The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-04 00:00:00

E SUN, LOND'ON, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1844

LONDON:,
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1844.

In another part of the paper will be found intelli-
gence from Madrid, dated Dec 27, of great import-
ance. On that day the QUEEN dissolved the Cortes,
following the advice tendered to her by her fugitive
Minister OLOZAGA, for which he was threatened with
impeachment, and barely escaped assassination.
ICARVAEZ will thus have two months more of des-
potic rule, and by that time Queen CEIRISTINA and
he will throw aside the Constitution as an old
almanack.

The change which has taken place in the public
with regard to the principles of trade, within
the last two years, forms a remarkable phenomenon
in the history of the country. Every day we receive
reports of meetings held in large towns and small
towns—even in county market towns, frequented
only by farmers, and in cathedral towns, under al-
most the undivided influence of the Church, assem-
bled solely for the purpose of discussing the taxes on
bread, sugar, awl the other principal ncces-
tiaries of These meetings arc not held
in the open air ; they are not got lip to
catch the multitude; they are. unattended Fy any
appearance of viulenee ;, they are not tlia monster
assemblies that distinguished the Reform era ; or
that during the last year have caused such alarm in
England and Ire?and on the Repeal question. They
are the meetings of men, it is tyne, bent on a purpose,
and a great purpose but the speeches are not- mixed
;
up with any threats, or with any furious abuse, either
of landlords, tenants,. or monopolists of any descrip-
tion. All is left to tha calm voice of reason and the
power of argument ; and Lever was a peaceable and
rational agitation so triumphantly victorious. Some
twelve months ago every tree trade meeting was in-
fested by a body of Chartists, who, in despair of ob-
taining their rights, thwarted every attempt to
obtain 11,4rtial relief; counter resolutions were moved,
and not unfrequently carried, or, if they failed
113 their purpose,
a serious uproar was the consequence.

Chartists now attend these assemblages like other
people, and, as a testimony of their sincere repent-
ance, subscribe their mites to the great League fund.
In another part of the paper will be found a report of
a meeting held on Tuesday evening at Oldham, one of
the most radical boroughs in the kingdom, when all
the lower classes joined heartily in the cause, and
every man gave according to his means. Pounds, and
crowns, and half-crowns, and even shillings, were
poured in from all quarters, and by eleven o'clock a
very handsome sum was placed in the hands of the
Treasurer. 'Manchester has raised 20,0001. Liverpool
6,0001., and almost every town has followed in the
wake. But, what is most remarkable of all, there is
an utter apathy on the part of those opposed to the
League. Even in Essex, the county above all others
likely to raise a loud noi.e against COBDEN and
BRIGMT, the attempt to form a counter league has
been an utter failure, and every other county has
wisely eschewed the example. The clergy are silent
the farmers almost to a man support the reform of
the corn-laws; and even the Duke of RICHMOND, the
most rational, yet most determined anti-corn-law man
i❑ the country, in place of getting up meetings to sup-
port his party, and making strong speeches against
the men given to change, confines his labours to the
praiseworthy task of writing articles on agricultural
improvement for a Farmers' Journal. This happy
result is honourable to the English character. The
English are obstinate in their purposes ; they are often
headstrong, and unwilling to give up their opinions; but
when reasoned with as rational beings, when all the
facts of the case are laid before them, and they
are left to judge, their verdict is seldom wrong.
That is the course which Mr. COBDEN has pursued.
Ile has appealed to their reason and their judgment—
he has shown that he has no more interest in the ques-
tion than any other member of the community—and
they have almost unanimously decided in his favour-
We regard the question as settled. The strong Go-
vernment, even with all the corn-law Lords and
Commoners at its back, is too weak to strive with the
voice of the nation.

The letter, a copy of which we published yester-
day, from Messrs. P. DE LIZARDS and Co., agents
for the State of Mexico, to G. R. Ronisisos, Esq.,
Chairman of the Committee of Spanish-American
Bondholders, is an instructive curiosity in its way.
'To those who have not had the misfortune—or com-
mitted the folly—of confiding in the " promises to
pay " of these experimental Republics, it would even
be amusing, but for the sympathy created on behalf
of the ill-used creditors, by the high personal and
commercial character of the Chairman, and very
many of their general body. Upon ourselves it may
be supposed to come as no matter of surprise, after the
terms in which we expressed ourselves some months
ago, on the conduct of the Mexican Government, and
the correspondence of the same parties or their agents.
But seeing that the communication from the Committee
to which Messrs. DE LIZARDS'S answer, dated the
30th of December last, is now lying before us, com-
prised simply a protest against the agents retaining
a certain remanet of 11,3301., out of the money (al-
ready short-remitted), confided to them for the liqui-
dation of the dividends, on the plea-that so much and
more being due to them from the Government for
which they acted, on account of commission, they
had, therefore, appropriated it for their own account ;
whereas, by the very special agreement subscribed to
by the-Mexican Government in September, 1837, its
said agents were authorised and required to appro-
priate said remittances to the payment of the dividends
on its bonds, exclusively ; we must own that DE
LIZARDS and Co. have rather overrated the ingenuity
'sand legality of their plea for prior payment, and
rather underrated the proximity of that point of en-
durance at which even the long sustaining forbearance
of a British capitalist will bear the intense strain of
Trans-Atlantic assurance and dishonesty.
The Committee, however, desired on the 28th of
December to be categorically answered upon this
series of questions :—" 1. Did the Messrs. LIZARDS
intend to restore the sum so withheld to the dividend
account ? 2. What remittances had come to Messrs.
LIZARDS and Co.'s hands from their Government
since the payment of the dividend on the October
coupon ? 3. Were Messrs. LIZARDS and Co. pre-
pared to complete the payment of the coupon at
once l" In similar dealings between any parties in
this country (always excepting Mr. Alderman GIBBS
and the benighted parishioners of St. Stephen, Wal-
brook, in the City of London) nothing in the world
would have been so easy as for the authorised agent
of the one to obtain distinct responses, affirmative or
negative, from the authorised agent of the other. Mr.
Alderman GlBBS—who will forgive us for alluding to
him again,—might indeed have answered to any other
body, as he does to rate-payers, " Wait till you can
enforce your right to make me answer. If you can't
do that, I think I might establish a bad precedent by
volunteering information on such frivolous questions as,
what has become of your money ?" But the Alderman
is a phoenix. There is but one to be found, and but
one, who will thus publicly sacrifice himself, in a
whole century. We are very sure that there is
but one description of financial agents who would
meet Mr. ROBINSON'S three plain demands with such
evasive Gibb-erish (v,e cannot get out of Wal-
brook) as this : Sir,—We have received your letter
of the 28th inst., and are unable to reply to the ques-
tions therein contained—until we receive further in-
formation from Mexico ; especially as regards the
distribution of the funds in hand," &c. &c. How very
singular. They have received 11,3301. among other
moneys remitted to them for payment of divi-
dends some months ago. They withheld
it at the time, from the parties justly
entitled to it, namely, the Mexican Bondholders,
on the pretence—(an intelligible pretence at least, on
the same principle that to appropriate any money,
in transitu, to one's own purposes, instead of the pur-
poses of him to whom it is specially remitted, may be
dishonest, but is still " a great fact")—on the pre-
tence that they had taken it in order to pay them-
selves a like amount due to them from—whom ?
The English Spanish-American Bondholders? Not
a bit of it. From the Mexican Government who had
forwarded it, not to satisfy their claims, but the
claims of the English holders of their stock. Messrs.
LIZARDS have continued ever since in the same mind.
They still withhold the money. Nay, by their own
showing, it is gone—paid--absorbed by their own
demand. And now, forsooth, they gravely tell Mr.
ROBINSON, that to all his three questions, including
the first, relative to their own determination as to
restoring or not the abstracted 11,330/. to the divi-
dend account, they must defer their answers till they
have been further instructed from Mexico! The
ancient Governments of the Toltzeck and Azteck
Princes of that fine country may have been
as arbitrary and cruel as historians have represented
them to be ; but we greatly doubt whether they ever
asserted so tyrannous, so monstrous a pretension as
this which Messrs. DE LIZARDS and Co. would in-
timate is exercised by their successors in the govern-
ment of the modern Republic. For, according to
those agents, they are actually compelled to appeal to
Mexico for further instructions as to whether or not
they have made up their own minds to an act already
committed and avowed in October last, and never since
recalled I

The business part of the matter remains. The
Committee of Bondholders must memorialise the
British Government—and if their efforts fail with the
Minister, then renew them, forthwith, with the Parlia-
ment—to insist upon the Mexican authorities making
instant satisfaction for conduct which, whether the
fault be with them or their employes., has every ap-
pearance of impudent fraud. English credulity has
paid a penalty sufficiently severe in the loss of scores
4)f millions of money by foreign debtors within the
last 25 years. England's own honour would be com-
promised by further acquiescence in such barefaced
trickery, attempted to be excused on such flimsy
grounds.

The Paris papers of Sunday, from which we gave
brief extracts yesterday, contain some articles which
are not without interest. The few broken sentences
uttered by M. LAFITTE, have given great offence to
the Ministerial party, and roused not a little the hopes
of the Republicaus. Not one half of it, however,
was heard, the interruption was so great. The scene,
says the National, (lid not last long, but had a marked
character of excitement and rage. N. LAFITTE had
the honour of raising the storm, and the gratitude of
the country! is glue to the man who told the Minister,
and others some severe truths. It became his tried
probity and patriotism to express feelings of sorrow

and serious alarm which the situation of affairs pre-
sents to all those attached to the principles of the
Revolution. The same journal, after adverting to the
seizure of so many Legitimist papers, turns to the
levees of the Duke of BORDEAUX, in Belgrave-square,
and thus attacks M. GUIZOT and his friends :
The Ministers intended to have made some allusion, in the
speech from the Throne, to the pilgrimage of the Noble Legi-
timists to BelgraVe-square. But they did not dare to do so.
They knew full well that the Deputies who advocate the cause
of the Duc de Bordeaux would throw some harsh truths in
their teeth if they had made the King accuse them (the Legi-
timists) of joining the ranks of a Pretender. What could M.
Guizot have said if M. Berryer and his friends on being
taunted from the Throne, had replied :—" We went to London
to pay our respects to the Due de Bordeaux, and in so doing we
followed the example which was set by the principal member
of the Cabinet in 1815. He did not think that the Government
of that day could be consolidated, and therefore (he told us so
himself from the tribune) he repaired to Ghent to do homage
at the feet of him whom the whole of Europe was preparing
to restore to France. In this we have scrupulously followed
M. Guizot's example. If, ,therefore, you condemn us, con-
temn him also, and out of your own momhs speak your own
condemnation." Such a defence as this, supported by the
transcendent talent of M. Berryer, would place the Ministry
in an awkward position. They have, therefore, adopted a less
perilous and more certain method of wreaking their petty
vengeance, and have determined to pour out the vials of their
ill-humour upon the newspapers. The day before yesterday
the Nation was seized. Yesterday the Quotidienne, and now
they pounce upon La France, and se on. Thus it appears that
a jury, and not the Chambers, will have to settle the quarrel
between the elder and the younger branches of the fleurboas.
But the combat will not be the less interesting on that
account There isnot a single noble family of any
eminence in France which has not sent its representative to
Belgrave-square—or which has not at least in its circle some
adherents of legitimacy—they are even to be found on the
steps of the throne, and if the old King can pierce into futurity
and look beyond the tomb, he may fancy a General Monk in
the foreground of his vision. His is a sad situation, but we
foresaw and foretold it, long since, to those who now govern
the country.
The Journal des Debats has a good article on the
long-winded message of the American President, and
makes some hard hits both at TYLER and the bank-
rupt States. "To repudiation," says that journal,
the President does not even refer. The boasting
preamble by which the message opens would even
forbid the suspicion that this document emanates
from the head of a nation reduced to the humiliating
condition of a bankrupt. Under such circumstances
the language of a WasuINGToN or a MADDISON would
have been quite different. With that authority which
they possessed they would have solemnly recalled their
fellow-citizens to the path of duty and
honour. The message in fact has nothing to
recommend it, neither elevated views, generous sen-
timents, nor even a vulgar knowledge or business.
It is even devoid of that spirit of candour and inde-
pendence which one would naturally expect. Presi-
dent TYLER in writing it had evidently but one view,
which was to captivate the favour of the multitude, by
flattering their vanity, by humouring their prejudices,
and by abstaining from addressing, even with the
utmost reserve, some advice relative to the dishonour-
able conduct of some of the States, in which they ob-
stinately persevere. This is not the language of a
supreme magistrate, but that of a hunter after popula-
rity. A power which speaks such language abdicates
of itself ; and never, perhaps, had North America such
need of a strong and independent Government."
A new Legitimist paper is announced, to be called
the Christian France, and the Government, it is said,
are ready to pounce upon it the moment it appears.
The next number of the Mode is doomed to the same
fate.

The Paris Papers of Monday have since been re-
ceived, with intelligence from Madrid to the 26th, but
they possess little interest. New Year's Day is ob-
served in Paris as a general day of rejoicing and
amusement, and little or no business is done even on
the preceding evening. About twelve o'clock the
principal members of the two Chambers, the Judges,
Ambassadors, and the different State functionaries
began to arrive at the Tuileries, to pay their respects
to his MAJESTY. The receptions were very nume-
rous, and the levee lasted till five o'clock. The
Journal des Debats announces that Queen CHRISTINA
would leave Paris for Madrid sooner than was at first
intended—probably about the beginning of next
month.

Several of the Paris papers state, some of them
with strong remarks on the encroaching spirit of our
country, that " the English had taken possession of
the harbour of Diego Suarez, on the coast of Mada•
gascar, one of the finest in the world."
Little business was done in the French Funds on
New Year's Day; the Three per Cents. were quoted
at 82f. 2c.

Accounts from Madrid state that a reconciliation
had taken place between the QUEEN and Don FRAN-
CESCO DE PAULO. The question of the marriage of
her MAJEsTY was to be postponed till the arrival of
her mother. Accounts from Figueras state that
Baron de MRSR arrived there on :the morning of the
23d ult.

The attempt made to induce AEI ETTLER to sur-
render has failed. Further re-inforcements had
arrived. On the morning of the 24th, the firing from
the fort had recommenced. It would appear to be
the intention of the Baron de MEER to prosecute the
siege with vigour.

FOREIGN SUGAR FliOM THE
BRITISH COLONIES.

It is general), known that our enlightened and consistent
Government, although it will not allow the sugars of Brasil
and Cuba to be consumed in the three kingdoms, allows them
to be refined in this eountry in bond, and to be sent' to the
West Indies, to be eaten there by the free negrees and their
employers. In consequence of this permission, foreign sugars
refined is this country are sent out to the West Indies and the
Mauritius almost every day, and along with the refined' sugars
there go out also considerable quantities of bastards, that is, of
the inferior kinds of sugar, separated Irom the better parts in
refining. This bastard sugar is in appearance very like unre-
fined sugar, and as the bastards can be bought in Liverpool
for 145., whilst the raw West India and Mauritius sugar is
worth 30s. per cwt. in this country, there is a great temptation
to mix them in the colonies, and to send the mixture to this
eountry as plantation sugar. We have reason to believe that
this kind of .rausl has been praqi,ed more than once of late,
especially in a case of which we heard last week, and we do
not doubt that if the law continues in its present state, it will
become store common every year. In some descriptions of
sugar it is scarcely possible to tell the difference between bas-
tard and raw sugar by the eye, so that it is not detected if the
sugar is sold in an unrefined state, though it becomes quite
evident if this attempt is made to refine the mixture, when
the residuum el the previously refined sugar is easily detected,
as it was in the case which we have mentioned above. —Lic er-
Iwo. 2 intes.

NEW TRICKS IN LONDON.—There are few per-
sons who are acquainted with the streets of the metropolis
but must have occasionally noticed some poor and wretched
object gathering together the contents of a parcel of lucifer
snatches, which have fallen from her hands on to the pave-
ment of a crowded thoroughfare. In nine cases out of ten
this is purposely done to excite the sympathies of the passer
by. It would seem, however, that encouraged by the success
which has attended this system, a desire has been raised to
improve upon the original idea. The vagrant having selected
ter her object a well-dressed, charitable looking person (a
et:sugary gentleman with drab gaiters is sure game), places
himself suddenly in his way, and down go the snatches.
'The innocent ♦ictim of premeditated collision is immediately
surrounded by a host of ragged confederates, who loudly cry
shame, The public take up the part of the "suffering," and
a compromise is entered into by the payment of an amount in
silver. This trick is often performed by a woman in High
Holborn, who, during the hours of the labourers' dinner,
would represent the wife of one of that class, with some
pieces et 'rockery warn and a bottle of greasy water, suspended
in a ',ticket handkerchief, acts in a similar manner to that ex-
emplified in the lucifer scheme. On Tuesday the match trick
was performed with great success upon the pavement of the
National Gallery, and although at one time there were more
than three parties at work upon this small space, the results
appeared to be highly encouraging.
TIIE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND TIIIi PRINCE
DE LA MoSKorvA.-1 he National publishes the following
details relative to the fact of the Prince de la Moskowa (Ney)
having resigned his commission in the army, which was stated
in The Sun some days since:—" The Prince de la Moskowa
has been for a long tins, a chef d'eseadron (major of cavalry),
impatiently waiting for promotion ; he tendered his resignation
several months since to the Minister at War, who induced him
to change his resolution by assuring him that in a short time he
would ha promoted. The period specified having expired, the
Prince waited on Marshal Soult, and asked him if he had
forgotten his promise. The Marshal replied, that it was
his anxious wish to have performed it; and he added, that
nothing could hare given him greater pleasure than to have
proved to the son of Ney that he was not unmindful of the
friendship which existed between him and his old comrade.
He had given his word, and he wished to observe it, but
an invineillo obstacle held the Minister's hand. The
Prince de la Moskowa took the first opportunity to complain to
the Duke de Nemours, who replied, that it was impossible to
promote those who gave a systematic opposition to the Go-
vernment. We should have perfectly understood the mode of
reasoning had the Duke de Nemours declared, ' You com-
mand very much at your ease in the Chamber of Peers, at the
Jockey Club, or behind a piano ; your comrades perform their
duty, which is often a painful one, in garrison towns ; you do
not suffer any of the fatigues of your profession, and you de-
ceive yourself if you imagine that your name or your rank of
Peer of France, gives you a right to promotion which you do
not deserve.' And it belonged to the Minister o f War, and
not to the Duke de Nemours, to distinguish between those
who served anal those who did not. Instead of that, the Mi-
nister induces the Prince to retain his commission. lie
snakes a promise, and it is the Duke de Nemours who inter-
feres between the Minister and his subaltern. What, there-
fore, must the army think, whorl it finds that it is not its legal
Chief which it is bound to obey, but a Prince upon whom the
Charter has conferred no power ?"
NEW YEAR'S :MORNING AT EDINBURGII.—This
morning the new year was ushered in with the usual demon-
strations of revelry ; though, we are happy to say, on this oc-
casion the custom was observed by fewer persons on the
streets than we ever remember to have seen. The groups col-
lected in the principal thoroughfares were in high good
humour ; and we may mention that up to two o'clock there
was scarcely an individual brought to the police-office for
drunkenness, or any other char,ge,—Edinburgh Courant.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN.
(From the Morning Post.)
We have received the Madrid journals of the 27th
ultimo, together with private advices from that capital.
Their contents possess considerable interest. The
rumours which we have repeatedly noticed, as to
the Gonzales-Bravo Cabinet designing either a disso-
lution or a prorogation of the Cortes, were well
founded, although it was not expected that they
would come to so serious a resolution so early. On
the 27th, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies meet.
To the former, the President of the Council and Mi-
nisters of the Finances and Interior; and to latter, the
Ministers of Justice, 'War, and the Navy, communi-
cated the following Royal decree :
" I, Queen Isabella 11., exercising the powers con-
ferred on me by the 26th article of the Constitution,
and after taking the advice of my Council of
Ministers, do decree the following :
" The sittings of the Cortes are suspended in the
present Legislature.
" Vone at the Palace," &c. &c.
The issuing of this decree was determined upon at
a Council on the 26th, and kept secret until the
moment it was communicated to the two Chambers.
The reading of it would appear to have been quietly
listened to, and the sittings to have been closed with-
' out disturbance.
By a Royal decree of the 20th ultimo, counter-
signed by M. Carrano, " the public finances are to
administer from the Ist of January, 1844, the
Puertas duties in all the capitals of provinces znd
ports where they are not yet re-established on the
finances' account.
The preamble to this decree says that the abolition
of the Puertas duties is one of the measures by
which Espartero wanted to render impossible all ad-
ministrations that did not suit his revolutionary views,
and that their revival is necessary to restore an
equilibrium between the receipte and expenses of the
country.
Our usual express has brought us the Courrier
Francais, Quotidienne, Gazette des Tribunaux, and
Galignanis Messenger, being the only journals pub-
lished at Paris on Tuesday, the others having kept
New Year's day a cliose holiday. Their contents are
very unimportant. We, nevertheless, subjoin the
principal congratulatory ddresses to the King on the
occasion of the New Year, with his Majesty's replies.
[These are in the usual strain, and show a loyal dis-
position more than ordinary, but we can find room
only for the Address of the Archbishop of Paris and
the King's reply :—]
TUE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS IN TILE NAME OF THE CLERGY.
.‘ Sire—The year which has just terminated has been a happy
one for for your Majesty, we now come to express our wish
that the present may be still happier. A Queen, your powerful
ally, has come to recognise your wise and persevering ef-
forts for the preservation of the tranquillity of Europe. A
Prince,_ dear to our seamen by all the qualities of his noble
heart, has brought to you from another hemisphere a new
pledge of union between our country and that of his illus-
trious spouse. The arts, manufactures, and commerce, the
happy offspring of peace, continue to spread their rich be-
nefits over our country. No Frenchmen exe more desirous
than ourselves to increase and perpetuate these benefits. But
the most ardent wishes of our hearts, and those of your Majesty
will not be fully satisfied until we shall see extended and con-
firmed amongst us, the empire of faith and the Christian vir-
tues, the fruitful source of security, grandeur, and moral dig-
nity, and without which there can be neither real strength nor
true wisdom. May the Divine Dispenser of all gifts grant
these legitimate prayers, and preserve to us a King whose life
appears to have been saved a few months ago from a new peril
only to remind us of the dangers from which he himself has
preserved France."
The King replied—
" You remind me of the happy circumstances which have
marked the year which has just passed. In addition to the
marriage, which brought to my family new consolation for the
grief of the Queen and my own, I have received with happiness
the visit of an august ally ; and the increasing progress of the
arts and manufactures have still further added to public pro-
sperity. I thank Providence for having showered so many
blessings on my house. I am deeply affected with the wishes
you express for my family and myself, and I do not cease te
form very sincere wishes that sentiments of morality and reli-
gion, the true sources of all virtues, may continue to strengthen
and increase."
BOURSE, TUESDAY.—Three per Cents. 82f. 10c.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, WEDN'tsbAY EVENINO.
The English Market left off tolerably well this afternoon,
but certainly not quite so buoyant. Cottsals were 91 to A
without the dividend. Exchequer Bills continued high.
'The Foreign Market exhibited also rather a downward ten-
dency, Mexican being 324 to a ; Spanish 2;24 A for the
Five per Cents., and 3O A for the Three per Cents.
Dutch Bonds were firm.

The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Birmingham and Gloucester Nv tn. 34 ; Brighton, 6
to 6 ; and South Eastern Scrip, 134 to discount.. Edin.
burg and Glasgow were 84 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 14 ;
Croydon, 1; ditto Scrip, 44 ; Manchester and Leeds, New,
154 ; Midland Counties Quarter, 7 ; ditto Eifths,l,, ; Norwich
and Brandon, ; Northern an.l Eastern, 71.; Paris and
Orleans, 14A to 133 ; Paris anti Rouen. 12,1 ; Rouen and
Havre, 6to i; South Eastern Scrip, 11%; and Yarmouth
and Norwich, 34 premium. British North American 13ank
Shares were 1:34 discount ; and Union of Australia, 2i prem.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
A large amount of business was done yesterday, in the Li-
terpool Cotton Market, arid prices were gradually improving
The sales were 10,000 bales, includinr 3,000 American on
speculation. The transactions consisted' of 500 Bahia, at 6.1
to bid ; 300 Egyptian at tip to 7d ; '2,000 Sere at 30 to 30,
and the rest American at •Plid to 7d t Cr lb.—The share market
was firm, with an upward tendency and a good business.
Eastern Counties were 107 i ; Manchester and Birmingham
391; North Mid'and 90; Paris and Rotten 33%; South
Eastern 36%, and Paris and Le ons 34.
It is certainly to be regretted 'hat the affairs of the Colon al
Bank—as appeared by the proceedings yesttrday at the half-
yearly General Court —show such an unsatisfactory result. It
is too true that the Bank, and its branches, have lost largely ;
but at the same time it ought to be borne in mind
that, in all new and extensive est abli-hments such
as this—where a new field is opened fur monetary transactions,
difficulties and losses to a certain t xtent must, and always
will, arise. A sound principle of banking, upon the authority
of Mr. Gurney, a man of soma weight in such matters,
has been established, but errors will creep in, even
in the best regulated concerns. At the same time
it cannot be denied that the Bank is in a sound
condition. The Auuitor stated at the meeting held yt stertlay,
that every claimant upon the Corporation coul,l be paid off as
rapidly as the clerks were enabled to make the entries.
In our opinion the Shareholders assembled came to a wise
determination in placing confidence in the Court
of Directors, and it cannot be doubted hat had that confidence
been withheld, the Company would have been broken up,
which would have produced losses to many who could ill afford
to bear them.

We have, on a previous occasion, referred to the frauds in the

tobacco trade. A Circular nuw before us on this subject. remarks:
Deputations of the trade have had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a reduction of the
duty ; but we think it may be inferred, from what transpired,
that it is not in the contemplation of Gov, rnment to make any
reduction. Certain inquiries are being made by persons con-
nected with the Excise, which lead us to the sioposition
that an alteration in the law is in contemplation." We
hope so, and so do all the fair and honest traders in the leaf
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
There are not any later accounts from the Colo:tie; to-day.
Some additional letters have come to Band from Sydney, but
their contents only tend to confirm the previous advices of the
losses and ruin that have resulted from commercial speculations
in that quarter of the world. Many men who were rich ten
years since in the Sydney trade are now reduced to poverty.
The system of long credits has proved to be a losing concern.
The Commissioners purchased about the usual amount to-
day in the Three per Cents Reduced, at 98. The price is
now a fraction lower. Bank Stock has advanced to 186,
though now slightly lower. The premium upon Exchequer
Bills is up to 70s. Luna Bonds are worth 78s. premium.
Not much variation has taken place in the Foreign Market
to-day. The price of Spanish Bonds has fluctuated from 30i
to 34 The fluctuations in the other Foreign Bonds were but
slight.
_ _ _

Most of the Railway Shares have advanced to-day. The
annexed list will give the rise in prices as compared with those
of yesterday :
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 2.—We have still a
good demand for Railways generally at improving prices, with
the exception of Sheffield and Manchester, which are freely of-
fered. Our quotations are:—Eastern Counties, Scrip, 13
1-16th ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 581; Ditto, Quarters, 14A ;
London and Brighton, 43; Sheffield and Manchester, 531
and 54 cum interest; Trent and Aler.ey, 500 ex div.

CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FuNus.

BLk Z,tock IK.4 India Stock ... Int
0..,r Cent. Red...... 97i Ditto Bonds .. .... 78111,
)-1: Cent. Cons. ... !Ditto Old Annuities ...
l 4 par Cent. Red... 102% ',Ditto New Annuities...
04.. w 3i per Cent.... Ex. Bills, 1,00://. lid. 68 am
N. :w 5 per Cen. — i Ditto 5001...... 68 an.
Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small
lan. 1800 ... 1.23 Bank Stock for Acct.
U( t. 1659
ann. V•6O ...
FOREIGN FUNDS.

4.u_trias, 5 per cent. Portugrese, 5 per cent.
Belgian b per cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5......... Prussian, 5 per cent
tdrios Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent....,
Crtilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Nletallic .
6 per cent... --Spanish, 5 per cent 22i
Ditto. 1824 __ _ Ditto, 3 per cent... ZOA

Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent. Ditto, Deferred:—
Danish, 3 per sent — French, 5 per cent. —f.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — 'Exchange.......... —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 323 French, 3 per cent. —f.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. 54i
Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per 100 A

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 pd) 66
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid)..
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 86b
London and Brighton (50 pa d) 44
London and Blackwall (161 13s 4d paid)
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 143
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)... 94
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... -.—
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Scares (15 paid) 22
Ditto Fifths ( 2 paid) 2i
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ..
Paris and Rouen (20 paid) . ............ 321
Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) 12b
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... 36b
Ditto Scrip (25 paid 1
Yarmouth and Norwiah (13 paid) l6l

THE MEDICAL TIMES ALMANAC

FOR 1844.

The " Medical Times Almanac" is another of the many
publications of this kind addressed to a particular class of the
community. The medical profession in all its branches will
here find accumulated an immense mass of information not
readily accessible in any other form, or scattered through a
great number of authorities. This is given in addition to the
usual contents of an almanac, and consists of a List nt the Royal
College of Physicians, of the College of Surgeons, of the So-
ciety of Apothecaries, of the dicers of all the Hospitals and
Medical Schools, u well as of the Provincial Hospitals, and
those of the officers, and days of meeting of the Metropolitan
Medical and Scientific Societies. A great deal of medical
information as to the symptoms and treatment of various
diseases is also brought together in a well-arranged digest, with
a valuable analysis of the composition of many of the most
generally used patent medicines. The work is well got up, is
very cheap, and desert es the patronage of all the profession.

DEATH.—At Shoe-lane, on New Year's Day, in
the ordinary course of nature, the double sheet of the Morning
Herald. Post.
We have really been so touch amused at a New
Year's manifesto by one of our contemporaries (the Morning
Herald) that we feel bound to rescue it from the obscurity in
which its own limited circulation might otherwise leave it, by
offering it the additional notorietv.of our own columns. Our Con-
temporary appears to be in a state of revolution , it has changed
its size—it has changed its managers ;it appears conscious of
having (" not essentially") changed its politics ; it has, if we
mistake not, changed its typo (at least we rec guise here and
there in its columns the familiar letters of an evening contem-
porary), and out it comes, " spick and span." on New Year's_
day, to pay its readers the cemplimervs of the season in its new
dress.— Times.
We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. Wood are en-
gaged at the Princess's Theatre, and will make their first ap-
pearance in a few days in the opera of The Maid of Judah.
PRESENT TO HER Al AJESTY.—EigHt must beau-
tiful and pure-bred bantams (consisting, of a cock and three
hens, of gold, and the like numlwr and description of silver
bantams), arrived at Windsor Castle on .Monday last, as a pre-
sent to the Queen, from W. 11. Holcombe, Esq., of Camplen,
in Gloucestershire, a gentleman who has long been celebrated
for his peculiar breed of this-rare and curious species of do-
mestic birds.

Mr. S. Cotterell, one of :he victims slain in the
affray at New Zealand, wa, the son of Mr. F. Cotterell, of this
city, a member of the Society of Friends It is stated on the
best authority that he took no part in the affray, except as an
" unarmed peace maker;" that, during the whole of his so-
journ in New Zealand, he was on the best terms with the na-
tives; and the very last letter received from him here mentions
the pleasure he experienced in having acquired sufficient a the
native language to be enabled to converse with the " Maories"
on religious subjects, and thus to benefit them in the h:ghest
sense. He wanted only a month of twenty- tiur years of age.
Journal.

CHRONOLOGY OF SPORTING EVENTS IN 1843.—
Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, the 7th of January.
will consist of two folio stamped sheets of the ,ame size, the
second gratis ! comprising full and accurate Chronologies of
all the important Sporting Events of the year —Racing, Steeple
Chasing, Aquatic, Cricket, Trotting, Pedestrianism, and the
Prise-ring; all alphabetically and intellig,bly arranged for
immediate reference. Entries for the Derby, Oaks, and St.
Leger ; horses in training, trainers, and places of training ; the
two-years-old and their engagements, &c. ; forming a concen-
tration of intelligenceinvaluable to the sporting circles. Price
of both sheets, tid. Papers forwarded on transmission of 6d ,
or six Post-office stamps, to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand.
FATAL RESULT OF NEGLI2,TING GAS-ESCAPE.—
A family in South Paterson-street, Glasgow, consisting of
mother and infant, with a grandmother, having gone to rest
on Wednesday night, were n&t observed on the following day ;
and from a strung smell of gas beirg felt, it was thought neces-
Nosy to open the door, when the infant was found dead, and the
.ether individuals lying insensible in bed. The unfortunate oc-
currence was found to arise from a gas-pipe being accidentally
fractured. The two survivors arc slowly recovering.— Tyne
Mercury.
BODY OF A MAN FOUND IN TUE PUBLIC ROAD.—
About six o'clock on Monday morning, as a youth named
Wright, the son of a milkman of that name, residing at Nor-
wood, was proceeding along the road at Norwood Hill, he dis-•
covered the body of a man lying across the ro rd, completely'
encased in mud, and his clothes torn almost to ribbons. Wright
immediately raised an a4rm,.and the body was removed to the
George the Fourth public-house, opposite, to await a Coroner's
inquest. Nothing was found upon the body which could lead
twits identity. It has the appearance of being that M one of
the superior order of mechanics, and is about. the middle age
and stature. During the night a man named Tidy, who re-
sides in a cottage close to the place where the body was found,
heard a voice say, " Come, an't you going to get up—do get
up, come," but supposing the noise proceeded from some
drunken men, he took no further notice of it. Dealt is sup-.
posed to have been caused by applexy, but it cannot at present
be conjectured as to the manner in which his clothing had been
so much torn.

LISBON, DEC. 26.—The doctor of her Majesty s
ship Warspite, now in this port, vas huzied on Saturday last
at the Prazeres Cemetery, in this city. The unfortunate de-
ceaFed was in perfect health and vigour a few days ago. While
dissecting a corpse at the hospital of Saint Joseph he acciden-
tally cut his finger; the wound festered and inflamed, a gangrene
soon came on, and in less than a week he was a corpse himself.

SUM'iII.ARY OF tIE4S

AZ,TD

Vtibitt evtuton.

" 117.,) runs may read."

On New Year's nay, a grand levee was held at the Tuileries,
at which the Chambers, public lunetionaries, awl irtrt'gri Am-
bassadors, attended to pay their respects to the loyal family.
The King, on Saturday evening, received at dinner a large
an i distin;zzui•bed party, attiotig whqm were Generals Dam-
pierre and Cubicres, the Count de MLO-at the ;!itches of
Abrantes, Count Foy, and more than sweaty o'her§.
On Saturday evening, says the Commerce, there was a grand
diplomatic meeting at Lord Cowley's. Al. Gtfzet, and the
ex-liegent of Spain, Queen Maria Clsristiri, were present,
After that extraordinary conference, courier, were dispatched
to several foreign courts.
The Gazette de France, a Legitimist parer, was seised
second time, by order of the Governicent, on Sunday morning.
Bread has exfericnced a further rise in Paris. The price
of the 21b. loaf, first quality, has been fixed t.t.m the lst
inst. at 35c. (131 d. British) , second quality, sic. ; being a
rise of lc. on bread of the first quality.
On Friday last several shocks of an earthquake were felt at
Cherbourg, at four o'clock in the afternoon. The I:onses were
shaken by it, the furniture oscillated in the apartments, chairs
aid tables were displaced, and many objects were actually
thrown down. A number of the inhabitants, air-, liendin7, a
catastrophe, ran out of their homes. No asddent, however,
took place.
Monday was New Year's-day and a genet al holiday, the
Bourse shut, and the Post-offiee closed at an early hour.
The commerce sates that considerable activity was obzerv-
able in the dockyards of France, and that the scoaf'ren " for
exercise," about to leave Toulon under the command el Rear-
Aslmital the Prince de Joinville, would comprise six sail of the
►ice, besides frigates, brigs, cutters, &c.
Prince Leopold, son of the King of Bavaria, and his suite,
landed at Cadiz on the 15th from the Spanish Steam r Teodosio.
The Prince senn after proceeded to Gibraltar, where he was to
embark for Malta.

fhe Journal des Chemins de Fer publishes the returns of the
receipts of the Paris tv.d Orlnns and Bouen Railroads, from
which it aprar., that those of the former amoimted last week
to 97,097 francs, and the latter to 78,249 francs.
A letter from Augsburg (Bavaria) states that the workmen
employed on the rail., ay in the vicinity of Donawerth, have just
found, at a depth of nine feet below the surface, an immense
cemetery, from which a variety of antique vessels, ornaments,
medals, &c., have been already dug up.