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EVEN ING EDITION. LONDON: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, li4l. The. Revenue accounts, which are made up this evenini, will show, we believe, a favourable comparison with the corresponding quarter of last year. We are unable to give any particulars. Some of our Contemporaries exult very much rt the extinction of Chartism, and the quietness o f the people. If such were the fact, and we have before us evidence in Chartist meetings and publications that it is not, we shou!d regard it as more significant of ruin than pros paity. The worst state of the public mind is political apathy, It is generally followed by social atrophy, and is a disease much more to be dreaded than political discontent. Down-trodden as are the bu'k of the people, living under laws made only to scourge, and rarely or never to protect thcm, plun• tiered on all hands in the name of th e l aw by th o s e who pretend to be their friends and benefactors, made to bear all the evils of society, and denied trauA of its advantages, if they were to be continu ous), passive and contented under such injustice they would consecrate the system by their sanction, give it permanent life, and ensure at no distant day the decay of the empire. The results of political agitation and political apathy, as we may trace them in time United States and in Italy, are worth a moment's attention, ja reference to the contradictory views tic have just stated. In the United States an e l ect i on h a , just come t o an end, which has roused into activity every full-grown man in the empire. The people, we are told, have toiled as if their salvation de pended on the issue. They have called each other all manner of hard names, and have worked them selves up to a pitch of v . o'ence amountin g a h nost to &frenzy. : Nu doubt, n their eagerness, they have abused and calumniate I each other in a very manner, most offen s iv e t o d i awing . unneio hbourly room patriots. The ordinary and customary what our 'Tories call the can method of vilifying, naille, or the mob, or g reas y artisans, is in the United States somewhat changed, and there being uo canaille or mob in that country, the Bil lingsgate of party is promiscuously and generally shared. In Enrope the upper classes, and the press of the upper classes, have long had, except under temporary ebullitions of popular feeling, a monopoly of this kind of languag e , and the bulk of the people, degraded into slavery, have also been contumeliously taunted with their misery. In the United States this monopoly is destroyed. There general equality diffuses pretty equally even the power of abuse, and some of that insulting lan guage is now and then addressed to the upper classes, which in Europe is reserved for the poor, and almost exclusively applied to them. Now this may be very grating to aristocratic feelings, but what in America is the concomitant, or the result ? The society is unexampledly prosperous and unex ampledly tranquil. Never before in the world — never through the whole extent of the history of man—if we except China, with the internal history of which we are not well acquainted —were there so many as from four to.fourteen millions of human beings in the same neighbourhood, who, for so long a period as the inhabitants of the United States, since their r evolutionary war, have lived to gether in concord without worrying each other, or worrying their neighbours. We do not forge t the war they were obliged to carry on against Great Britain, we do not overlook the irruption of a portion of them into Texas, nor their en croachments on the Indians ; but taking these into consideration we affirm, as the prosperity of the United States has been unexampled, so have been their internal tranquillity and external peace. That is the accompaniment, if not the result of political agitation. In the States of the Church, to take the example of the most quiet people of Italy, and a people completely controlled, as some amongst us wish our people to be, by a Puseyite priestho.)d and an arrogant aristocracy, there has heathy been any political agitation amongst them since the days of It lENZI. The French Revo lution roused them for a little while, but it was only to make them sleep afterwards the more soundly. Their fields are accordingly like those of a slothful man. The Government is undisturbed, the country is neglected. Population makes no progress, agri culture no improvement. Navigation is almost un• heard of, though a sea-coast and navigable rivers be!ong to the Papal States. The only arts which flourish are sculpture, painting, music, architecture, and others of the same kind, which contribute to the enjoyments of the opulent or the purposes of devotion. But even these seem now to fail and fade, wanting that healthy support which is derived from an increasing and prosperous population. The people are civil and obsequious, all that ouraristocracy wish to make our people. They are a nation of servile artists and valets. Foreigners are received with smiles and bows, and their money and their custom are eagerly sought after. With an abundance of smoothness, civility, and courtesy, neither pro perty nor life is particularly safe. Assassination is not unfrequent, and banditti flourish in companies, making the roads unsafe, and setting the law at de fiance. Gentlemen and ladies are carried cff to the mountains, and must be ransomed ; vehicles are are stopped and plundered on the highways, and travellers are obliged to fight for their property and their lives. If the active virtues slumber, villany seems always awake. Such are the results of a priestly paternal government, and of the people being in a state of political apathy. Is this the condition which our political writers, enamoured of political quietness, wish for England?? If the spirit of political agitation be not kept alive, and the tyranny of the aristocracy and the priesthood be permanently successful here as in the Papal States, to that we shall come. Al ready there are numerous classes who prefer ease to freedom. Our youth are growing up like Italian boys, delighting in cigars, theatres, and music. The arts, which mark a nation's decay rather than its prosperity, sculpture, painting, architecture, are successfully cultivated. Obsequiousness is recom mended, and rough, but honest language, such as I prevails in the United States, is stigmatized as the greatest vice. While cupidity and Atheism pre vail amongst our upper classes as in Italy, here, as gion is assumed, and everything approaching to free public discussion, is put down by pro secutions as blasphemous libels, or by the intol erance of the hypocrites. If our Government pur sue the same course as that of the Papal States, were it to be successful, and were our lovers of quiet, and the bayonet to attain their wishes, and put an end to all political agitation, what could be expected for England but the fate of the Papal States? The ancient mistress of the world now owes much of her remaining and little prosperity, much of her mo dern glitter to the annual visits of Germans, French, and English, to study and admire the memorials of her former greatness. Far off be the time when in like manner the inhabitants of the United States shall repair to London chiefly to study and admire, if there be then anything left here for admiration, the monuments of our departed greatness. But that time will come for our descendants, as it has come for Rome, if our present system of ruthless oppres sion and ruthless plunder of industry in the honoured names of law, government, and religion, shall be consecrated and preserved by the perfect submis sion of the oppressed. Our news yesterday from Walsall was good. Mr. G. SMITH, the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-law League, stands on the Liberal interest with every prospect of success. Notwithstanding the tem porary alienation which may be caused in some of Mr. LYTTELTON'S friends by his retirement, there is not a single elector of Walsall favourable to the Liberal cause, which includes a repeal of the Corn laws, who will not labour with all his heart and all his soul to secure Mr. SMITH'S return. Nor will there he wanting on the part of the League any exer tion wh'cli can lead to succesF. A great cause is at issue, the cause of freedom, for he is surely a slave who cannot buy his bread where he pleases, —the cause of honesty, for surely it is dishonest in the owners of the soil, already secured an ample maintenance without toil, most greedily to add to their wealth by taxing the food of the poor, and the cause of our country, the peace of which is endan gered by the continuance of such unrighteous legis laiion. If any elector, in ignorance of what is at stake, have been beguiled into promising his vote to the immoral, iniquitous advocate of the bread tax, the duty he owes to his kindred and country men, the duty he owes to justice and to GoD, com mands him to withdraw such a promise and vote for Mr. G. SMITH. This is not an ordinary contest between two individuals ; it is a contest between the principle of right and wrong, of light and darkness, of good and evil, and every honest man is bound not only to vote, bt,t to exert himself to the utmost to put down the wrong, in the person of Mr. GLAD STONE, and support the right in the person of Mr. SmITII. Walsall will become a bye-word throughout the whole of the manufacturing districts if it elect a Corn-law advocate. The word Renegade will Le banished from our tongue, and the word Wal sailer substituted for it. " Base as a Walsaller" will be, a proverb, if the borouQ,li now sells the cause of honesty, of justice, and of the people to the bread-taxing Tories. Mr. GLADSTONE and his connections, the vast gains of his family by slavery, the enormous tax they levy annually on the people by the dis criminating duties on sugar, their attempt to revive slavery in tie persons of the Hill Coolies, must be well known at Walsall, and to Mr. GLADSTONE's opponents. They, we are assured, will not allow him to pass himself off on the borough for any thing but what he is. Th e ~LADSTONES are amongst those persons for whose behoof at this moment more than 2d. is levied on every pound of sugar the people consume. The planters and the landowners have a common interest, and make common cause; and no person can be surprised that a GLADSTONE is the patron of slavery at home, slavery abroad, and plunder, by means of law, everywhere. In rejecting Mr. GLADSTONE the electors of Walsall will give a heavy blow to the tax on sugar, levied for the benefit of the Deme rara and other planters, as well as to the accursed , tax on the bread of the nation. A report prevails that Lord HILL is to retire from the Horse Guards. We are not surprised at this, because the conduct of the Noble Lord in the case of the Earl of CARDIGAN, has made his retirement a matter of necessity. Though we have recorded the instances which have latterly come to light of the Noble Earl's conduct, we thought it wholly improper to make any remarks on them, because Lord HILL and the Horse Guards had fully justified all the proceedings of the Noble Earl, and taken all his delinquencies on them selves. The Horse Guards encouraged back-biting. The Horse Guards approved of a Colonel issuing public orders to prevent his officers writing to him on private affairs. The Horse Guards eagerly seized hold of the slight indiscretion such tyranny hurried a younger officer into, organized a Court-partial, and so dismissed him the service. For the honuur and for the future good discipline of the army— that gentlemen may feel even commonly at their ease, and safe from insidious, unmanly, misrepresen tations—it is necessary that those who have approved of Lord CARDIGAN'S conduct should retire from the Government of the army. For Lord HILL, as a brave and good officer, w►►o while in command of a portion of the army, was universally beloved, we entertain a very high respect; but as the Commander-in-Chief he seems not to have followed the dictates of his own good heart and solid understanding. He has acted as if he were not independent. By meaner and much less worthy men he has apparently been made the in strument for corrupting the army to aristocratic pur poses. The same baneful influence which has predo minatedin the Legislature, has cast its cold shade over the military, and the honoured name of Lord HILL has been the screen by which all popular rays have been intercepted. It is no longer consistent with our manners and ways of thinking, to have the aristocracy usurping all honour, and moulding all our establishments to its views. The army is paid by the whole nation for the common defence, and it must not be converted, by such appointments as that of Lord CARDIGAN, after he had been dis missed, and by such deference to his arbitary pi o ceedings as the Horse Guards have exhibited, into a mere plaything or pension giver for the aristo cracy. Lord HILL has lent his name to that vicious system, till the abuses have become flagrant, and therefore the report prevails that Lo►d HILL is about to retire. We direct the attention of our Protestant readers to a letter, signed "An Anglo-Catholic." It is written by a clergyman of the Established Church, who candidly admits himself to be a Puseyite, subscribes to " Bishop Sparrow's Rationale," from which, on Tuesday, we gave lengthened extracts, and who, as far as we can judge, is as staunch a Roman Catholic as DANIEL O'CONNELL, or the POPE himself. We neither nickname nor revile our Correspondent, or any one of the sect, for his conscientious belief ; we have no wish to convert him, and least of all to persecute him, for any doctrine he may entertain ; but we must be per mitted to enter our protest against the. conduct of those Churchmen who hold livings from which Ro man Catholics were ejected on account of their faith, and who at the same time profess the same faith under a different name. Between Puseyism and Popery there is but a stop, and the Oxford ward to the day when they shall make that step, and be received into the bosom of the HOLY FATHER. Two paragraphs in the letter convey unexpected and joyful information. The Puseyites, it appears, contemplate the expediency of separating themselves from the State, and the prac tice of pastoral visiting has become common among the clergy of the Established Church. The latter circumstance is quite new to us, for though we were aware that a certain portion attended to thei r duties, we know, like our Correspondent, from ex tensive observation, that a vast proportion of the English Clergy were more occupied in fox-hunting, in canvassing at elections, in performing the duties of laymen at the Quarter Sessions, and in making violent political harangues at public dinners, than in attending to the great duties to which they were appointed—visiting the sick and the dying, and mi nistering to the wants of the needy and distressed. The former circumstance, also, has something of no velty in it, and when accomplished, but not till then, we will give credit to the new sect for disinterested motives and sincere religious feelings. The candour and kindly feelings with which our Correspondent writes convince us that he is in earnest, but hisopen defence of the new sect only adds to our conviction, from other circumstances, that the Protestant faith is in imminent danger, and that unless her MA JESTY, as Head of the Church, or the Houses of Parliament interfere, the English Church will shortly be brought into the dominion of the POPE and his intriguing and worldly-minded Cardinals Mr. O'CONNELL, in the name of the Repeal Association, has addressed a long and carefully written letter to Lord CHARLEMONT, in reply to 3 communication lately made by his Lordship to the Repealers, wherein he expressed himself hostile to their favourite panacea for all Irish grievances. In this letter Mr. O'CONNELL has done little more than repeat the various arguments which he has urged from titne to time in favour of Repeal, and which in substance amount to just this—first, that the " masses iu England," if not decidedly inimical, are at any rate indifferent, to the interests of Ire land, and that were the case even otherwise, still they have no power to befriend her ; secondly, that the majority in the House of Commons which professes to be well disposed towards her, "is exceedingly restricted," and upon the important question of STANLEY'S Bill, " has been repeatedly against her ;" and thirdly, that the " Anti-Irish enmity in the House of Lords is perfectly trium phant, nor is there the slightest hope of diminish ing or mitigating that hatred." These are the chief points of interest in Mr. O'CONNELL'S let ter. As for the other matters of which he treats, we may dismiss them without a word, for they re fer in part to the proceedings of the last Irish Par liament, for which the great majority of our readers care little or nothing ; and in part, to the " com mercial advantages" which would ensue to Ireland from Repeal—a theme which it will be quite time enough to discuss, when there exists the slightest probability that that measure will become the law of the land. ! , With regard to Mr. ()TON NELL's first hypo thesis—namely, that the English masses are indif ferent to the interests of Ireland, we again repeat, what we have of,en told him, that such is not the case. There may be a noisy body of political fanatics who are so—men of but one idea, and that a wrong ono, who can think, speak of, look for ward to, nothi n g but the realization of their own engrossing crotchet ; but the sound, intelligent majority of the People take unquestionably a warm interest in the welfare of Ireland. 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In deed, so far are the masses of the English people from being lukewarm in the cause of Ireland, that we agree with Mrs. HALL—who has lately had many opportunities of forming a sound judgment on this subject—that for the last three or four years nothing has been more remarkable than the rapid growth of kindly feelings between the two countries. The mutual prejudices so long fostered for their own selfish party purposes by the Tories, have, one by one, given way ; ar.d we no loupe? hold the scandalous doctrine, that Ireland is ate weakness of England ; but nobly and justly regard her as our strength—our pride —one of our main pillars of Reform. Mr. O'CONNELL ►s right when he asserts that the '' English masses" are compa ratively weak ! but does lie suppose that they are weak only as regards Ireland, and quite strott! enough to protect their own immediate interes's Not a bit of it. They are weak alike for the it) terests of both countries, and can scarcer•, there fore, be blamed for not doing that for Ireland, i,vlielt they are tillable to do for England. To the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's two, remaining Repeal auguments, that little is to he expected from the Commons, and absolutely no thing from the Lords, our answer is Insist on justice to Ireland in the only way, and by the only means that justice can be obtained for her ;—that is to say, by recommending diligen! attention to the registrations ; by explaining anti popularizing—if we may venture to use such a term--..the true principles of good Government ; and exerting whatever influence you may possess to crush Tory ism under whatever mask this political Proteus may choose to exhibit itself. In a word, devote to ra tional, substantial, practical Reform, the energies you are frittering away on that vague chimaera, Repeal; and we will answer for it that the majority of Ire land's well wishers in the Commons will gradually but surely increase ; and, as a necessary consequence, her enemies in the Lords diminish, both in point of number and virulence." Such is our reply to Mr. O'CoNNELL's two chief arguments ; but if instead of acting in this spirit, he still continues to agitate Repeal, he will be so far from strengthen ing the cause of Ireland, that he will be inflict ing on her injury in exact proportion to the converts he makes ; for that which is now a mere phantom, will then become a substance, too feeble, it is true, to occasion any very profound appre. hension, but quite strong enough to scare away from her side those who at present have every dis position to insist on an ample measure of justice being meted out to the sister country. Madrid journals, to the 526th ult., have arrived. The English Ambassador had prevailed upon Es- PARTERO to give up all thoughts of invading Por tugal. Spain was tranquil. The French Journals of Sunday have all reached us. The Moniteur of that date publishes several New Year's Day Addresses to the KING, for which space was wanting in its official columns of the previous day. They are, however, from learned societies, judicial bodies, and local corporations, and therefore of no European interest, inasmuch as they touch neither upon foreign nor domestic politics. The Journals under the influence of M. THIERS and his supporters, are indignant at the pacific language in which the KING responded to the Ad dresses of the Chambers and the diplomatic body. What is to every friend of humanity in Europe a source of the highest pleasure, is to them gall ar.d wormwood. They estimate the greatness and glory among the human race, but by what misery she can inflict upon them. Their trophies, like those which formerly embellished the capital of Persia, must he made of the skulls of those whom the) choose to regard as their enemies. Higher and holier is the mission of a great civilised nation like France. In the eyes of wise men the trophies of war are but so many records of human wretched ness and human guilt. It is in the spread of edu cation—in the progress of the arts and sciences, which conduce to the elevation 'of the human mind and the comfort of hurninjlife—in the disappearance of poverty and the vices which it engenders in conjunction with n orance—i n the cultivatio n of sentiments of peace and good-will among men, that we can only discover the true greatness which covers a nation with glory. Besides, as was well observed by the KING in addressing the Deputies, France has no need to add to her military trophies. She has had blood enough upon her hands to make her sufficiently an object of terror to her weaker neigh bours. Any supineness which she may now appear to exhibit, will certainly never be attributed to fear. Her fame for prowess and for chivalrous courage is too firmly established ever to he shaken; and we know no weakness which she exhibits more contemptible in itself than her constant anxiety to find in every trifling forgetfulness of claims flattering to her vanity, a pretext for parading an ability to do mis chief which nobody ever thought of disputing. But we happily find in the patriotic sentiments of the KING, and in the enthusiasm with which the deputations of the Chambers heard those senti ments, powerful guarantees for the continuance of European tranquillity. The Monileur of Sunday publishes the follow lig telegraphic despatch from French Africa : " ALGIERS, Dac. 22. " The tranquillity of the province of Algiers has not been disturbed since the last courier. " The garrisons of Mcdcall,l3l.dah, Nlostaaanc In, have made predatory excursions against all the tribcs in the vicinity of those places." The same official organ announces the appoint ment of General BUGEAUD to succeed Marshal VALLEE as Governor Commander-in-Chief in French Africa—thus confirming the statement which appeared in yesterday's Sun. The C oin . merce accompanies this announcement of an ap pointment generally regarded in Paris as disastrous, with the following extract from a letter just received from Algiers. "It is curious," says that journal, "that this information reaches us just at the mo ment that we are going to send General BUGEAUD to Algiers, doubtless to sign the Treaty with /lUD EL-KADER, which Marshal VALLEE rejects." The following is the information to v.hich the Commerce alludes : " ALGIERF, DEC. 2l.—As I have told you, it is cer tain that the Emir Abd-el-Kader would wish to have a truce tor two years, in et der to ottain new resources, and recommence the holy war with some chance of success; he would be glad of a second edition of the treaty of the Tafna ; we must hop e th at h e w ill no t obtain it. When the Emir wrote to M. Dupuch that be wished to send one of his officers to accompany the sub-iLteodant Massote to Algiers, it was easy to guess that be had something im portant to communicate to the Marshal. We have now g,.t a now proof of th e i n t en ti o ns of the Arab Chief. B,,me Sheiks of the environs of Milianah having been authorized to wait on General Changarnier, C om mander -in-Chief at Blid a h, after having spoken at I, rigth on the miseries of w ar , asked him on wha t t erms he would treat with Abd.el.Kader. The General replied, ' France receives the submission of the Sheiks who come to pl,ce themselves under its protection, but it does not treat with the absent. Ido not know Abd-el-Kader ; let him come and make his submission, and he will be well received. If he is hostile to us, we shall make war on him, and submis.. de stroy him." General Changarnier then asked the Sheiksif they were disposed individually to make their s i on . They replied in an evasive manner, and withdrew. " We know, however, for certain that the star of Abd el- Kader is waling pale, and that all the Arabs wo uld come to us if they were not continually watched by the 'Willis with their regular troops. Whenever t h e enemy are not near at hand the Arabs of the Little Atlas and ; of the East come to the markets with their tents cod their flocks, and place themselves under the French protection. The last markets at Bouffariek were attended by a great number of Arabs, who brought provisions of all kinds. iThe Civil Commissioner purchased 400 oxen, but paid th natives oily half of the price, in order to be sere of their coming back again. The Arabs did nut manifest any d,struit." Count VV ALEWSKI arrived in Paris from Alex andria on Saturday. The Scamandre steamer, which carried him to Marseilles, encountered a dreadful storm which, by filling the vessel with water enough to extinguish two of the furnaces, completely destroyed the Count's despatches, which were reduced to a thick pulp or paste. This is most fortunate for M. TIIIERS, who has thus escaped an exposure which the present Ministers contemplated with much satisfaction. Had his despatches to the Count been obtained, a clue would at once have been found to the whole scheme of his labyrinthine policy in Egypt. The Committee appointed to examine the pro ject of law for fortifying Paris, have agreed to re commend three very important points :-1. The ' erection of a wall of circumvallation ; 2. The construction of strong chains of detached forts Amd, 3. The completion -of the whole of these works in three years. These forts are to he constructed so near the city that shells can be thrown from them into the most crowded quat kcrs of the French capital. Heaven help the Republicans if they be not as mute as mice when these works arc finished I The following account of the proposed popular demonstration in favour of the Abbe DE LAMEN NAIS on Saturday, is copied from the MessaAer: " 0., Saturday morning, about eleven o'clock, a gather ing of about /00 individuals, the greater part en blouse 711 d ccsquettes, amongst whom were several National Guards in uniform, took place for the moment on the Place de la Bourse. Having reached the Rue de la Michodicu, all the in iduals forming the meeting ranged themselves along the house inhabitzd by M. l'Abbe de Lamennais. A deputa tion of fourteen, three of whom were in uniform. waited upon the hitter. At the expiration of ten minutes the de putation retired, and the meeting then dispersed without ut;cring any seditious cries. " Nevertheless forty or fifty individuals, amongst whom were about twenty-five National Guards, rejoined each other on the Boulevards, aid repaired to the Place St. Antoine, marching Once abreast, and arm-in-arm. They passed round the July column, singing the Marseillais ,' af.d uttering cries of A bas Guizot 1" A bas la Garde Municipale I' This second altroupement dispersed after wards in various directions. " These manifestations are culpable ; they are an in friligetnent on the respect which is due to justice and the l a w. The authorities have adopted measures in order to suppress immediately the recurrence of similar demonstra tions." By a royal ordinance, dated 31st ult., Rear-Admiral Hugon has been raised to the rank of Vice- Admiral, in the room of Baron Roussin, lately promoted to that of Admiral ; Captain Dumont d'Urville was appointed Rear- Admiral ; Rear- Admiral Casy was to to take the command of a division of the squadron of the Mediterranean under Admiral Hugon ; and Rear-Admiral Parscval Dcschene teas to succeed Rear-Admiral Casy in the post of Major- General of the Marine at Toulon. The Moniteur publishes another ordinance in the war department, instituting two special and distinct committees for the infantry and cavalry, which had been hitherto united. The first was composed of Generals Schneider, Schramm, Rapatel, Cubicres, Trezel, Tholose, and Favier, and M. Melcion d'Arc, a military indendant ; and the second, of Generals Near', Sparre, Audenarde, Wolff, Latour• Mau bourg, Oudinot, and Wathiez ; and M. Denniee, a mili tary intendant. By a third Royal ordinance, inserted in the same official organ, the foreign legion in the service of 1' ranee i> hereafter !o be divided into two regiments, to consist each of three battalions, and of an effective force of 3,000 men each. NJ foreigners will hereafter be admitted into tho..e corps, unless they sign an engagement for five years. The Semaphine de Marseilles of the 29th ult., an• flounces that M. Alazlum, the Catholic patriarch of the Greek rite in Syria, had arrived from Rome at Leghorn, on his way to Paris. The Prelate was said to be charged with a mission from the Pope to the French Government on behalf of the old Emir Bechir. A letter from Leghorn of the 23d ult. announces that Queen Christina sailed on the preceding day for Civitta Vecchia, and that she would proceed thence to Rome, where her mother, the Dowager-Queen of Naples, had gone to met t her. M. de Rurnigny, the French Ambas sador in Rome, was nearly recovered from his late illness. C.ELCTIAN I'UNDSBIIitiP.EL.I, JAN. 2. Actual Debt, 2',' per Cent. Rothschild', Leun, 5 per C:nt 1,6% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. .... (CVO 957/. 3per Cent• ...... ••• ... -- - Tn , irty.sQven .. Gti 'A 1.0 in of City, 1 , _ , :' , .2, 4 per Cent 9O Society nt Commerce, 4 ~ ,,per Cent llO Bank of Belgiun7, 5 per Cent .. t. 7 National Society . ... ......... ......—...,„, w , ~ ' -- L:llfai - s — eis Papers, Jan. 2. AUSIUIAN lUNDS.—VILNNA, DEC. 24. five per Cents. Metai;Nues FO 4 I' per Cents. I 1 rce p7r Cent*. 1.3,-nk Shares —Allgemeine ZeilUNg. Dec. 30 THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. Business was resumed in this market, but the operations %vere only to a limited extent; still buyers were more on the alert, and prices were firm for all articles, but few goods of any kind wero pressing for sale. TEA MARKET. The demand was steady for rree Trade, and prices wt re firm, no sellers of commo❑ Congou for cash under 2s. I Ad. I ,‘ r lb. For Company's, 2s. 2d. was asked, with a good demand. TALLOW MARKET. There was little business done, but prices were not lower ; the market, however, has a declining aspect. The stock is much larger than last year at this time. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. There was a good supply of Clover, Hay, and Straw The demand, however, being good, prices were well sup. ported. Clover . from 4/. to 6/ ; Hay, 3/. 103. to 51.; Stiaw, 1/. 12s. to l/. 14s. YIYS SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY LONDON, JAN. b —There has been a heavy fall of snow during the night. Wind this day at noon, strong brazes from N. to N N. E., with snow. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4.—Wind N. N. E., fresh.—Ar rived the Joseph, P. Dobrce, from Jamaica ; John Cumming, Tiiayer, Savannah; Henry Duncan. Riche bucto ; Thalia, Graham, Calcutta ; Manlius, Hodge, St New Brunswick ; Wilsons, Campbell, Demerara. Ga port, the Wakefield, from Quebec. A barque is on sore in R,d Wharf Bay, Anglesea. The sloop lasballa, Dintiell, of Wigtown, was driven on shore yester day on the Horse Bank, and went to pieces; crew saved. Th e Manlius, Hodge, arrived here from St. John's, New Brunswick, in coming up the river last night got in con tact with the Annr.ndale, from Runcorn to Greenock, and carried away the latter's foremast and bowsprit. The Campbell, arrived here from Demarara, sailed thence on the 26th of November, in company w'th the Palmyra, for this port. The Rapid, also for this port, ~as to sail a Oily or tt'o. SIL)REII AM, JAN. 4. —The Grace, Crozzier, grounded a sand bank this morning, and is much strained, and ri.,kes a deal of water. FALMOUTH, JAN. 3. —Wind N. W. to N. N. W., strong ' , Ales, with violent squalls. Off port the Ann Emetic, Guayi a. Sailed the Linnet packet, for the West Indiee. BRISTOL, JAN. 3 —Arrived the ALixan4er Johnston, Macdonald, from Calcutta (and not Alexander Thompson, •:.7 reported yesterday ). The Friends, from Newport, has put in here leaky, and to rcipzir. LYt.nAm, JAN. 4 —The Isabelle, Brodie, from Misgow to Liverpool, got on the Horse Batik yesterday, and will ~ t ome a total wreck, I , - 1 - ItANRAER, JAN. 3.—The Jean Gordon, Simpson, Val Cork to Ayr, struck on the North Breakwater this ,rn and went to pieces; four of the crew drowned. h Lie:: a violent gale last night, with thunder and light • • , r and continues to blow a gale at N. W. Several and largo vessels have taken refuge in our loch. WATERFoI<D, JAN. I.—Arrived the Tyro, Musgrave, trf,,n Newt,undland. WonkiNoTori, JAN. 3.—lt blew a heavy gale last night and the whole of this mo. ning till noon from N. W. to N. N. W. YARMOUTH, JAN. 2.—The Latinia, from St. libel?, b-u , :d to Hull, has been assisted in here leaky, having been on the Cross Sand. WivENnoE, JAN. 4.—The Pink, of Colchester, was are, ked yesterday en the Gunfleet Sand ; crew LIM , . WHITSTABLE, JAN 4.—The Dart, Vittery, from Liver.. Fool to London, was assisted in here last night with loss lnclior and cables, having been on the Middle Sand. MARGATE, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Joseph Wheeler, M.Gbic, from Jamaica. RAMSGATE, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Prince Frederick, F- lb, rg, from St. Thomas. DEAL, JAN. 4. —Wind. S. S. W., 5.30 P. M. S. S. S. S.E. • ived the Advocate, Wilkinson, from Calcutta ; Mar- Farm, Bauliauii, Batavia ; Emerald, Flack, Quebec ; Chance, W, od, Pugwesh ; Ant, Wills, Mirarniebi ; Mary Arn, Wocdswotth, Charleston ; Emily, Penlerrick, River Gambia ; Kyle, Fletcher, Singapore; Entcrprize, • Qaebec ; Grainger, Harrison, ditto ; Volunteer, Riches, ditto ; Brothers, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Parailse, Robinson, Quebec. DOVER, JAN 4 —.Off port the Frederick Louise, Ilogin son, from Rio Janeiro. PoieTsmou - rii, JAN. 4.—Wind N. to E. N. E.—Sailed the Greyhound, Hutchinson, for China; Sampson, Smith, I\ l .c.w York. COWES, JAN. 4 —Arrived the Tunbo, Woolstridge, two Sierra Leone. Sailed Mason Barney, Wetherall, for New York. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 4.—lt has blown a strong gale all night from N. W. to N. N. E. IfoLvtrann, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Llangothland, Fin ney, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Transit, Quebec. Alll. O ' CON;ELL AND Dn. COOK.—It is con', fitleutly sated that Di. Cook intends to challenge Mr. O'C.innell to meet him in a public discussion of the Re- Bea question, when the Learned Gentleman arrives in of4e.—Belfast MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—The sales to-day are 3,500 bags to 4,000 bags, of winch 150 arc Sea Islands, at 16d. to 20d. ; 100 Egyptians, 9id. to 104 d. ; 100 Bahias, 13-d. to Sad. ; 300 Peru vians, Nd. ; 350 Surats, 4d. to sd. Prices steady ; a quiet market. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, JAN. 4.—Eastern Coun ties debentures, 5:4 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 36 ; Glasgow and Paisley, 281 ; Grand Junction, New, 29 ; Lancaster and Preston Three-Quarter CF, 15 4 1 ; London and Birmingham, 173 ; Quarter Shares, 274 ; South Western, 571 ; Midland, New Shares, 15 ; South Eastern, 12k. We have received Van Diemen's Land Papers to the 25th July. The meeting of the Legislative Council is postponed from the Ist to the 15th August. In this delay there is an advantage seldom accompanying procrastination. It is no theft on time ;' it has given to Government an opportunity of presenting to the Council a Road Act free from every objection." SYDNEY.-Our last Sydney papers are to the 19th instant. The most important intelligence is the con tinue:l decline in the Wheat Market. Grain has now f Alen to 9s. 6d per bushel, the two pound loaf is 81, hut is expected to be W. in another week. The tide of emigration has commenced to flow to the \A cstern and Eastern World. Money Market.-- In consequence of vessels with general cargoes incessantly pouring in, business at this present moment is entirely at a stand still ; the Money Market is in a very depresse I state, and the demand for cash is considerable in the extrem,.. The banks have curtailed their discounts; thereby causing a great alarm amongst our commercial community, which, we trust, rviil subside without any serious con sequences ensuing. The price of flour has not changed since our last ; wheat is now selling at 9s. Gd. per bushel. We have received the Australian of the 18th of August, filled up with English news. It appears from the New Zealand papers to the sth of July, that his Excellency, Captain Hobson, c'ntemplated selling lands in New Zealand at 12s. an acre ; but as Mr. Shortland will shave forwarded information by the Bee, which sailed fur the Bay of Islands, after the arrival of the Brougham, instructions from the Board of Commis sioners will b 1 awaited. 'rhe following extract is from the same papers : " We publish with pleasure the following extracts from a despatch from the Secretary of the New Zea land Land Company ; they state that the Company have not been unmindful of their promises and our in terest. The colony is now secure in a good supply of provisions for nine months. " A public meeting of the inhabitants of the district of Port Nicholson took place on the Ist July, for the purpose of agreeing to a loyal and dutiful address to be presented to his Excellency Captain Hobson, the Lieut.- Governor of New Zealand. " On the motion of Dr. Samuel Evans, Colonel William Wakefield was voted to the chair. He said the moment had now arrived, and he congratulated the colonists upon it. A statement had, however, been made, respecting the instructions of the settlers to his Excellency Captain Hobson, which demanded expla nation. One of their own body had asserted that they were prepared to resist the introduction of the British law ; that an organized force was established to resist even to the " knife." The gallant Colonel then called their attention to the immediate object of the meeting, by the presentation of an address to his Excellency Captain Hobson, expressive of the unabated loyalty and attachment of the inhabitants of Port Nicholson to the British Government. Colonel Wakefield then put the question, when the affirmative was carried una nimously. i‘ It is reported that his Excellency Captain Hob son has purchased Mr. Clendon's property at the Bay of Islands, on Government account, for 22,000/. and it is further stated that the property cost Mr. C. only twenty pounds a few years since." The New Zealand Island Gazette has the follow ing :- 4‘ RUSSELL, BAY OF ISLANDS, JUNE 10, 1840. On the night of the 3d inst. information was conveyed to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor that several Europeans had been murdered at the Pah,' and that others would share the same fate were not immediate steps taken to prevent it. A party of twenty of the military, under the command of Captain Lockhart, were dispatched to restore order. On the arrival of the Captain he found a large body of the natives assembled under arms, and it was desirable to have a reinforce ment at hand. On inquiry it was ascertained that during the day two boats belonging to American vessels had bee❑ seized by the I'omarc tribes in consequence of a misun derstanding which had risen from the attempted cap ture by the crews of the boats of a deserter living at the Pah, under the protection of the natives, who refused to deliver up the man until they received a s Q.- ward. The representation made to his Excellency was unfounded relative to the murders. Captain Lockhart endeavoured to persuade the natives to return the boats but without success. Instructions were then given to toe Eaiiors to remove the boats, wmett was acceded to. The military were then returning, when an alarm was given that the natives were making an attack, and a cry of fire raised, and several shots fired in the direc tion of the natives caused much disturbance to ensue ; during which, it is to be regretted, three or four mus kets were discharged by the soldiers without orders, hap pily without effect, none of the natives being wounded, as was currently reported. On the folkwing morning Pomare, with a considerable number of natives, waited en his Excellency, and expressed their thanks for the prompt assistance rendered by the Government, and their sense of gratitude for the protection, remarking that they had never felt so secure since the establish ment of her Majesty's authority in New Zealand. The masters of the American vessels likewise tendered their obligations for the timely interference of the military, which probahlyprevented a serious sacrifice of human life." Till FUNDS. Consols opened at the same quotations as they left off yesterday, 8q- for the Account ; Reduced 891 I, with little doing at present ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock 157 158 ; India Stock 238 289. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active are the same as they left off, 24-a j- ; Deferred 121 13 ; Passive GL ; Portuguese 32±; Three per Cents. 201 ; Co lombian 231 24 ; Mexican 284 29 ; Chilian 57 60 ; Brazilian 701 71/ ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. improved, 491 1 50 ; Five per Cents. 971 4. SIIARES.--Great Western 271 281 prem. ; New 121 131 prem. ; London and Brighton 6/ 4 dis. ; Blaekwall 4} 4 dis. ; Birmingham 82 84 prem. ; South ampton 571 581 per share ; Greenwich 8 9 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 15 13 discount. PRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE. ItAILli'AYs. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 9O ..... 76 Cheltenham and Great Western. 62i 30i...... to Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Great West era Ditto New .. Ditto Fifths Gosport Junction - to London :Intl Brighton London and South Western 3Bi 5B ... .. to 59 South Eastern and Dover . 28 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia.. Ditto New Shares 5 - MINES. Copiapo HA LF-PA ST ORE, The British Funds have continued inactiveto — ;he present hour ; the speculators are wailing for the ar rival of the overland express from India, to see how affairs are going on in China, the news from that quarter being expected daily. Consols are present is a shade lower than in the early part of the morning, and mly be quoted 89 for the Opening ; Exchequer Bills, no alteration, 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1581 1591 ; India B ;nds, 13 9 discount improved. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active also a shade lower, 244 ; in Portuguese nothing done ; Colombian, rather lower ; Brazilian, 711 71, also lower ; Danish, 771 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, also lower, 49i ; Five per Cents., 97i. The above market is flat, with scarce anything doing. In the Share Market seine bu,iness is doing, with a little improvement. Birminghtm and Gloucester, 75 ; Great Western, 93/ ; Gosport Junction, 42A ; Lon don and Brighton, 44-i; ; London and South Western, 58 59. THE FIRE AT HUDDERSFIELD.-(FURTHER PARTICULARS. )-On Friday night, December the 25th, one of the most calamitous fires that has happened in Hui. dersficld for many years took place. Of the few who came with the engine, most, if not all, of them were in a s:ate of intoxication, having been keeping Christmas, from which cause and the vast extent of the fire they were be wildered, and knew not how to act. By ten o'clock, scarcely two hours from the first discovery, this extensive building, with its valuable contents of goods, machinery, and power-lcoms, was reduced to a mass of ruins. We have hcard of no accident of any material consequences to any one. The building and engine were the proporty of Messrs. Roberts, Brothers, who arc insured. By this calamity three hundred persons, at least, are thrown out of employment at this inclement season. It has not been as yet satisfactorily shown how the fire originated, but the most prevalent. conjecture is that it arose from spontaneous combustion. The loss is variously estimated, sotne accounts stating 8 0001. or 10,000/. ; others extend it to 20,000/. ; at all events, the loss is very extensive, but we think from 13,0001. to 15,0001. will prove the outside. The remain ing walls arc now in a most dangerous state, and should be taken down without a moment's delay, or fatal conse quences may ensue. A POOR ADMINISTRATION.—I spoke this day wi.h M. Lovrndes, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Montague, but find no prospect of getting any money from them. Ready money is so scarce, that they know not yet where to get their own salaries for last quarter. They have had Mr. Neal with them yesterday, about the country mints, and are giving the best orders they can in that matter. They have no provision yet to pay the recompence, which is to bt. , supplied by a Bill now depending. —James's Court and Times of William 111. EVENING EDITIth COLONIAL BANK.-(THIS DAY.) The half-yearly gener.i meeting of Directors !tivt Proprietors of the Colonial Bank took place this .:;aY. at the Londo❑ Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the de claration of a dividend and the election of five Directors in the room of those going out by rotation. There was a very large number of Shareholders present. At one o'clock the Chairsnin and Directors entered the room, when the advertisement convening the meeting was read. The CHAIRMAN said he would in the first' instance wish all the company a happy new year. There was nothing in the aspect of the affairs of the Bulk to ixeite any apprehension in the minds of the Shareholders. They were not going at the speed of railroads-4 Hear, Lear)—their pace resembled more that of the !tortoise . , and he was gratified to add they were progressing stea dily and most successfully.—(Cheers.) That state ment would be fully borne out by the report Which he now called upon the Secretary to read. The Report was than read by the Secretar of the affairs of the Bank for the half-year, ending 30 h dune, 1840, from which it appeared that the profit for be half year amounted to 25,4611. 19s. 9d., and the reserved fund to 16,4971. The Directors proposed that the dividend of 4 per cent. for the half year, shoulcV be de' dared, being at the rate of 8 per cent. per annurri oa the paid up capital of the Bank, leaving a sum of 1,000/. to the payment of preliminary expenses, and au additiou of 4,4611. 19s. 9d. to the reserved fund. • The Report was received with loud cheers ; nd the motion that it be received and printed was unanimouill agreed to. The five Directors going out by rotation were thee re-elected, and thanks being voted to the Directors for their zeal and ability in the management of tbe affairs of the Bank, the meeting separated. COUNCIL CHAMBER, WHITE HALL-(THIS DAY). Before Lord BROUGHAM, the VICE-CuAricELLoiri Mr. Justice EItSKINE, and Dr. LUSHINGTON.) KEILLEY V. CARSON AND OTHERS. ci l Mr. PEMBERTON resumed his address this m rning on the part of the appellant, and cited many eas s, to order to maintain his position that the Crown 11, d no authority to give the power of commitment for breach of privilege to any Assembly of a Colony eh' tained by settlement. It was only in modera colonief. that this power had been called into action. j u the islands of Antigua and Barbadoes it had lain doi.na°C for 200 years. Mr. HlLL—That arose from their not having wells to the Journals till late years. When they had , such access, the power was found to be constantly exercivd• Mr. PEMBERTON did not know how that was, but he submitted to their Lordships that, according to the cases he had cited, the Hause of Assembly had ev ceeded their powers, and the appellant was entitled to his remedy by action. He then came to another 'lief of i he case—suppose the Assembly to have the po xer. they claimed, he would submit that they had exercise d it illegally in this case. They had convicted the appellant without having summoned him be' fore them—he did not hear one word of till evidence given against him ; in fact they had couvieteu without hearing him. It also appeared that the ~ 111, ' pellant had been kept one whole day in the custaf of the Deputy of the Sergeant-at-Arms, without sot warrant whatever. There were some other objecti•vit hut they appeared to him to be more objections in fo'll than in substance. He trusted that he had convin , !c`i their Lordships' minds that in this case the House e Assembly had exceeded their powers, and that, ther e ' fore, the appeal would be allowed. Mr. HENDERSON followed on the same side, „a -- was proceeding when we vv,nt to press. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DA'Y' OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER ) FRAUD AT TILE CUSTOM-HOUSE.—William (21 11 ' 16 :: was indicted for having forged a certain bond ot. tDo 27th of Oetobor last, in the parish of St. Dunstan 1 ; the East, with intent to defraud her Majesty the Qu ee , of the revenue upon a hogshead of brandy bonded the Custom-house. Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Bodkin conducted the pros cution, and Mr. Phillips and Mr. Clarkson appea r ' fair the prisoner. Mr. Ancterstus having stated the case, called John Jennings—Witness is now in custody of t`' n Governor of Newgate on a charge of felons , . Had be, , a clerk in the employ of Mr. Goss, a ship chandt te , There was an account between Mr. Goss and Everett, a lighterman. There was a negotiation betw ee n , them about a hogshead of brandy. There was r e O ,O versation respecting it in the month of OetobJ between Mr. Goss, the prisoner, and witness. P o t to be shipped on board the brig James in the nam e bs Richard Browne. It was at that time in bond ut t t# Custom-house. It was necessary that a bond shoul d 0 executed before it could be shipped. Prisoner t e r j witness he had put in a bond in the name of li‘e ll3 4 o r2_,,........ wttne - ,s Kuve Uhuetitnis for the prepar3t,'o of tile bond in the usual manner. Told Q u i n lan it t t not signed. Quinlan said he would sign it. Prie ° ,, and witness went together to the Long-room a t the usto tom-house, and witness went to attend to other busiae n leaving Quinlan there. There is a portion o f the L o ner appropriated to the bonding bu s iness. S a w pris °l3 i, afterwards, who said he could go on with the slatePhe;o and pass the entries. Did what was neces s ary to the brandy, and it was shipped on board the JA l tl i c After the brandy had been shipped, it was again broad out in bladders. Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—Knew this 'd not an honest transaction. Participated in it , r ef shared the profits. Received one pound of the 0 10° 0 1 produced by the sale of the brandy. Came oat e, Newgate this day to give his evidence. Was aPP e r , hended for a felony on Mr. Goss, and not for the 1 1e in ticipation in the fraud. Expected he sho u ld save 11; self by giving evidence against Quinlan. co Mr. Richard Browne was clerk of th e b on ding-0 15 in the long room a t the Custom-h ouse . Produeejdj bond note fur th e d e li ver y o f the goo d s a ft er the b on . had been filed. The signature to the not e was in b vi ness's writing. ta t Richard Pearce Ba r low—l s th e c l er k o f the " 0 , witness ; was a subscribing witness to the bond ; it was duly executed, but could not remember the P' cise circumstances attending its execution. 3 By the RECORDER—It was n o t u sua l t o req ui! ra g o f identification of th e p ar ti es execu ti ng a bond. To" acted upon a general power. er Mr. James Goss—l s a p rov i s i on - merc h an t. Pris° P , r s was in his employ. Witness had an account Mr. Everitt. The name Richard Browne, signr" ha bond produced, he believ e d t o b e th e p r ison° handwriting. cle By Mr. Phillips—lt appe are d t o b e i n a disarne hand. William Morgan, clerk to the last witness, k'', e '' h t. ' prisoner's handwriting, and believes the s i gna t u re Br' e " urd Browne to have been written by him. Mr. Everitt is a lighterrnan. Had an account 111 , Mr. Goss for lighterage. A delivery or d er f or a be s ":, head of brandy had been left for him a t hi s f a thers e " ( 16th May last, and had been in his possession since. He afterwards met the prisoner, and asked to prevail upon Mr. Goss to take it back, as his catli e f was in some embarrassment, and the money would be tfr °, more use to him. The prisoner s a id h e wou ld ask "/ ,mployer about it. Met him again about a w e ek af ter wards, and he then maid he had taken the brandy bs c "; Witness replied " very well, let me have the moneY soon as possible." He met the prisoner aga in on l' n I_ Rh November, in the street, and asked him if he going to play the fool with him, to which prisoner 01 ,, in reply, " Everitt, take this ;" at the same time hanst i l him a Si. note and a sovereign, and added that he did no r' want any receipt, and that when he paid the renrale u d t t of the money he would take the delivery order. 1%-" 1 , - • a week afterwards he went to Mr. Gos s ' s t o see prisoner. Prisoner sent word out by a servant 11° , Mr. Goss was settling with a C a pt a i n i ns id e . He tben-g appointed to meet the prison e r, b ut pr i soner did °- keep the appointment. 011 seeing Mr. Goss sob se o quently, it appeared that that gentleman knew not about the matter. Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—Witness, w l b ` ll he saw prisoner, t o ld him h e wou ld go an d s ee I ' i ; Gass upon the subject, upon which prisoner said, " I'l° may v . ancl be d—d." William Williams, City Police Constable 503, too` the prisoner into custody on the 27th of Nover°", f last. Oa searching him found in his pocket the pap' produced, and also two empty bladders. Mr. Goss having been recalled by the R e corrle e : stated that the prisoner had never informed him of 1041 application of Everitt relative to the brandy. Mr. PIIILLIPPS, for the prison er , a ft er cor ms:l6l lo% v severely on the conduct of Jennings, put it to the P h r i e whether the evidence was sufficient to bring home e " commission of the offence to the prisoner. Tne RECORDER having summed up the evidence,: the Jury, after a short deiiberaticn, acquitted, 1 1l prisoner. PUBLIC HOUSES.—It is not, we believe, ge fie ; rally known why publicans have the chequers painted their door-posts. The following anecdote will, howe ver : show it. The arms of the Earl of Warren and were the chequers. This family being allied to WOin the Conqueror, had from him the exclusive power : le granting licenses for selling malt liquor, and to eno u rc , their agents to collect the consideration money o° , readily, the door-pests were paire.ed with their O n ' which practice has been handed down to the present d: 11. This privilege is said to have been exercised by their d ee r . scendants, the Earls of Arundel, as late as the reign ° Philip and Mary. DEPLORABLE OCCURRENCE.---Monday rnor l i i ; ing, between one and two o'clock, the following deplort!k" accident occurred, from smoking a cigar in bed, to Walt ° I-I,nry Merrideth, Esq., a gentl emen res idi ng i n Yor - t i street, Bryanston.square. It is supposed that he dropP e o ask ep, and the lighted cigar fell on the bed clothes, " hi :, ignited, and before ho was aroused to his danger be un fortunately was burnt in a dreadful manner. INT Albei th e v Stud liouv her their Tt. Hoy e thi s r Leek, a visi Cast! Were led W ar , Cott gilVe th e 1 of G 1 br a at a to