The Sun. — London, England, 1840-01-16 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JA N. 16, Will be performed Sheridan's Ceraedy of THE RIVALS. Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Anderson; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Brougham; Faulk , land, Mr. Cooper ; Acres, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. C. Jones ; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris ; Julia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the New Grand Comic Christmas Panto mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE DEVIL OF ED MONTON ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Wtih entirely New Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, and De , eorations. Har.equin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr_ T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli - Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Co wahine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3 s. 6 d. ; First a nd Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 29. ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, wh re Season 'rickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Grand Comic Pantomime, universally allowed to be the best in London. is attracting the most brilliant overflows evex witnessed, and will be repeated every evening. The Three New Pieces have also bee►► pre-eminently succesafal. THIS EVENING, JAN. 16, Will be repeated, an entirely new Legenda►v Drama, called THE LAPIDARY OF LEYDEN. After \which, ;enmedietta, from the French, entitled FAMILY JARS MENDED. _ _ . Bonhomme, Mr. Smith ; Chapinet, Mr. Saville ; Madame Bonhomme, Mrs, Daly ; Theresia, Miss Martin. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. Brunning—The magnificent Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Miss Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. Sams of St. James's-street ; Andrews, Ebers, and Mitchell, Bond-street ; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book sellers, are appointed to let Private and Public Boxes during the run of the Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Thoe Correspondents who wish to see their communi cat ions inserted, must send us, in confidence, their names and addresses. Without that we have no guarantee of the accuracy of the communication. HIGH.WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. IMoining 27 minutes after 12. I Evening...... 3 minutes after 1 , . _., ,ou- ~.....„:„..,.. ' • vz p ..-1,-- i ..Fi) so • ..,-:-....,,,,,e 0 . ,-..g:„=...);-, ment to wrong. But they are bound to teach us, not we to teach them, and they should know, without being informed by Corn .law Circulars, that the Corn-laws are a great system of injustice, contrary to the Bible, and contrary, as Mr. SPENCER re marked, to the prayers they read. They claim at present, and we deny it them net, a right to express their sentiments politically ; and, there fore, they are bound not only to be well-informed on the subject of the Corn-laws, but to express an opinion on it. We have called on them to do so many months ago ; but during the year and a half that this question has been agitated, when the priesthood have got up petitions from all parts of the empire against the grant for education, scarcely one clergyman has lifted up his voice against the Corn laws. Many (.1 them have discouraged the agita tion, and avowed themselves favourable to the tax on the people's bread. For this they may be as sured the people will remember them ; and the ac cursed bread-tax will be found in the end as pregnant with danger to the priesthood as to the aristocracy. Nothing has afforded us more pleasure than to see that the Anti-Corn-law League is determined to demand the total abolition of all taxes and duties on provisions. Mr. STURGE very properly cau tioned the meeting on Tuesday not to yield any part of their demand ; and we must caution them to be as much on their guard against insidious friends as open foes. The Globe last night, after a gent!e admonition to the landlords that they might perhaps "be straining their power too far," and might rue " being victorious over trade," as if they were engaged in some noble contest, not in a pitiless course of plunder by means of law, uniting the most flagrant breach of trust to the lowest and meanest theft—the Globe, last night, after a fie fie kind of admonition, as if given by an almost willing confederate, adds this passage:— " The ground on which it seems to us they (the Legis lature) have a right to impose duties is for the sake of re venue, and of drawing that revenue without discouraging one branch of industry or employment of capital more than another. Duties on foreign commodities must, we think, be acknowledged to be justifiable, when it is neces sary to obtain a revenue by taxing the same heavily when produced at home. To exempt foreign imports wholly from that taxation would be to do precisely that which is objectionable in protective duties—to encourage, namely, one producer at the expense of another—the favoured pro ducer, in the latter case, being a foreigner instead of a native." Now some of the produce of the land, as hops, and barley when malted, are taxed for the sake of a revenue; arid, on the principle laid down by the Globe, barley and hops—at least when imported, though we apprehend the principle is intended to be carried further—should not be exempted from taxation. We suppose, in truth, that it is intended to make the tax on these products the criterion for taxing all foreign agricultural produce, otherwise the protection would be of no use. A thousand sub stitutes would be found both for malt and hops, and merely to tax foreign barley and foreign hops would not serve the purposes of the grower. Some other of our Contemporaries, not friendly to the Corn-laws, have suggested a modification of the present duty, and have all along been distinguished for a quasi opposition to that total repeal which the Anti-Coin-law League and The Sun have uniformly and continuously contended for. The League shows no inclination to adopt their views. Having struggled so far successfully it will not now, on the eve of victory, give in. One of its most de termined opponents, the Herald, admits that the banquet this year is twice as numerous as last year ; it sees with envy and disappointment that the workmen, in spite of its efforts, are all becoming repealers ; it warns the landlords that the Lea g ue is most formidable ; and, when such an acknow. ledgment of its power is extorted from its enemies, it will never suffer itself to be seduced from de manding what is right by the cajolery of friends. Not one, but several speakers at the meeting on Tuesday, admitted that their cause had gained great strength by taking up the broad principle of justice, that religious and philanthropic bodies were joining them on that ground, and on that ground the mass of the workmen had come over to them. They will not, therefore, we are sure, separate them selves from their best auxiliaries ; they will not cool down the public zeal and turn public opinion away from them to catch a little present Parliamen tary support, or blunt a little the eager hostility of the landlords. Rather call on the Legislature to revise its system of taxation, than not exempt foreign agricultural produce from a tax which shall be equivalent to the taxes . on malt and hops. By the arrival of the Siddons, Capt. PALMER, at Liverpool, yesterday, in seventeen days, from New York, we have at last received the long ex pected PRESIDENT'S Message, together with files of New York papers to the 29th ult. Want of space prevents us from doing more than directing the attention of our readers to the Message, a copy of which will be found in another part of The Sun, followed by the latest intelligence of the state of the New York Money Market. Madrid Journals of the Gth and 7th inst. have been received. The following paragraph from the Madrid Gazette, contains all the news they con tain of the slightest interest : The Duke de la Vittoria writes, from his head-quarters of bias de las Matas, dated Dec. 28, that Brigadier-Ge neral Aleson, commanding ad interim the 3d division, assisted by Colonel Zurbano, had made a movement against the town of Ejulbe, in order to destroy the fortified works commenced by the enemy. The factious have not dared to wait with a firm foot the Queen's troops, and in their retreat burnt the Hermitage, where they had begun their fortifications. Whilst our soldiers were establishing themselves at Ejulbe, Llangostera descended from the Sie . ra with three battalions. He forced the position occu pied by the 2d battalion of Bourbon, destined to protect the entrance of the troops into Ejulbe. This battalion bravely sustained the shock, and forced the enemy to fall back. The affair was warm ; the factious, in despite of their advantageous position, were repulsed on all sides, and they lost ten killed and forty wounded, and two taken pri soners. We had one man killed and twenty-eight wounded. The Queen has learnt this success with great satisfaction. The Five per Cents. improved on the 7th. Sales were effected at 28 for cash. The Paris Journals of Tuesday devote the greater portion of their leading columns to com ments upon the speech of M. TIMERS in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday. M. TIIIERSI partiality for the English alliance has given mortal offence to the Legitimist, the Republican, and even some portion of the Juste Milieu press. The Commerce, for example, is of opinion that it was better adapted for delivery in St. Stephen's Chapel than in the French Chamber of Depu ties, and recapitulates, with a bitterness of tone which we regret to find in a Journal gene rallyi so moderate, all the causes, real and imaginary, which France has had to distrust the friendship of England during a bygone Iperiod extending over twenty-five years ! The National, of course, ever the opponent of the English alliance, is equally hostile to the views of the ex-Premier ; and finds in the existence of our Aristocracy an insurmountable barrier to the cor dial and honest union of the two countries. These j o urpals are still more furious because that the Minister of th Interior, who replied to the speech 0 f M. THIERS, re-eehoeil his sentiments respect the importance of the English alliance, and only differed from him respe c ti ng t h e po li cy o f t h e I conduct of the Governmem upon the Eastern question. 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S.—THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains Portions of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, TWO HUN DRED AND FIFTY, TWO HUNDRED, ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, tr.e. &c. THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and B.ares clearing off most rapick, A RISE IN PRICE will soon occur. zhe LONDON : THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1840. Our report of the dinner of the Operative Anti- Corn-law Association on Tuesday. at Manchester, will excite intense interest. Upwards of 5,000 persons assembled, enjoying themselves, and listen ing with the greatest patience and decorum to the many speakers is a delightful scene in these times of class contentions and sectarian strife. It is a sweetly green oasis in our present dreary political desert, if it be not its end and the commencement of a polical Arabia Felix. The gentlemen who spoke, Mr. COBDEN, Mr. VILLIERS, and Mr. C 0 _ '_ O N NELL, the reporters who witnessed the whole proceedings, all declare that they never saw so orderly and well behaved a meeting. It was, in truth, a noble assemblage. The men there deeply felt a grievance. They did not gather together to talk and make an idle show, but to demonstrate their quiet, ii•resistible power. They were all enthusiasts in the cause, and their hearty cheers, their ready lifted hands, to tell, in reply to Mr. O'CONNELL, that they were resolved not to be robbed, their deep silence, the great order they observed, are a fi proofs of the intensity of their feelings. Such I a me eting gives a d ea th-bl ow t o th e C orn -l aw robbery. It will not again be asked where are the people to petition for the repeal. The land lords courted the g entle compulsion of a popular 1 demonstration, and they will now have to it the full satisfaction of the nation. Contenting ourselves with directing the attention of our readers to the report of this excellent meet ing, and expressing our high admiration of the con duct of the working classes, we will not advert to any single speech, but earnestly solicit the public to read the whole report. For those who have almost despaired of obtaining the co-operation of the working classes this meeting will be most cheering. We trust that similar meet ings will be held in every great town in the king dom. Why should London be dumb ? We grieve daily over the death-like silence of the metropolis on this vital question. Are the 1,500,000 human beings who congregate around St. Paul's to stand wholly neutral in a contest which is now shaking the aristocracy to its foundations, and must end in its overthrow or in the ruin of the empii . e ? We are not displeased to see that the prieat• hood was brought to book at this meeting on this all-important question of the Corn-law. Mr. .3PENCEIt defended their neglect and their attach .... N THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1840. LAFITTE, ARAGO, and other members of the Electoral Reform Committee. It further states that the authorities will prevent such assemblages for the time to come. This is liberty under the French Charter! _ The occupation of Passages by the English was the subject of some discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, when the paragraph in the Address relative to Spain was under discussion. Marshal SOULT calmed the fears of the Deputies, by assuring them that Lord PALMERSTON was willing to order the evacuation of Passages the moment the Carlist rebellion was entirely suppressed. The Pepin steamer left Toulon on the 10th, bound to Algiers. After taking on board the Members of the Com mission appointed to go to the Balearic Islands, to instal the French hospital, which is to receive the sick and wounded from Africa. The Junon frigate sailed from Brest, on the 10th, for Toulon. The Phare de la Rochelle of the 11th says :—N squad ron of the 6th Regiment of Hussars arrived here yesterday from Niort. Everything appears to be tranquil in our de partment, yet General Hautpoul, who was on leave of ab sence at Paris, received orders to set out immediately. He arrived at La Rochelle oa Tuesday, where, instead of a riot, he found a ball at the Prefecture. The Moniteur publishes the annexed intelligence from Africa : ‘• A report from Marshal Valee, dated Algiers, Jan. 5, gives the following news to the Minister of War Seve ral convoys have arrived at Belida without encountering any of the enemy in the Plain. The citadel and camp of Belida are in an excellent state of defence, and their stores, arc sufficient for all wants. The Marsha has gone along • the course of the Chiffa from Belida to Coleah, without having perceived any collections of Arabs, and the Plain of the Hadjoutes appeared deserted. The inNrmation c)llacted by Colonel Lamoriciere, at Coleah, is that. after the defect of the Arabs, at Oued Lally, on the 31st of December, the Kalifa El Baruk, who was wounded in the shoulder, retired to a great distance; that the battalion of infantry of Medeah no longer existed; that the battalion of Miliana, which had suffered less, was the only one that remained in the Arab camp ; that fifteen Caids had been killed, and that the horsemen had returned to their tribes. The news from Constantina is very good, and all the tribes are tranquil.'' BOURSE.—PARIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 14. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Price. Vrench 5 per Cents ll2 20 ... 112 :'.O ... 112 15 ... 112 39 4% per Cents lO7 25 ...: 107 25 ... 107 55 ... 107 2i 4 per Cents IC4 50 . 104 50 ... 104 50 ... 104 5U 3 per Cents BO 95 ... 31 ... 80 90 ... SI [Link of France 2060 ...2065 ..,2060 ...3015 Laffitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO4O ...1042 50 .../040 —1 , 42 50 5,000 f. Sh 5lO —5160 ...51330 ...5160 Belgian Bank B(2 53 ... 9:10 ... 882 50 ... 887 50 United States Bank Loan 97 ... 97% ... 97% ... 974,, Spanish Active 254. ... 25Y4 ... 25% ... 25% Passive 6% ... 6 7.4 ••• 6 1. ... 0% Portuguese 3 per Cents `Neapolitan Roman lO2 ... 102 ... 10.% ... 102 RAH-WAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. B 502 50 ... 502 50 ... 500 ... 500 L.B. 34G ... 310 ... 335 ... 340 Orleans . Havre Strasburg to Bale 330 ... 300 ... 3:25 ... 325 BELGIAN P UNDS—Bauesia.S, JAN. 14. Actual Debt, 2y, per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lO4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92% 3 per Cent. 7► Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 94!.i Society of Commerce, 4 yi per Cent ll4 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. „ Si National Society . — Exchange on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Jan. 14. MONEYANI) COMMERCIAL N E WS. CITY, T WEL V A 0' CL 0 CK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY..—The sales to-day are 3,000 Bags, at d. to id. (id. in some in stances, decline on Friday's prices, and the market un settled. At length, after a long delay, we have received the President's Message to Congress, brought by the New York packet-ship Siddons, in seventeen da)s, and which was delivered on the 24th December, as well as the Ame rican papers to the 29th December. From the New York Gazelle of the 29th December : —Exchange upon London, 8i to 9 ; United States Bank Shares, 75. STOCK MARKET.—Stocks have fallen a little to-day, though United States Bank left off at the same price as yesterday. A rumour, unfounded as we believe and hope, of an ex tensive defalcation in some Philadelphia Bank, agitated the street for a while, but made no impression on the Stock Board. The Bank of Commerce declared a dividend this morning of 4 dollars per share on full stock, and 1 dol. on scrip. We have received New Brunswick Papers to the 22d December : FEEL,ERICKTOWN, DEC. 14.—While the weather has been severe in various parts of the United States and the Ca nadas, it has been remarkably mild in this province, and the river still continues open ; a season like the present has not been known since 1800. We have received Prince Edward Island Papers to the 18th December, These papers do not contain any infor mation of consequence. We have received the Mauritius Price Current to the BLh October_ Exchange on London; Government Bills, 30 days' sight, three per cent. Premium ; Bank Bills, 90 days' sight, none ; Private Bills, 7 to 8 discount. We have the Jour n al of Antwerp of the 15th Jan. The Dutch mail had not been received. THE FUNDS. This morning the topic of conversation entirely relates in the City to the President's Message to Congress, which is looked upon as a business-like document—a great part of it is devoted to the currency and sub-treasury system. and the President says that he is more than ever con vinced of the value of the sub-treasury system, and the folly and inefficiency of the new Banks, " great or small, State, or National." The United States Bank comes in for a full share of lashing, because, says Mr. Van Buren, it swelled and maddened the tides of the bank ing system. He puts down the amount of specie in the country at 83 millions, and the aggregate foreign debt at 200,000,000 dollars, and earnestly hopes that no States or individuals will run in debt any further, but pay up what they owe. He also recommends retrenchment and economy, and will do everything for the good of the Union. With respect to the relations with England, he thinks the Maine boundary business might be settled, and hopes it will be ; also that matter about the Line from the entrance of Lake Superior to the North West Point of the Lake of the Woods. He believes that the Canadian troubles are at an end. Consols opened this morning rather firmer than they left off yesterday at 9241 for the Account; Exchequer Bills, 8 10 prem. ; India Bonds par,'2 prem. ; Bank Stock 1784; India Stock, 249 250. In the Foreign Market an improvement has taken place in Colombian Stock, closed at 251, at present 261 27 ; this is owing to a report of some arrangement having taken place with the Colombian Commissioners and the Bondholders ; Spanish Actives also improved, closed at 241 fl, at present 25+; Mexican, 30i; Dutch Two-and- Half per Cents., 521 ; Five per Cents., 1004 ; Brazilian, 74 75. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock I7BX, 7 sq • India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9 1 1.i % Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. 9, % I South Sea Stock 3y, per Cent Old Annuities Ditto Red. 9914% ji New Ditto New 31 per Cent 98% 91 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500— .. 8 10 pm. Jan; 5, 1860. 14 1-16 14 Ditto Small 8 10 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto Commercial — Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised ...... Jan. 5, IMO Bank Stock for Account ... Aprils, 1880. lndia Stock for Account .. Jan. 5. 1870 Consos for Acc0unt........ 91 i‘, ki PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o,t; Loch. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 3razilis n Bonds .. ........ Ditto Account 3uenos .Ayres Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account — 2.hilian 3ond i — Prussian Bonds - Dtta LCCO'.. nt .— ' Russian Bends, 182-1 Colurn: tan Bcnds l2 Ditto Account Ditto ACC3I. nt Columbian' 3 , - d 5,1.824 28% % ,Spanish Bonds 24% 5 Otto Accomt ... ` ) 6,4 4, Y , ;, Ditto Account. ... W.l, 5 ii 5 ::anish Bonds Ditto Amu nt • Deferred 115 2 N Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... —t. —c. Ditto Bonds, 18'25 — 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. -...'. —c. Ditto Account Dutch, 2K, per cent. Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan Ditto Account lolk PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Br ghton Railway 3O MN tsritish North American Bank lIALF-PAST ONE. We have received the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury from New York, which is a document of groat ength. The following is a short abstract : DOLLARS. Revenue and means for 1839 Expenses for 1839 35,661,427 Available Balance in the Treasury or. the 31st December, 1835 1,556,384 'The Exports during the year ending 30th Dec. 1839, are computed to have been 118,359,004 dollars ; this is 9,872,383 dollars more than those of 1838. The imports during the same year were about 157,609.560 being the very large excess of 43,892,156 dollars over those during the previous year. This,;continues the report, may be a solution of a portion of the pressure in the money market. The difference between the imports and exports, being 39,250,556 dollars in favour of the former, is larger than in any year except three since 1789, and is much larger than any difference in the valuation of the same arti cles with the profits in the foreign trade added. This is settling day in the British market, which turns out to be a BEAR Account, and the extreme fluctuation on Consols has been about 11 to per Cent. The settling is going off well to the present hour. This morning wo had the President's speech, which ,is ;looked upon rather in a favourable light, and in the course of an hour or two the Queen of England's Speech will be published to the public, which is of more importance in respect to our do mestic concerns than that of the President of the United States. A Halifax mail has arrived, by which we have received Halifax Papers to the 24th December. The weather continues extremely mild for the season, it is more like the beginning of October than the end of December; there has not yet been snow enough to cover the ground, and but little frost. Consols, at present , 91i 4 ex. div., Account; Money, 90g-1 ; Exchequer Bills, 8 10 ; Bank Stock, 781 ; India Stock, 249 k B+. fn the foreign Market some business has been done. Spanish Actives, 25; Portuguese, 34i; Three per Cents., 2311; Colombian lower:than in the morning, 26+ ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521; Five per Cents., 1001. OPENING PARLIAMENT. HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. " MY LORDS AND GENTrIEN, " Since you were last assembled, I have declared my intention of allying myself in marriage with the Prince Albert, of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha. I humbly implore that the divine blessing may prosper this union, and render it conducive to the interests of my people as well as to my own domestic happiness, and it will be to me a source of the most lively satisfaction to find the resolution I haveL taken approved by my Par liament. " The constant proofs which I have received of your attachment to my person and family, persuade Ole tha you will enable me to provide for such an establishment as may appear suitable to the rank of the Prince and the dignity of the Crown. " I continue to receive from Foreign Powers assu rances of their unabated desire to maintain with me the most friendly relations. " I rejoice that the civil war, which had so long disturbed and desolated the northern pro vinces of Spain, has been brought to an end , by an arrangement satisfactory to the Spanish Goverr_ ment, and t o th e p eo pl e o f those provinces ; and I trust that, ere long,i'peace and tranquillity will be re ( stablished throughout the rest of Spain. " The affairs of the Levant have continued to oc cupy my most anxious attention. The concord which has prevailed amongst the Five Powers has prevented a renewal of hostilities in that quarter, and I hope that the same unanimity will bring these important and difficult matters to a final settlement, in such a manner as to uphold the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire, and to give additional security to the peace of Europe. " I have not yet been enabled to re-establish my diplomatic relations with the Court of Teheran, but communications which I have lately received from the Persian Government inspire me with the confident ex pectation that the differences which occasioned a sus pension of those relations will soon be satisfactorily adjusted. " Events have happened in China which have oc cassioned an , interruption of the commercial inter course of my subjects with that country. I have given, and shall continue to give, the most serious attention to a matter so deeply affecting the interests of my subjects. and the dignity of my Crown. " I have great satisfaction in acquainting you that the military operations undertaken by the Governor-Gene ral of India have been attended with complete success, and that in the expedition to the Westward of the Indus the officers and troops, both European and N dive have displayed the most distinguished skill and valour. I have directed that further !papers relating to the affairs of Canada should be laid before you, and I con fide to your wisdom this important subject. " 1 recommend to your early attention the state of the Municipal Corporations of Ireland. " It is desirable that you should prosecute those measures relating to the Established Church, which have been recommended by the Ecclesiastical Com missioners of England. " GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, " I have directed the Estimates for the services cf the year to be laid before you. They have been framed with every attention to economy, and at the same time with a due regard to the efficiency of those establish ments which are rendered necessary by the extent and circumstances of the Empire. . " I have lost no time in carrying into effect the in tentions of Parliament by the reduction of the duties on Postage, and I trust that the benefic'al effect s of this measure will be felt throughout all classes of the com munity. " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, I learn with great sorrow that the commercial cm bmassments which have taken place in this and in other countries are subjecting many of the manufac turing districts to severe distress. " I have to acquaint you with deep concern that the spirit of insubordination has,in some parts of the country, broken out into open violence, which was speedily re pressed by the firmness and energy of the Magistrates and by the steadiness and good conduct of my troops. I confidently rely upon the power of the law, upon your loyalty and wisdom, and upon the good sense and right feeling of my people, for the maintenance of order, the protection of property, and the promotion, as far as they can be promoted by human means, of the true interests of the empire." THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD MARKET. There were good supplies and a fair demand. Turbot 4s. 6d. to 21s. Cod 3s. to 15s. Soles 10d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. Lobsters ls. to 4s. Vegetables rather short and prices high. Beef 7d. to 8 1 Ad. Mutton 7 1 / a d. to Bid. Veal Bd. to 9d. Pork 7d. to 81d. per lb. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were good, and the demand in proportion ; prices steady ; Turbot 4s. to 21s. ; Cod 3s. to 155., Soles 6d. to 4s. per pair; Smelts 6d. to 4s. per dozen ; Brill 10d. to 5s ; Lobsters 10d. to 3s. 6d ; Whitings sd. to 10d.; and Haddocks Bd. to 2s. ; Oysters 20s. to 48s. per bushel. HAY MARKETS. The supplies were fair and the demand moderate, prices steady. Hay 555. to 88s. ; Clover 80s. to 113 s. ; Straw 30s. to 40s. per load. TEA MARKET. Business brisk, and prices firm. Company's Congou sold at 2s. lltd. to 3s. money, and 3s. 11-,d. prompt ; the stock of Tea in the country now is calculated to be sufficient for fourteen months' consumption. COLONIAL MARKETS. But little business done, and prices uniform with our former quotations. Low brown B. P. Sugar, 565. to 565. 6d. ; low middling, 5Ss. ; middling, 61s. 6d. to 625.; and fine, (Hs. 1,800 bags Bengal Sugar sold at public sale, 475. 6d. for brown, and about 565. to 595. for damps and white. The Coffee Market very quiet, and prices firm. Fair quality of Trinidad Cocoa fetched 345. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY LtvEr,PooL, JAN. 15.—Wind, S.W.—Arrived, the Siddons, Palmer, from New York ; sailed the 29th ult., had experienced very heavy weather; Augusta, Quebec ; Triton, Magnificent, and Maitland, St. John's, N. B. ; Byron, Puddington, New Orleans; Henrietta, Fell, Arica; sailed 6th ult. ; American, Holder, Savannah. Sailed, the J. H. Shepherd, Redman, for New Orleans ; America, Mackay, Savannah ; Roscius, Collins, and Europe, Marshall, Now York ; May, Brown, Africa. Off port—William Shand, Calcutta. FALMOUTH, JAN. I4.—Wind S.W. to W. S.W., fresh breezes.—Arrived Hope packet, Halifax, sailed 25th ult. SM.? Y, JAN. 10. —Arrived the Silence, Arnell, from Gaudaloupe, leaky ; Jessy, Wincott, Prince Edward's Island. Off port Meerland, Kest, Java, sailed 10th ult. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Clifton, Trinidad. LIMERICK, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Mountaineers, Hutchings, from Civita Vecchia. CLYDE, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Globe, Thompson, from Demerara; Heyworth, Dunlop, Trinidad. GOOLE, JAN. 12.—Wind S.—Arrived the Ancholime, Butler, from Boston. 13th.—Wind S.W.—Faith, state,len with, on the 112t11 i ns t., off having sprung a le a k, Emery, Boston. 140. —Wind S. SHOREHAM , JAN. 15.—Arrived the Vi o l e t, S ma ll r id ge , from China. The William H us ki sson (s), from L IV ERPOOL, JAN. 15. Dublin: 3 by the Huddersfield , hence to Africa, whic h has put back with loss of bowsp rit, and other dama g e, by striking against the steam er, with seventy of the passeng e rs, an d o n l to h e t a n d i in port, a sinking Callen twenty of the crew of the William Huskisson. SPORTING INTELLIGENur:. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. THE DERBY. 10 13 0 to t 6 to 1 a 16 to 1 agst Ange lica All this morning, when C onfed erate was backed at 500 to 15 twice over, and 3 00 t o 12. Some heav y bets at 35 to 1 were put on this horse last nig ht. agstgst LTahoenocneiootffered 500 to 8 agst Assassin 1000 to 10 agst Black Bess 5 2 0 5 0 t t o o 1 15 ag asgtst GLamadbyias—offered 500 to 15 agst Fitzroy, but not a blow struck. THE OAKS. There were no offers but one to lay 12 to 1 on the fiel I, bar 2. A WINTER IN ICELAND AND LAPLAND.— The two volumes on the singularly novel and interesting topics of Iceland and Lapland,announced as forthcoming from the pen of the Hon. Arthur Dillon, are calculated, in this age of comm on -place, to e xc i te much attent i on. 'I he beaten tracks of Europe have a ll b ecome so thoroughly a dead lexel in the estimation of the travel reading community, that a work det a ili ng t h e recen t personal observations of an Englishman of rank and education, on the habits, manners, and social condition of the two, perhaps, most singular and primitive coun tries in the world, cannot, fail to be universally read. BRUSSELS, JAN. 12.—We are assured that the Cout:t. de Ribeaucourt is appointed A m bassador ,Ex traordinary, to represent Belgium at the marriage of Queen Victoria. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) - Mr. Villiers predicted to the land6Wner, some years ago, that they would East ketibritise the Corn-laws ; and it is impossible to read the proceedings of the great meeting which we report in another place, without being apt to think they have gone far alre.nly towards that consummation. We would ap peal to all of that body who can see farther than the next rent day, and ask them whether they really ima gine demonstrations of this magnitude, becoming yearly more and more numerous, indignant, and resolute, are matters to pass over like a summer cloud, and leave their interest basking in unclouded sunshine ! We will tell the landed body that no preponderance they possess in the Legislature can, in the long run, maintain their cause, by mere force of voting, against a " pressure from without" backed by intelligence, wealth, numbers, and justice. It is true that the Re form Act has enabled the landed interest to oppose a more extended front, and a stiffer resistance, to a chance in the Corn-laws than probably they could have done before that enactment, when Monopoly more di reedy represented its own breeches-pocket. Mr. Cobden observed-- _ . . . . " The Reform Bill has altered the tactics of agitation. It Was all very well to storm the citadel of corruption, which formerly existed by a sudden onslaught. When the aristocracy could only rely on Gatton and Old Sarum, they yielded to the strong demands for Catholic Eman. eipation, for the repeal of the Test Acts, and for tlae Reform Bill. If, however, we now rise up, and de [nand the repeal of the Corn-laws, the aristocracy fold their arms while we make our complaints, and retort upon us that Winchester, Chichester, St. Albans, and Salisbury send men pledged to vote in favour of these laws. This is the breakwater to the current of public opinion, and until we can convince the farmer that his in te•rest is identified with ours in getting released from a wretched servility, and the peasaut that he is reduced to want and suffering by the present system, our efforts will be in vain." Now we would calmly ask the landed aristocracy whether it is wise and safe to drive sober and practical men into these " tactics of agitation?" We ask them to look in time whether the national interest, and therefore the national right, is not on the side of a change ; and to consider whether, if this be so, they are not staking far more than the Corn-laws on the issue of this struggle with determined and en- lightened assailants. They are straining the landed power of the Legislature against the leagued trade of the empire. Victorious in such a struggle, they may, in the end, rue the effects of victory—vanquished, the legislative authority is dragged down in their class.- defeat! (From the Courier.) In the work we recently noticed of M. Sarrans, it will be remembered that his leading argument for the disruption or abandonment by France of the alliance with England, was the falling state and perilous pros pects of the latter, described to be in the throes of re• volution, by which its power and resources were so prostrated, that union and close communion with this realm conld impart weakness only, and not strength. He held that for her own safety and aggrandisement, France should cease to cling to a sinking ship, lest she too should be irresistibly drawn into the vortex of the engulfing waters of confusion. It is not singular that even well-informed foreigners, like that writer, should arrive at such conclusions after no inattentive survey of the troublous aspect of our political horizon, for here, on the immediate scene of action, and with meal s more assured of measuring the extent of the crisis by contact and acquaintance with the actors and intriguers, men not less intelligent, although more deeply interested, have avowed the same convictions after investigitions not less patient than painful. Although we do not partake in a like degree the apprehensions of the one, or concur in the highly-coloured descriptions of the other, it is impossible to deny that signs and pre sages are abroad, auspicious to all appearance of any thing but good. Take, for example, our paper of this day, pregnant as it is of ominous matter. Here we have State trials recorded of men taken in the act of overt rebellion and high treason in one part of the kingdom ! Supplementary to these, we find simultaneous risings and premeditated treason organising in other parts, and even in this great metropolis itself, under the very eyes of the Government. Accessory to Chartism we see Anti-Corn-law demonstrations elsewhere, fiercely threatening revolution, and consigning mercilessly to wholesale destruction the greatest of interests—the vital interests of the masses—of this.mighty empire. (From the Standard.) THREATENED CHARTIST INSURRECTION.—The country is now reaping the sad aftermath of the sede tion by which the Whirr Radicals fixed themselves in office. The Chartists have made some serious move ments in the West Riding, and if we may trust to this preparations made by the Executive for proot, the metropolis itself was last night threatened with an insurrection. This is all the natural, and indee. the necessary result of the Whig-Radical lesson o 1831. The more ignorant part of the populace have been expressly told that they may innocently embrue their bands in the blood of their fellow-subjects to effect what they in their wisdom may regard as salutary political changes. The doctrine was preached to carry the Reform Bill, but its ready disciples apply it to cirry the Charter, now that they find that the Reform Bill has produced to them no bene fit, but rather injury. This is all in the course of na tur,t. At Sheffield five persons have been committed for high treason, upon apparently strong prima facie evidence. At that town a murderous assault was committed on Sunday morning upon a poor man, hastening to bring assistance to his wife in child-bed— a sharp skirmish also occurred between the troops and another armed body near the town much about tne same time—Dewsbury. Heckmondwike, and other towns, were also attacked. The apprehensions en tertained for the safety of London appear from the preparations made—all the military in the neighbourhood of London were, we are in formed, held under arms all night—the different bodies of firemen received orders to be at their several stations, and on the alert. Like instructions were given to the police force, and the Lord Mayor was advised to use all precautions for the safety of the City. Nothing, however, was done by the Chartists beyond the assembling of 700 or 800 at the Trades-hall in Abbey-street, Bethnal Green. We know nothing of the details of information sug gesting •these measures of defence ; but rumour, col lecting probably from the particular instructions to the fire brigade, and from the moving up of the floating engines on the river, as well as from the magazines of fireballs, grenades, &c., seized in Shef field and elsewhere, and from the obvious policy of such a mode of commencing a night insurrection, states that many houses were to have been set on fire in the hope of distracting the attention of the military and police, dividing these forces, and throwing the city into con fusion. The Hon. Geoige Cavendish, M.P., and Lady Louisa Cavendish, arrived at Harewood House, Hanc- ver-square, from a visit to the Earl and Countess o Harewood, in Yorkshire. EXHIBITION OF ARTS, SCIENCE, AND MA. NUFACTURES, EDINBURGH.--The exhibition in th Assembly-rooms, which was opened on Tuesday, attracts great attention, and is crowded by all ranks 8f society ; among whom we have noticed the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis of Lorn, Lord Altemont, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Colonel Douglas, and the officers of the 78th Highlanders, the Reverend Mr. Bennie, President of the School of Arts. The practical illustrations are in full operation, and include a magnificent display of the application of science to art on a scale such as has never been previously witnessed in this country. The lighthouse reflectors and lenses, including the lime ball reflector, the re flector with coloured light, and the revolving lenses, occupy the east end of the large room, and shed a flood of the most brilliant light upon the specta tor. The printing, copperplate, and lithographic presses are continually in action ; and the jacquard loom, the weaving of stockings, turbing of wood, modelling in clay, basket-making, paper-roaking, &c., present a se, ries of processes of extreme interest to all ; while the magnificent illustrations of the Polariscope, on which alone the Committee have expended upwards of fifty pounds, present to the man of science a treat which has not hitherto been accessible to him in this part of the island. The experimental arrangements of tee Polariscope arc under the superintendence of Mr. E. M. Clarke, who has arrived from London at the inv't::- tion of the Committee for this purpose. It will give some idea of the magnitude of the arrangements which have been made for this exhihition, when we state that the value of the insurance of the various models and specimens is between forty and fifty thousand pounds. We have much pleasure in adding, that the pupils of numerous schools and academies have already visited the exhibition, and on Saturday morning we understand that upwards of 800 boys, from different charity , schools, are to be admitted gratuitously. — E dinbur g h Evenin g Courant, [We understand that this exhibition has been achieved principally through the indefatigable activity of Dr. Reid, whose arrangements for warming and ven tilating the House of Commo ns have g iven such satis faction.] Female schools in England have been oft en subjects of severe animadversion, and the manner in which they are too frequently conducted would se em to justify the charge that they impair the moral and physical energies they profess to strengthen a n d im prove. Mrs. S. C. Hall , in hernew novel of '° Mari an ; or, a young Maid's Fo rtunes, has given her h ero i ne her bitterest and most dangerous trials in one of th em ; ' she pictures them as deteriorating in the extr eme; an d conceiving, as we do , t h at her portraits are taken from real life, her work must d i recting have the e ff ect o f public attention to the subject , whi c h, b eyon d all ques tion, calls for inquiry , for it ts notorious th a t women w h o are unfitted for any other station in soci e ty un d er t a k e the establishment of " seminaries for youn g ladi es ," th e consequence s of which can only be disease to the bady I and the mind. THE WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY. On Tuesday evening the:members of the Westminster Reform Society assembled at Stannard's Hotel, Charles street, Covent-garden, " for the purpose of making the arrangements required by the rules of the Society to be annually adopted for its government." Mr. John Morris having been unanimously called to the chair, The minutes of the previous meeting being read and confirmed, this being the first meeting of the Society since the conclusion of the registration, for the present electoral year, Mr. W. WEST, Honorary Secretary, laid upon the table a large bundle of papers relative thereto, and read the following report " The Committee, as heretofore, determined that no objection should be made by them which did not carry with it sufficient evidence to afford reasonable grounds of success, in order that no objection made by them should have the appearance of being of a speculative character.—( Here a statistical statement was made by the Secretary of the claims and objections, which amounted to a difference in favour• of the Reformers of 598) . . "The Committee cannot avoid calling attention to one or two important decisions that have taken place. " First, upon the scot and lot ; it is now decided that to be entitled, the occupier must be an inhabitant householder, resident in Westminster. " The case of Sir Wm. Heygate came before the Court for the third time, and, notwithstanding altera tions had been made by Sir William which it was pre sumed would meet the case, he, however, failed in bringing the office and apartments within the meaning of . the Reform Act. In deciding upon this case the Cuurt expressed its sincere regret that it could not allow the vote. In conjunction with Sir Wm. Heygate no less than 13 other Directors of the Pelican Life As surance Office have been prevented from being re gistered. " No decision is more important, especially to the Reform cause, than that given by the Court in the case of Sir George Warrender, who had been objected to upon the ground of not residing in his premises during six months previous to the 31st July in the present year, and not occupying for twelve months previous. " The case submitted to the Court was that he oc cupied a house in Albemarle -street, and having let it furnished during the fashionable season, he ceased to occupy, according to the Reform Act. This was Mr. Trott's construction of the law, and upon it an ob jection was served, he being fully aware of the im portance a decision in favour of this view of the case would be to the Liberal interest in West- Minster, especially in thaedivision, which at the time of c:ectioniis designated the dead weight. The Court also, being aware of the importance of any de- vision upon that point, took from Friday (upon which day the case came on for hearing, and Sir George War render attended to support his own case,) until the following Monday, before judgment was given by Mr. Craig, who, when after laying down the law, and ad mitting the vast importance of this decision, in which Mr. Milne concurred, allowed the objection. "This decision is so important to Westminster that too much attention cannot be paid by the various members of this Society to ascertain who dispose of their houses in this manner every year. This, alone, will be also sufficient to prevent the turmoil and excessive expense of a contested election at any time in this City. The contest will then be annually decided in the Registra tion Court ; which is, in fact, the arena where the battle is now contested." Mr. W. TROTT proposed that the report now read be entered on the minutes. Mr. BREMNER seconded the motion, which was agreed to unanimously. • The SECRETARY next reported the number of attend ances of the members of the Committee, when it was re-appointed, with the exception of one or two changes. Mr. WEST then read the following report of the proceedings of the past year, which was presented by the Committee : " The Committee of the Westminster Reform So ciety in presenting their Report for the year 1839, have the gratification of stating that on a review o, the proceedings of the past year they have much reason to repeat their former congratulations to the members of the Society on its continued useful ness and improving prospects, which have steadily increased as the objects of the Society have be come mare generally known, and they have been more appreciated by those who are desirous of a steady and progressive amelioration of the condition of the people of this great country. " Your Committee are happy to perceive a strength ened conviction in the 'public mind upon the necessity of real reforms in the several departments of the State, more especially in the mode of sending Representative to the Common; House. Last year, in reference to this subject, the Committee observed that the past mea sures had done nothing toward changing that factious state of misrule in which all national improvements are sacrificed to the domination of party. This line of conduct will assuredly continue so long as two or three hundred voters have the power of returning one Member, and six or eight hundred return two Members ; the smallness of such numbers, unprotected by the Ballot, necessarily causes every kind of pernicious influence to be exercised for factious purposes. " Your Committee report, that in the course of the past year, meetings of the Society have taken place, upon several important questions—namely, the Repeal of the Corn-laws ; Postage Reform ; National Educa tion ; and the Vote by Ballot at Parliamentary Elections. "During the progress of these events your Committee prepared in due time to sustain the. Reform cause in the Registration Court, and are amply satisfied by the result, although the funds at their disposal were of a very limited amount. Your Committee ob serve that the exceeding nice distinction cre ated by the Reform Act renders the machinery most inconvenient, and highly detrimental to the proper mode of election, a great number of persons submitting to be disfranchised rather than endure the annoyance of attending the Barristers' Courts to insist upon a right which they ought to have the power of exercising in a far more simple manner than the present law authorises. It is more clearly substantiated by being acted upon in Westminster—that a shop, workshop, warehouse cellar, or counting-house, if worth 4s. weekly, or 101. per annum, confers the franchise, but until an amend ment of the Reform Act-takes place, there can be no hope of an uniformity of decision in the Revising Bar risters' Court, or of bribery, intimidation, and obstruc tions to voting, in a number of ways, taking full effect, as in the halcyon days of borough patronage. " Your Committee are again under deep obligations to William Trott, Esq., who has continued to give his professional services to the Society. The Committee, also, embrace the opportunity of acknowledging the ser vices rendered by several other members of the Society " It is with some regret your Committee state they have not yet seen a return, ordered by the House of Commons, for the number of persons who have been disfranchised, in consequence of the non-payment of pcors'-rates, or window-tax. When this return is made, it is hoped that the Members who repre sent popular places, will not suffer it to be made in vain. It is not surprising that many have been omitted from the register, but that so large a number have been inserted ; for persons to be entitled to their franchise, must not have only paid thee poors' rates, but the window tax must also be paid before the 20th of July in each year ; as the omission to pay either dis qualifies. Improvements in this and other respects must shortly take place in the Reform Act. " In taking a retrospective view of the Soci?.ty's pro ceedings, your Committee ere much gratified with the result of their labours. They believe that by their exertions at last some services have bean afforded to the cause of the people. The Committee have the pleasure of announcing that the Society still continus to advance in number and importance ; and, in cotcluding the re port, they embrace the present opportunity of re-pub lishinc, the principles upon which the Society is estab lished, namely : " The Vote by Ballot. " An Extension of the Suffrage to every House holder in the Kingdorh, and that each Constituency, returning two Members to Parliament, ought to con sist of at least 5,000 electors. " The Repeal of that part of the 271 h clause of the Reform Act, which makes the payment of Rates and Taxes (before a particular day) a condition of the Franchise. " Triennial Parliament. " A more. extensive Reform of the Municipal i:l a d , e o w ind a u n s d try C o o .f r n the T n a o x Cor porations, especially those of London and Ireland. y e peal pressingo f the uponW grie l v A ous ß l The abolition of all pe • country. r s ;:. pensions not merited by known public services. " The removal of all taxes which • • impede the diffu sion of knowledge among the es u b people, t •ally peci the stamp duty on newspapers. " A. Reform of the Church Establishment. " A proper application of the Itrids, known to exist in the country, for the purposes of education. " The Committee cannot close their Report without seriously calling upon all friends of freedom to assist in advocating the cause of rational liberty, by supporting the principles, upon which the Society is founded, the delay of carrying which into effect cannot fail to be at tended by many most serious evils, and that neglecting of these important rneasur-s for any considerable period will probably prevent their being safely and peaceably adopted at any time. " The Committee finally call upon all persons who have the desire to improve the condition of those who toil and spin,' to enrol themselves among the Members of the Society, for although numerous, yet every add - tion is so much in aid of the Reform cause ; and when it is further considered that the opposing party are strong in all places, and readily obtain information upon all matters, especially those relating to the registration, it becomes every 11,:former the more earnestly to support the Society by further extending the numbers, by which the sympathies of all are brought into action, and there- EVENING EDITION. by alone complete and triumphant success can be ob tained over the commora foe. • (Signed) " JOHN MORRIS, Chairman." Mr. KEMP moved that the Annual Report ba nt . tretl on the minutes, _and that it be printed anal circulated among the members. Mr. TAYLOR seconded the motion. The CPLAIRMAN put the resolution, which was agreed to unanimously. The members present paid their subscriptions. Tnanks were then voted to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated at a late hour. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jex. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) SOLOMON V. HEATHORN AND OTHERS. This acti on was tr i e d b e f ore M r . BaiOniiPlfe at the sitting s i n London after last term, when a verdict was found for the defend int. o n M t the groundKY t n h o a w t v v e e d r d for i w a a r i g e ani dul iai fora e ' n ew with Groves, w h o commanded her. Some years tr Ta ia gh l oe defendant trial, was part owner of the ship Eliza in conjunc tionhe sailed her to Singapore, but died on the outward voy age. A man named Marshall then assumed the command, and on the voyage home, between Singapore to St. 'galena they met with very tempestucua weather, which drove them much oat of their course. On reaching St. Helena they were reduced so far that the very last piece of meat on board was cooked. The crew had been long on short allowance, and it was necessary that provisions should be immediately procured. A clerk of the plaintiff was the first on board, and tolim was the order given. He supplied provisions, stores, and money to the amount of 6001., for which sum he brought his action. The defendant resisted the action on the ground that they had an agent at St. Helena— that it was notorious and well-known to Marshall, who ought to have employed him ; but on the other hand it was proved that some of the provisions were left in the ship on her coming to England, which were taken away by the defendants, and dealt with as their own, and in settling the Captain's accounts the defendants took credit for some sums advanced by him to some of the crew out of the money supplied him by the plaintiff. It was also further proved tha iGroves; when in command of the ship, recom mended the plaintiff, and told hits: to deal with him on his arrival at St. Helena, and that at that time Groves was part owner, and had a right to deal where he pleated. He at that time had as good a right to employ or appoint an agent as the other part owner.—Pule granted. • COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 15. INGRAM V. LAWSON. This was an action for a libel brought by the owner of the ship called the Larkins, against the printer and pub lisher of the Times, for a libel that appeared in that paper, in the shape of a letter, setting forth that the ship Larkins (of which the plaintiff was the captain and owner) was old, leaky, and totally unfit for service. . The cause, our reeders will remember, was tried at the last London iiiittings, and the Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 9001. HUMIIHREYS now applied to the Court for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial or an arrest of judgment. He moved on two grounds; first, that the Learned Judge omitted to tell the Jury that it was a case in which the plaintiff could only recover in respect of Malice proved; and, secondly, that he misdirected them by leaving, to their consideration the amount of damages that arose alter action brought. The COURT refused the rule, stating that the malice need not be considered, as it was a libel on the p'aintitr in re spect of his business ; and, secondly, that evidence at the ttial was offered as to the average profit of a voyage, and the Jury were obliged to estimate, not the datages sus tained, but likely to be sustained by the injury. HOSPITAL ACCIDENT RELIEF SOCIETY. On Monday the Committee and friends of this excel lent Charity dined together at the London Tavern, Mr. \V. J. Wakelin, the Sub-treasurer, in the Chair. The Society was instituted fcr giving food to the families of provident and industrious mechanics and others when plunged Into distress by accident. The report, after wet ingt.Ce fact that nearly 20,000 accidents annually occurred in the metropolis, involving a vast number of the families i of the labouring classes, detailed the cases of several poor l persons whose wives and children were relieved from dreadful necessity by the Institution. After the usual loyal toasts were drunk, and the Rev. Mr. Boddington had addressed the company in a very eloquent manner on the Institution, Mr. Calx - roN, the Secretary, in rising to acknowledge 1 the prosperity of the Society, bogged to remark that tile char,ty was never in so prosperous a condition as at the • present trument, that the list of c o n t r ib utors was increas ing, and the means of more extensive u se f u l ness were 1 daily multiplying. It was, he said, with feeli ngs o f d eep regret he telt it to be his duty to advert to the death of Mr. Henry Phipp Elope, the munificent friend of the Charity—to wkatever part of the report the ecanpa . ny would turn they would meet the name of that gentleman. Amongst the philanthropic pawns of the Charity he was the first, and it might be truly said that their best Hope was gone. He tiusted, however, that ti%als would start up without delay, lie held in his Land, he said, several letters from clergymen and gentlemen of fortune and in fluence, expressive of their high admiration of the Charity, and amongtt them was one from the Hon. Member for Middlesex, Mr. Byng, in which the Hoa. Gentleman rematketi, that although he subscribed to several hospi tals, he had no objection to the erection of one for accidents, evidently supposing that the object of the So ciety was to build an hospital for accidents cxelusi; ely ; but although the Institution was called the Hospital Relief S,ciety, its operations had nothing to do w Alt the liuspi tal, bey end seeing the patient, and knowing that he was confined in consequence of accident. lie felt anxious to be distiectly understood on that point, because he knew that the term hospital, as appearing in the title of the So ciety, and he thought most unhappily, hed created feelingv, in stone prejudicial to the Institution, and therefore he was desirous of removing the impression by nsserting that this Society supplied the family with food while the man re mained in the Hospital.—(Cheers.) A long list of contribuCOns was read. Amongst the patrons and patronesses of the Society, the offices of which are in Finch•-lane Chambers, Cornhill, we observed the names of Lord Viscount BereA'ard, Lord Bexley, Lord Te.igtimouth, Henry, Thomas Hope, Esq., M. P., Lady Louisa BereArd, ;vim Delmar, &e. Yesterday furenOon her Majesty's Crown, under the care of a warder, was removed in a hackney conch from the Jewel-room in the Tower to Buck;;lgham Palace, preparatory to the opening of Pa►!;Kment by the Queen, in person, this day. ORIGIN OF FRANKING LETTERS.—The frzn'.ting letters by Members of Parliament ceased yes terday. We find the origin of that privilege thus detailed in the 23d volume of the Parliamentary History. It occurred in. the debate on the Post•office Bill, in the year 1660:—" Colonel Titers reported the Bill for the settlement of the Post-office, with the amendments. Sir Walter Earle deliyered a proviso, for the letters of all Members of Parliament to go free, durios their sifting. Sir Heneage Finch said—" It was a poet- mendicant proviso, and bolos the honour cf the House. Mr. Prynne spoke also against tlr, ! Treviso : Mr. Bunckley, Mr. Boscawen, Sir George Downing, and Sergeant Charlton, for it. 1 the latter swing the Council's letters wr -„ t f ree . The question being called for, the Speaker, Sir Har bottle Grimstone, was unwilling io put 'at, saying, he was ashamed of it . ; nevertheless, the pt'oviso was car ried, and made part of the bill, which was *ordered to be engrossed. The Lords subiequently disagreed to this proviso, and it was ultimately thrown out. At a subsequent period both Houses did not feel it to be below their hon Our to secure for themselves this exemption," Great value is attached to some franks. Ono by Lord Byron has been known to fetch seven guineas at an auction. Those by Single-speech Hamilton are very rare, as also Horne Tooke's. Canning franked to a friend in Ire land three volumes of Clarendon's History, one frank to each volume. Dresses, boots, shoes, &c., have been frequently sent under a frank ; and a whole suite o aT f hb s ou v n i c n ks d o o nw w . s c T u f trhaaeinnkse dDuke havet oDoverbeens frank_ last week for a guinea. Th e fi nest co ll ect i on extant forms part of the splendid an d t ru l y un iq ue collection of autographs in th e p ossess i on o f M r. Up mu, of Islington ; and which ought t a enr i c h th e B r itish d. It Museum ; but, in all probability, tno opportunity of pos- Wellington's p b as y s e is said, it will be neglected. until some foreign poten tate hears away the treasured prize.—Mirror. DEPORABLE DESTITUTION.—On Tuesday, at 10 o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, ,at the George and Vulture, Rateliff-highway, on view of the body of Daniel Flynn, aged 60 yeaas. Elizabeth Larbdown, of No. 10, Sparrow-court, Aldgate, deposed that she knew the deceased; who was a porter at the docks, but had latterly been very much reduced in his circumstances in consequence of having scarcely any employment. On the previous Friday night he called on her to borrow sixpence, which she lent him. In about three-quarters of an hour afterwards his (deceased's) wife came, and said she thought her laishand was struck with death. She (witness) went instantly, and • found him sitting on a chair ; be never spoke until stwo o'clock on the following morning, when he exclaimed, "I am a dead man." He never spoke afterwards, and expired at five o'clock on Saturday morning. By the Coroner—The deceased had four children, and with . the sixpence she tent him he purchased some coals, a candle, and a half-penny worth of oatmeal. By the Fore man—The wife of the deceased worked for a slop scller, but, in consequence of her great distress, she was obliged to pawn some of her work to procure food, as they had nothing hut potatoes and oatmeal to eat. By a Juror—The deceased said on the Sunday previous to his death, that unless the work which his wife had zledged was redeemed, he should die of a broken heart. Mr Garrett, s'irgcon, of Ratcliff-highway, deposed to havit g been called in to attend the deceased, to whom lie adiniei,tered some brandy and wine and water, but he expired at five o'clock on Saturday morning, Halt no druht he died from natural camies, but his dee:fa was manifestly aocelerated from the want of the common tn.c2ss.;rieA of life. By the Coroner—The deceased re el iced is. and a 4lb. loaf P week from the board of guardians. Verdiet—" Natural death."