The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

EVENING SUN 13, Great Marlborough-street. M R 5. ,, T G HE O 3 R IAN E 'OSF NEW FORTUNE," 0 VE L, WILL BE READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES On Wednesday Next, Dec. 22. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, embellished with Portraits of Dr. Dee, Paraeelsus, and Cagliostro, THE CONCLUDING VOLUME OF mEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS. Comprising :—The Alchymists, Pretended Antiquity of the Art, Avicenna, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Raymond Lulli, Roger Bacon, Pope John XXII., Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Dr Dee and Edward Kelly, The Cosmopolite, Sendivogius, The Rosicrusians, Alchymical Writers of the Seventeenth Century, De Lisle, Albert Aluys, Count de St. Germains, Cagliostro, Present State of the Science, &c.— Fortune Telling, The Magnetisers, &c. By CHARLES MACKAY, Esq., Author of " The Thames and its Tributaries, &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 20, Will be repeotd Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotil da, Miss Grant; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which, the New Farce,entitled UNITED SERVICE. Captain Whistleborough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Paeifie, RN., Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Barn. Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. ;Doors to le opened at half-past Six—the performances to emnmence at Seven.. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Sec , mA Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten sill Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Dozes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, nookseller, 167, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with Charles the Twelfth. POPULATION RETURNS. We have had so many inquiries for The Sun, containing an abstract of the Population Returns, that we shall republish the tables, with consider able additions, on Saturday next, the 25th inst. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TEE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SLXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 20, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter froml4r.l3ak;;Qcl lead to a correspondence of little interest to the public, and we must therefore decline to publish it. TEE WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 20. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 32 1 Highest 33 Lowest 24 Barometer 29.41.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.AIORROW Mot mng......13 mulutas attar N. I Evening._34 minutes after 7. The Publication of the Evening Edition of THE SUN COM- menced at 10 minutes after Three. necessarily, destroying the attachment of the people to a Legislature which passes such laws— is also the duty of every man who wishes to cor rect injustice, and promote the prosperity of mankind. To say that such language is "incen tives to rebellion," is to pronounce a severe con demnation against the Government, which is thus set in direct opposition to truth and justice. But the language of the Times is mere raving, for it can no more be incentives to rebellion to denounce the unjust laws which the aristocracy have passed to enrich themselves than to criticise the ordinances of MENU. It is, unfortunately, a lamentable fact, that the conduct of the Legislature, in reference to the Corn-law, which the Times formerly took the lead in denouncing, has taught the people to despise its authority. Shall that fact not be stated, even to warn the Legislature ? Shall the people go on blindly submitting to injus tice, because it is practised in the name of the law, till England be reduced to the condition of France under the tyranny of Louis PHILIPPE ? Those, in our estimation, are the best friends of the country, and the best friends of the aristo cracy, who warn them in tune of the dreadful consequences of their present career, and endea vour to frighten them back, by a representation of the dangers which await their onward course, as was ably and honestly done by the Leeds meeting. From the company which the Tory Ministers keep, it is plain that they will not need to be spurred on by English journalists to try high handed measures with the people. They have begun that in Ireland. They are incited to go on by all the menials of the despotic Courts of the Continent by whom they are surrounded. There is scarcely one of these, from an Ambassador Ex traordinary to the lowest Vice-Consul, who does not continually reiterate that no such free discus sion is allowed abroad. These gentlemen do in deed continually use incentives to rebellion against the people, and against the duty which the Government owes the people. They con tinually remind our aristocracy that on the Con tinent there is the knout, or incarceration in for tresses, for those who use their tongues or pens, or there are laws against bringing the Govern ment into contempt, however much it may de serve to be brought into contempt ; and, according to them, it is a weakness and a disgrace to our Go vernment that public writers and public speakers are at liberty to use their pens and tongues so freely. They manage such matters, it is said, better in France and Russia; and it will not go well for the aristocracy and the GovernmentinEngland tin the free expression of opinion be put down here as it is put down abroad. With such en- couragement, and incited to rebel against the public and against justice by the Times and Post, it would not surprise us were we to find, amongst the measures which the Tories are con cocting to relieve the public distress, some plan for putting an end to the meetings of the manu- facturers, and for enchaining the Press. From an erroneous analogy, the precept that self:pre servation is the first law of nature has been ex tended from animal life to constituted Go vernments , and under the influence of this error—as the unjust laws passed by the aristocracy for their exclusive benefit cannot possibly be maintained if the press and the suf- firing manufacturers be allowed to speak freely of them —we dread that the monopolist and starvation Government will endeavour to pre serve itself by striking a heavy blow at the liberties of the people. We can assure Mr. WARD that we had no per sonal motives for our obseriations last Tuesday, and no intention of making a personal attack on him. He is, however, a public man, answerable to the public for his conduct. His connection with the Weekly Chronicle is notorious and avowed, and we could not allow sentiments to pass which were obviously his—which the writer in the Weekly Chronicle does not repu diate for him, and which, in our opinion, struck at the very principles for which the free-trade and Anti-Corn-law party are contending—without alluding to the fatal in fluence which such sentiments might have on the welfare of Mr. WARD'S constituents. We did this in few words ; declaring, however, that if those were Mr. WARD'S sentiments, the confi dence of the free-traders of Sheffield in him was misplaced. 1 . U j Atl, •4 - 7 . 4, -, till . ,k 4 1, ,sue_, ~.te . . RA , ... i* A • ';',":---kf4 .'11171,1`,...1.., * ° ' ''' ' %,-',;..-4(%;••'.. '... °I .....4 k Obit gill., „ Ala . LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1841. The hardy men of the North are too bold in conscious rectitude to allow themselves to be scared from the noble purpose they have taken in hand by the foul and big words of the Tory Journals. The Times may rave according to its wont, without having the small e st i n fl uence on the stout heart s in the manufacturing districts that are resolved to stand up for their rights. On Saturday it said : But though the Leeds Conventionists be harmless enough in the way of argument), they may do plenty of misciaief in the *ay of inflammation. Their discourses are intended to be disseminated by a Radical press among multitudes of people, all o f the m more or l ess pinched by want, and all of them persuaded that their wages, whether high or low, are at all events lower than they ought to be. And, for the edification of such, persons, Mr. T. Plint moved a resolution, that " this meeting regards the Corn .and Provision-laws as equally unconstitutional, unjust, and injurious; and as tending, if pertinaciously maintained, to destroy the attachment and allegiance of the people to the Government." It is absurd to say that such passages as this are merely the expressions of free opinion. They are direct incentives to rebellion. And, that nothing may be wanting to render the hint intelligible, Mr. T. Plint takes care to add a gloss of his own. " I do fear," says he, " that this will be the case ; and if the Legislature should present itself in the odious light of upholding these laws fur their own particuLzr benefit, who can won der if Me bond of allegiance be severed? .1 hope they will be wise in time. Then follows more such " perilous stuff,". about curses loud and deep, and so on. It would not be safe to say, " If the Corn-laws be maintained, the people should rebel -;" but there is thought to be less of hazard in saying, "If the Corn-laws be maintained, we cannot wonder that the people should rebel." And these are the patriots who told us, ten years ago, that if we would but pass the Reform Biil, the peop!e would be so justly and truly represented, that they could never more have occasion to complain of Parliament It is unfortunate fi.r the reputation of the Times that. it comes with its hints and threats about rebellion after the Morning Post. It is some weeks ago since the latter Journal under took to denounce some of time opinions of the . ..Liberal Press as seditious and treasonable; but it - was, we beheie, shamed from such unworthy' tactics. The course Which for the Post was unsatccessful and aht:ndruied, the Times has now t aken up, with this difference, that it directs its arrows against the suffering manufacturers, wl Zile the Post, with a brotherly love, contente d i ts e lf w ith aiming at other Journals. The Times 1 ,ill suc ceed as little as the Post, and neither :I‘...PLINT, nor an y other manufacturer, will modify' his lan guage the shadow of a shade fr on i any • fear of the Attorney-General. For our parts, we feel unfeigned pleasure at knowin t e tl. tat the • xnantili ic t ur ers have the sense and spirit : t o a d opt and we• should better for their cause than that the lam td e d ir i s - ; tocracy . should bring the great questi on _ . at issue 411110 , between it and the other classes to a deli, .• • :ion b y We have published a letter on the Ob servance some criminal p ro ceedings against them ;anufac- of the Sabbath, not that it contains any argu turers before - the Judges of the laud. ments which in the slightest degree invalidate Let us look, however, a little clos A yat the those urged by another Reverend Correspon language said to be " incentives to r, sl )ellion." dent last" week, but in order that on such Is it not true that the present Provision r laws are l an important question both parties • may "equally unconstitutional, unjust, and in ilirious?" to find a fair hearing ; and we are glad that though the two venerable pastors of Is it not unconstitutional—nay, contra' .1 - to the t the Church very principles on which political s• PcietY is topursue different routes, they come the same point Sabbath at last, namely that the founded, on which any Government ve Christian ask or to hope fur the allegiance of the , people— ,_ (adopting the words of atures to St. IGNATIUS) to tax o ne c las s t o enr i c h anot h er ? The G overn- ought not to b e kept as a J ew - This, how ever , is all the praise to th e arguments of " J. S. " in i c a a m a event c e nt is established to g i ve equa l prof e st ion to ry thath S can be baeth given. individual and every class, and 41 `he n it opposition to those of his fellow-labourer in the taxes and oppresses one class it forfeits i s right to . boast of his supe vineyard, and as he seem s to the allegiance of that cLtss. Is not tin Lt the riot abilities at the ad.vanced age of four score, , y the we may be permitted to remind him that both question which was practically decided I sucaess of the United States? and his memory are defective. He appeared to vi°l7 a lt s the Sabbath The injustice of the tax is equally dea l and ti t i o e week, them admitted. argues, that because our S A Has not Lord STANLEY said tl iat it hi; disciples twice on the first d ay of enhances rent, or puts money into the po slis e,is of t h e y were at sea fishins• should be observed the lawmakers ? Can an thing gbe more Os Dull- without reflecting that day • that he app eared liable than that they should make laws I oea rich a third time, when . themselves? is it not their argument t - ant t. heir If he studied his Bible carefully, he would fi n , - , , estates would remain unculti vated to a ce. t tam PAUL preached oftener on the last tot), that ST. extent, if -t1 1 ,-, . ' usy did n';t tax the people'spreach e d, b ( bad? than the its,day Can unything b e that he never made more scandalous than - .1, 1 t ~at t IleY in fact, on all days; and f • '' of the week; that he should compel the rest of the hirn— communit to ixi use of the expression attributed to . for the cultivation of their estates 7 y i keep it holy.', . B e•n (). th us " Remember the Sabbath day to :unconstitutional - and _. t a. MOSES with unjust can any ma 13 If our venerable friend confounds . - doubt that the, l aw i _ :., injurious ? 7 Does i ()ills' St. PAUL he must admit that his quotations are tice mean anythins• -- • t. different tr( try' only de ll does not, and to Persist inan 1 , - Ake. jail . worse than useless, because they -;:i ll , 4t ,coot, 3 e 13 `. • • He assumes also that the letter to policy, because it upposed t . • "Iv e. is to acpn the teeth of all e •( 4 be 7 ) enefi mai, which he refers, was opposed to the Ob isi ,-• ex• lion esty servance of the Lord's Day, whilst it notitmly the best, it is the Only ; a ad a law which' is unjust, that i s, s . p ° 4 icy; ' ' ad the opposite tendency, and described, in -• , , rorEadde a by - ;,Na"LI terms of great exultation, the blessings which a Lure c.• (gun, is necessarily i n • • JUTIOUS. Christian (not a Jewish) observance of it confers To state such truths is the business, publicwriter on mankind. If argumen t s are not f oun d e d on s , ' and•speakers, and it i s . o) )i. • ai l )surd describe Accts, they only defeat those who use th e m. them as incentives to rebellio n . To . - to • eSa describe the inevitable consequences of such i n , Th e news . brought by the Levant mail from quitous laws on the minds of the people—th. Egyp t is exceedingly unfavourable to British ay producing first, suffering, then discontent, an finally, but commenialists. A letter from Alexandria of the d, In reply to our remarks, instead of proving that Mr. WARD continues worthy to represent Sheffield, the Weekly Chronicle pours out two thirds of a column of fretful, peevish vituperation of The Sun, and of its proprietor. We have no inclination whatever to imitate the Weekly Chronicle, nor come into collision with Mr. WARD, or any other individual, and no intention to indulge in personal remarks. As public Jour nalists, however, serving a great and a good cause, we have public duties to perform, and we can only regret when the performance of them obliges us to speak harsh and unpleasant truths. The Weekly Chronicle reproaches the pro prietor of The Siin with being, in his political opinions, " Everything by turns, and nothing long." Such an assertion is the effusion of mere spleen, for The Sun has steadfastly adhered to the Reform cause and the Liberal party, having never changed its opinion of any great measures or principles, though it has been driven to change its opinion of men, since it came into the hands of the present proprietor. Un doubtedly The Sun has, at former times, sup ported Mr. WARD, and, if it cannot do so now, the change, it is presumed, is in Mr. WARD, and not in The Sun. The Sun has seen with regret two or three of Mr. WARD'S proceedings, but only noticed that part of them which ap peared to it to be a complete sacrifice of the principles for which Mr. WARD, as a Corn-law Repealer, professed to contend. We have reason to believe that the Hon. Member for Sheffield's conduct has not given satisfaction to his constituents, and the Weekly Chronicle would better serve his interest by reconciling him to them, than by making a fidgetty and somewhat contemptible attack on us. 6th of November, states, that MEHEMET ALI had ordered the Commercial Treaty between England and Turkey to be carried into effect in all the ports of Egypt, and that one of the immediate results was the raising of the duty from 3to 12 per cent. British goods which had paid a duty of 3 per cent. were required to pay the remaining duty of 9 per cent., and in case of refusal to bt seized. In con sequence of this order large seizures of British goods actually took place at Cairo, nor did it appear that the new Consul-General was over eager to afford protection to the merchants', whose commercial rights were thus fraudulently invaded. The PACHA gave no notice to the merchants of his intention to inforce the Treaty, and his conduct in claiming an extra duty upon goods upon which the regular duty charged when they were landed in Rgypt had been paid, is clearly a violation of international law. Madrid Papers of the 11th inst., have been duly received. In the Gazette of that date we find a decree of the Regent, granting an am nesty to all the soldiers implicated in the attack on the Palace on the 7th of October. This is a very salutary measure, and a complete answer to all the furious and unfounded diatribes of Mr. O ' CONNELL at the Dublin Cora Exchange. On the Madrid Bourse, on the 11th, one bar gain took place in the Threes at 23, for 60 days, to the amount of 200,000 reals; twelve bargains in the Fives, at 328 for cash ; 321 331, for 60 days, for 5,960,000 reals ; seven bargains for 10,309,576 reals took place in the debt without interest, at 58 6 for cash, and 61 s for 60 days. The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have been duly received. On Friday the Court of Peers found a batch of the prisoners guilty, but as the Court will have to deliberate upon their punishment, it may yet be a week before sentence is pronounced upon them. In the mean time confessors are set at work to terrify them into confessions of guilt, and hopes are held out to them. that if they find more work for the Procureur-General and the Peers, they may look forward to a mitigation of their sentences. DUFAUR and COLOMEIER have already swallowed the bait. These men sent for M. PASQUIER, the Chancellor, to whom they made confessions as black as that judicial hack could desire. The consequence was, that on Friday two car riages full of workmen, in the Faubourg St. Antoine, were seized and lodged in prison. Of course the example thus set by one portion of the prisoners will be followed by the rest, and thus we may expect to hear of arrests enough to keep the Peers employed for weeks to come. But the great affair of interest in Paris is the case of M. DUPOTY. If this man be found guilty, the Charter of 1830 is of no more value to Frenchmen than an old song. The Peers will then have as openly violated the constitutional liberties of Frenchmen as QUENISSET violated the law in levelling a pistol at the head of the Duke of NEMOURS. From that period the bonds connecting the Crown with the nation will be broken, and it will be a question of policy and convenience how long France may submit to the despotic yoke of the House of ORLEANS. The Court ,of Peers, in trampling upon the charter, releases Frenchmen from any allegiance which they may suppose themselves to owe to the ORLEANS dynasty. We have given in another column the opening Speech of the Minister of Commerce to the Coun cils of Commerce, Agriculture, and Industry , now sitting in Paris. We recommend it to the attention of Pro-Corn-law legislators at home. In France the effect of protective duties has been nearly to ruin the elegant manufactures of Paris, and to lead to a decrease of trade with Portugal, Egypt, North America, and various other States. The beet-root monopoly is -playing the very deuce with the French Colonial trade. By a Royal Ordonnance, dated the 7th inst., the sum of 649,1261. remaining unemployed out of the credit of 6,000,000 f. opened to the Ministers of Public Works and War, by the law of the 10th June, 1841, is placed at the disposal of the Minister of War, to contribute towards the expenses of the fortifications of Paris, authorised by the law of 3d April, 1841. 31. Gervais, the deputy for Provins, in the Seine-et- Marne, has, in consequence of hi s failure, resigned his seat. M. d'Ossonvile, son-in-l aw t o the Duke de Brog lie, comes forward to succeed him, and M. Simon, a late Sous-Prefect, is also named as a candidate. A correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette at Brussels says that it is now proved that the persons implicated in the late abortive conspiracy kept up communications, not only with the Orangeists, but also with the French Republicans. A Toulon letter, in the Commerce, says that the four ships of the line, un d er or d ers for sailing, left that port on the 12th inst., and, it was believed, would proceed to Tunis. A letter from Rome states that the Duke de T orlonia has brought a company of French actors to Rome, for the winter, at his own expense, to give a series of re presentations in his Palace. By Royal Ordonnance, of the 7th inst., none but French vessels are to be employed in transport between France and Algeria, except in cases of urgency. General de Rumigny, who is going to take the govern ment of Algeria ad interim, arrived en the 11th at Toulon, The equipages of the Prince de Joinville reached Toulon the same day, and are waiting his Royal Highness's return. The Sentinelle of Toulon says :—" The four ships of the line, destined for the Archipelago, are all ready for sailing. They are to be joined by several frigates. Ad miral La Susse, having completed the term of his com mand, will, it is believed, be succeeded by the newly promoted Admiral Le Ray." The steamer Havre, bound to that port from Rotter dam, was run foul of by au American vessel as she was coming out from the port of Rotterdam, on her last voyage, not many days back, and was forced to return. She repaired her damage, and sailed again, but the weather was so bad in the Channel that she was ob liged to put into Boulogne for several days. She has at length made llavre. The Municipal Council of Mulhausen, on the propo sition of the Mayor, M. A. Kcechlin, has just voted an annual sum of 100,0001. for an indefinite number of years, together with the laud required in the banlieue of the town, towards the formation of the Mulhausen and Dijon railroad. The Bordeaux papers state that the Abbe Lacordaire, the Dominican, is now preaching in that city, where he excites the greatest attention. By order of the Minister of Justice and Public Worship he is not allowed to appear in the dress of his order, but only in the usual ecclesiastical costume. A heavy inundation has been experienced at Rennes within the last few days, where a bridge has been carried away, and some of the quays damaged, but the waters have at length subsided. The Hero of Caen announces the destruction by fire of the house of the Count de Bricqueville, and also of the great shot-manufactory of M. Benard, near Pont l'Eveque. The latter accident was caused by lightning, during a storm in the night of the 7th instant. Several smaller houses in the neighbourhood were likewise burnt, so that numerous families are thrown into great distress. A correspondent at Calais says that the weather was so bad yesterday, that the steamer for London could not leave the harbour. A fishing-boat from Boulogne foun dered off the port during the previous night, and its crew of five men perished. The father of Quenisset is said to have arrived in Paris, with the purpose of presenting a petition to the King for the pardon of his son. The professors of the Ecole des Beaux Arts have elected M. Ingres as their President, and M. Jerry de Mancy Vice-President, for 1842. Count Le Hon, the Belgian Minister, left Paris yes terday, to be present at the opening of the Tubise and Mons railroad, a ceremony which is to bc.: honoured with the presence of the King and Queen of the Belgians.— The Belgian Embassy was brilliantly illuminated on Thursday evening, in honour of the birth-day of King Leopold. Admiral Jubelin, late Governor of G-uadaloupe, has been named a member of the Commission, of which the Duke de Broglie is President, to inquire into the slavery system and the political condition of the French colonies. A correspondent of the Sud writes from Beyrout that the Maronite Patriarch has taken refuge on board an English ship of war, and intends to proceed to Malta. The Sad states that the Sultan was lately insulted while going to a mosque in Constantinople to perform his devotions. A fanatic in the crc.wd called him a giaour, for the reforms which he patronised in the Em- Vire. The man was immediately arrested, and severely punished. A letter from Constantinople represents the first wife of the Sultan to be dangerously ill, tae physicians having announced her to be in an advanced. state of pulmonary consumptio n . T. • It is stated, in a letter from Rome, that, as soon as the railway of Castellamare shall be finished, the King of Naples will make another, which will extend to the frontiers of the Roman States, near Terracine, and, that a railway will be made from Leghorn by the Tuscan Government, through the Maremme, to the frontier. A letter from Vienna, in the Swabian Mercury, states that the creditors of the house of Greymuller who hold bills will receive a dividend of 50 per cent., but that there will be no dividend upon book debts. M. Dupont, stn inhabita n t of Verviers (Belgium), died there on the 12th inst., aged 102. He retained all his faculties to the last moments, told, until within a few his death, passed much of his time in playing on the daysof violin. During the last harvest at Diever, province of Drenthe, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1841. in Holland, a plant of rye was cut with 42 stalks, 6 feet high each, having a ripened ear, containing 100 grains upon the average, so that the produce of the seed from which they sprung was 4,200 fold. ‘We learn from Berlin that as the Prince of Prussia was, on the 7th inst., returning from an inspection of the barracks of the Cuirassiers of the Guard, attended by Colone; de Stockhausen, the horses ran away with his carriage, drove it against the town-wall, broke the pole, and threw the coachman from his box. At the moment the horses were checked by the shock, the Frince and the Colonel jumped from the carriage, and received no in jury, but the coachman, being entangled in the reins, could not be released In time before the frightened ani mals got away again, dragging him with them. He was much hurt, but is not in danger of his life. BOURSE—PARIs, SATURDAY, DEC. 18. k irst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric. Price. French 6 per Cent! , ...... ..... 116 40 116 40 ... 116 , 0 ... 116 40 4 per Cents lOO Pi ... 1 0 90 ... 100 90 ... 100 1)0 3 per Cents. es div 75 25 78 30 ... :8 20 ... 78 2U 'tank of erance Laffitte tank I,ooof. Shares li 41 .. 11,40 ...If4o _lO4O 5,01.111 f. Stares 1,060 ...5060 ...t065 ...5060 uPlelan sank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cant:., 1840 102% ... 10276 ... 102% ... 11,2% .o.tiish Active 24 -. ... •34L ... •244 ... >4 4 Portuguese 5 per Cents. • , capulitsn, ea div. ri.....¢1a11..... 10 2% ... 102% ... 102% ... 102% RAILWAY SHARES . St. Germain 772 50 ... 772 50 ... 771 50 ... 779 50 V ern, !Its. L.n 197 Su .. 197 50 ... 197 50 .. 197 50 If. B ........... touch .......... .......... Urbrana .. Stramngtoßale.shares red 225 . 225 ... 2‘M 75 ... 223 75 CRAIG VERSUS FENN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--4 thank you for inserting my letter in your print of this evening, and in answer to the editorial note which you have appended to it, have much pleasure in reciprocating courtesy by affording the information you require. The letters of Mr. Davis (the surgeon referred to by the proposal, and examined for the plaintiffs on the trial) were dated March, 1836, and de scribed Mr. Talbot's habits as having been form erly intemperate; and that his face bore the marks of irregular habit, but added that he had. reformed, and was at that period perfectly mode rate, and temperate, and of sound constitution. In August, 1837, the policy was granted; and an -extra premium charged in respect of deteriora tion by the before-mentioned intemperance, (as no man can repeatedly indulge in excess with perfect impunity), the substance of Mr. Davis's_ letters being WARRANTED by the plaintiffs. The very considerable interval of supposed good con duct, induced the office to effect the insurance; it being their uniform practice to wholly reject all cases of continuous intemperance, as leading to results not to be predicted by medical acumen, nor estimated by any observations, however ex tensive. The Directors having subsequently learned that Mr. Talbot had not reformed, tend ered back the premium within three months, and forthwith filed a bill in Equity to raise the ques tion on merits during Mr. Talbot's life-time—nay, on the present record they put the single issue on their ability to prove INtemperance, by plead ing that fact with what is called verification— thereby taking the onus probandi on themselves, and, consequently, relievinc , the plaintiffs from any proof whatever. The latter, however, de clined the offer in open Court, merely fbr the sake of beginning and ending with speeches from their own counsel. The verdict you know was for the defendant.—Your obedient servant. GEORGE FARREN. 70, Cornhill, Dec. 18, 1841. [The above explanation is quite satisfactory.— En. Sun.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 18.—We have had a very quiet COtton Market to-day, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales, of which 410 have been taken for exportation. Nothing doing by speculators. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 18.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise —East ern Counties, 8i; Ditto, Debentures, 101; Great West ern Fifths, 94; London and Brighton, 39; North Mid land Thirds, 17 ; York and North Midland New; 31. All the vessels that have been wind-bound at Liver pool got under weigh on Saturday and yesterday. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 18.—Rail way Stock is in good demand, and prices generally are well maintained. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 43i; Lon don and South Western, 571 ; Manchester and Leeds, 64 to 66; North Midland, 724 to 734; Midland Counties, 841 . to 85. _ 'here are but few arrivals do- day. Cape of Good Hope papers to the 14th October have been received. The paper of the 13th states that at a meeting of the Legislative Council, his Excellency the Governor made several statements respecting the revenue, which induce us to hope that the finances of this colony will shortly be submitted to revision. - The prospects or the wine farmers continued very gloomy. The Hamburgh mail due on Friday, and the one due this morning have arrived. Exchange comes lower, the quotation being 13 5. Gold, 248, same as before, THE FUNDS. Both the English and Foreign Securities opened with out any variation from the closing prices of Saturday. Consols are 89k for the Account ; Three per Cents. Re duced, 89+ ,i. ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 23k 3; Passive, 51 i; Deferred, 113 12 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 32f 33; Ditto Three per Cents., 19-1- 20; Brazilian Bonds, 63 6,5 ; and Mexi can, 26k. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Great Western ... 65 ...... 84* to Ditto Fifths - Gosport Junction Loudon and Brighton 5O ...... 384 to 3744 London and Birmingham .. ...... 90 .... .165 Ditto New...... London and Greenwich Ditto Scrip— .. ............ ... 64 London and South Western 384 5B to North Midland __... Ditto New Ditto Thirds - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia HALF-PAST ONE. There has been but little business doing in the Stoc'i Exchange up to the present time, and the quotations it the English Market are the same as a t th e opening. In the Foreign Market the only alteration to notice is a slight decline in Spanish. Active Stock is now 231 -;1 5 Passive, si; Portuguese Five per Cents., 32i ; Belgian Bonds, 101; Chilian Six per Cent. Bonds, 72k. The Share Market is rather flat. Great Western, 84.-I-; Ditto Fifths, 04 ; London and B r i g h ton 37i a; Lon don and Birmingham, New, 27 ; London and S ou th Western, 58; North Midland Nen', 36. COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTU- RAL MEETING.-(THISD A general meeting of the Eastern Coast of Central America Commercial and Agricultural Company took place this day at one o'clock, at the Jamaica Coffee house, St. Nicholas-alley, Coruhill, but we are unable to give any account of the proceedings, as one of our re porters was refused admission to the meeting by the Secretary, on the ground (as the Secretary stated) of the meeting being called on the private affairs of the Com mittee of Directors. When Parliament assembles on the 3d of February, it will meet no improved accounts of the state of the country. This week has added another to the list of great meetings to declare the advance of embar rassment, if not of ruin, among all classes in the manu facturing.districts. The whole West Riding of York shire has just made such a declartion. However tedious these reports may be in the detail, from their sameness and the triteness of the subject, as well as from their gloomy character, they merit the profoundest attention as emanating from such wide and important tracts of country. District after district, each comprehending great counties, has avowed itself unable to cope with the burden that oppresses it. If the reader were to take a blank map of the United Kingdom, and to colour:those parts which have thus spoken in one tint—say in the appropriate hue of black—he would find a large portion of the country clothed in the shade of trouble ; and that the most important and wealthy portion. It coin prises the iron district of Western Scotland, with Paisley and other trading places ; the iron district of Wales ; Liverpool and Manchester, and the districts belonging to them in Lancashire and North Cheshire ; the West Riding of Yorkshire ; Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, and their surrounding districts. The accounts from this wide region are all alike ; they represent such a state of things as, when it is permanent, is called the 'decay of nations—their retrograde condition. Now these repre sentations cannot b e neg l ecte d i n t h e ensuing Session. If they are denied, proof must be brought against the ac cumulated evidence in support of them. If they are ad mitted, it becomes those who make the admission to say, whether they pronounc e th e ev il to be hopeless, and dare openly to resign the e m pi re t o it s decline and fall, or whether it is to be remedied. In the last case, if they will not accept the remedies offered, they must produce other remedies of their own. No one will venture to think of prolonging paseive neglect.—Spectator. The Municipal Council of Troyes has voted from the funds of th e town 500,000. towards whichever t.f the two lines of railroad, Paris and Strasbourg, or Paris and Lyons, shall traverse its district. The Council General of the Department (the Aube) had previously voted 1,000,000 f. for the same purpose. The Minister of Finance has sent a reply to some representations made to him by the Chamber of Commerce of Strasbourg, on the subject of the railroad between Paris and that town, in 11 hich, he says, that he ardently wishes to see the line commenced without loss of time, and that the town of Strasbourg may rely on hi s eager ly seconding its views. The General St eam N av i ga ti on Company 's vessel the Giraffe, A. Stranack, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house yesterday, with the Dutch mail. Also the John Bull, from Hamburgh, with the Ham burgh mail. The Neptune, Whittinghain, from Ham burgh, arrived this morning, after a favourable passage of 53 hours, with the Hamburgh mail. BAD LAWS SHOULD BE RESISTED FOR THE SAKE OF THE LAW.—They vitiate all law and make it the okject of abhorrence. To secure obedience to the law it must first be made just. What reasonable being could hare the heart to inflict a punishment on a man for not obe) ing an unjust law ? StLv'ititAßV OF 5" - "-"" c o 4 AND Vutite Opttiton. " Who runs may read." POR.EIGN. Seven trib es on ' th e b an k s o f t h e T a f na have ma d e their sub m i ss i on 'to the French Regency at Algiers. The chiefs in alliance with France were everywhere defeating the adherents of Abd-el-Kader. Lieutenant Pelle had returned to Algiers on the 6th instant, from a razzia anon, the tribes of the East. The victorious Lieutenant reckoned among his spoils 800 sheep, and 1,800 head of cattle. In his wars with the disarmed and defenceless peasantry he had shot twenty Kabyles, thus covering the French name with immortal glory (?) We ask for the hundredth time, is not such a buccaneer ing mode of warfare as this a burning shame to France ? The Moniteur publishes a report to the King from the Minister of the Marine and the Colonies, dated the 15th inst., on the disasters occasioned by the overflowing of the Senegal, representing that all the places on each bank of the river had been so entirely flooded that the inhabitants were obliged to traverse the streets in boats ; that the current had thrown down several houses ; that the Government warehouses, as well as those of private individuals, were more than three feet under water; that the shops were all closed, commerce at a stand, the Courts unable to sit, and in fine, there had been a com plete stagnation of all business. The report concludes with a recommendation that the subsidy for Senegal, of 320,000 f., granted by the budget for 1842, should be in creased to 500,000 f. This proposition is approved by his Majesty, and the Report is tbliowed by a Royal Ordon nance granting the additional credit of 180,000 f. to the Minister of Marine and Colonies to meet the urgency stated. The Court of Peers in Thursday and Friday's secret Sitting pronOunced the guilt of Quenisset Boncheron, Colombier, Brazier, Petit, Jarrasse, Launois, Boggie, Mallet, Dufaur for the attempt, Quenissett as principal and the remainder as accomplices. A telegraphic dispatch in Saturday's Moniteur an nounces that M. de Salvandy and the persons composing the new French Embassy in Madrid, entered that capital on the morning of the 12th inst. The evening Moniteur states that they had been well received on the entire road. The Madrid Gazette, of the 11th inst., publishes an amnesty of the Regent for all private soldiers who took parkin the revolt of the 7th of October. The officers are excepted. PrivaCe accounts from Athens, dated 30th ult., state that France had at last consented to pay the million of francs demanded by the Greek Government. The Am bassadors of Austria and Russia are almost openly at war uith the present Greek Government, and vie with one another in their attention to Mavrocordato and his friends. PUBLIC OPINION. In a leading article suggested by the proceedings of the late Manchester Conference, the Chronicle m a k es th e following rem ar k s: —" W e regret to be obliged to ob serve that there is but too much foundation for the re semblance which has often been discovered of late between the aristocracy of France before the Revolution and the present aristocracy of England. The French aristocracy refused to pay their share of burdens to the State. The English aristocracy not only refuse to pay their share of burdens, but actually avail themselves of their power as Legislators to tax the industry of the country for their separate profit. At the revolution in 1688 nearly the whole of the public burdens were levied on land. Since that event, which gave the powers of Government to the great proprietors, the landowners have contrived to throw all the burdens off their own shoulders to those of the other classes."— There is a greater likeness between the French aristo cracy before the Revolution, and the present English aristocracy, than is to be found in the fact that both refused to pay their share of the burdens of the State. The English, equally with the old French, aristocracy, hold themselves haughtily aloof from the people ; en courage a special ignorance of their pursuits and feel ings ; refuse to assist them in their distress by sound remedial measures of legislation ; and even reject all ideas of sympathy with them. Can they wonder, then, that the people look on them with other feelings than thosesof respect and gratitude ? Rank is fast losing its false glitter in the eyes of the country at large ; and the time is approaching when an English nobleman must have other recommendations than those of a star or a coronet, if he would desire to maintain the respect of the people. The Post says :—" The opponents of the existing Ad ministration tauntingly demand of its supporters in the public press what are the projected measures of which we are illustrating the principles, or the necessity, or the tendency ? The answer to this is plain enough. The existing Government did not come into office under any pledges to any particular measures. They came into office in consequence of the House of Commons avowing, by a large majority, that it had no confidence in the late Ministry, and that it did not approve of the plans put forward by the late Ministry for raising the public revenue to an amount equal with the public expenditure."— We agree with the Post in these remarks. The Tories did not come into office from any merits of their own, but solely from the demerits of the Whigs. They did not come in " under any pledges to any particular mea sures," because no really serviceable measures were ex pected from them, except by those who are more san guine than sagacious. If, therefore, they give nothing —which is by no means unlikely—they will, at least, have the consolation of knowing that they have not dis appointed the public, for nothing was expected from them. The Times makes the following hap-hazard observations in reference to the recent great Manchester meeting : " Another Anti-Corn- law meeting has taken place, and Manchester, the great centre of the cotton trade, has been the scene of it. Again the items of distress have been minutely particularised, and again the pernicious attempt to excite the people against the laws and the Legislature has been renewed by their pretended and self-retained advocates. But the thermometer is mani festly falling. The atmosphere has been refreshed with a little truth from without, and the mercury of the League can no longer be kept at fever heat. The symptoms of cooling were very evident at this Convention, which was held on Thursday last in the Corn-Exchange•buildings, under the presidency of Mr. R. H. Greg, the late Member for the town. It had been announced that this meeting, the object of which was to receive com munications respecting the depressed state of the cotton trade, would consist of the principal merchants and manufacturers engaged in it, who were to attend as deputies from their respective districts in Lancashire, Cheshire, and elsewhere. But the at tendance was such as to evince far less the depressed state of the cotton trade - than of the cotton agitation."— If the Tories will not be convinced by the late great pub lic meetings in the manufacturing districts, that the trade of the country is in a state of ex t reme depression, and that it is hazardous much longer to protract the consi deration of a remedy, we know not by what facts or ar guments, or warnings or indications, it can be convinced. At Stockport, at Leeds, at Oldham, at Derby, at Paisley, at Manchester, and several other places that we could mention, the sentiments broached and the arguments advanced, would, one would thank, be quite obvious and significant enough to bring conviction home to the minds of even the most prejudiced. But none are so deaf as those who will not hear—none so blind as those who will not see ; and the Times, like many others of its party, has neither eyes nor ears, except for its own par ticular views of a question. The Herald, reverting to the sprightly question of the Corn-laws, remarks as follows Improved details in the Corn-law, so as to regulate the more easy supply of food in deficient seasons, to regain a part of the carry ing trade with South America and the West Indies, which we have of late years lost by our inability to sup ply those countries with flour, and to render grain a more important item in the commercial exchanges be tween this country and the rest of the world, are by no means incompatible, as we have frequently shown, with due protection to native agriculture. But any Corn-law, which assumes, as Lord John Russell's fixed duties did, that in ordinary years the United Kingdom is incapable of growing an adequate supply of corn for the consump tion of its inhabitants, will be founded on so fatal an error as to provoke the general hostility of all patriotic politicians. Believing that there is in these islands an increasing power of production the result in Great Britain of improved, and in Ireland of extended, culti vation —any law which aims at a large annual importa tion of foreign grain, and thereby at throwing domestic soil out of culture, or by preventing the development of the great resources—now in waste—of Ireland, will, we trust, meet with a very general and irresistible op position." In an article on the subject of the advantages that have accrued to the country from the Reform Bill, the Advertiser says :—" All that is intelligent and virtuous about Chartism may be said to arise from the agitation for Reform. The deep, earnest, and intense desire of the working men for the franchise was enkindled during the struggle with the boroughmongers. The principles they avow in the Charter (not perhaps the opinions) are but the legitimate consequences of the arguments that demolished the decayed boroughs of Sarurn and Gatton, and gave the franchise to the great metropolitan con stituencies. The torch of Chartist enthusiasm was lit at the altar of Whig Reform. It has been fearfully misapplied. With careful guidance, prudent energy, and close union the Chartists might now have pre sented a phalanx less powerf u l i n i ts num b ers t h an i n its moral weight and influence. Sincerely do we hope they may avoid their former errors, and would they but heartily coalesce with the middle classes in the struggle for commercial freedom, they would do more to secure a favourable consideration for their demands than by any other course."— The Chartists can never hope to become' a really influ ential body, except by abandoning some two or three of their, at present, impracticable opinions, and making common cause with the middle class:2s in their efforts to obtain such sound, serviceable Reforms as are really practicable. One Reform will be sure to pave the way for another—it is, in fact, to get the wedge in, - which may afterwards be driven home. In holding aloof from the middle classes, and sternly cleaving to every minute item in their political creed, the Chartists are beginning agitation at the wrong end. Alluding to Sir R. Peel's difficulty as regards Ireland, the Dublin Evening Post observes :—" Sir Robert Peel has enhanced this difficulty ten-fold by the appointments he has made or sanctioned, and by the wild way in which his officers have gone to work. We said repeatedly at the commencement of Lord De Grey's Lieutenancy, that though he might not receive cordial and earnest support from the Liberals—this, indeed, he could not expect— yet, that if his Government was conducted with common sense, he would not experience the opposition with which it is now beset." The Scotsman, after remarking that the reign of Castlereagh has come again, goes on to remark : " A good Government appeals to the people's sense of justice, a bad Govern►ne►►t to their fears. The Whigs showed how Ireland, with all its imputed turbulence, might be safely governed on the former principle, and some fondly hoped that the old system of insurrection. bills, and seditious-meetings-bills, and State prosecutions for libel, was gone for ever ; but Tory rulers have brought back Tory practices, and coercion is once more in the ascendant." The Devonport Independent contains the following observations, in an article on the operation of the Corn. laws :—" Fur the moment, the Corn•laws are deservedly the leading topic, for people are day by day perishing for lack of the food they would have but for the opera tion of those laws—enactments, in our deliberate and sober judgment, as tyrannous and impious as any to be found in the blackest codes of the misrulers of mankind. Egyptian bondage was light compared with English ser vitude." Speaking of the tactics .of the Puseyites, the Oxford Chronich says :—" We mentioned last week, upon the best authority, that Dr. Pusey had declared the success of Mr. Williams to be of " MORE IMPORTANCE THAM THE APPOINTMENT OF A CABINET MINISTER ;" and it appears, from their movements, that the party generally concur in this estimate of the importance of the struggle to them : they are straining every nerve for victory. with as little scruple, as to the means, as any Committee of mere secular men anxious to carry their candidate at a borough election." The Cambrian observes :—" Hundreols are starving, thousands are thrown out of employment, and thousands are forced to accept of wages which barely keep body and soul together, and which, after all, there is reason to fear, can only be paid out of the decreasing capital of the masters. The literally total stagnation of the iret trade, coupled with the simultaneous extinction of their forges by the English, Scotch, and Welsh miners, must throw countless multitudes upon the poor -rates in the course of the winter." The Blackburne Gazette remarks, in an article on the present distressed state of the country--" It will end— lt can only end—unless immediately arrested—in the de struction of the trade of the country, the utter demorali zation of the labouring population, and the consequent demolition of the fabric of social order." PILONMY—Truu) —coramErzca. The commerce of Trieste has been progressively in creasing up to July 15, 1840. In 1839 it amounted to 9,500,000 f., and in 1840 reached 12 ,000,0002, but since that period has decreased. On January 1, to4o, tt,w dif ferent ports of Greece possessed 2,354 vessels under thirty tons, and 886 above that burthen. She reckoned 18,668 sailors in employ, and 15,891 unemployed. A gentleman at Bristol. highly connected, and holding a high situation in the Custom-house, is alleged to have absconded, having committed forgeries to the amount of about 8,0001. or 9,000/. About 7,5001. of forged accept ances have been already ascertained, one or two of which it is said are held by the branch of the Bank of England. ECCLMS3ASTICAL. A French Paper states on authority that the Sultan has refused to allow a Protestant Church to be erected at Jerusalem. The English Bishop, therefore, on his a-ri val, will be absolutely unable to present to the inhabit ants of the country a celebration of his worship. Galig nani doubts the statement. A " Chartist Clergyman" asks whether he may not, when Parliament meets, omit • the prayer for the High Court of Parliament when he reads the Liturgy, as cler gymen at their option omit .the offertory and prayer for the Church militant, and as he fancies David's Psalms very deficient in politital allusions, why may he not in troduce a selection of Corn-law and Chartist hymns? PUBLIC XIVIPBOVEMENTS. The Coventry family have refused to surrender the ground in the Green Park, opposite Coventry House, which was to form part of the new improvements, they having it on a lease for sixty years, granted to them by George IV., at a ground -rent of thirty-six pounds. STATISTICS. The number of foreigners who have been sent out of Belgium, or who have been prohibited from entering the kingdom during the first eleven months of the year 1841, amount to 1,350. NAVAL, AND MILITAIZT. The gentlemen cadets underwent their half-yearly examination, previous to the Christmas vacation, before Lord Blomfield and the officers of the Ordnance corps on Saturday last. The Master-General will, in a day or two, report the names of those entitled to commissions. LAW AND POLICE. George Haley, a middle-aged respectable man, was this morning fully committed at Marlborough -street for stealing publicans pots. He has five times before been convicted of the same offence, and had been but a short period before released upon his last committal. It is invariably observed that on approach of the in tensely cold weather, the number of charges for drun kenness at the Police Courts of the metropolis invari ably increases. No less than twenty-three cases of this description were brought to Marlborough -street Police Court this morning. C OtTECT-FAS NX NA ES LE. Sir R. Peel leaves town to-morrow, or on the following day, for Drayton Manor. The French Ambassador and suite intend to pass Christmas day at the Marquis of Lansdowne's. Colonel Peel, M.P., the Surveyor-General of the Ord nance, has taken Lord Berwick's house in the Stable yard, St. James's for a term of years. The house is now undergoing repairs, with a view to its occupation early in February. Viscount and - Viscountess Palmerston left Carlton House-terrace, on Saturday last, for Broadlands. Lord and Lady John Russell have gone to Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford. Lord Stanley leaves St. James's-square on Wednes day next, for Knowsley. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers leave Mivart's Ho tel to-day for Drayton Manor. The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness are expected at Woburn Abbey on Wednesday. The Duke of Buckingham has left Buckingham House for Stowe, Bucks. Earl Spencer arrived at Althorpe Hall, Northampton shire, on Wednesday last, from Spencer House. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Saturday, from Windsor Castle. PINE AMTS. A beautiful statue of Northcote, the artist, executed by Sir F. Chantrey, according to the Western Times, is placed by the Dean anti Chapter of Exeter Cathedral in such a position as completely to hide its beauties from view. LITZRARY AND SCZENTIVIC. The house No. 5, Craig's Court, is being fitted up for the Museum of Economic Geology, to be under the direction of Mr. Delabeche, the Government Geologist, and Mr. R. Phillips. No. 6, the adjoining house, is to be the depository of mining records. A. letter from Brussels, of the 18th inst.. states that a splendid painting by Rnbens 'has just been discovered. The subject is the battle of the Amazons, of which there is a finished sketch in the Gallery of Munich, which is well kno wn t o conno i sseurs b y t h e engravings. This newly-discovered painting is said to be one of the most highly finished and the most powerfully coloured of that great master. It is in the possession of M. La amens, a rich amateur of Antwerp. THEATRICAL. Monsieur Perlet, so great a favourite in London a few years since, has been engaged by Mr. Mitchell to com mence the season of French plays at the St. Jame-es Theatre. Many of Moliere's finest comedies will be given before Easter. Plessy, Dejazet, and Bouffe, ap pear at the conclusion of M. Perlet's engagement. Private theatricals have been performed during the last week at Woburn Abb ey , i n w hi c h most of th distin guished guests took a part. Mr. Lumley has re-.engaged the celebrated artistes of the last season at the Queen's Theatre, except Signor Tamburini, who holds out for the same terms he received under the late Mr. Laporte. Carlotta Grisi, cousin to the cantatrice, and her care s p osa P errot, will lead the ballet at least before Easter. SPOETING. Prince Albert hunted with the Royal stag-hounds on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday last. The stag on. the last day, after an hour and a half's run, took refuge in the chimney corner of the kitchen at the Rose and Crown, about a mile and a half. from Sandhurst College. To-day the Prince hunts at Stoke Common, and on Thursday with the hounds in Surrey. Lady Gardner's coursing establishment at Kinmel has been broken up in consequence of the late calamitous fire ; the greyhounds are to be sold this week. Ballinkeele, the famous Derby racer, has been sold by Mr. Maher for 2,000 guineas to Mr. Dixon, of Knights bridge. 211ISCEILLANEOuS. On Friday evening last, owing to the collision of the down -train from London with another engine on the Croydon railway, three or four railway labourers, and four or five passengers were severely injured. At Hatfield, the Marquis of Salisbury's seat, which her Majesty is expected to visit in the spring-time, there still exists the oak-tree under which the Princess Eliza beth sat when the messengers from London came to re ' move her from a species of prison to a Throne. At Malta, illuminations in the public streets . of Va letta, the naval and military offices of Government, and the ships of war in the harbour, celebrated the birth of the Prince of Wales : the people are stated to have shown but faint demonstrations of joy. To-morrow will be the shortest day. The winter of 1564-5 was remarkable for a very severe frost, which began on the 21st of December, and, according to Hol lingshed, " some plaied at football on the river as boldly as if it had been on the drie land ; diverse of the Court being then at Westminster, shot daily at targets set upon the Thames; and the people, both men and iwomen, went on the Tha mes i n greater num b ers t h an in anie street of the Citio of London." A man named James Fryer. one of the workmen em ployed at the new glasshouse, Mexborough, near Don caster, has manufactured a glass coffin, which he has bequeathed to his cousin, who holds a situation in Guy's Hospital, London, for his own body to be inclosed in when he dies, so that his cousin will see if he rots any faster than if he was coffined in lead. The coffin is made of cleaE glass, quarter of an inch thick , six feet two inches ong, 21 inches across the bosom, and 15 inches deep. He has ornamented it with blue glass death's head and cross bones on the side, and his name is inscribed on the lid. numoun or TI:IE DAT. A report has been current during the week that Sir Walter James is about to be called to the Upper House. THE DEPOPULATION SYSTEM IN IRELAND. —During the last ten years, as appears front the result of the Census, the decrease in the population of Ireland has been 527,590! The three sons of General Raindre, of the Ar tillery, have all served in Africa, and have become vic tims to their duty. The eldest lost a leg at the siege of Constantina ; the second was killed before Blidah, towards the end of 1839, and the youngest died lately in the hos pital of a disease caught in the last campaign. Neither of them had attained more than their thirtieth year, and each had reached the rank of Captain. EVENING SUN !LA W TE LLI G-ENCE• CHANCERY COURT.—(TrA DA Y ' ) The LORD. CHANCELLOR ICErNlTil ga .—Y eTLl DG dg i rn i rntiO''daY in this case, which was argued Wore the Court a short since. His Lordship said that the question in the ca se related to the construct i on of the will of a p er son tlara e Roderick Wynne. B y t h at will the testator direllte-d" c i first, that his d e bt s s h ou ld b e paid, and he then de-4',e his real estate to his d aug h ter for life, with the rollJader to her first and other s ow , and with remainders over. He afterwards gave some legacies, and then ‘ he b e • - • queathed his personal estate, after subjecting i itt the payment of hi s d e b t ; to his daughter ; asla question for the consideration of the Court in that sr; of circumstance s was , w h ether the will constitute d charge upon the real estate for theap ne nt of deb ts ' Now, there could be no d ou b t t h at the first direction v the will amounted to a chine for the payment of debt s upon the re a l e s t a t e ; b ut i t was sa i d that that w as charge merely by implication, and that it might be reb u t s ted, if there app eare d anyt hi ng i n the will to show dist: 1 ..1 was not the int en ti on o f t h e testator to charge the re,7,, estate. In the case o f Th omas v. B rechner, decided gel Sir John Strang e w h en M aster of t h e Rolls, it was that a similar p rov i s i on did not re b ut the implicaticTy and in more modern times, as the case of Dowse r• L• Torrington, and Palmer v. Grave, the same doctriae ;i e - d held. Now, i n t h e present case, what was there reithe upon for the purp ose o f repe lli ng t h e i mplication? It "here last clause with respect to the personal e s t a t e but t he a testator bequeath e d hi s persona l estate subject- the payment of d e b ts t h at i s not inconsistent Withhthh e general charge, b u t i n accor d ance w i th it an d with c general law. His Lordship thought, therefore, that s n , i , a disposition m a d e at suc h a t i me could not b e C0% 5 dered as rebutti ng t h e i mp li cat i on ; but then it the . said there wer e no s i m il ar wor d s with respect to v' personal estate ; hi s L or d s hi p t h ought that c i rcu mstanc e too slight to justify him in defeating the general rila r l and his opinion, th ere f ore , w as t h at t h ere was a ge nera „. charge created by th e fi rst di rect i on, and that that byi, neral charge w as no t repe ll e d b y any subsequen t Prn sion contained in the instrument. Fola THE ATTORNEY-GENE RAL V . THE EARL OF STAN- e. The arguments in this part-heard case were the n is sumed, Mr. Jam...-11,...-,11 P-34-I..”6pie 0. wrethe reil behalf of the trustees. rm. =ear» 1 cientieman had not concluded his argil ments when we went to press... ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS LANGTON AND ANOTHER v. HORTON AND BIEN.- This case, which was partly-heard a short time S I P' and then noticed in The Sun, was resumed this inortga but, as there was no p ro b a bili ty o f i ts b e i ng ce",l e t • e p to-day, it was arran ge d th a t t h e case o f t he plain. l ti n should be concluded, and the suit then stand over !), Hillary term next. •" The suit was instituted by the plaintiffs, who claimas mortgagees of one m o i et y o f a w h a li ng vessel c r a ton "i* the Ann, and of her car go , aga i nst t h e d e f en d a nt - 0 - ° " zbe i who claimed an absolute interest in both, but who sad alleged to he only a prior mortgagee of this moieti: n k o r to have no interest in the cargo. It appeared that ho to the year 1837, the defendant Birnie, was the owner of one moiety of the ship f which was th en engaged in a whaling n a il', had had extensi ve d ea li ngs w ith t h e d e f en d a nt Pet,"o rsse and in that year appli e d t o hi m f or ass i s t ance , i° ide' eeptance of bills to th e ex t en t o f 4, 200 1 , an d i n cons' th i s Lion of this made over to Horton, by bill f' s ale ' o f moiety of the vessel, and deposited with him a polio ° surance thereon. These bills were from time to time d ra w n ed five times, the last bills being, by arrangemen t . ' ll l ' 4* by Horton, and accepted by Birnie. Before the last or became due Birnie became embarrassed in his eirecre stances, and was.obliged t o com p rom i se with his then ditors, and llorton acqu i esce d in, the arrangeni en- o jetr made, but claimed t o b e a b so l ute owner of one -111 4 er, of the Ann, and of th e ent i re cargo , w hich, 11 ° v- w og had been previously mortgaged to the plaintiff's, .detis with Birnie, alleged that he was only e vess el, to a mortage on the moiety of the way. which was redeemable in the ordinary va le- In the meanti me th e ship having arrived wit h ° et able cargo, H or t on took possession and sold hi s 11 :„poa • in the vessel and the cargo, and kept the amoi" l " ,i t hat • which the plaintiffs filed a bill for relief; and pr 3 Y, e b , the an account might be taken of the money receive" ,„ I. iallt defendants on account of the sale, be declared to be a mortgagee only. „WI Mr. Pemberton, Mr. Rolt, and Mr. Hall reP i r e s — ril edi and that Hort °ll— plaintiffs, and Mr. Turner and another J.° Gentleman the defendants. TA VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS - 1 "; ) (Before the V ICE -C HANCELL O R O f ENGLAS -.. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. LANGTON . ' , Attot' This was an information fil e d by h er Majesq nrc has e ney-General, for the purpos e o f se tti ng a side s io r, g ing t t ° made by the defendant of certain tenements b e ..,•derati °4 a charity, on the ground of an inadequate cc l°- having been given for them. le leng tij '' After the case had been argued at consider we! 'e the Counsel for the defendant intimated that t i l' o f tl 0 1 ready to give up possession and to pay the costs t h ; suit. The Court accordingly made a decree I ° effect. t (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE,) COCKBURN v. SINGLETON. The further arguments in this cause were res o P - p 0 this morning, and were no t conc l u d e d w h en we /1 " • to press. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) MONTRIO V. CARVICK. His HoNouß wa's engaged in his private room ": 0 in the greater part of the day in hearing the argoer" t wei this case, which came before the Court on oc c l i by order. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS N ,Sittings at Nisi P r i us , b e f ore Lord -10N31-4. , Mr. THESSZG Special Jury.) a p t e d A ND O THERS e eascase. V. ;1111. SeCdtiOt TY: iv brought to recover damages for the 'Om' s t a ls a l t 3 a . the barque Vesper, of which the plaintiffl waa "f: Januaryt e river last. It I h t alfa the brig Argus having come into collision wi t ' :8 appeared mile from laden Sunderlandwith London,some crate s a tir he turn ' on the day in question off Gravesend, and ats lying at the tide orders were given to heave up the no", -- i i proceed up the river to London. The Cap 0'7.. come come on board from Gravesend, and the loch" upon her, and there being no sail set, the act of being heaved up, the vessel havite,2ll - r ui g :t Ci th rav e lersend, on th 17, is l which' was standing up the river on her starboarl a iled came down upon her. She was repeatedlY 0 by Captain Shepherd and some of the cr o c o ltr • square her yards and put her helm down, in dial; to avoid the accident, b u t th ey di s regards , - ,y and her bowsp r it go t entang l e d i n the rig',Zhor the Vesper, and o ne o f th e fl u kes of th e a ‘ i iven rhieh was at that time about the wake level, v/ 35 # into her side, and she filled rapidly. Af te r sow delay f• • the vessels we re se p ara t e d. The Vesper bei e ga - a • sinking state, she was run ashore near Gravesee",b r-• all attempts to raise her proved ineffectual, and s lie r° fe, came a total wreck. He would call witnesses to 1 :6 4 : 10' the manner in which the accident occurred, and it t, w-- be shown that the crew of the csper wer net a" fault, and that they could have done nothing t° r ' 6: the collision. He w ou ld p r ov e the value of th e ' e s .b and cargo, and it w ou ld be for the Jury to sar damages the plaintiffs were entitled to under these cumstances. .4 James Hutchinson, mate of the Vesper-1 r, c „ °-1 : the 28th January last. We were at a nchor off end. Our vessel was laden with coals and some e c t et of glass, bound from Newcastle to London. h e to the windlass, and hov e th e anc h or short. Th e ;- the tain then came aboard, and ordered us to he ie; ' - anchor up. The tide was runnin ► u and the Ve g. ? J. head was down. When the anchor was off tile grc , 0 the vessel was drifting up with the tide. It w ' ;or that time the brig Argus bore down upon us. Th e th 6 tain was on th e quarter -deck at the helm, an d hail ed ► to people on board the Argus. He called out tot• 0 1, ~ ,ef square their main-yard and put their helm dow p * did not notice him, and he hailed them again• told him to starbo ar d hi s h e l m , and they won Al j -Pi t s • clear. Captain Sh e ph er d sa id the barque w' i log in the wat er , an d wou ld no t ob e y her h e k i r."' ho fore-topmast back stay caught the Vespers ..1u nce to " and the Argus swung alongside. The conic:e n( that the anchor was driven into the Vesper's sid, u p v le' 11 the shank ; there was only five inches water to t before the accident. I called to the master of the Ail to let go his anchor and get the ships clear. No did not do so till he was spoken to 7 sel or three times, and till he was told that the 1 ": e ' qt was sinking. The fluke of the anchor went in sib ere seven feet below the water line. In five minutes ea 03e. was three and a half feet water in the well. W r , e ,. 1 , 1 sre all sail, and ran the vessel on the south shore. ria" Ic y odr woul d ia v aen dd h o a B :T he e e ov go te n hn e i todown to np- r eb ( i l l e e p h , e t e b_ d „ vo o n her eam" e ' o ' h e s p e re so r n o s 0 1 u h e t the a cat dent. . The Alarms ,shad plenty of room to have ~a before she ran into us. Cross. examined--W e had heaved hor Shor t be' the anc waif ae ly fore the master cam e on b oar d . R e to ld us min L . 4 to heave the anchor, and the Captain went aft te 0 quarter-deck, and put the helm a ort. While we wet „, at the windlass the Argus *ll * t tot struck us, and we nu a si des;,fe fear of some accident. There were ' eight: lea be myself._ The Captain begged them two or Wei 3 ti,„ 01 ,1" to let go their anchor before the Argus ran into IL'. Captain called out to him to squre his main-yard and p iii his helthedw m own. Mat Read—l am a Gravesend pilot. On , the =MI" 1 of Janua r y I ' was on b oar d t h e sloop John AL'Adalk., m which was in tow of a steam tug. It was, witti l ; 4 o4 hundred aairds of the vessels whin the accident 0 ea,...„, tarred. Th e vesse l s h a d swung with the tide abo ut half ' an hour. I saw the barqueVesper and the brig reaching t . f ". the northward. I said at the time the bri,,e- would hi'''. the barque if he did not heave his yards a back, or ; the helm down. The brig was on the starboard tal l I heard them call out from the ba rk. If tq'' barque had heaved her fore and aback, or put her helm down and tacked short he might going live ii a ur or . avoided the collision. The Argus was knots a hor Had the anchor been dropped it a not have gon u e . into the vessel, but I suppose their atteey.),,•. tion was taken up by the vessel bearing d o wn o n them bo e ,, , ,, P l Cross-examined—l thought the Argus bid to hit", i • barque from the course she was going in. I don't tl id c the vessel altered her position further t han that the , drifted her up when her anchor was up. It is often usustil/, to get a ship under weigh without a n y sail being upon her. —(' ;$l, Win. NeSlingham was chief mate of the jai. , , cutter, in January last, I was on board the Vesper !,t.,_ie few minutes before the accident occurred. I was o e quarter deck with the captain. The Argus was Sta n' MI ■ (i k H A tip 4l Pas ti 4 (1 4 * 4 c3ll • i 1