The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

r ! Tr MAJESTY the EMPEROR of . AUSTRIA, Its MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, . His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, TM AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS -B,_ UTION S of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (thou g h 1 ,71 are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ', X.ARGE FORTUNES, URINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at Ars LUBECK, rituIotiwrSIOENLIING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS „ "lons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions ggproteive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SP and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to lli e NEXT HEINE BROTHERS. SE NDS of AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains D 425 ,000 £6OO ,000 400 1 ,500 200 100 0 aoo 150 RE , 2 „, ,N E BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 4'474, 18 ,000/., 9,0001, 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to Dab~in ; 3 ,600/., 800 L, an d 7001., t o Edi n b u rgh ; 3,6001. to ,2 00 ,; 8 ,600/. to B ever l ey • 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); • to Portleaven Harbou r ; 9001., 700/. and 600/. to Li ". 1 ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; i , a ncl 600/. to Ma nc h es t er ; 700/. t o East Retford (Not ; 6001. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to to " ° rd; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of ,st!ezt Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. h u lrect for Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. other AO tbe I , 500 w 41 0 omas the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. ifia k _ THIS EVENING, DEC. 7, u ue repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. lee_trrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; tOr, 4 ° Frna by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her sixteenth appear 4. Pon th e E nglish Stage). % 1 1 4," which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH.—CharIes 1,1 welfth, Mr. W. Farren ; Adam Brock, Mr. Bartley ; ~.3,1_1 1, Mada me V estr i s. llama' to le opened at half-past Six—the performances to sti:3 4 ,S 44 2ceat Sev en . D ress B oxer , 7 s . ; S econ d P r i ce , 3 s . 6d. ; `ii . S e cond Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; No i ,_ r nee. 23. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the ' fill tk !-Kibe t a k en of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten where S eason Ti c k e t s ma y b e h a d upon application. 1 47.37 noses to be h a d so'el of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, To.Zw_ Bond-street. 'rtka4ovr, the N ew C ome dy, en titl e d Court and City, with Leg, and Free and Easy . UNDE" ) ROYAL M SURREY THEATRE. THE ANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE 111 . AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Mr. Phelps, and the most powerful Company, supporting Shakspere's Tragedies. THIS EVENING DEC. 7. 1 14, be acted Shakspere's Tragedy ' of HAMLET —Hamlet, )4 1,17., u . '; Ghost, Mr. H. Hughes; Ophelia, Miss Wa hZi!en, Mrs. H. Vining. loti vlde with the successful French Drama of rivetting p ti and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, I T RRTY AND CRIME —Characters by Messrs Smith, Neville, M . rs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c.. hE tt ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 4 44 4 THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. aordinary success of this favoured and fortunate Theatre still continues unabated. t i the 1%, THIS EVENING, DEC. 7, 1 1 1 1 ,0 LONDON LOCKSMITHS; or,the BANKER, Lale `l ; and the WlLL.—G eorge D av i s , M r . E. F. Sa . PraY, Mr. Dal e; B ur l, M r . S eaman ; T om Li ve l y , e t Aft er - " 44 . ; Barfly Cly, Mr. Paul ; Emily, Mrs. Lee. ITilivbieh, WOMAN'S LOVE ; or, THE WIVES OF • hol e y 4 , 0 E.--Wilford Clitheroe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Old , 46 1,41'. M r. James ; H o ll y h oc k, M r . G ar d ner ; K a t e Wyn v lucent ; Lady Adeline, Mrs. G. Lee. 't co nclude with THE PALACE OF GENEVA; or, te i• IRIT OF THE VAULT.—Frank Laton, Mr. Sea- tt ard rtli tl y M James ; Old John, Mr. Gardner; Selina, Ste:w.Y) r. rhut"--Pit, Is.—Galle r y, 6d.—:-calf-price to the Boxes of vast Eight. ',.:7 1131 r, Two Locksm iths, The Wonder, and Eagle Eye. rill I-3 ---- -,,- -- , RAILWAY SUN. 2 ' l, c'E--A New Edition of the RAILWAY , p). - B Ulsi . is NOW PUBLISHING. '•U 1.1 - 17, . CHINA SUN, lA b AND THE -4 lI 'L IA MENT A R Y SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, °lin o ffi P RICE SIXPENCE EACH. Dee. 7, 1841. ',Tilt . 117 ------- :4_, , 4 144 A, ." 4 ATHER NOON, DECEMBER 6. 411 01) 1'4111e , Att zt ni°'41.. t....7 0 • OF SC IEN CE , h . t ADELAIDE-STREET. S Ai ,411:I ft : 46.9-- -W 1 Il in i cfS e .W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. L ' 3l ln r l 4—h l!•AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. (after 6. I Evening 5 minutes after 9. i,. g LONDON: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1841. 4"e ibost important news brought by the Over- A tth ail from India is the anticipated rupture St4the Xing of Burmah. THARAWADDIE has k4'glib• r°rgiven the thrashing given him by the of la 1824-5, and gladly seizes the period e ap,„ tbi *:()Ur conflict with the Chinese, to be Cot • "LI Upon us. B u t th e B enga l Govern -1/444- not so ignorant of the intentions of SlttWariDlE as to be taken unawares. Lord ANn had a force of two thousand five g ovii t -`. 4o ayonet s , and twenty-five hea v y guns an d st ters 4 .14 4 L. Moulmei n, while an equal number R eis p 4t.in 'utl es g e werehunasdan . ordered nini,nse toa nu e m m b o er rc o e ,. t g e u m n_ . 4 4 _ 1 4(1, °11 tile Irraw a ddy, b u t it was s u pp o sed 4.int 0 s hiPs of wa r , t wo arme d sc h ooners , an d "neat steamers, at the command of the G o vernment would make short work of '‘ ,l C'whole of them. ,1111141),.4t.e Ministers appeared to have corn giver. _ w oll .4 up the public cause the instant :They den from office. In no one case * eh . nie rob 4 tempt to impede the re-election of ugh they th. of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Ministry, Ares ; m s-3 : 'night, and they ought, in several fi e ' 4 ' a view of keeping up the spirits of Sp .tids , to have made, at least, a show of 'i lit fud, o r . No sooner was the Parliament at (L a b., e ven before, than they all dispersed I.7" l ers 411 . d-ed, leaving their party without 4 14 -'14 !e, ' 443 1 , 11 1.1. 4 e5, or counsel. There was no 6 1 1 n,_ 4, and cad -quarters, no place to go to for no commander ; but the whole army tio n was left to act, each man for himself, t iij t i") to Oi, Olt b retreat, or to join the enemy, as he e st. We believe that the members Nik . v , l O 1 Party which has heretofore defeated der • united power of the Tories when they k„. „ ‘ne full ' 4L-- 11 * to vigour of manhood, and mean -vac: .r 4 • defeat them, but with a more signal tik4 Of now that they are in the decrepi -1:,, a ge and are obliged to hide their wolf --Peasit; es under the sheepish guise of Nk t ittis tn gi ott , believe that the members of 1 7til e4.111 ` Liberal party felt no inconsiderable ;Ce t i r e at the desertion, and began, in de brok broken squad rons , t o l oo k ou t f or n ew e t ter being Nai ulontb A f ter lost, however, for nearly s t . 4 „_ e 8 ) Some o f th e Whig leaders have hitityP ared in th e fi e ld, an d see k , we pre ; . ,t,O Nlect their sca tt ere d f orces . itk ll Jo uzi t 4 RUSSELL was the first to inform us ' , :1:: * ':,,i . 1 , 08 12 , , t . enee and of his determination to take )ote ni ,.." . ° ll - in opposition to the monopolists. I 0 41 ;i i .r ., to the inhabitants of Plymouth, which ek cit ' e n, d more than a week ago, and which Ortialo L : many angry comments in the Tory I.io r d donri went much further in his 0 41 ) h t h an an ever he went in his deeds, and • 1 1. 40 1 4 wr ote the f o ll ow i ng p assages rather 13 lat ' l, 131Seif Plating th e future than troubli ng '40444 ate ecu rately to recollect the past : 4t-1 fro._ uninustration endeavoured to relieve the to u l _, those taxes which are paid to the land !..tiitttcat e West India planters, and other favoured tio tl 'Ated , a r )a ,exPense of the community at large. They k n u v e all, to subject the admission of foreign ..S l i t tlaly ad "end moderate duty, in place of a scale so t 8.44 84118e,' that it baulks the farmer at one mo- Ti tv enu e 3 tl!e people at another, while it defrauds Whole all times. Itntivutpact for te, th e, e_u_i strength of monopoly, however, joined of an adverse party, defeated our tiO k Ai t h e "e pl. .1 it new Ministry in power. ,t k i ; _t}` dutie_ p eo ple are united, prohibitions andprohi j,"o4, .2 will share the Late of civil disabilities on to: 4 ? 4 114 6 _ 1 ° 4 nd; thu slavery of our negro fellow•sub tO 3114 puTer ivrlrks of darkness. Nor is it necessary th il llow er p o se that the late Ministry should be restored ess eili. L l ue men who surrendered what they deemed "' b ulwarks of the Church and the Conetitu , • • ;$ ll ler‘ " At the Palace of Las Necessidades, Oct. 12, 1841." 'o° AJN. SWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE tion to the menaces of the Roman Catholic Association L " D SAINT PAUL'S: of Ireland, will be sure to yield the fortress of conamer . A r _ TALE of the PLAGUE an d th e FIRE. cial restricti on w h en they shall be summoned to do so by in rwenty large Ill u st ra ti ons on St ee l, by Franklin. the p eace f u l b u t p ower f u l vo i ce o f th e p eo pl e o f E ng l an d NO ;V READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. and Scotland. 'IP Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square. The late Administration proposed a very li mited modification of the taxes paid to the land owners and West India planters, and, in pro posing the modification, actually recognised the justice of the principle of taxing the community to enrich the landowners and West India planters, strengthening their opponents, and ensuring their own defeat. If we are to understand that Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his friends now adopt the principle, that it is right " to relieve the coun try from those taxes which are paid to the land owners and the West India planters ;" that what he proposed as Minister he will not adhere to in Opposition; that he means, on the subject of corn, sugar, and timber, to act on those principles of honesty and justice by which, in the case of the Dissenters and the Negroes, his party achieved their noblest triumphs, we can assure him very extensive support, and complete success at no distant day. The people do not understand paltering with the subject; the Bread-tax is looked on as a moral question, and is regarded with a religious feeling, on which no half measures will satisfy them, and no half measures will they support. To defeat the mo nopolists the peaceful and powerful voice of the people of England and Scotland must not, be raised for a fixed duty on corn to protect the land lords, nor for a large discriminating duty on sugar, because both those duties give a solemn sanction to those principles of dishonesty and injustice which the religious and honest people of Eng land and Scotland are determined to exclude from our legislation. They will again take Lord J. RUSSELL for their leader, if he emblazon these principles on his flag; and if he do not, they will look out for another. But we hope well of the Whigs after their rus tication. Lord PALMERSTON has also again ap peared in the field, and the Noble Lord who has long been distinguished for his fearless advocacy of free trade principles, thus boldly- avows his present sentiments, in his answer to the address from the borough of Bridgnorth : It has always been the study of the late Government to carry into practical application those principles of civil and religious liberty which are founded upon natural justice, and which are eminently conducive to the happiness and well-being of mankind, and we trust that our endeavours in this respect have not been fruitless. We attempted to apply to the commercial legislation of the country those principles of trade, the soundness and truth of which have long been demonstrated in reasoning, and which all enlightened men have for many years ac knowledged as the only sure foundation for the permanent prosperity of nations. But a combination of monopolists prevailed, and private interests triumphed over public good. The victory so achieved will, however, be short lived. Reason will, in the end, prove stronger than pre judice, and the great interests of the community must finally overrule the resistance of the few. Even the mo. nopolists will find that they delude themselves as to the advantages which they fancy they derive from the pre sent system of commercial restriction ; for no class of men can build up permanent prosperity for themselves upon a system which is ruinous to the nation of which they form a part. All this is good, and we find no fault with the Noble Lord, while he avows a deference to natural justice, that his application of the prin ciple, when he was obliged in office to defer to so many selfish interests, did not agree exactly with our own. He places the combination of monopolists in opposition to certain principles— we conclude, those of free trade ; he asserts that the public good was sacrificed to private inte rests; and lie looks to reason proving in the end stronger than prejudice. We have no doubt whatever that the great interests of the com munity must finally overrule the resistance of the few; and it is of great public advantage to have it clearly stated by a leading politician that the public interest has been, and is now, sacrificed by that combination of monopolists who have, for a short period, got hold of the Government. Under that banner, England and Scotland will rally and eject the Tories. We look back, with Lord JohN RUSSELL, to the defeats which the Tories have formerly sustained; we see them conquered when their power was un scathed; we now see them feeble, disjointed, guar_ rolling amongst themselves—the Church, their great prop, crumbling into repelling particles ; we see them again, as before, taking the side of wrong against right, of prejudice against reason, and we look forward to their certain defeat. - But their next defeat will be more disastrous than any they ever suffered. Peei% and Commoners, Clergy and Laity, Land-lords and Money-lords, have all united to form one overwhelming Parliamentary majority in support of mono poly and barefaced injustice. They unite to resist the laws of nature, and in opposition to their own desires. They are greedy of wealth, greedy of a large revenue, and they unite to up hold a monopoly which is cutting asunder the sinews of the national greatness. They must fail, and will exhibit to the world a large Parlia mentary. majority defeated by a principle. The Tories fancy they are securing a monopoly, but they are in truth destroying the Government, and substituting another power for the power of a Parliamentary majority. Madrid Papers of the 27th ult. state that Es- PARTERO is overwhelmed with congratulatory addresses on the success with which he has crushed the rebellion. The French Govern ment is also quite reconciled with him, so that he will now have an opportunity of consult ing th• domestic welfare of Spain. The funds continued suspiciously high on the 27th. The Fives being at 321 for cash. The official Gazette publishes the text of the letter written by Queen Maria of Portugal to Queen Isabella of Spain. It is as follows : "My dear Sister and Cousin—l have learnt with the greatest grief the attempt on the dignity of the Royal person on the 7th instant, by some troops who, forget ting their principal duty, have dared to attack your Ma jesty's own Palace, which ought to be held sacred, and is confided to the guardianship of a part of these troops. The close ties of relationship and of sincere friendship which unite me to your Majesty, Trust as sure you how great was my satisfaction on learning that the powerful hand of Divine Providence had dis concerted the dark plans of anarchists ; for by saving the Royal person, it has preserved for the Spanish Monarchy the most solid guarantees of its prosperity. Accept, your Majesty, this faithful expression of the sentiments I experience for you, and with which I shall always be, my dear sister and cousin, thy good sister and cousin. " MARIA. The French Journals have been duly re ceived. They contain a long, but very un interesting report of the first day's pro ceedings in the trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices, by the Court of Peers, on Friday. Of course the Court Journals treat the affair with a world of gravity, with a view to pre pare the public mind for the sentence of the Court. No spectacle could be more un dignified than that presented on Friday by the Court of Peers. QIJENISSET treated his accom plices with outrageous contumely, without once being called to order by his Judges. Seldom indeed does a French Court of Justice resemble anything in the world so much as a bear-garden. The French Government has given up all idea of intervention in the affairs of Spain. The following news from the Spanish frontier s copied from the official columns of the 1110- niteur • " According to news from Bayonne of the Ist instant, the Spanish custom-houses were definitively established at Irun on the morning of the same day. Carabinies (Spanish Custom -house officers) were placed at the foot of the bridge over the Bidassoa. " News from Perpignan, dated Nov. 30, state that on the 28th the state of siege was raised at Barcelona by the Minister of War. The President of the Provisional Mu nicipality declared that his functions ceased, the dismissed municipality claiming them back." The official part of the Moniteur announces that Count Luxburg, the Bavarian Minister, had had a private au dience of the King, to present a letter from his Sove reign, announcing the death of the Queen Dowager of Bavaria, on which occasion the Court will go into mourn ing for twenty days, from Saturday, the 4th instant, not including Christmas-day. The National says it has been called four times, within three months, before the Court of Assizes of the Seine, and has been acquitted three times. It had appealed against the sentence of the Bth of October, by which the editor was condemned to four months' imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 francs. The National having withdrawn its appeal, has had the sentence notified to it, and will have to pay, within a fortnight, the 5,000 francs, in cluding the 10 per cent. war-tax, and other expenses. The National has another trial to undergo, for which the President of the Court of Assize has thought fit to give it notice.—Constitution net. _ _ The Observateur des Pyrenees of the Ist says:— " Notice has been given by the military sub-intendant to the contractor for forage to suspend the supplies, in con sequence of counter-orders given to the Ist Regiment of Dragoons which was to arrive at Paris on the 6th of December, as well as to the other squadrons of the same corps, which were to pass through on the 10th of this month, on their way to Sainte Marie. This regiment is to halt at Bordeaux till further orders." Yesterday and to-day the Agents and Commissioners of Police examined the shops and warehouses of the gunsmiths, to satisfy themselves that all the lire-arms were not in condition to be used immediately. It is not only at Paris that the troops are kept in readiness to act immediately, the garrison of the Banlicu and the fortifications has also received orders to be in readiness to march. The Artillery at Vincennes is not only ready to leave its barracks at the first summons, but has even some guns loaded, in case they should be wanted. —Commerce. BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 4. First Highest Lowest Price Piice. Pricy.. Fri;;;. French 5 per Cent 5........... 116 40 ... 116 40 ... 116 30 ... 116 30 3 per Cents... Bl 15 80 15 ... 80 ... 80 15 Rank of trance Lattitte 8ank.1.0009. Shares 1030 ...If3l ...IMO ...1030 5,000 f. Shares 5050 ...5050 ...5040 ...5040 Belgian Bank 1841 Belgian 5 per Cents. si,..nish Active Y4 ... 24 ... ‘,3% ... 24 Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% Portuguese 3 per Cents. Neapolitan Roman, ex. div ..... 103 ... 102 ... 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 745 715 ... 745 745 Versailles, K, is 312 50 213 ... 312 50 315 LB l9B 75 ... W 4 75 ... 75 ... 198 75 Rouen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455 orn,ris Mulhausen to Thann ..... 320 ... 320 ... 321 320 Str , sourgtoßale,shares red 218 75 ... 218 75 ... 217 50 217 50 RICH IS THE TRUE CHURCH.—A Puseyite correspondent of the Post asserts that the Pu seyites are much more faithful followers of the Rubrick than their opponents, whom he stigma. tises as Calvinists, and contends that the Pusey ites follow the true orthodox Church of England. He quotes as one proof that the Rubrick com mands fasting on the Sundays, and he avers that the Calvinists, or low Church party, far from fasting on that sacred day, make a point of feast ing. We are of opinion, after much contempla tion on this important subject, that lie makes out a case against himself. The Church of England, on rather the Clergy of that Church, have long repudiated and set aside fasting as entirely heterodox and uncanonical. If the Rubrick order the clergy to fast, it must be wrong ; they leave that altogether to the starving laity. It is a mon strous contradiction to give them great masses of wealth and then prescribe fasting to them. The Puseyites must, by mistake, have adopted the Gospel of the Essenes, which the feasting Church of England has long ago rejected. It holds fast ing by the priesthood in abhorrence. "N 1 APP`i - ..:, • • N•, - ,e? • a u ft 3L - C t , • 'A I 7 IPII. . Allll4, MORNING SUN THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1841. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert left town at five minutes past twelve o'clock yesterday in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for Windsor Castle. The Infant Prince was in the same carriage with her Majesty and his Royal Highness. A chariot and four followed, containing Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting on Prince Albert. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal and her attendants occupied the next carriage. The two following carriages and four conveyed the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal Suite, consisting of the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Hawarden, and Mr. J. R. Ormsby Gore. Her Majesty and the Prince were conducted to their carriage by the i Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Vice-Chamberlain, and Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting on his Royal Highness. Immediately on her Majesty's departure from Buck ingham Palace, the Royal Standard was lowered from the marble arch. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty on Sunday afternoon. Their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and Prince Ed ward of Saxe Weimar, arrived at the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway in Euston-square, yesterday evening, from Sudbury Hall, the residence or their August Relative the Queen Dowager. Their Se rene Highnesses immediately proceeded to Marlborough House Pall-Mall, where they arrived at half-past six His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester, on Sunday, at Gloucester House. His Royal Highness, attended by Col. Jones, returned to his residence at Kew in the evening. Sir James Graham arrived in town yesterday from his residence, Netherby, near Carlisle. A deputation frOm the East India Cotton Company, consisting of Sir John Campbell, Sir Peter Dillon, Messrs. 11. Tuckett, John Howell, and William Shep pard, Directors, Mr. E. Lawrence, Solicitor, and Mr. F. Maxwell Dawson, and Mr. William Pare, Secretaries, h a d un intcrricw ,ILIA Lehi Fitzgerald, .resident 01 the Board of Control on Saturday. A deputation of lace manufacturers, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon, and the Right Hon. W. Glad stone yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches from the Governors of the Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Infant Prince and the Princess Royal, and attended by the Royal Suite, arrived at the Castle from town a few minutes after two o'clock this afternoon. The Royal Party in four carriages and four, were escorted to the Castle by a detachment of the Royal Re giment of Horse Guards. The bells rang out a merry peel in honour of the oc casion, and cannon were fired both at Windsor and Eton. _ . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'B.—YESTERDAY. A few engagements were entered into on the Derby, but the amounts in most cases were small, and the odds pretty nearly the same as those quoted on Thursday last; nothing, in fact, was done to call for any introductory observations :- 8 to 1 agst Col. Peel's lot—taken 9 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Attila—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Vernlam's Robert de Gorham 25 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord of Holderness—t. 35 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wiseacre 40 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's William de Fortibus— taken and afterwards offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes' Meteor—t. and aftd. offered 45 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland--taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Phoenix— taken and afterward offered 50 to 1 agst Mr. Cooke's Palinurus—ditto 60 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Canadian—taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord Albemarle's Robin—taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord Westminster's Primrose c—taken 1000 to 45 agst all the mares--taken 1000 to 20 each agst Espartero and St. James—in one bet, and 1000 to 15 each agst Palinurus, Canadian, and Brother to Phcenix, in one bet—taken. THE OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Passion—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Dorothy—taken The Hampton Victoria Coursing Club will course at Epsom on Wednesday and Thursday, the 15th and 16th inst ; Mr. Lumley having given up to them the two days granted him by Mr. Ladbroke. BELGIAN PAPERS. LEGHORN, Nov. 22.—The last attempt to raise the sunk steam-boat Pollux has failed, and the enterprise is now given up. The expense incurred by the attempt is probably not under 200,000 florins. It falls entirely on the Steam Navigation Company, as the owners of the money and effects on board the vessels would not consent to contribute towards it. The number of persons travelling southwards is very great. I ,The steamers to Civita Vecchia and Naples are constantly full. Though stormy voyages are frequent at this season of the year, travellers prefer them to the ge nerally bad accommodation in the inns on the road, and the shameful conduct of the postillions. PALERMO, Nov. 16.—The inhabitants of Palermo still enjoy the pleasure of the presence of the Royal Family. Every morning his Majesty, without attend ants, is seen in a plain great coat, walking in the court of the Royal Palace, and mingling in the crowd who wait for him, to present all kinds of petitions, which the King receives very graciously—quite a new thing here. The King likewise turns his attention to the public security, which has been endangered for some weeks in several parts of the land, by some bands of robbers, who have es caped from the forts of Patti or Milaggo, which are used as prisons. Besides the audience of ceremony, which his Majesty gives in tho open air, he likewise gives public audience once in the week, and private audience every day, in the Palace. The Sicilians are known to be no friends to the Neapolitans, and unwillingly bear the government of the other side of the Jero ; but the affability with which the King receives every petition, and the rapidity with which most of them are considered, gain him the hearts of the people in an extraordinary manner. BELGIAN *l3 NM—Bunions ism g. Actual Debt, 2 per Cent. ............ .... s9x Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ..... .... »• DI th Loan of Thirty P4illlons, 4 per Cent. 92 3per Cent. ".. .." .... Thirty-eevei 1932,4 per Cent ....... . ...... . . ..... 71 S.:, (1u4o) ............... 101% Bank of Belgium, 5 per 4% S L o o c a l n e t o y f o C f i C tV oin ' morce, 41.1, per Cent ......... Nat ion a 1 Society . Exchange oli London (short) ........ - _Brussels Papers, Dec.:4. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viairma, Noy. 27. Five per Celts. Metalliques ..... .......... 105% Four .............. 99% Three per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ..... es 75 Bank Shares •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• mu..., 1609 zestuhg. Dec. 1. THE GLOBE.—In mentioning last week the exertions of The Sun in forwarding to this place the earliest account of the Gazette Extraordinary, we had no intention whatever of doing the least injustice to the Globe, to which it adverted on Monday last. We now understand that the Brevet also appeared in a Second Edition of that Journal, but we can assure our talented Contemporary, that on inquiry at the News-rooms, Li braries, and other places of public resort, we still find that the copies of the Globe and Standard, which reached these towns, did not contain the promotions which were so anxiously looked for at this important naval and mili tary station.—Devonport Independent. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public eptuton, " Who runs read." N. The'Overland MaiI POREIG from India bri"gs no news from China, except that the settlement at Hong Kong pro mises to be healthy and convenient. Abundance of Chinese labourers and artisans have entered the service of the British, as assistants in the erection of the-neces sary works. Sir Henry Pottinger has ordered Canton River to be strictly blockaded. A war with the " golden- footed" monarch of Burmah Tharawaddie, is regarded at Bombay as imminent. On the Gt h of September the Kin.' of Burmah left his capital for Rangoon, at the head of a well-appointed army, variously estimated at from 100,000 to 200,000 men. Lord Auckland was preparing for the worst with his usual promptitude. Two ships of war, two war schooners, and eight finely-appointed steamers, were in readiness to destroy the naval force of the Burmese in the Irrawaddy. There is no doubt that the Burmese monarch is acting under instructions received from the Celestial Court of Pekin. We have a good deal of miscellaneous news from Cen tral India, the substance of which cannot be compressed within the limits of a paragraph. The disturbances in Syria are over for the present. The trial of Quenisset for an attempt to murder the Royal Princes commenced in the Court of Peers in Paris on Friday. The Court sat from twelve o'clock to six in the afternoon. Nothing transpired of any interest. We have an account of another revolution in Mexico. The President Bustamente has been deposed by General Sahta Anna. Never was there such a quarrelsome set of fellows as the men who aim at being the rulers of the South American Republics. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Ch ron i c l e h as the following remarks in a leading article on the subject of Chancery Reform : " We do not object to the not having a commission ; and we think on the whole that the continuance of the quiet and unpretending course pursued under Lord Cottenham promises us the surest practical results. But can there be conceived a more contemptible fraud than that of the organ of a Government taking credit to its friends for the good acts of the preceding Goveratment, and endea vouring to get them a spurious credit by giving a pompous and incorrect description, calculated to make the continuance of measures already in active progress pass for the commencement of a new and great re form ? The Times, in the article of the Bth of Novem ber, after its high-sounding misdescription of the measure contemplated by the Government, goes on, in its-.usual execrable taste, to draw odious comparisons between Sir Robert Peel's reforms and those of other men. Sir R. Peel's reforms,' it tells us, are not of the kind that fill the pockets of the Reformers. The reforms here contem plated tend, on the contrary, to the retrenchment of pa tronage, and the reduction of expense ; and if they repay their authors it will be only in the approbation and respect of the public." Half of this praise —and that the larger half (for it is just before admitted that the Chancery inquiry holds out the prospect of advantages still more important,' than that relating to the revenue), we claim for the late Ministry, and expect the repentant Times to enforce our claim. - '" When we have shown that the act praised is one attributable entirely to the late Ministry, and not at all to the present, our Contem porary's praises will, as a matter of course, descend on the heads of those who did the praiseworthy act." The Post, in default of some more attractive theme, thus sings the praises of the Irish Viceroy, and his sys• tem of policy :—" The Lord-Lieutenant appears to have managed admirably. He appears to combine firmness with frankness, and a determination to be reasonable, with a disposition to be not only courteous, but kind. Human nature is not so bad but that a man in a very elevated situation may almost always succeed, if he will but carry himself in this way. However, it too often happens, either that the man of kindly and generous dis position is wanting in prudence and deliberate justice, and so becomes a partisan, or that, having the gift of pru dence and the habit of calmly weighing what is best, he is destitute of the frankness which begets esteem, and the cordiality which inspires affection. After the truckling explanation or apology volunteered to Mr. West, the Orangeman, for not giving him the Sergeant's coif in preference to Mr. Warren, the less the Post says of the Lord Lieutenant's " firmness" the better. Equally injudicious is it to eulogise his impartiality, for he has already made it manifest that he is a decided par tisan, though not perhaps to so desperate an extent as were the Tory Irish Viceroys in the days of the borough mongers. The Times still continues to cavil, with evident sore ness, at Lord John Russell's late reply to the Plymouth Address, observing:—" If Lord John Russell had never produced anything better than his answer to the Ply mouth Address, we certainly should not have troubled ourselves to notice it. A more fretful, fractious, froward little manifesto, and more utterly devoid of merit, either solid or showy, has never obtruded itself upon public ob servation. But Lord John is not really so ineffective a personage as might be supposed from the mere perusal of that paper. He is. out and out, the most influential person of the party he leads—nay, he is himself the party —and in that view of him his failures are, perhaps, as im portant as his SIIPeOCCPC di.posod on Saturday of that ludicrous passage in which he gives credit to the Whigs for having died - of patriotism. He then goes on to console the people with the assurance that if they be hut united, the great cause which those virtuous States men perished in the attempt to advance, will finally tri umph, and prohibitory duties share the fate of religious disqualifications, negro slavery, and other works of darkness.'"—After vainly endeavouring to convince its readers that Lord John Russell's reply was a most insignificant affair, and created not the slightest sensation, the Times discovers that it is by no means in significant ; but that, as proceeding from his Lordship, it is, in reality, a matter of considerable importance ! What faith can be placed in the opinions of a Journal, which thus blows hot and cold with the same breath, and which flatly contradicts to-day, what it said but yester day ? The fact is, Lord John, in his Plymouth address, has inflicted such hard, straightforward blows on the Tories, that they will wince under them for some weeks to come. Hence the repeated attacks of the Times on his Lordship. The Herald, after praising collectively and individu ally the present Tory Government, goes on to observe that—" There is gradually arising in this country a powerful and a somewhat neutral party, conservative in principle, but practical in views. This party desires to see the country governed in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution ; but governed in that spirit for the be nefit of the mass of the people ; its primary test of good government is legislation on the Church. It desires to see the Church made available for the moral and reli gious instruction of every human being in the kingdom. This party is not content simply to deplore the evils of dissent and sectarianism ; its object is to draw the peo ple within the pale of the established religion. It sees in the inefficient means at the disposal of the Establishment a continual provocative to Dissent, and it will never be satisfied until the accommodation of the Church, its means of doing good, and its ability to instruct, be com mensurate to the increasing population of England."— The allusion in the above passage to the inefficient means at the disposal of the Church, though urged in all seri ousness, wears an aspect of the most cutting irony. Who does not know that, even with all the retrench ments lately made, the Church is the richest religious establishment in the world? What though the Bishop of London, with an income of at least ten thousand a year, lately pleaded poverty and almost insolvency ; and his Grace of Canterbury has been reformed to the tune of fifteen thousand a year ?—still the Church pos sesses funds sufficient, and more than sufficient, for all beneficial purposes, would it so apply them. llas it not an exorbitantly wealthy staff of deans and chapters, rectors, pluralists, canons and minor canons without number ; and cannot ample means be found among these for effecting that further good to which the Herald re fers ? We have no patience with this incessant canting cry about the poverty of the Church ; and think it quite as ridiculous as the heart-broken lamentations of the Bishop of Exeter when he was deprived of his fat rectory of Stanhope ! The Devonport Telegraph remarks as follows on the Emigration question :—" The objection to emigration, on the ground that it is an expedient to stave off the grander remedy of a repeal, or an extensive modification of the Corn-laws, accompanied by an enlightened re vision of our tariff, we hold as groundless—for this reason, no scheme of emigration, however extensive, will render the continuance of the Corn-laws in their pre sent form possible. The demand for a change must and will go on till it forces itself irresistibly on the attention of the rulers." In reference to the late Brevet, the Liverpool Chronicle remarks:—" At last the miseries of the people have reached the hearts of our Tory rulers and they have begun to relieve their wants in good earnest. We know not how many Admirals, Blue, White, and Yellow; nor how many Generals, Colonels, Majors, and so forth have been snatched from the verge of starvation, and had something added to their wretched pittance to carry them through the rigours of the approaching winter. Now, therefore, since the work of feeding the hungry has so merrily commenced, we trust that it may not be confined to the gentlemen who wear red coats and blue coats, but may be extended to those also who have no coats at all." The Dublin Evening Post says :—" Suppose Parlia ment will turn a deaf ear to the appeals which will be made to it next Spring—how is Sir Robert Peel to carry on the Government ? He will change discontent into disaffection, and he will be obliged to call, meantime, upon the nation for means to relieve the Exchequer from its financial difficulties. It is not two millions and a half alone that he must ask. Half a million more will be absolutely necessary to supply the deficiency caused by the Exchequer frauds, and to rebuild that part of the Tower - which has recently been consumed. Will he borrow ? What, in the present state of the market ? If not, what tax will he lay on ? Upon beer, spirits— exciseable articles, in, short ? They can bear no more." We quote the following from the Scotsman :—" The scurvy conduct of the Duke of Wellington to the Paisley deputation has occasioned general surprise. When Sir Robert Peel gave a donation of fifty pounds to the Paisley Relief Fund, the Tory papers a ll u d e d to t h e circumstance as a triumphant refutation of the c h arge against the Government, of indifferenc e t o t h e sufferings of the people. What will they now say of the Duke ? The niggardliness which sometimes accompanies great wealth may be alleged as an apology ; but - the position of the Duke, as leader of the House of Peers, th e f ac t of his having received enormous sums fr om t h e pu bli c purse, and the suspicion attached to his party, of indif ference to the distress existing among the working classes, all demanded a different line of conduct." The Cambrian makes the following Comment on the Chartists ;—" The Chartists are impressed with an erroneous beliefof their own power, and that tb eir chance of carrying their favourite ineitsure is much i 3 carer than the world believe it to be. We are not or the opinion of the Times, and other Tory organs, who, having long since broken the hollow truce which they had formed with them, now denominate the majority of the Char tists a "set of incorrigible scoundrels r On the con trary, we, who know them better, consider them like their neighbours, of the average honesty, but sorely misled as to the state of public opinion, arid the relative strength of parties in Great Britain." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The Committees for the formation of the Great National Anti-Corn-law Bazaar at Manchester have commenced active operations. Not fewer than 200 ladies of that town and neighbourhood are lending theii services in aid of the good work. The general distress appears to have made a great impression on the female mind, not only there but at Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, and generally through the manufacturing districts. ECCLESIASTICAL. The Rev. Edward Bankes, rector of Corfe Castle, has been appointed to the office of official of the peculiar and exempt jurisdiction of Wimborne Minster, by the resig nation of W. J. Bankes, Esq. The Non-Intrusionist party in. Scotland lately applied to Dr. Cooke, the Moderator of the Irish Presbyterian Assembly, to call that body together to make a demon stration in their behalf. When Melbourne was Minister, the Irish Presbyterians, with Cooke at their head, were willing to annoy him by backing the wild men in the north. Now, the Rev. Doctor turns round and laughs at them. " Sir R. Peel," said he "is at the head of affairs, and we will not budge." NAVAL AND MILITARY. More recent accounts than those referred to on Satur day represent the Niger Expedition as in a deplorable condition. One-third of the crews have been in an in valid state, about 22 have died from the disastrous cli mate. It was doubted, indeed, whether the expedition could proceed. . . The Equestrian, the largest ship ever built in Hull, measuring 800 tons register, 1,200 tons burden, and in tended for East India trade, was launched on Saturday from the ship-yard there. LAW AND POLICE. _ _ _ _ Ten of the Irish stipendiary Magistrates, appointed by the late Government, are to be removed forthwith. In a public notice issued by Lord Eliot, intimation is given that the dismissed functionaries will receive an allowance of 331. for the cost of removal, and Is. per mile to carry them home. On Saturday a long investigation took place before the Croydon Magistrates, upon an information charging the master of the workhouse with forcibly causing the hair of a pauper to be cut off, when the Bench convicted the defendant, and sentenced him to pay a fine of SL, or to be imprisoned for one month. ELECTIONEERING. It is now stated, and from undoubted authority, that the Liberals will oppose Lord Bruce, or any other Con servative who may put up for Southampton. Mr. Walter is spoken of, but whether truly, we cannot at present affirm. SPORTING. By the deaths of the Marquis of Lothian, the Earls of Home and Elgin, three vacancies are caused in the Ca ledonian Hunt Club. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Her Majesty and suite left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle at twelve o'clock yesterday. The Earl - and—Guuntess of Harrington have returned to Harrington-house, Whitehall, from Brighton. The Duke of Buckingham has arrived at Stowe from town. Lord Hill left Belgrave-square early in the past week for Hardwick Grange, near Shrewsbury. The Bishop of Jerusalem and family were to sail from Portsmouth on Saturday last, for Malta, in her Majesty's steamer Devastation. The Earl of Lonsdale is !nearly recovered ;from his late indisposition. The Earl of Westmoreland continues dangerously ill, at his residence on the Marine Parade, Brighton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro reached town on Saturday from Norwich, and will leave in a few days for Strathiteldsaye. MISCELLANEOUS. The remains of Sir Francis Chantrey were consigned yesterday to the tomb, at his native village, Norton, in Derbyshire. Last summer he visited the place, and had his vault prepared in the parish church-yard. The investigation respecting the treatment of paupers in the Sevenoaks Union, terminated on Friday, having lasted for seven days, and as far as can be learnt from, the remarks made by Mr. Tufnell, the Poor-law Com missioner, the conduct of the Master and Mistress of the workhouse was such as to justify their dismissal. Lords Frederick Fitzclarence and Glenlyon were last week installed as Masons at the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. Yesterday, at ten o'clock, the Tower was re-opened _to the public. The ruins and regalia were open to visi tors at the same rate of admission as formerly. Yesterday was the festival of St. Nicholas. In England ho has been worshipped from the earliest times by sea faring men of every denomination ; and it is worthy of notice, that there is scarcely a place of any note around our coast, or adjoining the principal rivers, but has some sacred edifice dedicated to him. On Tuesday the funeral of Lord Elgin, took place at Dunfermline. The body arrived in a steamer on Satur day, and at two o'clock on Tuesday it was deposited in the family cemetery bolow tho Now Abbey Ohutt;h. His Lordship was much beloved in that part of Fifeshire, where he had considerable property. At the Criminal Court, on Saturday, a witness de scribed himself as a " penman ;" but, on being asked in what species of " penmanship" he was employed, he re plied that he " penned" sheep in Smithfield-market. Our Glossop Correspondence says :—" It seems Sir Robert Peel has at last considered his measures, for bar racks are now being built at Ashton-under-Lyne which will accommodate 3,000 soldiers. So it appears we are to have barracks instead of workhouses, and bullets in stead of bread !"—This is a revival of one of the worst features of the Sidmouth and Castlereagh system, who, whenever the people clamoured for bread, made a point of furnishing them with bullets, as being easier of diges tion of the two. The Court of Chancery was first established in 605, and the present one by William the Conqueror in 1066. Judges were appointed, and the kingdom divided into three circuits, three to each, in 1176. Juries were first introduced in 970 ; in Scotland, in civil cases, not until 1815. The Star Chamber Court was instituted 1487, but this remnant of injustice and barbarity was abolished 1611. Swearing on the Gospel was first used in 528. RUMOURS OF THE 3).ELY. It is rumoured, according to the Naval and Military Gazette, that Lord Hill, the General Commanding-in- Chief, is about to retire from office, and to be succeeded by Sir George Murray ; that Captain Sir Francis Collier has been offered the appointment of Captain-Superinten dent of Pembroke Dockyard, vice Jackson, promoted ; that Captain Peter Fisher (1814) will succeed Rear- Admiral Bowles as Comptroller-General of the Coast-Guard Service ; that Colonel Sir Thomas Willshire, or Major-General D'Aguilar will suc ceed to the command at Chatham, receiving only the same emoluments as the late Colonels Com mandant ; that Major-General Sir Neil Douglas, or Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence:. will succeed to the command of the troops in Scotland ; that the Deputy Adjutant-Generalship in Ireland will be given to Colonel Wade, Colonel Thomas Napier, or Colonel Simpson ; and that the Deputy Quartermaster-General ship in Ireland will be given to Colonel Bainbrigge; that Colonel Lord John Somerset will succeed Major-General Fannce as Inspecting Field Officer at Bristol ; and Colo nel Middleton, Assistant Commandant at the Cavalry Depot, Maidstone, succeed Major-General Brotherton as Commandant. Further, that the Major-Generals of Dis tricts (now Lieutenant-Generals) are not to be removed before March next. It is said the Tories are about to make Mr. George Lane Fox a Peer, by the title of Lord Bingley. STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. A FATHER AND SON DROWNED. On Thursday evening last a very serious occurrence took place on the river off Rotherhithe, by the running down of a waterman's skiff by the Orwell, Wing, master, on her voyage from Ipswich to London. Several incor rect statements respecting the accident have gone forth to the public, the following is, however, an accurate re port of the calamity. About five o'clock on Thursday evening, Charles Gore, a waterman plying at Lime house-hole-stairs, took into a skiff belonging to Mr. T. Wood, a respectable lighterman, nine persons, for the purpose of conveying them to Cuckold's Point, Bother hithe, on the opposite shore. Among the passengers were John Catlin, a butcher, aged forty- two, and John Catlin, his son, aged nine years, both in the employ of Mr. W. Lambert, an extensive shipping butcher, residing in the West India Dock-road. They had got about two thirds across the stream, and were pulling towards the point very steadily, when the Orwell steamer was ob served coming up the river at full speed, a practice highly censurable after sunset in a crowded pool. She continued bearing towards the boat, though the wa terman and his passengers hailed the vessel to stop. At that time the Orwell was within a few yards of the skiff, when the engines were stopped, but not in time to pre vent the collision ; the vessel struck the skiff, passed right over her before her way was stopped, and immersed the ten passengers in the water. Several watermen who saw the accident rowed with all possible despatch to the assistance of the unfortunate people in the water, seven of whom were picked up. Catlin and his son were seen clinging to each other when the boat was capsized, and the little fellow screamed aloud, "Save me, father, save me !" Directly afterwards they disappeared, and were drowned. The boat of the steamer was lowered and searched for the unfortunate man and his child, but was unable to find them. The wreck of the skiff has been since recovered, and was lying yesterday high and dry on the ground adjoining the West India Dock entrance. The skiff was a strong-built one, capable of carrying 20 passengers, and was not over-loaded. Mr. Bloomfield, a surgeon in High-street, W a p p i ng, who was a passenger on board the Orwell, states that she lost an hour in the morning in the Ipswich river, in con sequence of the River Queen, a small steamer which conveys the passengers to her, getting aground, when she was going at full speed in the dark up the pool. Mr. Lambert has offered a reward for the recovery o f the bodies, and ha s issued p rinted b ills giving a descrip tion of the man and his son. Th e elder Catlin hadb been a faithful and st ead y servant to Mr. Lambert for 21 years, and has left a widow and four and child ren to de plore his loss. The tide was running down very fast when the colli sion took place GREENWICH POLICE.—On Friday Mr. Jeremy said he felt much pleasure in stating that another half sovereign had been forwarded to him for the benefit of the girl Eliza Lovelace, by a gentleman who had read the report of her destitute case in the newspapers. THE CROYDON UNION. IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION. Saturday being appointed for the hearing of the info'' , mation against the Master of the Croydon Workhouse for misconduct, in ill-using one of the inmates of the es tablishment, the Magistrates assembled at the Town-hall at twelve o'clock, and the Court was soon filled by the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, who evinced the utmost anxiety to hear the proceedings. The Magis trates composing the bench were—l). R. Warrington, Esq., Chairman; J. Read, Esq.; J. Currie, Esq.; E. R. Adams, Esq.; and S. L ucas , E sq. Th e Deputy Chair man and several members of the Board of Guardians were present. The informationeharged that the defendant, being Mas ter of the Croydon Union Workhouse, was summoned to answer the complaint of the Board of Guardians for having, on the Bth day of November, at the parish of Croydon, misconducted himself in the said workhouse, by ill-treat ing John Clark, a poor person, then in such workhouse, contrary to the statute, and for which offence he had ren dered himself liable to any penalty not exceeding 20/. Mr. Andrews attended on behalf of the Board of Guar dians, and Mr. John Drummond attended for the de fendant. Richard Smith was then called, and in answer to ques tions from Mr. Andrews, he said that he was a pauper in the workhouse, and he recollected the man, John Clark, being in the house as a mendicant pauper. On the morning after he came in he saw the master of the house and the porter talking to him in the front yard, and he heard Clark say he would not have his hair cut, and that he would stab the first man who attempted to cut it. The master of the workhouse had been insisting upon cutting his hair, before he said he would stab any man who attempted to do it. The master then ordered Clark to go into the mendicant's room, and the defendant told him to fetch the scissors, and he did so. He went into the room and found the master and the porter strug gling with Clark, and the latter had a knife in his hand. The knife was not open. While they were struggling the iron weight of the skylight struck Clark on the nose accidentally. After they had struggled some time the master ordered a strait-waistcoat to be brought, and Clark then said he would give in, but if any Magistrate could be found he would have satisfaction. He would not allow his hair to be cut till the strait-waistcoat was brought, and it was not done by his permission or con sent. The man's clothes were torn during the scuffle, and not afterwards. Witness was generally employed to cut the hair of the paupers, but it was not usual to do it on Sunday evenings. Cross -examined—He was alarmed at the violence of the man, and during the struggle was kicked by him. Believes the clothes of the man were torn in the struggle to get the knife from him. It is the custom of the work house to cut the hair of the mendicant paupers some time or other, before they leave the house. He generally cut the hair at night, unless he happened to be in bed, and then it was done in the morning. On Sunday nights it is generally left till the Monday morning, and it being the custom that they should do a certain por tion of work before they go away ; their hair is cut for the purpose of cleanliness before they mix with the other paupers. If the man had submitted quietly, he would have been put on the mill with the other paupers, and then have had his breakfast and been discharged. Clark appeared very excited, and he was, in consequence, discharged without being put to work. He cut his hair in the best way he could. He was no barber. Mr. DRUMMOND—Did you cut his hair in a way so as to disfigure him ? Witness—l don't know. I cut it round in front the best way I could. I cut it the same as I always cut the hair. I generally cut the hair of the mendicant paupers. Mr. CURRIE—Who gave you directions to cut the man's hair ? Witness—The master of the workhouse. William Truncheon, the porter, was next examined. He stated that on Monday morning, the Bth November, the defendant told him that Clark had drawn a knife upon him. This was in the mendicants' room. Witness told Clark that he was a constable, and asked him to give up the knife. He refused to give it up. It was not open. The master ordered me to take the knife from him, and we both tried to do so, and we at length, after a struggle, got it away. Did not hear Clark make use of any threat. He struggled with us, and that was how his clothes were torn. The master of the workhouse cut a lock of his hair off and then gave the scissors to Smith, and told him to cut it. He refused to have his hair cut until a strait-waistcoat was brought, and he then took off his coat and waistcoat and threw them down, and said, " Now you may do what you like." Smith then cut his hair, and the master of the work house stayed while it was being done. The hair was not left long in some parts and short in others. A great many mendicants come into the house, and the hair of all of them is not cut. When it is already short enough it is not cut. It was in struggling for the knife that the man's clothes were tern. Mrs. Mercaud—There was no struggling when they had obtained possession of the knife. The hair of some of the other paupers, who had been admitted on the previous evening, was cut by Smith, and what he had said to the contrary must be a mistake. Clark seemed very much excited, and it appeared a very prudent and necessary step to take the knife away from him. At this stage of the proceedings a doubt was expressed whether the Bench was competent to adjudicate in the present matter, inasmuch as they were ex officio mem bers of the Board of Guardians. Mr. Drummond said he apprehended that the dis qualification would only extend to any matter apper taining to the relief of the settlement, and that they were quite competent to act as Magistrates, and to decide upon a complaint like the present. He would, however, waive any objection of this kind, and he was quite content that they should decide the case. Mr. Andrews now said that he had other witnesses to the same facts, if the Bench thought it necessary to ex amine them. Mr. DRUMMOND said, he would admit the facts to be as already stated. _ _ _ Mr. CURRIE—Do you admit the man's hair was cut against his will ? _ _ _ — Mr. DRUMMOND—I admit that, and I admit also that, in acting as he did, the master was not justified in law. All I wish to do is to show that there are extenuating circumstances ; and I hope to satisfy the Bench that a very slight fine will be sufficient to meet the justice of the case. A lengthened examination of witnesses then took place, respecting the instructions of the Guardians to the master of the workhouse, and one in particular, contain ing the words, "sheer his locks." At the conclusion the Court was cleared, and the Magistrates deliberated for about half an hour,'when the public were re-admitted. The Chairman, addressing the defendant, said that the Court convicted him of the offence imputed to him, and, under all the circumstances, adjudged him to pay a fine of 51. and costs, and in default he would be im prisoned for one month. have not heard.—Observer. Preparations for the new pantomimes (both at Drury-lane and Covent garden) have been going on for some time, and are now extremely active. That for Covent-garden has been written and concocted by one of the best authors of our day for broad fun and humour. Who has been entrusted with that for Drury-lane we The Railway Bridge, in consequence of the heavy rains (across the Bath road), has so far given way as to be considered quite insecure, at which from 50 to 100 men are engaged day and night, in order to prevent its falling. It is intended, we believe, to lengthen it.— Salisbury Herald. THE FIRE AT THE TOWER.—The Tower was yesterday opened to the public for the first time since the destruction of the Armoury. On Saturday last an ex tensive marquee was erected within the walls of the ruins, in which are placed tables and benches for the purpose of holdin g pieces of fused metal, musket and pistol bar rels, locks, flints, and other small articles, which have been got out of the rubbish during the clearing away. All these relics, as they are called, are carefully selected and arranged, according to their supposed value, and are ticketed at prices varying from 6d. to 11. Notwithstand ing the rain, which continued nearly the whole of the day, some hundreds of persons of both sexes availed themselves of the first opportunity afforded to view the ruins. It was generally supposed, that on admission within the gates the visitors would be at once allowed to inspect the remains of the armoury ; but they were soon undeceived, on learning that it was necessary to purchase a ticket at the Armoury-office, by virtue of which they were at liberty to view the whole of the Tower, accom panied by a Warden, just the same as before the calami tous event. It was amusing to see the anxiety many many ladies evinced to purchase a piece of fused metal or clinker, run into some fantastic shape, and the gre a t care with which they were deposited in reticules. A prepared for th e recept i on of which been will be removed i n t h e course now the of a few days from Messrs. Rundel and Bridge's. C e r p o n w r-t n ni j e e n w t e I s h , as DEAFNESS.—Sound Magnifiers, and I nv i s ible Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at an d a vanced age, and et old standing extreme deafness, to join 11 ' general conversa tion, and to catch the sound o f a distant low speaker at a publie assembly; they are the size of a very small gold seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity are not in the least perceptible nor more un comfortable than ; having a small piece of fine wool i n i ts place th ey are composed of a metal to collect sound, peculi ar to the 11 tessrs. S. and B. Solomons themselves ; and although they are yet they enable those aftli cted with so extremely small those who are only sli g htl y dull of hear ing e xtreme deafness, and to hear in every respect equal to those of most acute ihe ar B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-stre et, Piccadi lly, Messrs. S. and , opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King Willie Spectacles, immediately they are m i . a s e t ed ree h t, ef C o i r ty. i New f ly- t lnvz io ted . either by day or candlelight, that mist a e nd m lu e l r in e e e ss which az e i a ie r a ztnd rsbefore the eye s i s at once removed, every object hemming distinct, so that the most aged defective eye.sight be. comes bright and brilliant, and Is brought to its youthful, natural and original state. Those valuable inventions have gained the patronage of the Royal Family, and the unqualified approbation of above 400 of the principal members of the medical profession, and numerous individuals of high distinction, who have seen greatly benefited by their use. 39, Aibemarle.street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 78, King William-street, City.—No connexion with persons of the same name. CORONER'S INQUEST.—Last evening, at seven o'clock, an inquest was held in the Board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital on view of the body of Ann Brett, aged 12 years. The deceased resided with her parents at No. 54, Leonard-street, Shoreditch, and about 12 o'clock . on Sunday was in the front room on the second floor with an infant, who is between two and she came running down stairs with three years old, when her clothes in fl ame s, shrieking „ Oh, oh i , ~, Before any assistance could be rendered her she had proceeded into the back yard, and from thence into the street, whore some of the neighbours succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but her clothes were so much burnt that they fell from off. her. She was directly brought to this hos pital, and expired from the effects of the severe burns she bad sustained about ten o'clock yesterday morning, She stated that she was sweeping the hearth of the fire place, and that her pinafore caught fire, and that she 1 could not untie it. Her mother was at chapel at the time. Verdict—" Accidentally burnt to death." MORNING SUN DOUGLAS -ISLE OF MAN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1.-I arrived here last night, after an " awfully grand " passage of ten hours. I find my self all the better for my fortnight's recreation. A meeting was held in Douglas last night, to petition the Lords of the Treasury to allow foreign flour to be imported here duty free. The meeting was over before the packet got in, or I don't know but I might have given them " a stave." The Corn-laws must indeed be work ing dreadfully, when 500 Manxmen can be got to as semble themselves together to groan out, in the shape of a petition, against them ! ! UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. 4.—The Professor of Political Eco nomy has signified his intention to deliver some supple mentary lectures on colonization on Monday next and four following days, at the Clarendon, at two o'clock. The following gentlemen have been elected scholars of Jesus College :—L. C. Wood, J. Morgan, and R. P. Williams, all of the same College. Messrs. E. K. Kars lake, of Christ Church, and R. R. W. Lingen, of Trinity College, have been elected fellows of Balliol College. The election of a fellow on the Michel foundation of Queen's College will be holden on Thursday next. There were forty-eight candidates for University ho nours at the public examination just concluded ; of which four are placed in the first class, seventeen in the second, nine in the third, and nineteen in the fourth. A few appear in the latter, who, though they were not candi dates, yet were judged to merit that distinction, and a few were unsuccessful. Lord Crewe's trustees have appointed the Rev. W. Darnell, of Corpus Christi College, to the perpetual curacy of Bamburgh, Northumberland. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has instituted the Rev. E. Prodgers, of Trinity College, to the rectory of Upton Lovell, Wiltshire, on the presentation of the Lord Chan cellor. The Lord Bishop of Worcester has licensed the Rev. H. R. Surtees, of St. Mary Hall, to the curacy of Henley in -Arden, Warwickshire. The Rev. H. AL Barlow, of Wadham College, has been licensed to Christ Church, in the parish of St. Clement, Norwich. THE WEATHER AND FLOODS. AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. Exeter and the county generally have been visited by tremendous storms of wind and rain. The following particulars were obtained by our reporters, who ex pressly visited the places where the storm proved most destructive : It was at one time feared that the whole village of Crediton would have been destroyed. All its inhabitants concur in stating that they do not remember anything approaching to such a terrific flood. The bridge over the Creedy, on the Tiverton road, has been partially swept away, and for several hours after seven o'clock in the evening, the waters at Downes-bridge were so out that people were prevented going to, or returning from. Exeter. The storm appears to have extended many miles to the north and west, the roads having been im passable bet Ween Sandford and Morchard Bishop. At Sampford Courtenay, part of the Inn house, which ad joins a small brook, was swept clean off by the goods. The river Oak was never known to rise so high as it did on :Monday. The bridge was swept away at the instant an apprentice boy of Farmer Ellacott's was pass ing on horseback and driving a bullock, and all three were engulphed. The bullock • was found nine miles down the river the next day, but the body of the poo boy has not yet been discovered. In the parish of Colebrooke the devastation has been very great, and the destruction of property, chiefly be longing to people in the humbler classes of life, has, we regret to say, been very great. The river Collie, which has overflown its banks in several places, has laid waste and damaged a great deal of land, and in some instances, such was the suddenness of the storm, the cattle have been caught up by the rapidly formed floods and carried to great distances before they could be recovered and carried to places of safety. Four bridges have been swept away in its progress. In the little village of Coleford a melancholy and distressing : , pectacle meets the eye; no less than seven or eight buildings being entirely de stroyed, comprising the property of humble industrious individuals, who have, by this unfortunate event, been deprived of their little all. At Coleford three houses were inundated, and the foundations swept from beneath the buildings, leaving nothing to save them from a universal crash but a few timbers, which were barely sufficient to keep them standing, and the utmost efforts of the vil lagers were used to prevent the total destruction of the property. Another smith's shop and other outbuildings, belonging to James Da ve y, were also destroyed. The loss of property occasioned by this distressing occur rence may be roundly estimated at about 500/., the whole being the fruits of industrious labour. We hear that measures are already on foot for the purpose of re lieving the distresses of the unfortunate sufferers by sub scription among the gentry and yeomanry of the dis trict, and also for the erection of new bridges in the places of those which have been swept away. At Layne Ford, which was visited by a similar storm on Monday last, we have the painful duty to re cord the melancholy death, by drowning, of the lady and son of the Rev. Mr. Hughes, Curate of Clanuaborough, together with a male servant, named Knowles. On Monday last, the Rev. H. A. Hughes, of Clanna borough, and his family, went to Bondleigh (Rev. Mr. Garrow's) to meet a party of friends at a christening at that gentleman's house. They set off from Bondleigh (Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and servant in their phaeton, and his son on horseback) about six o'clock, to return to Clannaborough. The weather had been tempestuous, and the extraordinary heavy rain that fell about four o'clock the same afternoon had caused a violent swell of the brooks and rivers. They passed through one or two brooks without danger, though with difficulty, until they reached Hayne -bridge, which is below the village of Zeal, Monselborum, on the road to Bow ; here the waters were both extensively spread over the meadows, and the stream rapid. Here two labourers were waiting, ' being unable to return home, and, on Mr. Hughes's ap proach, persuaded him not to venture to pass. Mr. Hughes's son made the attempt to pass over the bridge on horseback, in which he succeeded, and turned back again to direct his father how best to come through. Returning upon the bridge his horse, either stumbling or getting his foot into a hole, fell directly over the side of the bridge with his rider. At this moment Mr. Hughes ap proaching with the carriage ; his horse turned, and the current taking the body of the carriage, carried the whole into the stream. The labourers heard a scream and a splash, and then all was silent as the grave. The fatal consequence of this awful calamity is the death of Mrs. Hughes, her son George Hughes, about 18, and the servant boy, about 15. Mr. Hughes himself was saved most providentially by the cool judgment and intre pidity of Mr. Ribbings, of Zeal, who, from his know ledge of the ground, waded into the water a great dis tance, where he thought, if at any place, the few bushes might be the means of stopping any thing washed down the current. After stopping and hollowing he fancied he heard a faint noise, when he saw the head of Mr. Hughes above the water, supported by an alder, bush ; getting near him, and cautiously getting a firm hold, ho succeeded in getting him out of the water, exhausted, help less, and almost speechless. The body of Mrs. Hughes was discovered about eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, out of the current of the river; her son was got out from a deep pit in the river further down ; the . bodies were the boy has not yet been found. re moved to Mr. Snell's, at Hayne, to await the Coroner's Inquest ; the body of The carriage and horse were dragged up also, the carriage but little injured, and the horse still attached to the car riage. Mr. Hughes's daughter went to Bondleigh with him in the morning, but was persuaded to Stop the night, or probably, nay almost certainly, she would have met with the same melancholy fate as her mother. The event has spread a panic through the neighbourhood. Mr. W. Wreford, of Clannaborough, was most active, by him self and people, in finding the bodies. The accident happened about 7 o'clock. Mr. Hughes was a Magistrate of the county. A tremendously heavy rai n h av i ng f a ll en on Monday afternoon, a great part of Westexe was almost imme diately flooded, by the rushing down of waters from the neighbouring hills ; and from the Catholic chapel to the mills on the Exeter road, the streets, &c., for nearly a mile, were from twelve to eighteen inches deep in water; this, however, shortly subsided, but the river Loman almost imm e di ately began to rise, and by seven o ' clock in the e ven i ng had attained to a greater height than can be recoll ec t e d by the oldest person living. To give some idea of thi s, ing into Bl un d e ll' s school green, flood b oar d s were put we may mention that at the iron gates lead up to the height of six feet three inches, over which, however, the water poured in. The evening mail was detained for about four hours, and considerable damage has been done to bridges, roads, walls, &c , in the neigh bourhood. W e h ear t h a t th e bridges at Chattiscombe and Swinebridge are washed away, that Mr. Lawson has about 140 feet of walling destroyed , and that Mr. Western Times. Aplin, fellmonger, has sustained considerab le loss.— This noble steam-ship, under the command of Captain Judkins , left th e Mersey this afternoon, on her outward voyage ibr Hali DEPARTURE OF THE COLUMBIA. - • - •LIVER• POOL, SATURDAY.— afternoon, on her outward voyage for Halifax and Boston, with her Majesty's mails for Canada an d n n. u m isT. ero u s a re under the charge of Lieutenant Jones, the United States. Th e mail ba g s, which were ver y The day has been very unfavourable for . her departure, incessant rain and heavy winds have prevailed for the last 24 hours. The passengers, about 50 i n number, their luggage and mails, were shipped in the most perfect order by the agents of these steam-ships, Messrs. M`lver and Co., and she passed down the river in excellent trim about two o'clock, for another trip across every y ad mixed i n the view i n Which the Atlantic. FATHERS AND SoNs.—.Theodore Hook was one of the very few of our modern novelists duly lo ci_ fied to delineate existing society , for he had en joyed " it tpcpoetriltd be unitie o s b o s f er s v t e u d dy l i i n i g th i a t ch u a n i d a e a r ge e — v most brilliant coteries, and was equally famili ar w i th cir cles of much less pretension. In the last of his a d m i rable productions, just published, under the title of Fathers and Sons," he had shown the excellent use to which he could apply his imagination when directed upon a sub ject so familiar to him. The characters of the lively tourist, Lady Cramly ; of the exceedingly att ract i ve house keeper, Mrs. Smylar ; of the Chaperon, Lady Gramm, ra who knew every body that was anybody ; and of her com panion and toadee, the sentimental poetess, Miss Phee zle, are no less true to nature and f u ll o f amusement than the gallant and disagreeable C o l one l B ruff, the elderly young gentleman, Sir Georg e G r i ndle ;his hope ful son, the Lady Killer, and the other worthies who play their several parts in this clever and interesting story. We can have no doubt that its popularity will be great, as it is the best and most entertaining picture of the manners of the day seen for many years. THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS.—The Lord Mayor received the sum of 201. as the contribution of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, for the relief of the Spitalfields weavers.