The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1845.

It would be idle to disguise the fact that there is a
determined and growing hostility manifested in the
French Chamber of Deputies towards this country.
England is constantly before their eyes. Her great-
ness, her vast extent of territory, her late acquisitions
on the Indus, the Sycee silver brought from China,
and the glorious peace concluded in the very heart of
the Celestial Empire, are all sources of jealousy and
envy to our aspiring neighbours. Those who have
paid the slightest attention to the speeches and
amendments of the different Members must have
observed that they all relate to England—no other
country obtains the slightest notice. Austria, Russia,
and Prussia have been mentioned, it is true, by M.
`rums, in a parenthesis ; but the entire stock-in-
trade, the list of grievances against the Government,
and the humiliation of France, so loudly announced
by the Opposition, have their entire source on
this side of the Channel. The affairs of Morocco
ami Otaheite, the right of search, the entente
cordiale, and the royal visit to 'Windsor, are
only different chords, all playing the same tune
—hatred to England. These airs are not played
by men of obscure character, or by wild visionaries
who regard war and victory as synonymous terms ;
they are performed by some of the most able leaders
in the Chamber, by men who have been in office, and
know the secrets of diplomacy—such as MOLE,
Tuisas, DGFAURE, Dun N, not to mention BARBoT,
1311.1.. t u LT, LAMARTINE,BRRILYER, ARAGO, and other
second-rate men, distinguished by almost every shade
,)f politics ; and what renders aPPearances more omi-
nous, they are supported, even under present circum-
stances, by one-half of a Chamber that does not fully
represent the warlike feeling of th.t provinces.. The
lime., prepossessions in favour of peace cannot pos-
sibly be doubted. His rejection of M. TRIERS, at
the critical period of the Syrian expedition ; his
anxious wish to cultivate friendship with the Royal
Family of England ; indeed, his whole policy since
he was placed on the throne, have convinced the Great
Powers of the Continent, and, above all, the war-
party in France, that during his lifetime, at least,
peace shall prevail. But he is now advanced
n years, and should his life not exceed, the usual
:span of three score years and ten, the thrOne will be
left to a minor, under the guidance of his uncle, as
Regent. The KING'S influence in the Chamber is
great. Some say the Court and Cabinet can com-
mand a hundred votes, but whatever may ,be the

number, all that influence can command only a bare
majority in favour of peace. It becomes the country
then to look to futurity, and to no distant futurity,
in order to be prepared. M. THIERS, by his own ad-
mission, is only waiting for a combination of circum-
stances. The death of LOUIS PHILIPPE may be one
of the combinations, and a young King, a young
Regent, a young Admiral, and " Young France,"
with M. TRIERS as Foreign Minister, will serve to
make up the complement. He will find supporters,
too, out of number throughout the French dominions,
whom no dread of results, no recollection of past
sufferings, and no dictates of prudence can deter.
They long for the return of those golden days when
the armies of France overran Europe, when common
soldiers became Marshals, and Princes, and Sove-
reigns, and the supply of young men was barely suffi-
cient to fill up vacant places in offices erected for
levying tribute on every German and Italian state.
The condition of this country is now so different;
France is so cribbed and confined in the eyes of the
present generation, and the outlet for trade so small,
that this desire for change can be regarded only as a
natural result. From whatever cause, however, it
takes its rise, there is no doubt that it exists, and that
on the demise of the KING a general election would
return a Chamber as thoroughly hostile to England
as M. TRIERS could desire. But, independent of the
Chamber, he has nearly the whole press on his side.
Not a tenth part of the French journals support the
-peace policy of the KING and his Minister ; and if
this circumstance be taken as a test of the national
feeling, no country was ever more ripe for war than
France is at the present moment. If, under the pru-
dent sway of Louis PHILIPPE, a rupture was immi-
nent about a trifle, what may England expect when
the hand that has controlled the people for fifteen
years is powerless ? The important division on Mon-
day shows that the KING'S influence cannot be
reckoned upon even at present, and a Conservative
journal, the Presse, thus calls loudly upon France to
assert her honour :

" France suffers the consequence of her own heed-
lessness. Why has Great Britain placed herself in the
alternative of a rupture with her, or of a blame inflicted
by us on the brave Captain d'Aubigny, and an indemnity
granted to the fiery agitator Pritchard ! Why have not
our Ministers repulsed this incredible pretension by
replying instantly with firmness, that as no indemnity
was due, and as no blame was merited, France could not
with honour grant one or inflict the other, and that it
England, dissatisfied with that reply, wished absolutely
fora rupture, the world would then judge between them
and us ? In fine, why did not the majority reject the
amendment of M. de Malleville on this delicate ques-
tion ? We shall explain that fact, for when truth appears
to us dangerous to be concealed there is no secondary
consideration sufficiently strong to induce us to maintain
silence. The truth is, that England, which is informed
of the number of our vessels as accurately as she is of
the number of her own, knows moreover that we carry
to infatuation the fear of war, and thence her menacing
exigencies. The truth is, that the majority, which still
remember the disasters of 1814 and 1815, does not be-
lieve that war can break out between France and Eng-
land without extending to all the other parts of Europe,
an error propagated by those who ought to apply them-
selves most to destroy it. Thence the vote of Saturday."

" Quarnditi Catilina" is the exclamation which
involuntarily occurs to us as, day after day, we are
apprised of some new atrocity on the part of that
execrable and ferocious despotism which wields the
destinies of Spain. How long, indeed, will the
majesty of civilisation, represented by this country
and the other great Powers of Europe, permit these
bloody excesses to be perpetrated by a Government
as disorganised as it is faithless, as weak as it is dis-
organised—to their own dishonour—to the scandal
of our age—to the disgrace of humanity—to the
infamy of the Spanish people ? The rights of man,
the ties of nature the integrity of justice, the
solemnity of law, are alike violated, severed, and in-

stilted in Spain, by a system of relentless proscrip-
tion—as irresponsible, as sanguinary as in the times
of her severest civil struggle was ever witnessed by
Old Rome. Bat this modern prescription is even
more wanton than those which have consigned to

perpetual horror the names of SYLLA, or of MARK
ANTONY and LErthus. They might have pleaded
the necessity of self-preservation against the antago-
nistic power of rivals, who, because they were rivals,
were necessarily, therefore, their implacable enemies.
But the blood spiller who sets in motion this hideous
engine of wholesale murder in Spain—be he NAN,
vaEz himself, or one of his creatures who, under a
mask of office, propounds and executes the sugges-
tions of NARYAEZS personal vengeance—has no such

palliative plea to offer. Corruption, the wholesale
corruption which has floated the obscure NARVAEZ
into his present position of " bad eminence," has too
thoroughly accomplished its work to leave him the
apology of personal peril to himself, or of the dread
of successful rivalry by others in the struggle for
political power. He seems to have ingratiated him-
self with the two Queens, and to have become neces-
sary to the consolidation of any Administration
which shall possess efficient authority, under ISA-
BELLA. In return, he appears to be able to seal the
doom of any other individual in her kingdoms who
may have had the spirit and resolution to oppose him-
self to his schemes of unprincipled aggrandisement
and ambition. Another victim has just expiated this

offence in the person of his brave and resolute op-
ponent, ZURBANO. The blood of this ill-fated man's
race has been shed profusely since he first stood be-
tween the wreck of Spanish independence, in the
capital, and the lawless and insolent pretensions of
NARVAEZ. Bitterly has his own vindictiveness been
atoned for in the violent deaths of brothers-iii-law,
brothers, sons ; and we learn, by the last intelligence
received, that ZUUBANO himself has been summarily
shot by order of the Governor of Logrono, together
with one of these, his nearest and dearest kindred!
It has been recently shown, in a note appended by
Lord ItANELAGu to his pamphlet, that between the
Ist of December, 1843, and the 13th of December,
1844, no less than two hundred and fourteen indi-
viduals have been shot for political offences in Spain.
These unfortunates perished chiefly at the instigation
of NARVAEZ, though we must not be suffered to ex-
cept, or to forget that, of this number, no less than
one hundred and twenty-nine, the prisoners of that
still more detestable chief, V ILLA.LoNo A, were murdered
in cold blood in the Maestrazgo, after their capture.
It was only in the month of November last that two
other sons of the ill-starred ZURBANO and one of his
brothers-in-law were shot in Logrono, where he him-
self, with, according to some accounts another son,
according to others another brother, has just been
slaughtered.
We have ever been, and still are, decidedly op-
posed to all intervention with the internal affairs of
other States, except as to cases wherein our arbitra-
tion may have been applied for. But we cannot help
feeling that this country and the other great Powers
have only to intimate, in terms sufficiently grave
and distinct, their detestation of, and displeasure at,
these brutal reprisals and murders—to put an end to
them. Let the Court of Madrid be apprised that the
example of these sanguinary punishments are viewed
by the great Powers not as required for the vindica-
tion of established law and authority, but in order to
satisfy the rancour of party, and private and political
enmities. Let the Spanish Cabinet be made to
understand that it is setting an example of violence
and crime the most dangerous to the cause of peace
and order in Europe ; and that it cannot be per-
mitted by a perseverance in this career of military
executions to present to the subjects of other States
the hateful spectacle of executive authority trampling
under foot all the laws of GOD and man, to satisfy
the revengeful or malicious desires of whatever un-
principled faction may happen to be in power, upon
those who have in any way thwarted or resisted their
progress towards its attainment. All diplomatic re-
lations should he suspended with a Government, call-
ing itself the Government of a civilised country,
which not merely permits, but abets, a system of
political brutality that is calculated rather for the
meridian of Ashantee or Pegu (where human sacri-
fices are congenial to the unbridled passions and
savage habits of unreclaiined barbarians), than to
that of one of the most ancient monarchies of Europe.

PRITCHARD indemnity. From all accounts the result
is the general topic of conversation, and cannot fail
to cause a strong sensation throughout the whole of
France. The Ministry have been saved from destruc-
tion by a majority of only eight against an amendment
which, if carried, must have seriously compromised
the relations between England and France. The
Opposition, with loud cries of exultation, claimed a
decided victory, and without waiting for the divisions
on the other paragraphs of the Address, left the house
in a body. It will be recollected that on Saturday
the Members broke up in great agitation—the
Ministry contending (and they were borne out by
three of the tellers), that the amend-
ment of M. ALkLLEVILLE was rejected, while
the Opposition, on the authority of the fourth
teller, maintained that it was carried. On Monday
the Chamber again met in a state of great excite-
ment, when the President read the third paragraph
of the Address, which runs thus :—" Incidents
which at the first moment appeared calculated to
disturb the good relations existing between France
and England had greatly agitated the two countries,
and called for all the attention of your Government.
We are happy to learn that a mutual feeling
of goodwill and equity has maintained between
the two States that happy accord which is in-
dispensable for their prosperity and the repose
of the world." To this M. MALLEVILLE moved
the following amendment :—" We are happy to
learn that the accord so necessary to the repose of the
world has been maintained between the two States,
but we regret that, in granting a reparation which
was not due, the rules of justice and reciprocity,
which France shall always respect, were not suffi-
ciently taken into account." M. BILLAULT spoke
strongly in support of the amendment, and was fol-
lowed by M. ODILLON BA.RROT, who appeared to be
in a state of great excitement, and gave vent to ti,e
following language :—" France should not have the
appearance of voting under the threat of a rupture ;
that if England did not dread such a rupture, neither
was France afraid of it. They were all, he said, men
of honour, and if they were convinced that the im-
pious war, which had already cost the lives of 200 of
their countrymen, had been kindled by Mr. PRIT-
CHARD, he was certain nobody in the house would
consent to pay an indemnity to that manufacturer of
sedition and revolt." A division by ballot then took
place, when there were—For the original paragraph,
213; against it, or for the amendment, 205—majority,
8. The announcement was received with tremendous
cheering and clapping of hands by M. TRIERS and
his party. A number of Conservatives refrained
from voting, and left M. GUIZOT to his fate. The
whole Address was finally voted by a majority of
183, only 33 Members remaining to vote against it.
Ministers, however, are resolved to remain in office
and proceed without delay to make another trial of
strength by bringing in the Secret Service Money
Bill. This Bill was announced for the following day
(Tuesday).
As the division on this question is one of the first
importance to England, as well as France, it may he
interesting to give the opinions of the Opposition
Paris press on the present crisis. The Opposition
party, we have said, claimed a majority on Saturday,
and in proof of it the National says :
" That which particularly struck every one present in
the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday was the unjustifi-
able conduct of the President and his unexpected flight.
No person heard him adjourn the debate, nor did he read
the order of the day. Ile was seized with fear at the mo-
ment when he felt the storm raging. If a President may
render himself ridiculous (and M. Sauzat sometimes
abuses that liberty), it is not permitted to him to fail in
the duties of his office. And now that we have done with
the President, let us refer to the Secretaries. MM. de
L'Espee, Boissy d'Anglas, and Las Cases, declared on
Saturday that the amendment of M. Loon de Malleville
was rejected. M. Lacrosse maintained, on the contrary,
that it was approved by the majority. Let us verify the
truth by a simple calculation. Two secretaries, consulted as
to the number of votes, affirmed that they had counted—one
410, the other 411 ; we shall take the last number as the
basis. From these 411 the President and the four mem-
bers of the board must be deducted. There remains
406 voters. It is certain, therefore, that about twenty
members at least have abstained from voting. We have
received the names of sixteen. Those sixteen deducted
from 406, there remain 590. The majority is conse-
quently 196, and we publish the names of 196 member,
who positively voted for the amendment of M. Leon de
Malleville. We are not aware what course the Opposi-
tion will pursue on Monday, but the paragraph remains
to be voted. The paragraph contains a candid and sin-
cere approval of the Pritchard indemnity ; the natural
effect of the vote of Saturday will be the vote of Mon-
day. M. Guizot declared explicitly that he did not wish
to be equivocally supported. lie was right; Government
cannot be conducted by doubtful majorities. Let the
majority, therefore, declare itself boldly. If it com-
pletely approves the solutien of Otaheite, let it be de-
clared without a quibble."
M. TRIERS' paper considers the victory certain, and
thus proclaims it

" We yesterday gave an approximative calculation,
made in haste, from which we conceived we had a right
to conclude that M. de Malleville's amendment had been
adopted. We are at present able to rectify those figures,
and to give proof in the place of conjecture. Here are
the facts all proved. All that was doubtful we have
considered as unfavourable to our cause. We have,
therefore, remained below the truth, and we defy our ad-
versaries to oppose to our demonstration calculations as
complete and as authentic. The manner in which the
secretaries proceed in ascertaining the result of a difficult
vote is this:—They count up beforehand the Members
present ; they subdivide this amount according to the
sections of the Chamber. When the vote takes
place they compare the number of Deputies who
have risen in each section with the number of
those in the entire section. They thus deduce from
these eight partial substracßons the approxima-
tive calculation of the general difference between
the approvers and the opposers. On Saturday the Se.
cretaries had, as usual, prepared this work. M. do
l'Esp6?, Ministerial, found 411 Deputies present, includ-
ing the five Members of the bureau ; M. Lacrosse, Op-
positionist, reckoned 410. We take 411 as the exact
figure. Deducting the Members of the bureau, this
amount is reduced to 406. We have stated that a score
of Deputies, though present, had not voted. We main-
tain the exactitude of this fact ; but we can collect in a
certain manner but the following 15 names :—MM. Es-
peronnier, Darbley, Lanyer, Dessaigne, Bernadou. E.
Blanc, Lepelletier d'Aulnay, Dugabe, Remilly, Lebobe,
Cerfbeer, Salgues, Sapey, Mesgrigny, Lavocat. It is thus
evident that our list of yesterday was very nearly exact.
Let us deduct 15, there remain 391. We give further
on a list of the persons who voted for the amendment,
it amounts to 196 ; so that there remain for the Ministry,
putting aside such votes as are still a matter of doubt,
195. The Opposition, therefore, had the absolute ma-
jority ; we believe it had still more. Now, will the re-
sults bo contested ? In that case it must be proved
either that the secretaries were in error as to the number
of persons present, and then the majority amongst them
becomes more inexcusable not to have pronounced that
the trial was doubtful ; or that the fifteen Deputies whom
we have named as having abstained took part in the
vote, and then it will be necessary to tell us how they
voted ; or that oar list contains errors, and includes De-
puties of the Pritchard party, and we wait to have them
made known ; or that a list of more than 195 names of
Deputies be produced who stood up in favour of the in-
demnity, and we maintain that such a list will not be
produced. We shall give the list of the Pritchard party;
we shall make known to the electors those whom the
Ministry has drawn into this fault. The country must
one day judge between them and us ; only we postpone
this necessary publicity in order to assure its more com-
plete exactitude."
Galignani s Messenger takes the following view
of the division :—" The Opposition journals publish
lists of the Deputies who, they say, voted for the
amendment, and by which they show—some 195,
and others 196 votes, for the Opposition, indepen-
dently of several of which they are doubtful. If
either of these lists be correct, the Ministry was
either in a minority, or could have had only a ma-
jority of one, even supposing all the Deputies whose
names are set down as doubtful to have voted against
the amendment. It is not at all improbable, how-
ever, that some of the names on the Opposition lists
may have been placed there without the direct au-
thority of the parties themselves, and that some of
them may, as is very frequently the case in such
matters, come forward and declare either that they
abstained from voting, or voted with the Ministry."
The Presse considers the affair as by no means
settled, and says—
" The Chamber has not sufficiently weighed the con.
sequences of its vote, and as the affair is far from being
concluded, since the indemnity is neither arbitrated on,
nor authorised by a special vote, it is st.ll time to reflect.
The vote of Saturday is, moreover, contested, and the
paragraph of the Address is not yet adopted by the
Chamber. The strange promptitude with which the
President deserted the chair after having proclaimed the
result, appears likely to become the subject of strong
animadversion."

The accounts from ➢ladrid are to the 21st inst.
Intelligence of the capture and execution of ZURBANO
had been received, and produced much excitement.
A Cabinet Council was held in consequence. The
Gazette of that date contains the appointment of
Lieutenant-General Don JOSE PRIMO DE RIVERA to
the functions of Commander of the Naval Station at
the llavannah, in place of Don FRANCISCO ULLOA.
The Three per Cents. closed at 31 -i for cash, and
at 60 days; and the Five per Cents. at 23i at 60
days.

Lord COWLEY, says the Constitationnd, paid a long
visit to the Tuileries on Sunday morning. The
Funds, it will be seen, have undergone little altera-
tion. On Monday the Three per Cents. closed at
85f. 30. ; and the New Loan at 86f. 50c.
The following is the latest intelligence from Swit-
zerland respecting the Jesuits :—On the 21st instant
the Government of Zurich, acting in the name of the
Vorort, published its circular to the different cantons
on the subject of the encouragement given to the
Jesuits by the Canton of Lucerne. The circular is
of great length, but the concluding paragraph, which

The Paris journals are entirely occupied with the
proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on the

THE SL N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1845

we subjoin, will suffice to show its character, and the
object at which it aims :

"As the tendency of the spirit of the order of Jesuits
is to subject the State to the Church, and make the
ruling policy theocratic ; and, as it is as it always has
been among the religious orders, that which is most hos-
tile to the Reformed Church, its presence in the Canton
of Lucerne—the seat of the Vorort, would insure the
triumph of its principles, and spr:ad a general mistrust
throughout Switterland. It is fur this reason that the
Diet should endeavour to dispose this canton to abandon
its project of entrusting its theological establishment to
the Jesuits, and thus contribute to the re-establishment
of public peace. We, therefore, entreat the cantons to
call upon the Deputies to meet an extraordinary Diet
at Zurich, furnishing them with instructions, so that
their first sitting may take place on the 24th of February
next."

away. After some time he found a policeman, who sue
ceeded in arresting the three prisoners. Upon searching
for the watch the constable found it lying upon a win-
dow-sill near where they were taken into custody.
Mr. CLARKSON said that his clients were respectable
married women, and endeavoured to show that the pro-
secutor was inebriated, but in this he failed.

Tho jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Kent
and Kirwan, and of Acquittal in favour of Buckley.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE said those daring street rob-
beries must be put down. lie felt inclined to transport
the prisoners; however, he would give them one chance
more. The sentence of the Court was, that they be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months, six
weeks to be solitary.
In every instance this day, in which the Learned
Assistant-Judge sentenced a convict to a term of impri-
sonment, he ordered that certain periods, varying from
one-third to one-sixth of its duration, should be solitary.

GUILD HALL.—(TH I S DAY.)
DESPERATE OUTRAGE BY A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev.
Mr. Hopkins, residing in Burton-crescent, New-road, was
charged with violently assaulting Mr. Cole, a solicitor.
Aldermen Hughes and Farebrother were on the bench.
The Rev. Gentleman was defended by a solicitor.
Mr. Cole having been sworn, stated that he had drawn
up in writing an apology, and, on the condition that the
defendant would sign it, and that it should be inserted
in the newspapers, he would not prefer the charge
against him.
The Rev. Gentleman expressed his willingness to
make an apology, and to sign that prepared by Mr.
Cole, on the understanding that it should not be inserted
in the newspapers.
Mr. Cole was unwiling to concede that point. He
would reserve to himself whether he should publish it or
not. He then stated, that on leaving the Crown-office in
the Temple yesterday, after taxing a bill of costs, in
which the defendant was interested, ho came up to him,
and saying something about an explanation, raised a
thick stick which he carried, and struck him ou the head.
The defendant was about to repeat the blow, when seve-
ral professional gentlemen, who were near the spot, pro •
vented him from doing so, and ultimately he was given
into custody.
The ALDERMAN strongly recommended Mr. Hopkins
to sign the apology, as the further hearing of the charge
might bring out matters of a private nature.
After much conversation the defendant agreed to sign
the document, at the same time stating that the assault
was committed in a moment of irritation, and expressing
a hope that the complainant would not deem its publica-
tion in the newspapers necessary.
He was then bound over, himself in 801., and two
sureties in 401. each, to keep the peace towards the com-
plainant for the ensuing twelve months.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Two cabmen, named Bartlett and Harrold, were
charged with violently assaulting police constable 205 G;
Bartlett with attempting to stab the constable.

At four o'clock this morning the policeman was called
into the Old Red Lion public-house, where there was a
dreadful scuffle between thirty and forty of the lowestcha-
racters, who were fighting and shouting. The constable
interfered, when the prisoners fell upon him and beat
him in a very severe manner, and Bartlett, taking out
his penknife and opening it, swore he would rip his b—y
Peelers' bowels out. He was secured with the greatest
difficulty, but not before the constable had sustained se-
vere injuries.—They were sent to the House of Correc-
tion fur ten days each in default of fine.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY

We bad a full average supply of English Wheat, yet
the demand ruled steady, at full prices. In Foreign
Wheat, next to nothing was passing ; holders, however,
were firm. The supply of Barley was large. All de-
scriptions were heavy, at, in some instances, further re-
duced rates. In Malt next to nothing was doing. Oats
Beans, and Peas about stationary.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
1,460 qrs. 2,570 qrs.
- -
- -
Malt, 2,490 qrs.
WHITECHAPEL.

English . • ....
Irish ........
Foreign ......

Oats. Flour.
420 1,770
1,810

There was only a moderate supply of Meat. Gene-
rally speaking, the demand ruled heavy, at previous
rates. Beef, from 2s 6:1 to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to
3s 8d ; Veal, 33 $d to 4. 10d ; and *Pork, 2$ 10d to
4s 6d per 81bs by the carcase.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 29.—Wind at noon westerly, fresh
breeze, and cloudy.
OFF MARGATE, JAN. 28.—Swift, Miller, Fayar.
RAMSGATE, JAN. 28.—Wind W. to N.N.W., light.—
Arrd. Cardiff packet, Yarmouth, with loss of sails, and
bound to Penrith.

DEAL, JAN. 28.—Wind W.S.W. to W., light breeze.
—Arrd. Scindian, Terry, Calcutta; Clydesdale, Ichaboe,
for Leith; Penningham, Purchase, Bahia. Ski. Camillus
and David Luekee, Demerara; Prince Albert, New York.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind W.N.W., squally.—
Sid. Her Majesty's ship Did,), eastward; her Majesty's
ship Amazon, Cork; Humber, New Orleans, and brought
up in St. Helen's Roads.
COWES, Jeff. 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Chesterfield,
Cadiz, for Leith, with cargo shifted, loss of bulwarks,
and other damage.
OFF ST. ALBAN'S, JAN. 25.—Arrd. Gierturids, Blorn,
Batavia. for Amsterdam.

NEWPORT, JAN. 28.—Sid. British Queen, Grenada.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28.--Wind N.E., moderato.—Arrd.
Inca, Field, Valparaiso ; Heloise, Thomas, Ichaboe ;
Lancaster, Wright, Demerara ; Columbine, Booth,
Charleston ; Ann, Scott, New York ; Mary, Kilian, St.
Andrew's. Sld. Syren, Calcutta ; 'oodstock, Charles-
ton ; Independence, New York. The William Hinch,
from Galway, ashore in Bootle Bay, has been got
off and brought in hero. The Arcadian, Phillips, from
St. Thomas, for Halifax, leaky, and, with main stern
loosened, &c., was spoken, 29th ult., lat. 27, ion. 56, by
the Lancaster, arrived here ; who also spoke the Dun-
lop, from Boston to Havannah, 30th ult., bearing up for
St. Thomas, with loss of fore and mainmasts, &c. _ _ _

SLIGO, JAN. 27.—The James, of Maryport, which
capsized at the Custom-house Quay, bas been righted,
with loss of topmasts and but little damaged.
BELFAST, JAN. 27.—The Sarah, Mackenzie, of In-
verness, from Derry to Dublin, was run ashore yester-
day in Ballyholme Bay, during a heavy gale ; crew
saved, cargo (herrings) expected to be. The brig Industry,
of Chepstow, has put into Bangor harbour dismasted and
anchor slipped in a gale.
GRI3IBBY, JAN. 27.—The keel Commerce, drove ashore
near Cleethorpe during the night of the 25th, and has
become a wreck ; crew and part of materials saved. The
Amonaki, Rhodes, from Goole to Wisbeach, drove ashore
here last night. The Squirrel, of Whitby, Lion, of
Glasgow, bound to Bordeaux, and several small craft, are
ashore near the Spurn.

THE EARL OF MORRINGTON.—We regret that
the state of this venerable nobleman is very un-
satisfactory. Dr. Copeland and Dr. Prout held a
consultation this morning with the resident physician.
The reply to inquiries at the residence of the Noble
Earl, in Grosvenor-square, was—" His Lordship has
passed a very restless night, and is not so well as he
was yesterday." Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the
Duke of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, sent to make inquiries. The Duke of Wel-
lington, and the nobility and gentry in town, made
early calls this morning at his Lordship's residence.

CAMBRIDGE AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.-A memorial
in favour of this railway, signed by nine Heads o
Houses, including the Vice-Chancellor, seven Professors,
ninety-one Fellows of Colleges, and twenty-four other
resident Masters of Arts of the University, was yester-
day forwarded to the Board of Trade, through ,he
Chancellor of the ,Exchequer, one of the University.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN GEERS COTTERELL, BART.
—The venerable Baronet expired on Sunday last, the
26th instant, at the family seat in Herefordshire, at the
advanced age of eighty-eight. Sir John was son of Sir
John Cotterrell, Knight, by the only daughter and heiress
of Sir John Geers, of Garnons, Herefordshire. He mar-
ried, in 1791, Miss Francis Isabella Evans, only daugh-
ter of Mr. H. Michael Evans, who died in 1813. The
deceased was created a baronet in 1805. He is succeeded
in his title and estates by his grandson, now Sir John
Cotterell.

THE MEDICAL. PROFESSION AND SIR J. GRAHAM.
—Last evening a meeting of the general practitioners of
the City of London was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, for the purpose of adopting measures
in relation to Sir J. Graham's Bill. Mr. Smith, of
Trinity-square, presided. He addressed the meeting,
briefly detailing the several objectionable portions of the
proposed measure. The Bill, he added, instead of being
calculated to better the condition of the medical prac-
titioners throughout the country, was one which, -if
passed, would deprive the public of, competent persons
to give medical advice. He was confident that the Go-
vernment would never persist in passing so iniquitous a
measure. The meeting was afterwards addressed by
Mr. Roberts, of Finsbury -circus, who proposed a reso-
lution strongly condemnatory of the Bill. Mr. Reade se-
conded it; unanimously carried.
DEATH EY FIRE AT THE SERVANTS' HOME.-
Last night an inquest was held at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, on the
body of Ann Coates, aged 13, who was burnt to death
at the Indigent Refuge or Servants' Home Institution in
Princes-street, Red Lion-square. The deceased was one of
the inmates. On Saturday afternoon she was drawing off
some boiling water, when her clothes caught fire, and the
poor girl became enveloped in flames. She ran about from
room to room screaming, and in the greatest agony,
during which the whole establishment was thrown into
the utmost consternation. After great exertion on the
part of Mrs. Bridgeforth, the matron, the flames were
extinguished, but not before she was frightfully burnt
about her head, chest, and arms. She was removed to
the hospital, wrapped in blankets. Mr. Parsons, the
house-surgeon, stated that the deceased died at an early
hour on Monday morning from the effects of the burns.
Verdict, " Accidental death."
CORONERSHIP FOR THE COUNTY OF :BERKS.....
E. Martyn Atkins, Esq., the High Sheriff of the county,
has just appointed a general county court, for the elec-
tion of a coroner, in the room of the late Mr. May, to be
held at Abingdon on Monday next. There ire now six
candidates in the field, the whole of whom are expected
to proceed to the poll. Mr. Field, surgeon, of Reading,
who had solicited the suffrages of the freeholders upon
the death of the late Coroner, has retired from the
contest. _ _

The beautiful estate of Falloden, Northumberland,
the property of the late llon. General Sir Henry
George Grey, descends to his nephew, the Right Hon.
Sir George Grey, Bart.,