icon, Captain ahinstant, very ala st Soy, afnutli ara ndwillvaluable take leav n e n t t c h at i rh s geo p Eoarantsdt a f r rieter d i s t Royal West India mail packet Trent, Captain 20th 'Oa. be looked for from the West Indies on. the 19th e• the 011 1 although not due at the General Post. office beforeibe The Tiber, Captain Russell, from Gibraltar witted po"- from Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, &c., with cargo P - yei r gers, may be expected on the 26th. cloVe FIRE IN THE REGENT- CIRCUS.—Y_,•- --er A2 d or ing, about five o'clock, a fire broke out at Di,° : ,:C o lls .t . ll 4" circus, Picc in the tenure of Mr. 13- -°5l B ee ped draper. The engines of the County and l' c '" quickly attended, and the flames were speedilY er by tire/ but not until a quantity of linen was damag ed $ The loss will fall on the County Fire-office. OfI ll et" PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 18.—ORGANts.s.0- h ol3x- t io DocKymtu:Arcrwicans.—The Admiralty:intend t" s ii be d Major Stevens, of the Royal Marine Artillerlt 51/00..bat,teta' officer appointed to instruct the artificers in the goof cots drill. Ile will be stationed in London, to be i n seat toTbe different dockyards to organise men into munication with their Lordships, and occasion:loll:0i. .iteo exercise is to take place during the months of. iietitl o om a f n u d tshk J ee u nt b a • a . vnyd T ws h hw e oo ship-gun iapdv-regi drill n a d sye r idl sergeantsl th w r i o ll u b g e h d to i hf r e e c l F ax b d rc a ine bt i i :, ij o u t s :; 6 . ll'jAil t: 0: 14 orders of one or more officers of that corps. ,nos d ' [ADv Eta tsEmENT J—FEARFUL WOUNDS IJJs•~ b ea d SIPELAS CURED BY 11OLLLWAY'S OINTMENT AND fa a Coles, formerly in the employ of Mr. Oliver, coactita";o"yeal-age; ham, for five years, had been ill, off and on, for fete of one t for the last s e ven h e was cont i nua ll y un d e r the ale un e a r g or another, besides b e i n a patient for a considerabl e ,' 4 1010 of the hospitals f or se ttl e d er y s ip e l as i n both legs , " 1 ' o vert COT quantities of water, besides humours issuing lror: P'"are: wounds. His age being seventy-two, it was exp ected r fectif-ii plaint would kill him, and yet this poor man has been Pe i e• g 4. d (Heine vendors, and at Professor HollowaY's by ilonoway's Ointment and Pins in six weelts•----101006 Strand, Landon. _............. Cn O ns n ta t h h l e e 16th BIax l i v n e s i c. , , Es a ti t e rre ' ' ------------ E/tfvLsery . iHngsh. am Park, the l oy i of W I : . Ou the sth inst., at Florence, jun., Esq., of a daughter. aaa a . s t o h n e lady of W illi° vla , _„ vase,mfe, Mrs. Percy Dove, o a f t a N so a On the - h • it— inst., Esq., of the lady W • Birkenhead,'r OW On the 15th inst., at Clifton.park, bury-place, Islington, OiSb. of i h n g s t t o , h t , he wife of Mr. W. IL of iv:r i too( ie f On the 16th ' On the 16th inst., at Dublin, the lady Esq a ( aughter.the law Oil the 16th inst., at Olney Lodge, Battersea. Joseph Tritton, Esq., of a daughter. 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