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i__,.. - Vag Dne von, eir, )ise'r tea- ate , he the one, hilt% chef for TAiri E- LOF ) din% 5 , in d no eacb eh' Niles the .liaeC r ei4 such but the ev a to ieo , a` l3 LY.) rade tqc itto u u eer led of C‘i • I UCCt (I , bO ll ill bTiIV Ile I" 1 o ke l i ,. tic Pr" Ire 3of Pei e r trisooPiti) 0 1'1; 1 ;(100i ;, d !gu e kilc ° gicb' vib` l3 e 00 1; I Ler Ow , P3Pe' osie r ' 5114 ql lO % , furl th e Oro ' lli r AO' sos orly. Pe i ,t a i:° un' EVENING EDITION COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Its Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning in the vicinity of Virginia Water, accompanied by B.sron Stockrna r , and attended by Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel touverie, and Mr. G. E. Anson. The aufa , .. - ::rable state of the weather has prevented 41 er Majesty sod the Duchess of Kent from taking their accustomed exercise. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord and Lady ii°l44l nd. and the Rev. Dr. Short took their departure this nioruing. The Duke of C.,aabridge, attended by Baron linese l'eck, left town at nine o'clock yesterday morning, on Visit to the Duke of Rutland, at his seat Belvoir ClRti Leicettrshire. D "Piltehes from Captain Prescott, R.N., Governor °I Nealoundl• and also from the Governor of the ! se t: in :tins, Were ' received 3esterday at the Colonial- The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Ho- Dourable Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Ch amber. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, the V ice -Chancellor, Mr. Justice Erkine, and the Judge °I the Admiralty Court. Mr. Miller, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Wigton), W ore heard on an appeal from British Guiana, " Butts ;Zit another v. F ow l er , A ttorne y of Maria Hawes p_ ar e." Mes s rs. P em b erton an d Bu r ge for the Queen. 'Dcnsal were heard for the respondent. The Vice-Chancellor, on the part of their Lordships, Ole judgnaent, affirmi ng the decree of the Court below. f AD appeal f rom t h e S u p reme Court of New -4,lthdland " Edwa r d Kie!ley v . Wiliam Carson, Speaker °` the Hou se o f A ssem bl y o f t h e Wand of Newfound and, and several Members nf the House of Assembly" ',to then ca ll e d on. Mr. P em b erton, Q ueen ' s " k lusel, comm ence d hi s a dd ress f or th e appellant, 1541 ' had not concluded at four o'clock when the Court rose. In the early part of the sitting it was notified that the hearing of the will cause of the late Mr. Wood, Of Gloucester, was deferred until the 2d of Feb. next. her FASHIONABLE I — N TELLIGEN CE. sun ARRIVALS. Lord William It rvey, at the Marquis of Bristol's, in ,to St. sfames's-square from Suffolk ; Lord Hotham, M.P., Hill.strect, fror ' n Suss( x ; Viscount and Viscountess Leveson, in Grosvenor-, uare from Gloucestershire; the Earl of Eghntoun in Bond-s i tr, et, from Badminton, the seat of the Duke 'and Duchess of Beaufort; his Easel le4cY Baron and Baroness de Cetto, in Hill-street, from Surrey; the Dowager Countess of Clarendon, in North Audley-street from Deal Castle ; the Dowager Countes s 14. Charleville, from a tour; Viscount Alford, M.P., from Devonshire; Lady Augusta Soymoar, in St. James's- Ic l u tres from lek%torth'Park ; Lord sad Lady Marybo rough, i n S av ill e-row, f rom D ea l Castle, Kent. DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady Petre and lion. Petre, from Mans iieldsstreet, for Thcrndon Hall, Essex ; Baron Bourque teYs fro m H ert f or d H ouse , f o r Broadlands, on a visit to , vi scount and Viscountess Palmerton; Lord and Lady "ransure, from Bclgrave.street, for Brighton; Lord Hu ntingtower, for Bath ; Viscount and Viscountess Fitz. . 411 n. from Stanhope- street , fir the Rookery, Dorking ; Te Countess of Miuto and Lady Fanny Elliot, from the 4ichniralty, for Mimrto House, near Hayrick, N.B. ; the Earl of Cardigan, f rom P or t man - square , f or D eane P ar k, Nor thamptonshi re; Prince Achille Murat, from the ‘loucester Hotel, Piccadilly, ad Berkdey-street ; the 441 of Belf as t, f rom Feritor''s Ho n tel, for Leland. CHANGES. Th e is , Earl of Wilton at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mow a"t'aii. from a visit to the Ell and Countess of Chesterfield, re tbY Derbyshire ; Lord and Lady Southampton, on a tour of visits, from B,audes,rt, the seat of the Marquis Angi •e'eY ; Sir John Wyldbre and Lady Smith, at bath, f ront Dwane House, DOro et s. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. T ATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. 11eolTIM DERBY.-Th e R osa l ie colt was b acke d s i ng l y f or y 20 0/. et 14 to I, Pahemou for a small sum at 16 to 1, and the odds taken about them jointly to upwards of ° Ol . ; thi s b etting and the offers subsequently made against a-i Palmon leave the m i n th e same p os iti on s as on lion Thursd ay, th e 31 st ult. Marshal Soult, Eringo, Corona , Sir 114114, Ralph, and Prince Caradoc, were men tioned, but did not undergo any change ; in fact, little or nothing was done about either. Cameleon, however,droppcd of 20 one7but to 30 to 1 , laid in ponies in conjunction with a bet to . I . t i o the S./IC sure agst Eringo ; the Knight of the istie ( Rattle's darn) had a strong party ; a small " n ' we be lieve, was got on at a fraction but assuredly the market prico did not exce,: 1 33 to more, 1, and this could not have bean o b ta i ned to any amour t. Wahab was ba cked . for u pwards of 2001. at 35 to 1, Simoom for 150/. at 00 to 1 , and a disposition was evinced to invest on " The Duke" et an improvement on out last quotation. Closing prices: 41 to 1 sgst Scott's lottaken 9 to 2 100 U to 10 agst Mr. Bation's lot—taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord Stradbroke's lot 14 to 1 agst Rosalie colt—taken 1 7 to 1 agst Palwmon 18 to 1 agst Marshal Soult—take 20 to 1 20 to 1 ag s t E r i ngo 21 t 1 agst Coroaation 2:1 to 1 agst Ralph —take 25 to 1 2'l to 1 agst Sir flans—taken 30 to 1 agst Cameleon—taken 20 to 1 agst Prince Cat adoc—take 35 to 1 35 3 to 1 a gst K night of the Whistle—taken to I agst Mongolian —t a k en 3 5 to 1 agst Wahab—taken • 40 to 1 agst Duke of Wellington—taken • 2000 to 35 agst Darioletta colt—taken 500 to 9 asst The Nob—taken 60 to 1 agst Simoom—taken SOOO to 10 agst Knights bridge. —taken 1030 to 10 asst Mustaph a —t a k en 21(.1000 to 10 a gst 0 to 20 Egst Pen B r a ce —t a k en , an d a f terwar d s offd 1000 to 10 agst Hawk' s . Ey e —t a k en 1000 to 50 agst all the blares—taken 1500 to 200 and 725 to 100 agst Rosalie colt and Pa ltnor,--taken UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE UxF, !ollated t 0 ", JAN. 2 .—. The Lord Bishop of Chichester has he Rev. James Hughes, Fellow of New Col- I ,!e, to th e C anonry and Prebend of Borsalis, vacant by the resignation of Dr. Willi ams , the Warden of New Colleg e . The Rev. F. W. Holme has presentel the Rev. Mey- . rick Hohn e , o f B razennose College, to the Perpetuai ' ur acY of Marston Meysey, WiltshirJ. The Lo r d Bi shop of Lincoln has presented the Rev. John Bowstead to the Vicarage of lklessingham leith tattisford Lincolnshire. The Dean and Chapter of Chichester have presented , -thaßev. Thorns. Brown t o t h e C anonry an d P re b en d o f in the Cathedral of Ch cheater. • lne Lord Bi shop of Lichfield has presented the Rev. Joseph Garton to the vicarage of Towcester, Northamp tonshire. CP MIiItIDGE. JAN. 2.—The Nerrisian Professor has given notice that his lectures in Lent Tenn, 1841, will eunimeree on Tuesday, Feb. 2. John Carter' Heath, Esq , B. A., of tl.e Inner Temple, was en the 231 alt, elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall by the Nlaster and Fellows of that Society. Y erterday the R ev . H enry Alf or d , of Trinity College, was appointed Hulsean Lecturer. Tax Ilueseae Pelee,.—Yesterday the Hulsean Prize of I , l Ps‘ards of 100 guineas was adjudged to Andrew Jukes, I:r 211 3 College. Subject—" An inquiry into the prin ciples of the prophetic interpre,ation, and the practical tesults arising from them." The subject for the prestnt year is---" The use and value of the writings of the an. eieet lathe-, considered as auxiliary to the proof of the truth of th e Ch r i st : an re li g i on and to the elucidation of its doctrines." ' ST. JOHN'S Col.l.ltOtt.—The Christmas festivit".es at. St. 1 J ohn's College have been kept up this year with the usual '' splendour and hospitality. St. John's Day (Monday) was I ' i d Aibt at all behind those of preceding years in sumptuous entertainment provided for a numerous party of friends. There were present all the heads of houses now in Cambridge, the High Sheriff, the Members for the University, the Honourable Algernon Herbert, Mr. Eaton, M.P., Mr. Pryme, M. P., Dr. Haviland, Dr. Mill, Pro fessor Blunt, Mr. C. Pemberton, Mr. Allis, with a larg e party amounting to about eighty of the elite of the tonn, county, and University-. As usual the enormous Christmas pie, for which this College is celebrated, made its appear ance at supper in the Combination-room, backed by the boar's head, chine of pork, and other Christmas fare. The evening was spent as it is reasonable to suppose it would be among such good things, and we hear only one opinion of the excellent arrangements and provision for the occasion. We may also notice here that St. John's College is pro fuse in its liberality to the poor at the season of Christruag, end that to an extent which, we believe, few of our towus linen are acquainted with. There is a regular distribution ' at the College kitchen, for several weeks, of bread and sc ut), made expressly for the purpose, for fifty poor per sons resident in the town ; and we know, from some of • itehiolt in se who have rec e i ve d t hi s b ounty, t h at i t i s most excel quality, and also abundant in quantity. Th's, we Igut:hip is the right way to keep Christmas, and we should rejoice to see it more generally imitated. THE PRESBYTERY OF STRATI/BOGIE.—A ', meetin g of the Presbytery of Strathbogie was held at tL re Keil i on Wednesv, the 30th ultimo. The Presbytc y h aving been conAtituted with pracr by the Moderator, and the minutes of last meetir.g read, the consideration of the Marnoch ease Vi 39 resumed, when the Rev. Mr. Edwards, the presentee to th.t parish, appeared and renewe d hi s ap plication for induction. A set rice copy of the decree, de . r e e r e i c ii i i:g e and the cr s el di a d inino: r. the jeh Pe li s : b l y , t , e , r id y, , a a s nd mi t n h i e ste m r e e m r t t e h r e . • ttbeek:afl l c t ° l:e n I ni 'si ce n s g s a t r i7 y e art majority,anal o iii p Cant t : ti f t orthwith to admit and ureb and parish cf Morn:el:, accordivg to law, and to steps for that pur- Pose," was laid before the Presbytery and minuted. Mr. f u t. vr ii i ,, e E th s e t r a ebuiishvd Church ponsai,i o twa t s . s no co w tl t a h n e d ir , adnudtyaassloymear l sbub ers . J e ets, to give effect to the decree which bad been psi. .need against the m, li e wou ld t h ere f or . mo v e , " t h at 11 ' Presbytery, finding th a t no o th e r course remained for t hem th an to obey this peremptory order of the Supreme ' Cuurt, or to incur the guilt, and subject themselves to th , 1 1 ins and penalies of disobedience, resolve to meet a . ".N.larry ch on Th ursday the 21st day of January next, for r'lPurpose of receieing l ' and admitting the said Mr. J. %ards tb be minister of the church and parish of Mar l:l'olr according to the rules of the Church." The motion 1/ " unanimously agrecp:to.—Guledonian Mercury. LITERATURE. MERCEDL,:I' OF CASTILE, 3 Vols. Bentley, London, 1840. The adventures and voyages of Columbus have long been the favourite theme of historians, but until now, when Mr. Cooper has devoted to this attractive subject by far the greater portion of his Mercedes of Castile, we know not that it has ever been attempted by any English novelist. We are surprised at this, for never was there a theme more abounding in picturesque effects, and startling vicissitudes, or which presented better opportuni ties for the development of character. 'We need say nothing of its descriptive recommendations, for the mere mention of the romantic voyage across the Atlantic, with the ever-shifting natural phenomena exhibited during the voyage ; and more particularly of the first landing, and encounter with the natives at Cat Island—the mere mention, we repeat, of these things suggests infinitely more to the fancy of the novelist, provided at least that he have a due conception of his art, than we can possibly say. Mr. Cooper has not done amiss in this portion of his romance ; he has detailed the particulars of the great Genoese navigator's memorable voyage with uncommon spirit and minuteness, and we follow him across the broad Atlantic with all the eagerness and curiosity he could desire to rouse in the breast of a reader. But here our praise must stop—or rather we must qualify it " pretty considerably," as Jonathan would say. The greater part of the first volume is tedious and wire-drawn ; and the ac c Isabella of Castile, previous to her mar riage with the wily and calculating Ferdinand, might have been omitted with advantage, for it has little or nothing to do with the story, and seems: to have been introduced as an after thought, with no other view than to fill up space. We must also protest against the intolerably prolix dialogues between Donna Mercedes of Castile and betrothed Doh Luis de Bobadilla, which are . more episodical, and are not redeemed by any .ashes of eloquence or passion. The interest of he story may be said to begin and end with Co lumbus's voyage of discovery ; all before this is tame and apparently laboured ; and what follows —with the single exception of the adventures of the young Indian Princess, Ozema, who is brought home to Spain by Columbus, and whose portrait is sweetly coloured—serves only to encumber and act as a drag-alai:l on the narrative. The leading events of " Mercedes of:Castile" may be disposed of in a sentence or two. Mercedes is a young and accomplished Spanish lady of rank, who is attached to Don Luis dc Bobadilla, a gay, young cavalier, of equally noble extraction. Being something of an enthusiast, however, the lady will not hear of Luis's suit until he has proved himself worthy of her, by accompanying Columbus on his great expedition of discovery ; he does so, and on his return is rewarded with the hand of Mercedes, infinitely to the sur prise and regret of the poor Indian girl, Ozema, who thinks it a very hard case that he cannot marry her too, and dies of the grief occasioned by this unex pected disappointment. Throughout his story, Mr. Cooper—so far at least as Queen Isabella is con cerned—appears to have taken the historian Pres cott as his guide, who has bestowed on this Royal lady various virtues which have escaped the research of most preceding writers. In his portrait, which is an elaborate whole length, of Columbus, the no velist has been perfectly consistent with truth ; this, indeed, is the only well-sustained character of im portance in the story, for the rest of the dramatis persome, always excepting Isabella, are little better than generalities—dim outlines—like those vague shado Ns which we see pass and repass across a magic lantern. count of DISCHARGE OF THE WIDOW SARAH YOUNG. TO THE EDITOR OF TAE MORNING CHRONICLE. MONMOUTH, JAN. 2, 1841. SIR—I have much pleasure in writing to say that the widow Sarah Young was yesterday evening liberated fron► her long confinement. Her unconditional discharge was received by the gaoler by the evening mail. I remain, Sir, yours faithfully, EDWIN RICHARDS. SINGULAR CASE OF HYDRO- PHOBIA. An inquest was held before T. C. Maynard, Esq., Cc. roner, at Sunderland, on Wednesday last, on the body c W. Brown, whose death had been caused by the bite of a dog, which he had received seven weeks ago. H. Bell, cousin to the deceased, said on the 19th of No vember I was in Middleton's shop with my cousin, His dog, which was a cocker, was in the shop. Ile struck it, and it bit him on the right hand, on the fleshy part of the thum'. The witind bled a little. He became ill on Sun day last, having complained on the Saturday of a stiffness in the hand. He took his tea on Saturday as usual. On Sunday night he was very poorly, and complained of sick. nets. On the Monday morning Mr. Thompson was sent fur. The deceased died at ten minutes past eight yester day morning. We have never seen the dog since it bit him. Ile beat it with a stick, and it ran out of the back doer into the low street. We had the dog about six w eeks, but had seen nothing peculiar about it : it was ac customed to snarl and bite. The deceased would have beer. 35 years of age on the lith of January, and was tin. married. The dog was black-spotted and white. Mr. Thompson, surgeon, deposed—l was called to at tend tl:e deceased about half-past eight o'clock on Monday morning last. My young men had previously dressed his Land when he received the wound. I found him vomiting and complaining of a severe pain in the stomach, which be stated was caused by eating an unbaked pie, at Seaham, on Friday. He had an intense pain in the stomach, and bad a difficulty in swallowing liquid in particular. 1 sent hint a mixture and some pills, but on returning found be could nut swallow the mixture, though he had taken the pills. It was half an hour after when I called the second time. He was trying to suck the mixture through a pipe stopper, but could not. He at length effected it by taking a cup of tea. From that time the symp tums increased, particularly the difficulty in swallowing, and tie aversion to water. I bled him to relieve the pain, and called in Dr. Brown about three o'clock in the afternoon. Eighteen leeches were applied over the pit of the stomach. Dr. Brown agreed with me that it was a case of hydrophobia. I continued with him till seven o'clock yesterday morning. There was a violent sighing and a heaving of the diaphragm, and it sometimes took two or three persons to hold him down. lie was quite sensible, and called for us to hold hint down. 'I f. e convulsive efforts latterly returned nearly every minute, and his dread of water was intense. Whenever he saw or felt it it convulsed his whole frame. He died about right o'clock yesterday morning. I have no doubt he died from hydrophobia. He never, while he was ill, spoke to me of the bite in the thumb, but he mentioned it to me several times while he was well. It was then healed. It did not appear to have been a severe one. lie said to me, when I was looking at the marks of the wounds on his band, " You do not think anything of that, do you?" The Jury returned a verdict of "Died from hydro phobia, occasioned by the bite of a dog." A report prevails in military circles that Lo:d Hitt is about to retire from the Horse Guards, and that the post of Commander-in- Chief will be put in commis sion We have not been able to obtain information by which to justify our confirming or contradicting the rumour. Recent circumstances, which have become matters of public notoriety, and for which Lord Hill has been severely censured, have been mentioned as grounds of the report. —Globe. CANTERBURY ELECTION.—We understand IL P. Gipps, E-q., has withdrawn as a candidate for the representation of this city, and that the Hon. Mr. Smythe, son of Lord Strangford, intends to come forward. —Can. terbury Journal. Some doubts having been expressed as to the precise nature of the advice to be offered to the Porte by the Allies after the submission of Mehemet Ali, we fuel that we shall not be found wrong in stating that the Allies will advise the Sultan to grant to Mehemet Ali the heredi tary possession of Egypt, as the Governor of the Turkish province of Egypt. arid not as vassal Prince, as some persons have been led to believe. Connected in sonic measure with this subject, we cannot avoid bestowing a few words upon the rhapsodies of the Parisian journ ifs respecting some communications said to have been made to the French Government from the Emperor of Russia. Let our readers give us implicit credit when we assure them that these boastings about a projected alliance with Russia against England are merely childish ebullitions of pique, and silly attempts to sow distrust and disunion among the Allies. But Austria, Prussia, and England know the personal character and high sense of honour of the Emperor Nicholas too well not too laugh at these little stratagems of the politicians of Paris ; and, more .,,er, common sense must suggest to the most ordinary e , ttprehension, that if there were really any secret under standing on foot, or in contemplation, between France and Russia, the French would endeavour to prevent us from knowing anything about it, until it was completed, instead of trumpeting it forth to all Europe before it had even be gun.—Observer. The Treasury, to create patronage, are about to make the following retirements on superannuated allowances : —Customs.—Two of the oldest commesi ,ners, some of the old long-room officers, seven teen of the water-side officers, landing-waiters, &c., two surveyors, several clerks, and several principal officers at outports, Hull, Bristol, &c.—quite a turn-out in this and other public departments.—From a Correspondent of the Morning Post. On Saturday night a fracas occurred in Clare ntrAet between a young man named John 11 , 1 4 Phan and his female companion, which resulted in the woman snatch ing a butcher's knife from a counter at hand and plunging it through the man's right arm. The unfortunate fellow wa; conveyed bleeding profusely to Ring's College Hos pital, and the wounded vessels secured. The woman escapeO, and her victim will give no information respect. ing her. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1841. MR. LIDDELL, M.P., AND THE CHARTISTS. - The following correspondence has passed between the Hon. H. T. Liddell, the representative of the northern division of this county, and Mr. J. Hemsley, acted for the Sunderland Chartists : ( Copy.) " Sunderland, Dec. 28, 1840. " Sir,—The Committee appointed for the restoration of Frost, Williams, and Jones, have instructed me to ascer tain whether you would support an Address to the Queen, and also present and support petitions to Parliament, ema nating from public meetings on New Years' Day, for that purpose. " Hoping you will generously assist in this way to ac complish so benevolent a work, I await your answer, "Yours truly, "J. HENISLE Y. Grocery Store, Bridge-street." ( Copy.) " Eslington House, Dec. 29, 1840. " Sir,—ln your letter which reached me this morning, you ask me, on the part of the Committee, whether I will present and support petitions to Parliament for the pardon of Messrs. Frost, Williams, and Jones, emanating from public meetings which are to be held for the purposo of preparing such petitions. " I should certainly feel it my duty to present any peti tions to the House of Commons which may be entrusted to my charge by any class of my fellow -countrymen, provided they be respectfully worded. 6 ' But as to supporting the prayer of a petition for the pardon of great criminals, I tell you distinctly I can do no such thing. " These men have not only been found guilty of an overt act of high treason (the greatest crime known to our statute book ), but, in my opinion, they arc likewise to be held re sponsible for the deaths of those unfortunate and misguided men whose blood was shed in the attack upoa Newport, and they are thus doubly guilty of treason and murder. ouch being my deliberate opinion, I can have no sympathy with such offenders, nor can I support any petition for their pardon and liberation. I am, yours truly, " Mr. J. Hemsley." '` H. I'. LIDDELL." —Durham Aduertiser. RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. (From the Chariv ari.) It is the nature of man to be doing ; whatever may be his age and position, he must have an occupation of some sort, whether physical or intellectual; I do not believe in the possibility of absolute idleness, not oven in the de pendents cn the charity of the liste-civile. I have not chosen this theme in order to discuss it at length ; heaven preserve me from it, and you also, reader I That which you have mistaken for the grave introduction to a learned dissertation was nothing more than a reflec tion into which I was led while contemplating from my window an excellent and worthy neighbour cf mine, M. Fromageot. This respectable paterfamilias, lof whom I will not say that age had whitened his vcnerabe locks, seeing that fur the last ten years his head had cast off that ornament as a superfluity which hairdressers and bear's grease had rendered too expensive, and not long since exercised the profession of- haberdasher, in the rue St. Denis, the favoured quarter . of this useful class. His ledgers were well filled, and kept with scrupulous exactitude; but he had a clerk to whom these delicate functions were exclusively consigned. From morn to dewy eve his shop was crowded with purchasers ; but here again he kept apprentices, whose duty it was to unfold, exhibit, and re fold his wares. M. Fromageot had reserved for himself no special task but that, as he expressed himself, of keep ing an eye on everything, meaning that he spent the whole day in circulating, with his hands in his breeches-pockets, from the shop to the counter, from the counter to the shop, stimulating with a wcrd or a look the activity of his men, who, notwithstanding, performed their duties neither bet ter nor worse. Nevertheless Madame Fromageot, a lady who, from time to time, does me the honour to exchange remarks on the state of the temperature or the demand for night-caps, does not remember a single instance, during the last twenty years, of her husband going to bed without exclaiming " What a weary life I When shall Ibe able to retire from business and repose myself? But this is the accustomed exclamation of all who labour to gain a living or save a competency ; and I have further observed that the moment this retirement has arrived, they all look on the repose so long the object of their wishes in about the same light as M. Fromageot. Would you know how my neighbour enjoys his repose now that he is shut up in a charming little country house where all the comforts of existence are to be found ? This is what I have witnessed from the first day of the year to the last. At four in the morning in summer, at seven in winter, M. Fromageot throws himself from a bed of thrice-driven down ; he puts on a blouse, steps into an enormous pair of sabots, di fends his head with a nightcap striped blue and white, heaps upon his shoulder a spade, a pickaxe, is rake, a pitchfork, and a dibber, takes up a largo basket, wherein are methodically arranged his cabbage, salad, and straw berry plants, and away he trudges to his garden. There he sticks for twelve or fifteen hours, his spine continually bent, making holes in the ground, tracing furrows, planting endive and lettuce, weeding beans, digging potatoes, with all the ardour of the moat inveterate market-gardener. Think not that he allows himself the least cessation to his labours. Yesterday he was picking caterpillars from his plum-trees ; to-day he is renewing a border of thyme which is not more than 600 feet in length ; to-morrow he will have to drive 2,000 nails to trail his vines and peach trees. Though the wind blow with all its fury, though the rain pour down in torrents, though the sun dart his vertical rays on him, though the hairs of his beard stiffen with the sleet of January, he is stanch to his post, stanch as a brave soldier on the field of glory ; a visit from his dearest friend could not induce him to forego one stroke of his spade ; and if, peradventure, the temptation of satisfying his vanity should lead him fur a few moments from his work in order to display with pride his gigantic pumpkin to an admiring amateur, or to recount the history of some marvellous graft, he would take care, on going to bed, to advance his alarum one hour that he might, as he would say, recover lost time. He often forgets his breakfast hour, and the same thing would happen with his dinner, were it not that his wife, after having in vain called him two or three times, tears him almost by force from his well beloved plantations. When a violent storm, or a hard frost, renders all gar dening operations impracticable, and condemns M. Fro mageot to keep within doors, the poor man really looks like a perturbed spirit; he wanders fretfully from one room to another, descends into the cellar , g oes u p into the frar ret, qaarrels with his wife, scolds his servant, until he is struck, as with lightning, with the brilliant idea of split ting wood, or making a new railing for his rabbit-hutch. For such repose as M. Fromageot amassed franc on ;sane for the last 20 years, until he has realised a capital of 200,0001., and he reckons on enjoying this sweet repast for the next 30 years, unless it procure him some inflam mation of the chest to carry him off prematurely. Thus M. Fromageot, after reposing all the while he 'ancied he was working, works all the while he fancies be ,s reposing. It is the history of many of his fellow-men. THE THUNDER STORM OF SUNDAY. MEETING OF THE VESTRYMEN OF CHRIST C BURCH, SPITALFIELDS. Last night, at eight o'clock, a numerous meeting of the vestrymen of the parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields, specially convened, faas held in the vestry-room of the church, which is situated immediately under the tower of the steeple, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the surveyor as to the extent of the damage done to the spire and the tower iby the electric: fluid on Sunday morning last. There were present the Rev. W. Stone, the rector ; Messrs. Morris and Stone, the churchwar dens ; Mr. Bruslifield, the chairman of the board of guar dians cf the Whitechapel union, and most of the princi pal inhabitants of the parish. Mr. Morris, senior churchwarden, having been called to the chair, Mr. TAYLOR, the Vestry-clerk, read the Report of the snrveyor, Mr. Waller, which was as follows : " REPORT AS TO TIIE DAMAGE DONE TO THE SPIRE OF CHRIST CIIUKCIL SPITALFIELDS, BY THE STORM OF TILE 3D INSTANT. " From the general view I have been able to take, without the assistance of ladder and scaffolding, I am of opinion that, although the damage done to the spire is con siderable, much of the stone-work being shattered and dis placed, yet, as the spire maintains its perpendicular posi. Lion, and as there is no appearance of extensive vcrtica fracture, there are no grounds for any immediate danger and I am further of opinion that the damage can he recti tied without rebuilding the spire. ."To enable me, however, to give a more decided opinion, I beg respectfully to submit that it is LI ly necessary to bass ladders, stages, and scaffolding erected within the spire, at least from its base upwards. Exter nally, also, it is very desirable ; but as the latter mode would be attended with great expense, I am of opinion that, if confined to the interior, I shall be able to nuto such an examination es will enable me to give an opinion upon which reliance may be placed; and I will tui tiler submit that this should be attended to immediately, ra wet and frost penetrating the fractured portion of the stone-work may produce serious mischief. "JOHN WALLER. " To the Churchwardens of Christ Church, SpitaltiadA. " 68, Aldermanbury, Jan. 4, 1841." Mr. BRESDFIF.LD moved that the churchwardens be re quested to have an internal examination of the steeple made without delay, in order to ascertain with certainty if the spire be in a safe state, and that Mr. Waller be re quested to report thereon. Mr. WAITE seconded the resolution, which was agreed to unanimously; as was also the following :—" That a v estry meeting be called at the earliest possible opportuni'v to receive the report, and to make such further arrange - • incnts as may be necessary," Thanks were then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up. PICTURE OF A YANKEE. He would kiss the Queen till he raised a blister, i With his arm round her neck, and his old felt hat on ; Would address the King with the title of Mister, And ask the price of the throne that he sat on. We learn from titc , Kentish papers that I!. P. Gipps, Esq., has withdrawn as a candidate for the repfe sentation of Canterbury, which will become vacant on the meeting of Parliament by the resignation of one of the present Members. We learn also from the same source that the Hon. Mr. Smythe, the son of Lord Strangfcrd, will be the Conservative candidate. For the sound poli tical principles of Mr. Smythe the name of his noble father is a sufficient guarantee ; and we rejoice to add that this gentleman possesses every personal claim to the confi dence and support of the electors of Canterbury that high character and eminent attainments can confer.—Morning Post. - " - It is with regret that we announce the death of Dr. Balmanno, on the 31st ult., at an rdvanced age. He was the last physician of the old school, whom the changes o ithe times have left amongst us.—Glasgow Courier. CHARTIST MEETING. Yesterday tie London Chartists bad a grand field-day in Clerkenvvell-green. The ostensible object of the meet ing was to adopt a memorial to ber Majesty and petiCons to Parliament, praying the release of Frost, Williams, and Janes. The summons by which the meeting was con vened directed that the several branch bodies helouging to the metropolis should assemble in Clerkenwell-green, and march thence in procession to the White Conduit house, where the real business of the day was appointed to come off. At Jour o'clock the Lambeth branch, preceded by a baud of music, arrived on the ground, and after parading in the front of Lunt's Coffee-house, where the leaders were assembled, they took up their position on the right of the green going towards Goswell street. This body was accompanied by an immense ban ner, bearing the inscription, "Oh 1 Legislators, why should men unite to obtain justice ?" The next force that arrived was " The Tower Hamlets National Chartist Association" (as they described themselves on one of their banners), the reverse of which bore a motto concerning the " Welsh Martyrs." Numerous other bodies speedily tollowed, each accompanied by banners and a band of music, and at five o'clock the crowd assembled must have exceeded a thousand, During this time a number of Ma gistrates (who had stayed to dinner at the Court.house, after the fatigues of tile day, yesterday being the first day of the Sessions) amused themselves by gazing at the pro cession, without any apprehension apparently of a disturb ance of the peace. With the exception of two or three policemen, who were lounging listlessly about the Caurt house door, no preparations appeared to have been made for such an event. On the arrival of the procession at White Conduit house the speious assembly-room of that establishmsnt was immediately filled to overflowing . , and as it is calcu lated to hold 1,500 persons, this may be taken as an un cxasgerated computation of the numbers present. The stage, which is generally devoted to the performance of vaudevilles and other entertainments, was occupied on this cccasion by the principal actors in the political drama, and a b tnd of music. On the curtain being drawn up a large body of Chartists belonging to the metropolis, (in the midst of whom sit a private of Dragoons) were discovered round a table covered with pens, ink, and paper. A per son with a tolerable voice at this moment stepped turward, and commenced to sing the Marseillaise Hymn, accompaniedby the performers on the brass instruments. The performance was encored. The overture having concluded, a decently-dressed man, named PETE, who was described as a working car penter, was called to the chair. He ascended the table and addressed the meetingsat considerable length, evidently cautious, and determined not to be led away by the ex citement of the moment. He said that thc.,appearance of such a n umerous assemblage on that occasion gave the most satisfactory contradiction that could be given to the idle boast made by the Attorney-General some time ago, at Edinburgh, that the principles of Chartism were ex tinct.—(Cheers.) They had never, for a single moment deserted the principles of the Charter, nor would they cease to agitate until those principles became the law of the land.—(Loud cheers.) The Government had in creased the standing army and the number of their spies and bludgeon-men. but this did not deter them ; fur although the operations of the Chartists had been lately less noisy than before, yet they had-not been the less cer tain or the less effective.—(Cheers.) He was not one of those who would advise them to resort to violence for the otstainment of their rights, but he would say of those alio had resorted to it, that they had been driven to it by the tyranny of their oppressors. The Chairman, after passing a warm eulogium on the characters of Messrs. Frost, Williams, and Jones, and requesting a fair hearing for all who might address them, sat down amidst loud cheers. Mr. BALLS came forward to propose the first resolu tion, to the effect that the meeting being of opinion that the trial of Frost, Williams, and Jones had been illegally proceeded with, as appeared by the decision of the Judges, they now called upon Government to order the immediate release of those persons, and to restore them to their homes and families. The voice of the peo ple, he said, had saved the lives of the convicts, and the voice of the people must restore them again to their homes.—( Cheers). If they could contrive to have three or four thousand petitions presented every week during the approaching session of Parliament, they would so annoy the Government that they would soon be glad to listen to prayer.—( Hear, hear). It was the object of O'Connell and the Whigs—( Here there was a ors for three groans for O'Connell, which was heartily responded to)—to divert the Chartists from their principal objects by getting up an agitation for Household Suffrage, but the working classes were not to be humbugged by it, and the time was not far distant when they would not be even satisfied with the I Charter—( Great cheering)—when nothing would satisfy them short of a republic.—( Uproarious applause, and a cry of " three groans for kingcraft," which was partially responded to.) The expression of feeling which bad just taken place convinced him of the truth of what he asserted, and the Government and Aristocracy might rely on it that if they wanted to secure property and establish monarchy upon a firm basis, they must grant the people their politi cal rights.—( Tremendous chee rin g . ) Mr. CAMERON seconded the resolution, which was passed. A great number of other persons addressed the meeting in moving and seconding the adoption of the various petitions, after which, thanks being voted to the Chairman, the meeting separated. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered, in the week ending Saturday, the 26til December, 1840." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Total. Average CAUSES OF BEATY. 1 C3S: Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 194 2G5 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 192 156 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases *1 the Heat and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &e..... 3 5 12 10 Chihibed, Diseates of the Uterus, Stc. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Disvasea of the Skin, I,:c 3 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, er Natural Decay 9O 70 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 39 26 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes ll4l Average Weekly Deaths ... 1,013 western N cEse o anus rt t North Districts Da Dripsiitspsttit.sritsirctirtesitc: s Deaths .. . \‘,l3. eo4els i ik n . the .D eat ih 556, \ l v ,e 3 , 81, .1 y ...... 172 215 ..... 208 r ic ic ts ts ... ...... T 33 Tutal 1141 1,013 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are com prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, wh►ch include the City Gf London within and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes within the bills of mortality—and the parishes of St. Marylebone ; St. Pancras ; Kensington ; Fulham ; Hammersmith (Chapelry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington; St. Mary, Stoke Newington ; St. Leonard, Bromley ; St. Mary• !c -how ; Camberwell ; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St. Deptford;p ail, and Woolwich. The population as enu merated in 1831 was 1,494,890. The weekly average for 1838 was obtained by dividing the deaths registered in that year by 52. In comparing it with the weekly deaths i❑ 1440, it must be borne in mind that the metropolis in creases nearly two per cent. annually ; and that, if the population had been the same in 1836 as in 1840, the deaths would have been 1-27th part more numerous. General Register-office, Dec. 31, 1840. In the letter of " A Constant Reader, M.A." yesterday, Plato was cruelly transformed into Pluto. A letter has been received from Benicirlo, in Valencia, dated the 21st of December, describing the trade of that place. The exports seem to he confined to the shipment of wines to European and other foreign ports ; and even this trade is said to be now on the decline. Within the last twelve months only 7,000 pipes have been sent to foreign ports, the pipes being mostly similar to those made for port wine for the United States, Ireland, Brazil, &c. According to this the export trade is nut above 35,0001., the pipes being estimated at about 51. each. A rivalship between Benic arlo and Vinaros seems to interfere with the prospe rit y of both those towns. Th e shipments of wine from V inaros scarcely amount to 0,000 r tpaci, valued at the low price of 31. 10s. per pipe, the difference between this value and that of the &nicerlo wines being accounted for by the fact, that the latter are made up so as to sell the i r v i ne plantations in the most persever ing for port wines, whereas the former have no such pre tensions, and the whole exports can only be valued therefore at 21,0001. The farmers in Valencia are said to years the quantity of raisins for export may so that it is thought not improbable The trade in these with the farmer is carried 3csfooe:f!e:tytnddi tiseoicollwßnooiheKni‘kecl wheels d es. r sra i dhrc.i ourgmh ,adaendo fs u I, . trsawhitzhwei:et:hgreatest nicety. and indeed an unsatisfactory way. On that i b bon e en gin; doubled. withininr noua r , e bnaa a lne s cefd i uer n .:l g vi 0 u s , taking the fruit from the farmers no price is fixed, but that is to be given which shall prove to be the open ing price on a certain day on a certain month. The ceu sequence is, that raisins may be sold abroad without the seller actually knowing what they cost him; and this un certain position is a most fertile source of litigation. The silk crop in Valencia is attended to solely by women and children, and the time of these is not occupied for moro oendinon,coalnlaecattingi dis count whole is very trifling. The exchange at Valencia is MINS6IIIOkAs in si t ) h ie e nt: r i a d m a es nd are ve a r b y o :a e r i g , : u - r cathedral ven ha f s ee j t u i s n t b le e n e g n th m ; ad t c h , , w w l i ii o c i l c i than six weeks,ild . pe r so current t h a t dollar the n : for feet t strikes the hours on a bell of 53 cwt., and the quarters on metal, and beautifully cut, d he iam q e u t a e r r te a r n s d an o d ne st i r n i e k h in a g n a d re z rest of the wheels seem in good prop,,r emtewplsoass dial escapement, with hardened escapet . nent wheel; adjusting screws, in order to set the es t half ottihiiecrkb;e bells e ; the arms of the p,l The pendulum is very ingeniously suspended, and weighs 2001bs.- it makes cue vibration in two seconds. The hammer that strikes the thisbtslcietoett es capement eit are e l t l e nu t m ig td a l u i sat r aaogdisl in large bell weighs 751bs. ; and the clock goes eight days with once winding. The whole of the weight used to keep the clock going is 251bs. ; the escapement holes are made of bell-metal, from the old bells that were destroyed in the late fire; the present cluck is made with discharging apparatus for a set of chimes to play seven tunes, which, we heee w ill eventually be added. Th e o ld c l oc k w as made by ' HindeY. of York, about the year 1752, and was considered at that time a very fine specimen of workman -ship, yoth Herald, THE JEWS. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HEBREW PER SUASION IN JAMAICA. Brethren,—lt is clearly manifest that the march of liberality is making wondrous strides among the civilized nations of the earth, and in Great Britain particularly, where prejudice appears to be fast declining towards the people of our nation; and at the present crisis, when the feeling and' sympathies of Europe have been excited towards the Jews, in consequence of the cruel ties and atrocities perpetrated upon some of our brethren in Syria and Rhodes, it would be judicious to avail ourselves of that feeling, and simultaneous applications from those of our nation residing in this island, as well as in the mother country, should be made to the Impe rial Parliament, for the removal of all the disabilities to which the Jews are subjected in Great Britain, and her Majesty's colonies in general. The Local Legislature of this island have, to their immortal honour, conceded every immunity to our peo ple, and for which our eternal gratitude is due, and af fording a bright example of liberality worthy of imitation sympathy evinced by the inhabitants of all creeds for our persecuted brethren in the East, affords us rea sonable hopes that they will join us in an application to her Majesty's Government for the total repeal of the several cruel disabilities to which our nation is subjected in Great Britain and the other colonies. The enlightened, noble, and liberal sentiments which pervade the Councils of her Majesty's present advisers, bold out to us a fair prospect of relief, if now applied for. Let us come forward at once, and thereby stimu , late our foreign brethren to join us heart and hand in advocating the rights of the Hebrew nation, and obtain ing for them the same privileges and immunities which every other class of her Britannic Majesty's subjects, including her lately emancipated slaves, now enjoy. The eyes of the world are at this moment centred in the East, and it is to be hoped that the day is not distant when Jerusalem, the ancient heritage of our race, and the tomb of the great Christian Prophet, shall be res cued from the Infidel, when Jew and Christian may pay their adorations to the Deity, according to their respective forms of worship, in harmony and good fel lowship, unapprehensive of the attaghan or bowstrin; of the Moslem. I trust that this appeal to my brethren will be responded to with alacrity, and that the object I have in view may be accomplished ; that those who suc ceed us may look back upon our exertions with grati tude, when they are admitted to a participation in the full. and entire rights to which her Majesty's other sub jects are entitled. I am, with respect, your devoted servant, M. H. SAMUELS. Kingston, Nov. 5, 1840.—Jamaica paper. THE NAVY. There cannot be a Letter refutation to calumny than to meet it with facts, " which are stubborn things." For a long time past it has been a practice indulged in (there is no accounting for taste) to make it appear that our Navy was neglected, our Dock-yards barren of sup plies, seamen scarce, and disinclined to enter the Navy ; and all this was circulated in order to establish that our rulers, and more particularly the Board of Admiralty, were unmindful of the true interests of the nation and its Navy. It is truly unfortunate for the naval croakers' arguments, that the recent opportunities afforded to the British fleet in the Mediterranean, and the recent com missioning, equipping, and manning several ships of the line and others, should so pointedly belie so many oft repeated assertions that the British Navy was morally defunct ; the operations of the fleet on the coast of Syria have proved that naval officers are competent to their duty ; that the ships and their crews were never in a state fitter to acquit themselves to the satisfaction of their country ; and the speedy manning within the lust few months of several line•of-battle-ships, and some of smaller clases, by a voluntary system, no bounty given, establish that the Navy has not fallen into that state of odium and disgust which some unpatriotic scribblers and pamphleteers have for near three years been endea vouring to establish. The steady and undeviating as siduity of the various branches of the naval adminis tration, has produced such a systematic organization, which works so quietly, regularly, and unremittingly, without any fuss or bombast, that it is not to be won dered the uninformed should be misled, and induced to suppose we were in static quo. The proof that your dockyards are not deficient i❑ the materiel, is to be found in the expedition with which every new-commis sioned ship was supplied with all her equipment. The devotedness of the Naval Administration to the best interests of the country, may be observed by their very recently ordering to be brought forward for imme diate commission, a 50 gun frigate, the Vindictive, at Portsmouth, with a bow of an entirely new construc tion, which affords the facility of not only firing twice as many guns forward as the old plan, bat likewise yields the advantage of being able to fire some of the guns from one bow across to a ship on the other bow, thus obviously affording a decided advantage to the chasing ship, previously unknown. The commissioning this ship, and testing her with one of her class of the present con struction, will (if successful) enable ships of war of all classes to bring twice the battery to bear right a-head that they formerly possessed. Among naval men this is highly prized ; and we hear from all quarters that this important naval architectural improvement reflects great credit upon its projector, Mr. Blake, the master shipwright of Portsmouth Dockyard. Upon the naval de partment it reflects honour, from the wise and judicious selection made in fostering men of talent, and their readiness to afford trial to everything that can tend to strengthen Britain's best bulwarks, her " wooden walk." Naval and Military Gazette. On Thursday last, a joint vestry was held of the United Parishes of St. Antholin, Watling-street, and St. Julen the Baptist, to elect a Sunday afternoon Lecturer in the place of Dr. Wilson resigned, when the Rev. Chas. Coliby Roberts, B. A., one of the Masters of St. Paul's School, was chosen. The numbers at the close of the poll being : For the Rev. Charles Coleby Roberts... 50 For the Rev. H. Valiance.-- ........... 6 Majority for the Rev. Mr. Roberts ... —44 THE TROPICS.--InSects are the curse of tro pical climates. The bete rouge lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered e ith tick , . Chigoes bury themselves in your flesh and hatch a large colony of young chigoes in a few hours. They will not live together but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose; you cat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into the bed; ants cat up the books; scorpions sting you on the foot. Everything bites, stings, or bruises; every second of your existence you arc wounded by some piece of anneal life that nobody has ever seen before, except Swammerdam and Meriam. An insect with eleven legs is swimming in your tea-cup, a non descript with nine wines is struggling in the small beer, or a caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hastening over the bread and butter 1 THE DISTRESS IN SPITALFrELDS.—A few weeks ago some of the journeymen Spitalfields silkweavers, being desirous that the silk trade should obtain the pa tronage of her Majesty and the nobility, resolved to exe cute a piece of workmanship from the Jacquard loom, in order to show that British skill was equal, if net superior, to that of French weavers, and a design was invented, and a pattern of a portion of it produced, which attracted great admiration. Since then, in consequence of a communi cation to the Queen through Lurd Normanby, her Majesty has condescended to state that she will patronise a fancy dress ball, the dresses of which arc to be the produce of British manufacture. Several patterns of silks have been laid before her Majesty for her approval. A meeting of some of the manufacturers, at which several journeymen weavers were present, was held on Saturday, at the house cf the Rev. H. Taylor, Incumbent of All Saints, Mile-end, to make arrangements to receive the patterns made choice of by her Majesty. I'HE SPI TA LVIELDS WEAVERS.—Monday forenoon considerable excitement prevailed in Bethnal green and Spitalfields in consequence of a procession of near 500 Spitalfields weavers, whose object was found to be to wait upon four of the largest silk manufacturers in Spitalfields who had determined to reduce the wages of the journeymen silkwcavers who are employed in the velvet-weaving department from 3s. a yard to 2s 9d. a yard. The manufacturers who have come to this deter mination are Messrs Stone and Kemp, Spital-square ; Mr. Tarrant, Stewart-street ; Mr. Gibson, Spital-square ; and Mr. Graham, Spital-square, and who employ above 800 men. The various shops connected with those respec tive manufacturers, after hiving several meetings, resolved to eppoint delegates, two from each shop, to wait upon their employers. On Monday they assembled for that purpose at the Pitt's Head, Pitt-street, Bethnal-green, about nine o'ciock, and from thence proceeded along the Bethnal-green-road to Spital-square and Stewart-street. Tl,e delegates, after seeing the manufacturers, returned with the body of the weavers to the houses where each shop has its shop meetings, when they were informed that an arrangement had been come to, end that the masters would first have a meeting before they gave a definite answer. The weavers preserved the greatest order, and after hav ing received information of the interview returned to their homes. 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The parties in custody bave all of them been in office of some kind in the Union, either as secretaries or commit tee-men, and judging from the extent of the correspon dence found in the club boxes of their various unions, an nouncing remittances from Ireland, London, Liverpool, Lan caster, Bolton, Rochdale, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other towns of the United Kingdom, they must have had the distribution of considerable sums of money. I n conse quence of the discovery of thk_ corresponden ce t h e authorities of Ashton have bee 7 enabled to extend their investigations into the nature of the Sawyers' Union in many parts of Lancashire, and to appre hend other individuals against whom the charge of con spiracy can be clearly made out ; and they might fur ther extend it, and promote so wholesale a prose cution of the unionists which, is all probability, would be the means of breaking up the system alto gether, if they were so encouraged by the Govern merit as to warrant them in incurring the expense. As it is, however, the Government has done nothing more than offer the reward of 100 f. far the discovery of the murderer of Benjamin Cooper, and the prosecution of all the offenders, however far distant from the county they may be eoprehended, must fall upon the county-rate. The members of the sawyers' unions in several distant parts of the kingdom, by the correspondence found, might be im plicated in a wide-spreading conspiracy ; but this could not be done without the countenance of the Government, as the county of Lancaster is not likely to incur any such expense. As it is, the authorities have not the legal means of paying even a policeman for his exertions. With respect to this correspondence, and the somewhat startling announcement of the existence of these murder ous associations, and the method of selecting the victims, a rigid inquiry has been made, which has led to further disclosures of importance. The Magistrates of Ashton under- Lyne issued warrants for the apprehension of sixteen or seventeen individuals residing in the towns of Roch dale, Bolton, Liverpool, Bury, &c., which were placed in the hands of Newton, the deputy constable of Ashton under-Lyne ; Driver, the superintendent of the rural police; and Gattey, the deputy constable of Stayley bridge. Newton having proceeded to Liverpool fur the purpose of apprehending an individual not in cus tody, went thtace to Bolton, and succeeded appro . bending a man named Lomax, the Secretary of the Sawyers' Union in that tnwn, and found in his possession a quantity of papers tending to inculpate him and others in the conspiracy. On seaching the club-box, lie found the rules, and other documents connected with Trades Unions, which sufficiently manifested that a horrid sys• tem of coercion is pursued by the managers of the Trades' Unions towards the operatives. In a secret drawer of the box, the key of which Lomax kept in his pocket, was found a book, containing the rules, regulations, and mysteries of the Uuion, and detailir ' e the whole pro ceedings of the Sawyers' Union, on the initiation of a new member. These documents are in the hands of the Aslatoa authorities, and though I have not seen ' them m) self, I am indebted to the possessor of them for a faint sketch of their purport. It appears, then, that a declaration and an oath arc administered to every new member by an individual disguised in a mask. The new member is blindfolded before he is taken to the place where the oath is administered, before he ob tains admission to which he is what they term "sallied," that is turned round and round, so as to be unable to find the spot again. After the oath is adminis tered he is conducted out, and undergoes the same round about process. During the ceremony of initiation a hymn is sung, to the tune of the Old Hundredth Psalm, the words of which arc written in the book seized, and are of a threatening character, to all knob:ticks, viz., those who do not jo;n the Union. This beinr , concluded, the new member is asked by the disguised individual if he is wiping to become a member, and if he answer yes, the declara tion and oath are administered to him, and ho enters into a solemn undertaking not to divulge the secrets of the Union. Both the Bible arid the New Testament are kissed on the occasion; and in the course of the ceremony the skeleton of a man, which stands at one end of the room, is pointed out to him, and he is reminded of his doom if he divulges anything, by the disguised man, in doggerel, something like— " Het e are the eyes that ceased to glare, Here is the bosom that's ceased to beat, Ilere is death's emblem, so beware Of treachery, or view your fate " This mummery, which is made as terrific as possible, being over, the unfortunate operative is bound to the union and its measures while it is allowed to exist. All this will be proved in evidence from the documents seized, and although it would require the evidence of an accomplice to prove the method by which the union resolves upon a murderAthere is little doubt of the correctness of the state men it will be recollected that the Secretary of the Trades' Union and others were apprended on suspicion of being connected with the murder of Mr. Ashton, the cotton spinner, of Hyde, but there was no evidence to show that the Union was at the bottom of the murder, notwithstand ing it was proved:that the Morleys divided 101. bet•secn the three for the committal of the deed ; but from whom they received it it is not known to this dey. Among the rules of the Sawyers' Union found in the club-box (a few only of which I have been enabled to get a sight of) are the following : " 1. That every man who stands out against his em ployer for the protection of the trade is to receive Is. Bd. per day from the union. " 2. That any town wishing to enter the union must apply to the General Representative Union for that pur po;e, and the amount of the entrance-money is to be left to that body. " 3. That no town shall make a stand for an advance of wages without the consent of the Representative Union. " 4. That any member of the Union lending tools to any illegal man, or men, shall forfeit the sum of lOJ. and that each town is bound to find work for every legal man. _ _ "5. Any town applying to the Treasurer of the Repre sentative Union for relief, the town shall send a list of the number of men on strike, and the Committee of Manage ment shall send a delegate to investigate the legality of the claim." From _these rules, which I believe are the least ob noxious that they have, it appears that ' 1 the representa tive union" receive a all and pays all. Similar rules to these were adopted in Ireland many years ago by the trade generally, the representative union sitting in London ; but the Irish operativet disliked sending their collections to England, and it consequently broke up the general con nection. It appears, however, from the sums received from Ireland that the sawyers of both countries continuo to abide by the principle. A letter was also found in the Balton union-box from the secretary of " the Representative Union:" whose name I suppress for particular reasons. From this it seems that the union has recently had a great demand upon its treasury, as it states, " owing to the great demaeds the Committee had to call for an additional 23. per month, and also for the reports of the last levy in the different towns. This was considered nceessary by the Committee, in consequence of the expenses of the union having recently been so great." Thiel was a printed circular, signed by the Secretary, which had been transmitted through the post to the branch unions of sawyers throughout the United Kingdom. Four individuals have been committed fur conspiracy, whose names are Thomas and James flardwicke, Davis, and Williams. Peter Thompson, the man suspected of the murder of Cooper, kas been also committed for conspiracy. leaving it open for the police in the meantime to make every inquiry. Since that time Michael Weston, Juhn Ballow, John Lomax (the secretary of the Bolton Union), Thomas Wilde (secretary of the Rochdale Union), Robert Sutton, Robert Kenworthy, James Thorpe, Thomas Hos sal, W. Jarvis, Hugh Boyd, Patrick Tobin, John Buckley, William Shaw, and J. Marshall, have been brought before the magistrates of Ashton, and committed to the assizes for trial for the conspiracy, with the exception of Michael Heaton and John Barlow, the former of whom was admitted as evidence, and the latter remanded on suspicion of murder until Monday next (Jan. 4,) Mr. Brandt, barrister, appeared before the Magistrates to prosecute the prisoners, and said that the charge against the prisoners was for conspiring together to harass and annoy the master sawyers in carrying on their business, and to injure and assault journeymen sawyers, and to pre vent the masters from employing such workmen as they might choose. With respect to twelve of the party, the evidence would consist of overt acts showing that the par ties were following out a system of intimidation by picket ting and parading the streets in bodies, by visiting the yards of the masters for the purpose of seducing men called " knobsticks" from their work, and of employing to beat and ill treat those who refused to leave their work. The objects of the society are set forth in rules and resolutions which were formed at the same time. Many of the resolutions are adjudications upan strikes in different places, declaring some to be legal and otisers il legal (by which is meant in conformity or not with the rules of the club), and giving assistance or otherwise to such strikes. Others are directed against the use of saw mills ; and one of the rules is, that members of the union coining to any town shall not be " thrown out of employ" if they conform to the rules of the club—clearly intimating that such person should otherwise be thrown out of em ploy. Now this rule, and all the above resolutions, are illegal, and make every member of .such an association guilty of an illegal conspiracy. The Learned Gentlemen having concluded his speech and called his witnesses in support of the prosecution for Taylor, on behalf of Thomson, who is suspected of b e ing the murderer of Cooper, the sawyer, brought forward . _ his favour a woman named Whitehead, to prov e an al bi She said that on the I Ith of December, the day thet d-mur der was committed, Thompson was in her house a after u fi six. e d Old ham, at four o'clock, and left afe Now, if this were true, he could not b the infernal machine, as the murder was c onititted st six o'clock on the evening of the 11th Dece m ber ; and Old_ The ham is four miles from Ashto n. witness, however,v: tTlienmut minutes could give no reason why she knew the day to be the and on being further questioned by the Magistrates, she did not know the day of the month at the time she was speaking, and Thompson was consequently onsetpently committ e d f or trial on suspicion of the rhurdeand for the eeesp i racy. na med Barlow i s to be bro ught A mail e up again on Mon day, when some other facts connected with the diabolical - affair may be elicited. • A letter fro m Tri p oli of the h nat i v es of Foam hid again r evo lt e d, un d e r the st, announces that t co e mm and of their Bey, Abdnl Gelil ; that they had cc taken Towergha, and appeared in a considerable force in the environs of Mesurata. The Governor of the latter had marched against them a strong ccluem of troops, who were surprised by the Arabs, and cut to pieces, with the loss of five Turkish officers. The Paella, on hearing of this disaster, immediately despatched two schooners with '2OO men to reinforce the garrison of Mesurata. EVENING EDITION. TURKEY. CONSTANTINGPLE, DEC, 9.—The Government steamer Tair-y-Bahoy arrived yesterday from Beyrout, bringing intelligence from that place up to the 30th November. The Turkish troops were expected shortly to make a move. mcr,t ; they were to leave a strong garrison at Beyrout. The remainder of the troops were to be embarkod on board steamers, which would transport them to Jaffa. From Jaffa a garrison will be sent to Jerusalem, whic'a is only a day and a half's march from Jaffa. Aleppo, Ham ma, Horns, and Baalbec have fallen into the hands of the Turks. Emir Bey, Rear-Admiral of the Turkish fleet, and the adviser and intimate friend of Ahmed Feozi Pacha, the traitor who gave up that fleet to Mehemet Ali, has lately escaped on board of one of the English men-cf-war at Alexandria. lie was hotly pursued, and nearly taken in the chase ; while two of his men wore shot dead close to him. The late dreadful gale seems to have extended its in fluence even as far as the coast of Syria, for at Beyrout, ten merchant ships were lost; one of the Austrian men of-war unshipped its foremast from the violence of the storm ; and it was with great difficulty that the Turkish steamer was enabled to put to sea without any very serious lots. Here the Austrian Danube ComparWs boat Seri Pervaz, which had been freighted by the Turkish Go• vernnv.ut to carry troop:; to Sy. ia, was lost in the Sea of Monitors. on the shores of Moodania. Out of 560 men, nearly 50 have been drowned or frozen to death. In the Black Sea, also, the effects of the gale have been most destructive. A Russian steamer has been wrecked. Of those who were on board eighteen have perished, and nine teen been saved ; among the former there was a Jewess, who, with 11-1 two children, refused to come on deck, and were the first that were drowned, i n consequence of the Jter part of the ship having separated from the rest soon after the engines had given way. At tho mouth of the Bosphorus seven vessels have been wrecked. The whole amount of the damage that has been done is not vet fully ascertained. Admiral Walker is now Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman ft ct, and ranks next to the Capitan Pacha (Lord High Admiral). SYRIA, BETHour, Nov. 30.—0 n the day after my last (23d November) intelligence was received at Beyrout to the effect that Ibrahim had the day before retired from Zee cbally with all his army, moving southward. Upon the 24th Colonel Bridgeman and Major Napier left Beyrout, on a reconnoissance of the enemy. They arrived the first night at Zachle, and found the Emir li,eschir, with his mountain troops, in occupation of that village. They were each furnished by the Emir with :IS horsemen as a guard. Colonel Bridgernan on the follow ing day skirted the plain of Baalbec, in the direction of Damascus, and meeting with a body of 400 horsemen, de serers from the enemy, accompanied them to Beyrout. The deserters wore under the co:nmand of Shibley ilerryan, a celebrated freebooter, a ho, a short time ago, embraced the side of Ibrahim, having previously been very active hira mialaain,tsgldei c e .u..sc p ;r o o, p b;, u suhe l; di r , sc i uet n : insurrection. rv,pe,rcaost plaincioetnei proceeded dfde I rls oo enteredrfo i h N n ti hs a e p th : d e sec r i , on the other mountains, ttiiio-nnL e fi, ) b f a dtp ri ing theinselv,s in whet', and perhaps hostile, at one by one they had in a few hours deserted him. Ac companied then only by, his servant, a private of marines, bearing the English with the mountain colours, the Major ultimately penetrated to the village of Zebbedeneb, three hours from Damascus. The information he there olvained was to the effect that Ibrahim had, on the 22(1, passed through that village with 12,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and twelve field pieces ; that much dissatisfaction existed amongst his troops ; and that he was then with his army in a.,el around Damascus. Intelligence has just been received here of the full re treat of lb ahim from Damascus upon Egypt, and the Sul tan's steam-yacht is instantly leay . mg with the news. CURIOUS REMARKS ON THE BIBLE BY A WIDOW, AGKD 65 —Tue Bible contains 3,566,449 letters, 810,697 wor3s, 31,173 verses, 1,159 chapters, 66 books. The word " cod " occurs 46,227 times ; " Lord " 1,855 ; " Reverend " only once, and that in the llth Psalm. The 27th verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains the alpha bet ; the 19,11 chapter of the 23 book of Kings and the 37th chapter of I,aiah are alike. The first man recorded as having been buried in a coffin 'vas Joseph, 50th chapter of Genesis and 26th verse; no where but in the lit chap. 2d Timothy is the name " grandmother" mentioned. Two p. rticularly fine chapters to read )ou a ill find arc the 21 of Joel and the 26th of Acts. There is no name or word of more than six syllables in the Holy Bible. SA LT Si E ETS.—A medical correspondent urges the discontinuance of the dirty, and extremely dangerous practice now prevalent, of sprinkling salt on the pavement, in order to dissolve the snow and ice, which a little labour would remove without inconvenience to the public. He says, " I believe more catarrhs, coughs, and can,:umptive diseases, ending in death, have been occa sioned by this pernicious practice than all other baneful influences besides. In my practice several patients have been confined by severe illness to their sick chambers by this salt-sprinkling mania—it is the dea;h of many persons." A GOOD PARLIAMENT.—Mr. Cowper has yet further provoked them by saying, that an active, in dustrious man who employed 5,0001. in trade was every whit as fit to be a Member there as a country gentleman of 0 001. u-year, who spent all his time in hawking and hunt ing, and was over head and cats in debt. My Lord Not re:, s al:se:era him that he was one of those country gen tlemen, but tlioualit himself as fit to sit there as those a'uo were used to take money for their opinioa. Mr. now overslipt himself, and happened to open the design further than he should have done, say in , ' this Bill was but the first step to a good Parliament, and he hoped they should ad vance it a li: tae further hereafter.—James's Coral and Times of William 111. ANCIENT 13ooxs.—Pausanias relates that a book by fLsiod was written on leaves of lead, and Hero dotus mentions the use of skins by the lindens when pa pyrus was scarce, which seems to show that he wrote on papyrus, or the manufacture of the paper " reeds of Egypt," which grew by ttlarooks. Pliny mentions linen books, and Virgil alludes to books that were made of the inner rind of the (lin. The waxen hand tables of the ancients arc 'Nell known, which were inscribed upon with the point of the style, arid smoothed with its fist end. NORTH STAFFORDsIIIRE.—We find by the London Journals that the Hon. W. Ingham Baring, the bttra)er of the Liberals of Winchester, is about to retire from the representation of North Staffordshire, " in conse quence. of some family arrangements." We congratulate the electors of North Staffordshire on the prospect they have of no longer being represented by this political Isca riot, who not only sold the Reformers of \Winchester for a peerage in reversion, but has ever since shown, as well as his father ( the apostate Whig Lotd Ashburton) the bitterest hostility to his . orrner supporters. The Grange preserves, and the Grange influence (small certainly) is placed at the command of the Winchester Tory " whipper-in," to benefit the cause of Mr. Eseott ; and Lord Ashburton and his hunoureble son's influence is used to place Winchester again under the political thraldom which they were for merly the denouncers of, and the latter the opposer of, at three contested elections, at which he was one of the Whig candidates for the representation of Winchester. We say nothing of the genuine Tory contempt for the independ ence of the electors of North Stafford implied by the terra, " family arrangements," which we suppose turns there over for " a consideration," to:some other nominee of the apostate peer, who will consequently be a Member of the House of Commone, the representatives of the people ! Hampshire Independent. WOOD PAVING.—The recent frosts have tested the wood pavements in the metropolis very severely, but with different results. That laid down at Whitehall, and in Oxford-street, and Fore-street, City, appears to have stood without any injury ; whilst the wood pavement around St. Giles's Church, and in other places, has got so much out of repair as to render :replacement necessary. Nor is the contrast less singular as respects safety ; for the very sharp frost of last night made the wood paving opposite Coutts' banking-house, in the Strand, extremely slippery, so that horses have been frequently felling upon it, although that at Whitehall has been less affected than the Mac adamised road at alter end of it, and is considerably more safe.— Evanie f a Paper. Lady Newborough was confined on Thursday last at Glynnllior Castle near Carnatvon with a son and heir. The auspicious event gave rise to a manifestation of rejoicing unusual in that retired part of Wales.. Cannon waa fired, and all the craft in the harbour displayed their different flogs. In the evening Carnarvon was pada* illuminated. His Lordship, who resides the greater part of the year at the above seat, is deservedly respected by his neighbours, and from that circumstance the display of w yn n was more good feeling towards the noble family than ordinarily enthusiastic on that joyous occasion. as the. :d f cmonstrations of NEW YEAR'S DAY.—NCW: Year s Day was ushered in here amidst the usual noise; joy from the idlers upon our streets. m l . t er g:Ve , us trruch unruliness of that class, pleasure, however, to add, that creased from with their t t o he- he au mu b ch ' lt as well single case of riot called former years. The grouo , of.P i c te 7 l — e c:mgregated ie a the police. the High-street, at the Reg: and other. 10. calities, m i ng l e d great s too l d e humour During the day, numerous rornenaded the streets, but P p reets, for tee most numerous orderly an d temperate—even localities whose repute part e.rance do not stand tion fur tem! very high, partook of the fo ood orucr ; and an old • r hilarity t.l, e ; inT i r fe scarcely l o Y f general g residenter in the Cowgate nevel seen rcmar so much quiet prevailing is on t h e p resent occasion. night advanced, cases of intoxi cation became more frequent ; but on the whole, the ge neral impression is that a morequiet and i c ed he had • orderly New Year's Day never took place in Edinbur I Ed' V 1 g rn urg Courant. THE LATE FIRE IN BLOOMSBURY, AND AL.• LEGLD Loss Lt. LlFE,—Monday a paragraph went the round of the daily papers, which, after detailing the eir cutustence of the conductor of one of the fire-escapes of the Royal Society having fallen through the canvas bag attached to it on to the pavement, proceeds to state, " That the unfortunate man terminated his sufferings shortly after his arrival at University College Hospital." Such is not the fact, as, front inquiries made at that Insti tution on Mondry evening, the pour felle..v, although labour ing under severe concussion of the b rain, was still living. RAILWAY INDIcATon. — A machine has re cently been exhibited, cal:ed an " Indicator" of the passing of carriages or trains on railways. This instru meet is designed, and will most completely effect the in ventor's intention, to show to the conductors of a suc ceeding train the distance in time of a train in advance, through a period of fifteen minutes or longer if necessary —thus holding out the caution to trains in quick succes sion that there arc only tcvo, three, or more minutes apart, and to use their locornottve power accordingly. For night se rvice the usual coloured light is presented by the ma. c hi ne for the same period. It is suggested that an indi cator should be placed at each mile along the line of way, by which means a complete and never-failing system of signals will be established at the - first cost of 201. per mile, aid the annual expense of about 51, for lights.—/avent is Advocate,