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TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • The rd outline of the ARRANGEMENTS for the SEASON '47 is 7 :aspectfully submitted to the Nobility, Patrons of the Opera, and to the Public. It is presented with the confident hope, that the 43 neeeaF ful exertions made to secure, under circumstances of peculiar .I, l Mertity, it company still more worthy of the first Thea tre iu 1 - 4 W ,pe, and of its distinguished Patrons, will insure the continuation g . t . _heir support. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.. Mdlle. Jenny Lind (her first appearance_ in this country), Madame del Carmen Montenegro (her first appearance at this Theatre) ; Mdlle. Sanchioll, Mdlle, Fagiani, and Madame Solari (their first ap .Pearance in this country) ; the Contralto, Mdlle. Vietti and Mdlle. •,7baria Naseio (their first appearance in this country) ; and Madame , Castellan. Signor Fraschini, the great Tenor of Italy (his first ap rarance in this country) ; and the favourite Tenor, Signor Gardoni, note of the Italian Opera, Paris, having lately withdrawn, at a great pecuniary sacrifice, from the Academic Royale de Musique (his first aappearance in this country) ; Signor Superchi, the distinguished "Itratone (his first appearance in this country); Signor F. Lablache ; Iglgnor Borella (his first appearance in this country) ; Signor Corelli ; (ilte elebrated Basso Cantante, Herr Staudigi (his first appearance); -and Sl.;nor Lablache. In addition to the above, arrangements are pendia; with Signor Coletti, of the Italian Opera at Paris. That great composer, the Chevalier Meyerbeer, has arranged to Visit this country, to bring out the CAMP DE SILESIE, and another of his admired chefs-d'oeuvre ; the principal parts in the Lamp de Sllesie, by Mdl'e. Jenny Lind and Signor Fraschini. The celebrated Dr. Felix Mendelssohn Ilartholdy will likewise •trisit England, and produce an Opera expressly composed for her Riajesty's Theatre, the libretto founded on THE TEMPEST of *haksper2; , written by M. Scribe. - Miranda. • Ferdinand • • ..... • • ....... Sig. Gardoni. Caliban ..... . Prospero .••••• • • • • • • ...... • • Sig. Lablache. It is likewise announced, with great satisfaction, that Signor Verdi, 'having recovered from his severe illness, has expressly composed for this theatre a new Opera, of which the plot is founded on the ROB BERS •f SCIIILLER. Rossini's Opera of ROBERT BRUCE, lately produced at the Aca demie Royale, has also been secured. Mesdames Castellan, Sanchioli, and Montenegro ; Signors Gar doni, Superchi, and Fraschini, will appear before Easter. Mdlle, Jenny Lind, whose engagement commences in March, and extends until the end of the season, will appear immediately after Easter. Director of the Music and Conductor, M. BALFE. In addition to the above, several Operas, new to this country, will be produced, and the repertoire will be selected from the chefs d'oeuvre of Mozart, Cimarosa,, Rossini, Donizetti, Mercadante, Eel- BM, The strictest attention has been paid to all the details, so that an ensemble may be presented perfect in all its parts. A NUMEROUS ORCRESTRA, or the most distinguished talent and power, has been selected from sl7ne of the best Orchestras of Europe. THE CHORUS has been chosen with the greatest care from Italy, G••rmany, and England ; and will comprise upwards of Eighty Per formers. ARRAN'GF.MENTS FOR THE BALLET. Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Lucile Grahu, and Mdlle. Cerito; in addttion to which an engagement has been made with Mdlle. Caroline Rosati (of La Scala, at Milan, and other great theatres of Italy), who will make her first appearance on the first night of the season in a New Ballet, expressly composed and arranged for her, by M. Paul Taglloni ; Nldlle.Wauthier, of La Scala, her first appearance to this country ; Madame Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Honore, Mille. Elise Montfort ; Mu les. Thevenot, Julien, Lamoreux, Emile, Fanny Pascales, and Bertin ; and Millie. Caroline Baucourt, of the Academie Royale, and La Scala, Milan (her first appearance in this country). In consequence of the enthusiastic manner in which this eminent artiste was received last season, hopes are entertained that Millie. Taglioni may be induced to appear for a limited number of performances. 31. St. Leon, M. d'Or, of the Ac:alemie Royale, Paris (his first appearance in this country), M. Gosselin, M. di Mattis, Sig. Veruirs, 31. Geuriet, M. Paul Taglioni, and 3f. Perrot. Composer of the Ballet Music, Signor Pugni. Principal Artist, Mr. Marshall. MaitreS de Ballet—M. Paul Taglioni, 31. Casati, of La Scala ; and Perrot. Sous-Maitre de Ballet, 31. Gosselin Regisseur de la Dame, M. Petit. An Original Grand Ballet will be produced, written expressly for her Majesty 's Theatre, by the celebrated poet, Henri Heine, on a subject selected frotn the Old Legends of Germany. A Novel and Poetical Ballet, for the subject of which the establishment is in debted to the kindness of a noble and distinguished Poetess, entitled EGERIA. - - ..... . „ The celebrated Pas de QUatre and Pas de DCesses will be revived, and an entirely new Divertissement, introducing another Grand Pas by M. Perrot, which, uniting all the peculiar attractions of the Pas ties Deesses and Pas de Quatre, will present a novel feature of strik ing ociainality, and will combine the talent of all, to be entitled LA. c;ONsTELLATION. The Snbscription will consist of the same number of nights as last easen. The Theatre will open in the middle of February, when will be produced, for the first time at her Majesty's Theatre, Donizetti's admired Opera of LA FAVORITA, in which Signor Gardoni and Signor Superchi will make their first appearance in this country, stud an entirely NEW BALLET, by 31. Paul Taglioni, in which Mademoiselle Caroline Rosati will appear. 111EATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be. perfol•med Donizetti's Opera, called THE FAVOURITE Alphonso .X 1 , - Mr. Stretton ; Balthazar, Mr. Borrani : Ferdinand, Mr. 'I ravers ; Don Gaspar, Mr. Horneastle ; Leonora, Miss Romer lois, Miss Collett. Atter which, the Grand Comic Christmas Pante,nlme, being a tz,ixture of the Listorical and legendary, entitled HARLEQULN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. TIIFITRE ROYAL, 11.1YNfARKET. I nder the Management of Mr. B. Web,ter, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed thet;w — an7l -. original Drama, called TIIE POUND OF WRONG ; or, a Fireside Story. Sir Arthur Foljambe, Mr. Stuart ; Lichen, Mr. Rogers ; Reuben Gwynne, Mr. Webster ; Ducks, Mr. Buckstone ; Harwood, Mr. Howard; Lady Charlotte Willoughby, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Mary Ryland, Miss Forlescise ; Jenny. MiSs Woulds. After which, Planche's new Comic Drama, called WHO'i; YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queensberry Fete. Viscount Leatherhead, Mr. Tilbury; Sir Felix Level, Mr. Hull ; Giles Fairland, Mr. Webster ; The Countess of Rosendale, Miss Bennett; Lady Bab Blazon, Mrs. Glover ; Mittens, Miss Carre. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, biro L. S. Buckin:zham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, I. E . -- Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. EVENING Will be performed a new THIS Comic Drama, called 4500 REWARD. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, H. Butler, Miss Tillars, aad Miss Forster. Alter which a new Farce, called THE WIGWAM. Characters by Messrs. Matthews, Oxberry. Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To conclude with the Drama, founded on the New Christmas Annual of Charles Dickens, Esq., and adapted to the stage (by the exclusive permisslot, of the author, from the proof sheets) by Albe:t Smith, Esq., called THE BATTLE OF LIFE. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Leigh Murray. Turner, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Meadows, Keeley; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Daly, Miss May, Miss Grove, Miss Foster, and Mrs. Keeley. Tll EATRE ROYAL, ADELIIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION )1 , MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original romantic Drama, called CO -I.OMBA, THE CORSICAN SISTER. Characters supported by Madame Cc!este, Mrs. Yates; Messrs. Wright, Worrell, Bedford, 0. Smith, &e. Between the pieces the celebrated ENTOBTILATIONISTS, Mr. John Lees and his three Pupils—the Masters Ilanlons, will ex hibit theft wontierful .leux tlyinnastiques. After which a grand Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet or LA G:SELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Will Bride. I'rincipal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Redford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullen Ord, Madame Celeste, t!tss Marian Taylor, M. Ern•da flardinz, Miss Ellen ChapPn, and Mrs. Laws. I'ItINCESS'S I'IP OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Grand Opera, sniffled ANNE BOLEYN. Henry VIII., Mr. Bodda ; Percy, Mr. Allen ; Rochn , rd, Mr. Wal ton; Smeaton, Miss S. Flower; Harvey, Mr. Wynn; Lady Jane Seymour, Miss Rourk ; Anne Ifoleyn, Miss Hassan°. In the course of the evening Professor HEM tiING 'and his ta lented cIIILDRE'N will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing "The Railroad Overture." To conclude with a new Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, enti tled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE; for, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon. Mr. Paulo ; Columbine, Miss Durbidge ; Sprite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown. Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.— ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. • THIS EVENING IVIII be performed the Comedie-Vaudeville, entitled PHILIPPE. ebAracters by MM. Cartigry, Pascal, 11 , rou, Madame Grassau, and Fouquet. To conclude with the popular Play of DON CESAR DE B.tzAs. Mon Cesar de Maim, Mons. F. Lemaitre; La Maritana, Mdlle. Clarisse. Boxes, es., Pit, 3s. fid. , Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. ETHIOPIAN gERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, Stanwood, and Gormon, will have the honour of repeat 4ng their Inimitable ENTERTAIN3IENTS, at the above Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING and . every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Halt-past Eight. And, in conscutp•nce of the continued demand tar places, will repeat their DAY PERFORIIANCE on Wednesday Morning • next, Feb. 3, and every Wednesday Morning until Easter. Doors open at Tiv. o'clock, and the performance commences at Half-past Two. Ths Programme will be varied on earn occasion. Boxes, 45.; Pit, 25.; Amphiteatre, 2s. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's r.lbrary, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A3IPRITIIEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family.--Nfr. BATTY respectfully begs to acquaint the public that he purposes giving- a free night, for the relief of the destitute Irish and Scotch, on 311 (111SDAY, Feb 11. The evening's receipts will he given, and the extensive resources of the Theatre will be brought into:action. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course of Men and Stecel3. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. Box-ettice open ir.cn eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and c-marnence at hall•past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Brows got. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Airs. Frances Davidge. IS EVENING Will be perfor med a new THDrama, entitled RABY RATTLER; or, The Progress of a scamp. Characters supported by the whole rtgength of the Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, callel THE KING OF THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Deulin; Pantaloon, Herr R. Dettlin ; Columbine, 31d1le. Theodore; Clown, Herr N. Deulln ; Punch, Herr E. DenlM. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will TA performed TIIE GUNSMITH OF ORLEANS ; or, The Dead Woman's Secret. In which Messrs. Hicks, Forman, Searle, lyd, Howar app d, Miss Vincent, Mrs. hicks, Mrs. L ee, and .hiss learce will ear, Attu whish THE BRIDE'S JOURNEY. In which Messrs. s4aArtc, liowtud, Fornan, Miss Vincent, Mrs. Lee, &c., will appear. After which, the Extravaganza of WILFUL MURDER. To conclude with the grand Christmas Pantomime, en_ titled THE BIRTH OF THE STEAM ENGINE ; or, Harlequin Go-a-Head," and Joe Miller and his Men. Clown. Mr. T. Barry. THE BRAZILS. FALMOUTH, JAN. 28, HALF-PAST 7, P.M.—We have barely time to announce the arrival this moment of the Express vacket, Lieutenant James, Commander, with mails from -Rio Janeiro direct, having sailed the 16th ult., bringing live passengers, viz., Messrs. Proudfoot, Buchrold, Pollard, Tonne Her, and Captain Cowl, late master of the brig Are thtisa, lost at Santa Cruz (Patagonia) September 18, crew .saved. The Express has also on freight 20.0001. in sold. Exchange :on London, 28d. premium; Paris 336 to 338; l inirriburgh, 620. Stock steady at 86 to 85 1 4 per cent. ~ The Express left at Rio ler Majesty's ships Curacoa, 1 0 :e i ant. and Griffin, the latter having arrived Dec. 12 from -.1 ts Video in 14 days. n The 1 Y intelligence - we can glean from th a t quarter i s, that affairs vu were receiverld rem a i n i n statu quo until 'Luther advice. from T England. I n respect of the misunder- Standing with t Gove rn ment nothine American officers and the Br az ili an day, thetroiteshad been settled. On the Emperor's birth. tiittoes frigate Columbia, pendant of Commi,doreii oursseau, neither sal u with te (t nor r e broadmade lany other demonstratio articition in the ~;oicings, and it was fully un,riierstoopad that no furthe p r ublic re- official transactions would b e held with the American Minister until advice, were received from the N_Va,shington Cabinet. The Columbia sailed on the 3d fors,thuentir'er.Plate. Three trans of the United `''7,peruber from Rio ports, with about 800 troop ;States' ship Feeble, sailed on thiel3eyOteahr;e described as a very for San Francisco (Califorsia). _motley group, consisting of outcasts of all nations. Several deserted whilst at Rio. The rood Ist, o s2 6.50 to $2 750. s ffee market at Rio is quoted —super • 2 goo to 83 ; Sales this month (December), 70,000 bags. Shipments from the Ist of January to the 15th of Decern- Der, 1846, inclusive, amounted to 2,297,028 bags of 1601 b. Stock on hand Dec. 16, 90,000 bags. MURDER AT SUBFFIELD.—At the second adjourned Inquest on the body of Mr. Thomas Riley, held on 'Thursday afternoon last, at the Towr.ball, Sheffield, no further evidence as adduced, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful mur- Llizilgainst some person or persons unknown." We understand that Lord Torrington bas been ap gated Governor of Ceylon. Now ready, Vole. 3 and 4 (completing the work) of the HISTORY OF TILE CAPTIVITY OF _ N APOLEON, ST. HELENA. By GENERAL COUNT MONTHOLON, The Emperor's Companion in Exile, and Testamentary Executor. Now first Translated and Published from the Author's orizinld Manscript. Orders received by all Booksellers. Eery Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. PRESENT STATE OF PORTUGAL. NOW ready, in 2 vols. small Bv)., AN JOURNEY OVERLAND TO LISBON, AT THE CLOSE OF 1846 ; With a Picture of the Actual State of SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. BY T. M. HUGHES, ESQ., Author of " Revelations of Spain." Henry ColbUrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough street. Now ready, In 3 vols. post Bvo., price 11. I Is. 6d. _ E XPERIENCES OF A GAOL CHAPLAIN. CONIPRISING RECOLLECTIONS OF MINISTERIAL INTERCOURSE WITH - LS OF VARIOUS CLASSES, WITH THEIR CON FESSIONS. . . Richard Bentley, New Burlington•street. RAILWAY SHAILEs BY PUBLIC SALE. 31[ 141 L SSIIS. ANIOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to anno.n.ce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TVZSDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place, favours, containiug instructions (with a reference), are respectfully - equested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates mast be deposited, the day Drerions to their being offered ; and svivices of results will be brwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to instmetions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. vacancy recently occurred in the representation of Salis bury, and, setting aside all the representatives of local factions, rejecting all mere party politicians, they have declared themselves the advocates of progress in the best sense of the term, by electing as their representa tive ono who has proved himself an admirable public servant—one who, by his energy, perseverance, and in dustry, has benefited himself, and, by benefiting himself, has at the same time benefited his humbler fellow-subjects by enabling them to earn the wages of honest industry: who, as chairman of the South• Western Company, has shown his capacity for conducting public business: who, as sheriff of London, has won golden opinions from all sorts of men. Animated by the single desire of contri buting to the public, they have chosen Mr. Chaplin as their representative, irrespective of mere party conside rations, and we trust that, at the next general election many constituencies will return such men as Mr. Chaplin, " animated by the single desire of contributing to the public good." Such men are wanted in the House of Commons. All honour, therefore, to the constituency of Salisbury for the admirable choice they have made, sad may all other constituencies following their example, eschew political adventurers, and elect men of business. We refer our readers to a fuller report given is another column. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, JANUARY 30. TIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 30; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 38, BAROMETER, 29 57.—WIND W., fine. flilaFi WATER AT f.ONDON-HRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 42 minutes after 2. I Evening .. 59 minutes after 2. no such practice had been adopted, and that there was no other probable cause for this comparative prosperity to the operation of which it could reasonably be ascribed. Such a result would naturally afford the strongest presumptive evidence of the salutary effects and beneficial action of this peculiar custom,- and that if brought into general use throughout the kingdom there would be similar effects. He therefore became the strenuous advocate for the extension of the Ulster tenant-right to all parts of Ireland, for affording the tenant-farmer such a permanency of tenure as would create a feeling of proprietorship in his mind, and induce him to expend his capital on the land, to bring it to the highest degree of cultivation, and to effect permanent and lasting improvements, with the full conviction that he would receive an adequate return therefor, either in the length and certainty of his enjoyment of its fruits, so long as it suited him to retain the possession of his holding, or by obtaining a fair compensation for his outlay and labour, should it become desirable for him to change his residence. In Parliament and out of Parliament he has laboured incessantly for the promotion of this his favourite project, and we are delighted to find that he has given notice of motion for Tuesday next, so as to obtain a full discussion of the subject. The unjust and iniquitous penal laws by which our Roman Catholic brethren were so long and so cruelly oppressed, by which liberty of conscience was assailed, and the right of every man to worship his Causroa in the manner which he deemed most proper curtailed and taken away, produced much mischief. By a sort of retributive justice they recoiled upon and injured the properties of those by whom they were enacted and continued. This led to the system so injurious to the country generally—the creation of a body of middlemen, who, having but a partial and precarious interest in the land, and little regard for its perma nent improvement, were too often guilty of the greatest oppression towards the occupiers, and sought by every means in their power to extort the greatest present gain, the highest rack-rent that could be wrung from the hard-working and ill- used cottier. The landlord was restricted in the choice of his tenant to those who could alone enjoy a permanent tenure, or become entitled to the elective franchise—to such Persons long terms were granted, and all the rights and duties of proprietor devolved upon a class the most likely to abuse them. During the late war the value of land was greatly enhanced, and these middlemen derived very large profits ; they exacted to the utmost farthing from the occupier, and as if they supposed that their pros perity would be lasting, and that the high prices of every description of agricultural produce would con tinue, they expended the entire amount of their receipts without making any provision for a rainy day or a reverse of fortune. On the peace of 1815 a fearful re-action took place. First, the sub-tenants became unable to pay the rents they had assumed during the existence of war prices, and soon after wards, as a natural consequence, the middleman himself was unable to meet his engagements with the real owner, and he found himself, perhaps with an expensive family, unskilled in any of the means by which they might earn their daily bread, involved in total ruin. He naturally struggled to the last against this state of things, and while he got into arrears with the head landlord he adopted every means to extract the last shilling from his own dependents. If improvements were effected he made no allowance to the person whose labour was expended thereon ; he only regarded them as a means of obtaining a higher rent, and the industrious and improving tenant was either driven from his holding or compelled to undertake payments which it was impossible for him to liquidate. Hence careless and negligent farming. No one sought to ameliorate the condition of his holding. If remon strated with, the invariable answer was, "Why should I make improvements, when I do not know if I shall be permitted to enjoy them;" and " the want of time" was the almost universal topic of complaint in every part of Ireland. In Ulster, however, it was different. The tenant who performed his part of the contract was never disturbed ; he was permitted to dispose of his " goodwill," which often sold for ten or fifteen years' purchase of the rental. lie was encouraged to make improvements, and these improve ments naturally followed. Let any one who doubts which system was most beneficial for the country compare the condition of Ulster with the rest of Ire land, and his doubts will be removed; and he, too, will become the advocate of that policy, which is proved to be of such national advantage. According to a letter from Berlin, in the Augsburg Garcia, it has been resolved by the KING in Council to have an assembly in his capital of the three orders of nobles, burgesses, and peasants, to which are to be sub mitted all questions of taxation and loans. Count D'ARNIM, the ex-Minister, will, it is said, be appointed President of this Chamber. The German Journal of Frankfort states, from Vienna, that the Archduke STEPREN, who by a decree of the EMPEROR has been appointed as the successor, ad interim, of the late Palatine of Hungary, will be elected Palatine by the Diet, most of the Hungarian nobles being favour able to his nomination. A session extraordinary of the Diet of Saxony was opened at Dresden by commission on the 21st. The debates were to commence in the Second Chamber on the following day. A German journal says—" The Municipal Council of Stutgard, having signed a petition in favour of the liberty of the press, the Minister of the Interior of Wur temberg has been commanded by the KING to express to the corporation his displeasure at this proceeding." A letter from Munich of the 17th says— " Up to the present time the Government has permitted a great number of persons, and particularly editors of news papers, to receive exceptionally by post foreign journals dis approved of by the censorship. The Minister of the Interior has now decided that editors alone shall be allowed to receive such journals, and on the express condition of taking an oath not to let them leave their office—not to communicate their contents to more of their colleagues than shall require them for editing their paper—and to deliver them up within a delay of twelve hours to the censor, who is to give a re ceipt for the same, guarding them under key for the Go. vernment." Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived. The I3turitz candidates for the Vice-Presidency of the Chamber have been defeated, and Senor SEIJAS LOZANO and Senor JOSE CONCHA, who belong to the Moderado Oppasition, have been elected. The Heraldo publishes the following list of those likely to form part of the new Ministry:— The Duke de Sotomayor, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. Arteta, Minister of the In terior; M. Bravo Murillo, of Grace and Justice; M. Sotelo, of Marine; and M. Sierra y Moya, Minister of Finance ad interim, it being still hoped that M. Mon would consent to retain that department. No Cabinet had, however, been formed on the 22d, and it was considered not improbable that the Duke DE SOTOMAYOR would be obliged to resign the task he had undertaken. The corps enlisted by General FLORFS to form pat of the Ecuador expedition was recently disbanded al Santander. The Three per Cents. were done at 313 a for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 20 - ; the Coupons at 18:A ; Vales at 8%; and Passivff, 6%. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The publication of the additional dispatches on the subject of the Montpensier marriage, more particularly of the note of the Marquis of NORMANDY to Lord PAL MERSTON, has produced a groat sensation in Paris. No defence of M. GUIZOT has been attempted even by his own journals, and the Presse is reduced to the necessity of protesting against the rancour of Lord PALMERSTON, which, it says, the fall of M. G ufzof:will not calm unless it is accompanied by the fall of the KING of the FRENCH also. One effect of the publication of these dispatches has been to reconcile the differences which had broken out among the members of the Opposition. The seceders will now join M. THIERS in a vote condemnatory of the foreign policy of M. Gurzo.r. With the exception of 31. GUIZOT'S own journals, which say nothing on the subject, the papers of pll shades and parties are unani mous in giving expression to their feelings of shame and indignation at the disgraceful trickery of M. Gmaor. After copying the dispatch of the Marquis of NOR MANDY to Lord PALMERSTON, dated Sept. 25; the SitWe says— Lord PALMERSTON iS in receipt of an answer from the French Government to his last dispatch upon the Montpensier marriage. We sincerely hope that its contents may not require another missive. Unless, indeed, M. GUIZOT'S reply should be so speciously framed as to be calculated still further to misrepresent and distort the actual facts of the case, we can well afford, consistently with our dignity, and the full maintenance of national honour, to allow the cor respondence to close. Until, however, the last docu ment be made public, as it soon will be, it is impos sible to decide whether the discussion can, with pro priety, be at once suffered to terminate. As the matter stands at present before the public, Lord PALMERSTON must feel proud of the part which Eng land has adopted, under the auspices of his adminis tration of the Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs. His diplomatic adversary is sunk to the lowest point of humiliation. M. GUIZOT is irrecoverably degraded. He has rendered himself a political eyesore to every court of the civilized world. M. GUIZOT is a melan choly spectacle. Nut many months since, no man enjoyed a higher reputation than he did. Not only as an historian, philosopher and a statesman, had he acquired an enviable and European celebrity, but his virtues were esteemed to be equal to his talents. The fullest reliance was placed in his honour and in tegrity, and he was considered a choice representative of the French nation for maintaining her intercourse with foreign Powers. In an evil hour M. Gutzon consented to be the obsequious tool of a subtle and faithless KING, the bitter effects of which he is now beginning to feel. Henceforth M. GUIZOT will find himself placed without the pale of honourable men. For a time, everything seemed to smile upon his deceitful manoeuvres. M. GuizoT and his colleagues embraced the conceit that their successful legerdemain would cause them to be caressed and admired by their own polished and chivalrous country. Tolluntur in altum, ut lapsu graviore ruant. The hour of retribution is at length come, and how rapid is the fall of the French Minister ! That portion of the press itself, which comprises the accredited organs of the Go vernment, is shamed into silence by the gross breach of faith which, it is now as clear as daylight, stamped the whole of M. GUIZOT'S conduct in relation to the marriage of the INFANTA. The tide of public opinion in France herself is rolling back with fearful strength upon the head of the un scrupulous and unprincipled Minister. 'We venture to say, that no Old Bailey prac titioner would have had recourse to the miser able subterfuge to which M. GUIZOT descended before our Ambassador, the Marquis of NOR • MANBY. The French can never remain passive till M. GUIZOT be cashiered from office. It cannot but occur to them, that the Northern Potentates must chuckle at the idea of receiving a strong moral protest from M. GUIZOT, upon the recent in corporation of Cracow, whose own hands were reeking at the time with the most flagrant breach of morality. How devoid of weight must be every French remonstrance emanating from the pen " We defy any man of honour, to whatever opinion he may belong, to read the account given in this dispatch without the blood rushing into his face. Either Lord Nor manby is an impostor, unworthy to represent the Govern ment of a great country—and we are not aware that such an accusation has ever been brought aga i nst hi m — or the con ductres contemptible. ad e noo t ,hom o f i t M m . a G y ui s z u o i t t t i s o b s o e v t e h r e u i s g or l epen te y bu twe e r know whether there exist in Fr ance men, a system, party, a con vinced that the nation will never acknowledge Ministers who, instead of nobly upholding its rights and its interests, can only intrigue, trick, and lie." The Constitutionnel thus sums up the documentary evidence which has been on published this question, and as this article may be taken as the programme of M. 'rniEns' speech in the debate on the Addres • • Address, it acquires additional importance: 4 , Although those marriages are regarded in different points of view, those w ho do not c onsider that a more strict union between the reigning families of France and S • pain was pur chased too dearly at the price of the suppression of Cracow, as well as those who consider that the postponement of the union would hav e been mor e advantageous for France, well as for the c ause of liberty, are unanimous i n il as ibert spect. Every man_ feeling for the honour of o F e France w i s h e s that its Government should ), viola not be accused with justice of hav , i , g .r ted every rule of sinceritv and good faith." that her Government, when it wishes to attain an object, hi.s less need than any other to have recourse to duplicity. Let any man examine the docu ments which we pla ce under t he eyes of our reader s , and let judge him if the fair reputation of our country has not re ceived a most lamentable stain, M. Guizot never ceased to repeat, both in writing and at the tribune of the • ministry • in is t limber of Peers, that the Whigpolicy different practised the question of the marriages a line of policy different from that of the Tory Ministry'. We have already) compared the disp a t c h o f th e 19th of July, in which Lord 1 almerston explained confiden tially to Mr. Bulwer the state of the question, with the (Es ' patch officially add ressed by Lor d Aberdeen to the Duke d e Sotomayor to explain,..on the 22d of June, 1846, the senti ments of the English Government with regard to the mar riage. Every man will see the identity of the two policies. We reprint those two important dispatches, adding to them a series of dispatches, addressed by Lord Aberdeen to Sir R. Gordon, to Lord Cowley, and to Mr. Bulwer, the representa tives of Great Britain, at Vienna, Paris, and Madrid. Those documents complete the proof of that fact. On the 6th of July, 1846, the Ministry of which Lord Aberdeen formed part retired from office. Lord Cowley remained, neverthe less, for some time, as British Ambassador at Paris. In a dispatch, a ddressed on the 13 th of July to Lord Palmerston, he furnished him with the substance of Sir It. Peel's policy with respect to the Spanish marriages. On the 19th of July Lord Palmerston wrote to Mr. Bulwer—it will be seen that he had Lord Cowley 's letter before him, and that he con formed himself in all points to the opinions expressed and to the instructions given by his predecessor. Nevertheless the Spanish G o vernment again addressed the new B r iti s h Ministry, the French Government, and the Prince of Saxe . Coburg himself, o n the plan of an alliance between that Prince and Queen Isabella. M. Guizot denied in one of his notes that the Marquis de Dliraft)res was charged with a mis• sion on that subject to the French Government. A. dispatch of Lord Cowley, dated 20th July, obliges M. Guizot to ac knowledge that at least he was not completely i n f ormed. The Whig Ministry replied by a refusal to the overtures of the Spanish Government in favour of the Prince of Saxe Coburg, the Prince having d ema nded as a condition th e as sent of the French Government. Lord Palmerston declared to Count Jarnac on the 24th of July (five days after the date of the dispatch so much used by M. Guizot) that the candidate preferred by him, as well as by Lord Aberdeen, was Don Enrique. Lord Palmerston wrote on the 3d of August to Mr. Bulwer that one of the reasons why the pretensions of the Prince of Saxe -Coburg were not sup. ported by England was, that the marriage of the Queen with this Prince would be an object .of dissension be tween Spain and France. From that moment until the 28th of August the English Cabinet gave at London, at Madrid, and at Paris, every proof of i t s de sire to enter into co-operation with France in favour of Don En rique. Neither M. Guizot nor M. Bresson were ignorant of this fact. M. Guizot promised the Marquis of Normanby, on the 28th of August, on his arrival in Paris, that he would write to M. Bresson, in that sense. Never theless, three days afterwards, namely, on the Ist of Septem ber, M. Guizot announced to the Marquis of Normanby th a t the two marriages were arranged. He declared that the two marriages would not take place at the same time, without, however, engaging to wait until the Queen had children. We know that the two marriages were solemnized at the same moment. When the Marquis of Normanby was ap prised of this fact, he waited on M. Guizot and reminded him of his words. Do you know how Guizot explained them 1 ' I meant to say,' replied he, that the Queen should be married .first*—to which the Marquis of Normanby re plied that he had given to the words of M. Guizot their natural interpretation, and that he could not imagine that M. Guizot wished simply to say, that the Queen should walk first in the ceremony. These are some of the facts re vealed by those documents." The National asks— " Had we not reason to be indignant against a Minister declaring one thing positively, then denying his word, then again, when driven to ackowledge them, endeavouring to explain them by a most untenable quid pro quo? Whit can be the opinion formed of this man by an Ambassador who detects him in a flagrant imposture ? What opinion can Europe entertain of a French Minister who can thus deal in the gravest affair e" After recapitulating the facts of the case the National thus proceeds:— ' There is but one e.xcuee for M. Guizot; it is the language of such a ccnvicted Minister! Lord ABERDEEN, throughout the voluminous lispatches, has been besmeared and bespattered with foul and fulsome praise Iv M. GEIZOT ; but in the House of Lords, on Friday night, the Earl of ABERDEEN said, "I hope this House may not be called upon to give any opinion upon the Spanish marriages." The inference is plain—there can be but one opinion upon the sub ject -matter. Where public sentiment in either nation is so strongly evinced, it is unnecessary for Lord ABERDEEN to be more explicit. The French are keenly sensible that their national interests have been selfishly sacrificed to a purely dynastic feat. The English are satisfied that, whilst they alone sought to consult the independence of Spain, and to observe treaties inviolate, they have preserved their honour immaculate. i The citizens of Salisbury have set an excellent exam ple to the electors of England generally, and more I especially to the oleotora of all Catl4edrttl tows A THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 184.7. repeated successively by M. Laffitte, by M. Thiers, by Count , Mole, by himself, in his last note but one to Lord Palmer ston—' I did not know all!' In fact, in a preceding dis patch, Lord Palmerston, wishing to prove that Spain was endeavouring to have the Coburg Prince, affirmed that the Marquis de Miraflores came to Paris with that object; that he had passed six weeks in en deavouring to gain it ; that he was afterwards to proceed to London. These facts were precisely stated. M. Guizot answered with equal precision, saying— 'lt is completely incorrect that the Marquis de Miraflores was charged with such a mission, and I affirm that he did not say one word to me on the subject during his sojourn in Paris. This is clear and dis'inct. Read, however, the correspondence, and you will find in two dispatches from Lord Cowles', the man of Lord Aberdeen, an authentic proof that Miralbares did come to Paris with that intent; that he had an audience at Neuilly, and that he afterwards spoke of it to the English Ambassador. If M. Guizot did not know all this, why was he Minister? If he did know it, and denies it, how great must be the contempt with which he is covered in his own eyes? The Chamber may now be enlightened upon the manner in which this negotiation has been conducted." The Legitimatist journals, the France and the Quofi dienne, are equally severe in their strictures on the con duct of M. GUXZOT, and rumours were current in Paris on Thursday that, he will be obliged to retire, as he cannot hold out against the force of public opinion. " These rumours," says the Commerce, " were the topic of conversation everywhere yesterday; no one doubted the fall of the Ministry. Some asked, at the Chamber, ' What position M. GUIZOT would hold as a simple Deputy?' When M. DIPIN replied—' The Doctrinaires are intriguers to arrive at power, insolent when they are in it, and intriguers when tamed out.' " The Corn Importation Bill was passed by the Chamber of Peers on Wednesday nem. con. The Moniteur states, that during the first fortnight of January, 385,268 hectolitres of grain and flour hare been imported into France. The quantity imported into Marseilles on the 22d alone amounted to 99,217 hectolitres of grain, and 1,100 metrical quintals of flour. The importations during the month of December had been 1,025,337 hec tolitres. The Minister of Commerce'has announced that from the Ist of January to the Ist of November, 1847, foreign flour of different kinds will be admitted under the flag of any nation, and at a moderate rate of duty, into the colonies of Martinique, Guadaloupe, and Bourbon, and at St. Louis and Goree. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 771. 35c. ; the ,Five per Cents., 117 f. 40c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,212 f. 50c.; Rouen, 875 f.; Havre, 675 E ; Great Northern, 605 E ; Avignon, 8171. 50c.; Vierzon, 560 f. ; Bordeaux, 537 f. 50c.; Basle, 2001.; Paris and Strasburg, 4701; Tours and Nantes, 467 f. 50c.; Paris And Lyons, 486 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 4801. ; Cette, 447 f.. 50c.- ' • Spanish Active, 33% ; Sp an i s h Th ree per Cents., 34; Spanish Domestic Debt, 30 BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 29. Boulogne and Amiens, 14%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Mackenzie), 1% —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 13 Outejl.lthenish,4%—East Indian, '4—Namur and Liege, 3—Northern of Prance, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 4 —Paris and Lyons, 71. i THE WEST INDIA COLONIES MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Night.): The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was steady. Sales, 8,000 bales. Shares were at rather advanced rates. There is an arrival to-day with later news from the Bra zils. 11. M. packet Express brings dates from Rio to the 15th December, with some papers from Buenos Ayres. The coffee crop was large, but not of the best quality. The ex change on London had declined a little, viz., to 28d. There is nothing new from Buenos Ayres, where the conflict will be probably renewed unless our Government and that of France speedily bring about an arrangement; no light matter, even now. A splendid specimen of American naval architecture now lies in the London Docks, viz., the new liner, named, in com pliment to the late Premier, Sir Robert Peel. The burden of this ♦essel is about 1,000 tons, and the arrangements are not only elegant as regards the superior cabins, but admirable likewise in reference to the accommodation for steerage passengers, 400 of whom can be comfortably housed between decks, with a height of 7% feet, and at the low rate of about 5/. each. This ship for solidity and symmetry beats even her predecessors, and not the least interesting fact in connexion with her is, that she was built in the short period of three moths from the lay ing down of the keel, by one of the first American ship wrights, and under the superintendence of her able com mander, Captain Daniel Chadwick, who has made 149 voy ages, extending over a period of, we believe, twenty-seven or twenty-eight years, and never had but one casualty, vie., the loss of a rudder and three men overboard. The Sir Robert Peel brings over a glorious free-trade cargo, and bids fair to sail on even more triumphantly than the beautiful ship Wellington, so often brought to port by the same able sea manship. '1 he Bank of England continues to diminish its reserve of notes, and if this goes on, must limit further its accommo dation to the mercantile public. The principal variations last week in the position of the corporation were these : Notes issued Decrease Notes, decrease Rest, increase Seven days and other bills, decrease Other securities increase Bullion Decrease 505 801 _ , _ The other deposits were increased to a small amount, and the public deposits were further drawn upon by 365,7001. There has been an improved market for the Public Secu rities, and the quotations are higher, although the Bourse at Paris is reported to have been in an agitated state. Consols are 91% % for Money, and 91 1 , to 3 / 4 for Time. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 93% 5 / 8 . Bank Stock is firm at 201 to 205. Exchequer-bills remain at ss. to Bs. premium. The Foreign Investments, though quiet, are at rather fuller rates. Portuguese Four per Cents. 34 1 ,1 %, and Spanish Three per Cents. 34%• %. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are sei. Railway Sharea are all better to-day, and there has been a fair business done. There has been some considerable business done in railway shares during this week on the New Stock and Share Ex change, Old Broad-street. Two or three failures took place, arising entirely from heedless speculation in the new conveyance projects, several of which have all the appearance of being the most consummate swindles, the low deposit being an easy decoy for the unwary. One of the defaulters has been expelled from this market. The committee of management - have resolved, it is not to admit any more of these trifling specs. without some guarantee as to their bond fide nature, and the determination of the promoters to carry out their engagements, as many of them became purposely abortive, in order to filch the deposits of the speculators. BItITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRII:ES. .. 205 204 204 Lam: .1 gi • - _ - 4 , •i A 4 , 11111 M • mo:1 : ito Motnin Aims LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1847. When MACHIAVEL wrote . his " Prince " he so far appreciated the difficulties of legislation as to sanction the employment of the most questionable means for the gaining of any political end. So thoroughly was the mind of that profound thinker impressed with the comprehensiveness of foresight and the extent of analogical power required in states manship, that he found it impossible to purge from his philosophy the cunning and reprehensible prin ciples which were prevalent in his day. What was difficult in his generation is no less difficult in ours. And the same great science of civilization which pre sented obstacles to the depraved and licentious saga city of the I3oecre3 has, in different epochs, presented equally gigantic obstacles to LYCURGUS and ALFRED, to MAHOMET and DRA CO, to RICHELIEU and CON FUCIUS. Whether we look to the pandects of Jus- TINIAN or to the code of NAPOLEON, we shall recog nise, even in those miracles of human wisdom, the magnitude and intricacy of the evils which must be vanquished by the legislator. Nor are the evils op posed to the proper administration of the law less numerous and embarrassing than those opposed to the accumulation and fabrication of the law. In each of the grand stages of legislation—the creative and adMinistrative—the obstacles to government are so enormous as to be almost incapable of exaggeration. As Sir PETER Pate RUDENS said, we think it was, of Meseccio, " It is impossible to speak of him in language too extravagant," we ourselves might say of these difficulties of statesmanship. The mainte nance of a country in a state of happiness and pros perity requires of itself a vast exercise of intelligence. It is, therefore, easily comprehensible that in times of general involvement and national destitution the ad ministrators and improvers of the law must be taxed to the utmost stretch of their sagacity. Plain and in disputable as these things are, there are thousands who regard them with either a real or pretended in credulity. We more than suspect it is the latter ; we mire than suspect that the multiplicity of the duties and responsibilities devolving upon an Admi nistration are wilfully depreciated by many for the furtherance of their own selfish interests. What we have just observed, with reference to legislation generally, is peculiarly applicable to legis lation in our own country, and at this particular period of scarcity and indigence. Indeed, the diffi culties inseparable from legislation are multiplied in exact proportion with the progress of civilization and the improvement of the constitutions of the empire. To express this plainly—it requires less exercise of the intellect to become a despot than to become the parent and guardian of a nation. The preservation of a proper balance among the interests and liberties of a populous kingdom necessitates the utmost caution ; the deliverance of a populous kingdom from want and wretchedness necessitates the utmost precaution. These truths are literally the A B C of political knowledge; yet the ignorance or blindness of a large portion of the community upon this point is so obvious, that we conceive it would be well for them to revert to their political hornbook, and relearn by heart the chapters of their political catechism. It is very easily to see that there is an enormous amount of disquietude amongst a certain class at the precautions adopted by the Government at this ex traordinary crisis ; and it is very easy also to perceive the cause and origin of that disquietude. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, like a prudent and sagacious statesman, conceals from this class the precise proportions of the debt which must ultimately be incurred by the Exchequer for the alleviation of the pre sent distresses in Ireland and Scotland, and the estab lishment of permanent sources of prosperity where ever the existing evils indicate the insufficiency of the existing system. The other day we likened the miseries which have succeeded each other in Ireland to the emergings of the destructive agencies from the box of Pandora. We said, moreover, and we said it with exultation, flea now those deplorable visitations have streamed out upon that island, there is still a residuum, as in the beautiful fable of Greece, and that that residuum is Hope. Yet it is this last boon, this last saving clause, this solitary cable which alone prevents the vessel of Irish Government from drifting out irremediably into the dark sea of national ruin and debasement; it is this sacred solace—Hope—which the class we have mentioned would eagerly destroy— if they could. They know that it is the impera tive and solemn duty of a Prime Minister situated as the present Prime Minister of England, is to em ploy every rational and honourable means for impart ing confidence to the popular mind in these hours of peril. They know perfectly well that the machinery, of this constitution is so exquisitely and intricately contrived that the very exposure of its secret opera tions would inevitably throw it into confusion. They know perfectly well that, while Lord JOHN Russee.s. must in the end require an extraordinary loan for the expenses incurred in the alleviation of the sufferings of Ireland, it is for a million reasons as clear as the daylight that it would be criminal in him to make mat ters worse by prematurely divulging the extent of that ulterior loan. Yet, knowing these things, and ap preciating their justice, the great class of egotists to which we are referring are indignant with the Go vernment, because, by postponing the announcement of the additional revenue requisite for the emergency, Government deprives them of that most lucrative card--an,opportunity of turning money with a maxi mum of interest, and the State the borrower! When the secrets of Government are known, these men may, it is true, act prejudicially upon the national interests by furthering their own, but, thank GOD, ,hey cannot arrive at those secrets, in defiance of the wisdom and silence of the Cabinet! Mr. Su A RMAN CR A wroRD has long been honourably distinguished for the zeal and energy with which he has applied himself to what may be termed the land lord and tenant question in Ireland ; he has made him self perfect master of all its details, and after ful examination he has satisfied himself that to its prac tical defects, and the manner in which the letting and management of land has been conducted in his native country, much of its distressed state, and the dis ordered natur e of its social relations, may be attributed. d H i s e t r h i as t s s , e e i n n thatwti which a peculiaraportionoftimetucsotoumntrhya,d prevailed,t that certain where it had b een sanctioned and recognised proprietors, and act e d on b y the occupiers, of the by sothe il, en, pruented a remark a bl e contrast to, and bad th r i v and improved in compariso n w i t h other Parts, whet TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN IN PARLIAMLIST ASSEMBLED. The Petition of the undersigned Agects appointed by the Legislatures of the West India Colo nies hereinafter mentioned. Showeth, I. That your petitioners feel called upon to express, on behalf of the Colonial Legislatures, by whom they are accredited, their gratitude to your Honourable House for having been pleased to entertain the pro positions that sugar may be used in the public breweries and distilleries, and that a reduction in the present duty on ruin imported into Great Britain and Ireland shall forthwith take place, approximating to an equalisation of duty with that on British spirits in this country. 2. The undersigned deem it a matter of sincere con• gratulation that the principle of treating the colonies as an integral portion of the empire is thus practically re cognised as a principle which they confidently hope will be speedily and substantially carried into effect in all its bearings. 3. Your petitioners may, nevertheless, be allowed to observe that the permission prayed for by the colonists, to have sugar and molasses used in the public breweries and distilleries, will not avail the West India planters unless the measure be a permanent one ; it holds out no inducement otherwise fur the investment of capital in the cultivation of their estates. Your petitioners regret to find that molasses is not in cluded in the proposed concession, and it would seem that restrictions are contemplated as to the permission to use sugar in the public distilleries, which may impede the success of the measure. 5. Your petitioners submit that, as molasses is ad mitted into consumption into Great Britain at a fixed duty levied by her Majesty's Customs, there ca❑ be no real difficulty in allowing cane juice to be imported also at a fixed duty, nor in admitting both of them for use in the public breweries and distilleries on the same being trans ferred duty paid (as is proposed to be done in regard to sugar) direct from the bonded warehouses to the public breweries and distilleries, where the molasses and cane juice may be dealt with under such regulations for the protection of her Majesty's revenue as may be deemed requisite, but to be so framed and acted upon as not to preclude the free use of them in such public breweries and distilleries. 6. In regard to cane juice, it is to be observed that the want of labourers in the British West Indies pre cludes many of the planters from converting the cane Juice into sugar, to their great loss and injury. The undersigned are authorised to state that these concessions would materially promote the interests of the cilonies which they represent. The undersigned respectfully pray that your Honour able House will be pleased to take the premises into your favourable consideration. T. P. MAYERS, Agent for Barbadoes. E. L. NUGEN r, Agent for Antigua and Montserrat. T. COLQUHOUN, Agent for St. Christo jdatn h . e 2 V s :r l g B i 4 n 7 s . . phers, St. Vi ncen t, D om i n i ca, N ev i s, a St. James's ace, and ENFIELD AND EDMONTON RAIL WAY. The first general half-yearly meeting'of the proprietors of this line was held on Saturday, at the London Tavern; Captain Owen in the chair. The directors presented a report and submitted the ac counts to the meeting, by which it appeared that a balance of 7514 6s. 4d. remained in the hands of the treasurer. Ground has been purchased at Enfield for the erection of a station, and terms have been come to with the Northern and Eastern Counties Company for a junction with their line. A contract has also been entered into with Sir. ii. Earle for the construction of the works for 20,5001., the line to be com pleted within five months after possession of the land has been obtained. The report on the motion of Captain BOSANQUET, seconded by Dr. ASTLEY Hot.; was unanimously adopted. Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting was dissolved. MADAGASCAR, PAST AND PRESENT. BY A RESIDENT. —We are requested to state that the new work under the above title is this day published by Mr. Bentley (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty), and may be had of all booksel lers, in one volume, price 9s.—Mr. Bentley has also just pub lished the following new works :-2. The experiences of a Gaol-Chaplain, comprising Recollections of Ministerial In-' tercourse with Criminals of various Classes, with their Con fessions, 3 vols., 11. Ifs. 6d.__3. The Homes and Haunts of the British Poets, by William Hewitt, 2 vols. Bve., with numerous engravings, 30s. bound.-4. The New and Con cluding Series of the Ingoldsby Legends, with a Memoir of the Author, edited by his Son, I vol., with illustrations by Leech and Georgd ruikshank, and two Portraits of the Author, 10s. 6d.—.5. A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay-Sotor, by G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Esq., T.R.S., &c., 2 vols. Bvo., with Map and Plates, 28s. bound.-6. The Outlaw, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, forming the New Volume of " The Standard Novels and Romances." 1 vol. neatly bound and embellished, 65.-7. Memoirs of General Pepe, written by himself, 3 vols. post Bvo., 11. lls. 6d.-8. The Life and Times of Sir Chris topher Hatton, by Sir N. Harris Nicholas, Bvo., with por trait, 15s. bound. Air. Wilson, the celebrated Scottish vocalist, the most popular of living singers at the other side of the Channel, is, we learn, about to visit Paris, to give a series of soiri"es, at which the musical world here will, for the first time, have an opportunity of hearing the national melodies of Scotland in perfection. Though an accomplished exec cutant, Mr. Wilson carefully avoids all the elaborate orna silents of the for e i gn sc h oo l s ; an d h ence hi s s i ng i ng, like the " native wood-notes wild" of his immortal countryman Burns, derives its charm, not from artistical display, but from the sweetness of his voice and touching power of expression, which finds its way to every heart—rare gifts, which are the true secrets of Wilson's universal success.— Galtlynani. OPERATION UNDER THR INFLUENCE OF ETHER.— An unusually large meeting of the medical staff, and noble men and gentlemen, interested in the important improve ment in the operative department of surgery, produced by the introduction of ether as a means of abrogating pain, took place in the operative theatre of the Westminster Hospital on Friday. The operator on this occasion, as upon the former successful trial of ether, was Mr. Hale Thomson, senior surgeon to the institution, and the apparatus employed was that of Mr. Robinson, on whom the duty of administer ing the vapour devolved. The patient was a young woman, apparently about 30 years of age, suffering from a painful tumour connected with the trunk of the body. In about three minutes insensibility was produced, and the operator, with a few strokes of his knife, succeeded in severing the tumour from an unusually broad connexion with the skin. The operation was rapidly and dexterously performed, and although the patient uttered some expressions of impatience at the commencement, yet it was some minutes before she was sufficiently recovered from her dream to answer the questions addressed to her. In her unprepared state the operation would have been one of intense suffering. Among the visitors present were Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Walsingliain, Viscount Falkland, Lord Morton, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir George Wombwell, Admiral Napier, and many distinguished foreigners. ALARMING ILLNESS OF MAJOR PAGET, AIDE-DE CAMP TO THE MASTER •GE.NERA.I. OF THE ORDNANCE. — W e regret to state that this officer is suffering from the effects of a severe attack of apoplexy, which he su,tained a few days Since while attending his officia l duties at the Ordnance Office, Pall-mall. It appears that he was walking from his own department to that of Lord Clarence Paget, when he was suddenly attacked, and fell prostrate. On slightly re covering, he was placed in a cab, _ganadect)on at Chelsea Roy a l conveyed to the resi dence of his father (General Sir . r Hospital, where he was attended b that, on Friday evening,y Dr. M`Laughlen, of t h a t establialiment. We are happy t oadd he was considerably improved, and that strong hopes an, now entertained of his recovery We understand that it is the intention of some of the political friends of Mr. Wakley, Member for Finsbury, to invite that gentleman to a dinner, to be held in the borough on an early day, for the purpose of manifesting towards him their high estimation of his character, and integrity as a member of the Legislature. Mr. Fielden, will be re- I .Meted to preside QLL the wagon. 91y 2 91!4 93% 9% 9 7-16 '249 Bank Stock .. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 91% 'three per Cent. Consols Annuities 91%%% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Antis. 93}, Long Annuities, Expire .tan. 5, 1860 .. Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 India Stock .. • • . .. 249 India Bonds, 1,000/. .. .. 10 Ditto, under 1,000/. .. 10 South Sea Stock .. „ „ „ Ditto, New Annuities .. 90% Consols for Account • • • • .. 91% N l ,,i Exchequer Bills. d. 1 d. 5 8 pm. 5 5001. 5 9 pm. S Ditto, Small 6 5 9 pm. 9 ONE O'CLOCK. FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, New, 1843 Equador Bonds .. 'Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent • .. Ditto, for the Account Portfiguese Four per Cent Ditto, for the Account .. .. Russian Bonds tipanisli Bonds, 5 per Cent •• .. for the Account • • • • .. 24% Ditto, Passive Bonds .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. 34 % Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 94 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 58% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certillcates .. 91% 924 BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. .. 25 .... 23% • • Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .• • • - .• .. - Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 14% %••• • • • . Itirming., Wolver., and Dudley • • 425. •.••• • • • • • Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 •• •• . Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 225. .... .. ••..• • • • Buckinghamshire 845. .......... Caledonian (Ditto, Half Shares .. 2%.... 2 ...... Cornwall .. 5 .... Direct Northern Scrip .. .......... Eastern Counties .. .. 20 22% .......... Ditto, New .. .. 14 .... Do. I'crpet., b per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. ....... Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. . . Ditto, York Extension .. 4 .... 5 East Lancashire . • .. 14 •• • - 16 1 , 4 . Ditto New .. .. 5 .. • • 7 Lie •••• • • • • Ditto, ditto New Scrip 2% East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... •• • Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 74 .. • • ..... . Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 .... 20% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% 18 k Ely and Huntingdon .. 12%.... Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. .. • . • • ...... Great Northern (London & York 2 Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3%.... 3%% 3 Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 27% ••• • • 27 Great North of England . ..100 ....237% .. ••• • • • Great Western .. 85 • • —127% .. Ditto, New 4% .... 9% .......... 9 % Hull and Selby .. .. 50 •• .. Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% 23 .• ........ Ipswich sad Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 .... 12 Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 .... •• .• •• • • Lee.ls anti Bradford .. .. 35 .......... Leeds and 'fhirsk 22% .......... Ditto, Preference G per Cent... 3% .. Liverp., Manch., & Newe. London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8% x Ditto. New .. 4 •• • • ...... Ditto, Extension .. .. .......... London, Brighton, and S Coast • 50 . 56% London an North-Western . ..100 .... 195 .......... Ditto, Fifths .. .. 2 .... .......... Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (A) 5 •••• 12 ..... London and South-Western .411. Gs. 10d... 65 Ditto, Scrip •• .. 5 .... .. London and York Scrip .. 2% •• • • Ditto, Extension ditto • • • 2 % •• • • •••• • • • • Lynn and Dercham .. • • 15 .... •••• .. • • Manchester and Leeds .. 82 .• .. 110 .... •• . Ditto, Quarter Share:, .. 12 .... Ditto, Fifths 5 .... 11 .. .. 344 PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. 5 }ixn ........ 4;4 . 56 195 - - Ditto Extension .. 425. .. .• 1 1 i p. .. Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... p ....... Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... Midland _lOO ... 129 127......•• 127 Ditto, New 30 .... 37 •• •• •• .• 37 Ditto, New .. .. 2 .... 65, 1, .. •. . . 6 Newcastle and Berwick .. 20 .. • . 33.74 • • .•• • . 33•% Norfolk .. • •• 101) •• ~ •• Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 • .. .... • • Northern Counties Union .. 2% North British.. 25. :• . • • 35% Ditto, Halt Shares .. 11 •• • • 15% no, Extension .. • • .. .• • • 1 •• • . Ditto, Thirds .. • • • . 1 • North Staffordshire .. • . .. 5 .... 8%14 ...... North Western .. 2 Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 17% ........ • • Preston and Wyre 25 Scottish Central Scottish Midland .. 17% .... 19% • - . Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole .. 2%.... • Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... ........ 414 Ditto, Class B •• • • •• 1 'AI •• • • 1 %•••• • • • • 1 74 Shropshire Union .. . 425. % dis. •••• • • % dis. South Staffordshire Junction ..11.135.4d.. . 1 p South Eastern and Dovor .. 33% .... 38% 3s Do., New (do. 151.) .. , ;o. 4. J% ........ „ 4 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole .. .. • .. .. 2 .... 2%14 4 2 Trent Valley and Midland June. 425. .......... 3 p West Riding Union 425. • . . • ••• • • • • .174 p York and Newcastle 25 .... 39 .. 39 Ditto, New.. .. 5 ••• 13 % 1 04%•••• 121; Ditto, Preference .. .. 2 .... 7% % ........ York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Selby Ditto, Extension •• .. 20 .... 37% ........ Ditto. Preference •• .. 2 .... 12% 13% 77 77 DO. E. and W. Riding Extern .• • 1417% ...... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish .. .. 7 .... 4% •• East In ila•1 . ss. .... %.. •. • Great Southern of Madras • . .. ss. • ... .. Luxembourg Namur and Liege Northern of France . • .. 8 .... . • Rouen and Havre . .. 20 .... 26% MINES. Real dcl Monte, Unregistered —3% DEATH OF THE REV. DR. BROWN.—In our obitu ary of this week will be observed the death of the Rev. Dr. Brown, of Free St. John's, Glasgow. From the high posi tion which he held in the urch, his death will be felt to be o a u p t s ub c l o ic t lluons dWith s and will t excite a exception melancholy of Gla sgow, interest histhroug death h will be nowhere more felt than in this local ity—the place of his birth, and the scene of his labours in the prime of man hood. Dr. Brown was educated at Wallace Hall Academy, Closeburn, of which place. we believe, he was a native, and was ordained minister of Tongueland in 1807; he has thus been honoured to labour in his Master's service for the long period of forty years.—Dumfries Standard. Tile King of Bavaria has authorised an association of ladies formed for rearing silk worms and promoting the growth of silk within the kingdom. The Queen has taken the association under her patronage, and is to name the pre sident. Its sittings are to be held at Munich. TAUNTON.—Our town was visited on Sunday night by one of the most awful thunder-storms, accompanied by hail and rain, we ever remember; it commenced about nine o'clock, and continued until nearly twelve. The rolling of the thunder, the flashing of the electric fluid, the howlings of the wind, and the pelting of the hail and rain made us shudder; but in the morning all traces of the hurric ne had passed away. We have not heard of any damage by the storm. —Sherborne Journal. RETURN OF THE COURT TO TOWN FOR THE SEAsoN.—Her Majesty will celebrate the seventh anniver• sary of her union with his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace, on the lOth of this month. The Court, according to present arrangements, will take its departure from Windsor Castle, for town, either on Tuesday, the 9th, or on Saturday, the 6th instant ; the former day being con sidered the most probable. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will leave Frogmore at the same time, for Clarence House, St. James's, for the season. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Royal Family, will pro ceed to Oshorua House, at the end of this month. The Court is not expected to remain at the Isle of Wight beyond .ten days or a fortnight. DEMOLITION Of UPPER ST. MARTIN'S-LANE. — On Friday the whole of the houses on the east side of Upper St. Martin's-lane, vested in the Mercers' Company, were being demolished for the formation of the new street from the west end of Long-acre to be carried into King-street, Covent-garden, and ultimately extended to the point of junc tion of Holborn, New and Old Oxford-streets, and Totten ham -court-road. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. —Yesterday morning the Queen r ounds and Prince Albert walked in the slopes and g around the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales. Pri Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their accustomed walking and pony exercise. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was 1 10 taken for an airing yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied Ca. IV Count Alexander Mensdoi ff. and attended by Lord moys, Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Colonel Seynlatif' enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterday morning. The Earl of Liverpool, Lord John Russell , and Sit Hamilton and Lady Seymour, arrived at the Castlo terday on a visit to the Queen. Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner left the Castle Yest el. day . The Royal dinner party at the Castle last eveniof included her Royal Highness the Duchess of lie? 4 Count Alexander Mensdarff, the Lady in Waiting of,t;ef Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth , the Earl Liverpool, Lord John Russell, and Sir Hamilton sr'. Lady Seymour. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended cluri,nbf, dinner, and her Majesty's private band per formed remainder of the evening. sort This morning her Majesty and her Roya l Con took their usual early walk. The Royal Family took walking exercise to the grounds adacent to the Castle. Que j en and Prince Albert, the Ladies and G el; tlemen of the Court, and the domestic householdh:pei tended Divine service this morning in the Pri vate c of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Les!ie Courtieo officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchei.s also attended the service. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Reyal ll 'este the Duchess of Gloucester yesterd . ay, at " -c House. mat A Cabinet Council was held on baturday aft erl3- 110 Lord J ° o ,,, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of I Ste downe, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, 01 Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the V lll , O Ol Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell,Virds' Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of rendon, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and th e Hon. 11. Labouchere. fqt The Counsel sat two hours and a half. Lord John Russell left town after the u ° "" Windsor Castle. Council Mr. Labouchere left town after the Brighton. 0 13 , t/ Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassad or ,'" Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, transa cted 110 ness at the Foreign- office on Saturday. Mr. Oswald, M.P., and the Hon. Mr. 131:gr .- tit! t°' an interview with the Chancellor of the Exem 6 l e t. Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-sfri; The Registrar-General had an interview tor Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson on Saturday, la 4.- Of of the Board of Trade. Mr. Buckingham had an interview with th e -"'" Clarendon on Saturday, at the Board of Trade dinfld - Lord John Russell will have a Parliamentalhi•s reir party on Slturday next, the 6th of February', 14 — dente in Chesham•place. f CO . The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House mons had a Parliamentary dinner party on Sat tirdi ;ri l‘ r ect The Earl and Countess of Minto and fami l i f d s P A at their new residence in Eaton-square on Sat 3l- s :to, The Duke of %Velliugton attended the elh-elie; yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James'i• - 01 Mr. Haden officiated and preached the sermon' gar, A daily service the Prayers were read by the s bt Repton, and the Lessons by the Rev. T. Helm e ; sermon was preached by the Bishop of Lon, -- o rest,, anthem was, "In thee, 0 Lord." Mr. r ra, r ' e rc i r at . the organ. Th 6 Marquis of Anglesey, P`' ville and W. Graham, and the Bishops of Ely a-4 ford, were among the nobility present. C' 40 SPORTING INTELLIGEN T c o As e j, LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE 8 ,, oD 0 , Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 Sovs each, and 100 6° to rd Weights to be published on the 10th, and acc e p . dared on the 17th of February. 4t P til Marquis of Waterford's Firefly Mr. R. J. 11foore's L''' _, O Mr. Oakey's Valeria Mr. Pearce's Jack v i V"' Mr. Hall's False Heir Mr. J. Malloy's F ag fit -- Plurarist Mr. Wesley's Grai",e - p O ,, Mr. Lambden's Discount Mr. J. Bowers's 6 10 0 " Mr. Choyce's Tea-pot Mr. Vevers' Little ftborlie Mr. Lockwood's Barmaid Mr. D'Arcy's Cu l. " 06 Mr. Watts na. St. Leger Mr. Robertson's 13allybar Captain Captain Barnett's Marengo Mr. Ducill's Jee d'''' Lot Lord Sefton na. b. g. by Glau- Mr. Elmore's Youngoog t e a r in ß c us a h rn b p ro b o c k w rit io l i l t a c i cus, dam by Belzoni Mr. C. Wicksted %%pee Lord Craven na. Blue Pill Mr. 0. Higgins s , ^ l •bii4 j , el et Mr. A. Browne's Midnight Mr. Kirkpatrick, s Sw i t ch Mr. Courteney's Matthew Lord Strathmors a ' Mr. T. Morris's Tamworth Mr' Bevill's Latitat r.Mangle's Sam Slick Sabine M Roarer j orOCA Mr. Smith na. Cumberland, Captain Gambier s ette Lassie Mr. Preston's n ruti Mr. T. Abbott's Proceed Fredericl4 christd ta Mr. W. Hall's Tramp Mr. Carnpbe ll'° Mr. A. Gordon's Palmerston North Grena d6 i 44/ Mr. C. C. Brooke's Eagle Mr. Anderson's ,•atlfr Mr. Moseley's Jerry Mr. J. P. Williams's Nimble Mr. :llr. B G l . a ro b b ue Hairy Mr. Waters' Cavendish Mr. Liddell's Praicereb, er Lord Eglinton's br hby Toni Mr. J. Townley na • usii l l Brown Mr. Payne na Sparta Mr. L. Standish na %foe' frrss tie IVO Colonel Taylor Q i -, :i ; Sir It. Brownrigg na Ragman Mr. W. Hammond t ' Mr. Craven na Mameluke BoyMr..rrjeaie 's ItednLaariu Getere .„,„ e oht s i,¢ LATEST BETTING AT MA.NCIIESTEN.- -- ' - ,, I „I CHESTER CuP.-8 to 1 agst Dawson's lot-- 20 ....."'" O A ' t Mendicant (taken)-25 to 1 agst Flitch (taken) to t 't o r agst Camera Obscura-28 to I agst Antler-- 00 Lst,,, Bedlam (taken)3o to 1 agst The Lamb-33 to ,I i' o , c ots' J' go•bragli--33 to 1 agst Punch-40 to- 1 agst - , ` ° 7 0 ;0 0 1 45 to 1 agst Mickey Free-45 to 1 agst Crim. Con.% 'l5 50 to 1 agst Bourton-50 to 1 apt Pal-1,000 to ,e/ Emigrant. t E V `d DERRY.-8 to 1 agst Van Tromp-10 to 1 ag s „- a t o l- c 17 to 1 agst Planet-28 to 1 agst Cobweb colt- -2 ' Coe t / Allertonian-50 to 1 agst Projectile-40 to 1 tig°% to pl ,e ham-40 to 1 'agst Red Hart-50 to 1 agst CO - 4 1,000 to 15 agst Bedlam. in rO li°4' y••••it METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-18 to I agst .., filet ~„ of to 1 agst Lady Sarah. C The following horses have been scratched for tiPi (oti t to p Cup :—Humdrum, 13ravissimo, Driffield, f by Colui r iii o ,o, Quid's dam), Lady Sarah, Baritam,Osprey,Wolf-dog, morrtil Miss Elis, Fimvaragh, Rufus, Sir Simon, Butre ° ' isr° Emmeline, Perpetual Motion, Sfielforth, ErP c ' 45 , Daughter Cossack, and-Watch-dog. 0 7 AOF ' l 4r. RIDGII/AY COURSING MEETING.—JA N• - : a is 1' , ,,, The Ridgway Challenge Cup, 16 dogs, Nag ", 1 , " Ridgwav's Fairlawn ; Mr. Jefferson's Jack ° gr , ran U p ,„ tt bi„tl• The Honorary Meirber's Cup, 16 dogs, was r a - nr ell"1.0 Hampson's Harriet ; Mr. Knowles's Kathleen o r I'o 4 The Martindale Stake, 16 dogs, was wcn by I V ' 00 Topsail ; Mr. Jebb's Lodsre ran up. GrA il A The Hesketh Stakes, 8 dogs, was won by Mr. ^". 0 Conciliation ; Mr. Swan's S o vereign ran up. gr. 0 The Scarrishrick Stakes, 8 dogs, was won by E , '6 ' Esperance ; Mr. Welsh's Whitefrost ran up. ii, r• The Dicconson Stake, 8 dogs, was won bY ' i ,„IP Ilornby's Heresy ; Mr. Slater's Snatch ran up. is ,. Or' The Southport Stake, 8 dogs, was won bY `". Original • Mr. Jefferson's Janel ran up. ~a A O v i l eS; AsIIL ' OWN PARK COURSING.—Jas. I°. - I : o 's' The Craven Stakes, 8 dogs, was won by Mr. PP - i i it , Mr. Lawrence's Lightning ran up. ° „ 0 11 The Ashdown All Aged Stakes, 12 dogs, WO - , i 14 1 '.}0 1 Gordon's Camlet ; Mr. Parkinson's Shepherdess fi r , ii The Lamburn Stakes, 8 dogs, was won by .4 ' eb 4 Plicenix ; Mr. Church's Champion ran up. , i rD The Weylanil Stakes, 8 dogs, was won by 111 r. FY , s 1, Fe' Mr. Bowles 's Bohea ran up, r. rdo° The Warren Stak es , 6 d ogs , was won by Mr. , A °- ,_ vourite ; Mr. Stile' s B aron ran up. r er9r ie oi The Eabbing Hou se St a k e was won by young `'- P e ' The Plough, 10 d ogs was won b y M r . Hibbard s Mr. Hedge's Hasty ran up. ~ '2 6 ', i 'l 1 , 1 „ r o. CAL r-DONIAN GOLD CUP MEETING.. Car„ The Caledonian Cup, 16 dogs, was won by A ir co ' l 4 Arsenic ; Sir W. C. Austruther's Madame Laffarge,'„ Sr' The St. Leger Stakes for 10 puppies, was wort w 00 Bailey's Ami ; Mr. Teasdale's Littledale ran up. p e al The Western Stakes were won by Baron of Ita" - Caunt running up. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. 11, Baron Rothschild's stghds., Thurs., Hardwick' Sir C. Constable's stglids, Wed., Wvton Toll .1 30r. 1 0!ir Bedale lids., Wed., Thorp Perrow; Fri.,.Kiplir l '''). Berkshire lids., Wed., Cokethorpe; Fri., Buck' s Cambridgeshire hds., Fri., Comberton-10 %i• Cleveland lids., Thurs., Onnesby-10 1 ,4. 1 01 ' Devon lids., Thurs., Ford House, Newton. h i o toe Durham County lids, Wed., Kennels; Fri., En 2. - F. 11. lids., Fri., Bishop's Wood-10 1 A. 1 t vg . Earl Fitzhardiuge's lids., Tues., Pewsdown—', l " . ISfi' n 'ior Haydon lids., Wed., Woodshield ; Sat., Flaniver y. Hurworth lids., Tues., Northallerton ; Thurs., - Gale; Sat., Kennels—R. ,1 1, t oti Mr. S. Lowndes' lids., Sat., Beachampton Gr'ri s ''' - eta . Oakley hds., Thurs., Cross Aiban's Wood; Sil t ' i al• wood-1,,f. to 11. Aett"" deft Lord Parker's lids. Tues. Tues., Kennel; Fri., HarPs;"sol Puckeridge hds., I; r ecl. Great Hales; Sat., Grea t ' —lolh. biet osi, ' Sinnington lids., Tues., Deal Stone Inn (Fl a Fri., Hovingham-10. Shag O ria r; Mr. Trelawneys lids., Tues., Brent ; Friday, Slit i loofo rt Mr. Watson's lids., Tues., Clifton; Thurs, Zia f oot Yilldon .Park-10 o °4 York and Ainsty lids., Tues., Whixley ; Thurg., ri or (Brafferton); Sat., Heslington-10 1 ,4. ,p kg rs , t , Mr. Drake's lids., Tues., Bourton Village __' . 1 -m - marsh G'uide Post ; Sat., Warden Kennel-10i- " 5 SO' CLERICAL AND INIEDICAL LIFE A-SSlTol4..forielArS CIETY.—An extraordinary general meeting of the P v 7od ic • - t t and the assured was held on Friday at the Come" hair rri t - o, Great Russell-street. Joseph Moore, Esq., 1 81 J"ti e ve 1,- e a - T r / • of the board of directors, presided. During the to ending 30th of June, 1846, the assets amounted t° rp luo yt 6s. 5d., and the liabilities to 484,5501., leaving 3 t ito 11 ;d 155,242/. Gs., while in 1841 the corresponding ' ti f the d e is ; only 89,000/. In conformity with the provisions °,,,ared;er one half of the profits is to be divided among the . 0 orn ha t , t he life, and one-sixth part among the proprietors; ", „mend to avoid inconvenient fractions the directors rec ° '.d for ,' division of 154,5001. This apportioned to the assn r ".tbire ED 77,350/., and to the proprietors 25,750/., leaving °b end, • the entire protit, amounting to 51,5004 to be 14 '" accumulate as a reserved fund. The 'proprietors r e d to th.e ri bonus of 5/. 3s. per share, and the assured had All. de r eers ,° A policies a sum of 114,031/., being the equiva l e nt in_ ltio , an; to 77,500/., payable at the death of the respective 1 0 361 forming an addition equal on an average to mer e fi v e yea;, cent. on the premiums received during the last entle°lll-0 Mr. Lydeker, Mr. Fielder, Mr. Streeter, and other t o re of t-f congratulated the proprietary on the gratifying n t O dineOL report. The next subject considered was the r elativu. some of the r , gulations and provisions of the societylere e. l to the investment of their funds. The directoref„anie.so powered to make loans to incorporated railway ,e ° 7l,nent to Great Britain and Irelend authorised by Act of lar D ine' borrow on mortgage or bond. It was also decided b ur b• ad: tenths of the amount, instead of two-thirds , Fn'g -P 6 vanced to parties assured on the security of were their l7° po et d to th sum of 1,4001. and an annuity of 20 01, no ted widow of the late secretary. Thanks having be en gig chairman, the matting separated._ CLOSING PRICES. 82 1 , 3 1 A 144 34 343/ 2 1 4 P % P P 26 % p 4 I) %, 16% 23 12 4 81N 2N 16‘ no 12 2 1! 2 35 151 89 37 1 , 13% 26 . '4