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OTIC _EA. " THE CHINA SUN," Jug ready, 3 vols., post Bvo., SCHOOLFELLOWS; or, A BY-WAY TO FAME. By RICHARD JOHNS, Esq. Author of " Legend and Romance, African and European." Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. ril II _ E THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. NDER the MANAGEMENT of.M ADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 14. Will be repeated £hakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug. Mr. F. Matthews ' • Herrnia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Ob eron , Madame di Ve, is ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Mi ss M ars hall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTF,ANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND TIM' GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C, J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Movetli; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Merry Wires of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. Ou Sa!urday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to c inmence at Seven o'Clock. Tilkets and places for the Boxez to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets 154) tie had upon application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second ( 59. ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 33. ; Second Price. ; Gallery, Is. Private Boat, to be had so'ely of Mr. And: errs, bookseller 167. Now Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. n iumphant Success—lmmense Novelty—Crowded Houses— Second Night Of Ainsworth's Tower of London. THIS EVENING, JAN. 14, • Wlll be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on twd _.. THE TOWER OF LONDON. Thee Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrated George Cruiksbanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, ed H entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELLBOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Fatuity; Mr. Southby, the Original Clo.vn; Miss Sharpe, Columbine and the astonishing Gyienastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran_ coati's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Gland! Diorarnic Synopsis of Syria. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. NOVEL AND UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION. Arrival in England of M. LAROCHE and M. NOEL, sur named by their own countrymen The Incredibles of Paris. The LESSEE begs respectfully to inform his numerous Friends and the Public that he has, at considerable expense, en tered into an engarzement with the above talented and Wonder ful Artiste•, who will exhibit their truly astonishing Perfor man 'Pi, for the fist time in England, on MONDAY NEXT, e Itl.h January, when will also be performed Mr. Haines' hiAly successfu► Drama, entitled the YEW TREE RUINS, or the WRECK, the MISER, and the MURDERER. The hole to conclude with the New Grand Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JACK of NEWBERRY, or " BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP," and the OLD WOMANofBERKELEY. Mr. Haines' New Drama, and the Pantomime, every Even ing :ill further notice. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The extract sent u as from Mr. Rudall's pamphlet is an extract from Mr. Baines' " History of the Cotton Alenufactory," quoted by Mr. Rudall. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS )AY. M. rimig sniwutes after G 'Evening 45 minutes after G (1 04 - f.:). , . e : •--- eits, fr ~ .., rZfn )ill-x+ LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. 11-41. We are glad to see by the Walsall Letter-Bag that spirited addresses are pouring in on the Wal sall electors from all parts of the kingdom. They cannot be dial to the prayers of their suffering countrymen. They must feel that they have a great duty to perform, and so feeling we are persuaded that they will perform it nobly. 'When did a body of Englishmen fail to do their duty ? They hare conquered on the ocean, they hare carried their victorious arms to the very heart of Asia, and their still more victorious arts, founding new empires, to the very opposite extremities of the globe. They will not conquer abroad to be slaves at home. Their avaricious, selfish tyrants, who would remorselessly destroy the country's greatness and the people's liberty for their own purposes, are now divided amongst themselves, and freedom will be won—the freedom of industry, the freedom of eating untaxed bread—by success at Walsall. The hardy race who have conquered the elements, and made wind and fire their hand maids, will not quail before an iniquito us b rea d. taxer. They will be victorious over him as they arc over the stubborn metal which they may be said to fashion into bread. On the electors of Walsall the fate of the bread tax flaw depends. They have it in their power to crush it. Let them at once signify to the gentle man bread-taxer who is a candidate, that they will not have him ; let them drive Mr. GLADSTON E from the field, hopeless of success ; let them at once convince him that to go to the poll would only add disgrace to his expense ; and they will, by the tame act, convince all the landlords of the empire, already wavering, that the bread-tax must be, and t h en it will be, abolished. Men of Walsall, lose not the opportunity of acquiring great renown ! Yesterday the Times made a grand discovery, 'or rather two discoveries, that this nation is Conserva tive, and does not trouble itself about theoriTs of Government. As a consequence, it is proud t.) fol low its national leaders. Unfortunately far th e reputation of our Contemporary the great hr of the people have at this moment thrown uff ay res pect for their natural leaders ; they Lave fraaned for themselves a new Constitution, and they aim at a revolution. The wonderful discovery of the Zimes comes half a century too late. It speaks historically. What it now says might have been true fifty years ago ; but the subsequent long domination of the Tories, pretending to rule in spite of the people, denying all Reform„ and supporting a mixed CASTLEREAGII despotism, made up of military principles disguised in civil form—an armed soldier without regimentals—has put an end to real Conservatism and contentedness, MORN ING , 1-O,DfrIONEI Which was RE-PUBLISHED on WEDNES DAY LAST, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. IN PROGRESS, THE RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Railways. 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It is at the same time true, and the fact is worthy of attention, that many of the middle classes, satisfied with their recently-acquired share of the representation, fearing that they will lose in importance by the suffrage being more exten sively diffused, and not a little alarmed by the progress, and still more by the demands, of the bulk of the people, have become Tories. Even many of those who still support the Whigs out of gratitude, are in their hearts so much Tories, that they would at once forsake the Whigs were they to propose further concessions to the democracy. Of that we daily see proofs. If that be what the Times means by the increase of Conservatism, we admit it ; but we cannot believe that it is a circarn stance favourable to the stability of the Con- stitution. The Liberal Members of the middle classes were the links which connected the aristocracy with the working classes. As long as the latter could hope for the assistance of the middle classes, they looked to them for aid. As the middle classes deserted their Liberal principles and turned Tories, the people separated from them, and the rupture between the upper and lower classes became com plete. Such a statement may be gratifying to the Tories, but it threatens mischief to the community. The Whigs are unable, even if they be willing, to take any measures to satisfy the bulk of the people ; the Tories would only put an extinguisher on all hope, and could only take measures to exas perate and control the working classes. From neither class of statesmen, while the electoral body continues of its present opinion, can the community expect measures calculated to heal our present divisions. This forebodes no pleasant futurity, and is more a matter of sorrow than exultation. We have before asked, and we should like to have the question answered, if the people are not to be contented, how are they to be governed ? The utmost amount of constraint and coercion which can be conveniently is already employed. More troops and more police would only more impoverish and aggravate the evils: Ireland is speaking with a voice of her own. If the Irish be not convinced that the Imperial Legislature is disposed to do them justice —if it go on countenancing Lord STANLEY'S political bigotry—they will become almost unanimous in demanding repeal, and some circumstance will give them so much power that they must either be put down by the sword or repeal must be granted. The Chartists are increasing in order and organiza tion. We know nothing of their numbers, but we believe that they are far from contemptible. To keep the millions out of the pale of the Constitution will be as impossible for any length of time as it was perpetually to exclude the Catholics. The latter were excluded on account of their religion ; the former are now excluded on account of their poverty—a less valid reason, for Christianity praises poverty and denounces wealth. The millions, then, have greater claims than had the Catholics, and nothing is re quired but organization and leaders to make them irresistible. The middle classes, to the satisfaction of the Tories, have deserted them, but leaders of their own class they will easily find, and, thus cu t off from all sympathy with the upper classes, the quarrel will only be the more embittered if not the more deadly. The Times exults at the people being opposed to perpetual change. If the fact were so, its exultation would be misplaced. Compare Eng land with Italy in the reign of CHARLES the FIRST, and compare the two now, and it is apparent that the English Constitution has under gone as great a change in spirit, if not in form, as the community has made progress in arts and knowledge. The monarch now holds only a nomi nal power—then he was almost despotic ; the no bility have equally sunk in the scale ; they are out shone in wealth by the middle classes, with whom they have been obliged to share their power. Dissent is almost as powerful as the prelacy, which, in the days of the first CHARLES, was al most equal to the Sovereign. It is good that the Constitution has so changed. If it had been sta tionary, as the Times represents it, while the society had made such prodigious progress, it would have become wholly unfit for our purposes, and some re volution would before now have shattered it to atoms. Since the commencement of this cen- tury, society has made a more rapid progress than ever before. It moves, like population, with an accelerating ratio. Our numerous colonies and our trade places it beyond the control of Government. If our institutions, therefore, be not changed to cor respond with social progress, they will every day become more and more onerous, more and more hampering, till they be burst by a convulsion. This is what the Tories, by measures of coercion, seem anxious to bring about. They seem to court a revolution, as a homage to their wisdom, because they have predicted it. They may have the power to realize their prophecy, but it will be ruin to themselves. Having pointed out the source of the conflict of opinion now prevalent between the upper and lower classes, in respect to their claims to make laws for one another, we shall now, and occasionally hereafter, notice some of the consequences and in ferences to which that difference of opinion leads. The lower classes, for example, in claiming a full share of representation, seem to have one great advantage over property. They have not been tried and found wanting. Property has been entrusted with the power of legislation, and whatever it may have done for itself, it is the universal opinion of labour that property has cheated and degraded it. There is no chance, therefore, of ever again inducing labour to submit to the exclusive claims of property, while labour, never having been tried, can call fancy to its aid, and make promises of bliss which no experience can test. It has indeed broken loose at times from the restraints imposed by property, and has then worked terrible destruction, but it has never been quietly and orderly installed into the office of a law maker, and has, therefore, never been tried. Perhaps the United States may be considered an exception to the remark ; and if it be, experience can have nothing to say against entrust ing industry with the power of making laws. On one point it has, we think, a decided supe riority over property. Property never yet has had any respect for industry. In fact it may be said of property generally throughout E urope, that it ex. ists by a violation of the rights of industry, and has therefore a continual tendency to preserve and maintain itself at the expense of industry. On th e contrary, industry has a great, a marked, and an inherent respect for property. It aspires to pos sess property. There is in this circumstance a strong reason to believe, were ithe power industry, o e rof makin g equally with p r op er ty, entrusted with laws, industry would inflict no injury on property, but would protect and preserve its rights. Indust r y an d poverty h ave no s peci a l influence over Property. Wants and privations may some times rouse its sympathies, but, in general, pro perty looks on industry and - poverty as encroachers, or even as criminals, and makes laws for them accord ingly. Pr operty, however, has a great influence over industry and poverty, and that influence would not be destroyed, vie doubt even if it would be by -sep arat i ng from it the exclusive much lessened, power to make laws. To speak in perfectly plain terms, if universal ,suffrage were established to-mor row, and no property qualification were required THE SUN. LONDON. THURSDAY. JANTARAv 14. 181 i. in the representative, the agricultural labourers, the workers in factories, the men who go down into the bowels of the earth to procure us coals rand metals, would remain much under the influence of the landowners, the clergy, the factory owners, and the mine owners. If the opulent classes chose to exert themselves, as universal suffrage would compel them, they would be able to control to a very con siderable extent the votes of the industrious classes, No example has yet occurred of any person having been elected for Scotland, though no property qua lification is required as a representative, destitute of property below the average rank of the represen tatives who are required to have a property quali fication. Reason and experience, then, combine to prove that it would be far safer and better for the whole to share the power of making laws equally amongst all classes than to monopolize it by pro perty, and that it would be better and safer for property to allow numbers an equal share than it is for numbers to vest the power exclusively in pro perty. The latter is certain to lead to the oppres sion of the many ; giving the many the power to make laws does not, in like manner, even threaten to be oppressive to the few. We drew attention on Friday to the fact that the Morning Post had become a free trader, and on principle an advocate for the repeal of the Corn laws, without knowing it. Our Contemporary was eloquent in favour of free competition, which it pro nounced to be the main principle of abundance and steadiness of supply. We now learn from the Dublin Evening Mail that the Standard is also a convert to free trade. We should certainly have recorded the fact before, had we noticed it, though we scarcely regret that we did not, as the quotation we are now about to submit from the former wit show that both these Pro-Corn-law Journals assen t to the grand doctrines of free trade. The capitals, with the rest of the quotation, are from the Dublin Evening Mail:— The third and last of our positions, which meets with the assent of the Standard, is one which, wherever it is conceded, ought to put an end to all thoughts of giving more than a mere preference, carteris paribus, to any article of home manufacture ; and we can only express our astonishment that our Contemporary, with all his faculties of mind, and with his eyes so fully open to the great and universal truth which we are about to enun. ciate in his own words, could, for a moment, contemplate the irrational course of " submitting to the sacrifice of using goods of inferior quality, or higher priced, than the goods of established manufacturers," which he, al , most in the same breath, recommends : " The young manufacturer cannot be blind to his own interest, or to THE TRUTH THAT MEN WILL NOT PERMANENTLY CONTENT THEMSELVES WITH THE WORSE AND DEARER ARTICLE, WHEN THEY CAN HAVE THE BETTER AND CHEAPER." This great leading principle, not of national policy nor of political economy alone, but of human nature in every age and in every country, laughs to scorn all the inte rested nonsense Ville Butts and the O'Connell:, who might as soon think to eradicate the seeds of vegetatio n from the earth, as to make a community of men act sys. tematically in a voluntary opposition to their own indi vidual interests. Now, if all this is true of Mr. O'CoNNELL's scheme to foster and force manufactures in Ireland, it is equally true of the landlords' scheme to foster and force agriculture in the whole empire. In the teeth of their united declaration, " that men will not permanently content themselves with the worse and dearer article," our Pro-Corn-law Contempo raries persist in endeavouring to make our manufac turers contented with worse and dearer corn grown in England, when they could, except for the law made by the landlords to enrich themselves, have the better and the cheaper corn grown in Poland and Russia. These gentlemen are usefully engaged in refuting their own arguments, and we willingly and cheerfully leave them to their work, merely re minding them of the saying, invested with some authority, that " a house divided against itself can not stand." Against Mr. O'CoriNEL 1., they strenuously espouse the doctrines of free trade ; against the Anti-Corn-law League, they as strenuously espouse the system of restrictions, pro tections, and bounties. The case of Mr. FROST is now before the pub lic by his own letter, and we cannot see in that the least ground for the censure which the Tory journals have heaped on the Ministers. FROST is sent to one of the worst penal settlements, the place of punishment for those who are too wicked to live with other convicts. There is no mercy in that. But Mr. FROST is not chained with thieves and murderers, and is not compelled, like them, to work in irons. Now that is quite consistent with general policy and general practice. It never has been customary to treat those convicted of political offences as if they were thieves or highwaymen. Probably those who made the laws had an eye to themselves in founding the distinction, for while they could never dread being punished as thieves, they never could tell to what accusations, in the tur moils of party, they might be exposed. Certain it is, however, a distinction between political offenders and other offenders has always been observed, and loud and just would be the remonstrances were men like Mr. FROST to be ironed with thieves and murderers. In Mr. FROST'S letter we see no proof of any mercy or kind treatment more than is usual in cases like his ; and we repeat that if the Govern ment had shown either mercy or kindness with a view to soothing the masses at home, we should not have been disposed to blame them. Beyond the necessary constraint to keep Mr. FROST safe, every hardship inflicted upon him is gratuitous cruelty, savouring of a personal desire of vengeance, which ought, for the common and general good, to be reprobated. To thirst for the man's blood is to have the passions of a tiger ; to desire that he should be exposed to the terrible cruelties inflicted on the twice-convicted felons which lately excited the sympathy of the Post and the Herald, indi cates a nature at least as depraved as that of Mr.' FROST. * • A young gentleman, called the Hon. G. P. S. SMYTHE, has started for Canterbury on the Tory interest. We read his speech the day before yes terday, but it seemed to us so utterly contemptible as to be unworthy of notice. Our surprise was considerable, therefore, yesterday, on seeing that a Liberal Morning Contemporary had bestowed a long comment on the wretched production. One merit, indeed, Mr. SMYTHE has—he is admirably adapted to the mental capacity of those he wooes. He and the Tory electors who believed in mad THOM, and the Rev. Members of the Chapter, among whose followers were found THOM'S dis ciples, are worthy of each other. Canterbury is the proper place for a gentleman of Mr. SMYTHE'S principles and talents to offer himself on the Tory interest ; but the Liberals of that city will save it, we trust, from the disgrace of having such a repre- Constantine by France. That her African con quests are a source of weakness rather than of strength to France has long been our conviction, but seeing that she will not abandon them—that the Porte has never asked her to abandon them, nor complained to the other Powers of their occu pation—we can discover no good and sufficient rea son why England should not prefer the certainty of maintaining the peace of the world to the absence of any title which the SULTAN can give to France to a territory in the occupation of France, and which never more than nominally recognised the authority of his Highness' predecessors. We readily admit that a no less consideration than the certainty of maintaining the peace of Europe, and eventually of the world, would induce us to recommend our Government to take any part whatever in this affair. The conquests of France in Africa were made in violation of the faith of treaties, and are maintained with an utter disregard to the sacred rights of humanity. Razias, or wholesale massacres of the entire inhabitants of vil lages, without distinction of age or sex, the burning houses, and the carrying away of cattle, constitute the sole means by which civilized Christian France combats the disaffection of the African tribes. The French war in Africa has hitherto been a war of extermination. And what except a tract of desolate barren territory has France gained by it ? Why nothing. Instead of gaining she has lost. Independently of the treasure wasted in im mense armaments, Africa has cost France in men only during the last nine years an annual loss of about twenty thousand of her choicest troops. Most of these perished miserably of diseases brought on by the insalubrity of the climate. Last year there was little fighting, and yet the loss of men from the attacks of the Arabs and disease amounted to seven teen thousand. To protect the valueless conquests already made by France, the constant presence of an army of eighty thousand men is necessary, and this army must be maintained out of the taxes of the French people. Perhaps the recognition of the French conquest of Algiers by the Porte might reconcile the Arab tribes to the presence of their conquerors, and thus one direct advantage would flow from British interference, independently of the maintenance of European tranquillity. The Paris Journals of Monday have all reached us. They contain very little news of any interest. The snow prevented the arrival of the mails from the provinces, and in Paris little was talked of besides the question of the fortifications. Upon this sub ject we find the following article in the Constitu tionnel " We arc happy to be able to rectify what has been said for the last few days—what we have ourselves said on the difference existing between the Ministry and the Corn. mitee, respecting the project of the fortification of Paris. Every one has felt the deplorable gravity and disunion on a question so decidedly national. On Saturday, through a transaction, which both parties did right to accept, the Ministry and Committee agreed on all poixts. " The following are the bases of the transaction :—The original project divided the works into two categories— viz., the most essential and the secondary works. The first category included the principal outer works and only a portion of the wall of circumvallation. The wall of circumvallation being a useful pro. tection but inasmuch as it is complete, this dis tribution of works contained in the project of Govern ment gave rise to serious objection. It might he supposed that by this condition the Government might consider itself authorised to commence by the forts and to adjoin the wall of circumvallation. The amended project of the Committee rendered obligatory, on the contrary, a simultaneous commencement and continuation of the works The Ministry has consented to this modification. Another important change has been made in the project of law. The miniverial proposition was in a measure a financial pro position. The Committee made its project, a project an - notmcing the works. The technical conditions relative to the execution of the wall of circumvallation are in the law, and the Ministry has adhered to the wording of the ' Committee. " The Committee, on the other hand, has entered into the Ministerial views relative to the length of execution. The Cemmittee.had stipulated in its amended project that all the works of the fortification were to be terminated within three years. To diminish the annual burden of the expenditure the , Ms'xiistry solicited a prolongation, and it was decided that the whole should be terminated within from four to five years. It is quite evident that, should circumstances make the execution of the works more ur gent, the Ministry would easily be able to push it on more briskly. The whole supply being voted, the Ministry would have merely to change the grant either by a Bill, or by a Royal ordinance, opening supplementary credits for the year. " We cannot but congratulate all those concerned in this important deliberation for having made party or syste matic spirit yield to a common sentiment of patriotism. This transaction is of too sacred a nature not to reunite the immense majority of votes, and we may fully expect to see this great work of national interest voted almost unani mously by the Chamber." The French fleet in the Mediterranean is said to consist of 22 sail of the line. Among the strange rumours current in Paris on Monday was one to the effect that the Great Powers had resolved to erect Syria and Candia into an independent Christian State, after the ex ample of Greece, and that the Kings of Naples and Sardinia were in the field as candidates for the Crown for younger branches of their respective families. Of course, not the slightest credit is due to a rumour so utterly absurd. The Paris journals make a great noise of the dramatic censorship having stopped the representation of a melo drama reflecting or ridiculing the Queen of England. The Republican papers instantly declared that the prohi bition was in consequence of the interference of the English Ambassador ; but the English Ambassador neither knew nor cared what the authors or actors of the Renaissance Theatre were concocting or rehearsing ; and the official evening paper denies any interference on his part. The momentary stopping of the piece is, however, denounced as a monstrous piece of cowardice on the part of the French Ministry. We suppose, then, that the outcry of cowardice consists in insulting a female and a Queen. French Mitenoss him come t o this. Several jouruais age.. _ been spread of an engagement supposed to have taken plJce in the Red Sea, between a French and an English vet sal. According to the new version the French ship is no longer represented as a Government vessel, but as a brig belonging to merchants at Bordeaux. The Government has received no infotmation, but that previously published under the date of the 2d of November, and which seems to be confirmed now by further accounts from Bombay, which are to the 30th of November, Count Refill, a retired Lieutenant-General, Great Officer of the Legion of Honour, died to-day at the age of 82 years.—Moniteur. As soon as the law on the fortifications shall have been discussed in the Chambers the Ministry intend to bring forward the law on secret service money. The sum for which a vote of credit will be asked will be one million. Moniteur Parisien. PARIS, JAN. 10.—The Gazette du Midi, among the news brought by the Mentor steamer from Malta, says : —" A report was current in Malta, on the departure of the Mentor, that Ibrahim Pacha, far from obeying the orders of his father to return to Egypt, had answered that Mehe met Ali might treat for Egypt if he thought fit, but that he (Ibrahim) was Governor of Syria, and would not leave it while he lived. He announced, it is added, that he was going to march ag.inst St. Jean d'Acre, and that, winter favouring him, he hoped cavity to get the better of the English garrison, now that they were no longer supported and supplied with provisions by the allied squadrons. Le Commune. MUNICH. JAN. 4. —To.morrovr or the next day Major. General Von Bauer, accompanied by Captain Baron Von Gumppenberg will go to Carltruhe to take part in ti►e military conferences which are continued in that city. We understand that Major-General Von Muller and Captain Von Rosier, will attend on the part of Wurtemberg,. The Minister of the Interior har confirmed the seques trat►on of the writings of Ludwig Borne, Third Ed►tion, Third Part, published at Stuttgard by Broadhag.—Aues burg Gazette. No news from Vienna or Constantinople. BO UR SR.—Pants, MONDAY, JAN. 11. French 5 per Cents 112 JO ... 112 25 "' first _Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price . 112 10 ... 112 10 43 per Cents .... lO2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 SO ... 102 1.0 4 per Cents 09 ... 911 — 9 ' — 99 3 p-'0 er /.:c0t5..... 77 50 .. 77 60 77 4'l ... 77 40 3 :rl. 0: Pr a n ce I.4,thtte 11..iiik I,ooof. Sh lO5O ...1.50 ••• 116 ° ••• 11/5° Kylguin /Sank 3 per Cents 6j 10 ... 09 15 ... 69 10 ... 6 9 15 New Loan ......... .. ...... •••••• 98 •.. 98 ... 97A, ... 98 , yanisl) .leive 24% ... 24%', ... 24% ... 2.1 i ; Passi To 5 7/R ... 5:Zi ... 5 , „i ... 5% N'eapf: , lit vo Etonian 99% ... 99.4 , s ... 29S ... 9 9 }4 PAJLWAY SHARES. St Germain Verszille3.B. B 407 5u ... 412 50 ... 4C7 50 ... 411 25 LB orlcans .. 487 5) ... 487 50 ... 485 ... 487 50 s. ,,, gbore , n Bak' 246 25 ... 246 25 ...:46 25 .. 246 25 hlulliausen to l'hann MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The advices received from Canada state that the number of emigrants arrived out last year was 12,000, many of them being persons of some pecuniary means, A small body, which emigrated in one party, had, for instance, no less than 60,0001. among them. The navigation in Canada was entirely closed on the 14th ult., and a great quantity of merchandise, en route, has been shut up by the frost. There was a fair amount of bona fide business trans acted to day, and an improvement in Consols of per cent. took place. Cole, the bank-broker, sold again, and Messrs. Mortimer and Co. purchased, so that the supply of and demand for Stock were pretty equal. Consols closed steadily at 894 to g for motley and ac count. Exchequer Bills were I Is. to 9s. premium, and the Reduced Three•and-a-Half per Cents. 981 to There was nothing done in India or 'link Stock all day. The Foreign securities were much the same as yes terday. Spanish Active Bonds brought 24 to ; Portuguese, New, 32 to ; Mexican 281- ; Belgian 98, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 501 to -I. The Share Market was not very active, but prices were well supported. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY—The demand for Cotton continues to be extensive to-day. The sales were 7,000 to 8,000 bags, of which about one-half have been taken on speculation, at ,an advance on Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SNARE LIST, JAN. 12.—Eastern Counties Debs., sk-; Great \Veatern, Hall' Shares, 62/ ; Ditto Fifths, 104- log- ; Midland Counties, New Shares, 15i; Bank, Royal Liverpool, 766. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 12. We have had a dull Market, and prices are lowering. The following are the sales of the day ._Manchester and Leeds, 811; Ditto ,Halves, 301 ; Eastern Counties, 9; Midland Counties Quarters, 15 ; Rochdale Canal, 84. We have received Montreal papers to Dec. 15:— N% a are sorry to hear that the differences between the ship-builders and their workmen are not yet terminated. We hear of agreements come to by the employers and the employed, to persist on certain terms. These agree ments set them up as contending bodies, who are very apt to carry their opposition too far, to the prejudice of the common interest. The north-east wind, which prevailed from the 6th inst. till yesterday, has passed over without giving us any more snow. Exchange since our lint.--. Very little has been done in Foreign ; prices, however, continue steady, with a pros pect of being well maintained. We quote Bills on Hol land, 401 401 per cent. We have received Quebec papers to Dec. 12. Toronto papers of the 3d are received. Everything appears to be quiet in the Upper Provinces. (From the Baltimore papers, received this morning.) ANOTHER SEIZURE BY TIIE BRITIRII.—By the brig Cypher, arrived yesterday, from the Coast of Africa, we learn that another American vessel has been seized by a British cruiser on the groundless suspicion of being en gaged in the slave-trade. These piratical manifestations of the British cruizers seem to indicate an intention to drive the American traders from the coast, and deserve the immediate notice of our Government. Instances of petty inso!ence on the part of John Bull's armed vessels towards the Americans have ken frequent on that coast Accounts from Vienna, of the Ist of January state, that the Count Appony, son of the Ambassador, is to de part in a few days from Paris, charged on the part of Pi ince Metternich, with a request to M. Guizot to reduce the 500,000 men that the Cabinet of the 29th October wished to maintain in a time of peace, and should M. Guizot refuse to comply, the moment the fine weather takes place, the project concerted between Austria and Prussia, to form a hostile line of obsrvation on the fron tiers of France, will take place. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday 891 I-, both for the Account and Money ; Re duced, 89i with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bilk, 9 11 prem.; Bank Stock, 1641 1651; India 5t0ck, ; 248250. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active as they left off, 241 Deferred, 121 ; Passive, 61 ; Portuguese as they closed, 31:1 321 ; Three per Cents., 191:201 ; Co. lombian, 231 4 ; Mexican, 281 1 1; Brazilian, 701 711 Chilinn, 57 59 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. as they closed, 501 1 ; Five per Cents. 931 SHARES.—Great Western, 27 28 prom. ; New, 12 13 prom. ; London and B r i g ht on , 61- dis. ; Blackwall, 41 34 dis. ; Birmingham, 81 83 prem. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share ; Croydon, 121 4 per share ; Greenwich, 8 9 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton 5O ... 44% to London and Greenwich.......... 20 London and Greenwich (New). 20 Ditto Scrip London and South Western 3Bi 57%..... to 581 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial Extract of a letter posted at the North and South Ame rican Coffeehouse : " New York, Dec. 19. 4 P.ll " The steam boat has arrived from Boston. The Acadia had not arrived yesterday at 4 p.m. This leaves her out on a trip more than 14 days." The British Market during the course of the morning has been inactive, and without a feature worth observa tion. Money is comparatively easy, and the rates for dis count are according to the solidity of the persons who require it. The dullness of the weather, with the scarcity of Continental intelligence, tends ro damp speculating for the present. Consols cremain as in the early part of the morning, at 89 1 gfor the opening. Reduced has fluctuated from 89 a ; 'Exchequer Bill arc lower, 9 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, nothing done; India Bonds, 6 8 discount. The Foreign Market is also in the same dull state as that of the British. Spanish Active, 241; Portuguese, nothing done; Russian, 113 ; Colombian, 231 ; Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents. 50/ s lower ; Five per Cents, 981. The Share Market also inactive. Great Western, 93 ; Ditto, New, 62i ; Fifths, 104 ; London and Brighton, 491 ; London and Greenwich, 81 ; Ditto, New, 17 ; Ditto, Scrip, 3:1-; London and South Western, 581. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 893 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent C0n5........ 89i Ditto Old Annuities — 34 per Cent Red..— .. 98i Ditto New Annuities... 874 New 34- per Cent .. ... 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d Bpm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ Bpm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm Jan. 1860. l3 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1859 — India Stock for Acct ... - Jan. 1860 ... 1:1 13-16 Consols for Opg . B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. ' A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 9B Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bonds ... .. _ _ . . Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 18i Russian, 5 per cent. ... 113 Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, 5 per cent 24; Ditto, 1824 2 3 11 Ditto, Deferred . Danish, 3 per e.unt. .... French,s per cent... —f. _ c . ,Creek, 1825, spercent. Exchange .. ,11exican, 5 per cent.... 2811 French,3 per cent ...4. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent 504 .?eruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent.— ~ ott SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...... ... Pe Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) .. 54 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 93 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... .. 631 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) lof .. .. ... London and Brighton Railway (50 paid)... 44 London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) Ditto New Shares (20paid) ......... 17 Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid).,. London and South Western Railway 584 South Eastern and Dover (28 paid )... 33} COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, went to Swinley this morning on a shoot ing excursion, attended by Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Bouvcrie, and Mr. G. E. Anson. Sir James Clark left the Castle this morning. Her Majesty and the Duchess of Kent have not left the Castle to-day, but are both in perfect health, as is the Princess Royal. His Highness Prince Esterhszy, and Viscount Dun cannon, arc expected to arrive at the Castle this evex in.', on a visit t o th e Queen. ° Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson will have the honour of dining with the Royal party at the Castle this evening. The Duke of Cambridge went yesterday to Kensing ton Palace to visit the Duke of Sussex. His Royal Highness also visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Prince W. Quantamissah and Prince J. Ansah, ac companied by the Rev. T. Pyne, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Marquis of Bute and the Earl of Galloway had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. Bishop Griffiths had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Colonial-office. Captain Robert K. Dawson, Royal Engineers, Archdeacon Hale, Cap tain Woollcombe, It. A., and Mr. Cunard, had also in terviews with his Lordship at the Colonial-office yes terday. Lord and Lady Henry Kerr, Lord and Lady M. Hill, Lady and the Misses Fitzwygram, have arrived at Torquay from the Hill, the seat of Mr. and Lady Frances Ley, Sir Lawrence, Lady, and Miss Palk, have arrived at Torquay from Haldon House. DEATII FROM COLD.—A report reached town 0(I Wednesday, that a murder had been committed near Shettleston. Immediate inquiry was made by the autho rities, when it was ascertained that a ruin had been iound on the road near that village dead; but on examination by a surgeon, we understand the death appeared to have beck caused by exposure to cold.—Scottish Uuardtan. sentative. The following paragraph occupies a conspicuous place in the leading columns of a Morning Con temporary : We understand that if the British Government thinks proper to recommend to the Porte the recognition of the French conquests in Algiers, such an act will be considered by the present Cabinet of France as a decided step to wards a reconciliation. We are told that an immediate resolution to disarm on the part of France, and thus re-establish the tranquil posi tion of Europe, will follow the proposed recommendation. What the British Government may think proper to do with respect to the recognition by the Porte of a French dominion in Africa, we cannot pretend to determine, but there appears to us no good rea son why England should decline such an offer, see ing that the Porte has never protested against the conquest of the provinces of Algiers, Oran, and LITERATURE. LETTERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF TILE REIGN OF 'WILLIAM HI. 3 VoLs. Colburn, London, 1841. Mr. Vernon, the author of these Letters, was Secretary of State during the latter portion of the reign of William the Third—a stirring and a troublous period, when the partizans of the exiled Stuarts were intriguing both in England and on the Continent for the re-establishment of their au thority, and winning over to their schemes some of the most eminent statesmen of the day. Even Marlborough himself was not free from the charge of maintaining a treasonable correspondence with the Court of St. Germains ; but among the most active of the Jacobite agents was Sir John Fen wick, who was the life and soul of an extensive conspiracy having for its primary object the assassi nation of King William. Before, however, the conspirators had time to mature their plans, they were discovered, and Sir John, after evading the pursuit of justice for some months, was arrested, brought to trial before the House of Lords, found guilty, and beheaded on Tower-hill. Previously to his trial he basely offered to disclose the whole plans of the party to which he was attached, on condition that his life was spared ; and being pressed to afford distinct information, he formally charged the Duke of Shrewsbury--at that time one of King William's principal Ministers—and several other men of note and influence, with hav ing for years acted under the influence of the ex iled House of Stuart, while holding office under the rival one of Nassau. The Duke of Shrews bury, though his innocence was soon made appa rent, and William never once withdrew his confi dence from him, was greatly pained and shocked by this charge, retired into the country in order to recruit his health and spirits, leaving his Private Secretary, Mr. Vernon, to conduct the principal business of his office. It is with the Letters writ ten by Vernon to his Grace at this time, that the cor respondence contained in these volumes commences. The letters are penned, as Mr. James, the editor, rightly remarks, " by a man evidently of a cold and cautious temper;" and though they allude to the passing on flits and political disputes of the day, and detail the progress of Sir John Fenwick's trial, the scene of his execution on Tower-hill, and se veral other interesting matters ; yet such is their dry, cold, official style, and so ultra-discreet is the spirit that pervades them, that it is scarcely pos sible to extract the slightest amusement from the n Had we been his Grace of Shrewsbury, we should certainly have grudged the postage of such jejune epistles, whose sole redeeming merit is, that here and there they give us a sort of faint insight into characters who have long ranked high in the world's esteem—such, for instance, as Lord Moninouth, who cuts a very sorry figure, and is represented as acting in the most treacherous and unprincipled manner, with a view to make it appear that Sir John Fenwick's charge against the Duke was really a true one. Yet this is the man, afterwards so well known as the Earl of Peterborough, whom his contemporaries praised as the soul of chivalry and honour, and whom Pope and Swift eulogised in the most extravagant terms I He was, unquestionably, a very superior character, sagacious, brave even to temerity, generous to profusion, of refined literary tastes, a dashing soldier, and who understood war as a science, and so astonishingly alert in all his move ments, as to justify Swift's triplet in his spirited sketch of his Lordship's character, that— So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you, like an apparition ! In Mr. Vernon's brief notices, however, this cele brated Nobleman exhibits none of these showy, ad captanduni qualities, but appears in no brighter light than that of an artful trickster, who does not hesitate to tamper with witnesses and pervert the truth—in short, to exert his utmost powers to bring about the ruin of the Duke of Shrewsbury, of whom he entertained a jealous, deep-rooted hatred. Of the celebrated Wharton, immortalized by Pope, under the name of Clodio, and whose incurable passion for intrigue and dissipation neutralized the influence which otherwise his great political talents could not fail to have obtained him—to this bril liant meteor there are several passing allusions in the present volume ; but they tell us nothing new respecting him ; nor, though Prior's name is also frequentiv mentioned, do we gather one single fact of moment respecting this sprightly poet and dex terous politician. We subjoin an extract, from a note attached to one of the volumes, giving an account of a curious proposal for establishing a Land Bank The enormous expenses of the war, the tempo rary shock given to public credit by the revolution, and the long tolerated nuisance of clipping and otherwise debasing the coin, had combined with other causes, to reduce the revenue of the State, and diminish the circu lation in a degree almost inconceivable, and the wisely devised measure of recoining the silver money, and is suing it of just weight, while severe punishments were employed to check future debasement of the coin, was so unwisely executed, that the evil was doubled by the immense mass of silver taken out of the circulation at once. Under these circumstances, a person of the name of Chamberlain drew up the project of an esta blishment to lar. called the Land Bank. The proposal was seized by the Tory party, and the House of Com mons resolved on this subject, that a fund, redeemable by Parliament, should be raised by subscriptions to amount in all to two millions four hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds ; that this bank should be restrained from lending money except upon landed security, or to the Government in the Exchequer ; that no person con cerned in the Bank of England could be a subscriber to the Land Bank, and vice versa. The interest was to be provided for by the settlement of certain taxes, and the subscription was to be complete before the Ist of August, 1696, or else the whole to determine and be void. Great expectations were raised, but the Bank of England of course opposed the measure ; the subscrip tions were not paid, and the Land Bank proved a signal failure, adding to the previous embarrassments o the country." MEMOIRS OF WARREN HASTINGS, 2 Vo Ls. Bentley, London, 1840. Gleig, the editor of these volumes, states modestly in his preface that he iv conscious of having done but imperfect justice to his task, chiefly in consequence of the scantiness of his materials, which often failed him, at times when it was most neces sary that he should have full and authentic data to go upon. Considering that his means of obtain ing information were thus meagre, we think that the Rev. Editor has acquitted himself with great judgment and adroitness, and furnished us with a. work which may, on the whole, be pronounced sa tisfactory, inasmuch as it gives a distinct, spirited outline of the public and private character of Warren Hastings ; and more than this we scarcely desire to have, for though he was an able, enter prising, experienced statesman, thoroughly fami liar with the wily Oriental tactics, and in conse quence, remarkably successful in his policy, yet Hastings was by no means one of those command ing spirits whose names are destined to be handed down with undiminished honour to posterity. He was a man well suited to his time, and the circum stances of the distant realms over which he long held arbitrary sway ; and will always occupy a dis tinguished place in the history of British India, second, however, to that occupied by the Marquis of 'Wellesley, whose system of policy, to equal sa gacity and comprehensiveness,added far more straight forwardness and beneficence. In Europe, Hastings is principally known by the celebrated trial to which he was subjected before the Lords, and all the assembled dignitaries of the kingdom, in West minster Hall, when articles of impeachment were preferred against him, by Burke, Sheridan, Fox, and several others of high political influence, with reference to his Indian administration, which trial, after having been protracted for nearly ten years, terminated in his acquittal. Of this singular event in his life, however, Mr. Gleig takes no notice, observing, in justification of his silence, that " as the issues of the trial were, as far as character was affected by them, altogether satisfactory, I cannot conceive that to follow the course of its progress, could excite the interest or gratify the tastes of any one." Warren Hastings was, it seems, born in the year 1732 ; his family was of old English extrac tion—so old, that his grandfather—" an antiquary of no mean reputation," observes the Editor—stated that he could trace back his pedigree to Hastings the Dane. In the great civil war, one of hi 3 an cestors, " expended the value of four large manors in the service of Charles the First ;" and owing to this and other pecuniary misfortunes, the family was reduced gradually to such distress, that at the period of the birth of Warren Hastings, his parents could with difficulty find the meats o f ( l a d y tance. At an early age young Hastings was seat to a charity school in the village of Churchill, where he distinguished himself by his love of study, OUN I 1 ktij 1 02 4 • • and exhibitel " such an ardent desire to excr that to this day the old people relate of him IV Warren aye took his learnin,, kindly.' " In ccss of time he w as dispatched to Westininste l , school, where he conti nue d hi s s t u di es w i t h equal assiduity, so much so, that " the greatest expe o :, tions were formed of his success at the liniverst , yi but before he could realize those expectations, b e f was sent off by his guardian " in the capacity' (1 ' a writer to Bengal," where, after the lapse of A fe`' years, he entered upon that oreat public care t ' which is familiar to all readers of modern India ll history. From the letters of Warren Hastings co l ' tamed in these volumes, we should infer that h e was a man of singular clearness and vigour of tellect, and perfectly amiable in all the social rel a ' Lions of life. PEP YS'S LIFE, JOURNALS, and CORO SPONDENCE. 2 Vols. Bentley, London, 1841. These pleasant volumes are introduced with short biographical sketch of Pepys, from which 0 gather that in his boyhood lie was " a gr ea t Round . head," and witn e s se d w i t h avowed satisfaetion 11)/ i execution of Charles I.—a circumstance that occ; sioned him much uneasiness at a more discreet an worldly period of his life, and for which he hastens° to make all the reparation possible, by attending ll * execution of Harrison, the Regicide. A man en' dowed with accommodating principles like thes es and whose conscienc e is so quiet and well-behaved as never to occasion h i " uneasiness, is sure to get on in life ; a nd ae; cordingly we find Pepys at the ou t set o f hi s e aree clingin! , fast to the skirts of an influential relativ e ' Sir Edward Montague, afterwards Earl of SA with, who, like himself, had turned from rep j heal) to monarchical notio ns , an d to w h ose p' offices was owing his success in life, and ultimale k l e his appointm ent t 3 t h e o ffi ce o f Secretary t 01,114 Admiralty, whi c h h e h e ld i n the re i gns of Ch a ry the Second and James the Second. During a gre at portion of hi s life Pepys k e p t - a J o ur° of his pro cee di ngs f rom d ay to d ay, which waspill' lished by Lord Braybrooke in the year 1826 ; 1111 ; since that p er i o d ot h er curious 1115. Diaries 1 131 ''' been discovered, and are here, for the first time given to the w or ld. Th ese Di ar i es w i ll be specie,liij interesting to tho se w h o d es i re to b ecome acquainte,l with the domestic history of the period of whlC they treat, and those also will be entertained by th e ; who are fond of wa t c hi ng unconsc i ous revelatioill of character. W e s h ou ld gat h er f rom them thiej Pepys, to much worldly p rac ti ca l shrewdness, glue much simplicity and bo n h omm i e o f nature ; the , he was a quiet observer of other men's peculiariti es ' and was so m ethi ng p rec i se i n hi s own pr ivate habits. Th e most amus i ng port i on of his Jottrilsi is that wh ere h e g i ves a narrative of his voyage 1117,, io ~i ' Tangier, whi c h in p l aces i s marked by the 61' uncommon minutenes s o f d eta il. S ome touches of char ac t er , too , are exqu i site of 'Deo; sort, especially where the Journalist spea tr i of himself as pl a yi ng t h e part o f J o b' s corn f o rl i to Lord Dartm ou th. Hi s L or d s hi p b e i ng 00 ,61, spirits, and anxious, as one would suppose, rouse himself by th e c h eer f u l conversat i on o f h friends, Pepys s a y s :—" M y L or d sent for tor to supper, and very melancholy I made him withe l f, discourse. Talking o f D r . T rum b u ll and 0 Sheres, and remarking that I h a d o b serve d him be himself sometimes melancholy, he a nswer how could he be witho u t thoughts, to find liiing e g sent with such promises of every sort of supPl ie l and be in this conditio n . Whi c h I magned, , k 0 telling him his dr ea df u l p rospect o f t h e co ntlio ° , of the fleet in a few days!" This is a delici e r e trait of chara c t er . A nervous an d dispirited nebio man invites hi s f r i en d to sapper, i n order thethot might be chee re d b y hi s spr i g h t l y conversation ; instead of this, his friend adopts the most dismal possible, and succeeds in rendering his host on; as miserable as he was before he sent for him How Fielding—the immortal creator of 1 1 °, 5 ° 0 1 Adams—would h ave c h uc kl e d at an anec d ot e this. As a specimen of Pepys's mode of j o urnai i ; , ing, we quot e hi s re f erences to C o l one l who, if we mistake not, was the same indivitly„ who made himself so notorious by his treache r i and cruelty i n th e W est o f E ng l an d , during the P C riod of Monmouth's ill-starred insurrection ao This mornin g , D r . L awrence to l d me his ow° e ,r te . with the Go vernor , w hi c h shows Kirke a very b, r . — te : Sheres, also, to-day call e d me as i de on the Me'ill tell me th a t Ki r k e owes 1,5001. among the inhA b i t° o, of the town, w h o can get no money fro m hi m , but O ro-e or and, ' Why do you trust me ?' Nor dare theY c ° t o plain, for fear of his employing some one or otbe t r o do them mischief, as, Sheres says, lie hath done t° bit men that have been killed, as generally believed, by e 0 order. He caused a sergeant to be tied to a pest' '1 ; 1 beaten by himself as long as he could do it ; th el/ bir another; and all for bidding a servant of his go tr" mistress, Mrs. Collier. naei l " To show ho w littl e h e ma k es o f d runw e- o t (though he will beat a fellow for having a dirty face is band), I hav e s een , as b e h as b een walk i ng w i t h n ie a t the street, a soldier reel on him as drunk as a deg.', at this busy time t oo , w h en every b o d y not on guar' IVO work. He bath only looked at him, and c ried, t i O p fellow hath go t a goo d morn i ng ' s draught already • I N so let him go without one word of reprehension. 0 , Lord does also t e ll me o f n i ne h un d red false niei'"„iti (that, I think, was the number,) in two thousand se w ii , hundred men. Thi s I w ill i nqu i re a f ter most eerOpy " At supper, D r . K en to ld my L or d and the cof°llsoo (Mr. Hughes, minister of the parish, being by) l e r, Kirke bath p u t one R o b ertson t h e par i sh, to b o reat the who will swear, drink, &c., as freely as any man i n bit town ; and now would put him on Shovel to he e ., chaplain, in the J a m es ga ll e y. B ut D r. Ken prePTer and desires my Lord to put in one Mercer, se hoolula s io g of the town, for several reasons ; among the rest, kccP,,i out Roberts. The re ason o f Ki r k e ' s thus aPPeArliiii for him is, because he is brother to Mrs. Collier , mistress. 9 03 .‘To show, a ft er a ll, h ow good a soldier he is, how good disciplin9 he keeps here, my Lord Darta' n oc , going the round, and I with him, to the Mole, this ~ tober 23d a t n i g h t , my L ord found one officer 01 -00 guard drunk, below the church, and another agle e P A i ll his bed, b e l ow t h at , at t h e h ead of the Mole ; °"„irti, of them, t o g i ve b o th wor d s, the in and the eur ie ' of contrary to all order, and the reason of the thl A 'ir my Lord made me understand, the words being, P" burgh and Dublin." L 0 NziGull34E Londo n ,.Rr ) 3 VOLE. 1840. Longbeard, Lord of London, is an hister l romance of the days of Richard the First, and al impressively w i t h a street-row, a conjuror, io t a, tempest ! Th e row i s occasioned by the execebt, ingly r u d e b e h av i our of a young Nor,nan K"igairl who meeti ng i n b roa d d ay -light with a Saxon in Smithfield market, endeavours to tumble 6 ,1 i. touzle her in a way awful to think of ; but is if verted from his iniquitous purpose, by the this . r of the mob to " slit his ears for him,' an d the le terference of the conjuror, who answers to the O ho dious appellativ e o f Ab ra B en A ca d a b ra, an d /he escorts the young vi rg i n h ome , w h ere s h e tells pa story of her w rongs to h er f at h er, a Lol l ho t tanner, by name J or d an . W e f ear, however , Miss Jordan's story must have been rather a P rci fie t one, for during its relation we are assured that venerable par en t' s " eyes were closed, and an °-tlical s sional snore indicated that he was dozing in e , heat," wh ereupon t h e cons i derate young genrile woman began turning over the leaves of a fao d i o d volume— a remar k a bl e f act , w h en we bear i n that the art of printing was not discovereud s nearly two hundred and fifty years obeli/ 91 ' While Miss J or d a n w as th us rea di ng h er b°° v ger possibly one o f th e S cotc h nove l s— h er you sister, Miss Marian, who sat on a t stool near her, amused herself by holding eio g conversation with her d og Odi n , w h o , b we t one of those extraordinary animals rarely ki d with except in romances like Lon beard, I°° ve ry up and wagged his tail, fully comprehending e iot o word she said I" Suddenly, however, the sae, c tu re brute set up a loud bark, to the great disconwbo of old Jordan, who forthwith pitched into s or " with a log of wood ;" and while he was doing s " the solemn figure of the conjuror walked int ° llo ,fr apartment ; and saluted the father and his cla e " o 's ters." The first few fragments of these gentl e t e ns conversation blend instruction with en tertain"' t re . in s o very uncommon a degree that we canno t silt the temptation of quoting it : it/ th ° " W aes h ae l I f r i en d A ces B acca B en D a b ra ," Sax bett er Waes hael I friend Jordan, th e t anne r, and *r. memory to you for peopl e ' s ?lames ," rep li e d t he doet o _ . , er . On the same night that thi s mem orable colts'est sation took place, an equally memo rable te n Z io s occurred in London, of which the younger _ ‘46 : Jordan expressed her opini on i n th e se exact Weis the wind bellows, as if it were enraged. (!is,alid city, and were determin e d t o hurl sru , hi s , buildings to the ground at one blast." iviv hen.„e desperate tempest, whi c h t erm i na tes in P,7 1 f as t vol. 1, was over, Mi ss J. an d h e r sisterlei it,l T