The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

i/i e at Cr lie Of en NORNING SUN tehi _ lor e "red b y the fortification tif Paris, and there he , •C''' 9 Th gives his support to that measure. , 4) 1 9 ` . i p WI ) ere is also another reason equally cogent Y , ' ; # ll ODILON BARROT favours the fortifica- It oi i h of tile capital. The project, he avows, was fir Itatli n th e , g hatched by himself in 1830. When w,, re ° , t uer patriots of the Revolution of July a ee Imniersed in projects for a Constitution to ire liberties of France on an immovable :A l ,' Onaort BARROT was revolving plans 4 11 k ilss e .P e iling the hostile bayonets of England and of w is e. The despotism of CHARLES THE TENTH .01 f 0,,, r gotten by the Republican lawyer in less than tild the hour s a f ter b e qu i tte d t h e cap i ta l ; tlit i 4 okee7tfuture Deputy and then statesman over fact that a revolution could not have h te sB ; Place had P a ris b een f ort ifi e d , i n hi s eager like.° de monstrate the power of bidding defi esti,() 'evolutionary France's only ally and 'ir t h le nd) 'England! Th ese f ac t s will speak kbli em selves. Th e y d emons tr a te that the Re iee'ean Party in France. „knows not what is t tit t by constitutional liberty. s t i„ taki ng M• ODILON BARROT'S view of this 'bi el :" ll 3 there i s one very i mportan t po i n t u p on Ilit t .. h we differ with hi m . We f ee l q u ite assured "ge "one condition" which, in his opinion, a nation a first-rate nation—namely, the fti'et° engage single-handed against the rest tio 'e World, is not - to be obtained by the fortifi• of a capital in the nineteenth century. ttti e ,' w ith Paris fortifi e d, w ill no t be a jot more t e 4l).l e to E urope t h an s h e was i n 1815. Sh e wi ll 1 / 4 1th ve° be so much, for she will have for ever tllo, e P r estige ofa'name more formidable than 1 4,11:1 84 " ramparts. Paris fortified, will be for -0411. le to F rance, not to Europe. When M . t IO N I lAanoT conceived his darling idea of ''1(11,, 7 Paris, he formed a conception of the b In Which, .if ever executed, a despotism oiler e nursed the pressure of whose iron heel t ish the liberties of France. Stye'iii re 3 l e ' a ye sin cere p l easure in announcing that y 4 41 4. 4t 111 . 9 r the Suppression of the , Slave Trade, lri 4 ,, lnf g the m u t u al , r i g h t of search, and de- S e l all traffic in slaves to be piracy, was lfl tist Jest erthy at the Foreign. Office by the of Ettgland, France, Austria, Russia, t r i l i lss , i a• We congratulate the Great Powers t rio e n armony which exists among them upon 7 N ah st i caportant subject; and after the many ptiaisarticles which have appeared in the French S at ' conaplaining of the exercise of a ' ll rQk ty r ight of search, the adoption of such a ;kre e b Y„ M. GinzoT-exhibits an extraordinary tat es ( " 1 mental courage. That the United mast b illa Y be prevailed upon to join this Treaty e etti toe sincere wish, not only of every rkte th ° f humanity, but of all who seek to ele t the char acter o f that 'Republic. Nothing Rantaccession of the United States is now l';ttllet°wPXdd. down the accursed Slave Trade all e p. • t he 'ins Journals have been all received, 4 a • ei t rid Papers of the 12th instant. dot er)nt e nts are of little importance, beyond nth w re are rumours of the hourly expected 1 1 bill et. t he POPE, and a change in the Russian Count PAHLEN, late Ambassador in e t's. "Poken of as one o f t h e new R uss i an k t -rs, of the prisoners, by the Court of b 8 PrOCeeding, but no additional sentences k4he Z4,Pronounced, or disclosures made. .6„ ec ie says i--" We have repeated, after the Jour r'isontats, the statement that Dufaur had attempted k t ,,tu ff I,lnself in his prison by swallowing a quantity t , rhis statement is not correct, and we are I,tlhin:at bufaur did not make any attempt to de b4rrierselif: It seems that when he was arrested at kt, l o ltarl y / 'ontainbleau, h e h a d t a k en no re f re shment r t il Of th 4 hours, and that he was conveyed to the tv e 4 te w i t ,' Luxemburg in a very weak state. He 1 44 11 " great precipitation the breakfast which was and his indisposition was caused by this cir beef m l' and b, the violent emotions which he felt at atlon . "18 , w ith st t he andinm• the denial of the Ministerial Jour kxNtl •Aration(il think s th a t th e re cal of General 'otinirab ll'y ' i- 18 fin al. It say s , General Bugeaud was "ced that to rescue the colony from the unfa , It nc rtig l 4pation i n w hi ch it is placed, it was necessary 0 4 0 es Petti t 4 great reforms in the local administrations Lu , °F , , 4 10,. place th e di rect i on in other hands than )- '4r A pd N, -Laurence, Like his predecessor, M. f atL rl . ea, li kdi 4 . Atisfied with the direction of the affairs I atir e uttered some threats, and it is even said, Motive in returning to France was to de . 0; 4 : discharge of this man, wh ose h an d h as carr i e d L t tlh. l sation into Algeria. M. L aurence h as antici ; kki 1 3 adversary, and Marshal Soult has again pre • the li stening to the deputy of Les Landes rather than 411 e "" ) vernor of our possessions in Africa. Only trlp L th e ~asure has been" observed with respect to a friend ''ti 'Mace fie has been prepared for his disgrace, ilf act •• • tit th, It is complete. General -Bugeaud is sacrificed tii V a s P l e manner and for the same reason as Mar. 1 11 ikie ( f ee • Marshal Soult has besides been the more C .. oo to tak e th e G overnmen t f ro m the Deputy of ut 44P i euil, as he is fatigued with his indocile man- Th• h umour. Luca;:, the truth ; let the Ministerial journal again .re f ed .„ I .!s ; the seque l will prove that we are well in rB — .Le Commerce. Cr, , a t 15 !a on ad ;or 11:,_41ssiows. One of the reproaches ma de t ad (le twhhigs by the Tories was, that they e er g , duties of Government to Commis- N lllr-. ., Xinisters, it was repeatedly said, even " le Whigs were employed in devising th", lll easur es of improvement, ought to take home l nselv es the task of inquiry, and?ugh_tt a o theneasnreS on their own responsib il ity. lt t . em 4tll....eoT,ories act? . Last night the appou . i r e G az. 7 , a no t h er Commission • was announced in to th "te) of which the duties are to inquire ~4 4 • e manner in which Excheauer bills . have ' IQ issu ed, mea ns can Ue devoisfesductoh b., 41 4 and what Ills fraudulent and forg ed issue kql . -kr • talen ts,then, of na ) ert e the gigantic of ,Z e l) Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Stan h at cluster of divine statesmen .w a h v o e .4t h . - " u 4 t the head of affairs, while they h q)e r ln g else to do una b le _. to re-model the Ex theter•ll.ll ,•,•, 1 -office? and must they have recourse r r,--iereantil talents of Lord Ashburton and 31 1)t ril ' e e °r€Ce We do not blame the ap eq t) tY J o rit °I . the Commission, but we how. the Jour . t t , the s . 117111 now repent them of their : agains t" th e Whig Ministers, who, according 11) e ° 4l (l do nothing without a Commissioa ,lilazejiiz„, aY morn ing about half-past five o'clock, ih ' :e t tl i : ; rb in ie h a e n rs , o i r 3 i r , e s iv e e rv r, ant to Mr. Hale, of Red Cross was sledging some beer from , k ,og l t ti.r entli to the cellar, when the sledge struck against m `' ) le." 4l c l cantin the opposite end round with fearful jeo - 7.7 e struck the unfortunate man on his right leg, jits 441 Lti,„,..` Le . ankle, causing a compound fracture of both the tie was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. t',."E OF BOLTON.—The Bolton Society for Zili e : 6 teetion of tho Poor embraces . the generous and "Nee if all parties. It has the Vicar of Bolton at its , 114 / 1; 04:1 1 d several - others of the established clergy are i;9ri - tt t. , l active supporters. In a conversational discus 'lie annual meeting of the Society, the Rev. Mr. the 14 ', 4 de a remark which spoke volumes. It referred :I,IIEI ts'ePlorable absence of bed-clothes . among . the poor,. e t° the effect that charitable institutm e ns ne w ed er y, ti call s t- OkWard in supplying blankets to th i i -en 'and t almost uniformly found that the pre t s o sin b g e -wne d• s () It "fle caused them immediately tie 'titut - was hanger remarked by Mr. Birley c , o t u h ld at o t o h t e , t44iti was now so common, that the poor was an es. 4314 fo r as times aid each other, and it khloit",;, itriehtlaefabctet,athtaot when they had it to spF-e, the poor were each other for supply in cases of extr o e s - t i 4 - -an to their richer neighbours. After the most aod discriminating inquiries made by officers p Yez e . ; ., totedfor the purpose, and extending over a who l e .n. %174,1,415 wards of 1,300 persons were relieved whose 1 0 . t°ll.t t :, te rlt.ged only 91d. per week. These are cases 't)at -" -Industrious eople, all willing, and for the ketityart able, to work, p hut unable to obtain employ !tld a th 'itt a week, w i t h b rea d at a b out 2i-d. a pound. eivirer articl es o f food on a similar scale And this c t6titi ° ll She prisoners in ou r gao l s li ve i n lux 411st tb — Pared with this. The scanty Poor-law dietary is W ti nles its amount.—Bolton Free Press. p •k; 'earn from Monaco," says the Moniteur 1 . 1 14 - " , " that the arrival of Florestan I. successor of by r ate Princ e of Monaco, Honore V., was signalised of s,Z,l".enteutes of the population, which is composed tarn s ' ) Ills• These eineutes had for their object to ob a i ts e abolition of the monopoly in the supply of wheat, h t 'r th li alng, and in the making of the bread necessary ;'attl e of *-,ooople. This monopoly, known under the P ifiel.ve/usire added to other regulations, used franze°•=aee tinde r the 'old Princes, and up to 1792, 60,000 18138..aleatq'tinder the French Government, and up to IIR" MOO -francs • and from 1814, under the reign of e V r4 tles r n' Produced annually the sum of 370,000 114 rilis is about 64f. impost for each person, or do b Nus e A • le of what is paid in France. The Prince th e e : it to be announced, on the 26th November ? that lan cla sit , e was abolished, but that it would be replaced b y a deatrance duty a 6f. per 100 kilogrammes on wheat, 14 ,,rio e p,', u Y of 2f. .50e. on grinding in the mills of the qete . ` , ,„and by a duty of 12f. per 100 kilogrammes on habitantsl.Ll ordonnance has by no means satisfied the , who seein it only another exclusive, under a g 'ffer 1) ent fo rm- A considerable reduction is demanded qeet el i t t u , aS also a reduction of the duty of 6f. 20c. per tatson teth er r e. , iMposed on wines oximorted fm ,ItlY diminution of the exit duty onthe expor- I~ ~ stl he '49 ✓y ?a ie le c; : .111 ,As; ) 4 ; .e ,t 4 , 5 A ,•0 r J e 0 01 4 0, it SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Pubitt fa ptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. A Grenoble Paper of the 15th inst. publishes a letter from Rome, stating that his Holiness the Pope was on the night of the 10th seized with an apoplectic fit, and was speechless when the letter was written. The death of Gregory XVI., a Pontiff of irreproachable morals, and of an amiable disposition, will excite a great com motion among the hierarchy of the Church of Rome. King Otho is not always unmindful of benefits. M. Guizot having just gratified him with a million of dol lars, his soap-locks Majesty has requited the Minister with the Order of the Saviour, of which M. Piscatory is a Commander. The Court of Peers considers the affair of Quenisset so important that it did not allow itself to repose from its labours on Sunday. No fresh sentences of guilt have, however, yet been pronounced. M. Salvandy, the new French Ambassador to Spain, entered Madrid at ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th instant. His Excellency was to be introduced to the Regent on the following day, to present his creden tials, after which he was, according to etiquette, to visit the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the corps diplo matique. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald, reverting to the fraudulent Ex - chequer bill affair, makes the following strange re marks :—" But it is with deep and unaffected reluctance that we advert to rumours which are rife in those quar ters of City intelligence, where ' beacon fires are seldom false.' The two Noble Lords,' whose names have reached us as not intact by the disgraceful 'on dit' which obtains of' this affair—are representatives of the great contending parties in the political divisions of the coun try. They are, neither of them, deficient in the three so emphatically predicated properties of plausibility— talent—and power.' They are, we fear, proverbially de ficient in other more tangible properties— Arcades arnbo Et cantare pares, et resonare parati.' The social liberalities of the one—the political libe ralities of the other—much as we have to object to them both, on the score of morality, and of consti tutional propriety—cannot extinguish the feeling of pain and mortification with which we are compelled to dwell, for a moment, on the report of their having been participators in the desperate preliminaries to, and desperate practices Of, the 'most nefarious fraud, per haps, ever practised on the fiscal departments of the country. We rejoice to hear that one Noble Viscount, who seems to have almost as many personal, as he may have found political or diplomatic, enemies,—has cleared up every imputation which an unlucky combination of circumstances at first was calculated to throw upon him, in connection with the memorable bills.' We shall indeed deplore the substitution (in the event of facts justifying the intelligence of our informant), of another peer, in his place, of rank not less eminent,—of attain ments not inferior,—and of certainly superior personal influence."—lf the Herald has any_thing to say upon this strange Exchequer bill affair, it should speak out boldly, and not deal in hypothesis and insinuation, which mean every thing or nothing, according to the fancies of its readers. We take the following from the Morning Chronicle : "All Tory Journals desire to serve the cause, not only of the Church, but of Church extension.' Very good, so do we. And we, further, agree with those Tories who repudiate any application of the public moneys to Church building and endowment, as the means of ex tension. A Church co-extensive with the nation is de sired by all who know the worth of religion. Coercion, hypocrisy, and taxation, are, in our view, most hostile to that consummation. The Church-rate persecution disgraces the Church. The practice of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, of making dissenting worship a forfeiture of the leases held under them, is a disgrace to the Church. So is the Oxford squabble about the chair of poetry. And so, moreover, is the extortion which represses the formation of cemetery grounds be yond the boundaries of the metropolis, exposing the inhabitants of its crowded streets to the pesti lential vapours that flow from piles of rotting car cases. We oppose 'these things as detrimental to the spiritual character and influence of the Church." — Had it not been for the Church-rate persecutions, which the Chronicle here speaks of, the Establishment would not have been reduced to the state of exhaustion and de bility in which it now is ; and which disables it from making a vigorous head against any of the numerous schisms with which it is embarrassed. It has alienated many of its best friends ; it has conciliated none of its enemies ; and in this untoward condition, can no longer hope to derive benefit from raising the old war-cry of the " Church in Danger," for none will rally under that cry but a pack of old women in the last stage of dotage. Alluding to the approaching Session of Parliament, the Advertiser says :—" At present the people are en during their sufferings with more than philosophic forti tude, because they are fondly clinging to the hope that, on the re-assembling of Parliament, the Premier will announce some measure or measures for their immediate relief. Heaven grant they may not be disappointed ! It will be the most portentous opening of any Legisla ture within the memory of man, if the people shall, after all, find that they have been cherishing unfounded ex pectations. The position of the Premier, if he suffer the proceedings of the first night of the approaching Session to come to a close without some explicit announce ment of remedial measures, will be more peri lous, both for himself and his country, than that in which any previous Prime Minister ever stood. It is because we look forward with fear mid' trembling to the probable results of a disappointment or the people's hopes, that we wish to press on Sir Robert, Peel, with peculiar force, the urgent expediency of being, prepared by that time with some tangible and substan tial measure for the modification, if not entire extinction of the Corn monopoly.".--Whatever our Contemporary may expect from the fears or the sagacity of Sir Robert Peel, we have no other expectation than that he will do no more than he can possibly help—in fact, do just enough to keep the people in a state of feverish excite ment. He will just throw a tub to the whale ; and hav ing done this, he will rub on from day to day, till, all his trickery expedients failing, he will be sent to the right about, with all his congenial faction. The Post says :—" Tho wretched folly of men who abuse the landed aristocracy, and call the production of landed produce ' robbery,' is not less apparent than the wickedness of their conduct. When devoting their time and talents to these idle, aimless calumnies, practical men lose sight of what good they really might do. They know very well that the Legislature is not disposed to give way upon the principle of agricultural protection, and they know that the party now in power is pledged to a system of graduated protecting duty, according to the price. But they know also, or they may know, that it is only to these two points the Legisla. tore or the Ministry stands pledged, and they must also know (if they be intelligent) that even within these conditions there is room for much speculation as to pos sible improvement. Adequate protection does not neces sarily imply exactly that kind and amount of protection which is now established, nor does it follow because there is to be a graduated scale, that thq existing one is the very best possible. If manufacturers and their ad vocates would direct their attention to such alterations as might be made consistently with the principles to which the present Legislature and Government are pledged, they would have far better chance of practical success, than in such wild denunciations as they waste their time upon at present." The Times thus comments on the late important Anti- Corn-law meeting at Manchester:—" We recur this morning to the subject of the Manchester cotton meeting, not because we ascribe any weight or value to the argu ments used there,if arguments they can by any courtesy be called, but because, observing the continuous efforts of the Radical press to set up these windy nothings as matters of substance, we think it necessary to guard against any conclusion in their favour which might be raised from our silence. Perhaps, if the persons who make the speeches and who write the commen taries were content to state merely their facts and inferences, and so leave the subject to the dispas sionate judgment of those who would take the trouble of calmly reading it up, the whole matter might be most usefully dealt with by the professors of political economy on the one side and on the other. But the tone taken against the landed interests, both by the orators and by the journalists, is so little that of science, and breathes so fiercely of inflammation, that what ought to have been a philosophical controversy has now been perverted into a passionate struggle, of which unreasoning 'hunger is called in as the arbiter. We . deeply deprecate such appeals ; and though it may not be so easy to quench an incendiary's handywork as it was for himself to set it flaming, we will not at least be passive spectators of the combustion."—These " windy nothings"—as the Times calls the late Anti-Corn .law meetings—will yet prove a hurricane that will sweep the monopolists to destruction, if they do not promptly take measures to avert the storm. Even now the wind is freshening to a stiff gale, notwithstanding our Contem porary's sneering allusion to windy nothings." PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. It has been proposed that a better view of St. Paul's Cathedral would be obtained by the removal of a great number of houses at the west end of Cheapside. The estimated loss of property on this change would be about 150,0001. Workmen are now employed in forming the new pri vate drive from Frogmore Lodge to Windsor Great Park, which wi ll be finished in the spring. The ride will pass by the Old Hospital, the double and through the fields, en tering thecGreat Park through c L REFORM. The people of Tottenham, at a meeting held in that district on Monday, to th e number of 600, attended a l Withec remarkedregard tfix t o that the "those pet l - t t, u i o r n e a f r g o a m i a l‘ t l r t . h e S i c d n o e r ) r ; S a w m s i , t t w h. s who could not write, would not fail to a their nar ks a much as it concerns those who can write ;an that the to it, recollecting that the question concerned them as Barons' who obtained for them the great charter of their liberties were unable to write, and therefore af fixed their marks,' instead of their signatures.' FINE ARTS. It is a singular feature of the Chantrey bequest, that the purchases to be made out of the yearly sum of 2,500/. at the di s p osa l o f th e Royal Academy, on the death of Lady Chantrey, are to be both from the pro ductions of dead and living artists. But the artist who soever he may be, must have resided and produced his works in this country. Thus it will allow of the pur chase of the works of a sculptor like Roubiliac, who had his studio in London. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. At a meeting of the Phrenological Society held on Monday, in the room, at Exeter-hall, Dr. Elliotson read a communication on the relative proportions of the organs of the skull between Blakesley and Couryolsier, and it THE S ‘ IJN, LONDON. WEDNESI)Ay,_DECEMBER 22, 1841. was matter of singular coincidence that no less than 12 measurements were equal. At the early age of 17, the eldest son of the late Sir D. K. Sandford has been unanimously elected to a bur sary from Glasgow .to Balliol College, Oxford. The planet Mercury, which by reason of its propin quity to the sun is seldom visible even in the► serene skies of Spain and Italy, may be now seen in the morning in the south-east, a little above the horizon, from six o'clock to half-past seven. It assumes the shape of a slender crescent, and is near the planet Venus by about three or four times the breadth of the moon to the westward of N. MONEY and COMMERCIAL -' CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The Funds were to-day somewhat flatter, and sales of about 50,0001. stock by the Bank broker and others, in addition to minor parcels, led to a slight re duction in prices. Consols, for Money, have been. marked 89i, and for the Account 88i- to 89, at which they closed. Exchequer Bills were 12s. to 10s. pre mium, and East India Bonds ls. to 2s. premium. Bank Stock was worth 165+ ; the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 98d to 99 ; and the Three per Cents. 88& to 89+. All the Foreign Bonds were dull. Brazil Stock was done at an improvement to 641 ; Spanish Active Bonds were at 23k to 23i ; Portuguese, New, at 23 i; Mexican at 26; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ap Shares were not so brisk to- day. Great ; , 4 :tern, New, were 9i ; Gosport Junctio n , 6* ; London,aq)e ir mingliatn, New, 24/ ; York and North. Midland, New, 16 ; and South Western, 19k premium. Brighton were 12 ; Blackwall, 14i ; North Midland, 29 ; and Man chester and Leeds, 5} discount. Union Bank of Lon don Shares were a discount. There was less business doing in the Exchanges to-, day, and the rates were not so firm, Bills being taken as follows :—Paris, 25f. 72kc. to 75c; Hamburgh, 13 to 101 ,• Amsterdam, 12 4i to ; Antwerp, 12 34 to 4 ; Frankfort, 149/ ; and Trieste, 9 50 to 52. The following is the offiaial return of the export of Bullion from the Port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Coin to Hamburgh 125,040 oz. Rotterdam 20,000 •Calais Silver Bars to Ditto • Rotterdam 30,000 Hamburgh • (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 20.—We have had a fair business doing in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales comprising 4,000 bales, all of which, except ing 200 for export, have been taken by the trade. Prices are steady at the quotations of Friday. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 20.—The trans actions reported at the Stock Exchange are Lancaster and Preston, 17 ; London and Birmingham, 103 ; Ditto, New, 261 ; Royal Bank of Liverpool, 691 ; Eastern Counties, 81. 17s. 6d. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 20.—Our market continues very firm, very little Stock offering. Manchester and Birmingham, 28+, 28k, and 28k ; Man chester and Leeds, 65+ ; ditto Half Shares, 27 ;,ditto Querters, 34 ; Union Bank of Manchester, 61. I Is. 3d. No later arrivals from any quarter to-day, Consols and the Three Per - Cents. Redliced opened this morning at the closing prices of yesterday, the former 88k, and the latter at 89. Exchequer Bills are steady at 10 12 premium. Spanish Active Stock opened at 231 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 322 33; Ditto Fives, 191 20. Very little business doing. A further decline has taken place in the English stock market since the opening; Consols are now qnoted at 88 1 , for the Account, and the Three per Cents. Reduced 88j. Consols have been done for Money at 89i. India Bonds, 1 prem.; Exchequer Bills are 11 12 prem. Very little oing in the Foreign market. Brazilian Bonds are quoted at 642 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 321 ; Spanish Active Stock, 23i; Deferred, 111; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 52; Ditto Fives, 991 8. The Share Market is flat, with but little doing. , Chel tenham and Great Western are quoted at 281 ; Great North of England 69 ; Great Western Fifths 9# ; London and Brighton 37i; South Eastern and Dover 20k; York and North Midland New 31. Consols are now 88,1 8. The market looking very flat. Consols, 88-k 89 ; Colombian, 204} ; Mexican, 241 ; Spanish, 2334. There is again some talk of the Exchequer-bill affair, and, from what is transpiring, it is evident the public will never rest satisfied until the names of all the delin• quent parties, high and low, are exposed. To wind up the year with a good balance, some parties have been effecting sales of stock to-day, and generally money does not seem to be so easy of obtainment. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1651 (India Stock • .•• 3 per Cent Red. B9 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9/ Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red fllii Ditte New Annuities... New 3i per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2}d 10 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/... Long Annuities to e xpire , Ditto Small. 13 pm Jan ' 1860 .. 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2l 'lndia Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. -- Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cox Chilian, 6 per cent... Colombian, 6 per cent.. Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 P- - • 1825, 6 per ct. 14 Russian, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 23# Ditto, Deferred .. 11i French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange —f. —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c Dutch, 2i per cent 5l Ditto, 5 per cent. R' ...., SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ..... . ... .. 28% Great North of England Railway (90 paid) 69 Great Western Railway( 65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 9% Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) London and Brighton (50 paid) 3B London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 114 Ditto New Shares ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid 263 London and Greenwich Railway (2 0 pd) 6% London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 21% North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (43 pa id). York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (15 paid) .. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7% Gibraltar .. ........ ...... 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 8 Genoa Antwerp l2 7 Milan Elamburgh M. B. 13 13% Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 P a l ermo , per oz 119% Ditto, 3 months' 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150% Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37% Buenos Ayres 8er1in..... ... ............ 7 New York,2l days sight 46% 'erunian, Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 952 Trieste, ditto 9 55 Madrid Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Cadiz 36* Bilbao ... 36 Barcelona Seville ...36 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars... 0 4 11/ TO THE EDITO IR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In the name of religion, humanity, and reason I earnestly and respectfully beg the favour of the inser, tion, in your Journal, of the following convincing and conclusive argument against the dreadful custom of war. —Your's, &c. H. MARTIN. 16, Wood-street, Brompton, Kent. COURT CIRCULAR. - WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert walked in the Little Park, inhere the Prince enjoyed the exereisQ of skating with some of the Royal Suite. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Sarah Cavendish ; and with his Royal High ness were the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Liver pool, Earl of Warwick, Colonel Arbuthnot, Baron Stock mar, and Dr. Prcetorius. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent walked out, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. Viscount Sydney has arrived, to succeed the Earl of Warwick as the Lord in Waiting on the Queen ; and Sir Robert Otway has arrived, to succeed General the Hon. Sir W. Lumley as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Countess of Sandwich has succeeded the Countess of Gainsborough as the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty. Lady Laura Noel left this morning. Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. Dr. G. J. Elvey, the organist of St. George's Chapel, having set to music " An Ode on the Birth of the Prince of Wales," had the honour of conducting a performance of the composition before the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Court, yesterday evening, in the Music Room of the Castle. The Solos were sung by Master Foster. The Chorus, consisting principally of the Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter Hall, accompanied by her Majesty's Private Band, under the direction of Mr. Anderson, forming altogether a complete and effective Orchestra of about sixty persons. At the conclusion of the performance her Majesty and Prince Albert were pleased to signify, in a flattering manner, to Dr. Elvey, their entire approbation. The following are the words of the ode, which was written by the Rev. W. C. Cotton, late of Windsor, who has recently left England with the newly-appointed Bishop of New Zealand. RECITATIVE. Through England's fruitful fields, and smiling vales, Loud notes of gladness fill th' autumnal gales. CHORUS. " A PRINCE IS BORN !" Prom London's Queen like Tower Is told afar by thund'ring cannon's voice ; And Echo, with her hundred tongues, replies, " A PRINCE IS BORN !" let British hearts rejoice. AIR AND CHORUS. " God do I serve !" this shall thy motto be ; Whilst in our ears thy cheering watchword rings, Nought fear we else but God, and view in Thee A Prince well pleasing to the King of kings. RECITATIVE. Dread Queen ! Thy people bend the lowly knee To God, in humble thankfulness for thee ; Dread Queen ! Fond Mother ! These twin names combine To swell the triumphs of thy Royal line. Albert, be thine the joy a father knows At the fair promise of a hopeful Son ; Long may he live, each British heart to win By goodly deeds, as, Albert, thou hast won. CHOICE'S. God save the Queen ! in this proud hymn of joy Let every soul its loyalty evince ; Each tongue take up the burden of our song— Long live our Queen ! Long live our new•born Prince. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, arrived in town yesterday from their residence at Kew, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Their Royal Highnesses returned in the afternoon to Kew. The Committee of the Lords of the Council on Educa tion had a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Colonial office. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Earl of Ripon, Sir Robert Peel, and Sir James Graham. Their Lordships met at two, and sat till fire o'clock. Dr. Kay was in attendance upon their Lordships. General Sancho, the Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary, having been presented to the Queen at Windsor Castle, by the Earl of Aberdeen, paid visits to the members of the Royal Family on Monday, at their respective re sidences. Lord Stanley left town yesterday morning for Knows ley Hall, Prescot, Lancashire. The Earl of Lincoln had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, yesterday. Despatches for the Governor of the Mauritius were sent off last evening from the Colonial• office. NAVAL AND MILITARY. On Sunday se'nnight, Captain Northcote, master of the Elizabeth, an English vessel, in the port of Havre, and a French pilot, were unfortunately drowned. The Captain, with the' brave pilot, Martin, and others had gone out in a boat to the relief of the English barque Julia, of Newcastle, and having placed her in safety, the boat upset. - Martin and the rest were saved. LAW AND POLICE. An applicatio n wa s made on Mon day in the Insolvent Debtor's Court on behalf of the Rev. F. Sturmer, for a dispensation to reside within the rules of the Queen's Bench, which the Court granted on the ground of ill health. This insolvent kept the boarding school at Hayes where Medhurst mortally wounded his schoolfellow. A man of the name of Coveney, who was in Maidstone gaol for damages in an action for seduction, applied to be discharged on sureties, until the hearing on the next circuit, but the Court would not listen to the application. At the Clerkenwell Police Court on Monday, two letters were received, one with the initials A. K. R., and the other from Goldsmith's Hall, each containing a 101. note for the relief of the poor. This wealthy Company, we believe, has sent the same sum to each of the Metropo politan Police Courts, and deserve credit for their liberal donations, as well as the mode of , distributing them, for there are few places in London where such distress is witnessed as at Police-offices. Joseph Morgan, the youth charged last week with ac cidentally wounding with a bullet Elizabeth Brown, wife of a sawyer, while shooting at sparrows, again appeared before the Magistrate, having been at large on bail. It appeared that the lad, who is sixteen years of age, had loaded a musket with a small charge of shot, not sus pecting at the time that it had been previously loaded with ball, and fired it at a sparrow. The poor woman, who was in the act of wiping down her table, received the ball in her left hip, and, being alone at the time, she lay on the floor for nearly two hours without being able to move. The husband, who was in attendance, said the ball was still lodged in her body, in so dangerous a part, that no attempt at present could be made to extract it. The Magistrate, on finding from the surgeon's certificate that she was not at present in a dangerous state, enlarged the prisoner's recognizances for a week. At Clerkenwell, two Spitalfields weavers were brought up charged with begging, but on the Magistrate finding that they and their families were in deplorable distress, he directed the Clerk to give them ten shillings each out of the poor-box. SPORTING. The Bramham hounds ;Ie returned to the Fox family ; they were made over to Lord Harewood when the present Mr. Lane Fox preferred hunting in Leicestershire, but they have been for-many generations in Bramham Park, where some handsome kennels exist, built by Lord Bingley, great uncle to the present Mr. Fox. THEATRICAL. The Birmingham Theatre closed on Friday last, with a very full house. It will be re-opened again on the 27th, when Macbeth is to be produced, together with a pantomime. COURT-FASHION ABLE. The Earl of OZor is entertaining a select party at his seat in Berks, where sporting is the order of the day. Viscount Duncannon has arrived in Cavendish-square. The Lord Chancellor, Lady Lyndhurst, and Miss Copley left town on Saturday on a 'visit to the Marquis of Salisbury. Lord and Lady John Russell leave Belgrave-square to-morrow, for the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne at Bowood. The late Earl of Westmoreland had been separated from the Countess for many years till lately, when the Noble Earl requested a reconciliation, whch was arranged. The Marquis of Tavistock returns to Woburn Abbey to-morrow or Friday. The Dowager Lady Holland had a dinner-party on Saturday in South street. Count D'Ors-ay is expected on a visit to Lord and Lady Chesterfield at Bratby in Derbyshire. Monseigneur Cappacini, the Under-Secretary of State of his Holiness, the Pope, arrived in town on Wednes day last by the Ostend steamer. The Earl of Lonsdale has given up his hounds in Rut landshire. MISCELLANEOUS. This is the anniversary, in 1739, of the death of the Lady Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of the seventh Earl of Huntingdon. She was the lady celebrated by Steele in " The Tatler " under the name of Aspasia. Be sides erecting several schools and churches, she founded five scholarships in Queen's College, Oxford. One of the tanks of the gas-works at Dundee, ex ploded on Thursday last, with a tremendous shock, when two boys, named Warden and Bruce, were buried in the ruins. Only one body has yet been got out. The poll on the Church-rate at Hackney, concluded on Saturday with a majority of 77 in favour of the Rector ; while in July, after a two days' poll, a rate was negatived by a majority of only 1. The parish church of South Hackney has sittings fur about 1,000, while the Dissenting chapels in the district will accomo date:2;soo persons. The funeral of the Earl of Westmoreland takes place on Monday, at . Apethoriit,' Northamptonshire. The body is now being removed 'from Brighton. The ,tiOrpoliilWOrkhonse is now crowded to excess, there being nWelfhWer than-2,000 paupers receiving in door relief, and in the new and spacious West Derby workhouse every sleeping room is fully occupied. We believe the same may be said of almost every workhouse th:oughout the country. We understand that a member of a Finsbury Tempe rance Society was on Monday fined five shillings at Bow street, for indulging in excessive tee- totalism on the previous night. There is no truth in the report that the Pope, at the instigation of the Puseyites, has landed at Dover in a fishing-smack, with a cargo of faggots and old,women. We understand that Mr. Newman, the Puseyite, has lately been examining Smithfield with attention, in order to select a convenient spot forroasting Low-Church Pro testant Bishops in. Our informant adds that the Bishop of Exeter is the first whom the Puseyites propose to roast, and that they are resolved he shall be done to a turn. Having already roasted so many Papists in his pamphlets, the ghostly Prelate cannot in justice object to being roasted himself. Letters from Paris mention that Rapallo was then or recently in that capital, and the writers, under the im pression from the reports in the journals here that his apprehension was again ordered, intimate that no time was to be lost in making an application to the French Govern. ment for his capture and delivery, as for a day or two he had not been seen in his customary haunts. RUMOUR. OX' THE DAY. Edwin Jones, alias Palace Jones, has refused an offer of 501., with board, lodging, and clothing for six months, from the keeper of a strolling menagerie, who intended to exhibit him in the country. The lad suspects this is a device of Sir James Graham to keep him out of the way during the festivities of the Royal christening. DISTRESS IN OSWALDTWISLE. SIR It. PEEL'S CHARITY.—The following statement respecting the distressed condition of the inhabitants of Oswald twistle was forwarded to the meeting of the Corn-law Deputies, at Manchester, on Thursday last :—Oswald twisle, in the parish of Whalley, contains a population of about 6,500 ; the dwellings of the working classes in the township have been visited within the last few days, and the following is the melancholy result of the in quiries. There are, in the township, 1,171 individuals, constituting 248 families, whose average weekly earn ings is only Is. 3i-d. No account was taken of any family, the members of which earned individually 2s. per week, but a very great number were said to only just exceed that limitation. The general destitution of the population is truly pitiable; in some cases the visitors found only one bed, and that of the humblest materials, for 10 persons, without a particle of blanket, or anything to warm the wretched occupants save their scanty wear ing apparel, and in many instances five and six had to oc cupy the same bed, with nothing to throw over them. The visitors have had their feelings so shocked by the sights of misery they have been called upon to witness, that they have expressed their hope that this township is surely without a parallel for its sufferings, and yet there appears not the least prospect of amendment, but on the contrary a gloomy anticipation that the worst has not yet come, and that even the small pittance doled out to keep them from absolute starvation, will be, during tho ensuing bitter months of winter, still further reduced. The charitable feeling of the more wealthy has induced a subscription to be got up in aid of the suffering poor of the township, which amounts to 2801. Among the list of names of subscribers to this fund, we find that of the liberal—charitablo—kind-hearted ! !—Sir Robert Peel, who draws a rental of about 2,0001. a year from this parish, and who has presented to the starving labourers on his own estate the overwhelming donation of 20/. ! ! Is not Sir Robert Peel the friend of the poor ?—for, after starving the people by his odious Corn-laws, he gives them back the bone from which he has picked the meat ! Blackburne Gazette. STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.--During the se vere storm of Monday night last, the inmates of a house in High street, Ayr, were alarmed by a heavy substance falling down the kitchen flue, which, instead of lying stock still, proceeded to divest itself of the sable addition to its drapery, •by flying around the room, and kicking up such a dust_as might be expected at a chimney sweep's wedding.' When the consternation had sub sided which had been caused by the advent of the mysterious visitor—which was not until it had fairly tired itself out—a searching inquiry was made by the in mates to find what description of intruder they had to deal with ; when it appeared, greatly to their surprise, that the unruly transgressor was neither more nor less than a cock pheasant! The piPIEPRI b'utrin all proba bility been scared from its -pdchTilhdliad winged its way towards the 'town, where it had rc)6l6' to roost n the top of the chimney, into which it'hid been blown by one of these sudden and violent gust's of wind that pr. - vailod during the night.. Into the subsequent history of the " bonnie birdie," it becomes those not unconnected with the Tax-Office to pry. It is but charitable to thi n k he was allowed to wing his way home again; but, judg ing from certitinqndications, he must have cast his fea thers with fright before he ilew.—Ayr Advertiser. DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.—We regret to state that last week's return shows an increase rather than a diminution of the number of the unemployed. The num bers are:—Males, 1,914 ; dependents, 4,785 ; females, 1,637 ; dependents, 3,274—t0ta1, 11,610. Including Johnston, Barrhead, Kilbarchan, Ece., the total number of unemployed is 13,240.—Glaagou; Argus,. . ORDINATION. At a general ordination, held by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, on Sunday last, in the Cathedral Church of Gloucester, the following gentlemen were ad mitted into holy orders, viz. : DEAcoNs—William George Sinclair Addison, M.A., Magdalene llall, Oxon ; Richard Champernowne, 8.A., Christ Church, Oxon ; Marmaduke Cochin, 8.A., Queen's College, Cambridge ; Thomas Debary, 8.A., Lincoln College, Oxon ; John Bowdler Gisborne, B.A„ Trinity College, Cambridge ; Richard Masters Hutchins, Trinity College, Cambridge ; Robert Inchbald, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambrige ; Thomas Palling Little, 8.A., Trinity College, Oxon ; James Houghton Money, 8.A., Emanuel College, Cambridge ; Fielding Palmer, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Joseph Corbett Turnbull, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Nathaniel Arscott lloward, 8.A., Exeter College, Oxon, by letters dismissory from the Bishop of Exeter. PRIESTS.—WiIIiam Henry Biedermann, 8.A., Pem broke College, Oxon ; henry Bubb, M.A., Pembroke College, Oxon ; Richard Trist Budd, 8.A., Magdalene College, Cambridge ; Charles Ross de Havilland, M.A., Oriel College, Oxon ; John Bath Gabriel, 8.A., St. Ed mund's Hall, Oxon ; Alexander Grant, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; William Nathaniel Griffin, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge ; William Philip Haste wood, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Hugh Hynd man Jones, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Octa vius Friere Owen, BA., Christ Church, Oxon; Andrews Reeve, 8.A., Wadham College, Oxon 4 William Spear - man, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Frederick Ston house, 8.A., Oriel College, Oxon ; John Sibley Wood man, 8.A., Worcester College, Oxon ; John Davis, a literate person, and Henry William Steel, 8.A., Jesus College, Oxon, by letters dimissory from the Lord Bishop of Llandaff. DISCOVERIES IN THE TEMPLE CHURCH. On the southern side of the building, near the high altar, is an elegant marble piscine or lavacrum, which was in like manner discovered on pulling down the modern oak wainscoting. This interesting remnant of antiquity has been beautifully restored, and well merits attention. It was constructed for the use of the priest who officiated at the adjoining altar, and was intended to receive the water in which the chalice had been rinsed, and in which the priest washed his hands before the consecration of the bread and wine. It consists of two perforated hollows or small basins, in closed in an elegant marble niche, adorned with two graceful arches, which rest on small marble columns. The holes at the bottom of the basins communicate with two conduits or channels for draining off the water, which anciently made its exit through the thick walls of the church. In the olden time, before the con secration of the host, the priest walked to the piscine, accompanied by the clerk, who poured water over his hand?, that they might be purified from all stain be fore he ventured to touch the body of our Lord. One of these channels was intended to receive the water in which the priest washed his hands, and the other that in which he had rinsed the chalice. The piscine, conse quently, served the purposes of a sink.—Addison's His tory of the Knights Templars. HEDGEHOGS. One of the most interesting facts in the natural history of the hedgehog is that announced in 1831 by M. Lenz, and which is now confirmed by Professor Buckland. That is, that the most violent animal poi sons have no effect upon it—a fact which renders it of peculiar value in forests, where it appears to destroy a great number of noxious reptiles. M. Lenz says that he had in his house a female hedgehog, which he had kept in a large box, and which soon became very mild and familiar. He often put into the box some adders, which it attacked with avidity, seizing them indifferently by the head, the body, or the tail, and did not appear alarmed or embarrassed when they coiled themselves around its body. On one occasion M. Lenz witnessed a fight between the hedgehog and a viper. When the hedgehog came near and smelled the snake, for with those animals the sense of sight is very obtuse, she seized it by the head, and held it fast between her teeth, but without appearing to do it much harm ; for, having disengaged its head, it assumed a furious and menacing attitude, and hissing vehemently, inflicted several severe bites on the hedgehog. The little ani mal, however, did not recoil from the bites of the viper, or indeed seem to care much about them. At last, when the reptile was fatigued by its effort., she again seised it by the bead, which she ground between her teeth, compressing the fangs and glands of poison, and then devouring every part of the body. M. Lenz says that battles of this sort occurred in the presence of many persons ; and sometimes the hedgehog has re ceived eight or ten wounds on the ears, the snout, and even on the tongue, without appearing to experience any of the ordinary symptoms produced by the venom of the viper. Neither herself nor the young she was suckling seemed to suffer from it. This observation agrees with that of Pallas, who assures us that the hedgehog can eat about 100 cantharides without ex periencing any of the effects which the insect taken inwardly produces on men, dogs, and cats. A Ger man physician, who made the hedgehog a peculiar ob ject of study, gave it a strong dose of prussic acid, of arsenic, of opium, and of corrosive sublimate, none of which did it any harm. The hedgehog in its natural state only feeds on pears, apples, and other fruits, when it can get nothing it likes better. Its ordinary food consists of worms, slugs, snails, frog, adders, and some times rats and mice. THE CHICHESTER BANK.—Letters from Chi chester give the result of the meeting held there yester day in the matter of Ridge and Co., bankers of that town. It was a preliminary meeting for the choice of assignees and proof of debts, and it appeared from a rough statement made to the Commissioners, that the engage• tuents of the Bank were about 150,0001., to meet which there were 54,0001. assets, made up of items, including cash and short bills iu the house,_ securities, and surplus for separate estates. Glynn and Co. are expected to pay over 4,000/. as the surplus of the securities they sold for inderall4Cati°l2. SUPERIORITY OF ARBITRATION OTER WAR. V% ar pays no regard to the meritsiof a case. Its rule is might, not right. But arbitration does consider those merits. Again ; the stronger party being more likely than the weaker to be the aggressor, a re sort to war in the case renders it probable that the injured party will receive additional injury, instead of obtaining redress ; whereas, by arbitration, that party would in all probability obtain redress. In cases where two parties are nearly equal in strength, by resorting to war, they generally leave off where they begin, nothing being decided, and both parties being sadly injured. Arbitration in such cases, also, would answer a better purpose in both respects. And in cases where the stronger party is the injured one, al though by a resort to war, redress is generally obtained, how hard the way of obtaining it ! Arbitration would afford it in an easier way. In every case, then, the ends of justice are better subservad by arbi tration than by war, and all the evils of war are pre vented besides. Furthermore ; war is an infringement of the independence of nations. Surely it is such an infringement, for one nation to dictate to another, and to attempt to enforce its dictation, as is always done by ono of the parties in war. But arbitration respects national sovereignty. Here is no dictation, no coercion, nothing but friendly counsel. Once more ; by resorting to war, nations violate one of the plainest dictates of reason, viz , that parties should not be judges in their own cases, which they always assume to be in war. Arbitration respects this dictate, by providing a disinterested party as a judge. Then again : the custom of war affords the strong an opportunity to oppress the weak, and the am bitious to pursue their schemes of conquest and aggran dizement. Arbitration is a check to oppression and ambition, and the best security of the defenceless. And again ; the custom of war, by which nations take their position on what they denominate the point of honour, refusing to make the proper concessions and overtures for the preservation of peace, and sacrificing justice itself to resentment and pride is one vast sys tem of duelling. The principle of international arbi tration is the principle of order and peace on a scale of equal magnitude. In short, every reason that can be urged in favour of the peaceful adjustment of individual disputes, and against a resort to individual violence, can be urged with as much greater force in favour of international arbitration, and against war, as the evils of war 'exceed in every respect the evils resulting from individual combat. Now, then, if the ends of justice itself can be better subserved by a d t i i x ol of is. the American P r ize arbitration than by' war, and so much evil prevented, and so much good done , what plea remains for war ? EssaysExtractedonj: Congress omthe A of pp Nations. Two men, named Reuben and Durant Cope, were last week fined 505. 6d. , at Birmingham, at the in stance of the Animals' Friend Society, o f M ar k-l ane , by Messrs. Bielby and Bird , for having smeared a dog over with oil of turpentine, and set it a li g h bt ; t h e poor animal was not expected to survive. They were com mitted to prison. for 14 days in default of payment. COMMON SENSE ABROAD.--The Commer cial Gazette of St. Petersburgh contains an article, writ ten by Consul Harrer, of Warsaw, who seeks to show that those states of Europe, which are desirous of esta blishing their manufacturing prosperity, have every rea son to wish that no alteration may take place in the English Corn-laws. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 21. Number Dividend Price of per Pe l l Shares. Annum. Paid. Shire 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBs. eh. 98 1,48 2 41. Ashby.de.le.Zouch ..... Average 1131.5 h. 72 1,260 ... . .. Basingstoke 1001 . sh. 5 401 , 5 . 541. Br ecknock and Abergavenny Mi. alt. 92 P,OOO I-16th . 101. Birmingham , 1.16 th share ...Al. & 711. 200 1,000 .« .. . ... Ditto & Liverpool Junct.lg9l. sh. 100 p 4 41 600 W. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool.sh. all pi 100 51. Chelmer and Blackwater ..... IOW. sh . 105 300 321. Coventry ........ ................ ... .. . . lOOl.Bll. 300 Croydon.. Aversge3ll.2l 1 0 d. sh. 2, 60 51. Os. Dudley .... 1001. sh. 94 600 131. Derby lool.sh . 120 _ _ _ CANALS. 0,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne ..« ..... 411.135. 4d.pd 30 3,5751 4 , Ellesmere and Chester AVeTZge 139:31a. 75 231 621 Erewasn ~• ............." .... . «. 1 0 01 . 1 n. 735 ,297 351. Forth and Cli „. de....Averare ;001. Ws. la. 650 11,600 7t. Grand Junction 1001. s h 113 2,M91 251. Grand Onion lool.sh. 28 ',500 .«...... Grand 5urrey......... lool.sh. 15 1,0001 41. percent . Ditto (optional) L7.a ... n......„ lOOl. 096 500 131.121. Id. Glaninrganshire, Aver. cost 1721.135. 4d. 130 f 749 12s. tiranthwas 6 . 338 21.05. Huddersfisld Average 511. 811.8 d. sh. 21% 100 Kensington ......... ..... . ... 100 sh. all pd 10% 2%. 328 11.105. Kennet and Avon. Av. 391. 18s._10d. sh 20 11,6901 11. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. 6s. lild 27 2,13971 301. Leeds and Liverpool lOOl. sh 730 5451 111. Leicester 1401.31. 150 ,897 5/.os. Leicester & Northampton Aver P 31.102 71% 2,409 101. Monmouthshire lOOl.Bl. 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray •-. ..... -1061. sh. 117 500 251. Mersey and Irwell lool.Bh. 510 3,000 21. 103. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd. 23 247 171. Neath 1001.1.1.. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest Aver..ge about 761. sh. 71 1,418 68. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.168.8 d. sh. 9% 1,669 6!. Rochdale Average 341.. h. 92 500 81. Shropshire 1251.8h. 137 :800 111. 10s. Somerset Coal l5Ol. sh. 170 3,6001. 6 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12!. 10s. sh. 11% 700 361. Stafford and Worcester 1401. s h. 6% 530 151 Shrewsbury . ........ ...... ..... ....1251. sh. 280 300 91. 3taurbridge • • ... a... IMO 1451.5 h. 396 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon itver....791. 9s. 6d. sh. 33 533 1211 Swansea lOOl. sh. 265 3,762 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 2 0.95. sh. 45 2,600i5h . 321. 105. Trent and Mersey, I share lOOl. sh. 500 8,149 _ 1 600hs . '1 161. Warwick and Birmingham lool.sh 203 I,oooish. . 960 130. Warwick and Igapton 100/. sh. 117 7,000 41. Worcester & Birmingham Av. 781.85. sh. 55 5.000 365. Wilts and Berks Average 671. 10s Bd. sh. 28N 800 6.. Wytlev and Essington 1251. sh '74 26 ... W;sneacn ....»..».2351. ah. 30 905 la Wey and Arun. ................. ..... 1101. sn. 20 DOCKS. 2,6001 s / s p. c. Commerc al a.....« 1001. sh • 61 1,0651 h. 5 per cent. East and West India .-..........., Stock 102% 3,238,310 f I. 31. p, ct. London ...........5t0ck 74 Ditto Bonds 2,209 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14'1.95. sh. 75 66,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine ........ ... ........ ........... Stock 92 50eo-pn 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .... lOO% 00.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years „,,,„, .... ..... Deptford Pier ........... ..... 20/. sh .. . 20/. pd 10 . BRIDGES. 1,600 1/. Hammersmith 501. sh. 2134 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631.25. Sd. sh. 35. 1,700 li. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent , 50/. sh. 15 3 4 .4000 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 60/. pd 21 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4Ol. pd 18 10,0001. Si. per cent. Ditto Bonds ... 9oi 5,84 S 27s Vauxhall .......,.Average 701. 103.3 d. sh. 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. - -- 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 72 51,000 1 6 1 ) n ei d . c i e s Vl Allianceßritish &Foreignlool. oh. 11/. pd 13% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. sh. 51. pd 5% 24,000 iI. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14 1,200 ph. 5/. Birmingham h ire 504 sh. 551. pd 107% 20,000 41. percent. British Fire 2501.8h.50!. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 501.8h. 51. pd 6 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, 1001.5h.2110s pd 2% 4,000 310 s County lOOl. sh. 101. pd I 0 9,000 ss. Eagle. 501. sh. 51. pd 4% 0 ,, r 5 per cent./ Economic Lite 10001. oh. 250!. pd 409 '''" I and 301 bs. 2,271 225. per cent. European Lite 0 0/. Eh. all pd 22 50,000 2.. Ditto, New 20/. sh. 21. pd 1% 1.000,0001. ( 1. per et Globe Stock 115 20,000 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. GI. Hope SOL sh. 51. pd 54 2,400 51. 12E. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50!. pd 135 7,500 12E. Imperial Lite lOO/. sh. 10!. pd 11 13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine ... ...... 100/. sh. 81. pd 29 2,020 31 10. Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 92 31. Ditto Life .501. pd 66 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001:sh. 101. pd 31% 5,000 10s. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 184 3,900 108. London, Ship 251. oh. 121. 10s. pd 184 1.000,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 25,000 5!. per cent. National Loan Fund... 201. oh 21. 10.. pd 2% 31,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lite 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 21 68 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector L , Se 201. sh. 2/. pd 18a0d 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....1001. sh. 51. pd 5% 2,500 11. Provident Lite ........ ..... 1001. oh. 101. pd 20 200,600 4s. Od. Rock Life .............. ................ .... 21. pd 3% 69,2201 51. per coat. Royal Exchange Stock HO 6,009 5 per cent. University Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 6% 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life. 1001. sh. 51. pd 74 JOINT STUCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Corn. of Ireland2sl. oh. 10/. pd 15,000 6 per cent. Australasia 40!. sh. 401. pd 53% 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 501. eh. 101. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O!. sh. 101. pd 13% 31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 21% 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 501.8 h. 101. pd 124 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster ..... .......... lool.lh. 901. pd 30 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 121/. pd 18% 50,000 7a percent. Manchester and Liver / 5048 h. 151. pa' 10 poolDistri-t 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester lOO/. oh. 10/. pd 5 20,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of Irelandlool. sh. 251.0 41 10,000 6i er ccnt National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 1711. pd 174( 10,000 6 per cent National Provincial Eng.lool, sh. 35/. pd 344 10,008 Ditto New. los. oh. 101. pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 101. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. oh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 161. pd 22 MOO ..... ... _ British 404 sh. 16/. pd 18 s.'"' niv , ---. .... cent.l tang Bs. 6s. Ditto Provincial 2Ol. eh. 191. pd 24U 928 51 lOs Birmingham 5Ol. eh. 96 1,250 21 Os Bristol 2Ol. sh. 36 ..._ 9,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2Ol. sh. 13% 750 31 108 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 9 2,471 4h per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. eh. all pd 9% 6,000 71.105. Continental Consolidated ....751. 62f /.pd 110 1,000 101. City 01 London.. lOO/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New 100!. sh. 75!. pd 150 1,000 31.05. Equitable 5Ol. pd 20 10,000 31. per cent. Imperial 5B/. sh. 50 800 5!. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 18% 2,350 CZ. per cent. Independent 301.3 h. slip. 56 9,000 41. per cent. Phcenix 5Ol. sh. 391. pd 33 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratclifl lOOl. sh. 80/. pd C 3 4,000 Seuth Metropolitan 501. A.' i 3% /. pd 17 9,000 51. per cent. United General 501. sh. 471. pd :9 240 Si. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield.. ... . . ... 2sl.sh. 22 2,000 31. Westminste;Ch .. artered. ... . 5O/. sh. 58 6.000 12s. Ditto New . 5,1. sh 101. pd lig 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS - - - - -- - - -- 1,800 31s. Birmingham 25: sh. 25/. pd 21 1.4:23 71. East London 1001. sh. 162% 5,590 2! 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 55 2,000 '2l. Kent 1001. sh. 52% 372 101. Liverpool ISootle 2201. sh. 325 1,500 2110 s Hew River London Bridge Wate r Ann... 60 6,486 2/ 10s Manchester and 5a1f0rd...... ..... .1001. sh. .54 1,000 5 per cent. South London lool.sh. 98 8,294 4jl. West Middlesex Average 631.!125. 9d. sh. 90 1.360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 21. Os. Birmingham and Derby ...„ ....... 100! pd 47 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucestr ...... WO/. pd 65 15,00 11. 4s. Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. 60 pd 283{ 7,500 ......... Cheltenham& G. Western 1001.8 h. 72)41. 2234 3,000 ..... Clarence 1001. sh. 1001 pd 20 .... 8,000 .... ..... Dublin and Drogheda. 1001. sh. 5!. pd 60,000 ......... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 234 pd 8% 10,000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 901. pd 69 10,918 13 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 193 25,'0C :3 per cent. Great Western 1001. sh. 651. pd 81 25,000 Ditto New " 501. eh. 501. pd 591 6,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction... 501. sh. 501. pd 56% 2,003 6 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 145% 8,000 Hull and Selby 501... sh. 501. pd 38 2,100 4 per teat. Leeds and Selby ...... . .... .. ..100 sh. 05% 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10( . 7.5h .. . 1001. pil 199% 7,9'8 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 501. pd 90 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd 45 36,000 .... ..... London and Brighton 501. sh. 501. pd 33 94,000 80,003 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ...2.01. sh. 201. pd 634 25,000 8} per cent. London Sr Birmingham 100!. sh. 90/. pd les 25,000 21. Os Ditto Quarter Shares ....25/. sh. 5!. pd 23 yi 31,250 Dit o New Shares .32/. sh. 321. pd 55 36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 384 17s. 9d. 58 33,000 London and Croydon) Av. 13/. 15s. 9d. Mg Ditto New Scrip.... 11% 13,000 51 per cent. Mancheste r and Lee 5...1001. sh. 701. pd 64 13,000 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 251. pd 27% 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 701.5 h. 401. 283{, Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2% 10,000 2/.lc s. Midland Counties 'Oa sh. 1001. IA 834 15,000 01. Os. North Midland 11.10 s. Ditto New 40/. pd 30 10,256 Northern and Eastern.... 501. sh SR pd 2434 4130 1:1,000 South Eastern and Dover 384 pd 2034 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lol'l. sh. 265 0,000 0,000 •....„•' York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 90 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 51.1 h. 01/. pd 19 4,000 1!. 56. Alten l5l. sh 121. It-s pd 10 10,000 ......... Anglo Mtxican,iss. 5/. pm.lool. sh. al , pd 1% Ditto Subscription .... ... .... .. ....251. pu I% 2,000 Int. Bolanos 1501.. sh all pd 35 10,000 11. 10s Brazilianlmp. iss. 51. pm 25/. sh. 201. pd 5 6,000 Macaubas & Cocaes United 251.5h.251. pd 4 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 2OI. sh. 14/. pd I% 1C.,000 . ..... ... Bolivar Copper Company, 201.5 h. 2W. pd 1 10.000 ......... Ditto Scrip .... 104 eh. 101. pd 2 20,000 .... ..... British Iron lOOl. sh. 601. pd ,000 British Copper 51. sh. 4&1. pd 1% Clta Brmica 6ll. pd 6% Candonga....... 7fl. pd 5 10,000 1 1 Copiapo 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 51. pm 451.3 h. 55/. pd 0% 2.850 W. English 14/. Gs. pd 2 20,000 ......... General MiningAssociation2o/ 5h.184 pd 134 6,155 Mexican Company 1001 . sh. Ge/ pd 3,000 Polberou Consols .. lOl. oh. 8/. pd 4 11,500 ..... .... Real del Monte, Unregistered. . . .... ..... 2 Ditto Loan 1501. pd 160 50,000 ......... United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 40!. sh. all pd Dittt. Scrip l l4 Ditto New 5crip.......... 41.8 d 3 West Cork ..... „.„.......„..501. sh 501. pd 36 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 21 1,500 London University lOOl. sh. all pd 7 700 King' College lOOl. q. 19% MISCELLANEOUS. 10, VI 15 8 , Australian Agricultural.loo/.'sh. 28/ . pd 30 Loan ............. ... ....... 01 6)00 1 per cent. British American Land Company 3514 pd 9 , . Cc aitUny2l'9PlaeornCdCosnia,npa4a'iplayr cent........... . ........... 100 1001. sh. 32i/. pd )0 10 : 00 000 0 61 . 51. per per chat . Canada 20,000 11.65. GeneraiSteam Navigation 15/. s .. h. 141. pd 241,i 101. percent. Hudson's Bay Stock ...... .. .......... ....... 254 ,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms.... Av. 751. all. 19% ,000 New Brunswick Land Compamy...so/, pd P 2 t,/54 5/. per cont. Reversionary Int. 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 92 Val 5/. per cent. Ditto New 1001. sh. 100!. pd 107 ,00a ..... ... Thames Tunnel ...............501. eh. all pd 10 4%000 Gs. Van Die.nen'a Land 1001. sh. 1811. pa 7KI LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES DEC. IS, 1841, BAN Ks. 2,000,00 (. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland —Mt. es. Sd. sh. all pd 1 , 55 „,,, 2,000,00( , . et. p. ct. Rcyal of Scotland 100/.sh. allied ~"4,7 2 500.0001, SI. p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. oil pd "" 500,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial - - 5001. sh.lool.pd 14 500,00 0 1. 6 n. ct. National lOO/.sh. 10 1 . pd 84 500,0001. 81, p, ct. Glasgow Union .250/. sh. 50/. pd ,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland ....2001. sh 401. pd 7 1 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. 6i p. ct. Scottish Union ..............201. sh. I/. pd , 25s 1 . 3 0 d. 7500 10 p. ct. Hercules . ._. .... !... , ... 1001. sh. i 1 : 1 1 i PS 9 4 100,000 10 p. ct. Insurance Co. Of .scaland .10ks . . 101. 1 1 : d 1 , 4 i 50,000 10 0. ct. North British ..„..... ............ :,7 . Hu. p d 20 1,000 10 P. ct. Caledonian Fire,- 5,000 10 P. ct. Edinburgh Life.. ........ .. 101. pd Ig"e° 3 h P. et . West of 5c0tian ..................NE0U5. 100/. sh. 10/. pd 15 MISCELLA, un Canalsol.sh. all pd 10 4,818 ...,..... Edin. and Ols r L . .• ... 961. sh. all pd 413 Ditto A oca .... ~.., sh 4 a B f l l pd p 14 ) 225,40(. it l per cent. Edinb. I.ooosh 21 per cent. Shotts Iroh s i LeithGlass.2o/. sh. 16/. pd 8% 0.000 3 per- cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas. ..... ...251.5h. all pd 49 Joint ll n t itec d x e r y a t .. .e . r .h0 .91 / s . 4,500 10 per cent. ratio urg Gas .................. 251. in. all pd 52 3,450 10 pet cant. C,..a ?_w ~c. L titshacoal Gas ........ 201. . 11. all pd 21 750 7 1 P er Cc ''' . - Edinburgh ann Dalkeith Railway 501. sh 30 1 t ......... LORD STANLEY, alias THE MARQUIS OF TANISOF, REF UTED.—As for facility in obtaining the ne cessities of life, Captain Jesse would 'especially warn people of England from depending on Russia as a country. On the road from Tula to Moscow Z n p l e r o oteing he was witness to all the miseries of a famine. Crowds gathered round his carriage to obtain a few copecks for food. The bark of trees, ground with a little rye-flour, formed the diet of the poor in the CiovernmentF.; of Orel, Tula, and Moscow.—Tinier, MORNING SU FREDERICK WILLIAM L's EARLY AVERSION TO POMP. In his boyhood Frederick William manifested no pleasure in the extravagant splendour with which he was surrounded. An eye-witness relates, that " when the first coat like a man's was made for the Prince, bordered with broad gold lace, he looked at it with to lerable satisfaction, and quietly suffered it to be put on him ; but when a dressing gown of brocade was brought to him, he examined it before and behind, inside and outside, and then, snatching it up, flung it into the fire, and, as it was winter time, there happened to be a very large one." Another not less decided indication of his aversion to useless expense was given by him while Prince Royal. One day, on entering the King's ante. chamber, ho there found several courtiers and chamber lains seated round a blazing fire. The Prince, who had begun to wear a uniform, had been exempted from the burden of a flowing wig, and had only a bob ; being in a merry vein, he took off his light head-covering, and consigned it to the flames, with the exclamation, " A scoundrel who will not do the same !" The courtiers looked aghast at each other, but they had no choice left ; the grave air and emphatic tone of the Prince Royal convinced them that it was not meant for a joke. One after the other lifted the huge mass, beplastered with pomatum and powder, from his bare sconce, and with unwilling band committed it to the flames. Not merely did the courtiers regret the loss of an expensive apparatus, which, mostly imported from Paris, and chargeable with a high stamp duty, cost two hundred dollars, or, perhaps, a larger sum, but, what was still more painful to them, was to see their hopes of the future government of such a Sovereign vanish in smoke, which left behind it not the most agreeable odour."— Campbell's Frederick the Great and his Times. PUBLIC RECANTATION OF THE ERRORS OF THE ROMISFI CHURCH.—On Wednesday, in St. Jude's Church, five persons, in the presence of an over- . . flowing congregation, publicly recanted and abjured the errors of the Church of Rome, in which they had been matured. In the first instance, three other Roman Catholics (making eight in the whole) intended thus openly to enter into the communion of the Church of England ; but between the period when they intimated their desire and the celebration of the service, some con- cealed influence so worked upon their fears, that they did not make their appearance at the appointed time. The Church of England has no prescribed form of re. cantation of error; and, therefore, the Rev. Hugh 111 4 Neile, the incumbent of the church, prepared one from Archbishops Tennison and Magee, which he has printed for circulation. The service commenced at two O'clock in the afternoon, and was conducted by the Rev. Mr. NPNeile.—Liverpool Times. A PRINCE WITHOUT A SKlN.—Though the fact is sufficiently remarkable, we should think, to com mand general notice, few, if any, modern historians mention that we had once a Prince of Wales who was born absolutely skinless. There exists, however, an his torical volume, very scarce, and therefore very valuable, published in 1553, on Magna Charta and the Statutes, a carefully arranged and authentic work, which mentions the circumstance. It is written in French and Latin, and under the head of Nomina Re- gum et eorum corouatio, announces a list of the Kings " w . ho- from the time of Saint Edward _King of England, had reigned, down to the Most Serene King and Queen Philip and Mary." A series of brief notices of births, coronations, and deaths follows. That to which we particularly direct attention runs thus : " Ricardus 11., filius Ed. Principis natus sine pelle et nutritus in pellibus caprium incepit, regnare, xxiii. Junii, anno domini mccclxxvii."—" Richard the Second, son of Edward Prince of Wales, born with out skin, and nursed in skins of goats, began to reign June 23, 1377." A few days ago a person named Fonvielle, an inhabitant of the little town of Realmont, was brought before the Court of Assize at Albi, on a charge of having attempted to excite hatred and contempt of the Govern ment by hanging in front of his house, during the ex citement caused by the census, an effigy, having in one hand a reed, and in the other a paper bearing the words, "Mesures Fiscales, Mahul, Soult, liumann, Guizot," and over the head another paper, with the words, " Con damnation d'Humann et de ses complices." The Jury acquitted the prisoner after a few minutes' deliberation. A public meeting was held on Monday at Bridge water for the purposeof voting addressess to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the birth of a Prince. The meet- inn was convened by the High Sheriff of Somersetshire, William Francis Knatchbull, Esq., in pursuance of a re quisition signed by most of the leading men in the county, amongst whom were the Earl of Cork, Lord Lovelace, Lord Poulett, Sir William Medlicott, Bart., Sir Alexander Flood, Bart. ; Colonel Gore Langton and W. Miles, Esq., Members for the Eastern Division ; T. D. Acland, Esq., and F. H. Dickinson, Esq., Members for the West ern Division ; Poulet St. John Mildmay, Esq., and many others. The addresses were unanimously agreed to, and, after a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff had been passed, the meeting broke up. LIEUTENANCY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.+ We have reason to believe that the dignity of Lord Lieutenant of the county of Northamiton - has been offered to, and will be accepted by, the Marquis of Exeter. THE GARTER.—It iS probable that the vacant stall in St. George's Chapel will remain for some time unoccupied. SOCIETY OF ANCIENT BRITONS.—THE PRINCE OF WALES.—On Monday a meeting of the So ciety of Ancient Britons was held at the Welsh School room, in the Gray's Inn-road. for the purpose of agreeing to an address of congratulation to her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, on the safe aceouchement of her Majesty. The chair was taken by Colonel Wood, M.P. for Brecon, and the meeting was numerously attended. The address to her Majesty dwelt particularly on the circumstance of the Royal infant being created Prince of Wales. Mr. Sergeant Atcherly moved the address, which was carried with applause. Addresses to his Royal highness Prince Albert and her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent were also agreed to una nimously. The speakers were Dr. Rowland, Mr. Wm. Williams, M.P., Mr. Bateman, Mr. Jones, and others. The addresses are to be presented by the officers of the society at the next Levee day. There are at present in the Welsh school 120 boys and 65 girls, who are main tained, clothed, and educated. A fatal accident took place on Sunday afternoon, near the Eyre Arms, St. John's Wood. Shortly after four o'clock in the afternoon, a young man, about 20 years of age, but whose name is unknown, was amusing himself by trying the substance of the ice on a pond, in a field near the Eyre Arms Tavern, the water in which is ten feet deep. He was standing on the ice, and kicking a hole in it with his heel, when suddenly a large mass gave way. Police-constable 91 S, saw him disappear, but upwards of 20 minutes elapsed before the body was recovered, when life was quite ex tinct, and it was conveyed to Marylebone workhouse. He is of fair complexion and dark hair, and wore a fustian jacket and waistcoat, corduroy trowsers, and laced shoes. lip to a late hour last night the body had not been owned. PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—At the ordinary meeting held on Monday evening, in the rooms of the Society at Exeter Hall, Dr. Elliotson, President, in the chair, there was a very interesting communication read on the relative proport►ons of the organs of the skull between Blakesley and Courvoisier, both of whom were recently executed for murder, and casts of whom were exhibited. It was a matter of singular coincidence that no less than 12 measurements were equal. Inliaeeit7; the organs of destructiveness, self-esteem, and firmness, were very large, as were those of attachment and love of offspring. It was stated that, at the next meeting, a cast of the head of Ward, the unhappy individual who was executed on Monday morning for murder, would be ex hibited. KIRK PERSECUTION. his child on a Dundee Advertiser that Key,TA appears from the the only son of a 11).. woman with difficulty Church privileges by the man who was refused the minister of Barry for burying Sunday, is not the first who has suffered from priestly tyran poor muvisdt:rwed A Correspondent mentions. , th i at thaersengentd numberi to carry the coff in t o t h e c h urc h-yard on the follo win g Sunday, but just as the body was laid in thegra.ve, the grave-diggers were ordered to desist, and the coffin lay uncovered in the open grave all that day and night! The Ceizseur of Lyons reports that several ycung m e n o f th a t city, belonging to families in easy circumstances, were arrested, on the 14th inst., as par ticipators in robbing the Lyons and Turin diligence of 27,000 f., which we have already mentioned. Another slight shock of earthquake was felt at Bogey, near Lyons, on the 9th inst. THE TEMPLE CHGRCH.—Shortly after the Reformation, the Protestant lawyers, from au over anious desire to efface all the emblems of the Popish faith, covered the gorgeously -painted ceiling of this useableve structure with an uniform coating of whitewash; buried the antique tesselated pavement under hun they dreds of cart-loads of earth and rubbish, on the surface of which, two feet above the level of the ancient floor, they placed another pavement, formed of old - grave stones. They, moreover, disfigured all the magnificent marble columns with a thick coating of plaster a n d paint, and destroyed the beauty of the elaborately_ wrought mouldings of the arches, and the exquisitely carved marble ornaments, with thick incrustations of whitewash, clothing the whole edifice in one uniform garb of plain white, in accordance with the purita n i ca l ideas of these times.—Addison 's History cif t n f the K • ghts Temidars. EARLY INTELLIGENCE I—The late firm o f Sir George Duckett, Morlands, and Co., stopped p,.- !L ent on the 20th March, 1832, the eve of Mr. V erc r ival's " Fast-day" for the cholera. —Evening Paper. The Carlisle Patriot has the following im portant news .—We arc inf ormed that durin g the recent visit of Sir James Graham to Netherby, Ile has provided abundant employment fur the labourers of the district, by the diversion of various water-courses. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.---On Tuesd a y last a little black mare , which ran u ntil lately night Eng N‘it, o n being ineer coach from this town to Longto in the led to the stables at Cannobie , broke away from the strapper, and took the old road to the Hod gallop. In its cour se it met with a h orse and Hollows at full cart, which it was expected would stop her career, but the mare took the leap w ithout hesitation, and cleared the obstruction in splendid style, much to the astonishment of the driver of the cart. The mare arri v ed at Langlibohne full twenty minutes before the coach from which it and it is a remar k ab le fac t., that, thoughadbeen neverone ; of the Buck before, the animal galloped to the stablesthat Buck Inn, where the coach changes h orses,—Carlisle Patriet,