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

EVENING EDITION. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEW S (THURSDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—The great feature in the stock-markets to day was the settlement of the account in the foreign Binds ;dish was marked by a considerable pressure for money, particularly among the dealers in Spanish, in which seen rity the transactions during the account just closed have been extensive, and the fluctuations net unimportant, the lowest price of Active in the fortnight having been 22i, and the highest 24, at which it closed this afternoon. In Portuguese bonds the extreme variations have reached 2 per cent., but the price to-day is nearly the same as at the commencement of the account. The South American se curities have generally been depressed and fiat, but seem now to be recovering, more especially within the last two days. On the whole, the settlement went off easily. The Share-market has, notwithstanding the prevalent scarcity of money and the anticipation of its continuance, not only maintained its ground, but in almost all instances railway shares have improved in value, and in some of thez.e the advance has been considerable since the settlement in the middle of the current month. Speculation has of late been mach directed to this department. Heavy complaints are made by nautical men of the inefficiency of the transport service, which, though they are by no means novel, are well worth adverting to oc casionally, as au aid iu keeping the Government depart ment which regulates that service to its duty, The de fects complained of arise, according to a Correspondent, from trusting to crimps and people of that class for the supply of seamen for the transport vessels, to whom, as soon as the ship is taken up, an order is sent to furrii.h hands to work it. Instead of looking out for really able seamen, these persons engage any one who comes in their way, however incompet e nt, provided they will engage to lay ont a certain portion of the advance usually made to them in bedding, clothes, &c. The good seamen, in dis gust at this system, will not acquiesce in it or generally engage at all, b u t if t h ey d o, every difficulty is thrown in their way. The c(4sequence is, when the ships put to sea, that more or less danger always exists on account of to bad crews, an d h ence arises the frequent putting back ito port by these vessels, which every reader of the ship ping news must have observed of late. As regards the owners of such vessels, the policy is decidely wrong, as the bid seamen, through these delays, are rendered much more expensive than good ones ; and when the probable sacri fice of Kaman life it may csuse is taken into account, the consequences may be dreadful. In regard to supervision before commencing the voyage, too much vigilance cannot be exorcised ; nor indeed can any regulations be too strict which are meant to insure efficiency in so important a service. A complaint of the state of the Indian army, in addition to those of the insufficiency of European officers and of the mediciri service, mentioned the other day, is the man ner in which it is at present disposed of. It is remarked in the Indian journals that the army wAs originally main tained for the protection of such native States as felt in:o the hands of the East India Company, and that it was augmented as those possessions increased, until after the Mall:eta wa-, when the most rigid economy !was adopted, and a variety of reductions were made. Now, during the past year a native Sovcreign has been place:, on the throne of Cabul by the Indian army, a line of outposts has been established along: the western hank of the laduz, to effect which an Euro pean regiment of her 'Majesty's service, four I.:lave regiments, and other details of the Bombay army have been selected for the duty, n - hilc the I,t European I:. •gi ment and two Native corps occupy the island of K4rrack and the pcninnla of Men. This :eit:ovd of troops fro::i the Bombaypresidency has not Ivan followed by any increase to :the establisLment, further than the raising of oae Eu rcp:an regirn , ot, thrw;;li the tro , p3 have, (3 , 4 th e ogg. - evite, amounted to 10 000 ~ .:;en o all.ran,ks, wl.ile at the 1;:st dees from I flia four ratio:, regiments Cr or- de: !! to rplieve thoae st;:tioncd ca the I", stem I.)..ink of the Indu+. I: is said that a few w ear., : Ngo it would bareiy have hcen bc:iercd t11:14 native troops would have Let-1: dist,tiec front Ilia:log.1n, and the focling on the spot i 3 that ttiv' regirner.ti si.sedily ha Lrro3:l to conduc7ing th! duties of thcs3 who a-c with2rawn fraaiied: a. 1 . 31“i51a S °ells were <lel to-fl:y,l4tit they surly rtNi yrsterill‘'s v;s:ae. Dons o!s ler were t 251 to - 7 ,- ; E.:chegaer 81.114 2'. to 5;. ; B :rJk fi_ock I the it.!( l .u:.:=l u;:;,7s G 3 , 3; and the N: w hrzc-and-a. 11,0 f pc:r 97 i 1 :0 I, ex.-dic. for 042 op,dug. . The attention of the spc:i.ula!ors in the Fortio Market has to-flay hz , .en chit.fly occupic.l riith the settlemef:t of the half-mo'nthly necount. bus:riess doze has been hl;i:ca, Th;.! tl;fre.rentN•s nrii7.ng frozr the r Y.! rerne rati:,nl s the 15th iar,t :bout •'; per sock ;n 1'0r:ti,' , .;;;; , % ;3 ps•:r cont C .. J:i L 1 I cent. its i\L. ' 3 t c:;Quet 't;::1) uD from day t 3 (I.ly, ;_! LoA . Cvt.r, 11,d Irc•tra,,nt upprrtun;tioi of elian.;ing ty this nielns Ltt - e bahmccs, :o as ta prevent inconveni,n - .(:c. The settltrirnt, tlicrc fore, v. as unatter.,:ed by ,ny en,Larrassrtnent, end the rate At intore.., for continuiLg stuck ruled htv, at ut,out 3 per cent. 'Spanish Bmd: v. ere in eetive dernind ; they sup plrted their previous alvaneed value, ranging from 21:1 to 25 for money, and from 2-4 to 251 for the AeeFiu lo Portuguse, Stuck there was scarcely any business. The Nlw F l / 2 C ri'A. Cents. were dull at 82-k, and the 'Furze F r C en t ! . a t 214, C.dombian Bonds remained at 24 ; but 11.1z7t-can toudied 21. The new Ventzuelan Banda will b ready towards the close of nest mouth, after which the dividend of 1 per cent. for the half year will be paid. Belgian Bonds were steady at 971 ; French Four-and-a-1141f per Caws. were matketl 191 f. 59J. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-lleif per Cents. realized 51; to 4. Some of the operators in Railway shares having ra ther overdone themselves, have had to pay 15 to 20 per cent. interest for the privilege of not at present makjng good their losses. This, while it has limited busieess, has itiven a lift to prices, which were to.day most cur rently these :—Great Western 27 to 26 ; the New 12 ; the Fifth 6 to 7 ; the London and Birmingham 81 ; tile New 251 ; the Quarter 22 ; the York and North Midland 18 ; the South Western 17i to 17 i 1 ; and the Eavern Counties Dohentures 2; premium ; Brighton Shares were at a rife to 61 and .5?; discount ; New Greenwich at 31, and Blackwell at .I to 44 dis. Lon don Joint-stock. Bank Shares were at premium. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, (FROM THE MORNING rarcas OF THIS DAY.) (From the 21fornin,g Chronic/e.) 'We this day lay before our readers important addi tional information respecting the case of Mr. in the Ecclesiastical Court of Exeter, and the resolutions agreed on at a meeting on Monday last in Monmouth, with regard to the case of Sarah Young. Mr. .Inlsllett has supplied us with the opinion given by Dr. Addanis in the case of Mr. Hill, from which it will he seen that the omnipotence y Purlittment, to use the well-known expression, is impotence in regard to the Ecclesiastical Courts. Parliament may pass an Act, prohibiting Courts from entertaining suits for tithes for sums seder 4p1., but if th e y c h oose to enterta i n su i ts f or a sma ll er m than 101., a party can only have the benefit of the prohibition by appearing at the citation, and then the iniquitous Court refuses to allow him costs, which are always high. In bringing before the liou , e of Com mons, in 1839-, his motion respecting Ecclesiastical Courts, Mr. Hawes observed that it was often extremely difficult to ascertain over what description of causes any particular (Ecclesiastical) Court operated, and much inconvenience resulted from this uncertainty. In the majority of the Peculiar Courts, and perhaps in all, there neither were nor could be efficient and exoeri oneed judges, °ricers, advocates, or practitioners, the emoluments being too small, and the number of causes too few, to secure those requisites for the due adminis tration of justice. The consequence was, that on con fidence was reposed in these tribunals ; and delay arose and expense was incurred in applying for letters of re quest, end in resorting to other means of escaping the prisdiction." As , a proof of ignoranct Dr. Lushiog ton stated that theoractitioners of one of these Eccle siastical Courts did not know that an appeal lay from its jurisdiction. But all this ignorance is displayed at the expense of the unfortunate persons subject to the jurisdiction. The Court may, through its igno rance, put 3 party to great trouble and expense ; but the Court itself is vested with impunity. The Court itself may be composed of a knot of Clergymen having the same interests as the suitor, sad attics may be entertained, in the very teeth of an Aft of Parliament prohibiting them ; but though it may be obvious that the suits arc entertained for the purpose of obtaining, incomes to the members of the Colin and the practitioners, through enormous costs, yQt corruptraelives cannot be brought home to any one. If the members of these tribunals avoid doing what no man not a downright idiot would think of doing, they may perpetrate all sorts of iniquity with impunity. We remember, in the ease of an action brought against an inferior tribunal, hearing Lord Teuterden observe, that errors of Judges ought to be viewed with indulgence — that it was more important that they should act with confidence on the opinion they entertained, than that justice should be paralyzed from hesitati o n and anxiety respecting the consequence s of their deci sions. In the case of Judges,- like those of our .0 perior Courts, under the cof a n intelligent lise and public, a charitable construction of conduct can be productive of little injury ; but in aceh dens of quity as the Ecclesiastical Courts of the country eon fesseally arc, the doctrine of Lord Tenterden (cf which they would be allowed to avail themselves), must giv e impunity to the most revolting injustice. Mr. Hawee's resolution, that the inferior Ecclesiastical Courts should be abolished witbdut delay, was carried, but they still exist, to the greet oppressian of the community. They may know that they are Me- in the Lee of an Act of Parliament ; but they know that the oppressed party can only secure himself by an outlay which see deers su o 4inissio n to his wrong the more prudent Course. They feel that they arc vested with impunity. Par liament cannot p rotect the people from Courts de termined to set it at etee„oe, trusting to the difficulty of distinguishing hetv:een venial mina' fallibility. The only remedy worth :Ars' thing is to abolish such Courts root .ausl branch. I[. resolutions agreed on at the Monmouth * g is stated "that the Ecclesiastical Court of d n e ee t t ,; - v t liar been in the hals:t of Lisuing citations re a amounts of tith e , h as di sp l aye d a want of sp eet or fu. i - _._. laws of our country, and exercised a power dangerous to the liberty of the subject, which ought not to pass with impunity." But we suspect this and every other Ecclesiastical Court acting with the same barefaced disregard of the law, may count on impunity. This opinion we deliver with due hesitation ; but as the con duct of the Court of Llandaff has excited much indig nant feeling in Monmouth and the parts of the county adjacent, and a subscription has been set on foot to enable the Widow Young to obtain redress, if redress is to be had, it is not impossible that the point will be decided respecting which we are in doubt. If any degree of iniquitous practice, short of barefaced cor ruption, brought home to a judge, can serve as a ground for punishment, it is to be found in the prac tice of the Ecclesiastical Courts. In the " Plympton Papers," publi s h e d some t i me ago by the Camden Society, a curious light is thrown on the conduct of Empson and Dudley, who, it appears, played very different parts from what might be inferred from the statements respecting thorn in our common histories. These gentlemen, like the practitioners in our Ecclesias tical Court s , proceeded according to law. They had the same objects in view, the acquisition of plunicr, but yet they set law less at defiance than.the Ecclesias tical Courts have done. To be sure,, they flew at higher game than Widow Young, and the other unfor tunate cottagers caged by the Bishop's Court of Landaff, and hence their deathless renown. No man in England can . long hope to oppress the rich with impunity. Ex cessive fines and excessive bail figure conspicuously in the Bill of Rights, though, in comparison to the incomes of the parties, heavier fines and heavier bails than those which led to the clause in the Bill of Rights are of every day occurrence in our Police Courts. But no thing can be too baavy for a poor man, and nothing too light for a grandee. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. FURTHER PAItTICULARS OF MR. HILL'S CASE-PRACTICE OF THE ECCLESIASTI CAL COURT. T 3 THE EDITCM OF TUE SIORNING CHR Sta—Mr. Hill has been the victim of two tithe snits i the Exeter Ecclesiastical Court, in bath of which may b,. seen the rorst features of this inEtpsitous tribunal. The first suit arose from his vicar claiming agistment tithes, which Mr. Hill alleged were exempt uuder his composi,. tien. The vicar demanded a certain sum fixed on by his surveyor, and would never give the particulars of the amount I Mr. Hill, refusing to pay unless he know what the de mand was for, was cited on the 24th of September, 1639. On the 11th of Oniober the libel was filed; but this de daring generally (like a bill in Chancery), and not ape cifying the particulars of tithe due, of course it could not be seen what were the items in dispute, and rather than wait fir the issuing a commission to take evidence, when the expenses would be 301. or 40/., Mr. Hill to the vicar`s demand, and pt id 11l costs, although on!y the second step in the suit had been taken, and the amount sued for did not cxc2ed 14/. The libel fills ten shes to of paper, and commences, " la the name of God, amen, &C " Need I condemn this blasphemous prostitution of the name of the Almighty Giver of all goodness to saLction st wicked an extortion? The eglith and last uticie is a specimen of the document " Alto, the party proponent cloth sty and allege that the said Joseph Hill, in the years 1.1 e:: Ilcd, was a paiishioner and Inhabitant within the parish of Lbelicd, and did there Lear divine servic', and receive the Sacrament, together with his wife, yearly, or at least ought so to have done, for whi;zh there is rut:and payable to the vicar li belled at Bisect-, yearly, or near thereabouts, four im - inci a piece for every coulatunicant, f.): and in lieu of their ge neral olThitions." The. Vicar, flushed with the success of his fiat suit, in Janimry followiog issurd the citation in question fir Ow Tinters Coon due ; bet the dern..nd hAcg tinder 101, the su.t was disrai:;sel, as I Issue The following is Dr. Addae,s's : " I thiuk th4t the doEndant must appear ablolutcly,lt the libel does not Izet forth that the ;early value of tithe aiu'itretcti czet-e,:ilCl , the d. fenthint nut oi , j_et, to its admissipo, nod tl:en the Court (nr.lcss, in..kcd, it dir.::et the to he reformed that rLsp'ect) sh,uld the defeo‘2.l.l, •Aith so, if w co the pleintiii having Ifaivz to rairrn the I;'se', 11, - ; can't cr eo.2s nut ptsad the ant..:ll e bte of the tithe suhts,txted to be ~lyive 101 N If it pl.!Acd that till , annual value of tile ttlt_ sub tracted is above la., but that Let is not pr. - ,vcd in or Cis proved by the eickr.ce at the I:eat-lug of cause, the cY.u'A, 1 an lr r, - nd, should at even cves be, that the t!c- Aant i= c ntil,d to biz though the plilitritr tithe sul,:ri:et: . d and recov;:red (e.firrtd) " J. ADDAMS. 'CVC " C;;ntrno-:R E' b. 4, 1310." 119wevvr the re.ult, was , , that All-. 11111 oit.:11 net Lave costs ; and the idea ef ttiC daehdant ILbalitting to a s.uit, until tile evidence is tz.ken the :.,BCC, t) i&gal istrou;, tili:t it txt:cr iirling 4(1, c!1 its r.lit the ri,k (•1 Exctcr, D:. . NO ON 13E L OF WIDOW YO 1.7 NC's% herd at Muer:Meth oo the is of Decern. her, for tal--.ieg into consideration the hest means to he adeptcd for the liberation of the to ido: S :fah Yeueg, nos a priselier in the courity goal of anseeno u th, we er , :the he; been detained severs months foe stleged coat rept of the Ecciesinsticel C o urt o f Llandeff, x oither she -ass' illegally cited at the suit of the Rev. De. L .le, of ilia, pliers, for e/. 10.3 seid to be due for tithe, the feliewing re solutions were aderted i• Th tt the citation of a poor a idow for a senell amount of tithe to an Ecciesiestical Court, contrary to the Ate made to prevent such proceedings, is both enchristiau and uneosistitutional. "That the Ecclesiastical Court of Lint:Taff, hrs b:ea in the habit of issuing citations for smelt arneunts of tithe, has displayed a want of respect for the laws of our country, and exerted a power dangerous to the lih.rt) of the subject, which ought not to pass with impunity. Teat this meeting pledges itself, by bringing this par • ruler case before Parliament, by petitiohing the Legis lature, and by usietg every lawful means, to endeavour to abolish the power usurped by the Ecclesiastical Courts. " Thnt a Committee be now arpointed, with power to add to their number, with a view to effect the liberation of the widow Sarah Yours., who has already suffered seven months' imprisonment for alleged contempt of the Eccle siastical Court of Llandaff, whither she was illegally cited for 3/. 10a., said to be due to the Rev. Dr. Lyle for tithe. " That a subscription for carrying out the above reso lutions be immediately opened. That James Bromage, Esq., banker, Monmouth, be appointed Treasurer; and Mr. E. Ric's:arch, Secretary, who is requested to forward the resolutions to the public papers." (From the Morning Advertiser.) The year 1840, with all its wars, and rumours of wars—with all Its political struggles and political fears —has closed upon the nation s o f E uro p e , an d g l a dl y would we had the 1841 which has dawned upon us, with renewed hopes of peace, tranquillity, and increased civilization ; but although much of the storm that " lowered" over our beloved country has bcen dis pelled by the glorious achievements of the wooden walls of Old England on the coasts of Clthta and Syria, it would be uncandid not to confess that others arc ap parently rising up which may introduce tee year IS-12 in a far less bloodless manner than the year 1840 has closed. We allude not to the quarrel between Eng!end and Chinn, which, we doubt not, will be brought to a successful, though tardy, conclusion—we allude not to', the affair between the Porte and Mehemet Ali, nor to that between Spain and Portugal, which will, in all pro bability, share the same fate ; but to the political vela forts which tulAst between the different Powers of Europe, and the desire for war which exists in more than one country of the great European com munity—a desire which we cannot characterise as otherwise than insane, but which neverthelesS exists to a much greater extent than is generally believed. In the good faith of Russia in her professed desire to insure the integrity of the OLtomaa empire, we never had the slightest faith. Though driven kilo the quip . topic treaty by the diplomatic genius of Lard Palmerston, her object was evidently to bring about a collision between France and England, and while they were engaged in settling it, to enlarge her overgrown empire, at the expense of both or of any other country upon which she could place her paws. This hope failed her in consequence of the extraordinary and unequalled successes of our fleets on the coast of Syria, which gave her no time for weaving a web of mischief ; Lut, untired of a game of reckless ambition, she is no sooner foiled in one plot than she prepares another, the objects and the ends of which are undefined, but, nevertheless, may be guessed at. Her object is now, to all appearance, to make love to France, and by pla&ng herself in a sup-, posed positi on o f say i ng " attac k us if you d are, " to pur sue her own schemes of aggrandisement, and bid defi ance to Europe to assail her. Her intrigues with the Court of Persia are well known—we arc credibly itiformed that her agents arc no less active at Pekin—there is no question that the tea days' deliberation of the Turkish Divan respecting the dccheance of Mehemet Ali, was the work and Manufacture of her hands, and now we find her kissing the feet of Louis Philippe in order to engage him in one of the most unnatural alliances that was evLr formed between country and country, as the following extract from a Paris paper will prove We. ere enabled (says the Pressc) fully to confirm the receipt, by the French Governnaeut, of a most friendly eote from the Russian Cabinet. It is not on; y' in its written despatches that the Russian Goveriamema, evinces a de sire to renew an amicable intercourse %vial France. M. de Barante, our Atnbassidor at St. Pete+ eebtergb, loudly proclaims the unusual kindness and parees.eler attention with which the Emperor Nicholas has tra kited him for some time. It is ev:Jeitt that Russia does not deceit herself respecting, her present relations- with Great Bri tain,ibtr e w a o k u it l i d g opportunity of and that she i 5 only soaking an h of e f a 'v n ith immenseber. re Jake pile;, found OurSelvf.4 S e Lo n u t l , d this rupi`al since it would leave Eng -3L3 in P r ecisely the s:ine prdicatn?.::t wilit.:ll We sleet it now depend s on the skill of the Y ee; I t t e :-0/ernment r the J.eaty of L We 1-I , ink to take in that reep..e:a and d tir &A le .. , eVen7C." l . .I ; erC From all this it is p.,;( aopeenet that. Reesse meane, l in the first place,- to in Y T for tike fur.. a tf. , 01 r t a ! n h e e. e. w e a l her pa r to;. is i v sj~ tael:e.cee objects, ,aun,;.ll„ a . i ti:,it t o b e t i s } e ce tiro- I ;Feed of a deFpetic alihrece in or th-1- ^ 4. selves tn)oe E.Tleed ; Lot ail :t t t r th'ef't] Frenee aed liuesia ? ::::: je . tlav:11 rt,t.C.S; n Lich other are ete•en e n q.::-)u could Meet Ened trel ueoe t . e • t, . lt A , . the neon. Lessem st; the eern— ,-; t ' et ";- . ' nor the their principles of gayer:else:it arc " •-• 8 gt as tit 3 poles—in fact, there is no ground the ray namon bend our ol:cdient If. C. MILLET At a n0..,e, TIM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1841. . _ of union beyond a mutual Joked of England. and a desire" to reduce her power and - influence in the four quarters of the world. This is a - folly on the part of France for which she will riot readily forgive herself when she discovers that Russia is using her as a tool for the attainment of her own purposes, and destroying her i n fluence as a great Power in Europe. We hope that this Russia mania will speedily evaporate—that the Government of France will see that its natural and most powerfnl ally is England—that no grcund of na tional quarrel or separation has been given— and that civilized States ought to unite together to prevent war and to preserve peace, as the greatest encourager of the arts and sciences which tend to the benefit of mankind. Should the event be unfortunately otherwise than we wish—should an unjustifiable and insane combination take place between France and Russia to the prejudice of our country—we have only to say that England will again buckle on her armour as she did of old, and with a world in arms against her, as she had in the times of Chatham, give her assailants a remembrancer which they will not speedily forget. (From the Morning Herald.) The letter which we published yerterday from our correspondent in Paris, contained some curious illustra tions of the truth of those opinions, which the Herald alone, of the daily press of London, has expressed in reference to the recent " settlements" of the Eastern question, as well as in reference to the really hostile nateue of the desigas of our professing " ally," Russia. In all things, Russia is, by the very necessities of h er position, and of that sc hemel of policy to which her posi tion has given rise, the " natural enemy" of England. W e state this circumstance, dispassionately, merely as a fact that ought never to be lost sight of. It is a fact, which warrants no dep hatred on our parts towards Russia—and, certainly, warrants no violence of lan guage. Russia has her own system of political action ; and that system, she advances with consummate energy and skill. The present Emperor of Russia is a man of extreme prudence and ability ; but he is only carrying out designs that were formed before be was born—designs that will be prosecuted with an unflinching zeal, after he shall be numbered n ith his predecessors. Russia is, beyond all question, the most formidable of the.anta aonists with whom we can be called on to cope. Tne executive Government of Russia is, for its objects, the most effective in the world. The diplomatists of Rus sia far transcend all their competitors in aptitude for business, and in tact. On the military and naval re sources of Russia, it is unnecessary to make many observations. Her navy liss been absolutely creates (so to speak) within twenty years. The next twenty years, if thy shall be equally well employed by Rus sia, must witness her navy unquestioned mistress of the ocean. At every point, the power of England oterferes with the designs of ltussa ; and so long as an intimate alliance subsists between England and France—so long, inieed, as England shal be (rue to herself—the progress of the great Northern Power !aunt he necessarily slow. Still the mere slowness of her progress never interferas with the settled pur pose of Russia. She is everwhere vigilant—everywhere prepared to act, where action is txpedieut—every- Acre prepared to rLfraia from action, wih:n action is dot advi,able. The halence of liussia has beau xerted against England in India—in Persia—in Canada —in Turkey—and is France :—nay, some observers— men, too, not devoid of acuteness--fancy that they ca:. !race Russian inflacrice in some of our domestic disseri siens. An alliance with Frantic would, in a remarkable .I!!gree, promote the &signs of Russia. England, by :ketroy ing the Turkish Let nt Navarino, placed Turkey, in fac,q, at the mercy of Russia. By our ope;-ations on tile coast of Syria, we have ramov,d the possibility of any interference on the part of Mchtmct Ali with the sctaents of our northern "ally." la order to play iharouzlily the g.trn) of 11-asia, we have, now, only r;) provide f;r our;clres full occupation, by go- !fig L. 7 war with Fraucc ; aucl Cleo, iu all prohability 11. , .usia will exhibit, lea of re,crre as to t•:c; ulti. enite chjsets, than she has, hitherto, deenesi ie pieef.n: to eayloy. Eneland is naturni:y a.t ohject st envy ital disldee to a!insst :he stirs great nations is the world. Tee wealth of Eeg'and—her vest co lonial possessioes—her commercilf . and trading enter prise, that is so apt to interfere with the domestic in dustry of fareien statss: —these are all reasons why the other Powers shonht lung to witness the ariall.ila tiou of the sentrees of Fnieland's pioiperity. It is not en the part of Fiance and Russia aleue, twat we hare to fear demonstratioes of hostility. In Lelia, we have many feraddahle enemies among the native Princes. Persia is now decidedly hostile. Ceina we :an! actually at war. Tau United Seat's of Atneiica Aid reiza the first favourable opportunity of at tempting to wrest the Canadas from es. Rawls rift_ never forego her ehs:gas on Turkey. Prince ss not forgo!ten that she smce h d colonies nhich now in:knowledge the sway of aeglaud. France, moiaover, has not abjured her pass on far creating a coLnial empire on a far mac extensive scale than sh.: ias ever yet attempted. Now all these nations have eemenua interest in epposieg Etiglard. With our neighbours in India and etiina, we are already in voked in Tne lapse of a brief period may u:ve us is war with Russia, Drano, and the Ueited States. These Powers have, it is true, so bond of union apart from their opposition in interest to England ; but Mat may prove a hood of union quite sfFective for its objects. A combined movement by France, Russia, and the United States might deprive England of the sovereignty of the seas, the navy of the United States being manned almost exclusively by English seamen. Any one disaster on a great scale might prove, in fact, a prelude to the dismemberment of the British empire—for 'unfortunately the means of defence and of aggression now possessed by England are far from being commensurate with the necessities of her position. It is well that the rulers el England should look calmly at all the dangers that really threaten the country, whose destinies are com mitted to their hands. Much has, it is true, been re cently done towards placing our navy in an effective condition ; but far mere requires to be done. Our coasts are still nearly defenceless. Many of our ships in commission—aye, some even of those vessels which played so distinguished a part in the bombardment of Acre—are very imperfectly manned and appointed. These things require, assuredly, to be thoroughly reformed. No economy can be so false, or so costly, as that, which would withhold from a great nation, in times of peril, the. most effective means of repelling danger. Three mouths of a 'war, which should be condeicted int fliciently on our part, would cost us mere than the most expensive navy would, in a quarter of a century. Our beissted " settlement" of the Eastern question bids fair, in short, at no distant time, to bring us into collision with France, or Russia—perhaps with both, and, it may be, with the United States simultaneously. It is our business, at all events, to be prepared foreseeh—a• contingency —to shun Russian " alliances"—to culti vate friendly relations with Prussia and Austria—to add immediately, and on a large scale, to the efficiency of our navy—to protect our domestic and colonial in• dustry, and to ley'less store than we have been in the habit of doing by our foreign trade. If Engia - ndsshall adopt such a prudent course, she may smile at any alliance which Russia may form with France :—if not, England may find that there are in store for her days of darkness and disaster, such as she has never hereto fore known. (From the Times.) The Parisian journals have not mitigated one particle of their hostility to the British name and nation. The provincial press rivals that of the metropolis in the spirit of hatred and vengeance, of irrational hatred; and ven geance utterly unprovoked. If there were any justifi able cause for such animosity, however, we should suffer not only in self-reproach, but in reputation, for those in juries to France by which it might have been occa sioned, still there would be some reasonable prospect that a becoming acknowledgement and reparation on our part might extinguish the unfriendly feeling. But we have,• Artunately, no such ground of hope. We . have offered France no injury. Her resentment is gra tuitous. It springs exclusively from the frustration of her own intended wrong, and she clings to it as to sentiment the public disavowal of which .would he a self-conviction of her I revious injustice before the whole world. What, then, remains for us ? What concession eon be made by the individual or the na , dart which has neither committed nor meditated en cro ichruent on the rights of a neighbour ? In Wed neqlay's Tines we gave an outline of our opinion as to the causes now in action for the overthrow of M. Guizot. With the ignorant, prejudiced, and headlong multitude, it is the passion for war at any price which he opposes, and that is at least an honest and manly, though mis taken motive. But it is far otherwise with those who look no otherwise at M. Guizot's policy than as it may tend to the stability or abridgment of his own - power, and who alllx no impor:ance to his unpopularity but as it may facilitate - their efforts to undermine and super sede him. It is rumoured very generally that M. 'Triers is expected in certain quarters to promote so much of the Paris-fortification project as will suit the eonvenience and advance the schemes of Royalty. In any community but that of France such indirect and sub t!o courses would scarcely be thought worthy of credit. suers, it is well understood, has forfeited all chance of being endured as a Minister by the head ofthe home of Or leans. Ilia attempt to precipitate Louis Philippe in to a war. and his offensive and disreputable endeavour afterwards to charge it as a crime against his Majesty that he had checked the prep nations by which war moat have stantly been provoked had Thiers remained in office, were quite enough, in any other country, to have made the late 'Minister of Forei gn Affairs an outcast from the in tercourse of all honourable politicrans. if Louis Phi lippe now, therefore, steers_ so low as to employ I:i9 personage, ails discarded, a 3 hi s agent i n a particular service where the - King had notoriously an end to c wry which no true Mend of fr ee Go verament would ever dd ga to promote (we allude d:stinetly to the erection ef detached forts rouad f Pari 3 O„ either Thiers must exhibit a turpitutl el-- Louis Philippe • sv il littve committed a folly, for neiLher of which can 0 prcced--nt !otad in the annals o any neighbouring nation. A 3. for the chimera that M • • Mole, the anticipated successor of M. (luizot, would, by' striking the earth with his staff of office, raise the Pande monium of a Russian alliance against England, we attach no faith to it, and entertain no such fear. The Emperor Nicholas knows his men. His Imperial Majesty is familiar with the acute and career of M. Mole—he knows Louis Philippe and France herself as intimately es either is known to the other—and we mistake him much if he will not pause for some time before he en gages himself against England by the solemn obligations of a treaty with France for his only friend. That the French rave incessantly of such a treaty is no proof that it ever will take place. That Russia would gain by it any advantage equal to the value of the paper on which it was signed, is what we do not imagine. That Russia, having but recently signed and executed engagements with Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and the Porte, for maintaining the integrity of the Turkish do minions, and for reducing the Egyptian Pacha to the condition of his vassal, would or could now, in open contempt of every principle on which she has just affirmed the equilibrium and the peace of Europe to repose, and in flagrant and disgraceful violation of her own honour, form a league with France, in direct hostility to the Allies with whom she has throughout been co-operating, and for the defeat and ruin of ob jects whose importance she was, within these two years, the foremost to proclaim, we hold to be mon strous and incredible. The French war party, through those discreet mouthpieces, Messrs. Thiers and Jaubert, has declared that France had in view three tangible and legitimate pretensions to enforce, as against Europe ge nerally—l. The exclusive protectorship of Egypt, and of all the other secondary powers in the Mediterranean, by the ascendancy of the French flag. 2. The seizure of the island of Minorca, to form a new link in the chain between France and Algiers. 8. The extension of the French frontier to the Rhine, and the defeazance of the treaties of 1815, to which Russia was a prominent and commandingparty. , Now let us ask any man in hissenses, is it rational to conceive that the Emperor Nicholas would, on the proposal of M. Mole, a Bonapartist employe, or out of complaisance to Louis Philippe, whom he re gards as an usurper of the lawful Bourbon crown, be come the member of a pettnership with that usurper and his Minister for abandoning to France the sole do minion over Egypt, the possession of Minorca, or the frontier of the Rhine—the last-mentioned prize to be wrested by force from the German Powers, the ancient friends of Russia—some of them endeared to her by bonds of the most sacred family alliance, and none of them more interested than she is herself to restrain France rigorously within the limits assigned to ,her by the grand European confederation of 1815 ? Who but a Bedlatnite would believe such nonsense ? The Paris papers are indeed quite edifying in their can struction of a certain despatch, which is alleged to have come from S. Pctersburgh to M. Guizot, wherein the French Government is courteously as sured of the regret with which the Court of St. Pe tersburgh perceived that France had isolated herself frora the rest of Europe on the E astern question, and the satisfaction with which his Imperial Majesty would ace the French Government even now disc owed to make itself' an approving party to the final settlement of that important q terra. And this is boletered and puffed up into the assumed groundwork of a league between Russia and France, to the detriment of Great Britain 1 Why, was there ever such trash imposed upon the credulity of mankind ? FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Herald is in agonies at the bare idea of the new Poor-law's defects being shown to be adrinuistritive, and not organic ; and Mr. Pewtress's observations, thrown into the fora) of a Report to the Civic Authori ties, on the provisions aid administraion of the measure, in which it is proved that the i►nputations upon the law refer properly to the illegality of the mode in which its enactments have been carried into eff,et by th a sa en trusted with its administration, rir her than tot he obviiin s intention of the Act, have drawn down ujAia that gentle min the feeble force of the Herald's garrulous capabili ties. A mare wretched gore go has seldom been printed, even in the columns of the Herald, than that which as sumes to be a confutation of Mr. Pewtress's Report, and a vindication of the policy which is set forth in its own columns. The pu - niie subscription raised and dis tributed by the Inquests of the several City wards and, we belLive, geacraliy in the p trilhes of the me:rop°rlis, and also in the towns and villages of the country, at this season of the year—and. which acts of benevo lence are urged upon the affluent by the necessarily great amount of stiff2ring to which the poor are subjected by the earliness and severity with which - ter set in—these cxpressions of considerate sympiiiiiy, which, if administered with discretion, bless the giv,rs and the recipients, are appealed to .as proots :it the win- . _ to ar.d intolerance of the ne..v though these were new and unheard-of . effirts iif the richer prts of community to add to t:.e inscffiJient resources of the poor, end thus enable them to procure an addition to the scanty foo.l, fa,A, .and clothing they aro. able to obtain, in order to preserve them front the inclemency of the season. At the Msasion House yestertLy, All-rman WCsou, who sat for the Llril Mayer, alluding to Mr. Pewtra..si'...; report, said— " He acquir,ced in the propriety of many of the elyier. vations with respect to the administration of the law. He was qaite prepared to say that the relieving cffizer was compellable to give shelter and covering, as well as bread, to the destitute, and that all those things were comprehended in the word " relief," which some people frittered away into a very small and Inade quate meaning indeed. IF, thecefore, the Civ Po. lice Commissioner thought it right to give orders to his men to take any destitute persons who should be in the streets to the relieving officers, and to insist that such destitute persons ehould be supplied with shelter, 39 well as what was called the necessaries of life, and if the relieving cffi:crs should refuse to comply, he (Alder man Wilson), upon being applied to, would grant' sum monses to such relieving tfficers, and upon proof of their non-compliance, levy the heavy penalties namcd in the Act." If the Magistrates were to be thus vigilant in watch ing the administration, anal firm in enforcing upon the relieving officers the provisions of the Act, we feel per suaded that the poor would be vastly benefited by the change of system, and the confessedly vast aggregate of human wretchedness, which must, under any circum stances, be always large, would be greatly diminished. (From the Courier.) We are concerned to find Mr. Pewtress, a respect able •Co:nmon Councilman of this ancient metropolis, stepping out of the particular line in which he had de servedly attained to some eminence, and to his vocation of paper maker adding that of paper-stainer also. In the courier of yesterday will be found the striking proof and first sample, so far as we know, of his new undertaking, consisting of a Report replete erith laudation usque ad nauseant on the new Poor-law, as presented Ltyshim to-suboaPo,lice Coromittop, said t o be in session and aggression upon the subject. at Guild hall. Now if Mr. Pewtress had limited his staining paper process to the exhibition of the New Poor law excellences in his own ward or parish, and' the specially stated facts of his own experience, we should have nothing do but leave him to the quiet enjoyment of his own Poor-law vagaries. But when, on the contrary, he favours the world with a new year's carmen triumpbale on the saving graces of the law, whilst to his ward he-vouchsafes not one word of . evi dence in illustration of the fact, he wantonly presumes to cross our path, and must therefore abide the conse quences. Mr. Pewtress sets out on his paper-staining travels with a sample-bag of assertions,- which are re tailed, as truisms unquestioned, with an air as self satisfied and solemnly • - complacent as ever Mr. Clay himself exhibits when rising with looks of mysterious import in the Commons' House to enunciate his com mon-places. But here is the commencing batch, so that of the whole sack the reader may be enabled to judge for himself : " Whatever may be the opinion entertained with re spect to various parts of the New Poor-law, the full and complete system of relief provided for the destitute poor is secured by the Legislation of this country. The ancient mode of giving relict to the out-door poor (a right which they so long possessed) is taken away, and the law rl.)w enacts that no person in this country shall be left to perish in a state of destitution. Ifa person under any circumstances :s reduced to poverty, and has no money, to:id, or lodgin ,, , he is by law entitled to instant relief, and also to continued support ; and -so remarkable is the prompt provision by which it enforces relief,that it declares the applicant shall in all cases of need be provided with food and inedicinair neces sary, before any investigation is instituted into his case, end accumulated penalties of increasing severity are enacted,and may be enforced against any relieving officer or master of the workhouse who shall refuse instantly to relieve any appli cant in a state of destitution. Such is the comprehensive nature of this law that it does not limit relief to natives, but extends to foreigners; nor to the virtuous only, for it does not regard character, but only destitution." Now disclaiming any intention of offence to Mr. Pewtress, whose testimony on a matter of fact we should accept with faith as implicit as that of any honourable man, we must take leave to deal with this sort of whole sale and unsupported averment or opinion, in the only way in which it can be rue ; an d therefore we are cons polled to say of this vague description of the Now Poor law, that in downright, however coarse language, almost every line of allegation is a lie. (From the Standard.) We have said so much to justify our contentment with the present state of the Government, that we have little room to advert to the foreign policy of the Administration durin g th e l ast year. It were unjust, however, to deny that i t h as b een genera lly (we h a t e making exceptions in suc h a case ) pru dent, honour able,- and prosperous. Lord Palmerston (Cie merit we believe to have been all, or at least priaci pally, his) has fallen hack upon 'old Conservative principles and old Conservative alliances, and his success 1, has corresponded to the improvement. - His Lordship has shown himself within the last year the best Foreign Se cretary since the time of th,." late Marquis of London derry. This is an additional reason for our content ment with thi ngs as they are ; for a Ministry kept con sten tly in c he c k a t h ome b y a power f u l oppositi on , 1 and seowi ng no di spos i tion to act ill a b roa d, b u t t h e contrary, may very well be borne with for a sslae, Show us, however, n ehar.ce for'a Conservative Ministry Coming into office - upon sound, intelligible, and fixed principles, and we- shall be as anxious for a change as any on can be.,(who has not marked out an office and salary for himself). Let us know that we are to have Sir Robert Peel with a Cabinet of his own making —not with one made for him before he knew that he was in office ; let us know this, and we Shall lend our hands as heartily as any to remove Lord Melbourne, and even, though not without regret, Lord Palmerston. But we see no prospect of anything of the kind at the moment in which we write. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Several complaints have been lately made to the Lord Mayor relative to the want of water in Smith field, in the cattle pens. Communications have been received at the Mansion House by letter, and personally on the subject. They have stated that when cattle arrive at Smithfield, after a long journey, there is not a drop of water to be found for them, although they exidently sutler from extreme thirst, and it has been suggested that troughs be placed in different parts of the market with water for the poor animals. The Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilson referred the matter of complaint to Deputy Hicks, the Chairman of the Market Committee, whose improvements of Smithfield have entitled him to the thanks of the com munity. la all probability that gentleman would im mediately see the evil, if it really existed, remedied. A gentleman stated that he waited upon his Lordship at the request of the drovers, to represent the fact that the cattle which travelled up to market :acre in such a deptorabie conditi;in from thirst, that the blood oozed out of their hoofs, and that in fact, the whole animal economy was effectually destroyed by the want of water. A collecting clerk in the house of Messrs. Wood bridge, brewers, was on Wednesday charged before Alderman Wilson, with being so drunk on the pre ceding night, as to drive his horse and gig furiously en the wrong side of the road, to intrude violently upon the quietude of a cab stand, and at length to make choice of the pavement for trying the pluck of a very spirited horse. George West, a bricklayer, stated that en Tuesday night, he saw the horse and cart or gig, driving furi ously along the Minories, upon the wrong side of the street. There were two gentlemen in the gig, both of them appeared to be very drunk. horse in passing a cab stand, twisted about a cab and then bore down upon a man who was dragging a truck, but who luckily upon being called to turned short out of the way. The The,horse then took the pavement, and began to cut capers there, but a policeman, to whom witness repre sented that if he did not interfere mischief must be done, seized the reins ,and prevented it. Policeman No. 511 described the condition of the gentleman who drove, or pretended to drive, as very closely bordering upon the last stage of drunkenness. Witness took care of the cash-box which was in the gig, and which contained, as he understood, a consider able sum of money, and was spoken to afterwards very uncourteously by one of the gentlemen of the establish meat on account his.interferenee, it being the opinion of those at the brewery, that if the defendant had been let alone,he would have driven to his destination safely. A gentleman from the brewhouse said that the de. fendent had been in the employment of the Messrs. Woodbridge and Co. for six years, and a more steady man could not be found. Never bslo:e had there been a shadow of complaint against him at any time, and he was highly esteemed. " He is," said the gentleman, " four days in the week in the'lshit of bringing in SUM of money, sometimes 3001. or 4001. at all times, and if he is exposed to this sort of interruption and annoyance,- the inconvenience will be very great." Alderman NVILsoN—And so you would have the po.ice allow him to gallop over people, and smash every thing before him to suit his convenience ?—The gentle• man said he understood that the horse, which was a very spirited one, became rather unin.mavatdo for a short time, but that no doubt if the policeman had not interfered all would have hzen right. A person rho stacd that he was in the gig at the time with the didendant, said he il;d not perceive that the. &fel:dant was drunk, and the gig was not going Last at afl. Tue policeman and othLr witnesses declared that the gig-was going at the rate of eleven or twelve miles an hetu-, and that the per .on who sat with the defendant was most decidedly drunk, and wholly incapable of ren dsriag assistance. The policeman stated that if it had not been for the property in the cash-box he would have taken the gig to the green-yard. There were insnua tiocs thrown out against' him at the brewery as to the securi:y of the property, and he considered•himscif very ill-used. Alderman WILsoN was also of opinion that the po liceman was extremely ill-used. What would Mr. Woodbiiilge say if tilt horse had dashed the gig to pieces, and the cash•box had b...en lost, not to mention other mischief that might have been done, if the police- man bad not interfered? Iu his (Alderman Wilson's) opinion) the establishment was much indebted to the policeman for his activity and care, and, instead of a re proach, the men deserved some rvecnopence. The gl:ntleman said be should mention the A:der man's suggestion to the house. . _ AlderllM WILSON trusted that the defendant would drink less in his travels in future, and fined him 10s. for being drunk. 'The ALDERMAN subsequently observed that he knew it was very hard for persons employed as the de fendant was, to go through their labourious day's business without showing that they had very high opinions of the article they vended,. by submitting to the severe test of " tasting deeply," but he really thought it would be prudent in their employers to give them a hint not to " raise their elbows" so very often even in " boxing time." The policeman who acted upon this occasion, was stated by his Inspector, to be a very steady and trust worthy man, and Alderman Wilson remembered the man in ha Mayoralty, to bear and to deserve that character. THE MYsTEttIOUS AND ALARM ING OUTRAGE ON M. V. MILLION. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) The Lyons journals and private accounts of the 22d of us the following details of the treatment of M. Million after he was carried off :-- " The boat in which he was placed, on reaching Ternay, was run on shore. He was made to land, and taken into a vineyard, where ha was compelled to write to his wife, desiring her not to send the police in search of him, ai his life depended on her remaining quiet. Footmarks in the straw and a candle-end were left, and indicated that a halt had been made at this spot, but no further traces could he discovered. Between eleven and twelve o'clock the same night the four confederates arrived at a public-house in a lonely situ ation near Ternay, much frequented by smugglers and other persons of bad repute. Here M. Million was taken down into the cellar, and kept bound to a stake, while the chief of the band, a dealer in wood at Vais.i, named Poncet, stood over him with a hatchet, another being near him, while the remaining two kept watch upon the master of the house, who was not in the secret. It was in this cellar, and under threats of in stant death, that M. Million wrote a letter to his wife, desiring her to send 10,000 f. for his ransom. This was to be transmitted by a man belonging to Vaise, who was described, and who was to wait near the Pont de Givors, when the obscurity of the night would ad mit, et the exchange of the prisoner for the money , without discovery. In the meantime the master of the public-house, having heard of the disappearance of M. Million, and suspecting his guests, became alarmed, and contrived to give information to the garde cham petre, who immediately conveyed it to the gendarmerie at Givors. The quartermaster immediately hastened with his men to the house, and having completely surrounded it, broke open the door of the cellar, and found Poncet still standing over his prisoner with the hatchet. - He was quickly disarmed and secured. M. Million, who was lying bound hand and foot on a miser able bed, was of course released. Unfortunately the three accomplices of Poncet contrived to effect their es cape. Madame Million was in the utmost anxiety as to the means of transmitting the ransom, the man who brought the letter having refused to undertake the charge when a gendarme arrived full speed from Givors with the news of the delivery of her husband. At n i ne i n the evening M. Million was in the arms of his family." The Reparatcur of Lyons states that Poncet arrived there in the morning of the 20th, and was immediately forwarded to prison at Roanne. Poncet is the man against whom M. Million, as Judge of the Tribunal - de Commerce, delivered a decree, and for which he bore him a grudge." The Cormier de Lyon supplies us with the following further details of the affair of M. Million : " Vengeance and cupidity were the causes of the attempt. Poncet the chief actor, who is a reputed smuggler, some time ago formed a partnership with an other men named Robert, as timber dealers, at La Guilloticrc, hut this connection was soon dissolved, and was followed by an arrangement which reduced Pon cat to the situation of clerk to Robert, with a per centage on the profits. This was also soon at an end, snd Poncet left to his own resources. He then corn• minced a suit against Robert before the Tribunal of Commerce of Lyons, claiming a balance amounting to no less than 100,0001. M. Million, who was one of the .fudges of the Tribunal, was appointed reporter, and after due investigation came to a conclusion totally adverse to the laim of Ponca, and which conclusion the Tribunal aoptcd, dismissing the claim. The Cour Royale, to which Poncet appealed, coafirmed the judgment. In consequence of this failure, a brother f Poncet, who had advanced him a considerable sum of money, was thrown into daspair, and hung him;eV'. Poncet attributed the rejection of his suit to an Intl tnaey between his adversary Relart, who bad obtained a contract for part of the we: ks of the fcrtifications at L . aone with the Commandant of the Engineers, who is a brother of M. Million, and through his influence Pon cet conceived that the Judge had decided in favour of Robert. Poncet frequently indulged in violent invec- tives against the three above-named persons, and had laid several previous plans to seize on M. Million, but was unable to put them into execution. The master of the public-house to which M. Million was carried, accustomed to receive suspicious characters, seemed to take no notice of the victim, 'but assisted in conveying him down into the cellar, and fastening him to a girdler in the wall. Pon cet here made himself for the first time known to M. Million, stood over with him with his hatchet, and, in the most opprobrious and gross terms, threatened to murder him, and throw him into the Rhone, or bury him in the cellar, if he did not secure to him 50,000 francs—one half the sum which, as Poncet pretended, he had been robbed of by unjust judgment. M. Mi!. lion, however, firmly resisted, and fifteen hours after his capture, that is, in the middle of the next day, he was removed into an upper chamber, and offered some nourishment, but he declined taking anything but a glass of wine. Ponca then allowed him to lie down on a bed, still remaining by his side, armed with the hatchet. Notwithstanding all the terrors of his situation M. Million, exhausted by bodily and mental fatigue, slept for a short time. Poncet afterwards reduced his de mand to the 10,000 francs, for which M. Million con sented to send the order to his wife." EDINBURGH CEMETERY •COM. PANY. We understand that a numerous and respectable meeting of the subscribers to the new cemetery, was held in the Merchants' Hall, on Monday, for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the interim Committee regarding the state end prospects of the Company. A proposal was considered to raise the number of shares entitling a partner to a vote from 51. to 201. its order to meet the wishes of on influential party who had, some months ago, entertained a similar project, and who now propose to unite with those by whom they have been anticipated. The alteration was objected to as de stroying the'popular basis on which the undertaking was commenced. At the same time the importance of the union was admitted, and a general desire cx pressed that an amicable arrangement might be effected. Accordingly, it was agreed, after some discussion, that the Committee should propose a 10/, suffrage—that is, that each individualtholding ten shares at 11. per share, should be entitled to a vote. This offer, to meet the other party half-way, which was almost unanimous, will, we trust, be accepted. An impression has gone abroad that the cemetery is intended exclu sively for the poor ; and the co-operation of a number of e-entlemerebelongine to the more o pul en t c l asses wou ld tend ' to raise the ehancter and secure the success of the undertaking, The object of the new cemetery is to obtain a burying-ground beyond the control of Kirk- Sessions or any other exclusive body, and in order that it may be carried out with spirit acid success, it is essential that men of all classes and parties should unite. We have no. doubt that, if the arrangement now pending be completed according to the wishes of the shareholders, it will give a vast impetus to the scheme, which is one of great public importance. A new and ornamented burying-ground, established on a popular footing, is obviously much wanted in Edin burgh.—Scotsman. THE RIVER. In consequence of the rapid thaw which commenced on Wednesday night, and was succeeded by heavy showers of rain, there was a general break-up of the ice on the river yesterday, end the navigation of the shipping, steamers, ned craft received very little interruption, and a number of vessels of every description arrived and departed is the course of the day. Several coasters and colliers, which were kept out of the Pool by the ice, als) came pp in the afternoon with the tide, which brought up•a considerable quantity of drifting ice, which appeared soft, and offered little obstruction to the passage of ships and Largess. At low water there were vart masses of ice and large icebergs on both shores, a good deal of which was taken up by the flswinf. tide and dissolved- The change of the weather hap pened very opooi tunely ; for the navigatioa of the river was almost entirely suspended on Tuesday. From Ha nover-ho'e-stairs to Rutberbite-platform there was a con-, tinuous Ltd of ice, extending nearly one-third over, and the watermen cut out a passage' through it to get their boats in and out of King's•stairs, midway between the Platform and Hanover-hole. The floating engine, lying off Rotherhithe, was ice -lucked, and was cut out by a steam-tug and taken to St. Katherine's, where there was comparatively only a small quantity of ice. The engine was encored in a place where it could be soon got afloat in the event of its services being required. At high water on Wednesday evening the quantity of ice in the river was enormous, and from the Regent's Canal entrance, to the Shadvre.ll Dock on the north shore, there was a comp?ete block. The Dundee steam-ship, from Dundee, got under weigh at three o'clock, and her passage through the Pool was attended with considerable difficulty, as she encoun tered large icebergs and fields of ice flowing up with the tide. The Vivid, Captain Agars, from Hull, arrived at St. Katherine's at one on Wednesday afternoon, after a 2d hours' passage, with 35 passengers, and went through the ice, which she met in large quantities in the lower part of Gailion's Reach, in fine style. Captain Agars reported that there was a large fleet of colliers in the tower part of the river unable to get up, and passed 300 sail of vessels in the Swin. Yesterday, many of the colliers were able to get up into the Pool to die charge their cargoes. If the frost bad continued 48 hours longer, the navigation of the Thames would have been entirely suspended, and coals in creased to an enormous price. The thaw was proceeding last night, and much of the ice seen drifting on the Thames in the morning had disappeared. The Gravesend steamers still continue to depart from Blackwall. THE TERRITORY OF MIND.—I am not a land lord, but I have a territc.ry, one not entirely in the realms of fancy. I have a territory which I have consecrated in my heart, and pecpled beyond the reach of fortune and fate ; there I meet with all that is manly and intrepid ; there are the toms of liberty, whose necks never bowed down beneath the yoke of oppression; there I meet scenes, the very conezption of which exalts the lowliest to the highest grade; th ere I have found sometimes a claim, if not to the applause, at least to the affection and respect of my fellow-countrymen.—Professor Wilson. BouLOGNE.—The weather for the last few (lays ha; been most delightful. On Christmas day nothing , more cheering t o t h e sp i r i ts. could be more agreeable With just sufficient of cold to prevent the rays of the sun producing a moisture under foot, there was a dryness in ttie atmosphere, a tranquillity, a slumbering of every breath of air, that gave a stillness and repose to the whole animal economy, which was visible in the countenances of all greeting their friends with a merry and a happy Christmas. We have caught the infection of the day, and wish our readers and patrons many lisppy returns of the season. This number closes our account for the year 18e0. In looking back upon the past six months, in emsidering the humble part that we have played, we trust our readers have not found cause to upbraid us for departing from the promises contained in our first number. Our objects have been twofold, to defend the pullic, and in the disordered state into which society has been flung, to glean for our friends the most early intelligence. The support we have received is the sure index of the satisfaction we have given. For that support we return our thanks, and trust that our efforts and conduct during the coming year will enable us to repeat with the same pride that we do at pre sent, that vice has never sullied our rages, attacks upon private character disgraced our columns, cr our Gazette been made, at any time, subservient to any other purpose than the general defence of English interests in Boulogne; Our attention has been called by an English gentlemen to the fact of five soldiers having been billetted upon him in less than a month I In the Colonne of yesterday we see it stated that they " hear between fifty and sixty beds, that have been sent to the caserne have been very quietly placed up in the granary of that establishment, instead of being applied to their proper use in the barracks " We call upon the Mayor to examine into this fact, and, itlit he true, to have those punished who have so shamefully neglected their duty. No doubt the soldier prefers being billetted upon the town to being confined in his barracks; but for ladies and gentlemen who never heard of such a thing as soldiers being billetted on private familiea, the act becomes a nuisance, laying aside the burdensome tax it becomes. The five soldiers in m one month cost our friend 57f. The town has been thinned of English, but such burdens, we are afraid, will drive more away. —Bou logne Gazette. BETTING ON THE PRESIDENT'S ELECTION. —A decision has recently been given in Philadelphia, on a case involving a bet upon the result of an election, which is worthy of being recorded. While the Presidential election was pending, Dr. C. P. Keichline and Mr. A. B. Fithian made each other a promise of a gift upon these terms ;—in the case of the re-election of Martin Van Burin, Mr. Fithian was to present a suit of clothes to Dr. Keichline, and in the event of the election of General Harrison, Dr. Keichline was to make a like present to Mr. Fithian. No money was put up, both having been satisfied of the ability of each other to ful fil the promise when due. It appeared by a witness present that Dr. Keichline had satisfied himself of the ability of Mr. Fithian, by a personal inquiry of the wit ness. Matters remained in this way until the day of the election. When Dr. Keichline went to the poll to deposit his vote, he was challenged as a better : He as serted, however, that he had made no bet, but a j simple pro mise, and related the circumstances. The tulge swore him upon the troth of thi4 relation, and then accepted his vote. As semi as the result of the Presidential contest had been fail ly ascertained, Mr. Fithian demanded of Dr. Keich line the falfilment of the promise ; but the latter declined, on the ground that Mr. Fithian had been the cause, or at least ieStrumental in his being challenged. This asswr tion could not be proved at the hearing, whica was a full investigation of the whole matter, and was closed by the Alderman giving judgment f or t h e defendant. He expressed himself at length upon the subject, coiwidering the promise, to all intents and purrses, a bet in fact, and, as a matter of comae, a violation of an express act cf A erribla. The following singular preposition we find in a late St. Louis Gazate :—A warm Hudsonian made the following proposition to day, which, however, was not taken up_ that he would pay 200 dollars to any man who would ;Tree to give one kernel of coffee for the that single vote Harrison got over Van Buren's whole vote, two for th e swond, and so on in geometric a l p rogress i on. Th ere ;,ring some little curiosity to know r.hat the result might be, sundry grains of coffee were weighed, and it was ascer tained that 2,560 grains of Java Coffee weiglied a pound. Supposing, then, that Hairison ions a-head of Van i3ur6n thirty votes, the amount of eufLe to be paid over would exceed 332.000,0001 i)., worth, at s atceri cents, per paned. the pleasant brgutelleof 53,000,000 d o ll ars. T he gentle- . man aho declined the bet was Probably vet p ru d ent ._ Philadelphia Ledger. EVENING ED '0101.7. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS. 1 0 - .11 't ► Barley. I , Oats. I Beans. Wheat. Per Quarter. s. to s. Bath Blandtirrd Bridport Chard Gloucester Exe . er Guildford S. to S. 30 39 30 33 - 68 70 72 55 64, 60 70 68 71 28 32 28 37 27 34 al 97 27 28 28 29 28 35 CO 38 8. to 8. 24 28 24 26 Newbury Reading„, 50 67 49 72 Salisbury 48 72 Sherborne t4 62 Sheptcht Mallet 56 61 Uxbridge • Warminster • 6 C 8 Winchester . 60 61 treovil 5l 60 LEEDS C. Wheat, Norfolk and Sufi --- York. and Line , i Barley, Norfolk and Snil Yorkshire and Li.. Grinding 22 24 20 28 21 28 :32 38 19 30 :70 22 22 28 22 30 22 23 28 '25 32 8. to a, 40 CO 44 48 4: 50 46 50 44 54 42 5.2 41 48 42 50 40 t 2 Pease s. to 0 % 44 51 48 la 48 51 40 4 6 34 4 40 50 _. ...- -.7. .. 44 pa 31 43 31 43 49 E{; NIA .... .... 4:1 EA) 30 34 HT' ORN MARKET.—Dec. 29 60lb. ... 593. to 70 p!o: ti . 1,1:t neolnsistre 275. to :its. Beans .. . o3lb. Oats, Potatoe —lSleainig, For. —.l. to-,l Eng. 111. to 13.:, per st.no !Shelling , Bs. to . 4 295. per load I)EVIZI.i3 CORN MARKET. Per Sack. s. tl. a. d. Per Qua! ter. a. d. a. ?int Wheat 3l 6 to :12 1 , Oats 23 0 to 34 0 Second Third Barley 2S 0 43 6 dread (perEeon). 1 2 0 _ . CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.-1769 was produc tive of distinguished men. Nap!)loon, Wellington, Soult, and Mohammed Ali, were all ~ born in that year.—Life of Ztloharnmed Ali. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A CASE OF RHEUMATIC GOUT.." Mrs. Mary Knswles, residing at Ksnsington Gravel-pith was lately discharged from the North London Hospital as incurable. She for three weeks well rubbed the Oint mcnt into the parts affected, three and four titres a day. " and took the Pills night and morning : at the expiration of which time she was perfectly cured. She commenced the use of these wonderful remedies on the 25th of No vember. Use the Ointment and Pills together for Gout and Rheumatism, and they will never fail to cure. Every respectable Chemist in the kingdom keeps them; or go to the IProprietor's new Establishment, 244, Strand, near Temple-bar. S 9, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY (OP' ' POSITE TAE YORK HOTEL), AND 76, KING WILLIAIP STREET, BANK OF ENOLAND.—DEAFNESS AND DE" FECTIVE Vrstos.—A greater proof of the value of the ! Messrs. S. and B Solomon's Invisible Operative Voice Conductor and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses, .can not be adduced, than the circumstance of the many thousands of individuals who have obtained the greatest - benefit and instant relief, and the constant immense de mand there is for them, and the patronage they have and daily continue to receive. The Messrs. S. and. 8.. mons disclaim all connection with persons of the same , ' name, and the sale of amber spectacles ; the pernicious use of amber spectacles being now well known to the ) public, and the vendor being aware of it, he has therefore altered their name, by leaving eat the word " Amber,' and calling them " Patent Spectacles." Dr.: Andrew Ure, Esq., M.D., F. R. S., tec., states amber is most powerfully electrical by friction, very hot, to such an ex tent as to explode into fragments. The workmen, toe, are subject to a nervous tremor in their wrists, arms-, &c., they - encounter great danger by handling -seal dreadfully-ex- cited electrics. Amber is of such a soft and sticky us' ture, that it is apt to take fire ; and when exposed to - warmth, it swells, bubbles up, and will burn away with flame. This statement is fureaer confirmed by Sir D • Brewster and Pliny, and also by Parks and Hearne on chemistry. The pe rn i c i ous an d d estruct i ve use - of such , material for spectacles t o i mper f ect v i s i on may be aster , e. ; tained at any respectable optician's in London, JOHN MILTON'S AGREEMENT FOR " DISE LOST."—This curious document—namely, John Mih toe's original agreement, bargaining with Samuel Symons, in 1666, regarding the copyright of " Paradise Lost," is stated (by the Inverness Courier) to be now in the poss,g sion of Mr. Rogers. who is better known to the world ge-. nerally as a poet than as a b an k er ; i ndeed, it is doubt f u l' whether the fact of the poet being a wealthy backer, anti having a splendid mansion in St. James's-place, may cot be news, or an apocryphal statement in the estimation of many. . The document was fur some time in the possession of a dis tinguished publisher. It consists or one page of foolscap, signed by the contracting parties, and witnessed by John , Fisher," and Benjamin G reene ," servant to Milton. The poet was blind at the tithe of the signature, nevertheless his autograph ia remarkably clear, and regularly written. The copyright of the loom was sold for 101,, there being .5/. paid in advance, and Si. at the expiration of two years, when 1,300 copies had been sold. For each edition. not exceeding 1,500 copies, the poet was to be paid 51 ; but in seven years the poet died, and the widow sold the remainder of the copyright for 71. And yet seventy guineas, it is said, was the purchase money for even the agreement. It is now fre.med and glazed, and occupies a conspicuous position in the the banker-poet's dwelling in St. Juries's-place. HORIZONTAL GOLD WATCHES 8/. Ss each.—Highly finished horizontal Flat Gold Watches, jewelled in four holes, with enamel dial, hand to mark the seconds, and maintaining power to continue going whilst being wound, Eight- Guineas each. These elegant waistcoat pocket watches are recommended fOr great accuracy and durability, the hori zontal escapement being peculiarly suited to combine these ha' portant requisites in a fiat watch. A written warranty g iven. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 5, Cornhill. London, opposite the Bank. _P LATE.—T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, iSco. , 47, Cornhill (Seven Doors from Gracechur i lth-street), London, The best wrought Fiddle-Pattern Spoons and Forks, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. The following are the weights recom mended, but the articles may be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce : Fiddle pattern Um is as oz. .d. £s. d. £s• d: 12 Table Spoons 3O at 7 2 ... 10 15 e ... 11 7 0 12 Dessert ditto 12 Table Forks 2O at 7 2 ... 10 15 0 ... 11 7°. 12 Dessert ditto 2 Gravy Spoons ... .. 10 at 7 2 ... 311 8 ... 43 8 1 Soup Ladle 4 Sauce ditto 4 Salt Spoons (gilt strong) 1 0 0 ... 1 4 • 1 Fish Slice 2 10 a ... 2 11 S 2 Tea Spoons .. 10 at 7 8 ... 3 16 8 ... 4 8 v 1 Pair Sugar• Tongs (strong) 0 15 0 ... 0 17 0 ' The Classic is a new pattern, much admired for its simple elegance. The Fiddle Pattern is with the handle the-shape o l ' a fiddle, quite plain; it has iiten a pp rove d , an d i n request f o r more than thirty years. N.B.—Pattern Spoons ca b e sen t i n t o th e country. ----- --- TABLE CANDLESTICKS, superior to Silver for - durability, equal in appearance. Table candlesticks, 8 inches high, 73. per pair; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 10 inches, I ls• per pair; ditto, with rich shell mountings, 9 inches high, 13s. per pair ; snuffer trays, with shell mountings and chased cen tre, 4s. each. The particular metal of which these and s great variety of other articles are made, can only be told from silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. 11IPPON and BURTON, Wells -street, Oxford-street. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult., at Waldershare, the Countess of Guilford, of a son. On the 31st ult., in Hyde Park-place, the lady of Henry Robinson, Esq., of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Clapham-park, Mrs. S. Kennard, of & daughter. On the 31st ult., Mrs. Horatio Tahourdin, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 31st ult., at St. Martin's, Ludgate, R. M. Dittrich, Esq., of Hull, to Jane Louisa, widow of the late J. Blow, Esq., On the 31st ult., at St. P ancras Ch urc h , J . W. H. Ellis, 01 Lincoln's-inn, M. A., barrister-at-law, to Emily, the elder daughter of T. C. Tresloyc, one of her Majesty's Counsel. On the 31st ult., r.t Marylebone Church, B. Whichcote , Esq., of Aswarby Hall, Lincolnshire, to Harriet, relict of the late W. V. Surtees, Esq., of Bother House, Sussex. DIED. On the 16th ult., after a long and severe illness Mr. J. 0; Green, of Pilgrim's Hatch, E ssex . , On the2sth ult., Nicholas Maughan, Sen., Esq., of Little Distaff-lane, in his 79th year. On the 28th inst., at Moor Hall, Essex, Fanny Maria, eldest ' daughter of the late T. P erry , Esq. aged 15. On the 29th inst., at Thornby, Northamptonshire, the Rev. Nathaniel Cotton, t A., Rector assd Rural Dean, aged 52. On the Ist ult., at Cadiz, Frank Hall StP.udish, of Duxbury Hall, Lancashire, Esq. On the 28th ult., at Dayseldon, hear Cranbrook, Miss Toby, sister of Lady Astley, aged 17. On the 30th ult., W. R. Wickham, Esq., of Foxley-roads Kennington. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY Lieut.-General—Sir W. H. Pringle, G.C.B. 45 F., London. Major-General--Hull. C. 13., E. I. Comp. Service, London- Colonel—Oglauder, C. 8., at sea, off the coast of China. Majors—Sir W. Dick, Bart., E. I. Comp. Serv. ; Fuller, ditto ; J. L Jones, ditto; Hart, ditto; Monke, ditto. Captains—Halkett, Colds. Gds., Toronto, Canada; Colley, 16 F. ; Nicolls, 21 F., India; H. Ellison, SS F., Birr ; Har riot, late of 11. Mar., Woolwich ; Hon. James Stuart, Unatt. London; 11. A. Sutherland, h. p. 10 F. ; Grztne, h. p., F. ; Cavanace, h. p., Sicilian Regiment. Lieutenants—Jones, 16 F. ; Jenkins, 44 F., Kurnaul, East Indies; Fenwick, 61 F., Deptford ; Fulton, 62 F., drowned at Moulmein ; Elkington, 62 F. ; W. Dunne, 12 F., Paisley ; Bottornley, h. p., 15 F. ; Tuton, h. p. , 3 Garr. Bn.; De Off en, h. p., 7 Line 80. Ger. Leg. 2d Lieut. and Cornets —Fagg, h. p., 4 Dr. Gds. ; F. Pipon, 4 Dr., Brighton ; W. Hagerty, h. p., 11. Mar. Paymasters_ Strange, h. p., 621., Knight of Windsor ; Sprakeling, h. p., Rec. Dist., Dover. Quartermasters—Holmes, h. p., 1 Dr. cids. ; Shaw, h. 8 F., Kilnap, near Cork. Medical Department.—lnsp. Gen. of 'Hosp. J. Phillips, 11. p. Dyp. Insp. Gen. Dr. J. Cope, h. p. ; Assist. drown Everard, 54 F., Dovcr ; Assist. Surg. M'Credie, Staff, " at Bermuda. 111 cm.— The death of Dr. Mostyn, late Surgeon of the 47 F., and now on half -pay, was erroneously inserted in the Army List for November last. QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY. Flag () ;Heers—Admirals Sir H. W. Bavntum, Hon. Charles E. Fleeming, Sir Ross Donelly, K.C.B. ; Rear-Ad miral Charles Tinling. . Captains—Edward- S. Baily, George Price, Henry Jane, Right Hon. Lord Henry J. S. Churchill, William Hewett. Commanders—Henry Carow, Walter Croker, George Beg , Stephen Norwood, ret., William Limbery, ret., John Plaine , ret., David ilorrie, ret.. llobert A. Wrialham, ret. Lkutenarits—ltenry Hawes, liolY.-rt Dwyer, John Xeenall± John Ininl--ay, William I'. Furze, Tltomas V. Cooke, Richard F. King, Edward B. Penny, B. G. Le• Mesurier. Masters—Jelin Langdon, John Pyke , . Su, geons—John Gardiner, William , s'.hoveller, Thomas Steel, John :nclair, M. D. Assistant-Surgeons—John Sinclair„ M.D., E. H. Weil l !' Fred. J. Chapple. Pur.ers— Peter Welsford, Archibald Murray, John Purver, James Boyle, James Fuller, E. S. Avistice, Lewis D. Duval, John D. Jones, Henry Johnson. 1170 YA I. MARINES. Captains An,irew Ilarrint, Roger Tinklar ; Ist Lieute rants Robert Alasen, Archibald Dunlop, Cb4rles T. Hockin ; 2d Lieutenants Hollis B. Way, Robert 'Macke. AllergEll.lll ( I Pruiteo by AlTa i lti() YOUTI O 9 l''o, e at l'he ,`ll,l ',iftice., No. 112, Strand) II " the county of Alidd l c iex. — FridAy,Jaw. t ary, 1, 1841. 4 ii o' t a ' ~ }• t , '~'+4 .r e' c s•) ~- 1 i . • .~ ~! it T .~ t ..I .~ R .I