The Sun. — London, England, 1837-12-28 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It cannot be too much impressed on the British public at the contest in Lower Canada is really between the en of French and the men of British descent. The rench wish to have Lower Canada exclusively to them ,: dyes; and were they to become independent of this coun '..y, by not merely beating the Queen's army but the Eng .' AI part of the population, which no sane man can sup , ee possible, they would strip the English of their grants, ad impose such restrictions on the navigation of the St. Lawrence as would of necessity compel the inhabitants of ipper Canada to throw themselves into the arms of the United States. But so sensible are the British inhabitants •.f Lower and Upper Canada of the injury they would istain from French ascendancy, that if the Government were ) remain idle, they would not, and a fierce civil w?r ould be carried on which would probably end m e men of British blood driving their opponents from i I;anada. We have already said tha t there s no • aalogy between the present contest and that be . .een this country and the United States. One . eat point of difference is that the British Colo , 'ats of the United States not only occupied an enor- Jetts territory, but were scattered over the face of it, tst as the English are scattered in Lower and Upper , .at.ada now. But the French are crowded along the :*eanks of the St. Lawrence, and the rivers running into t ,as the Richelieu, for instance, the scene of the recent opera tions, and the moment the moment the navigation is open their villages would be at the mercy of armed vessels with troops. To understand why the French adopt so different a mode of colonization from the English, it is only neces sary to attend to this peculiarity of the Catholic religion, that its members must be in constant communication with their priests, and a Catholic will never, if he can help it, live at any distance from a chapel, lest the greatest of all calamities to him should occur—dying without rcceising the consolations of religion. The Protestant is his own priest, and with the Bible in his pocket moves wherever he pleases. The Catholic Irish in the United States are often in great distress from their not proceeding up the euntry like the English and Scotch, but crowding the towns, where they are often unable to obtain employment. But he this as it may, the fact is well known and has been ex retiat.td on by every traveller in Canada. The French crowd togeher in villages along the banks of the rivers, while the English are either in the great towns or scattered in what is c elled the bush "I' he English every where hem in t e French, end though they are cc mparativcly small turn rite in Lower Canada, yet, from their living so widely asunder, and being scattered over a large surface, the French cannot act with much effect against them. To enter the Lush for the purpose of attacking tile English settlers in the rigorous season would he impracticable. But should the rebellicr. not be put down immediately, but linger on till the Spring, if the Government act with vigour against the reLe:s the English settlers will harrass them in their rear. Another analogy has been foolishly pretended be tween the present contest and that with the United States. The Government of this country chimed a right to tax tier Americans through the British Parliament. The Americans stood on the Constituticnsl principle—that Representation ought always to go with taxation. Tee very title of Dr. Johnson's fatuous Pamphlet, of—" Taxation no Tyranny," speaks volumes as to the monstrous pretensions of the obstinate King who then ruled ver this couatry, and the subservient Padiameet which drove the Arneic.:ns to the option he tweea urtnirig for their censtitutional car Lecomirg s!at es. They steed out against an innovatic,n. Their an,c:tio a had for the sal-_c of liberty re:num:ed. tie com forts of a sett'ed (tour:try, and hi:taken thcinsek es to the oiids, and they had ti 1 just before the American war been 1: ft in the enjoymeet of their liberty. But in an evil hour the Government of this country advanced the unconstitu tit nal claim of taxing them without their consent, through rapr, sauta ices chosen by themselves, and they were com pelled to resort to arms to avoid becoming slaves. But the British Government claims no salt to tax the Canadians till:Argil an Eng' sh House of Commons. They hardly Icasaw, indeed, what taxation is. They have their own Paeliaenent, and enjoy the right of voting supplies. But ;hey are dissatisfied with the Comnitution of the Second 1)k-se—the Legislatiee Council—a bad copy, indeed, of cot douse of Peers (there being no aristocracy in Canada), and reign to have an elective LegisLtive Council as well as en elective House of Ass( mbly. Were the Legis lative Council elective as well as the House of Assem bly, the French of Loiter Canada, being everywhere the rnajorhy, except, perhaps, in one or two towns, soalel be complete!) , independent of Great Britain, and in a condition to do what they pleased in the Lower Province. Because, however, the Government would not change the Constitution according to their fancy, the lase the French Canadians have made of their pow, r over al l e supplies was to refuse to appropriate money for the payment of the Judges and other functionaries, who for ware have been left in a state of destitution ; and because in a else of extremity the British Parliament. stept in, not to overturn the Canadian Constitution, but to say, you shall not so exercise your power as to !brow the colony into inn Ircliy, because the British Gos ernment will not change the Constitution so as to fashion it after your wish, the I'apineau party have had recourse to arms. The Bri tish Government *imposed no new taxes on the Cana dians, but in a case of extremity it ventured temporarily to appropriate money lying in the Treasury which the Mouse of Assembly factiously refused to devote to the purposes for which such funds had always before been em ployed. And why do the En g lish Ministers and Pal Lament refuse to consent to the indapendence of Great Britain demanded by the French Canadians ? Be cause Lower Canada is not exclusively French, but in habited also by men of British descent, who have receiired grsnts of land in the province front the Crown, and be cause the river which flows through Lower Canada belongs also to the immense territory of the Upper Province. The French have always wished not only to exclude British settlers from Lower Canada, and to set aside the grants of lands which have been made to them, but they have further claimed a right to tax Upper Canada, by imposing a duty on emigrants, &e. They will not allow the river to be common to all the lands for which it is the outlet, but v wild act the part which Holland has always acted with re: and to the Rhine, and against which the various Go vernments on the banks of that noble river have so long protested. The Love Canadians wish to tax their neighbours, and refuse to contribute anything from the duties levied by them to the improvement wanted to make the St. Lawrence beneficial to the Upper Cana dians. To understand why the French Canadians arc so anxious to strip their English neighbours of the lands held by them under Crown grants, we must advert to the peculiarity of the Catholic religion which keeps Catholics together. The French Canadians wished to have themselves considered a separate nation, " La nation Canadienne," and to have all the lands considered as be. longing to that nation," to remain waste till required by the " nation" in its progressive and connected develop ment. But the occupation of wastes in the rear of the French " habitans" is in the teeth of this plan, for it com pels the French either to remain where they are now set tled, or to scatter themselves among the British settlers, an idea quite abhorrent to them. The Americans of the United States never claimed a right to waste lands, and, indeed, never complained of the mode in which the Eng lish Government exercised its rights. Indeed, many of the most intelligent Americans, as Mr. Maclure, for instance, have eulogised the system of the English Government with regard to waste lands. In this respect the Americans and the French Canadians have nothing in common. Independence of Great Britain means, therefore, really the sacrificing the men of British descent in Lower Canada to this pet scheme of the French Canadians to keep all the lands for their own use in all time to come. Mr. Roebuck does not hesi tate telling us that the bribe to the Americans to enter Canada would be lands, and Sir William Molesworth po:nted to the fat meadows of Beauharnais a prize to be contended for. This independence would next be the placing the British inhabitants of Upper Canada, now be tween four and five hundred thousand, and occupying a noble territory, admitting of immense increase of numbers, in a state of dependence on the agitators of Lower Canada, who, by taxing them and obstructing the navigation of the St. Lawrence, would compel them to throw themselves into the arms of the United States. Such, then, would be the consequences of yielding to the French Canadians. It is not a question of constitutional liberty ; but a ques tion between narrow notions, bigotry, and monopolies of the worst sort, and a liberal system of Government—be tween justice to British citizens and confiscation of their . lands and goods.—Morning Chronicle. The dispatches from Sir John Colborne, received at an early hour on Tuesday morning, but not published before ten o'clock the same night, have gone a very little way to wards any clear exposition of the real state of the contest, or the hopes that might be reasonably entertained of bringing it to a speedy termination. The public were al ready aware, from the unofficial, but authentic, narratives c om municated through this journal, that the British troops (four companies, under Colonel Gore) had been roughly handled at St. Denis, while at St. Charles Colonel We therall, commanding six companies and a couple of' guns, had united skill with courage, and had completely suc ceeded. The dispatches of this gallant officer make it evi dent, howeaa r, that he commanded no more of the country than wils occupied by the troops immediately with him. Ile at first determined, as it appears, to advance from St. Charles to St. Denis, and by the destruction of that post, which so effectually sheltered the insurgents, repair the mis fortune which had befallen Colonel Gore. But this move m mt Col. Wetherell was not permitted to accomplish. The rebels were swarming between him and Chambly in his roar, with the avowed purpose of cutting off the retreat of his &team:rest by that route to Montreal. There being THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1837. danger, therefore, both in advancing and retiring the gal lant officer wisely preferred the latter, that he might have the head-quarters of Sir J. Colborne within reach of him, instead of waiting to be blocked up in a more hazardous position, where he could not so readily be extricated or supported. This resolution of Colonel Wetherell, we re peat, proves the inadequacy of the regular force at once to repel the insurgents and to hold the country. At a sea son of the year, therefore, when reinforcements by sea are impracticable, our hope must be that volunteer draughts from the British population of both provinces may be brought effectively into the field before the troops are worried and worn out by the frequent assaults of a multitudinous enemy. Should the British race of colonists come freely forward, there is little doubt of a favourable result to the operations of Sir John Colborne, and a speedy extinction of M. Papineau and his dupes. How the complicated questions arising out of the ano malous condition of Lower Canada, in respect of her laws of property, and of her much abused political privileges, are hereafter to be disposed of, there is now no occasion to anticipate. First " catch your hare,"—first put down the rebels. In the mean time we should like to understand from the Queen's Ministers, when it was, and at what date, that they sent out permission to Sir John Colborne to pro claim martial law in Canada, should events, in his opinion, require such a precaution. Lord John Russell boasted loudly that Sir J. Colborne " had been" authorized to put the country under martial law. When, we ask again, was the Governor-General so authorized ? Did that order make part of those " contingent instructions" which any statesmen who knew their business must have deemed an indispensable part of it, on the receipt of even the very first of that long series of despatches, wherein Lord Gosford has for many months past been officially exposing to them the fearful state of Lower Canada,and the probability, according to Lord John Russell, that the malcontents. there would break out into open rebellion. If, with the prospect of a rebellion for more than half a year before their eyes. the Melbourne Cabinet not only neglected to send an addi tional soldier to North America, but deliberately withheld from the Colonial authorities in that quarter those discre tionary powers for discouraging rebellion, seizing hold of rebels, and fortifying the hands of the Royal Government, without which no Sovereign can be protected against the machinations of high treason, then are there estab lished against these Ministers two grounds of impeachment instead of one-Ist, that the military force was not strengthened ; 2d, that the execution of justice upon traitors was not strengthened ; and with regard to the se cond point we de affirm, that if, upon the facts as desclibed by Lord John Russell himself, the authority to praclaim martial law throughout Canada was not transmitted to Sir John Colborne before last Friday, or sonic diiy subsequent to the receipt if intelligence through this journal that rebel lion had actually burst ~forth, no culprit that ever lost his head upon the block deserved to he hrouelit to account for mieprision of treason more palpably than Lords Melbourne, John Russell, and Glenelg. However, the truth cannot now be cushioned. The papers are printing, and, if incom plete, they can be rendered perfect by interrogatories put to Ministers in both Houses of Parliament. —Times. There can be no truer maxim in political affairs than this—that where disputes are to be managed, of which the ultima ratio may be war, the weakest policy is in the end the most cruel. Of this the world has recently had abun dant evidence in the case of !Spain. Had Great Britain not interfered at all, or interfered with power and vigour, the war in Spain would soon have come to an end ; but be cause Gnat Britain into rlered weakly—because the half and-half policy, ar:s:pg front conscious wrong, has been the policy of Gr. at Brit/tie, a dreadful war has been protracted, and horror after I orror has been perp tr.ted, until the heart sickens at the contemplation of unceasing and unmi tigated ferocity of which unhappy Spain is the theatre. The same essentially cruel policy is now producing its terrible effects upon our tallow-subjects in Canada. The British Administration should either have determined to give up Cenada, or to govern Canada. But it did neithc r the one nor the other. Afraid, upon the one hand, to act upon the principles of Radical recklessness, which, under the name of philosophy, denies the advantage of Colonial possessions altogether, and afraid, en the other hand, to assert the authority of the British Crown in such a manner as would have proved to the Canadians that Great Britain was de termined to retain both her colony and the obedience of her colonial subjects, everything has been neglected to which a wise Admictistratiun would have attended, and miserable scenes of warfare are now the 'consequence. Nothing can be plainer, even from the facts already before Parliament, than the remissness of our colonial government, its vacilla tion, its timidity, its want of determined action towards a clearly defined end ; and all this it will call a liberal end conciliatory policy ! We trust this nation will not be im posed upon by any such misrepresentation, but, on the contrary, demand that a vigorous policy of one kind or another, shall be taken to put an end to Canadian troubles. We very much doubt that the present Mi nisters are capable of any such policy. Their conduct hitherto would lead to the conclusion that they are not ; but the British empire is not to be shaken be cause its present Ministers have no firmness of purpose or energy of action. If the present Ministers have not the disposition or the decision to put an end to war—if, uninstructed by events, they think of con tinuing the fatal policy which has led to rebellion, other Ministers must be found more capable of dealing with difficult circumstances. It radical policy wrre followed, Canada should at once be given up. The political phi losophers of the radical school, with a vehenoince which shows their perfect conviction that they canna.. be wrong, maintain that it cannot be the interest of the mother country to retain the government of a colony against the will of that colony, and that it is not more ad vantage to possess a colony than to trade with an inde pendent kingdom. We hold this to be nothing better than frantic theory. If we admit that the government of a colony is to be surrendered because the colony is unwilling to be governed, upon what pretence can government be maintained at home ? If Canada is to be at liberty to throw off its allegiance, merely because it does not like to continue its allegiance, what answer could be made to Cumberland, in the event of the people of that district taking a dislike to their present government ? Or, to take a more probable instance ;—if we admit Canada to separate itself from Great Britain, as a right springing out of Canadian dislike to our government, what answer could we make to Ireland if she begged leave to take advantage of the same convenient species of shifting allegiance ? The radical doctrine in this matter is mere nonsense. A state may attempt to manage too much, as France did under Napoleon ; bht to set up a general right of defection, or to maintain that Governments lose nothing by loss of domi nion, would quickly bring a state to insignificancy, and ulti mately to ruin. With regard to the greater advantage of intercourse with an independent kingdom, it is, doubtless, true, that the commercial intercourse with a prosperous independent kingdom is more advantageous than that with a discontented and disturbed colony ; but if a colony be well governed and obedient, it is absurd to say that our power over it as a government, can be any disadvantage to us in our traffic with it, while it is quite clear that that power secures to ourselves advantages which, were it independent, would be shared with others. Our present administration, however, while they reject the radical doctrine of the efficacy of separation, have pursued the policy which leads to separation, and that, too, under the worst of all possible circumstances. It now remains for them, by a severity which might have been avoided, to make amends for re missness which ought to have been avoided. Such is the only alternative of a weak and improvident administration. —Morning Herald. Let Ministerialists strain and struggle as they will, they cannot escape from the common sense conviction of the British public that their conduct with respect to radicalism in the country, and rebellion in Canada, has been most disgraceful to British Government and most dangerous to British interests. By whose error and by whose neglect is it that, notwithstanding the unequivocal indications of revolt in Canada which have existed for the last six months, there is now in that province no more than the ordinary force for the preservation of British authority ? How happens it that, with warning (sufficient for any watchful Government) of what has now taken place, the period at which something effectual might have been promptly done has been suffered to pass by without anything being done Canada is in revolt (and that not unexpect edly, except it be by the Government, who ought to have been most alive to the matter), yet we can not convey any effectual assistance to re-establish and to maintain the authority of Government within less than four months. Is this a misfortune merely, or is it a fault ? We say it is a fault, and a most gross and palpable one. We acknowledge that Governments, as well as Ge nerals, may be taken by surprise, when the enemy is secret, energetic, and vigilant ; but, in the present affair, there is no excuse for the Government being taken unawares. There has been no " surprise" in the case. The want of preparation must have arisen from sheer laziness, or in firmity of purpose, or—worse than all—from disgraceful political entanglement with the party who patronise the Canadian revolt. Let Ministerialists wriggle and shuffle as they will, they cannot evade these natural and rea sonable convictions of the British public. It signifies little that Ministers now have separated themselves from the extreme Radicals, whose ullima ratio we now find to be revolt. They cannot deny that the men in England to whom Canadian rebels look (and do not look in vain) for sympathy and support have been heretofore encouraged and strengthened by themselves. They may try to blind the people of Enqland by now affecting much anger at the conduct of Mr. Leader, Sir W. Molesworth, and other men of that party, who openly rejoice in the cut break of Canadian treason, but Ministers cannot deny that, but but for themselves, these men would not now be in the British Parliament. Do they think that this has nothing to do with our present difficulties in respect of Canada ? They cannot think so, nor will they succeed in persuading Great Britain that they are guiltless of gross infidelity to the Crown in this matter. They knew—they must have known—last summer (unless the hypnotic draughts swallowed by Lord Glenelg were of far more than common potency) that revolt was ripening in Ca nada. And what was their conduct? They did not make an,' military preparation for the security of British power and British property in the coining winter, when to send effectual aid would become a physical impossibi lity ; but they did strain every nerve to put into the Bri tish Parliament the friends, the advocates, the agents of the Canadian rebels ! They consulted—not for the ho nour of the Crown—not for the protection of the Queen's loyal subjects in North America—but for their own official existence, which they then thought would be promoted by returning Republicans to Parliament rather than Conservatives. This was the policy—this the fidelity —this the patriotism of the present Ministers of the Crown. What situation would the country now be in if their miserable craft had then succeeded, and if (as their newspapers boasted just before the election would be the case) only a very few Conservatives had been allowed here and there to struggle into Parliament from the obscure parts of England? Where do the loyal people of England now look for safety from the feebleness of Government and the fury of misguided rebels ? Is it to the extreme Radicals who, by means of Government influence, found their way into Parliament? No, they look to the Conser vative party, who, thanks to the sound principles and good feelings of English electors, form a majority of the re presentatives of England. Such Ministers are worthy of the support which they achieved for themselves at the elections. It is with regret that we see them owing their official existence to any other. There can be no doubt in the minds of reasonable men that the Canadian rebels have derived much of what is (with more pedantry than correctness) cared moral support from the Ministers of the Crown against which they are in rebellion. When these rebels saw the Government actively supporting Mr. Leader, Sir W. Molesworth, Mr. Hume, and the rest — when they saw that a Ministerial candidate was withdrawn from Bath, lest the interest of Mr. Roebuck should be weakened—they no doubt believed that the men of this party commanded some very powerful influence in England, Which would prevail in obtaining all they asked, if they showed that nothing less would satisfy them. When they saw that, in proportion as these extreme Radicals became violent, and thereby forfeited the confidence of intelligent and respectable constituencies, they were taken up by the Government, and helped into Parliament from places more under Ministerial controul—n hen they saw such things done by the British Administration, is it any wonder that they, too, were encouraged to extreme acts of violence, and hoped to thrive by the same means as their friends in England had thriven ? Certainly not—the Ministers have been themselves the indirect en couragers of Canadian rebellion. And now—according to the old rule in such matters—who are so loud in denouncing the treason as they who encouraged the traitors? The Ministerial writings breathe slaughter and vengeance against Canadian rebels ; but they who send forth such writings should remember that but a very short time since they were extollng in every trope and figure of which their rhetorical skill was master the friends of Canadian re bellion in this country. The extreme Radicals professed long ago very nearly all that they profess now touclieg and concerning Canedekn matters. Since their open exhi bition of community of sel:t:nient and sympathy of hope with Monsieur Papine.at they 11,..ve been over and over again applaud...A by Ministeri.d ‘Nriters as the fittest of all men to be Members of Parham: nt. From Ministers themselves they have got something better than "empty praise"—they have had the " solid pudding" of seats in Parliament bestowed upon them I These things have happened too recently to be yet forgotten. Ministers and Ministerialists may red and rave--•-may shuffle and prevari cate as they will, but upon Government intrigue, Govern ment neglect, and Government pusilanitnity, the blame of Canadian revolt must mainly rest.—Morning Post. Three interesting notices of motions which are to be brought forward immediately after the reccs;, distinguished last Saturday's closing proceedings. The principal was by Mr. Wyse, fur the establishment of a Board of Education and the appointment of a Minister of Public Instructior. We have throughout expressed our sympathy with the oh ject of this notice—as well when referring to the motion made last year by Mr. Ewart for the same purpose, us when noticing more recently Lord Brougham's elaborate and magnificent speech on the subject of a general system of national education. The two other notices to which we began by adverting, are subordinate, or rather auxiliary to the useful object proposed by Mr. Wyse. They all com prehend the purpose of popular education in the broad and useful sense of the ward. One of these motions is for the encouragement of scientific institutions, by exempting struc tures devoted to them from the taxes on building materials. The third of these motions of which notice has been given, is by Mr. Slaney, for planting and embellishing public walks in the vicinity of the chief provincial towns. The latter object comprehends the education of the public eye by means of a daily familiarity with objects of taste, as well as the healthy recreation of the people during the intervals of their industrious labours. To these proceedings in Parlia ment on Saturday we may add (as an associated subject) Mr. Hume's motion for the correspondence on the subject of the gratuitous admission of the public to the national monu ments, between the functionaries charged with their super intendence and the Government. This is a subject which we shall not suffer to let sleep. All the above series of pros pective Parliamentary measures is intimately connected with the great utilitariau object of raising the moral, social, and intellectual character of the people. With that result will always be combined the diffusion of true political know ledge. That knowledge will tend to do away with such degrading scenes of corruption as were exhibited during the last election. It will break up the impure springs of undue influence, bribery, and intimidation. It will cripple the chief instruments on which Tory predominance relies. Freedom and knowledge go together. A well-instructed people will always be a well-conducted people. The false pretences of exclusive privilege and factious jobbery will fade before its superior knowledge ; and the improvement of the taste of society will at once increase its comforts, augment its enjoyments, and multiply, nationally and in• dividually, the impulses of industry and the profits of com mercial enterprise.—Morning Advertiser. Dr. Warneford, whose name has been of late so fre que►►tly associated with works of beneficence and utility, is contemplating the formation of a school upon a new plan in the neighbourhood of Gloucester. This (if the report be correct) will make the fourth laudable or charitable do nation of the. Doctor's, within the last two years, compre hending an expenditure of nearly 10,0001. Legacies are oc casionally bequeathed for eleemosynary or other purposes, where the testators (satisfied with the goodness of their intentions) commit entirely to others the carrying of their designs into effect, as well as the controul and management of the funds for the purpose ; but too frequently, by such means, have pious views been either wholly changed, or only partly attended to. The Rev. Doctor has thought proper to avoid such perversion by having his plans carried into operation during his life, and under his immediate direction, wisely considering that intentions left to be performed by others are only half accomplished ; but that if they are once set in motion under regulations conformable to the wishes of the donor, future guardians cannot easily deviate from the prescribed course. Dr. Warneford has never coveted Church preferment, and during the larger period of his life was without a benefice. In 1796 he married Margaret, daughter of Edward Loveden Loveden, Esq., of Buscot, by whom he has no issue. His only brother, Francis Warneford, of Warneford's place, Wilts, who mar ried a sister of the present Viscount Ashbrook, died in 1835. The family of Warneford is the oldest in North Wilts, in possession of ancestacial property. ROBBERIES ON CIIRISTMAS-DAY.—Between one and seven o'clock in the afternoon, the house of Mrs. Frances Ward, in the Hackney-road, was entered by means of skeleton-keys, and robbed of a quantity of cutlery and wear ing-apparel, valued at fifty pounds. Between five and six o'clock, the house of Mr. Thomas Daniels, No. 30, Walnut tree-walk, Vauxhall-road, was also entered by means of skeleton-keys, and robbed of a very valuable silver snuff-box and a quantity of wearing-apparel. Between six and eight o'clock, the house of Mrs. Mills, No. 29, Nicholls-street, New North-road, was likewise entered by means of skeleton-keys, and robbed of a number of brooches, a gold chain, a double cased silver watch, a gold watch, a number of table and tea spoons, and thirty sovereigns. Also, about the same time, the house of Mr. Jones, No- 7, New South-street, Chelsea, was entered by similar means, and robbed of a gold watch, and a quantity of plate, consisting of table, tea, and salt spoons, a pint mug, and other articles of %attic. Likewise, about the same time, and by similar means, the house of Mr. Ralph, 60, Lower South-street, Chelsea, was entered and robbed of a silver watch, a small French ditto, a quantity of plate, consist ing of table, tea, and salt spoons, several turquoise, ruby, wedding, hair, and other gold rings, a number of brooches, and about twenty pounds in cash ; and between six and nine o'clock the same evening, the house of Mr. Stokey, No. 8, Farling-street, St. George's in the East, was also entered and robbed of a quantity of wearing-apparel, several Thibet shawls, squares of lace, 20 sovereigns, and a considerable sum in silver. CIIININEYS.—Chimneys were hardly known in London before the reign of Richard 1., and then ttey only existed in the religious houses, and in the balls of the principal nobility. The citizens lighted their fires in the middle of their apartments, and let the smoke escape as it could, by the door or window. Their comfort and utility vivre, however, so obvious, that they soon began to be generally adopted, and towards the middle of the fourteenth century it was rare to find a house in London without a chimney, although in the rural districts the old fashion was left undisturbA for an age after. As the in habitants chiefly made use of wood for fuel, the nuisance was not so intolerable as it would have been had they burned coal. —Machay's History of London, EXTENSIVE SEIZURE. CAPTURE OF A SMUGGLING VESSEL. —Yesterday James Barnett, the master and part owner of the sloop Prince Regent, George Barnett, his son, ,Tames Parker, mate, and James Saunders and Charles Liversuch, seamen, were brought before Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police Office on a charge of smuggling a cargo of contraband Brandy and Geneva into the River in the vessel to which they belong. Mr. Benjamin Donne was an inspector of the River and an officer of her Majesty's Customs. On Tuesday morn ing he was on duty with the men under his command, and about eleven o'clock he boa . rded the Prince Regent, then coming up the River. He fell in with her about a mile below Tilbury Fort, on the Essex side of the River. The vessel declared from Portsmouth with a coasting cargo, and he found she was from Portsmouth, but having a suspicion that she had a contraband freight on board he commenced rummaging her, when his attention was called by his men to some small casks which they saw concealed under the cargo in the main hold. He went forward, and on examining them ascertained they were kegs such as were used in the conveyance of smuggled brandy and ge neva, all slung ready for removal. He bored a hole with a gimblet, and found the kegs were filled with strong spirits, brandy and geneva. He had not been able to count them, but from his own observation he should judge there were 10 or 100 tubs. Mr. Ballantine—Have you seized her on the part of the Crown ? Mr. Donne—l have, Sir, and towed her up to the Cus tom-house. Mr. Ballantine asked the Captain if he wished to say any thing ? He had already incurred the loss of his ship and th e smuggled goods, and he was liable to a heavy pe nalty. He might offer an explanation or not as he thought proper. Captain Barnett—Knew no more about the thing than the child unborn. He was called down by Mr. Donne to look at the spirits, and that was all he knew. Liversuch, a tall seaman, who stood next the captain's son, here said he wished to speak. He and the two men, Parker en 1 Saunders were alone guilty, and would stand by it, and they had intended to have landed the tubs when the captain was out of the way. He generally did go out of the way when the vessel was in the Pool, and then they should have landed the stuff; but as it had hap pened they would not be able to do so. It was all un known to the Captain, and he and his shipmates would suf fer the law. Mr Ballantine remanded the prisoners to Clerkenwell Prison. The vessel turned out to be a more valuable prize than was at first supposed, for during the day no less than 518 kegs of Brandy and Geneva were landed at the Custom House-quay and deposited in the Queen's warehouse. A great proportion of the kegs contained the best French brandy, each keg containing about four gallons. The value of the liquor is estimated at 2,3001., and the sloop and her stores at 1,0001. more, making the total value of the prize 3,3001. The P, ince Regent took in a legal cargo of 9,000 staves and a quantity of empty casks at Portsmouth Dock-yard for London, and the Brandy and Geneva was secreted beneath the staves. It appears that the sloop had been long suspected of carrying on a contraband trade, which caused Mr. Donne and his men to keep a sharp look out for her on her way to London. It is believed, how ever, that it was the intention of the parties engaged in the triinsaction to run the Brandy and Geneva ashore before the Prince Regent entered the Pool, where, owing to the vi dance of the Thames-police and revenue officers., they ha've had some difficulty in landing so many kegs willout being detected. The circumstances of this seizure created a considerable degree of interest on the River yesterday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A tradesman of steady and re,pectable appearance, named John Wilson, was brought before the LORD MAYOR. An officer, on the preceding night, as he was on duty, saw the defendant stager, evidently from intoxication, and tumble to the ground; without making any effort to save himself from the fall, which happened to be in a place usually destined to receive drunken men—the kennel. The unfortunate man, upon being raised from the mud, was quite unable to put one leg before the other, and was in that condition carried to the station-house, where proper care w is taken of him and his money, of which he no doubt would have been robbed, if the police had not been vigilant. The gentleman, upon his recovery , denied mo st solmnl y that he had taken as much intoxicating drink as would have affected the head of a child, and declared that it was the tooth-ache that had put him into the difficulty.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR could not have supposed that a per son of such bearing in the Justice-room would have dis graced himself by getting into the Christmas condition of a coalheaver. The defendant said that there never was a greater mis take than the supposition that he was drunk from drinking, but he certainly was rendered as insensible as a drunken man by a tooth-ache, which a friend of his told him could be only cured by a pipe of tobacco. The LORD MAYOR—And so you smoked yourself drunk? Defendant—My jaw and ear, and the whole side of my head, were in the greatest agony. and I took a pipe and began to pull at it violently, for I never smoked before. The harder I pulled the more my friend told me to keep it up, till I couldn't see anything but the flame of the candle. Well, I got up to breathe a little fresh air, and I hadn't gone far when I saw the ground rising gradually, until I thought it hit me right in the forehead, and then I found myself in the kennel, but out of it I could for the life of me get.—( A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—I hope you found your tooth-ache better ? Defendant—l never felt it since, my Lord, but I would not cure it again on the same conditions.—(Laugh ter.) You may judge whether or not I am stating facts, when I tell you that all I spent was six-pence, out of which I paid a penny for tobacco, and when I pay another penis) , for tobacco I hop I may lie in the same spot. The LORD MAYOR—I have no doubt of the truth of your statement, and am very glad that your drunkenness was so innocent, and I trust that you will take care how you apply remedies for a toothache. A man, named William:, who was also a person of re spectable appearance, was next brought up. An officer found Mr. Williams, who was known to be a very eloquent sort of a gentleman, in a speechless condi tion. When witness asked him what was the matter with him he shook his head, as much as to say that he was so drunk as not to be able to use his tongue. Witness con veyed him to the station-house, where he lay for some time, and upon recovering he requested to be let out. Witness finding that his customer was brought back to his senses opened the door. The defendant was then immediately seized with a fit of talking, and not being particular in what he treated of, for he called them who acted so kindly to him common robbers, he was conducted to a place of se curity, in order that he might substantiato his charge, or be made responsible for his attack upon honest men. The defendant bad been engaged in discussing matters of some consequence in the early part of the evening, and the glass stole upon him until he lost the faculty which never failed him under any other circumstances. The LORD MAYOR—Then I think you are a capital subject for the drunkard's penalty, and I fine you ss. The defendant laid the blame to the insane mass of words which he had used, and not to the liquor. ....._.. , The LORD MAYOR said that the defendant deserved to be fined too for the infliction upon his hearers, and that it was infinitely better to be smoked than to be talked out of a room.—(A laugh.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Jones was yesterday brought before Mr. DYER, charged with burglary.—The prisoner was fully committed.. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday Thomas Gregory, a porter in the employ of Mr. Evans, the extensive silk-mercer and woollen-draper of Tottenham-court-road, was finally examined before Mr. RAWLCNSON on a charge of having plundered his employer of upwards of a hundred pounds worth of prop, tty. consist,. ing of cloaks, shawl s , table-covers, and otlser articles. An immense number of cloaks, shawls, whittles, table covers, &c., were produced by pawnbrokers, one of whom clearly identified the prisoner as the person. The prisoner, who was formerly a policeman in the H di vision, was fully committed, without saying a word in his defence. He is, it appears, a married man. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a man of military appearance, named Henry Napier Disney, was brought before Sir F. ROE, charged with feloniously intermarrying with Miss Sarah Anne Stoven, his first wife being now and then living. Mr. BODKIN stated that the lady who appeared as pro secutrix had been a ward in Chancery at the time the mar riage in question was solemnized, and the present pro ceedings were instituted at the instance of her brother. At a future day he could produce evidence to show that, im mediately otter the first marriage took place, by the Rev. Dr. Muccleston, of Teignmouth, a divorce in the Eccle siastical Court, on the grounds of adultery and cruelty, was obtained. A letter had been received from Warwick, which stated that the Reverend Gentleman had removed from Teignmouth ; that the real name of the prisoner was Arthur Battersby, and there was reason to believe his other wife was living. The prisoner had been formerly in the Life Guards, but subsequently had obtained a com mission in the 17th Lancers, in the Queen of Spain's ser vice, and had lost his left arm in the engagement before St. Sebastian. He (Mr. Bodkin) was given to understand that the principal grounds on which the prisoner rested his defence were his not having heard for a considerable time from his first wife, and on that account he considered she was not alive. John Charles Stoven, resided in Wellington-street, Strand. In August last his sister was married in Burleigh street Chapel to the prisoner, but he was not present at the ceremony. He had since received information, which he believed to be true, that the first wife of the prisoner was still living. m r . BODKIN applied to have the further hearing of the case postponed for a fortnight, for the purpose of giving time to procure witnesses from the country. Sir F. ROE had no objection, and the parties interested might suit their own convenience as to the time the prisoner should be brought up again. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. HATTON GARDEN. Yesterday ..Toli;z — filelling, a. ferocious looking fellow, was placed at the bar, before Messrs. ROGERS and LAING, charged by Daniel and Cornelius Sullivan with having stabbed them, with intent to murder. Mr. ROGERS convicted him in a penalty of 5/. for each assault, and in default of payment to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for four months. CHRISTMAS BILLS. We have beard of a gentleman who, when a Christmas Bill was slipped very respectfully into his band, exclaimed, " My dear fellow, a thousand thanks ; do pray come on Thursday next, and I'll then tell you when to call again." But our friend Rigdum Funnidos, of " The Comic Al manack," has improved upon this. Hear what he saith : " Punctuality is essential to the character of a gentle man. Early in the New Year, send peremptorily for all your bills. If they do not arrive in a day or two, send again. By this exactness you give your tradesmen confi dence, and insure their civility for some time, in the hope of a settlement. Having thus prevented any increase of charges, you can pay at your leisure. I have heard of a gentleman whose aversion to the sight of paper ruled in money columns had been indulged in as long as was consistent with his personal safety, who thus addressed a creditor for whom the shut sesame of " call again" had lost its charm :—" After having for many years neglected my affairs, I have at length awakened to a sense of my error, and have resolved by a vigorous system of eco nomy, to retrieve them. Method, Sir, I now perceive that method is everything. From this day, I set apart a certain portion of my income, sacred to the payment of my debts." —" I am delighted, Sir, to hear of your noble resolution." —" I have made a schedule of all I owe, and shall begin at the top and persevere undeviatingly in regular though slow succession towards the bottom—so that you see, my dear Mr. Figgins"—" Sir, my name is Wiggins"—" Wiggins! I had quite forgot ; but, I am sorry to hear it, very sorry — for my list is alphabetical—had it been Figgins or even Higgins, there woold have been some chance for you, but the W:s are so very low down —no, I cannot say when I shall reach the W's." Compliments arc nice things—as nice as Christmas pies —but it is very annoying to be classed in such a case amongst the Y's (wise). If we, however, had written the pararaph we should have endeavoured to obviate this for the future by making the commencement read thus— " Early in the new year, send peremptorily for all your bills ; if they do not arrive in a day or two send again—and pay them all immediately." THE HARE'S LAW.—The following is from a letter of Sir W. Scott to the editor of the Courscu's Manual. I cannot help adding to the last:Words of Bonney Heck,' a sporting anecdote, said to have happened in Fife, and not far from the residence of that famous greyhound, which may serve to show in what regard the rules of fair play between hound and hare are held by Scottish sportsmen. There was a coursing club, once upon a time, which met at Balchristy, in the province, or as it is popularly called, the kingdom of Fife. The members were elderly, social men, whom a very moderate allowance of sport served as an introduction to a hearty dinner and jolly evening. Now there had her seat, on the ground where they usually met, a certain large stout hare, who seemed made on purpose to entertain these moderate sportsmen. She usually gave the amusement of three or four turns as soon as she was put up—a sure sign of a strong hare when practised by any beyond the age of a leveret—then stretched out in great style ; and after affording the gentlemen an easy canter of a mile or two, threw out the dogs by pass ing through a particular gap in an enclosure. This sport the hare gave to the same party for one or two seasons, and it was just enough to afford the worthy members of the club a sufficient reason to b© alleged to their wives, or others whom it might concern, for passing the day in the public house. At length a fellow who attended the hunt nefariously thrust his plaid, or great-coat, into the gap I mentioned ; and poor puss, her retreat being thus cut off, was, in the language of the dying Desdemona, basely—basely murdered.' The sport of the Balchristy Club seemed to end with this famous hare. They either found no hares, or such as afforded only a halloo and a squeak : or such, finally, as gave them farther runs than they had pleasure in following. The spirit of the meeting died away, and at length it was altogether given up. The publican was, of course, the party most especially affected by the discon tinuance of the club ; and regarded, it may be supposed, with no complacency the person who had prevented the hare from escaping, and even his memory. One day a gentleman asked him what was become of such a one, naming the obnoxious in dividual. He is dead, Sir,' answered mine host, with an angry scowl, and his soul kens this day whether the hare of Balchristy got fair play or not.' " On Thursday, as J. Sly was driving a bullock up Church-street to the Shambles, when near the hospitals it made a sudden bolt up one of the narrow passages adjoining that place, and, unable to return, mounted a grass plot ele vated on a level with the tops of the neighbouring houses, end from thence sprang upon the roof of the shop occupied by Mr. Humphrey, painter, and succeeded in gaining its summit. Here it remained a second or two, as if considering what next. The roof, however, unable to bear so protracted and unusual a pressure, gave way, when bullock, roof, rafters, and tiles, all made their disappearance, to the no small astonishment of a number of spectators outside, and to the very great wonder of the painter inside, who was busily employed at work; un able to account for so singular an occurrence, and alarmed for his safety, he ,dropped his muller and pallet-knife, and sought safety only in flight. Much did a Southcotian marvel at the sight of " cow upon the top of the house"—oft and anxiously did Jemmy Sly inquire after " his ous"—uproariously did the bystanders laugh at the bullock's extreme altitude and sudden disappearance, and many were the surmises of injuries done to paint-pots and brushes. All was, however, speedily put to rest by the animal's deliberate exit out of the painter's shop, uninjured and unhurt, and submitting quietly to be driven to that bourne from whence " no fatted ox returns."— Hull Observer. A large cotton manufactory, belonging to M. Van Hoegarde, at the gate of Brussels, was entirely destroyed on the 21st instant, by fire, in the short time of three hours, no thing but the walls having been left standing. The loss is reported to have been considerable. Several workmen lost their lives through the catastrophe, and upwards of one hun dred are out of work by it. ANCIENT MSS. IN HEREFORD.-There are two curious MSS. belonging to the Hereford Cathedral Library, the first the Ahtiphonarium Ecclesice Herefordiensis, or an them-book of that edifice ; and the second an early copy of the Four Gospels, which, from its general character and re markable decorations, is compared with the splendid copy of St. Jerome's version of the Bible, presented to the Emperor Charlemagne on the first day of the year 801, during the coronation of that Prince, and which is now in the British Museum. This manuscript was known and regarded as a do cument of importance in the Cathedral church of Hereford eight hundred years ago ; there is in the last pages of the volume an entry in the Anglo-Saxon language and character, the meaning of which is " Note of a Shiremote held at lEgelnoth's Stone, in Herefordshire, in the reign of King Canute.' At this meeting were present Bishop Athelstan, different aldermen therein mentioned, and Godig, who came on the King's errand, beside all the Thanes of Herefordshire. The matter for consideration was the complaint of a person against his mother, respecting lands at Wellintun and Cyr desley. The mother was not present, but one Thurcyl the White (perhaps judge), who appears to have been a very cunning fellow, and to have had a keen eye to his own inte rest, undertook to speak for her. A deputation of three Thanes was sent to the mother, who, when informed of the case, became very angry, saying that her son had no right to the lands ; and calling her relative Leoffimde, wife of the above-named Thurcyl, she in presence of the Thanes bequeathed to her after her own death all her lands, clothes, and property, and desired the nobles to inform the Shiremote, and bear witness to it; they did so, and there upon Thurcyl the White stood up and requested the Thanes to deliver free to his wife all the lands that had been bequeathed to her, which they did. Thurcyl then rode to St. Ethelbert's Minster, and by leave and wit ness of all the folk, caused the transaction to be recorded . in Christ's Boc, or Book (the Gospel). A second entry in the volume relates to the sale of a hide of land at Mmvelshylle. The place where the first-named transaction took place (iEgelnoth's Stone) is supposed to be Enjobb, or Evenjobb, in Radnorshire, which is in the diocese of Hereford, and only - Three or four miles beyond the boundaries of the county; it is, therefore, not improbable that the spot might once have been included within it. The direction for entering the pro ceedings at the Shiremote in Christ's Book appears to have been in conformity with the custom of those times, as alp pears from oc casional entries in ancient copies of the Gos pel of legal proceedings; they were then considered to be out of the reach of the parties concerned, and could be ap pealed to as an authentic record. It is remarkable that Athelstan, the Bishop years before h he was blind. We learn with much pleasure that a subscription has been set on foot for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the unfortunate Chatterton. It is a reproach to the city of his birth that this tribute to his genius should have been so long delayed—though, that it should be now taken up, argues an improved feeling on the part of the Bristo -I:ans of the present day, as compared with that of the pre ceding age, and which the youthful poet made the subject of his satire. The undertaking is one that, no doubt, will be aided by men of all parties, and we rejoice to learn that it is in the hands of gentlemen whose respectability and intelli gence ensure its success.-13ristol Mercury. TABLIS PRINTING E THE BLIND. .31ENTS FOR There are at present five different printing establishments ts for printing for the blind. The first of these, which is Paris, was established upwards common of forty ears ago. The alphabet used there is theletters, capital and lower case—but in a written form. There is a great waste of space, and no improvement has taken place since its ef-arm-wricernP,ut . in Edinburgh, wt ere. the art bas been revived within the last ten years, Mr. Gall has introduced great improvements, both in the form of the letters and the method of mt prinr.r• The alphabet used is also the co mmon letters, both capitals and Lwer case ; but modified so as to be very easily dis tinguished by the touch. To such perfection has he brought their forms, that while the alphabet retains its original appearance, so as to be distinctly legible to the f _ eye, the honks can he read throug h ei g ht or twelve plies o silk, or the letters can he made so 5m.,11 that the blind can read from thirty to forty letters in one square inch of paper ! The uso of a modified alphabet, and of fretted types, and producing by the common printing press, impressions upon both sides of the paper, have all originated in Edinburgh. The value of the discoveries may be es timated by the fact that the whole New Testament may now be printed in one quarto volume, at the expense of about 12s. per copy. In America Dr. Howe, after having examined the Paris and Edinburgh printing establishments, founded another in Boston. The same alphabet is used the re which is used in Edinburgh, namely the common letters, angularly di modi- fied. The only difference is that (like Mr. Gall's first mg* fication), the capitals are excluded with the exception of the G. which has been substituted for the small letter. Since the establishment of those three institutions, other two have arisen in Britain, neither of which use the corn mon alphabet. One in Glasgow uses only capitals ; th e other, in Bristol, uses an entirely new character, like short hand. Neither of these have been found to succeed eso well as the common alphabet used in Edinburgh and Am' rice . The capital letters have been found so like each other in their external forms, being, with a few exceptions, either square or round, and being all of the same height, th e blind feel great difficulty in reading the books. Printing for the blind is about to be commenced in Belgium upon the Edinburgh plan. Thus the French books printed there will be read by the blind in Britain and America, while the French and Belgian blind will be supplied with books from Edinburgh and America. The Belgian Government sent Abbe Carton (Director for the Bruges Institution for the Deaf and Dumb nod Blind) to this country, to obtain information regarding the printing for the blind. After visiting the Paris, Edit' burgh, and Glasgow Institutions, and making a very va luable collection of books and apparatus, le has found t hat the common alphabet with the capitals, where they arc re quired, which is the Edinburgh method of printing, is de cidedly the best. To assist him in ascertaining the comparative ease with which the blind can read the Glasgow and the Edinburgh books, ldr. Alston, in Glasgow, made one of the children read thirteen verses of the New Testament, which she 0 - complished in six minutes. On returning to Edinburgh, Abbe Carton performed a similar experiment with the, children there. One boy, eight years of age , w ho bad been five months at school, read 13 verses of equal length to four minutes ten seconds. A girl, seven years of ag e, who had been sixteen months at school did the same to four minutes three seconds. Another girl, nine years of - age, who had been nine months at school, read thirteen verses of greater length in three minutes and five seconds on reading them over a second time she didsoin two m inutes and forty-two see , ,nds. She was then desired to read the whole chapter (containing forty-two verses) ; this s he so' complished easily irt nine minutes eleven seconds, which was considerably less than half the time occupied by the girl in Glasgow. Abbe Carton, finding that when a handkerchief is laid upon the book the blind cannot read so quickly through it , was anxious to ascertain how many plies of silk would be required to reduce the tangibility of the Edinburgh printing* to an equality with that of the Glasgow books. He made several experiments for the purpose, and found that the time occupied in reading the Edinburgh printing through eight plies of silk was the same as required to read the Glasgow printing with the naked finger. A considerable degree of excitement prevailed yes' terday evening in the vicinity of the Regent's-park, in conse quence of a report which had been freely circulated to the effect that on the previous =ming a young man, named Las' card, an Italian, had been taken into custody at Devizes, on su,picion of having been the murderer of Eliza Davis, late barmaid to Mr. Wadley, of the King's Arms, Frederick-stree t, Regent's-park, Between 600 and 700 persons assembled in the neighbourhood of Mr. Wadley's house between six and seven o'clock, and it was not until the arrival of a man wh o had been dispatched to the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, that the assembled multitude dispersed. From inquiries made it appears that, on Friday evening last, a man, having the appearance of an Italian, got off the Bath coach at the Liver pool Inn, Devizes, and set himself down in the parlour, where he called for a rump-steak and potatoes, which were brolight to him. While partaking of this repast the conversation turned upon the subject of the Frederick-street murder, when the stranger suddenly left the inn, and has not since been heard of. He left behind him a hat in a box , marked " Per' ring, Strand," and a handkerchief, with the initials, I. fl.“ Two active policemen are on the look-out for the fugitive, whose desoription answers to that of the supposed murderer. In the reign of Edward IV. an Act was passed re' stricting burgesses, artificers, and others, from dressing in a style unbecoming their station in society. By this Act the Lord Mayor of London and his wife were allowed, if they s° pleased, to wear velvet or figured satin, a privilege allowed to them in common with the nobility of the realm. The recorder, aldermen, and sheriffs were not allowed to dress so splendidlY; and were put on a footing with knights and esquires, an', might wear damask or satin, but no velvet, under a penalty °' one hundred pence to the king. It was also ordained that any man wearing shoes with beaks or pikes above two inche s/ in length should pay a fine of one noble to the king, a nothe r to the cordwainers, and a third to the chamber of London.-" Mackay's History of London. SILK.—It is a remarkable fact, that the first per" sons who brought wrought silk into Europe were the Greek' of Alexander's army, which conquered the Persian empire, in which Babylon was then included. In other words , nb°tit 240 years after Ezekiel. silk is known to have been used i° the dress of the Persians. Jahn even conjectures that Of famous robe which the Persians adopted from the Med.es a dress of honour, was of silk; and if so , as the luxury ° the Modes was contemporary with that of the Babylonia n % we should find silk on the frontiers of Babylonia eve n ab°ll o the time of Ezekiel. Now what was known to the Persi ni t i o and possibly to the Medes, was not likely to be unknown the still more luxurious Babylonians, who moreove r be access to the shores of the country where silk might , a d found ; and should it be alleged that the Persians Pue greater facilities of obtaining silk by the land route from t" frontiers of China, the effect will be the same, for we ' 13 „ 1 ( 1 1 be sure that the results of Persian, as well as of Arabia o , s- o f Phoenician commerce, found their way to the great nl a " t be Babylon. As the Medes and Babylonians (or at lea st latter, were luxurious and wealthy, and fond of rich d res ir g e a it may be well supposed that they absorbed all the int c at supply which reached them; and as the nations snor e ao were less rich and of plainer manners, the merchants ha k e, motive to carry the commodity to a more western no n r a b - y- This will show that silk may long have been in use in ', o re lonia before it was known in Europe and on the n' ° ' s ilk shores of Asia. It is a remarkable circumstance that to it i 5 came to the west manufactured in cloth half silk ; ankh h was said the plan was devised of unravelling the stuff, 10 " c a rewoven into cloth of entire silk. The only proper silkorere nufactures that we can find to have existed in the w hichs eed, _ de io to show that the Phcenicians not only possessed the t!';'ef,llll silk, but the process of manufacture, which th e y kept secret ▪ l. T. COX V.VORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, C: r - r i:tk` r l London, informs the Public, that he has a considerable o 7„ SECOND-HAND GOLD WATCHES, any of whiebeloiy at EIGHT GUINEAS each. They have all been et ot re• amined, and are warranted.—Watches purchased in er>--- On the 27th iist., of hoop p in inflareins' tion of the lungs, I as . of M aged 2% years, Elizabeth Sarah , t , Y en. , g i . E et D ugh and subsequennt ;atter r. W. C. Evans, Grand Hotel, King-street, Covent - „ ion . ol On the 19th inst., at Harrogate, Airs • Van Mildert, Ai d the Lord Bishop of Durham. On the 25th i ns t., in Adelphi-terrace, Edward Richardson, licl.' aged 38. On the 24th inst., at Edmonton, Robert Ray, Esq., sk.ecial.,{ov On the 23d inst., in Manchester-square, John Leckie, 8, merly of Bombay, aged 62.conegie' G At Brussels, on the 20 th in st., a g ed 30, George Jame s , n he Esq., only son of the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Carnegie, an . to the late Earl of Northesk. In September last, Caroline Rosa, lady of E. C. Monsc.tonnod.rei: Bengal Civil Service and youngest daughter of Charle iv Esq., Park-crescent. li r • In London, on the 25th inst., Elizabeth Jane, wife of J_aressact. White, Esq., and eldest daughter of J. Parkinson. K. , ' ville-street. On the 22d of October lest , at Geneva, in the Islaiidroefra—Voii nice, James Potter Lockhart, Esq., many years Senior in the Council, and late President of the Island. ,r h os . Lobster On the 25th inst., Marv, youngest daughter of Esq., of Beaconsfield, Bucks. /rto London :Printed published by AIVIT---DO YO l/146 ' ° - f oll 0 ; 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in thq of Middlesex. —Thursday, December 284 107. —..............." (13r BIRTHS. job.? 1,1 At Wellesbourn, Stratford-on-Avon, on the 23 4 i „ o f Charles Paulet, of a son. the Isw On the 25th inst, in George-street, Portman-squ are ' Abel Jearrad, Esq., of a son. k 0 the MARRIED. v ric- , ° o a r-, At Government House, Fredericton, New Brun, s , to icic n oy 25th ult., Captain Tryon, 43d Light Infantry, of f s Eice or of Northamptonshire, to Elizabeth, only daughter of I " l ,.Gover n wee Major General Sir John Harvey, K. C. H. Lieutenayb,e a nd 0 that Province, a grand-daughter of General Lord 1.." ' of the present Viscount. • -,..