The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

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' en st 20 m i n utes after Three. tt!!!........f - --- 6= - - .tit.-:---it.... • Ki * P k t ' 4 5 ,..1- 4 :• - e t t . ,\. 44, ' • ' . l. t ?'"' \:' ' 4 ,4 tz , .! - -, s, CP ° rft lIIX+ LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 , le4l. The present duty on wheat is 263. Bd., and in 4 4 4. of ourf peopl e are per i s hi ng from cold and wi th We scarcely ever look into a Journal finding, as i n the Courier o f l ast even i ng, tt)ale articles with headings of this description ;-- d P ' ATIIS FROM STARVATION. Every such tl ea A t k Night to be h ea d e d C ORN - LAW M URDERS, 14 4 i t Will probably be useful to the good cause t h us t° give, in a fe-s words, a correct description of tvi e , fleets of that law. The cases, however, itl u lth are brought before the public, through the a ,tiornentality of a Coroner's inquest, do not form 4t ho, nor the hundredth part of those whom that th, con tinually puts to death. Men sacrifice other ar it 'D to procu re f oo d —clothes, fuel, s h e l ter—a ll th " di spens e d w i th to obtain bread ; and whatever _erefore d e p r i ves the people of bread deprives them ;41.t,felletlo.th es, f ue l, an d s h e l ter. six shilli ngs an d eight-pence i s now the eitY ya quart er o f w h eat, wh i le the price is dice 9 d.; con sequent l y at th i s moment, in this l • r3' Weather, w h en t h e most comfortable cloth g' the the largest fires, an d t h e d r i est s h e l ter, arc re 'tl o i red to preserve life and health, the Corn• law .( a , )I very nearly one-thi r d o f ever y man's loaf, steel deprives all the poor of food, clothing, fuel, and What an unspeakably barbarous and cru el law. h The coal mines of England ar c i nex h aus tibl e ; he Power to manufacture clothing is absolutely Ill'inratted and illimitable ; her command (naturally, liciliall t qeded by timb er d ut i es ) over f ore i gn t i m b er, 'Y eq ua l to her manufacturing hovers ; and Arid w se q u ently the means o f c l ot hi ng, sheltering, o ar ming th e people, by their own industry, arc I,Molited and inexh aust ibl e . B ut a ll t h ese b ount i es oi I r°vi dence, all these testimonies to its infinite good ne ss, arc ren d ered vain and unavailable by the volt tuntaieettrsedning, :e.kedness of th e Legislature in decreeing and in in spit e o f warn i ngs and demands, the Corn law. b Will th e e l ectors of Walsall by their votes for a 1: ati * ta xer, sa nct i on and confirm this murdering ? Will th e y mak e th emse l ves accessor i es, now the that th e f act is k nown, to the wilful starvation of filepe ? Forbid it justice, forbid it humanity, mthid religion t,ih:erivlifeobrir jejan g d - taxers, we s ee , i mpu d ent l y b oast i n q Post, th a t " t h e W es l eyan Metho tiist3 have, with a very few exceptions, resolved to their influence into Mr. GLADSTONE'S e „ ale .' " The Episcopalians, the Puseyites, the quasi Papists, and other deriders of and deserters f reill t he upright and fearless Protestantism of our Lathers, w ould no doubt be very ready to catch the :esleyans in their net. In every part of the cowl ' Y.:the Episcopalian priesthood, whose pecuniary Ilterest is bound up with the maintenance fv °llr the Corn-law, hav e l ecture d an d s p o k en i n i ts ;S uch ' and got up petitions against abolishing, it. tu it c onduct has added very much in every part t e ociOntry to the unpopularity of the Episcopal `\ clergy. The names of the Bishops who voted for the law have been paraded in many popular journals. Tired, apparently, of the horrid un- , popularity which- makes their - religious teaching most unwelcome, the Episcopalians now wish to have co-partners in this iniquity, and impudently assert that the Weslevans throw their influence into Mr. GLADSTONE'S scale. It is impossible. No man with a spark of religion, no man who wishes to impress on the world a reverence for the ALMIGHTY and make it rely on a good and just GOD, can vote for a law, or contribute in any way to support a law, which interposes, in the man ner the ( An - LI-lair: interposes, as above described, between Irian and his Maker. GOD gives abtml.anre to our industrious 'people, but the law ac,:runs starvation and death. The Correspondent rsif the Morning Post calumniates the Wcsleyans. Even if they have, in ignorance of the terrible effects of the Corn-law, promised Mr. GLAD STONE, such a promise cannot bind them to be the murderers of their hapless fellow-countrymen. II they support him, they will make Wesleyan Me thodism a by-word with the-people, who will sepa rate from it as from a pestilence. The subscription which is now opened for widows and orphans of the seamen lost i❑ the Fairy, of which an advertisement appears in our columns, will, we hope, be worthy of the country. On tl►e seame❑ it must ever rely for protection, and too much cannot be done to convince them that if their lives be sacrificed in the public service the public. will take care of their relatives and friends. Dr. ADAM SNIITII stated, and we beg that our readers will remember that he wrote the 111C010- rabic words before our Bank Restriction Act was called into existence, before the French Revolu tionary Governthent . had issued :its assignats, and before the several anti-Revolutionary Governments of Europe, those of Austria, Russia, Denmark, Prussia, &c., had acted on the same principle's as the Revolutionary Government of France, and issued immense quantities of paper in payment of debts which afterwards became almost valueless, and destroyed the fortunes of many individuals— Dr. ADAM SMITH, writinL , somewhere about the year 1770, and therefore ignorant of the many mai versations of Government, in respect to money, which have since his time so amply confirmed his memorable words, said that Government, by tam pering with the currency, had " sometimes pro duced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons than could have been occasioned by a great public calamity.' Since his time the stream of theory has set in against enlarging the powers of Government in respect of the currency, while the stream of prac tice has set in the opposite direction, and Govern ments have been, and are, importuned to meddle with it. Since his time, however, it has been found much more easy and convenient for Govern ment to practice their scandalous tricks with the paper money, which is now in general use, than with coin, and the brief allusions above made show how oommon has beets the practice all over Europe. In deed the almost universal degradation of paper money in Europe about the commencement of the present century is a somewhat striking example of the influ• ence of some general laws on the conduct of princes and statesmen, while they are entirely ignorant of the influence under which they arc acting. Governments arc supposed, particularly when they are representative Governments, to be responsible to the people ; and yet, though they have acted under this responsibility, they have first, with me tallic money, and since with papet money, continu ally played scandalous tricks whiCh have produced a greater and more universal revolution in the for tunes of private persons than could have been oc casioned by a great public (or natural) calamity. We cannot be surprised, therefore, at the stream of theory having set in the direction stated—while we must feel and express great surprise that the stream of practice should have set in an opposite direction. ?I The power has now, indeed, passed in some measure from the hands of Government into the hands of merchants ; from those who were, and arc, responsible to the whole people to those who are only responsible to a narrow constituency of proprie tors ; from Parliament acting lin public to a few Bank Directors, acting in secret. The Bank of Eng land, managed by a few merchants, not always of the most reputable character or most undoubted resources, is now ". the regulator of the currency." So it was yesterday styled by the Morning Chro nicle and Times, and so it is frequently styled. Thus an immense power, which no Government ever possessed without abusing it, is now, by our practice, in direct opposition to all sound theory, placed in the hands of a few irresponsible mer chants, who have a strong interest in abusing it, and who do continually abuse it. It has, also, been stated by the great authority above quoted, that Government cannot direct, with advantage, individuals how to employ their capital, and the whole of SMITH'S work is directed against Government meddling with trade. We have the equal authority of Dr. FRANKLIN, for declaring tha an assembly of legislators endeavouring to regulate commerce is the greatest fool on earth. The wisdom of these two great men on this point, has since they wrote been amply confirmed by many facts, of which our own Corn-law, Timber-duties, Sugar duties, &c., are examples. There is as little reason, therefore, to extend the power of responsible go vernment over commerce as over the currency. What, then, shall we say when we find the same irresponsible body, which has become the regulator of tire currency, also endowed with the power of controlling and circumscribing commerce ? The monied mvn and merchants of the city of London knew what they were about when they decried the action of Government on money and commerce, and when they wormed that power from its hands, and usurped it for the Bank of England. This is the language of the writer of the Times' City article yesterday : " There is required evidently, in this state of things, the most careful and judicious conduct on the part of the Bank of England to give free scope to the new em terprise which has arisen among the trading interest., without encouraging overtrading and speculation. Af ter the lessons which the Directors have lately had on the subject, and the responsibility they arc under at the present moment to perform their c,vact duty to the com merce of the country, it is really to be hoped that they will give to it all the encouragement that it ought to receive, and in the manner best calculated to make that encouragement effective. They have already lost more than one similar opportunity in taking the alarm when they ought to have felt and to have inspired confidence, and have been punished for it by the lowest stock of bul lion, taking the length of the time it has continued low, that the Bank has ever experienced." So the regulator of the currency is also the encourager, and, of course, the depressor of com merce, and the regulator of commerce. Our un taught and unlearned ancestors would have shrunk back with shame and anger at such a statement, and would at once have resolved that these great branches of society, necessary for the due nourish ment of the whole, should not be dependent on a selfish narrow Company. Liberal-minded English men sometimes mock at the meddling of the King of PRUSSIA, or at the French Government, under taking to watch over and encourage commerce— but what is their usurpation, foolish though it be, to the usurpation of a few adventurers, stock-jobbers, • diller d"-nt-s of the city of London undertakH: the same task, an d con d uct i ng i t w i t h a v i ew to their private advantage ? This is monstrous, more THE LON DON, FRI DA V, JANUARY 15, 1841. idonstrous than any proceeding of the mostdespotic Government of the Contineilt, and not to be cre dited of the country in which the language of ADAM SMITH is spoken, and in which his books are considered to be authority. The Paris journals of Wcdncsday bring the !tighly important intelligence that the SULTAN, yielding to the solicitation of the Four Powers has revoked the deposition of MEHEmET Am, and ; ;I anted to him the hereditary Government of Egypt. " A Courier," says the Presse of Wed nesday, " who left Constantinople on the 20th, has brought, on the 311 of January, to Prince METTER- Nrc if, the news of a formal revocation by the Portc of the decheance of the Viceroy of EGYPT." And in Galignani's Messenger of the same date it is stated that a correspondent, writing from Vienne on the 4th inst., says—" The night before last a courier from Lord PONSONBY came through this city on his way from Constantinople, which lie left on the, 20th ult., with despatches announcing - offi cially that the SULTAN, on the mediation of the Four Powers, had revoked the deposition of 11E11 E MET ALI, and p_,,ranterl to him the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt." Nothing could be better timed than this most gratifying piece of intelligenc The underhand intrigues of Russia have failed, and Lord PA LAIERSTON is again clear of the shoals and quicksands upon which the first persistance of the Porte in carrying out the deposition of tl►e PACHA drove him. The settlement of the ques tion puts an end to the Treaty of July, and affords France an opportunity of abandoning without the .cmblance of restraint, her mistaken and dangerous policy of isolation. That the present Government of France is disposed to take advantage of the op- portunity now offend to consolidate the peace of Europe, we have every reason to believe. Indeed the fact is admitted in an article in . the Journal des Deb('is of Wednesday, from which we make the following brief extract : We arc of opinion that France is regaining by'dc. grecs the rank from which the vacillating policy of the last Cabinet had caused her to fall. We believe that the Ministry of the 29th of Oztober, without making a display of its bravery and singing patriotic airs, h,” already, by its &Illness and the confidence that it in spires, had so much influence upon Foreign Cabinets that, far from calling upon France for humiliating conces sions which she would not make, they are disposed to meet our just susceptibilities on honourable terms. Wt believe, in short, that peace and good harmony are being consolidated day by day, and that the crisis which had been brought on by a weak and rash Cabinet near its end. A telegraphic despatch from Brest confirms the news of peace having been concluded between France and the Argentine Republic. It appears in the following form in the Moniteur : BREST, JAN. H, 8 O'CLOCK, A.M. THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE. Peace has been concluded at Buenos Ayres. M. Page, a ship lieutenant, who arrived last. night in ,he Cassard, will leave for Paris by the next mail, with ,he treaty. Peace with the Argentine Republic is little to the taste of the French Opposition Journals. They arc for war with all the world. They are so fond of fighting that nothing so distresses them as hear ing that an enemy has become an ally. They arc more delighted to have enemies than Englishmen are to have friends. In no other spirit could the Commerce, for instance, have thus commented upon the news of the conclusio❑ of a Treaty cf Peace : In vain did 1,200 Frenchmen present to Admiral Mackau at Monte Video a petition, entreating him not to re-epen negotiations with such a monster as Rosas. Notwithstanding all his new crimes, his desperate situv tion, and the energetic manifestation of public opinion, Admiral Mackau persevered in his intentions under the mediation of the English Minister. We cannot here bring forward the energetic terms in which our Monte Video correspondents cypress their indignation. There is but one cry among the French there against Admiral Mackau and the Government whose instructions he has followed. What most compromises the French name is our cowardly abandonment of our allies, after having urged them forward. Thus, in order to obtain from a Minister like Rosas a bad arrangement, which would be no sooner concluded than violated, we sacrifice the liberating army, which was formed under our patron age and with our subsidies. In America, as in Europe, as in the Eist, it is better to have France for an enemy than for an ally. We cannot be told this time that it is in the interest of mankind that we make this new racri fice of our honour. The following extract from a letter from the Mauritius, dated the Bth of October, recounts what, in common with a French Contemporary, we regard as the origin of the reports so often re- peated in the Nalional, of an engagement hetvleen an English and a French ship in the Red Sea:— " The transport Prcvoyantc, commanded by M. Jc• benne, lieutenant do vaisscau, arrived at Bourbon on the 29111 of September, frcm the coast of Mcv,m b'que, where it had captured a Portuguese ship com mitting acts of piracy, and buying slaves with the pro duce of its piratical seizures. M. Jchcnno was moored in the same port with the pirate ; but in the night the latter sailed, a circumstance which created suspicion. Tha Prevoyantc immediately pursued, and an engage ment took place, which lasted three quarters of an hour. The French vessel was ultimately the victor and captured the pirate, which was well armed, having a crow of forty-five men. It had also 250 nc grecs, and a great deal of gold and silver on board. Tl!e two vessels are now in quarantine at Bourbon ; the pirate is at least as large as the Prevoyante, and was without papers. Nu lives were lost on board the French ship. " It is proliably this combat which the French and English papers have been talking of for some time. Tne Spaniards and Portuguese call any three-masted vessel a frigate, and the news of the engagement must have come to Moka through some Arab ship a hich got it from the Portuguese at Mozambique." The Gazelle de France has succeeded in cre ating some stir in Paris, by the publication of a series of letters written by King Louts PHILIPPE, when Duke of O RLEA NS and an emigrant, in which the peatest admiration is expressed for England. To remove all doubts of the genuineness of these letters, the Editor of the Gazelle says he has seen them in the KING'S hand-writing, and is ready to name to any person the public depository in which they are kept. We have not had time to compare those letters, but our impression is that they arc no others than a series which were lithographed in London a few years ago, at the instance, as we un derstood, of some disappointed French lady, and of which at the time we obtained a copy. We envy not the Editor his good taste who revives such du cumcnts for the purposes of political strife. Letters from Rome, of the 301,11 ult., announce that Qu,:en Christina was received on that day by the Pope. Her AiajcAty remained half an hour with his Holiness, mini, immediately after the audience was waited upon by a num ber of members of the diplomatic body. The King of Sardinia has raised his army to 70,000 men. The Neapolitan army amounts to 100,000 men. A letter from Rome of the 31st December says, " His Eminence Cardinal Lambrurehini has just published an (Alicia' notice to the following effect, that his flolincs, with a view to encourage and protect the arts and sciences and literature, has just acceded to tho treaty concluded between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Sardinia for the suppression of literary piracy. Tho trc4i in ques tion will be carried into effect from the Ist Januitry, 1841. The Grand Duke of Tuscany acceded to the s "roe treaty at the beginning of this month.—La Gazette:, France. The line of the continued rampart has been anged at e St. Mandl ; the rampart is brought 200 inetret 47 4learer to the forts of Vincennes and Charenton, whichAinmand it • i n its whole length from Charonnc to Bercy.C:.The ram tart following the new line will pass within 1,060 to 12 000 metres of the two forts which may cross theinfire in the plain, and command the c ottinued rampart. I Th.:: number of diztinguishcd officers who declare against the plan for fortifying Paris increases daily. We have now to add to them Lieutenant-General Viscount Firlet, of the Artillery, who has just published his opinion on this important subject, and whose ideas entirely concur with those we have. constantly advocated. ' Admiral Ilugcn took the command of the Mediterranean squadron on the Bth. Rear-Admiral Cary, who is to com mand a division, after his taking leave (as Major-General of the Marines) of the officers employed on shore, was hindered by the bad weather from going on board to hoist his flag on one of the ships. Rear- Admiral Lalandc set out for Paris on the 7th. The Phaeton steamer has received orders to hold itself in readiness to put to sea on a mission. It is believed at Toulon that it is destined to convey to Alexandria the suc cessor of M. Cochelet as Consul-general in Egypt. —l, e Contn? (Jce. CIiAkLiEN, OF DEPUTIES-6'l'mNo LiF JAN. AO M. Sauzet took the chair at half-past one, but owing to the scarcity of members no business commenced till half past two, at which hour the lion. President announced that the report of the Committee on the proket of law demanding a credit of 140,000,000 f. for the fortification s Paris, nu old not be ready for some time, and that tht Chamber would, therefore, proceed with the order of the day relative to the sale of landed property and chattels. The Ministers .present were, MM. Soult, Teste. Valle main; Humane, Cunin Gridnine. and Martin (du Nord.) At half-past three M. Thiers ascended the tribune, and read td ttie following effect :—The Committee has dim its utmost to meet the trust confided in it by the Chamber. .The Committee, in order to du so, has consulted both spe cial and political men. The project of fortifying Paris is by no means a circumstantial project. Napoleon conceived this project just after the battle of Austerhtz. Louis XIV, who had opposed with success Great Britain, Austria, Spain, &c. also entertained the idea of rendering - Paris secure from the attack of an enemy, and charged the celebrated Vauban to draw up a plan on the subject. Ilad Paris been fortified when the Allies entered this country, the move ments of Napoleon would have been free, and perhaps — nay, }nob ably_the fate of the country would frac been different. M soy persona contest the value of fortified places, but the opinion of N apoleon, although he often suc ceeded in turning them, is decidedly in their favour. Let it be remembered that Paris is but 60 leagues from he northern frontier, and tl at it has not even a river of any magnitude to arrest, or rather impede the pregress of an invading army. Paris is France— Paris in the hands of the army is tantamount to a ge. :ietal defeat of the country. Has not the great Captain of he age affirmed that if Madrid, Berlin, and Vienna had been fortified, the campaign which terminated in the occu pition of these capitals would have probably been far dif- Lrent. Can a stronger argument be urged in favour of fortifying Pais ? The capital unprotected is at the mercy of a single victory gained by the - enemy. Paris fortified is no longer the price of a battle—to obtain its possession a protracted siege must take place, and during chat time what events may not occur; and what an army would, moreover, be required to besiege a -city so vast, so populous, and so brave? In 1830 what courage was dis played by the population of the capital in defenee of the charter ? In 1832 end in 1831 how adniiratlly the Na tional Guard behaved in defence of public order—great bravery was also shown by the disaffected, but let a veil be drawn over the scene of our civil dissensions. Paris a city containing a breve and energetic national guard, which, well directed, might do wonders. Did cot Vienna in the sixteenth century undergo a siege of two months, and all rca,ember the ever-memorable seige of Genoa, by our illustrious Massena. Let it not be supposed that Paris could be taken by famine. It would be no difficult matter to supply Paris with provisions for sixty days. The enemy alone would be exposed to that calamity, for how could an invading force, eutliciently strong to besiege fortified find means of subsistence ? The only difficulty to supplying Paris with provisions would be with respect to frost) meat, and that difficulty could ho easily surmounted I,y admitting into the vast places inclos.d by the fortified cattle sufficient for the necessities of the capital during sixty days. (LEFT READING.) BOURSE --Pmus, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricr. Price e' c ch :. T el' rents 4 per Cents • 99 ... 99 ... 99 .. 59 3 per k , 1113 3 oh o! erance .... fliqr Elan!: 1,0001. 8h 10:A) ...1 , so ...105!; ..is sigian Bank 51. er t.'-nt t... 3 ler Cents OO 9.5 ... (19 25 ... 69 05 ... 69 •i 5 New Loan ... ~ . ..ii,h ACtive t: 4 's ... 21% ... 1.4 ),', ... :24 X, Passive 6 .. 6i ... a ... a . , eapolitan :orna.) 159 . 150 ... 9J ... 99 1 RAILWAY SII A REs, t Germain - 09i ... 425 ... (.95 ... 095 'e iaillu,li. 11 420 ... 4.95 ... 420 ~. 423 75 1....11..........., 3 17 50 ... 317 50 .. 7162.5 ~. 3625 irle.ins .. 491 ... 4:.0 ... 4SB 75 .., 488 75 tr3snuri to I.la!e DUTCH FUND:I.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 12 Money. 14110. tetlia! Mild, 2 1 ,‘", per Cent ,)itto, ditto 5 ycr cent. 'Mort Simdic,44 per rent 8614 8; ii Ditto, ditto, 3%, per cent 7 0 41 71 Commercial Company, 4!(, per cent 15 7 34 15'5i Ditt, (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1i•37, 5 per cent. t 9 4 9. ii Exchange on London, One month... l2 0 • Two month , Dutch Papers, Jan. 14. i5k. , ,1,G1 A N k ONDS—BriiiptE'A, JAN. 13, et etual Debt, 24 per Ccnt. ltothschild',. Loan, b per C , nt i (i. 14 Lean of Thirty .A•iiilions, 4 per Cent. ( 1 . 4 ) pia --- 3 per Cent. — --Thirty.seven---_. -- Lean of City, In: , 4 per Cent 99 Societ) of Commerce, 4 5,i per Cent ........ Hank of Belgium, fi per Cent ........... .. 1 = 7 ,4 National Society . — Exellptige on Lonclom (iln 1) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 13. Lord Bateman, we understand, is to be the Lord Lieutenant of'Hereford, in the room of Earl Somers. It is not )ct, re believe, settled that the Duke of lox burghe will move the Address in the Lords, but Lord Lurgan will second it. ADMIRAL STOPFORD, we are informed, has accepted the office of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, and may be expected in England about March. COSTEST AT REIGATE.--Lord Eastnor has been started at Reigate by his Conservative friends, in oppo sition to Mr. D'Arcy. 'ibis split amongst the Tories may perhaps open the door for some Liberal to walk into the seat. THE CHURCH AND THE ARISTOCRACY THE ENE MIES OF TRUTH.—" . No, no ; we cannot help our con viction—our knowledge—that the principle of free trade is true. We cannot resist—and we will not suppress— the conviction that its judicious application would be an incalculable boon to the empire, and to every human being in it. But we will not be driven by misdirected— sometimes intemperate—zeal in defence of a legislative blunder, to abandon our allegiance to the Chu-ch. So says the Manchester Chronicle, a thorough-paced Tory print, which at the same time bitterly abuses the League for speaking ill of the Aristocracy and the Church. The Chronicle pays a divided allegiance. It cannot help a commercial p r i n t, b e li e ving free trade to he true and good,—it cannot help being also a Tory print, believi ng - that the Chun ch and the Aristocracy a re also true and good. But the latter are opposed to free trade, and opposed, therefore to what the Chronicle regards as true and good. The divided al legiance of the Chronicle is another example to be added to those of the Post, Standard, and Dublin Evening Mail, of the homage which the Tories are reluctantly compelled to pay to the -noble principles of free trade. Like the unfortunate Scott, they seem about to hang themselves, and certainly we shall not interpose to pre vent them. CHANCERY COUR-( 7 th - IS DA Y.) nnowr v. naooT. The LOU) CnAscr.t.Lort gave judgment this morning in this case, which came before him upon appeal from the de cision of the Vice Chancellor, who had ordered the trus tees under the marriage settlement of Mrs. Bagot to pay the costs of the action, in consequence of the course they had pursued in aiding the different proceedings of the hus band in retaining from the wife the proceeds of certain timber cut upon the estates, which were her property pre vious to her marriage. Ills Lordship was of opinion the decision of the Vice Chancellor was correct, and dismistcd the appeal with costs. NVALLWORTII V. HALL. llis LORDSHIP gave judgment in this case, which also came before him upon appeal from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor, allowing a demurrer put in by the de fendant to the plaintiff's bill. The plaintiffs were some of the Shareholders of a Company called the Imperial Bank of England, the business of which had been sus pended since 1539, and hnd paid all the calls made upon there, and the defendants were shareholders who had not paid tlicir calls. Although the business had been sus pended the partnership had not been dissolved. All the Directors were bankrupt but one; large debts were due by the Company, and there were also considerable assets, and the object of the bill was to render jointly liable for the debts of the Company those parties nho had not paid their calls with those who had. To this sill the demurrer was put in, which the Vice. Chancellor allowed. The Lord Chancellor disagreed with the Court below, and ordered the demurrer to be overruled, and gave the de fendants time to answer. present when the bill w;:s acmtcd, a: d a!so wl:en it had been discoun.ei by Peters, and that Elderton h; d part of the money. The Jury, upon that evidence, found for the plaintiff Sir F. POLLOCK now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a notruit entered. Lord DENMAN said the rule might instantly be granted upon the ground of the reception of Jones as a witness. Sir F. PoonooK had other points which he wished also to t ,te to the Court. Indeed, the case was in his opinion one of the most extraordinary that bad ever come before him, and he hardly knew how to shape his application, and he should wish to hear the opinian of the Court as to whether it should be against the witness or the attorney. The bill was drawn upon a stamp issued in February 1834, and the case of E:d-rton was that he hid never seen or heard of the bill till the action had been commenced against him'; that he never received any of the money ; that he was utterly unacquainted with any person of the name of Julian H. Peters; that he had made every attempt to discover whether any such person existed, but that no person of thc. name could be found. The case was perfectly n ixamplr.d in the history of the jarisp-udence of the coun try, for ho had in addition the aflidavit of an attorney's clerk, who deposed that he had furnished the stamp upon which the bill hafi been drawn months after Jones swore that it had been drawn --that he had filled it up at the re quest of Jones, and that Jones had disclosed to him, after the action lout terminated, that he was in fact the real plaintiff in the case. Lord DENMAN thought quite enough had been stated to entitle Lim to the rule pralcd. Sir F. Poonock sail, as the c..se m'ght affect Mr. Babb, the plaintiff's attorney, he wished to state that so far as he knew, that gentleman was of unimpeachable character, and it was not surprising that he should believe the statements of Jones, who was in appearance and by birth and educa tion a gentleman. He wished to know in what way he should shape his application. Perhaps the better course would be to move that all the proceedings in the case should be net aside, and that the plaintiff's attorney should pay the costs. Lord DENMAN thought that would be rather a strong course to take. Sir F. POLLOCK—The attorney g a ve a wrong a ddress of the plaintiff. After some further discussion, the COURT granted & rule to show cause why a tionsuit should not be entered, and why the proceedings should not be set aside, with costs, to be paid by Jones or his attorney. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) FULLER V. CURLING. Mr. CLARKSON moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the verdict had for the plaintiff should not be set aside and a new trial had. The action had been tried a few days since before the Under-Sheriff. It was brought by the plaintiff, a gardener, against the defendant, whose name has been lately before the public as one of the can didates for the borough of Southwark, for work and labour done, in converting a small piece of ground into a garden. The defendant had paid 381. Is. for gravel and mould, a sum of 171. at different times to the plaintiff, and Si. Si. into Court, and the Jury had given a verdict for Si. 84. additional. The Lebrned Counsel referred at some length to the evidence at the trial, and submitted that there was nothing in it to warrant the Jury in finding any additional sum for the plaintiff. It would be only mere justice if the Court would also direct that the trial should take place be fore one of their Lordships. _ _ The Counr said that should be a substantive motion in itself, and granted a rule fur a new trial. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco. Banco.) ALAVA V. THOMPSON AND OTHERS This was an action brought in the name of the Spanish Ambassador against Lord SMenham upon a bill of ex change for 3.1751., dated in 1823, and accepted by the late firm of Thomp.ou, Bonnar, and Co., of which the Ncble Lord was the head. The bill was accepted upon a con signment of sugar from Teaser and Co., of the Havannah, and was made payable to " the Prior of Consoles of the National Consulate of Cadiz, " which;body was suppressed, and its functions distributed amongst other bodies, one of which was called " The Junta of Commerce of Cadiz " The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had obtained a rule for en larging the time for returning a commission to examine wit ncp'es in Spain, and to add a Lew pica. C.use against the rule was this morning shown by Mr. Cresswell, who was interrupted by the Court suggesting that the action should proceed, a verdict taken, and the defendant have a stay of proceedings until lie had a release from the Junta of Commerce at Cadiz, and from the Spanish Government. _ _ 'The ATTORNEY• GENERAL said if his noble client were present he would without doubt pay the utmost respect and attention to any suggestion from the Court. Acting for him he would follow the c-urse which he, if present, would take, and at once eonseut to a judgment upon those terms, provided that General Alava gave up the bill and also gave a reka,,e. These terms were agreed to, the defendant to pay inte rest from the time of the d,rnand in 1839. The CUUFer gave co,sts against the defendant, observing that the interest upon 3,0001. for 16 years would have fruc tified into more then the original. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The MASTER of the Rou; disposed of the remaining petitions, and then proceeded with the general paper. ISIFLEY V. THE TWROESSES OF CIIORLTON• UPON-MIiOLOCK. la this case an injunction MO granted before the Chriat mas vacation restraining the plaintiffs, who by the 2d of from comm i tt i ng trespass o William IV., chap. 90 , were constituted Commissioners forlighting,iLanactiusa&hiliter.eu, the town of Ch or l ton - upon - N , pon ard ‘a7ant l an d b e l org i ng r.ie wastedt o e k paving,, upon i n tle u to the plaintiff. The case now came before the Court upon a demurrer and re gu l at i ng the township of Clalti which bad been put in to the plaintiff's bill, on three grounds, viz. want o f e q uit y , multit ariousncs, and want of parties. The 21 W illiam IV., c hip. 90, was intitulcd Ani r Aoc menced digging the soil, and p ull ed down the fences upon a portion c f the laud for th e purposes of the Act, but which thy, plaintiffs conte n d e d di d not form part •‘ r- t ut for .i on of any property within the jurisdiction of th e Commis sioners. Mr. Turner and M r. Rogers suppo r t e d t h e demurrer, and Mr. Pemberto n and Mr. Little opposed it. .i ,N rr. l e p d ro l o vi e n k g; ~ and the C omm i ss i oners had com- The MASTER of the RoLLs overruled the demurrer. ATTORNEY -GENERAL V. DULWICH COLLEGE. The arguments of Counsel were then resumed in this case, w hi c h was par-heard before the holid...y s . Mr. PENinEaToN commenced his address on the part of the College, but bad not concluded when the Court ruse. VICE-CI - lA - NCE I tY.-(1 7 11 - IS DAY.) Ilis IL , nour the VicE-CtiaseEt.Lurt was occupied the whole morning with uno pp osed petitions and short causes. QUEEN'S I3 E NCI-1 . - (THS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) the 3 d of defendants, n dda r n a t w s , n PETERS U. ELDERT ON A ND OTHERs.-EXTRAORDISIARY CASE. This was an action a g ainst th e defendants upon a bill of c w b 'i Y i - o were in part- Julian Flugh Peters, xGhg nership at the time. The bill w as ma d e payable seven months after date. Two of the def endants suffered judg f ment to go by def ault, and the caus e was defended by El an a e n df o a r e e t derton. At the tr ial, before Lo rd Denman, at the last WeJ.tminstur Si ting the Court had p erm i tte d one of the .i , fewlat . ~ i .,, '. IZ Jj' , e, wIIo , L-iLd that he was a cen veyan:er, t o be called and examined as a w it ness on behalf the plaintiff. He swore the defendant Elderton was accepted t esdulmq DE VEAUX V. HILL This was an action upon a policy of insurance, tried at Guildhall in the sittings after last Term, and reported at length in this paper. The plaintiff, as the agent of a mer cantile hense in Bourdeaux, effected at Lloyd's the policy in question (of which the defendant was the first under writer) upon a brig named the I3engaly, on her voyage from Bourdeaux to the isle of Bourbon and back. The case occupied two days, the evidence for the plaintiff being documentary, and of great length. The defence was that the case of the plaintiff was based in fraud, and that the statements of the captain and mates respected the alleged suffering of the brig in the Indian Ocean and off the Cape of Good Hope, were absurd and contradictory. Several seafaring men, who had experience of those seas, unhesi tatingly swore that the statements of the French log could not be true, avd the Jury found a verdict for the defendant on the general average, and for the plaintiff for a small portion of loss, namely, the expense of repairs at the Mau ritius, after the outward voyage. It will be remembered that, en the return to Europe, the captain took his vessel into La Roche le, at the mouth of the Gironde (only forty utiles from Bourdeaux, the port of her destination), and thole had her condemned and broken up. The action was therefore brought against the insurers for the total loss, and the damages were laid at 2,0001. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now moved for a rule to set aside the verdict for the defendant, and enter une for the plaintiff, on the ground of misdirection, the Learned Judge having put the issue to the Jury in the English law instead of the French, by which, recording to the express terms of the policy, the assurers were IVund. . . - Mr. Serjeant SIIEA, on the other side, was allowed to move at the same time for a rule to enter a verdict fur the defendant upon the issue found (of partial loss) for the plaintiff. This counter motion was also grounded on the misdirection of the Judge in that part of the case. The COURT considered the case intricate as well as im portant, and would look over the documents before the ar gument comes on. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. There have been small arrivals of English Grain this week, but a good quantity of Irish Oats. In the Wheat trade little done, and prices as on Monday. Barley met a very slack sale. Oats heavy in disposal, and hardly main tained their late value. The Flour trade dull this week. SMITHFIELD. The supply of Cattle was short, and trade dull. Our prices of 53 both for Beef and Mutton wero obtained with difficulty, and that only for the choicest quality. The sup ply of Veal was short, cud the best sort were disposed of quickly, while the middling and inferior qualities were dull of sale ; but few mull Porkers at market. Beasts, 304 ; Sheep, 2,160 ; Pigs, 317 ; Calves, 99. Beef, 8d to 5s ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s ; Veal, 4s to 6s ; Pork, 3s 6d to bs. COLONIAL MARKET. There was not much business transacted either by pri. vate treaty or public sale, but prices underwent little varia• tion. Tho arrivals were to a fair extent from most parts TEA MARKET. The market was quiet, but prices were steady. Company's Congou produced is bid cash per lb. Some public sales have been declared. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Russian Tallow was dull on the spot, but prices were not lower. 46s 9d was the quotation of fine quality. LLO YD'S DAY LONDON, JAN. 15.—1 t blew very hard during the night n squalls from the Eastward, with snow at times. Wind ;his day at noon, moderate breezes, at N. N. W., with a thaw. DEAL, Jar. 14.—Wind E. N. E.—Sailed the outward bound. lluvEa, JAN. I3.—Arrived the J. C. Van Sp3l‘, Banyma, from Rativia*; Sophia Elizabeth, Mehrens, Rio Janeiro. PoRT,MOUTII, JAN. 14.—Wind E.N. E , strong and squally.—Arrived the Meldon, Hogg, Mauritius; Minerva, Mills,,Calcutta. The Meldon, arrived here, passed on the Bth instant lat. 47, lon. 16, a full-rigged ship of about 400 tons, with a billet head and round-house, painted yellow sides, hatches washed off, fore-sail and top-sail blown out of bolt-ropes, both anchors at the bows, rudder gone, and supposed water-logged. Passed on the 11th a quantity of wreck between the Land's End and Scilly. KINGSTOWN, JAN. 13,—Arrived the Nor h imberland, Spence, from Prince Edward's Island; Woodcock, Austen, Demerara. LIMERICK, JAN. the Robert Kerr, Agnew, fur Jamaica. LivEnrooL, JAN. 14.—Wind S. E., light breezes.— Arrivcd the James Kay, Mann, from Monte Video; Swanton, Heath, New Orleans ; St. Mark, Alexand.,r, Savannah; Victoria, Prince Edward's Island ; Comet, Newfoundland. Sailed the Hotspur, Wilson, for the Cape of Good Hope; St. Lavrrence, Newland, Bombay; Star, Clcmcntson, Monte Video ; Helen APCormack, Barbadocs ; Pauline, Kelantan, St. Thomas; Queen of the Ocean, Tilby, New Orleans; Roscius, Collins, New Yolk ; Shenandoch, West, Philadelphia ; Ellen German, Cumming, La Guayra. Off port the Mary Somerville, for Calcutta; Colchester, Bombay ; Albatross, Africa; Iluskieron, Bonny. - The Broad Oak, from Bahia, is on shore on the main, near Muckbeggar, and is discharging. CLYDE, JAN. 12.—Sailed the Rambler, M'Kenzie, for Valparaiso ; and Hoyworth, Dunlop, Dsonerara. lIDLL, JAN, 4. —Wind N.—Artivcd the Columbine, Johnson, from Tatmagouche. ScAsnosouGii, JAN. 14.—The Watetloo, Granger, on shore on Filey Main, has been got off and brought in here. THE CHEESE IN CHAINCERY. Vide the Report of the Cheese trial in the Vice-Chanc(ry Court, in 7714 Sun of this morning. His Honour came enven to the Chancery Half, In state with his criers, and ushers, and all; The weather was cold, he was ready to freeze, But he thawed at the sight of the Somerset Cheese Each wig in the Cuurt, too, uncurled with delight At so very uncommon and tempting a sight, And tie crowd at the door they pressed on with a squeoze, AU agog for a stare at the Somerset Cheese 'Twas a dignified sight to behold the whole Bar, All ravenous as crocodiles usually arc, And prepared, to a wig, to go down on their knees, For a lawyer-like slice of the Somerset Cheese I Knight Bruce looked unusually hungry, end Wright, Who felt that his appetite mastered him quite, Addressing his Honour, said, " Sir, if 3ou please, I will fast take a cut et the Somerset Cheese." Alas, for that Cheese ! Tbc profession, 'tis plain, When they once make a "cut,' they of course "come Again;' And eo, whether .for or against, by degrees, They diminish the weight of the Somerset CheeEe I 'Tis now out of Court, but its value is lost, And nu'cr can it hope to repay what it cost, For all has been wasted on barristers' fees— What a terrible fate for a Somerset Cheese ! MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS --~ ~_. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY—The sales to.day are frem 5,000 to 6,000 bags, of which 1,000 Americans are taken on speculation, and 500 Surats. Priers are rather steady, but the Market is mucir less aril- LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAR. 14.—Chester and 13irkenhead, New Shares, 16t ; Grand Junction, 212 ; Great Western, 93 ; Half Snares, 63 . 1 ; Lirerclool and Manchester, Half Shares, 904 ; North Midland, 80i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 14. There has bees► a 'air inquiry for Railway Shares to day. Prices may be quoted as follow I—London and Birming ham, 170 to 172 ; Great Western, 93 to 94; Do. Fifths, 10.1 to 104; South Western, 58 to 59; Eastern Coun ties, 9 to 9k ; London and 131 ighton, 44 to 44i ; Man chester and Birmingham, 254- to 26 ; Midland Counties, Qa;rters, 151. We have received the JournalofAntwerp of yeatcrday's date : BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. 12.—The prices of the National funds are very firm to.day, owing to the Foreign Bourses having got up. The Actions of the Society of Com merce_ are lower, they were done at 159 1584, and for the 15111 of March, Account Day, 159 k to 1591; Ardoin's Spanish, 22 1 IWh to 22-A-, after the close; Coupons, 17i to 17 9-16ths. ANTWERP, JAN. 12.—A shocking accident happened yesterday evening on the railroad ; the convoy with mer chandize which left Antwerp at four o'clock was met be tween Ma., and Malines;by the convoy of the passengers. Several persons were scvely injured by the shock and the guard was killed. This being settling-day in the British Market, little is doing, with the exception of the brokers and jobbers being busy in settling their differences against to-morrow, which is pay day. The extreme fluctuation during the Account being about fi per cent. up to the present time, the set tlement is going off very easy. We have no arrivals as yet from any quarter of conse quence, with the exception of a confirmation from Paris of peace being concluded between France and Buenos Ayres, which gives much satisfaction to the merchants in the City eginected with that country. EVEN iNG ED ITal LITERATURE. LONGBEARD. 3 dor.s. Bull, London, 1840. Longbeard, Lord of London, is an his torical romance of the days of Richard the First, and ivens impressively with a street-row, a conjuror, an a tempest' The row is occasioned. by the excee J ingly rude behaviour of a young Norman Knigkt, who meeting in broad day-light with a Saxon girl in Smithfield market, erideavoum to tumble slid touzle her in a way awful to thirik of; but is di-. vertcd from his iniquitous purpose;. by the threats of the mob to " slit his ears for iii4ll,' and the in- terference of the conjur.or, who answerv.to the melo dious appellative of Abrs. Ben Acadabnip and who escorts the young virgin home, where she' fells the story of her wrongs to her father, a London tanner, by name Jordan. We fear, howeve r , that Miss Jordan's story must have been rather a p. Cosy one, for during its relation we are assured that kier venerable parent's " eyes were closed, and an occ eiunal snore indicated that he was dozing in them heal ; ." whereupon the considerate young gentle.- woman - began turning over the leaves of favourite volume---g .remarkable fact, when we bear in mind that the art ~.f printing was not discoveied till nearly two hunt2rcd and fifty years afterwards'! While Miss Jorda," was thus read:ng her book= possibly one of the ,Scotch novels—her younger sister, Miss Marian', who sat Olf a low stool near her, amused „herself by holdincr a conversation with her dog Odin, who, being one of those extraordinary animals rarely met wish except in romances like Longbeard, " 10 , oked up tuzi wagged his tail, fully comprehending e\Tery word slit said !" Suddenly, however, the sagacievis brute set ur A loud bark, to the great discomfitutre of old Jordan, who forthwith pitched in t o him " with a log of w oid and while lie was doing so, . " the solemn figure of and his daugh ters." tt - q conjuror walked into the apartment, and saluted tiler „lath'' ' .and The first few fragments of i...hese g entlemen s conversation blend instruction nith I:ntertainment in so very uncommon a degree tli.'‘E cannot re sist the temptation of quoting them \Vacs had' ! friend Acca Bacca Ben Dal Ta," said the Saxon. Waes hael I friend Jordan, the tanner, and a he.'ter memory to you for people's names," replied the dulter. . On the same night that this memorable.couver sation took place, an equally memorable temp est: occurred in London, of which the younger Mess Jordan expressed her opinion in these exact words —" the wind bellows, as if it were enraged at the city, and were determined to hurl its spires and buildings to the ,ground at one blast."' W hen this; desperate tempest, which terminates in page 47,, vol. 1, was over, Miss J. and her sister fell fast. asleep, after having had their fortunes told by the conjuror ; and here the author leaves them for awhile, in order to introduce his hero, William Fitzosbert, alias Longbeard, an uncom promising Chartist, like Feargus O'Connor, and who put not the' slightest . faith an the Nor Man Reform Bill. This furious mob-Leader was, it seems,. the son of a London tradestnave- - - perhaps•a tailor, but having a soul above cabbage, , he " went to Palestine, •to distinguish himself under the banners of the cross," where, no te r ith standina that he formed only a ninth - fraction of .0 • humanity, he " performed prodia ° ies - of valour, an d ' was knighted on the field of battle by Richard. Cur de Lion !"—an incident in. the life of a city tradesman's son, which we are induced to mention, bemuse it passes the borders of thee improbable, and trespasses on the miraculous. For' this warlike Cockney, who to his other recommen dations, added that of a hump-back, Miss Jordan had long entertained a sincere affection ; and doubt less they would have been married in the sixth chapter of the first volume, had not Longbeard, one fine day, got up a public Meeting of Saxons at Paul's Cross,. which was attended by all the Chartists of the time, and was ushered in by such a stunning chime . of triple bob-majors, that " the bells pealed as if each or.e had been endowed with life, and was rt.ady to burst its iron sides in an agony of fear !" It is satisfactory, however, to know that the people were far less frightened than the bells, for they kicked up a prodigious rumpus, and even Ll;s. posed the city train-bands and beef -caters, leaving several of these fat heroes dead --eel the field of: battle, and offering the most unheard-of insults to the awful person of the Lord Mayor hiins AI I Immediately the skrimmage was at an end, the belts,. recovering from their justifiable apprehensions,took a sentimental turn, " and kept up their 111011010110118 tolling, as if wailing and groaning finr the deeds slaughter that had been done"—an instance of tintmnaluilary tenderness which we firmly believe to be without a parallel I But not thus affected was the moon, for she—cold hearted jade !—happenitoe to look out a few hours afterwards, shone " as if all unconscious of the dreg: fill events of the depart ing day!" Early next morning, tidings of this appallin g bobbery were brought to the Arehbishoir of Canterbury —but not before his Grace bad read the " latest particulars " in the second edition of the Chronicle ; whereupon the yeller. able Prelate " lose from his table, and proceeded towards the window of the old Monastery of St. Augustine, where he then resided." Here he looked about him with much interest, and was specially delighted with " the spork/isg• twitter of numerous sparrows ;" and being " deeply alive to the poetry of nature"—as most Bishops are—“ he felt soothed and refreshed by the view !" When his Grace had been sufficiently refreshed, he an nounced his intention of consulting with the Queen and the Earl of Moreton on the sad state of public affairs, and then coolly sate down and played a game of chess with one Father Ambrose, who, being a discreet dog, " struggled hard to all appearance to win the game, but invariably allowed himself to be beaten !" Meanwhile the Chartist Longbeard made his escape from London ; and soon afterwards the two Miss Jordans were walked off with by the wicked Norman Knight whom we have already spoken of, and • who incontinently popped them into his castle in Kent, where, with an effrontery that speaks no better for his mo• rals than his good sense, the monster actually asked the one sister to be obliging enough to assist him in the seduction. of the other; and when she refused to do so, he professed extreme surprise and disgust at her want of ordinary politeness ! Ulti mately the sisters were liberated from their im prisonment, when the elder married Longbeard, who went abroad ; a n d a t th e c l o se of the third .volume, we find all the virtuous personages of the story made happy, and',all the vicious miserable, whi c h i s j ust as i t should be: Such is Longbeard,. Lord of London, whose absurdities of incident and language we have been induced to expose, in the hope that we may thereby be the means of stimulating Mr. Mackay to the production of something far worthier of himself than a romance concocted in haste, and without the slightest attention to even the ordinary proprieties of style.. The author of the " Hope of the 'W . ori re i e , iet. , should not thus wantonly shipwreck the credit ; he That he has has acquired by that beautiful poem • some talent for prose fiction Is evident ; but if shapes, h e : in stead of diligently working out this talent, and moulding it into graceful and consistent contents himself—in orde r to avoid the lab our o f themselves to his fancy ; thong—with d ie first c rude, imperfect ideas' and probability in the eon incidents that ii s ig ugg a e n s d t d a y . elopment of character ; and disregards keep us with s lovenly ,slip-shod diction, , n b c t . instances, to Zite in a chaste, nervous, and e has shown in one or t c , l ,: u l . l lo )t e ts l i ti l l i s i t t is a In his po% er, as luc id style, he must expect to pay the penalty of t such oufn inherentwarr an a a n p e a g e l t g; laziness of il s i l s iee si r n l s az a and hence is it that we have laid on the lash, firmly and benevolently persuaded that it is for Mr. Mackay's " own good," and not doubting that he himself will ere long regard our wholesome chas tisement in that light, and number us among his greatest benefactors. JOIE SON'S FRENeII REVOLUTION, PART I. Sherwood, London, 1841. To pronounce a decided opinion on a work— and that work a .history of i m portance—merely from a first number, is about as absurd as to ex hibit, like the jester in Hieroeics, a brick as a sample of a building; thus much, however, we can say, that so far as he has yet proceeded in his his tory of the great French Revolution, Mr. Jobson has shown a perfect acquaintance with his subject; is laudably impartial in his tone ; and expresses himself in perspicuous and animated language. Slif4l Lon9nw n , S London,AeCllllEs4Nhe E. We have here a very creditable English grammar, c ompiled with cvident care, and containing many u seitl direction s respecting-prosody, which is but too often negl ec t e d i n our p u bli c an d p r iv a te schoo.s THR FUNDS Consols may be quoted at present with an improvement. Left off at 891 a ; at present, 89 a Money fur the 25th February, 89i 90 , Reduced, 90,,; Exchequer Bills, 8 10 prem. ; &ink Stock, 165 166; India Stock, 249 251. . _ In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives are the same as they left off, 24+ z ; Deferred, 121 +; Passive, ; Portuguese same as they closed, 31+ 32+ ; Three nor Cents.. 19+ 20+ ; Chilian, 57 59 ; Brazilian, 701 711: Colombian, 231 +, a shade lower; Mexican left off 28!_r 29; at present, loser, 281 3.; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per CCIItN. rather better, 50+*; Five per Cents., 981 99. Stmarts.—Great Western, 30 31 prem. ; New, 14i 15 prom. ; London BEI4 Brighton, 5i dis. ; Blaekwall, 4 31 dis. ; Birmingham, 81 83 preen. ; Southampton, 5S 59 per share ; Croydon, 12+ + per share ; Gri•er+- wich. 8 9 per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 diF. ; South Eastern and Dover. 141 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. aArt..wars. Paid. Per Share. Great Western London and 13righton London and Greenwich ..... Ditto Scrip London and South Western 3B& 581... .. to London and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 l2-i...... to JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of London HALF-PAST ONE. To the present time the settling of the account in the British Matlcct is going off well. Money is easy in the House, Stock scare_• and in demand. At present it is a Bear account ; the only feature worth notice ;8 the settle ment—scarce anything else doing. A report prevaiis that Government are in possession of later intelligence from ladia than that received by the late overland express. _ The Acadia steamer is hourly expected from which will bring the paper of the 31st ult. from Now Yorl - . Consols have impr:wce. since the early part of the morn inl.7, and may be quoted at present 89,1- 90 for the 25th February; for Money fluctuated, 891 Hi; Exchequer ililla, 8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock, 167 ; India Bonds, 10 8 dis. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is heavy; have been done at 241, at present 24 : 1 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 20 ; Peruvian, 141 ; Dutch Two•and-a-Half ptr Cents , 501 In Shares not much doing. Prices higher. Great Western ; 96; London and Brighton, 44'1. \Ve have no fuller arrivals to quote to the present time. ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM, CHELSEA.— To-morrow the boys of this national establishment are to be treated with a visit to the Royal Polytechnic Institu tion, accounpanicd by their Governor, Col. Williams, and preceded by their juvenile, but t Elective, military band. The Committee for the English subscription for the sufferers by the inundation at Lyons has just paid over to his Excellency the French Ambassador the sum of 2,869 francs, being the amount of the subscriptions which it has received. We call the attention of our leaders to a letter in another column on the difference of prices between Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities and South Sea An• nuities, by " A Proprietor" of the latter description of stock. As both are paid from the same source—the Cen sulidated Fund—and the security is the same, we agree with our Correspondent in thinking it strange that a dif ference of price of 2 per cent. should exist in favour of Reduced Annuities. The solution given is, that an esta blishment must be kept up at the South Sea House, which now consists of tirefity-three directors and nearly tweno , clerks, at an expense of 9,0001. or 10,0001. per annum. Bat the necessity for keeping up such a separate esta blishm-nt, now that the Smith Sea Company has Lo proper business, merely to pay dividends, is not very obvious. Wo speak, however, on this subject with due hesitation. But if no inconvenience would result from transferring the pay ments now made at the South Sea House to the Bank of England, it seems to us that the saving of expense which would thereby be effected, might be worth attempting. The Chancellor of the Exchequer may, however, be ab!c to state sufficient reasons for continuing the South Sea House, and we throw out the above suggestion in the hope that some light may be thrown on the subject by those who arc able to do so. —Morning Chronicle. We regret to have to announce the destruction of the whole of that splendid building, Crum Castle, the scat of Colonel Creighton, by fire. It has just been re cently finished, and the munificent owner had but just completed its gorgeous furniture. We understand the building was insured ; but nothing in a mere return of money can reimburse the proprietor for the loss he has sustained. Colonel Creighton and his family are at pre sent sojourning at Brighton. —Dublin Evening Mail. BUCKS CONSERVATIVE DINNER.---The fourth annual dinner of the Buckingham Conservative sociation was held on Wednesday evening in the Town.' hall, Buckingham. The Duke of Buckingham, as Presi dent of the Association, was in the chair, and at the tables were seated Lord De Lisle, the Earl of Orkney L-rd Hotham, the Marquis of Chandos, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sit William Young, Sir John Chetwode, C. G. Du l're, Esq , Dr. Marsham, the Rev. Mr. Coker, and about 400 of the gentry, clergy, and others. Our readers will find elsewhere an advertisement respecting the widows and orphans of the unfortunate men who perished on board of the Fairy, and we hope that it will not only receive their attention, but prove the mans of exciting their benevolence. The tars of England arc the glory of their country, and he who has not a hea, t to fvel for the woes of the bereaved widows and orphan children of the men who have exposed their lives for the benefit of their country, must be devoid of every feeling which unites man to man. A considerable subscription has, we understand, been already made—we shall add to it our humble mite, and hope that our example will be followed by every one according to his capacity, who has sense enough to know that the mainstay of his country is in the " wooden walls of Old England," and best mode of strengthening them is the support of those in aflction is hose relatives have been placed in a situation to encounter the dangers and advance the glory of our land. —Morning Advertiser. Yesterday evening the election of a new Go vernor of the Incorporated Society of Licensed Victuallers took place at this office, in lieu of the present Govet nor, Mr.. Lancaster, w h o vacates his office in April next, t t , he yo v r o ku t c e r s cee n as r ds e , There were originally three candidates ; but one having previously resigned, the contest lay between two only. In this. as in all well regulate o d f in y st o i r t k u . ti s o t n re s e , taken by ballot; and, in the present instance, th e s o fLu i al t rn i c ie bacn i t , d r hi o ' d c a e rit e e'h : e i ngs , and the losing candidat agsrel‘altre.stßurlnoannimity characterized e was thetilaw first, i ,n a t y, to congratulate his oppo icnh had been c on f erre d upon hi m. spirit upon of the tr honour u,b and sineerit The c i ty ol Morning i l Dublin Steam Company have sub seribd one hundred pounds towards the funds in progress of collection for the survivors of the unfortunate persons belonging to the crew of that ill-fatted vessel the Tham I who perished on the 4th i nst. es, rid ink jou e ~qd~ y our ) • u b ll6 °frt! ocv. • CIO )0 11 : 0 14 ' rev"' JO 10( 081 elegy , API" od o f 1I rev c ° r b o , for ril‘` Yi , 0 cor, a ' , oo A' V C° bar( jto he "' : sC r i 1:-ff., CP e the'