The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-06 00:00:00

BRIGHTON-THURSDAY. The Queen has had a cold for this day or two, and last night at a late hour her Majesty was taken very unwell, but we are happy to state that her Majesty is better to day. The King continues well. The Duchess of Gloucester passed a good night, and is better to-day. The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss Wynyard, drove out this morning for an airing before luncheon. We understand that the marriage of the Earl of Win. chilsea and the Hon. Miss Emily Bagot has been delayed by the inclemency of the weather. Apartments were en gaged by Lord Maryborough at the York Hotel, for the 30th of December. His Lordship wrote subsequently, stating that he should arrive on the 4th of January (yester day), but he has not yet arrived. In consequence of the indisposition of the Duchess of Gloucester the Queen's band has not played at the Palace this week. Sir Benjamin Stephenson arrived yesterday evening on a visit to their Majesties. Yesterday evening the Royal dinner invitations were— Lord and Lady George Seymour, Hon. Captain Paulet, Sir John Shelley, Baron Gersdorff, and Major-General Sir 33. Stephenson. Immediately after the snow-storm his Majesty subscribed 501. liar the relief of the poor of this town ; and recom mended the local bodies to set' the unemployed poor to work in clearing the streets. The directors and guardians forthwith acted upon his Majesty's suggestion, by giving employment to five hundred men. Mr. Gutteridge's annual concert is announced. Madame Caradori is engaged to sing, and Mr. G. has been so fortu nate as to obtain the sanction of the Queen for the services of her Majesty's private band. Among the calls at the Palace to-day are—Admiral Sir Harry Neale, Lady and Miss Napier, Viscount Moles worth, Captain the Hon. George Brown, Mr. and Mrs. G. Dawson, the Hon. Lady and Miss Palmer, Sir Ifand Lady Brooke Pechell, the Hon. General St. John, the Hon. Mrs. and the Misses St. John, Admiral Sir R. and Lady Otway. The Earl of Westmorland has not left Brighton, as stated by mistake in yesterday's paper. Lady Scott gave a splendid ball and supper last night. All the leading fashionables of the place were present, and dancing was kept up with great spirit till three o'clock this morning, to Kirchner's band. Customs.—Cons , lidated Duties Sugar Duty applicable to Consolidated Fund Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies Total Customs Excise Stamps Taxes Post Office Miscellaneous Total Ordinary Revenue mprest and other Moneys, includ ing Re-payments of Advances for Public Works Total Income The Amount applied to the Con solidated Fund. Ditto, to pay off Exchequer Bills charged on Sugar Duty Ditto, as part of the Ways and Means of the Year Total.. INCOME. Customs.—Consolidated Duties Sugar applicable to the Consolidated Fund 3,485,899 Total Customs 3,485,899 3,`293,315 3,293,315 Excise Stamps Taxes Post Office Miscellaneous 3,317,763 1,619,517 1,575,646 315,000 45,106 10,419,261 To Cash brought to this Account to replace the like sum issued, or to be issued, out of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland, for Supply and other Services 3,803,764 1,573,529 1,594,660 349,000 29,984 10,644,252 F 38,074 693,A54 11,257,335 11,333 ; 106 COURT CIRCULAR. Mr. Marjoribanks and a Deputation had an interview with Lord Gleneig yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Chairman of Stamps and Taxes had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Down ing -street. The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Lord John Russell left Holkham Hall, Norfolk, the seat of Mr. Coke, yesterday, for Oakley House, Bedfordshire, the seat of the Marquis of Tavistock. Gount Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister, has nearly re eovered from his recent indisposition. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial Office, for the Earl of Gosford, the Governor of the Canadas ; and for the Lieutenant-Governors of Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Ed war d' s Island. Sir R. Peel, it is expected, will leave Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, to-day, for Glasgow. The Duke of Sussex, it is expected, will remain at Holkham for another fortnight. The houso is full of com- PanY Prince and Princess Polignac altered their intention of visiting Slindon Hall, the Countess of Newburgh's seat, in consequence of the inclemency of the weather. They have arrived at the Terrace Hotel, Richmond, where they intend to occupy a villa. Three of their children, who are still in Prance, are expected shortly to join their parents. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have arrived at Stover, Devon, from a tour in the north. Her Grace has been placed in mourning by the death of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart. The Earl of Sandwich arrived in Carlton-gardens from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam, at Gor harnbury. Lieutenant-General Sir Hussey and Lady Vivian arrived at the Ordnance Office, in Pall-mall, on Tuesday, having left town to have an audience of the King at the Pavilion. General Coletti has been appointed Envoy Extraor dinary from the young King of Greece to the Kin.- of the French, and presented to his Majesty letters notifying the marriage of his Sovereign, who, with his bride, have arrived at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. Viscount Templeton has presented to the United Service Museum, Whitehall-yard, eight stone celts, a bronze celt, and a bronze spear, all dug up near Castle Upton, Temple Patrick, county Antrim. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the mortal re mains of the Duke of Montrose were removed from Gros venor -square, for interment in the family vault at Buchanan, Scotland. The cavalcade will be met by the relatives and tenantry of the deceased on its arrival in Scotland. Sir John Pollen, Bart., M.P. for Andover, lately fell from his horse, and fractured three of his ribs, while hunting with the Everley stag hounds. The Navy Pay-office having been abolished, its du ties have been transferred to the Paymaster-General's office, at Whitehall. T. Hamilton, Esq., has been appointed to act as Assistant Paymaster-General, after being employed many years in that department as chief accountant. Sir David Wilkie has returned to his residence. Mr. and Mrs. A. Hope have returned to their new mansion in Carlton-gardens, from the Deepdene, Dorking, where a gay party has been assembled during the holydays. Earl Grey has deferred his visit to Paris until after the meetinc , of Parliament. Lord Decies, who is now in Paris, has relinquished his mansion, in Curzon-street, to the Duke and Duchess of" Montrose. The venerable Earl of Lauderdale is daily occupied with literary pursuits, at his seat, Dunbar House, Scotland. The Marquis of Abercorn has not increased his es tablishment, as stated. The household of the Noble Mar quis is already complete in every department. His Lord ship has recently taken into his service the late chef de cuisine of the Earl of Chesterfield (Jarrin), w h o i s em ployed in making some superb table pieces for the forth coming season for the Marquis. Count Anatole Demidoff, who has returned to Paris from Italy, for the winter, astonished the fashionables in that capital during the frost, by a sledge of curious con struction., which h e d rove on t h e promena d e o f that cap i tal lest week. Sir Henry Parnell, Bart., M.P., Paymaster of the Forces, is passing the Christmas holydays at his seat, Moore Abbey, Queen's County. Jerome Bonaparte, after paying a short visit to the Court of his brother•in-l aw , the King of Wirtemb erg , has Set out with all his family f or I ta l y. H e has offere his residence in Switzerland for sale, being resolved to remain 130 longer in the neighbourhood of Arenenberg. The whole of the family are at law with Cardinal Fesch respecting some diamonds deposited by their mother, Madame Letitia, who, 1 1 a clause in her will, declared that her }eirs should not 11 31 them d u ring the lifetime of the Cardi na l un d er forfei um of all rights to participation in her property. The st ree t s o f Paris were never, within the memory 1) r any one livi ng , known to be in so bad a state as th e y are 3 Ince the thaw commenced. uutThe taste for grandeur in public buildings is very tp v e h Upon the increase throughout Prussia, and in no coun . ar e of earthere more creditable edifices or a greater number for ge 'lent artists. A proposition has been lately made to all Ge at Berlin a general College of Ai:chitecture, to serve 13 et rm arlY, which has received the King's sanction. Pock et , een the 19th and the 26th of December nine and t wel e atered Calais from England with 165 passengers, A retie took their departure with 193 passengers. deen, wr i t er from Captain Dunn, of the Jane, of Aber °no of th ten from F raser b urg h, d a t e d Dec. 29, states that t here e that da Missing Davis' s St ra its ships had been seen off s° Ene p a by the fishing-boats, and that a boat from part of the Frith had been on board of her. cis ivut I for get to L—Some one under momentary irritation, 4 , No, no," r w ep ir what occasion, called him a " Scotch cur." are too severe 11 Goldsmith, playing upon the word." you threw him at J o ki n gs merely a Scotch bur. Tom Davies sticking.—Prior's in sport, and he has the faculty of The municipal'au• pressed the public gaminthorities of Strasburg have sup.. year established at th e -tables, which have been every tinuance of the masked balls. de Spectacle during the con- POETRY AND CRlTicis censuring a tragic perfor mer wh ic o r.—A Dublin critic, in cha racter, says t h e actor reminded lately attempted a comic of th e harp which— " So often had echoed th e deep That e'en in its mirth it wo u l c r s s t i g ' f'.)rfo sadness m still." THE JUSTE MILIEU.—There w as a Florentine Amba ssa d or here in Oliver ' s re i gn, who with great circum spection wrote to his Court. " Some say the Protector is dead, others say he is not ; for my part, I believe neither one nor t'other--,- Walpole's Private Correspondence. SHOCKI _. ,ACClDENT. —Yesterday morni ng Wil liaNG m Jenkins, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Griffith, plumber, of Be rmondsey -street, Borough, while at work in air down a gutter to the roof of a house in Union visthreiee,, , fell, lighting. the spikes of the area railing, on I, be was literally entered hi s body. impaled ; th ree o f th e ra ils having QUARTERS ENDED April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, 1535 1835 I 1835 8,460,924 Jan. 5, 1836 10,542,287 11,854,468 1 11,572,5.28 Quarters ended Jan. 5. YEAR ended Jan. 5, Mt; 42,430,207 Decrease on each head thereof. QUARTERS ENDED April 5, July 5, I 1836 1836 Oct. 10, 1836 Jan. 5, 1837 8,682,543 1 11,848,935 1 12,880,927 1 11,588,7 A THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, Ji,NUARY 6, 1837. THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JANUARY 5, 1837. No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of January, 1836, and sth of January, 1837, shewing the Increase or YEAR ended Jan 5, 1837 Year ended Jan. 5. Quarter ended Jan. 5. Increase. I Decrease. 3,374,754 3,120,288 3,891,872 3,185,699 - 3,417,614 3,571,541 5,018,416 3,297,765 - 912,123 1,328,339 - - - 528,855 1,271,316 - - - - 4,000 1,462,115 1,034,516 - 503,369 - 1,335, 0 01 772,173 - 4,286,877 4,461,627 5,353,987 4,520,415 18,622,906 4,449,838 4,842,8,87 6,353,777 4,069,938 19,716,410 1,637,574 2,502,048 4,007,375 3,347,763 11,544,760 1,863,312 3,215,069 3,862,029 3,803,764 12,741,174 1,651,387 1,624,171 1,671,201 1,619,517 6,5 f ;9,309 1,697,884 1,734,269 1,744,741 1,573,529 6,750,421 245,364 1,500,300 355,120 1,575,646 3,67. 1 ,523 189,064 1,571,160 334,887 1,594,660 3,689,761 359,000 342,000 372,000 315,003 1,418,000 3(96,000 376,000 399,000 349,000 1,4911,000 10,988 10,789 16,513 21,576 59,866 16,743 7,974 6,210 9,873 40,1"30 8,244,190 10,441,028 11,776,199 11,129,947 41,591,361 8,582,841 11,747,347 12,700,674 11,400,764 44,431,626 216,734 101,259 78,269 142,581 538,843 99,702 101,588 180,253 187,995 569,530 8,460,924 10,512,287 11,854,468 11,572,528 42,130,207 8,682,543 11,848,935 12,680,927 11,583,759 45,001,164 5,228,543 6,917,595 7,359,989 8,123,429 27,629,556 5,780,883 7,122,995 8,068,917 8,423,535 29,396,360 3,232,331 3,624,692 4,494,479 3,449,099 14,800,651 2,901,660 4,725,940 4,811,980 3,165,224 15,604,824 , - Total Customs Excise Taxes Post-office 45,001,1( i 4 Increase. I Decrease. 1,093,535 1,199,414 161,112 13,238 72,u00 Imprest ISc other Moneys 456,001 Deduct Decrease; 19,014 4,000 Increase on the' Year 30,695 2,589,993 450,477 46,018 19 , .3 1 3 11:703 45,414 J9,'36 19,03 5'24,429 Deduct De. crease. 508,198 2,570,957 508,198 No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1836, and the sth January, 1837. Increase on the Quarter 16,231 Quarters ended Jan. 5. CHARGE. Permanent Debt Terminable Annuities Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund Sinking Fund The Civil List Other charges on the Consolidated Fund, including Civil Government Services fonnorly paid out of the Civil List, or the Heredi .... tary Revenues of the Crown The Ami off of The Arai for Si The Suru Total Charge The Surplus ount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fu ut of thelgrowing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1537„ ount issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1837, in part of the sums grants ;upply Services 61;a the Consolidated Fund Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1837 ,robable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Con mere party cry, oft repeated, over the conduct of the most honest and conscientious men. " The Peers, however, so far from being touched by this conduct of Ministers, have either rejected the measures at once, or struck out or altered the clauses which they considered most objectionable. The Commons but too frequently consented to receive and adopt these mutilations. In thus acting, the House of Lords calculated upon the timidity and irresolution, of Ministers ; for though the lat ter were sometimes irritated into the using of harsh lan guage, they were never desirous, as the Peers were well aware, to do anything willingly to diminish, or to set at defiance, the power of the Upper House. It was fre quently amusing to hear Sir R. Peel, whilst blaming the expressions of the Ministers, at the same time compliment ing them on the prudence of their conduct in conceding, and not listening to the counsels of their more determined followers. The Peers have likewise relied upon the cir cumstance that one half of the English representatives are Tories ; that at almost every election the latter party has gained ground ; and they believe that the people of Eng land are indifferent to the Whigs. All these facts are un doubtedly true, not excepting the latter one ; and as that indifference is each day augmenting, in the event of a dis solution there is much reason for believing that the number of Reformers (that is, the aggregate of Whigs and Radi cals) who will be returned for England will be diminished ; for we think, for reasons which we shall state hereafter, that unless the Whigs adopt a very different line of con duct, their party will be diminished to a still greater extent than that of the Radicals will be augmented. These facts, and these not unfounded expectations, have produced in the minds of the Tories a belief that there is in the mass of the people a change of opinion, from Liberal to Conservative principles. It is of the utmost importance to ascertain the accuracy or falsehood of this statement, to understand what are the feelings of the people, and to look into the causes of those feelings." The Reviewer goes on to prove, from the result of twenty-six contested elections in England, that Whig ger), is at a discount throughout the country ; and consequently, that Ministers cannot appeal to the na tion by a dissolution of Parliament, unless they iden tify themselves more fully with the' great body of the Liberals. This, in the main, is quite true. The Whigs, as a party, are by no means so popular now as they were in 1835. They were then rather in advance of public opinion ; they arc now consider ably behind it. Their treatment of the Radicals, whom they dragged through the mire to sup port their temporizing timid policy, was equally futile and injudicious. They wantonly weak ened, where they did not absolutely destroy, an in fluence, which, if exercised sparingly, and on great oc casions only, would have been to them an impregnable " tower of strength." But they may yet retrieve their past errors, and regain all the public confidence they have lost. The country is not unmindful of what it owes to them, and its Radical representatives will sup port them as faithfully as they have done, if they will but make a bold and decided stand against the abuses of the Peerage and the Church, and pledge themselves not to oppose the vote by ballot, and a measure for shortening the legal duration of Parliament. Such terms are moderate enough in all conscience, and we do not, see how the Radicals can discharge their duty to their constituents, if they longer support Ministers without exacting them. " Fallacies upon the Poor Laws" is a practical article upon a practical subject. The writer seeks not to penetrate below the surface ; but all that is above it he represents in the strongest and best point of view. The only remarkable thing about it is the correction of the fallacy that the Whigs were the framers of the Poor Law Amendment Bill. Most assuredly they were not. The Bill, such as it is, emanated from the leaders of the Radical party, and was strenuously sup ported by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, and all the principal Tories of both Houses of Par liament. Of the Commissioners of Inquiry, the ma jority were Radicals ; so that in point of fact the Poor Law Amendment Bill is the natural offspring of a momentary union of all parties--Radical, Whig, and Tory. id for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1936, and paid .d by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund mlidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1837 The most remarkable article in this Review is upon the life of the celebrated Count de Mirabeau. As we took more than ordinary pains to give the fullest details, compatible with our abridged li mits, of the character of that extraordinary man, on the first appearance of the Memoirs published by his adopted son, we cannot now do more than di rect the attention of the reader to the very able article in the London and Westminster Review for the pre sent month. It is, however, not without great faults. The style is crabbed, and so full of involutions, that we were more than once puzzled to find out the writer's meaning. Moreover, it ends badly, inasmuch as it dismisses, in a few sentences, the most important part of Mirabeau's career in the National. All the shining and characteristic anecdotes told of the meet ings of the Count de Mirabeau, and his brother the Marquis, who was a decided Royalist, are also omitted. Nevertheless, the article, despite of its Benthamite style, and its omissions towards the close, is one of the most original we have met with for many months. The other articles are principally reviews of works, of which a few are already all but forgotten. The " Progress of Events in Canada," though republican in its spirit, contains passages worthy of the attention of his Majesty's Government. The Dublin Magazine for this month reached us too late to admit of our giving a regular notice of it. We, however, select an extract from a piece of Irish autobiography, as rich in genuine humour as anything that has appeared since the commencement of the pre sent year. The article forms the first part of the Au tobiography of the Rev. Blackthorn M'Flail, late P.P. of Ballymacwhackem . . " From this forward, they lived harmoniously enough to gether. The gambolings of Bosthoon during the honey moon, though uncouth, were not disagreeable to his strap ping bride. Taking them, therefore, each as the represen tative of their class, it is enough to say that they were very well paired, and that she as a M'Fun was quite a match for him as a M'Flail. " In this way things went on well enough on both sides, 8,103,418 714,051 5,041 385,476 127,500 282,072 9,717,558 1,539,777 11,2X,335 8,117,868 720,846 3,795 678,053 127,500 422,221 10,070,283 1,167,8 11,338,106 3,160,774 1,267,623 3,313,071 1,892,951 5,236,022 for about two months, when one evening as Bosthoon and his wife sat together enjoying a comfortable tete-a-tete, he noticed a peculiar embarrassment of manner in his amiable partner for which be could not account. He saw very well that the bashful creature was labouring under some extra ordinary secret which she felt a blushing reluctance to dis close. Bosthoon, of course, was sorely puzzled as to what the nature of her communication could be, for as he had little knowledge of the sex, or of their teasing agreeable moods and whims, so was he signally deficient in that sa gacity which so often enables wit to anticipate experience. Though deficient in penetration, however, he was no fool, and consequently took a most excellent method of making, her abandon that coquettish fondness which she seemed dis posed to work up into nothing less than a mystery. This imperturbable indifference on his part succeeded. Molshy, after patting him on the cheek, and playfully shaking a pair of ears (his, of course,) nearly equal to Bottom's, at length said, " Bosthoon, " ' Well, Molsh.' Molsh hung down her head, first giving him a timid, plea sant, significant, roguish glance from the tail of her eye, after which she placed the palm of her right hand on that of her left, and began to inspect the joints of her fingers, pass ing her left thumb over the back of the right hand, which was uppermost, and seeming to examine them joint by joint. " What wor you goin to say, my thracle ?' " Oh, bad scran to you, Bosthoon ! you'r the dickens !' " How, darlin ?' " Go to the sarra, the never a one o' me will tell you.' " Well, jewel!, sure I can't help that ?' " Oh, but Bosthoon—sure—no ; bad cess to the word. Still, I'll take one myself, so I will—(a huge smack inflicted on Bosthoon.) " Bedad,' said Bosthoon, licking his lips, that's what I call doin it honest. Faix, Molsh, you laid your shoulder to it there. Upon my purty, that was a sappy one.' " But, Bosthoon, jewel and darlin, you don't know what I have to tell you.' " No, in troth, Molshy, but I hope I'll hear it soon.' " Go way wid you,' she replied in a pet, you have no curosity ; the never a kiss I'll give you this month to come.' " Faith, I suspected as much by reason of that last one. It would cover three weeks and nine days any how ; but why have I no curosity, goslin ?' " Bekase, you hav'n't: " Well, sure I'm the less like a woman, Molsh: " Here his indifference to her secret induced Molshy to show strong symptoms of getting pathetic, which is always the dernicr resort of a woman. " You may thrate me as bad as you plase, Bosthoon, but I'm not in a state to be'— " Here her tears came with great fluency, and Bos thoon's indolence was actually stirred into something like interest in consequence of her emotion. " But darlin,' he replied, tell me—tell your own Bos thoon, at wasnt what is wrong ?' " Wrong,' said Molshy, drying her eyes, and with some thing of a proud but indignant feeling, wrong, there's no thing wrong ;' then all at once, gliding into caresses and en dearments, she added tenderly, " No, darlin, jewel —no, my own Bosthoon, there's nothing wrong wid me —no, jewel, but the conthrairy.' " Her voice, while uttering these words, sank by degrees into a tone of most affectionate and significant confidence. " Faith,' said the obtuse husband, I'm as proud as a paycock that there's nothing wrong wid you. Why you frightened the life outgo' me. I thought you had cotch this complaint that's goin.' " Molshy, seeing that all the usual inuendos in such cases were absolutely lost upon him, bent her face, and placing her lips to his ear, said, " Whisper, jewel.' " She must have disclosed something of singular import ance, for Bosthoon on hearing it, raised his head, and fasten ing his grey eyes upon her with a grin of delight, that raised his white heavy brows halfway up his forehead, and distend ing his mouth chuckle after chuckle, until it almost reached those ears the reader wots of, exclaimed, " ' Thunder and whiskey, do you tell me so ?" " ' Yes, I do, Bosthoon. Yes, I do, darlin jewel, and now don't you like me betther than ever ? Don't you now ? Tell me, Bosthoon, darlin ?" _ . " There was no verbal reply given to this query, but a powerful grappling match immediately took place, which from the loudness and frequency of the smacks, bore a strong resemblance to what is called a running fire in a re giment of cavalry. " We cannot dwell long upon this scene, for the fact is, . . ..... that the billings, and cooings, and palmings, and nursings, and whisperings, and squeezings, and pressures, with the other nonsensical endearments that make the honey-moon look like a beslobbered cake of liquorice in the hands of two overgrown children, may all do very well in the proper place, but to a spectator they are in the mean time anything but delicate or agreeable. " Still we cannot help assuring our readers that when this billing match between Bosthoon and Molshy was over, he once again expanded his cavernous mouth into a gap that resembled the cleft of an earthquake, and raising his huge brows one after another like the lumbering portcullis of a drawbridge, at the same time exposing the whites of his eyes, he gazed upon her with an ogle which we can com pare to nothing except the disconsolate look of a dying calf. " Molshy in return gave him a diffident but playful pat on the face, which were it not for a further disclosure that she had to make, would have led to a repetition of the scene we have declined to describe as being rather too sweet for mere lookers-on. " Bosthoon, behave, dear—behave now. Sure I have more to tell you.' " What ! more good news of the same kind ; begad you're worth goold.' " No, jewel, its consarnin' my health for the last two or three days. You know, yourself, I never cared much about what I'm spakin' of, although I could take an odd sup now and thin whin I got it.' " A sup o' what, my thracle ?' " Arra, Bosthoon, don't you see what I mane ?' " Faith, I don't think I do, but lot us hear it first, and then I may get a glimpse of it ?' " '• '' l feel quare for a sup o' whiskey.' `You want a sup of whiskey. Well an you must get it. I'll thrate you to share of a naggin, or half a pint in the market on next Saturday. Wont that be something ? Buds ! woman, couldn't you tell me at wanst that you wanted it ?' Is it me want it, Bosthoon, jewel! Oh, the sorra sup Tjr my part ever I'd care about it ; sure it's not that at all dear. " Upon my purty, thin, it looks divilish like it, thracleen. If it's not that, then what is it, coaxy ?' "' The never a one of him understands me a bit, so he doesn't. Sure it's not me that wishes for it, Bosthoon.' "By my soul, an it's not me then, Molsh and who the puck is it, for there's but the two of us ?' Molshy's contempt was beginning to rise at Bosthoon's stupidity and slowness of apprehension, but checking this, she proceeded in a wheedling and confidential tone. " Sure it wouldn't be right to refuse it to me now. Bosthoon—now man alive, _I mightn't, or somebody else mightn't be the better of not getting it ; only two of US ! the sorrow one but you're bright.' " Bosthoon expanded his grey eyes, and first looked at Molshy with a sadly puzzled countenance, after which he cast a bewildering glance slowly about the room, and again fixed his eyes .on Molsh, without appearing one whit the wiser. Molsh felt that she was reduced to the alternative as before, of becoming her own interpreter ; so bending her face again, and putting her lips to his ear, she said— " Bosthoon, whisper jewel.' " And in a few words she conveyed the communication, and received an answer similar to the last. " Tundher and whiskey, Molsh, my thracle, do you tell me so.' " Yes, Ido ; and I feel very quare for want of a sup.' " Now, the reader ignorant of physiology may not see the direct bearing which the circumstances I am now de tailing are calculated to have on the life and character of him who is the subject of my autobiography. This, how ever, will be better explained by what I am about to narrate. " Bosthoon no sooner understood the nature of the long ing desire expressed by Molshy for the sup of whiskey, than he put a pint bottle in his pocket and went off to Peter Byrne's public-house at the cross-roads, for the purpose of procuring the desired beverage for her. " The truth is, however, that one cause of his alacrity to comply with the wishes of his wife proceeded from the simple fact, that from the moment she mentioned the whiskey, he felt his own longing for it nearly as powerful as her's. Bosthoon was never the fellow to flinch from his glass, and indeed there was scarcely a man in his native country, who possessed a bead more impervious to its in fluence than his. On reaching the cross-roads, like a duti ful husband, he lost no time in getting his bottle filled with the best whiskey the house afforded, with which he would have immediately returned home, were it not for the very natural circumstance of his meeting a few of his neigh bours, who were going to have something to drink. Bos thoon passed to an inner room, and without much reluct ance sat down along with them, placing his bottle of whiskey on the ground by the side of his chair. Glass followed glass for an hour or two, during which time they sang and chatted with great cheerfulness and good humour. Indeed, for the last twenty-five or thirty minutes their mirth was excessive, so much so, that in Bosthoon's opinion there was a pound of laughter to each ounce of joke. They drank his own health with great glee, then Molshy's and young Bosthoon's, and accompanied each toast with peals of mirth that made the house ring. At length he remem bered the state of earnest expectation in which he left the wife ; and after bidding them a hearty good night, he put his bottle in his pocket and returned home, somewhat crestfallen we admit, in cotsequence of having delayed so long upon so important a message. " Oych, Bosthoon, darlin,' said the wife, but I thought you'd never come, an me in the way I'm in !' " Why, I met with a few friends, and could neither, by hook or crook, get away from them. But never mind Molsh, here's a pint of stuff that 'ud take a tear off a pig, my thracle. Get me a glass." " He immediately filled her a glass, which slle no sooner tasted, than with a strong shudder of aversion she laid it down, exclaiming— " By the blessed saints, Bosthoon man alive, it's pure wather.' " Wather my thracle," replied the astonished husband, " didn't I taste the whiskey out o' the pint, afore it wint into the bottle: " He then filled a glass for himself, and found that Molshy was certainly right, nor unless she herself had seen through the trick, which his boon companions played upon him by exchanging his whiskey for water, would he, by any means, have discovered it. " Oh, Bosthoon, darlin" said the wife, " I feel very poorly. " Don't be poorly, Tiuckey, I'll get you another, and bate the worth of a gallon upon the first o' the skamers I meet.' " It's too late, jewel—it's too late now ; the harm's done, Bosthoon, darlin ; the harm's done.' " Why, I won't be long out ; sure I'll be here wid it in no time. And if I meet— " No, no, dear—you won't go out any more to-night," she replied, apprehensive of his getting into a quarrel, a pro pensity at which, notwithstanding his sluggishness, he was rathet active ; " no, no, darlin', all the harm is done ; it's gone aff o' me ; so that even if I had it, it would be no use.' " Mrs. M'Flail, in truth, had stated the fact ; the harm had been done in consequence of Bosthoon's having bungled the performance of so simple a matter as carrying home a pint of whiskey to his longing and loving wife."' TEA TRADE.—The following is the quantity of tea upon which duty has been paid up to the sth of Dec., 1836, in the United Kingdom ; In London.—Bohea (duty paid and retained) 14,062,6801 b. Other sorts 20,786,392 In Liverpool.—Bohea Other sorts In Bristol In Leith In Glasgow In all other Scotch ports In Dublin In Belfast In Cork 443,731 In all other Irish ports . . 600,820 Amount of tea exported during the same period : From London From Liverpool 548,453 The removals coastwise from the same ports were : From London From Liverpool The imports and receipts coastwise, embracing the same pe riod, were :—lnto London, chests, 414,010 ; boxes, 56,132 ; packages, 3,383. Into Liverpool, chests, 86,417 ; boxes, 14,986 ; packages, 1,600. The amount of tea in the East India Company's warehouses, up to the 24th of December, was, of green and black, 12,306,3761 b., unsold packages ; 15,817,3301 b., sold packages.; and 993,966 deliveries. An inquest was held last night at the Ship public house, Vauxhall-bridge-road, before Mr. Higgs, Coroner for Westminster, on the body of Elizabeth Pinkup, aged six and a half years, who lost her life under the following dis tressing circumrtances :—The Jury having taken a view of the body—George Gooch, a butcher's man, said he was pass ing through Dorset -street, on last Sunday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, and on coming to an open door, he saw the deceased in the passage enveloped in flames. There were some females there, but they appeared too much alarmed to afford any assistance. He extinguished the flames as well as he could, and having wrapped the child in a blanket, he advised the women to take her to the hospital, which he understood they did not do. A little girl named Faucett, said she had been playing with tne deceased on the morning in question. They had some pictures, which deceased put upon the mantel-piece. In a little time she stood upon the fender, in order to get them down, when her clothes caught fire. Another witness corroborated this testimony. The deceased was taken to a doctor, who did everything for her, but she died about four the same day of the injuries she had received. Verdict—" Accidental Death." KING AND QUEEN OF NAPLES.—The Frank fort Journal gives the following extract of a letter from Vienna, dated the 23d ult. :—" The courier who arrived yesterday brought a portrait of the King of Naples, richly set in diamonds, which was to-day presented to the bride elect at the ceremony, which took place in the throne room. Yesterday the Archduchess Theresa received a deputation from the town of Baden, in which she passed her early years, to congratulate her on her approaching marriage. At twelve o'clock her Imperial Highness, ac companied by the Empress Mother and the Princess of Salerno, went to the cathedral of St. Stephen. On coming out her countenance showed that she had been much af fected. During the last few days the Empress Mother as accompanied the Archduchess to almost all the re ligious and charitable establishments, and to all the churches, when her Imperial Highness took leave in a very feeling :manner. The trousseau of the Arch duchess will be as rich and magnificent as might be expected from the dignity of the house of Austria, and the wealth of her father, the Archduke Charles. Eight packages filled with the most valuable articles have been already sent off to Naples. The King of Naples has or dered an extremely rich hat to be m anufactured at Flo rence for his young Queen. The price of this costly ar ticle amounted to upwards of 2,000 livres . it is to be sent to Paris to be arranged and finished. Feargus O'Connor made his appearance at Dundee last week in the course of his present a gitation-mission through Scotland. He was formerly a joint in O'Con nell's "tail ;" but finding that Dan was inveterately dis posed to take all the pudding as well as the praise to himself, Feargus has lately set up on his own account ; and, like most people in the same situation, he is deter mined to undersell his old master. He fairly out-herod's Herod. For one mile that Daniel would go, Feargus would go twain. He is none of your milk-and-water bit by-bit reformers. He goes the whole hog. The greatest would-be Reformers in this quarter quailed before him.— Dundee Courier. The snow in this neighbourhood does not lie so deep as we have frequently known it, and on slopes with a Southern aspect a good deal of it has melted in the course of the last three days. It is somewhat singular, that about twelve miles to the South of Whitehaven little or no snow fell, and, as we surmised, the fall in Dumfrieshire has been but light. But over the whole of England, east of a line drawn from Carlisle through Manchester to Dorsetshire, and so far on the Continent as is yet ascertained, the fall has been immense, exceediag by far any thing remembered for many years. The loss of life and property, and the general inconvenience aas been very great.—Whitehaven Herald. Yesterday morning, between one and two, a melan choly accident occurred to Mrs. Anne Maguire, an infirm lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, residing in George -street, Portman-square, who was burnt in a shocking manner by her cap taking fire while she was read ing in bed. Her screams brought to her assistance the ser vant maid, who fortunately slept in the adjoining room, and who, with great presence of mind, seized the counter pane and extinguished the flames, but not before the unfor tunate sufferer was frightfully burnt, particularly about the neck and body. IRELAND. S U INT ;24 , V 11 -\, - = • .' DUBLIN, JAN. 4.—MEETING Or PARLIAME lars, it is understood, have beers received here, liVtrting , :-: the signature of Lord John Russell, urging the IrinAtigktl!4At...4 hers to be in London on or before the 31st inst. LEvEE.—There will be a levee on Tuesday next, at which Mr. O'Connell will attend. After visiting Carlow and his constituents at Kilkenny, the f-lon. Gentleman re turns to Dublin, in order to attend the n;eeting of the Ge neral Association on Thursday the 12th insle TRADES' UNION.—The usual week mooting' of this body was held last night. In reference to a pa r t of the proceedings, the following paragraph from the lifai4 . may perhaps afford some amusement :—" We congratulate teat worthy and maligned gentleman, Sir William Lyner, on th. l vindication of his politics and consistency, to be found in the abuse with which both were assailed at the Trades Union last even;ng. As soon as the Tories come into power, there is little doubt that his honest ambition for office will be gratified, his appointment to place ; and we rejoice to see that he has become a trustee for the erection of Protestant places of worship—a sacrifice of time, con sidering the multifarious duties in he discharge of which Sir William is engaged, that cannot fa,:l of being appreciated in the proper quarter." "As soon as tie Tories come into power," Lynar may look for a large share of the loavos and fishes. Sir William will not, cannot, be doomed to a lengthened term of expectancy. When he looks at Lo.,g ford, and the majority of 93, he must see that his day (If glory is near at hand. CENTRAL INDEPENDENT CLUB.--A. meeting of the Committee of this Club was held yesterday. COL. BRUEN.—The 17th inst. is the day fixed for the public dinner to be given to Col. Bruen and T. Kavannah, Esq., the Members for the County of Carlow. The Right Hon. Lord Downes will preside. GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—Pursuant to a resolution of this body, Mr. Blake wrote to Dr. NH-laic, to 1-equest that he would use his influence with the parochial clergy, in order to promote the collection of the Justice Rent. The Most Rev. Doctor has complied with the request, and ad dressed Mr. French, the Secretary, a lon g letter, which concludes with the f o ll ow i n g passages :—" hope there is no clergyman in this diocese (writes Dr. APHale) who will not contribute to that fund, which is created for the purpose of obtaining that justice which is acknowledged to be denied on the penal grounds of religion. I trust, too, that there is not an individual in Ireland, however humble, that will not shortly give his offering into the national treasury, and his name to the petitions for justice that will be poured in from all quarters of Ireland. The triumph that crowned the Catholic ought to be a lesson to guide the General Association. If the people commence the new year by a peaceful manifes tation of their resolves to have justice done to Ireland, it will be obtained with the same facility with which injustice has been already forced to give way. The tithes shall be, extinguished for ever ; the bloody sacrifices which have so often stained the land shall cease, and the enormous eccle siastical revenues which have been hitherto incentives to cruelty and corruption, will revert to their original purpose of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, of giving com fort to the sick—in short, mitigating the numerous afflic tions of the poor. It is from the creation of that establish ment the poor of Ireland may date the epoch of their being outlawed from the common privileges of humanity ; they can never hope to be effectually restored until the Legis ture issue the decree of its fiscal annihilation, after which little will be heard of polemical acrimony. CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL. A special general meeting of the Governors of this Hos pital was held yesterday, in pursuance of a requisition signed by six Governors, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the state and condition of the Hospital, and for other purposes. There were upwards of thirty Governors present on this occasion ; and at half-past twelve o'clock th• Lord Chief Justice Tindal was called to the chair. Mr. ANDERTON moved—" That the meeting of the Go vernors of the Charing-cross Hospital, not being held in conformity with the laws of the Hospital, which requires that such meetings should be held in March, April, May, and June, resolved that the proceedings of such meeting are void and of no effect." Mr. STAVELEY seconded the motion. The resolution was then put, when, on a show of hands, there were 5 for it and 31 against it. Mr. PETTIGRE\V said, that question being disposed of, he would move that a special general meeting be held on the third Wednesday in February, to consider the report of the Special Committee appointed on the Ist of August last. Mr. B. B. CABBELL seconded the motion. The question was then put, when on a show of hands, there appeared— For the resolution,. 8 Against it 23 Majority Mr. GREEN would move that this meeting cannot se parate without recording their high sense of the conduct of Dr. Golding, the Director, and Mr. Robertson, the Ho norary Secretary of the Hospital ; and hereby offer their best thanks to those gentlemen for the indefatigable zeal and industry shown by them during the long period they have held their onerous and highly responsible offices, and to whose aid the Hospital is mainly indebted for its existence. The resolution having been adopted by a large majority, Mr. PETTIGREW said, that as he could not approve of the conduct of Dr. Golding and Mr. Robertson, he must oppose the motion. Dr. GOLDING returned thanks. Mr. ROBERTSON also returned thanks. Thanks were then given to Lord Chief Justice Tindal, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair ; and His Lordship briefly acknowledged the compliment ; after which the meeting separated. LITERATURE NAVAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN, PART VIII. Colburn, London, 1836. The present Number of this useful naval record, contains an engraved map of the harbour of Navarin, with a plan of the battle fought there in 1827. In addition to this, we have a good portrait—so far as the engraving is concerned—of Admiral Rainier, a fine-looking old tar, who is staring with great glee, through a pair of black-horn spectacles, apparently at a French man of war. In the literary department, there is an animated account of the gallant Hoste's action of Lissa. We have no space for extracts. THE LONDON and WESTMINSTER REVIEW for JANUARY, 1837. Macrone. There exists among all honest-minded men of liberal opinions, a strong desire to ascertain the conditions and the extent of the compact between the leaders of the Whig and Radical parties in the House of Corn mons. It is certainly high time that the truth should be known, in order that the country may be made ac quainted with what it may hope to obtain from the longer continuance in office of the Melbourne Admi nistration. The London and Westminster Review, in an able and well-timed article on the terms of alli ance between Radicals and Whigs, well observes that the latter are now but the remains of a dying faction— that they no longer represent either a party or a princi ple in the nation. The country is now divided between Liberals and Conservatives—for the Tory leaders who had hitherto been merely the chiefs of a faction, have, as Conservatives, become the representatives of a prin ciple ; whereas the Whig party, by identifying itself with no .principle, has in reality been all but utterly de stroyed. All, therefore, that remains for the Whigs, if they would continue in office, is to connect themselves by some tie, which the country may be able fully to recog nise, with their more liberal allies. Our own conviction is, that the Radicals have undoubtedly great cause of complaint against the Whigs. As far as the stipu lated agreement between them is known, the Radicals appear to have performed their part of the engage ment, with the greatest fidelity, alacrity, and disinte restedness. They cheerfully made every sacrifice de manded of them as necessary to keep the Tories out of office ; and" we must admit that they were not treated altogether with a corresponding degree of good faith. This is so well expressed in the article under conside ration, that we shall quote the passage for the benefit of our readers : " The principle of union between the two parties was that of uncompromising hostility to the then Tory administra tion : the conditions of the union were, that all denomina tions of Liberals should mutually support each other in the various elections. The object of the union was to reinstate the Melbourne administration, and to support that admi nistration as long as it adhered to its professed opinions ; and those opinions were of the most liberal description, founded upon two principles, that of satisfying as much as possible the Radicals, and of injuring as much as possible the Tories. The Ministry was reinstated, and the Radicals continued their support at a far greater sacrifice of the duty of promulgating their separate opinions than can ordinarily be justified for the sake of supporting a Ministry. What has been the consequence, and how has this conduct been rewarded ? " The policy which the Whigs ought to have pursued, was a clear and straightforward one. They ought to have brought forward only really good and liberal measures, such as the body of Reformers in the nation would zealously have supported. These measures they ought to have laid upon the table of the Upper House, and assented to no compromise. By pursuing a bold and manly course, they would have secured the esteem of the people, and perhaps have daunted the Peers. Their aristocratic feelings pre venting their acting in this manner. They did not, indeed, like the Grey Ministry, abstain from proposing any mea sures but such as the Tories would support. They did not sacrifice everything to shielding the Lords. But they sa crificed the comprehensiveness, the consistency, and the practical utility of their measures to it ; and when their small measures of reform were made smaller by their ene mies, they, with the timid policy of irresolute men, at tempted to conciliate the Lords by partial submission, and to curry favour with the people by loud-sounding words. They thus curiously contrived to debase themselves in the eyes of the nation, and at the same time to excite strongly the popular feeling against those whom they wished to de fend. No line of conduct which they could possibly have pursued, could have done so much injury to the House of Peers ; for Ministers, by degrading themselves to the utter most, and by making the nation indifferent to them, strengthened the Lords in their resolution of resisting po pular measures ; while, at the same time, they clearly de monstrated that the feelings and opinions of the Lords were opposed to those of the people, and that the former would accept of no compromise from the representatives of the latter. " Almost every measure which Ministers proposed to the House of Commons was carefully framed so that it might contain the semblance of a liberal principle with the smallest possible application of that principle (for instance, the Irish Church Bill), and might thus be as little obnoxious as possible to the House of Lords. It is not to be sup posed that they induced their followers to assent to these timid proceedings without the greatest difficulty. Gene rally, first, a meeting was held at the Foreign Office, at which Ministers stated the principle in broad and general terms, amongst the cheers of those assembled. Silence and astonishment succeeded too often, when the meeting learnt the manner in which that principle was to be applied. Then, generally, some Radical member remonstrated. Im mediately one of those respectable gentlemen, whose years and constant devotion to the Whig party commanded respect amongst a certain class of members, rose and talked about union amongst Reformers, obout the glorious results (in the reinstatement of the Whigs in office) of that union, and asked whether the meeting would destroy its own great work, and allow the Tories to return to power ? at which there was generally a cry of No, no ! from his friends. He frequently concluded by stating that a little was better than nothing, and if the Lords refused to grant that little, why they would be put utterly in the wrong,' and then the meeting would see what Ministers would do : which gene rally was, to call another meeting, and to ask for still further concessions. In private every species of sophistry, flattery, entreaty, and menace, was employed by the minions of th e Ministry to obtain the consent of the more liberal members to these degrading concessions, and generally with success. It was painfully amusing at times to read the speeches of popular candidates at the meetings of their constituents, and then a few days afterwards to see their votes in the House of Commons. Such influence has a CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken before 111 - i. Stirling, at the three Pigeons Inn, Brentford, on view of the body of Mr. Francis Herbert Woodham, who was found dead in his chair under the following circumstances : Elizabeth Stracy, barmaid at the Three Pigeons, deposed that the deceased was on a visit for the benefit of his health. On Sunday night, between nine and ten o'clock, she left him in his room sitting in a chair. He wished her good night, and appeared in his usual state of health. As the family had not seen him the following morning she went into his room about nine o'clock, when he was sitting in the chair in the same position as she last saw him. He was dressed, and had not been to bed. She felt alarmed, when Mr. Cooper, a surgeon, was sent for, who said that he had been dead some hours. Mr. J. E. Commendon, licensed victualler and proprie tor of the Three Pigeons Inn, said that he had known the deceased, who was of the medical profession, 25 years. He was about the middle age, and of a delicate Gonstitution. His diet consisted mostly of milk. When he came witness observed that he would not live many days. He was of very temperate habits. a Pan The jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased did by the visitation of God." ACCIDENT BY FIRE ARMS.—A Coroner's inquest was holden before Mr. Higgs, at St. George's Hospital, to in quire touching the death of John Streadwicke, aged 24, a shoemaker, whose band was blown to pieces by the burst ing of his gun. W. Atley, of Ealing, deposed that last Monday week he saw the deceased, whom he knew, crossing a road with a gun in his hand. In a few minutes he saw him fire at some larks, which were in a field. The gun burst. Witness went towards him, and found that the barrel had burst in three places. The deceased went to his father's, where witness followed him, and there saw that his left hand was shattered to pieces. He went to Mr. Dickinson's, a sur geon, who said that his band must be removed to save his life. He was then brought to this hospital in a coach. By the Coroner—The deceased had discharged the gun several times that day. It was his own gun, and the charge was a common one. Mr. Stafford John Berkeley, house-surgeon, said that the hand was amputated shortly after the admission of the deceased. The operation was performed with pro per skill. In two days he became delirious, in spite of the attention shown him, and died on Sunday. Verdict—Ac cidental death. Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was held by Mr. W. CARTER, the Coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at the H a nover Arms, Rye-lane, Peckham Rye, on view of the body of John Bulham, aged 73, who was found lying dead on the floor at the back of the premises. Medical assistance was immediately sent for, and a post mortcm examination took place. On separation of the scalp from the skull, a quantity of gravel and numbers of small shot were found imbedded in the skull, which seemed from their appearance to have been in that position for a great many years. There was a quantity of blood on the base of the brain, which was the immediate cause of the deceased's death. The wife of the deceased stated that she believed that the deceased, when a young man, was fired at by some high waymen in Edinburgh, when some of the shots entered his head. Verdict—Apoplexy. Mr. Hewitt, formerly a warrant officer in the Royal Navy, residing at Navy-row, Plymouth, recently deceased, has left by his will the sum of 2,000/. to be appropriated in the following manner :—The Money is to be vested in Go vernment Securities. Mr. Sims, of Morice-town, black smith, in the Dock-yard, is to receive 20/. per year, on con dition that he visit and distribute annually the remainder of the interest among the most deserving of the religious poor of the parishes of St. John's Anthony, Maker, and Stoke Damerel—Western Luininary.