The Sun. — London, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

E EN 1\ EDITION. G RAND ANNUAL DINNER of the GERMAN CATHOLICS. DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq., M.P., in the Chair. The DINNER for the SUPPORT of the GERMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL and SCHOOLS in LONDON, (and on the present occasion especially intended to commemorate b y charity the happy event of her Majesty's marriage,) will take place TO-MORROW, tb,e 26th inst., at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, when it is hoped that the numerous distinguished Germans, and other foreigners, re siding, or now present, in London, and the many respected friends of this interesting and deserving institution, will avail themselves of this opportunity of showing at once their zeal for religion, and their respect for the illustrious individual to whom Catholicity is so much indebted, and who has so kindly under taken to patronize this important charity by his presidence. Dinner will be on table at Five for Six o'Clock precisely. Tickets, 14s. each, wine included, to be had at the bar of the tavern, and at the Chapel House, Great St. Thomas the Apostle, Queen-street, Cheapside. Tickets for the admission of ladies to the gallery of the Hall may be had gratis by applying as above MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with Twenty-one Illustrations by R. W. Buss. THE WIDOW MARRIED, A SEQUEL TO " WIDOW BARNABY." By Mrs. TROLLOPE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. •„• Orders received by all Booksellers. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. _ Now ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo. , lADY JANE GREY. A By the Author of " Royston Gower," " Fair Rosa mond," &c. " Mr. Miller already occupies a high rank among the writers of Historical Romance. In the present performance we have on the one hand, Edward IV., Lady Jane Grey, Northumberland, Suffolk and his Duchess, Guildford, Cecil, and others, painted with singular fidelity ; and, on the other, a Being supposed to be possessed of supernatural powers; Wardour, a lover of the hapless Lady Jane Grey ; and Amy, her faithful friend ; involved, and producing extraordinary effeets in the plot which it has pleased the writer to invent to give a deep dramatic interest to his story, and enable him to introduce his inferior and genera l portraits in the costume and manners of their age. This Work does honour to its Author. and places him in a front rank among the most eminent cultivators of this spec ies of literature."—Literary Gazette. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at the Libraries. 1114ARNABY RUD G E. _LP An Advertisement having appeared signed by Messrs. Smithson and Mitton, Southampton-buildings, announcing that Mr. Charles Dickens is not at present engaged upon the work under the above title, it is necessary, in justice to Mr. Bentley, to state that, by an agreement under the hand of Mr. Charles Dickens, dated in Februai y last, Mr. Dickens agreed to write the above work for Mr. Bentley, to be completed and delivered to him by the Ist day of January then next, and also engaged not to commence or write any other work until the same should be completed, except " Nicholas Nickleby." which is completed, and an annual publication, in one volume, which has been abandoned, and a book to be published by Mr. Colburn, and edited by Mr. Dickens, which has been published ; and that, np to this time, Mr. Dickens has not expressed his in tention to refuse to perform his agreement by writing the work in question. ADLINGTON, GREGORY, FAULKNER, & FOLLETT, Bedford-row. i s * I certify the facts above stated to be true. JOHN S. GREGORY, Bedford-row, Feb. 24, 1840. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, FEE. 25. Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. After which, CH AOS IS COME AGAIN. To conclude with die Grand Allegorical and National Masque, in honi.ur of her Majesty's Nuptials, entitled THE FORTUNATE ISLES ; OR, THE TRIUMPHS - OP BRITANNIA. The Music composed and selected by Mr. H. R. Bishop. D rt'ss 11 01e4, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Prioe, ‘ . 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Prise, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and plat se for the Boxes Boxes to be taken of Mr. Nater, ut the Box-otilre. from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Print* Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ,?OYAL SURREY THEATRE. Mr. Hackett's !ast Four Nights of performing in England. THIS EVENING, FEa. 25. Will be performed RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip V:n Winkle, 3lr. Hackett; Van 13;01 - n, Mr. W. Smith. After which, THE KENT UCKIAN. Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, Mr. Hackett. To conclude wilh VIDOCQ, THE FRENCH THIEF-TAKER. Vidocy, Ain E. F. Saville. THE RO YAL "WEDDING SUN" OF MONDAY, 10TH INST., CONTAINS TWO BEAUTIFUL MEDALLION PORTRAITS OF TIIE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT, EXECUTED IN THE VERY FIRST STYLE OF THE ART. THE LIKE NESSES ARE PRONOUNCED BY COMPETENT JUDGES TO BE AD MIRABLE. THE EXPENSE OF PRODUCING THESE PORTRAITS HAS BEEN VERY GREAT; BUT THE CHARGE IS ONLY ONE SHILLING. THE SUN, CONTATNING THESE PORTRAITS, MAY BE RECEIVED BY POST IN ALL PARTS OF THE KINGDOM. PARTIES IN REMOTE PLACES CAN REMIT• A SHILLING OR TWO, HALF A SOVEREIGN, OR A SOVEREIGN,-FOR ONE PENNY BY THE POST; AND THEIR OR DERS WILL BE PUNCTIIALLY AT TENDED TO. rHE SUN ALSO CONTAINS A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE AUGUST CERE MONY, WITH ALL PARTICULARS APPERTAINING TO SO INTERES TING AN OCCASION. 3RDERS FOR THE " ROYAL WED DING SUN" WILL BE RECEIVED BY ALL NEWS-AGENTS AND POST MASTERS THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM, AND AT " THE SUN" OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We regret that owing to the great press of matter we cannot find room for the long letter communicated by CLERIC US. We must give the same answer to J. M. B. Addresses to the Queen come from all quarters, and now possess little public interest. The Letter from Portsmouth to the Chancellor of the Exche quer will appear to-morrow. „1410111 WATRR AT LONDON FIRIDGIC TO-MORROW, • 57 minutes after 7 f Evening 30 minutes after $ LONDON: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 11140. In the Peers, the Marquis of WESTMINSTEft brought under notice, on presenting a petition, the case of several charities belonging to corporate towns, which the Municipal Corporation Act had involved in difficulties. The LORD CHANCELLOR admitted ,the fact, but stated that he did not well know how the evil was to be cured, and be considered it could only be done by Act of Parliament. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, jealous of the na tional honour, inquired, as if the subject had never before session o f H osp i ta l I slan d , i n P ort M a h on, an d why they were not contented with an establishment on the Island of Minorca itself? The Earl of CLARENDON gave a somewhat similar ex planation t o th a t w hi c h hebad before given, and reminded the Noble Marquis that We had no right to call the Spanish Government to account for not having adopted a resolution of the Cortes. •The Earl of ABF.RDEEN was of opinion that the French had long cast a longing eye on Minorca, end their possession of the island was a subject of import ance. He thought we bad a right to be jealous on this subject, as it concerned the security of our positim in the Mediterranean. Some further conversatio n tcok place, but nothing of i:nr.ortance was elicited, except the Earl of CLAREN_ DON'S opinicn that the French had no ulterior objects in vicar by occupying this islet i n t h e harbour of Port Mahon. Tee ~•farquis of LONDONDERRY afterwards brought tin:.'er the notiee c: the liuusa the claims of the A ;;;:liary Legion on qv! Gcvernment of Spain. w.:15 Ay replied to Ly 1..0r: CLARENDON, who milent debater. lie 4 ; 7 44\ V l r . 4 ~. 1, C:,,,„%'1:ki.c.:•,7' - _N,.- - -,_ 74A, `Ate,46oo, 7 1 ,,El ...-.. - -, z- , T2 ' - • ' -. 7 7 1 ft , - 1 :-...,;,,,* __ _ Z3=. fist, r into nou s!yly con:jaru:Aed tLe Marquis on his having Lo' takenke under his august protection the men who, when in the field, he had so incessantly vituperated. The Noble Earl defended the Spanish Government, and proved, what was hardly necessary, for the Noble Marquis is a notorious blunderer, that he was both 1 incorrect and inconsistent. The Noble Marquis withdrew his motion for a re turn of the decisions of the War-of f ice respecting pensions and compensations granted to theofficers of the Legion, which he had made the peg of his oration. In answer to Lord ELLENBOROUOII, LordMELBOURNX stated that no arrangement had been made with the India Company, as to the expenses of the Chinese ex- 1 pedition, and that no commun ications had p assed on the subject. The Lords adjourned at twenty minutes to Seven o'Clock. A considerable number of petitions were presented in the Commons, as usual. Notices of motions were given by Mr. LAMETON, in Committee on the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill to appropriate the revenues of Cathedral prefer me nts to the religious ministrations of the Establish. ment, and by Mr. GOULEIIIN for a Committee to in quire into the expediency of extending bonding to nland towns. Mr. Hula said be should, to-morrow, ask the Lord Steward whether the Government meant to move the botanic plants from Kew. The House went into Committee on the Municipal Corporation Bill (Ireland), and was occupied with that all the evening. Several amendments were moved, which were lost by majorities of two or three to one. At Two o'Clock the House adjourned. The country has now been exempt from war for twenty-five years. Since we had any great naval contest a new generation has completely grown up. In the time of their fathers the great complaint was that men could not be got for the navy. Then the great demand for the purposes of war was assigned as the reason for the impossi bility of getting seamen, and the necessity for im mediately having them was urged as the pre text for stealing them, and the excuse for not taking any methods to form seamen, Then, that is towards the middle and the close of the war, our ships were half-manned with landsmen and foreigners, and in the majority of cases when our single ships came into conflict with the fri gates of the United States, they were found no match for the Yankees. Before the close of the war, the many evils connected with our defi ciency of seamen, and with the imperfect mode in which our ships were manned, had attracted considerable attention, and a great number of writers had endeavoured in vain to induce the public and the Admiralty to adopt some re medy. "We can do nothing while the war lasts," was the saying at the Admiralty " Nothing can be done while the war lasts, was echoed in the country : " It would be madness to attempt it." Five-and-twenty years have since elapsed, and what has the Admiralty done—what has' the enlightened and wise public compelled our rulers to do ? We answer, nothing, absolutely nothing, to procure men for our ships. The wearying complaints have been repeated year after year for twenty-five years, and in the debate on Friday evening, again the word was, we have plenty of ships, but cannot get men. Lord INGESTRIE said he doubted whether we could send forty sail of the line to sea both as to the ships and as to manning them. He confirmed Captain MA RRYAT'S statement that our best seamen go to the United States. "VIT. MoRI OTERR A L vouched for the number of our ships, but said not one word about the men. Admiral ADAM talked, indeed, of 200,000 registered sea men, but he meant the seamen engaged in the mer chant service, who are scattered over the wide world, who will not serve in peace, and, still less, will they willingly serve in war, when thy get more wages in merchants' vessels and more kicks in her MAJESTY'S. Those 200,000 men are not, and and . will not be, available for our men of war. If the Government should dare barbarousgy to seize them, as in the olden times, they would resist the Government, and, aided by Chartists and other discontented persons, would render the situa tion of the country one of extreme difficulty and peril, if they did not succeed against the Govern ment. Admiral ADAM and the country must not deceive themselves by talking of 200,000 registered seamen, for not mote than the tithe of that mum ' ber would be obtained by our fleet, even with the help of impressment, at the breaking out of war. If there is now great difficulty in procuring sea men for omr peace establishment, if the services o:7 the merchant registered seamen could not be ob tained at the breaking out of a war, what is the means provided for manning a fleet, in case of emergency ? We answer—none, absolutely none. The few seamen we at. present have in our ships are known to be of an inferior description. They are mixed, too, with great numbers of landsmen anu soldiers, and would want large additions to make up the war establishment, and enable them to fight their ships with advantage and success. Admit ting, therefore, that we have, as Mr. M. O'FErt- RAL said, an abundance of ships, it is a , . fact that the ships in commission are wretchedly manned, the crews are short of their complements, and the seamen are of ar: inferior description, while no well devised plan has been adopted by the Admiralty, after twenty-five years' peace, to obtain a sudden and a large supply of seamen, should an emergency arise. And who knows how soon such an emergency may arise ? Who can tell how soon France may be the victim of another revolution, when the Bona partists and the Republicans—men whose bosoms rankle with embittered and disappointed feelings, caused by England —may get the upper hand, and be eager to take advantage of our internal dissen sions to revenge Trafalgar and Waterloo ? Who will answer for Russia, jealous or even angry with our interference to preserve Turkey from her claws —remembering still the encouragement our people gave, and still give, to the grieved, insulted, and oppressed Poles—wrathful, too, that she is pre vented from domineering in Europe by our alliance with France, which she would gladly put an end to—and, finally, alarmed at our progress in the East, lest we should take Persia out of her hands, and play it against herself : who will answer for Russia, with so many causes of jealousy, anger, and disap pointed ambition to rouse her into hostilities with England ? Who will answer to the country that Russia will not profit by our weakness, this very coming Spring, to revenge what her Government will describe as several insults and restraints ? Again, have we nothing to fear from America ? To the disputed boundary question, the latest arrivals from the United States have made us acquainted with another cause of quarrel. The Americans at Can ton have protested beforehand against our intended blockade, and out of that protest and blockade a 1 naval war may grow with America. Should either or all these contingencies happen, have we any means of repelling insult, or providing for our safety ? We believe not. We have noble ships, but not willing men. Great pains have been taken to improve the form of our ships—none whatever to change the disposition of our people. Our ships are built larger and stronger ; they are beautiful models of naval architecture ; they carry their guns high out of the water ; they ride on it like ducks, but they have no soul. They are like Greece, as described by Lord BYRON, as beautiful as of yore, but they are no longer instinct with life. If half, even if a tithe of the pains—the just pains -e which h ave b een ta k en to i mprove the hulls, the dead wood an d i ron, had been bestowed on win ning living m they ento n s o e w rve a i r n e, th c e o m st , ly th m e o y n w um ou el l its would not have bee n , as of weakness. We do not j d A i m re E ct s these G remarks against the Whigs. r o o ffi m e e e d , y the Sir opinion,tttHAM made, when in some,evil, but stillill-judged attempts to in our he of made attempts, which no Tory did. It is the fault ill-conditioned, half popular, half aristocratic, despotic Government, thhesAdminis or. another. and it is the curse of the country, tration is chiefly conducted, and ever serve the purposes of one faction a • be en , to Who shall get in—who shall promote their friends? are the questions that have engaged all the ener- Gies of our statesmen. None of them h ave L., thought of providing for the security or promoti ng the happiness of the p eo p le. Their ea gerness one to prove the other wrong, is indescribable ; to do right is the object of neither. That the fleet was not efficient in 1829, is the standing complaint of the Whigs ; that it is not efficient in 1840, is the perpetual theme of reproach in the mouths of the To ries. We tell both parties, the Whigs, for nearly ten years, and the Tories for fifteen years, that they have both grossly, shamelessly, and scandalously sacrificed the ti ue interests of the country to their faction fights ; and that neither has ever thou g ht, for one moment, of winning our population into the merchant service, by providing a good mercantile code for our seamen, and winning the merchan. t seamen and the elite of our population into the navy by good wages and just and honourable treat ment. Both parties are alike in this, that they have, though the subject has been frequently pressed on their attention, refused formally to abolish im pressment, and both have clung with desperate and deadly pertinacity to that brutal punish ment, the cat-o'-nine-tails, inflicted at the ar bitrary caprice of captains. Both parties then, though the Tories are the worst, are barbarous, cruel, and unjust, and the reliance both Whigs and Tories have always placed in the power of the state to resume at its pleasure the villanous practice of stealing the seamen, and of logging them into obedience, has made them careless or utterly negligent of all honest and honourable means of providing men for our ships by voluntary enlistment. The result of their conduct is now apparent, and the apathy of the public, which has permitted their continual injustice, is deservedly punished by a great annual expense, more than would otherwise be necessary, while even that great expense for our navy does not secure us from great and continued apprehension. We may perhaps say• something more on the subject to-morrow; we shallnow conclude by remark ing that our statesmen pursue a stupid half and half course, which is consistent neither with liberty nor despotism. Let them either carry out the principle of liberty, consistently with our institutions, to its fullest extent, and trust wholly and at all times to voluntary zeal to supply our fleet with men, adapting our system, by promotion from the ranks, by adequate pay, by honours, and rewards to stimu late our youth to enter the naval service ; or let them carry out the principle of despotism, as is done in France and Russia, and have a regular ma ritime conscription to man our ships, which will be ten times less cruel and less revolting, with our par tial liberty, than the brutal system of impressment. But they will do neither the one nor the other. There is too much rivalry amongst the great num ber of them to allow of their being thorough and com plete despots, and too much selfishness for them to tolerate complete liberty. The voluntary system of manning our navy implies patriotism in our rulers. It is incompatible with jobbing the de fence of the nation. Ali the navy funds must then be devoted to encourage merit and reward service, and an end would be put to the practice of quar tering the relations and dependents of the aristo craey on the navy. Voluntary service implies dis interested, patriotic rulers, which, as long as the Government is the prize of factions, we never can have. To easure the public safety, by procuring the voluntary services of brave and willing defenders, the Government must be reformed, and it must cease to be conducted on the principle of giving a riumph to one faction or another. Last night Mr. LABOUCHERE postponed till the 9th of March his motion for leave to bring, in a Bill to regulate navigation bysteam, steam, c 'Tvhen we confidently trust the subject will be brought forward without further delay. 'I he numerous frightful accidents that have within the last few years occurred through the negli gence and: cupidity of steam-boat proprietors, and the anomalous state of the law as regards this new and constantly increasing merc antile navy, have long pointed out to the Legislature the absolute necessity .of taking some steps to guard against the recurnence of such heart-rending scenes as those -which happened at Hull, in the Clyde, and off the coast of Wales. At the close of last Ses:.ion, it was confidently ex pected that: something would have been done, buy. Mr. POUL ETT THOM - SON excused himself, on the ground that there had not been time to consider the Report .of the Commissioners, in order to legis late on the subject. Now there is no such excuse. The Report: has been for many months before the public, and, looking at the evidence, together with the decided opinion of Captain PRINGLE and Mr. PARKES, a fearful responsibility must rest with those who may throw any serious obstacles in the way of such t. humane and just measure. Both these gentle man, and many practical and scientific men, stated tlult no vessel was so seaworthy as steam-ship, when well-equipped and under proper management,. and • that, with scarcely one excep tion, the fatr,:l collisions, the bursting of boilers, and the loss of st( ,am-vessels in the open sea, could In traced to the defects in the machinery or to culpable negligence. There is .another subject, however, connected with steam w hich also imperatively demands the interference of the Legislature, namely, railroad travelling. In an excellent letter, given in The Still this day, it is stated that certain of the Dim - !tors of the North Midland Railway seriously con template the stoppage of the trains on Sunday ! Is not this outrageous proposition—this attempt to cc ntrol the movements of the public— ;to block up the QUEEN'S highway, and writ the Sabbath in", o a day of gloom, and drive men to public-hosts ;e0 or Socialist meetings, sufficient of itself to wt trrant the interference of the Govern ment ? In religious matters, or more properly speaking int matters that are brought forward under the sacred raame of the Christian religion, but which have no earthly connection with the law laid down by its Divirne Author, no proposition is too absurd for the reception of theaPharisees and bigots of the present day ; and it therefore behoves the guardians of the pub' is good to provide against their meddling, unchantali le, and vexatious interference. The di rectors of i a turnpike trust might, with the same ' propriety„ shut the toll-gates on Sunday, s lop the mails for t wenty-four hours, and, to a great extent, obstruct t .t l re whole gratifieatio businessof the gratification some superstitious sop country er for stitieus the miserabl gratification of some superstitious cr caprice. If these men will not listen' ht allt o. they y e ° t e a c c s r ooi the so,, a I It t lttdihi the great listen gersetaatm setnant t ,d o a Scripture, r which, o f like their faith, and abovethe J.eawsd, they will der r rn that a Sabbath-day's journey was ex abrei p permitteder t e t s e sl m y x .. p t, er h m iei wi i t tteed, this sr ,t and e country, stop ve n tmeasuredintercoursete very r o y u w t Su absurdity i l nevci never of the pi .oposition only proves the necessity feir passing s mme legislative enactment to prevent any class of r ae n from interfering with the comfort and rights of the great body of the people. We di; pct attention to a brief account which ap pears in :4 "he Sun, of the commencement of an Anti-Corn -law Association in the Metropolis. It is not for the first time that we have re proached tl ie Metropolis with being sadly behind in this grey .t •and good cause. Now that it has begun to la ir, we hope it will make up in the rapi dity of its progress for the tardiness of its corn mencemen ,t . Nothing, we verily believe, can save, even if tl as .t can, the State from great and serious disasters, bat the repeal of the Corn-laws, which will enal i.le the bulk of the community, with full stomachs and ease of mind, to set about needful political reforms. It will be pregnant wi th ruin to have a hungry, disappointed, ' and discontented mob dictating laws to the whole society. T he words hunger and anger have otH viously the s same origin, and the obvious method to put an end to the vast anger of the people is to put an end to their hunger. If they were all as wel. fed as Ale le rmen, what possibility could there be of a polit icol convulsion ? We do not ask the landowner s t.o work for them, and give them food ; we only as k them to let the people get food for themselves and not to take it from them. We ask nothin .g of them but to refrain from pillage. The Pe ,ris Journals of Sunday cuntain no domestic news of i; stet est. Tile Journal des Debate eontradicts a report in the other papers, that the KING bad given C )e nt MOLE authority to form a Cabinet, of which the Covnt was to be the chief. Latex, from Alcoriza, of the 15th, state that the third division of the Queen of Sram's army had taken up a. po; ;ition at Estercuel and Alloza, and that tile fourth dil vision and the advanced guard brigade had in vested thh e fort of Segura. Two batteries of heavy ar tillery id ; Alcaniz on the 14th for the besieging corps, under thill ! escort of the provincial regiment of Oviedo, and a t t c ivadron of the cavalry. On the 17th, five 16-po un Z .srs, as many 24• pounders, and two howitzers, were se IA from Saragossa, for the same des ti nat ion, with a large convoy of ammunition. The Carlists were co, titesitrating their forces in the direction of Vii arlueng o . C auit ems; was reported to be certainly dead for se- I'lvo veral vs , a.n k..s. A party of Carliet Cavalry had far 0 A) a interrupted all intercourse between Sarago sta. and Yaadrid. The weather was dreadful Ad' ' ices o f the 14th i nst ., f rom Alexandria, mention m the P t .arz nee 01 7 the plagu e i n th a t c ity. Some case!: / a. d re E ad i e l t E r h e N d e t ET nhiela AL oi t tua were rep ort , ..:d on .board th e T urco -E g ypti a n fle e t. To tsitlialeh white washed,iiinh : l the I a' /ea this calamity, s i n e t i s s d t t o o r e bb - e a e a 11 ..he ivarz amine-laws,; indcomma ordered Isea at lea at once in twenty-four hours. An Ambassador from tkel :ICIIAn Of Persia,with presents for theVicEaor, 1 had ari iv ( 'd at Cairo on his way to Alexandria. M . ( 3 tr. izta, the iecently appointed French Amhas. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1840. sador to this Court, was to leave Paris for London yes terday. Our Literary Societies will do honour to them selves in honouring the arrival of this distinguished statesman, historian, and philosopher, in this country. Yesterday ( Saturday) the Duke de Broglie and M. Thiers dined with the Prefect of the Seine. Count Mole was expected, but be sent an excuse. This circumstance has produced some sensation, and given new strength to the report that he was entrusted with the formation of the new Cabinet. Yesterday in the Chamber of Peers all the Ministers of the 15th of April came to hear the eulogium on General Berard, their colleague, pronounced by Count Molt. No step has yet been taken—no political character has yet been summoned and commissioned to undertake the foi motion of a new Cabinet. Conversations are held with Count Mole and the Duke de Broglie, but no commission is given them. As we said yesterday, there are some attempts to form a combination, including MM. Mold and Thiers. Thus it was said, that Count Mole had been authorised to offer to M. Thiers the post of Minister of the Interior. However, there is nothing serious in these attempts. There is no real desire to hasten a durable solution.— Univers. As a Ministerial interregnum is very favourable to dis turbances, it is said that the Government having some fears,: for the tranquillity of Paris, is taking precautions. All the troops are under orders to be ready at the first ap pearance of disorder.— 'Timers. MAS DE LAS MATAS, FEB. 14.—Truth has been much m'xed up with falsehood in what has been related of the reports of the unfortunate men of Calanda who have escaped from Morella. It was the corporal appointed to conduct them to work wbo protected their flight, and he has accom panied them to this place. They saw Cabrera on the 4th, on his way from Morella to San Mateo. He was on horse back, supported by officers on each side, unable to keep himself up, except by smelling salts he was very shrivelled and very yellow, and so cadaverous (tan:cadader), that be seemed ready to expire every moment. After he left Morella he was placed in the same litter in which he was removed, and before and since then nobody has seen him ; the greatest consternation prevailed at Morella, and resist ance was considered to: be wholly impossible.—Le Con. stitutinel. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY T WELTII 0' CL 0 CK., LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The sales of this day are 3,000 bales. Prices same as Friday, and rather a flat market. Extract of a letter to the North American from St. Jago de Cuba, Dec. 15, 1840 : " Your suspension of specie payments will not affect us, except by the increased scarcity of money, causing a diminution of American business, which has been decreasing for these last two years. The trade with the British provinces is rapidly increasing ; from them we re ceive largely of fish, tcc.—in payment they take the pro ducts of this island. This business will extend to the prejudice of our intercourse with the United States, which will be also lessened by the pacification of Spain, which promises to enlarge our commerce with that country. Agriculture, commerce, and politics all go on prosperously. The island enjoys quiet and prosperity with an appearance of continuance. _ _ " This is our dullest season of the year ; veryfew vessels in port. Planters are occupied on their estates, gathering their crops and preparing to grind. Our crop of sugar is good; no sales yet, and our prices must come down ; that of coffee is rather short. " We have a very great scarcity of arrivals this morning, consequently there is a dead calm in respect to intelligence. COUR' LAR The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences of the Queen yesterday. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at Buck ingham Palace. The company consisted of their Serene Highnesses the Duke and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke and Du chess of Bedford, Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Du chess of Sutherland, the Countess and Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope. the Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady Mary Grimston, Earl of Errol, Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne, the Hon. Berkeley and Miss Paget, Lord Ro bert Grosvenor, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Miss _‘:urray, Hon. Miss Lister, Baroness Lehaen, the Marquis of Head fort, Count Kolowrath, Baron Alvensleben, Baron Lowen fels, Baron de Gruben, Baron Ernest de Poellnitz ; Hon. Charles A Murray, Hon. General Sir W. Lumley, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, and Mr. Seymour. The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards attended at the Palace during the evening. Sir Benjamin Brodie was called on yesterday, by desire of Dr. Chambers, to visit her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who has suffered lately from an attack of rheu matism. Yesterday was the birthday of the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness received visits of congratulation in the course of the day from his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and their Serene Highnesses the Reigning Duke and the Heredi tary Prince of Saxo Coburg Gotha. The Foreign Ministers and most of the nobility called and left their names for his Royal Highness during the day at Cam bridge House. In the evening the Gentlemen of the Duke's Household dined with his Royal Highness. The Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Saae Coburg Gotha, and Prince George of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duke of Sussex, the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta, yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence entertained their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Montrose, Lord Frederick Gordon, Sir Ro bert Gordon, Colonel Wood, M.P., and Mr. George Wombwell at dinner, on Sunday, at his residence in St. James's Palace. A meeting was held yesterday at the Colonial-office, which was attended by the Commander of the Forces, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Quartermaster eneral, and the Military Secretary to the Commander of the Forces. Sir Charles Napier, Sir Hussey Vivian, Sir Wil loughby Gordon, and Lord Fitzroy Somerset, had an in terview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Belgian Minister and the French Charge d'Affaires transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Ramsbottom had an interview with Lord John Rus sell yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were the Lord President, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Mr. Justice Bosanquet gave judgment, on the part of their Lordships, in Dufaur v. Croft, from the Prerogative Court, relative to the validity of a Codicil of the late Mr. Day. The Learned Judge affirmed the decree of the Court below. Dr. Phillimore for the Appellant and Mr. Sergeant Goulburn for the Respondent, were heard in Grant v. Grant, from the Court of Arches. At the conclusion of this case Dr. Lushington, on the part of their Lordships, gave judgment, affirming the de cision of the Judge in the Court below. Mr. Baron Parke also gave judgment in Coekerell v. Dickens, from Bengal. TII PUNDS. Consols. which left off yesterday at 901 i, both for Money and the Account, opened heavy this morning at 90 1 sellers for Money, and for the April Account at 91, owing to Money Stock being brought to market; Exche quer Bills 3 5 prem. ; India Bonds 2 discount, par ; Bank Stock 178 179 ; India Stock 248 249. Most of the prices in the Foreign Market are nominal at present; Spanish Active 271 1 ; Deferred 131 1 ; Passive 71 1; Portuguese 331 341 ; Three per Cents. 33A- 244 Colombian 251 261 ; Mexican 291 ; Dutch Two- Ana-a-lialf per Cents. 521 1; Five per Cents. 1001 f. PRICES OF STOCKS TOl5 DAY AT ONE O'CLuctc. , ank Stock l7Bll i India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 911, ( 1,4 , Ditto Bonds per Cents. Con... 90.%%; South Sea Stock — :iz per Cent — 0:d Annuities — )itto Red. (Y35 , ,,,3,4 New Ditto siew 3 1 / 2 pet Cent . 9,4 A, i 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Ic.v 5 per Cent. :ank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500..... 4 7 pia. Jan, 5, 1860 l4 I-18 Ditto Small 4 7 on. Oct. 10, 1859 . Ditto Commercial dis. Jan. 5, 1860 13 11-15 Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, IA3O — Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, 18811 - India Stock for Account .. Jan. ".11170 — Consos for Account 90,4% i'ItIcES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 GEO& f. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds — 3elgian Bonds Ditto Account Irazilia r. Bonds Ditto Account luenos . kyres Bonds Ditto Aceoltnt .:hilian '3old i — , Prussian Bonds Ditto '.ca::. nt — Russian Bends, 182' isournt ian "c :ids 23% 4 Ditto Account — Ditto i:, - -\. iit Columbian :ii , 7 c 15,1824 l'Atc. kcc3 - .31t ....... lani:313. Bonds Ditto Att:r. nt — Deferred 'IN% 3reek. Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, I 525 — --- 4 per cent..._.. —f. --C. Ditto Account — ' -- 3 per cent. ...... ...C. %texican Bonds, 5 per Cent — , -- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account — Dutch, 214 per cent. 5, %% Ditto, ti per Cent. ... Ditto Account Keapoll an. Ditto Account.....— — PiilOEJ Ok StiARE:b THIS DA i AT ONE O'Ci,ocK. 3'41:1. Per Sh.:), Slrmingham and Gloucester Railway Company 70 53 2 E &stern Counties Railway Landon and Birmingham Railway Company go, 1511 Ditto ti:Shares ~. 25 23% Ditto New Shares North Midland Railway Company 93 Ditto New .. 10 16 British North American Bank National Bank of Ireland Provincial Bank of Ireland . .......... 25 44 _HALF-PAST OWL The British Market is rather firmer than in the early part of the morning, when Consols were done at 90i sel lers for Money, since which may be quoted at 90i for the Account ; at present Oaf ; Money the same. Thurs day being settling day in th e British Market, the brokers and jobbers are arranging their accounts previous to the settling; and we understand that the Hebrew party have a large amount of Stock to take on the above day. Money is not quite so easy this morning in the house as on the pre vious days, owing to the approaching settlement, which also takes place en Friday in the Foreign Market. Ex chequer Bills improved two shillings, 4 7 prem. ; Bank Stock, l78i; India Stock, 2481. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active improved, owing to a general belief that Cabrera is dead—may be quoted 28; Passive, 7i ; Deferred, 131; Portuguese, 34i ; Three per Cents. 23i ; Columbian, 231 24 ; Mexican,,29l ; 75k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52k; Five per Cents. 100 i. We have no further arrivals. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock Y- 178% , India Stock 24R7.i 3 per Cont. Red 9 1 14 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cuis 90% ' Ditto Old Annuities 3% per Cent. Red 99%)Ditto New Annuities Sew 3% per Cent 98% Ex. Bills, 1,000/.......2d....... 7 pm NoNv 5 per Cent. — I Ditto 5001 7pm Long A enuities to expire Ditto Small Jan. 180 Oct. 1859 . India Stock for Opg Jan .1860 ..-. 13% \ Consols for Opg ..... .. .... FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per ce,1t.... ....... . Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, S per cent.... Brazilian - Bonds ..... ..... — Prussian, 5 per cent — . Buenos Ayres, 6 per cet.'t — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per!cent ..... ....,. •••• Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent. .... ...... 21 Spanish, 5 per cent 271 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent :77%lFrench, 5 per cent.......... —f . _.,. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Exchange f. c Mexican, 5 per cent _.French, S per cent f. —e. Ditto, 6per cent.. 1825 Dutch, 2% per cent Peruvian,lB2s.6 per c0nt..... Ditto, 5 per cent. lOO% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bristol and Exeter ............... ............... , ......... 16 , Eastern Counties Railway Great Western Railway' Ditto New Shares . ... 101 i London and Brighton Railway. .90% London and Blackwall Rtililway l6 London and Birmingham Railway 157 Ditto Q uar ter Shares .. .......... ........ -.N Ditto N'ew Shares ....... . 43 i 4 London and Greenwich Midway lO Northern and Eastern Railway 1234 N or th Midland Railway Ditto New Shares .. l6 South Eastern and Dower 2% on Saturday Parliament. The Right Hon. 1 The Speaker's levoda,Evening, in E a t on -square, was attended b y 108 Peers, including the Lord Chancellor and Members o f party of Members at dinner. . 8. ---It is reported to-day, but Gen y tl l em EN an N als A, o e p nt E e ß rta . in l e l d THE BRITISH' is not certain, that Lieutenant Field Marshal Count Metrowaky did vessel is in a forwa. is appointed Chief of the Dlilitary Section. in the Council of State. ar range on board h l' ve QUE EN STEAMER.—Thissplen- Material alterations in the ar voyage across the Atla u tic. from double into single c Ves ; ed state of preparation for her first spring been effected. The berths, com prising what are called the catacombs, have been converted and the change is certainly a There are now scarcely more com very groat improvement. modious s leepi ng accommoc.lations in any part of the steamer. The loss of s p a ce caused by the sacrifice made by the Di rectors b below, has been et ) mp ensated for by the erection of a splendid tier f berths aboy , .1. A poop, or false deck, has een formed for the purpose, as id it is considered that the work ing of the vessel will be b y no means interfered with by this alteration, but rather the co ntrary. The British Queen leaves Blackwell, we believe, on th• e 29th instant, and Portsmouth on the 2d of March. INCENDIARISM.-- , k correspondent at Driffiald, February 19, communicees. the following distressing news : We have just received, by the Sledmere post-boy, the woful intelligence, that tbie whole of Sir T M atton Sykes's stacks of corn, and eight others belonging to r. Atkinson, of Sledmere, were totall y .dee tro y ed by fire during last night. The boy likewise asserts, that on his road to Drif field this morning, about five o'clock, he saw flames burst ing out from the stack-y and of Mr. Jeremiah Lamplough. _ Torlsehireman. TURN-OUT OF S'.FONEMASONS.—The stone masons engaged on the r a away near Lancaster have, during the week, turned out for an: advance of wages. The men are in the receipt of 4s. par day. .--Preston Chronicle. Francis Butt, Esq., Ivho fell from off his horse while out hunting last week :, supposed to have been attacked with a fit of apoplexy, expii .e d on Wednesday morning. Mr. Butt was Mayor, and n 1‘ la gistrate of Stamford.—Lincoln Chronicle. REVIVAL OF EXP( )R1 - S.—We hear with very great pleasure that the ships cents' of goods to foreign ports are increasing. The New ion :. paci_Vit ships have, of late, sailed with fair freights. The 11 20920 C, which will sail to-morrow, has even been compelled t,s shut out goods. To the East Indies the shipments of mai mlactured goods are unusually ex tensive. We hope, therefor •e, that these may be taken as indi cations of a revived and real :vin; foreign export trade.—Liver tool Albion of Monday. Loss OF AMER 11C.A.N STEAMERS.—Forty steamers were lost on the I x astern rivers last year ! Of these 28 re snagged, 5 burnt, 4 Ll.ccvn up, and the rest sunk ;45 persons killed. I , A SIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE ARRIVALS. Major Stephens, at Cambridge House ; Count and Countess de Courcy and suite, at the Clarendon Hotel, from Dover; the Earl of Bandon, in Connaught-place, from Castle Barnard ; Sir John and Lady Kirkland, in Pall-mall, from a visit to Sir William Clayton, at Harley -I,rd House, BuckinOiamshire ; Baron •de Bertouch, fro;i, ditto; the Hon. Somerset Maxwell, P., from New townbarry ; Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K. C. 8., from Nottingham ; Mr. Bainbridge, M. P., in St. James'i place ; Mr. and Mrs. Strutt, in South-street ; Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard, at the Hon. Mrs. Cavendith's, in Belgrave-square; Mr. Blackett, M.P., from St. Leonard's on-Sea, at the Burlington Hotel ; the Right Hon. Sir Charles Grey, at the Clarendon Hotel ; tl.e Hon. Mrs. More O'Ferrall, at the Admiralty; Sir 0. and Lady MoF iey, in Portland-place, from Staffordsidire ; the Earl of Leitrim and Lord Clementi, in Great Cumberland-place, Irons Killadoon, Kildare; Colonel Linton, at the Burling ton Hotel ; the Earl of Charlemont. its Grosvenor-street, from Marine, near Dublin. DEPARTURES. _ _ Lord Kinnaird, from the Burl'utgton Hotel, for Fern Lodge, 13erkshire ; Baron DO.nsdale, for Waterloo crescent, Dover; Lady William Poulett, from Curzon street, for Paris ; Mr. Houstoun, M.P., for Glasgow ; Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M. P., from Pall-mall, for Clare ; Captain Breton, from the Burlington Hotel, for Southampton ; the Honourable Lindsey Burrell, from Crawler's Hotel, for Debden Hall, Essex ; Mr. and Lady Sophia. des Vceux, for Drakclow Hall, Derbyshire ; Sir Jolla Cathcart, Bart., for Adelstrop House. HER MAJESTY'S VISITS TO THE THEATRE —The performances of Wednesday evening at Drury-lam! Theatre, by command of her Majesty, 'win be The Mountain Sylph and Raising the Wind. The performances for Friday at Covent-garden are Sheridan Knowles's play Love (tho 41st representation), and Patter versus Clatter. His Royal Highness the Deike of Cambridge will take the Chair to-morrow (Wednesdity) afternoon, at the 25th anniversary dinner of that excellent charity the London Orphan Asylum, of which her Majesty, Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, is the principal Patroness. The banquet takes place at the London Tavern, and a full attends nee is expected. The Duke of Cambridge, att ended by Colonel Jones, yesterday made a personal inspection of the entire esta blishment of the Welsh School, Gra y's Inn-road, where he was received by the Earl of Powis, the President of the charity, and Colonel Wood and Mr. Sergeant Ateherley, the Treasurers. His Royal Highness was pleased to express his great gratifica tion with the details and management of the Institution. The ♦isit was preparatory to his Royal Highness taking the Chair at the great anniversary dinner of ;he Societ y of Ancient Britons, to be held at Freemasons' Hall on Monday next. THE DUKE OF WELLINGT ON.—HiS Grace will leave Apsley House this morning; for Strathfieldsaye, where he will remain until the close off he week. The state ment in a Morning Contemporary, that hi,s Grace was out on horseback on Sunday, paying visits, is in correct. The Duke has, we believe, not left Apsley House sinice his indisposition. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley came up ex press from Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, to see his noble rela tive, and has since left town on a visit to his daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Robert Liddell, at the Rectory, Barking, Essex. The inquiries yesterday at Apsley House were very numerous, and the answer was that his Grace was gettii ag rapidly well. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cam bridge, and a deputation from that body, arrived at the Bur lington Hotel last evening, from Cambridge, to present their address of congratulation to her Majesty on her marriage. Lord Robert Grosvenor carrw. up by the railway from Eaton Hall on Saturday, whitherhe was summoned by the alarming illness of his eldest son, whom lie had the satisfaction of leaving much better when he left for town. Lord Robert has been appointed Groom of the Stole ti, Prince Albert. The Duke and Duchess of Bt ccleuch have left Montagu House for Torquay. ASKE HALL, NEAR RicrnmoND.---The Earl and Countess of Zetland are entertaining the following fashionables :—Lady Margaret Yeoman., Hon. Mrs. Wharton, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson. The Countess presented a magnificent bridecake, wei:4hing 4131b5, to the fe male inhabitants of Richmond on the occasion of her Majesty's mar SH riage. AMEFUL HOAX—Yesterday afternoon a persos, having in every way the appearance of a gentleman, came galloping on horseback to the! engine-house of the County Fire-office, Regent-street, and ringing the bell, gave information that a most exteisive cool! agrition was raging in the village of Willesden, about five elides north-west of the metropolis. Carter, the foreman, asked his informant at what part of the village the fire was burning, 'when the person said on reaching Kilburn it would be immediately visible. Carter, seeing his horse covered with perspiration, and believing his statement, lost no time in having the engine horsed, and ac companied by a body of firemen, proce .eded to the spot. On reaching Kilburn, however, they cou Id observe no trace of the conflagration, and on entering NV illesden, were informed the whole story was a hoax. 'Whi I e returniag to town they met the West of England (fro m the Waterloo-road) and another engine, as well as parties of the brigade. who had been deceived by a similar stsitement. and who were hastening to the supposed scene of c Kinflagration. It is to be hoped the hoaxer, when he next attempts such a trick, will be detected, and punished as he deserves. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.--The workmen still employed at the Palace, under the We ods and Forests, are con structing elevated ante-rooms at the ei id of the station drawing room,'and the picture gallery, where: her Majesty's band will in future be stationed when on duty. The Memorial Bordelats, -which has given the hand of the young Queen of Spain to the other sdns of the King of the French successively, i sow fixes on the Duke d'Aumale. It puts forth upon the a authority of a Madrid cor respondent (who, we fear, is given t o deal in what Siiakspeare calls the " lie circumstantial") the ikillowing details The Duke is to be married by procuratioet., and is not to visit Spain until the Queen shall have attained her twelfth year, which is the legal age for marriage in Spain. " The Prince," says this correspondent, "is to be recognise das King." On his arri val in Spain, he is to receive an an Dual allowa nce of six mil lions of reafs (1,500,000 f. ), and h. to have a Royal residence for apanage ; but he is to equip a laoyal Guard of 10,000 men at his own expense." Such, says t his Journal, is the proposal which is to be submitted to the Cortes ; but there is a party strongly opposed to the project, and desirous of seeing the Queen married to an Infant of Spain. It is with pleasure we learn that the Mar quis of Westmeath has sent a do nation of twenty pounds in aid of the funds of the Society for providing an asylum and relief for aged and infirm fishmongers and poulterers, their widows and orphans ; also, that; Messrs. Drummontls, of Charing-cross, have kindly offereil to receive donations in aid of that benevolent object. The Ayr Advertiser of Thursday contradicts the reported illness of the Earl of Glasgow. The Advertiser says, that " the rumour is entirely without fonndation. The venerable Earl, who is at present residing at Wellington square, Ayr, attended the public dinner here in honour of the Queen's marriage, last week, and, Though feeble from ad vanced age, gratified all present with his eloquence. Some of the new a partments racently fitted up in Buckingham Palace, and especially devoted to Prince Albert, are furnished with the most scrupulous attention to taste and comfort—indeed every portion of the arrangements ilispla)s that correct judgment for general effect so characteristic of hi r Majesty. It is a curious fact, and one in every way worthy of the Queen, that all th 2 chintzes embrace the emblem of Erie land—the rose. The whole of these patterns are of British manufacture, and are from the establishment of Messrs. Clark son and Turner, of Coventry-street, her Majesty's appointed furniture printers, through whose courtesy the public may judge fur themselves of the taste displayed in the selection. CORN-LAW MEETING IN LAM BETH. Last night a meeting was held in the Vestry-hall, Church-street, Lambeth, for the purpose . of taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons for the repeal of the Corn-laws. The attendance of the inhabitants of this populous parish was numerous. Mr. SuzaLDs in the Chair. Mr. Hiss proposed the first resolution, observing that he wished it was as easy to afford relief to the distressed working-classes as it was to prove that that distress existed. He believed that the evils of which the country complained were deeply seated—would require careful probing to dis cover them, and a firm and determined hand to eradicate t►em. They were the result of centuries of bad Govern ment, and it would require no limited time even of a good Go►ernment to cure them. After some other observations he concluded by proposing a general resolution against the policy of the Corn-laws. Mr. M'LEoD seconded it, and observed that be:was for a free trade in all things, but above all for a free trade in so great a necessary of life as corn. The motion was put from the Chair, and carried una nimously. Mr. HENDERSON observed that if the people had a voice in the Legislature, it would be found that they would not impose all the taxes on themselves; but the fact was, the aristocracy made the law for themselves, and imposed the tr.xes on the working classes. If the Corn-laws were repealed, the consequences would be most beneficial. It was impossible to depress one class of men without affect ing all ; but to increase the comforts of one class was to increase them for all. The best interest of the country was to extend the greatest happiness of the greatest number. At this stage of the proceedings the vestry-room was so crowded that an adjournment took place to the school room on Lambeth-green. Mr. FELL said it was well to tell the Government they knew how they were plundered. So many statistics had been published upon the repeal of the Corn-laws that it was not necessary to go into details. The talk of over-popu lation was absurd ; if the twenty-two millions were doubled or trebled he would not care. Why, in one State of America—Missouri—there were more acres of land than there were men, women, and children in Europe. After some observations from Mr. Huggett, Mr. Ross, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Fall, and Mr. Grady, it was pro posed that a petition, founded on the resolution, should be presented to the House of Commons by the Members for the Borough. An amendment to this was moved, " that, constituted as the Houso at present is, it would be useless to petition." Mr. HAWES, M. P., then rose, but had scarcely uttered a few preliminary sentences when the greatest uproar pre vailed, and cries of " The Police Bill" were vociferated. He would give the petition his most willing support, though they might not wish him to do it. The noise and interruptions which prevailed rendered the Hon. Membmr- almost inaudible. The original resolution was carried by a large majority. It was then proposed by Mr. FALL that the petition should be presented by their Members, and supported by Mr. Villiers ; and he must say, that if they differed with Mr. Hawes on other grounds, he had always been con ' sistent in his opposition to the Corn-laws. Mr. VILLIERS, M. P. rose, and was loudly cheered. He was always glad to meet the working classes, because ho was often met in the House by the statement that the working-classes were not with him on this measure. It had been said that the House had rejected the repeal of the Corn-laws, and would do so again, but he hoped they would petition once more. It could do no harm. The motion was put and carried, though much opposed. Mr. HAWKS again rose to thank the meeting for the ' honour they bad conferred upon him in entrusting him with the petition, and if one thing more than another could gratify him, it was being associated with his Hon. Friend Mr. Villiers on this subject. He had done his duty in coming there, and he always would as hen invited. He had advocated the repeal of the Corn-laws fearlessly, whatever other demerit be might have, and he was at all times ready to meet them, and to come in contact with those who had entrusted so much to him.—(Gre at uproar.) He should cordially support the petition. A vote of thanks passed to the Chairman, and at half past ten the meeting separated, three cheers being given for Mr. Villiers, and cheers and hisses for Mr. Hanes. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. T A TTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY. Business was dull enough for two or three hours, im• proved about five o'clock, and continued tolerably brisk until near seven o'clock. The four principal favourites will be found in pretty nearly the same position as on Thursday last, the only variance worth pointing out being in Confederate, who, instead of first, was last of the lot. The fifth, so numerous were the seceders, was Monops, who advanced to 23 to 1 with a clear lead of the succeeding favourite of a couple of Points. Bokhara gave way to the extent of seven points, and even at the increased odds there was a marked anxiety to bet against him. Ottoman's current price at the close was 25 to 1, but 28 to 1, in hundreds, was laid in one instance ; these odds were offered against St. An drew, who, as we mentioned in our last, was without sup porter's. Chameau's friends took 40 to 1 several times, and were willing to go on, but the layers gave up, and refused to increase their stakes against him at that price. Black Bess also improved, and with this we may close our notice of the fluctuations in the Derby. Those in the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes were of too slight a nature to require observation, and in the Oaks it is only necessary to direct attention to the rapid advance of Black Bess, and the decline of Lalla Rookh LATEST PRICES. macs THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 16 to 5 agat Angelica colt—taken 6 to 1 agst Confederate 6 to 1 agst Ottoman TEE DEASY. 12i to 1 agst Angelica colt—taken 14 to 1 agst Launcelot—taken 16 to 1 agst Theon 17 to 1 agst Confederate—taken and afterwards offered 23 to 1 agst Monops—take 25 to 1 25 to 1 agst Bokhara 25 to 1 agst Ottoman 25 to 1 agst Gambia 28 to 1 agst St. Andrew 35 to 1 agst Chameau—take 40 to 1 1000 to 15 agst Glenorchy—taken 1000 to 15 agst Black Bess—taken 1000 to 10 agst Maroon—taken 1000 to 10 agst Diplomatist—taken 1000 to 10 agst Muley Ishmael 13 to 1 agst Gambia and Monops—taken 700 to 100 agst Launcelot and Theon—taken 3,000 to 30 agst Uzbeck, Camillo, and Sophocles—taken 500 even between Monops and Wardan—taken 500 even between Bokhara and Wardan 500 to 400 on Glenorchy agst Muley Ishmael 500 even on Bokhara agst Ottoman THE OAKS. 3 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix—take 7 to 2 9 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Lalla Rookh 9 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Black Bess—take 10 to 1 18 to 1 agst Mr. Wigram's Teleta—taken 25 to l agst Gen. Grosvenor's Diploma—taken ani offered 10 to 1 agst Teleta and Diploma—taken THE DERBY, 1841• 10,000 to 200 agst Mongolian—taken. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. (NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1840. Tuesday.—Mr. Thornhill's c by Langar, out of Fidelity, against Air. Payne's Escort, T.Y.C., 300, h ft, Bst 71b each. Mr. Payne's f by Langar, out of Emigrant's dam, agst Mr. Pettit's f Langolee, T. Y.C., 110 to 100, Bst 71b each. SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1840. Tuesday.—Mr. Pettit's Langolee agst Colonel Anson's La Gitana. T. Y. C., 100, h ft, Bst 71b each. CRAVEN MEETING, 1841. Tuesday.—Mr. Thornhill's Bro. to Mango agat Mr. Payne's Escort, D.M., 300, h ft, Bst 71b each. BATH STEEPLE CHASE. The Close Steeple Chase took place on Friday last, over four miles of country near Wick, for a sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft; the second to receive a purse; 12st each ; 16 subs ; for which the following horses started:— Mr. H. Bennett nd b g Walker, aged ...Mr. Oliver 1 Mr. J. R. Newcombe's Cannon Ball, aged Owner 2 Mr. J. Haythorn's, jun., br g The Stranger, aged Mr. Baker 3 Mr. Adams's b m Mantua, aged Mr. J. G. Blake nd b g Jester, aged ... Mr. Alexander nd gr g Spring, aged Mr. E. Jenkins's b g Young Tom, aged Mr. W. B. Goldstone's b g Owen Swift, aged The start took place about a mile from Wick, and finished at Toghill. The ground was chiefly grass, with between forty and fifty fences, two brooks, and as many lanes. Walker was the favourite, at sto 2. The race was finely contested between Cannon Ball, Walker, Stranger, and Owen Swift, and was won, by excellent jockeying, by half a neck only. Jester fell at the third fence trom home, and broke his back. DEPTFORD INN COURSING MEETING. This meeting commenced on Monday, and the coursing oa the day following. The excellence of the first day's sport was slightly affected from the circumstance that on the day previous a pack of harriers had unfortunately crossed the ground, cans ing the hares (which were in the greatest abundance) to be in a very disturbed state. This, however, did not detract from the quality of the running, which was throughol. extremely satisfactory : indeed, many of the dogs at this meeting had proved their capabilities at previous coursing matches this sea son. Nothing could exceed the pains taken by J. Davis, Esq., of Fisherton-de-le-Mere (over whose property the coursing takes place), to preserve the ground, by keeping individuals on the watch for some time before ; and the disappointment to that gentleman, from the circumstance above referred to, was very great. In proof of the close matching of the dogs, it may be mentioned that on the first day, in one instance, considerable difference of opinion prevailed as to the decision of the umpire ; and in some other cases he had much difficulty in pronouncing which was the victor. On the second day, also, the sport was of tho highest character ; it took place on the grounds belong. ing to Walter Long, Esq., M.P. Amongst those present were —Lord Stradbroke, Lord Rivers, Major Spooner, T. Good lake, Esq., T. Calvert, Esq., Moody, Esq., Wood, Esq., and a majority of the members of the Deptford Inn Club. The following is a return of the matches run : !MST DAY (TURODAT.) Fisherton Champion Stakes. Mr. Etwall's f d Enham beat Captain Wyndham's hl d Wre kin ; Mr. Bigg's y and w d Transit beat Mr. Bowles's bl and w b Belerma ; Mr. Calvert's bl b Martha beat Mr. Clarke's y b Cameo ; Mr. Goodlake's b d Graduate beat Lord Rivers's bl d Godfrey; Mr. Agg's bl d Impetus beat Mr. Locke's blue d Evanoler ; Lord Stradbroke's bl h Midsummer beat Mr. Spooner's bl and w d Spot ; Mr. Calvert's bl and w d Blucher ran a bye. _ _ _ EVENING EDITION. SECOND Dar ( wzDNEsDAT). Fisherton Stakes. —First Ties. Mr. Biggti's Transit beat Mr. Goodlake's Graduate ; Lord Stradbroke's Midsummer beat Mr. Aggs's Impetus ; Mr. Cal vert's Martha beat Mr. Etwall's Enham ; Mr. Calvert's Blucher ran a. b} e. Codford Stakes. Lord Rivers's bl b Gipsy beat Mr. Goodlake's bl b Gratilla ; Mr. Spooner's f b Shamrock beat Mr. Bowles's y b Boscobel ; Mr. Etwall's y and w d lon beat Sir John Johnson's bl d Pard ; Mr. Calvert's hl b Birdlime beat Captain Wyndham's bl d Worfe ; Mr. Hall's y d Golden Lion beat Mr. Calvert's bl d Mango ; Mr. Clarke's f b Coquette beat Mr. Locke's r b Lancet ; Lord Stradbroke's hl b Morrell beat Mr. Aggs's r b Amulet ; Lord Stradbroke's f b Maple beat Mr. Morant's r b Mischief. Chitterne Stakes. Mr. Locke's br b Lovely beat Mr. Clarke's r b Casket ; Cap tain Wyndham's f b Witch beat Mr. Calvert's bl b Margaret ; Mr. Bigg's bl b Blackberry beat Captain 'Wyndham's bl b Lady; Lord Rivers's bl d Gibbett beat Mr. Spooner's bl b Susan ; Mr. Bowles's bl b Brocard beat Mr. Goodlake's f b Garonne; Lord Stradbroke's r b Madam beat Mr. Etwall's br d Equerry; Mr. Calvert's bl and w b Countess beat Mr. Bowles's r d Ben Ledi ; Mr. Aggs's r b Airy beat Mr. Purey's y b Lady. Codford Stakeu. Lord Stradbrole's Morell beat Mr. Calvert's Birdlime ; Mr. Clarke's Coquette beat Mr. Spooner's Shamrock ; Mr. Etwall's lon beat Lord Rivers's -Gipsy; Mr. Hall's Golden Lion Lest Lord Stradbroke'a Chitterne Stakes. Mr. Aggs's Airy beat 111 r. Locke's Lovely ; Lord Rivers's Gilbert beat Captain Wyndham's Witch ; Mr. Bowles's Brocard beat Mr. Biggs 's Blackberry ; Lord Stradbroke's Madam beat Mr. Calvert's Countess. Stockton Stains. Mr. Bowles's Boscobel beat Mr. Clarke's y d Cecrops; Captain Wyndham's Wrekin beat Mr. Aggs's Amulet ; Mr. Bowles's y b Bustle beat Mr. Biggs's blue d Banquet ; Lord Stradroke s bl d Milton beat Mr. Calvert's bl d Mango. Deptford Stakes (First Class). Lord Stradbroke s r d Musquito beat Captain Wyndham's bl and w d Wanderer ; Mr. Bowles's Ben Lodi beathlr. Aggs's African. Second Class. Mr. Biggs's r d Balsam beat Mr. Goodlake's Gratilla ; Mr. Morant's bl b Mariner beat Lord Rivers's bl b Gravity. THIRD DAT (THURSDAY). In consequence of the frosty state of the weather, the coursing this day (which was appointed to come off nu the ground of Harry "Biggs, Esq. ) was postponed to the next open day. CHESTER RACES FOR 1840. The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 sovs. in specie, added to a Han dicap S weepstakes of 20 sons. each; 10 sovs. ft and 5 sovs ft only if declared on or before the Ist of February. Three to accept or no race. To start at the Castle-pole, run twice round, and end at the Coming-in-chair. Second horse to receive 25 sovs. out of the stakes. The winner of this plate to sub scribe to it the following year. Mr. J. Henderson names br h Lanercost, 5 yrs, 9st 91b ; Mr. H. Robinson's b h Melbourne, 6 yrs, 9st 41b ; Mr. Fairlie's ch Is Abraham Newland, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b; Lord Eglinton's hr h St. Bennett, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b ; Sir T. Stanley's b h Cowboy, by " Voltaire, 6 yrs, Bst 61b ; Mr. Copeland's br h King Cole, aged, Bst 51b ; Lord Eglinton's b c Malvolio, 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; Lord Eglinton's b m Bellona, 5 years, Set ; Mr. Treen's br c. Fitzambo, by The Sadler or Tramp, 4 yrs, ist 131 b ; Mr. Knox's ch h George, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Mr. Mas sey's b g Tubalcain, 4yr s, ist 12111 ; Mr. Collett's br c The Dean, by Voltaire, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ; Colonel Peel's br c The Dey of Algiers, by Priam, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ; Lord Eglinton's ch m Opera, 5 yrs, 7st S)lb ; Mr. F. R. Price's br g Capt Pops, 1 yrs, 7st 81b ; Mr. Fowler's br c Profligate, 4 yrs, 7st sib ; Mr. Goodman's b f Fame, 4 yrs, 7si 71b ; Lord Westminster's ch h Sir Ralph, 5 yrs, ist 61b ; Mr. Fowler's ch h Gilbert Gurney, 5 yrs, 7st. 61b ; Lord Al illtown's ch m Crniskeea, 6 yrs, 7st 41b ; Mr. Speed's ch h Aimwell, 5 yrs, 7st 31b ; Sir T. Stanley's br c Apothecary, by Physician, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ; Mr. J. Allen's b h Percy by Margrave, 5 yrs, 7st; Mr. J. Arnold's ch h Adrian, 6 yrs, Est 121 b ; Mr. C. Legh names Mr. Thompson's br h Stansty, 5 yrs, Est 121 b : Mr. W. Gra don's br c Roscius, 4 yrs, Est 121 b ; Mr. Thompson's ch f Maid of Wigan by Predictor, 4 yrs, Est 1 Ilb ; Mr. Haworth's b f Fair Louisa by Voltaire, 4 yrs, Est 101 b ; Mr. Buckley's eh c Charley, 4 yrs, Est Sib ; Col. Peel's b c by Longwaist, out of Heron's dam, 4 yrs, Est 81b ; Lord Stanley's ch f Imogene by Langar, 4 yrs, Est 7lb ; Col. Peel's b h I-am-not-aware by Tranby, 5 yrs, Est 6lb ; Lord Militown's b c Wirrestrew by Drone, 4 yrs, Est 61b; Mr. Dockeray's b c Zephyr, 4 yrs, Est; Col. Peel's roan c by Argustus—Constantia, 3 yrs, a feather. The following have declared, and pay 5 joys. each : Mr. W. R. Ramsay's bl h The Doctor, 6 yrs, 9st 61b ; Mr. I. Day's br h Caravan, 6 yrs, 9st 51b ; Mr. Stephenson's b Lightfoot, by Velocipede, 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; Lord Westminster's br c Sleight-of-Hand, 4 yrs, Bst 31b ; Major Hay's ch c Re triever, by Recovery, 4 yrs, est 21b ; Mr. Allen's b c Quid, by Tramp or Clinker, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ; Mr. Day's ch c Tam burini, 4 yrs, 7st 71b ; Mr. Phillips's b m Miss Kitty Cockle, by Cadland, 6 yrs, ist 21b ; Lord Stanley's br f Velocity, by Velocipede, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b ; Mr. Goodwin's eh g Huckster, 6 yrs, 6st 61b ; Mr. Galpine's b f Blemish, by Emilius, out of Clara, 3 yrs, The Cheshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, with 50 sovs. added by the Citizens of Chester, 15 sovs. ft. and 5 sovs. only if de clared on or before the Ist of February. Two miles. The winner of the Trade Cup to carry blb. extra. The second horse to save his stake, and three to remain id, or no race. Any person taking a nomination for this stake, and remain ing in, will have to pay the 15 sovs. should he not start, and if he starts, the 25 sovs., and no horse will be allowed to start whose owner, confederate, or trainer has not paid all former arrears of stakes at these races. Mr. Fairlie's ch h Abraham Newland, 6 yrs, 9st 21b ; Lord Eglinton's b c :Malvolio, 4 yrs, tst 61b ; Lord Eglinton's b Bellona, 5 yrs, Bst 31b ; Lord Eglinton's ch m Opera, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b ; Mr. Fowler's gr h The Friar, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Sir T. Stanley's be c Apothecary, 4 yrs, 7st 91b; Lord Miltown's ch m Cruiskeen, 6 yrs, ist 81b ; Lord Stanley's ch f Imogene, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ; Mr. Buckley's ch c Charley, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b Lord Miltown's b f Medea, by drone, 4 yrs, Est 61b ; Sir J. Boswell's br f Miss Nick, 3 yrs, sst. The following have declared, and pay 5 soya each :—Sir T. Stanley's b h Cowboy, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b ; Mr. Stephenson's b c Lightfoot by Velocipede, 4 yrs, Bst 71b ; Mr. E Peel's gr Saul, 5 yrs, Bst 11b ; Mr. B. Collett's br c The Dean, 4 yrs, Bst; Sir R. Bulkeley's b m Picottee, 5 yrs, 7st 41b; Mr. Coffin's c Springfield by Winterfield, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ; 51r. Buckley's ch f Lilie, 4 yrs, Est 91b. BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Rebecca Kennedy, a servant, was brought before Mr. HALL, charged with stealing a variety of articles, the pro perty of Afr. Walker, furniture-warehouseman, in Hol born, her master. The prosecutor proved that the prisoner had been in hi s service about a month; and within the first forty-eight hours she entered his house she commenced depredations in all parts of the house, by picking the locks of draweis in the different rooms where articles of wearing a pparel had been deposited. On Sunday last, after witness and his wife had returned from church, he went to the drawer of the side-board, for the purpose of getting a biscuit. Oa putting in the key, he found the lock had been damaged , by having had a larger key recently forced into it, which raised his suspicions, and he considered that he was justi fied in searching the prisoner's box, where he found two silk handkerchiefs, a quantity of soap and candles, and a yard of brown holland produced. The prisoner had also made her way to the shop, for it appeared that the private marks on several articles of ladies' wearing apparel had been picked off; and he was not aware of the quantity of property that might have been taken away. Mr. HALL observed that there was quite sufficient eat' dence to order the prisoner to be remanded. The prisoner denied that all the property produced had been found in her box as had been stated. The prosecutor admitted that every article had not been found in the box, as several of them had been concealed ja different parts of the kitchen. Another girl in the service of the prosecutor proved that she was present when the prisoner handed one of the hand kerchiefs to her mistress, which she acknowledged to have taken from her master's drawer, and she heard her mistres 9 declare that she could not forgive her until her master came home. The prisoner in answer to the charge said she had taken the several articles as had been represented, but it was ber intention to have restored them to their places to avnl a being brought to the disgraceful situation she was then placed in. Mr. Hall directed the prosecutor to look over his stock, a s there was every probability he had been plundered to considerable extent, and the prisoner to be remanded for few days, LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(TIIIII D.Y. DEAL, Pic 24.—Wind E.S.E., fresh breezes.—SaileJ th e St. James, Sebor, for New York. :LIVERPOOL, FEB. 24.—Wind fresh S.E. rived the Rowena, from Mobile. Off port, the Huron, New Orleans ; Donna Maria, Oporto. Sailed the Lintin, Bombay ; Caledonian, Camel, ditto ; Broad Oak, M'ODY' Bahia; Duke of Portland, Kerr, Trinidad; Agnes Primrose' Morrison, Antigua; General Parkhill, Hayle, St. Marks' Coriolanus, Wells, Savannah; John Wesley, Desborough, do. COWES, FEB. 24.—Arrived the Claziner Adriana, Nelson' from Surinam. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 24.—Wind E.—Sailed H.M.S. Blonde' for China ; William T urner , Roals, Bombay ; Thoro s. Metcalfe, Brodie, Cape of Good Hope ; Jane, Demerara. ~., PENZANCE, FEB. 22.—Arrived the Prince Regent, * (len; main, from Cardiff, with loss of fore-foot, an d stern damage d' having struck on the Shark's Fin. LOWESTBFFE, FEB. 24.—1 t has blown a strong gale from the eastward the last three days. S evera l vesse l s d rov e 10 " night. The Weasdale, Moore, from Sunderland to Schiedam' parted. STROM /ins, FEB. 20. —The Isabella, Dearness, from Liva e : rick to London, is discharging at the quay, the car go bell* heated. THE MARKETS.-(TIIIIII DAT. HUNGERFORD. Supplies fair, and prices stationary. Beef 7d. to Sid[ Mutton 7i t d. to Bid. Veal Bd. to 9d. Pork 7d. to 80. P_„ e r lb. Turbot ss. to 15s. Cod 3s. to 12 s. Soles lod, to 4g• r o pair. Lobsters Is. to 4s. Mackarel 10d. to Is. 6d. Sa lo° 3s. per lb. HAY MARKET. The supplies fair, and demand good ; prices much as bef° re. Hay, 60s. to 90s. ; Clover, 80s. to 115 s. ; Straw, 325. to .0 9 ' per load. TALLOW MARKET. c l 6 • P. Y. C. secured a steady business at 51s. 3d. t o go' BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and so was the demand. Prices toule'L ; last quoted. Cod, 2s. 6d. t o 12 s. ; T ur b ot, ss. to Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel ; Salmon, 2s, to 2s. 6 ,1 * ' f lb.; Whitings, sd. to 10d. ; H a dd oc k s , Bd . to 2 s . ; Lobste r Is. to 4s. 6d. ; and Mackarel, 6d. to Is. COLONIAL MARKET. g o ld A fair amount of bu s i ness h as b een d one . Sugar B. • - { o r steadily at 555. for low brown, 61s. for middling, and 68s• " 0: 1 fine. Some small parcels of Havannah and Siam Sugar fetcl,, previous rates. 3,200 bags Mauritius Sugar, and 2,50 0 in, Bengal sold at about 655. Bd. to 61s. 6d. for good Maur iti d. and 675. to 68s. for fine yellow, and 645. to 655. for good o'o dling. Bengal varied from 625. to 725. 6d. Coffee has to, at about its previous prices, for small parcels of Brasil, 1. : 0 f o r and East India 9d. duty. Bengal Rice fetched 10s. to 1 11 '0, common quality. Fine c iam Rice 235. 6d., and Java 6 0 ' 91 0 to 9s. 1,300 bags of Saltpetre fetched 235. to 255. SP ice last quoted. TEA SALE—CONCLUSION. • It, it The sale is now over. From the reports we have gr o, che must have been evident that very little has been sold. le in fact is, too much Tea, by a great deal, was announced for sr t he the present instance, the well-known circumstances the market rendering it impossible for it to take any thing 11 "'" quantity. BRISTOL AND EXETER RA IL WAY."- - ° * o f Motley, the Civil Engineer, has published, in the siniP,l to' pamphlet, an " Address to the Shareholders of this Line , out gether with a copy of a report to the Directors , the loss that the Company have sustained by a departuretslod the original plans. He enters into lengthened statenlen ot her calculation!, to prove that the cuttings at Pile-hill and tee in places were not required, and asserts that the wide gildgf, t intied all respects a disadvantage, and that, if the line be e e "l ou tlat down to Exeter at the same rate of expense, a needle" can of snore than a million will be incurred. We, of con r 7 o ttf h express no ()pillion on the subject—that requires a To c r taii 9 ' knowledge of the localities as well as of all the practice and and must therefore refer the pamphlet to the sharcholderb'o, no more especially to the skilful engineer on the lino,_ w o o el doubt, will be able to give some reply to Mr. Motley's state that At the Olympic Theatre we -percelv.ce e biof the formation of a Ladies' Club constitutes one o f W ooe d attractions for to-morrow night. Mrs. Glover is ; n o w 0 ? pointinitroto to act . as Chairwoman on the occasion. This is f`n the Clubs system with a vengeance. Bravo, Ladies.