The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1851.

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Consols
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MINES.

. I ,
5/. p.) 100 ..
Asturian .... •. • ....... 15
Australian
Barossa Range .. •• .• • 1 13 0 3% —3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 • •
Bolanos Scrip ........ • • • • —••
British 1r0n............ 13 5 ..
Brazilian Imp. (is. 5/. p.) 24% . •
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 2
Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 14%
Cobre Copper ... 40 32% 35%
Copiapo ............ .. 14
General.. • ...... 20 13% —l4
Real Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures.
Do. Red Debentures .. —•—•
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 —7%
Tin Croft .. • • • • • • .... • • 7 10% 11
United Mexican.- • .....128 28% 6% —54
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada ...... • • • 32% 42% —44
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% 282%
Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 78% 76 x. all ex. all
Royal Rail Steam •• .. 60 73 —72
rWe cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and

interested correspondents.]

MONEY and C u MIMI:4MA AL NEWS
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, comprising 3,500 American; 300
Pernam and Maranham, at Bd. to Bd.; 200 Bahia, at
Bd. to 81d.; 600 Egyptian, at Eid. to 9d.; and 300 Surat,
at sd. to sid. per lb. The market closed firm, at pre-
vious rates.—Railway Shares continued very fiat.
General business is still somewhat inactive, both in
London and the provinces, but more briskness seems to
be anticipated, and there is decided soundness.
The position of the Company of Copper Miners in
England has long been one of peculiar embarrassment.
Once a wealthy and highly influential body, it has
dwindled down into a state of comparative insignifi-
cance, or at least of temporary helplessness. Various
circumstances have conduced to this result, and few
have proved more embarrassing than the claims of the
debenture holders. A resume of the matter is given in
the Mining Journal, and also of the Bill about to be in-
troduced into the Home of Commons to facilitate the
settlement of the affairs of the company.
The original charter was first granted the 31 of Aug.,
1691, by William and Mary—there being at that time,
as the charter states, " a want of skilful artists to refine
and purify the great quantities of copper ore found in
the kingdom, owing to which great sums of money were
transmitted to foreign parts to pay for the same com-
modity. The parties who were then incorporated had
found out several furnaces, engines, &c., and besought
therefore, letters patent to carry on the same as a joint-
stock." On the 22d of September, the same year, these
privileges were extended to Ireland; and on the 9th Feb.,
1711, Queen Anne further confirmed the letters patent
granted by her predecessor. The shares, prior to the year
1741, were 7,600, which were estimated at the nominal
value of 131. each. At that date, 2,400 further shares were
issued, and the stock of the company was then repre-
sented by 328,8351. lls. 81. In 1746, a large sum of
money was raised by the issue of preference shares and
scrip, at the rate of 251. each—the holders receiving a
preferential half-yearly dividend on that amount of 11.
I7s. 6d.; this preference stock being represented by the
sum of 281,3001. From time to time the court, having
borrowed money on debentures, loan notes, &c.,
their debts now amount in the aggregate to 613,225/,
inclusive of 150,000/. held by the Bank of England,
and 115,0001. held by different creditors by way of secu-
rity. On the 10th of October, 1847, the Bank of Eng-
land advanced a further sum of 120,0001.—interest being
paid on both at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum; at
the same time taking as a security a mortgage on the
whole property. In the year 1849, the case of " War-
ner v. the Copper Miners' Company," was heard in
the Court of Chancery ; and the same year the
assignees of Thomas Bruton, a bankrupt, seized
some of the property in Glanaorganshire on
account of debt. The Bank have twice attempted
to sell the property ; but being aware that by e
forced sale not one-fourth of the value of the mortgage
can be realised, they have offered to compromise with
the company on advantageous terms. As the works
cahoot be efficiently carried out without a fresh issue of
shares, itis necessary to apply to Parliament for the ne-
,
cesnary powers. Numbers of poor and industrious people
der ending on them, it is prayed to afford facilities for
prosecuting the works with activity. In order to
aye id the difficulties which have brought the company
to their present condition, it is proposed that auditors
should be appointed to restrict the court from borrowing
more than a certain proportion of the amount of their
cap ital. The new Bill proposes that the letters patent
may be confirmed—that the Companies' Clauses Conso-
lideetion Act, 1845, with respect to the distribution of
the capital of the company into shares, and with re-
spa ct to the payment of subscriptions, transfer of shares,
M. 331111 of enforcing payment of calls, forfeiture
of shares for non-payment, borrowing of money by
mortgage bond, conversion of borrowed money into
cap ital, consolidation of shares into stock, exercise of
the right of voting, settlement of disputes by arbitra-
tion, &c., shall extend to the stock of this company.
Three months after the passing of the Act a
:meeting is to be held to elect a governor, deputy-
gorvernor, and court of assistants. A meeting of the
debenture-holders and creditors to be held according
to advertisement, soon after, to compute and arrange
their debts—the debentures held by the Bank of
En gland to be excluded from the computation.
Ms. Wood, who has a claim of 2,272/. 2s. against the
cot npany, to be considered a creditor until the arbitrators
of his debt have made their final award. Mr. Lord
hawing entered into a suit of Chancery against the go-
vex nor and court, to protect the interest of himself and
the other shareholders, and to prevent the irrevocable
loss of the property, the committee appointed the 4th
of April, 1849, have arranged that his suit should
be withdrawn on the payment of his cost, not
exceeding a sum of 5501. Mr. Lord's claims for com-
pensation for services rendered and outlay are to be re-
feirred to the arbitrators under the Companies' Consoli-
dascion Act —the Governor and Court, who opposed Mr.
Lord, both in the Vice and Lord Chancellor's Courts,
harving now approved of the recommendation of the com-
mittee. The stock is to be reduced in these pro-
poertions:—The holder of a Debenture of 5001.
to receive 2501. stock; Preference Stock, 5002 to
have 125/.; and the old stock of 5001. to be
cseasidered as 621. 10s. The Governor and Court can
resise by mortgage the sum of 200,0001., or such further
stem, not exceeding the sum of 100,000/., as shall be fixed
by a general or extraordinary meeting of the company.
rnese preference shares to be first offered to debenture-
holders and creditors. Should they not accept of this
offer, they are to lose the benefit; in event
of their accepting them, they are to be
ofl:ered to stock-holders. Auditors are to be ap-
pc inted at a general meeting of the company at an an-
nual salary—no qualification being necessary. The
member of assistants not to be more than ten. The
company are not obliged to elect more than five; the
qualification of the governor, deputy-governor, or as-
sistants, to be at least 1,0001. stock, paid up.
One-third of the governing body to go out every
year, but are eligible for re-election ; so that the
whole number must go out of office in three years. The
company, acting by the governor, deputy-governor, or
ccurt of assistants, have power, under the common seal;
to draw and endorse bills, and transact all necessary
business. The rights of the Earl of Jersey, Christopher
'r'albot, Esq , and others, under whom the company hold
lands and tenements, are not affected by this Bill; but all
leases to remain in statu quo, as if the Act had not been
passed.
The English Funds have been very heavy again, and
anxiety is felt at the continued Cabinet Councils
in Downing-street, as being suggestive of want
of unity among the Ministers. The state of af-
fairs in France does not, on the other hand, lead
to any particular apprehension, seeing the trifling effect
produced at the Paris Bourse. An influential broker
has sold a large amount of Stock, said to be 200,0001.,
a-nd for the Scotch Banks. Consols have realised 96 to
964 for Transfer, and 961 to for Account. The New
Three-and-a. Quarter per Cents. realised 98i and thc:
Three per Cents. 964 to 97. Mist India Stock eves
marked 267 to
,267 i. Exchequer-bills are quoted`
have been and the quotations
to 58s. pieneiarp, ,being- the previous rates.
any 'variation. Portuguese
wiFveor2eariseoastedy
Old Bonds have beeti at 86, and the Converted of 1841
at 36. Peruvian Def erred have been 331. Mexican
Bonds have been 324 to 33, and Brazilian Old Five per
Cents. 89-. Russian Five per Cent. Stock is worth 112.
French Five per Cents. are 95 50, with the exchange at
24 95. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, have realised
571,
itailvvsy Shares have been depressed, but can'scarcely
be called lower than yesterday, and there is not much
ex.d I doing.

QUAIITER TO THRE.:,,
sei

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... 96% 97 96%
8 per Cent. Consols Anna
New 314 per Cent. Amis.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 —
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 7 7-16
India Stock 267% 267
Consols for Account ...... 96A %
E zchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
March. June.
1,0601. •.. — 55 58 p
5001. — 55 58 p
Small — 55 58 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. B9l/2
Mexican 80nd5,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account ....
Peruvian Bonds, 4% par Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese Bonds , 5 per Cent B6
Ditto Converted, 1841 36
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ll2
9614
ni%Diditetno:4B
lAonrthere Centabov e payable in Londor.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent. ...... 95f. 50c.
Exchange

2;per Cent., 12 Guild ... 571/2
Ditto 4 tier Cent. Certiiicates SO

THE NEW VICAR. or SHEFFIELD.—The gentleman
whom the Rev. Matthew M. Preston has nominated to suc-
ceed the late Dr. Sutton to the vicarage of Sheffield, is the
Rev. Thomas Sale, M.A., perpetual curate of Southgate, in
the parish cf Edmonton, near Lcndon, to which incumbency
Mr. Sale was presented by the vicar of Edmonton in 1830.
The annual value of the incumbency of Southgate is returned
at 1801.—Sheffield Times.

THE GIPSY BIAnKET.—The Prince of Wallachia
has published an order stating the conditions under which
gipsies may in future be sold : 1. Families of gipsies shall
never be parted. 2. All sales of more than three families at a
time are declared illegal.—Prussian Staats 4nzeiger.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(TH is Pik lir-)

Lar::CV kt N1l..10.11; gall, L, whu much

rain.
Wicx, JAN. 20.—The Isabella, of and for Perth, from
Newcastle, was assisted into Staxigo Harbour on the
18th inst., waterlogged.
BOSTON, JAN. 7.—The Eliz ibeth Bentley arrived at
New York float Liveriool on the sth ins'., with damage,
and a man overboard, in a strong gale irotu the west'
The Catherine, of and from Liverpool to New
York, was seen on the 15th ult. in let. 42, long. 45, or
parently having suffered considei ably ; all large sails
blown away. The Manhattan, arrived at New York
from Liverpool on the 6th inst., experienced a succession
of gales at W., accompanied with thusder; lightening,
hail, &c. There are reported to be about 75 sail of ves-
sels due at New York hum Europe, most of them Will;
emigrants, and it is feared there must be a great deal o_,
suffering among them, ;as the vessels that have arrive
report severe weather in the Atlantic.
DEAL, JAN. 20.—Wind S.S.W , fresh, strong end
squally.—Arrd. Sir Robert Sale,. China; Zorgblieli,
Batavia for Amsterdam; Cassar, Demerara. Arrd. fr°t
the River, Victoria, Berbice. ifortly
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 20.—Arrd. Arrow, Para;
mus, St.. Domingo; Fusalana, Aux Cayes; Parthenon,
New Orleans; Henry Clay, New York; Fairy, New.
foundland; Emily, Shanghai; William Russell, Per-
nambuco; Lochenvar, Mobile; Flute, Halifax. Off port,
Regina.
COIVES, JAN. 20.—The Maria Van Cammenger, thei
Clyde to Genoa, has put in leaky. Arrd. Sir Bober
Peel, Batavia.
DARTMOUTH, JAN. 20.—The Ludvig, Hall to gsg;
sine, has been assisted in with decks swept, hallos
shifted, masts cut away, having been on her beam-eeds;
PARIS, JAN. 19.—The Josephine, Havre tO 110116etid:
went on shore in La Petite Cure 16th inst.; crew save
__„
The wreck of the Eugenie, burnt near Richard, pa
been picked up and taken into Royer. The Cletoenn
Toulon to Lecatar, was stranded near Cette 27th op"
crew saved. The Neptune, Sr. Laurent to Marseille!'
was wrecked on the coast of Minorca, near Adrago;
28th ult.; crew saved. The Annie sprung a have to
Para previous to 7th ult., and would probably hove
partly discharge and repair. , NO'
OFF POOLE, JAN. 20.—Abona, St. John a, -
foundland.
JERSEY, JAN. 19.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Ceres, 13eli:
The Flora, hence to Guernsey, is on the Cerbure Roe '
and is expected to become a wreck; crew saved. ,„
BRISTOL, JAN. 20.—Wind S.W., strong....—Arra.
press, Mauritius. Her Majesty's steamer Shearwe'a
from Cork, is on shore near the Round Point; exPacl
in's
off on the rise of the tide. The Congo, hence to Afrc
has put back with loss of bulwarks, &c.
mabucep
FALMOUTH, JAN. 20.—The Queen, from Pans— _d
in shifting her berth, fouled a foreign brig, and darner
her quarter, &c. •fr.t f
SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 20.—The Cognac Pse— of
Littlehampton, has arrived in the roads, with I°ssdorf
foremast, bowsprit, &c., from contact with the Coo
of Yarmouth, which has also put in with damage.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAV.)
ZEAT razi.sumnlts. , ire
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ Ss to 31155; vio.:
31 Os to 41 Os ; and Straw, 11 Os to 11 7s Per It*
A full average supply, and a dull trade.
CIOC:B3E/ ROLSA7O"4-1 Os; and eaanddo
TeMr,
Trade 'dull, at late rates. Straw, 11 21
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31
Clover, 3/ Os to 4/ Os; and Straw. 11 Os to ills Per f„-„0,
Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly at our Wl(4°3'
1/ is to 11 8s per I°l/
COLONIAL
being SUGAR.—British Plantation was dull at 6d dee
Mauritius, 2,500 bags went at rather easier rates. fi.
mostly out of condition; fine yellow at 41s to 41s uol
103 to 3/ 168 d!
and mid to fine brown 34s to 36s 6d. Beng"es'
3,500 bags offered, only about 1,400 sold at lower 11. oci
good and fine yellow 43s to 45s 6d, and low and gut)ed
soft yellow 35s 6d to 38s 6d. Madras, 923 bags resSe
433 to 44s 6d for fine and good strong yellow' 4. the
quantity of British Plantation landed last week '
East and West India Docks was 167 bhds 80 dere!,
247 brl,; there were taken for home consumption
ee
hhds 61 tierces 329 brls. The stock in the Battle P
is 6,787 hhds 731 tierces 1,181 brls. tfall
COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon sold privately a-
oe i 74
rates, and mid colory was held for 625; at auction .
bags Native Ceylon sold at 50s to 505 6d for good
not
Mocha was in request, and 212 bales 112 half-bale° wefor
at 62s 6d to 65a for good and fine, and 64s to 698
round and long berry.
RICE was held for higher prices; 1,600 bags 13e9gal
being withdrawn at lOs 6d to lls for low mid white. 0.
Rum has been sold to a fair extent at previous rrio
The quantity landed last week at the East and w e
r
India Docks was 217 puns 1 hhd. There were talc.iee
for home consumption 226 puns 25 bhds, and exrao
91 puns and 191 hhds. The stock in the same Phic
is 13,963 puns ,306 .
SPICEs.-2001 bags hhds
Pimento sold at 2d to 516- fcr
damaged.
SALTPETRE.—Of 1,300 bags Bengal offered publielf;
only about 200 found buyers, at 6d decline, viz., 19 6°
15i per cent, refraction at 27s to 27s 6d per cwt. the
TALLOW.
and
TEA.--The
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 37s 3d to 373 6d per cwt on
spot,
nm3a9rsk6etcl. has been steady, with fair deli' rrE
veries.

CHANCERY.—(THIS
The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in the Old P' °IS
Lincoln's Inn , and heard appeals. The further hearing,
the part-heard appeal of Miller v. Huddlestone, the f;
guments in which have already taken up the time Of
Ole
Court for a day, occupied his Lordship .the Wu"
morning.
ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY")O
His Lordship the Master of the Rolls heard not,rfor
again to-day, but no case of sufficient interest to calling.
a special report came before his Lordship this morn.
VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS
(Before Vice. Chancellor KNIGHT BRIICO r
His Honour was occupied the greater portion 01
morning in hearing unopposed petitions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Lord CnArvonTliAobin'
Lord Cranwortb,after disposing of the cases vigil°
son v. Lamord, and Webster v. the South-Eastern x•ro..
way, a motion which stood on the paper by ordetrijora
ceeded to hear the further arguments in the Psr,•ii the
cause of Macintyre v. Connell, which 001"
Court the remainder of the morning.

COMMON
_PLEAS.-(THIS 1::°°.)

(Sittings in Banco.)
ADDINGTON AND OTHERS V. MAGAN, 31.1:: is one
This was as action against the defendant, we "„isitr
of the Members for Westmeath, brought by te,e,roidt,
tiffs as trustees for the late firm of Willis and 0c.," deli'
tailors, of St. James's-street, for goods sold iglu tried
vered, amounting in all to 380/. The action vol and *
before Mr. Justice Cresswsll during last terttl, nout
verdict returned for the plaintiffs for 671., the stn ‘'
fa'
incurred during the time the plaintiffs were trusteo64r,
Willis and Schmidt. During the present tern' Zu
Keane, for the defendant, obtained a rule, calling tiriot
the plaintiffs to show cause why a new trial should t
er,
be granted, on the ground that the defendant was tlot
by surprise in finding that Messrs. Willis and Sebilito
were partners, and that, if he had been aware of to
par:inreisahoiNpTbAeGfuorEe the trial, he would have been °Aeph,
plead a set-off against Schmidt, to the amount of 2v
in
The
shape of a bill of occhauge.
_Tbe case now came on for argument. .OlO
defendant had often rule -
which had been obtained. The Learned Cui.,,er
on the premises,
owhietnhCLIAMBERS showed cause agahltoiel
read various affidavits
sons connected from Mr. Schmidt and othPrtutte
one of the partners in the firm.
a transacted
nt hd c
w ct s establishment,
perfectly
business
a wwSalltrOheWmtihDrag.t e_vini- iiiso
Mr. KEANE replied. : ~,ise 0
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that in this 0°
thought the rule should betdischarged. There Pnilliatt
affidavit of moment brought forward by
.the de' eit'id set
nor did he think that-if hd-kot Et, XiAW knal Ile'ec-
tp a substantial clt-f,ince..,-1-Rule distharged.

~ .
MIDDLESEX
StSSIONS.
(THIN DAY.) ,0 fa
quarter The January adjourned general sessi°l3aote‘
the trial of prisoners for the county of Middlese As'
menced this morning, before Mr. Sergeant Ads 1:13* Tliee
sistant-Judge, and a full bench of Magistrates. es co
calendar, which is rather heavy, contains then 4°
.•
82 prisoners for trial. , Tar.A.,,.
ROBBERY AT TEE GREAT WESTERN l'At. 10 1
William Dashrnan, aged 17, pleaded not guilt,' IX f Pdev
dietmeut, chaging him with stealing on the 23- °Os.-
cember, from the person of Mrs. Louisa Millard, L-Frog
containing two half-crowns, and other moneys, t'-' of
perty of Thomas Millard, her husband. „e tag,:
Edward Tolman, A 393, stated that on theie't: d 1)-iir
the 23d ult., about seven o'clock, he was on eilitpyrii P;
vate clothes on the platform of the Great Western 013.-
i way Company at Paddington. Ho saw the prisoner, bet
up to the wire of prosecutor and put his hand in,,,,P,g ttl.
pocket. He saw the prisoner in the act of drat 0;
purse from her pocket. He took the prisonerA collfiv;
end of the platform, where he searched -13inio eri, vimers-
among other things, a memorandum book, in v°'ht. b". 4
entriesfrer carefully made of the hours of the arrivals citini`g.-
heirciiti trainse.rtai
no
trainsn t he Greatarrarrived
dWoens
sometern l ionfet,
the
h, ter j ill: e'o
at
evidence having been given, _ in erli't)-
v Other
The prisoner, in defence, denied having 07 - t
ev :
-
to commit a robbery.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE having summed up"'-
the
donee,
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. A that ill
The officer of the House of Correction. state" ~ iete'
prisoner had been several times summarily c°.lllited4
and his last term of imprisonment had only PO e`.' to ba
prisovera• eotior
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE sentenced the
inprisoned and kept to hard labour for sipc
mouths in the House of Correction. _

inten" ober°
IMPORTANT MEASURE FOR SCOTLANDIV,igi,SI
from a source on which we can rely, that it is
after the meeting a Parliamedt, to introduce an Enpcnu geotil
Estates Act for Scotland. Such a measure is in°s"libe
needed in that country, and should it be of sufficient Loge
ral character, it will be productive of incalculable adv,,, of 036
to the people on the other aide of the Tweed. S°lTip s°l
most valuable and extensive estates in Scotland hav:ource °
heavily encumbered for generations, as to provetenants.'
inexpressible embarrassment both to landlords and
Advertiser.
n rof ,p•t)
SINGULAR SECT.—John IN'roe, the feu-de
sect called the " Beardies," from their partiality to 00 10
barbarism, had arrived 'in Melbourne, Port PbiliP' le alici
described as a man of.eighty years of a, e, but irs.oo to
strong; and announces that he has a Divine Wisrleaclr
preach in the colonies. lie commenced Operations by P,obet
ing in the " Sanctuary" on Sunday, the 15th of SePt`
whither all the members of this new sect resorted.

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SIT R. TZ. P, 74" P 1;f: •
A vell.th of Be/pT l/o,
P"'forned at the lide!piii Tlizatr3 wi',h great stv,:ce=,.,
wag produced at the Surrey last evening. the
plot differs in no imprtiint re-pfct from that of the
A`lt'lPhi piece, which h4s already beta descrihwd, in
this journal, it reimiinl for us ()ily to speak of Lhe
performance. We will f:tate at once that it i. gene-
rally excellent, and the anise en scene is costly
and tasteful. Amongst the artistes most deserving of
111()gY are Mr. Cheswick, whose vereion of the
sand energyform
Mountebank is spirited and effective ; Miss Cooper(erly of
iiatho
Covent-garden), who evinces great
hi the character of Madelaine ;
1183 Mandleb:rt, who performs Henri very prettily ;
alld Ur. T. Mead, who personates the villian Rollac
tlrth much judgment and melodramatic point. The
or 4u14 Was received with enthusiastic applause by an
avetfi°Wmg audience, and may fairly -be pronounced
decided succeu•

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.
I:The grand spuctacle of Kenilworth and the amusing
antomime of 01 Donoghue continue to draw crowds
911.8 Popular place of entertainment every evening.
f. is clearly the favourite theatre with the " Home-
j.rthe-holyday's" class of' scciety, and as they are
ust at this present moment the most influential of our
social classes, we are not surprised t finding that the
irPhitheatre is cratntned to overflowing every ev.end-
-thg' We congratulate Jr. Batty on having obtained
the unanimous support of " Young England," and
thung England" on the excellent taste which in
Is instance it has exhibited.
SA

`CRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.
!Ikendelssohn's magnificent oratorio Elijah was
,erforraed here last evening by the members of the
_o.ite.red Harmonic Society. This is perhaps the mostd
elaborately constructed of Mendelssnhn's works, an
therefore the choice of it fir performance by the Sacred
wll_aurn!onic Society exhibits a degree of ambition which
boernlde
fl.?*tve been highly laudable had the performance
tem --Y proportion to the daring nature of the at-
potiPtit• We have frequently heard this sublime coin-
on both in this country and on the Continent,
_,nd we could not but be sensible of the lamentable
teleerfitelencies of the chorus last evening. There were
e other
certain] five hundred persons singing, not together,
tut at at th
performers we Same time, and all, as Byron once said of
of sacred music,
" Singing out of tune,
but th And hoarse,"
0 effect of
°f 500 the contemporaneous performance
scs'es was anything but pleasing, and we felt
Pop
to Mr. Brownsmith when he occasionally
if):,,ure,l in a flood of sound from the organ, drowning
ha's the tune the din. The English musical public
re
ti"f late had frequent opportunities of hearing
c, ought to
tinad Y Pod choral singing; they ,know what it can
accomplish ; the performances of the
eras at the German Opera, and of the Berlin
.nutorus
Her Majesty Theatre, has rendered them
thei olrant of even mere mediocrity, and the chorus of
1 Sacred Harmonic Society must work much
it rd'ri and rehearse much more frequently, before
Ale" c'coupy the position at which it evidently aims.
dort• Costa also, excellent as he is as a leader of opera,
erms not altogether satisfy us as a conductor of sa-
e music; _ he last night took the music throughout
Whole of the oratorio too fast and too high.

COURT CIRCULAR.
Her m • WINDSOR, JAN. 20.
—9esty walked this morning in the Slopes,
Vpanted by their Royal Hignnesses the Duchess
hetnours and the Duchess d'Aumale.
in tit e Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
grounds around tre Castle.
Royal Highness Prince Albert went out hunt-
-11:1 this morning,, accomptnied by their Royal High-
4,es the Duke de N emeurs and the Duke d'Autnale,
e.uid. attended by Major-Gene .al Wemyss and Lieut.-
nnel P. IL Seymour. 'a
141lle:ountess de Neuilly paid her respects to her
train and Prince Albert at Windsor Castle this
and in the afternoon left the Castle, accom
led by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
(1' A Duchess, de Nemours and the Duke and Duchess
LoColnnel the lion. Sir Charles Grey will have the
eve
nour
ning of .
joining the Royal circle at dinner this
e 11„e er Majesty's private band will attend in the
asu after dinner.

Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
te„,"risdowne House, Berkeley-square. It was at-
thmqed by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor,
karquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Vis-
tunit Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
te,nequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse,
Carlisle, the Right Hon. Henry Labou-
eh of
and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Council
" two hours,
A
Valpy attended at the Home. office yes-
Q` a , to present an address, through Sir George
to the Queen, from Bucklebury, Berks.
meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal
-ottnnission for the Exhibition of 18M was held yes-
'
a'YrlY at the Board of Trade. There were present
Granville (chairman), the Right Hon. H. La-
Zeherel e, Sir Alexander Spearman, Bart., Mr. Cubitt,
; Reid, and Mr. Bowring (Secretary).
"-r• Anderson, M.P. for Orkney, had an inter-
how) at the Treasury, yesterday, with the Right
1;1• G.-Hayter, and Mr. G. C. Lewis.
aft
eord and Lady John Russell left town yesterday
of thill_°°o ho
lon a visit to the 'Right Hon. the Speaker
Rantts.use of Commons, at hia seat, Hickfield- place,
Ileathcote, M.P. fur Tiverton, had an inter-
,f4veYesterday with Sir George Grey at, the Home-
Cotisp.:cahrquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the
auchl) la indisposed with an attack ofgout.
(Ace , es were received yesteray at the Col_oniaaln-
Liandt:°ro the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
-Thi

enroll -A FORCE 03' THE UNIT hi) ST ATES.—
;woo e'd Militia of the 'United States reaches the number Oaf
great.e", a tolerably large army. Pennsylvania
spitriber of enrolled militia than anlly other State,
Of be"ae_bows that, as the above number is, a
The r:.°R arms are not returned by the
different States.
those capable
44,660 'itris from official sources are as follow
Vertee,',."lew Hampshire, 97,967 ; Massachusetts,, 101,7.e9 t,
57,719-4„23,915 ; Rhode Island, 13,658 ; Connecticut,
eryleani„; "tow York, 216,452 ; New Jersey,
Virequi;" 1L3,070 Delaware, 9,229 ;
ro-
lhia:s2 inoTi-t'2°2 ; North. Carolinia, 79,448 ; South.
.a.na
Maryland,
4; 8 8e64 ;
-444; ;leorgia 57,312 • Alabama, 44,331 ; ,
%tic ; Miesissippi, 45,335 - Tennessee 74,202 ;
120 Po 88'629 ; Ohio, 176,455' ; ludiana, '53,918 ;
32 4; Missouri, 61,000 ; Arkansas, 17,137 ;
)„ ; . Florida, 19,122 ; Texas, 10,776 ; Wisconsin,
; District of Columbia, 1,249. - New York Tribune.
WArb
defaie..7`4lELTi• —lVi thin the last fortnight a seriou_s
Princ;"°ll has been discovered in the accounts of Mr.
~1•
it
t (rlleselton, one of the assistant overseers of Wakefie d.
fou'rwas elected to the office hy the board of guardians ale ut
since, at a salary of .70/. per annum, whichi
Is
and ty. torsh been raised by perquisites to more than 100 ~
ties fo' that time a guarantee society in London became sure-
asy r him to the extent of SCOI. ; but it has already been
amoTained that his defalcations are considerably beyond that
g h!it• The plan adopted by the defendant for accomplish-
taring 18 Pureose appears to have bee principally that of al-
findaud erasing the figures in the books under his charge;
tr 0, skilfully was the work performed that it became u, -
hegel,Y difficult to detect it. It also appears, tharin iTOT
p43,c,inrie instance he had received money from2certain rate
°f. voirktrnoircetrrnt. at all was entered in the tooka,
sift.' of
ether': ,oases erroneous entries were made, as, f ;,'
e ,sum he had collected was et. 13s. 4eL, the figure
Peti :,the poun de column was erased, and shillings er at
baok 111,213Tremained. Thu account kept by him with the
Thesi:, lot the union also exhibited large defalcations.
dee 'lute having been proved, the prisoner was on Sa.tur-
th; full), committed for trial at the next York assizes,
Court refusing to accept bail for his appearance.
,tast,ztion,
Rout
ralyne NAVALtook BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—A gene-
ill • meet' of the subscribers and patrons of this charitable
place yesterday at the Thatched HMIs e
the n' St St
-street. Rear-Admiral Lord Radstock in
Isi.!"air- Mr. George Hope Steed, Master in the Royal
pe :.w ;:biel elected secretary by a very large majority. It ap-
lae'.froln the report, that toe receipts tor the last quarter,
did-tea balance left amounted to 1.463/., and the expen••
Lure to 514/., leaving a balance of 949/.
,Elors.—The large importation of hops
;lieu— took place from several of the continental states last
greater
but more especially from Belgium, and to a much
extent from the United States of America, have not
froell continued from any of them during the present season.
the early part of the autumn some small parcels arrived
„T. Belgium, which were of the previous year's growth,
wu later an arrival has taken place from that country which
0;1..1 Officially declared to have been imported for the purpose
flmmediate shipment in transit to another foreign country.
urther than these no importation of hops into this country
f"PI
I,t,e tak en place for any purpose. Considering the large sup-
lea of the kind for a time this fact is remarkable.
large
SLEIGH. —AI ARRIAGE Willa A D Ecf AsEh
Sl
t47r.rbit:gein little more than five has ascertained the
iresent or recent existence of about weeks,our hundred cases of
with a deceased wife's sister in and around Birming-
-1- Mr. Sleigh's register contains the names of ministers,
eltetsvrYtoenr, magistrates, and members of almost every pro-

cIPSWICH NEW GRAMMAR, SJHOOL.—The probable
,(,)st of Mr. Woolnough's plan, adopted by the Ipswich Town
Con of
for this new having been estimated at up-
aids of 5,0001.
(a sum much beyond what is proposed to be
pent in its erection), the former decision has been reserved;
and the premium of 251: has been awarded to icon arnes,
Whose design is considered to come nearest to the itions
of the competition, though the committee have not finally
determined to recommend his plan for adoption by the
council.—Essex Standard.
COUNSELLORAND A COURTYZAN.—When Lucy
Cowper Was -once examined in a court of iu;t ice, one of the
counsellors asked her if she came there in the character of a
modest woman? " tio, sir," re hal she, "I do not; that
which has been the ru meP has beea the making of
You—l mean impudence."
Cite as PIIEPOSES.—The editor of the Springfield
who has been to hear Jenny Lind, tells the i
1:01-
rumarY, at the
.g When Jenny Lind first appeared at the Ladies'
ever
s yd
to other lady Irving, she had no comb in her hair, while
re a comb. The next day she said he
li, tl?e dress lik woe
American ladies, and went to dinner
h a comb n her
table, not a comb head. On glancing up and down the
was to be seen."

WHAT TS ME.

7,: T BY THE

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TO THE EIIITOR GE 711 E SVN.
FIE,—As the period approaches tie n the agitation
consequent on the inovcrnent of tl e puppet of. the
French army in Rome, temporarily slacks nee: thr. ugh
the circumstance cf everybody hgving done all the
present hour I;ermitted, mus:t be token up again wish
a view to final action, it is time to fnhll the engage-
ment to examine into the practical merning of what
is called the Queen's Supremacy.
And here the fact will be found to be, that this
like many other compendious phrases in the people's
mouth, though it is easy to find things it does not
mean and Cases to which it would be wrongfully
applied, yet means something and of much import-
ance, and will continue to mean it after the cavillers
have blown their blast, with whatever preliminary
flourishes that operation may he heralded.
For example, what might be represented as more
silly and unmeaning, than the popular phrase that
" an Englishman's house is his castle;" when it is
notorious that fur the slightest scrap of a felony,
he will be extracted from his castle with a paper
corkscrew, and his body preduced • before any in
the Commission of the Peace who may have been
moved to order it? Or take that other supreme folly,
which says that " for every wrong the law provides a
remedy ; when everybody knows that there are many
wrongs for which the law provides nothing, and that
unless it means to claim infallibility, it must in a cer-
tain average number of cases be the cause of wrong
itself. Or the other piece of special childishness, that
" the Crown is the fountain of honour ;" when it is pal-
pable to the meanest student of history, that there
have been those whom the Crown has tried to honour
and could not, and those who have been honoured
precisely because the Crown did its utmost to dis-
honour them. _ _ _

In all these the fallacy is the feeble one, of pur-
posely applying the phrase to the wrong thing.
When an Englishman's house is called his castle, it
means that he is not to be taken out of it except for
causes which the consent of the community has de-
fined as adequate ; a privilege the value of which is
best known by its absence. When the law says for
every wrong it provides a remedy, the clear and ra•
tional intention is to avow, that it provides remedy
to the fullest extent compatible with the degree of
perfection to which legislators shall have carried it; and
when the Crown is called the fountain of honour, all
temperate and well-meaning men know the thing
announced to be, that the community, acting through
its Legislature, has determined that the Crown is
the fitting location for the distribution of such ho-
norary recompenses as the good of the State may
demand. No man, except wilfully, has ever blun-
dered on these points. There was a thing meant,
and a thing that was not meant ; and the art of going
wrong was in putting one of these for the other.
So when our ancestors insisted on what they
called the Queen's Supremacy, it did not mean that in
England the Queen was Pope, neither did it mean
that everybody in England held their religion by
the fiat of the Sovereign, and would be bound to
make their seed pass through the fire to Moloch if
ever a Sovereign should arise with whom that species
of devotion was in favour. Anybody stumbling upon
those meanings, went far beyond the limits
can be assigned 10 involuntary error. Sane people
always knew it meant, that what religion should be
supported by the application of the public property,
was a thing to be settled by the cornmuuify through
its legislature, and that the community so acting in
times past, fixed en a religion, and made the Sovereign,
through his Courts, the guardian and arbiter of all
rights and questions thence arising,—or, as weekly
rings from the pulpit in the Universities, "in all
causes, civil and ecclesiastical, supreme." It no more
needs a lawyer's technicalities, to know what is
meant by the Queen's being supreme in eccle-
siastical causes, than in civil. It may be
d quite wrong, and civil causes perhaps
ought to be settled by the " knowing man" whom
another " knowing man" is to fix upon, and ecclesi-
astical the same. But there can be no doubt of what
our forefathers intended and did ; though we have
possibly the right to transfer it all to the " knowing
man" when we can agree upon him.
But one inference, specially important at the pre-
sent moment, is that the settling of what the religion
was to be or continue, was not left to any cor-
poration, convocation, or council ecclesiastical. The
community chose a religion, and then said
to certain ecclesiastics, "If you are willing
to administer the religion we have chosen,
you may enter upon your office, not without consi-
derable dignities and emoluments annexed." But
nobody ever said to them, " Make us a religion,"
nor " Shape us our religion from time to time into
such form as shall be your pleasure, and we will take
it at your hands." If any appearance like the last
should ever arise, and grow into the serious, the re-
ply of the community would be, " You have abdi-
cated. Go forth, and we will take our chance for
finding men who will accept our terms and keep to
them."
The letter of the Bishop of Durham to the Arch.
deacon of Lindisfarne, appears to be considered as
the manifesto of the Government; and the business
of those who supported the wise and statesmanlike
letter of the Premier, is to collect matter in aid
against the approaching time. The plan of campaign
of the opponents and their non-Catholic allies has
also been proclaimed by sound of trumpet. They are
to stand upon the indifference of the thing, and the
disgrace of retracing past steps. If the French
general at Rome had sent a division of grenadiers in-
stead of a cardinal, the indifference of the thing
might have been maintained in almost the same
terms. " What ! risk the horrors of war and
the cessation of domestic and commercial
industry, to decide whether Dover or perhaps Wind-
sor castle, shall be occupied by a set of men in red
or a set in blue ; when, bating this, you would
hardly know one set from the other, —men who parade
at the same hours, dine by the like beat of drum, and
between whom, in the common converse of society,
you would hardly be able to find a difference. You
say their flag is tricolour. Is not your own tricolour
too ?if you doubt it, count the colours and see. And
so, to decide which of two configurations of bunting
shall be hoisted on a certain pole, you will go to war
with half the powers of Europe. The French general
says it is a revival of the Norman claim ; England is
a fief of France, through Normandy, and all liege
men are summoned, on pain of hell, to give their alle-
giance in the right place. How silly to care for that !
Either the people of England believe in the Norman
claim or they do not, and how is a flag on 'Windsor
castle to alter their belief? Detestable intole-
rance ! Wrete'ned fanaticism of pseudo-nationality
Aud these are the things for which we are to be
made to quarrel if we will! !" It is known that
this is to be the line, taken .by the counsel for the
smoothers-down.
And then, the going back ; how contemptible !
The wolf in the Zoological Gardens had borne
his faculties so meekly, that the worthy Secretary de-
termined him to have merged into the canis
domesticus, and bit by bit emancipated him
accordingly. That there had ever been necessity for
a wolf-hunt, or that wolves had crunched the bones
of small children or grown men, was a disagreeable
reminiscence not to be again resorted to,—a piece of
the old world's history, which the universal march of
intellect had outgrown. But no a,noner was the last
"bar removed, than the flashing, etaOf, the liberated
'prisoner revealed what•was passing in ros soul, He
waa the wolf, unchanged, unchangeable. Before
the House of Hanover or Stuart,' Plantagenet
or
Tudor, Harold or William, Alfred or Boadicea,
Woltdom was, and is and is to be. Wolf was the
original lord, and all that has been altered since, was
reb,llion in polities and heresy in religion. Wolf was
rolling in, " like a compact solid globe," to resume his
ancient heritage, end ell that is wolfish in Europe
was sending to congratulate him on his progress. If
under suck circumstances the worthy Secretary was
implored not to think of o base a thing as a return to
durance, it is not difficult to surmise hew little the
fear of inconsistency would hold his hand.
There is not the slightest exaggeration in this pa-
rallel. ID:ere may be individuals who honestly regret
what has been dune in their name or by their leaders.
But acts must be judged of in the gross. The eyes
of everything barbarian in politics or in religion, are
upon England to see how she will behave iu such a
posture of affairs. As in the parallel stated, the only
course is quietly to go back. We have done wrong,
and must undo it; we know is now, though we did
not before. Not to any unnecessary extent in the way
of severity, but to so much as shall secure what our
forefathers handed over to us safe, and which we by
an overweening confidence have let down and endan-
gered. We have to a certain extent been made ridi-
eu'ous, as all men are who trust and are deceived.
But there may be strength in us for all that ; it does
not follow that we are incompetent to recover
what has been lost. Our forefathers left us
safe, and the brief, politic, and effective
course, is to take post again super vial antifjuas, with
the exception of the penalties which were exaggerated
and contradictory to the spirit of the times. The
Acts of 5 and 13 Eliz. are thisNathichmoment
a c
byolllelius toinexist-
ence, except the penalties, v
com-
promise among parties, have been taken away and the
rest left standing. The gun is without a lock ; all
that is wanted then is, that the lock he put on
again. -What the honour of the country requires, is
the courage to reinstate these statutes in vigour by
the addition
Bill,dition of moderate penalties. What is called a
Short
might do it in fewer words than it takes
to talk about it.
One thing must &so be kept sight of. As the in-
sult has been open and intended to attract the atten-
tion of Europe, there rouat be no rag left to flutter
which shall be construed into success. When the
Pope referred to the commencement of the good la orli
under the second James, why did he omit to notice
the services attempted by Guido Fawkes under