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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1845,

Opposition to the bland region of the Treasury
bench, whose rivers flow with mil!c and honey,
and whose loan es and fishes are never known
to fail. Again, many of them, it is well
known, entertain the most decided opinions
possible on the question of the Game-laws,
which they look on as the pride of the British Con-
stitution—the palladium of our liberties ; yet, doubt-
less, they mill be compelled to consent to a revision
of these hateful laws—a total abrogation of them we
hardly expect—and vote one way, while their strong
inclination would prompt them to vote another.
These are but a few among the numerous grievances
prepared for the Conservatives, and which they will
have to submit to in the approaching session ; but as
" measures, not men," is our motto, we shall gladly
and even gratefully accept all the good we can get at
their hands; for why should we quarrel with good,
even though it " come out of Nazareth ?"

that is, against the indemnity. The question would be
formally brought before the Chamber on Monday, when
a ballot would be taken, and then the English public
would know whether the main condition on which
Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Earl of ABERDEEN ac-
ceded to the terms of M. GUIZOT was disowned by
the French Chamber. As this is rather a serious
matter, we shall wait for certain intelligence before
adverting to it further. But, besides the Otaheite
affair, M. GurzoT boasted that in many other trans-
actions France had got the better of England. He
did not broadly state the fact in the same words, but
there can be no doubt as to his meaning, and as little
doubt that England has come off second best.
" When I hear men say," he added, " that cour-
tesy, regard, good proceedings, mutual advan-
tages, and concession are not reciprocal be-
tween the two countries, after what has
passed during four years, and particularly during the
last six months, I think I am dreaming, for I can
hardly conceive that facts should be so perverted or
badly understood. I could, if I wished, lay before
your eyes the relative situations of France and Eng-
land, and all the facts relating thereto in all the
points of the globe, and you would see that every-
where the advantages and concessions are reciprocal
between the two countries; you would see that
wherever we had any object to carry, our policy, so
far from losing ground, in consequence of our inti-
macy with Great Britain, had rather gained. French
influence in Spain, in Africa, in the East, in
Greece, in Italy, everywhere in short, has increased."
This may be said to conciliate the Chamber, who, by
the bye, will not be conciliated, but at the same time
It is offensive to England, and certainly not at all
calculated to maintain the " entente sordiale." We
have no hesitation in saying that the exhibition in the
Chamber on Saturday was more hostile to Great
Britain than any that has occurred since GUIZOT
came into office.

Our correspondent, " A Lcndon Merchant," whose
letter will be found in another column, may be con-
sidered by many of our readers as exaggerating—out
of his natural solicitude for the welfare of our com-
merce—the dangers to which, as he endeavours to
show, it is exposed by the unextinguished spirit of
hostility on the part of the French nation to British
grandeur, and its first element—our foreign com-
merce. For ourselves, too, we confess that we are
not much disposed to attach any high degree of im-
portance to the truculent vapouring of the Constitu-
tionnel and other organs of the Anglo-phobia, or
THIERS' party. At all times eloquent and vivacious,
the French Opposition press is not remarkably ve-
racious. From the attacks which one portion of it
have lately indulged in against the Queen of GREAT
BRITAIN, we may reasoaably estimate the value of
its denunciations against the British nation. Still we
are of opinion that the sustained and continuous ex-
hibitions of that feverish and unscrupulous animosity
against us which appear to be so popular among very
considerable sections of French society, go far to
justify the warning recollections of our correspondent.
The most ardent advocates of France—the stoutest
champion of her successive Governments since the
memorable days of July—the most partial ex-
pounders of their policy—can scarcely exonerate the
French nation from the imputation of a proneness to
repay our forbearance and good faith towards her
Kith unmeasured dislike, unscrupulous encroach-
ment, and a jealousy, without even decent pre-
texts for its susceptibility. If better counsels have
prevailed over those which such prepossessions would
have adopted—if the two empires have not bees pre-
cipitated into that destructive collision for the event of
which the war party in France continues to clamour
with such reckless insanity—this result has been
owing rather, under PROVIDENCE, to the higher
moral integrity and political sagacity of a few
powerful Ministers, backed by the pacific dispositions
and abundant good sense of the KING, than to the
statesmanlike wisdom, or the uncompromising honesty
of Frenchmen generally, who have been connected
with the discussion and administration of public
affairs. If the impression of our correspondent be
correct, that the scheme of offensive annoyance most
cherished by the anti-English party in France is
founded on the historical precedent supplied by the
destruction of ancient Carthage, as a necessary victim,
first, to the jealousy, and, secondly, to the safety of
Rome, the " party" on the other side of the water
are labouring under that wildest of delusions, which
consists in committing one's self to deductions derived
from false parallels. Great Britain, with her insular but
extensive and influential position, and territorial im-
• portance in the geographical relations of Europe, is
little like enough, Heaven knows, to Carthage,
with its geographical relations to the coast and terri-
tory of Africa, and its power of acting upon the king-

doms of Europe. But modern France infinitely less
resembles ar.cient Rome, we should apprehend, in
any of the elements of that prestige of unchastised
military usurpation, and that unforfeited " spoil of
empires," which enabled the Supreme Mistress of the
civilised world to decree and to execute the iniquitous
sentence of destruction—absolute political erasure—
against her more opulent, but weaker rival. This
preposterous comparison of France with old Rome,
and of Great Britain with the Republic of Carthage,
provoked many a smile when hazarded even by NAPO-
LEON, whose historical information and powers of

generalising what facts it had accumulated, were by
no means on a par with the extent of his military
genius, the grandeur of his ambition, or the pro-
foundness of his knowledge of mankind. But, look-
ing to the downfal- and hopeless ruin of the vast
fabric he had built up, and in the contemplation of
which he might be well excused for growing giddy,
and being betrayed into occasional extravagances of
boasting—we listen with less decorous merriment
to one of his persiftlages in the mouths of any French-
men in 1845.
" Fas est et ab hoste doceri" is, however, a sound
canon of political wisdom. In our application of it,
we should not he content with having learned the
fact, assumed by " A London Merchant," of the inces-
sant energy of this jealous hatred of England ; but
we should imitate the example of French prompti-
tude and animation, in repairing, extending, and con-
solidating all the arms and forces of our material
strength, whenever external causes indicate the ne-
cessity for such preparation. We have so lately
urged this topic on the attention of the public, and
more particularly of the Executive Government, in
reference to the administration of all naval affairs,
and the incessant supervision of our navy and its esta-
blishments, that we will not now again press it.
Besides, we have good ground for believing that this
precautionary necessity has long been perceived and
acknowledged, and is now acted upon, in the highes
and most influential official quarters.

On Sunday, at TORTONI'S, the Three per Cents.
were quoted at the closing price of Saturday-BM. 35c

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
.(Sittings in Banco.)
HOLT V. THE QUEEN.
Mr. Mu. moved for a rule, directed to the Marshal
of the Queen's Bench prison, directing him to discharge
a prisoner now in his custody. The case was that of a
person named Thomas llolt, who had been indicted for
a libel, convicted by the Court of Queen's Bench, and
adjudged to twelve months' imprisonment. The term
of his incarceration expired that day, but some time ago
he was indicted for another libel in the Central Criminal
Court of the Old Bailey, and judgment was there passed
on him, to commence from the expiration of the previous
sentence, thus totally losing sight of the probability of
the former sentence being reversed by a court of error,
or of the prisoner being pardoned by the Crown. On
these and other grounds a writ of error was sued out,
and in which judgment was recorded for the plaintiff,
as the opposing party did not come forward. The rule
or order be sought for was absolutely necessary, in order
to justify the Marshal in allowing the prisoner to go
without.
Mr. Justice WIGFITHAN said the application was a
novel one, and he would consult one of his brother judges
as to the practice. Mr. Hill need not be again troubled
on the subject.
Mr. HILL said his Learned Friend Mr. White would
hear his Lordship's opinion in the course of the day.
THE QUEEN V. THE TOWN-COUNCIL OF GODALMING.
Mr. RewLINsoN moved for a rule for a mandamus,
directed to :the Town-Council of Godalming, in the
county of Surrey, commanding them to proceed imme-
diately to the election of two Aldermen, in the room of
two who retired,:by rotation, on the 9th: November last.
'l he affidavits of the town- clerk and one of the bur-
gesses verified the fact that no election had yet taken
place.--Rule granted.

We have accounts from Madrid to the 20th inst.
On that day the Reform Bill passed the Senate by a
vast majority-74 to 12. The Clergy Endowment
Bill also passed the Deputies, so that the business of
the session is drawing rapidly to a close. Unfavour-
able reports are again prevalent of the state of the
QUEEN'S health ; and it is even stated by the Cas-
tellano, that she has been recommended by her phy-
sicians to try sea-bathing. It is also said, that she
will leave Madrid in the course of a month, for a
watering-place in the south of Spain, and assist on
her way at the ceremonies of the Holy Week, in
Seville.

The Three per Cents. closed at 318 for cash, and
318 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 23 at 60
days; and the Debt without interest, at 7i at 60
days, with 4 premium.

A correspondent of a Morning Contemporary, who
seems to be by no means passionately enamoured of
Conservatism, observes, in the course of some re-
marks which he makes on the pretensions of this
overrated party, that it possesses at least the merit,
under the guidance of its chosen Minister, of having
placed the country in a more flourishing condition
than that in which it found it, and enabled the
people to make sure headway for some time to come.
Now Conservatism is by no means entitled to this
merit. Whatever benefit it may have been the means
of conferring on the country, has been conferred
most reluctantly; and only at the stern, authoritative
command of itS inexorable taskmaster. Think of the
milky, dogged resistance which many of its members
made to the passing of the Canada Corn Bill ; the
ill-disguised reluctance with which they consented to
the slightest alterations in the Tariff; and the ludicrous
alarm and horror with which they heard Sir ROBERT
PEEL
enunciate his well-known free-trade maxim—
asealml
ely, that it is good to buy in the Cheapest and
in the dearest market! All that the country
has gained of late years—that is to say, since the
accession of the present Ministry to office—has
been gained, not by Conservative
influence, but in
spite of it—by the Premier, who well knows his
men, acting on their fears and their vigilant sense of
self-interest, whose eyes, unlike those of Argus are
never closed. In the session
which is 'now
close at hand, and which we foresee will be
a tempestuous one, probing the sincerity of
Conservatism to the quick, this ill-assorted
party will be called on to play a far more
decided part than it has yet played, and will, as a ne-
cessary consequence, be involved in not a few ludicrous
• embarrassments and perplexities. Thus, while a vast
number of its members hold strong opinions on the
subject of Irish education, and the institution of a
more liberal system, they will either be compelled to
give way to Sir ROBERT PEEL, who has given certain
pledges on these matters, which of course he will re-
deem ; or, if they turn restive, and refuse to be
dragged captive at his triumphant chariot-wheels,
they will be exposed to the cruel mortification of
ieeing the hungry WThigs rush over from bleak

The discussion which took place in the French
Chamber of Deputies on the indemnity to Mr.
PRITCHARD, and the result, are extremely unsatisfac-
tory. Even according to M. GUIZOT'S statement,
Mr. PRITCHARD had not been justly dealt with. He
had been accused of serious offences by the French
authorities at Otaheite ; no proofs were furnished
that he had been guilty of these offences, yet he was
on vague charges ignominiously imprisoned, and ex-
pelled from the-island. " When he was thus treated,''
said M. Glitzor, " he demanded that an inquiry be
instituted into the facts with which he was charged ;
he asked to be tried, and repeated that request after
his return to England. He maintained, wrongfully,
I believe, that he was a stranger to the explosion of
the civil war and to the revolt; he contends that it
would have been impossible to convict him, had he
been tried, for want of proof. Our agents at Otaheite
did mot deem it expedient to adopt such a course.
I approve their conduct. I regard their convic-
tion respecting the intrigues of Mr. PRITCHARD
and the
,danger of his presence as well
founded ; the trial would have been difficult and
dangerous, and perhaps productive of no result."
This is a strange admission. The Prime Minister of
France believes the charges against the Englishman
to be well fousnded, yet is opposed to inquiry, to
matters of fact, to a fair trial, because the trial might
have been productive of no result. If we are to be-
lieve M. BRUAT, his crimes were as clear as the noon-
day sun ; he had been manifestly guilty of insti-
gating the natives to murder Frenchmen and en-
danger the whole of the forces in the island ; he must
therefore be punished as a spy, and an agent of re-
bellion. It really a ppears that M. GUIZOT had no
proofs of his guilt, else why fear that a trial would
be difficult and dan,gerous, and, perhaps, productive
of no results. llert _t is a man punished without trial,
yet the paltry ina3elnnity of 1,000/. is grudged by
the French Chani'ber, or perhaps refused, for no vote
on the question Itas been taken, nor can we yet tell
what will be the result of division. From all accounts
the majority of t' ie Chamber was for the amendment—

THE Sty, LONDON, TITESDAT EVENING, JANUARY os, Is4B.

Mr. WYLDE, for the prosecution, stated that he was
instructed by the prosecutors to recommend the prisoner
to mercy, as he had previously borne a good character.
Mr. BALLANTINE said Dr. Todd had kindly consented
to plead in favour of the prisoner, and there were also
several gentlemen of eminence in the medical profession
who would also speak as to his character.
The Learned ASSISTANT JUDGE said that, as the pro-
secutors were inclined to deal so mercifully with the pri-
soner, and as the loss of his character must be a most
grievous punishment to him as long as he lived, the
Court would be as lenient as possible. The sentence
was, that,,he be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour in
the House of Correction for one month.
The Court was crowded with medical students, and
other gentlemen connected with tho profession, who
seethed to take much interest in the result of the trial.
The prisoner upon hearing the sentence bowed re-
spectfully to the Court, and turning to the several pro-
secutors, who sat behind the counsels box, thanked
them for their recommendation to mercy with much
apparent emotion.
An ill-looking fellow, named Thomas Drape, was in-
dicted for stealing a watch, value Si., the property of
Joseph Barrett, from his person.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who was a barber and
hair-dresser in Great Wyld-street, Drury-lane, had been
out on the " spree" in Broad-street, St. Giles, when he
met the prisoner and three other persons, whom he took
to " Dutch Sam's," in Brydges-street, Covent-garden,
to treat them to some drink. Here a row was got up,
the consequence of which was that the prosecutor found
himself minus his watch and chain, when he gave the
prisoner into custody.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver-
dict of Guilty.
It having intimated to the Court that the prisoner had
been previously sentenced to seven years' transportation,
he stated, in reply to the Learned Assistant-Judge, that
in that case he had got a free pardon, after serving

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool, yesterday, was
steady. Sales 7,000 bales, including 1,500 on specula-
tion.— The Share market was not so firm as last week i
Birinhwham and Gloucester, 111 1101 ; Caledonian, 5i
i ; Chester and Birkenhead, 36,1 f ; Cambridge and
Lincoln, 4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 6:1 ; Dublin and
Drogheda, 75f ; Eastern Counties, 18-g f ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 65 ; Ely and Bedford, 1 f ; Glasgow,
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 6s. ; Grand Junction, 234 ;
Ditto, Half, 117 ; Great North of England, 401.
Shares, 45 ; Great Western, 170 ; Lancaster and
Preston, 51 L 2 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 39i ;
London and Birmingham, Quarter, 28 ; London and
Brighton, 51f ; London and Croydon, 171 ltSi ; Lon-
don and South-Western, New, 12f ; London and York,
5 i ,• Lynn and Ely, 6 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
54 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 126 k ; Manchester
and Leeds, Half, 55; Midland Couaties, 129 128; New-
castle and Darlington, 66f ; South-Eastern, 49i 48i ;
Ditto, New, 22 214 ; Trent Valley, 11 • Paris and
Lyons, 3i ; Oleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 71 ; Boulogne
and Amiens, 5 ; Northern of France, 51,- 4.
The accounts received this morning from Lisbon are
certainly considered to be of a satisfactory character.
The Minister of Finance had laid before the Chamber
of Deputies his budget for the year ending June, 1846,
and it appears that if the estimates of income and ex-
penditure be well founded, that there will be a surplus in
favour of the State of very nearly 40,000 milreis. This
unquestionably is the first time, fur years past, that such
a favourable expose of the resources of Portugal has
shown such a favourable indication. There appears to
be a general desire, on the part of the Portuguese, to
aid the Government, as far as possible, in improving
the resources of the country, and tranquillity having
existed for some time past, the good fruits of such a
state of things is in progress of almost daily deve-
lopment. The Ministry appears to have exer-
cised a sound discretion in the expenditure of
the Board of Public Credit. But the secret has
at length been let out, that the interest upon
the Home Debt is considerably larger than upon the
Foreign Debt. The figures stand thus for the form( r-
-1,476,695 ; and for the latter-1,392,246 milrois. It
would be much to the advantage of the credit of Portugal
were something like a definite account rendered of the
real amount of the Home Debt, as, by such means,
more confidence might be placed in the Government.
As far as respects the Foreign Loans, the amounts
raised are known with accuracy.
We have further accounts from the United States ;
but although there had been further meetings of the
different States' Legislatures, we do not find that, with the
exception of Pennsylvania, there will be any amount set
apart for the payment of arrears of dividends upon
the loans contracted in this country or elsewhere.
Still, if the private advises are to be credited, there
is a slight disposition shown to advance a step in
the right dirt ction, and although in must instances direct
taxation on land, &c., has been most emphatically
eschewed, there are symptoms that in order that the
stigma of repudiation should be removed, a revenue from
such sources as have just been mentioned will be sub-
mitted to.
The accounts from the Cape of Good Hope and from
Graham's Town are late in point of date. It is very
satisfactory to find that the frontier was in a quiet
state, the Kaffres having refrained from depredations
—thanks, however, to the measures taken by the Go-
vernor in strengthening the military post: on the line of
demarcation. The natives are represented as being
more industrious, and desirous of cementing a lasting
friendship with the colonists. The cultivation of the
lands of the colony was rapidly on the increase, and the
breeding of sheep also.
In the Public Securities there has not been any very
large operations reported this morning. As the settle-
ments in the Foreign Stocks and in Shares are near at
hand, there is a trifling increase in the demand for capi-
tal. The Three per Cent. Consols have been sold at a
fraction under par, and Consols for the Account at
100 k and at 100. Bank Stock keeps on the advance,
and is now at 214 f ; India Stock is at 285 f ; and the
premium on Exchequer-bills at 655. 665.
Not much has been done in the Foreign Stocks to-day.
New Brazilians have been at 86; the Mexicans at 344 ia
Portuguese Converted at 59i; the Five per Cent. Spanish
at 28; the Three per Cents. at 40, and at 39i; and the
Dutch Four per Cents. at 981 i.
The Share Market has been scarcely so active to day
as for the last few days. The fluctuations are officially
given in the list.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock... 2141/
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Anna 99'33 100
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
New 314 per Cent. Annutie.s
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2l/s 3-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ll% 12
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860
India Stock 2851/
India Bonds 1,000/ 7B pm.
Ditto under 1,0001 BO pm.
South Sea Stock —
3 per Cent. Annuities 1751 98%
Consols for Account ROA 100
India Stock for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 11/d.
1,000/.
5001. ..
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised ..... ...
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto, New 1843 B6
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Deferred Stock 15•33/41/2
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted 593
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 11914
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds 6%
Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ... 9fit%%
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAW. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ... 1101/ 110 to 112 11%
Ditto. Iteli Shares ...... .. 3
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto, New —
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley 2
Direct Northern ... ......... .. 2% 2Ah... to
Eastern Counties
Do. Per et. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 354 — to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2.
Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 ...... 65
Ely and Bedford
Great North of England 100 l5O
Ditto New
London and Birmingham ...100 233
London and Blackwall 16% 7
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and South Western.. 41%
Ditto, New
London and Croydon
London and Y0rk........ ...... 21..... 4%% to
Lynn and Ely
Midland lOO 127 4..... to 127
Ditto New
Newcastle &Darlington 'Tune. 24 ...... 65
Newcastle and Berwick ...... 11,4
North British
Northern and :astern
Norwich and Brandon 8 ..... 133/4 to
Ditto New Shares 1
Rugby
Sheffield and Lincolnshire ... 14 174 to
Shrewa.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 33/4.. ... to 4
South Devon - 10
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 4B ...... to 473/
Ditto New
Ditto New, N 0.2 2 .. ... 19 VOA... to
South Wales
Trent Valley .. 2
York and North Midland ... 50
Ditto Selby Scrip
Ditto, Extension

four months.
The COURT suspended sentence, in order that inquiries
might be made with respect to the previous conviction.

MAN SION-HOUSE.-(T HIS DAY.)
CHARGE OF PUBLISHING MALIGNANT LIBELS.— Wm.
Forbes, jun., of New Broad-street, ship-broker and ship-
agent, was summoned before the Lord Mayor to answer
to the charge of having written three letters with the in-
tention of destroying the credit and character of the re-
spectable house of Rickard, Little, and Co. (one of
whom is a Director of the Bank of England), of Bishops-
gate-street, East India merchants, and particularly of
Mr. Rate, one of the partners of the establishment.
Mr. Clarkson, who appeared for the prosecution,
stated the case, and designated it as one of those pieces
of villany which were scarcely to be paralleled by any
instance of modern crime. He then read three letters,
which he said he could distinctly prove had been written
by the defendant, who had done some business for
the firm of Rickard, Little, and Co. The one was addressed
to a firm in Calcutta, with whom the prosecutors tran-
sacted business. It represented that the prosecutors
were altogether insolvent, and strongly advised
those to whom it was addressed to shun any trans•
actions with such an establishment ; and it pur-
ported to be written by J. Cust, per procuration of
Messrs. Cook and Truman. The second was addressed
to the father of a lady to whom Mr. Rate was paying his
addresses, and the third to the mother, both describing
not only the house insolvent, but Mr. Rate as a person
guilty of felony.
Mr. Clarkson called two witnesses, Mr. Rate himself,
and Mr. Little, who swore they believed the letters had
been written by the defendant.
Mr. Chambers, for the defence, altogether denied that
his client had anything to do with such horrible libels ;
but the Lord Mayor held the defendant to bail in two
sureties of 100/. each to appear to answer the charge.

FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Great Northern of France ... 4
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans . 20
Paris and Rouen...
.... to
Rouen and Havre
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 27.—We have
again had a very lively market, and prices close firm.
Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 12i ; Ditto,
Sixteenth Shares, 5i i ; South-Eastern, 49 50 ; Ditto,
New Creation, 201 i ; Ditto, Scrip, 8 prem. ; York
and North Midland, New Shares, 15 ; Barnsley
Junction, Half Shares, 2.,1- ; Blackburn, Burnley, and
Accrington, 4.1 ; Caledonian, 6 ; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 4,1- 1 ; Churnet Valley, 6i .-} ; Dublin and Belfast
Junction, 6:1 ; Ely and Bedford, 4 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 41 ; London and York, 5 ; Lynn and
Ely, 54 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 94 ; Man-
chester and Buxton, 21 9-16 ; Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire Junction, 4 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dud-
ley, &c., 34 13-16 ; South Devon, 151 ; Trent Valley,
11 loi ; West Yorkshire, 4 ; Great Northern of France
(English), 5i ; Paris and Rouen, 42 ; Manchester Fire
and Life Assurance, 11 9-16.

GALLANT ACT OF A LIEUTENANT OF HER MA-
JESTY'S SHIP SUPERB IN HAMOAZE.—On Tuesday morn-
ing last, a private of the Royal Marines, belonging to
the above ship, accidentally fell overboard. A strong
ebb-tide was running at the time, and the poor fellow,
being unable to swim, must soon have been drowned, but
for the prompt and gallant act of bravery displayed by
Lieut. Stewart in jumping overboard, and keeping the
man from sinking, until, with the aid of ropes, he was
got out in a most exhausted state, and taken on board
the Bellona hulk, where the usual means for restoring
drowned persons were quickly resorted to by Dr. Coulter,
of the Superb, and happily proved efficacious in restoring
animation.—Plynioah Times.
DEAL.—SUICIDE OF A NAVAL OFFICER.--It is our
painful duty to record a very tragical affair which took
place here on the 17th instant. It appears that on the
morning of that day, about ten o'clock, the family of
Captain Brockman, R.N., were alarmed by hearing a
groan, and on Miss Brockman proceeding to the cham-
ber of the Captain, she beheld her father stretched life-
less on the ground, having, in a moment of mental aber-
ration, committed suicide by severing his windpipe with
a razor. The deceased was a retire l master and com-
mander, and was highly respected by his brother officers,
and by all who knew him. He had nearly attained his 78th
year. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."—Canterbury
Jou, nal.
We understand the Board of Admiralty have de•
termined on withholding their assent to the proposed
viaduct over the Penryn river, as a part of the scheme
of the Plymouth and Falmouth Railway.—Falmouth
Packtt,

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, JAN. 23.—The Chamber of Representa-
tives continued yesterday the general discussion of the
budget of the department of the Interior. The Minister
of J ustice spoke in defence of the policy of the Ministry.
Re endeavoured to prov,: that it had remal ed faithful
to the ideas of moderation and conciliation which it had
taken fur its motto. M. Delfosse, who spoke after M.
Anethan, maintained, on the contrary, that the Ministry
bad not kept any of the promises which it made on taking
office. The Deputy for Liege especially insisted that
the Ministry in its very essence—that is, the
members who compose it—cannot inspire the
country with any confidence. This assertion was
combated by the Ministers of Finance and the Interior.
The general discussion was interrupted by an amen-
dental question.
Dumortier observed, that if the vote were delayed
till after the examination of the several chapters it would
net be given for a fortnight, and he asked if it would not
be possible to follow a more rational course.
Osy, taking advantage of this idea, made a formal
motion in the followifig terms:—" Has the Chamber
conffilence in the Ministry ? "
'.I he Minister of the Interior combated this new mode of
expressing the blame of the Chambers, and desired time
till to-morrow to reflect on the new form proposed by
the Deputy for Antwerp.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 24.—At the commencement of the
sitting of the Chamber to-day the Minister of the Inte-
rior spoke first on the motion of M. Osy. He took a
rapid view of the preceding Acts of the Chamber, to
prove that the Chamber has in its power all sufficient
means to express its opinion on the Cabinet, without
having recourse to any new method. Iu consequence
the Member moved the order of the day on the proposal
of M. Osy, and declared that the Cabinet considered this
order of the day as a question of its existence, and that
it would retire immediately if the order of the day were
not adopted. M. Devaux followed the Minister of the
Interior. Ile endeavoured to prove that the method pro-
posed by M. Osy, to have the opinion of the Chamber,
was better than the precedents quoted by M. Northomb,
because it gave more latitude to opinion.
N. Osy, notwithstanding the support he had received
from M. Devaux, declared that he withdrew his original
motion, and would substitute fur it a motion fur an ad-
dress to the King, in which the Chamber should declare
that it had no longer any confidence in the Ministry.
It was decided that the vote on this motion should
take place immediately after the general debate on the

budgk.
several other members spoke, but the attention of the
Chamber was chit fly attracted by a speech of M. Libeau
against the Cabinet, and by a reply of the Minister of the
Interior, which was applauded by the assembly.
A letter from Antwerp of the 24th, says :—" Our
quays in the basin next the railway are so crowded with
goods intended for Germany (the forwarding of which
is delayed by the breach in the tunnel, near Cremptich)
that it will soon be impossible to find room for the least
thing. It is to be hoped that this inconvenience will be
remedied as soon as possible."
The director of the railways and several engineers
went yesterday to inspect the tunnel, and see what
damage had been done. They will meet to-day to con-
sider how to prevent any further faling in of the earth,
and adopt means to re-open the communication as soon
as possible. We are harpy to say that none of the work-
men lost their lives.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussus, JAN. 24.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent .......... •• • •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan•.•••••• of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •. • . 98%
Ditto Three per Cent ..... .............
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••.. • • 77%
Ditto, ditto, 1840. 1033.2
Ditto, ditto, 1842 lO2
Ditto of the City, 1843 ......... ....... 103
Ditto, 1832
Bank of I3elgium.
•Brussels rapers, Jan. 25.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 18.

5 per Cent. Metalliques. • • • • • • • • • • •
4 per Cent. ditto. .
3 per Cent. ditt0........
Loan, 1834
Ditto, 1839 • • • • • • . .....
Bank Shares .• • • • • ....... .
Esterhazy's Loan . ..
—Allgenteine Zeitung, Jan. 21.

.. 111 13-16
.. 107 N

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MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
NAY DIAN,N.kiTS.
SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 is to 4/ 10s ;
Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51 4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to
518 s; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to
11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/16s per load. Both
Hay and Straw suld slowly at the above quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow flay, 31 lOs to 41 15s;
Useful ditto, 41 16s to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s to
5/ 103 ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 51 18s; Oat Straw, 11 12s
to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s per load.
A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 4110 s;
Useful ditto, 41 16s to 5/4s ; fine,Upland ditto, 515 s to
51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 10s to 612 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 11s to
I/ 13s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Trade
throughout dull, at barely previous rates.
COAL DIAILNET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's
West Hartley, 18s ; Chester Main, 18s ; Davison's
West Hartley, 18s 6d ; Etison Main, 16s 6d ; Hasting's
Hartley, 18s ; llolywell Main, 19s; Morrison's Hartley,
16s ; Old Pontop, 17s ; Ord's Redheugh, 17s ; Old
Tanfield, lis 6d ; Ravensworth West Hartley, 18s ;
Tanfield Moor Bules, 17s 6d ; Tanfield Moor, 20s 6d ;
Taylor's West Hartley, 18s ; West Hartley, 18s ; West
Wylam, 18s 6d ; W. E., Ramsay, 17s ; W. E., Sharp's
Tanfield, 17s ; W. E., Seymour Tees, 20s 6d ; W. E.,
Tees, 21s ; W. E., West Tees, 19s 3d ; Clackmannan,
16s 6d ; W. E., Killingworth, 19s.—Ships arrived, 115.
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.--Holders of British Plantation have in some
instances accepted a further reduction of 6d to Is on the
lower sorts, and the market is very heavy, only about
300 hhds having been sold. The only transactions
which had transpired privately, consists of about 400
boxes fine yellow Havannah, which have been sold (for
export) at 235, being the extreme value. The quantity
of British Plantation landed last week at the East and
West India Decks was 635 hhds 19 tierces 205 barrels,
and there were taken for home consumption 1,018 hhds
115 tierces 217 barrels. The stock in the same places is
7,665 hhds 754 tierces and 1,463 barrels.
COFFEE.—The public sales have consisted principally
of 216 casks 192 barrels British Plantation, 1,312 bags
East India, 30 bags and barrels of Rio. Nearly all the
British Plantation and Rio was taken in, there being no
disposition shown to purchase at previous prices. About
1,000 bags of East India sold at 37s to 40s for fine ord
pale to fine fine ord. Colony Manilla being about on a
par with the rates obtained privately, and good yellow
Batavia at 43s to 445.
RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 186 puns 254 hhds. There were
taken for home consumption 177 puns 29 hhds, and ex-
ported, 74 puns 19 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 10,058 puns, 1,446 Mids.
SALTPETRE.-1,461 bags Bengal, at auction, found
buyers at 25s to 265, and one lot at 26s Gd for 11 to 51
per cent. refraction, which are barely previous prices.
SPICES.-498 bags Sumatra Pepper, and 103 bags
Pimento, sold steadily, the former at 21d to 2id for ord
to good quality, and the latter at 3id to 34d for good
mid. The Cinnamon sales commenced yesterday, and
have been going off very heavily at 4d to 6d per lb de-
cline, first quality being 3s Id to 4s 10d, second, 2s 8d to
3s 10d, and third, 2s 6d to 2s 8d per lb.
INDIGO.--The auctions are progressing well.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 39s 6d to 40s per cwt on the
spot, and dull.
TEA.—The deiveries are increasing, and the market
is steady.

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.—Last evening a
meeting of members of the medical profession was held
at the Charlotte-street School of Medicine, Bloomsbury,
for the purpose of petitioning her Majesty for the repeal
of the charter of the Royal College of Surgeons, and to
hear read the opinion of counsel on the case to which
that petition more particularly related. It appeared
from the address of Dr. Collier, who presided, and also
from the petition, that Mr. Derreott, consulting surgeon
and a teacher of anatomy and surgery of twenty-two
years' standing, had beea refused to be made a member
of the College. The case having been submitted to the
consideration of Mr. Kelly, his opinion (which was read)
was, that he was unable to say that in point of law the
charter could be impeached ; nor was there any legal re-
medy by application to a court of law, or otherwise,
upon the arbitrary or unjust admission or exclusion by
the council of any individual in the appointment of Fel-
lows under the charter. The Learned Counsel, there-
fore, advised a petition to the Legislature and the Crown.
The petition was signed by Mr. Derma, not merely on
his own account, but as the representative of numerous
others suffering with him. The signatures of the pro-
fessional gentlemen present were appended as corrobora-
tive testimony
i of the truth of the statements in the peti-
tion, and the injustice of the case. It was proposed that
a deputation should wait upon Sir J. Graham with the
petition for the presentation to the Queen, when a gen-
tleman suggested that it should be sent through the
Post-office, when Sir James could not fail of seeing it.
After the laughterwhich this juke created, it was agreed
that a letter should be sent to Sir James, requesting
him to appoint a day to receive the deputation.
PAISLEY.—STATE OF TRADE.—Our manufacturers
are now quite busy in getting forward goods suited for
spring and summer wear. Some eery large, rich, and
expensive shawls are in the loom, or in course of prepa-
ration, and all hands employed still at very low wages.
As a sign of the times, one of our most spirited and ex-
tensive manufacturers, Mr. Kerr, of Thread-street, has
this week commenced building a very extensive weaving
factory in Seedhills. The mason work is contracted for
by Mr. Robert Orr, and the carpenter and joiner work
by Bailie Paton. These two items alone will cost nearly
2,6001. To this old-fashioned and out-of-the-way part
of the town this will be a most important matter, as a
great number of hands will be employed, and a large
amount of money put into circulation.
LIVERPOOL. SUGAR FROM VENEZUELA. The
cargo of sugar which we mentioned a fortnight ago as
having arrived from La Guayra, the admission of which,
as being the produce of slave labour, was for some time
doubtful, is announced for sale next week.—Manchester
Guardian.
LYCEUM THEATRE.--This theatre, under the clever
management of Mrs. Keeley, continues to be visited by
fashionable and crowded audiences, the new grand
extravaganza of Valentine and Orson, with its corps of
female warriors, who go through their evolutions very
cleverly, being nightly received with unbounded applause.
Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary dinners are to be
continued every week until the Easter recess. We hear
it is incontemplation to have those official entertainments
on the same scale as last year ; that is to say, the Right
Hon. Baronet will receive about 40 Members of the
House of Commons at each dinner.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—On Sunday the
Rev. Richard 11. Chapman expired suddenly, at his re-
sidence in Marylebone.