The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-20 00:00:00

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Private Boa.. to be had so'ely of Mr. And: a W 3, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. "ryiumphard again ! Overwhelming Success of Ainsivorth's Tower of London. Nightly overtlews. Upwards of 57,0(1) Persons have already witnessed the best Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING, JAN. 2), KillKillbe acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. Thu Tahleaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of tht celebrated George Crnikshanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr. Siiiithby, the Original Clown; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing, Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran eoes, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria. > .'tp„ ''r f : • '`)-,4+4,:'A;; ) ; - v ; 1 6 Zile ./13-1,4 LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, IE4I. We yesterday made a few observations to illus trate the opposite effects of the centralizing and all- Tcgulating Government of France, and the localizing and comparatively little-regulating Government of England. 'Fire Journal des Debuts of Friday last has an article from which we may gather sup port for thes2 views. The Dchals justly connects the democratic party in the United States with hostility to a national debt. Nothing higher could be said in its praise. The practice in the monarchical Governments of Europe of pledging the resources of posterity has been found pregnant with mischief and ruin. If no other reproach can he heaped on the principle of dunocracy than hostility to a national debt, the ablest financiers and most honest councillors in Europe will regard it with reverence ; for they, like Dr. 11AmILTON and Mr. M'CULLOCU, have ad vised that every nation should rain within the year a sullicient revenue to cover the expenses of the year. The Dcoats imputes to democracy, as an offence, an aversion to a national bank. Its disadvan tages are not yet so clear as those of a national debt, but ADAM &mull, no mean authority, pre ferred private banks. Every establishment ap proaching the nature and character of a national bank in Europe, not even excepting the Bank of England, has made something like a bankruptcy ; and the manner in which the monarchical Govern ments of Europe have degraded the paper they have issued has brought misery 'and ruin on thousands If it be characteristic of a democratic, or mercantile spirit to hate a national bank, we reckon that to its honour. The Journal des Debats, ignorant of the nature and sources of mercantile credit, and of the paper which it puts into circulation, which, as B UIiKE says, is " of value on 'Change, because it has no value in Westminster Hall," which is defiled by the sanction of the law, because the Legislature creates no wealth, and has no goods on their way to market, like the merchant, wherewith to take up its bills--the Journal des Debars, has a short me thod of overturning the careful observation of S Nt I T H and the shrewdness of B u RK E. " From the moment," it says," when a system of banking is admitted into the country, from the moment that it is acknow ledged that the United States cannot dispense with paper money and eredi, it is not only useful, it is absolutely indispensable to the national welfare, that a great institution of credit and circulation should he placed above all the banks." In that passage the spirit of NAPOLEON domineers over trade, and as certainly crushes it as the same kind of Imperial spirit has lost France her colonies, and ruined her commerce. The Debats might as well assert that from the time that London could not dispense with gas light, and Manchester was obliged to have recourse to cotton spinning, that a great gas and spinning establishment should he placed by the power of the Government above all the manufactories of gas and cotton twist. Bank promises and credit notes are as much the offspring of commerce and division of labour as gas lighting and cotton spinning, and the Government might as well undertake the management of the latter as of the former. It is amusing at present to find the Journal Iles Dcbats, which seems to misapprehend the nature and effect of the democracy of the United States, ascribing to it " a savage national and personal inde pendence." " Its perfection" is said to destroy every bond between individuals in each country, and be tween each portion of the human race. This is amusing, at a time when France is almost isolated by her absurd political system, though she be in the heart of Europe ; and at a time when the United States has by its commerce more connection with England and with the continent of Europe than any one of the great monarchies of Europe has with England or with the rest of the Continent. The democratic system, which requires co-operation to elect a wardman as well as to elect a President—which puts no obstacle to the division of labour, and thus makes every man dependent on others, and which allows of free trade with every other nation, is the very reverse of a system of isolation either of individuals or of nations. No, the proud monarchy where man has no occasion to commune with man to attain a com mon end, but where the whole herd is driven by a common master—where the apprehensions of some rival monarchy interdicts traffic, and cuts off a nation as France is now ahnost cut off from the rest of Europe—the proud monarchy, elate 'with vain glo rious conquest, utterly regardless of the millions who live in it, is the Government for isolating a nation front other nations, and isolating the indivi duals who compose it. As France is now separated from the rest of Europe, so the inhabitants of Paris and the distant provinces of France, the luxurious idlers of the Chaussee d'Antin, and the hard working, hard-living artizans of the Faubourg St. Antoine, are more estranged from each other, and have less sympathy with one another, than any class of American citizens. When the well-informed Journal des De bats writes on France or on the continent of Europe, it is worthy of much respect, but its re marks on the democracy of America are tinctured with the spirit of the Imperial Guard. For that body BONA PA RTE was a divinity—for the Dcbats, the Government of France, at present, is perfection. We prefer the activity of the demo cracv which has called into life " a multitude of cities, an incredible extent of canals and of rail roads," to. the inertness of a monarchy of which the cities, except one or two, are not flourishing, in which not above one canal has been made for up wards of a century, and which has not yet con structed more than a single railway of very short extent. Some of the Scotch clergy have assumed a bold attitude of defiance towards the law which is worthy of notice, if not of imitation. The Rev. Gentlemen, however, will probably find imitators. They teach the laity a lesson, and set them an example. They are our authorised teachers. They claim a higher authority than lawmakers, and their pretensions tend to overthrow either the law or themselves. Careless or superficial writers and thinkers may turn up their eyes with astonishment, and wonder whi tl►er this will lead ; but they live in times such as never were before, and strange events are every day the parents of strange doctrines. At a meeting of the Presbytery of Edinburgh on the 6th instant, that body adopted this resolution in reference to the Strathbogie case, which has been decided adversely to the principles of the Presby tery, first, by the Court of Session, and subse quently, on appeal, by the House of Lords : " That the Presbyterycontemplate this decision of the Court of Session with the deepest regret and alarm, as involving the exercise of jurisdiction by a civil court in an ecclesiastical matter, and as being thus inconsistent with the word of God, the standards of the Church, and an encroachment upon the acts and liberties secured to the Church and people of Scotland by the Revolu tion settlement, the Act of Security, and the Treaty of Union." The Presbyterian clergy, then, not to be behind the priests of the Romish and the Anglican Churches in claiming a power derived from a higher source than the law, set up the " word of GOD," in opposition to the jurisdiction of their civil court. When it suits their purposes every " authority" is said to be of GOD, and men are commanded to "obey fot the LORD'S sake ;" but now another authority is set up against the law—the word of GOD " in opposition to the authority of law," which is also of GOD, and, therefore, according to the clergy GOD'S authority is in conflict with GOD'S authority. It will require some of the mystical and holy con juration in which the priesthood deals to remove the discrepancy between their demands on the laity to obey the authority of the law as of divine origin and their claims to set aside that authority because I it is opposed to the word of GoD. When the Court of Session lately ordered the Presbytery of Strathbogie to induct Mr. En- WA RDS, if they had no reason for refusing, the LORD PRESIDENT said, the Act, 1592, provided that the Presbytery " were BOUND and astricted to admit and rece i ve whatsomever qualified person" who was presented to them ; " so the Court," adds a Commentator, " simply declared that a Presbytery could not refuse, without any reason whatever, to perform a duty, and to repudiate an obligation laid'' on them by statute." But a Mr. C UNINGHAME, a leader of the most-holy-of-all men, and therefore very little lower than an angel, has found out that the Act of 1592 has not provided any means for enforcing on the Presbytery the duty it requires the Presbytery to perform. He said at the meeting— " I have further to state, that there is no statute in the land which professes to give to the Court of Session the power to. order a Presbytery to receive and admit. They can produce no principle from national law ; they can produce no dicta trom distinguished writers on law ; they can produce no decisions from the Court of Session itself, since the era of the Revolution, which affords them the slightest vestige of countenance for this order. The question then occurs, on what ground does the Court of Session found their claim to this power, or on what principle do they defend it? Why, we all know that there is an Act of Parliament binding and restrict ing Presbyteries to receive and admit qualified p ersons . It is quite true that there is an Act of Parliam en t con taining these words, and that by that Act an obli ga ti on is imposed upon the C hurch to receive and admit. may B u t then there is i n z no provision in giving authority to by vhi which that t the obligation Court 7 ofay be enforce d , 0 •h Session to interfere to enforce it. . • • " There may be a deficiency in the statute--that is no business of mine ; but if the Court of Session supply that deficiency by a contrivance of its own—and that, in this case, they have done—they break the law, they set themselves above the law, unquestionably they set themselves above the law ; they assume to themselves the part of legislators ; they make laws for themselves, in support of which they cannot point to any statute or former decision of their own. But it may be said, is there no way of enforcing this civil right ? We say, they have no right to invent modes which the law has not sanctioned ; and they have no right to break other laws under the pretext of enforcing this one:' " It is not expressly said that the supreme civil Court is to interpret and enfbrce the statute. The right of the Court to enforce statutes against all the rest of the subjects is not expressly given to them as to us Church. men. Hence We may violate the statute with perfect impunity. " This I will say, that the decision pronounced in. TB E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1 k 41. voice: a great sin against God ; that it is in violation of God's word, an interference with Christ's arrangements, and an assumption of powers and prerogatives which Ilc has &ept from them, and conferred upon the Church. It is an assumption substantially of the same jurisdiction in the government of Christ's house ; and I venture to say that it is not lessened, perhaps it may be increased, because that assumption is made by the civil power, in place of a power calling itself ecclesiastical. Not only is it a great and heinous sin and to be regarded in this light, but it is fraught with danger to the rights and liberties of the Church and people of Scotland." Mr. CUNINGHAME, then, objects to the Court of Session enforcing the law of the land, unless that law prescribes the means of enforcing it, and lays on the Presbytery some heavy punishment for disobedience. In England, the omitting to obey such a positive enactment would be a misdemeanour, and Mr. CUNINGHAME'S doctrines might here end in a two years' imprisonment. In Scotland there must be some similar mode of enforcing the autho rity of the law and the Court of Session. It has the power to cause its own decrees to be obeyed. Not to obey the order of the Court, made to en force a statute, must be considered a higher offence than merely to omit fulfilling the conditions of a statute, and either Mr. CUNINGHAME and the Presbytery must carry the order of the Court i•►to effect, or g o to prison. But Mr. CUNINGHAME, speaking in the name of the ALMIGHTY, as all the clergy speak, asserts that this assumption of jurisdiction over the go vernment of CHRIST'S house, is a great and hein , :us sin. The Presbytery adopted the resolution which this speech recommended, and the Presbytery go with Mr. CUNINIIIIAME in resisting the ordinances of authority for the LORD'S sake. The Church, then, is at issue with the law on the point of autho rity ; and while it declares disobedience in laymen . to,be sin, it declares the acts of authority, in rela tion to the clergy, to be sin. Its doctrines are fashioned to the passing hour. They are adapted as they arc required and paid for, to make men the slaves of the State, or the State the slave of the priesthood. Mr. CUNINGHAME'S objection to the jurisdic tion of the Court of Session is not in substance different from an objection now frequently made in England. It is naturally assumed in both countries that as the Statute Lawlprovides for one thing it ought to provide for another. As it enacts that the Presby tery " should admit and receive a qualified person," it ought to have ordained a penalty or punish ment for not obeying, and ought to have described how the fine was to be le vied and the latter inflicted. It ought to have followed out the business to the end, and not have regulated one-half by positive statute, and left the other to the arbitrary will of Judges. All that, it does not prescribe, and which the Court neverthe- less does, is Judge-made law. Mr. CUNINGHAME says that " the attempt of the Court to supply the deficiency of the statute is breaking the law and setting themselves above the law. They assume to themselves the duty of legislation." In substance, then, the priests of the Scotch Church do not much differ from the philosophic BENTHAM and his dis ciples, who object in the strongest terms to the Judge-made laws of the Courts. Other persons make a similar objection when it suits their own purposes. The House of Com mons, for example, would never, on a question of privilege, oppose a statute which could completely overrule a privilege. The laws which the Coin mons and the Lords oppose are, like the assump tions of jurisdiction to which Mr. CUNINGIIAME objects, Judge-made laws. In fact, therefore, the priesthood, enlightened jurisconsults, and the two Houses of Parliament, treat Judge-made or common law with contempt, and recognise only the statute law. Such a conflict between authorities claiming respect seems well calculated to unsettle the reason or the obedience of the nation. It is plain from the united objections of the clergy, the two Houses of Parliament, and enlight ened jurisconsults, that all laws, even to their minutest consequence, should be written, and should be deliberately enacted. The yearly increase of statutes setting aside, term after term, more and more of the common law is perhaps intended to realise this object. Will the change be beneficial ? The common law is unknown even to the Judges- The statute law is a confused jumble which they are often puzzled to apply, and can never unravel. It now, however, becomes the duty of the priest hood, who have invalidated the authority of law for their own purposes, to teach us laymen the grounds of obedience, and to relieve us from all doubts as to what is and what is not to bs obeyed. The French Journals of Sunday are before us. The debate on the Bill for the fortifications of Paris was fixed for Thursday, when a member of the Opposition, M. LARABIT, was to move that the continuous line should be erected before the detached forts. It was expected that this moticn would be supported by M. ODILLON BARROT and the Left, and opposed by the Government, by which the relative strength of the different parties in the Chamber would be at once ascer tained. Already has the suspicion arisen among the Opposition that the Government has no inten tion of erecting a wall of circumvallation round Paris, and that only detached forts are wanted, the guns of which will easily bear upon every dis trict of the capital. Nothing but the sheerest stu pidity on the part of some members of the Oppo sition, and a corrupt betrayal of the liberties of their country on the part of others, could have so long concealed this fact from every member of the French Legislature. A line of detached forts is all that is required by the KING to bridle the revolu tionary party. The Government only wants such forts to be in a condition to reduce the Parisians to the most unqualified sub►nission. The KING, Marshal SOULT, even M. TILLERS himself, know the project of surrounding such a city as Paris with a wall to keep out an invading army to he wholly preposterous. But it is necessary to gull the popu lace ; and for such a purpose no better instrument could be chosen than the leader of the war faction, the ex-Minister 'lnuits. This man has sold himself and his country to the Court. We stated at the period of his last resignation that he had done so, and that he only resigned to avoid the consequences of his own rash and puerile policy. The majority of the journals, French and English, contended at the time that there would be war to the knife in the Chambers—that M. TRIERS, ap. pealing to French passions, would place himself at the head of the war faction, and, after storming the Cabinet, plunge all Europe into war. We knew the ex-Minister better than to share in such a de lusion ; and accordingly intimated that having op posed the Government enough to save:appearances, he would grow quiet, and seemingly resigned to a state of things whi c h he could not change. Sub sequent events have shown that we were not at all mistaken. The French Journals contain ample details of the ut►fortunate disturbances in Switzerland. Ex tracts from them are given in another part of The Sun. We find in one of these papers a letter from Semlin of the Ist instant, which the depositio n of hich states that the Porte had refused to revoke MEHEMET ALI. This statement is untrue. On the 27th ult. Captain WALKER sailed from Con stantinople to Alexandria, charged to bring back the Turkish fleet, accompanied by an officer of high rank from the Divan, who was to deliver to the VIcERoY two Imperial firmans, the one revoking the sentence of deposition, and the other conferring upon him the hereditary Government of the Pachalic of Egypt. This news we have reason to believe has been officially communicated to the Four Powers. The Criminal Court of Bamberg, in Austria, lately sen tenced to 5, 10, 15, and 20 years' imprisonment in the fortress of Spiclburgh, a number of Poles, convicted of having belonged to secret societies. The Temps and Quotidiehne announce that Governor Roses intends to come to France with his daughter, on board the French squadron. The celebrated Bertrand Barren., formerly member of the National Convention, died, on the 13th inst., at Tarbes, his native place, in the 85th year of his age. After making himself conspicuous as a lawyer in the Par liament of Toulouse, he became a journalist and a political man. Barrerc was a member of the States General, of the Constituent Assembly, of the Tribunal of Cassation, of the National Convention, of which he was President in 1792, of the Legislative Body, and of the Chamber of Deputies of the hundred days, and took a most active part in the political struggles of the last 50 years. The Courier Francais attacks the Ministers on the sub ject of the convention concluded between France and Buenos Ayres. The Courier forgets that this convention, which besides fulfils all the conditions laid down in the ultimatum of France, was signed by Rear-Admiral Musicals and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Roses on the 30th of Oct , that is two days after the accession of the present Ministry. Perhaps, too, it forgets that Admiral Mackau has followed in every point the instructions which he received from the Cabinet of the Ist of March. The Commerce speaks this morning of the omission said to have been pointed out in the applications for supple mentary and extraordinary votes of credit, and which it says amounts to no less than 150 millions. This assertion is inaccurate, no omission has been made; the project of law which the Minister of Finance is to present shortly to the Chamber of Deputies, is that which he has announced and which related to the distributions of the proceeds of the loan among the various branches of the extraordinary pub lic works.—Moniteur. Reports arc in circulation at Toulon which say that the English ship of the line Bellerophon, the same which, in 1815. conveyed Napoleon front Rochefort to England, has perished on the coast of Syria , and that an English frigate is also lost. We need not add that these state ments want confirmation.—Le Conststutionnd, VIENNA, JAN. 8 —The island of Candia was restored to the dominion of its Sovereign, the Sultan, on the 17th of December. Mari Hey, the Turkish Commissioner, arrived on the 15th in the bay of Sudo, on board of the Austrian brig Montecuculi, and made his entry into Candia on the 14th. The firman was published on the 17th, by which the island is restored to the immediate dominion of the Sultan, and Mustapha Pacha, hitherto governor for Me hemet Ali is continued in his office, in consideration of the important service which he had rendered to the island by his administration. BO URSE..---PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 16. ir.t Highest Lowest Price Viice. Pricy Price French !.. per ('cots 4 per Cents 9l) ... 911 ... 9:1 .99 3 per , OIL, 77 23 77 !.0 ... 77 25 .. 'i7 3) Sank of fiance Lattitte tank :_ooof. Stares 5130 —.5130 —.5130 ...5130 veigian Bank 51.er Cents 99 ... 39 ... 99 ... t. 9 New Loan siminsh Ac.ive Passive 6i,,, ... (i}i ... ilx ... fil, Neapolitan Roman mu ... 100 ... WO ... IVO RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Vergailles,R. R 415 ... 41r. 6 25 415 410 25 LB 3lO 312 50 3111 3 2 10 louen °rte-ins .. Strasburg to Bale 3lO 25 ... 346 25 ... 345 1210 5 We have advices from Lisbon of the 11th, and from Madrid of the 10th inst. In both capitals apprehensions were entertained that the dispute between Spain and Portugal would lead to unplea sant results. The Madrid Gazette of the 10th contains an official article, commenting in very severe terms upon the Queen of PORTUGAL'S Message, and a rumour prevailed both in Lisbon and Madrid, that the Regency had refused to with draw the ultimatum which led to the offer of Bri tish mediation. The Duke of VICTORY, who is supposed to be anxious for war, in order to find employment for his army, was reported to have directed the concentration, on the Portuguese frontier, of a force consisting of sixty battalions of infantry, nine regiments of cavalry, and MO pieces of cannon, ready to cross the frontier on the 31st of January, the date of the expiration of the ultimatum, provided the question was not previ ously settled. The DUKE'S plan of campaign is said to embrace a division of his army into three corps, and so march simultaneously upon Lisbon, Oporto, and Santarem. The Portuguese on their part are prepa:ing for hostilities, although the P►o vinces bordering on Spain are already in a state of insurrection in consequence of the levies of fresh troops required by the War Minister, and enforced by the local authorities. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The Stock Market was rather animated to-day, but the business done was chiefly on behalf of the public, speculation being inactive. The decline in Consols for immediate transfer was from 90 and 90i to 89i and 90, closing at the latter price for sellers. For the 25th of next month there was scarcely any alteration, the quotations being 90 to I. Exchequer Bilis were not quite so high, viz Bs. to 10s. premium ; but India Bonds improved to 8s and 4s. discount. Bank Stock got up 1 per cent. again, the market value being 169 to 170. The Re duced Three-and-a-Half per Ceat. Annuities realised 981 to 99 to-day. The Foreign Market was rather dull, but prices did not generally recede. Spanish Active Bonds remained at 241 to 241 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. at 32, and the Three per Cents, at 201 to 20. ; Colom bian Stock of 1824, was a trifle better, viz., 231 to 231, and Mexican of 1837 brought 28?, Buenos Ayres Bonds advanced from 191 20 to 201 and 21. Belgian Stock improved to 981 and 981. Russian was firm at 113 i, and Dutch Two-and-a-half par Cents. were again at 501 to 501. Railway Shares were heavy. There were symptoms of improvement in the Foreign Exchanges. The rates were, Paris, 25f. 55c. to 60c. ; Hamburgh, 13 7 to - 4 1 : Amsterdam,. 12 21 to I ; Ant warp, 12 2 to 4, and Frankfort, 1484. The sales of Indigo have been going off well to-day, a certain proof of an improved state of things in the manufacturing districts. The following are the official returns of the exports of bullion front the port of London, for the week end ing Thursday last : Silver Coin to British ‘Vest Indies Silver Coin to Calais BO,OOO oz. Silver Bars to Calais ( From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. —The ales today are 8,000 bags, including 500 Egyptians, doll late on Saturday night, and 1,000 to•day ; also 2,000 Americans, and 500 Surats on speculation, the re• mainder to the trade ; and at very steady prices. No communication with the telegraph in consequence of the f og. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 18.—Eastern COUR ties, deb. 5H : Edinburgh and Glasgow, 29,1 ; Glasgow and Paisley, 221 ; Grand Junction, 213 ; Great Western, 93k ; Halt' Shares 63 ; Fifths 10i ; London and Bir mingham 321. Shares, 57' 4 ' ; 4 ; Quarter Shares, 274 g ; Parts and Rouen, SK. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 18.—We have had an inactive market to-day.—No material altera tion in prices. Bank Stock is in request. Hull and Selby, 44 ; Eastern Counties, 84 to 9 ; Manchester and Leeds, 79 to 80 ; Ditto Halves, 291; Manchester and Birmingham, 25,1 to 26 ; Ditto, Extension, 3 to 3i ; Lon don and South Western, 58 to 58g. Accounts from Li,hon of the 11th of January, state that the Portuguese Government has applied to Lord Palmerston for 20,000 muskets to arm their levies with. A dreadlul mutiny took place last night on board the British brig Homer ; the crew nearly murdered the Captain, who is in a very dangerous state. Console opened this morning at the same quotations as they left off yesterday, 90i- for, Money, and WI for the Account, with scarce anything doing to the present time. The accounts from Pot tugal of their differences not being finally settled with the Spanish Government rather terds to damp the market. Exchequer Bills, 8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock, 167 168; India Stock, 251 253. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives, which closed at 241 K, is not quite so gocd, and may be quoted at 24i ; Deterred, 121 Pessive, 6 1 1 ; Portuguese at pre sont same as they left off, 321 ; Three per Cents.. 20i; Brazilian, 70- 721 ; Colombian, 231 Mexican, 28 29; Danish, 7Th 781; Russian, 112 1131 ; Dutch Two -and-a. Half per Cents., 501 i; Five per Cents., 981 994. Snaams.—Great Western, 271 281 prem. ; New, 13 14 prem. ; London and Brthton, 64 4 disc. ; Blackwall, 431 disc. ; Birmingham, 82 84 prcm. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share ; Croydon, 121 a per share ; Greenwich, 81 it per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 disc.; South Eastern and Dover, 14.1 a disc, PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New .. Gosport Junction London and Brighton London and Birmingham London and South Western 38 South Eastern and Dover JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England... 35 National of Ireland Union of Australia.. Ditto New Shares There is not a feature worth observation in the BrWsh Market. Consols have been during the morning 901 for the Account; at present they arc a shade lower, and may be quoted 90-4 ; Money the same—they have been 89-7 I ; Exchequer Bills 8 10 prem. ; Bank Stock 169 170 ; India Stock nothing doing ; India Bonds the sama. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active appears firm, 24a to ; Pasiive 6 • Portuguese rather lower, 32 ; Three per Cents. 20} ; Buenos Ayres improved, 21; Colombian 23,4 Mexican 281; Dutch Tvro•and-a- Half per Cents. 501 1. The Share .Market is lower in prices, with the exception of the London and Birmingham. Great Western 921 ; Gosport Junction 40 ; London and Brighton -13 i ; Lon don and Birmingham 173 to 175; London and South Western 58 571. We have no further arrivals, and are very dull in the City to the present hour. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9Ol Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89i Ditto Old Annuities... 31 per Cent Red ...... .. 981 Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. ... 98* Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2Ad 10 pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ Bpm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small I 1 pin Jan. 1860 Oct 18.59 l3 India Stock for Acct ... - Jan. 1860 ... FOREIGN FUNDS. A astrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 9Bl Ditto, New Ditto.... 32 Brazilian Bow's .. .. - BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ... 1134 Chilian, 6 per cant Colombian, 6 per cent ... Spanish, 5 per cent 24i Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent...... French,s per cent... —f. —c. (;reek, 1825, spercent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent 50,1 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. 15A Ditto, 5 per percent.....HAßES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) 931 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... ... 631 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) lO2 Gosport Junction Railway (35 pd) London and Brighton Railway (SO paid) London and 13irminktham Railway (00 pd) 175 London and South Western Railway ....., 572 South Eastrrn and Dover (28 paid 1.. • /32 COURSE OF EXCLIANGE—,YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam U F. 12 51 Gibraltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 0 U. 1 0 6 'Genoa 25 85 Antwerp Ilamburgh.. M.B. 13 10 Venice 47 Altona ............. ....... 13 104 Naples 391 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 ,Pa ermo, per oz 121' Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Lisbon... ....... 514 Marseilles ...... 23 75 Oporto .52 Bourdeaux,.. . . 25 75 Rio Janeiro 2B Frankfort on Maine lßahia 27 Petersbnrgh, 3 U 5...... 37 (Buenos Ayres Berlin 7 0 NevrYork, 21 days' sight 4q _ . Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M. 10 3 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadi 35 1 1 Barcelona Seville 351- ForeiAn Gold, bars.. 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Nevr Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars U 5 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked on the Terrace of the Castle and in the Slopes this afternoon for some time. The Duchess of Kent has not left the Castle today. Lady Portman has succeeded the Duchess of Bed ford as the Lady in Waiting on the Qu;:en. The Earl of Listowel has succeeded the Earl of Fingail as the Lord in Waiting on her Majesty, and Mr. Rich has succeeded Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway as the Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. The Royal Dinner Party at the Castle this morning included the Earl of Uxbridge, Lord PrLet, Lord Geor,ge Paget, and the Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget, Lord and Lady Kinnaird, and Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. A Cabioet Council was held yesterday afternoon a the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Vic count Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Ma•-quis o Liusdowne, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Normauby Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Viscount Dun cannon, the Right lion. H. Labouehere, Lord Mor peth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Agent for Jamaica, accompanied by Mr. P. Moncrieffe, had an inteniew with Lord John Russell esEerday at the Colonial-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne, as Lord President of the Council, will give, on the 00th instant, a grand dinner, at which the Roli of Sheriffs forthe present year %till be arranged, previous to its being submitted to her Mjesty in Council. Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. The odour of some persons is said to have been quite a perfume. Plutarch mentions that Alexander the Great smelt, not of carnage like a hero, but most plea santly. Fragrance proceeded also from Augustus. In the memoirs of the Queen of Navarre we read that Cathe. rine de Medici was a nosegay ; and Cujacius the civilian, and Lord Herbert of Cherbury, were equally delightful. Dr. Speranza lately witnessed a strong balsamic fragrance from the inner part of the left forearm of a healthy man, which continuo d, espcially in the morning, for two months, and ceased for good en the supervention of fever. Van Swieten mentions a man whose left armpit smelt strongly of musk ; and Wedel and Gahrliess saw each klimilar ex emple,—Dr. Elliotson's Human Phipiology, COHN•LAWS - AVERAGES - FIXED DUTY. We mentioned on this day week, in reference to the quotation we then made from the Edinburgh Revictv, that we would reconsider the question oi a fixed duty on food, and state the result. We shall now first beg leave to reproduce Sir Robert Peel's objections to such a duty, all of which we consider well-founded. Before the Reviewer, in !he teeth of all his own arguments on the subject of import duties, adopted the incongruous recom mendation of a fixed duty, he should have consi dered and answered Sir Robert Peel's objections. Before we place the quotation under the eyes of our readers, we will make another remark. Sir Robert dwells with earnestness and censure on the " expedients " which would be resorted to, in order to influence the price when it reached nearly 70s. Those expedients, therefore, are immoral, in Sir Robert Peel's opinion ; and he puts them forth as objections to a law establishing a fixed duty. The law which would cause them is at least an objectionable, if not an immoral law. But similar expedients arc now continually had recourse to, and all Sir Robert Peel's objections to the " expedients" under a fixed duty, the justice of which we admit, apply with a tenfold force to the present fluctuating scheme. Within the last six months we have seen its beauties, we may almost say, on an exaggerated scale. Till the averages reached a price at which wheat was imported duty free, it is an undoubted fact that they never corresponded to the actual price at which the baker bought flour from the miller, and at which the working miller actually bought it of the farmer, and consequently never corresponded to the price at which bread was sold. It was accordingly to many persons a subject of surprise, and of almost universal complaint, after the averages had attained the height for which the " expedients" were had recourse to, and after they had fallen from 735. to 655., that there was no cor responding fall in the price of bread. In fact, the price of bread and the averages seem to have very little connection. They do not rise and fall toge ther. The intention of the Legislature, then, which is to let in wheat when bread is dear, and keep it out when bread is cheap, is not fulfilled. It is humbugged and deceived. Its power is prac tically mocked at and set at. nought by the " ex pedients" which suit the purses of -speculators. The present law is ineffectual as well as immoral, and the Legislature itself is imbecile as well as wicked. It cannot reach its own ends. Whatever mischief it may do—and God alone knows how vast is that, for human abilities cannot measure it—it is impotent even to give practical effect to its own enactments. Sir Robert Peel, by the remarks we shall now quote, acknowledges the immorality of the body of which he is a member. Will he, by abstaining from some coercive legislation, to en force a correspondence between the price of wheat and the price of bread, also acknowledge that the impotency of which we have convicted the Legis lature is incurable ? DUTCH MAIL. KONIGSBERG. JAN. 6.—lt appears that the murderer of the venerable Bishop of Ereniland got into the palace, with which he was well acquainted, in the evening, when the Prelate had sent all his servants to church. He appears to have gone direct to the Bishop's sitting room, and to have cleft his skull with a billhook, so that he died instantly. He then broke open the cup board in which the money was kept. At that moment the housekeeper came in, and the murderer, though disguised and wearing a mask, thought it necessary, for his security, to murder her ; he, accordingly, gave her a severe wound in the face, and fled. The servants returning from church, found the two bodies, and imme diately gave the alarm. The physicians found the housekeeper still living, but unable to speak, and without hopes of recovery. BERLIN, JAN. 9.—Public opinion soon designated one Rudolph Kuknappl, as the murderer of the Bishop. He is 26 or 27 years of age, of the Roman Catholic religion. He has several brothers and sisters. He was educated by the Bishop, who, intending him for a clergyman, placed him in the seminary. Being dis missed for bad conduct he was taken by the Bishop as a servant, but was dismissed for theft, and bound to a tailor, but he would not work, and led a vaga bond life, repeatedly threatened the Bishop and the Canons, and declared he would act fire to the residences of several Canons. For this he was put in prison, which increased his rancour towards the Bishop. He lately demanded of the Bishop 400 dollars, threatening him with the worst consequences if he refused, He was seen near the Bishop's residence between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening, and in search ing him to-day much of the property belonging to the Bishop was found. He was arrested, but instantly denied the charge. His parents, with whom he lived, and his sisters, are likewise arrested.—Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 11. HallovEn, JAN. B.—Our military armaments have been carried on more actively than ever, especially as regards the cavalry, which is said to be complete, and ready to march. The infantry is also placed on the war establishment, and orders are given to be in readi ness to march ; but in general, few people believe in a war. 1-lAnovca, JAN.5.—The King has wholly recovered, and appeared in public some days ago ; but to-day has had a slight relapse. On New Year's Eve there was a brilliant drawing-room, and afterwards a concert. The superior Corporations sent their written congratulations on the new year to his Majesty.—Hamburgh llorsen halle, Jan. F.t. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 15 Money. Bills. tettia: Debt, '2% per Cent Oitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amos t Svnilic,4 .;, per cent 8.1',,, toiN Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7o' 714 Commercial Company, 4!•, per cent l6l hi ; 6 :14 Ditto (1335 and I 137) 5 per cent. Loan 147, 5 per cent. 94 % fl ... 9,51 4 i Exchange on London, One month l2 0 Two months Dutch Papers, Jan. 13. SELMAN .UNDS—Ziauesins, JAN. 16. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. flothschild's Lean, 5 per ('ant .. i 614 Loan of Thirty .;lillions, 4 per Cent. 6S% ---,•—• (1.40) ll6 )4 ----••-- 3 per Cent. _ -----Thirty.seven------ • • Loan of City, 1532, 4 per Cent OO Society of Comm.rce, •ty.iper Cent lO3 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............ National Society . Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 16. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN.B, riveper Ccuts. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents , Bank Shares :680 --Atigentrine Zestung, Jan. 13 HAMBURG BORSEN HA LLE, JAN. 12. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 16:5 , A nide. Russian Loan lO7 10 , ..7.E Itiissi:::l 5 per Colt. !st series, C,rtiticate . 10 2 14 Inscription, Ist Se.n.s 1t'..,% _ Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. Oil and Atli Series 9 ( . 4% 913 Ditto in Certihrates Dutch Actual Debt, 2y,, pc, Cent Ditto per Cent ..............•.... • _ Poli‘li Bond. New 1 icket A oglo.Danixii L o an, 3 per Cei•t: 7:33 Nimwegian Loan, 1531, 4 per CeoZ... Spanish. New 3 per Cents. l9 1834 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, JAN. 12 . Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4( per cent. llll% 11311 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 100% RN Exchange on London, three months 6 Hi% —Prussian .State Gazelle, Jan. 13. A TAll.olt.—Some snarling cynic has said, it takes nine tailors to make a man ; it is a sweeping cen sure that should be blotted from the page of calumny ; we aav in contradistinction, that it will take the brains of nine ordinary men, to make one highly-gifted tailor ; take nine bundled and ninety nine ordinary mcn, arid try and make every ninth man a tailor, the experiment would fail, take our word for it. " l'oeta".—no—" Sartor nascitur, •ICPPI 64' and the tailors are a belied race,—Sportsman. SIR ROBERT PEEL ON A FIXED DUTY. The Right Hon. Gentleman said, he preferred a fixed duty to the sliding scale ; and being asked to state its amount, he said he thought seven or eight shillings per quarter would be tt.e amount of the duty he should recommend. Then the Right Honourable Gentleman being aware of the objection to a fixed duty, that when the price of corn became inconveniently high, it might be difficult for a weak, or even a strong Government, to maintain a fixed duty in the face of rising prices, he proposed, in order to obviate the diffi culty, when corn arrived at the price of seventy shillings per quarter, the duty should vanish, and corn be ad tnittcd free. That was the only proposition which had been submitted to their consideration by her Majesty's Government. Let him then observe to the Right Hon. Gentleman, that his proposition would hardly remove any one of the objections which were made to the pre sent system. Would it tend to promote a final settle ment of the question ? Not in -the opinion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton, because the whole of his speech went to show that the landed interest was entitled to no protection whatever ; that so fir from bearing any exclusive taxes, they were exempted from some particular burdens, and that with no shadow of justice should any duty, fixed or variable, be imposed on the importation of foreign corn. All the arguments which applied to protecting corn for the purpose of in creasing the refits of landlords would equally apply to a fixed duty as to a variable duty. All the bad appeals to the passions of the multitude, all the arguments about the impolicy and injustice, the unchristian and irreligious principles of taxing the staff of life, would apply to a fixed duty equally with a variable duty. They perhaps would apply with increased force when they came to look at whit had been the average amount of duty levied on foreign corn imported under the existing scale for a considerable number of years past. There had been since the Corn-laws were in operation of foreign wheat imported into this country, for home consumption, not less than 9,297,000 quarters, and the average amount of duty levied on that immense quantity did not exceed ss. ,!;d. per quarter. He wss not prepared to say that there were not great objec:ions to a shifting scale ; but as to the amount of duty payable under the present system there could not be a shadow of doubt that it was very much less than that which any one who advocated a fixed duty at all ever thought of proposing. Under the existing system, the duty charged only amounted to ss. sd. per quarter ; the amount of duty upon the " staff of life," as it was termed, did not exceed the sum of ss. sd. The ignorant man was not prepared to understand the cause or the effect of a sudden importation, and it would be no satisfaction to him to be told that a duty of ss. sd. was to be ex changed for one of Bs. Those who upon a question of this nature resorted to an appeal to men's passions could do so with equal effect, whether the duty was the one sum or the other, or whether it was imposed accord• ing to the provisions of the existing law with its sliding scale, or under that which would impose a fixed duty commencing or ending at a certain point. The advo cates of change, who denounced the present Corn-laws as irreligious and tyrannical, would be as well entitled to do so under one amount of duty as under another. Was there anything, he would ask, in the proposal, that when the price of corn rose to 70s. per quarter, the duty should cease, or be materially dimia;shed, that of necessity would have the effect of disarming every topic which lay within the reach of the popular agi tator, and at once silencing every appeal to the passions of mankind ? He begged also to remind the Hon. Gen tleman opposite, that independently of failing to give satisfactbn to those who were opposed to the imposition of any duty whatever, he had not answered any one of the objections of detail ; he had proposed to retain the whole system of averages. Surely that was anything but giving satisfaction to his Hon. Friends who de mantled free trade. Was that free trade, or anything like it ? Nothing could be more evident than that his whole system was one of averages, for how otherwise could he ascertain his price of 705., at which his duty was to commence ? Then he begged the House to look at. the manner in which the proposed plan of the Right Hon. Gentleman would meet the argument of the American merchant, who urged the probable effect of a deficient harvest, when bad corn must of necessity be brought into the market, and when its intro duction would most assuredly affect the rate of prices. Next, let the House observe the probable effects of the gradual rise of the price of corn to 675. or 68a. ; what precautions did the Right Hon. Gentleman propose to adopt against the tricks and devices confessedly prac tised for the purpose of operating upon the averages ? Supposing that the price remained at 695. 6d., the duty, according to the plan of the Right Hon. Gentle. man, would be payable ; but increase the price by a single shilling, and foreign corn would be imported duty free. It would be difficult to conceive a greater temp- Lotion to practise upon the averages than this state of ' things would present. It offered immense inducements to adopt expedients of all sorts for the purpose of caus ing the price of corn to turn 705., for the moment its average price exceeded that sum of 70s. per quarter, the market might at once be inundated with foreign corn, and might continue to be kept up in that state till new averages were made. In such a case how rid the Right Hot). Gentleman propose to provide for the difficulties with which the American merchant would have to contend in meeting his rivals in the ports of Holland ? The American who thought of exporting corn to this country, hearing that the price was 70,., might suppose himself safe in sending a cargo, relyin g with confidence upon being able to introduce American corn into England duty tree. Before his corn could have time to arrive in the ports of Great Britain. he would find that the price had sunk to 695. during the transit of his corn across the Atlantic ; parti es i n the habit of practising upon the averages would have ma naged to effect a reduction, and so the object which the American speculator proposed to himself would be ut terly defeated, and he would find himself under the ne cessity of paying a duty of Bs. per cleaner up ar that which he had hoped to have exported to England duty free, Upon these grounds, then, he professed himself _MORNING E I ITION• e 0 M. a loss to discover how the Right ry.„,,tl .11 overcame some of the objcctions to the averag es sliding scale. if the Right Hon. Gentleman abaeo°l7o the averages, be must rerort, or be inenosistelft 18,1 himself, to a free importation, with a fixed dut/: l °, r # In times of great abundance, of unexample3.--b°,7 0 0 say, of excessive and superabundant s upplY st o would be poured into this country from the p 7 f ts ° ' t yt continent of Europe, and from those of A m erica; 0 importation of foreign corn would then be subject i t ° 4 control. Then, in times of groat scarcity, Governinent maintain a duty upon the importlo"; foreign corn? It would be described AS a tr 4l ' ll 'ff impost upon the " staff of life." He did net besitate, say that such a duty would be practically removed ,110 if it were once removed, he professed himself unab le t , ° see how it could be re-imposed.—Hausards Deb 'Vol. 53. BURGLARY AT RAMSDEN CRAY S II , Thursday last at midnight, a beer-house kept by a flei : • man named James Thompson, on Ramsdell CeaY''':..', , near Billericay, was forcibly entered at the I,l °L 4 i e which was broken open with an iron crow-bar. fi lw . , e' immediately proceeded up stairs and entered the Ml' Ir e of the poor old men who lives in the house entire:iv' f ,. on which he called out " Who's there?" One of .tbe ,e gains replied "We want something to eat." Il l°r ' ' 'o l. said he had nothing for them, when one of the o3 , "We are very hungry—we must have sonrethiq, l ' 3 ,,, , ' and to drink too." A fellow then throwing hims,l' iIS the bed, con fi ned the old man down and held overt iloi a plough coulter, threatening that it would be th e e ll for him if he made any resistance. During this tn e ,r other three ransacked with a light every part of the if They broke open four large chests rifling them 'sior contents, consisting of clothes belonging to Tliong' ° i his late wire , and in consequence of their threats seori. them all the money be had in his pockets arnet' e ;t 4 about 18s. They also took away with them a silra rrt some silver tea-spoons marked W. M. S., end othe r ar, ' Having regaled themselves with such provisions 0 : . • could find on the premises they quitted them, andel° every exertion has since been made by the polic e the , ties have at present escaped detection. They a re OPP to belong to the same gang (if they were riot the ext ee f sons) who broke into and plundered the liooe ' Bones, of Langdon Hills. —Essex Herald m e A SINGULAR ESCAPES OF WELL! NOT'' NAPOLEON.—It is narrated by a military writer ' t ' a ' t' Wellington, on receiving an o ffi cial notiticatim f . appointment to the Culonelcv of the Blues. obeer“ Afr :0 fully to those about him at the time, " That he " luckiest fellow in the world, and had been b or/I t some extraordinary planet ;" and assuredly th e :i rience of after years verified the remark. rs, fi t 'i fortune do not always reward desert—but On "..,''' ton they flowed continuously; and while an a u country munificently testified its gratitude to th e b est warrior it had produced, her favours were tr i c e • by the proud consciousness in him who 1 1 ,0' them, that all had been honourably earned. ~li e striking points, the careers of Napoleon and NY e ,',.. li ii exhibited a remarkable similitude. Born in t ," i year—following the same profession—passing t"" f ;! gerotts ordeal unharmed, in which so m any 0 0 contemporaries perished—and both surviving to A g 3 ,o loftiest objects at which " ambition's self" coul d ii Beset with dangers, their preservation seeteed ,' eulons— as both exposed themselves recklesol/4 from their most perilous situations, both bado, escapes, and by the most opposite agencies. Acre a shell dropped at Nepoleon's feet ; a n d seizing him in his arms, flung him on the gr ° : the shivered metal passed harmlessly over the r ' General, and but slightly wounded his preserv ed i Paris, the furious driving of his coachman d eli( ' street before the infernal machine could be e i . % r !;o These were probably his greatest perils ; and I t be was delivered by the devotion of a g renad' e ," c the other, by the accidental drunkenness of it lel, Nor were Wellington's escapes less remarkghbo. there was rarely an action in which some Of i n sonal attendants were not killed or wounded• gi, toria lie passed unharmed through the fire. I French centre bristling with cannon, for •t her. ; s pieces ware in battery. At Santarem he wr ot e morandum on the bridge while the e ne ":4 in actual possession of the village. Du rt he bloody contest that ensued, for a tim e of upon a height within close musket rang° 0 1 , enemy, watching the progress of the battle;t. the evening his danger was still more immin erl ero i had carried with him," says Colonel N a pier, or t, Echallar, half a company of the 43d as an eli te placed a sergeant named Blood with a party a le in front while he examined his maps. The F re e - etti were close at hand, sent a detachment to cut the,,leir and such was the nature of the ground tha t i t " 3 -0 rushing on at . speed, would infallibly ' a w% unawares upon Wellington, if Blood, 8 ,j, g° telligent man, seeing the danger, had not, fil`,loeo, ing activity, leaping rather than running, e CC' precipitous rocks he was posted on, given l'ie tl e : , notice ; and as it was, the French arrive d e a s i send a volley of shot after him as he gall tifqj It was said of Napoleon that he bore a eltarrl ic i t of t i' certainly a special Providence watched over t i d a not s lington—" God covered his head in battle, a n t i o f'" the scathed."—[ t u h k e e d ; a " — vi o [ From rk of greatthen of Life it of " th s EXTRAORDINARY INQUEST.—(A 661 4 4 4. dent, who personally vouches for the cOrrcellg, ) facts, requests us to give insertion to the foi l , ° : ' on e m w erit.] inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, Cievel, ° `;lor,t number of , c rev; 6ay last, to inquire into the death of --- r ; ) ,e - t l il A' of 14 years of age, servant to Mrs. Violet 0" e -a eto r After the jury had been sworn, the Coroner al.'clidis°' very unusual step of ordering all strangers to w e lt s itafj appeared that, in consequence of a rumour l'af the{ with sonic industry circulated to the prejudic e ,°,, i° l miztress, some of her friends had felt it their d'"L et it i ; and watch the proceedings in her behalf. The eir',74o, we brit fly learnt were these :—Mrs. Violet, thei7ebilo tl a girl, who is a widow and the mother of O ut eitit‘ te o of whom are ill of the measles, on her se i r o liry complaining, administered a little medicine a nd a of , the Parish Union, who directed the attend an- $O O O Siiipton ; the girl, however, gradually san it ', fle‘i i moment of delirium, among other extravagen e ,,"al e , her mistress " had poked her with a fender. t he t !l geon, on this uncertain testimony, declared, i°,„l l l ol ',i of her death, that he would have an inqueo! 7 iliei' body. In consequence of this, Mrs. Violet, a', o f tt gestion of her friends, desired the attendAnc:eisfir) Sprague and Mr. Lawrence, who, on elai ll teit / i patient, found that she had been bled, and w ae ls , 0 ,1 ing from exhaustion, and in spite of stimula d tie P 0 ?, diatcly adopted by them, the girl expired in t . ri n d a few hours. On this sentence, uttered in -step/ of unconsciousness, and containing a c harge loll' mistress, which she was never known to have t° ilfir an r'.. of which the body presented not th e s s°,/ corroborating evidence, the most unfeclingv frie judicious statements were circulated among I ' d lie f , 4 of the neighbourhood, whose patronage li : e secl", fore enabled an amiable women, greatly re g el oP the station she once held in society, to bring o. 1) 0 4 0 ) family in comfort and respectability. for frs,otifire' therefore anxious that the most searching)" 004,4- should be made into the truth of this asse rt ing/ were desirous that it should be publicly made , e i l eo ir c therefore, no less surprised than indignant "is found the Coroner desirous of conducting d' e a l,io C o , private. On learning from the Coroner that ' c o ° ~ was to continue throughout the whole of the i°, (l l es°, e is . and that none of Mrs. Violet's friends w° lll ,. o eg e l " t r d oprortunity of being present to watch the P' er ,c' i s they protested against it. The room was, ho ad. ad e tet and a post modem examination directed to be ' - „ r tic",' which Messrs. Sprague and Lawrence were f''',9 o excluded. The inquest was adjourned unt il next, twelve o'clock. —Bristol Gazette. , e e ',;: i SALISBURY PLAIN.—On Saturu 3 ) ;i ll y o 'l many villages on Salisbury Plain were visited ` th e e, den and alarming flood, occasioned by a "P I netl u e fry snow, by rain, And by the frosted state of the b ur 0 V: which the water pawed, without much of it be: O) 4Y, penetrate the surface. At Shrewton thirtyeei%, i t, 6 . ,1 been washed away, and three lives have been J e ", , Itl e f a boy, and a girt. At Wylye, not many bense°ol'er i At t og/ life. At Stoke, about thirty houses. seven houses. At Chitterne, two entirelY,rthe ~,, tially. Lower down in the stream of the flo c . 00, A qucnces have probably been still more dieastroo4,o7 above-mentioned. The whole mass of waters l ' i . e ilg o r , :r i , stout bridges in its course ; and receiving e ve/1 01 11° 0 . Pd additions to its bulk, must have passed 1 1 a tutor. Salisbury, but the valleys arc there broad, ? ' ras es lives may not have been endangered. F ew p / v ll plain can have escaped altogether. I V ffi A PIG TWELVE WEEKS WITHOUT ;ic,ry„", On the return of Mr. Leonard, of Bouldow°' .intP, / 4 bury, in this county, from Durslcy Market , c' iorit te ° o 4 I the Bth of October last, one of his servants Market, , O t that two of his pigs were ill; he did not g" 5 ; I re' c i; that night, but next morning went into thei r..:,o4o f., 1. 11 , purpose, when one Gf their, a sow, was m t ' s i e t. i3 . 04 1' search and inquiry was blade, but without e t e . o p ,t ,..i, day, December 27, as one Ob' the servant 11' 1)& 0 , 10 5. ing in the yard where a stack of straw h a ll a o' 9 ) ing, he thought he heard a pig squeak iere'co,elo master aware of the circumstance, o l° „ edi,e called one of his men, and in a short t 1 , 111 d0e.. 0 61 the pig buried under the straw, but so nitte . o o l ' d. Pest e 4 have become a mere skeleton, and quite bl! t s Or , t ,e 1 / 1 , taken to a warm sty, when nourishing /ill" t i o re l ' i ~ 4 ,1 her, and she is now going on well. At 141 ' . , ru t p eg was missing, Mr. Leonard had barley thraihnti 11 0 ,j:i chine, and, it is supposed, the pig being unle,:ii. ti 0,0 ,e ,, ,, under some straw unnoticed by the work" . .de rg e .'re machine throwin off large quantities, soon ra o de 'Sf' nearly 20 loads ;but recently the suety w as ta ili‘ , by the cattle, and the timely removal of th e al• ett e t nately led •o the discovery.— Gloucester Jou' r oi S' a d s , The National Int elli go:err of Sa ttl i r ,th o t, I° l , tt at on the previous day, "an hour or teo h e ..l ` ) , t g e til c od 4 t hour of meeting o the House of Reptes c ., s pe ° l l l l gorgeous chandelier which has been latch : it sl_ a e i the hall, with all its fittings and apoendatt, i 0 . 11 :0 0 4 1 :! floor with a force proportionate to its tvel e ~r) !' ore d r . smashed to pieces. Fortunately, owing Leto be lit! fi,t t°_, the hour, no one wad within reach so as t i t i nir ioj ' e it. An hour or two later, had it fall en ' i b e rs• eil 0, - ;0 caused .‘ he teeth or wounding of many mer 3 : ll by 0 V:" eequence of the cunfusiou caused in the 1 ` ilecr ing e 'd ! r ip dent, the House adjourned soon alter i ...c igl . fe et 1 ,, chandelier was of American manufacture'o."ol,3. ottloj 7,0001 b., and cost $4,000 or $5,00 0 . J r _ d it l',, " diameter, contained 78 argaint burners , '° lust e li d 3,000 been ornamented by 2,650 cut-glass fOr l' 3,000 cut-glass spangles. x oCie t Y •I 14 l e' MENDICITY IN PARIS.-- - - s _ un d,ol ' 1 0 0 ,1 ;! suppression of mendicity has just been f° , .. eicos ar,;, b se 4 l under the Presidency of the Doke de I. u se e .e,' Council of Directors held its first m eet i ng t . Jos!" e vening / , at the residence of the 111ints te ' . ° of the Vice- Presidents, Atli; T E F j \C's 3 Corn flit arith The thiN Exa