The Sun. — London, England, 1846-02-02 00:00:00

il!‘ce l r trot' [it to be c J AY ) vas oPe,e d , it lio• `;/1 r CbaPi'c kl l/ 11 , c.) f'!" , to cliv! 1 9- iverOle eg g 0 l o r e n ill f by phie:sre' cileor 'vtr l ' te re► f disse ro u be the 1 r e• to LATER. from the UNITED STATES. -L. I-i-IZ:0011,, SUNDAY. Th earrival a t t hi s port of the packet-ship Stephen 1 1V111•44', Carlin Poph am , h as put us i n possession of „ e e e of papers f rom New York to the date of her sailing,n nin m Papers of January, s h e h av i ng ma d e th e v oyage i eteen days. The debate in the House of Representatives upon the Itlestiun that t we l ve months ' notice be given to Gofrtehaet a B!itain the terminati on o f th e j o i nt occupancy Oregon territory continued before the House, which had , tttlelyed itself int o a Committee of the whole H ouse !ern clay to day, the speakers being for the most part 1a favour of the notice being given, whilst a few wishedt_ I , t° Place the power to give notice in the hands of he . 'resident, to use his discretion ; but as it is most prao ii‘ble the House will carry the resolution in the a,ffirm he rve, it is desirable to impress upon the minds of t ic that the decision of the House is always fe:cli,ntrol of the Senate'look under to whom we e must rwealalsyhing -4 4 CleClShill of this important question. The . . ee l _ on t,eOrrespondent of the Courier and Enquirer, writing 's sobjcet, remarks ti uit " 111 e Oregon debate is now fairly opened . in the House, Rii, 3' having to-day referred to the joint resolution to li e e notice, to the Committee of the whole, where there will tot: 41.11 discussion. I hope that neither the cmerc th ia e l ettra tt l , Wl' capitalists will be in the least agitated by that r em e bate y take in the Howe. . az , lotions in of giving the notice will la s that body, it:4::te of warlike declamation meinbel- p s js may indulge 8e ll ; u t : id bet'suffered to pass idly by. It is action in in ,, t_he_ ti oos shthat should be closely watched : if . ther t e en h p inulea fis t sho al' be in favour of giving the notice, then t o dev.i old be made for the worst. As out of haevre.euPbeati7n eay set,TPlnents either in the Senat or out , t justify hop t i. 1,1 conclusion as to the result in that body, d wisdom F s "rig that the council of moderation and ft with the p.a. el -e 7 41 -1, and that the whole subject will be le but the itf,434lleyrrepeobratedte i appealed u the kay y t ' in the hope that an adjustment of the question Theedlue accomplished by negotiation." remark being only We publilikcelyp s t p o er la s, st some time, and is oreitZethe occasional violence of the speakers. tate r 4 an abstract; but shall look anxiously . to a Si arri val for the result. In the meantime the egetiati, and the American e le ,, Jns between Mr. Pakenham et ii e e rlia3 erit had not been renewed. Commercial affairs k ett. York were dull, and the money and stock by It eets - oe the Bth, 9th, and 10th had been influenced the the lo th The The Courier and Enquirer says, thain.ex itabit: the Panic was as as ever, and explanation W e , 11 a' panics usually are. The nearest exp great aie e j ta l"° is, that the stocks have been held in large etee pe rl is - !Y a few hands, and that the scarcity of money a tetric is sale of them, and they are thus forced upon 11 et i n which, for the same cause, buyers are scarce. bovinese r stte of exchange is nominally 108 k to 1081, as no the s 4 was doing. This accounts well enough for kor, )ek Panic ; but what causes the scarcity of S t , tt !' While exchanges are all in favour of the United kddlese'eapotidlincsti:ltliernagenerally is on a sound footing ? a pprehension has its part ; to which lte; aB has heretofore been frequently said by us—the tlith,ret" locked up in flour speculations, and the last slaty stria locked retren c h ment o f t h e b an k s, w i t hi n t h e the qo a d aYs —and we have probably the solution of reoe,in stien • Th e sales at the Board of Brokers this F ie is ~ were to fair extent. Ohio Sixes declined j-, arre e :;` )l i. t(l ° -1 , Harlem Railroad 3, Erie Railroad 2, roa d 3 1 } Loan 11, Morris Canal :I, Long Island Rail -4kailr,-,,' -441°0 Company 3,1, Norwich and Worcester eoteit„,.°l4l.4lo:aratiesnd Reading Railroad 1 per cent. , speculators and buyers, in the flour and Niv a , - ' 4r ket, are eagerly looking out for European 4th n i t a11 ( 1 0 .3 our last dates from England were of the te( ti,,,l we m ay reasonably expect about this time to g e4e l'Y the sailing packets some days later intern- Ti le before s i ‘e a mer of 4th i nstant can hardly be looked for k a: Ititne Nis 20th instant, and the intervening ten days h a dace forfor the sailing packets. . 4MERICA. via HAYRE. 4 Av b , Ihieket.,.:FßlN.Y.—This morning the Albany, American_ ew l' otit O ' 111P1 reached the port of Havre, having left . New her ne n w t he 1 1th of January instant, and bringing with 1114 ti _ . of the continued discussion of the Oregon Ze3t :.(17viviteliatlitihse irritating ti7utgh, subjectand Bth. Everythinghavecoann hat: w b ! n g intereA in Prance, as well as in nhin England;of im kt_i n ith f t appears to -le utmost desire to extract so Anri . , 'e .frorn the journals brought by this t . ve a g ss e e e l c , h w e e s ePp al °thing more than a meagre account of speeches p it. On he e(litly uttered because the people expect the oar these thre e day s two gentlemen have addressed eo ( "u'e of Re natives, which had gone i 40iLotn ittee of the wholes House on the proposition of res 44_matg the treaty of 1827 ; and, taking their addresses th‘ t v i iii .o le (in the way they are given in the Courier of T U n ited S tates), they appear to balance each other Th, being for and the other against the proposition. wto most remarka.ble address is that of a Mr. Bowfin. to avoid ei.c.aree he will not concede one inch, even if it were avoid a war, but that he would willingly give u p the 4 (11e territory of Oregon to have , lhe a - Mee to think would teach Europ_elinai tl a e r value of libeyty P . sttilDhei received last night from Liverpool papers of the ) 41 t. from Cnarleston, brought to that port by the 14, 114110 n, Captain Johnson. We do not find in them Y mews of interest to the English reader. v (1,,-TAItROUS FIRES on SATURDAY turtIot fewer than six fires occurred in the metropolis on Si!' ste:, I St, involving the destruction of a considerable Ins of property. 1 04, 4 e first broke out in the extensive manufactory of Mr. h ot ,i, cabinet-maker, &c., N. 23, Castle-street, Finsbury, h it far north of the square. A constable, who was going to Itit}: t me frona night duty, discovered the outbreak. Not kte ~„%ilding every possible exertion was made by the fire and !until a large body of assistants, the flames were not sub kild , uentil th i „ -..e workshops and a great quantity of mahogany 4,,,,toclkii`v.,ering were destroyed. The extensive and valuably - ",, t 'tli nr„ re millea belonging to Mr. Haddon, printer, were also ''t l i,„,"l e d by thecombined action of fire and water, as el, i 7 uouse* contiguous to and fronting the fire. 4 ,„ t tr- 4° '",g, i , Mr. Braidwood's official report of the dis• 17 1 11 .--. :Lire upon the premises of Mr. William Jones, - ;: tt iP s ," 4 er N , Castle street, Tabernacle -walk. ttimiaufaege.th-vYousse'nbd cOnt 2 en 3 ts . burned down ; back windows of much damage done to the ), 2.leg,l'Y fire ,tt•rnel out , th and contents nor building insured. lei are a ',„-astle- stree n t el M e r r Haddon, printer—stock in the ' 4 2or IZe 0 14 the first floor ' severely damaged by fire, upper ot.ant' i N h .eat, and ground floor by water; insured in Pro ;akar „'-'_,lasenters' Office. No. 13, Castle-street—Messrs. tlite,7u Phillips, di tiller gates and front of buildings e,ellie",, bseorclied . - insured i si n the Phcetdx. No. 14, Mr. fi l a t e ' i st il - t u t 3 town - carman , front scorched, and slight di.a -(01,1441;4.,,te. dins and stock by heat and water - insured in li'1) No k AO. 23, Tabernacle-walk—Mr. J. Champion are Quack wind burned out, and furniture . damaged k t o e 24 ,l`l eftat er; contents ts not insu b3 red mi , b ,a ui L lt v n y g unknown. 6„.tr diZmeele-walk, occupied _ h ,._Akt 17 41 t'wu" -‘ Ilia '"; building insured in the Atlas; cause of the -al , -.. in th seven o c . oe , l ames Suga ,_ _ . el l ile k , .Past 2. 'l k another fire broke out upon a t n li d e e n Aer t !, e occupation ot D I N ant situ.ate at 14, 15, and 16, til e b t'alil e ' tli qtli e Q u antity of straw an Kingsland- y ro e ad d,a . rat 4 of fro,%%t,jitlech injured by fire, a ill fro, %%t, ~, 7„eY water. Caused from . • d flnodutrhthewefremataing p spark atir4 ,nute simon st the straw. Building Af 14 the s # a a i ll d i r tl es g an tm d . of f: a on s teu p t k , 11, 1 , ew it • tin ire-o ffi ce. 4isej4i lanntes after noon, another outbreak occurred in . the George-street, t, fro.k_qa.►ufactury of Mr. J. Adams, Here the Ol e , is n the over -heating of the drying stove. smokefrom 11 0' of e :_ u a most difficult task, the a vast Spitai e,ttho--ea-nut fibre nearly blinding them. A capital to tide -__r',.was effected. Not insurred. ,h rci ': bliillieuri.ll.the afternoon considerable damage was done ei tt o, k ebt p i ts! and furniture of the Piazza Hotel, Covent- I) ) , til en NI ~ ,:y Mr. O. Cuttriss, through a defect in the tl rendered 4 4, t br.64.,..r.srtunately assistance was p 0 biz.N4,,,-, , orce, and the extensive building and its con .ki-IN in ,71, "utolts insured in the Licensed Victuallers; 11 0 ,;uuat co'? Sun. tiwill'lß the e 0 of teal were burned by an accidental fire etitt - ;..,L,0e :, of Messrs. Job and Co., Commercial saw -`as of 4 tti t ; besides which there were two other character. Ik k 1.,..,-. ; Stra„ P tiov ri , hav,,,ti`-‘4,.-- ~......,, w _._._________ i:a,vt itu t ,:,..z. fou' u _,, rskicti,z , t4 r . ,, , ,, 0 4 by ele a p i h ar a g n e cs nu p m a b s e s r ed of p t e h r r s o on ue the y _ft iii 7 t acle n i ge liisit e f v . ' 4 'wn, and are to commence their . re -LeY's A. gre at - in, l)4 Paratory to making their debiit in a Fels igh2hPhitheacereet which is to be brought out et I p ei r or t term s -I ti i , ll lg s k . n . in ' and o lti ..'" remarkable feats which these l ir 7 ,°-- 'Monday next. Report speaks in °F - ge 1 —0 eu h — " r • Batty may congratulate himse , in A riak e ev er ~ toe a noveltv, to succeed the performances "le t t 2- 1311 , 1 t and g, t) °,f tills Pyrenees. ,, 41 cl uei t C tilti t tie at dinovelsenuntess Pamerston entertained a I, 4 teph q 1 a nd II„ r°ll Saturday last, including the Earl of I,,.''' ra k , and I . ,..,,"' M issea Eden, Viscount Melbourne, Lord ' v ilil`t .101verd 7rat en Lord J. ithi mi • th, .n en , dD_ t .3 , Manle Sir Thomas And Lad . ) qth ‘ t kttisi on ; • /4 % and Mrs. Stanley, &c., at his Lord- Russell, Lord , 1 14 '; ev eni 4, Carlto n - houselterrace. ln the latter part I .)t N iter tig her Lad • a, leeq a were. hi Jain! ) had a reception, when .amo.n.gs i Lei n ncy the A BExcellency Count de St. AulaFe,.M 14 4; .43 E X . —"l,4'lstriati Ambassador and Countess Dietnch- I ,ea, hi, teentr the Prussian Minister and Madame P.43„paro, b_celhOcr Count Kielmansegge, his Excel kll en l . )3"ot:inflow, tu",3 Excellency Count Reventlow, his aki,. LOtti s ~° 4 ,ele Ceito, Baron and Baroness Rehausen, Itlefoqi !.,ti,,,,l)ueB.:4t.;4•LiNeaobailles, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the 5 ,, / c ,...urY, the Earl of Basborough, the Earl tiord' tirt4,..—.''Anning, Viftouritess Jocelyn, Lady Sey 4-., sthA s nd L ad „ — arintt.- the Dowager Countess of Morley, 1 .4 .1 "Ab u . 1 A sho k ley, Lord and Lady Beaumont, Lord and 4 Y Ileatie,ll,Y, 'Viscount and ViscouLtess Mahon, Lord and 4tclai, „ /::_le,, Viscount and Viscountess Norreys, Lord hiru p ejo _ Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, tovlters, bra George Paget, the Hon. Mr. Smythe, Lord J. 1,,A , uk:n s i r e .!inq the Hon. Miss Foley, Lady %V. Powlett, Viscount . Clements, tlieVlt ..41"111111LadY Clifford. and Miss Clifford, Colonel .iiil.. liaenakaerraa; is4 eb ., . , Hon. Mrs. Norton, Hon. Colonel and it:' ell ; b ., Mrs. Lord H. Vane, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Lady Georgiana Romillv, the Right Hon. Mrs. Shaw Lefevre and Misses Lefevere, 1 0 , 4 i Repton-1-'4UY Monteagli and the Hon. C. Spring Kico. hates ei t cl he If oo : lr w ..G j • Browne, Mr. Courtenay, Mrs. Lane hat. Mr, t. • Lascelles and Miss Lascelles, Lady P °ter Haw es,_ r Mr. Sneyd, Mr. Harcourt, Sir Au ‘..,satid miss , in; Mandeville, Mr. and Mrs. B. Disraeli, '1171 ; 1-1. 1 , 1 1 bi l; Iii :r i l;•. 1 C IT . Rear-Admiral and Miss Bowles, .lfueetvitil'etrellille on. Mr. Gore, Mrs. and Miss is rid ey 1 , ) ke of D evonshire left his villa at Chiswick on .4ti tht o4 ll4t, for his W e • marine residence at Kemp Town,' 4 '44 4 , (tte , h tpPy in being authorised to contradict the as to 171.• which has appeared in some of the public papers, hii, Grp.e nature of the illness of the Duke of Sutherland. lii hria tt has lately suffered from deranged digestion and .6 incident thereto. MAGAZINE DAY. LI . , CKVi 0 0 !). We have never seen the great Seer of the North in such a sleepy mood as at the present interesting crisis. For anything that appears in this number we might believe that the Tory guide of Scotland had abdicated the throne, and handed over his domain to a successor who knew not which way to turn. Blackwood has long been remarkable, not so much for criticism on the pub lications of the day as for original papers, and, above all, for animated dissertations on passing events; and though we differ in general from the spirit displayed in the work, we nevertheless always find somethinginteresting, amusing, or curiously extravagant in his views, which makes us the more regret the total absence of all poli_ tieal comments on events more remarkable than any which have occurred for the last sixteen or seventeen years. There is no excuse for this silence, either on the score of time or information. In the last number, the resignation of Sir Robert Peel and the advent of Lord John Russell were made subjects of discussion, and the discussion was broken off merely because the "crisis " was still involved in mystery. That, however, has been fully cleared up—the Conservative leader has been reinstated—he has opened his budget of secrets, and made a display' sufficient to shake the mouldering bones of every old Tory. We allude not to his speech on Tuesday, but to the disclosures made on the first night of the session both in the Queen's speech and in the communications read by Lord John Russell. These left no doubt whatever of his intentions. They proclaimed distictly that the days of " protection" were numbered ; that the corn-laws were doomed ; that Peel and Russell had embarked in the same boat, and that the Tories were without a leader. Yet at this eventful era, Old North, the faithful watcher on the towers of the Scottish capital, the guardian of his Tory countrymen, the elo quent advocate of aristocratic doctrines, one of the main pillars of the Church and State, and the most vigorous championof a badcause, remains silent as the grave; and incurs the reproach of being a " dumb dog that cannot bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber." We regret the result, however, only on the ground of amusement; for in other respects this dismal silence is very ominous for the bigoted class who have so long obstructed every great national improvement, and adds another proof that the monopolists are "done for." The only allusions, in fact, made to the stirring events of the day, is in some doggrel verses, headed " A Peep into the Whig Penny Post Bag," of which the subjoined extract is a specimen : "On the part I have played in this luckless transaction, I confess I look back with unmix'd satisfaction. From the first I said this— • end 'tis pleasant to feel Thus at ease with one's self—' I'm for total repeal: Stick to that, my Lord John, and all scruples I stifle: Any office or none is to me a mere trifle;' (Though of course, my dear Mac, for the purest of ends, I was willing to help both myself and my friends). Any office I'll take that can give you relief— From the Whip of the House to Commander-in-Chief.' Oh ! If all of the party had acted as I did, In how noble a band would Lord John have presided! But—"tis best as it is :' we may grieve, yet we shouldn't : Peel can carry the measure —'tis certain we couldn't : Though we hoped, if our reign was once fairly begun, It might last till—we did what was not to be done. I think (though thus leaving old views in the lurch), We shonld not have establish'd the Catholic Church. To speak for my colleagues in me would ba vanity : They might differ; but I should have thought it insanity. In the hope that our friends in Auld Reeky are brawly,' I remain yours, in confidence, T. B. Mac—y." the third article, on Marlborough, is like the rest, full of interest, and among other achievements of that illus trious commander, gives an excellent description of the battle of Oudenarde. Bonaparte owed to him the plan of disregarding strong fortresses, and marching direct to the main point on which the fate of the campaign turned. After this decided battle Marlborough urged upon the allied council of war the propriety of relinquishing all lesser objects, passing the fortified towns on the frontier, and advancing straight towards the French capital; and had he, like Bonaparte, been solo master, he would in two weeks have encamped his army in the Bois de Bologne. We find nothing in the other articles that re quire notice. strike every classical reader, for Abd-el-Kader is only a modern Jugurtha:— The tactics of Jugurtha are precisely those of Abd-el- Kader. One might suppose them to have studied the art of war in the same academy. Thus Sallust writes of the former: He now presented himself before Metellus, occa sionally betore Marius ; he attacked the rear in their march, and instantly retreated to the hills; he now threatened this quarter, now that; he would neither hazard a battle, nor allow them any repose;' and the German lieutenant recopis of the troops belonging to the Arab, that, without offering ar.v resistance to the head of the column, they hovered round it all day, with wild yells of Lu,/u /' They gallop without any order, and singly, to within eighty . or . a hundred speed The of the horse sharpshootersthenturnansdofdishcihsarogwne th a e e i c r ol rte a s n a d t full the rider loads his piece as he retreats; and this is re p eated again and again all day long. The Bedouins never wait for a close encounter hand-to-hand ; when charged by the cavalry, they disperse in all directions, but instantly return. Another peculiarity of the Numidian warfare is noticed in the fact, that the royal guards only followed the King in case of flight ; the rest of the army broke up in every direction. Thus it happened to Jugurtha after his defeat by the consul. Now we think that something like this may be traced in the present day in Algeria. The real army of Abd-el-Kader consists of 250 horsemen and 500 foot-soldiers, whom he pays and clothes ; and, with the select force, he is said to drive all the neighbourinsr tribes to battle. Of course, after a defeat, they disperse •like the Numidians, and find their way home to their tent or village in the best way they can. Again, every now and then the public ear is surprised with intelligence of the cowardism and flight of the Sultan, who is represented to have abandoned his soldiers in the most disgraceful manner. But here, too, he is only reviving Jugurtha, who, when Sylla had routed his army near Cirta, being surrounded on every side by the Roman cavalry, and seeing all his men falling by his side, rushed singly through the darts of the enemy and escaped.' So we continually hear of Abd-el-Kader's re-appearance after every discom fiture; and Jugurtha, crippled and stripped by Metellus, only retired into forests and places defended by nature, to collect an army more numerous than the former." The character of Sir James Graham is drawn with great impartiality, and is, perhaps, the best of those which have yet appeared in the series. Though, perhaps, the thickness of his skin may be a little exaggerated, the following picture is substantially correct :—" A hard ness and impassability of temperament, which is to cen sure or obloquy as adamant or rhinoceros-hide, joined to a wonderful knowledge of human nature, great talents, clear perception, readiness, determination of purpose, and a steady resolution to seize all opportunities and yield none, give him great advantage in an assembly where the average of ability is not above mediocrity, and where there are so few who have the courage, or feel the incli nation, to stand forth as champions." And he adds at the close—" Such steady self-possession, joined to such talents and information, and to such debating powers as he has in his former career displayed, though now he rarely exercises them, are quite sufficient to account for that influence which we have ascribed to him ; in the absence of personal respect, which, generally speaking, he does not command, or of party gratitude, which he has done little to deserve on the one hand, and much to forfeit on the other." struck out of the list at once, and the two great Edwards, the 5r,,t and thet hird, would only 1.0 entitled to statues as kings, in coma: or, Ith their imbecile fathers. Notwith- Ntanding the a.guments of this writer, we should cer tainly v. - te for giving Warren Hastings a statue. The Hindoo Gentleman in England continues his admirable h tters, and from them we extract tha following amusing bit of good-humoured satire:— " The society here is divided into a great number of different castes, which I find rather difficult to describe to you. The highest is composed of people of title ; the next, of persons who possess a carriage and horses, and several men -servants dressed very curiously • the third, of those who have th e menservants with the curious dresses, but not the carriage and horses ; and the fourth, of those who hare neither titles, carriages, horses, nor men-servants. These again are subdivided into a great number of other castes :—thus, a family may have carriages, horses, and servants, and plenty of mo ney, and yet, unless they can trace their descent a great many years back, to some man who was a noted robber, or was beheaded for treason, or was distinguished in some other way, they are not considered to be of a high caste. Trade, of all kinds, is looked upon as giving very low caste ; and though a man gets great wealth by trade, it does not raise him much as to caste. Wealth obtained by gambling, however, which is not an uncommon mode, is considered much more respectable. But the most honourable way of pos sessing wealth is, like caste, to be able to trace it back to some relation who acquired it by murdering the owner and taking forcible possession of his estates, or by some other similar manner. Trade again is dividei into agreat many different castes of its own, which are so numerous and incomprehensible that I only as yet understand a little of the matter. I have found that a man of the highest caste may sell, without degradation, cabbages and other vegetables, corn, butter, or bullocks ; but that coals, cloths, bread, &c., are quite interdicted commodi ties for people of any pretensions to high caste to deal in. Again, a man may sell wine in casks, and yet be considered a gentleman ; but another man who sells the same wine in a bottle is looked upon as a very low wreath indeed." _ . Amon' the gems of this number is a fac - simile manu script sonnet by John Keats. We have also an elaborate review of Carlyle's book on "Hero Worship," and a severe, but by no means unfair, critique on Charles Dickens's Christmas Books. The concluding article is entitled " The Corn•laws," and, strange to say, it is not in the least tinctured with party politics. The question of protection is considered on strictly economical grounds, and the paper itself might be taken as a text book by a professor of political economy lecturing to a class of university students. T 1 E SUN, .LONWONT MON DAY EVF,'NING FEBRITAR I 2, 1846. DR. PUSEY'S SERMON. OXFORD, FRB. I.—This morning, at an early hour, the doors of the Cathedral were besieged with hundreds anxious to hear Dr. Pusey, and on being opened every available place for hearing within the building was immediately filled. The Vice-Chancellor, attended by thirteen of the heads of houses and both the proctors, having, with some difficulty, made eindcdhc:nhw t to eht h t os h esp e 7 their way through the dense crowd, took their seats about half-past ten o'clock, and Dr. Pusey having ascended the pulpit, and made the bidding prayer, took the 20th chapter s suspension, uhn T si tsohe he Then esh said ebomnraw: hi Jesus al again,m ek,veeaorn,fsd asss ai n P ai st e h a jya c e e ud b ni e toae u itn n nh: t e o mftr y ho, o emy u ; tahr a of St. John, and the 21st to the 23d verse for his text— y Father hath sent me so send I you. And when he had said Receive ye ee A m the Holy Ghost : whosoever's sins ye remit are remitted re tained." Dr. Pusey commenced with a slight allusion to his Al mighty for his secret sins. In that sermon he had never in tended to speak controversially, but there were those who thought that when particular mention was made of the chan nels of grace that they forgot him who was the means of grace. He wished rather to have dwelt on those gifts conveyed in the Eucharist on which they might have all been united. He dwelt on that sacrament first, as the means by which the sinful body was made clean ; secondly, as a commemorative sacrifice—quoting, in support of the latter, Bishop Wilson's prayer before administering the sacrament, that the minis ters may be worthy to offer the sacrifice ; the clergy acting not instead of, but as ministers of Christ. Dr. Pusey then arrived at the great subject of his sermon—viz., private confession and absolution. God alone can forgive sins ; but would he forgive them less by conveying his forgiveness through ministers. When, in the words of his text, he said " Receive ye the Holy Ghost ; whosoever's sins ye remit are remitted unto them," who honoured him most, those who observed the command, or those wh9,,,neglected it ? In the daily prayers of the Church confession and absolution pre ceded the Lord's Prayer, and it made them fitter to hear his Divine word, and join in praise and thanksgiving. In private absolution the Church spoke words which, if she were not authorised to use, were nothing less than blasphemy : "I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ;" and in the ser vice of the Visitation of the Sick, the Church exhorted her priests to move sick persons to make confession of their sins. The Doctor then spoke of the "intense longing" of the penitent for absolution, and the "thrilling awe" of the priest, when he used the words, By his authority I absolve thee," and that in the name of the Trinity. In speaking of the doctrine of the keys, of the power to loose and to bind, he alluded to the lost discipline of the Church, and that the Articles of the Church allowed the power to bind. The office of the clergy in the present day was not so much with the power to bind as with the power to loose to the penitent, to minister to those who want comfort. In healthful times the power of the key was not doubted, the submission to the discipline of the Church showed the acknowledgement of her power of forgiveness. The discip line was the token of the power to loose sin. No one then said by what power or authority do you do these things ? Do the lame walk ? Do the blind see ? And when asked how they did them, they might say with St. Peter, " through faith in his name." The practice of the Church became the commentary upon the word. For instance, infant baptism showed the command conveyed in the words "suffer little children to come unto me." The Church proposes, faith receives, and the Holy Spirit works. The doctrine of the keys was authoritatively given three times before the Resur rection, to St. Peter, " I give unto thee the keys of Heaven," and then to all the apostles, at their solemn inauguration, "As my Father sent me so send I you." The greatness of the power thus given to men was indeed sufficient to make them tremble. What angel in Heaven could have used such words so comforting to the peni tent ? By baptism they were brought into the fold ; by absolution they were restored who had broken away. All sins were forgiven, none were excepted, great and small; all may have pardon who are penitent ; none are excepted " whose sins ye remit are remitted unto them ;" full, present, absolute, and universal forgiveness. Many object to the idea, that power is given to those who may abuse it. Did they not find the Almighty showing his power in the weakness of his instrument? As examples, Joshua commanding the sun to stand still, and the spirit with which Paul answered Felix. It is not the man who speaks, but our Lord by the Spirit. Dr. Pusey instanced the incarnation as showing the convey ' ance of grace by man ; the Passion as bestowing the fruits of the Spirit through suffering, and love in the relieving of others who suffer. If any were deluded by the feigned repentance of others, God was the judge; yet God doth not the less convey grace through his servants, although some use it wrongfully. Baptism was not the less the lava of regeneration because some received it not in faith, nor the Holy Eucharist less the means of grace because some received it unworthily to their own damnation. His whole object, in the series of sermons he had preached, was the comfort of penitents. The Church allowed private confession, and, quoting the words of Latimer, " Would to God it had ever been kept in England." They might, however, be thankful that it was not compulsory, but that the working in the Church was now from within. The discipline of the Church did not constrain the disobedient, but allowed them to bind up the broken-hearted. They could not bear the sudden restora tion of its discipline • let them wait patiently for the Lord's doing: " The people shall be willing in the day of thy power." All will be well if man attempts not to outrun God. Dr. Pusey then alluded to an " Infidel in another land," who spoke of the corruption of the power of the key. It de pended on the clergy, whether the power they had lifted nearer Heaven or placed them deeper in Hell ; whether more blessed or more deadly in its effects. The aid of constant prayer was necessary. They were not so much in peril when they feared, as when they feared not. He then spoke of the unhindered pride and corruption of the tens of thousands now growing up in the manufacturing and mining districts, whose hearts were not opened to parent or to priest, but to Satan. • After some quotations from Bishop Andrews and others, he spoke of those who being contrite of sin, however deadly, still, if wishing to be absolved, they were absolved, and if the individual knew not to whom he could turn, let him use the daily and the Eucharistic Confession, applying it to his individual sins, and although he might think the absolu- tion powerless, it was not really so, but that the repentance was insufficient, otherwise he might embrace its full effect, the same as if individual imposition of hands had taken place. The ie storation of private confession the preacher spoke of as being full of difficulty. Blessed as the office Was, still ex • perience showed it to be full of peril, and only to be sought with repentance and mortification by those who are seeking to live to God. Sin was awful to handle, it was difficult to hear and not be defiled. They must keep jealous watch over themselves, framing themselves with discipline, taking care not to be blind leaders of the blind ; hate all sin, that they may teach others to hate; fervent in prayer, that others may be fervent; loving much, because much has been forgiven them, they may show it in their love for others. The power of the keys was not a new doctrine, nor had it ever been wholly disused by the Church, although much overlaid during the last century. Its revival had originated not in the agency of man, but in penitents, who had received gifts of grace, not from man, but from the Lord, through his Holy Sacrament. If any felt the burden of sin, or of any particular sin, it might be a blessing to those to know that some who had been once burdened were now lightened and going on their way joyfully; formerly the slaves of sin, were now the servants, who had been struggling with sin, were now striv ing joyously for their God. struggling Pusey then called the atten tion of those who were tutors in the colleges to the oppor tunities they had, and the duties of their station, acting in the place of parents and guardians, in the blessings they might thus confer on their pupils. They needed no new re lation between the clergy and the laity, but only to bring into power the resources of the Church. Nor must they be disappointed if they did not find instant relief for their sins. None ever prayed to their Heavenly Father with sincerity and received a stone. The more their longing the greater his grace. If penitence on their part was sincere, the resto ration to grace on the part of God would be complete. The Church did not object to penance; she still rehearsed the examples of Ahab and others in the Old Testament—of fast ing and mourning in the New. It was better to repent any how than not at all. Evil days, perhaps, were coming upon them, even the last strife previous to the last day may now be coming. But if they trusted in God he would save them. With some, if released from sin and content, they might go on their way peacefully; with others, brands plucked from the fire by self-denial and mortification, might be means of rescuing others, and be chosen to suffer for his namesake in fasting and in strife, even "in deaths oft," bearing about with them the dying of the Lord Jesus ; and thus is life working in them, who, through them, knew him, meeting with their reward in the last day, when he shall say " Well done thou good and faithful servant." The above is a brief outline of the sermon, which occupied nearly an hour and a half in delivery." TO MR. WEBSTER OF AMERICA. Sir,—The question in regard to Oregon has excited so much discussion on both sides of the Atlantic, that I shall take my stand, as far as possible, from the main part of it, in order to view the conflicting parties more dispassionately and more distinctly. lam confident we shall meet on the subject with the same equable and unbiassed judgment, as when we conversed in England on matters of less excitement. It is evident to me that the better informed part of the Americans are convinced that their claims are untenable; and that the worst informed, and worst intentioned are still more firmly convinced than they. For no honest man will shrink from ar bitration. No honest man, who entertains a doubt of any right, will assert that right from controllable arrogance, or from imaginary expediency. In my opinion the courtesies and civi lities of private life ought to be carried into public, and even extended. I believe you are capable of deciding even your own cause with impartiality; but the eye sees with more clearness what is not too near. Believing that much of the assumption and insolence of your slave-dealers was encouraged by our supineness on the aggressions of France, I cannot but express my surprise that the wisest and most courteous of her Kings, and most honest and temperate of her Ministers, should have interfered at all in the affairs of Otaheite ; but it will be incredible to future historians that, because we had committed no wrong on the inhabitants, by seizing and governing the territory—because we had only taught them, for half a century, the arts of peace, and the duties of reli gion, it was allowed them to extinguish both, and to convert the island into a brothel, under their protectorate. Still, I am of opinion that a better sentiment than outraged dignity withheld us from chastising, with renovated vigour and effect, a restless and reckless nation. The same sentiment is no less strong, and no lessbecoEnmrsh,on Physically and morally, would tl sufferpr esen m t occasion. Physically the hostilities with America, but America will suffer greatly the most. Do you imagine t hat we should be so insane_ indeed send an army into Oregon , or eve n a fleet to the coast ? No, : but we might, for the first time, attempt to effect by concilia. tion and flattery what we usually do by force. Suppose a man of high rank and distinction landed in Hayti, with gifts and de corations from a young and lovely Queen : suppose he appealed to him not merely as sovereign of a rich and fertile island, of a brave, high-minded, and military nation, but as a universal defender and protector of all the blacks. Suppose he offered him five million dollars yearly to enable him to accomplish his grand plan of emancipating them all, by means of ten or twelve thousand men debarked on your southern states ; what think you? The English need only transports, with a small train of artillery, a few riflemen, and a few troops of dis mounted cavalry. Many debarkations might be made, the slaves in your country being well prepared for them, end promised the property of their masters, together with the masters and their families to work for them, during the term of fourteen years, in Hayti. You could afford to send no troops into Canada, nor could you conquer the country if you did. Wait, wait, my good Mr. Webster; that country will, within fifty years, form five other united provinces. And this will be, because we never have attempted to introduce our language, the sacred bond of lasting union. I do not im plore the great body of your countrymen to be just and ho nest. I am no enthusiast. I am no visionary. I only do implore them to be quiet, which they can be. Oregon will be yours ; but not yet. I wish it may be ; but not by force, not by intimidation ; that will never do. The glory of Eng land •ind of America is only to be extended by the commu nication of their arts and of their language. Let us contend which of us does it best and soonest, and there let contention both begin and end.—Yours, very sincerely, London. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon entertained his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and a select party, at dinner on Saturday last, at their house in Grosvenor-crescent. TAIT. The article on the Oregon question is written, on the whole, in an English spirit, and takes a fair view of the pints at issue, but still there are objections, great and unanswerable objections, to the scheme for settling the differences. The writer vainly urges on the American people to compel their Government either to refer the boundary to arbitration, or offer Great Britain a price for giving up the whole. " A very moderate sum, we doubt not, would be taken." This is one of the crotchets in which the party represented by Tait delight to in dulge, which often pl-ase a small clique, but which, if adopted, would lead to greater evils than those to be removed. The value of the Oregon territory as regards the soil, or even the extent, is absolutely nothing to this country. Our position in the Pacific is the main point, and all the money that the Americans could raise would afford no compensation for such a sacrifice as that proposed. England cannot dispense with Columbia river, she cannot abandon the Hudson's Bay Company, or, in short, submit to any bargain or compromise which would put a stop to her communications between the Chinese islands, our Australian possessions, and the whole of the Pacific and the westcoast of Canada. She can not even allow California to be surrendered to the United States, because harbours in that quarter of the world will in time, and probably in a very short time, become ab solutely necessary for our mercantile as well as our mi litary navy. But even supposing the Oregon affair set tled by this objectionable scheme, would England and America be one whit more reconciled to each other ? would the republican aggressions and conquests cease?— would the moral power of England be increased by con senting to give up her claims for a paltry sum of money? The writer himself admits that statesmen of the United States wish to annex Oregon, California, Cuba, and Ca nada, and that " democracy in America has not entirely denuded itself of the love of power which characterised the conquerors of former ages." He thus laments over their backslidings:— " It is melancholy to reflect, that the lapse of sixty years, instead of making the views and principles of American statesmen more humane and far- sighted—more philosophical, in short—has produced a diametrically opposite result. Benjamin Franklin, both morally and intellectually; was immeasurably above the contemporary statesmen of Europe, General Cass, President Polk, and too many more of the ex isting statesmen of America, have fallen almost to a level with them. When Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, organised the Union, they looked forward to a people and government who were to rise superior to the low lust of ter ritorial aggrandisement—who were to introduce common sense' into the dealings of nations with each other—to extend the empire of law and reason, and narrow that of brute force. What would these great and good men say to the language that now rings in the Senate House of Washing ton ? We write not with bitterness, but with regret and despondency." The calm voice of reason has no effect upon such men, and the peace.eocieties in England only make them more extravagant in their demands. The article on " the Lyric Poetry of Germany" contains useful reflec tions on the state of public opinion in that quarter, more especially in Prussia, and draws a sad contrast between the professions of the late Sovereign, as well as the pre sent, and their deeds. "Only one remark we shall allow ourselves, that the sting of the sarcasm alluding to some patriotic verses by Prutz] lies in the glaring opposition between profession and principle by which the Prussian Government stands so unenviably distinguished. The Czar Nicholas looks like a czar, and speaks like a czar, and uses the knout like a czar, and no man mistakes him ; so also Austria, ' honest old Austria,' sits spread out with a quiet breadth of contented Conservatism on her green gossiping prater at Vienna, and her likewise no man mistakes; but Prussia, prating magnifi cently about her Protestantism, her intelligence, her high pressure education, her Zoll-unions, her Germanism, and Liberalism of all kinds, is, when you anatomise her closely, a hideous compound of pedant, preacher, and comedian, of coward, slave, and liar. What is to be the end of these things no man knows. For ourselves, we shall not be sur prised if the German Lyric Muse, having now at length, in her youngest incarnation, become decidedly political and practical, should quickly learn to indite in a fluid of a more potent virtue, and more perilous concoction than ink. There were songs, also, and rare ones, sung at Paris, in the year of grace one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Foremost among the articles in the Dublin University Magazine for February, is a review of " Carlyle's Crom well"--men adequately matched—the rugged self opinionaters of the pen and of the sword cheek-by-jowl. It is interesting alone as a first specimen of Irish leniency towards the Protector, but its merit is deteriorated by sundry misgivings as to the excellence of the style of authorship created by the writer of those two powerful and noble volumes. What the reviewer thinks the bad ness of Carlyle as a book-man, is in our estimation his especial goodness ; we mean the density of his lan guage, the Richter-like cast of his fancy, the bold and sudden contrasts of his thought, the dauntlessness and humanising efforts of his logic. In these respects Thomas Carlyle is a vast and wonderful original ; he casts the histhe t tongue stones ngue which v e h thus re eloquent h us r with re sti prostrating hl e an d e crushing, h u n b s e f t o h r e e them i fragmentsin adoration—but s t() r lhen ge; stones of his irony at the juggernauts of history, instead saasvagoondmroaulesdaiontdioiors °resf —but they are maledictions upon the g oelkssg and the despot ; his love is l av i s h and intense—but it is re stricted to greatness, and to goodness, and to beauty - his symbols are uncarven and unpolished—but they are vivified with truth : his words are rude and barbarous, but they are honest. Hence his powers are singularly apportioned to the consideration of a " great earnest man" like Oliver Cromwell. Other than in the above exception, the reviewer is plain-spoken and judicious. With him, as with all dispassionate students of that great epoch of the great Oliver, the man stands forth a vindicated hero—" the world-great thing" of English history. No longer now does Cromwell loom upon us through the darkness of past days, under mediums and epithets the most malign ; he stands before us the grand, solid bodiment of a man without strategies or subterfuge—a doer of large deeds—a thinker of large thoughts ; with probity of heart to back him ; a God lover and a man-lover after his rough, nervous way. The huge marble effigy of Cromwell, so to speak, had been obscured with the incrustations of inimical and false reports. In chipping off these incrustations, and displaying that huge effigy as in very truth it was at first, Carlyle has acted nobly. Though we reverence the old adage de mortuis nil nisi bonum we cannot but say that this sixth collection of the poetical re mains of Mrs. James Gray have no prodigious claims upon our estimation. Number two of the " Miscellanea Mystics," are singular eccentricities enough ; but more enthralling to us is " A Peep at the Mysteries of the Heidelberg Students:"—it is a peep worth some little trouble to obtain, and the descriptions are dashed off with agreeable sprightliness. Of the verses scattered through this number of tke Dublin University, we would fain (but for our lack of space) transcribe those entitled " Ali Pacha and Eminah," there is a nerve running through them that we like amazingly. The golden story about " The Poor Doctor," is simply done, but inculcates a moral, and is picturesque withal : so also in some measure is the concluding portion of the " Captivity and Adventures of Joseph Pitts." A saga cious glance at " Servia—Her Revolution and Present State," and a very superficial political summary on "T he Late Crisis," form limits either way of this month's number, which is, altogether, very readable, very en tertaining, and not wholly uninstructive. THE UNION. This, the second number of this new candidate for public favour, is an improvement on its predecessor. Equal to it in variety, it is superior to it in the character of its papers. The first paper—" Shall Warren Has tings have a statue?"--is a well-written, but somewhat unjustly-severe critique on the Indbin Government of that (with all his faults) great man. The writer decides that he is unworthy of a statue because he engaged in the Rohilla war; but if the being engaged in an unjust war is to be deemed a sufficient plea for depriving an otherwise great man of a statue, we fear that the whole scheme of adorning the Houses of Parliament with statues must be abandoned. All the crusaders would be BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Novelty and originality are the principal requisites in a monthly periodical, and in this particular the pre sent number of Bentley is remarkably deficient. Some eight or nine years since, when Boz was the editor of this Miscellany a biography, under the supervision of that illustrious humourist—a biography of Joe Gri maldi, appeared in two volumes, with a portrait of that great droll—as mere imagination never could have pic tured him—namely, in the sobriety of common-place apparel. Every reader of Dickens, and therefore every living creature who could at all appreciate the literature of fun, devoured that biography (much as it felt short of the general anticipation), and looked into the astounding seriousness of that portrait— possibly with the hope of detecting the lurking place of gaiety among the work ings of the " graver"—of discovering the curve of a grin on the cross-hatching of a laugh. Yet out comes Bentley for the February of 1846, with this same worn out, used-up, and most terribly hacknied likeness of Joey—actually as a newness; as though a capital idea had just struck the entrepreneur of this Miscellany with which to stagger the public with something wonderfully original. And then the impudent context of a memoir ! a kind of royal salute with a pea-shooter ! one page and a quarter of flippant audacity, filled with stale fribbles ! Really the conductor of this publication be tokens either very extraordinary carelessness or the most consummate insufficiency for the trifling duty he has to discharge: and we would recommend the proprietor to be somewhat more circumspect in his future ar rangements. "Brien O'Linn" is continued with more vivacity than heretofore, though its interest is marred by a very inferior etching by Leech, the first specimen of pictorial poverty we have yet witnessed in the sketches of that clever artist. Then follows a chapter by Robert Postans on the " Guinea Trade "—feeble, but startling, like the dim and wierd shapes that glimmer along the spectrum of a magic lantern. " Gaming, Gaming houses, and Gamesters," are severally pursued this month with the same evidences of research and perse verance on the part of the writer, whose knowledge upon his subject appears neither second-hand nor meagre. His disclosures are frequently strange, and deserve a very general perusal. Arthur Dudley obliges us with one of those prurient and ephemeral somethings, which consist principally of gauze and rose-leaves, and simpers, and mazurkas, and everything that is faintest and sick liest in the fancies of the love-sick ; things which we fondly but rashly imagined were becoming thoroughly forgotten. The particular species of composition to which we allude will be instantly comprehended when we cull the commencement of the several sections of this frivolous nullity, which is appropriately christened "The Two Bouquets." First, " The mists of evening were falling, and I was about pursuing my course homeward." Secondly, " It was a May morning ; the birds were singing from every bush and tree." Thirdly, " Under the lime-trees of the Schloss-Platz of C—, in the middle of the sweet-scented, sunny month of June." Fourthly, " The most perfectly organised orchestra imaginable was just in the middle of its execution of Strauss's immortal Schusuchcs Walzer.t" Fifthly, " I had arrived in the middle of a fine October night at V—." Sixthly, "It was one night in the middle of January, between ten and eleven o'olock," If this is not the most stilted balderdash, the words we have quoted are not in Bentley ; it is out-annualling the annuals, and out keepsaking the keepsakes. Mrs. Gore has a smart, and pa rt i t c h u e l a l r ri a I W k i h s k a s e y atrocitytDherinker— Laman-Blanchard-like p a p er on " Travelled Men ;" fealclohwuon a in his a fa mo usto lero literary territory, sanctified with the footsteps of Chris topher North, by commencing a conversational club at " Tipperary Hall ;" if he would not show his com parative littleness by walking side by side with a Co lossus, he will desist. Decidedly the two best eontri haions in this number are, first, a superb little bit of ex -t ea rafont fun by Albert Smith, called " Mr. Tonk s and h;; t (regt Christmas failure," filled with such pre pnontaneous drolleries as that of th e posterous r #n their quaint , strait dresses, who " sma ll children - 'AA have been taken up and rung looked as if they mi n , and, secondly, another libation like so many hand bells: 4.v0 of ouch actors as Mun from D. Canter, commemors. sett; the anecdote about den, and Blanchard, and Few , 1,1, Saying, however, Gattie in particular, is richly to . Q3oltth of Bentley these two exceptions, the present is extremely indifferent. FR A SE R. The present number contains several art icles of 611 Pe" rior merit, and among these we prefer " ContemporeY Orators—Sir James Graham," and " Latin Pamphleteers —Sallust." The "Principal Campaigns in the Rise of Napoleon," even though so often described arld supposed to be well understood, have furnished matter for an in teresting paper, which, chiefly from documents, and furnished by Col. Mitchell, proves that there are great exaggerations and falsehoods respecting the more strik ing events in the memoirs of Napoleon. Effect at that time was a matter of the first consequence ; it was neces sary to electrify France by the continued announcement of great deeds of arms ; and historical truth was the last consideration in framing the dispatches sent to Paris. The success and superior abilities of Bonaparte were, however, so manifest, that scarcely any one took the trouble to ascertain whether results and their causes were correctly described. As matters of history, however, these assume more importance, and require to be stated with care. Some of the exaggerations in the memoirs are certainly very glaring. For instance, it is now well known that at the battle of St. George, which ended the third act of the Italian campaign, the Austrians lost somewhat less than 12,000 men, killed, wounded, or cap tured; while the dispatches state that they lost 30.000 men, killed and wounded, and that 14,000 were driven into Mantua. This would give about 4,000 men more than the whole of the Austrian force at the commence ment of operations, and many similar instances of the same kind are given. " The Position of Ministers" is a great failure; the writer does not appear to have made up his mind on any question connected with it, if we except perhaps his resolution " never to consent to the eradication of the aristocratic principle from the English constitution, nor sanction Any measures which have a tendency in that direction." The corn-laws he seems to consider neceseary to the aristo cratic principle ; and, therefore, Fraser might as well have said, " We abjure Peel ;" ,but, nevertheless, he wavers in a most ambiguous manner, and protests that "he will take his place where truth, and honour, and good policy seem to dictate." It is rstfreshing to turn from such a subject to the beautiful and csarrect chara(- ter drawn of Sallust, and to the apt and lea•med illustra tions with which it is interspersed. The writ' er is master of his subject, familiar with the authors \ vlto have commented on this celebrated biographer; (f o r the lives of Cataline and Jugurtha are the only works of his that have survived the ravages of time, and the hands st . ' bar barians) throws in occasionally interesting rema, sks on Livy and Tacitus, as well as Herodotus, Thucydide e, and Xenophon, and draws an interesting comparison bet weep the wars carried on in Africa by the Romans, and Onsso by the French at the present time. One extract `Fill DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. The Anecdotes of Louis XVIII. are concluded in this number, and albeit the writer is evidently one of the old regime who would fain exalt Louis into a hero, yet the facts recorded by the King himself prove that he was un principled, selfish, cunning, and low• minded. In an in terview with the Emperor Alexander, at Mittau, in 1806, the Emperor said to him, " If God should prosper my arms, my chief satisfaction will be to reconduct your Majesty to France," to which Louis, who only a short time before had written to Bonaparte. " I burn with impatience to re-store peace to my people," replies, " Mine will consist in entering France under your auspices ; I hope everything from the bravery of your troops ;" and yet on his return to France in 1814, in his very first interview with Talleyrand at Compeigne, he says, " I am anxious to be rid of the Allies." In the following passage of his journal he describes his sensations on hearing of his restoration : " It were vain for me to attempt the expression of all that passed within me when my return to France was really de cided upon. I can well understand the joy which a mere citizen must experience at finding himself freed from politi cal ostracism, how far more intense, then, the feelings of an exiled and proscribed king, who reascen?s i the noblest throne in the world; my transports of joy, which the due main • tainance of my dignity compelled me to restrain, were of such a nature, that in despite of all my philosophy, I could not but fancy that a monarch must be a being of a somewhat different order from a mere mortal. In short, fur several days I was enabled to put faith in the proverbial expression, happy as a king!'" Surely such a mind was incapable of great ideas. It was the joy of a child over a new toy. Throughout his whole career he hated and feared Louis Philippe, and if that really great man steered his course in safety through the perils of the Restoration, it was not because every en deavour was not made, every intrigue was not resorted to to ensure his ruin. The interesting novel cf " The Coun tess Clemente" is continued, and Mr. Miles Gerald Keen commences a tale entitled " The Catholic Man of Letters in London," which promises to be a severe casti gation of the new generation. A certain Reginald I Rupert is the hero of the tale : "His ancestors had been Catholics ever. They flourished before Protestantism had a name, and scorned to belong to a church as ephemeral and more upstart than their own house. The mighty religion that could boast of a pedigree more an cient than theirs, cominanded the deep loyalty of their fer vent veneration, apart from other considerations of intellec tual conviction, such as are not afforded by human churches, by national churches, by whimsical couches." This passage is a curious illustration of the spirit of Catholicity. Love of aristocratical domination is per haps the real cause of many of the recent co .versions to that faith. SIMAIONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE This miscellany preserves its character with much ability, discuOng interesting matter about some of our most interesting colonies, and does it moreover in a very interesting way. St. Helena, Prince of Wales Island, Canada East and Wost, Cape Colony, and the Sandwich Islands, are severally described by gentlemen very competent for the office of narration. A tale of Australia is continued by Mr. Leigh, and the editor himself contributes to o sterling articles upon sugar, both as a natural production and as manufactured from maple. There is, however , one blemish about this num ber of the Colonial—and an intolerable blemish it is : we allude to a n onderfully silly " Suggestion for pro moting Emigration to the British Colunies," in which, fur no ostensible or earthly purpose whatever, O'Con nell, Cobden, and W. J. Fox are introduced—we had almost said lugged in neck-and•crop—with some sple netic remark about those three gentlemen " wallowing in the mire, like the sow." Mr. Campbell had better be a little more cautious in what he pens for the future, or, at the least, not parade his name with such singular documents. Otherwise the articles are well selected. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left town at ten minutes past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in a carriage and four, for Claremont. Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice were in the next carriage and four. Colonel Buckley and Colonel Wylde, the Equerries in Waiting, occupied a chariot and four, and the Marchio ness of Douro, the Earl of Morton, Mr. G. E. Anson and Colonel Bowles were in another carriage and four. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were conducted to their carriage by the Hon. Miss Paget and the Hon. Miss Kerr, Maids of Honour, the Vice-Chamberlain, Major- General Sir Henry Wheatley, Major-General Sir Frederic Stovin, and Colonel Bouverie. _ A party of Light Dragoons formed the escort from the Palace. The Royal party arrived at Claremont about half-past four o'clock, attended by an escort of Light Dragoons. _ . Tile Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay arrived at Claremont on Saturday evening. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, attended Divine service at Claremont. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort walked in Clare mont Park yesterday, both morning and afternoon. The Royal Family were taken their accustomed air ings yesterday. Colonel Wylde has relieved Colonel Bouverie in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert. Lord Glenlyon had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister, transacted busimas at the Foreign-office on Saturday. Colonel Wood, and a deputation from the coach pro prietors, including Messrs. Wheatley, Riches, Balls, Render, and Durham, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official resi dence in Downing-street. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Dispatches were received on Saturday from the Governor of New South Wales. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial Office for the Governor of New South Wales. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei mar, the Marquises of Anglesey and Winchester, Lords Cawdor, Talbot, Palmerston, G. Paulet and G. Paget, the Bishop of Ely, and Lady Palmerston, attended the daily service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. J ames ' s. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Dakins, the Les sons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Ser vice by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Bo uverie. The anthem was " 0 Lord give ear," (Greene). Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Bishop of London administered the sacrament. POLITICAL GATHERINGS. —The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons gave his first Parliamen tary dinner on Saturday last, at his residence in Eaton square. The following constituted the circle :—The Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, the Earl of Lincoln, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, Lord Granville Somerset, Earl Jermyn, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Lord-Advo cate, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the Right lion. Sir T. Fremantle, Sir G. Cockburn, the Right Hon. H. S. Corry, the Right Hon. Sir G. Clerk, the Hon. Captain Gordon, Rear-Admiral Bowles, the Right Hon. Col. Dawson Darner, the Hon. H. M. Sutton, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Cripps, the Hon. H. Fitzroy, the Right Hon. W. B. Baring, li. Greene, Mr. Young, Air. H. Baring, and Colonel Peel. The Hon. Mrs. SouthwAi, of Bellevue Villa, Bath wick Hill, who diedon the 16th inst, by her will, left the following liberal bequests:—To the Bath 'United Hospital, 2001.; to the Hospital and Infirmary, Bath, 200/. ; to the Corn- Monmouth-street Society , 2001.; to the Bath Local mitttee of the National Benevolent I nstitution, 50/. ; to the Strangers' Friend Society, in Bath, 50/. ; and to the Charit able Society, for the relief of Lying-in Women in Bath, 50/. Bath Paper MAIL TO SYDNEY DETAINED.---On Saturday a written notice, of which the fo ßowing is a copy, was poste d at the chief office in St. Martm's-le-Grand, and the several branch offices —" The mail to Sydney is detained: letters in time on the evening of Monday the 2d instant (this day). 1846." General Post-office, Jan. 31, EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDES IN THE WEST. On Thursday morning last, a high tide, unprecedented in the memory of the most aged inhabitant of the town, raised the waters of the Usk far above its banks, inundating a con siderable portion of the town and neighbourhood, presenting scenes from the churchyard of St. Woolloos, the barracks, and other elevated situations, of a romantic and alarming character. In casting the eye towards the moors, which seemed like a stupendous lake, the various farm-houses ap peared as solitary specks in the wide waste of waters. The tide was up within three inches of the top of our dock gates, exceeding by a foot the memorable spring tide which took place in March, 1842. We regret to state that the damage and loss, in various ways, have been extensive find serious. The road from Newport-bridge to Fair Oak Hill, and a part of the Chepstow-road, were impassable until the ebbing,,of the tide. The Abergavenny mail was obliged to go through the Fair Oak Common, and it was with the greatest risk and difficulty that Mr. Thome', the careful driver, was able to make his way to the main road. It is said that several families residing in the moors can only leave their dwelling in boats, and that, others are confined by the surrounding waters to the upper rooms of their houses. The swelling of the waters is attributed to the strong south-west gales, combined with the heavy land floods. As art instance of the force of the current of fresh water, we have heard that a wreck, with a buoy there on, lying at the river's mouth, in ten feet at low water, has been driven a mile further into the channel from her former position, upon which a fresh v,rack buoy has been placed by our active harbour-master, where there is only five feet at low water. D ur i ng the last fortnight, and in the heavy gal's and thick weather, a ship, at present unknown, came in contact with the beacon ou the Monkstone Rock, and carried the same away—she is supposed now to be in our port. If this should meet the eve of the master of the said vessel, it would be much wiser for him to report the same at the harbour -office than to run the risk of incurring the heavy penalty attending the concealment of the same. Such has been the fresh in the river Usk during the last week, that the flood was higher by three feet, under the Castle Mount, at Abergavenny, than has ever been known. We are also cre dibly informed that two breaches have been made in the sea ws.!l to the westward of our river, and that many serious losses have occurred in the cattle, sheep, &c., and that even the lives of individuals have been endangered in endeavour ing to save the same. ---.lllonmouthshire ' SWANSEA.—During the past week, especially on Wednes day and Thursday, this town was visited with extraordinary high tides, which, combined with the floods consequent upon the heavy and incessant rains recently experienced, have been productive of considerable injury and serious losses in some parts of the town, particularly in the vicinity of the Strand, along the banks of the river, and other low situated portions of the town. About six o'clock on Wednesday morning, near high tide time, a rather disastrous accident befel the works now in progress in our river near the Pot tery. It appears that at that time the lower of the two dams, built across the river for the purpose of preserving dry that portion of the bed lying between them to facilitate the erec tion of the bridge, gave way, owing, it is supposed, to the great pressure of water, an extensive breach was made in the part of the dam nearest the town. The rush of the torrent of water in the vacuum on the inner side of the dam (tke bed of the river between the two dams having been dried up), was tremendous. Owing to the violence and rapidity of the cur rent the brig Elizabeth, Jones, master and owner, which lay at the Swansea Coal Company's wharf, was broken from her moorings, and carried with irresistible violence through the reach. Fortunately she did not come in contact with any portion of the walling, or she would in all probability have been shattered to pieces. As it is, the stern-post has been destroyed, and the keel and other parts of the vessel partially so. It was a fortunate circumstance that the occurrence did not take place at a time the men were at work in the bed of the river. Had that been the case, loss of life would most assuredly have ensued. In a pecuniary point of view, the damage sustained is very great, while the accident will have the effect of delaying the progress of then orks for a considerable period. The ferryman at the Slip states, that be was on the west stairs waiting his turn across, when sud denly the water, which was about ten inches above the quay wall, fell two feet, to his great alarm ; this will give some notion of the greatness and suddenness of the irruption into the empty space of the bridge works. During the time of high water on Thursday morning, the Strand and lower por tion of Wind-street were completely flooded, the water in several instances being some feet deep; the cellars and ground-floors were consequently filled with water, to the complete destruction of the stock of beer and spirits in the cellars of several public-houses, as well as of stores kept in underground rooms. It would be too tedious a task to enumerate the parties who have sustained losses in these re spects. Owing to the bad state of the drainage in these parts of the town, we fear the effect of the humidity and damp re sulting from the overflowing of the water will be felt for some time to come. So high a tide has not been remembered for a long series of years.—Cambrian. CARDIFF.—On Wednesday morning last, as the London and Gloucester mail approached the Rumney-bridge, near Cardiff, the coachman, Mr. Thoroughgeod, discovered that the road was covered with water. With his usual cautious ness he attempted to drive through it, but the farther he got the deeper it became; the strong run of the tide, and the heavy flood, soon compelled the horses to swim, whilst the coach was being carried away by the current. The coachman endeavoured to keep up against it, but in vain ; for when he reached the Pengam-bridge (about half a mile distant from Rumney-bridge), the coach was gently laid on a bank on the left-hand side coming from Newport The passengers out side, a lady and gentleman, jumped off, and got safely on terra firma; those inside, five in number, got out while the coach lay on its side. Of course they got into the water. The poor horses were immersed in the flood. The coach man, guard, and a farm servant, unharnessed them as soon as possible, and got three of them up alive, but one was drowned. The coach was then righted, and they proceeded to Cardiff, after about an hour's delay. None of the passengers suffered anything more than a ducking; and no blame whatever is attributable to the driver, who is considered one of the best and most cautious whips on the road. The blame is attribu table to the turnpike commissioners, for leaving the road in such an exposed condition as to be thus inundated —Mon mouthshire Merlin. FLOODS AT LLANELLY.—Our correspondent at:Llanelly says :—" During the past week this town and neighbourhood have been visited with unusually high tides and heavy floods. Nearly the whole road from Pembrey to Loughor is com pletely inundated. A large amount of property of every de scription has been much injured, and some entirely destroyed. Half the houses in town have been flooded, while a great deal of property in warehouse,, &c., in the neighbourhood of the docks has suffered. A portion of the Llanelly Railway has been destroyed in consequence of the foundation having been washed away by the water; the consequence was that the engine and tender were overturned on the arrival of the train from Cwm Amman this (Thursday) morning. For tunately no person was hurt."—Another correspondent in forms us of the destruction of the Great Marsh embankment at Llanelly. and overflow of the marsh. He says—" This morning, between the hours of six and seven, the embank ment gave way, and in the course of an hour the whole of the marsh was covered with water. Horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, hay and corn, were carried away before the water, but fortunately the principal part of the live stock were saved. The Llanelly Railway and Dock Company are suf ferers to a great extent, the water having destroyed the line to a considerable distance. The poor cottagers re siding near the Sandy Gate were in the greatest danger of their lives, and with great difficulty were extri cated from their perilous situation, the water being up to to the eves of the houses; all their pigs were drowned. The farmers generally are great sufferers. Mr. Francis M,Kier nin, inn-keeper, and Mr. Richard Jones, butcher, may be considered about the greatest. The tram-road from the Pool Colliery to Pembrey is entirely destroyed. The land now from the New Docks to Loughor presents one sheet of water, with only the tops of tile hedges in sight. lam glad to say that up to the present moment (four o'clock r.sr.), no persons are missing. The houses near the copper-works have their cellars full. Such an occurrence has not taken plate since the burgesses of Llannelly erected the embankment." Cambrian. HIGHBRIDGE. — We have been visited with an extraordi nary high tide this morning (28th inst. ) The tide washed down part of the sea-wall at Burnham, and flowed over the sea• wall at High Peel, inundating nearly the whole of that neighbourhood, and doing considerable damage to the High bridge Inn, where the water was from three to four feet deep in the house ' stables, andwhole of the premises; it also washed down a wall forty y ards long and ten feet high. Nearly all the houses in the Tillage were under water, the inhabi tants being obliged to retire up stairs. The water was so deep on the Burnham-road, that Batson's coach was carried into the river, the coachman and four passengers narrowly escaping being drowned. We understand that one farmer, of Brean, had upwards of a hundred sheep drowned, and we fear many more losses have been sustained.— Somerset County Gazette. BARNSTAPLE.—On Wednesday morning the inhabitants residing near the square and quays were aroused from their sleep by an inundation. Several houses having underground cellars and kitchens were filled to the ceiling. Mr. Symons, grocer, has had groceries to the amount of 1001. completely spoiled ; the turnpike roads leadi n g from this town to Bide ford, Southmolton, and Ilfracombe, were three or four feet deep with water ; the two beautiful banks which grace the bridge were invisible — large bo ats were paddling from the square to the quays—the rails around the s q u a re were covered._ There has not been an inundation li ke this in Barnstaple for thirty years. We should think the damage done, together with the great loss of cattle in the fields adjacent, will ex ceed 300/. or 400/. The houses at Newport shared a similar fate. The destruction of property was very great. The turnpike road leading to Bideford is totally immersed, and all communication with this town is stopped until the water disappears.— Western Times. CIRNARVON.—On Thursday last one of the highest tides occurred at this port within the memory of the oldest inha bitant. The quays were inundated, and the railway near the machine house, was entirely covered, so that the ship wrights, and others in the neighbourhood were obliged to suspend their labours. The orchard at Pont Seiont and the Morfa were also covered with water. We believe no damag e of any importance has been sustained.--Caen Herald. (PROM A CORRESPONDEN T . COWBRIDGE, JAN. 81.—Th e most extraordinary high tide that has occurred for many years came up the Bristol Channel this week, cau s i ng great devastation on the Welsh coast; in some places the inhabitants had to leave their houses with the greatest precipitancy. We have .' experienced throughout South Wales i ncessant heavy rai ns, and great fears are now entertained as to the inset crops. The Wheat looks, in some places, too proud; and, generally speaking, I expect a failure. To be sure, there is not mud; wheat sown, the late harvest and constant rains having kept the farmer in doors. Should there come, which I think we may fully expect, some severe frost about March and April, I cannot imagine even the consequence; the ground being so fully saturated will be completely iron-bound, putting all wheat (spring sowing) out of the question. I am a friend to farming, but I hesitate not in saying that an alteration of the corn-laws is positively requisite, and I feel convinced that a free trade will not so injure us as supposed. At first it may appear so, but the event will dis prove it. A melancholy accident occurred near Cardiff last Sunday. Two women were returning from a chapel where they had been attending, and having to pass over a bridge, they missed their way, and went into the water. Both were drowned ; one of them was Wiwi. A large quantity of wreck has come ashore at different points, the remnants of the unfortunate vessels lost in the late gales. The weather is still very boisterous and stormy in the Channel. SIR R. PEEL'S NEW TARIFF.—On Saturday evening a meeting of the broad silk hand-loom weavers in Spital fields, was held at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo-town , Bethnal-green. The speakers were unanimous in declaring that the new propositions of Sir Robert Peel, with regard t to silk, would ruin their trade. The result was a the effect that the trade generally should be that titions to a strong opposition should be organised, tlonnd pr e a h protection apperapeeied to, that Parliament against the proposed relaxstiign ed, presented, kc. to the silk trade, should be prepared , • in a.farm- A horrible crime has just b near Tourney, where three house on the Belgian frontier , Two gensdarmes, who were persons have been assa heard the cries of the victims, attacked passing at the time, the robbers, eig ht in num ber, killed several, and m a d e t h e rest prisoners. —French Paper. COMPENSATION to LANDOWNERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The general principles of public justice being the same in all countries, it ought to follow that the proportion of national taxation borne by each class of society should be pretty equal among the various nations of Europe. When, therefore, we have landowners complaining at country meet ings that their land is unduly taxed, it becomes necessary to ascertain how the fact really stands, by making a comparison with other countries. For instance, the land-tax of France is stated by M. Hamann, M. Dupin, &c., at 14,000,000/. sterling, which (the total revenue of that country being usually about 50,000,0000 is 28 per cent. of the whole, and it has since been increased. Mr. M'Gregor states the land tax of Austria to be 87 millions of florins, and the total re venue 164 millions of florins, so that the land-tax exceeds 53 per cent. of the whole. Mr. M'Gregor also states the land tax of rrussia to be 26,630,000 thalers, and the total revenue 51,740,000 thalers, so that the land-tax exceeds 51 per cent. of the national income. Again, the total revenue of Sweden amounted in 1827 to 19,465,970 rix dollars, of which 12,622,621, or 65 per cent., was derived from the tax on land. It seems, therefore, unnecessary to give further examples, and Mr. M'Gregor, in speaking generally on the subject, says:--" The landed interests of France, Flanders, Holland, all Germany, and all Italy, pay at least one-half of the na tional taxation:by a direct tax upon land." In turning from these countries to Great Britain, we find the land-tax amounting to 1,192,6351., or, including the proportion that has been redeemed, to about 2,000,600/. sterling, out of a total revenue of 50,000,0001., which is only 4 per cent. of the hale. . The land-tax of Great Britain having been originally a commutation of the feudal rights of the Crown, at the rate of 4s. in the pound of real rent, should at the present moment have amounted to above 14,000,0001., as in France, had the country been justly governed. Not only have English landlords thus evaded the amount of land-tax equitably due to the State, but they have fur ther exempted themselves from any tax on the descent of real property, such as all other descriptions pay, which tax on the descent of land amounts in France to about a year's rental of the estate, and in this country ought to produce several millions a year to the Exchequer. Further, these our legislators have exempted farmers from many taxes which are paid by all other classes, which is, in other words, to put so much additional rent into he pocket of the land owner, and thus further enrich the already richest class of society. No such' exemptions in favour of a class exist in any coun try of Europe except our own. It is only to enrich the land owner that farmers' dogs, farmers' fire insurance, and drain ing-tiles are exempted from duty, and other exemptions too tedious to enumerate, while the poorest tradesman in every town has to pay a tax on all these things. Even the heart of a toll-bar-keeper melts into liberality at the sight of a farmer's lime-cart, while the poor tradesman's must pay toll to the uttermost farthing. Now, however, that the corn-laws approach their termina tion, a more unreasonable outcry than even that of protection has been raised in shape of a demand for compensation, inso much that it has been proposed that the expense of making roads through noblemen's estates, supposing them poor, and prosecuting poachers on their game-preserves, should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, or, in other words, by the public at large. It is more than questionable whether the persons who ad vocate compensation in their favour are prepared, on the even• handed principle of justice, likewise to throw the paving rates, the poor-rates, and police-rates, of every . town in the empire on the Consolidated Fund, without which condition their favourite proposal would be a public robbery; for the foregoing facts sufficiently prove that, instead of being even taxed, the land and landowners pay too little to the Ex chequer by about twenty millions a year. If the word compensation is to be dragged at all into the approaching settlement of the corn-law question, it ought certainly to be a compensation of the public for the wrongs already inflicted on them for the sole and doubtful benefit of a class; and it would be worthy of the proposed philan thropy of " Young England " to propose that every labour ing man in the kingdom, who has attained middle age, and brought up a family, should be compensated by , a grant of garden-ground, rent free, to be taken from the large estates. Every farmer knows that his business has been a very hazardous one under the present corn-law, and the agricul tural labourers of Wiltshire, who lately met, sufficiently pro claimed to the world that under the law of protection they have been reduced to the lowest point of human destitution. Yet these are the parties for whose benefit the corn-law is professed to have been made. In a densely peopled country such as England, agricul - tural produce will always (unfortunately for the people) be at least twenty per ce n t. d earer t h an on the Continent, that being the average expense attending importation; and as no corn-law ever has, or ever can, raise the price of labour, our working classes will always be under that amount of dis advantage as compared with those abroad. Free trade might, however, by raising the general condi tion of the British people, create for the landowners some additional consumers of wheat and animal food—millions at present existing, mere especially in Ireland, chiefly on potatoes. The childish and oft-repeated assertions of the monopolists as respects dependence upon foreigners, and land going out of cultivation, scarcely require, at the present stage of the argument, serious contradiction ; for the sooner that all nations are dependent on each other for the comforts and eonvenietices of life, the sooner will the reign of peace and good-will commence among men. In 1815, 80s. was de clared to be the lowest price at which wheat could be culti vated in this country, yet the best wheat has two or three times since that period been as low as 401. per quarter, or even less, without there having been a single acre less land under cultivation, but greatly the contrarv.—l am, Sir, &c. A LOVER. OF JUSTICE. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LEEDS, JAN. 31. STooit EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Croydon, 22%-- Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 1154 p.—Ditto, Extensions, 4% p.-31Idland, 149 ex d.—York and North 3lidland,Extension (East and West Riding), 8N p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 934 —Ditto, Extensions, 10s. p.—Huddersfleld and Manchester, 73 p.—Leeds and Bradford, 52 rush Leeds and Thirsk, 10 cash—Ditto, New Shares, Is. dis.— Lancaster and Carlisle, New Shares, 10—North British, New, 7 Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 21. 18s.—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 1534 —London and York, 4% —Sheffield and Lincoln, 3N —Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 21. 11s. 6d.—Direct Northern, Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4 % —West Riding Union, 6 —Clitheroe Junction, 2%—Essex and Suffolk, ss. dig-- Grand Union, 2s. 6d.p.— Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 2s. 6d. p. —Leeds and York, 10s. dig.— Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 6d. p.— North Western, 21. 6s. tid. —South Midlands, 234 p. HULL, JAN. 31, STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-North British, Dalkeith, 2/. 18s. 9d.-Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, &c., -Axholme, 2% - Grand Union, 325. -Great North and South Wales and Worces ter, 13s. dis.-Hull and BarnSleyJ unction, 335.-Leicester and Tani worth, 3-Lincoln and Waindeet, 245. 6d.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston', 4 -London and York, 4t -Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 4-Tean and Dove Valley, 21s. SHEFFIELD, JAN. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales ar e —Grimsby and Sheffield Exten sion, 21. 12s.—Leeds and Bradford, 52—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, ls%—North Western, 2/. 6s.— Sheffield and Lin colnshire Extension, 2%—South Midland, 4/. 14s.—South Yorkshire Coal Railway, 2%—West Riding Union, 6. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 31. STOCK Exciusios.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 31s. p.— Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 1 p. - Midland, New 401. Shares, 16 p.—North British, Halves (tiawick), 3 p.—Ditto (Carlisle), 31s. 3d. p. YORK, N. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The ,sales are—Newcastle and Darlington, Extensions, 10—York and North Midland, New (East and West Riding), i6—Neweistie and Berwick, 21%—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 21. 19s.—London and York, 41. 7s.—Grand Union, 11. 13s. 6d.—Leicester and Bedford, 11. 11s. 6d.—Welsh Midland, 2. BRISTOt., JAN. 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 85—Bristol and South Wales Junction, 2 3-16—Caledonian, 15—Ditto, New. 4/. Is. 3d.—Midland, New, 29. EDINBURGH, JAN.3O. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 51. 10s.—Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 11. 12s. —Airdrie and Bathgate, 21. lbs.—Arbroata and Forfar, 271.—Ditto, Half Shares, 161.—Armagh and Portrush, 11. 15s.—Ayr and Dumfries, 21. 25.. —Ayr and Galloway, 11. 12s. Gd -Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir, 21.-Banffshire, 11. 10s.-Belfast and County Down, 3/.-British and Irish Union, 31. Ss.-Caledo nian, ex now, 141. IN.-Ditto, New, 31. 12x.-Caledonian Extension, 21. 12s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31.-Caledonian aid North ern Direct, 21. 10s.-Camwath and West Linton, 11. 135.-Chelms ford and Bury, 11. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 201.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 21. -Deeside Railway, 41. 10s.-Direct Northern, 21. 45.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 41. 7s. 6d.-Dundee ant Arbroath, 401.-Ditto, New, 211. 55.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, 21. 12s. 6d. - Dundee and Perth, 141. - Ditto, Kinross Extension, 21. 105-East Coast of Scetland, 21. 1296-East India Railway, 11. 65.-East of Fife, 11. 198.- East Lothian Central and Tyne Val . l . ey Junction, 21. 3s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, ex news, 21. 18 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 761.-Ditto, Half Shares, 16L 55. - Ditto, Glasgow, Quarters, 181.10x.-Ditto, ditto, New, 13 1 . 10x.-Ed inb urgh , and Dumbarton. 16s. -Edinburgh 11. IN.-Edinburgh. -Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric Direct, e, c 207.. -Edinburgh Leith, and Granton, 20/.-Ditto , re j. 11. 1 s.-Ditto, Lochgelly, and Northern, 6/. 25 .-Ditto, Newport, and Leith Atmospheric, 11. 29. Edinburgh and Perth, 3/. ss. h 11 13s. 6d.-Forth anal and Musselburg , • -Edinburgh, Portobello, and Ayrshire, '73/. 10s.-Ditto, New 21. 4s. -Glasgow 11. N. -Edinburgh and Peebles, Clyde Junction, shares, 181. 10s.-Glasgow Belfast Union, Stock, 461.-Ditto, Quar ter , 11. 1 sm.- Dunifile as s ' gow and Garnkirk, 421.-Glasgow and and Carlisle, 21. 65.-Glasgow and Dun- New Stock, 101.-Ditto, X 58.- Glasgow, Preference, 11. 17a, w,2L an i d 3s lr . drossan, 6d. -Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 1/. 185.-GlitSgow Harbour (d2;elleeBej:ll:+l,laS°l"g°9:2-1.D21 tSt.O-, 25 .- Glasgow e 2 . 1. , -- an GlrgiD e w s ;na h a Kilmarnock, go -Granton Junction, 21.- Great County Down, 2/. 10s.-Great North of Scotland, 31. as.- Great North and South Wales, Bs. 6 d. - Inverness and Elgin, U. 10s. S i lr h a le th ra a l ; -Lanark and Galloway, 21 . -Lanark and Lothians, 21. 12s. 6d.- Lame and Ballymena, 21. 2 5. - London and Hounslow, N. - London and Manchester (Rastrick), 41. %ft.-London and Manchester (Rem.), 2/. 55. -Loudon and Windsor, 11.-London and York, 4/. IN.-Mid land and Eastern Counties, 11. 17s. Gel -Morayshire, 11.-Newcastle and Berwick, 221.-Newry and Londonderry, 11. 175.-North British, 2 5 1.-Ditto, Halves, 71.10 s-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 21. 17s. 6d. -Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 61. 55.-North Wales, Mineral, New, 51. IN.-Perth and Crieff Direct, 11. 145.-Perth and In verness, 1/. IN.-Scottish Central, 151.-Ditto, New, 81. 511.- Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 21. lg.-Scottish Grand Junction, 21.-Scottish Midland, 6/. -Scottish North Western, 11 . 1 7 x-Scottish South Midland, 21. 6s. 6d.-Scottish Southern, 11.18 s. - Shrewsbury and Hereford, 18s. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 41. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, New, H. 45.-South Midland, 31. 155.- Stirling and Dunfermline, 21. 10s. 6d.—Stirling and Midland, 21. 17s. 6d.—Strathern Junction, 2/. 15s.—Surrey Grand4unction, 11.—Teati and Dove Valley, 11. 3s. 6d.—Wishaw and Coltness, 51/. GLASGOW, JAN. 31. _ _ _ Sroot Excummx.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bathgate, 475. Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 40s. —British and Irish Union, 635. Caledonian, 144 —Ditto, New, 74s.—Caledonian Extension, 535. East DOW' Railway, 265. 6d.—Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbar ton, 16—Edinburgh and Northern, 6—Glasgow General Terminus!, 11—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, New, 27 Glasgow, DumMes. and Carlisle, 425. U.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 525. 6d. —Great North and South Wales, Bs. 6d.—Perth and Inverness, 335. —Scottish Central, New, B—Scottish Southern, 375. 6 d.—Soottish North Western, 375. —Scottish South Midland Junction, 48s. 6d.— South Midland, 37i —Stirling and Dunfermline, 445. 6d.—Wishaw and Coltness, 504. WARNING TO RAILWAY ENGINE-DRIVERS:ThOIIIIIS Blackburn, an engine-driver in the employ of the Eastern Counties Railway, was on Saturday fined 51. for neglect of duty, in having, on the . previeus Saturday, left a part of a luggage train on the main line, whereby a most fearful col lision had been caused. RETURN OF A FREE-TRADE CANDIDATE FOR LICHFIELD.—On Saturday the Hon. Edward Lloyd Mostyn was elected Member for Lichfield, in the room of Lord Leveson, now Earl Granville. Mr. Mostyn, who, alth ou g h little expected a large ' landed proprietor, is a staunch free trader, e turning thanks to the electors, said that Sir Robert Peel would have proposed a m sane he the principle comprehensive, and , that he cordially PP 8" s :erceived with loud so vast and of the measure. This announcement ws cheering. EscAr m OF THE MILLER. FALL OF • MlLL.—NdAeßßrbrpost-mill was blown down b y —On Monday week, the miller, who was at work the violence of the .i wind' a crash, went towards the door to within at the time, Loa s. b before he could do so the floor gave make his escape. b ut co mpletely over, and he was buried un derneathwa ; lie was am t , " d r various sacks filled with wheat and flour— strange it v howr ' s a n ed w ithout by tdhoei nfgallh,ibmutthsoeosnlirgeheotevsetriedn-, to sa. and at length o r e l a it i i i r t e i i c o a n te e d o fhtihmeself wheatfro msachki awkward,th e reby position allowing g to run out, and creeping through the aperture. The t by cutting damage done to the mill (which belongs to Mr. R. Mitchell) and its contents is estimated at 300 L —Leicester Chronicle. WAKEFIELD, PAID/CF.—The arrival of wheat to this day's market is only moderate, and we experience a fair de-. mend at the rates of last week. Barley is in good supply, but the quality is in general very inferior; the best sorts obtain fully last week's rates, but the common qualities are nearly unsaleable. In beans, oats, and shelling no alteration. The Hon. G. P. S. Smythe entered on his duties as Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, in the room of Viscount Canning, on Wednesday last. 11