The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

ORDINARY SERVICE.

Public Debt
Grants .
Expenses of the various Ministerial de-
partments .
Expenses of r "igie,collection of taxes, &c. 147,692,191
Reimbursements, provinces, and dis-
-66,355,770
tricts

Total . 1,276,106,797 f.
EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE.

Extraordinary works
Railroads..

62,431,344 f.
34,000,000

General total
Credits amounting to 19,517,992 f. are also opened
for the estimates of 1845 as follows :
Legion of Honour . .
Royal Printing-office
Consular establishments.
Invalides, Marine, and the Mint.....

7,102,898 f.
2,760,500
360,000
1,350,494

Total .. 19,517,992 f.
" Art. 2. The above-mentioned expenses shall be
provided for by ways and means of 1845.
" Art. 3. The effective force to be kept up in Al-
geria, beyond which the second paragraph of the
Art. 4 of the law of 11th June, 1842, will be re-
quired, is fixed for the year 1845 at 60,000 men and
13,896 horses.
" Art. 4: A distinct account is to he given of the
employment of the credits on the Chapters 21, 25,
and 33 of the budget of the War Department for ex-
traordinary works in Algeria.
" Art. 5. The sum of 1,050,000 f. is opened to the
Athascei- of for military velitiutiS.
" Art. 6. The interest of caution money of public
officers is fixed at 3 per cent. after January, 1845.
" Art. 7. The faculty of opening supplementary
credits by Royal ordonnance, to supply the insuffi-
ciency of grants, can only be allowed in the cases
already determined."
The next order of the day was the verification of
qualifications.
M. Cremieux presented the report of the Commit-
tee on the election of M. Sieyes for Valence (Drome),
which was in favour of his admission.
M. Lherbette opposed his admission, on the plea
that he was ineligible, in consequence of his having
entered the service of a foreign Power.
The objection to his admission was, after some dis-
cussion, overruled, and his election declared valid.
The Marquis de Dalmatie, who had been re-elected
for Castres (Tarn-et•Garonne), took the oaths and
his seat

The discussion on the Address was fixed for Mon-
day next.
Tho Chamber adjourned at half-past four.

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT
EDINBURGH.

CT Thursday a public meting was held in the New
Music Hall (Assembly Rooms), the largest public hall
in Edinburgh, to receive a deputation from the National
Anti-Corn-law League, consisting of Richard Cobden,
Esq., M.P., John Bright, Esq., M.P., Colonel T. P.
Thompson, and R. R. Moore, Esq., the object of the
meeting being to promote a subscription in Edinburgh
and neighbourhood in aid of the Great League Fund of
100,0001., to be applied in securing the total and imme-
diate repeal of the corn-laws, the Right Hon. the Lord
Provost in the chair; and among those on the platform
were, Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.; John Bright, Esq.,
M.P. ; Colonel T. P. Thompson; R. R. Moore, Esq. ;
Bailies Duncan and Gray; William Dick, Esq., Deau of
Guild; Councillors Wright, James Duncan, stark, Lo-
thian, Stott, Cruickshank, Grierson, Dodds, Drummond,
Lindsay, and Sanderson.
The Lord Provost, Mr.. Cobden, Colonel Thompson,
and Mr. Bright, addressed the meeting, and a resolution,
cordially approving of the objects and exertions of the
Anti-Corn-law League, was adopted.
The CHAIRMAN announced the amount of subscrip-
tions, including the sums which had been previously sub-
scribed, to be 1,142/.
[A very full report of the meeting is given in the
Edinburgh Advertiser of Friday, but we cannot find room
for it.]

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THE LAUIUHNGTONS; or, Superior People,
By FRANCES TROLLOPE.

Author of " Widow Barnaby," &c.

" Mrs. Trollope is more than usually caustic in The Laur-
ringtons,' and much of her ridicule is as happy as it is seven..
She intimates that she has taken her portraitures from originals
in private life."—Observer.
" The Laurringtons' are well drawn, and from the life."—
Examiner.

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MRS. GRANT OF LAGGAN.

On Friday next will be published, vols. post Bvo., with
Portrait,
MEMOIR awl CORRESPONDENCE of the
late Mrs. GRANT, of Laggan, Author of " Letters
from the Mountains," "Memoirs of an American Lady," &c.,
&c. Edited by her Son, J. P. GRANT, Esq.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman.

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, J.N. 12.—The Minister of the Interior
will very shortly distribute a great work on educa-
tion in Belgium. It is a complete history of educa-
tion since 1794. The collection of documents forms
the half of two large octavo volumes. We are not
aware that any work so complete as this exists in any
country of Europe.
At the opening of the sitting of the Chamber of
Representatives to-day, M. de Roo presented the
Report on the petitions relative to the transit of cattle
by the railway, proposing to refer these petitions to
the Minister of Finance, asking him for explanation.
Several Members wished the Report to be printed,
and discussed on Monday. The Minister of Finance
observed that the Royal Decree of Sept. 23 having
been adopted by his advice and that of the Minister
of the Interior, the Report should be referred to both.
M. Mulon, and some other members, affirmed that the
decree in question was illegal, for that it could not be
founded on the law of the 28th March last, which
authorises the Government to modify the regulations
concerning the transit. The Members decided that
the Report should be referred to the two Ministers.
The Chamber then resumed, and concluded the debate
on the budget of the Department of Justice, which
was voted unanimously. The sum voted is 10,983,000 f.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—It is many years since
there has been so brilliant a season at this establishment
as the present one ; and such is the attraction of The
Bohemian Girl and the new pantomime of Harlequin
.TC;ng Pepin, that every prospect presents itself of its con-
tinuation. Benedict's opera, already in a forward state
of preparation, has been retarded, and Charles Kean,
who was to have appeared on the Bth inst., does not
make his appearance until the 22d. The receipts have
realized, we are given to understand, upwards of 2,0001.,

a-week.
ASTLEY'S THEATRE.—This elegant theatre has
been crowded, night after night, during the representa-
tion of the Christmas pieces, and the spirited proprietor
has yielded to the earnest entreaties of his patrons and
friends, and announced his intention of keeping it open
for six nights longer. Our holiday friends will feel highly
delighted with this arrangement ; for the fun and amus-
ing representations are so very ludicrous as to draw forth
the loudest demonstrations of merriment and applause.
The subject of the pantomime is taken from Burns'
celebrated production " Tam O'Shanter," of which we
gave a full account at its first production. The enter-
tainments conclude with the Scenes in the Circle, the
performances of Mons. Piege, and the Victories of Murat,
of which we have before expressed a favourable opinion.
The bill of fare is highly attractive.
KEEN SHAVING.—It will be remembered that a
market has commenced at Seaham-harbour for the con-
venience of the colliery districts, and to improve and
extend the trade at that place, the tradesmen under-
taking to supply every article of as good quality and on
the same terms as in the large towns in this district. On
the last market day, a pitman went into a barber's' shop
to get his week's crop removed from his chin, when,
having been duly soaped, and all ready for the operation
he suddenly started up, and exclaimed, " Does that;
shave at Durham prices ?" " Yes," exclaimed the
astonished shaver, " what for ?" " Why," said the
pitman, " if thou had'nt thou should have washed the
soap off again, my lad, for we'll pay nae mair than
Durham prices.—Newcastle Advertiser.
The young lady who has taken the Neapolitans by
the cars, under the cognomen of Favante, is a Miss Ed-
wards, a pupil of Crivelli, who used to sing at the Aca-
demy concerts a season or two back ; and who belonged
to that institution.—Dramatic and Musical Review.
THE FAILURE OF A LIEGE HOSIERY HOUSE.—
Messrs. Nevill, Son, Rossall, and Co., of Cary-lane, Lon-
don, this week, has produced a great sensation in this
market, and some houses are large creditors, but from
the last report it appears probable that there will not
ultimately be any loss.—Leicestershire Mercury.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1844

them by the law authorities of Dublin who, by
striking all the members of that faith off the jury
list, have deliberately proclaimed it as their
opinion that they are not to be trusted on their
oaths. Lord KENMARE, Mr. Wvss, of Water-
ford, Mr. SHELL, and several eminent Catholic
Prelates, who have hitherto either taken no part
in Repeal, or shown themselves decidedly hostile
to it, have come publicly forward to mark
their sense of this flagrant indignity ;
and at the Aggregate meeting which was
held in Dublin on Saturday last, the Lord
Mayor, who was in the chair, correctly expressed
the feelings of his excited hearers, when he ob-
served that " as in religion he was a Catholic,
the conduct pursued by the Crown within the
last few days showed that they considered him
unworthy to act as a common juror in the city of
Dublin. Every citizen who professed that creed,
sincerely believing it to be best, was declared
disqualified to discharge the functions of a juror.
There are seven and a half millions of Catholics
in Ireland; they were excluded—practically dis-
qualified by time act of the Crown, which
expunged the name of every Catholic from
the jury panel in the State prosecutions."
It may perhaps be imagined that these
gentlemen were struck off merely because they
were Repealers, and might naturally therefore be
presumed to be so biassed as to be unable to
give an impartial verdict ; but this was not the
case ; their sole crime was their religion--a fact
to which Mr. WYSE thus alludes :—" It was not
until after the Catholic- jurors had been struck ,
• from the list that any idea was entertained of
inquiry into their political principles; so that it
has been clearly ascertained that it was not
the connection with any political associa-
tion, or the profession of any principles
which might be considered as forming any
particular political creed, which had incapa-
citated those gentlemen for the enjoyment of
their privileges. Their sole crime was their Ca-
tholicity. The conduct of the Crown had esta-
blished the principle that the being Catholics
implied a suspicion which in itself was sufficient
to deprive men of the rights which belonged to
the great mass of the people of Ireland." And
this is the way in which the Catholics are treated,
—fourteen years after the passing of the Act
which professed to emancipate them from all the
lz.gal.and political and civil disqualifications under
which they had hitherto laboured! And the
Government, which treats them thus cavalierly, is
the same which brought forward and carried that
Act, which was intended—in the language of its
authors—to be one of grace and conciliation !
Yes, the Tories, who were the Emancipators, are
now, true to their old instincts, become once
again the oppressors of the Catholics. They
cannot divest themselves of their old hereditary
prejudices—they cannot get rid of their favourite
system of government—but must needs betray
the cloven foot, no matter how indispensable
it is to their interests that they should
keep it carefully concealed. Justly observed Sir
ROBERT PEEL in the year 1836—only a few
hours before he crossed over from the Treasury
bench to the Opposition side of the House—that
his great difficulty was Ireland. It was his
great difficulty then—it is his great difficulty
now—and it will continue to be his great diffi-
culty, until he sees fit to humble himself and
cry " Peccavi"—to retrace his whole course of
policy—and turn over a new leaf as regards the
sister-country. Surely he must by this time be

convinced that a one-sided system of legislation
—a petty, temporising, neither-this-nor-that
line of conduct, will never do for Ireland ! He
has already given it the fullest trial, and it has
failed—failed so egregiously that not a few, even
of those who have hitherto been its warmest ad-
vocates, have at length seen their error, and re-
fused any longer to sanction such a blundering
system of policy. Beset with difficulties as the
Premier now is—difficulties in a great measure
of his own courting, and which be might have
overcome, had he been possessed of the requi-
site energy and decision of character—we suspect
that it is in Ireland he is destined to meet with his
downfal. That is the rock on which he will
split—the country in which his reputation for
political sagacity will ere long find its grave.
Let the issue of tl►e state prosecutions be what
it may, he cannot fail to be the sufferer. If the
result be an acquittal, his Ministry will have the
mortification of having been beaten by O'CON-
NELL in a trial of strength of their own seeking,
and in which they had put forth all the resources
of the Crown; if, on the contrary, the
result be a condemnation, not a Catholic
in Ireland—no matter which he be a
Repealer or a non-Repealer— but will be
firmly convinced that such a result was
brought about in bold defiance of justice.
'The consequence will be that a spirit of discon-
tent and distrust will become more general than
ever among the Irish people ; and Mr. O'CoN-
NELL will resume the agitation of Repeal with
more vigour and confidence, in his solitary
dungeon, than lie -would if he were declaiming
publicly in the Conciliation Hall, or at one of his
famous monster meetings.

We have accounts from Madrid to the 7th
inst.,-and though the capital and the provinces
were perfectly tranquil, many feared that it was
only the calm before the storm. GONZALES
BRAVO and his Mini,istry are becoming every day
more contemptible,. and as soon as General NAR.•
VAEZ has served his purpose with them lie will
get rid of them, as 11... c did of LOPEZ and OLOZAGA.
One point of importance has already been
gained, the renewal. -of the pension to the Queen-
Mother. The Gazette of the Bth was to contain
the following Royal.. decree :
‘, According to the iidvice of the Council of Ministers,
and following_ the dictr rtes of my heart, I have decreed as
follow :
" Art. 1. The decree', issued by the ex-Regent of the
kingdom at Vittoria eon the 26th of October, 1841,
which suspended the I rayment of the pension assigned in
the budget of the Ist of September of said year to my
dearest and most belov .M mother, Queen Maria Chris-
tina de Bourbon, is he Irvby revoked.
" Art. 2. The Minis tar of Finance is charged with the
execution of the present decree.
" Given at the Palace, on the 6th of Jan., 1844."
M. L. A. de Cueto hie d been appointed Minister Ple-
nipotentiary at Lisbon.. M. Martinez de la Rosa was to
proceed to Paris in a km days, and the Duke de Rivas
to embark at Cadiz for Naples.

The Paris Papers bring the Address to the
Royal Speech, agre ed to by the Committee, and
a full report of the: financial statement for the
year 1845, made by the Minister of Finances on
thellel Chamber, and requires no
Friday. The Add rE.ss varies little from that
adopted by
comment. The Budget is of more importance,
PP
as it shows the go o d effects produced on the
country by peace wand security. The subjoined
brief outline, which is sufficiently favourable,
is extracted from a Government paper, the
Journal des Debats. The Budget for 1844, pre-
sented a year ago, re tuired for the ordinary ser-
vice a sum of 1,281,01 3,710 f., and the receipts at
1,247,228,366 f.,
giving a surplus of )1, a deficiency of 33,785,344 f.
!I
For 1845, the ordinal expenses are put down at
1,276,106,797 f., and the. e receipts at 1,276,925,231 f.,
early
1,000,000 f. Besides
for 1834, the extraor( li nary Budget amounted to
123,500,000 f., 80,000, 000 of which were to be
covered by loan, and. 43,500,000 were imputable
to the floating debt. :.For 1845, the first part of
the extraordinary w 'arks, that which is to be
acquitted by means o f the loan already voted,
amounts to 62,431,34411; the second, charged to
the floating debt, am( v unts to 34,000,000. But it
must be remembered . that among the expenses
is included the dotati, of the sinking fund, the
larger portion of whilx !h, or that which corres-
ponds to the Four p• .11 r Cents., Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., and Five / ler Cents., remaining un-
employed, is applicab,l to to covering the floating
debt. For 1845, the resources of the sinking
fund will amount to 4.1 ouble the sum which the
floating debt will have to bear on account of the
extraordinary works.

The writer, after q a( sting some other proofs of
national prosperity, aeii Is, with what we hope is
well-founded exultati,o n—"
We do not think
there is in Europe me] .1 an instance of the in-
crease of revenue, will .bout an aggravation of
taxes. Since 1833, all being balanced, it has