The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-05 00:00:00

1,...........r ......"--- PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock. •••••• ••• •• ••• ....... • I India Stoek -- 3 per Cent. Red ...........69% 8%% DDitto Bonds S per Cent. Cons —. :South Sea Stock -- 3% per Cent...-. Ditto Red..................... 97V4 New Ditto ..-.- ........ ... ........ . 25% New 3% per Cert. — 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751.- New sper Cent.. . ---Exch. Bills, £l,l'oo ......... 27 21 Pm Bank Long Annuitiesto expire Ditto ..... ...........500.... .. .. 27 2 3 Pm. Jan. 5, 1860-.... — Ditto Small ... ..... - ........ 28 23 pm. Oct. 10, 1A59 ' Ditto Commercial pm. Jan. 5, 1840.... , Ditto Advertised ..... -.-.. —— pm Jan. 5, .880.... ...-........... , Bank Stock for Acc0unt........ April 5, 1880.... ....... -........ —llndia Stock for Acc0unt......... Jan. 5, 1870.......... ...... ..... 'Consols for Acconnt 90% 89%% Omnium ...... ...... ........ ..... pm. PRICES OF tOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds ............ : -- Ditto Accouut ..... Brazilian Bonds ..... — Ditto Account .—..... ........ Buenos A7res Bonds .....»••••• Ditto Account ..—....---..-- Chillian Bonds .....--...--•••• THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds .... - Ditto Account .•••••••«•.••.•• Portuguese — Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account 45% 7% Ditto, 3 per cent 34 Prussian Bonds.-- ..... Ditto Account —I Columbian Bonds Ditto Account ..... — Columbian Bonds, tfe24....27% 6% 7 Ditto Account ..2734% 6% 7 6%1 Danish Bonds ••• .•••••••••••••••• Ditto Account Greek 80nd5.... . Ditto Bonds, 1825......« Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto Accom • .•••••••••• Ditto, 6 per cent —1 Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1922......«..... Ditto Accouilt ............ ...... Ditto Metlllic• 11.•• • 0..0..0 ••• •• Spanish Bonds...—. ....... ....... Ditto Account Ditto 80nd5,18.34...21% 5% 4%14 Ditto Account —.25 4% 5% 4 '4V2 French, 5 per cent —C. —c. 4 per cent. -r. -c. 2 per cent —f. —c - Exchange —f. —e. Dutch, 2% per cent. .54 3% Ditto Account ...... ..... „. 54 Ditto, 5 per cent................ 102% Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 5 fili% Commercial Blatkwall Railway Company 2 0 Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company Eastern Counties Railway 2 1 7 4% London and tireenvich Railway Company 2sl 21% North Midland Railway Company ...... ..- lO 16% South Western Railway Company 1 3 4 Provincial Bank of Ireland. 25 42 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, JANUARY 3. 3 per Cent. Consols BB% Grand Canal Debi, 6 per cent. 89► M Ditto Reduced Ditto, 4 per cent — 3% per Cent. Stock 96 14 Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 96% I City of Dublin Steam Co. — 3'4 per Cent. Debentures..„ 90% National Insurance Co--. 34 Bank Stock 202 City Debentures, 4 per cent... -- Royal Canal Stock -- Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock — per cent — MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due \Arrived. Due 0 America.......... 0 2 France............ 0 0 Lisbon I 0 8razi1............ 0 0 Gum). &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 O Buenos Ayres.. 0 2 Hamburg 0 0 Mexic0............ 0 n Carthagena ..... 0 0 Holland ...... I 0 Ostend (I I Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica .. ..... ... 0 0 Sweden 0 I Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands I I Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. minutes after 1. 1 Evening...... 1 minutes after 2. A SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST NUMBER FOR 1837 OF COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMOURIST, EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq. IS NOW READY FOR DELIVERY. Comprising the First of the Gurney Papers, by the Editor, and Humourous Articles by the Authors of " Paul Pry," " The Re jected Addresses," Leigh Hunt, Alfred Crowquill, Douglas Jer rold, J. B. Buckstone, &c. &c. Hew} Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HAMBURGH, DEC. 12. ON approach of the COMMENCEMENT of JANUARY, all those who may have to write to us before that time, are requested to do so without delay, and to be particular in directing, HEINE BROTHERS, in HAMBURGH, _ _ and to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would by far increase the same. Thus 10/., 20l , or 301., for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 101. remitted in two notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham burgh, to forwarl the amount in One Note; or having to receive Money from Ila-nburgh, to receive the same in One Note, when ever puslible. Of course remittances from Hamburgh to England, surpassing the usual amount of One Bank of England Note, may rather be made in Bills of Exchange, on London. We request not to ov.rlo these particulars. HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURGH. P. S. To persons having to remit el., on receiving a Ten Pound Note. Ws) return Two Pound in the cheapest way possible. The publication of Tux SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 niinntes past Three o' Clock. b ,4, `~ `~~3s . =~; ~~~-c a~~ uR P 4 a LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1837. The Members of the South Derbyshire Conserva tive Association dined together on Monday last at Derby, on which occasion the annual report of the Committee was read—a notable document, which states, inter alia, that " there is such a triumphant increase of Conservatives upon the registration, as to leave no doubt that, in the event of a dissolution of Par:ia— mc•nt, two Conservative Members will be returned without opposition for the county." One would suppose that the Committee would go on to congratulate the Association upon this gratifying fact ; but no such thing ; they immediately afterwards qualify and throw doubt upon it—we refer to the extracts which are briefly noticed in the Morning Post of this day—by imploring the electors, in the most desponding and lachrymose manner possible, to lose not an instant in registering themselves ; to devote their attention exclusively to the registration ; to talk—think — dream of nothing else—a convincing proof that their victory is not quite so certain as they would fain believe themselves, and have others believe. Why insist so pertinaciously on the necessity of at tending to the registration, if the Committee be al ready assured that " in the event of a dissolution, two Conservative Members will be returned, without opposition, for the county ?" Why take so much pains to guard against a defeat, if the victory be already placed beyond a doubt ? The truth is, the Committee know full well they are speaking—to use the polite phraseology of SWIFT'S Houhyhynms—" the thing that is not !" In other words, they are fibbing— as Conservatives are apt to do, when they have an end to serve. Dr. BANKES, a High Church parson, was the chief spokesman at the Derby dinner. His oratory was clerical in the ex treme—that is to say, vituperative and minaceous. The ghostly man was shocked at the idea of the Church revenues being appropriated to other uses than those of the Church drones ; and reached the climax of paralysis while alluding to the French revo lution, whose crowning atrocity was, in his opinion, its confiscation of ecclesiastical property. Equally indignant was he against O'CONNELL, whom he roundly asserted to be "as vicious in principle as he was base in conduct." " Base" and " vicious !" See what it is to breathe a syllable in dis paragement of a Protestant Establishment I DANIEL might have agitated till Doomsday in favour of lay reforms, and still the parsons would have borne with him ; but he has dared to poke his shille lagh into the Church's nest ; and, 10, all the clerical hornets are buzzing about his ears ! " Nothing," quoth the indignant Doctor, " would do but the total destruction of the Protestant Church. Ten bishops had already been given up to O'CONNELL, but he had such a rapacious swallow, that he was not satisfied with them." Why should he be ? One swallow does not make a summer. Ten Bishops at one gulp do not make a Church Reform. Before this can be said to be accomplished, DANIEL, or the Reformers who act with him, must have the appropriation clause given up to them ; they must also have permission to swallow a few fat non-resident parsons ; and we would advise them to begin with Doctor BANKES ; for if the vitu perative Doctor be, as we are strongly inclined to sus pect, a Pluralist, it would be impossible to offer up a more acceptable holocaust on the altar of Church Reform. In another part of our Paper will be found the Re port of the Anti-Church-rate Meeting, l a t e ly h e ld at Manchester, to which, owing to a great press of mat ter, we have been unable to give earlier insertion. The Meeting was a most important one, and its pro ceedings will be read with corresponding in terest. When we regard the talent displayed by the several speakers who advocated the aboli tion of this unjust and oppressive impost, the num bers and respectability of the persons assembled, and the spirit with which they were animated, we can have no doubt that a very powerful effect will be produced on the public mind by the Manchester Meeting. Such THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1837. effect has, indeed, been already produced. We learn from various quarters that the greatest enthusiasm prevails respecting this now vital question, in conse quence of the light that has broken in upon some, and the activity which has been excited in others, by Church-rate agitation. The spirit of the people is now fairly up, and when that is the case, there is no fear for the result. The popular voice demanding the abrogation of an unjust, irreligious, and cruel law, must be irresistible. The day is gone by when the people of England could be persuaded that it is the duty of one man to pay for the religion of another ; or that it is good for the community to have their pockets emptied, in order that those of a pampered priesthood may be full. All this humbug has been exposed, and is now laughed at. The right of every man to worship his Maker according to his conscience, without let or hin drance of any sort or kind, is now acknowledged by every man, who has the least pretensions to common honesty or common sense ; and whatever interferes with the exercise of this right, directly or indirectly, must be swept away without remorse and without delay. In the numerous co ngratulatory addresses presented to the King of the FRENCH on New Year's Day, copies of which will be found in another part of The Sun, we occasionally meet with sentences of which it would be difficult to determine the exact meaning. Of all these addresses, that presented by M. DUPIN, in the name of the Chamber of Deputies, is the most re- _..._ ......___ markable. Did we not know that the Chamber meant it for a congratulatory harangue, and that the KING received, and responded to it as such, we protest in all sincerity, that we should suppose it to have been designed for an act of censure upon the whole conduct of His Most Christian Majesty. As this address has the merit of being as brief as such addresses should be, when read in the presence o' Kings, we will quote it paragraph by paragraph, in order to show the grounds of the first impression which the reading of it made upon us : " Sire, It is but a very few days since the whole Cham ber, in mournful silence, expressed its profound grief to your Majesty. To-day it ventures to yield to hope. You therefore see it pressing round your throne, and saluting you with its good wishes. You cannot, Sire, doubt its sincerity, which is the forerunner of that loyal support de manded of us by the King, and in which we can never fail towards his person, his dynasty, or in the sacrifices which may be required for the honour of the nation, the full maintenance of our constitutional institutions, and the ener getic defence of the Government founded by our mighty revolution of July." We cannot sufficiently admire the modesty of the Chamber as evinced in this passage. It tells the KING that he cannot doubt it 3 sincerity ; not be- cause it has done anything to merit his unlimited reli ance upon its good faith, but because its loyal salu tations precede the discharge of functions in which it can never fail. " Believe me for mine honour !" Is this squeamish affectation, ( r mockery ? And is there not a threat implied in this allusion to the sacredness of the Chamber's allegiance, proceeding as it does from the mouth of such an organ ! We confess such is our belief. Had the Chamber challenged the KING'S confidence on the plain and obvious ground of the sacrifices which it had already made to support him— _ of the popularity which it had lost, and the principles it had abused to maintain him in power—why the whole affair would be perfectly comprehensible. But the common-sense meaning of the words under consi- deration is this :—You cannot doubt our sincerity, inasmuch as to believe us in your own interest. Your faith in the truth of our professions must precede the fine performances of which they are the precursors. Then follows an ill-timed allusion to the revolution of July, as to remnid his MAJESTY of the danger of in terpreting the language of the Chamber too literally. The address proceeds thus : Sire, The year is good for the King when it is good for France. We desire for our country greatness and peace, and that prospei ity in its material interests which forms its wealth. But we also desire the satisfaction of those moral wants of human societies which constitute the power and dignity of nations—sound education for the people, honesty in all business, and honour—French honour—in every transaction, and as a necessary consequence of it the ful filment of every duty, a conformity between acts, doctrines, and oaths, the real element of enlightened public opinion, strong in encouraging well-doing, and powerful in counter ! acting the genius of evil, by establishing a conviction that evil cannot meet with support." Is this the language of felicitation ? If so we know nothing of its meaning. Has the past year been good for France ? M. DUPIN leaves the question unan swered ; thereby leaving us to infer that he considered it more prudent to be silent than to refer to the American and Swiss affairs, the insurrections in the army, the revolutionary plots of Paris, and the recent transac tions in Africa. M. DUPIN tells the KING what will satisfy France; but he is careful not to com mit himself by saying that the nation has a right to be satisfied. But wherefore the parade about French honour—acts—doctrines—and oaths ? Is his MAJESTY to be for ever galled with a recurrence to such topics? Had M. THIERs dictated this sen tence, we could easily understand that the little Ex- President of the Council sought to have a fling at his SOVEREIGN touching that rather annoying document —the quadruple treaty. Whether intended or not, the allusion to its non-observance by France is sufficiently striking. The next t vo sentences are mere verbiage--" May your MAJESTY'S reign last for many years !" is an Orientalism which M. DUPIN in changing has but disfigured—" 0 KING, live for ever I" is much more beautifully expressive, and might have been uttered with equal sincerity. The following is the conclusion of the Address : " Sire, pure justice is the first condition of good govern. ment. Iniquitous judgment, or impunity for culprits, is the most active cause of demoralization. To the magistracy, therefore, as ever, we wish uprightness, wisdom, and strength of mind and character sufficient for the execution of the laws in administering that impartial justice which is equal to all, which, by a high fiction of our law, is rendered in the name of the King, only to attest that it is superior to all, and that no one can pretend to be above its inflexible Such, Sire, are the good wishes which I, as your faithful ser vant, respectfully lay at the feet of your Majesty." It cannot but be observed, that throughout this address the Chamber cautiously abstains from saying one word respecting the blessings which France is at present enjoying under her Constitutional Sovereign. It refers to no department of the Government, in the administration of which France has nothing to desire in the way of improvement. It scarcely permits itself to allude to the crime of MEUNIER ; and even where it does, it is silent respecting the sacrifices which it is prepared to make for the further security of his MAJESTY'S person. In the words which we have just quoted, our readers will readily perceive a covert censure of the KING'S conduct, in the banishment, without trial, of Prince Louis BONAPARTE. Taken altogether, it is a document upon the presentation of which the KING has no great cause for extraordinary felicitation. Upon the other addresses, and the answers made to them by the KING, we have no room for comment. That of the Chamber of Peers is three parts mere drivel, and the rest nonsense. What can be more ridi culous than gravely to interrogate the KING respecting the residences of those who attempted his life ? The following extract is worthy of the opinion Europe en tertains of their Lordship's sagacity : hail,. have spenthere teh ca nemi n re t st h h ; wretches live who have dared to con ceive su ch crimes existenceln twhhaattthsheyamereeful thush. a i u g n o, t or c e a e n t o t f h th ey e extent to which more strongly felt than;an down upon their heads the exe cration of the countr y can have no fears of giving The public horror is no where impressedo f the firs first t o h d body hoof ulle Chamber of Peers, and we sacred tbe nature re and f State,expression to it. As members as Magistrates deeply c izi o u . r duties, we have a right, and we feel the necessity of so eir reasons for The Peers of France_are prodigal of trii LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 4.—Wind N. W.—Arrived on the 31st ult., the Leah, Hutchings, from Hamburg, leaky, and with loss of bulwarks, &c., bound to Newfoundland. Come down from the river, the William, Hamlin, for Sierra Leone ; the Woodbridge, Veal, for ditto • the William, Hill, Gloucester. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Calm. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2, and:3.—Wind E. FALMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Wind 'variable, light airs. CORK, JAN. 2.—Arrived, the Maitland transport, from Lon don, for Ceylon. RAMSGATE, JAN. 2.—Arrived, the Amandas Batland,Gamba, from Carleby, with loss of rudder, having been on shore, bound to Leghorn. DOVER, JAN. 4.—Arrived off port, the Rotterdam packet, from Rotterdam, bulwarks, &c. damaged. WATERFORD, DEC. 31. Arrived, the Malcolm, Bond, from London : Jan. 1., the Falcon, —, from Bremen ; the Three Sisters, Miller, from ditto. GALWAY, JAN. I.—Arrived, the Albion, Shevins, London. YOUGHAL, DEC. 30.—Arrived, the Harriet and Jane, Rickards, from London : 31, the Echo, Cox, from ditto ; the Elizabeth, How, from ditto. AYR, JAN. 2.—The Emerald has been got off, and was towed into this port yesterday for repairs. CLYDE, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Wilhelmina, M'Donald, from Demerara. Sailed the Betsey, Carr, for New Orleans. BRISTOL, DEC. 3.—Sailed the Englishman, Davis, for Africa ; and Redcliff, Vyvian, for Messina. PENZANCE, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Cato, Newcastle, for Jersey ; lost boats and bulwarks. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Independence, Nye, from :New York; Ann, —, from Bay Chaleur ; Laura, Beckels, from Memel. The account of the loss of the Tal lahassie, from hence to New Orleans, is incorrect. The ves sel mistaken for her is the America, from New York to Mo bile, whose loss was reported on the 19th ult. The report of the Earl Powis being on shore near Youghal is incorrect ; she anchored in Ardmore Bay:on the 28th ult., in six fathoms water, to land her pilot, who left her getting under way, and saw her at dusk clearing the Bay, with a fair wind. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Montreal papers to the 3d Dec., and Quebec to the 29th Nov., have been received this day. (From the Montreal Papers.) " LOWER CANADA.—The weather set in cold on Thurs day night. The first floating ice on the St. Lawrence ap peared on Saturday. This morning it was sufficient to impede the navigation, which must soon close for the season. The wind has been westerly, and it is probable that all the vessels sailed last week have got out of the river without accident. The small rivers are frozen over." The Quebec Mercury states that the number of vessels which have arrived from sea this season is 1,185, being an increase of 53 over the last year, when the total of arrivals amounted to 1,132. The excess of tonnage for the present year is also considerable. The declared value of British exports for the last six months, ending July, 1835, was 20,035,4071. ; for the six months ending July, 1836, 22,584,744/. ; being an increase of 2,549,3371. All the steam boats on the Lake Ontario, with the ex ception of the Traveller and Canada, have been laid up for the winter between Kingston and Oswego. (From the Quebec Papers.) The Upper Canada House of Assembly voted a supply on the 16th inst., on the motion of Mr. M'Nab. Another great fire took place at Quebec on the 24th November. Between 10 and 11 o'clock on that night, the fire broke out at Pres de Ville. The wind was westerly, and the tide was out ; after every assistance given, the fire could not be prevented from spreading across the street, and the wood buildings on both sides burnt so intensely that they set the stone houses on fire by the doors and windows. The desolation and distress is immense. It is supposed that upwards of 100 families are deprived of their dwell ings. The merchants of the Lower Town arc now collect ing subscriptions. THE FUNDS, Consols closed heavy yesterday at 90, this morning opened at 90 to 90k for the Opening ; Reduced, 88k 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 26 28 ; India Bonds, 13 16 ; Bank Stock, 209 210. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 24i ; opened at 24k 25k ; Passive, 68 to 7*; Deferred, 201 ;, Portugese 47* 8 ; Three per Cents, 30-*- ; Colombian 271 ; Mexican, 26 27 ; Dutch, HALF -PAST ONE. Our arrivals this morning are two French mails ; one Ostend and one Holland due. We have ship-letters from New York of Bth December, by the Independence. Since the early part of the morning, when Consols were 90* for the Account, they have given way and receded to 89* Reduced. The cause of the above decline may be attributed to a quantity of Exchequer Bills being brought to market, which caused them to recede from the morning price, of 26 and 28 to 21. A re-action has taken place in Consols, and are at pre sent 89i- a ; Bank Stock, '209. The Foreign Stocks are also heavy ; Spanish has receded from 25-1- to 24g- 4 2 - ; Passive, 7 ; Portuguese lower, 47,l- Three per Ce n t s ., 30 ; Colombian, 37 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., 54. Consols for the Account, 891. g. THREE O'CLOCK, There were published in Paris during the year that has just expired, 6,632 works in different languages, and 1,154 engravings and lithographic drawings. Mehemet Ali is, perhaps, the most despotic Sove reign in the world. He may cause any of his subjects to be put to death without the formality of a trial, or without assigning any cause. A simple horizontal motion of his hand is sufficient to imply the sentence of decapitation, which is instantly enforced. The manufacture of sugar from beetroot is greatly upon the increase in Austria. It was expected that Go vernment would soon lay a tax upon this production. In Hungary, too, the landed proprietors were giving more at tention to this subject. _ . PAGANINI.—A. traveller from Nice, where he left Paganini, relates the following anecdote of that celebrated and opulent violinist. He lately went into a barber's shop and demanded to be shaved. The operation finished, Pa ganini drew three sous from his pocket, and proffered them ; the tonsor pointed out that the common price for shaving even a labouring man was four sous, but Paganini was deaf, and it was found impossible to extract the remaining sous. When his first concert soon after took place, and whilst the audience were listening in ecstacy, a man placed himself outside the concert-rooms, whistling with all his might. On being asked his reason, he replied, " I am whistling (a Nice mode of hissing) Paganini, because he only gave me three sous for shaving him." The poor barber, who either could not or would not pay five francs for a ticket, took this mode of revenging himself !—French Paper. It is well known that smuggling is carried on to a great extent on the frontiers of France and Belgium by means of dogs. These animals are, therefore, if at all well grown and strong, great prizes for the contrabandists, who run every risk to procure them. Very lately a noble dog, belonging to a French soldier, in garrison at Valenciennes was stolen and broken into this occupation. He went on very well for a short time, but, seizing the first opportu nity, the faithful animal made towards home, and one morn ing gave his master and his comrades a very agreeable sur prise, by entering the barrack-yard, heavily laden with a contraband burden of cigars. The soldiers, according to custom, feted the dog, and, while enjoying the very prime Havannahs, indulged themselves in laughing at the dog's tutors and late employers. THE PEEL BANQUET.—The greatest possible activity and spirit have been in exercise these few days past in the erection of the pavilion for the banquet to Sir R. Peel. The side compartments of the roof, over the galle ries, are rapidly proceeding towards completion, while the central part, two days ago, was consigned to the charge of the Messrs. White, upholsterers, who are actively em ployed in panelling the ceiling with different shades of coloured cotton cloth. The galleries are to be so shallow as to contain only four rows of seats, with narrow tables in front, in the style of seating in a church, and so much raised behind that they will prove equal, if not superior, to any other part of the building for either seeing or hear ing--at once adding greatly to the splendour, as well as to the accommodation of the pavilion.—Glasgow Coustitu tional. One of the operatives bas suggested the idea that a shawl, the handsomest which the skill of Paisley manu facturers can produce, should be provided, and through the medium of Sir R. Peel, on his visit to Glasgow, be pre sented to Lady Peel.—Paisley Advertiser. DOVER. JAN. 3.—We are happy to be able to state that the communication with Canterbury and London is again opened, although there are still mountains of snow between here and the town first named. Hundreds of men have been employed in cutting a road through until this day, when it was happily accomplished ; the appear ance is so novel that crowds of pedestrians are constantly vising the unwonted scenes. When travelling was totally suspended by carriages, Messrs. Worthington, of the Ship Hotel, lost not a moment in preparing sledges, by which they have constantly forwarded, by circuitous routes, the Government despatches, messengers, the mails (under the superintendence of Mr. Godfrey, from the Post-office, whose exertions have been most indefatigable), and those persons whose business was particularly pressing ; they have had from 80 to 100 horses regularly employed in this Anglo-Russian mode of travelling, and many a fair fora, which at other times shrunk from encountering the wintry blast, was induced to try the really comfortable con veyances so unexpectedly provided for them. It is reported that from 10,000 to 15,000 sheep have perished in Romney Marsh. their especial abhorrence of assassination. Besides, their Lordships " baying no fears" for themselves, are happily in a situation which admits of the expression of their feelings. In their interrogatories we find only additional proofs of their judicial zeal in all that re lates to the safety of the Royal Family. The by standers, however, must have had difficulty in repressing a smile, when PASQUIER commenced the examination of his MAJESTY respecting the abodes of such worthies as MEUNIER, ALIBEAUD, FIESCHI, and their wicked accomplices. The whole of the Paris Journals of Monday and Tuesday have been received, together with letters from Santander of the 28th, Bilboa of the 25th, San Se bastian of the 23d, and Bayonne of the 30th ult. In all except the letters from San Sebastian, we find addi ditional accounts of the raising of the seige of Bilboa by General ESPARTERO. On the evening of the 23d, the fourth Regiment of the British Le gion--about four hundred strong—embarked on board the Isabella 11. to join ESPARTERO in a gene ral attack upon the Carlists ; but unfortunately they arrived too late. Bilboa was relieved before they reached Portugalete, so they returned without effecting anything. The following is the official report, pub lished in the Moniteur. " The deliverance of Bilboa is certain ; the enemy have lost about 1,000 men and a part of their artillery." The Carlists lost the whole of their artillery, with the exception of one mortar, which they succeeded in dragging along with them. Their loss in men is also considerably more than is here stated, though the exact number is not yet known. But what con tributes most to the discomfiture of Don CARLOS is the desertion of his army—hundreds of whom are returning daily to their respective homes. It was stated in Paris on Monday that ALAIX, at the head of his division, had entered Durango, from whence Don CARLOS had fled to Villafranca. There is no other news of any interest in the Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday, except what relates to the addresses to the KING, of which we have spoken elsewhere. Brussels and German papers have been received. The plague had made its appearance on the frontiers of Servia. On New-year's Day King LEoroLD re ceived the felicitations of the Belgian Chambers, and other public bodies. New York papers to the 9th ult., with a file of jour nals from Upper and Lower Canada, have just reached us. We have pleasure in stating that the health of President JACKSON is improved. For extracts from these journals we refer our readers to another part of The Sun. A slight thaw prevailed on Saturday afternoon in Edinburgh, but it was of short duration, as an intense frost set in at nightfall, which still continues. All the mails, except those from London and Carlisle, are arriving about their regular time. The exportation of gold and silver coin and bullion from the port of London, during the past week, is as follows :—Gold bars to Hamburg, 175 oz. ; gold coin to Cape of Good Hope, 3,750 oz. ; silver coin to Madeira, 1,000 oz. ; silver coin to Gibraltar, 10,000 oz. ELGlN.—lnfluenza, which has been so universally prevalent throughout the country for some time past, has at length made its appearance here within the last four days ; and we speak within bounds when we say, that nearly one third of the population of the town has been already affected by it. The Hull Observer of Tuesday last inculpates the post-dice management of the borough. With a ciew to obtain a remedy for the abuses pointed out by a Con temporary, he suggests that the matter should be placed "in the hands of a Member of the House of Commons, who, by a judicious order for returns of the sums irregularly drawn horn the public through post-office agency, may collect a mass of facts so conclusive in their character as to lead to the total abolition of the privilege of taxing the inhabitants of towns without consent of Parliament." CHARITY.—To the credit of the provinces we may state that we have scarcely seen a single country paper for the last week, which does not contain the record of several seasonable acts of Christmas liberality exercised in their respective districts towards the poor. According to general expectation, the thaw has oc casioned great distress amongst the poor residing in low situations. In Tiers-street, Lambeth, the inhabitants were, yesterday, seen removing their goods from several small houses, the lower apartments in which were inundated by the dissolving snow. Much distress and suffering was felt in consequence of the calamity, which was not confined to that spot. Other parts contiguous to the banks of the Thames have been subject to the same misfortune, and there is ground to believe, notwithstanding the gradual thaw, that considerable losses will be sustained by the injury done to property. HAMBURG, DEC. 28.—The Elbe being full of floating ice, the mails from Germany have come very late ; those from Fraace and Belgium not at all. The English mail is also due ; but if, as we suppose, the steam-boat has arrived at Cuxhaven, the mail bag will probably be sent up by land on the other side of the Elbe. The body of a young woman of dissolute habits was found yesterday morning among the snow, in one of the un finished roads between the Lothian-road and the Castle terrace. There were no marks of violence on the body ;it is therefore supposed that, while in a state of intoxication, she had fallen or lain down on the road, and died from cold.—Edinburgh Courant. In the course of this week there have been strewed along the coast, in the vicinity of Berwick, a number of deck planks, a pump 14 feet long, a chest, and various other articles belonging to some vessel that is supposed to have been wrecked in the offing. There were also washed ashore, on the Magdalen Fields, a shirt, which is stated to be marked with the letter C ; and at Holy Island, a dog house was found on the beach. From the length of the pump, the unfortunate vessel must have been a brig or schooner ; but nothing has hitherto cast up by which any certain information may be traced respecting her.—Berwick Warder. The letters are conveyed daily from Canterbury to Dover on sledges, drawn by three and four horses, tandem. On Thursday morning they were forwarded by means of " pack-horses ;" and on Sunday under the superintendence of Mr. Godfrey, a post-office inspector, they were trans mitted on sledges, which returned with passengers, at a charge of 2/. per head. Previous to this mod of con veyance being adopted they were sent round the coast by a Government steamer. Very few vehicles are vi sible, excepting sledges, which glide silently through all our thoroughfares, dr awn b y one or more horses, and giving a mar ried therefore, a TREATMENT daughter considerable of very pleasant eff ec t.—K en ti s h G aze tt e . t°liell a i Ft n e f 1E : influence et of s i tv he S er p i r op oa J l i o m h a yn n dd a O y s. possessed, ofpa tronage n ; but being Membe r for a county which was equally divided, he had more claims upon his gratitude than he could handsomely satisfy. A. staunch friend requested Sir John some trifling favour. Sir John was sorry that it was not in his power to confer it. " You know, Sir John," urged the honest man, nettled by the refusal, " you know, Sir John, that I am a man you could always depend upon." " And that," replied Sir John, " my good friend, is the reason ; I am compelled to provide so lavishly for those I cannot depend upon, that I have not so much as a por ter's place to spare for those upon whom I can."—Leicester Paper. THE QUEEN REGENT OF SPAIN. —When Cala trava informed the Queen Regent that the Cortes required the plan of her daughter's education, her Majesty replied in the following terms :—" I am as much interested in my daughter's education as the Cortes. If they by their vote in the Chamber, confirming me in the appointment of Queen Regent, have reposed all their confidence in me, I am at a loss to understand their present demand. You may state that, although the representatives of the nation had not expressed their confidence in me, I would never submit to the humiliation of laying before them the plan which I have adopted regarding the education of my children. I gave them my husband's will, as I wished them to know that I was actuated by no sordid or interested feelings ; but as a mother, and a Queen, I will not suffer a personal insult."—Morning Paper. An accident of a very distressing nature occurred at Kingston-Port, Speymoutb, on Thursday week, by which a fine child, between two and three years of age, was unfor tunately deprived of life. Mrs. Macdonald left the de ceased and an elder sister amusing themselves in the room, while she went for a few minutes to the house of a neigh hour. During her short absence the clothes of the unwary child caught fire, and when she returned, to her dismay, she beheld her screaming infant completely enveloped in flames. These were speedily extinguished, but the child was so severely burned that it died on the evening of Friday laat....Edinburgh Courant, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) CUTTING AND MAIMING.--.John Foulkes, a German, was indicted for feloniously assaulting, wounding, and cut ting Joseph Josephs, with intent to kill and murer him, in the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. The prosecutor deposed that he was a general dealer and the keeper of an accommodation-house. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said the business was most dis graceful, even though clothed in decent language. J. Josephs—On the morning of Jan. 1, he heard a noise in a room up stairs in his house, and went up to see what was the matter. When he got up stairs he saw his wife lying oe the floor bleeding. There was a girl also there, and the prisoner standing with a poker in his hand, with which he struck witness a violent blow on the head, which knocked him down. While on the floor he struck him again on the side of the head. Witness got up and tried to take the poker from him. The prisoner took up a jug, and broke it over his head. There was some further strug gling, but witness was insensible to all that passed after till in the station-house, from whence he was removed to the hospital. The wife of the prosecutor, and Elizabeth Wells, gave their testimony as it appeared in the reports from Bow street on Tuesday—it was not worth repeating. The female calling herself Mrs. Josephs, received a severe re primand from the Judges for keeping such a house at all, but more especially for having it open on the Sunday morn ing so late as three o'clock. A. policeman produced the three pieces of the poker. When he went into the room Josephs was sitting on the sofa ; the prisoner was in the act of dressing. The pri• soner said, " You wanted to take me in, and I took you in —serve you right." He made no charge of robbery against them, but said he had paid for the room, and they had no right to come in. The head part of the poker was covered with blood. Mr. Maule, the dresser at the hospital, described the wounds on Josephs' head as being contused wounds, and were severe, but not dangerous. There were several wounds on the head of Josephs which appeared to have been made with a sharp instrument, but (in answer to the Learned Judge,) they might have been made with a broken mug. The prisoner in his defence said he had stopped too late at a party, and could not get home. He accompanied the girl, and on going up stairs locked the room door. He un dressed, but before he got into bed Josephs came up and burst open the door. He ordered him (prisoner), to get out, and would not even give him time to dress himself, but seized his clothes, and was going throw them out of the window. He then seized the poker, and broke some panes of glass, and called for the police. Josephs seized him, and said with an oath they would have no policemen there. He then struck him, in his own defence, and to save his pro perty. Mr. Baron ALDERSON charged the Jury, and told them that to sustain the present indictment they must be satisfied that the assault had been committed under such circum stances, as if death had ensued they must have found the prisoner guilty of murder. He did not think there would be much difficulty in this case in coming to a conclusion. They must look carefully at all the circumstances, and say whether there was any room to infer malice. The Jury almost instantly returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner was again indicted for the assault upon Mrs. Josephs. No evidence was offered, and the Jury again returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said the parties might indict the prisoner for an aggravated assault if they pleased, but he refused any expenses except those of the surgeon and the policeman. The Grand Jury came in, and returned a number of true bills, amongst which were two against George Forbes At kinson for felony. This is the Captain Atkinson whose case occupied the attention of the Bow-street Magistrates or several days. NEW COURT. James Davis, a young lad, aged only eight years, was indicted for stealing 2ilbs. weight of bacon, the property of Robert Andrew Boyd. He was found guilty ; and it ap pearing that this was not the first offence committed by the prisoner, The COMMON SERGEANT said sentence of transportation should be passed upon him ; but if his conduct, while in the prison, proved a disposition to retrace his evil steps, he would, in all probability, not be sent out of the country. Caroline Gadbuiy and Mary Payne were indicted for stealing, on the 16th of December, a shawl, the property of John Nelson Kiddie. Both the prisoners went to the shop of the prosecutor in the Mile-end-road, on the 16th of December, under pretence of purchasing a shawl, and while there the shopman missed one which he bad been showing them. A policeman being called in they were taken to the station-house, where they would be searched, and on their way the shawl was observed to drop from between them. Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri soners, submitting that in this case there was not sufficient evidence to substantiate the charg e a g ainst both ; and if they came to such a conclusion, they could not find either guilty. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty ; and this not having been their first offence, the COMMON SERJEANT said the Court would sentence them to a severe punish ment in this country ; but if they ever came before him again, they should certainly be transported for life. John Huxley was indicted for stealing a snuff-box, the property of George Durant, from his person. The prosecutor stated, that on the 16th of December, as he was going along Cornhill, he felt the prisoner's hand in his pocket, from which his snuff-box had been just taken. He saw him hand something to a female who appeared to be in his company, and she immediately ran away.— Guilty. Richard Thomson was indicted for stealing on the 22d of December a piece of carpet, the property of Sarah Reynolds. The article in question was given to a messenger for the purpose of taking it to a person who wished to purchase it, and it having been placed on a cart, was stolen there from, and immediately found in the possession of the pri soner.—Guilty. John Hood, an elderly man dressed as a sailor, was in dicted for stealing 17s. 10d., the property of Ellen Anne Haggart. The prosecutrix in this case keeps the George the Fourth public-house, Whitechapel-road, and on the evening of the day named in the indictment, the prisoner called there, asked for some porter, and gave in payment a counterfeit coin resembling a sovereign, demanding the change, which was sent to him by a child about seven years of age. Shortly afterwards he left the house, and the fraud being discovered, he was followed to another public-house, where he offered Mrs. Haggart to make the matter all right, and he was taken into custody by a policeman who was called in on the occasion. In his possession was found a purse containing twelve similar counterfeits. Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri soner, and called witnesses who spoke to his previous good character. --Guilty ; recommended to mercy, A Life Insurance Company is about to be introduced at Vienna for the first time. It will be upon the French plan of mutual guarantee and joint-stock shares. The Mi nister of the Interior, Count Kallowrath, has given the pro ject the sanction of the Austrian Government. The capital to be about 250,0001. English money.—Frankfort Paper. The terms for places in the car of the Grand Vaux hall Balloon, which is to make its ascension on Monday at Paris, are—forZ gentlemen, 600 fr. ; and for ladies, 300 fr. each. These prices may appear to be rather high, but it should be recollected that the expenses of each assent are very heavy. There are places for two persons ; four are already taken. It has been proposed to consecrate the Queen's Riding House at Pimlico as a temporary place of worship, till St. Peter's Church has been reinstated. The severity of the weather, combined with the lan guid state of the silk trade in Macclesfield, Congleton, Sandbach, Leek, and other places in the neighbourhood, has produced a degree of distress which approaches to that of 1835. The silk weavers can scarcely reckon at pre sent on more than four days' work a week under the best circumstances, and the rise in the price of provisions would render their wages, if fully employed, but barely sufficient to afford a s ubsistence.—Macclesfield Courier. A MEMORABLE BARRING-OUT.—The annual custom of barring out the master, immediately preceding the Christmas holidays, took place at the Garstang Gram mar School, on Wednesday last ; and as hath been the immemorial usage, the boys lost no time, after securing the door, in calling into active exercise all their prescriptive lawless privileges, one of which bath ever been to raise the heat of the atmosphere within the school to its highest en durable degree, by a sad waste of fuel ; but as their reign occurs but seldom, and is then only of short duration, these acts of lavish expenditure of coals and turf have never been regarded with any marks of severe displeasure, and very fortunately have hitherto been unattended with any other loss. On Wednesday, however, by some means which none of the urchins could explain, the fuel in the recess under the stairs, got fired, and this was presently communicated to the stairs, and to a number of books in the room above, which was used for the Sunday School. An alarm was im mediately made, and the town engine was taken promptly to the spot, and by active exertions the fire was prevented from doing any further damage than consuming the stairs and the books mentioned.—Manchester Guardian. BRIGHTON.-WEDNESDAY. Their Majesties continue to enjoy excellent health, but have not ventured out since the inclement weather set in. This morning his Majesty sat again to Sir David Wilkie. On Monday afternoon the Duchess of Gloucester was taken so unwell that it was deemed necessary to send for Sir Henry Halford, who arrived yesterday morning ; but we are happy to state that her Royal Highness was then consitlerably better and has continued so ever since. Sir Henry returned to London this morning. Mis Majesty gave audience yesterday to the Marquis of Conyngham. Yesterday evening the Royal dinner invitations comprised the Marchioness and the Ladies Cornwallis, Baron Gers dorff, Hon. Captain Paulet, Sir Henry Halford, and Sir James Reynett. The calls at the Palace to day and yesterday include— Lord and Lady Colville, Sir John Shelley, Sir G. and Lady Westphal!, Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Ashworth, Lady and Miss Blackwood, Baron Gersdorff, Lieut.-Col. Thorn ton, Lieut.-Colonel Loftus, the Marchioness and the Ladies Cornwallis, Sir Ralph Rice, Sir R. and Lady FitzWygram, the Bishop of Worcester, and Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour. COURT CIRCULAR. Sir Charles Grey (one of his Majesty's Commissioners for the affairs of Canada) had an interview with Lord Glenelg at the Colonial Office yesterday. His Excellency the American Minister left town on Sun day for Broadlands, on a visit to Viscount Palmerston. 'Viscount Melbourne entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at his residence in South-street. Lord Hol land and a small party dined with his Lordship on Tuesday evening. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on Tuesday night from Castle Ashby, the seat of the Marquis of Northampton. Mr. Poulett Thomson has left town on a visit to Viscount Palmerston at Broadlands. Despatches were received at the Foreign Office from Mr. M'Neill, Minister to the Shah of Persia, on Monday. Viscount and Viscountess Sidmouth, arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, yesterday, from Richmond Park. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord Muncaster, at the Green Park Hotel from Ireland; Sir John Shelley, in Belgrave-square, from Fide Place, the seat of Lord Gage ; Sir John Byng, Bart, in Portman square, from the Duke of Richmond's seat, Goodwood Sus sex ; Captain Patterson and Mrs. Patterson, and family in Connaught-square ; Captain Johnson, at Raggett's Hotel, from Portsmouth ; Mr. and Mrs. Grant, at ditto, from their seat in Essex ; Mr. and Mrs. North, in Brook-street, from Brighton : Captain Nesbitt, in St. James's square, from the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Bentley, at Fenton's HOWL from the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Hawesley, at ditto, from Brighton ; John James, Esq., and Mrs. James, at Marshall Thomson's Hotel, from Wales ; John Fraser, Esq., at ditto ; G. Tipping, Esq., and the Hon. St. John at ditto ; W. W. Rooke, Esq., at ditto ; W. Sawbridge, Esq., at ditto. DEPARTURES. The Duke of Brunswick, from the Carlton Hotel, for Bry anston-square ; Sir Charles Grey, Bart., from the St. George's Hotel, for The Oaks, Kent ; Captain Knox, from ditto, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Wickstead, from Fenton's Hotel, for Warwickshire ; J. Lomax, Esq., from ditto, for Manchester ; Wm. Howell, Esq., from ditto, for Brighton ; Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart, from the Waterloo Hotel, for Denton Park, Yorkshire; Mr. and Mrs. Barrington Price, from ditto, for Culham House Berks ; James B. Lawrell, Esq., Mrs. Law rell, and family, from Marshall Thomson's Hotel ; Mrs. Col. Munro from ditto ; W. Needham, Esq., and Mrs. Needham, from ditto. The Duke of Sussex will probably remain at Holk ham for another fortnight. The house is full of company. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland ar rived at Hanover on the 27th ult., and will make a long visit. His Royal Highness will stop here till the end of January, and then go to London. His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Prussia is gone to St. Petersburgh. The Emperor of Russia has sent his Aide-de-Camp, Colonel V. Bridberg, to Oldenburgh, to congratulate the Duke on the marriage of Princess Amelia to the King of Greece, and to deliver to the young Queen the in s i gn i a o f the Order of St. Catherine in the name of the Empress of Russia. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe left the Star and Garter, Richmond Hill, on Monday last, for the Con tinent. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield were still at Bretby Hall, locked up by the snow, when the last accounts left Leicestershire. The removal of the remains of the late Duke of Montrose will, we hear, be delayed until the next week. The body will be conveyed by land to Scotland. The pre sent Duke and Duchess are at Lord Decies, until the day of the funeral procession. The festival of Twelfth Night is expected to be ce lebrated with much splendour to-morrow evening at the seat of the Earl and CounteFs of Jersey, Middleton-park, near Bicester. The fete will be given in honour of the youthful daughters of the Noble Earl, the Ladies Sarab, Clementine, and Ada Villiers. _ Prince Esterbazy and the young Prince Nicholas arrived, on Monday evening last, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, where their Highnesses will hunt with Lord Forester's pack of hounds. The Duchess of Gordon is expected to return to England next month from her Continental tour. The esta blishment in Belgrave-square is to be broken up, her Grace, we believe, intending to reside chiefly at Huntley Lodge, in the County of Aberdeen. The Marquisate of C-n, the youn g pretendant, who was said to have placed his claims and documents in the hands of an eminent solicitor, to prove he was the lineal heir of the late Marquis, is said to have abandoned his in tention of prosecuting his claim to the family honour. The story of which this young gentleman, now eighteen years of age, is the hero, was first circulated among the fashionable circles on the lamented decease of the Earl, eldest son of the Nobleman in question, who was asserted to have formed a clandestine marriage with a lady in the neighbourhood of Lausanne, but which was, it was said, on inquiry, to be without foundation.—Morning Paper. The marriage between the Earl of Winchilsea and Miss Emily Bagot will not take place so soon as was an nounced ; the fair fiancee is still in Paris with her friend Lady Mary Fox ; and the period of her return is uncertain. Lord and Lady Gardner have returned to Kimmel' Park. Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Anson were still in town yesterday, having delayed their departure for Belvoir Castle owing to the state of the roads. The ball on Tuesday se'nnight, at Gorhambury, was attended only by the company then in the mansion. About one hundred fashionables could get no further than St. Alban's. General Sebastiani left London on Tuesday morning for Paris. His Excellency's departure had been delayed on account of the inclemency of the season. M. de Bour queney will act as Charge d'Affaires for the Court of . France, during Count Sebastlani's absence. On Christmas day upwards of 1,000 poor people of Wootons, Ashenden, Westcott, Ham, and Kingswood, received from the Marquis of Chandos, meat, bread, and beer, in proportion to the number of each family. A. similar distribution took place at Stowe, by order of the Duke of Buckingham. Twelve guineas have been presented to the Rev. Mr. Latimer, of Waddisden, for the use of the poor of that parish by the same Noble Lord. The King has been pleased to confer on the Rev. E. Dodd the chaplaincy of Brunswick Chapel, Bryanston square, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. H. V. Ham mick, whom the Duke of Bedford has presented to a living in Devonshire. The Earl of Donoughmore is the new Vice- Admiral of the province of Munster. The Hon. Capt. and Mrs. Charles Stanley, who have been passing the honey-moon at the villa of the fa ther of his bride, in Richmond -park, proceed on a visit to the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, where Lord and Lady Stanley, and some branches of the Wilbraham family, have been assembled during the holydays. It is to-day generally and confidently reported, that the Earl of Derby is to have the vacant Garter. It is also reported, that Lord Abercromby is to be Lord-Lieu tenant of Stirlinnhire ; and Sir J. Colquhoun, of Luss, Bart., is to be Cord-Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire ; both in the room of the Duke of Montrose. The Marquis of Waterford, immediately after the affair of honour in which he was engaged in the fields at Paddington, of which we gave an account yesterday, set off from Charles-street, St. James's, for Curraghmore House, county Waterford. The evening preceding the duel the Noble Marquis and his brother, Lord William Bercsford, of the Ist Life Guards, dined with a party at the Clarendon, and thence adjourned to Drury-lane Thea tre. His adversary was wounded in the leg. As was said yesterday, his antagonist was a shoemaker. We can state with confidence from authority on which we can rely, that the mission of the Earl of Durham is drawing to a close, and that he will soon return to England.—Tyne Mercury. A meeting of the electors of Athlone was held on Tuesday last, when it was determined that Mr. O'Connell and the Member for Youghal should be invited to a public dinner in that town. The Reformers of Rochdale intend to invite Mr. O'Connell to a public dinner previous to the meeting of Parliament.