The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-06 00:00:00

DARING BURGLARY.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3,—About two o'clock
this morning a daring burglary was committed on the premises
of Mr. Richard Hicks, No. 2, I3ilbury-street, in this town.
occupied by him in carrying on the business of wine and spirit
merchant. It appears that the office was closed and the doors
of the premises were secured by the person charged with that
duty, about eight o'clock last night, who then left, as was'cus-
tomary—no person sleeping on the premises. At about two
o'clock this morning a noise was heard by an individual residing
in Morley-street, which is near the hack of the premises, such
as would be occasioned by very heavy blows en some substance
capable of strong resistance, but. as this noise soon discon-
tinued, no further notice was taken of it by the neighbour.
But this morning, on Mr. liieks's servants proceeding to open
the premises, it was at once perceived that some party or parties
had entered them through a doer at the back, near Charles-
street, and then proceeded to the office, where an iron sale had
been dislodged from the wall, where it had been fixed with
masonry, and carried away. On proceeding to the open
yard behind the premises it was discovered that the iron safe
had been taken thither, and there broken to pieces by blows
from a large stone, which was lying with the pieces, and its
contents taken out and looked over, and a portion taken away.
The safe contained a number of papers and a bill for SOL ,
which became due this day, and cash in notes, gold, and silver
to the amount of 651. 16s. The papers and the bill remain,
and were found strewed about near the mutilated safe, but the
whole of the cash is gone. The policeman on the beat in
which the premises arc situate heard nothing whatever of the
matter. It appears that it takes him upwards of_ one boy to
N
go his rounds, the beat being an extensive one. o elueexista
to trace the depredator or depredators, but the police.are on
the alert to discover them if possible. The manner in which
this burglary was effected, shows that it was the work of a
practitioner in such daring acts. It appears that it was first
attempted to pick the lock of the street door—that, however,
not succeeding, recourse was had to the back door, for the pur-
pose of gaining admission to the premises. Lying with the
broken safe was found a pair of thread gloves of dark colour,
and a piece of wax candle, no doubt used to give light in se-
lecting from the contents of the safe, and then dropped.

SUICIDE THROUGH DISTRESS.
VOTE or CENSURE BY A J U RT. —On Thursday morning, at
ten o'clock, an inquest was taken before Mr. G. Mills, Deputy-
Coroner, at the Grev-hound, New Compton-rtreet, Soho, on
♦iew of the body of Jonathan Butler, aged 44, a tailor, who
committed suicide.

It was proved in evidence, that the deceased, who, with his
wife and six children, lodged at 17, Phenix-street, Soho, got
up on the morning of Tuesday last, and hung himself, but was
but down before quite dead by Mr. Hingwell, his landlord, who
immediately sent for Mr. Cooper, surgeon, Moor-street, and
that gentleman said he would be on the spot in a few minutes;
but not coming fur some time, Hingwell sent again, and the
reply was as before. Having waited fully twenty minutes 'Mr.
Marshall, surgeon, of the same street, was called in, and he
failed in restoring animation, remarking that if he had been
sent for sooner the man's life might have been saved.
It was shown that the deceased and his family were in great
distress ; he could only get police work, and earned less than
eight shillings a week, with eight mouths to feed and hacks
to cover.

A good deal of indignation was expressed by the jury at the
conduct of Mr. Cooper, and that gentleman was sent for. He
said, when the first message arrived he was dressing up stairs,
and that he had de•ircd the messenger to obtain other aid, as it
would be some time before he could attend.

This statement was immediately denied by several witnesses.
Mr. Addams (the foreman) then observed, that Mr. Cooper's
explanation had but confirmed the. opinion entertained by, hist
previously. He would ask Mr. Cooper whether, as an act of
humanity, it was not his duty to have hastened with all iliee d,
like Mr. Marshall, to render his assistance.. Had he done sO.
the life of a fellow-creature would most probably have be e
preserved. He (the foreman) was not disposed to eomprOnsi e
such facts, and he should, therefore, recommend his bred her
jurymen, by a show of hands, to manifest their abhorrence of
such unfeeling proceedings.
The jury assented to the proposition; and unanimously'ls ►1 i
up their hands.
Mr. Cooper, with considerable emphasis, yeßlied. _
. •
The jury found, " That the deceased. hung himself, bet s
the time in a state of mental derangemeitt

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The plans in active operation in Hindostan,
Sinde, and the Punjaub, cannot fail to excite
some interesting discussions in the ensuing session.
Every additional information from these quarters,
together with the circumstances in which the
Indian Government is placed, however, only lead
to the conviction that the great measures
in
progress will receive a deliberate and impartial
consideration at the hands of nearly all parties, and
that it will be generally admitted that the occupation
of the countries bordering on the Indus is the result
of necessity and not of choice. Most persons who
have viewed the extent of our dominions in India are
quite satisfied that they are sufficiently large, and that
it would be desirable, under ordinary circumstances,
to confine them to the limits settled within the last ten
years ; but if it become a question whether it is safer to
extend them, or to risk the loss of those already attained,
no man can hesitate for a moment as to the alter-
native. IVe have powerful and restless neighbours in
the west. The Punjaub would be a rich prize to a
body of Affghans, Persians, and Russians ; the Go-
vernments of these countries or their agents have
made no secret of their intentions ; and England would
justly be regarded as guilty of cowardice and suicide
if she allowed any Power whatever to take possession
of districts on our frontier absolutely necessary for
self-defence. We want no more territory, but we
want to preserve what we possess ; and unless we
have the thorough command of the Indus, from its
source to its mouth, and the great tributary branches ;
unless we can raise a strong barrier against encroach-
ing neighbours, and use these rivers not only for
trade but for protection, the peace of some of the
most valuable districts would not be worth two years'
purchase. This is the view of the question taken by the
two great parties in the State. For this purpose the
Whig Government, at an enormous expense, sent an
army into Caubul, and the Tories have the same ob-
ject in annexing Sinde to Hindostan. The Whigs,
in fact, have the merit of discovering the plan, and
their opponents have the merit of carrying it into
effect. What madness, then, in a Whig journal to
attack Sir C. NAPIER and Lord ELLENBOROUGH
for doing what Lord AUCKLAND fully intended, and
wickedly magnify the sickness of the brave Sinde
army for party purposes ! In the Chronicle of yes-
terday we find these words :—" Sickness has in-
gloriously decimated the gallant army under Sir
C. NAPIER in Sinde. Of 8,504 men, composing the
garrisons of Hyderabad and Kurrachee, 3,856 were
sick. The malaria of Sinde,' says the Bombay Times,
'is much more formidable than the snows of Caubul.'
Any position on the Indus, after its fall, must prove
fatal to the occupiers ; and thus the boasted
conquest of Lord ELLENBOROUGH proves nothing
but a pestilential grave." Why will this
paper not leave Sinde alone ? Why will it
heap coals of fire upon the heads of its patrons, and
compel impartial readers to contrast the sickness of
Chusan, and the heart-rending disasters of Caubul,
with the partial and temporary sufferings of our troops
in Sinde? "Sickness has ingloriously decimated the
gallant army of Sir CHARLES NAPIER !" Who ever
heard of a glorious decimation ? But what did the
withdrawal of Sir JOHN KEANE, with the best of his
army, and the appointment of General ELPHINSTONE,
do in Caubul ? The troops were not ingloriously
decimated by sickness, but they were ingloriously
defeated by an enemy that common foresight and
common bravery might have set at defiance. They
' were not confined to their barracks and hospitals
by the inclemency of the climate, or by diseases
brought on from natural causes ; their General and
their officers gave them up to the enemy without
a struggle ; when in the snare, they were slaughtered

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6,
Will he repented a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTHE
BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Antheim, Mr. Borrani ; Thaddeus,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainferth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts.
After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas
Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or-
al! ALENTINE AND ORSON, Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum,
bine. Miss Carron; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.
Dress Boxes Is., Second Price Rs. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 54.,
Second Price 38. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 2s. ; Middle Gallery 25.,
eecond Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

T2IEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
TROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING.
PART I.

Overture, Egmont--Beethoven.
Quadrille, Semiramide—Jullien.
Solo, Cornet-a-Piston. Herr Kcenig (Air and Variations)—Koenig.
Surprise Symphony, The Andante Movement and flnale—Haydn.
Valse, La Valse a Deux Temps—Jullien.
Selo Violin, Ma ster
the English Qu
PART 11.
Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Solo for Cornet-a-Piston, by
Herr hcenig— Donizetti.
Burletta ijuadrll le, entitled Dancing for the Million—Julllen.
Solo, Flute, Mr. Richardson—Richardson.
Valse, Bird of I 'aradtse, received with the greatest favour at the
Nobility's Ba' Is—Koenig.
Oslop, Alma—' Costa.
Doors Ope nat Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock.
Promenade, is Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private
Boxes, U. la. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the
Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
!kind-street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office,
3, Maddox—street, Bond street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6.
Will be repeated Goldsmith's Comedy of SHE SI OOPS TO
CONQUER. Hrsrdcastle, Mr. Strickland ; Young Marlow, Mr. H.
Holl ; Hastings, Mr. Howe ; Tony L.impkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs.
Hardcastle, Mrs. Glover ; Miss Hardcastle, Mrs. Nisbett
After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY
and his SON.
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Miss Julia Bennett.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
The Best Pantomime ot the Season—Gorgeous Scenery.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6,
The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effects, Powerful Cast,
and Novel Scenic Display, called
THE BOHEMI ANS ; or, The Rogues of Paris. Principal
Characters by Mesta& Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard,
Mrs. Yates, Miss F. Stanley. Mrs. F. Matthews.
After which ,a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAIL.
LEQUIN BLUE. BEARD; or, The Fairy ot the Silver Crescent.
Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wonderful Effects!
Columbine, Mi,a dullen ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable
Wieland; Clo wn, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews,
from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane; Pants.
loon Mr. J'Anstone.
Boxes, 4s, ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors
open at s'.x, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6.
Mill be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphooso, Mr.
Purdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Mattio Orsini, Mrs H. P. Grattan;
Vubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia.
After which, a New Farce, called THE MARRIAGE CERTI-
FICATE. Mr. Barnaby Dunover, Mr. Granby ; Frederick, Mr. W.
Lacy; Peter Podge, Mr. Keeley; Susan Sly, Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a New Musical Burlesque spectacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing song, Mrs. H. P. tirattan ; Poo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Sloe-Leaf. Miss It. Isaacs.

like noxious animals, and out of fifteen thousand
men, women, and children, only one reached
Jellelabad to tell the tale. But what is more, they
were located in a country where every man's hand
was against them, leaving no excuse for a surprise ;
while the decimated troops of Sir CHARLES NAPIER
are hailed as friends, and their sickness, which the

DAT IDGL'S ROYAL SURREY THEATKE.
As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY
Will be repeated THE BOHE %HANS OF PARIS. Supported
by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, :Ors.
li. Vining, and all the Me t,bers of the First Company in the World.
After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with
Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks,
every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN
GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and A EIO U. Harlequin, Mr.
W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Panta-
loon. Mr. flatv.ins ; Columbines (alternately) diss M. R. Fair.
brother and. Miss Sharpe.
Places and Private boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.

lying writers in the Bombay and Delhi papers seem
to exult in, is as much lamented by the natives as by
every true-hearted Englishman. We have given ex-

tracts from these papers, as in duty bound, but at the
same time place little confidence in their state-
ments. They are exaggerated to an enormous extent.
No writer,,who says that the army of Sinde could
be overpowered by a handful of Beloochees, is a

ASTI.ErS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Under the Management of Mr. batty, Proprietor.
Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes.—West-
ininster-Bridge is now open.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY li,
Will he performed the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC.
TORIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF t RANCE ; or, The
General, Prince, and King.
New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship.
To conclude with a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HA RI.E-
QUIN TAM O'SH ANTER, and his STEED DEG; or, The
Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine,
Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews.
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. broadtoot. Stalls, 55.;
boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, us. ; ; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery,
Box-ottice open daily from 'l en till Four. Stage Boxes, One
; Half-price to Ditto, Hall-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two
44itineas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past

friend of his country, or to be believed upon his
oath. Of the same stamp is a paragraph in the
Canton Press, which states that " the Plenipoten-
tiary loses no opportunity of denouncing the gross
iniquity of the invasion of Sinde; and on this
question there is, perhaps, no man alive more com-
petent to give an authorative decision than Sir
HENRY POTTINGER." This lie is easily put down, by
no less an authority than Sir HENRY POTTINGER
himself. In the blue book containing the correspon-
dence on Sinde, we find the following decisive ar-
gument in justification of Sir CHARLES -NAPIER'S
conduct, long, be it remembered, before the
Ameers had committed the treacherous acts which
roused the vengeance of the Indian authorities.
" They," said Sir HENRY POTTINGER, " had
themselves literally imposed upon us the necEs-
si:y of dictating the arrangements provided for by
the late treaty, and they must henceforward consider

By adopting the course we have pointed out, it ap-
pears that an arrangement might in the first instance
be entered into, which would be exceedingly benefi-
cial for the Protestant hierarchy; and secondly, a suit-
able fund might thereby be created, which would de-
fray the expense of educating, and maintaining in re-
spectability, a body of men of competent attainments
to minister to the religious necessities of the great
mass of the population. It seems to us that no possi-
ble objection could be offered to such an arrangement.
The present resources of the Protestant prelates would
be rendered certain and easy of payment ; while, by
means of an improved mode of culture, introduced by
a better security for the investment of capital, an ad( t-
quate provision might be made for the maintenance of
a body of men, who, rightly or wrongly, must exist,
and whom, therefore, it behoves the State to secure by

such a tie.
We shall not here enter into the discussions of cer-
tain objections, which we are aware might be urged,
of an abstract character to the plan we have suggested.
Those objections are best met by a simple reference to
the present frightful condition of the Irish nation, to
the fearful amount of poverty, ignorance, and crime
which may everywhere be discerned, and which de-
mand a palliative, and, if possible, a cure, too urgently
to admit of delay—too emphatically, to be postponed
to the settlement of nice theoretic points of system.

At a late meeting of the parishioners of St.
Stephen, Walbrook, on the tiresome and perplexing
subject of Alderman Glans' accounts, the Rev. Dr
CROLY, who was specially requested to attend, de-
livered a forcible and brilliant speech, in which cer-
tain stinging home truths were told, which will
bring vividly to the Alderman's recollection the old
adage that " naked truth is exceedingly unlovely."
For this clever and effective speech the Rev. Doctor
is roundly taken to task by the Tory journals of this
morning. The Post says, " While nobody will
deny its power and brilliancy, if any should
think it becoming the clerical character of
the speaker, we regret that with such a
person we cannot concur ;" and the Herald states,
" led on by the cheers of public meetings, Dr. CROLY
seems recently to have dropped the character of
peace-maker, and to have assumed that of the political
martyr and parochial patriot ;" and then proceeds to
sneer at the wit and satire of the speech in question,
as if they were offences not easily to be pardoned in a
clergyman. Now, wherefore this Tory outcry against
the Rector of St. Stephen's ? Is it absolutely neces-
sary that, because he is a parson, he should be a dull,
prosy twaddler ? Are wit, and fancy, and sarcasm un-
becoming in one of the cloth ? If so, Heaven help
SIDNEY SMITH, for he must have sinned
beyond forgiveness in the eyes of our ultra-discreet
Contemporaries. But granting even that brilliant
qualities of mind ought never to be exhibited by one
who writes " Reverend" before his name, surely the
exhibition of such qualities might be pardoned, if
only for their rarity. It is not at all likely that the
Doctor's example will be infectious ; indeed, we think
the very last thing that our Tory Contemporaries
need be apprehensive of; is the spread of wit and
fancy among clergymen. They are not, in general,
the briskest and liveliest ofcreated beings. They usually
say far fewer good things than they eat ; and, perhaps,
you may travel all England over, from the Land's-end to
Berwick, without meeting with a parson who com-
bines the wit and fancy of a STERNE with the terse
humour of a SIDNEY SMITH. But if Dr. CROLY'S
vivacity be really so objectionable in the pious,
uplifted eyes of the Post and the Herald, we can
assure them for their comfort that the Rev. Gentle-
man is by no means so great an offender as they may
imagine ; for the whole of his sarcastic allusions to
the numerous offices which Alderman Gmns hold, is
a direct plagiarism from BURKE'S speech on Econo-
mical Reform, wherein he alludes to the various
snug, profitable births of which GEORGE the TIIIRD
was in possession,—viz., as Duke of CORNWALL,
Count Palatine of Lancaster, &c. &c. Let the
blame, therefore, rest on the right shoulders ; and let
not Doctor CROLY be sneered at as a reckless satirist,

for having merely made a dexterous application
of the brilliant sarcasm of BURKE. After all, the
only question worth considering, is are the
Doctor's wit and humour justly applied? Are

they grounded on truth ? Has he simply
given a spirited and forcible version of ad-
mitted facts, or has he perverted the truth in
order to suit his own purposes as an orator ? This
is the right light in which to regard the matter ; and
if it be acknowledged—and few can doubt the fact—

ROYAL VICI 0111 A THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 6,
Will be pertermed THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE; or, The
Scamps of London. Devereux, Mr. Freer ; Frank Danvers, Mr.
Manta ; Loui., Miss Vincent.
After which, HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM.
BETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin,
Mr. Chapino ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli;
Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt
To conclude with THE LAST WITNESS.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The snggestlon of " A Wellveisher" shall be attended to.

l'H E WEATHER.—SUN OFFIcr., JAN. 5.

that he has said nothing but what every pa-
rishioner knows to be the truth ; then we

insist that he was perfectly justified in putting
that truth in such a manner that it might
make the strongest and vividest impression on his au-
(hence. Had he prosed over his charges, he would
simply have set the parish fast asleep; and though this
perhaps would have been more in keeping with the
habits of the cloth, yet we respectfully contend that
his attendance was not requested by his flock in order
that he might drug them with laudanum. As regards the
Doctor's passing remark, " I have been, like many others,
a victim to the ingratitude of Governments, who, in
conciliating their enemies, have neglected the zealous
friends whom they used as stepping-stones to their
own advancement," we are decidedly of opinion that
the Rev. Gentleman does not complain without suffi-
cient cause. Heaven knows we have no great sympa-
thies with Tories, or with those who advocate Toryism;
but common justice demands that men like Dr.
CROLY and the late Dr. MAGINN, who spent the
best years of their lives in upholding the interests of
their party; who brought to the support of those interests
wit—learning—humour—vigour—skill, and perseve-
rance,—justice, we say, demands that men like these,
to whom their party owes so much, should not be over-
looked and neglected when the day of Tory triumph
comes. It is bad policy and gross ingratitude, whe-
ther in individuals or parties, to kick down the
ladder by the help of which they rose to power.

TifEUMOMETER, Lowest, 44 ; Highest, 30 ; NOOD, 52.
BAROMETER, 29.7.—W1ND, S.W.

NOTE.—The nu,aber 32 on the Thermometer denotes
the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers
fait is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

h WATER Al' LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 16 minutes after 2. Evening ... 36 minutes after 2.

LONDON:
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1844.

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR
AND THE QUARTER ENDING JAN. 5, 1844.
The income-tax now tells with effect. While
for several years previous to this impost, there
was a deficiency of between 2,000,0001. and
3,000,0001., the returns for 1844 show a total in-
crease of 5,742,0781., of which the income-tax
forms nearly the total amount, being not less
than 3,249,260/.; thus leaving a surplus over
ordinary years of 492,8181. But this sum,
though small, is a good omen, when we take
into account the reduction of establishments and
the curtailment of expenditure caused by the
new tax. It shows that the trade of the country
is improving, and we are happy to find that under
the two great heads of revenue, the Customs
and the Excise—the best tests of prosperity—

the increase is very remarkable. In the former,
the Customs, there is a decrease on the year of
2,0911., but there is an increase on the quarter of
not less than 552,8791. This at the same time
allows how the public have been robbed by the
plundering and audacious tricks of men well
paid for performing their duty, and how negli-
gent, to use a mild phrase, have been those
gentlemen called Commissioners of the Board
of Customs. rt gives a proportionate increase
on the year of more than 2,000,0001., while the in-
crease on the Excise fur the same period has been
only 387,5031., and, if we judge by the quarter,
not more than 32,0001., the increase being
only 8,7631. The Stamps have fallen off, show-
ing a decrease in the year of 64,9451., and in the
quarter, 38,1011. The Taxes, also, have decreased
on the year 83,1061., and on the quarter, 17,306/.
The Post-office, while exhibiting a decrease on i
the year of 13,0001., has increased
n the quarter
2,000/. On Crown-lands there is a decrease both
in the quarter and year; and in the Miscel-
laneous there is an increase of 1,0a0,3301., withtotal
a
decrease on the quarter of 9,620/. The
ordinary revenue, including inImprest and other
Moneys, is 50,071,943/. ; while,lB43, it was
it was 44,329,8651. We are gratified on seeing
these results, because they prove that, under the
greatest difficulties, this country shows her

Sinde to be, as it is in reality, a portion 01
Hindostan, in which our position makes us pars.

mount, and entitles us to act as we consider best and
fittest for the general good'of the whole empire." So
much for the adverse opinion of the man best com-
petent to judge. But without the opinion of such an
authority any one acquainted with the history of the
transaction can judge for himself'. The Ameers are
not the rightful owners of Sinde ; they were, till
they set up for themselves, tributaries of the
Caubul Sovereigns, and having ground down
the unfortunate native population by every
possible extortion, and ruined the trade, and con-
sequently the resources, of the country, like Brother
Jonathan they became repudiators. They did
more. They broke treaties ; they intrigued with
Persia ; they received and entertained Russian
spies disguised as Turks ; they attempted to raise
Lahore against Ilindostan ; and committed such acts
of treachery on the march of our troops to Caubul,
that Lord AUCKLAND, if he had remained in office,
had no ether alternative, but to crush them at

The accounts from Madrid to the 28th ult. state
that though the capital was tranquil, the Opposition
members and journalists were preparing to arouse the
provinces by issuing addresses and dispatching dele-
gates in all directions. The following curious apology
for suspending the Cortes appears in the Government
paper, the Madrid Gazette. The reasons urged arc
equally applicable to the suspension and abolition of
the Constitution
The great debates which took place during several consecu-
tive days, relative to the conduct of Al. Olozaga on the night
of the 26th of November, prevented the Cortes and the Go-
vernment from preparing the laws required by the state of the
country, and excited a deplorable irritation in the public mind.
A fatal party spirit stifled the voice of reason ; passions which
had been subdued by the insurrection of June, had re-appeared
more ardent than ever ; so that the calmness and prudence ne-
cessary to examine the grave matters submitted to the approba-
bation of Congress no longer prevailed in its deliberations.
Already even too great an importance had been ascribed to
words which had been pronounced in a moment of exasperation,
and which might have led to fresh disturbances. Under these
circumstances, the Government deemed it expedient to suspend
the labours of the Cortes, which was accordingly done yester-
day. Repose will induce reflection, and time will allay the ir-
ritation. Those discussions, besides, occasioned the loss of
much valuable time, which might have been usefully employed."
The Three per Cents. were done at 25 2.51 1-16, for cash,
and 25i at 60 days ' • the Coupons which are not to be capita-
lized, at 20i, at 59 days; and the Floating Debt at 42.

once, as Lord ELLENBOROUGH has justly done. While
animadverting on the aberration of one Liberal paper,
which attacks its opponents and kills its friends, we
see with some degree of pride that two Tory journals,
once equally adverse, hut from a different cause, to
the occupation of Sinde, have changed their opinions.
On mature deliberation, the writers in these papers see
that self-preservation, and not conquest, is the object;
and, with a frankness which does them honour, they
abjure their former doctrines and support a system
essentially necessary to the prosperity of British
India, and the very existence of our empire in the East.

In a preceding article we explained the process by
which it has happened that Church lands, and espe-
cially the episcopal estates in Ireland, have become
generally deteriorated, and the progress of agricul-
tural improvement in them intercepted, more than
on any other estates in the kingdom. We return now
to the subject, with the view of showing how effec-
tual an amended kind of tenure might be rendered,
for the better providing for the spiritual wants of the
whole mass of the population, Catholic as well Pro-
testant, in Ireland.
Let it be conceded, then, that the intermediate
letting of the bishops' estates to undertakers on leases
of twenty-one years' duration, subject to annual fine,
is an evil. 'What we propose is, that a compromise on
the part of the State should be immediately entered
into with the bishops, in ease, with the view of ter-
minating this obnoxious kind of tenure. It is calcu-
lated that about the sum of 83,6301. is annually
realised by fines, under the present system. This
sum may, therefore, be considered as the annual
value of an annuity, terminable with the various lives
of the existing annuitants. Let a composition be
effected on this calculation, which it should be im-
perative on both parties, bishops and undertakers, to
accept. It would follow then, that all their lands
would be immediately out of lease, and they would
come into the possession of the State, subject to the
perpetual annuities payable to the bishops, to the
amount of 45,2581. per annum, this being the present
yearly income derivable from the rents.
I It would be necessary, then, to forma corporation

The Paris papers are almost entirely filled with
reports of the discussions, or rather, conversations, in
the different Committee-rooms, respecting certain
paragraphs of the KING'S speech. The only one of
interest took place in the seventh bureau, of which
M. GUIZOT and M. THUM are members, when the
ex-Minister put certain questions respecting the
words "friendship and intimate alliance with Eng-
land." We gave the substance of the questions,
with M. GUIZOT'S replies, yesterday, but as they re-
fer to subjects of considerable interest, as regards the
relations of England and France, we subjoin them in
a more ample form. M. TRIERS said he was anxious
to have some explanation on one or two points, for he
did not wish to allude to all the topics in the Royal
speech ; but he would first of all declare that he was
in the number of the Oppositionists—decidedly of the
Opposition. It was a matter of notoriety for a
length of time that he was not an adversary of the
English alliance ; but time destroyed many illusions,
and experience had suggested somewhat more reserve

TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1844.

on this point. Before pronouncing on the possibility
of si acere agreement and perfect alliance with Eng-
land,, the matter ought to be looked at very narrowly.
They ought to examine if it were not possible for the
Ministry to obtain for the claims of the country some
satisfaction—if such demands of the nation as were
di etated by honour and right could not be fully con-
t' nted. If the two countries had really come to an
understanding respecting Spain, the fact ought to be
declared to the Chamber. As to Greece, which, in
his opinion, presented the Eastern question in a new
point of view, if an agreement had been come to, it
ought to be at once announced to the public. If, on
those points, satisfactory explanations were given, he
could readily comprehend—not that irrevocable en-
gagements were taken—but that an inclination, a ten-
dency, as it were, towards the English alliance, should
be expressed. If anything more than that had taken
place, he thought the matter had been urged on too
fast ! The expressions employed with respect to
the English alliance had much struck him. Could it
be possible that the question of the right of search,
which had so strongly engaged the attention of the
Chamber, had been abandoned ? He wished to hear
some explanations on those points, also on the ques-
tion of public instruction, which was of immense im-
portance. Was there, he would ask, any course de-
termined on, relative to the seminaries for the edu-
cation of persons intended for the priesthood ?
To these questions and remarks M. Guizo•r made
this reply :—" The words friendship and intimate
alliance had not been employed in the speech from
the throne as in the years preceding 1838, but simply
the expression cordial understanding—an expression
which implied, in fact, that the several questions that
might divide the two nations had been discussed one
by one, and that a cordial understanding had been
come to. As to the right of search, a negotiation had
been commenced by the consent of England, and the
wishes of the Chambers, and of the public in general,
had been taken seriously into consideration. He could
• say no more on the subject. As to Spain, the difference of
• opinion on that point, between England and France, had
I been one of the causes of coolness between the two States,
l and Spain had suffered thereby very seriously. At pre-
' sent they had come to an understanding, and Spain would
reap from it a greater security. As to what con-
cerned Greece, England and France marched to•
gether on the same path, and their agreement on this
question was the more remarkable, inasmuch as
' Russia held herself apart, and refused to act in con-
cert with the other two Powers."

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the Princess
Royal and the Princess Alice were taken out for their cus-
tomary exercise this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert hunted this morning,
the harriers meeting in the Park, at the Manor House at
Horton. His Royal Highness was attended by General Sir
Edward Bowater, the Hon. Captain Duncombe, Hon. C. A.
Murray, and Mr. G. E. Anson. After two good runs, the
Royal party returned to the Castle.
tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and Lady Fanny
Howard, will dine with her Majesty at the Castle this evening.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has arrived at
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, to honour the Duke of Rutland
with a visit, from Dean Park, Northamptonshire, the seat of
the Earl of Cardigan.
Sir R. Peel and Sir J. Graham visited the Earl of Aberdeen
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Lieut.-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope, transacted business at the Colonial-office
on Thursday.
Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited the
Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Sir David Davies has returned to his residence in Berkeley-

greet from Witley Court, Worcestershire, the seat of her 11li-
jesty the Queeu Dowager.
The Earl of Ripon arrived in town yesterday morning from
his residence on Putney-heath. His Lordship visited Sir Ro-
bert Peel at his residence in Whitehall-gardens.

MONEY AN]) COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

The English Funds left off at steady prices, a limited business
having been done, as the revenue accounts will appear to-
morrow, and parties will then know what chance there may be
of a reduction in the rate of interest. Consols closed at 97A ;
Bank Stock receded to 1851.
There were very few further operations in the Foreign
market, Spanish 'Threes closing at 30*•' the Fives at about
214 to 22 ; Peruvian for Account at 22i ; Dutch New Fives,at
99a ; and Colombian at 111.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Eastern Counties were 12* ; Brighton, 6i; Green-
wich, 7* ; Midland Counties, 12; North Midland, 10; and
South Eastern, 14* discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow New,
2g; Hull and Selby, 9i ; Brighton Loan Notes, 1* ; South
Western, 338; and Northern and Eastern, 73/4 premium.
Australasia Bank Shares were 2 premium ; and Colonial, 12i
discount.

There was a general decline in the rates of the Foreign ex-
changes.
We have no news yet of the steamer from ',the West Indies,
rather anxiously looked for by the Mexican bondholders.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was not so much animation in the Cotton Market at
Liverpool yesterday, but prices remained the same, and 6,000
bales met with buyers. Speculators took 1,000 bales. The
Share Market was not quite so good, but still a fair business
was done. Birmingham and Gloucester were 65 ; Edinburgh
and; Glasgow, 59k; Grand Junction, 236; Great Western,
99; Manchester and Birmingham, 391; Manchester and
Leeds, 101 i ; Paris and Rouen, 324 ; South Eastern, 371 ;
Do. New, 37k; Paris and Lyons, 31. 6s. 6d.
The letters by the Overland Mail were delivered this morn-
ing, but they do not contain much information beyond that
communicated yesterday. It may be stated, with some confi-
dence, that the aspect of commercial affairs has improved. It
appears that the supplies of Teas would be even greater than
was calculated upon.
There are, in the official documents submitted to the Con-
gress of Amerit.,a' by the President, and compiled by
the Government officers, many items of intelligence of
interest on this side of the Atlantic. It ought to be added
that oar postal regulations have excited a strong desire on the
part of the Americans to have a cheap rate established, and
that the propriety of rendering the post-office operations a
burden upon the national revenues was openly canvassed. In
reference to the new law of Great Britain, the Postmaster-
General of the Republic thus remarks :
" There has been an increase of letters, but not to one-half
the extent anticipated, and an increased charge for the ma-
nagement greater than was estimated.
•` Instead of an increase of revenue, as was predicted by the
Committee, there was a less of $5,290,268.
" The system of penny postage in England, so far as revenue
is concerned, has resulted in a loss of near two-thirds the re-
venue under the old system, and in an increase of cost of ma-
nagement equal to 30 per cent.
•' These facts will serve to show that the tax, in the shape of
postage, upon the English correspondence has been lessened ;
that the postage on newspapers is paid, in the shape of a stamp
duty, higher than the postage on newspapers in the United
States ; that the correspondence through the mail has been
increased; and that the revenue derived to the Crown
has been greatly lessened. And they further prove that the
income of the British Post-office is still greater than its cost
of management. Two other facts should not be overlooked
in the comparison of the revenue of the British Post-office
under the old and new rates of postage. The first is, that all
foreign and colonial letters which are delivered in England, in
their transit to and from other countries, are subjected to a
heavy postage. The second, that by law the transportation of
letters by private conveyance, except where the carrier shall
himself deliver the letter to the person addressed, is prohibited
by severe penalties.
" If the British Crown did not need the revenue, or if it
did, and the subject was willing to be taxed in the form of
stamp duty or excise equal to the reduction of the rate of
postage, as more equal and less burdensome, no one will question
this right, and the justice of yielding to the demand to have
postage reduced.
" If the Pest-office department of the United States yielded
a revenue over its expenses, or if the charge of its manage-
ment was paid from the general treasury, no one would doub
the propriety and justice of a reduction.
" It is a question for Congress and the people to settle,
whether they will so far change the laws of the United States
concerning the Post-office department, as to direct its expenses
to be paid out of the Treasury.
Tne number of chargeable letters delivered, which an-
nually pass through the Post-office of the United States, has
heretofore been estimated at 24.507,994. The number of
similar letters annually posted in England, under the old rates
of postage, was estimated by the Committee of Parliament at
77,500,000.
" The number under the penny-rate of like letters may be
estimated at 204,234,676."
A limited amount of business has been transacted to-day in
Stocks, if we except the purchase of about 18,000/. Reduced
Three per Cents. at 98, by the Government brokers. It is
perhaps worth notice that the investment made yesterday by
the Government brokers was not on account of any public fund,
and hence the inference falls to the ground that a plan
for the reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. is

In reference to the question, whether any course
had been determined on to settle the disputes between
the University and the Church, the Minister of Jus-
tice (M. MARTIN, du Nord) said the Government had
endeavoured to conciliate all parties, and he had every
reason to hope that all struggles between the State
and the clergy would soon cease.
Most of the papers simply announce the suspension,
or rather dissolution, of the Spanish Cortes (for it
amounts to this), and seem to regard it as a matter
of course, and quite in keeping with other acts of the
Camarilla. The Congitutionnel, however, is an ex-
ception, and makes the following amusing remarks on

the Spanish character :
" It is very difficult, it appears, to govern in Spain with the
Chamber. M. Olozaga was overturned because he desired to
be armed against the Cortes with an ordonnance of dissolu-
tion. We have now his successors, who had been so much
shocked at his audacity, adopting, with a slight difference in
the form, the plan which turned out an abortion in his hands.
They do not dissolve the Cortes : they suspend them. Except
the electoral embarrassments from which they free themselves,
it is precisely the same thing. Spain is an admirable country.
There we may behold what we shall never see elsewhere.
There is a Constitution which has interred two •r three
others, probably with the pretension of being regardet as more
serious than its predecessors. This Constitution prescribes
the annual vote of the taxes by the representatives of the coun-
try, and in addition the examination, discussion, and passing of
laws which should govern Spain. Yet, for the last year and
more, this Constitution has been without action; for a year
and more the Cortes have assembled to discuss no one knows
what, and separate without voting either laws or budget. And
notwithstanding everything goes on in Spain, badly enough it
is true, hut Spain is an much in the habit of going out of the
direct line, that nobody pays any attention to the circumstance.
Budgets are levied by •rdonnance, laws are made by ordor-
nance, and future and problematical Cortes are waited for to
pass a Bill of Indemnity. In truth, Spain is a happy country.
If only the quarter of what is seen in Spain, was attempted in
France or England, a furious kick-up would be the result."
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 124 ... 124 25... 124 ... 124 25
41/2 per Cents 109 25... 109 25... 109 25 .. 109 25
Fouriper Cent, 105 ... 105 ... 105 .. 105
Threes n 45.... 82 50... 82 40.. 82 50
Bank of France 3215 ...3215 ...3210 ...3210
Belgian Bank 707 50... 707 50 .. 707 50... 707 50
Belgian Fives ... lO5 105 105 ... 105
1840 1074 ... 108 ... 107 i ... 108
1842 lo Bi... 1084 ... 1084 ... 1084
Dutch 24 per Cents 564 ... 564 ... 564 564
Spanish Active . ..... 30 ... SO ... 30 ... 30
Passive 5 5 ... 5 ...
?Jeanoiitan
human ...... ...••• ••••• 10-1; 1044 .. 1044 ... 1044

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain .........•
7,40 ... 782 50... 780 ... 782 50
Versailles, L. 8... •••• 190 ... 195 199 ... 193
Rouen 842 50... 843 75 .. 842 50... 843 75
Rouen to Havre. ..••••• t 45 ... 655 ... 645 ... 655
Orleans. ......... 847 50... 850 ... 847 50... 850
Strasburg, t. Bale ..• 215 ... 215 ... 212 50... 212 50
Avignon to 'Marseilles 160 ... 665 ... (360 ... 665
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR DEC. ACCOUNT.
St. Germain ........ 782 50... 782 50... 782 50... 782 50
Rouen
Rouen to Havre... •• 650 ••• 650 ... 647 50 .. 647 50
Orleans
Strasburg to 8a1e...... 212 50... 213 75... 212 50... 213 75
Avignon to Marseilles 165 ... 667 50... 665 .. 167 50

ACCIDENT TO THE SUEEN.-WINDSOR, FRIDAY.
—A slight accident, which, happily, proved of no
consequence, happened to her Majesty, who was
being driven in a pony.carriage with the Marchioness
of Douro. The postilion took too short a turn from
one road into another, and the left wheel of the car-
riage went into a broad ditch, which threw the car-
riage against the hedge. Her Majesty and Lady
Douro were speedily rescued from th-mr unpleasant
position, and returned to the Castle in a small pony
car, driven by Colonel Arbuthnot, which was kindly
given up by a lady Neino was driving close by ; and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert accompanied the
car on horseback. `ire are gratified to learn that her
Majesty has not experienced any inconvenience from
this accident.

not contemplated. The purchase was on private account.
Our belief is strong, from facts that have transpired of late,
that the conversion will be effected. Consols for Account
have remained very tranquil to-day at from 97 to 97A ex div.
The premium upon Exchequer-hills has advanced to 695., and
that upon India Bonds t• 81s. Bank Stock is again higher,
namely, at 181.
A good deal of business has been transacted in the Foreign
Funds to-day, and at prices generally in advance, though but
slight, on the values realised yesterday. The Dutch Two-and-
a- Half per Cents. have rallied to 54a the Five per Cents. to
100 A ; and Colombian ex Venezuelan to 14. Spanish Con-
sols, after touching 22A, have receded to 21/ ; but the Three
per Cents. have been pretty firm at 30/ a.
The Railway Share .Market is scarcely so high as it has of
late been. The principal variations have been a fall in the
Manchester and Leeds, from 32 to 31 prem., and in the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, from 81 to 8 premium. The Brightens,
the Blackwalls, and the South Western are a shade lower.
New London and Birmingham Shares_ have advanced to 261
ft prem. Real del Monte Unregistered Shares are heavy at
There are no fresh quotations for Joint Stock Bank
Shares to-day,
DIANCHEsTEIL STOCK EXCHA NOE, JAN. 4.—We have had
less animation to-day, but prices are not materially altered,
though, perhaps, on the whole rather in favour of the buyers.
—Bolton and Preston, 26; Manchester and Birmingham, 39a;
Manchester and Leeds, 102; Half Shares, 45k; Sheffield
and Manchester, 531 and .54 ex ml.; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
4 7-16th ; South Eastern, Scrip, 37i ; Rochdale Canal, GO/ ;
Manchester Assurance, 9/.
CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS.

13 ar, Stock 1 esi India Stock ... •• pro
3 Cent. Red.

•31 Cent. Cons.

Ditto Old Annuities ...

3i ;.,n- Cent. Red ... 102 i Ditto New Annuities...
3i per Cent.... Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 14d. 69 om
i'onv 5 per
lonig Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1800 ...... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct.
4-4 t. 1559
a.,. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS.

per cent
b per cent
Brazilian 80nd5....
A yres6 per cent —
Cnilian, 6 per cent
Gd:ombian, 6 per cent ll/
Ditto, 1624
Ct6a Bonds, 6 per cent lli
Danish, 3 per sent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825,6 perct.

Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian. 5 per cent —
Ru3sian, 5 per cent
Metallic ...... .
'Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 3 per cent 3O
,Ditto Deferred....
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange.......... —f —c.
French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Dutch, 2i per vent. 54i
Ditto, 5 per cent.... I.ooi
,RES.
iaid) ...... .

SHA.
Bristol and Exeter (70 pi 66*
Eastern Counties (23 paid) lO4
Ditto New Registered ( paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 5B
Ditto New Shares (12i paid) l4l
Grand Junction Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (50 paid) 5B/
London and Brighton (50 pa d) .....
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) ... .. ......
London and Birmingham (100 paid) 238
Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 284
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) 51
London and South Western (411 6s 10klpd) 75
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...... 102
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 2 paid) 2l
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid) . 324
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ......
Ditto Scrip (25 paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam
Ditto, at sight
26 5
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 711 Genoa ,
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice.....
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
II isbor

Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 5
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3 Us.
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 0
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao ............ 36
Barcelona .............. . 36
Seville ......... ....... 36

isbon .......
Oporto 524
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days sight 46i
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER. 02,
Foreign Gold, bars£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 0 0
Silver in Bars... 0 4 11;

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the
Bank of England, from the 7th day of October, to the
30th of December, 1843, both inclusive, published pursuant
to the Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 98.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation . ...£19,098,000 Securities
Deposits 11,751,000 Bullion 12,855,000

£30,549,000
Downing-street, Jan. 5, 1

£33,912,000

SUMMARY OF NE tS

AND

iUbttt Opinion.

" 14'ho runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The King of the French, on Tuesday, presided at a Council
of Ministers, which lasted from twelve till half-past one.
The French funds on Wednesday rose considerably. The
Three per Cents. closed at nf. 60c., and the Fives at 124 f. 50c.
Cardinal Capaecini, the Pope's Interntmeio at Lisbon, was
daily expected in Madrid, to arrange the religious differences
between Spain and the Holy See.
'f he mortal remains of the Count of Nassau, ex-King of
Holland, arrived at Amsterdam on the 29th-ult. On the 30th
the King and the Prince Royal went to Amsterdam to see the
body, and returned to the Hague on the same day. The
funeral was to take place on Tuesday.
Gustave Maximilien Juste, Prince de Croy, Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Rouen, died on Sunday night last. He was born at
Chateau de l'Hermitage (Nord) on the 12th September, 1773,
and was consecrated on the 9th January, 1820.
M. Charles Dupin has been elected President of the Academy
of Sciences, in the room of M. Dumas, and M. Elie tie Beau-
mont has been chosen Vice-President, in succession to M. C.
Dupin.
Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., is returned to Paris from
Bourges, having been on a visit to Don Carlos.
_

The Hungarian Diet has, by a very large majority, adopted a
resolution that an address shall be presented to the King,
praying that his Majesty will, during this session, cause a Bill
to be presented to it, for granting electoral rights and qualifica-
tion to become candidates for seats in the Diet to advocates,
physicians, and other members of the learned professions in
general ; and secondly, a Bill declaring that persons not noble
shall be qualified for the places and employments in the Go-
vernment which are now reserved for nobles exclusively.
The Commerce says :—" A work man of the Rue Vielles
Audriettes, who for some time has attended the public lectures
on mechanics, has invented a machine, by which a man can
make 40 or 50 pairs of shoes a-day."
The French press, in 1843, brought forth 6,176 works in all
the languages, dead and living ; 1,872 engravings and litho-
graphic prints; 147 maps, plans, and charts; and 316 pieces
of music have also been published.
In the evening of Sunday and Monday, a great number of
Deputies proceeded to M. Laffitte's residence to congratulate
him on the address, so true and so well imagined, which he
pronounced on leaving the place he had filled as Provisional
President of the Chamber. On Monday, Beranger went to
felicitate M. Laffitte for the generous words which he had
uttered.

On Tuesday, at a meeting of Odilon Barrot's party they
decided that they would, in the bureax. interrogate the Minis-
ters on the subject of the reports in circulation about a dota-
tion to the Duke de Nemours. 'They also came to an under-
standing to oppose the exaggeration in the Speech from the
Throne relative to the prosperity of the finances o f the country.
The meeting were also unanimous in opinion that the Cabinet,
in its relations with foreign Powers, had defended equally ill
the material interests of the country, and its dignity and honour.
An Algiers letter states that Colonel Charron, of the Engi-
neers, ill exploring the quarries in Algeria, which have been
recently worked, discovered veins of marble perfectly suited for
statuary and monumental sculpture.
LAW AND POLICE.

The Lord Mayor, at the sitting at the Mansion-house, cen-
sured the police for the remissness with which his orders as to
the emnibus drivers and the scavengers, in the City, had been
enforced.

A young man, highly respectably-dressed, yet covered with
dirt, was brought before Mr. Hall, at Bow-street, in a most
woe-begone plight, charged with stealing a number of cigars,
the property of Mr. Charles George, tobacconist, Long-acre.
The pr►soner is well connected, but has, unfortunately, such
propensities to low habits and low company, that he is incor-
rigible. He was once before charged with robbery, but was
then discharged. He was now sent to prison for three weeks.
Three flashily-dressed young men, who gave their names
Henry Robins, Frederick Howard, and George Smith, were
charged, at Marylebone, with stealing a coat from the house of
Mr. Derbyshire, a surgeon, London-street, Fitzroy-square.
They are well-known members of the "swellmob." They were
committed for trial.
Nehemiah Shakspeare, a middle-aged man, who had been
upwards of seven years resident engineer at the Lambeth Water-
works, was charged, at Lambeth-street, by Mr. Johnston, of
the firm of Johnston and Company, of Gloucester-street, Com-
mercial-road, with having wilfully and maliciously caused the
bursting of a steam-boiler on his premises on Tuesday morn-
ing last, by which the lives of upwards of 70 individuals were
placed in the most imminent danger, and property to a con-
siderable amount destroyed. There had been a difference be-
tween the defendant and his employer a day or two previous,
but Shakspeare strongly denied the charge. He was re-
manded, but admitted to bail.
Patrick Connel, a tall, athletic Irishman, was finally exa-
mined, at Worship-street, on a charge of having assaulted and
wounded James White, aged 15 years, an inmate of St. Luke's
workhouse. whereby his life had been placed in imminent dan-
ger. On being asked if he wished to say anything, the pri-
soner launched forth a farrago of inane and incoherent ravings
indicative of insanity, which, however, it was the general opi-
nion was in part or wholly assumed. He was committed for
trial.

COURT —II.II.SHIONAI3X.E.
The Duke of Bordeaux, on Tuesday, arrived at Powderham
Castle on a visit to the Earl of Devon, who proceeded to
Teignmout.h to meet the Prince. He intended afterwards to
visit Solworth Castle, where he resided for some time with the
rest of the exiled family in 1830.
Viscount Melbourne arrived in South-street on Thursday
afternoon, from a visit to Lord and Lady Palmerston, at
Broadlands. _ _ _

The Court went out of mourning on Thursday for his late
Majesty King William Frederick of Holland, Count of Nassau.
According to the latest accounts Earl Grey is improving in
health and strength.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The number of presents this Christmas passing to their va-
rious destinations has been very large. So considerable were
they in amount and sulk one day last week, that a special train
was run on the London and Birmingham Railway for their con-
veyance into the country. On the day in question upwards of
6,000 barrels of oysters were transmitted by the train.
A lady writes to a friend at Dumfries, that a draft sent by
her brother in India came safely to hand through the Post-
office, after having been at the bottom of the sea in the Mem-
non, and although the seal was so completely wasted along with
the paper adjoining, that the letter in fact was quite open.
Edward Waller, Esq., eldest son of the late lamented T.
Waller, Esq., of Finnoe House, has been appointed a Justice
of the Peace for the county of Tipperary.
The registration under the Arms Act goes on, in the county
Cork, with great dispatch since the issuing of Lord Eliot's cir-
cular. At Bandon sessions, on Friday, the applications, which
did not exceed sixty, were all granted in a couple of hours—
no questions asked.
It is the intention of the Council of the Royal Agricultural
Society to give premiums of 50 guineas each for the best prize
essays during the present year, on the agriculture of Norfolk,
Cheshire, Essex, and Wiltshire.
On Thursday the half-yearly general meeting of the London
Coachbuilders' Benevolent Institution was held at the Red
Lion, King-street, Golden-square, Mr. William Savage, the
President, in the chair. The Institution is established for the
purpose of affording permanent relief to coachmakers, trimmers,
and harness-makers of the metropolis, who may become inca-
pacitated from following their employment, by an allowance of
pensions of fifteen guineas tea male, and ten guineas to widows;
and to orphan children of members or pensioners, not exceed-
ing ten pounds per annum to one family. The Secretary read
the report, by which it appeared, that, notwithstanding the
Society is in an infant state, its funds already amount to 3741.
3s. 7d. stock.

The annual general meeting of the Travellers' Commercial
Society was held on Thursday afternoon at the offices, No. 73,
llasinghall-street, City. It appeared that from Oct. 1, 1842,
to 1843, nine members and seven widows had been admitted
on the fund. The receipts within the same period, including
interest on stock, and subscriptions and donations from all
sources, amounted to 5,5811. 3,. 71d. ; of that sum
1,7621. 6s. Bd. had been paid to claimants, and 3,167/. invested
in the ftalls.

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