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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 5,

Will be produced, arranged as ,a
Drama, Handel's ACIS
AND GALATEA.—Polyplaeme, Mr. H. Philips; Acts, Miss
P. Horton • Galatea, Mirs Romer.
After which will be repeated the New farce, entitled THE
WINDMILL.—The Marquis de Roueville, Mr. Morris Bar-
nett ; Sampson Low, Mr. Keeley ; Marian, Mrs Keeley.
To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime,
called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN-
NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON
STONE.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

- - -
THIS EVENING, FEB. 5,
Will be repeated the Opera of ELENA ÜBERTI.—Tbe
Character of Elena Überti by Miss Adelaide Kemble , Count
Übaldo, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sigifredo. Mr. Leffler; Count
Guido, Mr. Stretton ; Boemondo, Mr. clement White; Goal-
tiero, Mr. Wigan ; Imberga. Miss Grant.
After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas
Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR.
'IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. '
The only Pantomime on the Surrey side of the water, over
Cra Quarter past Eleven. Attraction beyond conception.
owded Houses nightly. Great hit of " Norma."

THIS EVENING. FEB. 5
Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti-
tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded
Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls."

Alter which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellies Music.

To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK
FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac-
teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint
Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun-
ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan-
taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr.
Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe.

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LONDON
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1842.

There is a prevailing opinion both among Li-
beral and Tory Members of Parliament to which
we must beg attention, because it seems likely to
do injury to our cause. Lord MELBOURNE, on
Thursday evening, adopting a very current belief
began the statement which we regard as destitute
of foundation. His Lordship said—
It was decidedly his opinion that no measure could al-
together prevent the recurrence of such distress. He
fully concurred with the Noble Lord opposite (the
Marquis of Abercorn) that in a manufacturing, country
like this, having a large mass of population depending
upon taste and fashion, and the uncertain demand of
foreign countries, it would be a delusion to hold out any
promise of measures which could prevent the recurrence
of distress—of great fluctuation in employment, and in the
distress recurred it Was, at different periods,
wages of the working people.—(Hear, hear.) When such
attributed
to various causes, to which he never thought they could
be referred. Thus it was now attributed to the Corn-
laws, which he did not believe to be the case, but the
uncertain nature of the employment, or its being inevi-
tably subject to periodical depression.—(Hear, hear.)

Such an admission was of course eagerly laid
hold of by the Tory Earl of RIPON, and of course
was loudly cheered by all the Peers, Whigs and
Tories, as completely exonerating them from all

blame. Distress has occurred before, employ-
Ment must be fluctuating, wages must vary, ow-
ing to changes of fashion, and their Lordships
may therefore sleep in peace, . being nowise
instrumental in causing the misery they so hu-
manely deplore. Lord RIPON said—
He agreed with the Noble Viscount that it would be
a fatal error to hold:out expectations that any measure
could, in the complicated machinery of society which Eng-
land presents---that it would be possible by any legisla-
tive enactment to prevent that occasional distress which
fluctuations in trade inevitably produce.—(Hear, hear.)
We were not exactly prepared to find Lord
BROUGHAM running (to borrow Mr. G. TuomsoN's
metaphor) after the same " red herring." But the
scent which lures Legislators away from respon-
sibility is so pleasingly powerful, that even Lord
BROUGHAM'S. far-seeing mind was not proof
against the temptation, and he was led on the
same trail. But he accompanied his remark with
a just recommendation, which the other Noble
Lords omitted. Lord BROUGHAM said—

He believed that the distress was in its present extent
transitory, but he feared he must agree with his. Noble
Friend, that in this country periodical distress and re-
verse of fortune was almost indispensible to the highly
arifficial state of society. For centuries, nay for ages,
this country had been manufacturing not only for itself,
but for the world, and such a country might well appre-
hend a gradual decline of some branches in which other
nations would take to supply themselves. But that was no
reason for not making every practical effort to stay the
decline of such manufactures, and to open other markets.
Here are three eminent noblemen all agreeing
in the main, that our artificial and complicated
state of society—as independent of legislation,
and dependent on changes of taste at home and
abroad—is the cause of periodical distress, which
Legislation does not cause, and which Legisla-
tion cannot be expected to cure. It may be very
presumptuous in us, humble newspaper writers, to
differ from such high authorities, but having de-
voted some of our time to reflecting on social
phenomena, and our conclusions being at vari-
ance with those of the Noble Lords, we shall
venture respectfully but firmly to state some of
our reasons for thinking that they take a very su-
perficial view of society.
We put the fact prominently forward that
legislators have a strong interest in maintaining
a do.ctrine so pleasing to them. " Great fluctua-
tions in employment," " complicated machinery
of society," ", highly artificial state of society,"
are convenient phrases, which serve to conceal
their errors from themselves, and keep from
them the knowledge that they are responsible
for most of the evils the people suffer. Society,
consisting of men, women, and children ; of
husbands, wives, and offspring; of relatives and
friends; of employers and labourers ; of masters
and servants; is not more complicated nor more
artificial now, though the individuals composing
it may be more numerous, than it was twenty
centuries ago ; for all these classes then existed,
and some more, such as slaves and their masters.
It is made complicated and artificial
on industry,ficialbylaws
tying up the soil, placing fetters
impeding the free circulation of commodities,
of men, and of money; but all the relations we
have just referred to exist at all times and places.
Society is not, therefore, made more compli-
cated and more artificial by becoming more
numerous, except as it is made artificial and com-
plicated by a great deal of perverse legislation.
We must also place prominently before those
Noble Lords, the fact that visitations of dis-
tress, particularly such as cannot be clearly
traced to bad laws have becme less fre-
quent as society has become numerous, or,
as they express it, complicated and artificial.
The inmates of the forests of America, con-
stituting some of- the most simple and inarti-
ficial states of society now known, are sometimes
visited with famines, which root out whole tribes
and nations. In the earlier history of Europe,
when society was far less numerous than at pre-
sent, famine—the greatest of all distresses—
periodically desolated our own and every other
country. The interested assertion, therefore, of
these noble Legislators is not warranted by any
well known facts.

As they apply these doctrines to the present
distress, we may, however, discard all notions of
caprice and fashion, and conic to the plain facts,
that the bulk of our manufacturers, and parti-
cularly those amongst whom distress now pre-
vails, are engaged in preparing clothing, or arti-
cles as essential as clothing, for their well-being,
and that they want food, which is even more
essential than clothing to subsistence. We may,
therefore, confine ourselves to consider the fluc-
tuations in the demand for food and clothing.
When Noble Lords talk of " employmentfluctua-
ting," and of the uncertain demand of foreign
countries, do they mean that the capacity of
the stomachs of the manufacturing population
fluctuates, or that the backs of the inhabitants
of America are now as large as the Andes, and
anon shrivelled to a pea? The appetite of man,
at least of numerous bodies of men, is not, to
any sensible degree, a fluctuating quantity, and
the pound of beef and
.bread per day, the ordinary
allowance of a sailor, may suffice for the average
of all mankind throughout all time. The want
of clothing may vary with the climate and the
season, but in general it may be described to be
almost as permanent and little fluctuating as the
demand for food. On these great all-pervading
appetites and wants are founded by far the
greater portion of the employment of the people,
and notably that portion which is at present de.
ficient, because the Legislature has interposed
to prevent and prohibit the exchange of clothing
for food and food for clothing. As there is little
or no fluctuation in the wants, so there can be
little or no fluctuation in employment, except
such as is caused by legislators interfering with
the demand and the supply.
There is, indeed, one remarkable—fluctuation
we cannot call it, but—change going on, which
we think the three Noble Legislators have over-
looked. Backs in want of clothing, and hands
needing axes and knives, plates and dishes, are
increasing in America with unexampled ra-
pidity ; in England the power of producing
those commodities seems almost boundless,
and as it can be brought into use here,
stomachs craving for food come also into
existence. Why, the Americans are not allowed
to supply themselves with clothing and cutlery,
and why our people are not allowed to obtain
food from them, is best known to the legis-
lators, who find an excuse for the distress they
cause, in alleging, that employment fluctuates.
With, perhaps, the single exception of an agri-
cultural population, living in the immediate vi-
cinity of a thriving manufacturing population,
all whose wants the agriculturists are unable to
to condition e
x peri
eonfcseoc society
sousu p‘pvleyl,l
to advance in
fluctuation, but steadily
wecalculated
conceiven ev
el: o
never-ending prosperity, as the manufacturing
population of Great Britain engaged in supplying
the ever-growing wants of the rapidly-increasing
population of America. The beautiful wisdom of
the adaptation of our great manufacturing power
to the wants of the inhabitants of America, and
of our want of food to their rude produce, seems
as wholly lost on Corn-law making legislators, as
harmony is lost on one void of hearing; and they
have rudely and savagely crushed what they
did not comprehend. Lords MELBOURNE and
Rfrow have, on several occasions, shown them-
selves so fatuously, ignorant on these high topics,
that we do not wonder at their holding up any
blind that might shut out thelight; but it
grieves us to see one of the mightiest spirits of
i i
the age following, though it be but for a moment,
in the wake of these two polished, perhaps, and
agreeable, but not wise and reflecting, Peers.

It would be preposterous in us to speculate in
our darkness on the Ministerial plan for im-
proving the Corn-laws, when on Wednesday
we shall have all the information Sir ROBERT
PEEL can give. But we notice in the Votes of
the House of Commons a long list of complicated
records and accounts as to the price of corn at
various places and times, and which have been
ordered to be laid befoertetsh.at
THhoeuysea;raendvesrvye
must say at once, that the question cannot be
settled by statistical details.
likely to serve the purpose of complicating the
matter, and confusing the public mind. They
cannot throw any light on it.
What we want is the statistics of what would

be, and what would have been, had there been •
no Corn-law; what these accounts will give us,
will be facts in subordination to that law without
any test or comparison of their value. So few
persons have any knowledge of the value of sta-
tistical facts, that to throw them before the
public without any such test, is like pronouncing
a sonorous passage of gibberish and calling it
Greek, in the presence of those who have never
learnt the language. It appears very fine, and very
conclusive, as to the beauty of the tongue, but
they do not understand one word of it.
The public must not, and we believe will not,
allow themselves to be mystified by any such
cunning and quackish contrivance. They have
elevated the question into the region of morals,
and demand justice not calculations. The cir-
cumstances of the country, they say, are now
different •from what they were at any former
period, and they assert that no conduct then
adopted, no facts then true, can now form a
proper guide for the Legislature. " The
CREATOR," AS BLACKSTONE says in the Second
Section of his Introduction, " has so intimately
connected, so inseparably interwoven the laws
of eternal justice with the happiness of each indi-
vidual, that the latter cannot be obtained but by
observing the former; and if the former be punc-
tually obeyed, it cannot but introduce the latter."
The public have that conviction in their hearts, and
they demand that the Legislitture, instead of
following its own fancies, under the expectation
which experience has demonstrated to be de-
lusive, shall follow the laws of eternal justice.

We insert the following paragraph on the authority o'
the Morning Chronicle :

Haying, to our great surprise, learned yesterday forenoon,
that a bill had been found on Thursday last, by the Grand Jury
of the Central Criminal Court, at the Old Bailey, against
Alexander Baring, now Baron Ashburton, Francis Baring, and
Humphrey Nildmay, on an indictment preferred by Thomas
Kinder, we afterwards ascertained that the information was
correct.

The proceedings before a Grand Jury are, of course, ex
parte. In stating the bare fact of the finding of this
bill, we need nut say that we have no wish to g►ve pain
either to the Noble Baron, or the two gentlemen
against whom, as well as himself, the bill has been
found. But whatever may be the issue of this pro-
secution in a Criminal Court, it can hardly be necessary
for us to observe that a most important mission
having been confided by the Government to Lord Ashburton,
the public interests require that the effect which such a grave
proceeding as that to which we have adverted, may have on
the result of that mission, should at least be known and made
the subject of deliberation, before the departure of the Noble
Lord.

We presume this criminal charge applies to Lord
ASHBURTON'S connection with the United States Bank,
against some of the late Directors of which a similar
indictment has been found in the United States. The
operations of that Bank having extended to England
as well as the United States, they expose its
partners here, as well as those there, probably, to
such a charge. We hope the Noble Lord will come
clear and clean out of the matter, but after this it
will be utterly impossible for him to shake him-
sel f clear of his connection with that disreputable
corporation. Of all the Journals of the metro-
polis, Tory and Liberal, and perhaps of the em-
pire, The Sun was the only one to object to
Lord ASBURTON'S appointment as an Ambassador
to the United States, on the ground of his long
and intimate connection with the monied, which is one
of the political, parties of the United States. The in-
dictment, whatever may be its result, shows that our
objections were well founded. We doubt now whether
Lord ASHBURTON will proceed on his mission.

Mr. WALLACE'S motion to vindicate and assert the
right of Members, in the people's House of Parliament,
to address the House on the presentation of the peti-
tions of the people, will come on upon Monday ; and it
is highly important to have this right restored. The
practice is sanctioned, we believe, by the earliest and past
times of freedom of speech, which privilege is cautiously
guarded by every Speaker of the House of Commons,
when called upon to attend the Crown, on each succeed-
ing Speech from the MONARCH at the opening of every
Session of Parliament.

The right, then, is clear, and the whole question is
involved in the expediency or inexpediency, as regards
the personal convenience and comfort of Members, of
exercising the right, or compromising it, with A view to
expedite public business generally. No one can, in these
days, witness the mode of presenting petitions- to the
House of Commons, and the manner in which they are
received by the Clerk, at the table, without regretting
the cause of such a departure from what so long held a
high place in the minds of free-born and enlightened
Englishmen, and that expediency should have stepped in
virtually to abrogate a usage and a right congenial to
the spirit of Magna Charta.
No one will deny the great inconvenience which fol-
lowed the lengthened discussions which for a time took
place on the presentation of petitions, for some years
after the passing of the Reform Bill. At that period the
whole energies of the nation were called into action, and
were deeply excited; and, consequently, petitions, to the
House of Commons especially, may be said to have been
almost innumerable. But this state of things has long
gone by, the petitions have decreased in proportion, and
of late years exist only on great and particular and try
ing occasions.

It is well known that the people have felt extreme dis-
gust at the manner in which their petitions have been
treated, and that from one end of the kingdom to the
other they have been advised to hold both Houses of
Parliament in contempt, and to petition no more.
Extremes are always bad. For years past no Mem-
ber of the House of Commons has been permitted in any
way whatever to explain, and.far less to discuss, the peti-
tions intrusted to him, even by his own constituents. Can
this possibly be right ? Is it due to a suffering, and
starving, and patient people thus to treat them ? This
is no party question, and we believe the result will prove
it so, for we are greatly mistaken if Mr. WALLACE'S
motion does not meet with general support from the
Conservative side of the House. We wish Mr. WAL-
LACE good speed ; he is engaged in a righteous cause,
and will find himself supported on a division by the
liberal and independent Members. Let every advocate,
then, of freedom of speech and fair play be in his
place on Monday by five o'clock, so that the Member for
Greenock may have their countenance, and that support
which his motion deserves.

The Madrid Papers received are to the 28th ult. On
the 27th the Chamber of Deputies was still occupied
with the Address, the debate upon which was of no in-
terest out of Spain. One sale was effected in the Five
per Cents. for cash on the Madrid Bourse on the 27th
ult., which was done at 32. There were three bargains
made at 32i and 321, at 60 days, to the amount of
14,960,000 reals.

We have received the whole of the Paris Journals of
Thursday. Two subjects—the legal responsibility of the
printers of newspapers, and the propositions for electoral
reform, which have been brought before the bureaux of
the Chamber, with the view to discussion in the Chamber
itself—nearly engross the original columns of the Paris
Journals. Our Contemporaries differ as to the degree
of responsibility which should weigh upon the printer
in all other cases than that of newspapers, but they are
quite agreed as to the hardship of the addition which has
been made by the Legislature as regards the responsi-
bility of printers, to the other important guarantees
against abuses of the Press. The Constitutionnel says
there can be no objection to this responsibility in other
cases than that of the journals, for without it facilities
would be afforded to anonymous pamphleteers, and
others, attacking religion, morality, and social order ;
and who, having entered into none of the engagements,
without which a journal cannot be published, would set
the law, as applicable only to themselves, at defiance. But
considering that before a daily journal can be published
a deposit must be made of so large a sum as one hundred
thousand francs, in order that, in the event of a convic-
tion for libel, there may be always a fund at hand out
of which to take the damages, and that there must also
be a registered editor, legally responsible for the con-
tents of the journal, they contend that the law of which
they complain should either be repealed, or at least be re-
garded by the Government and by the-tribunals as a dead
letter. Two or three of the Paris journals observe that
to enforce this law is to re-establish a censorship,
viz. the censorship of the printer who is employed by
the newspaper proprietors ; for, say they, if the printer
of a newspaper is to be held responsible for the articles
which appear in it, he will take care not to allow any
article to appear until he shall have read it carefully,
and ascertained, even to the satisfaction of his timidity,
that it contains neither absolute nor constructive libel. In
order that this observation may be fully understood
by our readers, it may be proper to remark that in
France the number of printers is limited, and that the
projectors of a newspaper cannot, as in England, make
use of their own types, and give to any person the
i
nominal title of printer of the paper, for which all that s
necessary is to take out a licence, which cannot be
refused, and which costs only one shilling. In France,
an established printer having his own types and presses
must be employed, and if the law declaring the respon-
sibility of printers for works to which their names are
affixed is to be rigidly enforced in the case of daily
journals, it is but natural to suppose that the printer

will insist upon controlling the lucubrations of the
writer, and on excluding everything which may appear
to his'timidity to be susceptible of prosecution.
The observations of the journals on the propositions
for electoral reform are without novelty, and, therefore,
without interest. The public have had so much argu-
,ment on this question already, that it will be quite suffi-
cient for us to notice the comments of the Paris Press,
when the question shall again come, but in a more direct
shape than hitherto, before the Chamber.
The Courrier Francais has an-article on the budget
of 1843, in which it endeavours to show that the Minis-
try are relieving the Treasury at the cost of the dignity (
and security of the country. This is a repetition of the
old charge, but the Courrier now endeavours to give
force to it by reference to figures. Our Contemporary
begins with the economy which has been effected in the
department of the Minister of 'War. Here, it says, less
than 30 millions are saved annually, whilst the army is
improperly weakened by the reduction of 82,000 men,
and the expense of calling them up again would, adds
the Courrier, more than double the amount of the
saving effected by the reduction. This we imagine must
depend entirely upon the period at which an additional
force might be considered necessary. If, next year, for
instance, the 82,000 men now reduced should be again
incorporated in the army, the saving would be nominal,
but the duration of peace would render an increase cf
the army unnecessary, and an annual saving of only 30
millions, which is the estimate of the Courrier, but which
is not exactly that of the Government, would, if frequently
repeated, form a very important item. The chief com-
plaint of the Courrier, however, is directed against what
has been done in the naval department. It says :
" The Budget of the Marine for 1842 amounted to 136 mil-
lions, including an expenditure of fourteen millions for the
transatlantic mail steamers, nearly six millions for the colonial
service, and a first credit of 4,400,000 fr. for extraordinary
works. Thus in reality the real amount of the ordinary expen-
diture of this Budget was only 112 millions. The Budget of
1843 being fixed at 98,763,026 fr. the Ministry pretends to
have effected an economy of about thirty-seven millions, which
is reduced to twenty-five millions, if we deduct the twelve
millions of credit opened for the building of transatlantic stea-
mers, and which credit is almost exhausted. Let us now see
to what extent our navy has been reduced and dislocated in
order to obtain this reduction of twenty-five millions. The
primitive Budget for 1841 supposed the existence of 130 armed
vessels, of which eight were to be ships of the line, and an
effective force of 22,464 seamen. In order to be prepared for
events, the Ministry of the Ist March had ordered for 1841,
and the Budget of 1842 had also provided for a force of 225
vessels, of which twenty were to be ships of the line, twenty-
two frigates, and thirty-five steamers, and the number of sea-
men was to be 45,474. The Budget of 1843 proves that a
disarmament has taken place, or is to take place, although
another name has jesuitically been given to it. In the first
place the number of vessels is reduced to 158, and instead of
45,474 seamen afloat, there are to-be only 28,230. Our fleet,
therefore, is reduced two-fifths, whilst scarcely one-fifth is
economised on the amount of the Budget."

To the English men of war proceeding to the Chinese seas,
the passage of which by the Azores, or the Canaries, we have
announced, we must add, the Siren brig, and the transports,
Belleisle, Sapphire and Apollo. The last three have troops
on board. The Belleisle alone, an old ship of the line, con •
verted into a transport, has on board the 98th Regiment, con-
sisting of 750 men.
The Admiralty appear to intend to re-inforce the squadron
of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, on the coast of the United
States and the Gulf of Mexico. Besides the Illustrious, of
74 guns, which has joined him, the Implacable, likewise, of
74 guns, will, it is said, soon follow. The Warspite, a 50-gun
frigate, which is going to take Lord Ashburton to the United
States will remain attached to the same station. The Vin-
dictive frigate was likewise intended for the same destination,
but was nearly lest on Wednesday last, on entering Portsmouth
harbour. She received so much damage that it will take some
time to repair ; but it is thought that the Admiralty will send
in her stead one of the vessels of the .same class.
It is to be observed that all the vessels which we have men-
tioned are real men of war, each provided with a considerable
artillery. The squadron of Sir C. Adam is now composed, of
the line the Illustrious, a 36 •gun frigate, three of 26 guns,
a brig of 16 or 20 guns, seven schooners or cutters, carrying
each from 2 to 6 guns ; and nine steamers, several of which
are of 200-horse power.— Constitutionnel.
BOURSE-I'Am, THURSDAY, FEB. 3.

Furs Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Prier.
Prencn 5 per Conti ll9 .. 111. 10 .. 1 9 .. 119
4 per Cents lO9 ... 1 3 ... 103 ... I
3 per Cents.... 79 sr, P_ 80 ... :9 85 ... 80
Loan
Hank of prance
LaHitte Sank I,ooof. Shares 1020 ...11.20 ...1017 50 ...le2o
5.000 f. Shares £O3O ...5020 ...5030 ...5030
Heleian Bank
Belgian 5 per Cents.
S per Cents., 1640 105% ... 105% ... 10554 ... 195%
Spanish Active l5 ... 25% ... 1:4% ... '25
Passiwe 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5%
Old Deferred ...... . n% ... 5% ... 5% ... 6%
Dutch 2% per Cents.
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles. It. 13 . 342 50 ...- 142 50 ... 341 25 ... Sal 25
L. 8.......... ........ 212 50 ... 212 50 .. 211 25 ... 211 25
Rouen :AA .. 506 25 ... 51,5 • ... 505
Orleans .. ..............
Strasburg to Bale 230 ... 230 ... 230 ... 230
DUTCH FUNDS.—AlleTaltball. Faa. I.
Money. Bins.
• Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ........»........... 51% 51%
Jitto, ditto 6 per cent.
Amert Syndic, 4% per cent 91% 02
Ditto, ditto, 3% percent, 70% 16%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 15734 57%
Ditto (3535 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.... ..............
Exchange on London, One mouth l2 10
Two months .. 12 0
Hamburgh, One month 35 62%
Two months 35 43%
Dutch Papers, Feb. 2.
HAMBURG BOXSEIVHALLE, JAN. 29.

Bill;. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 1660
Anglo-Russian Loan llO% Joili
Bussian 5 per Cent. lit series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 104%
Russian 5 per Cont. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series —
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 69 118
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe, Cent 5l 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent —
Polish Bonds
New ticket -
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 7ti% 77%
Not wegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cenr...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l9

The Queen received, at one o'clock this day, the
Address from the House of Peers, and afterwards
that from the House of Commons. Shortly before
three o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended
by the Royal Suite, left Buckingham Palace for
Windsor Castle, where the Court is expected to re-
main until Thursday or Friday next, when her Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness will proceed to the Royal
Pavilion at Brighton.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND SIR ROBERT PEEL.
—lt was remarked on Thursday evening, that
Lord John Russell spoke with unwonted fluency
and boldness, as if the air of the Opposition
benches had acted like a tonic, had braced his
nerves and steeled his heart. Sir Robert Peel,
however, slouched into the House more ungainly
than usual, looking pale, timid, and conscience-
stricken. He hung down his head, a characteris-
tic which the Short-time Deputation noticed, and
seemed afraid to look either his friends or his op-
ponents in the face. His voice, too, when he
began to speak, indicated decrepitude, it was thin
and small, like the voice of a man who breathes
hydrogen gas. It soon rose, indeed, nearly to
its wonted fullness and pitch, but still the canker
care was visible in walk, gesture, and speech.
Sir Robert Peel was a happier man at the head
of the Opposition, worrying and teasing his op-
ponents, than he is as the head of the Ministry,
clothed with vast official responsibility, and made
to feel that a child cannot meet with a mischance
in this wide empire but he may be blamed for it.
The total number of deaths in the metropolis
during the week ending Jan. 29 was 1,116, being
an increase of 6 as compared with the previous
week. The deaths caused by diseases of the
lungs are still on the increase, having been in
the former week 374 and in, the latter 407. The
difference between the mortality in the autumn
and winter is most remarkable, as regards the
amount and the causes. For instance, the return
for the week ending the 2d OCtober—total deaths
857, and for the last week 1,116. The increase
has taken place chiefly among old people, and
those affected with diseases of the lungs. n the
week ending the. 2d October the deaths were—
old age 52, diseases of the lungs 234; while dur-
ing the last week they were respectively 109 and
407, being in the latter case somewhat less, and
in the former more than double.

EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH. —By ten
o'clock on Friday morning, we had lying before us an
Express Edition of The Sun, containing the whole of the
debate in both Houses on the Address ! Great credit
is due to the spirited Proprietor of that paper for the
efforts thus made to put the public in possession of in-
formation universally and ardently looked for. The
Express was sent to Leeds by special train. One of the
papers was addressed to us, with Mr. Young's compli-
ments ; for which we beg thus publicly to thank that
gentleman. This has enabled us to give the conclusion
of the debate, including Sir Robert Peel's speech, to
many thousands of readers, who would otherwise have
had to wait till next week. We believe the dispatch
evinced in this instance is unequalled.—Northern Star.
THE SUN. —As in common justice, no less
than in courtesy bound, we, have on more than one
occasion awarded the praise due for extraordinary exer-
tions to the conductors of The Sun. But of all the
efforts made by the Metropolitan press generally,
and by the above-named newspaper in particular,
that which is in itself most astonishing, and which most
claims thankful acknowledgment from the Provincial
Press, is the completion of the whole debate of Thursday
evening by The Sun, and the transmission of the Report
to all quarters of the kingdom the same night by Express.
—Norfolk Chronicle.

THE WOOL TRADE.—We had anticipated
, that the first month of the new year would have enabled
us to furnish our friends with a more pleasing account of
trade than we have been enabled to do for a long time
past ; but we are compelled to say that we are disap-.
pointed, as we cannot perceive or learn that any actual
revival has taken. When January comes, and the ac-
counts are all arranged, and the profits of the last year
reckoned up, we expect to see merchants and dealers
come into the market and buy and sell with renewed
spirit and energy. We are, however, disappointed, and
we much fear the reason of it may be—that the balance
of profit has not been so large us on former occasions,
which will at once account for the want of a display of
the usual January spirit.—Sherbourne Journal.

EVENING SUN

SUMMARY OF NEVIS

AND
Ptibitt aPtlitOn•

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN. t•
The Constitutionnel publishes a report, to which we ad
tach no credit, that the Convention between France a%
the Great Powers relative to the suppression of the slit',
pp
trade and the right of search was ratified several daP
before the debate on the Address.
The same Journal states that the French Cabinet
settled the basis of the Belgian commercial treaty, and
its conclusion may be shortly expected. the
A letter from Valencia, in the Debats, states that to
Bisbop of Calahorra has arrived there on his wai
se
Majorca, where he is to reside in exile frail his dic'eefo
for four years, by order of Espartero's Government,
having protested against the confiscation of his epii,cePo,
I°'
property. The Bishops of Pampeluna, La Seu
0s
and Palentia, with the Archbishops of Seville, Sara, for
and Cordova, have been removed from their dioceses
similar reasons.
strange scene took placain the French Challabcril-f
Deputies on Thursday. M. Dussolier, a deputy
dressed a letter to the President, stating that haven of
certained that he was in error in attributing a crbate
departmental bribery to the Government in the ue,i a,
on the address, which had provoked an angry dise,as„,".°to
he considered it due to his conscience and theMin'ss'utr
resign his seat. The Chamber opposed this, but
sequently agreed to refer the letter, and the feeling Pl
duced by it, to the Minister of the Interior. f 31.
The Presse gives the following ugly account 0 d,
Isambert's acquaintance with the contents of a letter h
dressed to the Minister of Justice, which made sit `h-
noise during the debate:—,, M. Isambert was a th:ere.
nistry of Justice, talking with his cousin, who is '-",allea
tary- General of that department. The latter was,,--;ster,
out of the room for a moment td speak to the A"
rate
and during his absence M. Isambert took up the Pri
communication in question and read it."
A Constantinople letter of the 12th ult., in thee bad
burgh Gazette, says that the. Baron de Bourquenl old
presented a note to the Porte on the affair of Tlll3'S' 414
had shown that the effect of a Turkish expedition agae",il
such
eye Bey of that place would be viewed with a cell 011
eye at Paris, and would put the French Cabinet in The
a state as to be unable to foresee the consequeneee,' by
Grand Vizier, this letter adds, is not at all trounl tort
this communication of the French Minister : the 'a
nevertheless, expects a favourable answer.
The day of the Prince of Wales' christening s,sitelire
lebrated at Halle by a dinner given at the hove,isoll
Crown Prince. Dr. Gesemin presided. Dr. Pa. pr.
was present, as was Privy Councillor Delbru,se'esb"
Davison gave the King of Prussia's health, -1-ir".4, the
min that of Queen Victoria. Professor Leo gav—rieti'
health of the young Prince of Wales ; Professors
lander
The Crown as a toast " Old Englnd." lal
Pri nce of Ha over is is still very Inlic
disposed.
• PURL= OPINION. hgo e
The Times, after playing fast and loose with t"e, ofl
law's—that is to say, boldly advocating a changiTiroid.
day, and the next venturing nothing beyond a "tiOe
halting, doubtful opinion on the subject ; one,. sof;
treating it as the question of questions ; at anotbt'ogol
fering it to drop to leeward, as though it wereapd
no account ; now coquetting with the sliding sea',e;ool);
now with a fixed duty—the Times, after thus caPr,'", fit to
flirting with the Corn-laws, has at length thougf.,), foht
adopt The Sun's views on the subject—views 1",,i-rote
years we have consistently maintained, alike, t'ofollt
good and evil report. For proofs of the justice fo'
assertion we refer our readers to an article in the d Ol
which will be found under the head of " Spirit -
Public Journals." t
of t"
The Post makes a few remarks on the subjee-
. •

sliding scale ; and, alluding to the Corn-law grit, '',
and the long continuance of the impost, says th 110111),
the last seven years, it has required revision, an
otio
been revised, the fault lies with the Whigs, and n°
the Conservatives. solos;
The Chronicle urges on Sir Robert Peel the 9b
,10i
necessity of his settling the question of the Corp,sl#,
once and for all, and adds, " Every alteiation a e
affecting so many interests is necessarily attendeeloi
injurious effects to individuals ; and if any half4n otr'
be now introduced, the continued distress of the°,
must, ere long, compel a re-consideration of the cri
and the adoption of further changes."
The Herold contains an article suggested blot
Melbourne's and Brougham's speeches on We",.osee'o
night, wherein it observes—" The Opposition Fee' ostbit
resolved on extensive alterations in the Corn-laW,n,
boyish principle of shutting their eyes, openill''
bl
mouths, and seeing what the gods will send the93itecl
present law requires amendment, that is adinl, to
every one ; but the principle on which it ougti ieb t
amended is not an expectation of advantages WU
one actually foresees, or can name." e
istpe
The Advertiser is of opinion that, as the 4
longer any attempt made by the Tories to cliv;ooi
gross error of their assertion that there is no let,
food, there may be some reason to hope that '",bo
Government will not longer delay to legislate for
lief of the people's necessities.
PAIZZIA.BIENTARY.
„
Lord Mounteagle gave notice last night that lior
on February 17th, move for a Committee of.thle.
to inquire into the Exchequer bill fraud and for :901
Their Lordships were informed that her -'
would receive their addgess this day at one o'el°c ,
• 'or
then adjourned. otlti
In the Commons, after the presentation of P
several of which were directed against the. Col: do)
Mr. Brotherton gave notice of a motion to preve9'
ful business being begun after 12 o'clock.
In reply to Mr. O'Connell, Sir R. Peel stai.t.eat'elfit`,
Government meant to introduce a Bill inueennees4/
set at rest all doubts about Presbyterian e39rr",
Ireland, contracted in ignorance of law; but 'lid OP'
subject is to be taken into consideration, an
quently a comprehensive measure introduced. for `.
Lord John Russell gave notice of a motion 001
production of some correspondence relative t2eso'"
signation of Judges in Scotland and Ireland. IP J‘,
Lord smells a Tory job ? . to-
„AI
Mr. Godson undertakes Mr. Sergeant Talfor,w-tiyrie
and is to bring forward on Tuesday the u°'"
question. ••05
The case of Mr. Elton, the cruelly treate-:0,-
,
1.
man, is to be brought under the notice of the )))
to
Wednesday.
Church-Rates, Sir Robert Peel said, in,,triPi
questions, he had no intention whatever to ine-" os•
The Dissenters must bear in-patience their but' V' d
Bribery, Sir Robert Peel told Mr. Dutic°-car
could not stop to suppress, he is so eager t°
V
forward his great commercial reforms. that
On the Cori-laws, Sir Robert Peel announee„e 0.40
will propose his plan on Wednesday, eomtollsco#7
bate, print his propositions, and resume the "
on the ensuing Friday or Monday. itetl,ol
The Report on the Address was agreed te, `os`,te
O'Connell had expressed his serious apprehens,lcold
the proposed alterations in the registration "
tbt
prive Irishmen bf their liberty, Of
An Address to Prince Albert on the birth
Prince of Wales was adopted. arifinve
A Bill to remedy an error made in the APl3r-;
iD
Act of last Session, was, after obtaining lean
the duced and read a first ime.
not' etli
ENIGRATION was brought under the no-1 a0,,,10
House by Lord Stanley, who denied that theoel,0:11
pent entertained an idea of instituting
scheme, thereby knocking down another delllsl,.'es
„,
the pretended friends of the people and the 1°;011Asi
spread abroad. There is no occasion to prolo°,',7l,ey cad{
tion ; the people are running away as fast 99,;,..
106.000 having expatriated themselves last Ye-I,tch ijoie
Stanley, after pointing out the rapid progress ``if eei
South Wales had made—and after pointing etici cl39fifro'
series of mischievous blunders committed, OA to i°,•tlie
made, by former Colonial Ministers, propose".oo9} ;
duce a Bill which should take away the discreticolefia,e
Colonial Secretary over the waste lands of theeilia
and substitute for it an Act of Parliament, 9 Afl 11,1,3
bt
land periodically by auction, beginning wit`,l,ioli 130
price, and allowing all the land not sold by a11'arc1.4.,,,„).1
sold at that upset price at any time aftersil ;he ;50
wishes to make the measure applicable to 9,' lei ",1
vies. Only one half the produce of the lan" 5, 0110#
be devoted to purposes of emigration. Traci
greater number of similar details are introoll-hri4 1 lit
Bill which the Noble Lord moved for leave t°-celD t
Lord John Russell expressed his itequiese etit
-
momr.
motion and
did
anadplan.
the same, though it
must
blow to his sanguine expectations. ell'
Leave to bring in a Bill to amend the PA's 005
and a Bill to re-survey the lands in Australia,
The House rose at Half-past Six o'clock. ,
0 ro
MONEY—TR.A.DE—COMMIV/3314- ori 011'
The number of unemployed men at PaisleY d ,
is 14,657. During the last week 120 have foutlfor
ment, but there have been 160 new claimant tor on ~00
The expulsion of the Presbyterian tens° 'tecli,j.eV
Lizard estate, in Ireland, is determined to he are re'
by the Ironmongers' Company. The POPieued to
fully excited, and express themselves detect'
tain possession as long as they can. „ the
COMMERCIAL SZEFOSIVI. -.on °° air'
After a lecture -delivered by Colonel Thou'Pkcie
Corn-laws, on Wednesday in Maryleboue,
oo ,
man stated that "At Wilford he had seen then meat' ILO
round a butcher's shop, waiting to buy the i'fra ro °l!'
they were told they could not have it, as Lt 1h003;,,1re
for the hounds of a gentleman in the neighr,cl,,
tld in Leiee% to be

ye;tetradnayAenltei-nCinogr:l-;fiarw.
Leader, n
Ahre.p._ ,
stated itj.iied tibi,
opinion that the voice of the people. had color- but ;,•!'
attention of a Tory Government to these 191v6ifiaist7,.;
warned them against expecting much front the f 0 the
The seeteleisassioonneof
of Dukethtriose of Buckinglia° • -ar°l trice,
Cabin was be°
to make people think that something great was t°
by the
cleverly
alt.
NAVAL AND MIX ITA-- d 1,1
11 Neee -toy
About 400 of the 7 •
2d Highlanders will p . ,„ g , 1
Brighton Railway durin her gajeDv 1101
', to do duty during h coy .0
at the Pavilion. All obs • caused bf t",..,e;.; tlaP h'
truction,
ed by ti..- tve
slip, it was expected,
would be remoi, ~ 1 oat
that the •
trains can proceed continuously throug•l-
whole line. played politic jao

SOW
A sir& . Mum' AND PO' JCS. , at 0
a _O2 'm on of lunacy was held yesteruaY Jeri)" 6
ilp Middlesex, upon Mr. Richard Strong, for"„ci tho
hemerchantha in the City, when a verdict was returned
be been of unsound mind since the 29th
r, 1839.
under girl
sixteen years of
At the Central Criminal Court, James iloplib'sa
indicted for the abduction of Mary Ann Howell, .:i0
age, living With
Rochester-row Westminster. The particulars
videoe
ease have already appeared in The Sue. After e, eatie'
had been heard, a number of higblPrespectabe fool
men and tradesmen, Who had known the priionytel
ten to forty years, gave him a high charmher parePt; die

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