The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-27 00:00:00

gitt erilreoo. OUTGOING NAILS. The saalle he Liana. spals, sad °Welter will be made ip WASiig, Doe. 27. The oath flie British North Amities sad +be Ilaibid Matte will be made as teresecriew eves*, Dee. 28. The Will ladle Neils, ieelediag lierisade, Hemuutelt.ladial Norm li arelesae, New Odessa, sad Neale:4mi ese NINA hashers. Si. ites44-Nieirepa, New Gesaada, Chill, w i l lserm, will be mods up ea tke menhir el lea. 2. The far Mederie, the Dada, sad Basses Apemen' kb MAI II 1 kb the "min of Jas. 4. Thelma* eid Mareeillee to the 110411011111111111. e ap as Nape, Ogles. Leh% Neer Lisa te., will be mad the iambi of Jen. 7. Ca he Gibraltar, Nolte, Greece, tbe l e aks Iskade, The link Calks, led* sad Mae. Ileatheoptat, will be sale ap OR the evealag el Jas. 19. COO VAT= AT imam Nimes mitar.4o.l.e.—reggpslth. Os. ........ Afteisra.l l b. Oa MI. 5r..........Atim5n. Ul b. Co• ;OYIDON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 37. - _ . Ara the old principle of knelt di NM Wawa the in o ther words, of deriving light from darknem, So vietise for the hied/once of trade and the bolstering rents, in anialgamodeg, have hit upon a oesamoa up of ease. They are to ferm—As Aseemstion for the .Peolation of lodttotry aid Capikti. This pro in the shape of a title makes not russilightest &Irks to property in the soil, nor to the rents derived from it. The as lords and squires have not the remotest ides of swan such intermits as therm. That is a selashasee of which they are not Übe respected, or, at lead, which they are ashamed to avow. Capital sad its free prodeetivenees, labour sod its commeheaded sada the doubtful ternis of 1--secit are affected to form the abject of landked anzety. After . the y are right in their aim, although mat heasatably is error as to the ranee by which it is to be &dolma. Fee had ought to be of the same and waned by the sane laws, as teaser chi es nature, pital--mon valuable, indeed,for its intketreeti bility, but subject to the ass °madam a = at z mewed, sad shamed. aid worked, sad with,s aay abet material that industry is . oyed ilk favourite comparison sad Naftalis of the tlay is that patented by the matieurins diarists el Canada sad of the 'Coiled States, the one desert, the ether everfiewieg with moieties; the one sidle, the ether fertile ; one diet with industry sad astivity, the other eassmed cd the mem elements bh sad vales, bat at sad dad. Seeks attribute ell this to political isaitatiomr.—to a monarchic se a republices, a domestic or a Colonial -aftos 'oven meet. There must be something in these causes. Bat we attribute the great different* between the swims less to them, thin to the mobility of capital south Cl the frostier, and to land partaking of this so mas easy in England, and of mane in its de is to fix capital and to fetter property. wmaie the race, which bad the tendency, mad* laws to of aid wisdoms it. There is nothing in which the Anglo-Sazon branch in America so much differs from its pa ea t etas es in this. Their tendency is to max capital, and they have made laws in muse a. Ask an Englishman what he is worth, he will tell you so much a year. In his ealeulatiou he resolves *Teething • into an annuity. Ask an American what he is worth, and be will tell oar so many hundred thousand dollars. Be thinks of capital, JOllll BULL Of revenue. JONA- Inua may . male a great many mistakes and do a great many injustices by his dislike of the fluid yearly returns. lie wars against funds, end banks, and loans, and even rents, with an autumn and a fame rim that dose him little honour. His view, however gives a meth sore monde' sad constant impulaio; to industry, than the lacy and luxurious economic principle of the Englishman. who seeks to ensure a certain yearly income for himself and his sons, and afterwards for his son's sons. We do think that this universal tendency to tie reppaty in Etglond, landed or monied, and to rr it mortmain to a way, not only requires a check, bat is likely to receive very severe checks. We would be very tarry to see this done violently, or prematurely t the course of things will do this with quite sufilment harehnem. And if we have menticsed the necessity, it is rather to warn people that it im pends then to precipitate its action. And with roped more especially to the fettering of Fogerty in the soil, we do not think that the of these realms will be able to perpetuate l a t r i:ll 3er wl e l the degree of wealth and power requisite to it, by boning turn upon land. Land is the groat means of subsistence to an immensely increasing pordatioe. To build any monopoly upon it, or derive any profit at all, which may be open to question, were Just as feasible and as wise as for an Arab chief to seek to derive revenue from a well, even from one that his ancestors may have pos. soma aad sank, mike himself deepened and coverod. Other aristocracies have existed and perpetuated themselves by the meaning and employ of capital, an well as land. Such were the Roman, the Venetian, the Flo:intim, the Dutch. Our noble houses mast imitate them, if they would keep up the eleaseateel their sapetiority. Awl if they do and smut cantinas to make the hag the basis of their fortunes, then they must trade in lead, open it to commercial capital, remove its fences, give up its privileges; for by bang political sad social iabsnce spot it, they sanely salt it for commercial uses, and reader it unprofitable. We have indicated an inevit able mellituss in the poem= and expl?itatiole (we have ao such word) of land. If there Is one thing more than ameba that must accelerate that revolu tion, it would be • return to a corn law of any kind. Fee we have so doubt, that this would bring it on by violence, not illegal violence, but such violence as our ocestitution knows very well how to motion, nay, to summit, at times. By allowing free trade, however , is corn, as in all the aristocracy will have time to tarn them selves and their wealth. They have foil power at pre test, to attract capital to land; it is es plentiful and as cheap as am Mr. Dine= would have it. All :squired is to give fair inedifists, not those that would be by the osp-in-hand, ▪ Wit , routine, g trol d d world farmer, bat such es commercial itfor in Lad would in sist on. Throw the lead open, sad such specu lators would soon be fond. at if the upper &sem keep thinking of mains' rusts, of mortgages and vi tals, of local Memos, oldie readmit eitheir squire arcing dynasty, they p like the Irish 'mi kado, sad be swallowed sans day *in their glory* rib:i s Labonmate, perhaps, co an Incumberad Bill. There is, however, a still shorter and ewer way to nia than say we have masted oat. And that is the way rec ommended by the united Amosialion for the Protection of Capital and Industry. For the geatlemsa would not only keep the land fat tened, bat would fetter espial after the same frables. They would pack up the exist ing farmer and his mph'', the shipping owner sad hi sis s a . and each mandactarer in his . They would make the home market or rather try to make it so fur a Sew, whilst the foreign trade, with its incomings mad its weeping,. they _would utterly intro,. in other wade, they woild so sterilise and immobiliseaping,aping, aping, and diminish Its general activity and prodao ties, is men to favour a few parcels of it, that the =t income of capital in this country would be to such a degree es to reader the payment to the state sad to lent capital impoesible. Indadrial and free capital would run away betimes him the inevitable catastrophe, whilst the debts of the buggered better cleans, sad the waste of the faminearicken labourer, would fall urn the land, as they have dens in Ireland, like a devastation. Such would be the infallible end of carrying out the views of the new meociation err the nun of capital sad ladostry. Tan British Causal-Oeseral at Outrank anon tugbeen • natters with* high _hand. His acious not being satladed with the excitement of onadneting with three of the goverainsnatear f al e =t e rt ones, he hos actually ecaunenesd hostilities against the state of Honduras. On the 4th oiled October, the rairer in command of the British war steamer, Plainpsr, at the instiga ties of Mr. CELIMULD, landed a body of seen at Itplulle tog, the Atlantic coast of Hombres), took is l~llrat. sad if we aq audit a year lowietby ills Newleili ioN.#lli.awritreet , 11, 11 1 ' to re ha bit the town, exacted some 1,200 dollars from the says Mr. FRANCIS Baows, in his evidence before inhabitants, an d, on re-enibarking fired a side at Mr. Iticanpo's committee, " was enforced by the , the town. The alleged object of these; violent pto- (fall of Dimmers thavegbent the whirls of India, was esediegs was to recover some hundred themmnds of %make it impseeible for say Brieish merchant, or dollars due to British merchants. , . astriative 'mordant, to trade with a foo4ner." The 1 Oa the 16th of the earns mouth we have a.= nt'bition was some few years afterwards repealed, what Moiler scene enacted eit air Limed of solar as coneented Britialt!sad native ships, but the la the Gulf of Couchette* (on the - Pacifie posit of double tine on imports and *sports in foreign Honduras), also at the itstigation of Mr. CHATFIELD. TONI& wu continued until an act plumed by Au armed force was there landed front the British the preset Governor-General in council, on the war-stessor Gorgon, which pulled down the lion- 4th of March, 1848, opened, so far as the dame flea and heisted the British. The pretext for Comploy were °weenie& the teed* with India ih i t f i le sons pinen o f t err itory was the sou- en equal terms to the ships of all nation. This act satisfastisa et the skims of certain British subjects came into force on the pith of March in the same by the Ho t; bat inter proolama- year. But it in no way keened the restrictions in non already te, it is stated that the emontander posed by oar navigation laws on the trade with India. of the liorgea intimated " that the government of It could still be carried on direct only in our own Mr Britannic Majesty soateeipbated, if nearamiry, the ships; and the 17th clause of the Bth and 9th Vio of other measures—that is to say, that even tons, esp. 88, emoting that the native smilers li o n daises main by the consul were satisfied, he of British India were not British seamen, still made weld still fed it seaway to take the course be it practically impomilde for ships so manned to trade bee adopted. ° with England . In our ports the Lascars were held This saber mdgmatioal seetenes refers to what is to be, though British subjects, foreign sailors, and the the meet d though not the most discre- ship must take another crew on board before &table part the 'Air, inasmuch as it brings she could clear outwards front our porta or from as into cobbles with the government of any port in our oolouies ; and as native Indian the United States. Mr. Mamma) had previously ships were British ships, and Lamers foreign intimated to the Honduras authorities his intention to milers, our act shut these vessel' out from lay bold of the lama of e, in order to establish all participation in foreign trade, so that the eoly 1 a lim on it, as a security for debts doe to British beyond-end trade in which they had any peat was subject& The Modems government, aware of their in carrying cotton to China and rice to lUurilles, own incapacity to withstand the skt British from both which places (there being but little back force, reso l ve d to th eni side Be rl en r the An ward freight from Canton, and Mauritius being a t i on of t h e u n it e d' States. Mi s r ames, the Ante. British colony, from which, therefore, they could 1111 t s i m „ envoy i n t h ese coun t r i e s, who has been z i t clear with a crew of Leocals), they bad to return blies with Mr. Man= about Mosquito almost entirely in ballast. Lord Deenomnz's Act and the Nicaragua Canal, desired no better ; he prepared the way for India to reap the full bene fi t of accepted what the Hosannas minister calls e • de. the abolition of our navigation acts. posit of the Island of Tigre, and on the 28th of Sep It was given in evidence by the late Capt. loot, , timber formally notified to t, the diplomatic agents of who had Uog laboured to have the British Indian ' all countries in Central America that " the Island of sailors acknowledged as British seamen, that they Ilgre. in the Golf of Fonseca [or Conchagual his were active, able, trustworthy sailors. He had even' been ceded to the Uni t edt States of North Anne in midwinter and stormy weather brought a vessel ries, by the republic o Honduras, far the time manned solely by these men to safe ancliorage in pen di ng cons tit st ionid ac tion, epee an existing eon. Portsmouth, and sixty of that native crew remained Teatime between the two repai- ." Mr. &WIEN in this weary far ten years without suffering any ill added, that " speedy possession " would be table in effects from the climate the name of the Usated State& that the existing pert But whether these Indian country 'hips and nee en d et h er m o nt i ons i n tee i s l a nd %m eld re main en. tive seamen trade with this country or not, the new altered, and that the United States would not look Me ovens a wide field to them of commercial enter-, whey can trade henceforth with our Australian with indiffersoos on " soy ineasere which shall affect Prise the minting cede of things " in Honduras. In the colonies and New Zealand, with Mauritius direst, he et this iodisation lir. Cumin]) carried his between the fast rising colony of Natal and the Mae• meshy into execatioo, and Mr. &WIWI has appealed ritius. They can carry cotton and ries to Canton, and he egged to his government, and is endesvoanng to tea from thence to the West Indies and the United sdr mei Repair excitement against Great Britain, in States . They can carry coolies to Jamaica, dm Wan 13tatse, by means ot the press. sugar to Marseilles or Trieste, and retina 'De really serious practical qaestion now at thence with assorted mess of manufactured goods Imo is between England and the United Bites. to Oaken& or Bombay.. But most important of all to Die proneeding to remark upon it, however, these ships is the growing intercourse with the Paci me wet be allowed to observe that the violent Bee " beetle numbers of Chinese labourers (says ear and domiseering deport= rot of British officers, New York correspondent) are now brought to San cavil and military, towards the feeble govern- Francisco ; their appearance there is hailed with ices. meets of Central Metric' is Trost eiscreditable and a promising trade is opening with the East to this country. 'lb. 180,000 square miles of that Indies." 1 country is wh ic h le by a population of some two First in position to carry these emigrants, and take minions, of which lees tt an 300,000 are whites, and advantage of this trade, are the native country ships li e i s Wit up i nto ha ie n _d ose n sta t es , cons t an tly and native seamen of India. There are no better sea squabblMg with each other. It is degrading . to ring ships than those of native Indian build; they a power hire England to disregard, in its transactions est longer than any other ships afloat. The native wilLI sacy whirr It tT itould be careful . lath those i ds observe of com to il and st !id e ntl a cr i s p h ts a ge ve n:franerylackeopendiinngteLligftrierancrad energy iust the United States and France. There has been, there an be no doubt that this liberty to Indian &wh e w , mach d i s h ones ty and Awni ng i n t h ese shipping will speedily increase the commercial marine sountries with regard to debts due to British sub- of India, and even now it is considerable. There were juts,but the unfortunate Central American Govern. 65 ships of 36,000 tons belonging to Bombay alone, have not always been in the wrong. The late and ten of these ships measured from 1070 to 1731 Menu DUNLOP. in his valuable work on: Central ton& Other native ports have also fine craft America (published posthumously) throws light afloat-0011/0 of the best teak ships the Com upon the manner in which some of the claims of PanY owned in its tradin g days are amongst British subjects against Central American govern- them, and as sound in their timbers and seg ments have been established. At p. 61 of the book worthy as ever. Bat the present trade is referred to we read:— no measure of what may be expected for At the request of Messrs. Medina and Oenl, I remained them Indian ships and sailors. There will no longer a day at Ban Meisel te enable the latter to write quiff be any difficulty in finding ships for native cotton, let British sossal regardisg .the forced sistributions ri it only be grown and well prepared, and st the coast, from' hie by the reen"e ent, rert t i V ) the "tee" °I and there will always ba ready Meath for it to Eng tope do having been seised on his refusal to pay the wiatrihation ; and as chi. INS part of souse roods pureireasd land and the other markets of Europe. Nor is it un by hi . from maw g nsi ks inen s tin in i n Arap nin i a n, b e was likely that it should on the construction of a railway &amides to make it appear as Briti-h property, and as each or water-passage across Panama be, with other Indian to meter a claim through her Britannic Majesty's consul- and China produce, carried largely by na. general. tive ships to San Francisco, and thence' The embroilment of the British and United States onward in our own and other vessels of 1 agents in these countries, however, has in reality little the west and north. Be that as it may, a sh in 1 or nothing to do with the question of justice to the the carrying traffic of the world lies open Wieseo governments of Central America. It M a continua- Indian ships. There is need that some measures dos of the antagonism between them, arising out of should be taken on the spot to emancipate the seamen , the disputes about the construction of a ship canal from the grasp of the native crimp, who have them from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific by the lake of in fact in a condition nothing short of slavery, a nd 1 Nicaragua. English and American adventurers demoralize them to the utmost in order to rob them of ' have been contending for the privilege of their wages. The would be no difficulty in n adeptin making this canal, and each have enlisted their in India the pla re n of our act (p r °posed to g rid ot national representatives on their side, by giving the the like nuisance o f crimps at home ), to sea " coatroverey the appearance of a national dispute. cfficers in the several ports, before whom all contrasts When Mr. CHATFIELD proposed to occupy an island w ith seamen s h ou ld b e ma d e , an d to make all inter• in the Gulf of Conehegua, upon which is situated one ference of the crimps illegal. This dose, we have no of the alternative termini at the Pacific end of the dou bt that the native built and native Manned com p rra canal, the jealousy of Mr. Sums was im- me rcial marine of India will soon hold a leading place niedimq slanted . slanted . He fancied (set unnaturally ) at sea, and that Mr. RICARDO will be gratefully re that allaa a step was a mere preliminary to establish- membered there as having won for India the greatest Zing on the part of Great Britain such a command of boon she has yet bad from England. the Pacific termination of the • canal as was being l ean& to be established in the name of the Mosquito ------- Lag an its Atlantic termination. To avert this =id encroachment he obtained from the government a conditional or temporary emirs of the island in question. The British Consul- Goma and the American Envoy have log rat e l and culpably allowed themselves to be set at L eads by the instigations of rivals for the job of ma ing the penal; and they are now endeavouring to make their respective governments Fortner' to the fray in which the have It is to be si t a re d ithat the Cabinets at Washington end St. James's will evince mare of dignified aelf segimte more regard for the interests of the nations Mires destinies they wield, and the peace of the weld, than to allow themselves to be involved in so miserable a squabble. Mr. ABBOTT Wrung made a most satisfactory public, declaration with regard to this same Nicaragua canal, and also the contemplated Panama railway, at the dinner of the Se3ttish Hos pital last St. Andrew's day. He *sid— le, hogged to say that Me United States asked tor no alder privilogas in either of them t o w. They would ask this manta to submit* with themselves towards the t of tame gnat objects. They would mit SlG:stVikautabisto joist with *m in guaranteeing neutrality et Mena in thaw great high_ways. T ea h ay uket far no ea skim privileges, sad they lid sat moan to grant any. The timitacy would be 'pea to all the world. This is, we are confident, all that the British nation , 2 me pats . r ei 11 wants; it is all that jostles requires i it is what coin- . . re 1 4 I :1 7 4 5 1 el is seem recommend'. We firmly believe that Mr. Lemma= faithfully expressed the views of his gommismiene sad that his government is sincere in its prdmisa Odom views. We therefore confidently en =bat the siendwhich has been raised by the angry of We CIISTITELD, and the somewhat head- I Isms pulpsose of Mr. Simms, will be dissipated 1 by See obi Min of the administrations at Wash ington awl IIL Ism& It would be lamentable to see mo smelt gevenumente precipitated into hostilities under false pesances, at the urgency of a few private spendaters. his to be bugled that mama will immediately be taken to reembeldish with the Central Americans the character of Englishmen for justice and deference to the rights and feelings of the weak, which recent events have rendered somewhat questionable. As to the United State., we trust that the cooler heads at the head of affairs will allay the ferment excited by their hot-headed employes. FRANCE. PARIS. WIDNISDAY, 11 A.M. Very few journals appear this morning, on account of Christmas. Those that do appear are completely devoid of news. Yesterday at the Passage de rOpera the Five per Cents. were in demand, and closed at 921.30 c. From Italy there is almost as little to notice. The Turin Chambers, as late as the 22nd, were busy in preparation only. The conservative candidates fn the chair of the Assembly are Pinelli and Bassompagni ; the democrats are putting forward M. Pareto. The King has received Count dAppane the new Austrian ambassador. The visit was not official, nor for the pupae of presenting credentials. On the 17th inst. at Home, Gen. &repay d'Hil- Hers passed a review of troops goiog to relieve the garrisons of Albano, Frascati, and Tivoli. Our usual Paris parcel of yesterday evening did not arrive until immediately before going to preen. It contains nothing of sufficient importance to justify delay. son's.. PARIS, Mc. U. rel . A• 110 Via. ar M F oney. Opening Highest. Lowat. Closing. ---- --- II per Cala ... 66 63 56 60 SI 73 NI 60 NI 70 6 per Cats. 92 43 92 20 92 45 92 15 91 40 a do. New Lem ...eeee . n 14 par Oats. :4 nn n 4 ger Cana Si " 1 ,. . labange on London : = T ry) 10 days, 25 43; 10 Lye. 26 2.14- Bari 4, 1640 5, 1942 994 ~ Roan Loan — ~ Do. um 11 ~ Bask Shares Bona. Pas and Orleans, 767 50 ; Paris and loses, 652 SO ; Boson and Hews, 140; lassioneg ad Ban 116 73; Oates (Va nes), 321 26; Orleans ad Swam; 407 50; Nee* 456 25; Paris sod assaarg. 254 7S ; Tars and Banta 276 26 ; Avignon and gaseUles, 217 SO ;Versailles (right beak). 207 50; Do. (let bank) 166 7s; 140Otlefean and Troyes, 107 50; Boulogne and Arnim, 16250. To no part of the world does the repeal of our fumi gation laws bold oat the Name prospects of advantage as to our possessioos in India. Up to the 25th of March, 1848, India laboured under a double system of restriatiou. Whilst the Company retained its exclusive commercial character, , all ships, except its own, were virtually prohibited from any trade with India. In 1815, the Ameri cans were, by special treaty with our government, al lowed to tradeurith the ports of Calcutta and Bombay. At a subserkaent period, the like liberty was granted to British ships. In 1819 the privilege was ceded to Portugal, and at later dates to other countries, as the Indian .gover nment continued to charge double duties on all imports and exports in foreign bottoms, but the privilege was practically of little value, and was, in fact,:med almost alone by the Americans and Poe. =nese. And even so lately as 1828 all native ships ship, except their own were, in common peith ig 2rdign ships, obliged by tlie Company So ry issue dam on experts, whether to formgn gob fro lay or to &egad or any itims. lir opsestios it this net:idiom, 5= THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 27, 1849. ALGIERS. The ifogilesr .Algeriers of the 20th, states that the last official accounts from Constantine of the state of affairs in the sub-division of Bathos are patio factory. The chiefs of the Ogled Bohan, Ogled Ali-ben-liabce, and other tribes, bad implored pardon. General Herb lik had returne e, not thinking his Femme any longer n ecessar y , d to Coo',tenant', and kit Colonel Canrobert to termi nate the submission of the tribes is the Bathos trict. In the rest of Algeria all was tranquil. The meet affairs in which the French have been engaged at Z atolls, &a, cost them 19 officers and 300 soldiers killed ; 61 officers and 600 soldiers wounded, end 200 men carried off by the cholera or fatigue. The AkAbar of Algiers, of the 20th, anneaces the arrival in that city of Mr. James Richardson, on his t way to explore the interior of Africa. His under taking, which takes place under the auspices of the Engliell government, la to be partly saisnulle, partly SPAIN. The Heraldo of Madrid of the 20th states that the committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the propo sition relative to the importation of iron, bad deli berated thereon, and that it was divided in opinion, some of the members insisting on the establishment of protective duties equivalent to prohibition, others that moderate duties only shall be proposed. The Heraldo expresses the belief that on this question the legislature will act in the same spirit as that which it displayed in the recent modifications in the tariffs. A Madrid letter of the 20th says: " It is stated that a contract has been entered in!o by the houses of Rothschild and Baring, to advance a sum of 30,0001. sterling to the government, on security of the future produce of the mines of Almaden. This sum is der tined to pay the half-year's dividend in the Three per Centro. in London and Paris. The funds show a mediae to decline, owing to recent rea li sations of profits." maarm,Der. 30.—Three per Oats, 3 0 ; Yost per Owls.. i9f ; Me par Oita. 131 paper. Om•ma, 7f. Beak of st.rernasso, m seroust. &seams as urns; WA, Tint Barnes Muszum.—The number of visitors to this noticed hiatitutioa ynterday wu 19,988, Ufa, ea iwareese, se easpered with Bozing day lut year, a 7,111, whoa the somber was 12,78 6 . Sixteen orastabl;s of the A Unica of pollee, wader the able &adieu of Borgesat Nude, were la attendance, sad altheagli the laweate of visitors was so such beyond the and anew, the greatest order aid &mum was observed *rowboat the day. CENTRAL AMERICA. It appears front th e following extract from the New lurk Cowrier and Inquirer, that Mr. Sorer had intimated to Mr. Chatfield, by a letter dated 28th I September, that Tigre had been provisionally ceded I to the United i States. It was on the 16th of Novem ber that a British foroe, by Mr. Chatfield's inattno- Lions" forcibly occupied TigrE. Mer, tom,ated States Charge to the Central midiße laving received Mfmmation el the ietention of the English to 911133 the bland of Tigre, Wiser beg to Handures, and eminisnding the satire Emilie meet, has negotiated a treatyted w ith Honduras, by which that island ceded is to the Uni States, es will be seen his cilar, issued to the diploma& agents of other by nations i n n the country Legation of the United States, in Central America. Leon de Nice:sins, Sept. 28,1849. Sir; I hive the honour to inform you that the blend of Time, in the Gulf of Fosses, has been ceded to the United Stew of North Amides, by the republic of Headline, for the time pending cosatitutional action upon en existing con. nation between the two republics, and that, eseogly, speedy poseestion will be taken of the same, on behalf of the United States. The existing port and other regulations of the island will le continued until otherwise altered. I hers also the honour to add, that the United States hes acquired interests in the Wotan Islands end coasts of Honduras, watch will not permit her to look with indifferenes upon any measure which shell affect the proms order of thuip in that quarter. I am, sir, with highooolderat i on, eansidention, your obedient servant, E. Quo. &MINS. THE CAPE AND THE CONVICTS. The well-known missionary, Be,. J. J. Freeman, writes as follows respecting the feeling in the Cape Colony respecting convicts. The letter from which we quote is to be found in the British Bonner of yesterday : For a few moments I may just advert to this question of convicts. I have never sem or heard of a people so unite in any measure as the people of this colony are against introduction of owlish in any form and to any atent. The united voice of Great Britain, some years ago, an the qua lien of the emancipation of our slaves, was not more sanest and unequivocal than the voice of this colony not to admit • convict. Nothing can enable the government to carry the measure, of making this in any way • penal settlement, but martial law and a strong military force. Europeans. Atricans, and all the coloured classes, make • dad stand against it, as for their lives. The manifestation of feeling is everywhere most decided. Popular meetings, crowded usamblies, riveted auditoria, impatience for news, bells tolled, shops closed, newspapers bordered with black linos, black flag hoisted, all possible indications of the public sen timent on the subject ale displayed, and Lord Grey has gone down to the very lowest grade of distrust, aversion, and antempt to which • public man can be reduced. I think be will never snowed in regaining the confidence or respect of this colony, whatever measures he may now adopt. lie is considered as having broken faith with the colony, and that in a very dishonourable , and as h a ving show n himself ready to sacrifice the moral interests of the colony, while professing that he would do nothing in the matter of sending convicts here, without asartaliiing first the sentiments of the colonists themselves. ilia intimation that the general interests of the empire required the adoption of the measure is felt to be unsound, unjust, and cruel; and the threat that the Cape should be left at the mercy of the Coffees in the event of another war, has made an indelible impression on the hearts of the colonists of the utter unfitness of the men that could hold or utter sash a sentiment to be intrusted with the reins of the colonial administration of our empire. The colonists are forced by the authorities at home into the adop tion of measures dancers*. to their interests, and then cooly told that when the danger comes they must help them selves out of it! CALIFORNIA. We qnote the following letter from the Morning Post, which states that it has just been received from the gold regions and may be relied on as authentic ; it is the production of a young man in humble circumstances, and addressed without reserve to his friends in London : Borman Island, California, Oct. 8, 1849. Dean Fatanne,-1 take this opportunity, after a Lang silence, of writing, but the old saying is, " better late than never." I dare ley you have beard of California and its gold, to which pines numbers have come with the foolish idea of picking it up as soon as they arrived, and that daily, bat they found their error when they got hers. 1 have been here about five weeks. I have managed to get about half au ounce per day, with very hard digging for it, for any one that wants gold must dig hard for it. I have worked into the soil about eignt feet, from there to the rock, which is about three feet, which is the only soil that will pay the washing of it, as the gold in nearly all plaose has settled down to the reek. It appears in former years there has been an eruption ef the earth, which Yea thrown the gold up, as there are huge masses of rocks scattered about. Where the gold is, the rocks are covered with soil to the depth of thir teen feet, where the gold is in general to be found. I Wised, Odes God to rive me my health, to endeavour to stop up attke mind all winter, if there is not too mud rain falls, when I hops to be able to do something. I here a small machine with which I wash the soil, which is made of an iron plate, with holes in it, and the water is kept continually poured on, and the machine is rocked in the same manner as a cradle, by a person sitting, hada, a pot la one heed, with long handle, and with the grim reclaim the dulls. The holes in the iron plats let the am dirt go through, and prevent the stones from going When the plate is fell of stones they are thrown t er L ileg ke partitions ia the cradle receive the fine dirt, ' lablak with die water sad the cradle kept constantly rock. ' Kik leaves estir the gold sad a line bleak sand they call ' seater. Nem ef the machines that have come from the Sta ed !Ragland answer bat the rocker. There is, I bel i eve. slant 600 vessels in Ban P r emises nearly ell deseeled. Woes sada to work on board, IL 81. per ' Eq. anel in he Sad. Vessels going to sea cannot get en tar 101. 0 ineidit. English vessels that are here have le glee the apprentices IL per day to get then to stop by the desk and then only the youngest will stay Captains have left their ships, sad Madre of the United States army and navy all flock to the WM. Sometimes you may get three or four ounces per day, perhaps the nest day nothing ; it is quits a isdery. Ten must excuse the wridng, as I have been ding the picked sad shovel lately, and my head is out of order. I have sack M eer al simple of the gold nifty. dug. I intend i s the which is approaching to get a large rocker, the partitions underneath the plate having quicksilver, whisk saves the minutest particles of the gold. Ton would saireedy credit the state society is in at the mines; though there an people of all characters and grades is life, still everything as quiet sad orderly. You may leave anything anywhere for months—go back, it is in the game spot where you left it. No ose will touch it. say eat is aught thievieg, for the Seat time he is oowhided ; fee the second time, he is brought to a tree, and there shot. For shooting at any person, excepting in self dehisce, ee he stealing from the person at any time, they see ekes. When I fleet came here there was a gang that salted deemealde the "Bands," who went about robbing end murdering, as it suited them ; but they are all ten down. Some of them were caught and shot ; others sent down to Sea Francisco, tried, and imprisoned for a certain number ef years. Thus is no disilaction of persons here—one is es geed as the ether, end treat each other with the greatest utility, from the general in the army to the sweep. Every pence goes armed when they travel, but there is searely any esemion for it. Plenty of wolves infest the neighbourhood d a night, but do as harm. There are bears, but not many. The wows with my kind regard to you, also to Ile. B—, likewine to Robert end Sereh Ann (and I hope they ere all and Mr. W—, not forgetting Kr. sad Mn.s I;--rued family, and I hope they are all well. I hod also le em yea again. Yon must not be angry that I do not write awls. hat I often think of you. Before I conclude 1 will inform criktke present priced prow's ions ; they have been higher. per lb., 25.; bread, per loaf, 3s. ; beef, per lb., 2s. ; salt pork, Is. Bd. ; brandy, 10e. per bottle ; Esglish ale, 124. per bottle ; sugar, 2a. per lb. ; eggs and sedges, 4s. cock ; washing 21 . ;er down ; carpenters , I ounces of gold per day ; bleekemiths, 1 ounce per day. I must now begin - get log-posse built for the inter. There are fan of us living in a teat. Every ens is living in tents at the Wades ; but it never rade in the sander, end in the winter It rains plenty. This sheet of paper cost Is., California price —I rafted, yours sincerely, P.S.—I am two hundred mike in the interior. MUZDZIt 111 • RAILWAY CARBIAOZ.—A horrible fustier wee committed a few dale s in on the road from Turin to Asti. A araaja, who had recently arrived at Turin, where he received a suss of 6,000 francs, left by the railroad ON Asti; bat be had been followed to the station by fear saes, who knew that he had received the money at Turin, sad who got into the same carriage. On the snivel et the train at Valdialtiesa. these mat left, and when the train arrived at Asti their nametasato TIMM' was found bad from et ea sad hie many had been cured eft.—G6SP•sti. Ste Court. WINDSOR, Dec. 26. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual morning walk. The royal family took walking exercise in Ns* grounds ad jacent to the cultic His Royal Highness Primo Albert went out shooting this looming, attended by Lord Elphinstone, Colonel Berkeley Dranunond, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Bonverie. There is no addition to the royal dinner party this evening. - _ The Hon. Henry Fitzroy had an inter view with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Horne-o See. Lord and Lady John Rao& returned to Pembroke lodgeLltichisond-park, yesterday, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lanedowse at Bowooditark, Wilts. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial °elm from the Governon of Hong Yong, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and Malta. Dimino:bee were al.* received on Tuesday at the Colosialeace from the Governors of the from the Governors of the North Americas provisoes, and Wen India edgings. RIMILIMENTATION OP SHOREHAM.—The nomina tion is fixed to take place to-morrow. Since the retirement et Mr. Shelley no other liberal candidate has offered him self. and in all probability Lora Alexander Lennox, who is 1 a protectionist, will be returned without opposition. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS, (From the Doily New. Merecanarea, Dee. 26. The question of working relays in factories con tinues to excite considerable attention here, and a judgment by the magistrates of Salford in favour of the system was de livered this morning. after having taken considerable time to consider the matter. It is about five or six weeks since the information a as laid by Mr. Horner, the magistrates present being Mr. Trafford and Mr. Brandt, both of them gentlemen educated to the bar, and whose opinions are looked upon as having mach weight. Mr. Brandt was for many years lender of the Quarter Sessions' bar in this division of the county, and is now judge of the County Court. Mr. Wilson and other manufacturers were the defendants, and the pro secution was conducted by Mr. R. B. B. Cobbett, solicitor ; whilst Mr. Earle, solicitor, was for the defendants. On the eteardon referred to the magistrates requested that instead of going into the arguments orally, the parties would submit them is writing, and this was readily acceded to by both sides. The facts proved were that the defendants had not employed their young people more than ten hours per day ; bur the prose vale° contended that constructively, and ha, Mg regard to the act of parliament, the work-people were employed more than ten hours—that is, reckoning from the starting of the mills each morning ; and that, consequently. they had committed a breach law. In fact,it was the old question over again, of of the whether the manufacturer, by giving his young people an bout's or two hours' leave of absence during the day, nod employing other young persons in their absence, can be allowed to work his machieery and his adult workpeople more than ten hours per dry. Mr. Trafford, one of the magistrates, read over this morning, at the Salford Borough Court, the following judgment, which be and his brother magistrate had arrived at : The questions raised before us in this ease were—let . Whether the hours of working of all adult females and young propos in a mill are not only to commence and end at the same time, but aro also to be identical thronphout the day, no that when at an geriod of the day any one of such pr cos seas is working, al i t e others are to be conclusively assumed to be working also ; or whether the requisitions of the am (7 8 Viet., c. 16) being complied with as to the commuter 1 , Rent and ending of the work, and the times of mealy ' the intervening hours may be so distributed as to pro em more than ten hours' work from such per emu, although no individual should work more than tea hears.-20d. Whether a notice in the form required la the schedule, but adding thereto the names or classes of individuals, so es to carry the above arrangements into I effect, is a good notice within the statute. This case hat been already argued before as; and on that hearing we had de termined to defer giving our decision until we bad fully weasidered all the points, both on account of the difficulty of the question, and because we were aware that conflicting decisions had been come to by different benches of megie traces. On that occasion it was agreed between the parties that the opinions of several warned counsel, which had bees obtained, should be submitted tons, not to bind our jade lamas, but to assist us by their views and arguments in CM *to a right decision on the subject Those cases and opi alone after having been reciprocally shown to each party, have been 1 rid before us, together with the comments of the respective advocates. All these we have read and cool ' tined. The first and obvious reflection arising from these games is. that the statute is so obscure, that many learned men have differed it the construction of it; and the statute being penel, that consideration alone might probably justify a magistrate in declining to convict under it ; but as this lunch is now composed of members of the legal profession, we think ourselves bound to decide the case ao seeding to our own judgment. t he qry is, what are the objects of the statute, and what is meaning of the par ticular enactments, such objects and meaning to be deduced from the whole scope and language of the statute, as evinced by the words of it, and not from anything extrinsive. The general and main object of the act is to prevent young per sons from working more than ten hours a day ; another object is to afford such persons the m ans of knowing that they are not worked beyond that time; and a third object is to enable the inspectors to detect any infringement of the act. Now in the cause before us, it was not pretended that any all of the young persons had actually worked more Mantes bean; but it was contended that by the right construction of the act, and in prmuception of law. all the young people I had worked more than ten hours. For that by taking notice of the hours of beginning and ending work, and tied= the meal time, the whole of the remainder of the which would exceed ten hours must be presumed to be employed in working by all the young pumas, and that the fact and the published notice of the fact of some heeds being at rest, while others were working, must be disregarded ; in other words, that the hours ot work of all the young persons must be identical, and that if some are working, the rat must be presumed to be work ing else. That proposition is not aiscussed very fully in the opinions submitted to us, except by one counsel, who, in • very able opinion, contends for the affirmative, and to some extent also by another, who intimates the same opinion, though not so 'trongly. There are several able counsel on the other side, who give their opinions in the neptive ' with out however going much into reasoning on the subject; we' have therefore directed our attention to the question, who. Cher there is any express easement, or any irresistible in. Witilment that the times of working of all the hands must Identical. There is not any express enactment. But smarm 26 and 62 are referred to, as showing OS manifest intent of the act. We are agreed that the construction of these sections (which we believe OM put on them by the learned magistrate in the borough WI Manchester) is right, viz., that the hours of working of all the young persons in a mill are to be reckoned eons the earliest hoer at which say one young person begins to work, and we form that opinion from the express words of thou motions. But although we know that practically all the bean between beginning and ending work are dedicated to week and meals, yet we do not find any expressions which would deprive a muter of the right of devoting some hour to recreation beyond the meal time, it he chose ; and, there fore, we hesitate to say that such a distribution of the inter mediate hours as was carried into effect in this case may not legally be made. But it is said such a prohibition is to be Warred from the word " reckoned," and the context, and also from the form of the notice in the schedule. We mania me clearly that the word cited must necessarily have such a meaning; but certainly the form iG the schedule doss seem strongly to tend to that inference, and aimeds the strongest ground that we can find in the act for wash an inference; and, unquestionably, if we are asked what was the meaning of those who framed the statute, we might admit that most probably they contemplated only one set of working hours fn all the hands. But we cannot admit that such intention is expressed in terms so clear as to justify a eonvOion. We are inclined to think the form of nodes is not binding to the letter ; but that if all its substantial requi sites be complied with, it may be added to and explained so SS to describe the actual state of facts. In forming our opinion, we have in some measure taken into consideration that this is a penal statute, end on that account it would require to be construed with strictness ; but we have not forgotten that it is hat ere alsoff i r itt:: ; : o ons . 0 construed t ction stat ute ing aateennh r.luatpositive evasions. e. with b eeenht p ro tectio n sat n e lib er al i ty trehotniguehse f saiutob y phu o : 0;: construe persons, tm offencea d a i e y l t hagfeblabour ntedueea:byripwbso p romote h t b ig. owio d ui s re to Pre sot fer is said to be forbidden by intendment, and which is only enacted, if at all, for the pumas of more easily detecting offenders against the main provisions of the act. Seeing, therefore, the great di ff erence of opinion among learned men, and feeling ourselves some doubt, not so much of the intuit of the statute is of the sufficiency of the terms em ployed to carry out the intent, and re • that it is a penal statute, we think it the right course to refuse to con vict either on the one charge or the other. It seems likely that the question will soon come in some shape or other before one of the superior courts for final settlement. • short time ego, Mr. David Mills, of Hey wood, was convicted before the magistrates of that town ship of a breath of the Factory Act by working relays, and was fined 61. Mr. F. Robinson, solicitor, appeared at the New Bailey Court-house, Salford, to offer recognisance. en behalf of Kr. Mills to appeal at the sessions„ and is was stated that the appellant and respondent had agreed upon a special case, and would appeal to the Court of Exchequer next term. REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OP THE MEDICAL PRO rumors —The annual report of the Medical Ansociation is the Grand Duchy of Baden exhibits some very curious facts which clearly show that in Baden at least tae members of flu medical profession are animated by a highly revolutionary spirit. The report save that no lees than 40 medical praati tionen and 20 apothecaries have been compelled to fly the country, In consequence of the prominent positions they me copied in the recent affair in the grand duchy. There are only MO medical practitioners in Baden, and if to the 40 exiles are added the 16 primates who are confined for the same ahem, it will at once basses that a sixth of the whole number took a sufficiently part in the revolution to render themselves the of porematiem How many other members of the preisisa played alms prominent pert the report does not mention. THE MURDER BY A BOY AT BRISTOL, Yesterday, npresent n,weeufttruin t! cmu e sedto in d q ya u .t en thT t eh n e p i ir eo n vpied th e body 0 and AfwhomflYritirytazum_ ne or, itedclill in nce bill, and again excited a considerable amount of Jet the inquest room being densely crowded. The pr i s one r tu- i, witheeses having been reed over, William Roach, of King-street, Bedminster, who is driver of a van to and from Beth, was examtned at e length, and deposed to having been present ig the New-cut when the struggle between Collins sod the deceased took place, and which he deueieit generally, in similar terms to thou, used by the other witnesses. He fully identified the prisoner Si the boy had fired the pistol, and further said, I saw the prisoner le take the pistol from his broke. One of the young men t3ri:4 to take it from him, and said, "Yon do not mean to fire that thing." He replied, " No, I know myself better then that, but if he (pointing . to deceased with the pistol) d ew eopo ' leave my companion alone I will fire at him or at yen either." I then passed oa a little way and onlooking rooad I saw the prisoner step on one aids of the young w en , eon few yards towards the pavement, and fire at the deceased. I Deceased put his hand up to hie mouth and immediately fall on his face. A ft er he had fired the pistol, the • w nm up the New-cut. I pursued him, and as I wee c hi I neon him, he threw the pistol at my head with all his t arp, It struck me on the fingers, but did not recision any injure ' followed him into Stillnouse lane, where I took him. T ie etreggle which took place between deceased a:4 Collins wee not of a very violent nature. There woe nothing in it as I I saw to excite alarm, either in the boy who had the Melee. server or the boy who had the pistol. Before I took the pet. NOWT I picked up the pistol, which I banded over to Sergeant Black at the station. In reply to questions put on behalf of the prisoner, the witness said, I did not hear the prisoner call out, before b e Brad the pistol, for &mistier ce. From the distance I nubile him I do net think that I should have beard it if he had done so. By the Coroner—No blows passed between any cf the parsons while I was present. At the time when he flasoba pistol at me, the bay was running and trying to escape, When I overtook him in Stillhouse-lane, he had M ee down, and he asked me to let him rest. I asked him how it was h ei had come is do such a thing, and he said that he dig it in the heat of passion, and he wished some one to gob: surgeon. Police sergeant Black, No. 18, of the Bedminster diva* of police, deposed that be was on duty at the stition-home when the prisoner was brought in. While he was being asked his name and the charge was being written down, he said, voluntarily, " It was done in the heat of passion" This witness produced the pistol, which had a bras, strew barrel, and also several articles found on the prisoner's worsen, among which were seven bullets, one imperfect I indict in a bullet•mould, four percussion cope, a puree isontaining 31. le. 6d., a picklock, a pack of cards, I some pieces of printer's type,_ battered, &c. The witness also produced the clothes which the deceased had on at the time of the fatal occurrence, which he bad received from the surgeon of the Bristol General Hospital. The un c l e were much stained with blood, and there were hobs app. ready made by a bullet through the coat, waistcoat, &c., a the right side near the arm pit. Susan Brown also deposed to having witnessed the fatal occurrence. She was standing wi 11 some caw passions at the top of Brown's-row, and saw the eb. ceased and his companion, and afterwards Collies mid the prisoner, whose person she had before known, eau up. The prisoner kept calling Horgan an asked and Alt abusive names, upon which Horgan said, "If you don't ge • on I'll give you a good hiding." The prisoner replied that + 1 he was not big enough to do it, and wept calling him mash ' Collins then flourished some kind of a stick, and the deceased I ran towards him and they had a struggle and fell. The prisoner said to Horgan • I'll ire at him (deceased) if lie does not let that boy go." Witness saw a pistol in his tend, and being alarmed, she and her companion moved on me side. The prisoner said, " fire at him," and Horganuid "If you do I'll throw you into the water." The prima then pointed the pistol at Horgan, and said, "I'll fi re at thee in a minute." He then ran round Horgan, sidles sented the pistol, and she saw the flub of the lire. Out/ witness's companions fainted, and witness attended or ha for some minutes, but she afterwards saw the deceased bleeding . very much at the mouth and nose. FMCS Steeple, sawyer, of Windmill-bill, likewise de Peed to the circumstances of the straggle and death al the deceased, but varied in one or two particulars from the I testimony of all the other witnesses. He said that while passing along the Cut he saw one of deceased's eompanlons throw a stone at the prisoner and Collins. It pitched between them, but did not strike either of them. When deceased exiled Collins he threw the boy, but did not fall himself. Prisoner drew a pinch sad Roe ran said, " You would not shoot him," to which prises ' replied that he knew himself better if he (deceased) wield let his companion go. Deceased then pushed Collins again the railings of Mr. Brown's honer, upon which the Oman went up to deceased and fired at and shot him. Bliss Jenkins, widow, of Charlotte-street, Bedminster, deposed to having witnessed the transaction from the time when Horgan had the scuffle with Collins by Zion Chapel till the final catastrophe, and she denied that any store ins thrown at the boys, and described deceased as having jut risen from the fall with Collins when the shot was tired. Dr. Alexander Fairbrother, one of the phyaitisns of the Bristol General Hospital, depo sed to the postmortem apples• anoe of the body. There was a hole, apparently made by a gun or pistol bullet, through the right side, near the arse pit. The bullet bad passed through the second rib or dr right side, through the right lung, then through the windpipe, Mood-vessels. the windpipe, and wounding some of the la m a blood-vessels. It then passed through the left lung, through the second rib on the left aide, leaving some of the drat in that bone and then it had lodged in the flaky part above the left shoulder. Witness had weighed the bast and compared it in weight and otherwise with the bats found upon the prisoner, and with the pistol, with which it corresponded. I have not the slightest doubt that the death of the deceased was caused by the bullet. His du/hand have been nearly instantaneous, the bullet baring gee through the windpipe. This being the whole of the evidence, the coroner niestely summed up, commenting on the different points, and uplais ing the laws of homicide. The jury reti, and in a few minutes returned with a verdict of ' red Murder Apia/ Alfred Dam." The coroner at occe 'sued his warrant, and the prisma was committed to take his trial for that offence. The pri soner, who throughout the inquiry had displayed great indifference ' was somewhat affected by the verdict , and m some of hisfriends taking leave of hiss shed tears. some I TER NAVIGATION LAWS.: Man the Lie erpool Moil.] The following letter ban been received by the Chairman of the Shipowners' Association from the Snyder Trade: " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, Dec. 19. " Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee d Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of you letter of the 30th ult., requesting, en behalf of the Liverpxl Shipowners' Association the opinion of their lordships oa ths two following points, arising out of t he circular of the Uinta States Treasury, on the sated of the British nevige nts laws, and dated 03t. 15, 1849: "1. Whether, under the terms our existing laws,' and is the circular, this association may rely that a foragn-Inalt vestal, sailing under the British flag, a Brunk register, will be emitted in the United State s' yorts shit the Ist January next, to the privileges granted to a Britsdr built ship? and " 2. Whether, after the Ist January next, citizens of do United States may purchase and hold Britiah-budt ship, and that government will grant registers to such ships, if to purch ? " With ased regard to the first question, the Liv.rpool Slip owners' Association will, of course, be aware that it is im possible for my lords to put an offi c i a l interpretation ups the law of a foreign country. They would, however, all the attention of the association to the wording of the Americas Navigation Act. It provides that no goods, wares, o merchandise shall be imported into the United States foes any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the Liana States, or in such foreign trench as truly and wholly beton to the citizens or subjects of that country of which do goods are the growth, production , or manufacture,' By the terms of the before-mentioned circula r, British remise% be relieved from this restriction after the Ist January Das " It will be seen that the only definition given in do above clause to the retied' of a foreign county is, !Sett's"! shall truly and wholly belong to the inflects of that moor, and my lords are not aware of any provision in any Amman , statute which limits the nationality of foreign rem* ti reference to their place of build. " As respects the second question put by t h e Lirerptal Shipowners' Association, my lords regret that they are sot at the present moment in a position to give the informants desired by the association. I am, sir, your obedient servant, " John Lockett, Esq." " Dixie Li MARCRIV. DEATH OF A LADY FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING' —Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before 111* M. Wakley, at the King's Head publiebouse, Oral road, respecting the death of Mrs. Anne Coote, seedt ~ six years. The deceased was a lady of indepenclesr' petty, and was the widow of the proprietor of the Womb, egar works in Old•street, St. Luke's, who died from is attack of Asiatic cholera in 1832. S lace the deathef husband she had gradually become an inveterate OriaSef,, ardent spirits, and on Saturday last she drank up werw r half a pint of brandy, and the large quantity of V and ale which was her daily a ll owa nce. The *eased was not seen on Sunday mornine no notice was taken in consequence of her bog re/ as eccentric in her manner, and she would neva pecait ul l persons in her rooms. Shortly after five o'clock, on these.' afternoon, the landlord of the house became alarmed st continued absence, and acquainted two police conatabeart the fact, who immediately obtained a ladder, by soln means they opened the deceased ' s bedroom window , .: discovered the unfort lady lying upon cud , isr, agonies of death, M nr. Hill, a surgeon, was the deceased died in a very few minutes afterward!._.ll bottle, containing • small portion of brandy, was lying upon the floor by the side of the deceased, go surgeon was of opinion that death was caused by sive drinking and expasure to the cold. The jury Irsts a verdictin accordance with the medical testimony. FIRE AT STACRPOLE COURT,—The sea tt yo.: Earl of Cawdor, in Pembrokeshire, was on sds !!!!, threatened with destruction, in consequence o' • fire hell broken out in the music room. The mischief was fortunata2 discovered by one of the servants in time to P uff o" spread of the flames beyond the room, which s ered ss. damage in its waissootiog and dilatations. caR isTMAS A 4; b ox ing-night" b e t we do not renitin M suburban min eshibited as Iv t drone ; which, si: s d l a st evening of Mr. James fot r ol i ge i•— cedoobetohearrts erehpeti_.ff,ith_:stri fo opesn. rnm eikrustita n als doors, pee ua r ah was made, and sn i n stant. The le a fe ninf. The b &tin gash some no Baler of the Spin ear hed spirits she hubbub increased l ug , whistling, the o f feet, that n•st eft of Venice) li g bte. The play entrances," and t n ominee of a pant. f a lling the storm who was at once the evening —Mr Bb lock. Re and and doggedly, til ben Mr. Ande thing, stopped she be wished to a' time lie was a II L a dies and d r owned in the self to the " gen m eans to tell th in such numbers, bim well, but th of showing it—a only made m inllP:ciaretbnerithgoodkeunxerodtliwworßcoelhtfueeicullalletnisrtiareddelhhoageethfilDtbuiesnenorotin.idtifileoadeccotbbtffntitmdothfilatylif.i. with much ,pi much applaud passed off in n' It was impo performance, b it been uodistu able. Mr. A though he gay creptude of of act he acted more delicate lost. Miss L be a graceful new performe when we hey auspices. T the stage. all the costu and in exce After the audience. it annoyance th would take grateful he • experienced be enabled as the first o well heard, received wit The play metaphoric& called Her England in BROS and t portion of jumble, wit some alleg sion, we ha Queen, int time—Barb Robsart—al and talking usual trans! Harlequin, Amy Hoban the old we, Pantaloor with the tumbling, of the seen' Charing-cr the Theme lion. But bare kind, are of the slaps, and Mdlle. Th, and Mr. S making th preposterc o'clock in ocessiol taste, enuneis Notwit Fitzwil tiou a i her euc a value Oat tioa, a: aiderab and—a silent t night. Loot Zing produc slobitai