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for the current year. As the. English public have been
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pictures of the means possessed by Spain of meeting
her public engagements, it is to be hoped that the figures
contained in the summary of our correspondent will be
dwelt upon with tho requisite attention. The resump-
tion of full payment of interest on the tredve debt, on
the first day of the ensuing year, has been promised,
and the feasibility of the measure does not appear to have
been questioned oven by Mr. Thornton, who, after his in-
terview with General Sancho, made public his impressions
upon the subject ; but how completely must any dream or
expectation of this sort be dissipated by the immense de-
ficit admitted by Senor Hull to exist between the in-
come and expenditure of Spain ? He does not attempt
to disguise the fact that it amounts to between six and
seven millions sterling, including 2,750,000/. as the
year's interest on the principal of the general debt. 'We
estimated the latter item, in round numbers, at three
millions, and if certain recognised extra interest charges
be added, such as that accruing on the annual draw-
ings of Deferred Stock, portions of Passive periodically
capitalised at Madrid, &c., we shall be found to be rather
under than over the mark. Yet, as it was but the other
day that the Globe and Chronicle met us with a contra-
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may, in future, be given to the denials hazarded by such
authorities.

We mentioned in yesterday's paper that there were
grounds for believing that the claims of the Treasury
bondholders were to be put upon a stitisfactory footing,
and we are again assured by parties in the confidence of
the Spanish Government, that the fact does not admit of
a doubt. They take precisely the same view of them that
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Pebrer and Zulueta. We are unable to-day, however,
to insert at length the sentiments impressed by them
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the case.

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having letters goingout, was entered into here to-day.
The Exchanges were quoted much the same, viz. Ham-
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52 ; and Amsterdam, 12 4 to 4.

The late Robert Peel, Esq., who died on Wed-
nesday week, at his residence, Wallington-hall, in Nor-
folk, was a first cousin of the Premier by blood, and his
uncle by marriage. The deceased gentleman had two
daughters, one married to Mr. Ethelstone of this town,
and the other to the son of the Dean of York, Dr. Cock-
burn. Mrs. Cockburn lately died, leaving two young chil-
dren, whom Mr. Peel adopted, and undertook to bring
up. This circumstance induced him to settle at Walling-
ton, which has been recently furnished in the most sub-
stantial and costly manner, and where Mrs. Peel will
now probably reside with her two grandchildren. Pre-
viously to the death of Mrs. Cockburn Mr. Peel bad no
establishment, and lived much at Exmouth, where it
was fabled he died. The same paragraph greatly over-
rated tho deceased gentleman's wealth, which is not
supposed to exceed 1,200,0001., and committed the more
important error of asserting that he died intestate. It
is true that, on tho death of Mrs. Cockburn, he made a
very important alteration in the disposition of his pro-
perty ; but we feel quite assured that every proper step
...has .c. been taken to secure tho dnexecution of' his inten-
tions. We have heard that the following gentlemen are
named as his executors :—Edmund Howarth jun., the
Rev. Frederick Peel, and Joseph Peel, Est,--Manchester
Chronicle.
The Augsburyla Gazette, in a letter from the
frontiers of Poland, gives some curious details and ex-
planations
respecting the King of Prussia's last visit to
the Emperor of Russia, at Warsaw. It would appear
in regard that his Prussian Majesty's policy to the Poles
in the province of Posen, as well as the reception which
some Polish emigrants had experienced in Prussia, had
excited the ill-will of the Russian Autocrat, who availed
himself of the moment of the Prussian Monarch's pre-
sence to strike the last blow at the nationality and con-
stitution of Poland, by issuing the famous edict which
places all judicial and administrative attributes in Poland
on the same footing as those of Russia. The Emperor
of Russia got wound up to such a pitch, on reading the
speech of a French Deputy, in favour of Polish nation-
ality, that he gave immediate orders to his Secretary of
State to convert the Polish Woimodschafien into Rus-
sian Governments, without attempting to conceal the
motive for pursuing such a courso from the French
Ambassador. For the same reason, he also again hit
upon the day of the King of Prussia's arrival to publish
his decree of denationalization for Poland. The
Poles, however, are not to be deterred from maintain-
ing that spirit of independence and nationality which
are inherent in them, and therefore they look upon the
attempt to Russianize them as a certain step to produce
a contrary effect. They are prohibited from singing in
the Polish language, "Poland is not yet lost," so they sing
it in Russian, and even in the forts which are garrisoned
by Russian troops. So long as Russia is unable to extend
her measures to those parts which are united to Prussia
and Austria, so long will her eftlarts to Russianize, or
denationalize, the Polish nation be useless. For this
reason the inhabitants of Warsaw, on obtaining a glimpse
of the King of Prussia, could not refrain from shouting,
" Long live the King of Prussia," which was re-echoed
by the troops, although they had but a few moments
before shouted the official Russian cry,
" Hourrah,"
with the utmost difficulty. It is generally believed that
the policy of the Emperor of Russia with regard to
Poland is one of revenge, which is likely at some future
period to be attended with serious results.
A human skeleton, in a perfect state, was found
on Monday by some labourers, who were digging gravel
in a pit at Stibbington, adjacent to Wansford. Such
things are very common in the parish. The deposit is
thought to be referable to a very ancient period.—Stam-
ford Mercury.

'ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT

DERBY._
DERBY, JAN. 24.—A most numerous meeting was
held to-day, pursuant to requisition to the Mayor, to
petition for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn-
laws. The Lanmsterian School, in which the great
Midland Counties' meeting was held, was filled to the
roof with nearly three thousand persons. The platform
was occupied by the principal manufacturers of the
town, and our respected Member, Edward Strutt, Esq.,
among them.
The Rev. Mr. JONES proposed the petition. Although
their former appeals to the Legislative body had been
treated with so much disrespect—although they had had
disregard and contumely thrown upon their petitions, yet,
for the sake of their wives, their children, and them-
selves, he begged of them to make one more effort to
rouse the Government to some state of activity and
earnestness on the subject.—(Loud cheers): He need
not detail to them the ill working of the Corn-laws. His
only object was to beg that they would make one last
effort for a repeal of laws which were fast sapping the
foundations of the institutions of the country—ruining
the peace of all classes—starving the poor, and which
threatened, ere long,- to. involve the whole country in
one mass of ruin and desolation. He concluded by
moving the adoption of a petition to both Houses of
Parliament for the immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
The petition was then read.
Mr. Momar,. a large manufacturer, seconded the
motion for its adoption.
A working man, named HENRY KNorr, then stood
forward, and wished to move an amendment before the
motion was put. He was handed up to the platform by
the gentlemen present, and put in a conspicuous position.
The Chartists immediately received him with loud
cheers. He did not oppose the petition on the ground
that it was needless, or that he believed the Corn-laws
were a good to the country ; far from it, he believed
that they had done material injury ; but the reason he
stood forward with an amendment was, because he
deemed that greater injuries first demanded their atten-
tion, and in the attainment of which the Corn-laws
would be involved.—(Cheers.) If the Repealers would
join us in obtaining the Charter they would at once
• gain their object. Mr. Knott concluded by moving as an
amendment, " That although this meeting deeply and
sincerely regret the evil workings of the Corn-laws, and
believe them bad and iniqiiitous, yet they do not believe
they shall obtain their full measure of justice till the
People's Charter becomes the law of the land,"
JOHN Moss, another working man, seconded it.
Mr. JOHNSON, a manufacturer of Derby, addressed
the meeting in refutation of the arguments of Knott. '
A working man wished to correct the Chartists in
one great error. They said machinery had caused all
the distress ; now he denied it. He had for forty years
worked a stocking fraine ; that species of frame had not
been altered by machinery during that whole time—it
had not been touched in the march of steam—it made
only one stocking as it did forty years ago—it employed
one man to each frame as it did 40 years ago.—(Cheers,)
How was it, then, that he himself did not earn one-third
of what he did 40 years ago—that the wages of all
stockingers had fallen to starvation prices ? It could
not be from machinery ; it was for want of a market.—
(Vehement cheers.) Let England have the world for a
market, and the whole of its inhabitants for customers,—
the change would bring peace and joy to every town and
hamlet—to every fireside, and to every English heart.
(All the meeting immediately cheered the old man,
who had evidently turned the tide of public opinion by
his plain open eloquence.)
The MAYOR said he could not, consistently with his
duty, put the amendment, as the meeting was caAed for
a specific purpose—namely, to adopt a petition to Par-
liament. The Chartists might negative the petition if
they liked, but he could not put any amendment. The
petition must stand or fall.

KNOTT inquired (amid great uproar, and cries of "Put
the petition—No Charter—Down with the Corn-laws")
whether, if he withdrew his amendment, the meeting
wou.d agree to support the Charter next year, provided
that the Parliament refused the prayer of their petition
this session ?

This the leaders of the meeting declined.
The MAYOR then took a show of hands on the peti-
tion ; a forest of hands rose for it—not one against it,
and it was declared carried unanimously amid a volley of
cheers that shook the very building.
It was then agreed that the Members for the town
present the petition and be requested to support its prayer.
EDWARD STaurT, Esq., M.P., expressed his willnig-
ness and the honour he felt to do both, and said that long
before the Corn-laws were considered to weigh so mate-
rially on the country he had opposed them in the House,
and ever should do so while he had a seat in it.—(Hear.)
The meeting then separated.

IRELAND.
CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION.

DUBLIN, JAN. 24.—The nomination took place this
norning. Bad as were the arrangements last election,
they are now infinitely worse. The increase of the con-
stituency rendered it necessary to increase the booths,
six hundred voters being allowed bylaw to each. At the
last election there were sixteen-booths, there are seven-
teen at this. But what have the Government Sheriffs
done? They have given the additional booth to the Tory
freemen! The last booth in the list is 0. 2. The great
majority of voters in that booth are Tories ; and only
444 are to poll in it altogether. In another freeman's
booth (T. U.) there are but 475 voters, almost all Tories.
Upon the other hand, the smallest and the most incon-
venient booth of the entire is letter M, in which there
are nineteen hundred and sixty-six voters!
This booth has been placed in the open street, and in
a filthy and narrow street, in the depth of a severe win-
ter! Sixteen hundred of those voters in letter M are Li-
berals. Not one half of them can poll 1 The law pre-
scribes 600 voters for each booth ; there should, there-
fore, have been at least three booths for the voters in
letter M. But instead of three booths, the Government
Sheriffs have given the very worst booth, fitted up with
every possible regard to inconvenience, obstruction, and
absence of defence against the weather ! It is under such
circumstances that the Reformers enter upon the contest.
This scandalous partisanship gives the Tories fearful
odds against the friends of Lord Morpeth ; but they arc
animated by a most determined spirit, and rendered for-
midable by the most thorough union, and they are con-
fident of victory.
At half-past nine o'clock the Court was opened to the
public, and in two or three minutes it was crowded to
excess. Cheer after cheer arose for Lord Morpeth ; for
some minutes the most deafening acclamations resounded
through the Court, whilst the " Kentish fire " of the
Tory party was scarcely heard at intervals in the tumult
of applause.
At ten minutes past ten the Lord Mayor appeared,
when enthusiastic cheers were given.
A rumour was heard that the Hon. Mr. Howard,
brothei of Lord Morpeth, had arrived in town. The
mention of his name acted like a spell upon the multi-
tude, and loud cheers were given. In the Tory gallery
the Rev. Tresham Gregg, who has been denouncing the
Roman Catholics as idolaters during the past week, oc-
cupied a conspicuous place, and took a chief part in the
demonstrations of the faction.

The Hon. HENRY CAULFIELD, brother to the Earl of
Charlemont, rose amid long continued applause. When
silence was obtained, he said—The vacancy in this city,
which you have been called upon by her Majesty's writ
to fill up, has occurred by the demise of your former re-
presentative, and when he mentioned the name of Mr.
West it was for the purpose of expressing his deep re-
gret at the loss sustained by his family, his friends, and
the profession with which he was connected.—(Hear,
hear.) It was now his duty to recommend the Noble
Lord who would be put in nomination as their represen-
tative. He could not claim him as his countryman ; but
if he was not, he did not apprehend that a single politi-
cal opponent would be found to deny that his Lordship
had a thoroughly Irish heart.—(Cheers.) From the
first time he came into public life, his constant object was
the amelioration of the condition of the Irish people—
(Cheers)—and this course he fbllowed up from one step
to another until he accomplished much that he sought
for.—(Applause.) He need hardly remind the meeting
that the manners of the Noble Lord are most amiable,
and that he was accessible at all times to those who
sought him. His talents are of the highest order—his
extensive knowledge and profound skill rendered him a
most desirable person to represent the important inte-
rests of this great city in the Imperial Legislature.—
(Cheers.) These were the grounds on which he recom-
mended the Noble Lord to the consideration of the elec-
tors of Dublin, as a fit and proper person to represent
them in Parliament.—(Continued cheers.)
The Right Hen. the LORD MAYOR rose, and when the
cheering with which he was greeted subsided, be said he
rose with feelings of unalloyed, pleasure to second the
motion made by the brother of the living Charlemont—
(Cheers)—the son of the late Charlemont--(Renewed
cheers)—a name that will live in the memory of Irish
patriotism long as the island is surrounded by the sea.—
(Applause.) The name of that man who was foremost
in the gallant band that set the foreign enemy at defi-
ance—that secured the stability of the Throne against
the combined armies and navies of Europe—that pre-
served Ireland to British connection, and gave to Ireland
legislative independence.—(Protracted cheers.) He could
assure all present, that it was not affectation when he
proclaimed that he felt deep sorrow for the occasion
which brought them here. If he had an angry feeling
towards their late representative, it was purely on poli-
tic:ll grounds, and now that he was in his cold grave he
recollected only his most amiable qualities, and in his
sorrow for the individual he buried every portion of poli-
tical feud, which a long opposition may have created.—
(Hear.) He now came to the immediate subject for
consideration. He might be asked whom he wished to
fill the vacant seat. To which he would reply, a Re-
pealer certainly—no doubt of that--(Cheers)—next, he
would prefer an Irishman.—(A voice from the Conser-
vative side, " There's one behind you.") There is a
crooked finger to that—(Laughter)--ever man is not an
Irishman that is born in Ireland.—(Hear.) If I thought
that in this contest there was a chance of rallying together
the friends of Reform of all shades of opinions round a
thorough Irishman of talent, I would feel it my duty to
support him in preference to Lord Morpeth ; but I do not
believe.at present that could be accomplished. I now
make an offer to you (to the Conservatives), if Mr. Gre-
gory come forward, and pledge his word of honour as a
gentleman that he will vote for repeal, I hereby pledge
myself to support him in preference to the candidate