The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, IE4I. The Morning Post has become an advocate of free trade, apparently without knowing it. It con tained yesterday an article on money, which might have been written, as far as its principles are con cerned, by Mr. COBDEN. It said,—" The prin ciple of regular supply and steady prices is free ompetition in production, in distribution, and in exchange." The italics are its own. What is this but the principle of free trade? Free compe tition in production is the promoter of regular supply and steady prices. Thank you, Post. For this we have long contended as to the Corn laws, and you have contended against what you new admit to be the fact. Free competition is the principle of regular supply and steady prices. A sentiment which, being found in a Tory journal, is worthy of being printed in letters of gold. The article goes on to contend, au we free-traders have heretofore contended, against the theory that a currency must be made to fluctuate, exactly as it would were it a metallic currency. We have shown t he absurdity of such a theory, by stating the s imple fact, that the use of paper is to supersede metal, which sets free the quantity of labour and capial required to procure metal. It increases huiiness, and diminishes the value of metallic money, by making less serve, and so puts an end to the metallic standard. The Post, agreeing with US, states—" To gay that the currency ought, if possible, to be made to fluctuate as it would do were it exclusively metallic, is to say, in fact, that prices ought to be made to fluctuate, far beyond the bounds of what is natural and right, by law." It ascribes then, too, as we have repeatedly done, the fluctuations in prices, beyond what is natural and right, to the law. It also traces these fluctua tions to the " plain reason, that in every country th e price of one at least of the two metals must be fixed by law." The context of the article shows that the word must is irony, for the Post, quoting some unknown pamphlet, says--- The consequence (of fixing the price of gold) obvious. If , at the time of such a demand, the is veryr•ie of gold is higher in th e forei g n mark ets than oU i ti\lint price (which , gold bein g our standard, an d i not the standard of other nations, cannot very, however their price may vary) the whole supply must to f ront England—no matter how short may be her supply— and down must g o _ our currency, and down must go our prices ; and down must go our credit and our com merce, our manufacturers and our merchants. We have more than once denounced the lie decreed by law, that gold shall always be worth so much per ounce, and here is what the new convert to free trade facetiously says on the subject : Theme wise men of the west ma ke mon etary laws by which they bind themselves to buy ou r gold, or be sell us theirs, to any amount, it ever so scarce with them—be it dear or be it cheap in other markets—at a flied undeviating price ; and when we happen to find • Illitkle which enables us to ease t hem at their utmost i need of a few millions, and to fob, by way of profit, four or five per cent., in their compunctious visiting% they fall to work, like monks or maniacs, to flagellate and slash themselves! So the Tory Post speaks of the Tory law, or Tory lie, that gold shall always be worth 31. 17s. 4d. per ounce I After such observations we do not despa;r of seeing the Post become an advocate for the repeal of the Corn-law, in order to ensure steadiness of price, and fullness of supply, by free competition. Before we leave our Contemporary, who has so ignorantly blundered into right, he will allow us to in form him that there exists a certain work on popu lation, written by one Mr. MA LT lIUS, Which is of high authority amongst the Tories, of which the main principle is, that population has a tendency to outrun subsistence, and that, therefore, it is the height of folly for any Government to undertake the task of providing c omfortable employment, or em ployment of any kind, for all the people. If our Contemporary had been acquainted with this cir cumstance, he would have spared the public the following oracular words :—" The comfortable em ployment of our large population ought to be the first consideration with every wise and benevolent statesman." What do statesmen know about employment ? In the progress of society new arts are continually springing up, such as lithography, gas-lighting, steam-engine making, &c. &c., which provide much profitable employment for the people, of which the statesman is ignorant. He only hears of the exis tence of these employments after they have grown to considerable extent, and his object in general is to protect the old employments, such as agri culture, prevent the new from succeeding. All statesmen are, to a great extent, Conservatives, and inimical to the new branches which society is al ways sending forth. We, therefore, deny alto gether that it is the object of statesmen to consider the employment of our population. Their duty is much more limited. Let them content them selves with protecting each and, ail the people in their respective rights, without interfering to enrich one class at the expense of another, and the people, if benevolent statesmen will condescend to let them alone, will find employment for themselves. It is scarcely our business to defend the Minis.. tens from the charge made against them by the Standard, that they have pardoned FROST. If they have done so, their conduct would not require de fence—it might be deserving praise. They would have shown some deference to the prayers of seve ral hundred thousand persons, who have taken a deep interest in behalf of Mr. FROST. If he had been tried and found guilty of some abominable crime, against which " all nature cries aloud," he would have met with no sympathy ; but he was tried for a political offence, which becomes by suc cess no offence at all ; and though he was terribly mistaken—most unsuccessful—yet because an im mense number of the people have come to look on the Government more as their enemy than their friend, his attempt has found much sympathy in every part of the empire. If the Ministers, like the Tories, mean to despise and endeavour to crush the great multitude of his friends, they ought, like the Tories, to take every opportunity to sabre and hang them ; but if they think the millions worth a little soothing attention, they would not have done wrong, now that Mr. FROST is removed to the an tipodes, and can do no more mischief, had they lightened his sufferings. We do not think it our business, therefore, to defend thew from the accu sation of the Standard : we should rather be in clined to praise them, were it true. We are sickened by the tawdry, brawling cant of these Tories. They rave against the conduct of FROST, which we now condemn, as we always con demned it, and they glory in the Manchester mas sacre, which has ever since endangered the peace of the empire. They vehemently condemn the violent language of the Chartist leaders, and they applaud the foolish fallacies which Sir ROBERT PEEL pro pounds,—not being convinced by them himself, and therefore the more dishonest,—to justify his party in preserving the Corn-laws, which annually starve more people than FROST could ever assemble. The total disregard of the Tory Journals for human life and for human happiness, when either stands in the way of their pet schemes of government, makes us look with abhorrence on their odious and hypocri tical attempts to excite animosity against the Minis ters by charging them with having pardoned FROST. We know nothing of the particulars of his case, further than we have already stated. Every person, however, knows that transported felons on arriving at New South Wales are assigned by the Governor to individuals, or employed in gangs for the public service. Some are assigned to agriculturists, some to merchants. Some labour in the fields, others at the desk. It is highly probable from the nature of his education and acquirements, that Mr. FROST may have received the latter destination, and also probable that some such assignment is the founda tion of the charge made by the Standard, and of the anathemas heaped on the Ministers by several Tory journals, because they are supposed, without any reason whatever, to have ordered the liberation of Mr. FROST. The conduct of the Tories should, however, teach the Chartists that the support they have given to the Tories has not in the least les sened the hostility of their ancient oppressors. For months many of the Chartists have been making common cause with the Tories to turn out the Whigs. They now know how the Tories hate them. Should they succeed, their reward will pro bably be that FROST will he set to work with a chain gang, and that those who most contribute to the success of the Tories will be as speedily as possible, on some pretext or other, sent after FROST. The Corn-law averages, published in another part of our paper, state the average price of wheat for the week at 61s. Bd. per quarter, and at the same time the duty is 275. Bd., which represents at this moment the tax levied on the food of the poor for behoof of the landowners. Without entering into the immediate effects on the farmers of abolishing the Corn-law, after they have paid their Michalmas rents, on the pledge given by the landlords, but not guaranteed by the people, that they should be allowed to levy this tax of 275. Bd. in the price of their corn, we wish to ask the reader, and ask the public, what would be the effect on the poor of now abolishing the Corn-law ? The winter wheat is all sown, and the crop no longer much depends on future labour. Whatever may be the price of wheat, that will now have little or no influence on the next year's crop. To abolish the Corn-law would not cut off a grain of the home supply. To abolish the Corn-law would, however, at once let in all the corn that is in bond, and would cause large importations from America. It would at once lower the price at least 205., if not 305., and that fall in the price, e fi l i :o d o it r ig to e c m o p m lo m ) a ri n n d en n t io fo re r th b o u t n r g ad t e h , giv e ii p lg enp a le s , ti a tn n u d lu e s na t food, would at once ensure the comfort of thou sands, and the lives of many hundreds. We look only at this fact, and we affirm that the Corn-law is at this moment starving many persona to death. There m a y be a question between the profits of the farmer, the rent of the landlords, and the death by starvation of the people ; and great shame to those who have by the law raised the question, or put these interests in opposition ; but there cannot be a doubt that the present duty of 275. Bd. is at this moment keeping food from the people, and starving many persons to death. Electors of Walsall, we now dwell on this fact, MORNING EDI rioN 'NOTICE. " THE CHINA SUN" Is RE-PUBLISHED THIS DAY, with the NEWS from CHINA, JUST ARRIVED. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 11 9 , Strand. IN PROGRESS, THE RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD, WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENCE.. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. - • THE STATESMAN NEWSPAPER OF SUNDAY the 10th January, will contain, O'CONNELL'S POLICY , in a LETTER from COLONEL PERRONET THOMPSON, being tie first of a Series that will appear in this Journal EXPOSURE of the TEETOTAL FALLACY —the Hospitals of the Metro polis, by a Physician, with a greater number of original arti cles than any other Paper. THE EDINBUItGH REVIEW, No. CXLVI. Will be published NEAT WEEK. CONTEXTS. 1. COLONEL__NAPIER'S—ii-1;71'.0-RY of the PENINSULAR WAIL DR WAAGEN'S LIFE and GENIUS of RI;BENS. WRONGS and CLAIMS of INDIAN COMMERCE. 4. LOCKHART'S HISTORICAL and ROMANTIC BALLADS of SPAIN: with ILLUSTRATIONS. 5 PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY on the CUSTOMS' DUTIES —EFFECTS of the PROTECTIVE SYSTEM. 6. EXPEDI I'ION to the NIGER—CIVILIZATION of AFRICA• 7 1 INANCIAL STATE of the PUBLIC ROADS, S. LEIGH HUNT'S COMIC DRAMATISTS-WYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, &c. 9. FRANCE and the EAST. London: Longman, Orme, and Co. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black. Just ready, in '2 vols. post Svo., THE BOOK WITHOUT A NAME. By SP CHARLES and LADY MORGAN. Henry Coburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NAVAL NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries. in 3 vols., T E NAVAL SURGEON, 13y the Author of " Cavendish," " The Flying Dutchman," &e Ilenry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. FOR INVALIDS AND TOURISTS. Just ready, in 1 vol. with numerous Illustrations, THE SPAS OF ENGLAND, and PRINCIPAL SEA-BATHING PLACES. By Dr. GRANVILLE, Author of " The Spas of Germany," " St. Petersburgh," Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. \ DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 8 Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartle♦ ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris; An Page, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Mr. Harlequin, 1 r. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. 310-4 i ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to .:cientnence at Seven o'Clock. Tilkets and place 3 for the Bola. 3 to be taken of Mr. Grogan. It the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets way De hail upon application. Dress BOXel, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second ircles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. :F. ; Gallery, Is. Private Boxt a to be had so'ely of Mr. And:ems, bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The proud pre-eminence acquired at this Theatre by the supe riority of the pantemimicaf effects, is more than ever realized by the amasing hit of the Royal Pantomime. The most brilliant overflows have been attracted by the present Per formances. THIS EVENING, JAN. 8 Will be represented a New Domestic Drama, entitled MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT. Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry Stxrperted by the entire strength of the Company, After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the I3eleno Family; Mr. Sionthhy, the Original Closn; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran rora's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria. HIGH WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE THIS UAY. Morning...... 0 inmates after 2 I Evening Z 7 minutes after r. 4, ir ....*'. , 1 . -T:0 .., A , _ , - ......C . r r .,.„...7.• '--- = Vi•l't,,,,?" ~‘,., ' ; - ,-,'14,i i,..,..";:5? S.--- , ....z ~ .: HZIn ‘-itlx. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1841. for your especial consideration ! Men of humanity all over the kingdom, we call on you to reflect on it ! Labourers—Chartists though you be—take it to heart I SMothers, women of all descriptions, reflect on the horrid fact !—your poorer countrymen, and countrywomen, infants, and old persons, are starred to death by law ! Unite one and all to secure the return, at Walsall, of a Corn-law Repealer, and so put an end to the odious and detestable law. Let the artisans and labourers unite, like the men at Bolton, and ad dress the electors of Walsall. Let the mothers of the empire petition them. Let the rich subscribe to relieve any honest elector from the thraldom of landlords or others, and enable him to give an honest vote. Let all classes of Liberals in every part of the kingdom now unite to command success by the force of public opinion, and make the Walsall election, what the Anti-Corn-lawLeague propose to make it, another Clare election, to secure, as that secured Catholic emancipation, a free trade in food. The French journals of Tuesday have all reached us, but they contain no news save the telegraphic despatches from Malta, which appeared in The Sun of Wednesday. The project of law for granting 700,000 francs for the support of foreign refugees was adopted by the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday. In the course of the debate, M. GUIZOT stated that the Government would employ its influence with the Spanish Regency to obtain a further ex tension of the act of amnesty, in order to allow as many expatriated Spaniards as possible to return to their own country. The Constitutionnel has a long article on the effect which the report of a probable alliance be tween France and Russia has had upon the English Journals. Our Paris Contemporary does not be lieve in the sincerity of Russia's professions of friendship, intimating, at the same time, that the day is not distant whcu such professions will be made in a more cordial spirit. For ourselves we are of opinion that Russia has made no advance towards an alliance with France other than those made by all the Great Powers. The etiquette of diplomacy requires that on the formation of a new Cabinet the Minister entrusted with the manage ' ment of Foreign Affairs should notify to the different Courts the appointment of himself and colleagues, to which answers are returned its as complimentary a strain as the change will admit. Now the ap pointment of M. GUIZOT to the office of Foreign Affairs being regarded by all the Great Powers as a pledge given by France that the peace of the world would not be disturbed, naturally called forth from Russia, in common with Austria, Prussia, and England, strong expressions of esteem and confi dence. But except this note, written as a matter of form, we firmly believe not a syllable was ad dressed by Russia to France, and not a word spoken or a hint thrown out indicative of a wish to form a separate alliance. The whole affair was purely an invention of the French Journalists. A courier from Madrid arrived in Paris on Tues day morning. He was supposed to be the bearer of despatches announcing that the dispute between Spain and Portugal would be settled amicably. France continues her armaments. Germany, too, is preparing for war. A Correspondent of the Commerce, writing from Frankfort, states that he fcund Germany armed to the teeth. This state of things cannot last much longer. Unless these war preparations be put an end to war is inevitable. The latest advices from Madrid are of the 28th ult.—the date of Spanish journals received yester day. The supreme Court of Justice in Madrid had sentenced to death M. D. A. GALIANO, son of the celebrated Deputy and ex-Minister, for forging forty-three Royal orders for the payment of certain bonds. We presume the sentence will be commuted by the Regency. Accounts from Trieste, of the 21st ult., announce that for the last thirty-six years a more rigorous winter was not remembered. Since the 15th of December snow had con tinually fallen, covering the country to the height of five or six feet, and intercepting all the communications, even within the interior of the city. The Gazette de France makes this evening a very just observation :—" The moment," says that paper, " when the Ministers choose to deprive Admiral Lalande of his command, under the pretext of his representing an aron dissement in the Chamber of Deputies,;is precisely that on which they appoint another deputy to be Governor-General of Algeria. Is not this tantamount to saying to the elec tors of Exadeuil, that they are not to re-elect General Bugeaud." A letter which we have received from Toulon acquaints us with a fact which is more significant than the official phrases. The staffs of the ships of the line have not their full complement of officers, and yet the Ministry have just granted furloughs ; a midshipman obtained one on the 31st of December, and letters from Paris leave no doubt that several more will soon come from Paris. It is understood that General Bugeaud will not delay going to Algiers to enter on his government. Ile is already making preparations for his departure. Orders have been received at Toulon to send to Algiers the cannons with which the coast is now armed. Their place will be supplied by others sent from Toulon, Stras bourg, and Mets. It is said that the Maritime Prefect of Toulon bas been directed by the Ministry to have the Nestor (a fourth rate) immediately armed. This cannot be done in less than five or six months.—Le Commerce. BOURSE. , —PAKIA, TUESDAY, JAN. 5. ryst Highest Lowest Price Piice. Prick Price French S per Cents 3 per Cents 77 50 77 50 77 ... 77 40 tt in► in; rrance L.ttitte Bank 00 it. Stare 5135 _5135 ...51135 asigian ?Sank 5 per Cents Sk4 118 ... 98 ... 58 New Loan Spanish ACLIVe 55% 25 ... 2514 Passive 6 6 ~. 6 ... 6 Neapo:itan Roman .... 99 ... 99 ... 91 ... 9914 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The funds have been rather depressed to-day by the disposition of one or two parties to realise profits, but the market rallied before its close this afternoon. Con sols for immediate transfer receded from 891 to 891, but rallied subsequently, and closed at 891 1. For the 15th instant the alteration was from 89f to 891. Ex chequer Bills improved to 7s. and 10s. premium ; bur. East India Bonds receded again to 10s. discount. Bank Stock rose again from 164 to 162 and 163 ; and East India Stock touched 243 k. The New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. were at 971,- to 981 ; the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 98f to 1; and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 90 to 89k. Money is very easy. Nothing of particular interest transpired to-day to affect the value of the Foreign Securities, most of which were rather heavy. The Active Bonds were at 241 to 241 for Money and Account. Por tuguese New Five per Cents. brought 34 to 4, and the Three per Cents. 20 ; Colombian Six per Cents. of 1824 were at 231 ; Mexican Five per Cents. at 28 to 1 , and Brazilian at 711, being all much the same as yesterday. Belgian Stock was at 981 ; Russian at 113 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 501 to 1, being rather firmer. Danish Bonds were 774 to 1. The market for Shares still finds favour in the eyes of those having surplus capital for investment, and the consequence is that prices keep up well. Groat Wes tern Shares were 30 to 1, the New 14, the Fifth 71 to 64 ; the South Western 20a to l9i ; Manchester and Leeds New 6} ; and North Midland New 2f premium. Brighton Shares were 51 to 1 ; Blackwell 4 ; Midland Counties 16 ; Northern and Easternl3 ; North Mid land 18 ; and Birmingham and Derby 24 discount. Colonial B ink Snares were at 121 to 131 ; and London and Westminster Bank at 4 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. — Sales were .5,000 bales at full prices, 500 on specula• tion ; 20 Egyptians. ; 70 13ahias, 8/d. ; 70 Per. nams, Bjd. 84d. ; 100 Maranbams, 71d. ; 500 Surats 4,' d. to sd. ; 250 Sea Islands, at 14d. to 16id. We have received Sydney Papers one day later, to the 20th August. The colony has advanced so rapidly within these last few years that there are many branches of manufactures which might now bo established there with a certainty of success. Our immense resources if' properly expended and developed would, we are per suaded, enable us to maintain certain branches of trade —one of them is the sugar refining, which is about to be established ; another is the growth of vine and the manufacture of light ,wines;' another is the growth of silk worm mad the planting of mulberry trees for their use ; another is the manufacture of iron, out of the rude material. Some years ago engineers were so seldom to be found here that it was difficult to pro cure the manufacture of any elaborate work for love or money. The case is altered, and the ingenuity of the engineer has created a trade in mills, boilers, and en gines, iron boats, and other works. PORT PHILLIP.—STRIKE Or THE SAILORS.—We have just beard that the sailors of :Melbourne, following the example of the carpenters, have struck for an ad vance of wages, and that, as the demand is about SO per cent. above the former prices, it is not the inten tion of the masters to yield. COMMERCIAL REMARKS.—FIour —No alteration litei taken place since our last in the price of the article, awl although there is a good supply and more expected, th.: large speculators are determined to hold on, expecting a rise ; and unless some arrivals from foreign ports should take place, flour is not likely to be lower than the present quotation. First, 42/. to 481. ; second, 38/. to 42/. Spirits—The market remains very firm. Rum seeinri likely to rise a little. Brandy, 12s. to 12s. 6d. ; Rum, Bs. to Bs. 6d. ; Gin, 2.55. to 28s. per case in bond, Wines—Very little in the market of good quality. Provisions—lrish Butter, Is. :II to Is. sd. ; Pork, 61. to 61. 6s. Tea—Firm. Tobacco—ls. Bd. to I s. 10d. Ale—Good samples 71. to 71. IW. in hogsheads ; bottled, 10s. Porter—Taylor's in hhds., 61. to 61. 10s, ; bottled, 14s. to 161. Potatoes arc firm, 14s. to 16s. Candles—This article is very scarce in the market. English Moulds, 10d. ; Sperm, 2e. to 2s. 6d. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yes terday's date. Never in the memory of men has the herring fishery given so bad a result as in 1840. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. 4.—The National Funds were firm to-day ; the Actions of the Society of Commerce, having been done at MI-, fell to 1581. The improvement of Arcloin's at Paris was a coun terbalance for the fall in London, which had no influence on the market ; they were after the closing 22 9-16 ; Coupons 18i Tire public arc now anxiously waiting for the official despatches from China, to ascertain the correctness of the intelligence received yesterday. Consols opened at 891 i for the Account, at which price they are at present, with little doing; ReUuced 89-i ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock 161 163 ; India Stock 242 244. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active much the same as it left off, 24f .-1, ; Deferred 121 i , Pas sive 6i i ; Portuguese 31 f 821 ; Three per Cents. 191 201 ; Brazilian 701 71 f ; Colombian 23f 24 ; Mexican 281 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 501 f ; Five per Cents. 984 i. SIIARES.—Great Western 80 31 prem. ; N ew 14 15 prem. ; London and Brighton 51 41 die. ; Black. wall 4 3± dis. ; Birruingheha 83 85 prem. ; Southampton e 58 59 per share ; Greenwich 6 8 0 9 .. p .. e . : 3 s B ha . r . ; . t C o roydon 12f 13 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS, Paid. Per Share. Bristol and E x eter ..... .• Cheltenham and Great Western 624 324...... to Great Western ..... , 65 •.... 951 j i ... to Ditto Fifths 'hill and Selby London and Brighton London and Blackwall - -16 i to _- London and Greenwich ..... ...... 20 Ditto Scrip ........................ 2 London and South Western 3Bi 594..... to 59 Midland Counties lOO - North Midland, (New) ..•.••.•• 40 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial ........................... 25 - London and Westminster . 20 Consols, which were in the early part of the morn ing at 89i for the Account, are at present become heavy,owing to a sale by an eminent broker to a consider able amount at 90 for the February Account, which caused them to recede to 89i Money is easy at present. By the Hamburgh mails, arrived last night, the ex change upon London comes 13 1 ; Goad, 422 ; Metal liques 1031 ; Bank Actions 1,575. At present Consols may be quoted 89i for the opening ; Reduced 89k, have been 90 ; Exchequer Bills improved as., may be quote 1 9 7 10 ; India Bonds, 10 dig. ; India Stock, 242 ; Bank Stock, 162, 163. In the Foreigh Market, Spanish Active is lower, receded from 24i to '24k owing to unfavourable in telligence received in a private letter from Madrid by a morning journal ; Deferred, 12-1 ; Portuguese, 31 /-; Three Per Cents. 20 ; Brazilian, 71i ; Colombian lower 231 ; Mexican 28f ; Dutch, Two-and-a-Half per Cents. shade lower, 50i ; Five per Cents., 98i. In the Share Market some of shares are better, — Bristol and Exeter, 38 ; Great Western, 951 ; Lon don and Brighton, 444 ;iLondon and Blackwall 181 ; London: and South Western, 591 to 59 ; Midland Counties, 84 ; North Midland New, 421. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, JAN. s.—Birmingham and Derby, 77 ; Eastern Counties, 9il ; Ditto debentures, 5i ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 29i ; Great Western, 941 ; Ditto Half Shares, 631 ; Fifths, 44 I London and Birmingham, 32!. Shares, 57 ; Brighton United Company, 44 ; South Westerr, 58i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 31 ; North Union, 13-i ; Liver pool Borough, 19k. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS._ -•-• Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red B9; Ditto Bonds ...... ...... 10 dis 3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3 per Cent Red 9Bi Ditto New Annuities... 87 i New 3i per Cent .. New 5 per Cent ... Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acc t ... Jan. 1860 ... - Consols for Opg 894 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 9Bl Ditto, New Ditto..... 31i Brazilian Bonds ... - BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish. 5 Chilian, 6 per cent per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent. .... 774 French, 5 per cent... — f. — C. Greek, 1825, spercent. .—Exchange •• Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per ce nt —f. — c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent 5l Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 98i _ a F n i Fifths hi.; Brighton SHARES. Birininkham and Derby Railway (10 0 Pd)••• 76 38 Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ........... ... .. E C a h s e t l e t r e n nh c a o m un a t n ie d s G ß r a c i a lw t aNyVeDsteebrl(t22tapiadi)d) 32 Great Western Railway (6.5 paid) ............ 95 64 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .• •• •• ••• Hull and Selby (50 paid).. ...................... 43i London London and 131ackwall Railway (24 Pd) lq London and Greenwich Railway ( 20 P i d) • gh 4 to p n ai ß d) ailw . ...... .............. ..• 10 1 Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid)... .................... 3.:4i. 581 London and South Western Railway ••••• ••• (50 paid)... 44i Manchester and Leeds Railway (70 paid) Ditto New Shares (25aid) ............... 3; i Midland Cou n ti es R a il wa y (100 paid) •••••• 84 Northern a n d E astern R a il way (40 paid) 27 North Alidlancl Railway (100 paid) ......... 82 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ............... 42i George Stephenson, Esq., announced at a recent meeting at Blackburn his intention of shortly retiring from the profession of civil engineering• RAILWAY SHARES. St. (.erniain Ve-ssulles.R. B 287 50 39'2 50 ... 387 50 392 90 LB. ..... ..... 305 ... 505 202 50 365 Orleans ..... ......... Strasburg to Bale 247 50 ... 247 50 —. :45 210 25 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY.— Her Majesty accompanied his Royal Highness Prince Albert to the ice this morning, attended by the Duchess of Bedford, and the Hon. Miss Paget. Lord John Russell left the Castle this morning. The Hon. and Rev. E. G. Moore, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Lady and Hon. Miss Mon tagu, will have the honour of dining with the Royal party at the Castle this evening. Lord John Russell returned to town yesterday after noon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. Lord Leveson returned to town on Wednesday, from a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at their seat, Broadlands, Hants. Lord Morpeth has left Dublin, for the scat of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lilleshall, Shiffnal, Salop. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. Au appeal from the Isle of Man, " Chris tian v. - Gibson," was heard and determined, Lord Brougham giving judgment on the part of their Lord ships, affirming the orzier of the Court below. A n ap peal from Bombay, " Jeewunt Sing jee Übby v. Jet Sing jce Übby," was opened by Mr. Wigram, Queen's Counsel. Mr. Pemberton, Queen's Counsel, was heard in " Vidal v. Gerod," from Jamaica, but had not concluded his address for the appellant when the Court rose. DEATH OF THE HON . ..RICHARD ST. LEGER• —We regret to hear of ttfe demise of the above Hon• Gentleman, uncle cithePiesent, and brother of the late Viscount Doneraik,/fle died last week at Roebuck, county Dublin, and was in his 70th year. The news from China has proved most disastrous for the tea speculators, many of whom must be ruined by is, as the fall in price has been fully 25 per cent., making a loss of one million and a quarter of pounds ster ing in the value of the total stock of tea since Tuesday last. When the rupture with China commenced a year and a half ago, Company's Con ,, ou row from Is. 7d. per pound to 3s. 3d. per po un d, an d fluctu atcd afterwards between 2s. 6d. and 25., until the news of yes:erday reduced it again to is. 7d. per pound; but as it cannot be imported for this price without loss, it ,is presumed that it will rally again after the needy spectOators have sold off their stocks. The Earl of Fingal has now quite recovered from his accident on the Eastern Counties Railroad, and is enabled to resume his duties, lie Lord in Waiting on the Queen, without any inconvenience. The Cochin-Chinese, who have come to Paris, made their appearance at the last soiree of the Minister of Commerce. Their dress was very rich, consisting of long flowing robes, in the Chinese fashion, At the Minister's, as in tact they are said to do in the streets and everywhere else, they took from their girdles tablets cowered with China-paper, and with much gravity noted down/ whatever appeared to them worthy of record. OUR MANU FACTURI G SYSTEM. A recent number of the IVestininster Review contained two Letters to Leonard Horner, DA., on the " Capabilities 9f the Factory System," com bined with a series of observations on the elevation of the labouring classes. At the time the article was published it attracted much attention, and re ceived much praise, which have probably induced Mr. Hooper now to publish it as a separate pamph let. It treats of two subjects intimately connected with the present and future welfare of the country. England is doomed for many years to come to be a manufacturing nation, m to be annihilated ; and while the condition of the masses engaged in manu factures can never cease to be interesting to the statesman and philanthropist, it is palpable that it cannot remain what it now is without danger and demoralisation to the whole community. The eleva tion of the labouring classes in our manufactures is, therefore, a subject of the deepest interest to the whole community. With the observations of the Reviewer, we have no intention to meddle, except that we must ex press our dissent from the proposition, that " the melioration of the physical and moral state of the great body of the people is one of the duties of Government. When their moral and physical state is much worse than► that of some small portion of the people—particularly if that small portion ex clusively administer the Government—there arises a great presumption that the Government has grossly neglected its duty ; but from that evidence, not merely of its inutility, but its mischief to the great body of the people, we cannot, with the Re viewer, jump to the conclusion that it is the duty of Government to :neliorate their condition. They must do that themselves. The first step to their improvement is their independence. The mural and physical condition of a people is good or bad by comparison, and what is now considered good may half a century hence be extremely bad. The present condition, for example, of the bulk of our gentry and middle classes, both morally and physi cally, is far superior to the condition of those classes half a century ago. Society has a principle of pro gress inherent in itself ; Government has, on the contrary, a tendency to be stationary ; and if we make it the duty of Government to provide for the melioration of the physical and moral state of the great body of the people, we shall authorise it to divide the nation into castes, and fix the labouring classes, with some petty improvements, contrary to the course of society, in a permanent condition of inferiority. We do not think that desirable ; while it is very desirable, both for the case of rulers and the advantage of the ruled, to limit the sphere of We duties of Government as much as possible. If Government limit its duties to protecting the rights of individuals from encroachment, it will best serve the purpose for which it is said to be instituted. The two Letters are written by a benevolent in dividual, but he seems to us, like the bulk of iiersons in a similar situation, to expect a great deal too much from drilling the people, and to rely a treat deal too little on the people helping them selves. There is a sort of diseased desire on the part of benevolent educationists to make the work men like the gentry in their habits, tastes, opinions, and amusements. For example, the kindly autho r of these Letters no sooner got his factory hands about him than he provided gardens in the fronts of the cottages, in which the men might dig at their leisure and cultivate flowers. Now that gen .lemen who toil not may find pleasure in digging and cultivating a flower garden is very natural ; but that a man, bent all day over a loom, or over a mule, shut up in a heated room, should find no more 'agreeable occupation for his leisure than digging in a garden, is not to be expected. Some of the workmen may ; and the great evil of the benevolent man thus laying down a standard of excellence, as it were, by no means suitable to each individual, is, that he who neglects his garden be cause he prefers sauntering in the fields with his children after his toils are over, gathering wild flowers, or observing wild animals, or perhaps com muning with his own heart, or with Nature, is se t down as an idle, thriftless man, and is very likely to be dismisseu from his employment, and become a bad one. That a poor man should be enabled to command the use of a garden, if he desire it, is highly proper ; but it is not desirable that gardens should be provided for all factory workers, so that any one of them who does not act up to the fancy of the proprietor, having rational pursuits of his own, should be set down as less worthy than the gardeners. Again, the benevolent factory owners, as soon as he got his people about him, established schools. Far be it from us to sneer at any kind of learning, but book learning is not for all dispositions. Some persons like investigating machines, or making Instruments ; and the same objection that we have wade to the gardens applies to the schools, namely, that it establishes an artificial standard of excel lence, very agreeable to the individual [proprietor, `Jut not equally agreeable to all the factory workers; and those who do not seek the schools are neces ,:arily set down by the owner as less worthy than those who may really be as rationally and usefully , q-riployed as conning over the alphabet or learning a Methodist hymn. After a time games were established, and as this part of the plan is particularly amiable and kind, we shall quote a long extract :- 1 We set apart a portion of a field near the mill, that bad .riginally been designed for gardens, and, taking advantage at' a holiday and a fine afternoon, I called some of the boys together and commenced operations. We began with quoits, trap and cricket balls, and leap frog ; and as I saw eat many others soon joined us, and our playground con tieued to fill more and more every evening it was opened, e gradually introduced other games, and established a few regulations to preserve order, assigning a particular part of the playground for diferent games, and appointing certain individuals to distribute and !preside over them. The girls and boys each took their own side of the field, and generally followed their games separately. The fol lawing summer we erected a swing, and introduced the game called Les Graces, with bowls —a leaping-bar—a tight-rope—and afterwards a sec-saw. Quoits are gene rally the favourite game of men—the hoops and tight rope among the boys—and the hoops and swing with the girls. The last is in perpetual requisition. With the hoops, the boys and girls now play a good deal together, and we en courage this companionship as being extremely favourable to the cultivation of good manners, kind feelings, and per ception of their proper place and relation towards each other. When we first began these games, this was a thing that had yet to be learned, and instances of rudeness and improper conduct did occasionally occur; but as 1 made a point of being always present on the ground, and gave our young ones to understand that I wished my leaving it to be the,signal for the breaking up of the party, I had the op portunity of observing any breach of good manners or good temper, and gradually succeeded in breaking them into soy system. We are now near the close of the third summer since the play-ground was opened, and during this season we have not once had to remark upon any breach of order and decorum. Indeed, the system is now so well under stood among us, that 1 no longer feel it necessary to be present among the games, though I generally am so, be cause I enjoy them as much as any of the party, and it is one of my chief opportunities of social intercourse with the ople. 'rite play-ground is open only on Saturday even. :ng, or holidays, during the summer. In the autumn of the same year, 1834, we began our drawing and singing classes. The ."drawing class meets every Saturday evening ,during the winter, from six to half past seven, and generally spends half the time in draw ing, and the rest with geography or natural history. This class I teach myself; it consists of shout twenty-five boys, and some of them have made considerable proficiency. They occupy themselves at home during the evenings of the week with copying drawings that we lend them for the purpose, and this affords an interest for their leisure hours, and an attraction to their home fireside, which it was one of my chief objects in introducing this pursuit to supply. U: ring the summer they continue the occupation or nut, a, :iiey choose; but our regular lessons are given up, as our Saturday evenings are then spent more profitably in the play-ground, and we return to our winter occupations veith much more zeal and relish, after a long vacation, that if They had been continued without interruption during the whole year. Some variety and change in our pursuits, we fire! as necessary to keep up our own interest and attention as theirs. As soon as the 'drawing class breaks up, at half-past MOP, the singing class assembles and remains till nine. This class consists of girls and young men to the number of twenty-eight. It is entirely under the management of thso Superintendent of the Sunday school, who meets them once a week during the winter, to teach them their diffe rent parts, and then brings them on S;iturday evening to our large school-room, where they practise all together. We confine onrKilves for the present to sacred music ; singing in four parts, and with the assistance of two instru ments, make what we think very tolerable music. This class is very popular, especially with the girls, and it is considered a great privilege to be invited to join it. One of the most successful of our plans, and the most ef fectual in civilising the manners of the people, has been that of having regular evening parii,s during the winter. The nent'n..r of these patties is generally about thirty. They consist chicflv r,f tite elder girls sod boys, generally an equal number of each. They come by s.decial invita tion, a little printed card being sent to each, on which is written the day and hour when the party will take place. Much of the distinction shown to the guests depends on this individual invitation, and it is part of my plan to show as much respect as po ss ibl e t o th ose w h om I i nv it e t o jolts our society. It is impossible, however, to read this extract, amiable, most amiable as we admit the writer to be, without recognizing throughout a strong desire to drill the people, to make them like the driller, or like the gentry, to inoculate them with similar tastes, to send them after similar pursuits, and, there fore, to give them similar opinions. The factory owner having a large property, and being probably much at his ease, having many converts under him, and saying to one, " Go, and he goes," labours—with good intentions, we admit, but mistakingly, we aver—to make every in dividual in his employment something like himself. There is in his conduct the same spirit of overrul ing, the same desire to be superior to others, or to govern, to:which, e in our observations on the cotton manufactures, we traced much of the evil which pervades society. The elevation of the labouring classes is, we fear, not to be obtained. It does well enough for one mill, and contrasts beauti fully with another, where the labourers'. and the children are both rigidly ruled, and yet much ne glected; but it partakes too much of the master and slave system ever to create in the labouring classes that spirit of independence which is the first step to becoming good moral men. The prin ciple is to model all classes on one class, while the vast diversity in the business, possessions, and dispositions of the various classes, and of various individuals, indicates for them dif ferent amusements, and a different bringing up. There appears to be more practical freedom in Germany, according to the letter from Chemnitz, which we quoted on Wednesday, and with that freedom there seems to be more happiness, more hilarity, and more real delicacy of feeling, than is to be found amongst the best drilled operatives of the neatest factory, surrounded with gardens, having a play ground in the middle, and schools at each corner. The latter partakes of the character of Mr. Owen's parallelograms, the former seems like the natural world. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. SIR-It must oe matter et regret to ail interested in the celebrity of British machinery, to kart' that the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company, hive bought ten locomotive engines, about 1,5001. each, ma nufactured at Philadelphia, United States ; it is the stigma and reflection cast on the manufacturers of this country that I complai❑ of. Surely the manufacturers have not fallen off! Long has the locomotive and other engines—and machinery of British invention and exe cution ranked superior to all others. It is entirely owing to our pre-eminence in the superiority of machinery that we are enabled to compete with foreigners, although they possess the advantages of cheap food, and, conse quently low wages. The only advantage the American engine has, is in travelling on railroads where there are many curves—the arrangement of wheels allowing of greater facility in travelling along such lines— but it is to be hoped good may arise out of it, if it cause greater application amongst our mechanical men, which will tend to some important improvement in the construction of locomotive engines, I cannot avoid noticing the apathy and indifference evinced by engineers and others respecting railway accidents ; they appear to wait for the regulations and restrictions of Govern ment. It would certainly be more creditable to com mence some improvement in the system, than to remain passive until measures, rendered necessary for the public good, are made compulsory. L. Newcastle-on.T)ne, Jan. 5, 1841. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 6. Our market has exhibited considerable firmness and buoyancy to-day, and we have had a F ood demand for most of the leading Railway Shares, and prices generally have an upward tendency. The following are the closing prices:—.,Manchester and Leeds, 801, New ditto, 31: Manchester and Birmingham, 26 to 27 ; North Midland, 81 to 82, halves, 40 to 41 ; Midland Counties, 81, quar ters, 15 to 16 ; London and South Western, 60 ; Great Wes terns, 93 to 94, halves 62f to 63, fifths, 11 to 11i; London and Birmingham, 173, quarters, 28 to 28.1, thirdr, 59 ; Lon don and Brighton, 43i to 44 ; south Eastern and Dover, 13 ; Eastern Counties, 9 to 9k, slitto debentures, 5i to 6. REFUSAL TO ALLOW CONVICTS TO GIVE EVIDENCE BEFORE A CORONER'S JURY.—At inquests held an Wednesday before Mr. Wakley, in the'House of Correc tion, on the bodies of two prisoners, the Coroner, address ing the Governor, said, " He should now (after hearing the evidence of the turnkeys) require the evidence of some fellow-prisoners of the deceased persons to place before the Jury." Mr. Chesterton, the Governor, '• You can have any one you please." After some of the prisoners had been examined, and questions put to them whether they were satified with the treatment they received, which they answered in the affirmative, the following colloquy took place between the Coroner, the Governor, and a psi. sober, named Mary Collins, an inmate of the infirmary Coroner—la the silent system also observed throughout the infirmary as well as the other parts of the prison ?—Yes ; we are not allowed to speak in that place unless to a nurse. The Governor—lt is really a strange thing. I really do not know what bas come to the women re cently. I had issued positive orders that prisoners should be allowed to speak together whilst in the infirmary. Coroner—lt certainly is .singular that the women should in particular, not avail themselves of such a recreation. But arc they aware of the order ? Governor—l gave the order, and believed it wat carried out. Sir James Williams, one of the Visiting Justices, was understood to say that the order emanated from the Magistrates. The Coroner said the testimony of the prisoners was very satisfactory, and reflected credit on the prison arrangements : he, however, regretted to observe that attempts had recently been mad. to prevent prisoners giving evidence-as to death, in cases of those who had been confined with them. From the public papers of Wednesday last he had found that in quests had been held at Woolwich upon seven convicts who had died of fever, and that the authorities had refused per mission for the fellow-prisoners to be examined, H e h a d no hesitation in saying that by law the Coroner could com mand their attendence to give evidence, and that the au thorities were liable to be punished for refusing. . Such a circumstance was most alarming, and required the earliest investigation by Government. The effects of the Chinese intelligence have been already felt. The price of tea at the time we write (three o'clock), has fallen 7d. per pound, whilst that of East India Cotton has risen. The cause of the former change is obvious; the cause of the latter is, that large quantities of Cotton which, had the war continued, would have been shipped for this country, will, when the usual trade shall have been again opened at Canton, be sent to that part; and we are aware that in August last the native merchant (Jemsct Jee) had in his possession, waiting the turn of (vents, upwards of 100,000 bales of this article, Matters have thus already begun to settle down to the ►evel of a wholesome standard.—Shipping Gfizettc. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACClDENT.—Wed nesday an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, M. P., in the board-room of the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of Mahony, a fine yoking man, aged 2t3, a plasterer. On Thursday afternoon last deceased was standing opposite the Wheatsheaf, Edgeware-road, in conversation with a friend, when one of the horses in a Paddington omnibus fell dunn, through the slippery state of the road. De ceased immediately on witnessing the occurrence hastened forward to assist in getting it on its legs, when the ani mal suddenly throwing up its head, deceased was struck on the temple by a brass ornament affixed to the bridle, and felled to the ground. On being picked up he was found to be insensible, in which state he was conveyed to t h e above hospital, where he died on Monday last in con. sequence of injuries inflicted on the brain. Verdict, " Accidental death." ATTEMPTED .ASSASINATION.—About two o'clock on the morning of Saturday last, James Drum mond, porter toMr. Gilmour, South Hanover -street, was attacked on the Govan-road, near Clyde Haugh Nur sery, by two men, one of whom fired a pistol at him, which slightly graz,d his neck, while the other struck him with a bludgeon, or some heavy weapon. Drummond immediately screamed out, when the fellows made off: but it. is his impression that they had mistaken him for some other person. Both the men were armed with pistols, with caps or bonnets, and they wore fustian clothes : they were light made, and seen to pass the Shed_ dons Toll from Glasgow. It is not improbable that they are toe persons, or a part of the gang, who had within these fourteen days committed so many outrages in that vicinity.— Glasgow Cironicle. IMPORTANT TO GROCERS.—An order from the Treasury has been received by the Irish Board of Ex cise, to the effect that none of the penalties hitherto im posed on the grocers under the spirit retail Act shall be enforced. We understand that those penalties already amount to 50,0001 , the exaction of which must have been ruinous to many of those who should bear a portion of the burthen. MORNING 1 D ITION THE PARIS PENNY-A-LINIR. We call coureur dc nouvelles him who supplies the petty news inserted in our newspapers under the head of Fails Divers, and which in press terms is e.xled Faits-Paris. coureu' de nouvelles must have two tines. As he must solicit he must be audaciebx et find, as the solliciteur in the play. Behold the iw , " , survoy him quickly, for he will be off and escape your view. At the office itself he appears hut to disappear. Like the eagle he brings 11;s booty to the nest, and tiles, o ff in quest of fresh japtur,s. With a slim bod. legs, a tarn ;n1 hut, an tuntireija under lus arni, a sate t , lt,en eye, paper in hand, and inkstand in his pockc , . , =' sallies forth ,at a venture. Tn lounge and look anon; by profession, to he the historian of every incidont , solemnity, and disast.a. ; such is the lot of the couroff de nouvelles. He is the confidential secretary of the capital, the Tacitus of the Boulevard, the Thuoydid , :s of the public thoroughfare. Who marries us? Who buries us? Who examinee for us the state of the atmosphere? Who sees monu ments rise and fall, empires subverted and erected ? Who attends our funerals? Ye all will name that Argus who, like the solitaire of d'Aulincourt, sait tout, volt tout, eutend tout, est Fallout. Oh! how many Kings he has seen rise and tumble down ! How many buildings constructed and sub verted ! He has seen and spoken to the man impri• soned and killed ; he knows all about you and me ; the . _ thought is enough to make one shudder. But fear not ; the good man is a very tomb of discretion ; he'repeats only what he can honourably disclose. Scandal never comes from him. Yet how heroic must the discretion of a man be who has stripped more human beings and unroofed more houses than Lesage's Diable Boitcux ! Not a slate, not a tile can be removed without his leave. None can murder without his visa. None can extract a hair from our head without his inquiring into the deed. He fixes at within a line the height of the river, the direction of the wind, and the mercury in the thermometer. Like death, he has übiquity and omni potence. He has acquaintances everywhere, even under the executioner's roof. The most renowned coureur de nouvelle s of later times was Mathieu Donzelot, alias renfonce pave, a nickname derived from his solemn steps, which he re gulated by beating time and stricking the flags with a long ivory-headed cane. Donzelot's lodgings were on the Quai aux Lunettes, if he may be said to have lodged anywhere, for he was perpetually ex ploring every street, nook, and corner of the town. He was at all fetes, and the witness of every mishap and disaster. It any illustrious man were to be buried , old Donzelot adapted his mien to the occasion. He hoisted a crape band to his hat, and crept into IL , . mourning coach. He then became all ears and eyes/ gathering lamentations, intercepted sighs, shed tears with his fellow mourners, and took notes. In the morning, before he sallied forth, old Donzelot consulted the sky and the barometer which ornamented his garret ; then, taking up his cane and inkstand, he would say—" Rain ! We shall have people slipping and crushed under carriage wheels ;" or " The weather is stormy ! We shall record some cases of mental derange ment and hydrophobia ;" or, lastly, " Cloudy and gloomy ! Fine weather for spleen—let us hunt after suicides." According to these probabilities Donzelot regulated his day's operations. One day Donzelot's weathercock lay in the direction of an entente wind. The coureur hastened to the Puss du Pantheon, where the students were getting up $ little riot. The moment he appeared a shower of stone ° hailed him. " Good !" exclaimed Donzelot, "it begio ° in proper style ;" and, without any dismay, he este lished his observatory on the most perilous spot. N friend passing by earnestly entreated him to take to hi° heels. Donzelot, heedless of his advice, drew his waters' and recorded minute by minute the various stages of Lb. esneute. " Will you not go ?" roared again his Is i , nd' Not I," replied the news-hunter ; " but since you O ° flying, hive the goodness to leave this with my news' paper, and tell them I remain on tho spot to send them the sequel." An hour afterwards confusion was at its height. " 11 1 two parties came to blows, the Municipal Guard fired, all a bullet struck Donzelot. A surgeon hastened to hi° l ' " You arc wounded," said he. " I am," replied I.)°'" zelot, " and severely too, for I cannot write." " 'DI is no time to be scribbling," roughly observed the praeT tioner, "we must attend to your wound !" "My bu s '' ness," replied Donzelot, " is to relate the occurrence' and you must do that for me. Just write the followi" transcript : ". Three o'clock, p.m.—After a discharge of me ketry made by the military, three wounded and o ° e killed were counted on the side of the people.' " " Who then is the dead man ?" inquired the su rgeo°,' " I," returned Donzelot, and he expired! Ile expir e ' like Epaminondas, on the field of battle ; like 'carpool like Bayard. He died like Aloliere, on the theatre ° his achievements. With old Donzelot the ancient and bright prototYP: of the coureur de nouvelles was extinguished. Sw e ,, him the news-hunter has degenerated. 'rho Gazete des Tribunaux has dealt a tremendous blow upon th,, ° , wandering industry. The other newspap ers borrow be day's doings in that able record of crimes. SeartP l have three or four of them got a coureur between th° tl/ ' whilst formerly every paper had its own. Nevertheless, the coureur de nouvelles still wears • broad hat, slim legs, and a little eye. He runs, listen!' and observes. Obsequious and good natured in I ' l6 ordinary intercourse with mankind, he becomes haughtd' cunning, and important whenever those vices can Yield him the information he wants. He is insinuating. o ° o sneaks into places to which he has no admission ; r ber ., he walks with head erect, and from the height of W I greatness drops a word that over awes sentinels ow door-keepers. He has passed himself off twenty t in)", for a Deputy, a hundred times for a Peer, and If he r e grets anything, it is that he is not a Knight of the e; gion of Honour, to render his frequent usurpations alii r probable. There are common-place things which never Woe the coureur de nouvelles. His narratives prefer tan gle° to men, and it is no fault of his if women be not rat her , young than old, and enceintes if possible, which read er them still more interesting. Bricklayers that fill fr°l a scaffolding are always married by him, and indebtee to his humanity for a large family. He neglects 1 1 °, P h of those trifling artifices which prop the main fact w' t d secondary details. Conscience, in short, has Cesert e i , the coureur de nouvelles. They have now more ilns,.g : nation than legs, and more ears than eyes. Wu u 3 s cares he if the profane know not how to appreciate " merit. He passes as glorious as the sun, casting 10 7 1 rents of news over his obscure blasphemers. , He tics cheerfully reach the end of his life of self abnegatio° ' to his last gasp he will make himself useful to the ° lr grateful paper which he fe e d s , a nd which so poorly '' c' s knowledges that food. He is the man to die in seed'' 1 , manner as to supply his paper with a very curious. P l , Paris. He will carry with hire into the grave but °l i t, regret—that of not having been able to announce fir and in his own fashion, the news of his death.—Pa r' Print. There is no official confirmation of the reporte6 re.irernetst of Lord Hill; but it is said that his Lords hi p t is in such an indifferent state of health as to render event by no means improbable. BRIGHTON, JAN. 6.—The Venerable Earl 6 1 , Westmoreland, who has recovered from his recent Woe!, entertained a distinguished party to dinner at his resideoc on the Steine, on Friday last, to celebrate his birth-claP The Noble Earl attained the patriarchal age of 82. Countess Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta 36 1 Homnia Cadogan arrived at Middleston- park, on ''' s lo ' to the Earl and Countess of Jersey, on Tuesday last, fr o g a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey. • Beaudesert, Staffordshire. RIBSTON PIPPINS.—A gardener in Scot.- 0 has discovered that our finest winter apple, the Ribs t % pippin, may be preserved from the ravages of the A mcricaft aphis or bug, an insect which has of late years been f f j, destructive to wall fruit, by grafting the pippin on the stc c to of the jareonelle pear, which the insect is never knos o , o attack. The engraftment also improves the fruit ia and flavour. The Gazelle des Tribuneau x ment i ons t h a t • Herz, stockbroker, absconded on Friday morning, leor il f as is said, a great deficit. O no person , w h ose w h o le f°; tune was in the hands of th e d e f au lt er , h as l a id an in f° l ; mation before the Proc ureur d u R o i, an d sea l s h a ve 13C ' h put, by order of the competent authority, upon all boolia papers, and other effects of the absentee, who is belief to have gone to Brussels. OPENING OF THE GREAT NORTH OF Et' lG° LAND RAILWAY.—NORTIIALLERTON, JAN. 4.—This °I 1 ; long looked for, was ushered in with severe snow stare which continued throughout the day ; notwithstand in :o l immense numbers of people congregated together st 1 , early hour in the morning , at the Station-house, the O s , depots, and at different places adjoining to the rai lc l d ie especially at the Castle-hill, the Zetland-bridge on Id Richmond-road, and the grand stand on the race.gron r e ; in order to witness the arrival and passing of the eng ll ' he and trains of coal waggons. About half after ten in 1 :0 morning, the first two engines passed by the station-h e ' s / without stopping, drawing one hundred and two wagg ° ,, t i of coals on their route for York; in about to', minutes after, two more engines arrived, drawing 99 tak e goes laden with coals, which stopped a s h o rt time to P o in water, and then proceeded to the southward ; the 14 two engines which arrived, d r awi ng a b ou t th e sa me of waggons, were accompanied by a band of music 6 - 0 f numerous flags flying, which, after taking a supply water, also proceeded for the south. Fresh trains ce ll • nued to arrive until a b ou t h a lt a ft e r three in the afterno °ll o :i the last four trains were for the depots at Thirsk Northallerton. Trains of waggons will continue t" ay rive at the different depots on the line of the said raio', on Tuesday and Wednesday, so as to fill up each d c P:a with various kinds of coal from the most celebrated on o r ' c i in the county of Durham. On this day no iniafortneco have happened on this part of the line of railway.----l e Journal. Lieutenant-Ggneral Sir Edward Kerrison, na rt ) : : M P.. gave a grand dinner last week at Oakley 0 0 r near Eye, to his fine corps of yeomanry, the Suffolk 4 , &rm. About 100 persons sat down to a eutoptuota tertainment. Tllr 13. On la st su tet nis c fully b t thos e brief o Mens o. Major. Gener ; 18 12 o f 1 1111 Whole not e to details was pre and tn t rennin,, a numb Egypt, dan gers throw,' °0 ; so w ith tei for lif e contain have ri With trn Can nc table al 1 1le118 c tory of mince, to the a L►eute► occasioi and G.( Right October, March, I Colon e l 18 14 li t lira , s erved is r om Juv " 9 5. wi t h a oth er p i r prese nt meat (ti to ok pla, I) 4 the W e f ew v now I oth er 6 ai L Conn not et tiers c Pullet TH. ..... b eer man Pub N