The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS (YROSI THE DAILY PAPERS or' YESTERDAY.) (From the Morning Chronicle.) Ve insert a letter from Mr. Bolton, communicating additional information with respect to the Weisel elec tion, and we insert also a letter from a leading member of the Anti-Corn-law League, in vindication of the course adopted by that body. With all submission to this member of the Anti-Corn-law League, he knows very little of the real state of things in England. The advocate of the Corn-laws, he says, is as obnoxious in boroughs as their opponent is in counties. W ere that the case, the question would soon be settled. But though this may be true of the great manufacturing bo roughs, these constitute but an inconsiderable portion of tins whole. The greater number of boroughs are vend, or subject to influences of the very worst descrip tor. It Walsall can be carried by an Anti-Corn-law candidate, well and good. In our article on Satur day we stated our opinion on this subject with suili• cient distinctness. We merely objected to the put ting forward a candidate pledged to absolute repeal of the Corn-laws, when such pledee would give the victory to a Tory. We will not say more on this sub ject at pre. , eet, because we are extremely anxious that Mr. J. B. Saiitle the president of the Chamber of Comrnerce,of Manchester, who has offered himself as a candidate, should carry the borough. Provided the seat be obtaned by a Liberal, the more decided his opposition to the Corn-laws, the more will lie be to our taste. Nothing would give us greater pleasure than to find ourselves in error in the estimate we were led to form of the constituency of Walsall. There can be no question as to the fitness of Mr. Smith to represent Walsall. As the president of the Chamber of Com merce of Manchester, and head of the Anti-Corn-law League, he appears before the Walsall constituency with these proofs of the respect in which he is held by his own fellow-citizens, and having retired from business in possession of a competent fortune, he can afford to devote himself to the affairs of the nation. He has pledged himself to go to the poll, and his fellow-labourers having compelled Mr. Lyttelton to withdraw, Mr. Smith is bound in honour to tight the good fight, and to hold out to the last. We repeat, C a st though we repudiate the principle on which the Corn-law League has determined to act, with out ri gard to circumstances, we are not the less anxious diet hi every place where a decided udvocateof a repeal of the Corn-lars can be returned, the attenipt to obtain from e.ntliciete an explicit pledge on this subject should be made. siVhat we insist on is this, that wherever the standing out for steel a pledge shall have the eiTcet of giving success to the Tories, and thereby defeating the very object for the sake of which the pledge is sought, t should not be exacted. We intreat all Liberals, of whatever grade, to support Mr. Smith in order to exclude Mr. Gladstone. We will not believe the battle lost Willie a chance remains. The Liberal electors who could have returned Mr. Lyttelton can yet return Mr. Smith, if all differences of opinion be merged in the object which all ought to have at heart—the exclusion of a Tory. This is not a time to give expression to doubts. Mr. Smith must be aware that extraordinary efforts ate required to balance the advantage which a fortnight's canvass has given to Mr. Gladstone, and the defection from promises given to Mr. Lyttelton, which his retirement_ has released. Let him try, if he can, to rouse an Anti-Corn-law enthusiasm. There is every motive for a display of energy. The Anti-Corn law League is on trial as well as Mr. Smith. If he succeed in his arduous undertaking, the Anti-Corn-law League will rise in influence, for the world is much guided by ascots. But, on the other hand, should a 'Cory be re turned, no small degree of blame will be attached to the League, filch will have to bear the reproach of injuring the Liberal cause without advancing the cause for which the League was entered iuto. (From the Times.) We adverted a few days back to the apathy induced on the public mind by the want of motives propounded by the political leaders for the putting forth any exertion iu bshall of either of the two great parties. The oh servution may as justly be applied to the one side as to the other. When we insist, as we frequently find oc casion to do, on the inhumanities of the New Poor.law, the fas ou rite retort of the Ministerial prints is, " which of all your Conservative leaders can you induce to pro pose a repeal of that law 1" The taunt is a natural and Out unfair one : but these gentlemen are open precisely 10 the same kind of interrogatory themselves. We can cevcr dilate on any of the miseries or oppressions of the poor without being instantly told that the beginning and ending of all the sufferings of the poor in England are found in " the accursed Corn-law." Never can a week pass over without two or three declarations of this kind from the Ministerial morning and evening papers. With just the same force and pro priety, then, may we demand of thetn, " which of all your vaunted Reform Ministers will you get to propose :an abolition of the Corn-laws ? Nay, is not the decla ration of your Premier himself upon record, that the roan who could think of such a thing must be positively mad Y" The wishes, then, of the respective parties out of doors are not responded to with frankness and warmth by the leaders of either side in Parliament. So much may be admitted ; and it is quite as true and as ii.coutrovertibie on the one side as on the other. That a consciousness of this fact acts as a .detnping and retarding force among the partisans on 'either side among the people is quite certain ; and this is to be lamented, inasmuch as the party which gains most by public apathy must be the party in possession. Nevertheless, we ase not astonished at this unwise and undesirable caution, however we may be vexed .and annoyed by it. Some of its causes are sufficiently asbvious ; and at others we can venture on a reason :Ale surmise. Yet we would ever try to lessen this t c, F ,,,triotie feeling, although it may be impossible en tirAy to destroy it. Chiefly we should rejoice to see some of the more free and commanding spirits among the Conservative party begin to throw off their con ,-tritit with reference t o t h e N ew P oor -law, confess the. the " experiment" has lasted long enough, and that the „ ne e lies come for some very important modifica tion, if not for a total repeal. The chief of all the evils wrought by 1. 1 10 New Poor-law is the massing together large districts Lind bodies of people, in place of the pa rochial subdivision which had obtained for nearly three centuries before. The imaginary benefits of these new " Boards of Guardians" have pro ved delusive, but the evils resulting from them are weighty, serious, and in creasing. The very first principle of a good and safe o r g.nization is subdivision. Let every one "put in au thority" have just so many under him as he can rationally oversee, and the chief objects of civi society may be answered. But as soon as " massesi begin, to be formed, injustice and mismanagement' immediately ensue, and all that is dangerous to the pence of the community rapidly grows and in ,.creases. An old English parish would contain from 1,000 to 2.000 people. A parson, over these, to so pariotend their spiritual wants ; a churchwarden, to see to sire external affairs of the church and parish ; and tv,, , overseers, to visit, become acquainted with, and properly relieve, the wants of the distressed poor, com pleted the official staff of the parish, and left nothing e s . this respect to be desired. But what have we now !sue itituted ? A dozen or a score of such parishes are Th e erseel together. A " Boatel of Guardians" is chosen ; iao „horse proceedings discrimination becomes almost im pressible, end the exercise of the kindly affections quite out of the question. All is now burdensome and en- Jeeliug. The poor are relieved in crowds, in s t ea d o f .0 „, b y one . The guardians are wearied and rendered .cal:ous and indifferent by the pressure of their duties. 'To attempt to argue on the side of the deserving or t5. , e miserable is usteless---" No preference can be shown," All is hasty, dreary, and unfeeling. Various, to a ire the different kinds of injustice perpetrated by th e y e ssrn. A parish of moderate wealth and liberal dealings towards its poor is thrown " into union" with .others whose cdutowards thei pauper has been clues en d penuroion ct ue. 'l'he record of r the past s is kept to t e e natuentg, for the future, to the eeneral t~eCl9fC Op r Ni e anwhile, however, all k i ndne ' expea ss and linerality to t" ' paupers is at an end ; the parish pays fur u tur° a ccording to its liberality for the past; but its poor fa re thc - t .-- se e no 'Toe than others. ratepayers pay fur beef and potatoes, but the paupers only get the , e 1 and pork broth I But amstomnary fare of w there i s no en d to trietesre.-arbt.surditie3 and frauds. And stall we any longer be taunted by the " Liberals" with thin assumed fact, that no Conservative, of aity name in Parliaine at will d eman d a recon3ideration of this odious Act ? We do not think that t his shall k w w e a r d b n e e s d s s c a a p n . endure touch l onger. Greatly sha'' pointed if this v ery movement of a h ope -i nspiring kind, a nd that from anvils next session do sip t p roduce ap.me t the very elite of the constitutional array. (From the ellorimig Advertiser-) As usual, previously to the meeting of Parliament, there are rumours and expetations of all kind' respect jug measures to be iturodu ce d--sLe success of those :mea sures—and whole or partial charm • n the Adminis ttrattion whik:it may take place• press has, vies believe, none little or nothing in thi s o a r re cousnieueement of the present year, in-noudaiyeltl'epr,o.nsontalattin}dide. l ag upon the defensive, or pointing out the rn enee teems whom it is determitied to suppo r t ;but far wiso is the case with the Tory press, a fir tLet fi ltli or sixth time since the overthrow of the first Melbourne Adis liistre beantion, has bean proph esy i ng t h at the deys of its renewed power are numbered, and that a Itc:orin GoVen.Ment must necessmily give way to one pure y Cons rvetive, end that, too, in the course of the weseot Session of Parliament. The Times would fain 'latter its Conservative readers with the indulgence of utsti hopss; but a twinge of conscience seems to come seerose it in the very act of perpetrating the soft blan dishment, and after a flourish of trumpets, such as may be supposed to have preceded the King of France— .. Who went up the hill with '20,000 men, And then came down again," it seams to give up the battle as lost for the present, at f;east, it not for a great length of time. After having, in its Saturday's and other numbers of its journal, abused the Melbourne Cabinet to the tip-top of its voice—alter having declared that t h e Ministry cannot reckon with certainty upon even a m a j or i ty o f twe l ve writes upon any question vital to its existence—after MORNING EDITION having insinuated its doubts of the adherence of the Liberals to the Reform cause, upon the ground that one section is inclined to vote upon particular questions in one way, and one in another—noticing the repeal of the Union, and the anxiety of a foolish portion of Radicals to let the Tories in, in order that they may drive them out again, with a few other things of the same kind equally threatening to the cause of progressive Reform, an invocatory of the tri umph of Conservatism—what do our readers think is the conclusion of the writer in the Times p Why, that notwithstanding the alleged mutiny in the crew of the good ship " Reform"—notwithstanding the desertions which are expected to take place—the shoals and the quicksands which she must encounter in t ra versing . the occaa of political s t r if e — t h e h ea dl an d s , the reefs, and the breakers which she has to weather, there will after all be no shipwreck into port, ;—the vessel w ill get nto port, and clear every storm and danger by which she may La assailed. "'They are reckless adventurers, tl.ese Whigs (says it) and offer lavish bounties to recruit their numbers ; but nobody enlists with them, and their old muster. u roll no ma rgin If they are saved—and not po sitively for pronouncecasualt i e s . that they will be w recked—they ought to build a t e mple to Fortune , or rather L u c k, a n d send p ublic principle to a treadmill or an union workhouse.' Most lame and truculent conclusion ! Reckless " adven turers," and yet cannot be beaten ! Verily, this is a hard case. They must have some mittle in them to get over all their alleged difficulties, and not be ship wrecked, as the Tories were a few years ago upon the third onslaught of the Liberals. " Buccaniers" they may be, as some of the Tory journals denominate them ; but their courage is evidently of that in domitable cast which even their opponents must re spect. The Post, in a strain becoming the exalted position of Lady's Maid, is more flippant, as well as more rancorous and more certain that her supporters are perfectly right, and that any one questioning her supreme gentility, or her certainty of conquest, must be out of their senses ; but, poor girl, she foi*ets that the rose has faded, and that artificial blushes must paint its leaves and petals. With rep: d to the Standard, we scarcely know how to characterise its misty ingredients of action. Its con tents look very like the play of " She would and she would not"—enacted since the days of Adam and Eve ; —and, on the other hand, its warfare reminds us strongly of the attack apon Acre by Commodore Napier, who buried his opponents in so dense a smoke by his inces sant fire, that having taken a false aim at first, they never could take a true one afterwards. It does not like Lord E!lcnborough and his policy—it hates him as a Prime Minister in posse—it denounces others in the same vein—it does not like Wliiggism—and yet after all it says that the present Government is the best I We might proceed farther thus, but it is needless. No change of Ministry is contemplated. The most san guine Tories do not dream of it. Tile external policy of the Government is approved by every Conservative in the country ; and, with regard to domestic concerns, there is no fair question which the Opposition could propose, except a revision of the Corn-laws, which they will neither propose nor accede to. So mach for a change of Ministry I At the same time we warn the Reformers that no remissness nor disunion characterises their Con servative adversaries. They have not the work of pre paration to begin—it is, on the contrary, all but com pleted, as the former will find to their cost whenever the campaign shall have fairly commenced, unless they bestir themselves without a moment's longer delay. Are the Liberals aware of the importance of the stake which has to be played for? Are they alive to the fact that the struggle will not now be as it was a few years ago, for a temporary, say a few months', occupation of office ? Then there was no chance of the Tories retaining power, even had they succeeded in capturing Downing-street. Tbeease is altered now. If they succeed, as they did in 1835, in displacing the Melbourne Ministry, and only contrive to retain office for three or four months, their tenure of it may be prolonged to an indefinite period. Let no Liberal deceive himself by imagining, that because we hear less at present than we were wont to do at this season of the year of Tory dinners and Tory demonstra tions, the Tories are indifferent or inactive ; on the con trary, the very fact of our hearing of no such dinners, and witnessing no such demonstrations, is one of the most ominous indications of what we may expect from Tory opposition to Ministers and Liberalism in the coming Session. The more silently they are working, the more formidable will be the character of their pre parations for the conflict. They are working silently and invisibly now, because they have discovered the error of their former policy in making a flourish of trum pets before they were fully equipped for the battle, and by that means stirring up the Liberals to prepare to meet them. We are aware that they can and will be beaten—but as " the quarter of an hour beforehand" was the means, according to his statement of gaining all his battles, so we say to the Liberals be up and ready for the contest. (From the Globe.) We have seen a gentleman who has arrived from the scene of election excitement at Walsall, where he has been actively engaged concerning the election through out the past week, and we are happy to have his assurance that there is a most reasonable prospect of defeating Mr. Gladstone under all the disadvan tages of the recent change of candidates, &c. It is represented to us that a section of the more moderate portion of the Liberal electors demur against rallying round Mr. Smith, in consequence of the proceeding of the Anti• Corn-law League towards Mr. Lyttelton. Whatever opinions may be held regarding the pro ceeding referred to, now that Mr. Lyttelton is out of the field, it would be madness in any Reformer to suffer his personal displeasure with the League to promote the election of Mr. Gladstone. We are told that Mr. Smith commands support which had been denied to Mr. Lyttelton. If this be true, the particular friends of the latter gentleman, have only to add their support also to obtain for the present Liberal candidate a greater amount of aid against Gladstone than they could have brought against him under their original candidate. The election is too important to be frittered away by differences concerning the past. Let by-gones be by gones, we would say to our friends, and unite heart and s,ul to prevent the return of another vote for Lord Stanley's Disfranchisement Bill. Although we may not fully coincide with Mr. Smith's opinions upon all points, we are well convinced that he is upon the whole a goal Reformer, and one who, from his station, talents, and pursuits, is well suited to the representation of a manufacturing borough like Walsall. (From the Standard ) Who are the members of the Conservative demo cracy ? Orangemen ? Doubtless, for they are men of tried faith, loyalty, and patriotism. Persons who at tend Exeter Hall meetings ? Doubtless, again, for they are generally zealous Christians ; but the Conservative democracy comprehends more than these—it compre hends all who value the blessings of the British consti tution in Church and State, and who will defend these blessings and transmit them unimpaired to pos terity. Ali who will maintain existing institu tions as nece ssar y to the constitution in Church and Sate, who will maintain existing interests as neces sary to justice. These are the Conservative de mocracy, and we will tell the Globe where to find them. It might be too much to ask a Whig-Radical to attend Conservative meetings, still harder to invite Lim to our crowded churches ; but no objection can be offered to an invitation to the hustings. A majority of the repre sentatives of Great Britain are Conservatives, Conser vatives returned by reformed constituencies. By whom are they returned ? By the Conservative democracy, End by the Conservatise democracy alone acting upon its own independent principles. At elections we now hear nothing from Conservative candi dates of this party or the other party, of this statesman or the other statesman. No, we hear professions of attachment to the constitution in Church and State, of promises to maintain all men in their rights ; and in proportion as these professions and promises are strong, unequivocal,, and held to be trust worthy, is the success of the candidate. True, proles sions and promises made at the hustings have not been always respected in the House of Commons, but tile fault here lies with the traitor, not with the be trayed, unless we bestow confidence a second time upon the unworthy. Tiae next general election, how evc r, we suspect, will acquit the Conservative democracy of such trafficking with treason. (From the Courier.) The Walsall election is a cup of bitterness overflow• ing far the Chronicle. Its friends of the Anti-Corn. law League, worked up to desperation by Chronicle Anti Corn-la; articles, and excited by n a e i o t o ic s ie applau s e o f the lucky hit, entered into a solem n v some time since, it; run their own particular cattle c ovena nt soma e rough in the event of a general election, or wehryer boo- a ' casuai vacancy should occur , u nl ess the windycoursers who should cha nce to start in the Whig interestwould en ter into pledges , too string ent for backsliding, go to i n Anti-Corn -law harness , and : with despera tion so reckless, as, in case of Whig recusancy, to help to u p set the Ministerial omnibus. The va cancy for Walsall is, we believe, the first open field presented to the leaguers for the trial of the covenant, and the Hon. Mr. Lyttelton having announced himself a candidate on the Whig, with Mr. J. N. Gladstone on the Conservative side, a trio of Anti-Corn-law trampers was despatched from Manchester to catechise Lath, and to save the good people of the borough the troubl a of thinking and deciding for themselves by taking k 'T g the nomination i nto their own hands exclu- Y. T ‘ hc, .test was first pu t to the juvenile represen tative of v niggery, who, with something of a disposi tion t o stretch a point, coul d s t ra in conscience no fur ther tha n a the Corn-la ws; to " vote for an inquiry into a promise, of c ourse, not at all to the satisfaction who would hang first Lyttelton got his your c; gi; the whole hog" men, and try the case after. So Mr. much more despatc ' h ttchargei his entrance. fjP", Whic h furious s d a m nd ad f e ro h th is y evwxiittuw:: the the chronicle waxed t a ll" League as if itself non - cogniza n t and non-approver or the covenant beforehand ; proof logic in effect being, as seen now when put to the Qt;s that the Corn-law ques tion—that question of questi at question of life and death is its eternal veri),; a "" Z° of Anti corn,law THE SUN, LONDON; TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1841. discussions hitherto—is, in fact, a very secondary ques tion in comparison with the existence of Whiggery, and of the Wliig patronage resulting of which it is so 1 large a recipient ; a question not to be dreamt of com ing except through the portals of Daf.vning-streat. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (SATURDAY EVENING.) TIME S.—A great number of the Kingston merchants have, it appears by the Jamaica Papers, memorialized the House of Assembly against an increase of the duty of 1 per cent. on British manufactured goods, which some have recommended to be augmented two, three, and even four fold, as an additional resource to the revenue, and that even at the suggestion of some of the merchants who con sider the 1 per cent. duty too small to allow them to make any proportionate increase in the sale of their articles, whereas an addition of 2 or 3 per cent. would allow them to transfer the weight of the tax to the consumrner. The memorializing merchants, who ap pear to represent the general feeling of the commer cial community more than those who desire the in crease, object to it on the grounds that such increase would require an entire change in the bonding system ; that it would create a difficulty in repacking and ship ping from the warehouse for foreign trade; that separate stores would be necessary to deposit English apart from foreign goods ; that foreign trade would be annihilated, as the class of persons who support it are aecu.tomed to have entire control over their goods, and bale them up in a particular manner ; that the alterations would cause an increased establishment and expenditure; and that the Cus toms have invariably refused to allow portions of a packet to be taken out of the bonded warehouses. The propriety of increasing the import and export taxes generally has been suggested by some of the Members of Assembly, who, observing what a fruitful source of revenue they are. the import duties of last sear amounting to 74,6901., and the exports to 37,0411., have wished they might, if pos sible, be doubled ; while on the other hand, it is argued that the great prosperity of this branch of revenue renders it the more hazardous to interfere with it. It is not surprising that some - pCiSCin3, taking up free trade as a principle, are willing to apply it to its full extent to the article of money, and while contending against ail legal restriction in the rate of interest, regard the present modification of the laws affecting Bills of Exchange at a wholesome state of things, and do not attach sufficient importance to the evils which arc particularly felt by the smaller tradesmen, and which arise daily before the eyes of those who are acquainted with the pecuniary wants of that class. These defenders of the present laws advance as arc ar gument the great sacrifices that used to be made during a pressure for money, by selling goods at inadequate pricis, and in some cases the fictitious sales by which an enormous interest was virtually paid, at the same time the usuary laws were evaded. Many such sacrifices, especially that of the late importation of tallow, would, it is said, have been made now did not the abolition of restrictions on usury enable the parties holding the goods to obtain money at the rate of about 7 per cent. To a principle that con fers such great benefits, it is said that the inconveniences attending a few trifling transactions should not be opposed. I'o this it may be answered that it is these very trifling transactions that grind down the bumbler traders, and which, if all appearances be true, threaten many of them with destruction. It is not the persons who require exten sive loans, and thoso from the great discounting houses, that are the sufferers under the present system ; on the contrary, they appear to benefit by it. The quotations from time to time of the rate of money, varying accord ing to the state of the money. market, will show that with these it is merely a question whether they pay or 2 per sent., more or less, than they would have paid under the old usury laws. The borrowers of 50/. or tool , sums too trifling to be regulated by the general state of the money-market, but not at all trifling if we regard the interests of a most useful part of the community, such us s►nall tradesmen, and young men about to set up in busi neff—these are the sufferers, being exposed to the rapacity of the worst order of money-lenders, who make no scruple of asking 30 or 60 per cent., regulating their demand by no other standard than their own covetousness and the pressing wants of the borrower, who is more or less damaged by every attempt to extend his applications to other quarters. THUNDER STORM. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From our Evening Edition of Last Night.) About seven o'clock yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the steeple of old Streatham church, situated at the corner of Tooting Common-lane, on the High Cro3- don-road. From inquiries made on the spot it appears that the alarm was raised by one of the police, who states that shortly after the storm commenced lie (Its. tinctly saw the lightning strike the steeple, and for an instant the whole of the steeple and tower presented a most extraordinary appearance. Soon after this he per ceived that the steeple was on fire, and before he had time to give the alarm the flames illuminated the coun try around. At this period the storm was at its height. Messengers were despatched to London for the as sistance of the fire-engines, but the intelligence did not reach the ears of the brigade till half-past eight o'clock. The engines belonging to the Waterloo road and Sauth wark-bridge-road stations were instantly despatched to the spot, but by the time they reached the fire the steeple was wholly destroyed, and the flames were descending into the belfry of the tower, and also into the body of the church. The firemen, obtaining a good supply of water, got the engines into immediate operation and conveyed the hose on to the roof, and after very great exertion succeeded in saving the tower and the rest of the sacred edifice. The fire was wholly subdued by nine o'clock, and all danger was at an end. The dc• struction of the steeple is stated to cause a loss of 5001. The church is insured in the Union Fire-office to the amount of 3,0001. The storm did considerable damage in the eastern part of the town. A great portion of the clock tower of Spitalfields Church has received so much injury from being struck by the lightning that it is stated it will have to be pulled down and rebuilt. The bells could not be set in motion yests:rday owing to the damage they have sustained, beside which a portion of the roof of the belfry has been greatly injured. Crowds were collected around the church during the day, and numbers of persons who intended visiting church for Divine service, on 'roaring what had hap pened, returned home, being afraid to enter. Although the church was open as usual, the congregation did not exceed more than fif'ty persons. The roof of the house of Mr. Jacquard, scalemaker, at the corner of kVood street, near the church, also received damage. The storm appears to have been pretty general. A Brighton correspondent, under yesterday's date, says, " Between seven and eight o'clock this morning we were visited with a violent storm of lightning, hail, and rain, and this afternoon we bad a snow-storm of short duration." A Windsor correspondent also says a violent thunder storm passed over , Windsor at a quarter before seven o'clock, accompanied by a heavy full of hail and snow. During the height of the thunder-storm yester diy morning, a very respectably-dressed man, named Jones, was struck down by the lightning, in Meet street, but happily received no injury. Shortly after seven o'clock a poor woman, named Andrews, while crossing the fields at the back of Kennington-com mon, was struck by the electric fluid, by which her bonnet and cloak were much burnt, but she providen. Bally escaped without any injury. Abut the same time a fine youth, aged 12 years, named 11twlinson, was knocked down by the lightning near the Surrey The atre ; his hair and jacket were touch scorched, but he fortunately received no other injury. SHOCKING ACCIDENTS ON THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. BRIGHTON, JAN. 3. —At an early hour yesterday (Sa turday) morning information was brought into the town by the market-gardeners that a lamentable accident had taken plate on the works of the London and Brighton Railway, by which the lives cf three persons were sacrificed. On inquiry we gathered the following particulars: —At Hay. ward's Heath, :sear Cuckfield, a driftway had been made through a large mound of earth, and an arch composed of wood had been temporarily constructed, sufficiently high to allow the engine to pass through. Oa Friday afternoon the engineer and stoker were about to pass through the archway with a train of empty waggons, but owing to the breaking up of the frost the earth had sunk and a portion of the woodwork with it, so as to offer an obstruction to tho progress of the engine, and unfortunately the ob struction was not seen by the engineer, and the tender which preceded the engine came violently in contact with it, and the consequence was the tender was forced off the line, dragging the engine after it, and almost in stantly it removed Another portion of the woodwork, when an immense quantity of superincumbent earth folded in upon the engine, burying the engineer and the stoker, and stopping the engine. Several pc: sons were present ready to render assistance, and we regret to add that one man wc. s suffocated by the steam in his attempt to get the other two unfortunate men from the earth. We under stand that a considerable time elapsed before the bodies of tlie engineer and stoker were got out, when they were both dead. A second accident of a more serious nature was re ported to have taken place a few miles beyond Hayward's Heath, by which several lives arc said to have been sa crificed. The report states that seventeen men were buried by a fall of earth, and that, when a person came from the neighbourhood where the accident happened, six bodies had been dug out. ‘Ve have no means of au thenticating the latter particulars, but we believe there is no doubt of the truth of the first accident. It is even said that a third accideat has t..ken place further up the road. Since the commencement of the works on this line the railroad has furnished the Sussex County Hospital with between 300 and 400 accidents, and we believe that about seventy or eighty lives have been lust, exclusively of the accidents above mentioned. TILE WEATHER IN CORNWALL.-During the past week this county has been visited by heavy falls of snow, so much so as to render travelling impossible in some places where it has drifted ; the frost has also been very severe, and strong north-east winds prevailing. Such inclement weather for the proverbially mild temperature of Penzance and west Cornwall generally bas not been known for many years. The London and northern mails have been silt or 1404 hours behind time. A considerable quantity of wild fowl has been shot in the neighbourhood of Marazion, Penzance, and sold very cheap—wild ducks, 2s. per brace; teal, Is. ditto; and snipes, 2d. and 3d. each. To-day (Thursday) the wind has veered round, snow entirely gone, and all vestige of the late severe weather disappeared—the sun shining, with quite a fine summer ternperatute. THE CHARTISTS. MERTHYR.— On Friday last a meeting took place in the Market-square, which was called a " meeting of the inha bitants of Merthyr," but was really a meeting of Chartists, for the purpose of agreeing to an address to the Queen, and a petition to Parliament, praying for the restoration of Frost, Williams, and Jones, from banishment. As no application had' been made to the Magistrates for permis sion to meet, the assembly was clearly illegal, and could have been dispersed by the civil power; but the Magis trates having consulted together, thought the best plan they could adopt would be to let the business go on, taking care to be in readiness to act in case of emergency. The chair was to be taken at one o'clock, but it was nearly two before business was began. The weather was intensely cold. When the business was opened there might have been 200, which number soon doubled; however, before the close of the proceedings, we find there was about 1,000 to 1,200, although some of the actors in the scene thought there were 5,000 present ; many came and stopped a very short time. Mr. Andrew Thomas was called to the chair. lie introduced a Mr. Black to the assembly, at whose desire they sang some verses to the tune of " God save the Queen," praying for God to save Frost, and send him back. The Chairman then explained the business of the meeting, and exhorted them to be orderly and quiet in their . behaviour. He then read communicetions to the clergy, inviting their presence, to which there were no answers. An application had been made at half-past nine on Thursday night to Mr. J. Hooper Davies, the High . Constable, requesting him to preside, which be briefly declined. Mr. John, a dissenting minister in Merthyr, addressed the meeting in the Welsh lan guage, and moved the fullewing resolution :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the sentence of death, commuted into transportation for life, passed upon John Frost, Zephaniah Williams, and William Jones, was not justified .by the law of this kingdom." A Mr. Gould, one of the workmen, who spoke with a power and eloquence:that produced a considerable effect on the assembly, seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. David John, jun., in Welsh, proposed the second resolution, as follows : —" That this mectries is of opinion that th e jud gment o f two out of the three" Judges being in favour of the prisoners, upon a point of law, was sufficient ground for their full acquittal." Tee three preceding speakers confined their observations and arguments pretty closely to the question before the meet ing, with here and there a comment on some political to pic. They d welt much on the circumstance of the Judges being divided in opinion as to the legality of the proceed. legs on the trial of the prisoners, and then on the differ.. enema of opinion among the Lfteen Judges, arguing that the Government from hence ought to have leaned to the side of mercy. Mr. Bartlett seconded the resolution; and in doing so cut a very poor figure as an orator, when com pared to the warm and impassioned speakers who addressed the assembly in Welsh. Another resolution was moved by one Richard Jones, a man with an apron on, who seemed to have stopped on his way with a parcel, to harangue the meeting. The resolution was to the effect that it was the bounden duty of the Ministers to cause the restoration of the accused to their native country. His discourse was not without humour, but it went so far be yond the subject, and was of so inflammatory a nature, that he received hints from the Chairman and others to discontinue his speech. Mr. Black again spoke. He seconded the resolution, which was agreed to In the course of his speech he said he would never rest until he had procured the restoration of Frost, Williams, and Jones to the land of their birth. They should use all constitu tional and peaceable means to obtain this end : but they must obtain it. This observation was very loudly cheered Mr. David John then read the address to the Queen. Mr. Morgan Williams proposed and read a respectful petition to Parliament, which was agreed to unanimously. Cheers were given for several individuals, and the meeting quietly separated a little after three. Frost's sort was present, as was also a son of Williams. The former thanked them on behalf of his mother. Sir John Guest, Bart., M. P., and Anthony Hill, Esq., two of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, were in attendance at the Castle Hotel, in case of their presence being required.— Welchrnan. In the early part of the week the walls of the town were posted w:th the following notice :—" A public meeting fur the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the liberation of Frost, Williams, and Jones, and the immediate release of all political prisoners, will be held on Friday, January 1, 1841, at one o'clock in the afternoon, in a field adjoining the Salutation Inn, Newport- Friends from Bristol, Mer thyr Tydvill, Bleckwood, Abercarne, and Tredegar, will address the meeting. An address in the Welsh language wi:l also be delivered —F. W. Simeon, printer, Temple street, Bristol."— It will be observed that the bill does not bear the name of eny inhabitant of this town, and moreover that it was printed in Bristol, from whence it might be concluded that the movement was altogether got up by some of those restless and designing strangers who inflicted so much injury on the country last year, and who brought down ruin and desolation on many an innocent family. Although many persons entertained doubts whether I the Chartists seriously intended again to hold a public meeting in Newport, yet the Magistrates of the county and of the borough were at their posts, and took measures for the purpose of insuring the preservation of the public peace. On Thursday last the following notice was issued by the Magistrates, and extensively circulated through the bo rough :—" Borough of Newport, County of Monmouth.— Whereas notices have been circulated to convene a Public Meeting to be holden in a field adjoining the Salutation Inn, within the said borough, on Friday, the Ist day of January, 1841, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the liberation of Frost, Williams, and Jones, and the immediate release of all political prisoners ; and it is stated that such meeting will be addressed by Friends from Bristol, Merthyr Tydvill, Blackwood, Abercarne, and Tre deg -r.' Now, we, the undersigned, Justices of the said bo. rough, perceiving that the notice for convening the meeting does not bear the signature of any of the inhabitants of the said borough, and being apprehensive that the said meeting may occasion or tend to a breach of the peace, do hereby strongly advise all persons to abstain from attending at the time and place appointed for the holding thereof, and we give this public notice that we have ordered and directed the offi cers intrusted with the preservation of the peace within the said borough, to be vigilant and active in the execution their duty, and to apprehend and bring to justice all per sona who may offend against the law. Given under our hands, within the said borough, this 31st day of December, 1840—Thomas Hughes, Wm. Brewer, Thomas Hawkins, —At one o'clock, the hour appointed for the meeting, there were but a few boys in the field, There was, how ever, a cart there, from which it appeared that some pre paration bad been made. About two o'clock there were four or five men in the cart, one of whom, a stranger to us, moved that John Williams, a sailmaker, should take the chair. This was done, when a third person moved the first re solution. In doing so, he alluded to the conviction of Frost, Williams, and Jones, declared it tube illegal, and exhorted the meeting resolutely to demand the return of the convicts, and that their demands should be conceded. A petition to her Majesty was then read, praying that her Majesty would grant a free pardon to Frost, Williams, and Jones, and order the immediate liberation of all political priso ners now suffering incarceration. The meeting was ad dressed by Messrs. George Black of Llanidloes, Lloyd of Bristol, and Cronin of Newport. We beard the number assembled differently e.,tim ited, but from our own observa tion, we sh ou ld sa y that, when mo s t numerous, it did not ' Williams, and Jone s , for exceed too per son s. The meeting s e p arate d quietly, after giving Feirg u seve ral v o e r , a c l 0 cheersnnor andfo Frontfr the Chairman and three cheers were ulso proposed for Mr. Mullock, ier the use of the field, but the call was not responded to. We observed on the field during the day, besides the borough magistrates —Messrs. Hughes (mayor). Brewer, and Hawkins—Mr. Blewitt, Deputy-Lieutenant of the county, Mr. Octavius Morgan, the Rev. James Coles, Colonel Browne, of the Rifles, and Mr. T. J. Phillips, clerk to the magistrates.— The Merlin of Newport. CIIRIST3IAS FESTIVITIES. THEATRICALS AT CAME HOUSE, DORSET.—The Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, M. P., and Mrs. Darner, threw open their splendid mansion on Tuesday last to the no bility and gentry of Dorset and the surrounding counties. The enterta;nments were theatrical in the earlier part of the evening, the fete being concluded by a soiree dun saute. Shortly after eight the salons were thronged with the elite for miles around, and at half past the divertissement commenced with the vaudeville of L'Ambassadeur, which was cast as follows:—Frederick (the lover), Viscount Cantilupe, M. P. ; St. Jean (a vaet), the Hou. Co. lend Dawson Darner, M. P. ; Juliette (daughter of the Ambassador). the Han. Mrs. Dawson Darner ; Lanetta (a modiste), the Hon. Mrs. Craven ; the Am hassr.dor, Mr. Millmay. The Hon. Mr. Cadogan and Sir 11. Mildruay, Bart., were also among the dramatis per some. The parts of the Hon. Mrs Craven and Mrs. Dainer were performed with great spirit and naivete, and the personation of the lover by Viscount Cantilupe was consistent in all its details. At the termination the corn pzny repaired to an adjoining apartment, where refresh ments of the choicest descriptions were served up to the numerous visitors. After the stage arrangements were comp!eted for the succeeding vavdevillc, Christine and Michil, the audience resumed their seats. The lion. Mrs. Craven as Christine, Sir Henry Mildmay, Bart. as Stenislaus, and Mr. Mildmay as Michel, were rapturously applauded in their respective ch; racters, and at the fall of the curtain were compe l led to come forward and receive tire plaudits of their admirin g friends. The fete passed off with considerable eclat. Dancing then took place, and was kept up with unabated spirit until an early hour on Wednesday morning. V OTING AGAINST c TIIE GENTLEMEN : I - Anno Domini 1680, E dward Bolle, Esq„ son of John Bone, of Thorp e H a ll , Knight, by will left 600 1 . to pur chase land, out o f th e rents whereof he ordered his F eoffees to give to the p3orest people of Louth 50s. at Christmas, 20a. at Easter, and 255. at Whitsuntide yearly for ever, and the rest of the profits of the land to be disposed of by the Feoffees, or the major p ar t o f th em , in other charitable and pious uses for the good of the town, This charity has during the past Christmas been conveited into an election ncering engine, intended b y the Tories, (who study the poll-book, end who this year have had the charity in their hands,) to answer the twofold purpose of bribery and inti midation. seve ra l o f the wives of the poorer class of voters who suppo r t e d the Liberal interest appl i ed to the dispensers of the c h ar i ty to become participators in its truly charitable and C onserv.itive answer : benrfits, and on th e i r aPplieation received the f o ll ow i ng expect such a thing? you know our husband voted against the gentlemen !" Of ~ How can you ~f course, y not one person in the county will doubt that the fair dispensers of Bolle's charity meant by the term 6` gentlemen,” the Tory candidates for PRUDENCE OF Staniford Mercury. y . DEBAuCIIEE.—CharIes 11. municipal honours.— never permitted th e revels of the night to be ref erred t o on the following m orn i ng. By this means he in some de gree prevented th e over-familiarit tit y m ight have of his less el i g ible as. , held out in the hila r i ty of the moment and the sociates, and put a st op to expectations that he over-ILI!. ness of his h ear t. A mong his boon companions, also, he seems to have be en more on his guard than might h a v e ' Y been expected. T o one who importuned him for a favour in one of his j ov i a l moments, ..ou bad better," be said, "ash the fang to-M "Orrow„ 1 LIST OF THE ROYAL NAVY, IN COMMISSION JAN. 1, 1841, SPECIFYING THEIR RESPECTIVE RATINGS, AND PRE SENT STATIONS, (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) FIRST RATES. Britannia, Captain J. Drake, 120, Mediterranean Howe, Captain Sir W. 0. Pell, 120, ditto Impregnable, Captain T. Forrest, C. 8., 104, Plymouth S..i Josef, Captain J. N. Tayler, C. 8., nil, ditto Princess Charlotte. Capt. A. Fanshawe, 104, Mediterran. Victory, Captain F. E. Loch, nil, Portsmouth Queen, Captain J. Montague, 110, ditto Caledonia, Captain Henry Eden, 120, Plymo u th C,,operdown, Captai n Si r H. L. Baker, Bart., C. 13 , 104, Sheerness SECOND RATES. R .driey, Captain Maul:sen, C. 8., 92, Mediterranean Asia, Captain W. Fisher, 84, ditto Powerful, Corn Sir C. Napier, K. C. 8., 84, ditto Ganger, Captain B. Reynolds, C 8., 84, ditto B.ilcroptioii, Captain C. J. Aekton, C.B , 84, ditto Oc , ..an. Captain Sir J. Mil, Knt., nil, Sheerness V nguard, Capt Sir D. Dunn, C. 8., 80, Mediterranean CaLcutta, Captain Sir J. Roberts, C. B. 84, ditto Monarch, Captain J. Chambers, 84, Sheerness Thunderer, Capt. M. F. R. Berkeley, C. 8., 84, Mediter. THIRD RATES. Revenge, Capt. Hon. W. Waldegrave, C. 8., 76, Me. diterrancan Excellent, Capt. Sir T. Hastings, Gunnery Ship, Ports. mouth Bel!aisle, Capt. J. T. Nicolas, C. 8., 72, Mediterranean Benbow, Capt. H. Stewart, C. 8., 72, ditto Blenheim, Capt. Sir N. F. Senhouse, K. C. H., 72, China Edinburgh, Capt. W. W. Henderson, K.H., C. 8,, 72, Mediterranean Hastings, Capt. J. Lawrence, C. 8., 72, ditto Maanifieent, Commodore P. J. Douglas, nil, Jamaica lininacable. Capt. E Harvey, 74, Mediterranean Melville, Capt. Hon. R. S. Dundas, 72, China Poictiers, Capt. J nil, Chatham Wellesley, Capt. T. Maitland, 72, China Cambridge, Capt. E. Barnard, 78, Mediterranean Indus, Capt. Sir J. Stirling, 78, Portsmouth FOURTH RATES. President, Capt. W. Broughton, 50, South America Winchester, Capt. J. Parker, 50, North America Southampton, Capt. W. Hillyar, 50, Cape of Good Hope Vernon, Capt. T, Walpole, 50, Sheerness Enlyrnion, Capt. the Hon. F. Grey, 50, Plymouth FIFTH RATES. Druid, Captain H. Smith, G. C. 8., 44, Ciiina Seringapatam, Captain J. Leith, 42, West Indies Stag, Commodore T. B. Sulivan, C. 8., 46, S. America Astreea, Captain J. H. Plumridge, nil. Falmouth Blonde, Captain T. Bourebier, 42, China Castor, Captain Edward Collier, C. 8., 36, Mediterranean inconstant, Captain D. Pring, 36, At Home I Pique, Captain E. Boxer, C. 8., 36, Mediterranean SIXTH RATES. Alligator, Captain Sir J. J. G. Bremer, C. 8., K. C. H., 26, China A'idromache, Capt. R. Baynes, C. 8., 26, C. of G. Hope Calliope, Captain T. Herbert, 26, South America Conway, Captain C. R. D. Bethune, 26, East Ladies Crocodile, Captain -, 26, Weat Indies Ilorald, Captain Joseph Nias, 26, East Indies Samarang, Captain J. Scott, 26, China Taliaot, Capt. H. J. Codrington, C. 8., 26, Mediterranean Tyne, Captain J. Townshend, 26, ditto Voiage, Captain G Elliot. 26, China Allmon, Captain R. Russell, 26, Smith America Uarysfort, Capt. H. B. Martin, C. B. 26, Mediterranean Cleopatra, Captain A. Milne, 26, N. America. Vestal, Captain T. W. Carter, 26, Wait Indies Curaeoa Capt. J. Jonee, 24, Brazils and Cape C.:y lon, Lieut. R. W. Mends, 22, Malta I Niagara, Captain W. Sandom, 20, L. of Canada Iris, Captain H. Nurse, 26, Chatham Magicienne, Capt. F. C. Michell, 24, Mediterranean SLOOPS, Comus, Commander E. Nepean, 18, West Indies Daphne, Captain J. W. Dalling, 18, Mediterranean Dido, Captain L. Davis, C. 8., 18, ditto Electra, Cont. E. R. P. Mainwaring, 18, S. America Favorite, Commander, 18, East Indies Hazard, Commander, Hon. G. Elliot, 18, Mediterranean Hyacinth, Commander W. Warren, 18, Ease. Indies Larne, Commander P. J. Blake, 18, ditto M. deste, Commander H. Byres, 18, African Coast Orestes, Commander P. S. Hambly, 18, S. America Pyiades, Commander T. V. Anson, 18, East Indies R te,horse, Commander E. A. J. Harris, 18, N. America Rose, Commander P. Christie, 16, Rio Janeiro Royer, Commander T. M. C. Symonds, 18, N. America S.:Lint°, Commander J. Robb, 18, Wen Indies Childers, Commander E. P. Halsted, 16, East Indies Columbine, Commander T. J. Clarke, 16, China Jasseur, Commander F. M. Boultbee, 16, Mediterranean Nimrod, Commander C. A. Barlow, 20, East Indies Lily, Commander J. J. Allen, 16, Coast of Africa Racer, Commander T. Harvey, 16, West Indies Ringdove, Corn. Hon. K. Stewart (act.) 16, Ord. home Sappho, Commander T. Fraser, 16, West Indies Trinculo, Commander H. E. Coffin, 16, Lisbon I Wanderer, Commander Hon. J. Denman, 16, C. of Africa Wasp, Commander Hon. A. Murray, 16, Mediterranean Wolverine, Commander -, 16, Coast of Africa Zebra, Commander J. J. Stopford, 16, Mediterranean Acorn, Commander Adams, 16, Brazils and Cape Clio, Commander J. G. Freemantle, 16, ditto Cruizer, Commander W. H. Gifford, 16, China • Tweed, Commander H. D. C. Douglas, 20, Portsmouth Plican, Commander C. G. Napier, 16, Chatham Fanteme, Commander E. H. Butterfield, 16, Cape G. H. and Brazils Grecian, Commander W. Smith, 16, ditto Pearl, Commander C. C. Franklar,d, 20, ditto Persian, Commander W. H. Quin, 16, Coast of Africa Pilot, Commander G. Ramsay, 16, North America and West Indies Victor, Commander W. Dawson (a) 16, West Indies BRIGS AND SCHOONERS. ' Algerine, Lieutenant T. H. Mason, 10, East Indies Britomart, Commander 0. Stanley, 10, Australia Camelion, Lieut. G. M. Hunter, 10, Brazils and Cape Curlew, Lieutenant T. C. Ross, 10, ditto Espoir, Lieutenant J. T. Paulson, 10, Lisbon Nautilus, Lieutenant G. Bcaufoy, 10, Sheerness Partridge, Lieutenant W. Morris, 10, South America R illa, Lieutenant C. Hall, 10, African Coast Saracen, Lieutenant H. W. Hill, 10, Coast of Africa ?avage, Lieutenant J. H. Bowkcr, 10, Plymouth Scorpion, Lieutenant C. Gayton, 10, Mediterranean Waterwitch, Lieut. H. J. Matson, 10, Coast of Africa Weizle, Lieutenant W. Edmonstone, 10, Mediterranean Wizard, Lieutenant -, 10, South America Arrow (ketch), Lieut. W. Robinson, 10, Brazils and Cape Sparrow (ketch), Lieutenant J. Tyssen, 10, ditto Termagant (brigan.), Lt. H. F. Segram, 10, C. of Africa Speedy (cutter), Lieutenant J. A. Wright, 2, Sheerness Cockatrice (sch.), Lieut. J. Douglas, 6, South America Hemet (brigan.), Lieut. R. B. Miller, 6, West Indies Spider (sch.), Lieut. J. O'Reilly (a), 6, South America Viper (brigan.), Lieut. G. S. Burslem, 6, C. of Africa P:ekle (sch ), Lieutenant F. Holland, 5, ditto Raven (cutter), Lieut. D. R. B. Alappleton, 4, Sheerness 5.., aft :aver (cutter), Lieut. N. Robilliard, 4, Portsmouth Lieutenant W. G. Sprigg, 3, Brazils and Cape Buzzard (brigan.), Lieut. R. T. Levinge, 3, C. of Africa Charybdis, Lieutenant E. B. Tinling, 3, West Indies F'arester (brigan.), Lieutenant -, 3, Coast of Africa Griffon (brigan.). Lieut. J. G. D'Urban, 3, West Indies Lynx (brigan.), Lieut. H.. Broadhead, 3, Coast of Africa Basilisk, Lieutenant J. C. Gill, 6, South America f.L'gnet.; Lieutenant Edward Wilson, 10, Coast of Africa Lieutenant E. Littlehales, 3, ditto *All, Lieutenant Foote, Brazils F.e:reu, Lieutenant W. S. Thomas, 10 Par. Service P.3ehtingale, Lieutenant W. Southey, 6, ditto Skihjadi (sell.). Lieutenant H. Wright, North America Snipe (cutter), Lieutenant T. Baldock, Ireland SURVEYING VESSELS. iEt3a, Lieutenant J. Wilson, G, Sheerness Lieutenant T. Graves, 8, Mediterranean ii.t.kgle, Commander J. C Wickham, 10, Australia Er , bus, Captain J. C. Rose, 12 South Pole Lark, Lieutenant I'. Smith (d), 4, West Indies igpie, Lieutenant 'l'. S. Brock, Mediterranean Abstitl; Master Corn. G. Thomas, 9, Orkney Islands Snoding, lieutenant II Kellett, China Sulphur, Commander E. Belcher, 8, China '1 error, Commander F. R. M. Crozier, 10, South Pole Thunder, Commander E Barnett, 6, West Indies STEAM VESSELS. Op!lops, Captain H. T. Austen, C. 8., 6, Mediterranean Gorgyn, Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8., 6, ditto Coinniander J. Snercr, K. H., 4, West Indies Mx:ate, Commander J. H. Ward, 4, Mediterranean Commander A. Murray, 4, ditto 11 , dea, Commander F. Warden, 4, ditto Fi - cenix, Commander John Richardson, 4, Portsmouth Silaniander, Commander 11. Henry, 4, North Sea S romboli, Commander W. J. W►lliams, 4, Mediterranean Vesuvius, Commander G. Loch, 4, ditto Aliscrt, Captain D. Trotter, Deptford Acie:ron, Lieutenant A. Kennedy, Mediterranean Alecto, Lieutenant W. lioseason, Mediterranean Blazer, Lieutenant John Steane, Mediterranean Boxer, Commander F. Bullock (Captain) Part Ser. Comet, Lieutenant F. C. Syer, Plymouth Coliflanee, Lieutenant E. Stopford, Mediterranean Flamer, Lieutenant \V. Robson, North America • lieela, Lieutenant J. B. Cragg, West Indies • Kite, Lieutenant G. Sochi, West Indies Liglunitig. Lieutenant J. M. Waugh, Home Serviee Megasra, Lieutenant H. C. Goldsmith, Mediterranean Pluto, Lieutenant W. S. Blount, Woolwich 'Prometheus, Lieutenant T. Spark, Mediterranean Spitfire, Lieutenant E. H. Kennett, West Indies Tartarus, Lieutenant G. W. Smith, ditto Voleano, Lieutenant J• , .seph West, Mediterranean Columbia, Alexander Thomson, N. America F•refly, Lieut. W. Winniett, ditto Ginner, Lieut. John Jeayes, ditto Lizard, Lieut. W. G. B. Escourt, Woolwich Locust, Lieut. John Lunn, Mediterranean Lucifer, Captain F. W. Beechey, Ireland Soudan, Commander Bird Allen, Deptford Wilberforce, Commander W. Allen, ditto. YACIITS. P.oyal George, Capt. Lord A. Fitzclarence, Portsmouth ftn,al Sovereign, Capt. S. Jackson, C. 13., Pembroke! William and Mary, Capt. P. Hornby, C. 13., Woolwich TROOP AND STORE stne, Apollo, Wm. White (b), Portsmouth Athol', C. P. Bellamy, ditto Butldo, James Wood, China Jupiter, Robt. Fulton, East Indies R . 4tilesnake, Wm. Brodie, ditto S ippliiire, G. 11. Cele, Particular Service. The Earl of Burlington and family arrived at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, from Holkar Hall, near Milo thorr,. The Hon. Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard, who 1y.t.1 been staying some time with the Noble Earl, at the latter seat, accompanied him to Castle Howard, wti‘re a family circle ;s assembled, STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, JAN. 1, 1841. .Le Where two places arc n ent at which the depot of the Re, Ist Life Guards—Windsor 2d ditto—Regent's Park Royal Horse Guards—Hyde Park Ist Dragoon Gds.—Canada; York 2d ditto—Piershill 3d ditto-Sheffield 4th ditto—Leeds sth ditto—Manchester Gth ditto—Dublin 7th ditto, Nottingham Ist Dragoons—Glasgow end ditto—Birmingham 3rd ditto—Bengal; Maidstone 4th ditto—Bombay; ditto 6th ditto—Newbridge 7th Hussars—Canada ; York Bth ditto—Norwich 9th Lancers—Hounslow 10th Hussars—Coventry Ilth ditto—Brighton I 2th Lancers —Dublin 13 Light Dragootis—Canterbury 14th ditto—Dorchester . 15th Hussars—Madras; Maidstone 16th Lancers—BeNgal ; ditto 17th ditto—Cahir Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.)—St, George's Barracks Ditto (2nd batt.)—Canada Ditto (3rd batt.)—The Tower Coldstream Guards (Ist batt.)— Wellington Barracks Ditto (2nd batt.)—Canada Scotch Fusilier Guards (Ist batt.) • , —Portsrnan.street Barracks Ditto (2nd bat.)—St John's Wd. Ist Foot (Ist bat.)—Gibraltar, Fort George Do. (2nd bat.)—Canada ; But- tevant 2nd Foot—Bombay; Chatham 3rd ditto—Bengal ; Chatham 4th ditto—Madras; Chathant sth ditto—Cephalonia; Castlebar 6th ditto—Bombay : Chatham 7th ditto—Gibraltar; Limerick Bth ditto—America ; Guernsey 9th ditto--Bengal ; Chatham 10th ditto—Manchester I I th ditto—Devonport 12th ditto—Mauritius; Paisley 13th ditto—Bengal; Tilbury Ft. 14th ditto—Trinidad; Newry 15th ditto—Gosport 16th ditto—Bengal; Canterbury 17th ditto—Bombay; Chatham 18th ditto—Bombay ; Chatham 19th ditto—Malta; Cork 20th ditto—Dublin 21st ditto—Bengal ; Canterbury 22nd ditto—Bombay; Chatham 23rd ditto—Quebec ; Chester 24th ditto—Canada; Kilkenny 25th ditto—Cape ; Brecon 26th ditto—Bengal ; Chatham 27th ditto—C. of G.H. ; Templem 28th ditto—N.S. Wales ; Chatham 29th ditto—Edinburgh 30th ditto—Bermuda ; Enniskln. 31st ditto—Bengsl ; Canterbury 32nd ditto—Canada; Dublin 33rd ditto — Gibraltar;Canterbury 34th ditto—Canada; Dover 35th ditto—Mauritius ; Portsmo. 36th ditto—America; Clare 37th ditto—Halifax; Templem. 38 h ditto—Zante; Kinsale 39th ditto—Madras; Chatham 40th ditto—Bombay ; Chatham t B?rvice iviarta; tiotied, the last-named is that Igirnent is stationed. 41st Foot—Madras; Chatham 42nd ditto—Corfu ; Carlow 43rd ditto—Canada ; Armagh 44th ditto—Bengal; Chatham 45th ditto—Belfast 46th ditto—Gibraltar; Jersey 47th ditto—Malta; Longford 48th ditto—Gibraltar ; Youghal 49th ditto—Bengal ; Chatham 50th ditto—N. S. W.; Chatham fist ditto—Van Diemen's Land; Chatham 52nd ditto—Barbadoes ; Ica's 53rd ditto—Plymouth . . 154th ditto—Dover 55th ditto—Bengal; Canterbury 56th ditto—Canada; Newry 57th ditto--Madras ; Chatham 58th ditto—Glasgow 59th ditto—Corfu ; Templem. 60th ditto (Ist bt.)— Windsor Ditto (2nd bt.)—lonian Islands; Newbrid 61st ditto—Woolwich 62nd ditto--Madras; Chatham 63rd ditto—Madras; Canterbury 64th ditto—America ; Birr 65th ditto—Canada; Plymouth 66th ditto—Gosport 67th ditto—Canada ; Glasgow 68th ditto—Jamaica; Ashtn UI 60th ditto—America ; Nenagh 70th ditto—Berbice ; Spike laid. 71st ditto—Canada; Dundee 72nd ditto—Portsmouth 73th ditto—Canada; Hull 174th ditto—Barbadoes; Waterf. 1 75th ditto—Cape of Good Hope; Exeter 76th ditto—Bermuda ; London 77th ditto—Malta; Chatham 78th ditto—Burnley 79th ditto—Gibraltar; Stockport 80th ditto—N. S. W. ; Chatham 21st ditto—Barbadoes ; Fermoy 82nd ditto—Jamaica ; Portsmo. 83rd ditto—Canada; Boyle 84th ditto—Dublin 85th ditto—Canada; Plymouth 86th ditto—DuUin 87th ditto—Mauritius; Carlisle 88th ditto—• Malta ; Birr 89th ditto—Antigua ; Clonmel 90th ditto—Ceylon ; Tralse 91st ditto—Cape and St. Helena ; Mullingar 92nd ditto—Malta; Stirling 93rd ditto—America; Aberdeen 94th ditto—Madras; Canterbury 95th ditto—Ceylon ; Tynemouth 96th ditto—Chatham 97th ditto—Cork 98th ditto—Newcastle-upon-T. 99th ditto—Dublin (Rife Brig. [lst bt.]—Malta Ditto (2;;dlt.)-I , iewport Royal Staff' Corps—Hythr COLONIAL COUft. Ist W. I. R.—Demerara, &c. 2nd ditto—Jamaica 3rd ditto—Sierra Leone Ceylon Rifle Regt.—Ceylon Cape Mounted Riflemen— Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Veteran Comp.—Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYDS.) LONDON, JAN. 4.—lt blew a most violent gale yesterday morning, with heavy rain and hail, accompanied with much lightning and heavy thunder. The storm at about 7A. M. was at its height, but at half-past seven it suddenty lulled, and gave place to fine clear weather, with the sun shining in great splendour. At ten, dark heavy clouds with rain rolled from the West, and with a moderate gale, and again cleared up at noon, and at 4 P. M. the wind chopped round to the northward, and it turned immediately to a sharp frost, and continued throughout the night. Wind this day at noon, moderate breezes, from N. N. W. to S. W., and a hard frost. DEAL, JAN. 3.—Wind N.W., moderate.—Arrived the Globe, Barlow, from Singapore; Havannah, Grierson, Havannah ; New City of Cork, Barrett, Trinidad ; Ann M'Kenzie, Simpson, North America; . Indus, Jobline, Quebec; Pliceaix, Batavia; George Fyfe, Pike, Singapore; Robarts, Elder, Calcutta ; Liv er p oo l, Potter, Para ; Sir John Franklin, Benchwick. Rio Janiero ; New Times, Africa ; Catherine Boland, Wylie, do. ; John Forrest, Ja maica; Huzza. Hull, Prince Edward's Island; Jane, Nicholson, Quebec; Dart, Airth, Madeira; Apollo, Quebec; Isabella, do. ; England. do. ; Queen, do. ; Brown, Johns, do. ; Mariner, Honduras; Joseph Wheeler, Jamaica; Stafford, (barque) Mauritius; Toronto. Mon• treal. Sailed the outward bound. A vessel, apparently a schooner, bottom up, one bright and one white mast alongside, wit:i several small spars, was passed on the 21 ult. in lat. 45, lon. 39, by the Vigilant, Liverpool, arrived here. The Queen arrived, here from Quebec, encoun tered a hurricane on the 15th of November, and lost sails, &c. The Indus, arrived here from Quebec, passed a brig waterlogged, on the 23d ult., but could render no assist ance. Arrived the Vigilant, Spence. Dalhousie. MARGATE, JAN. 3,—Off port the Sir William Collinrr * g, Avery,: from Monte Video ; Orbil, Robin son , Q ue b e . ; Resolution, Carter, ditto. CowEs, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Albion, Harrison, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; William and Alfred, Cal derwell, Havannah ; Theodore Kerner, Bringsman, Ba tavia; Margaret, Preat, Porto Rico. The Hamburgh schooner Eleanor, in ballast, was run down off the Wight on the 31st ultimo, by the Prince Albeit. FALMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind N. W., fresh breezes. 2. N. to N. W., ditto,—Arrived the Pigeon packet, from the West Indies—left Si. Thomas's 23d November, Porto Rico 24th, and Cape Hayti 27th. Off port, the Ann and Margaret, Romilly, Campo Bello. BRISTOL, JAN. 3.—lt blew a very heavy gale last night from W. to N. W.—Ariived the William the Fourth, from Newfoundland ; Mary, Honduras ; Ajaz, Miritnachi ; Alexander Thompson, Calcutta. SWANSEA, JAN. I.—Arrived Andria, Hillstrom, from Valparaiso; Mary Ray, Norman, Cuba; Armota, Jackson, ditto. CLYDE, JAN. I.—Arrived the Merlin, Thompson, from Calcutta ; Sarah Bauford, Evans, St. John's, N.B. ; Belle Barbara, B2ron, Halifax. RAMSGATE, JAN. 3. The Sarah Elizabeth, Davison, from Sydney to London, has been supplied with two an chors and chains, and is now riding in the Downs. It has blown a strong breeze all day from S. W. to N.E., with heavy squalls. WHITSTABLE, JAN. 3.—A schooner, name unknown, is en shore on the Nic Sand, and expected to be got off on the flood, and brought in here. It has blown a gale this morning at S. W., but since veered to N. by W. 4 P. M. Blowing hard. SHEERNESS, JAN. 3. A ship, supposed an American liner, is on shore on the Nore Sand. Assistance has been sent. YARMOUTH, JAN. 3. —lt blew a gale at W. early this morning, and at daylight the Lavinia, of Guernsey, was on the Cross Sand. She has since been got off, with loss of rudder and leaky. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 2 —The Deveron, of Glasgow, timbcr laden was fallen in with, abandoned, and loss of rudder, in lat. 45, long. 43, by the Eleanor, Bruel, of Newcastle, from Saguenay. The mate and three of the crew of the latter were put on board, and brought her in here to-day. Arrived the Hannah, late Tucker, Laguina, with damage, and must discharge. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—The Zephyr, of Newcastle, from Quebec, waterlogged and abandoned, was paksed on the 18th ult. in lat. 45, long. 30, by the Evergreen, penny, arrived here. POOLE, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Love and Unity, New foundland ; George, ditto. The Helene, Breekwaldt, was run down on the 31st ult., by the Prince Albert.— crew saved. GUERNSEY, DEC. 31.—The Veritas, Peck, which ar rived here on the 28th inst., from London, was discovered to be on fire the following morning. The c4bin, deck, stern, and several timbers were burnt. The masts were cut away. The mate was burnt to death. The Julia, Ilawkin, which sailed hence on the 29th inst., has put back with loss of topmasts. Arrived the Dolphin, Dupre, Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, JAN, 3.—Wind W. N. W., strong breeze. Arrived the Steadfast, Tulloch, from Quebec ; Eleanore, Bruce, Laguna. Off port the Pomona. NEW YORK .-The Quentin, Leitch, from Quebec, was fallen in with the 27th ult., abandoned , loss of rudder, and three feet water in her hold, by the Eleanor, ar rived here. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Wind W. N. W,, fresh..—Arrived the Pilgrim, from Sydney, New South Wales. JAN. 2. —The flankinson and Robert were wrecked at Bruen pre vious to 28th ult., the former going in and the latter on the Bar going out. A barge and a brig were seen on shore on Goose Island 30th November, caused by the ice. A timber-laden ship, burnt to the water's edge, was pasted the sth ult., lat. 45, lon. 30, by the Chevalier, Knight, arrived here. The Diligent, from Cuba to London, was run on shore, in a sinking state, at St. Michael's the 18th ult., and it was expected would become a total wreck. Arrived the Calcutta, Gibson, from Bombay ; Blakely, Snipe, ( - Mina; Wm. Ackers, Nield, Porto Cabello; Oporto, Pearse, Tobasco and Nassau Union, M'lntyre, Demersra; J - inms flout, St e w ar t, B er bi ce; ZOI ilda, Jamaica; ; Bov.ditch, Crawcll, New Orleans ; Hope, ditto: Nicholas, Biddle ; Monticello, Lawton, Savannah; Triumph, Armstrong, Boston. FIRE IN BLOOMSBURY. —FATAL ACCT_ DENT.—At 12 o'clock on Saturday night a fire broke out in the upper part of the house of Mr. Dibon, tobacconist, No. 50, Must um-street, Bloomsbury. Shortly ger 12 o'clock the whole contents of the upper floors were cics troycd. The fire originated in the attics, occupied by a person named Martin, a bookbinder, whose property is all consumed. A fatal accident happened to the fire-e cape_ man, under the the following circumstances :—lt appeared that after the fire was extinguished the unfortunate man ascended to the upper part of the house, and afterwards dropped himself into the canvas, but whether from its thin texture or want of proper fastening to the wooden frame, or from some other circumstance, the unfortunate man was precipi , ated to the pavement, and the back part of his head completely smashed. Ho was conveyed to the North London Hospital, but death terminated his suf ferings aboug two o'clock yesterday morning. The line of railway between London and Dar lington being now complete through its whole length, the Government intend to render it available at an early period for the transmission of the mails. This new arrangement will cause great alteration as regards Berwick, MORNING E )1110N. THE MARKETS-YESTERDAY, CORN EXCHANGE. ~,cl,..rn to the supply of Wuvai by 1. nd Writ samples last reek, p ar t o f w hi c h rema i ned unsold, we b ow a fair fresh arrival, making the largest show which 0 have had this season. A reduction took place of 11. to 2s. per quarter. Foreign was held on the of° terms, but the trade was very fl at . A large aecutoul a' tion of barley caused a reduction of Is. to 2s. pere natter on that article, and beans were Is. cheaper. Peas until• tercd in value, owing to the frost having set in again Ye/ sharp. Oats rather lower. PRICKS OR BOARD OF BPIF, Wheat,Red (old) —s —s. Beans, Small (new) 43 1 45 --..,_.• White (old) —s. —I. ------ (old) ..... .... 45 7 481. _,. ------ Red•,lB4o) 525. 54. Tick (new) ..... ....37. :0 6 . __ Fine sta 57e . --.... (old) 42.4 45 • Superfine......sBs. 63.. ---• Harrow (new) 465.41 8 ' ----White (L840...5411. 51s. -- -- Fine 60.1. G3s Brank ..„...54. -- 1, --- Superfine .63s 70s Oats, Feed —40.—. 8 ° ---Foreien free 51s. 706 -- New. 205.23 1 . Ryc 3Bs. 40s. Poland _5....115 Barley .. 2,is 375. New 255. 2 8'. Grinding •6s 28s Potatoe s -- 16 Malting .3.25. 37t. Malt s6s. 60.. Scotch 27s. 901. --- Fine New 625. 63., Irish 185.... 215.241 4 Pease, Grey, New l's. 38s. Flour Town (per sack).... 50s. 5 5,4 Maple New 405. 4ls ..---- Seconds 465. 4 8 5. - White .31s. 365. .—........ North Country .„. 45s 4 64 Boilers 37s .SB.. Bran lts 12'. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEER. 1 Wheat. i Barley. Oats. Flour English 5 5 Irish — 3,927 Foreign — 1,0!0 LTU• SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply and quality of the Cattle was good gene . rally, and trade steady. The demand for Mutton wig depressed, and prices 4d. per stone lower. In Veal the" wet an improvement, there being but few Calves in tbf market. There was but little demand for Pork. Beast* 2,866; Sheep, 24,150; Pigs, 439; Calves, 40. Beefs 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s Bd. to 4s. Sd. ; Slew' 4s. 81. to ss. Bd. ; Perk, 3s. 81. to ss. PROVISION MARKET. The demand for butter was steady, and prices very firm prime Irish, 1095., and the finest Dutch, 120 s, per cwt Bacon dull, but firm in price ; the best 503. to 525. Pe r cwt. Lard very firm and looking up. HOP MARKET. The demand was only for small parcels, but prices did not give way. The supply was small. TEA MARKET. The demand was steady with a buoyant Market, and fo . parcels could be obtained at 2s. 2d. per lb. for cash. The stock is more than equal to fifteen months' consumptioar but the holders rely upon the intercourse with Chip* being cut off during another tea season. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Russian Tallow was dull, and price/ had a downward tendency ; 475. 6d. was the quotation P. Y. Candle on the spot. The stock is much larger, than last year. PRICE OF BREAD. The h‘ghes rite c f the NI. trop its Is 9%e1. for the 411 '. Gu d Bread may be had at 7%1. PRICEi OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quarter New Egl sh rte,. Clover...sos 80s ! St. Fein - —s S6S la Old :.it.. , Dit o —8 —8 —8 Rye Gass —s 12s O. New Foreign Ditto —s sns 75s Pacoy Grass —ll .....8 _..,4 01 lDitoDi to ..—s —s —s linseed, for fe n ding ~.—s 48s id , ,: New White Clover 45s Ns COs i Dit o, for sowing ...........s 00 V,: Old MI , Ditto —s —s s , Dltto, for crushi.. g .... —a 4:23 4" . t w Tre oil .... --s '..Ss 42s IL m —s 363 4. Old Litto —s 20s 3rs Canary —s 803 Tr folium —s ..it's 708 Per B..shet E glish Carraway —s 50s 53s White Must...rd.... 4a Od to 1135 Foreign Ditto --s 46s 488 Brown Ditto Ills Od to 198, Coriander —s 12s 16s Tares 7s 6d tc l'Js.', PUCE JF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton £44 0 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil 28 IC Ling ed Oil Cake at thc Mill (per 1000) l4 0 Ra, e i ake, per too 7 PRICE OF TALLO% Town Tallow £2 i:3 Yellow Russia White f 000 ••• •, 0 t Soap Ditto 0 0 S PRICE OF RAW F . Price of 'Fallow (as stated by the 1 COAL Al Ships attired since s. d. _ _ 7, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b Melting Stuff' ..£1 lif ; Ditto Rough Graves Good Dregs 5 " 'AT, per stone of albs, fallow Melters) ........ 2s. 1134.4 IARKET. last market-day, 228. Adair's -6 Buddle's West Hartley 2O 0 Carr's Hartley Liolywell Main 2l 6 Leaz,'s Main . Ord's Iledhugh West Hartley ........... 2l 01 Wyla, Walls E d Bewicke and C :-3 6 Walls End Clennell Walls End Clarke and Co l9 0 Walls End tkisforth Walls tend Heaton .. 23 3 Walls End Hilda. ..... ........ i . 2 6 Walls End Killingworth ... 3 0 511')itto reshipped Vals End I ercy liensham *22 0 Eden Main t2 0 ~ d' W. E. Braddyll's Hattori.. , 2 4 0 Walls End }letters i 24 1 Walls End Lambt on Walls End Stewart' s Walls End Whitweh V ° Walls Erd Hartlepool . ,6 0 6 Walls End Apel a id e Walls End Cornforth 22 6 Walls End Coundon . f l 0 Walls End Richardson'sTees22 6 Wall, End South Durham '':' ! Walls End St. Helen's T ees 23 i 's% ads End Seymour T ees =3 . 4 9 Wal s End Tees Cowpcn Newton Main IS 6 Walls End Cliff COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEIC. - I --- Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. ---- --- I ------ Per Quarter.' s. to s. s. t o s. s. to s. a. ---/ to s, s, toi • Varlisle ..... :8 - 37 - 32 - 56 - 56 ..• Ilexham " I tAI 62 '32 38 21 23 - - - „."- Morpeth 152 62 24 30 17 a 4 40 45 61 J" Berl ri th , - 58 -- 36 •-• 31 - 33 -, Sheffield - 6. - 34 - 21 Winchest r 52 63 28 -32 26 29 42 4. 35 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. B. d. a. d. s. d. s, d s.d 6 4 ' Carmarthen I, to 77 00 50 00 22 5 6 00 00 oro Cowbri ige Swansea ' 78 84 40 48 24 26 56 60 56 00 Per 8011. t 0 Barnardcastl 16 0 19 9 8 0 9 3 7 4 8611 0 12 610 6 1 ; Durham l4 0160 80 90 79 8910013 0 10 0 11 0 Richmond l4 6 IS 0 70 90 56 80 90 11 6 0 0 10 0 Stockton l3O 160 90 90 7 0 86 7 6 86 00 00 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET ' Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sullblk -s. 61s. to 65.. fine 64. -- Lin. and Cam. -------- Yorkshire •-s -s. to 545. fine 5115. ---- V 0 hite ..--- Foreign, lied -s. -s. to 533. fine 64 36 -..............--.---. White -s. -11. to 60s. nne titit Batley, Norfolk and Sufi:olk -s to 355. fine 38S• ---• Lincolnshire ----- Yorkshire Wold 261 to -s. fine 32* , .--- Foreign Beans, New . -- Old -s. to 465. fine 49C Oats, Potato .-s. to 30s. fine 32 , 14 ---,- Poland • -s. -s. to 2Es. fine illi. ---. Vriezland and Small -s. -0. to 90s. fine 235, -1, , aling Shal li rig M. 0 . , , -s, 40s. fine 445. per Load 11 xoe , sed • NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE;, Wheat, Northun a k er l an d Red, Whit e . 50s• -L - Norfolk and Suffolk...." ..... •••• 625. Ns"... 661. 68s. • -.- Berwick and Scotch 6ls. 655...... --s. 675. - Foreign ' • 625. 665........ 624. 66 Rye, Norfolk +and Su ff olk 36, 38s.•••••• --s. -a . . - Foreign 295. 33s ....5. -4, I ..1 Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... --s. -s . ...1. -.41. --- Grinding and Fe e di ng 3os „ ,„....a. 1.,,-• Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk...." ........ Beans, Small 4os. 485......, -..5. --11. r - Tick ; ;-- ...... 425. 465 ....... s ---s• . ?ease, White 44s. C 15..." --a. .--4. Gray - • • 11. 111. •••••• ....11.....11. Dsts, Northumberland Potatoe ..... .... 30s. 3U.... --s. -s• I • -.- F ee d 28s 30s..••••• -s. -a. t . " - Foreign L -s. -- Flour (per sack) - -I. ,;... 9 495. 524••••••, ..s. .4. - ------ - SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Oaten isbcrdeen Berwick Coldstream Cupar (File) Dunbar Elgin Inverness Kelso 33 to 3735 :4 50 to 60 25 to lB to 21 36 45 IS 21 16 17 4 50 24 26 17 18 30 i— 48 65 20 31 18 22 22 26 ---' , 48 68 26 40 23 27 40 42 40 55 6 , 1 30 20 28 18 50 —5O 116 27 1,0 19 23 32 33 —36 4 7 17 21 15 18 33 34 -'-' , ii 2 6; 34 33 45 48 43 1 (10 '4 30 40 25 35 41 44 —. ;ire of the measure varies throughout the country. HADDINGfON CORN MARKET. I Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Ewa, 70s 00 31 5 lid 26s Od (is 00 30 s Od 23 3 Od 383 Od 31).; 0 355 Od 34: OL" 505 00 2Si Od 21s IA —.B Od 30s 04 verage.... ..... 2' 17s 1931, B.l2ths. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Pease. Bean , . 68, I ti 3iso : i 255 8d 43s Od 42, 041 595 Od 00s 6d I .` - 2s 8d 40s Od 46e 00 504 Od 21s 00 dis Od 38 s OA I 344 0 , GLASGOW CORN Mt Rii.k-T.—Dec. 30. Wheat, per 24011,. S. d. s.d. Oats. per 2641 b. s. d. 3. c ,' Zritisti, old 326(0356 Ic.,b ............ . ........ 17 0 t020 , ' .-- new 23 0 31 0 British .............. ~, 19 0 ii Canada, free 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Barley, per 3201 b Scottish ........ . ....... i s '2 2 , , , ~1 ‘; Eugli:h 26 0 0 Pease, Scottish ...... gii 6 , ""A S-rittish 24 0 25 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b.... 17 0 19 v I , sh S" Kirkaldy Perth ''''' to 32 7 First Second Secomi Third . _UICIDE OF AN ACTOR. —On Saturday even ing an inquest was held at Guy's Hospital on view of the' body of William Robert Williamson, aged 33. It appearedl from the evidence of the several witnesses that the d ceased was formerly an acto r a t t h e east end of the met to p On Thursday evening be took a large quentity of laudanum at the house of hie mother-in-law, No. 6, Rus sell-court, Bermondsey. Ile was afterwards removed t 0 the above hospital, where he expired the same night. No cause was assigned for the rash act. Verdict, " Tempo rary insanity." At'GSBURG, DEC. 30.—We have received detailed account of the wreck of the Seri Parries steamer; this report is given by a German gentleman who was era board, and disproves the report spread at Trieste that the crew had mutinied. It was the crews of two Turkials transports that mutinied at sea. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET. —There has been no business transacted this week, the offices being oksied for the holidays.—BrLtol Mercury. SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE KNIVES, with Ivory Handles, 14s. per dozen ; Dessert Knives, I Is.; Carvers, 54. 6d. per pair ; T a bl e K n i ves, with white bone handles, as. Bd. per dozen , Dessert, 6s. Bd. ; Carvers, 31. per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-urns, 4 quarts, 275. ; new shapes, 395. ; Papier Macke Tea:trays, gothic shape, Ws ; the set of full sizes. Catalogues, wining the pi ice of every article n furnish— ing ironmon y and cutlery, gratis. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street. Established 1820. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst., in Devonshire -street, Portland-piece, the lady of Dr. Rutherford, of a son. On the 3.1 inst., at Woburn -place, Russoll-squrae, the lady of J. Warner, Esq., barrister-at -law, of a eon. On the 3d inst., the wife of Mr. W. Meek, of John-streo Blackfriars. road, of a daughter. MARRIED. This morning, at Marylebone Church, Mr. T. Evans, to OA accomplished Miss Stapleford, of Clipston-street, Portland-rea tl• On the 31st ult., at the parish church of Rickmanswor',:b, T. E. Skidmore, Esq., eldest son of the late J. Skidmore, Esq., to Ellen, third daughter of C. Brown, Esq., of London. At Brighton, Giuseppe Marcellino Negro (ex-officer Itali,en), to Anne, youngest (laughter of the late S. Bowling, Esq, DIED. On the 3el inst., at Hockliffe Grange, Bedfordshire, in tha 89th year of his age, Richard Gilpin, Esq., fir many years Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bedfordshire Militia. On the 24th ult., at St. Quentin, France, Ann, widow of tht late S. Waddington, Esq., of Leman -street. On the 30th ult., at Leamington, Captain S. G. Peehell,,, R. N., of Bereley, Hants. London: Printed and Published by Itlt/RDO YOUNG. ; of No. 112, Strand, at Th e Sun Office, No. 112. Strarecfn the county of Aliddlezez.—Tuesday r Yinu ar y, 5, 1841. riera Day ter base to at Cam Soul Can Rae Pr or ] C said th e to I 14 rnor eau du e loft