The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY E‘ ENING, JANUARY 9. 1844.

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his attempt to distinguish between its flavour and that of fine
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING. JANUARY 9,
Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTFlE
BOHEMIAN GULL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Bolton]; thaddcus,
Mr. W. Harnson; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts.
After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas
Pantomime. entitled HA It LEQ UIN AND KIN CI PEN N ; or.
VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell ; Colitin,
bine, Carson; Clown, Mr. T. R.dgway; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price as. ; Upper Circles o: Boxes
-.7.;econd Price Is. ; Pit , Secls.ond Price
ult.;
.1; t'allety `..5.,•
ecend Price Is.; Upper Gallery , Secont Price 6

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENI.GARDEN
M. JULLIEN'S CONCELUS.
PROGRAMME FOR
ART I HIS EVENING.
P T.
Overture. Furyluithe—Wel”r.
The Royal Irish Quadrille—Jullien.
Sonata for Vioioneelre and 03.33;e Bass, performed )1 Mcs;rs. Han-
cock and Howell—Cc r
Solo, Cornetts-Piston, Herr Koenig (Air and Variations)—
Valsi.•, La Valse a Deux cms—Jullien.
S rprise Symphony— it) dn.
Solo, Violin, Master 'I hiriwall.
theEnglith Quadre.e—Juliten.
PART 11.
Opera, Lacia di Larnmernvor, with Solo or Cor et.a-P.sten, by
Herr ncenig— Danizetti.
Burlotta uadrilie, entitlei Dancing fcr the en.
Solo, Flute, Mr. •lii.thardson—Richardsor.
Valse, Elizabethan—Strauss.
The Real zicotch Quadrille—Juilien.
Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight&Clock.
Promenade, Is , Upper BJices, Is.; Dress Circle, ; Private
Boxes, It. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the ilex-office of the
theatre; or Mr. Mitchell, cad Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
3otid.street ; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Juliion's Office,
Maddox-street, Bend.street. •

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mit. BENJAMIN WEBSiEIt,
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
W:II be performed. PATIER vErtsys CLATTER. Captain
Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To „e tollowect by WHO'S Yt UR FRIEND? or, The Queens-
berry Fete. Giles i airland, Mr. Charles Mathews; I lie Countess
of Wriedrle, M. Chine Ve,trig.
Ater wtiich, the thipara.kleci Performincesot Professor RISLEY
:Ina his oON.
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravagalza,entitted THE FAIR
ON Wlll-1 THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Laelitymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince (ira:etul, Miss P. Barton ; Queen Lucidora,
Julia Bennett .

THEAIRE ROYAL, ADELPHI„
The Best Pan:olnitneot the Scay-n—Gorgeous Scenery,
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
Me New Drams, embr..cing Extrao.dmary Effects, Powerful Cast,

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and Novel Scenic Display, called
IHE BOHEMIANi ; or, rie Rogues or Paris. Principal
Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith 'Wright, WielanA, Maynard,
Mrs. liates,3ll,s SL.n'ey, Mrs. F. datthews.
After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime. called H AR.
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD, or, Tire- Fairy of the Silver Crescent.
Prot:mod with Enermons S.:lend:lir and Wonderful Eflcets:
Columbine, Miss i.tul!en ; Harlequin Quicksilver, by time inimitable
Wieland; Clown, by the Orima!iii of the day, Mr. T. Matthews,
from the 'Pleat: es ltoyal, Covent garden and Orin y.lane;
loon, Mc._ _ - •
Poxes,; Pit, 25. ; Gallery, ts. ; Second price at Nine. Doors
open at Six, comaienees at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock.

THE.ATRE, OXFORD:STREET.
LESSEE, Mr., J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9.
Will be performed LUCREZIA 13ORGIA. Don Alphoi7so, Mr.
Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matllo Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan;
Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrez]aßorgia„Matiaine Eugenia Garcia.
To which will be added the Vaudeville of the SWISS COT.
TAGE. Matz Tieck, Mr. Keeley ; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a Kew Mtrical Burlesque spectacle, entitled
ME MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. kirattan; Puo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bed:ord ; Sloe.Leat, Miss. R. Isaacs.

DATIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIIIE
As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,'
Will bs repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported
Messrs. Saville, Huglios, Hicks, ft. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs.
. Vining, and all the Mea,bers of the First Company in the World.
After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with
Splendid Scenery; Superb oresscs, Inimitable Properties and Tricks,
every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN
GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray,and A E 10 Harlequin, Mr.
W. H. Harvey ; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Pants.
loan, Mr. Hawains ; Columbines (alternately) Miss DI. R. Fair.
brother aml Miss Sharpe.
.Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
Ake, from Eleven to Four.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Under the Management of Mr. Ratty, Proprietor.
Triumphant Success of the Splendid Christmas Holiday Fetes—West-
minster-Bridge is now opri—Juvenile Nights.

THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9, •
Will be performed a Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLE-
QUIN TA)I O'SHANTER, and his STEEL) MEG ; or, The
Witches of Alloway Kirk. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson ; Columbine,
Cushnie ; Clown. Mr. King; Pantaloon, Mr. Mathews.
New Scenes in the Circle, and unequalled Feats of Horsemanship.
Te conclude with the splendid French Spectacle of THE VIC-
CURIES OF MURAT, THE SOLDIER OF FRANCE; or, The
lieneral, Prince, and King.
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls. 55.;
Boxes, 4e.; Upper Boxes, Bs.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is.; Upper Gallery.
d. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. Stage I'oxen, One
Guinea; Half-price to Ditto, Half-a-Guinea. Private Boxes, Two
ituineas; Halt-price to Ditto, One Guinea. Half-price, Half-past
Eight.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 9,
Will be performed an entirely New Domestic Drama, entitled
POVERTY; or, Mary Graham. Leonard, Mr. Freer; Jessamy
Tacit, Mr. Nantz ; Squire Graham, Mr. Dale; Patty Parrot, Miss
Arden ; Mary Graham, Miss Vincent.
After which, a New Drama, entitled THE BROKEN PROMISE.
Josephe, Miss Vincent; General Morin, Mr. James; Eloise, :dies
Arden.
To conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM.
BETH; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin,
Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli;
Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt.

day after day, the utter overthrow of the 1
Constitution as the immediate and inevitable
consequences of that measure. Yet the Reform
Bill was carried, and the Constitution evinced not
the slightest symptom of giving up the ghost;
and at this moment—twelve years after the pe-
riod when, according to the Post, it ought to
have resigned its last breath—it is just as alert,
as vigorous, and as efficient as it was in its best
days. And so will it be with the agriculturists,
even when the tariff and the League shall have
achieved a perfect triumph. They will be among
the first to laugh at their own idle apprehensions;
and will look at each other, and wonder how it
was that they could ever have put faith in the
gloomy vaticinations of a one-sided monopolist
journal. The remarks on which we have been
commenting, occur in the course of an article,
suggested to our Contemporary by a late
agricultural meeting in Lincolnshire. Though
this meeting is decidedly on his own side
of the question, yet his troubled spirit is so far
from deriving comfort from it, that he eyes it
with the same " jealouS leer malign" with which
MILTON tells us the Devil eyed Eve in Paradise.
Even the suggestions of such monopolists as
Messrs. CHAPLIN and CHRISTOPHER fail to meet
with his approval. He is a bigot of the " nil-
admirer' " school, and can find nothing but
what is tainted in the whole political ittmosphere.
Dismissing our Contemporary, we may observe,
that at the Lincolnshire meeting in question, Mr.
CHAPLIN indulged in the following very strange.
—say to the least of it—language. "Possibly," he
observed, " if Mr. COBDEN should again present
himself in Lincoln, and if the people did notput him
in the river, they ought to get a man accustomed
to mob oratory to answer him." Now imagine
a significant suggestion like this directed by a
member of the League against some sturdy mo-
nopolist—say, for 'instance, Dr. SLEIGH or the
Duke of BUCKINGHAM ! Imagine Mr. COBDEN
slily hinting the expediency of throwing one or
both of these amiable individuals into the river !
What an uproar there would be among the
Tories ! What a wringing of hands, uplifting of
eyes, and shaking of thick heads ! Sir ROBERT
PEEL—as on a former memorable occasion—
would take the earliest opportunity of accus-
ing Mr. COBDEN in Parliament of recom-
mending assassination ; and Mr. FERRAND—
,he whose genius for finding mare's nests is
so remarkable—would write' long prosy letters
to each of the Tory journals, wherein he would
volUnteer to prove before a Committee of the
House, that the Hon. Member for Stockport had
publicly and deliberately advised the murder of
an unoffending Doctor of Divinity, or a Duke,
illustrious by courtesy. Were the League
disposed to make such fools of themselves as
the Tories, they might easily get up as plausible
a case against Mr. CHAPLIN, as their enemies
got up against them ; but they are far too wise to
dream even for an instant of following in the
track of a parcel of spiteful, doting, old women.

It is not to be supposed, a priori, that a
Premier is a conjuror; and we have .not yet
seen, in the powers or the administration of Sir
ROBERT PEEL, anything which should subject
him, by implication or construction, to the
charge of having graduated in the black art.
But we stand aghast at the fond expectations
which both friends and flies profess to entertain
of the • Right Hon. Baronet's " power magical."
He is, according to some, to come forward be-
for(' the Easter recess with a scheme for cor-
recting the present dangerous and defective
conbalition of the currency. This class of political
puppets, not content with predicting the advent
of so incalculably beneficial a remedy, arc so
extravagant in their credulity as to believe that
Sir ROBERT will have the candour to acknow-
ledge at the same time, that, after the late Mr.
Ilu.sxissosi, no man has done more than himself
to create or to aggravate that diseased state of
our monetary functions which now threatens the
speedy paralysis of our whole industrial and
comm ercial system. Then, we have among our
iiißeipporaTtes-aaamesaaratatata who look to the
same hands, within the next six months, for the
development of matured plans for the extension of
our foreign commerce; the resuscitation and
permanent maintenance of our manufacturing
activity; the effectual counteraction of Russian
intrigues against our power in Europe, and in
Nort b-Western and Central Asia, in Persia, and
in China;—the. adjustment of the Oregon and
boundary questions, and of the seizures' corn-
peasatiou claims by American citizens in the'
United States; the pacification of Mexico ; the
settlement of the South American Republics ;
and various other questions of some little im-
portance, and not without their modicum of
difficulties. For our own part, we are so fearful
that, in the matters thus hastily recapitulated,
there will be found stuff enough for the fullest
occupation of the Premier's time, that we have
scarcely margin enough of conscience left us to
add our own wish—rather than expectation—
that the Minister would be good enough to ap-
prise the country, in the first week of the en-
suing session, when he means to withdraw his
destructive property and income-tax—that mon-
strous concomitant of the twenty-ninth year of
our uninterrupted peace with Europe ? We are
sensible, however—having repudiated the notion
of his being invested with magic influences—that
Sir ROBERT PEEL can no more manufacture time,
than Mr. DENT, the great horologist, can multiply
it by any of the delicate and ingenious pro-
cesses which he applies to the manufacture of
his chronometers. And if this be so, it is not to
be imagined that the Premier, within the short
interval which has yet to elapse before the re-
assembling of Parliament, can scrape together a
sufficient stock of this •" time ".—the most pre-
cious, after all, of all currencies—to the elabora-
tion of one-tenth of all the purposes for which
people so kindly give him credit. Nay, it is
not, in reason, to be supposed that he will be
able to set apart, for any one department of the
public service, more of this commodity than the
portion which the course of official business has
already assigned to it.
Nevertheless, although we may not look
even to that Minister who understands so Wejl
the technique of the art of raising . "ways and
means" to supply the deficient annual product
of our taxation, by further 'taxing the very
capital which has hitherto paid it, or the income
of that capital,—for a power to prolong the
duration of the natural 'day by Act of Parlia-
ment or Order in Council; we would entreat him
at this period,—before the fight of parties in
Parliament has begun,—to remember how much
of real business it is indispensable for him• to
crowd into the transactions of every twenty-four
hours which will elapse before an• ad-
journment, by prorogation or dissolution; in
the ensuing summer. Let him carefully
avoid the mischievous error of his predecessors in
office, who, by neglecting to calculate before-
hand the time—limits within which certaint ob-
jects of periodical legislation and general ques-
tions of political or official detail, the discu scion
of which can be certainly foreseen, may be pro-
bably disposed of—and by omitting to arrange,
also, their priority and sequence, have found
themselves compelled, with the approaching
termination of a session, to precipitate, or abso-
lutely to cashier and burk, affairs of the most
important relations, with a degree of injury to
the public service absolutely incalculabfe.. We
would urgently recommend to the Minister to
prepare and organise a code of official regailations
under which each branch of the civil service
shall be required to prepare all the returns, re-
ports, accounts, S:c., for which ma Mae been
already called on, by order of her MArEsTv, or
of either House, or which, by usage or p I!ecederV,
and under statute, it may be bound to t;upply to
Parliornent,—by the earliest period at which it
may be practicable to get such documents ready
for presentation after the re-assembling ofParlia-
meta. Let these regulations enjoin that in every
instance wherein, according to the opinionof the
responsible superior head or officer of a depart-
ment, it may be impracticable to get such papers
prepared by the time sug,gzated in the regulaa
lions, such superior officer shall report to hint,

the Premier, directly, the reasons or causes
the delay, and set forth the more distant period
at which it can be guaranteed that such papers
shall be severally ready. Of all Parliamentary
papers, in like manner, which may be still
passing through the press, let the Minister on
the first day of the ensuing session call for a
return, setting out the present stage towards
completion at which the documents may have
arrived, and the date at which the printer under-
takes to have the copies delivered at the Parlia-
mentary Paper-office in Abingdon-street.
By some such measures as these, previously
concocted, it may be possible to avoid that in-
decent hurry, that hopeless confusion, and that
very serious mischief which the "clearing of"
the Return and Notice Paper in the penultimate
stages of a ilession usually exhibit. It is in this
way that the go-by is given for another year,
not only to important Private Bills and muni-
cipal and county business, which have been
introduced or conducted at very heavy expense—
all of Which for the most part in such instances
has to be re-incurred—but to public questions,
the progress of which has been anxiously but
vainly watched by the people, whose expecta-
tions in like manner must be postponed to the
"next session." We have no wish to see the
important questions of public education, the cur-
rency, the renewal of the Bank charter, the general
policy of free trade, the adjustment of our con-
nexions and dominions on this side and beyond the

Indus, the position and bearings of our foreign
policy, the revision of our domestic taxation, the
reform of our fiscal establishments, especially
the Customs, and the careful retrospect of our
financial system (all of which must, in a shape
more or less substantive and direct, come under
the deliberation of the Legislature in the en-
suing session)—we have no wish to see subjects
of this vital magnitude sacrificed to defective
arrangements and deficiency of time, which a
little previous management may surely obviate.

Accounts from Madrid of the Ist announce

the arrival of Mr. BULWER, the new British
Envoy, on the 31st ult. He shortly afterwards

had an interview with M. BRESSON, the French
Minister. On the 21, the Marquis de MIRA-
FLORS3 was to give
.a grand soirée to M. and
Mine. BRESSON, to which the other Foreign Mi-
nisters had been invited. New Year's Day was
observed as a close holiday, and the Bourse, con-
sequently, was closed.

Most of the Paris papers contain accounts o
the procession of students to the Hotel Laffitte,
to congratulate the senior member of the Cham-
ber on the speech which he delivered a few days
since. Some of the journals reckon the number
of young men who joined in procession at 300,
and others at 500 and 1,090. The display
gave some alarm to the authorities, and a
considerable number of tfoops were un-
der arms during the bight of Friday
The police, too, watched their movements, and
captured a few of the most noisy. The Journal
des Debats gives the following account of the
affair :—" A newspaper announced ,yesterday
morning that M. LAFFITTE was to receive a visit
of felicitation from a certain number of students,
on account of the speech which he delivered last
Saturday week in the Chamber of Deputies.
Accordingly groups of students met yesterday
morning at the Place de Pantheon and the Place
de l'Ecole de Medicine, and in a short time
about 300 of them set themselves in motion
towards the Pont Neuf, which they passed in
silence. Arrived at the Rue Richelieu, they
saluted the new monument to MOLIERE with
three cheers, and " Vive MoLIERE I" Having
arrived at the Hotel Laffitte, they drew up in. the
court of the mansion, and about a dozen of them
went into.M. LAFFITTE'S house, and presented
to him written address. M. LAFFITTE after-
wards came into the court, and addressed to the
students some words of thanks. On leaving the
Hotel Laffitte, the young men seemed at a loss
what direction to take, but ultimately some one
called To BERANGER at Pussy,' and accordingly
they took that direction. In going along the
Boulevard they were very quiet, but on reaching

the:office of Foreign Affairs they set up a moss
tumultuous shouting, amidst which the words,
A has GulzoT,' were to. LE distinguished.
The authorities were hitherto content to

watch the processiont but they now in-
terfered, and a commissary of police, who was
present, called upon them to disperse. Accord-
ingly they separated, but the greater portion of
them came together again in the Rue St. Honore,
from which they proceeded forthwith to Passy.
No disorder took place until they reached the
house of M. BERANGER. On learning that M.
BERANOEZ was absent, they expressed them-
selves very much dissatisfied, and commenced to
them even (lifting their sticks, D
abuse the police agents, who were
Down with the
resent,call-
sinpgiesot;t;
and'
A somebas l
oettn.
to the Commissary of Police who had followed
them. The police agents immediately arrested
several of the creators of this disturbance, and
the rest dispersed. The number arrested is
light or ten. An investigation is going on.
The authorities, who were previously aware of
the intention of the students, had taken steps to
prevent disturbance ; but they were rendered of
no avail, as the demonstration was altogether
more ridiculous than dangerous."
" A thousand or twelve hundred young people
(says the National) went yesterday (Saturday)
to M. LAFFITTE'S, to express the sentiments of
patriotic sympathy with which the young men
of the schools had received his speech in the
Chamber of Deputies. This is the only public
reward M. LAFFITTS has received for his noble
conduct; but all the true friends of the Revolu-
tion and of the country, at least, applaud him.
With the exception of the Doctrinaire faction,
there is not one in. France who does not render
homage to the firmness with which the respect-
able President of the Chamber recalled the
principles of a revolution which he was not suf-
ficiently strong to defend against intrigue and

cupidity."
The following is the speech delivered to M.
LAFFITTE. It was read by one of a' deputation:—
Sir,—The youth of the schools agree with you entirely in
the maieuline truths which you caused to be heard from the
tribune. They do not come here to felicitate you for having
courageously fulfilled the duty of a good citizen, for having
obeyed the noble inspiration of your conscience as a public
man ; they come solely to give you a further proof that they
are not so indifferent to the afiairs of the country as people
pretend. The portion of the Parliament that lives by the
budget only answered your prophetic words by irony and in-
sult, but the whole of France has learned them through the
medium of the press. France will preserve the recollection of
them until the day when, having rid herself of the shackles
which now oppress her, she will resume, with a firmer pace,
her march towards the high destinies to which she is appointed:
Neither has France forgotten the great part which you took in
the Parliamentary struggles of the Restoration—the memora-
ble struggles which preceded an abhorred dynasty. She kanws
that the popularity of your name served as a pedestal for the
enthronement of a new regime. You have asked publicly, in
the face of the same France, pardon from God and man.
Honour to to you, Sir. History, severe and inexorable, will
give every one his due ; and stigmatise with its fatal seal these
that deserve it.
" Before leaving this house, for ever celebrated, which was
the centre of our revolution of three days; may the young men
who now address you be allowed to express one wish. The
opposition of 1815 was organised and disciplined ; it upset the
dynasty. May the present opposition organise itself similarly.
May it march as one man. In that manner it will will in-
crease its means and strength a hundred fold, and let it not
doubt but that the whole country, that army of 34 millions of
men, will march in a body after it."
M. LAFFIITE answered—
" Gentlemen—I am touched with the sentiments you
have expressed towards me, and I thank you for them. Your
patriotism, your intelligence, and your courage, have long been
knoan to me, and perhaps you have not forgotten that, in spite
of the clamours of the party which dominates today, I have
been able to render to your services, and to your devotion during
another epoch, public and solemn justice. The revolution
of July was then the word ! It has lest that dis-
tinction since that time, by the ingratitude of some,
and the carelessness of others ; and von know how people
listen to those wim have Continued faithful to their promises
and their engagements. I have recalled to the recollection, of
the Chamber the responsibi:ity under which it lies in the face
of dangers which threaten ns, and corruption, i 3
disgraceful. The Chamber did not choose to understand
me; As for me, gentlemen, lam nearer the grave than any
of you are far from your cradles ; but Kith end I shall do my
ditty ; and my heart, I swear to you, l never cease to beat
for the liberty and happiness of France."
The procession then moved to passy, the residence of M.
Beranger, to invite him, it is said, to preside at a meeting in
honour of Moliere. But the administration of the Tartuffes
and the police of the " inficitely li,tle." did not wish for the
fête. Disguised agents precipitated themselves upon the
students as they Isfc the house of DI. Beringer, who was not
at home. Acts of vi,lence, which nothing can justify, were
committed ueon the young men, and several arrests took place.
hus ended a day in which the young men bad the audacity
to manifest their attachment to the revolution. The Govern-

Tnent, which M. Laffitte aiderl --nt fourteen Ter.r7 r.go, the
"barb 9" of Beranger, and a`artuffes," and the Mar-
guises of Aloliere, could certainly not have done more.
In the Chamber of Deputies, the Committee
appointed to draw up the address, are proceeding
with their labour. On Saturday, in answer to a
question relative to the collision between the
Church and the University, the Minister of
Public Instruction said, the Government would
with all its power resist the pretensions of the
clergy to interfere with the public education of
youth. The reply was received very favourably
The Minister of Finance also made a statemenl
which gave satisfaction, and showed that there
would not only be a surplus of revenue to the
amount of 800,000 f. over the expenditure for the
last year, but that the various deficiencies for
the years 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843 would be
reduced to a sum of 350,000,000 f. (14,000,0001.)
The Budget is to be brought on in the course
of the present month.

OPENING OF THE PORTUGUESE

CORTES.

LISBON, JAN. 3.—The Cortes were opened
again on the 2d inst. by the Queen in person.
The
.following is her Majesty's Speech on the
occasion:—

Worthy Peers, and Honourable Deputies of
the Portuguese Nation,
With pleasure I see again assembled, in this
respectable place, the representatives of the
nation, whom the fundamental law of the State
has invested with the noble character of legiti-
mate interpreters of the national opinion and
wishes.

With the view of learning from closer obser-
vation the wants of my people, I left the capital
for some weeks, accompanied by my august
Spouse, and two of my children, to visit the
principal places in Alemtejo and• Estremadura ;
and I hope that that excursion will not have been "
without utility for the welfare of the people of
those places, of whose love, loyalty, and respect
for me, I am happy to make this public acknow-
ledgment.
Since the solemn opening of the last legislative
session, it has pleased Providence to grant, by
the birth of a Princess, another pledge of secu-
rity to the throne of this kingdom.
I have the satisfaction to be enabled to assure
you that I continue to receive from all allied
nations sure proofs of friendship; and I fully
trust that ere long the negotiations with the Holy
See will be terminated without detriment to the
rights of the Crown, and with due regard
.to the
wants of the Lusitanian Church.

It is exceedingly gratifying to me to assure
you that public tranquillity has not been in the
least disturbed throughout the kingdom.

In fixing the amount of la►►i and sea forces
you will attend to the national honour, interest,
and security.
Conformably to the dispositions of the consti-

tutional charter of the Monarchy, the estimates
of receipts and expenditure for the ensuing
financial year will be laid before you; and both
in 'regard to this subject, and to the different
branches of the public service, my Ministers will
submit to you- such proposals as may be thought
expedient, and as experience may have shown to
be necessary.

I am fully confident that the Chambers w

afford to my Governtmint that co-operatio
which is to be expected from their zeal andin
terest in the public welfare.
The Session is opened.

DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIP
CAMBRIDGE BY FIRE.
(FRO3I A CORRESPONDENT.)
PLYAIOUTH, JAN. 8, 1844.—The ship Cambridge, of Lon-
don, bound for Sydney, with a general cargo, being in Ply•
mouth Sound, run on the rocks at the back of St. Nicholas'
bland, about a month since ; but was got off soon after with
some little damage to her bottom, and was in Mr. Gent's yard,
Teat's Hill, undergoing repairs, previously to her resuming her
voyaA. 11;tween eight and nine o'clock on Sunday evening a
fire was discovered in the after part of the vessel, as she lay en
Mr. Gent's patent building slip. Alarm was immediately
given, but the flames increased, notwithstanding the greatest
attempts were made to subdue them. Close to the Cambridge
was another large barque, and a va,:t quantity of timber and
other inflammable materials, and the greatest anxiety was ma-
nifested lest they should ignite. In order to prevent this
taking place it was proposed to launch the burning vessel, but
as the tide was then nearly high, but falling, it was found that
had they done so at that period she would have gone amongst a
number of fishing and other vessels in Sutton Pool, and have
spread the fire in that direction, so the launch was prudently
delayed until, by careful calculation, the tide had fallen suffi-
ciently to allow her to ground in the mud a short distance from
the yard, but clear of all other vessels. About half-past ten
o'clock was the period chosen for this, when she was launched
in gallant style, and presented such an appearance as never will
be forgotten by the spectators, being on fire nearly her whole
extent, and the flames gradually stealing up her masts and
rigging. As was csnjectured, she grounded in the mud a
short distance from the yard, and the engines bad then abund-
ance of room to play on the burning miss. The flames by this
time had approached nearly to the foremast, and it was deemed
advisable to cut it away, which was done, but it unfortunately
fell against and was consumed with the rest. By one o'clock
the tide had entirely left her, and as but little water could be
then procured to work the engine, the flames again acquired a
fearful ascendancy. In the interim two or three explosions oc-
curred on board, of the powder. The flames continued till the
tide returned in the morning, when the whole of the upper
part of the vessel having been destroyed, they were put out by
the rising of the tide. The engines belonging to the town
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efforts were useless ; the vessel was completely destroyed.
Thousands of persons thronged the quays and eminences in the
neighbourhood. The night was exceedingly fine, the moon
shining beautifully. The fire is attributed to the carelessness
of the cabin-boy.

A Cabinet Council was appointed to beheld at three
o'clock this afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-
street. The summonses for which were issued yes-
terday. The greater part of the Ministers were ex-
pected to attend. Lord Wharncliffe, and Mr. Glad-
stone, have not arrived in town.

- ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.—
Last evening the members held their first meeting for the pre-
sent year, at their rooms in Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-
square, Mr. T. Barry, F.R S., V.P. presiding. A long
and elaborate paper, communicated by Air. Higgins, was read
by Mr. Bailey, the Secretary, on the recent restoration of the
spire of the church of St. Stephen's, at Vienna, a structure
of the German Gothic style, and founded in 1144 by the
first Grand Duke of Austria. The paper went to show that
the introduction of iron into architecture was now becoming
common in Germany, in the construction of its new, and the
restoration of its more ancient buildings. The total height of
St. Stephen's church was estimated at 400 feet, the spire alone
being 168. The total cost of its restoration being 13,5001.
FREACHERSIHP OF LINCOLN'S INN.—The election
for this office, which was rendered vacant by the elevation of
the Rev. Dr. Lonsdale 'to the see of Lichfield, is fixed to take
place on the second day of term, Friday, the 12th instant.
There are no less than 17 competitor 3. The following is a cor-
rect list of the present candidates :--The Venerable Arch-
deacon Manning, the Rev. John Vaughan, the Rev. John
Garbett, the Rev. T..L. Claughton, the Rev. Frank Hewson,
the Rev. James Anderson, the Rev. Thomas Robinson' the
Rev. Dr. Hussey, the Hon. and Rev. Samuel Best, tile Hon.
and Rev. Henry D.- Erskine, the Rev. John. Edmund Cox,
the Rev. Charles Edmund Wylde, the Rev. James S. Boone,
the Rev. James R. Page, the Rev. William Harness, the Rev.
Thomas Randall, the Rev. C. Merivale._

LYNN.—INCENDIARY FIRE.—We regret to learn
that two large stacks of wheat were destroyed by fire on Satur-
day evening, belonging to Mr. Corbauld, of Weasenham, and
that there can be no doubt but it was the work of an incen-
diary. Previous to this taking place, our neighbourhood had
been free from this disgraceful crime.
DEATH Or SIR C. E. NUGENT, G.C.H., TUE AD•
MiRAL OF THE FLEET.—This gallant and veteran officer, who,
it will be recollected., was an inmate of Charing cross Hospital
some time since, in consequence of an accident occuring to him
near that place, expired on Sunday last at the residence of
George Banks, Esq., M.P., Studland, Dorsetshire, at the ad-
vanced age of 86. We are not aware of the precise date of
Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Nugent's entry into the Royal
Navy ; but it must have been early in iife, as we find his corn.
Mission of Post-Captain dated the 2d May, 1779. As a Lieu-
tenant, Sir Charles saw much service of a very distinguished
character, as he' served in the Bristol on the coast of Africa,
in the first American war of independence. He subsequently
commanded the Pomona, at the capture of the fortress of Omoa,
and the register ships in 1780. He also commanded th
Veteran, and in this ship assisted at the reduction of the Frenc,
West India Islands, in 1793; since which time we believe he
has not had much active employment. His flag promotion as
Rear-Admiral took place on the 20th February, 1797 • he was
made a Vice-Admiral on the Ist January, 1801, andattained
to the rank of full Admiral on the 23th April, 1808. He be-
came Admiral of the Fleet on the 24th April, 1833, and was
nominated a G.C.H. on the 12th March, 1834. Hii. half-pay
as Admiral of the Fleet was three guineas per diem. Sir James
Hawkins Whit,hed, Bart., G. C. B. (whose date of commission
as Post-Captain is not twelve months subsequent to the late
Sir C. Nugent), is now the senior Admiral of the British navy,
FAILURES IN ARIVIOATH.— We are extremely
orry to state that several firms erigag,ed in manufactures have
been under the necessity of suspending payments this week,
and we ale much afraid will be followed by a few more. We
have not heard the amount of the liabilities, but it must be
very large, and from the bad trade of late years, we are i.fraid
the ar,ets will be very inconsiderable. The working classes
had eve-y appearance of plenty of work and ordinary wages,
and from the geeeral low nen of provisions, were expeeting a
better winter than has fallen to their lot for some years; but
,Ilese unlooked-for calamities have blasted all their hopes, and
left nothing but misery staring tam in ibe face,— Montrose
Standard.

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rortrorGN.

On Sunday the Royal Family of France went into
mourning for twenty days, on occasion of the death of
tho late King of Holland.
On Saturday evening there was a " grand reception "
at the palace of the Tuileries.
Accounts from Athens, of the 22d ult., state that a
riot took place on the evening of that day, and the mob
set fire to the hotel of the Russian Ambassador.

The Presse states that the report of the demise of the
Duke d'Angouleme was circulated in Paris on Saturday,
but that the news was not confirmed, and not gene-
rally credited.
The Committee appointed by the Chamber of Pters,
to prepare the address in reply to the King's speech, met
again at the Luxembourg on Saturday, when they heard
the explanations of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and
the Minister of Finance.

The 64th list of the subscriptions paid into the Cen-
tral Committee of the Gaudaloupe relief fund has just
been published. The total amount subscribed up to yes-
terday is 3,449,046 f. (138,0001.).
During the last year the Tribunal of Commerce of
Paris pronounced 737 judgments of bankruptcies, viz.,
64 in January, 49 in February, 64 in March, 53 in
April, 72 in May, 65 in June, 66 in July, 64 in August,
67 in September, 55 in October, 46 in November, and
67 in December. In 1842 the number amounted to 649.
During the four weeks from the Ist to the 28th ult.
inclusively, the number of passengers who embarked
from and landed at Boulogne was 3,612. At Calais,
during the same period, the number was 959.
A Joint-Stock Company has just been formed:at Paris
for the destruction of rats and mice throughout France.
LAW AND POLICE.
___

At the Surrey sessions Henry Cox, aged 18, Acquilla
Hopkins, aged 23, William Woolridge, aged 19, were in-
dicted for robbing George Sligo and Hannah Sligo, his
daughter, on the Queen's highway, at Chertsey, on the
morning of the 24th of December, and forcibly taking
from the person of the former a knife, a tobacco-box,
and ten pence in copper. The jury returned a verdict
of guilty against Hopkins and Woolridge, and acquitted
Cox. The prisoners were then sentenced to ten years'
transportation.
Joseph Brown, a cab-driver, was charged :at Marl-
borough-street with having caused shocking injuries to
two horses, by driving in a reckless manner along Pic-
cadilly, while in a state ofintoxication. On the charges
being proved, Mr. Maltby said, lenity in this case .would
be wholly misplaced. He should, in the first place,
inflict a fine of 101. for the public offence, order the de -
fendant to pay 31., the amount of the damage done to
retty's horse • and, in addition, prevent him from again
endangering the safety of the public by at once revoking
his license.
At Union-hall. Jane Brown, the young woman charged
with deserting her infant, and leaving it exposed in a
basket at the gate of Kensington workhouse, was com-
mitted for two months to the House, of Correction.
William Stokes, a labourer ; Henry Cock, a carpenter;
and Thomas Gay, a baker ; were brought before Mr.
Broderip, at the Thames Police-office, on a variety of
charges of drunkenness,.and with assaulting two police-
tnent in the execution of their duty, and rescuing a pri-
soner from their custody. There was a more serious
charge against Cock for stabbing Watkins, a police-con-
stable, K 310. Much conflicting evidence was given,
when the magistrate ordered Cock to find bail, hiMself
in 601. and two sureties of 301. each, for assaulting and
wounding Watkins ; and the other prisoners to find sure-
ties each in 201., and two housekeepers in 101. each, to
answer the charge of assaulting Sullivan.
C OURT ZIA an X 07.T.5.33 L E.
• Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
will take their departure from Windsor Castle this
afternoon, immediately after an early luncheon, for
Claremont, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. Only a
limited portion of the members of 'the Royal Household
- will proceed to Claremont in attendance upon the Queen
. and the Prince.
Viscount Melbenrne left South-street, yesterday, for
Brccket Hall, Heri.z.i, where his Lordship is expected to
remain till Easter.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert has lately pre-
sented 201. to St. George's Hospital, in addition to a
former donation of 25/, given 'about eighteen months
since. -

The new British and Foreign Institute is to be honoured
at its opening with the presence. of Prince Albert, who
has consented to become its patron. The opening will
now be deferred till the return to town of the Noble
President, the Earl of Devon, which is expected to be
about the meeting of Parliament.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and
the youthful Princess Mary and. suite are expected to
arrive at Dover, from Germany, on Saturday, and the
Duke of Cambridge will proceed thither to meet them
on landing.