The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY" 25, 1845.

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THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA-
HOUSE.

Ihder the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews,
Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden,
Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker,
Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan.
To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic
Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE
AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews;
Meadows, Wigan, Collier, I'urner, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley ,
Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs
Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcouy _tsoxes, 45.; Upper
Boxes, Is.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
lip per Boxes, Is. 6c1.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Pier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea,
The Bex.otlicei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc—
tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent garden Theatre.

GRAND JUVENILE FETES.
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime.
THIS EVENING _

Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed;
introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage
Ind in the Circle by living Fox and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
b y Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
Epaom Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse-
nianship.
After which, a Brilliant Military Cavalcade. introducing Thirteen
Female E liwstrians, entitled THE HUNGARIAN BRIGADE;
or Female Cavalry.
To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime,
cilled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; er, the
Lila& Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine,
Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury,
Juhnny Gilpin, Mr. Wells.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art e Riding
y Sir. V. Smith daily.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
n compliance with the wishes of numerous Families, the Pantomime
will be performed in the middle of the Evening.—Continuation of
the most brilliant Success ever known.
THIS EVENING
Will bo repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End
Df Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corri (from the
Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Honner,
Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W.
Daly, and Miss Martin.
To be fol•owed by an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called
POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN
L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway;
Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri; Columbine, Miss Slaiter.
To conclude with THE WET NURSE. Supported lay Messrs.
Neville, W. Smith,,and Lewis, Miss Martin. &c.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner. M the Box-
thee, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE
Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity,"
and the Ncw Comic Pantomime.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated NIARIAN NE; or, the Child of Charity. Sup-
t;orttid br Mr. O.baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson T. H.
Higgie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E.
lerrey, and Miss Treble.
After which, MONSEIGNEUR. Monseigneur, the French Jack
Sheppard, Miss Vincent.
To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS • or, The Little Old Woman and
the Demon of the Metal Mine. 'Harlequin, M. Chapitm; Clown,
Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Columbine, Mdlle.
Le Vite.

FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to submit a list of the EN-
GAGEMENTS, and an outline of the ARRANGEMENTS which
be has entered into for the ENSUING SEASON of FRENCH
PLAYS, which will commence on MONDAY EVENING, JAN.
.27, and which, he trusts, will be deemed worthy the distinguished
Patronage hitherto conferred upon his Theatre.
The Season will commence by the Engagement of Monsieur
Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes), his First Appearance at this
Theatre, for whose performance the popular Plays of " Le Che-
valier de Saint Georges," " Le Chevalier du Guet," " Pierre le
Rouge," " Requefinette," " Pere et File, &c , &c., will be
produced. Mademoiselle Nathalie (of the Theatre du Gymnase)
will also appear conjointly with Monsieur Lafont.
After whom, the eminent Actor, Monsieur Frederick Lemaitre
(who has accepted an engagement for a limited number of Nights
only), and Mademoiselle Clarisse, will appear, until the close of the
Season at Easter. During the Engagement of Monsieur Frede-
rick Lemaitre, the popular Plays of " Don Cwsar de Bazan," and
"Ruy Blas," by Victor Hugo, as originally performed by him with
s (much success, will be produced; as well as the last New Piece
)f the Porte St. Martin, which now exeites such extraordinary
:nterest in Paris, and in which M. Frederick has performed for
Ten consecutive Weeks, entitled " La Dame de Saint Tropez."
After Easter, the eminent Actress, Madame Albert (engaged
for a few nights only), will appear in the Two New Comedies of
the Theatre Francais, " Une Femme a Quarante Ans,'' and " Le
Mari a la Campagne," in addition to " Mathilde, ou la Jalouise ;"
and Marie, ou les Trois Epochs ;" with other favourite Pieces of
her repertoire ; and will be succeeded by the popular Comic Actor,
Monsieur Ravel (of the Theatre du Palais Royale), who will make
his First Appearance in this Country.
The Engagement of Monsieur Ravel will be followed by those of
Mademoiselle Plessy, and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre
Francais, hls First Appearance in this Country). It is intended, at
that period of the Season, to produce, under the superintendence
of Monsieur Cartigny, some of the finest Comedies of the French
Stage. In addition to which, Mr. Mitchell has the honour to
announce, that an entirely New Comedy will be produced, written
expressly for the Company by the eminent French Author, Mon-
sieur Alexandre Dumas, who will be present in London to direct
•he rnise en scene of his New Composition. _ _

The Favourite Actor, Monsieur Achard, is also engaged for a
few Nights, and will appear in the last New Vaudeville of Le
flymnase, entitled " Babiole et Joblot," by Scribe, " Ywan le
Moujick," and other New Pieces, with the occasional Representa-
tion of some of the most popular Plays of that admired Actor's
repertoire.
The Season will terminate by the Engagement of Monsieur
Arbal (of the Theatre du Vaudeville), who will have the honour
of making his First Appearance at this Theatre, and during whose
Engagement the following Popular Plays, as originally performed
by Monsieur Arnal, will be produced :—" L'Homme Blase,"
" L'Hureoriste," " Les Gants Jaime," " Passe Minna," " Les
Cabinets Particulaire," " Renaudin de Caen," " Le Poltron,"
" La Mansarde du Crime," " Le Bal du Grande Monde," &c., &c.
The Company for the Season will be carefully selected from the
Theatres of Paris, including M. Cartigny, M. Oudinot, M. De-
z.bampes (of the Gymnase), M. Masquillier (of the Porte St.
Marti.), M. Lienard, M. Tourillon, M. Burnt, M. Bonnet, Mdlle.
Eliza Forgeot, Mdme. Croset, Mdlle. fiery, Mdlle. Chaplin, Mdlle.
")zy (of the Varietes), Mdlle. Andrea (of the Porte St. Martin),
Nldlle. Estelle (of the Palais Royale), Mdlle. Bonval (of the Theatre
Francais), Mdlle. Valerie (of the Odeon), Mdlle. Lambert (of the
Varietes), &c., Sec., &c.
Leader of the Orchestra, M. Burotte (for Twenty Years Second
Chef d'Orchostre at the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Directrite,
Eliza Forgeot ; Regisseur, M. Cloup.
The Subscription will be for Forty Representations, which will
take place on Mondays and Fridays; the Performances on Wed-
nesday Evenings will not be included in the Subscriptions, but Sub-
scribers will be allowed to exchange either the Monday or Friday
Evening for the Wednesday, when they may desire to do so, for
:he accommodation of their other engagements, an arrangement
which, on former Seasons, has given such general satisfaction.
Applications for Season Boxes and Stalls to be addressed to Mr.
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street ; Mr. Sams, I, St.
*arnes'a-street ; and Messrs. Andrews and Ebers, Bond-street.

FIRE AT THAME.—On Wednesday night, between
eight and nine o'clock, the stable and chaise-house of
Mr. Reynolds, surgeon, at Theme, Oxfordshire, was
found to be in flames. The fire spread with such ra-
pidity, that, with the exception of the dogs, and a trifling
article or two, the building and its contents were de.
stroyed. Two valuable horses perished. A carriage, a
single-horse chaise, a quantity of straw and hay, and
several sets of harness were destroyed. The building
was thatched, and chiefly built of timber. The origin
of the fire is not known.
EXPEDITIOUS BRIDGE BUILDING.—Mr. Dredge
has just erected a bridge over the Blackwater river,
county Tyrone, Ireland. This bridge has been in con-
templation nearly 40 years, the only obstacle being the
immense expense of any structure on the old system, and
probably for 40 or 100 years more the county would
have been deprived of the advantage now conferred, but
for Mr. Dredge's estimates, and his highly approved
plan. Mr. Dredge has not added much to the long
delay, by any dilatory process of construction ; when
the iron was on the ground he astonished the public
with the rapidity of the work, the bridge being extended
and completed in one week. The bridge is 74 feet span,
and for the heaviest traffic. It was erected at the cost of
the Earl of Caledon.—lViltshire Independent.
The Earl of Glengall has recovered from his recent
indisposition. The Noble Earl is still at Dublin, where
the Countess and the youthful Ladies Butler are also so-
journiug-.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 25.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 32 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 43.
BAROMETER, 30.11.—WIND, S.W.
NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
"Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
rhermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
"Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON.BRIDGE THIS DAY.
vorning ... '; minutes atter 3 I Evening ... 22 minutes after 3.

candid as well as collected character of the statements
made in them—than we have experienced from the
letters of Lord ABERDEEN. It was certainly in bad
taste on the part of Lord RANELAGII to identify the
source of the injurious treatment he remonstrated
against with his own adherence to, and Lord ABER-
DEEN'S defection from, political " principles so long
and so' ably maintained by the latter nobleman and
his colleagues in her MAJESTY'S Government ;" for
this gratuitous assumption only brought down, in
return, Lord ABERDEEN'S announcement, that, on
the records of the Foreign-office, instructions had
been found which Lord PALMERSTON, whilst holding
the Foreign seals, had deemed it his duty to issue to
our Ministers abroad, prohihiting them from present-
ing Lord RANELAGII at the Courts to which they
were accredited, on account of Lord RANELAGBIS
having actually, after joining the army " of Don
CARLOS, taken part in operations, in the course of
which the Carlists were engaged with a portion of
the British co-operating force in the neighbourhood
of Bilboa." Lord RANELAGII'S solemn disclaimer of
the fact, admitted by the recal of these " instructions,"
as stated, in the fairest and most honourable manner,
in Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch to him of the 19th
ultimo, does not cure Lord RANBLAGII'S ungra-
cious mistake of attributing their origin to the
wrong cause, and of assuming that cause to be—
the personal abandonment of former political prin-
ciples by Lord ABERDEEN. But surely it was in
still worse taste for Lord RANELAGII, in his letter of
the 7th, in reply to Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch of the
4th, to instruct the Foreign Minister as to what he
ought to have done, or what his predecessor, Lord
PALMERSTON, " might have pleaded for what he did
do, and to taunt the Noble Earl with bringing
humiliating reproach" upon " those who have the
misfortune to trust in him or to be associated with his
Lordship in office." Lord RANELAGII may plead ex-
treme irritation to account for the caprice of reading
a didactic lesson to the Noble Secretary, and even for
reflections se unmeasured and unqualified on that
functionary's official conduct ; but we doubt whether
even to himself such a plea will excuse an error of
judgment that appears to have elicited from Lord
ABERDEEN only this cold, but courteous and signi-
ficant notice :

" Your Lordship will excuse me if I abstain from en-
tering into any consideration of other portions of your
letter, personal to myself and relative to my official
duty. I think that these may safely and properly be
left unnoticed."

Still there are many passages in Lord RANELAGR'S
pamphlet that strike us as evidencing abundant good
sense. They prove how much easier it is for men
mixed up with the concerns of public life to express
forcibly sound opinions upon paper, than to control
and regulate their own conduct in respect to those
concerns. He thus alludes, in his introductory re-
marks to the present state of Spain :-
4. No man, who loves his country, or his species, can
contemplate without anxiety and alarm, the present state
of Spain. There we see not the successive rise and fall
of opposite parties in the State, but a monstrous union
of anarchy and despotism, which, under all changes of
administration, pursues one constant and fearful triumph
over every form of public order and private right. The
people—once temperate, industrious, brave, and loyal,—
are familiarised with butchery and instructed in crime by
the examples of their governors : and the abundant
elements of natural and moral wealth are crushed and
eradicated, by a system which, if permitted to continue,
cannot fail to communicate its frightful contagion to
other States. This is an evil immediately suffered by
Spain ; but it is a danger from which no kingdom in
Europe is safe. The cause, therefore, involved, is not
that of any faction, but of general peace, and of human

We must also emphatically concur with Lord
RANELAGH in reprobating such terms—in respect of
the present hideous disorganisation that rules supreme
in Spain—as Lord ABERDEEN has applied to it :
"In proportion as what Lord Aberdeen calls the
cause of constitutional liberty ' has advanced, the secu-
rity of life and property has diminished ; and amidst
that tranquillity of which ho boasts, not only is anarchy
and strife everywhere prevalent, but hundreds are from
year to year put to the most horrible death, without even
the form of a trial."
There is as much of reason as of smartness in a
similar allusion :

" The Noble Foreign Secretary considers legal order
and constitutional right' to be synonymous with the
present state of Spain : what he may think would exem-
plify a condition of anarchy and rebellion' it is diffi-
cult to imagine."
Lord RANELAGII will pardon us for saying that the
following passage involves a mere quibble :
" It is necessary to bear in mind that the question
really at issue in the subjoined correspondence is nut the
law of Spanish succession, but the re-establishment of
Spanish peace. The rights discussed are not those, re-
spectively, of Don Carlos and Isabel, but of Spain—with-
out reference to party, and of humanity—without regard
to political opinion."
The simple fact is that the very propositions of Don
CARLos impeached the existing law of Spanish suc-
cession. They contemplated nothing less. They
would have been to the last degree " vague," as Lord
ABERDEEN calls them, and irrelevant to fact, if they
meant anything else. But we must here take leave
of the subject, once more referring the reader to our
abridged abstract of the correspondence.

The Madrid Gazette of the 17th inst., contains the
following decrees :—The Ist, appointing the Baron
VsE MEER a Grandee of Castile under the title of
Count DB GRA and Viscount of Loyalty ; the 2d,
appointing the Viscount DE GRA President of the
Supreme Tribunal of War and of the Marine ; 3d,
appointing General Don MANUEL DE LA CONCHA
Captain. General of Catalonia ; 4th, depriving Don
JOSE RamoN RoniL of all his honours, titles, and
decorations, and removing him from the list of gene-
rals of the army; and ith, appointing Don FEE•
NANDO COTONER second in command in the province
of Catalonia. Gen. RoDIL has been stripped of his titles
and honours for refusing to obey the summons of NAR-
VAEZ to appear before a military tribunal at Vittoria,
where he knew justice could not be obtained. The
mother of NARVAEZ has been created Countess DB LA
CONCEDA, and decorated with the cordon of the ladies
Maria Louisa.

The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and
32i at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 23 at 60 days ;
and the Debt without interest, at 7i at 60 days
with premium.

The division in the French Chamber of Deputies
on 'Thursday afternoon has destroyed the little in-
terest excited by the discussion on the Address. Mem-
bers themselves were evidently tired with the tedious
repetitions about Morocco and Otaheite, and were
glad to come to the main point and decide the fate of
the Ministry. M. DuriN, who appears to have been
in one of his most crotchetty fits, probably hastened
the result, and increased the majority for M. G vizor.
He had been disappointed of the Presidency of the
Chamber ; the Ministry could not trust him, they pre-
ferred a man of less ability, but a man of correct
habits, moderate in his politics, and consistent in his
purposes, and for this DUPIN could not forgive them,
or admit that any one act of their policy was good.
Ile bitterly attacked them, therefore, for their con-
duct in avery point under discussion. The Morocco
war, the Otaheite affair, and the Right of Search. On
the last, he was actually rabid, and would not hear
of a mixed Commission. He would cut the knot
at once, and without England's consent abrogate the
treaties of 1831 and 1833. This sally may have alarmed
men anxious for the honour of their country and the
peace of the world, and added a few number); to the
majority. But this injudicious stateiman did not
confine himself to politics, he could not avoid being
personal, and to excite laughter on the Left against
M. GUIZOT brought forward again the story of the
journey to Ghent. M. GUIZOT may therefore con-
sider himself lucky in enjoying the full enmity of
M. DUPIN, for the friendship of such a man is more
injurious than his enmity. The Journal des Debats
draws a correct character of the man, and rejoices
that, in opposition to its recommendation, he was the
rejected candidate for the President's Chair.
" Without the speech of M. DUPIN," says that
paper, " we should not have much to say.
But M. DUPIN did speak, and this made a remarkable
event in the sitting. Let us be permitted to express
our great surprise. We did, perhaps, expect some of
those raps and sallies which he is accustomed to be-
stow with an almost equal hand upon both the Mi-
nistry and the Opposition, but did not look for a
speech of so much bitterness and violence, for such a
torrent of acrimonious personalities as may perhaps
excite applause from the Left, but which must be re-
pugnant to every noble mind, to every man of sound
judgment and talent. True it is, then, that we de-
ceived ourselves when, a month ago, we proposed M.
Durex for the Presidency of the Chamber ! His
candidateship was not, as we might have had good
reasons for believing, a neutral candidateship ! If M.

DUPIN had been chosen, the darts he has now thrown
from the tribune might have been thrown from the
chair of the President ! For there can be no doubt
that his acrimony has not been created suddenly by
this check ! He thought a month ago as he thinks now,
that the treaty of Morocco has sullied our diplomacy,
and that the hands which signed it are dishonoured !
He knew a month ago that by Article 4 France freely
engaged that AnD-EL-KADER, if he ever fell,into our
hands, should be treated with moderation—a clause
which, according to M. DUPIN, is an eternally dis-
graceful blot in our glory. A month ago M. DUPIN,
whether President or not, would have left his chair or
his bench to mount the tribune, and denounce to the
anger of the country the PRITCHARD indemnity. In
a word, the opposition of M. DUPIN blazed out yester-
day, but it has long been smouldering in his heart.
This cannot be an incidental opposition—it is an op-
position of rancour. And yet we have recommended
M. DUPIN for the Presidency. We were wrong, our
loyalty compels us to acknowledge it. The Opposi-
tion knew better than we did what it was about. An-
other time we shall be more considerate. Beyond all
doubt, M. DUPIN has a right to blame that which he
thinks blameable ; it is a right which the Hon. De-
puty has exercised very frequently, and upon all
parties. We shall not pretend to dispute his right or
restrain his independence. We merely say that a man
is of the Opposition when he endeavours to overthrow
the Ministry, and that it is perfectly puerile for him to
give out that he is a Member of the majority at the very
time when he is endeavouring, by detaching himself
from it, to dissolve it. M. DUPIN is at bottom a
Conservative ; we know this full well, because he has
given striking proofs of it. We cannot doubt his
wish for peace. He expressed this wish with energy
four years ago, after the treaty of July and the
events of 1840. We have a wonderful recollection
of this. All this, however, does not prevent M.
Dorm from becoming at this day the most decided,
the most active Oppositionist—and this is
what we did not know, nor could expect.
We add that, _ even with the Opposition, there
is a measure to be observed; but M. Durtx,
carried away by his lively imagination and his wit,
has gone beyond all measure. For him, M. DUPIN,
to seek to revive the unworthy scene of last year
against M. GutzuT without the excuse of a moment,
without any warranting circumstance, without any-
thing to provoke his rage ! M. DUPIN may believe
us when we say that he will deeply repent his speech
of yesterday. He has broken out of that neutrality
in which he loved so much to keep himself, and into
which he cannot re-enter very easily. With fine
talents and a sarcastic humour, a man, no doubt, may
succeed in making himself feared—he may become a
dangerous adversary ; but he who spares no one must
soon have all the world in league against him."

All the Opposition journals are loud in their praises
of M. DUPIN, and expected that his speech had done
wonders. The large majority, however, against him
has by this time convinced them of their error.
There is no news of interest in the Paris papers.
When the post left, the division in the Chamber was
not known on the Bourse, but it could not fail to have
a favourable effect.

The Monileur publishes two royal ordonnances
respecting Algeria ; one is for the regulation of the
local and municipal budgets—the other declaring
that the ports of Mostaganem, Arzew, Cherchel,
Djemmaa• Ghazaouat, Deilys, Bugia, and Gigelly
are to enjoy the same advantages and privileges as
those of Algiers, Mers-el-Kebir, Oran, Tenez,
Philippeville, and Bona.
The Globe repeats its assertion that Count DE
MONTALIVET voted with the Ministry on the Address
in the Chamber of Peers.

About four years ago, says a letter from Con-
stantinople, of the 31st ult., a society was formed for
the relief of distressed foreigners in Turkey, and
placed under the direction of the French Ambassador.
Some of the other foreign Ministers, however, having
disapproved of this exclusive protection, the Society
has been, with the consent of the British Ambas-
sador, placed under that of the corps diplomatique
generally.

THE BOURSE-TUURSDAY, JAN. 23.

First Highest Lowest Last

Price. Piles. Price. Price.
Frenchlrivepereents•• •• 121 95 .. 122 .. 121 85 .. 121 85
Three per Cents.•... 85 20 .• 85 25 85 15 .. 85 15
New Loan ........ 86 40 .. 86 40 .. 86 40 .• 86 40
Bank of France ••••.•.3270 —3270 .•3265 —3265
Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1090 —lO9O ..1085 1085
Belgian Bank . 635, .. 63% 635 .. 635
Belgian Fives, IS4O
1842 •••••••• 106?4 .• 108% •• 10614 1061;
Four•and-3-11alf 1031. i .. 10314 1031,4 .. 1031,i
Spanish Threes•• •• •• •• •••• 40 .. 41 .. .. 41
Active •• •• •• •• •• •• 38% .. 38% •• 38% .. 38';;
Passive. •..•• • ..... 7 7 .• 7 .. 7
New Deferred...... 16% .. 16% .. 16% .. 16%
Portuguese Five per Cents•. GO .. 60 .. GO .. GO
Reiman •• • ••••
New York Five per Cents.. 100 .. 100 .. 100 .. 100
Ohio State Debt
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, 494 75 .. 498 75 .• 497 50 .. 497 50

385 .. 385 385
Rouen .............•..... 1( 62 50 • 1062 0 ••1060
Rouen to Havre— • • • ....• 840 . 842 50 . 840
Orleans •• • • • • .1130 ..1131 25 ..1130

Strasburg to Bale •......... 301

•• 385
..1060
.. 840
..1130

.. 310

.. 306 25 . 307- 50

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. FEB 7.

St. Germain-----.r•• ..1010 ..1010
Versailles, 11 11.•• •• • • ...... 497 50 .• 497 50 .. 497 50 .. 497 50
L B.• ••• •• 385 .. 385 .. 385 385
Rouen ••
Rouen to Havre•• ..... • 837 50 •• 847 50 .• 837 50 .. 845
Orleans .•••••.•.......•.••1130 ..1131 25 ..1125 .•1130
Strasburg to Bale— • •
Aviguou to ....930➢larseillea..• •.. 930 .• 930 .. 927 50 .. 927 50

TREATY OF COMMERCE WITM BRAZIL.—By the
Express packet, from Rio Janeiro, we are apprised of
a Commission having been appointed to settle the
treaty of commerce with this country. The names
of the three gentlemen appointed are Senhor Paula
Souza, a Senator ; Senhor Maia, late Conservator
Judge for the British Nation ; and Senhor Ferreira
Franqa, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Rio. An
officer had arrived at Rio, the bearor of the submis-
sion of the rebel chief in Rio Grande, who submitted
after having been four times defeated by Baron
Corxids. The Express has brought a large remit-
tance on account of the dividends.

The Plymouth Auxiliary of the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has resolved that
two prizes of three guineas and two guineas should be
annually offered to the pupils of the several schools in
Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, and within five
miles of either of those towns, for the best and second-
best essays on the following subjects :—The claims of
the brute creation to humane treatment at tie hands of
man; and the duty of discontinuing all such proceedings
as inflict needless sufferings on any portion of God's
creation, merely for the sake of amusement, or for the
gratification of an idle curiosity.
THE CORN TRADE.—GLAscoNr, JAN. 22.—During
the past week the supply of wheat and barley has been
more than equal to the demand. Of oats, oatmeal, and
beans and peal-, arrivals have been light. Wheat—The
bulk of imports are English of the last crop, the quality
of which being superior to former years, requires less
mixtures of old than our own, which is soft in condition.
English meets a fair sale at 245. 6d. to 255. 6d. for
white, and 235. 6d. to 245. 6d. per 2401. for red. Free
foreign red inquired after at 235. 6d. to 255, 6d. Scotch
new, a heavy sale, and cheaper. Barley—Consumers
continue to purchase cautiously, and only selected par-
cels. The trade is very dull, and prices again lower.
Oats—Few offering from aboard ship, but ex granary
the show of samples is fair. Fine heavy meeting lots
maintain attention at full rates. Oatmeal—The stock
now in store being withheld for a further advance, the
quantity offering for sale is not considerable, the price,
consequently, well supported. Beans and Peas—The
consumption is increasing, and fine heavy parcels are a
ready sale at last week's rates. Inferior cheaper at
various prices. In the provision and butter market the
extreme rates hitherto paid are not so easily realised,
the trade being rather languid. At this day's market
the attendance was moderate. Purchasers showed little
inclination to do. business, holding off for abatement.
The market closed heavy, with the turn in favour of
buyers for all sorts.
RECOVERY OF LADY CHALMERS'S JEWELLERY.—
Considerable excitement has prevailed among the ser-
vants employed on the Brighton Railway, in consequence
of the suspected robbery of a valuable box of jewellery
belonging to Lady Chalmers, stated to be worth nearly
a thousand pounds. It appeared that, a few days ago,
her Ladyship and family travelled from Brighton by the
mail train, with considerable luggage, among which the
box of jewellery was supposed to have been placed. On
arriving at the Londcn- bridge terminus, the property of
her Ladyship was cons eyed to her residence, and, after
the vehicle had been unpacked, the jewel-box was missed.
The servant employed to take charge of the luggage was
positive that it hack been brought from Brighton, and it
was immediately suspected that it had been stolen at the
terminus, or on the way to her Ladyship's house. In.
formation was instantly forwarded to the railway station,
and inquiries were made at every station along the lisle,
and at Brighton, without being able to discover any clue
to the lost box. After two day's fruitless search the box
was discovered at the railway station at Brighton, and
was yesterday placed in the safe custody of her Ladyship.
SHEEP-STEALING BY MICHAEL Ganns.—On Satur-
day
last, a notorious character, named Michael Gibbs,
was committed by Captain Browne to take his trial
the next sessions for stealing a sheep from a field at
Woolavington, the property of Mr. James Hurman, of
East Bower farm, near this town. It appears that Mr.
Abraham Winter, of Puriton, who has a field adjoining
the prosecutor's, traced the sheep to the prisoner's
house, a distance of nearly a mi!e and a half. 'The foot-
marks of Gibbs were also traced. A quantity of mutton
was found, covered with straw, is a oack-house' under
the same roof the prisoner resided.—Somerset County
Gazette.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(TBIS DAY.)
'1 he Court took the Crown paper, but nothing of any
,mportance came before it.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Rtnco.)
Several motions were heard by the Court, but none of
them were of the slightest public importance.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
WADE V. SIMEON.
Mr. WATSON said he appeared in this case to show
cause against a rule, calling on the plaintiff to show
cause why the order of Mr. Baron Alderson should not
be set aside on such terms as the Court should direct.
The action was brought in that Court in the month of
May last upon two cheques made by the defendant, one
dated May and the other July, 1840, and amounting to-
gether to 2,0001. Amongst other pleas the defendant
had pleaded that he gave these cheques for money
lost at play, and that the plaintiff well knew of
their illegality at the time, when he took them.
It appeared also from the affidavits, that the present de-
fendant had filed a bill in Chancery, which was answered
by the plaintiff, The cause was appointed to be tried as
a special jury cause on the 7th of December. Some
overtures having been made by the defendant to the
plaintiff to compromise the action, which were always
resisted and refused by the plaintiff, on the 6th of De-
cember the defendant's attorney sent for the attorney of
the plaintiff, and stated that he did not wish to defend
the action, and that he would, therefore, agree to pay
the debt and costs. Upon this it was arranged between
the two attorneys that the record should be withdrawn,
and that a judge's order should be obtained, under which
payment should be made on the 14th December.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—It was stated that since the
date of the order new evidence had been discovered.
Mr. WATSON said he objected altogether to any in-
crease of jurisdiction on the part of the Court. The or-
der of Mr. Baron Alderson was drawn up on the 6th of
December. (The Learned Counsel then read the order,
which, after stating the agreement, provided that, in
case of default, the plaintiff should be at liberty to sign
final judgment, and to issue execution for the whole
amount.) The affidavits stated that on 7th of December,
the day after the date of the order, a person named
Ledbitter, who had formerly been a Bow-street
officer, obtained some information from a person
of the name of Atkins, who alleged that he had
been a partner with a man named Davis
in a gambling house. On the evening of the 13th of
December, a summons was served on the plaintiff's at-
torney, calling upon him to show cause why the order
of Mr. Baron Aldersen should not be rescinded, and the
parties be allowed to go to trial. The case came before
Mr. Baron Rolfe at chambers, who refused to determine
the question, but ordered the principal money and in •
terest to be paid into Court, leaving the parties at liberty
to apply to the Court in the course of the present term.
The application bad now been made by his Learned
Friend (Mr. Martin) on the part of the defendant ; and
what he set up was this, that between the 6th of
December, when this agreement was made between
the parties, and the 14th, his client discovered
some evidence which he believed would enable him suc-
cessfully to maintain his defence to the action. Now,
his objections to this rule were twofold—first, he con-
tended that the Court had no jurisdiction in this case;
and, secondly, that, supposing the Court had jurisdic-
tion, under the circumstances detailed in the affidavits,
it would not be justified in exercising it. In the case of
proceedings going on adversely, he admitted that the
Court had power to interfere; as, for example, when
there had been misdirection on the part of the judge, a
verdict against evidence, or a surprise, and justice could
not be obtained without a new trial. But what their
Lordships were now asked to do was, to rescind a con-
tract between the parties.
The LORD CHIEF BARON said the strength of the
Learned Counsel's argument was, that the Court ought
not to interfere to enable a party to break his contract.
Mr. WATSON said that was his position. Ho did not
know where the matter was to stop if rules were to be
granted in cases like that before the Court. Take the
case of a cognovit. If a party had given a cognovit,
could he afterwards be allowed to say," I have discovered
some new evidence, and I will go to a jury ?" He con-
, ceded at once, that if the agreement had been obtained by
fraud or misrepresentation the rule must be granted, but
there was no pretence whatever for such a statement.
The Learned Counsel then referred to the case of Blight
and Brewer, 3d " Dowling's Practical Cases," page 266.
That was a motion to set aside a cognovit, on the ground
that the consideration was illegal ; and, though 601. had
been actually paid, the motion was refused.
The LORD CHIEF BARON said that by the 9th of Anne,
cap. 14, all notes, bills, bonds, and other securities, in
respect of gambling transactions, were void.
Mr. WATSON said the present was not at all the case
contemplated by the statute, which meant all securities
given for money won at play.
The LORD CHIEF BARON observed that any security
substituted for the original one was in the same position.
Mr. WATSON said, that under a recent statute, such
securities were not actually void.
The LORD CHIEF BARON inquired if Mr. Wade was
the actual plaintiff ?
Mr. WATSON said he was the holder of the cheque. It
was alleged, on the other side, that a person of the name
of Davis, or one of his partners, first won the money in
playing at hazard, and that the plaintiff received it,
knowing such to be the fact. The defendant's attorney
had had the opportunity of examining his opponent's
briefs, and of ascertaining his case.
Mr. Baron PARKE said there could be no great hard-
ship upon the defendant if the money were paid, because,
if it were won at play, it could be recovered back again
under the 6th Will. IV.
Mr. WATSON said the plaintiff was a shopkeeper in
the Strand, where his father had carried on business
before him. All the arbitration cases were entirely
against the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Court.
The case made out on the other side was not one which
called upon the Court to interfere. These were the state-
ments of Mr. Simeon and his attorney, and of Mr. Led-
bitter, who had been employed to procure the evidence ;
and five persons were produced who avowed themselves
to be gamblers, not one of whom said that Davis was
present when loaded dice were used. Besides this, Led-
bitter had actually offered 500/. to Davis to appear as a
witness. It was an important point that Davis said he
did not know the plaintiff's. Ile was alleged to have been
the winner of the money, and to have had the cheques
subsequent to the action ; but that also was denied.
Under all the circumstances of the ease, he thought he
was entitled to ask that the rule might be discharged.
Mr. VALENTINE LEE followed on the same side.
Mr. MARTIN, who appeared for the defendant, said he
had been astonished at the proposition of his Learned
Friend, that where an order had been made by consent
of the parties the Court could not, under any circum-
stances, have the least power to interfere to set it aside.
The LORD CHIEF BARON said there could be no doubt
as to the power.
Mr. MARTIN said the action was brought upon two
cheques four years old. Immediately after it com-
menced every possible means was used to obtain evi-
dence. Ledbitter, the most competent man in the king-
dom, was employed for that purpose, and it was proved
that he had done all in his power to effect the object.
The cause stood for trial on the 7th of
December, and on the evening of that day
important information was obtained. It was sworn that
the evidence was not complete until the 13th, and the
moment it became so the defendant went before a Judge,
and paid the money into Court. If ever there was a fit
case for the interference of the Court, the present was
one. It was impossible that stronger grounds could
exist. It was sworn most positively that, after
the action was brought no less than five dif-
ferent people had seen these cheques in the
possession of Davis ; and as this was denied by Mr.
liaris and Mr. Russell, his Learned Friend would have'
the advantage of calling them on the trial to disprove the
statement. It appeared from all the affidavits,
that Mr. Davis and Mr. Russell went down to
serve the writs ; that they were together in
-August, when one of the witnesses saw in their
possession two documents, which he says were
the cheques, hut which they say were two I 0 U's. It
was impossible, he repeated, to make out a stronger case
for the interference of the Court, and he maintained that
the Court would be fully justified in granting the
rule. It would be a very injurious practice if
there were a peremptory rule excluding parties
from applying for a new trial on the discovery of fresh
evidence, under the circumstances of the case before the
Court.
Mr. BARSTOW followed on the same side. He called
the attention of the Court to the important distinction
between a case in which the proceeding was in Teri, and
a case in which anything had been -Zone. In the pre-
sent instance the order of the Judge had not been acted
upon.

The COURT intimated that they would give their deci.
sion on Monday.

LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.)
Thos. Coote and Edward Newbery, two fine lads, were
charged before the Mon. Mr. Norton, by police-constable
P 151, with gambling in Surrey-square. It appeared in
evidence before the Magistrate that the poor lads had
been locked up at the station-house all night, and the
only offence of which they had been guilty was that of
playing at " pitch and toss" with buttons.
Mr. NORTON said that really the police must be more
cautious ; the prisoners ought never to have been taken
into custody at all. Ile directed the boys to be instantly
discharged.

FIRE--This morning an alarming fire broke out,
about half past four o'clock, on the premises of Mr.
Webb, a broker and auctioneer, residing in Peter-street,
Whitechapel. As a man named Wilmot, who resided in
the same street, was passing at the time named, he per-
ceived smoke issuing from the grating over the kitchen
window, and upon looking down through it he saw a
large body of flame, when he at once raised an alarm,
and the inmates were with much difficulty made sensible
of their perilous pssition. Fortunately the flames had
not gained such an ascendancy as to have reached the
first floor at the time, so that they were all enabled to
make their escape through the hall ; in less than five
minutes after all the lower part f the building was one
body of flame. By this time several engines from the
adjacent stations were in attendance,, with their usual
promptitude and alacrity, and succeeded in confining
the fire to the lower part of the premises, the greater
portion of which, as well as a large quantity of furni.
ture which was stored there, was totally destroyed. In
less than half an hour after the arrival of the engines,
the firemen had o far succeeded in subduing the flames,
as to banish any further apprehension with respect to the
remainder of the house, or the adjacent premises, which
at one time were in imminent danger. Unfortunately,
Ur. Webb was not insured.

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