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London, England, 1844-02-03 00:00:00

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett'
official assignee.
C. J. Mathews, comedian, Westbourne-green, Paddington,
Feb. 8, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur-
quand, official assignee.
H. Harrison, baker, East-street, Walworth, Feb. 8, at two,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee.
R. Setchell, butcher, Buckden, Huntingdonshire, Feb. 7, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
W. Porter, coffee-house keeper, Upper Wellington-street,
Covent-garden, Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Green, official assignee.
W. Barrett, Fairford, Gloucestershire, Feb. 7, at half-past
eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee.
A. Mayor, tailor, Liverpool, Feb. 7, at twelve, at the Liver-
pool District Court. Cazeno ve, official assignee.
J. Mayor, tailor, Liverpool, Feb. 7, at half-past eleven, at
the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee.
E. Jones, farmer, Suckley, Worcestershire, Feb. 9, at half-
.._.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st dey of Jams,
ary, 1844, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. John Edward Cornwallis, Earl of Stradbroke, to
be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Suffolk, his Lordship this day took the oaths appointed to be
taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and
supremacy.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, upon the re-
presentation of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of
Council on Education, to appoint the Rev. Henry Moseley,
A.M., Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, and
the Rev. Frederick Charles Cook, A.M., to be two of ber Ma-
jesty's Inspectors of Schools.
THE PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
SOMERSET HOUSE, FEB. 2, 1844.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The Cabinet cooks, whoha;-esetb7ifore us the
various made-dishes of the Queen's speech, deserve credit for
diversifying the dainties out of such limited raw materials.
The real subjects of congratulation amount, in reality,
. mainly, to two—and these two may be briefly designated
as the results of a conquest, and a confiscation. That
we have conquered peace and " indemnity " for our-
' selves, and free trade for every body, by our Chinese
expeditions, is undoubtedly matter for congratulation. Only
these proceedings were inchoate under another administra-
tion • and most enormously was that administration black-
, ened for them by some members of the present. Most
piously—most pusillanimously—did the Gladstone and Gra-
. ham thereon perorate. They have thought better of it, and
are content to have conquered trade from China, maugre
, their deprecations ; and even, after straining at the gnat of
China, to swallow the camel—of Sinde. We confess a pa-
' triotic satisfaction in showing the world that no English
party are quite such fools and cowards as these inen then
affected themselves—
As if hypocrisy and nonsense
Had got the advowson of their conscience—
. and we feel a further satisfaction moreover, superior to
party
jealousies, in the proud position Great Britain
has
been the first amongst nations to take in this
treaty with China. We mean the position of true mag-
nanimity, and true policy, so strongly contrasted with
all the miserable annals of Portuguese, Dutch, French,
and English mercantile reciprocal injuries and pro-
scriptions in those remote markets—exposing all Europe
to the hatred and contempt which the traders of each nation
poured on each other. It is a great, and hitherto unrivalled
glory, that the Sovereign of this country can say—
" Throughout the whole course of my negotiations with the
Government of China, I have uniformly disclaimed the
wish for any exclusive advantages. It has been
my desire that equal favour should be shown to
the industry and commercial enterprise of all na-
tions."conquest, we come to confiscations—
the (together with some-
whatth e i
h me Passingeincome-tax.
xfrom
These
two
operations
more favourable seasons) have chiefly, or wholly,
made up the real matter for public congratulation. If
" several important branches of trade and manufactures" are
in an " improved condition," it is owing (coincidently with
better seasons) to the conquest of a new market, of important
' extent, and indefinite profit. We say of indefinite profit, be-
cause it is not clear (and the royal speech has made it no clearer)
what equivalent returns we shall be able to obtain, directly
or indirectly, for our newly-extended exports to China.
The Chinese, no more than any other nation, can defray
any vastly increased extent of purchases in the precious
metals ; the question, therefore, is, can we obtain
and consume a vast increase of Chinese products; or carry
a vast increase of them to others, in payment for other
things which we want ourselves? Unless the Chinese
can supply our wants, it will hardly pay long to supply
•
theirs. We regret that the speech and debate throw
no light on anything concerning tea and sugar. Conquest
and confiscation then have made up the revenue, as the
' former has helped commerce. Without the unreckoned-on
windfall from the former, and the professedly unexpected
amount derived from the income inquisition, the commercial
policy of the present Ministry would have increased the
deficiency of the revenue. Let us thank God, then, and
make no boast. But the Prime Minister, it seems, will boast.
Sir Robert Peel says—" I hope that, looking at the general
state of affairs, the Government may be considered justified
in stating that a considerable improvement has taken place ;
and that, upon all the matters referred to in the speech, in
regard to our foreign relations, in regard to our trade,
and the state of our revenue, the Government may
fairly present itself before this House, and before the
country, confident of having fulfilled the expectations
it had held out, and of not having failed in any of its duties."
The Government held out no expectations that any measures
it could take would revive commerce ; and, with regard to
revenue, the expectations it did hold out would have been
disappointed, had not one blunder balanced another, and had
not large contributions been received from uncalculated
sources. We shall examine Sir R. Peel's corn-law declaration
at more leisure.
STANDARD.—In justice to the Attorney-General for
Ireland, it is right to quote the authority of the Dublin
Evening Mail, a journal hitherto the reverse of friendly to
the Right
,Hon. Gentleman, for the fact that the coarse in-
sults offered to him by Mr. Fitzgibbon were the result of a
premeditated plan to run him down—in short to bully him,
if he were accessible to fear. The Mail tells the story, after
describing Mr. Fitzgibbon as a " person of vast powers of
[foul] language—possessing great facilities for rendering his
observations peculiarly biting, and is reputed, and we under-
stand deservedly, as one ever ready to incur any personal re-
sponsibility that his observations may involve him in." This,
with the word we have supplied, and certainly it is only in
foul language that we have seen any proof of Mr. Fitzgibbon's
power, exactly describes a bully, and this, according to our
Dublin Contemporary, was the person set upon the Attorney-
General :—" At an early hour on Monday it was boasted by
the friends of the traversers—and was matter of such public
notoriety that nothing but a sense of delicacy, and a desire
not to anticipate the line intended to be taken by any ad-
vocate, prevented our noticing it in the publication of that
evening—that Mr. Fitzgibbon's instructions were to kill
and slay'—and that no doubt. he would do his work
efficiently. This was the impression made upon the
minds of the gentlemen attached to the London press—
many of whom talked of it in this office ; it was the im-
pression made upon the public mind ; and is it not
reasonable to suppose that some d—d good-natured friend'
did not give the Attorney-General a hint of what was in pre-
paration for him. It was further boasted that the Right
Hon. Gentleman was hasty in coming to conclusions, easy of
excitement, sensitive in disposition, and quick of temper—
that a trap was set for him, and that he was sure to be
caught." The Attorney-General, however, was not caught.
It is no doubt a legal fiction that a library removed
some score of yards from the Court, is the Court,
just as it is a legal fiction that St. James's Park is St.
James's Palace, but this is mere fiction ; a private note,
whatever its tenor, delivered in a distant library during the
recess of the Court certainly could not disturb the Court, and
if Mr. Fitzgibbon had acquiesced in either alternative
of the Attorney-General's application, neither the pub-
lic nor the Court would know one word of the
matter. The note, let it be remembered, was not a
challenge, it was a demand of an explanation of what was,
and was deliberately intended to be, a gross insult. As to
what afterwards occurred, no human being—no one at least
with the feeling of a gentleman, could anticipate that Mr.
Fitzgibbon would take the course he did take. If
he felt that he had been wrong, he could either apo-
logise directly, without the least loss of honour, or
apologise through the friend whom he was invited
to name. If lie felt that he was not wrong, he might, we
hope, without disgrace, say so, and decline, the alternative •,
but having given what was taken as an offence, the Lord
and,pstPielarbleedgthe Court by the obtrusion of a
personal quarrel. Of this the
at all events, Mr.*Fitz-
Chief Justice was exactly the last man in the world to whom
Attorney-General is wholly
guiltless.
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TIMES.—The Queen
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Queen's speech has been composed on a principle
which has of late years come into vogue, both in this country and on
the continent—viz., of avoiding the introduction of topics which
might provoke debate or prevent an unanimous vote—a principle
which has at least the merit of saving the time of the House from
being unnecessarily squandered upon premature speeches and fruit-
less dissertation. With this view, therefore, the speech delivered
yesterday by the Queen diligently eschews every subject which could
create diversity of feeling, and contains only such allusions to public
affairs as could neither give offence nor excite a contest. There
could be but one feeling, either in or out of Parliament, with respect
to the friendly relations between England and France ; no one could
but rejoice at the happy conclusion of the negotiations with China ;
and no one could fail to applaud that unselfish and high-minded
policy which has opened the Chinese trade to every nation
of Europe. Whatever difference of opinion might exist
as to the justice or expedience of the Sindian war,
few would be unwilling- to share in the tribute of praise
paid to the valour of our troops and the genius of their Com-
mander. There are very Opposite and very strong opinions in the
country on the question of commercial restrictions. But the present
state of trade is a notorious: and a cheering fact. No man, whatever
might be his theory of coin mercial policy, would refuse to join in ex-
pressions of thankfulness for the revival of industrial employment
and the increase of remuneration. And we believe that there will
be found very few persons whc, will convert the excess of the revenue
over the expenditure into a national grievance. Reference to general
Irish politics is properly deprecated during the judicial inquiry now
pending in Dublin ; and the subjects of county registration and of the
relation between landlord and tenant in that country, as well as the
Bank charter in England, are noticed merely by way of prelude to
future consideration, and so as to avoid the necessity of discussion
or opposition. On the whole, therefore, the speech may be pro-
nounced to be of a negative character; and for this, which to us
appears a virture, we doubt net but that it will be principally- cen-
sured. It intimates no plan of Ministerial conduct—it discloses no
scheme of legislation—it is almost wholly retrospective. It tells
people what they know, rather than that which they wish to learn.
It passes over some subjects which might have been reasonably in-
troduced. It says nothing of Wales—nothing of the corn-laws. Yet,
silent as it is on these points—wisely, as We think, avoiding a pre-
mature and prolix debate--it has given an opportunity to the Minister
to announce his intention on the corn-law question. He has declared
his resolution not to alter, repeal, or modify the existing law. This decla-
ration will lull, if it does not extinguish, doubt and perplexity. The Mi-
nister has, as we foretold on Wednesday, spoken out on the important
question by which men's minds are now chiefly agitated. His an-
nouncement will reanimate the spirits of one, and stimulate the
exertions of another, party. The battle which has been carried on
for months in the provinces will again be fought in Parliament, if not
with decisive results, certainly with desperate energy. There is now
no " via media" left for the adherents of the Cabinet ; no concession
proposed, no conciliation allowed ; their leader tells them that he has
taken his ground ; and those who know him best must feel that he
would not have spoken as he has done, without reckoning the
strength of his forces, and the chances of immediate success. That
that success will extend beyond the present session, we dare not
anticipate.

Henry Lewis Stephens, of Tregenna Castle, in the parish 01
St. Ives, has been this day appointed Sheriff of the county of
Cornwall for the present year.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 30.

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past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee.
W. Roberts, Wickwar, Gloucestershire, Feb. 7, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee.
W. Jeffs, Bristol, Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District
Court. Acraman, official assignee.
J. Horrocks, tea dealer, Bolton, Lancashire, Feb. 8, at

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. David
Ross, Master of Arts, to the church at Tobermory, in the island
of Mull, in the parishes of Kilninian and Kilmore, in the
presbytery of Mull and shire of Argyll, vacant by the trans-
portation of the Rev. Donald Stewart, late minister thereof, to
the parish of Fortingall, in the presbytery of Weem.

twelve, at the Manchester District' Court. Fraser, official

WHITEHALL, Fut. 2.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Angus
Logan to the church at Berriedale, in the parish of Latheron,
in the presbytery of Caithness and shire of Caithness, vacant in
consequence of the Reverend Samuel Campbell, late minister
thereof, having ceased to be a minister of the Church of Scot-
land.

assignee.
J. Eccles, horse dealer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Feb. 7, at
one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee.
D. Pryde, joiner, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Feb. 6, at twelve,
at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee.
J. Hubberstey, book agent, Blackburn, Lancashire, Feb. 8,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official
assignee.
J. Butcher, shopman, Leyland, Lancashire, Feb. 8, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Fraser, official assignee.
W. Gamble, omnibus driver, Manchester, Feb. 8, at one, at
the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee.

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
Donald Al'Donald to the church at Kilmenny, in the united
parishes of Bowmore and Kilmenny, in the presbytery of Isla
and Jura and shire of Argyll, vacant in consequence of the Rev.
James Pearson, late minister thereof, having ceased to be a
minister of the Church of Scotland.

0. Moseley, attorney-at-law, Stockport, Cheshire, Feb. 8, at
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official
assignee.
T. Smith, Liverpool, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. Bird, official assignee.
DIVIDENDS.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
A. Laing, draper, Halifax, Yorkshire, Feb. 23, at two—J.
Bedford, iron merchant, Melina-place, Westminster-road, Feb.
28, at:three--S. Jones, jeweller, Cheapside, Feb. 28, at eleven
—R. Yallop, scrivener, Basinghall-street, Feb. 23, at half-
past two—D. Hodgson, banker, Sandwich, Kent, Feb. 24, at
two—J. Collins, hotel keeper, Staines, Feb. 23, at one—W.
Fry, J. Fry, and J. Chapman, bankers, St. Alildred's-court,
Poultry, Feb. 23, at half-past one—D. Bidmead, warehouse-
man, Bread-street, Cheapside, Feb. 23, at two—R. Lyon, ca-
binet maker, High Holborn, Feb. 23, at half-past twelve.
In the Country.
G. Allison, scrivener, Darlington, Durham, Feb. 22, at
eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—J. Buck-
ley, coal master, Higher Crompton, Lancashire, Feb. 27, at
one, at the Manchester District Court—W. Collings, baker.
Devonport, Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court
—.M. Cullen, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 29, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court. _ _

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
D. Rowlands, wine dealer, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, Feb.
24—J. Wilkinson, grocer, Leeds, Feb. 27—S. Partridge, tea
dealer, Birmingham, Feb. 27—W. and J. Statters, cotton spin-
ners, Feb. 26—J. M. Wintle, silversmith, Drury-lane, Feb.
23—J. Zuliani, merchant, Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-
lane, Feb. 23 —L. Mosely, Staffordshire warehouseman,
High-street, Shadwell, Feb. 23—H. G. Clapton, warehouse-
man, Bristol, Feb. 23—F. Messenger, corn merchant, Liver-
pool, Feb. 23—H. W. Diamond, surgeon, Frith-street, West-
minster, Feb. 23—E. Locke and A. D. Mills, needle manufac-
turers, Lawrence Pountney-hill, City, Feb. 23—P. A. Nuttall,
newspaper vender, Edward-terrace, Chalk-road, Feb. 25.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. and R. F. Bailey, auctioneers, Wood-street, Cheapside—
R. Harrison and T. G. Robinson, erchants, Philpot-lane,
City—W. Walker, sen., and W. Walker, jun., manufacturers,
Manchester—C. R. Penfold and W. S. Watson, surgeons,
Brighton—R. Pitt and L. Lane, lace dealers, Ludgate-
street, City—J. Alexander and H. Gibbons, chemists, Wol-
verhampton—J. R. Dutton, C. Dutton, and J. Wilkinson,
wine merchants, Chester (so far as regards J. Wilkinson)—W.
S. Plane and W. Martin, bottled ale dealers, Gravesend—M.
Bloome and A. Gatliff, attorneys, Leeds—Js. and Jn. Puttick,
grocers, King-street, Long-acre—l. and J. G. Somers,
Houndsditch—W. and E. Garside, coach builders, Ashton-
under-Lyne—W. and W. Watson, butchers, Great Easton,
Essex—H. A. and T. Rodgers, news agents, Sheffield—J.
Heaton and J. S. Ellison, joiners, Gomersal, Yorkshire—T.
and S. R. Drury, stone masons, Leeds—T. Ellis, E. A. Ellis,
J. Alexander, G. Thomson, G. A. Brown, J. Thompson, and
A. Thompson, forming the Westminster Mining Association
(so far as regards T. Ellis, E. Ellis, and G. A. Brown)—W.
and B. Watson, dyers, Leeds—J. Spencer and E. Wood,
bakers, Goswell-street—J. Lampray and A. S. Field, attor-
neys, Warwick—C. and T. Burrows, timber merchants Wil-
lington, Derbyshire—W. Clapham and J. H. Whitaker,
worsted spinners, Esholt, Yorkshire—W. H. Coleman and J.
Manton, tea dealers, Crown-street, Finsbury—J. Cooper, li.
Cooper, W. Cooper, D. Turner, and T. Cooper, grocers, Shef-
field—S. Faulkner and J. Pierrepont, surgeon dentists, Man-
chester—T. Delf and W. Kent, drapers, Beccles, Suffolk—J.
and U. Knowles, fustian shearers, Blanchester—F. Denby and
W. Dobbings, cabinet makers, Leeds—The Shields and New-
castle Steam Navigation Company.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

SPENCER SUTHERLAND, harbour contractor, Ar-
lroath, Feb. 7 and 28, at one, at the Star Hotel, Perth.
DAVID APEWEN, banker, Dundee, Feb. 12 and March
1, at one, at the British Hotel,
ROBERT M'ALISTER, farmer, Shotts, Lanarkshire,

Feb. 8 and 29, at two, at the chambers of M. Waddell, Glasgow.
ROBERT BRYCE, brassfounder, Edinburgh, Feb. 9 and
March 1, at twelve, at the chambers of R. Deuchar, Edinburgh.

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown rr—liinsCOvado Sugar, for the
week ending Jan. 30, 1844, is 355. Old. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of CUSUMIS paid er payable thereon on the Im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR
IRELAND.

It would appear that the Attorney-General—or, to speak
safely, the gentleman who was Attorney-General for Ire-
land three days ago—is determined that the world shall not forget
the unseemly want of temper which characterised his earlier pro.
ceedings in the great repeal case. Matters were beginning to go
on a little more smoothly. Those who were anxious for the
cause of justice, and for the integrity of the British empire, were
just congratulating themselves that Mr. Smith was really doing his
work like a gentleman and a lawyer, when, to ! the thunder.clap
of yesterday comes down upon us. Under the very nose of full-
bottomed justice herself—in the very atmosphere of law and equity
—with Judges above—attornies below—Queen's Counsel around
—his brief before—his junior behind him—the Queen's Attor.
ney-General, wig, silk-gown, and all, electrifies the embodied jus-
tice of Ireland by insisting on the satisfaction of shooting at the
counsel for the traversers. Our ultra-Ministerial Contemporaries
seem to think this rather fine, and in the tone of a well.
dressed young gentleman who puts his back to the fire, pulls
up his collar, and "confesses" to some sixteen cardinal virtues,
inform us that Mr. Smith acted, perhaps, immorally, certainly
illegally, but at any rate, they do flatter themselves, like a gentle..
man. For ourselves, in this ludicrous and disgraceful affair we
find it difficult to say whether the scandal or the absurdity predo-
minates. Can this " gentleman," we are tempted to ask, know
what he is, where he is, what he professes, what he is paid for,
what is the weight of the obligation which rests on his shoulders--
that he dares to postpone the interests of his country, which has
employed him, the character of his party, the success of his cause,
to the satisfaction of avenging a trumpery insult offered him by a
still more trumpery opponent ? Here is the great demagogue of
the day on his trial—the cause of civil government itself at stake,
as one party says—" a nation dragged to the bar of the Queen's
Bench," as the other ejaculates—Europe looking on to see
what happens—the majesty of the law in ettremis twelve
honest jurymen all gaping attention to the engrossing
argument when the Attorney-General— the advocate of law,
and order, and government—diverts the course of proceedings by
"an appeal to the Court of twelve paces," by challenging Mr.
Fitzgibbon. Derogatory words had been spoken of the three
Crown Counsel, which the Attorney-General (on the principle, we
suppose, of " seniores priores'') thought it decorous to " take up."
The Attorney-General, "with an unusually stern expression of
countenance" discharged at Mr. Fitzgibbon a three-cornered note.
Mr. Fitzgibhon, three-cornered note in hand, elbowed his way
across the Court, thumped, stamped, vibrated, shook his wig, and,
taking nothing by his move but a severe " Nothing could justify
you, Sir :" sat down in wrath unappeased and unappeas-
able. But then enter the Dii majorum gentium—the
Judges of the Court. Mr. Fitzgibbon throws himself
upon their protection, and so tells the Attorney-
General that he is not the Alan to be bullied ' into.
an apology. Mr. Moore, with a feeling which does him credit,
beseeches the belligerents not to be in a hurry. The Court re..
monstrates—the Attorney-General withdraws—Mr. Fitzgibbon ex.
plains. Mr. Moore keeps continually pulling the tails of Mr.
Fitzgibbon's coat, lest he should say the wrong thing as well as
the right. The Attorney-General is content, and Mr. Fitzgibbon
proceeds in his address to the jury. And this is an Irish trial!
This is the way in which an Irish Attorney-General vindicates the
Above all, this is the mode in which an Irish Court enter.
tains such a specimen of truly Irish legal argument! The Court
was perfectly " satisfied, and hoped there would be no more about
it"—only anxious, as it would seem, not to interfere unduly with
the excited feelings of the " jontlemen :"
" We are reluctant to give an intimation of the strong opinion
we entertain as to the impropriety of what has taken place in Court,
willing to make allowance for those heated feelings which, when
called forth, frequently carry gentlemen beyond the limits which
their 000ler judgments would forbid them to pass."
We, for our parts, entertain no such overwhelming reluctance.
Mr. Smith may be—it appears to be on all hands admitted that he
is—a gentleman—a man of honour—a sound lawyer. But, reluc.
tant or not reluctant, we feel bound to say, that a person so wholly
unable to command his temper, that in the very crisis of a trial,
and such a trial, he cannot help giving his and his employer's
enemy the triumph of such an exposes as we have recorded, is
plainly unfitted for the responsible and difficult situation in which he
finds himself. Even if such a strange escapade is of a nature to find
favour with the Irish people, as it seems to have found mercy from
the Court, it still remains a degradation to a court of justice—an
immoral, illegal, uncivilised exhibition with which no people ought
to be indulged.

HERALD.—It will be seen by our Parliamentary report that Sir
Robert Peel has in a single emphatical sentence dissipated all the
direct falsehoods, and all the false surmises of the alarmists of the
last live months. The Right Hon. Baronet took the earliest oppor-
tunity to declare, in terms the most distinct and unequivocal, that

"IT IS NOT THE INTENTION OF THE GOVERNMENT TO INTERFERE IN
ANY WAY WITH THE EXISTING CORN-LAWS." The announcement
was received with loud cheers by the great majority of the House,
and it will be welcomed with equal cordiality by at least five-sixths
of the people. Why such' it declaration should excite so strong a
feeling must be answered by those, whether Whigs, Radicals, or pro-
fessing Conservatives—there were too many of the last class engaged
in the disgraceful work—who have employed the whole of the recetti
in misleading the public inind upon the important question now
set at rest. Their objects were, no doubt, sordid and selfish. Some
wished to swell the funds of "the League " by anticipating
victory—some had their corn-jobbing speculations to aid by the mis-
representation—some (and they were of all parties) sought to damage
the Ministry, by creating distrust among its supporters; but what-
ever the motives of the dealers in falsehood, they have been guilty of a
great crime against the public. It is no light matter to excite fears
which, in many cases of individuals, have led to loss and ruin ; and
which, as far as they prevailed, could not but tend to repress the
enterprise and activity of that class of the community which must
ultimately supply the wealth, as directly it supplies the food of the
people. Sir Robert Peel has acted with his characteristic wisdom
and promptitude in dispelling these pernicious fears at the earliest
opportunity open to him ; but his early interposition diminishes
nothing of the guilt of those whose profligate contempt of truth made
such interposition necessary. The public, if it consult its own se-
curity, will mark and remember its late misleaders, and learn how
in future to treat their assertions of the designs of the Government.
POST.—The Prime Minister has made his declaration on the corn-
laws. Our readers may, perhaps, suppose that he was interrogated
on tho subject by some county Member. This, however, was not the
case--it was in answer to the observations of Mr. Joseph Hume and
Lord John Russell that Sir Robert Peel twice stated, in his most em-
phatic tones, that her Majesty's Government have not contemplated,
and do not contemplate, any alteration in the present laws which re-
gulate the duties upon the Import of foreign grain. So much fur the
success of all the agitation, all the speeches, and all the subscriptions
of the Anti-Corn-law League ! The Minister did not, on the present
occasion, qualify his statement by restricting It to the existing ses-
sion. Ile did, indeed, say that tt would be a desertion of their proper
duty to the Crown if Ministers were to say that, at no time, and un-
der no circumstances, would thoy consent to an alteration of the exist-
ing corn-laws ; but then he returned to his former text, that her Ma-
jesty's Ministers have not contemplated, and do not contemplate, any
alteration of these laws. Mr. Joseph Hume, in a long, tedious,
straggling mass of verbal rubbish, which it would be a misnomer to
call a speech, took notice that, in 1841, when the late Ministry pro-
posed an alteration of the corn-laws, Sir Robert Peel not only ob-
jected that such an important measure should have been brought for-
ward without any previous notice, in her Majesty's speech at the
opening of Parliament, but argued from that omission that the mea-
sure was an afterthought, and could not have been intended when the
session commenced. The Minister said, that the Member for Mon-
troseme
ntiwoias
oqfuthiteericgohnt,i-nlat referencews hithe
Queen's speech, and as to the he drew from the absence of any
other point it is hard to say, added the Right Hon. Baronet,
what it is IMPOSSIBLE for a man to do. At this the House
laughed very heartily, the 31inister joining in the merriment, and
presently afterwards stating, in a tone half emphatic and half jocu-
lar, that if the majority in the country should come to the deliberate
opinion that a fixed duty upon foreign corn was the best policy to be
adopted, and if it should become necessary to propose such a plan to
the House, he was rather of opinion that the Noble Lord opposite
(Lord J. Russell), and not himself, would be the proposer of that
plan. What does our potent friend, the " Times," say to
this ? Our readers will not fail to observe that, how-
evsr satisfactory may have been Sir Robert Peel's declaration
that he does not contemplate any further " concession" to the free-
trade agitators, there was squeh In hie observations, and Medally

" Cassio, I love thee well ;
But never more be oticer of mine."

Mr. Smith remains, no doubt, an excellent advocate in a real
action or an ordinary prosecution for burglary; but preserve the
public from such an Attorney-General. Our notice of this wild
affair would be imperfect without a short reference to the sequel,
as it appears in to-day's paper. The solemn pacification which
took effect—as of record, we suppose—under the high sanction of
the Court, is not enough for Mr. Fitzgibbon. " I am," he is
good enough to inform them, "an ardent man in a high degree—
too much so, I must confess, but I cannot help it any more than I
can help sleeping(!);" and so, with characteristic impetuosity, lie
hastens to repeat his regrets. Mr. Fitzgibbon laments—deplores.
Mr. Fitzgibbon "cannot say he is satisfied with what took place
yesterday." Mr. Fitzgibbon "is not satisfied, because
he thinks that justice was not done to the Attorney_
General as a lawyer and as a gentleman. How con-
siderate of Mr. Fitzgibbon! "He placed himself," adds
Mr. Fitzgibbon, "in a moment of irritation, in a false position,
which did not or ought not to belong to him." "lam n ;t satis.
fied, because I felt, and still feel, that what I said pressed upon a
temper which cannot be helped by the Attorney-General no nacre
than the air he breathes." Charity itself!—forgiving, candid,
generous, enduring charity! But it reminds us a little of a well-
known Joe Miller. " Ma'am," said a countrywoman of ours to
a sharp Frenchwoman, " I hear you go about saying I'm a fool Y"
" Oh, que non, Madame!" was the apologetic reply, " I never,
never say thing so impoli. I have often heerd it say." Mr. Fitz-
gibbon's balm has much the same healing quality as that furnishes
by the Frenchwoman. It is very good of him—extremely so—to
apologise; but it rnlght have been thought to show better taste it
he had done so for himself alone, and not for the Attorney-Gene.
ral. We certainly do not envy Mr. Smith his "false position,"
from which kis unaided efferts will not soon extricate him. We
have only to hope, for his own sake, that he has learnt to write
no more three-cornered notes; for ours, that he will not have oc.
casion to do so in the service of the public.—Times.

- -
OCIIILTREE.—For the last fewdays the weather has
been extremely boisterous, and on Sabbath we had a good
deal of thunder. The ground is so completely saturated with
rain that ploughing is both a difficult and unpleasant task at
preseut.—Ayr Obsur►er.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1844.

in his agreement with the abstract principles of the Whig leader,
which we cannot regard with approbation. .We confess, however,
that, writing as we do immediately after having listened to the speech
of Sir Robert Peel, we are unwilling to pronounce a decisive
opinion upon those parts of his address which appeared to us to be of
at least a questionable character. The declaration about the corn-
laws gives us at least a breathing time, of which we shall take ad-
vantage before we offer a deliberate judgment upon the new appear-
ance of affairs

CHRONICLE.—It cannot be said that the Royal speech with
which Parliament was opened yesterday disappoints expectation. It
is just what we had ventured to anticipate. It tells what everybody
knew before it was spoken, but leaves untold what everybody was
anxious to know. Ministers wished, properly enough, to avoid dis-
cussion, and the speech was therefore formed with a view not to
provoke it. Topics of discussion are no doubt suggested, but the
necessity of taking them up immediately was obviated by Ministers
indicating an intention of bringing them, at an early day, more
formally under consideration. Thus, notice of a motion for a vote of
thanks to the Sinde army was given for the 12th of February, under
cover of which the paragraph announcing the annexation of a por-
tion of Sinde esuaped from being_made the subject of an amendment.
A confident hope' Is expressed, rounded chiefly on the friendly rela-
tions existing with the King of the French, that peace will
continue uninterrupted. Parliament is informed that a copy of the
Chinese treaty will be laid before them. If along with it was laid a copy
of the instructions under which this treaty was negotiated, Parlia-
ment might be enabled to appreciate the degree of credit that is due
to the Government of Sir Robert Peel. It is remarkable that this
treaty, which would never have been concluded if the Tories had had
their way, is the only treaty of commerce on the conclusion of which
Ministers can congratulate the country. The reference in the speech
to domestic affairs are as few and as meagre as might have been an-
ticipated from the embarrassed condition of the Government. The
great question of the corn-laws, like the bust of Brutus, is suggested
to every mind only the more vividly by its absence. The other great
question, as to the policy to be pursued towards Ireland, Is adroitly
evaded by touching successively the State trials and the Land Com-
mission. One important intimation, indeed, there is, respecting
the registration of voters ; but, with this exception, the affir-
matives of the speech are as poor a collection as ever were mustered
by a Minister at the commencement of a session.
ADVERTISER.—Two houses, which may he considered rivals to
each other, sat last night. The one sitting tooklplace in St. Stephen's,
the other in Covent-garden. There was a marked contrast in the
proceedings of the two assemblies. In the Commons, so far as the
Ministerial side was concerned, all was vague and unmeaning, until
Sir Robert Peel was forced to speak out ; in Covent-garden all was
bold, decided definite. In the speeches of the Queen and the mem-
bers of her Govefnment, no one could discern a scintillation of mean-
ing ; in the speeches of the gentlemen who addressed the rival
House, everything was so plain that there was no possibility of mis-
conceiving a single sentence. The contrast was equally striking in
another respect. The objects of the two houses were wholly diffe-
rent. The Commons, as the body is at present constituted, seek to
uphold all monopolies, and especially the monster monopoly in corn ;
the object for which the meeting at Covent-garden took place was to
abolish all monopolies, and especially the colossal monopoly in bread.
Which of the two assemblies will triumph ? No one who was in
Covent-garden Theatre last night could have a moment's doubt on
the subject.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.
(From the Votes and Proceedengs of the House of Commons. 1

THURSDAY, FEB. 1.

THE ADDRESS.-MR. SHARNIAN CRAWFORD'S

AMENDMENT.
MINORITY—AYES, 29.
Barnard, E. G. Elphinstone, Howard Trelawny, J. S.
Bernal, Captain Feilden, J Villiers, Charles ?
Blewitt, Reginald Gibson, T. M. Wakley, Thomas
I odkin, John James Gisborne, Thomas Warburton, H.
Rowring, Dr. Hindle', Charles Ward, H. U.
Bright, John Hume, Joseph Williams, W.
Brotherton, J. Johnson, General Yorke, R. H.
Cobden, Richard Plumridge, Captain
Collett, John Ricardo, J. L. TELLERS.
Currie, Raikes Roebuck, J. A. Crawford, W. S.
Duneombe, T. S. l'hornely, Thomas Wallace, Robert

MAJORITY—NOES, 285.
A ckers, James .0 ..vans, W. Miles, W.
Acland, Sir 'l'. D Fellowes, Edward Milnes, R. M.
Acland, T. D. Fitzmauriee, W. Mitchell, 1. A.
''Court, Capt. E. Flower, Sir James Mordaunt, Sl. J
Alford, Viscount Follett, Sir W. W. Morgan, Octavius
Allix, John Peter Fox, S. Lane Morgan, C,
Antrobus, Edmund Fuller, A. E. Morris, David
Arbuthnott, Hugh Gaskell, J. M. Mundy, a Miller
Arkwrigt,t, George Gladstone, W. E. Neeld, Joseph
Astell, William Glynne, Sir S. R. Neville, Ralph
fittwood, M. Godson, Richard Newdegate, C. N
Bagot, Hon. W. Goroon, Captain Nichol!, J.
Bailey, J. Gore, Montague Norreys, Lord
Bailey, Joseph, jun, Gore, W. R. 0. Northland, Lord
Baillie, H. J. Gore, Robert O'Brien, A. Stafford
Baird, William Goulburn, Henry Ossuliton, Lord
Balfour, J. M. Gr ham, ,9* Jarces Oswald, J.incs
Sankes, George Granby, Marquis of Owen, Sir Jorin
Baring, W. B. Greenall, Peter Packe, C. Wm.
Baring, F. T. Greene, 'l'. Pakington, John S.
Bar neby, John Gregory, W. IL Pal • er, Robert
Barrington, ViscOunt Grimsditch, T. Palmer, G.
Baskerville, T. B. M. Grimston, Lord Palmerston, Visct.
Beckett, William Raiford, Henry Patten, J. Vs
Bell, Matthew Hamilton, J. Hans Peel, Sir Robert
Bentinck. Lord G. Hamilton, G A Pennant, Hon. Col
Beresford, Major Hamilton, LordClaud Philips, Mark
Berkeley, Hun. C. Hanmer, Sir John Pluniptre,*.l. P.
Blackburne, John I. Harcourt, G. G. Poll ingtori, Viscount
Blakemore, R. Hardinge, Sir H. Pollock, Sir Fred.
Boldero, H George Hawes, B. Powell, Colonel
Borth w ick, Peter Heathcote, Sir W. Praed, W. T.
Botfield, Beriah Heneage, G. W. Pringle, Alexander
Bradshaw, James Henley, J. W. Pryse, Pryse
Bramston, T. W. Hennikerd Lord Pusey, Philip
Broadley, Henry Hepburn, Sir T. B. Bowdon, J. D.
Browne, Hon. W. Herbert, Hon. S. Reid, Sir J. B.
Brownrigg, J. S. Hervey, Lord A. Repton, George W.
Bruce, Lord Ernest Hillsborough, Earl of Rice, E. It
Bruen, Colonel Hinde, J. H. Richards, Richard
Buck, Lewis W. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. R se, Sir George
Buckley, Edmund Hodgson, Frederick Round, Charles Gray
Buller, Sir J. Y. Hodgson,
_Richard Round, John
Burrell, Sir Thomas Holmes, W. A'Court Rumbold, C. E.
Busfeild, William Hope, Charli s Rushisrooke, Colonel
Butler, Hon. P. Hope, Alexanler Russell, Lord Joan
Campbell, John H. Hope, G. W. Russell, Charles
Cardwell, Edward Hornby, John Sanderson, Richard
Castlereagh, Viscount Horsman, E. Sandon, Lord
Chapman, K. Hotham, Lord Scarlett, Hon, R. C.
Hussey, Thomas Shaw, Frederick
Cholmondeley, H. Ingestre, Lord
Sheppard, T.
CC hh ai
lrdteerr ads,
Chetwode,
JF.srvviarn.cis
John
Howard,Hoarcl PC..
HW.. G. Scott,S m 0
ur,, Hon,
Sir F.
H.
H.
B.
Jocelyn, Viscount Smythe, Han. G.
CCC
lhhauryitsteot
Clerk, Sir G. Jolliffe, Sir W. Somerset, Lord G.
,oiipw, h 1
leur.i ,i
R.
, AL . W
J.jaemr
me sy, n S, iEr
aWrlalter Shirley,Seale
, i
r John Evelyn
HJ J.
Clive, Viscount Jones, Captain Stanley, Lord
Cochrane, Alex. Kelly, Fitzroy Staunton, Sir G.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Knatchbull, Sir E. Stewart, John
Collett, W. R. Knight, H. G. Stuart, H. .
Compton, H. Langston, J. H. Strutt, Edward
Connolly, Colonel Lascelles, W. S. Sturt, H. C.
Coote, Sir C. H. Law, Hon. C. E. Sutton, Hon. H. Id.
Copeland, W. Lefroy, Anthony Tennent, J. E.
Corry, Hon. Henry Legh, G. C. Thesiger, F.
Courtenay„ Viscount Leslie, C. P. lhompson, Aid.
Cripps, W. Leveson, Lord Th rdhill, George
Curteis, H. B. Liddell, H. T. Tollemache, J.
Darby, George Lincoln, Earl of Tomline, George
Davies, D. A. S. Lindsay, H. H. Trench, Sir F.
Denison,John Evelyn Lockhart, William Trevor, Hon. G. R.
Denison, E. Beckett Long, Walter Trollepe, Sir John
Dickinson, FH. Lowther, Hon. Col. Trotter, J.
Divett, E. Lyall, George' Tufnell, Henry
Dodd, George Lygon, General Tumor, C.
Dougla., Sir H. Macaulay, T. B. Tyrell, Sir J T.
Douglas, Sir C. Mackenzie, Thomas Vane, Lord H.
Douglas, J. DS. Mackenzie, W. F. Verner, Colonel
Douro, Marquis of Marl an, DiJvild Waddington, H. S
Dowdeswell. W. M'Neill, Duncan Walsh, Sir John B.
Drummond, H. H. Mainwaring, T. Wilbraham, Hon. R.B
Duffield, Thomas Mangles, R. D. Wilde, Sir T.
Dugdale, W. S. Manners, Lord C. Wilshere, W.
Dundas,:Frederick Manners, Lord J. Wodehouse, Hon. E
Dundas, David March, Earl of Wood, Colonel
Du Pre, George Marshall, W illiam Wood, Colonel T.
Eaton, Richard .7, Marsham, Vsceunt Wortley, J. Stuart
Ebrington, Viscount Martin, C. W. Wortley, Hon. Jn. S.
Egerton, W. T. Marton, George Wyndham Colonel
Egerton, Sir P. Master, T. W. Yorke, E. 'F.
Eliot, Lord Masterman John Young, John
J
Emlyn, Viscount Maxwell, J. P TELLERS.
Escott, Bickham Afeynell, Captain Fremantle Sir T.
Estcourt, T. G. B. Miles, P. W. S. Baring, H. B.

Dividend
per
Annum.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 2.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord ABDIGER and Common
Juries.)

COLLEY V. BURTON

Mr. Jervis and Mr. Humphrey appeared for the plaintiff,
Mr. Whateley and Mr. Terrett conducted the case for the
defendant. _ _

This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for certain injuries sustained by the plaintiff's cab, which he
alleged were caused by coming in collision with the defen-
lant's cart, which was driven carelessly and negligently.
The accident. occured nearly opposite the " Load of Hay," in
the Hampstead-road. From the evidence adduced on the
'art of the plaintiff, it appeared that the cab had sustained
considerable injury, and, that the cost of repairing it would
come to 161. or 201.

A witness, who was said to be in Scotland, was here pointed
out by a witness under examination.
This witness, on being sworn, stated that he repaired the
cab ; that it took him about four hours, for which he received
Is., and that the work and materials would not exceed 40s. ;
that the bill produced in Court, purporting to be owing by
the plaintiff to him, and amounting to 101. 10s., was made
out by the direction of the plaintiff's wife ; and that the
work specified in it was never done to the cab, and
was merely concocted by the plaintiff and his solicitor
to recover damages from the defendant. It however, ap-
peared, that the witness had formerly been in the service of
the plaintiff, and was, according to his account, discharged
for refusing to swear against his belief.—Verdict for the de-
fendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MARYLEBONE.

John Seager, lately a policeman in the S division, who,
upon the representation of Robert Hancorne, Esq., of Euston-
square, had been dismissed the force for neglect of duty, he
having left his beat for an hour and a half, during which
time he was with the complainant's maid-servants, in his
kitchen, when a considerable quantity of plate was stolen,
yesterday requested that the whole charge might be
investigated before the Magistrate, and his request was com-
plied with.

Mr. Hancorne's two servants stated that the defendant
was the policeman on the beat in Euston-square, and on the
night of the 17th January last he was induced to enter Mr.
Hancorne's kitchen, where he was treated to ham, fowl, &c.,
with rum and water, and " beer as much as he wished to
drink." He remained with them from half-past four in the
morning till about six o'clock, and that same morning the
silver plate was stolen.
Mr. Robinson, who attended for the defendant, called seve-
ral policemen, who deposed that they had seen the defendant
attending to his duty, at the time he was stated by the girls
to be in Mr. Hancorne's kitchen.
Mr. LONG thought the case not proved, and the ex-
policeman was discharged.

PRICES OF SHARES

rrT y T

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 3.1

Names of Com-
panies.

Canals.
Ashton and Oldham
Ashby-de-la-Zouch-av
Basingstoke .........
Br ecknock & Abergay.
Birmingham, h sh.
Do. and Liverp. Julie.
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry ....„.«.....,
Crom ford ...........
Dudley ........ .....
Derby
Durube and Mayne
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash
Forth and Clyde
Grand Junction
Grand Union
Grand Surrey .....
Grand Western....
Glanaorgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfle,d ....av
Kennet and Avon ...av
Lancaster av
Leeds and Liverpool,..
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough .....-.av
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbrly
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield... .......
Neath
Oxford ........„....«
Peak Finrest av
Regent's (or London)..
Rocndale av
Shropshire .
Somerset Coal
Da. LOCK Fund Stock
Stafford and Worcester
Shrewsbury
Stourbridge
Stratford .on-Avon...av
Swansea

Severn & Wye &
Trent & Mersey, sh.
Thames & Medway av
Warwick 'nd Burning.
Warwick and Napton...
W rcester & Burning.
Wilts and Berks
Wisbeach
Wey and Arun

Docks.
Commercial
East and West India
London
I)itto Bond,
Bristol ay
Do.Bilds,var.amounts
St. Katharine

Ditt . Bonds..,
Ditto B nds ..

Southampton

!Bridges
Hammersmith......
Southwark, new Subs
Ditto New of 734 pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. of Si,
Ditto Nc•v di to cil7l
Ditto
Vauxhall av

Assurances.
Albion
A Fred Life
Allisnce Brit. and For
Ditto Marine
Atlas ........
Birmingham Fire
British Fire.
British Commercial
Cler. Med. & Gen. Life
County
Eagle
Economic Lite ......

Amount

Etimpean Life
Ditto New

Share.

100 0 0
Stock
Stock

147 9 0

Freemasons:.

Globe
Guardian
Hope Life
Ditte Fire
Imperial Fi e
Ditto Life.... ......
Indemnity Marine
Law Life

Legal and General Life
London Fire
Ditto Ship
National Loan Fun,
P,lladium Life
Protecto Lite
Provident
Rock Life
R yal Exchange
Sun Fire
Ditto Life.....„
University Life
Universal Life.. . , ....
Union Fire and Life
Joint Stk Banks
Australasi,
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & W.stminstr
Ditto New....... ... .
London Joint Stock
Metropolitan. . . ..
Provincial et Ireland
Ditto New
National of Ireland.....
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New
Gloucestershire ....
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight &. Coke
Bath
British •
Ditto Provincial
Birmingham
Birming. & Staflbrdsh
Bristol

Brighton
Ditto General

City of Lor don
Ditto New

Continental Cons°lid
Ditto New

Equitable
Imperi I
Isle of Thanet

Independent
Phoenix
Ratelift:

Stock

50 i 0

50 0 0
63 2 8
50 0 0
100 0 0

70 10 3

500 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
250 0 0
250 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
1000 0 0
20 0
20 0 0
20 0 0

Stock
100 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock

100 0 fl
100 0 0
20*, 0 0

40 n ()

South M. t opolitan.....
United Genet. ......
Westmins. Chartered..
Ditto New ........

50 0 (

10", 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
21 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
40 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
40 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0

20 0 0
40 0 0
20 0 0
77 10 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
75 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
30 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
5' Y 0
50 0 0
50 0 0

Water Works.
Birmingham
East London. ......
Grand Juncti,,n. av
Kent
Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex av
Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop
Iron Railways.
Birmingham & Derby
Birmiug. & Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Cheltenhm & Gt. West
Clarence ....
Eastern Counties.,,
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Ditto New
Grand Junctio
Great North of Enil.n.el
Gre t Western ....
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths ......,
Hull and Selby
Leedi and Selby
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares
Ditto Quarter-Shares
London and Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and BI ckwall
London and Greer wich
London and Birmingh.
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds... ......
London and S. Western
London and Croydon
Manchest, r and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Manchstr and Binning
Ditto Extension
Mid'and Cou tics
North Midland
Do. Mi-Sh., iss. 10 dis
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. dis
Paris and Rotten
Stockt n & Darlington
South East. and Dover
Ditto New, iss. 25 dis.
York and N. Midland
Ditto New Shares
Mines.
Alblrn Copper
Alten

25 0 0
100 0 0
41 13 4
100 0 0

Anglo Mex., iss.s/. p.m.
Ditto Subscription
Bolanos

30 0 0
100 0 0
63 12 9
100 0 0

100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 9 0
100 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
12 10 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
16 13 4
12 15 4
100 0 0

Ditt Scrip
Brazil. Imp. iss.s/.p.m
Do. Moeaub. & Coc. U.
Do. St. John Del Rey
British Iron

3200
i 1 6 10
13 15 9
100 0 0
50 0 0
70 0 0
70 0 0
100 0 0
1,,0 0 0
50 0 I)
50 e
50 0 e
-20 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0

S 0 9
15 0 0
100 0 0

150 0 0

Candonga
Ditto Registered
Cobre Copper
Copiapo
Columbian, iss. 51. p.m
General Mining
Hibernian
Imperial Slate Compy
Mexican
Mining Co. of Ireland
Real del Monte, Un reg
Ditto Loan Notes
Rhymney Iron
Santiago de Cuba
United Mex.,iss.2/. pin
Ditto Scrip
Ditto New Scrip.„...„

Literary.
Londß,with Sin. Ticket
London University
Russell
King'. College

35 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0

CO 0 0
55 0 0
20 0 0
AO 0 0
10 0 0
60 • 0
25 0 0

50 0 0
25 0 0
40 0 0

TEE COTTON CROP.—As we anticipated a fortnight
ago, the speculators on both sides of the Atlantic have suc-
ceeded, by acting and re-acting on each other's operations,
in procuring, both in the United States and here, au advance
in price which we cannot think is justified by anything we
have been able to discover, either in the American papers, or
in the state of our demand or consumption here. Since our
last arrivals from the United States it does appear that heavy
rains have prevailed over a considerable extent of country
occupied as cotton plantations ; and that, in consequence, the
crop will be somewhat shorter than previously we had
reason to expect. The general anticipation in the United
States, if we may judge from the statements confi-
dently put forth in• the newspapers, is, that it will not
exceed 1,700,000 bales, and one letter from New Orleans
estimates it as low as 1,600,000 bales. This, however, is the
lowest estimate we have anywhere seen; and, on the other
hand, Messrs. Stewart and Wright, cotton brokers, New
York, in their circular, state that they see no reason to
alter their estimate of 1,800,000 bales, made so • long
ago as the 14th of November last. In the midst of
these conflicting statements, if we refer to the state-
ment of the total quantities of cotton received at the
various American ports, up to the latest dates, as compared
with the same dates in 1842—a statement which appears in
the New York Shipping and Commercial List of the 10th
instant—we find those receipts to be-1843, 707,367 bales;
1842, 906,036 bales. The difference, therefore, between the
receipts of 1843 and 1842 is about 22* per cent. in favour of
the last named year. In this town, there appears to be a
general disposition to deduct 100,000 bales from previous
estimates ; and this appears to us to be a reasonable deduc-
tion for the damage which there seems too much reason to
fear the crop has sustained since the preceding advices.
Though we cannot subscribe to the extreme views of the New
Orleans letter already referred to, as to the probable amount
of the crop, it contains some statements with reference to
peculiarities in the growth of the plant itself, not undeserv-
ing of attention by those interested in the trade. The intelli-
gence of the crop brought by the recent arrivals immediately GENERAL DUFF GREEN AT HOME.—At Washing.
produced a very active and excited market in Liverpool ; ton Duff Green is quite busy with the President and Cabinet.
prices rose fully id. per pound; and, as will be seen by the He is organising measures and collecting capital for the
report of yesterday's cotton market, transactions to a large establishment of a daily newspaper in New York. It will be
amount continued to be made, and much speculative bush• a free trade Calhoun paper, and will also be an organ of the
AM was done.-21fanclisster Guardian. I Anti-Corn-law League of England.—New York Paper.

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100 0 0
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Miscellaneous.
Anglo Mexican Mint
Australian Agricultur
Brit. American Land,
Canada
Upper Canada Bonds
Capper Miners' Comp
Gen. Steam Navigation
Iberian Mercantile Co.
I)itto Property
Met. Wood Pay., iss.ll.
Mex. and S. American
New Brunswick Land,
New Zealand ......
Penins. & Orien. Steam
Royal Mail Steam
Reversionary Int. 60C
South Australian
Thames Tunnel
Van Diemen's Land

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100 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0

100 0 0
15 0 0
5 q 0
5 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 C

50 0 0

100 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0

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00
00
0 0,

PANIES' PRICES.
1844.

10 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
12 10 0
1 0 0
2 10 0
SO 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
25 4 0