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The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-17

ST. PANCRAS VESTRY.

Yesterday a meeting of the vestrymen, guardians, and
directors of St. Pancras took place in the vestry-room of
the parish, and was numerously attended.
Mr. Churchwarden WAGSTAFF presided, and read the
principal heads of a letter addressed to the authorities of
the parish by the Poor-law Commissioners. .This letter
occupied forty-one printed pages ; and led to a discussion
relative to the intention of the Poor-law Commissioners
of exercising their control by the dismissal of the pa-
rochial officers. Ultimately the following resolution was
proposed and adopted :—" That this vestry consider the
interference of the Poor law Commissioners on this
occasion unnecessary and uncalled for ; and as the power
assumed by the Poor-law Commissioners is co,:trary to
the provisions of the local Act for the government of this
parish, the vestry is of opinion that the order and regu-
lations of the Poor-law Commissioners are invalid, and
therefore recommend the directors not to carry out the
same."

Carried unanimously.
Mr. M'GAHEY then read the report of the committee
appointed to decide on the measures to be adopted to-
wards Mr. Mills, the deputy coroner. In this report the
conduct of Mr. Mills was much censured, and legal steps
were recommended to be taken against him ; and

Mr. SMITH (the chairman of the committee) stated
that, as chairman, he felt bound to say that he did coin-
cide with the strong expressions of the report,
Much discussion ensued upon the motion for the
adoption of the report, and considerable diversity of
opinion was manifested. An amendment was at length
moved for the adjournment of the subject for one month,
which was carried on a division by a majority of 16 votes
to 11.
London, England, 1846-12-17

BIJSIIELL V. BOORD.-JUDGMENT.

Mr. Justice PATTISON gave the judgment of tl:e
Court in this case, which had been argued before his
Lordship during the last term, upon a motion to make
a rule absolute which had been granted, calling upon the
plaintiff to show cause why the judgment sad the exe-
cution should not be set aside, and parts of the money
levied returned.
The Court ordered the rule to be discharged with
costs.

BOLAN V. SHAW.—JUDGMENT.
Lord DENMAN gave the judgment of the Court in this
case, which came before their Lordships upon motion for
a new trial. The action h'►d been brought by the plain-
tiff against the defendant upon a special agreement
that he would instruct the son of the defendant
in farming, for 100 b a year, to be paid half-yearly.

The money had bean paid regularly till the last half-
year, when the defendant took away his son, and de-
clined to pay the money.
Their LORDSHIPS were clearly of opinion that no
suaicivnt ground had been bronght forward to induce the
Court to disturb the verdict which had been pronounced
in favour of the defendant.

MURRIETTA V. OLDFIELD.—JUDGMENT.
Lord DENNAN gave judgment in this case, ordering to
th• rule that had bt en granted to be discharged.
The Court then broke up
London, England, 1846-12-17

CANADA•

Our accounts from Montreal and Quebec are to the
latest dates, but there is not any news of importance to
St Pierre, Newfoundland, with the intention of destroy-
ing every house in the place. From 30 to 40 houses are
said to have been blown up, and two lives lost. The
villain who attempted the diabolical deed fell a victim to
his infernal designs.
A slight fall of snow had taken place in Quebec on
the 23d Nov. At that date there were between twenty
and thirty vessels in port ; the total number of arrivals
till the same time was 1,439. A meeting of the Friends
of Ireland, as they termed themselves, was held in the
Royal Standard Hotel, Quebec, for the purpose of peti-
tioning Parliament fur a repeal of the Union. Several
speakers addressed the meeting, after which a petition
was read, and unanimously adopted. This will comfort
the declining years of the Liberator. We suppose they
accompany their attachments to the repeal cause by con-
tributing to its sinking funds, and helping it to be "just
before it is generous."
The commercial advices from Montreal are not im-
portant, little business appeared to be doing, although
heavy arrivals are taking place daily. From the 20th
to the 24th November, 45,000 barrels of flour, and 70,000
bushels of wheat had arrived at Montreal.
London, England, 1846-12-17

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1846,

Despotism, in grasping at the last fragment of Po-
' land, has endangered the retention of all its previous
spoil. By their outrageous violation of all laws, both
human and divine, the laws of honour, of humanity,
of justice, and of Christianity, Russia, Prussia, and
Austria, have aroused in the western states of Europe
an indignation which cannot easily be allayed. They
have thrown aside the flimsy mask by which their
hypocrisy had been hitherto but slightly aided. They
have even cast to the winds the supposititious sanctity
of their own compacts, and have shown in a strik-
ing manner that the most solemn stipulations of
tyrants are as false as dicers' oaths. According to a
respectable adage, we may discover " honour amongst
thieves," but not all the proverbs of BACON, nor all
the maxims Of ROCHEFOUCAULT could persuade us

that any such redeeming quality is -discernable
amongst despots. History has proved the contrary
during successive generations. The rupture of trea-
ties from the earliest to the latest times may be de-
fined as the immediate cause of international' hos-
tilities—from the Punic wars to the Napoleon
wars, from the days of NIMROD down
to those of MASSENA. The recent proceed-

ings in Iberia and Galicia cannot therefore be
to us matters of astonishment. They are as explicable
as the effects produced by the simplest chemical expe-
riments. We cannot feel in any degree amazed that
the brother of the imperial egoist, ALEXANDER, and
the descendant of the ruthless CATHERINE, should
connive at the final robbery of Poland. We cannot
feel in any degree surprised that his accomplices are
a son of the false-hearted FRANCIS, and a descendant
from that great FREDERICK who tarnished his mili-
tary glory by forcing upon Holland a' Stadtholder
abhorred by the population. NICHOLAS has a por-
tion of that blood in his veins which flowed in those
of his predecessor, when the latter held communion
with the murderers of PAUL. That intensity of selfish-
ness which prompted the late Kaiser of Austria to
employ his daughter as an instrument for the destruc-
of his son-in-law, the Emperor NAroixoN, appears to
be a hereditary vice. King FREDERICK WILLIAM has
profited by the insidious examples of falsity and obe-
dience which were afforded in such abundance by the
Government of Berlin during the last European war.
As some of the subtlest and cruelest maladies penetrate
the muscular structure of the heart, the marrow of
the bones, and the very ganglions of the brain, and
are ineradicable by human art, so do the depravities
of despotism cling to its heirs, from generation to
generation, through the whole deplorable catalogue of
a tyrannical dynasty.

The great poet of the nineteenth century, when the
stipulationi were being entered into by the allied

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threw the stick would, in all probability, have had to !
answer a charge of felony at the Old Bailey, instead of
bringing an action for being charged with throwing a
stick ; besides the loss of 3/, for the glass, he narrowly
escaped srious personal injury. The Learned Counsel
urged that the witnesses had sworn to clear the plaintiff
and obtain damages and costs.
Two witnesses were called on behalf of the defendant,
who proved that although the crash was very great.
plaintiff walked along close to the shop very coolly, and
did not take any notice ;
but one of them swore he was
the man who threw the stick. The plaintiff was taken
into custody some time afterwards, and denied he had
been near the place all day, but the policeman said,
"Ob, yes you have ; I saw you larking in the after-
noon, and told you to leave off."--(The officer, in his exa-
mination, however, now said he was not confident as to
the identity).
Mr. PARRY said he was labouring under difficulty, as
so many counsel had been engaged in the case.
The UNDER•SRERIFF —Only one at a time, however.
Mr. PARRY—Just so, Sir ; it has been one down, the
other come on.
The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, and the jury gave
—Damages, One Shilling.
Mr. Robinson opened the case, Mr. Pearson examined
plaintiff's witnesses, and Mr. Hawkins addressed the
jury in reply.
London, England, 1846-12-17

its imperfections, like other human inventions, we do
not conceal ; but it is one thing to amend, and another
to destroy. The former, and not the latter, is the
spirit in which we should seek to free the grand jury
institution from the slender objections to which time
has laid it open ; but certainly we would guard it, in
every way, as it is, till our magisterial system shall
have been first thoroughly remodelled.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
On the morning of that day the Bey of Tuxes left
Paris for Toulon, on his return to Tunis.
These papers state that the Ministy have determined
to adopt a totally new plan for the Government of
Algeria, the object of which is to provide more effec-
tually for the safety of colonists, so as to induce them
to settle in the country. All the great military estab-
lishments are to be removed into the interior, instead
of being located on the coast, as at present. The
GoTernor-General, with his staff and the whole of
the military administration, will he removed from
Algiers to Medeah; which is to be their station for
the future.

The Governor of Oran, together with his staff and
military establishment, kill henceforth be stationed
at Mascara]. The Governor of Constantina will also
be removed into the interior, but no town has as yet
been fixed upon as his location.
The mails from Germany and Spain had not ar-
rived in Paris on Tuesday.
London, England, 1846-12-17

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman'.

This day is published, in 1 'col. foolscap Bvo price ss. cloth,
THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS in ROME
33 By the Rev... W. KIP, A.M. Edited by the. Rev. IV
SEWELL, 8.D., 'Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Oxford.
. Lately published, in 12mo , price Gs. bound,

The NEW SP'4AKEit. and HOLIDAY TASK-BOOK; selected
from Classical Greek, Latin, and English Writers. By the Rev. W.
SEWELL, B.D. .
London : Longman, Brown, Green. and Longmans.
London, England, 1846-12-17

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked, on Tuesday
afternor,n, in the pleasure grounds of Ost orne House.
Yesterday her Majesty and her Royal Consort touk
their usual early walk.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
took airings yesterday, in the walks and rides of Osborne
House.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at
the Foreign office. At half-past two o'clock the follow-
ing Alinisters assembled :—Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor. the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl
of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of
Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount
Nl(irpeth, the Enrl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon.
T. 13. Macaulay.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday
to att,nd the Council, from his seat Bowood-park, Wilts.
Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday from his
resil,nce, Chorley wood. The Earl of Clarendon ar-
rived in town from his seat Grove-park, Herts. The
Earl of Minto arrived in town yesterday to be present
%t the meeting.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

The Cabinet Ministers again assembled in the even.
in, at the residence of Earl Grey, in Belgrave-spare,
the Nuble Earl giving a Cabinet dinner.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday.
London, England, 1846-12-17

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1846.

Despotism, in grasping at the last fragment of Po-
land, has endangered the retention of all its previous
spoil. By their outrageous violation of all laws, both
human and divine, the laws of honour, of humanity,
of justice, and of Christianity, Russia, Prussia, and
Austria, have aroused in the western states of Europe
an indignation which cannot easily be allayed. They
have thrown aside the flimsy mask by which their
hypocrisy had been hitherto but slightly aided. They
have even cast to the winds the supposititious sanctity
of their own compacts, and have shown in a strik-
ing manner that the most solemn stipulations of
tyrants are as false as dicers' oaths. According to a
respectable adage, we may discover "honour amongst
thieves," but not all the proverbs of BACON, nor all
the maxims Of ROCHEFOUCAULT could persuade us
that any such redeeming quality is discernable
amongst despots. History has proved the contrary,
during successive generations. The rupture of trea-
ties from the earliest to the latest times may be de-
fined as the immediate cause of international hos-
tilities—from the Punk wars to the Napoleon
wars, from the days of NIMROD down
to those of MASSENA. The recent proceed-

ings in Iberia and Galicia cannot therefore be
us matters of astonishment. They are as explicable
as the effects produced by the simplest chemical expe-
riments. We cannot feel in any degree amazed that
the brother of the imperial egoist, ALEXANDER, and
the descendant of the ruthless CATHERINE, should
connive at the final robbery of Poland. 'We cannot
feel in any degree surprised that his accomplices are
a son of the false-hearted FRANCIS, and a descendant
from that great FREDERICK who tarnished his mili-
tary glory by forcing upon Holland a Stadtholder
abhorred by the population. NICHOLAS has a por-
tion of that blood in his veins which flowed in those
of his predecessor, when the latter held communion
with the murderers of PAUL. That intensity of selfish-
ness which prompted the late Kaiser of Austria to
employ his daughter as an instrument for the destruc-
of his son-in-law, the Emperor NAPOLEON, appears to
be a hereditary vice. King FREDERICK WILLIAM has
profited by the insidious examples of falsity and obe-
dience which were afforded in such abundance by the
Government of Berlin during the last European war.
As some of the subtlest and cruelest maladies penetrate
the muscular structure of the heart, the marrow of
the bones, and the very ganglions of the brain, and
are ineradicable by human art, so do the depravities
of despotism cling to its heirs, from generation to
generation, through the whole deplorable catalogue of
a tyrannical dynasty.
The great poet of the nineteenth century, when the
stipulations were being entered into by the allied
London, England, 1846-12-17

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, DECEMBER 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 75—Ditto, Halves, 1014 p.—London and North-West-
ern, 1941/2—Ditto, Quarters, 2034 p.—Ditto, ditto, New, 123/4
p.—London and Manchester, and Birmingham, 75—Ditto,
Quarters (A), 71/2 p.—Ditto, ditto (B), 71/2 p.—London and
South-Western New, 501. Shares (scrip), 3% p.—Ditto,
Tenths, s%—Ditto, New 501. Shares (scrip), 3/4 p.—Man-
chester and Leeds (late Huddersfield and Sheffield, 414 p.
—Ditto, Extension, 11/fi p.—Ditto Halves (late L. and B.),
p.—Ditto (late Manchester, Bolton, and Bury), Fifths, 5%
p.—Ditto, Extension, rk p.— Midland, 127—Ditto, New, 4%
p.—Newcastle and Carlisle, New, 103/4 p.—North British, 38
—Ditto, Quarters, 2% p.—Ditto, New, 18s. 9d. p.—Ditto,
Thirds, 27g, p.—North Union (B) 155—Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarters, No. 3, % dis.-South-Eastern and Dover,
381/2—Ditto, New, No. 4, %.p.—York and Newcastle, Ex-
tension, 7% p.—Ditto, Preference, 5 p.—York and Selby,
sPilference, 1014 p.—East Lancashire, New, 3% p.—Ditto,
New (scrip), Bs. 9d. p.—Hudderslield Canal and Railway, 4
p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, Halves, 43/4 p. ex new—Leeds
and Thirsk, New, Preference, 76 p.—Shrewsbury and Ches-
ter (late N. M. W.), Halves, 2% p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and. Chester, 1 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction, 1 p.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7% p.—
Glasgow and Dumfries' 114 p.—Great Northern, Nos. 108,001
and up., cum int., 3/4 dis.—Newport, Hereford, and Aber.-
gavenny, I dis.—North Staffordshire, 3.4 p.—North-Western,
13s. 9d. p.—Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, dis.—Shrews-
bury and Birmingham (A), 2 p.—Ditto (B), 18s. 9d. p.—
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % dis.—West Riding
Union, 335. 9d. p.-- Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 114 p.
—Dutch Rhenish, ly9 dis.—Great Luxembourg, 635. 9d. dis.
London, England, 1846-01-03

ture of the English mail on the Ist inst. The accounts
of thestate of the capital and provinces are satisfactory.
The Minister of Finance is proceeding with great
firmness in reforming the gross abuses in his depart-
ment, and, of course, has excited enemies among the
jobbers and plunderers. A. paper called the Universal,
indeed, appears to have been established for the pur-
pose of attacking the new system ; but we trust with-
out effect. He has already done wonders. He has taken
up his official residence at the Custom-house, where
he is actively endeavouring to complete his financial
schemes. It is affirmed that he intends doing away
with the provincial intendants and other agents of his
department, and est blishing " receivers-general"
of the taxes, as is the case in France. It is also said
that he contemplates opening to each Ministerial de-
partment a separate credit, in order that each Secre-
tary of State may positively know what resources he
may dispose of. The Bourse, of course, was closed
on Christmas-day.

TIIE MINISTRY.—The following are the new
Ministers of the Cabinet :—The Earl of Dalhousie,
President of the Board of Trade; the Earl of Ellen-
borough, First Lord of the Admiralty ; the Earl of
St. Germans' Postmaster General, and the Right
Hon. W. Gladstone, Secretary for the Colonies. The
Earl of Haddington has been appointed Lord Privy
Seal, in the room of the Duke of Buccleuch, who
succeeds Lord Wharncliffe as Lord President of the
Council.

It is not probable that the election for the West
Riding of Yorkshire will take place until after the
meeting of Parliament. No writ of summons has
yet been issued calling Lord Wharncliffe to the
House of Peers, and until that be done, no vacancy
can be declared.

SUSSEX HOSPITAL, BRIGIITOII.—We are glad to
learn that a very talented young gentleman, Mr.
Edward Parson, was unanimously elected surgeon to
the Sussex Hospital, at Brighton, in a manner as
highly gratifying to his feelings, as it was honourable
to the patrons of that very useful establishment. Mr.
Parson officiated for some considerable time at the
hospital during the absence of the former surgeon.
London, England, 1846-01-03

PART 11,

Fantasia from Adolphe Adam's Ballet, " The Marble Maiden"—
Cloete.
The New Polka, " The Cricket on the Hearth"—Jullien.
Solo, Violin, The celebrated Carnival de Valise, performed by Signor
Sivori—Paganini.
The Original Mazurka, or Cellarlue Valse—Jullien.
Solo, Cornet-a-Pistons, Serenade from " Don Pasquale"—Donizetti.
The Original Napolitaine ; or, Tarentella des Salons—Jullien.
GRAND BAL MASQUE.
The unexpected prolongation of this Series of Concerts, added to
tee universal admiration expressed by the brilliant assembly at the
last Bal Masque, induces M. Jullien to announce another Bal Masque,
which will take place on Monday, February 2, 1946.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the Comedy oirCURB FOR THE HEART-
ACH Li. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Hudson ;
Frank flatland, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessy flatland, Miss Julia Bennett.
To be followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER
WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren ; Dray-
ton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. E.
Yarnold ; Susan, Mrs. Stanley.

To conclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled THE BEE
AND THE ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principal
Characters by Mr. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr.
Clark, Miss P. Merton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mrs.
Stanley.
London, England, 1846-01-03

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING

WE be repeated an entirely New Drama, called THE LIONESS
nr THE NORTH, or, The Prisoner of Shlusselboorg. Alexis
Itonaanouski, Mr. Webster; Tripteleraus Kroat, Mr. Wright; Eliza-
beth, Madame Celeste.
After which, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. John Peery-
bingle, Mr. O. Smith; Caleb Plummer, Mr. Lambert; Taekleton,
Mr. Cullenford; Edward. Mr. Selby; Dot, Mrs. Fitzvrilliam ; Bertha,
Miss Woolgar; May Fielding, Miss Taylor.
To conclude with all entirely New and Original Christmas Pea-
tamime, called HARLEQUIN AND FOONOOWINGKEEWANG-
FLII4EEDEEFLOBEEDEEBUSKEEBANG; or, The King of the
Cannibal Islands. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland ; Columbine, Miss
Fleming ; Clown, Mr. C. J. Smith; Pantaloon, Mr. Mitcheasoa.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
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THU; 26VENING WILL BR FEU
THE CRICKET ON TIIE HEAETH : A FAIRY TALE
OF HOME.
The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. F. Vining, Mrs. Keeley, miss IL Keeley, Mrs. Wollidge, 111W'
()rove, Miss Howard, Miss Forster, and Miss Turner. Mr. Meadows,
After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic ex traYaganza,
entitled TIME ENCHANTED HOUSE ; or, Prince Fireug Schah of
Tarots and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, lianlock, &e. ; Mes-
dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, /I,e,
--_____________
London, England, 1846-01-03

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12 16 24

The duration of this trip was 54 minutes 6 seconds,
which shows a speed of upwards of 471 miles per hour.
The maximum rate (between the 18th and 19th mile-
posts) was somewhat above 5-4 miles per hour.
The next experimental trip was to have been with a
60 tons train ; but the weather was considered so favour-
able for the time of the year that Mr. Bidder proposed
to take a train of 80 tons. This was agreed to, and at a
few minutes after two o'clock several other passenger
carriages were added, and the train proceeded towards
the first mile-post. To make this interesting trial of the
new narrow-gauge engines' tractive power with a heavy
passenger train, I am about to give a table showing the
rking of the broad and narrow-gauge engines with the
80-tons train, and it is therefore right I should state that
the broad-gauge engine made her trip with a pretty good
head wind against her, and that the narrow-gauge en-
gine had a light bre, ze with her during the whole of the
Journey. It is also necessary to state that the broad-
gauge engine commenced her working from a state of
rest, and that the narrow-gauge engine passed, at the
rate of about 12 miles per hour, the first mile post,
from which I reckon the time of her performance.
This will explain the reason of the apparent loss of time
by the broad-gauge engine for the first four miles. It
will he recollected that the distance gone over by the
broad-gauge train was 52 miles. I have taken the first
42, and then the working of the 52d mile, in order to
get performances as nearly parallel as possible.
London, England, 1846-01-03

PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-VITAE/LT.
THIS EVENING

Will reeatd CRIKET ON TE
Principalbe Chap actre THEers by Mesirs.o 'Ryder, Compton, Leizh
ke
ourtney, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Marshall, Mrs. Foebro
Brentnell, and Miss Somers. .
Miea
To be followed by a New Extravaganza, entitled JEAMES, TAE
RAILROAD FOOTMAN Off BERKELEY-SQUARE. Jeaates Plash,
31r. Compton.

To eotiolude with a New Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE
KEY OF THE KINGDOM ; or, HARLEQUIN AND THE FAIRY
BLUE BELL. Harlequin, Mr. W. H Harvey ; Columbine, bliss
Bullen ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore ; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Hill.
London, England, 1846-01-03

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
_ _ _

The New Polka, " The Cricket on the Hearth," and the British

Navy Quadrille.
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENITG.
PART I.

Overture, Mezzofante—Crivelfl7
Quadrille, from Verdi's Opera of "
Solo, Flute, by Mr. Richardson—Richardson.
Symphony Pastoral, The Allegro and Storm—Beethoven.
Solo, Violin, " La Prierie de Moise," executed on the Fourth String
by Signor Sivori—Rosslni and Paganini.
Jullien's New Quadrille, The British Navy—Julllen.
London, England, 1846-01-03

SOUTH TVA RK.

Wm. Gibln was charged with being concerned with
two other men is robbing Daniel Haines, belonging to
the Great Western Railway, of a watch, under the fol-
lowing circumstances.

From the complainant's statement, it appeared that on
the night of the 13th of July last he alighted from the
Brighton train at the London-bridge terminus, and on
passing along the Borough, near St. George's Church,
he was acco,ted by two women. He accompanied them
to a wine-vaults in the neighbourhood, and while he was
in the act of paying for the refreshment with which he
treated them, one of them managed to slip out of the
house with his great coat, which he had previously
placed on a bench whilst taking out his purse. When he
missed the woman and the garment he immediately went
out into the street, and us he was standing underneath
the gas-lamp three men rushed upon him, one of whom
snatched a valuable watch out of his waistcoat pocket,
the foroe with which it was pulled breaking the
chain, a portion of which was left hanging round his
neck. The three men having accomplished the robbery
ran away, pursued by a policeman named Delaney, of
the H division, who was near the spot at the time, and
he followed them along Birdcage-alley, but they ulti-
mately succeeded in making their escape. He, however,
from the light a the lamps, had a full opportunity of
distinguishing two of the men, one of whom he had no
doubt was the prisoner, whom he had previously known,
and the other was a man who went by the nickname of
"Lucky," who was also well known to the police; and
the prisoner would have been secured at the time if he
had not slipped his arms out of a blouse he wore, the
policeman having had hold of it upon the occasio..
Although the prisoner was so well known on that side of
the water, yet he could not be found at any of his usual
haunts, and from that circumstance it was supposed he
had left London altogether in order to escape detection.
On Monday night, however, he was discovered lurking
about the end of Gray's Inn-lane, and immediately taken
into custody. In the course of the examination it was
stated that the prisoner belonged to a gang of thieves,
who for a length of time infested the south side of the
river, and that some time since he was tried and con-
victed at the Central Criminal Court, and had under-
g me a long imprisonment for his offence.
Mr. Roberts, on the part of the prisoner, cross-ex-
amined the witnesses, with a view to show that they
might have been mistaken in the prisoner's identity,
owing to the fact of its having been night at the time of
the robbery. The policeman, however, spoke with con-
fidence on the point, but the complainant admitted that
owing to the suddenness of the attack, and the gas-light
having been extinguished at the moment the three men
rushed at him, he could not on that account speak
with the same degree of certainty to the persons of his
assailants.

The MAGISTRATE said that he should commit the pri-
soner for trial but that it would be necessary to have
him brought up again on Saturday to-day, in order to
have the depositions taken.
London, England, 1846-01-03

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THE ARMY.

1 'OLITSMOUTII, DEC. 31.-68th Durham Light In-
fantry Captain Phipp's company was relitved on
Saturday from Tipper Ordnance station by Captain
IC,nnedy's, and proceeded to Fort Cumberland, there
not ileirtg sufficient quarti rs within the town to accom-
modate the whole of the garrison.
The subaltern's detachment of thirty men, stationed
at March wood Ordnance station, near Southampton,
has been la hey/ d by a similar one from the 74th High-
landers. Ensign Lord Hinton, of this regiment (the
eldest son o Earl Poulett), has retired from the army.
The 74th Highlanders, quartered at Gosport, under
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Crabbe, K. 11., have
received orders to commence wearing their Highland
costume on the 26th of April, 1846.
ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY —The finding and sen •
tence of the General Court-martial, held on the 26th
inst., on gunner John Boultnn, having been approved
by the Admiralty, were promulgated this morning at
parade-time. he charges against gunner John Boul-
ton wore:—"ln having made his escape from
_his guar-
ti.rs when confined as a punishment for a previous
offence, and not returning till brought buck by an escort;
and fi- having struck Sergeant Elliot, of the Royal Ma-
rine Artillery, his superior officer, when in the execution
of his duty."

The Court found the prisoner Guilty of both charges,
and sentenced him to twelve months' imprisonment, of
which three are to be solitary, and nine with hard labour.
This sentence is ordered to be read at the head -of the
four divi,ions of the Royal Marines.
General practice from the land and sea service bat-
teries took place on Monday last at Fort Cumberland,
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Gibsone,
Royal Marines.

Messrs. Adair, Aftwbey, and Heastly have received
commis,i.ps as Second Lieutenants. The two former
officers are appointed to the Portsmouth, and the latter
to the Chatham division.
Anxic liEcaurrs.--Rv order issued from the Horse
Guards, it is directed that " until further orders the
minimum size of recruits for the infantry of the line will
be half an inch below the standard prescribed by the ge-
neral orders of Alay, 1844, viz., men at five feet six,
and growing lads under eighteen years of age as low as
five feet five and a half inches. Itecreuits for regiments in
In:iin, Chita, New South %Vales, and St. Helena, to be
eligible at five feet five and a half inches, if not under
eighteen years of age. By command, &c."
London, England, 1846-01-03

and. not enough—between giving fire pence for a cer-
tain quantity of bread a short time ago, and seven pence
now ; and no sophistry could conceal the fact, that there
had been a deficient harvest, and that a mysterious
disease clave to the potatoes. He was no politician--
never was, perhaps never should be ; but this subject
required no skill in politics ; common sense told them
that those persons who before the rise of bread could
get just enough and no more, must now be minus that
twopence upon fivepence which it had since advanced
in price, and doubtless there were many such ; and those
who before had not enough, and could not get enough,
must now be descending to zero—to the point of starva-
tion. The question was, what was to be done to pre-
vent things getting worse ? The only expedient which
presented itself was to open the ports and do away
with the corn-laws. Something ought to have
been done before ; but something had been doing: Cabi-
net Councils had met, and Sir Robert Peel seemed to be
got upon his own sliding-scale ;he had been sliding up
and down on it for eight or nine Cabinet Councils:—
Lord John Russell had been called to help him, but had
failed ; and where he might slide to next, nobody could
tell ; but this seemed pretty clear—that he was willing
to send the corn-law overboard. The present
seemed a good opportunity to do it ; with
the League to help him, and a few millions of
hungry bellies behind, it must go—it must, if he
were minded to stay aboard himselfl—(linmense cheers.)
After a few further remarks, the speaker concluded a
highly effective speech, amidst great cheering, by se-
conding the resolution, which the Chairman put to the
meeting, who adopted it nem. con.
Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON next addressed the meeting,
and having, in terms of the most eloquent eulogium,
described the obligations which the nation was under to
Mr. Cobden and the Anti-Corn-law League, con-
cluded by proposing an address to her Most Gracious
Majesty, " humbly praying that her Majesty would be
graciously pleased, at the opening of the ensuing ses-
sion, to press upon the attention of both Houses of Par-
liament the indispensable necessity of considering the
effect of protecting taxes upon articles of food, with a
view to their immediate and total repeal."
The Rev. G. Smnit seconded the adoption of the me-
morial. which was carried by acclamation.
On the motion of Mr. Bligh, seconded by Mr. Thomp-
son, the Portreeve was requested to sign the memorial
in behalf of the meeting.
The Chairman having left the chair, the best thanks
of the meeting, with three times three cheers, were pre-
sented to him.
Three cheers were given and repeated for the early
and total repeal of the corn-laws ; and the assembly
broke up, after one of the most unanimous and energetic
meetings ever held in Ilfracombe.
London, England, 1846-01-03

Rosen and Havre...,,, ._Royal forth of Spain.
Sambre and Meuse .... ._
Strasburg aid Bale .... .....

Tournay,J urbise, Lan-
den,
and Hassell
Tours and Nantes
(Mackenzie's)
De. ( Lefebvre's) —
Do. (O'Neill's)
Trinidad
Verona and Ancona.... 1(4
West Flanders

Madrid journals of the 25th ult. have been re-
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then Ogle 2601 had not reached Paris at the depar-
London, England, 1846-01-03

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ture of the English mail on the Ist inst. The accounts
of the s tate of the capital and provinces are satisfactory.
The Minister of Finance is proceeding with great
firmness in reforming the gross abuses in his depart-
ment, and, of course, has excited enemies among the
jobbers and plunderers. A paper called the Universal,
indeed, appears to have been established for the pur-
pose of attacking the new system ; but we trust with-
out effect. He has already done wonders. He has taken
up his official residence at the Custom-house, where
he is actively endeavouring to complete his financial
schemes. It is affirmed that he intends doing away
with the provincial intendants and other agents of his
department, and estcblishing " receivers-general"
of the taxes, as is the case in France. It is also said
that he contemplates opening to each Ministerial de-
partment a separate credit, in order that each Secre-
tary of State may positively know what resources he
may dispose of. The Bourse, of course, was closed
on Christmas-day.

TUB MINISTRY.—The following are the new
Ministers of the Cabinet :—The Earl of Dalhousie,
President of the Board of Trade; the Earl of Ellen-
borough, First Lord of the Admiralty ; the Earl of
St. Germans, Postmaster- General, and the Right
Hon. W Gladstone, Secretary for the Colonies. The
Earl of Haddington has been appointed Lord Privy
Seal, in the room of the Duke of Buccleuch, who
succeeds Lord Wharncliffe as Lord President of the
Council.

It is not probable that the election for the West
Riding of Yorkshire will take place until after the
meeting of Parliament. No writ of summons has
yet been issued calling Lord Wharncliffe to the
House of Peers, and until that be done, no vacancy
can be declared.

SUSSEX HOSPITAL, BRIGHTON.—We are glad to
learn that a very talented young gentleman, Mr.
Edward Parson, was unanimously elected surgeon to
the Sussex Hospital, at Brighton, in a manner as
highly gratifying to his feelings, as it was honourable
Ax-,tht...oattans of that very useful establishment. Mr.
hospital during the absence of the torlLL,'"'''" the
London, England, 1846-01-03

MANCHESTER AND RUGBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD.

The shareholders in this Compai.y who have determined to accept
shares in the Macclesfield and Lichfield, or Churnet and Blythe
Junction Railway Company, are requested to attend at the following
days and times, to execute the deeds of that Company, and receive
the scrip of the latter Company in exchange for that of the former.
The Committee are in a position to state that the greater portion
of the shareholders in this Company will join the Macclesfield and
Churnet and Blythe Junction Railway Company.
By order, JOHN DUNLOP, Secretary.

Between the hours of Eleven and Three :
At their Offices, 19, Birchin-lane, on the 3d, sth, 6th, and 7th inst.
At 22, Cross-street, Manchester, on the Bth, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th,

and 14th instant.
At the White I ion Inn, Bath, on the 15th irstant.

At the Offices of MossrS. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds, on the 19th

and 20th instant.

Previous to exchanging the scrip for any person not beinp an
original holder a well-known and respectable reference will be re-
quired, and one from a banker preferred.
London, England, 1846-01-03

RHEUMATISM. All those suffering from
Rheumatism, Chilblains, Lumbago, Tic-Doloreux, Cramp,
Sprains, &c., will find immediate relief and a speedy cure by using
CORRALL'S EMBROCATION. The great and increasing demand
for this novel Embrocation induces the proprietor to introduce it
snore generally to the public, satisfied that one trial alone will be
sufficient to convince the most sceptical of its superiority over all
other articles offered for similar purposes.
Sold in bottles at Is. 13d., 25., and 2s. 9d. each, by the Sole Pro-
;rietor, George Richardson, 12, Norland-place, Notting-hill, and
by his appointment by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon• street ;
and J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. Orders, by post, directed to the
Proprietor, promptly attended to.
London, England, 1846-01-03

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 3.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 27 ; Highest, 35 ; Noon, 36.
BAROMETER, 30.53.—Wrim N.W., frosty.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
313rning .. 43 minutes after 5 I Evening .. 7 minutes after G.
London, England, 1846-01-03

Elegant Pocket Edition, price is., by post Is, 6d.

DIL -CULVERWEIL 6N- MARRIA GE,
its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS.

" To be or net to be, that is the questioa."—Shakspeare.

Contents :--On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfliness—Laws of
Paternity—Phenemena of Gestation—On Maternal Influence—On
infelicitous and unproductive Unions—Curiosities of Medical Experi-
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Also Companion to the same, price Is., by post le. 6d.

CHASTITY ; Its ABUSES and DISEASES (72 Engravings).
These two interesting little volumes are not intended for idle or in-
discriminate perusal, but they are earnestly offered to the attentive
consideration of those who may be more legitimately and perhaps
painfully interested.
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Mann, 39, Cornhill, and all booksellers, or direct from the Author,
21, Arundel-street, Strand. At home daily till 2 ; Evenings, 7 till 9.
London, England, 1846-01-03

ADVENTURES IN THE PRAIRIES.
Now ready, in Two Volumes, with Maps and Plates, 125.,
NARRATIVE of the EXPEDITION ACROSS
the GREAT SOUTH-WESTERN PRAIRIES from Texas
to Santa Fe, with an account of the disasters which betel the Ex-
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sufferings on a march of 2,000 miles as prisoners of war, and in the
prisons and lazarettos of Mexico. By GEORGE W. KENDALL.

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London, England, 1846-01-03

MACCLESFIELD AND LICHFIELD, or
CHURNET AND BLYTHE JUNCTION RAILWAY.

The Deeds of this Company will Lie for Signature at the following
places, in addition to the places and times specified in the above
notice of the said Manchester and Rugby Direct, between the hours
of Eleven and Three :

Messrs. Gregory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Skirrow, 1, Bedford-row,
on the 3d instant.
The Office of the Manchester and Rugby Company, 19, Birehln-lane,
on the 3d instant.
The Office of Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, brokers, Lees, on the
" . .

sth anal 6th instant.
The Office of the Manchester and Rugby Railway, 22, Cross•street,

, -
Manchester, on the 7th and Bth instant.
The Office of Mr. Wills, broker, Liverpool, on the 7th and Bth inst.
At the office of Messrs. I)ryatts, solicitors, Lichfield, on the 10th inst.

And, on the production of the banker's receipts, and on execution
of the deeds, the scrip will be delivered.

Previous to exchanging the scrip for any person not being an original
holder, a well-known and respectable reference will be required, and
one from a banker preferree.

A. WILT, Secretary.
London, England, 1846-01-03

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the
produce of the British possessions in America, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 30,
1845, is 375. 3d. per cwt.
(Dividends, &c., in our next.)

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.)
Am Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
cap. 32, for the W eek eading on Saturday, the 27th day of
December, 1845.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Votes issued 26,771,510

Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bul-
lion .. 11,189,484
Silver b allion .. 1,582,026

£26,771,510

M.

Dated the Ist day of Januai

£26,771,510
ARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
y, 1846.
PARTMENT.

Government secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 16.252,051
Note,
Gold and silver
coin 554,376

£36,922,950
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
y, 1846.
London, England, 1846-01-03

'KING'S IN I'EREST TABLES.
New Edition, strongly bound, Bvo., IL Is.,

ABLES of INTEREST- at FIVE PER
T CENT. for any Sum, advancing by single pounds from 1 to
365 ; thence by Hundreds and by Thousands to Ten Thousand
Pounds from One Day to 365 Days, and by Months to Years.
Tables for calculating Interest at Four per Cent. ; Commission from
One-Eighth to Five per Cent. ; a Time Table,'Stc.
By JOSEPH KING, of Liverpool.
Longman and Co., and David Bogue, London ; Robinsons, Liver-
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London, England, 1846-01-03

THEATER ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING

win be performed the Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART-
ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Hudson ;
Frank Oatland, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett.
To be followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER
WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren ; Dray-
ton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. E.
Yarnold ; Susan, Mrs. Stanley.

To conclude with a Grand New Extravazanza, entitled THE BEE
AND THE ORANGE TREE ; or, The Four Wishes. Principal
Characters by Mr. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr.
Clark, Miss P. Burton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mrs.
Stanley.
London, England, 1846-01-03

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YEAR-BOOK OF TRAVEL.
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