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

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Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry Vinin. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, After which will be repeated the New Comic Pantomime, _ entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSE.Y GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. --- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS iJAY. Morinlig 57 minutes after 3. I Evening......ls minute! atter 7. LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1841. We rejoice to find the old year departing amd the new one commencing with discussions on the first orinei t ples of sibie to co nempiate the abject condition, physics and moral, of the mass of society throughon t Europe, while the bounties of Heaven are unspeak - able, without suspecting that there is somethinig fundamentally wrong in the mode of administeri the affairs of society. If discontent be natu rat to man, we know no reason why it shou;:id now be almost universally concentrated o n Government, the creature of man's will, like hi s houses and his ploughs, which never excite his anger,—unless it be that Government no longe r answers the purposes for which it was created. 3.f h's house, instead of sheltering him from the wi n d and rain, continually exposed him to the storm, and acted, like a chasm in a mountain, ;to draw all its fury on him, if it were also continuali'y catching fire, and scorching him with its Haze, wounding him by its down-tumbling rafters, h e would begin to be discontented with his house, any I would probably conclude that it would be better ti give it a prey to the flames than be at the trout A of continually repairing and upholding it. \ know no other way to account for the general d content with Government but to suppose it is h:ke budk a house—a supposition that seems warran pAI by the manner in which the bulk of the people 3 !- most everywhere suffer from its proceedings; an d thy bare possibility that such a supposition may e correct inakts us rejoice that our Comemporaric s, at the close of the now departed }ear, have beg :u n a discussion on forms and principles of Gov& rti merit. We have on two or three occasions lately been called on to notie,, the doctrines of the Times :m.41 the Port on this subject, and yesterday the latte I liad some remarks, transferred to The Sun, %did seem to give a short explanation of the phenomena. We do not dispute," it said, " :hat the tendencie s of 4cciety arc towards democracy, but the more pal pable the tendency becomes the more incumbent it is upon dutiful subjects of monarchical governmernts to resist that tendency." We believe that the Pas t in this sentence expresses the opinion of the Brea t majority of the Tories, while it also correctly dc;sig nates what has throughout been their conduct,. They have laid it down as a principle that it is their ditty to resist the democratic tendencies of society, and they have acted on that rule midi great pertinacity and equal rigour. If they had confined themselves to argument and pe,r suasion, we should have had nothing to say I!2,ainst them, but they have endeavoured to enforce 'W r own views by many unjust, and not a few bar barous and most cruel enactments. Without going one Sep further, the avowal that the Tories think it their duty to resist the progress of democracy, coupled with the fact that they have long acted or. that prin6ple, both in ofßce and out of office, is quite sufficinit to account for the discontent of the numerous democracy who hav e been coerced and constrained against their will. T o satisfy them: that this is for ttreir benefit, while they are exposed. to such an immerse number of physical and moral... evils, is hopelessly impossible, and as they keenly feel both the evils, said the rigorous restraints, ca, any man wonder th a t t h e multitude are discon tented: But what is meant, or what can any man mean, by the ph. ase tendencies of society ? Not surely the writings or speeches of one or a few persons ? They do not give a tendency to society. What is meant, apparently, is this, that all the members of the same community being created with a rough kind of equality, there is a constant tendency, whenever that equality has been disturbed, to restore it. That , 'and ever has been, the course of nature. I ,deprives anot h er man o f hi s li- r- tiv incessantly tries, while he has BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW ROMANCE. THE SUNDAY TIMES PROPRIETORS bt % to announce that they have entered into an En gagement with W. 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We know enough of the condition of our Saxon ancestors to decide that they were divided into masters and slaves, and that the latter were most rigorously, and often very inhumanly treated. What is true of them is also true of almost every other tribe in the infancy of European society. Then almost every year was marked by predatory incursions of contending tribes or nations, which ended in carrying off men into slavery, or in occu pying their soil, and making them slaves in the land of their fathers. The conquest of WILLIAM of Normandy, totally unlike modern conquests, though quite consistent with the freebooting excursions which were common to that age, ended by his ap propriating amongst his followers the bulk of the land of England. "He bestowed," writes SNIOL LETT, " upon his uterine brother ROBERT the county of Cornwall, comprehending 2iB manors, besides 558 which he possessed in other pro vinces. The next brother, ODO, was created Count Palatine of Kent and High Justiciary of England with 400 fiefs in different provinces." His other friends were provided for in a similar manner, so that the whole of England was ap propriated by a very few persons. Now, veer since that period there has been a continual tendency to break up into comparatively small portions the usurpation of the soil thus established. At pre sent the number of landed proprietors is almost in finite compared to the few among whom WILLIAAL divided the country ; and only here and there one, like the Duke of SUTHERLAND, possesses any thing like a tithe of the possessions which were conferred on ROBERT and ODO. The Legislature indeed has always done all in its power—by rigidly preserving, as long as possible, feudal principles, the right of primogeniture, and strict entail—to prevent this tendency of society, but its labours have been in vain. When we take into consideration the many pecuniary bur dens which now rest even on the cleares t estates —many of the largest being only nominally in the hands of one person, the income going really into the hands of several mortgagees or annuitants--we shall beCconvinced that the breaking up of landed property into comparatively small por tions has been carried much further than is apparent, (though the lawgiver, who has been throughout the landowner, has laboured to prevent this effect), by the tendency of society to restore the condition of equality amongst all its members. But when the soil was so appropriated the people were in a manner appropriated with it, and for a considerable period there appears to have been in general only the two classes of landowners and slaves. That was the height of inequality, and gradually the struggles of the oppressed, and the extravagance and folly of the oppressors produced a middle class. Towns arose ; opulent citizens pur chased parts of the domains of the Nobility ; and hundreds, and even thousands, came to cope with the landlords in opulence, and raised themselves up to be their equals in every branch of ac quirement and enjoyment. Finally, to jump to our conclusion, the numerous middle class, who could no longer be kept out of political power, were admitted by the Reform Act to share it. We maintain, therefore, that the tendency of society, marked through a progress of a thousand years, is always to restore that equality which conquest and oppression originally disturbed, and legislation sought to perpetuate. Now comes, at the end of these thousand years, a still more numerous class, who hare gradually been throwing off • • . _ were uoorned, and gradually acquiring the rights and the knowledge of the middle classes, and who demand their share of political power, as they have acquired a large share of social power. To this struggle they are incited by much fell misery, and by the bright example of their happier brethren on the other side the Atlantic. They must be put down, says the Post, in substance; they must be put down, say the Tories by their practice, by severe and cruel laws. Li fact, ever since the Norman Conquest, one great object of most laws has been to check the rise of the middle classes, and keep the serfs from enfranchising themselves. These laws have no t succeeded. The base of the aristocracy has been so widened as to become almost a democracy, and now the whole democracy are struggling to acquire an equal share of power. As the Legislature has not suc- ceeded in time past, neither will it succeed in future It will not be able, though guided by Tory coun cils, and supported by Tory bayonets, to prevent the tendency of society ; but it will, as it has already done, degrade and brutalise the bulk of the people. Let the Post, or the Tory principle of setting up Legislation in opposition to the tendency of society, or of na ture, be followed with vigour some time longer, let the Tories again lay their heavy hands on our h.- 6slation, and the spring of improvement which is inherent in the mind, and which has hither° en- abled society to go forward under the many burdens they have heaped on it, may be too weak to resist the load, and the equality restored may be the dead level of the Jumper-fed, priest•ridden population of Ireland. The Standard has grown quite complimentary o the Ministers, but whether from quarrelling with is own friends or from a mean conviction that it has erred by abusing them, we are unable to deter mine ; we are inclined, however, to ascribe it rather to temper than conviction, as we know that the appa rently tragical pen of our Contemporary is gene rally guided by some petty passion. It allowed, in deed, its feelings to creep out, when it said that the expression of its satisfaction with Lord MEL Bo u RNE's Government " may not be very welcome at the Carlton Club, or among the people who are panting to exchange newspaper wages for official salary," but we believe that it is pretty generally the feeling of the country. We should be better pleased with the Standard's testimony, could we ascribe it to sober convic- tion rather than to temporary spleen on account of the rebuke of the Duke of WELLING. TON, and the general disapprobation of its party. But whatever motive dictated the language, it is too remarkable, as applied to that Minister, who has been so long denounced by the Tories for giving a " heavy blow and great discouragement to Protes• t ant i sm ," who has been reviled as a semi -infidel, and spoken of in the Tory journals in the most op prob:ous terms, not to be preserved and remembered. ‘Ve copy them from the fiercest foe of the so-called O'CONNELL Ministry, and the hottest friend of the Church—we copy from the ultra-Tory Standard the following wordy " It would be enough, however, for us to know that the Premier's conduct is good, as far as England is con cerned. We will not rob Lord Palmerston of his just praise by any reference to the foreign policy of the Government ; it would be enough —we repeat it—for us to know, that, with whatever motive, Lord Mel bourne governs well, to be satisfied with his govern ment ; but when we remember that among the aspi. rants to his Lordship's succession there are persons, like Lord Ellen rough, whose fear of a Catholic question' would cause them to strangle the Reforma tion itself ; and when w e further know that an Ellen borough Ministry would, instead of being, like the pre sent, pressed into the right path, be pressed from that path, we see abundant reason for contentment with ;.. Ar4' i A i -14 4 . t442,146'.. . - 31n41. things as they are. This feeling," it adds, in the passage alreaolkquAted, " is pretty generally the feeli ng o f the country."'" i ti‘lf the 'people generally are contented with things as.they are, for what purpose does the Standard and the rest of the Tories labour day after day to blacken the character of the Ministers, and involve the country in all the difficulties mid perplexities of a change ? Is it merely to gratify the Carlton Club, and the few people who are panting to ex change newspaper wages for official salaries? What a motive for a Ministerial revolution A German Journal received yesterday con tains the following : The French Journals of Tuesday have al reached us. The following is the official account given by the Moniteur of the recent events at Alexandria:— On the 7th, Mehemet Ali had received from Admiral Stopford a letter, in which that officer declared that Com modore Napier not having been authorised to trent, the Convention concluded with him must be considered null. The Bth, an English steamer entered the port of Alex andria, having on board the Flag-Captain of the Admi ral's ship, Captain Fanshawe, nephew of Sir Robert Stop ford. He delivered to the Viceroy a new letter, which signified to him "the official authorization of the Bri tannic Government, in the namo of the Four Powers, to maintain Mehemet Ali in the Pachalic of Egypt, on the condition that, in the space of three days, he would consent to restore the Turkish fleet to the Sultan, and de finitively evacuate Syria." To this letter was joined an explanatory note from Captain Fanshawe, stating that he was commissioned to transmit to Constantinople the reso lutions of Mehemet Ali, that he would wait for them three days, and that he bad orders to demand that the written documents of these resolutions should be remitted to him open, in order that he might assure himself of the contents. After two days' delay, Mehemet Ali delivered to Captain Fanshawe a letter for the Admiral, in which he announced his determination, and another for the G rand Vizier, where he says, " that always ready to sacrifice all he possesses, even that of his life, to conciliate the favour of the Sultan, and grateful that, by the intervention of powerful Allies, the favour of his Sovereign has been restored to him, he has taken mea sures that the Ottoman fleet should be given up to such person and in such a manner as it shall please his High ness to order ; that the troops which occupy Candia, Ara bia, and the Holy Cities aro ready to retire ; that the evacu ation shall take place without delay, so soon as he shall receive his Sovereign's order; that as for Syria, Ibrahim Pacha must have already quitted Damascus with the whole army to return to Egypt." Such is the news from Alexandria. It explains itself naturally by the simple comparison of dates. At the moment that Admiral Stopford annulled the Convention concluded by Commodore Napier, not only must he have been ignorant of the approbation that this Convention received from the British Cabinet, but the fact even that the Convention was they unknown in London. The instructions which guided the conduct of the Admiral, and to which this last step with the Viceroy refers, had been sent long before the English Government could have been informed of the engagements entered into by Commodore Napier. In the letter which the Admiral addressed to Mehemet Ali, there is no mention of hereditary right in Egypt. He had not, in fact, the power to offer it ; but, in case the Pacha should claim it, Admiral Stopford was authorised to promise to support his claim with the Porte. In all which has passed at Alexandria there has merely been con fusion produced from the unexpected act of Commodore Napier, and the ignorance of Admiral Stopford of what was passing in London. Things will come definitively to the same conclusion—that is to say, the concession of the FfM t RTC aVite a ks Pie F 6r r44 - pnoVe7fl'ul The tone and spirit of this account are alike moderate, and, but for some sinister hints thrown out by the C'ourrier Francais and the Presse, would incline us to believe that the French Go vernment was at last disposed to co-operate with the other Great Powers in finally settling the Eastern question. The following important para graph appeared in the first-named of these Journals on Monday evening : A despatch from Count Nesselrode to M. de Pablen had been officially communicated to M. Guizot. It is said to be very amicable towards France. It is twelve years since the two Governments have exchanged such evident preliminaries of a coalition. Upon this announcement the Presse remarks,— "We arc enabled to confirm the above details. It is not in written despatches only that the Russian Govern ment shows its desire of being on friendly terms with France. M. de Barrante, our Ambassador at St. Peters burgh, congratulates himself on the amicable and unusually kind reception he had experienced for some time back from the Emperor Nicholas. It is evident that Russia forms no illusion respecting her present relations with England, and seeks but a good opportunity for breaking them off. Should this rupture take place, it would be a most important event that would place England precisely in the position in which she placed us by the London Treaty. We believe that it depends at present on the skill of the French Government to take, in this respect, a striking and durable revenge. But the first condition that must be fulfilled in order to attain this end is to have nothing whatever to do with the policy of the last Cabinet, a policy likely to create isolation where it does not exist. and to lead :rum isolation to war by a tendency as rapid as inevitable." " We do not advise the French Government to give it self up blindly to the advances of Russia, but we recom mend it to study attentively and seriously the new situation in which it is piaced. Without doubt, on learning the proceedings of Muscovite policy, Lord Palmerston will moderato the pride with which he has hitherto enjoyed his victory, and will return to his former attentions. That Fiance, which has boen represented so lowered, will per ceive that it has, in reality, remained the umpire of Europe, and that it is in her power to resume all her in fluence on the destinies of nations. But her Government must employ tact, prudence, and address. It must, above all, employ resolution to get out of the false and fatal trammels with which M. Thiers has clogged our policy, and in which the Opposition is endeavouring to detain us. By means of the Continent, the malevolence cf England may be rendered impotent for ever. We must, therefore, avoid giving anxiety to the Continent. The great military demonstrations to which we arc urged, and which threaten the northern Powers only, would be a fatal error, which would serve at this moment but to promote the designs of Lord Palmerston." We never placed the slightest reliance upon the friendship of Russia, nor did we desire that the relations arising out of the Treaty of London should continue an instant longer than the final adjustment of the Eastern question. We were perfectly aware that the Emperor NICHOLAS in signing the Treaty of July hoped to make it the instrument of an European war which would terminate in the total destruction of the Turkish sway in Europe. Had France had the wisdom to unite cordially with Lord PALAIERSTON, the hu- miliation of Russia would have been complete— the hunter would have been caught in his own toils ; but even as matters have turned out, Russia has been painfully disappointed. She anticipated the certainty of a war between France and Eng land, and the consequent necessity of applying to her to cover Constantinople with a swarm of Russians. The success of the English and Aus- mans on the coast of Syria, the timely surrender of MEll EMET A Li, and the neutrality of France, upset the deep-laid plot of the Cabinet of St. Pe tersburgh. It was also stated that on Monday afternoon the Cabinet of Vienna had communicated to M. GUIZOT a note in terms as flattering and as con ciliatory as those employed by Count NESSEL RODE This would seem as if the Northern Courts were acting in concert, and that in reality Russia was merely humbugging France, in order to plant with greater security the despot's hoof upon expiring Poland. Austria, we know, is proud of the English alliance, and would not sacrifice it for any boon that France has it in her power to offer. Prussia dreads equally Russia and France, •so that we can calculate with the utmost confi. After the evidence furnished by the Royal Com missioners and Parliament of the highly pernicious nature of the water now supplied to the people of London, no Metropolitan Journal ought to be in different or silent as to the efforts being made by many scientific and patriotic public men to obtain a purer and a larger supply. For this reason we give the Report of Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON, which, as a document of great value, we recom mend to the careful perusal of our readers in the metropolis generally, and to all men of science par ticularly. VIENNA, DEC. 21.—Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th of this month, which have been received here by express, contain a frightful description of the tempests which, with few interruptions, had raged ever since the first of the month in the Euxine and the Sea of Marmora, and had done great damage. Among other terrible de tails it is stated that the steam-boat the Nerva, with its whole crew, was swallowed up by the waves ; that se✓eral ships were wrecked, and more or less damaged. Among those that are lost, the Seri•Pervas steamer is mentioned, which belongs to the Danube Steam Navigation Company, and plies between Constantinople, Smyrna, and the coast of Syria. It was overtaken by the storm in the Sea o' Marmora. DAY, JANUARY 1. 1841. deuce upon the ficelity of the !ourts of Berlin and Vienna; The miscellaneous news in We Fierlch journal:, of Tuesday, will be found in another part of The Sun. The following paragraph from the Consti tuttonnel we quote here, merely to express regret that any party in France should be so ridiculously stupid as thus to misconceive the language of the English press " The English journals will not allow us to fortify In vain do they say that the question does not cone :n them ; they are continutlly returning to it, and atiack.ng it in every possible way, by sarcasm, heavy Engli,la v it, and even argument. The subject a frightful nightmare for all the English p- :ihig or Tory. And yet fortified Paris .s not a n, , oler, .r laondon ;it i 3 not like the naval armaments i,ord Melbourne would sweep away. Thif is p l.qown; but everything. that contributes to raise .h.= er of France is au incur able source of annoyan: ... neighbours. They un derstand fully what infl id security the country will gain by the fortifkatio:. earis, and like good allies as they are, they endeavour to divert us from the project. The Times is slightly irouical on this point. It is not our affair, says the Times ; if Funoe desires to spend her money improperly, she has a s ight to do so ; if she relies more upon a wall of enclosue than upon the bravery of her in habitants, nobody has right to find fault with her. Many thanks for your pern.ssion, Messieurs les Anglais, pro tected as you are by tle sea, you talk bravely ; but if—we will not say all the arnics of the continent, but a French army, were advancing towards London, we should see what your bouncing world amount to, and what the count less population of youepapital could do against cannon balls and Congreve rocZets. Yes, indeed, France does reckon upon herself, aid if she had not millions of arms to defend her, her fotifications would not protect her; Lut, enlightened by 'A experience, she feels that her destiny must not deprs upon a battle, and she therefore wishes to make the a:Are of her Government and the seat of her nationality impegnable. This measure will make Esrope cautious, and ti ,vent, perhaps, the possibility of fomenting and pay ing;:::r coalitions against us, as the English have done -rlf a century. It is the Frer ;. democracy, not the Govern ments of Europe at have cause to tremble at the fortifications is. In embastiling the capital, the Frencl - Cryiel .aent has a thousand times less regard to the thi - rate conduct of the Four Powers than to tl , e desit rs of French Republican citizens. It is not to foreil 1 invaders, but to French patriots that the guns of he fortifications of Paris will be terrible. ........ +........... SPoRTI+ G INTELLIGENCE. TAT The attendance flAt as to require Following bets and! RSA L L'S, YESTERDAY, vas unusually thin, and the business so ) other notice than is contained in the iffers:- - 4 to 1 ag 14 to 1 agE IS A° 1 ags 20 to 1 ags 25 to 1 ae _ _ DERBY. ;COWS lot—Gffers to lay tosalie colt—taken to 1101. 'almmon—takes to 1601. Coronation—offers to lay Cameleon—taken Sir Hans—offers to take 30 to 1 it Lord Stradbroke's lot—taken Ben Brace—taken and afterw. offered ,t Two outsiders—taken -.1 28 to 1 ag 10.000 to 100 3 1,000 to 10 ai 1,000 to 10 t CO CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, 'Tx ' RSDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Higbee's Pr rice Albert walked for some time this morning (n the r-r Ace of the Castle. Her Royal ligblitsl,oo T' ,chess of Kant, attended by Lady Fann , Ho her accustomed exercise. Her Majesty rod ut 4L.nnoon in an open pony phaeton, whfh wri driven pis Royal Highness Prince Albert Colonel Wen.ysz Mr. Rich, and Cap tain Seymoutwere in attendance. His Royai Highness Prince Aber - no:loured Mr. Fowler with n interview this morning and inspected a finished picure and sketch of her Ma the Queen. Lord am' Lady Holland and Sir ~;eorkr,e Grey, are expected o arrive this evening on a visit. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived at Canbridge House, Piccadilly, a quarter be- fore four o'cls yesterday afternoon, from the Conti nent. His .ioyal Highness, after his arrival, paid a visit to the "lidless of Gloucester, and in the evening dined at Gloucester House. The Right Hon. J. B. Macaulay has arrived at Broadland, Hants, on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. Tho Ea.l of Minto has left town, for his seat near Hawick. Despatches for the Governor of Ceylon were sent off yesterday, rorif the Colal'ilf=office. CLIAIOUS CoiNcIDENcE--1769 was produc- Live distinguished men, Wellington, Soult, an d 'ADV.:I,7IM 1:: that Y e "" I ni Afohciotmedilli. VOTE or A PIECE OF PLATE TO THE CHAIR MAN OF TIP BLACKFRIAR'S-BRIDGE COMMITTEE.—The members of tie Blackfriar's-bridge Committee have deter mined to set to public an example of what ought to have been done long ag, by presenting Mr. Prior, the indefatigable Chairman of to Committee with a piece of plate, com memorative (Allis exertions to make such improvements and repairs in the structure as to place it amongst •he most useful antadegant of modern metropolitan edifices. The following , the resolution to which the Committee came, by acclaiation, at a late meeting :—" Resolved, unanimously,—'f ia t it be recommended that the members of the Committe should subscribe the sum of 50/. for a piece of plate, tcac presented to Jonathan Charles ,Prior, Esq , Chairman, s a testimonial of the sense of Or Com mittee of his grtt services during the execution of the important works t r the substantial repair of Blackfriars bridge." SHOCKING 'VENT AT NAPLES.—The Inflow ing deplorable ever has lately taken place at Nar •CS : Extract of a letterrrom Naples, 20th instant. • A few days ago a Sicilia, named Muratori, a coif(' •house keeper, married fouseen years since to a respestr .1 Eng lislmoinan, having tree female children, eiga, ..x, and three years of age, •om an ungrouns: al fit.- a, ,ealousa, which had driven hit to a state of phro.ns es - shot his wile, at dan hour after tea himself. A srrtjsc tun has been made for the orphansby the li is re , ;' ,s and visitors, and the Rev. C. Lusington. a - sa' ant chaplain, has kindly taken charge f the rear :en, until they can be placed in some as a Eng sa,d. The relation of this tragical insane act a, %es given by the eldest child, who, with her sisters, sip` sin :bens - aim with her parent.; My father, at daybreaa sudden' ] left his bed, seized a pistol from the drawers, ,ad firs it at my mother. The pistol missed fire; my motile. jumped from the bed, struggled with my father and succeeded in gaining the shop zdjci. ing the bedroom. My father took another pia. tol, followed my motile., quickly into the shop, and shot her dead : she never spew or moved. We all ran and clang around our mother At length, an hour after, as far as I could judge, mfather came and dragged us from our dead mother, put er watch around my neck, gave trifling presents to my sic rs, kissed us affectionately, and locked us up in a room, ''tiring us to remain quiet, under threat of punishment, at. ' .hen shot himself. We cried and screamed in sa;n, at. a heard us. At noon the neighbours, seeing the shut close, , informed the police of the quarter of the eircumstece, who eame and forced the dour, when the horrid ape ,cle of my dead parents were the first objects seen, my .her with the pistol firmly grasped in his hand, the nu .'c touching the throat, where the fatal wound had been e '4ll. Oh, my poor mother ! I can say no more.' " A paragraph having vpeared in the London papers, representing 'hat the Countess of Leicester hail been alarmingly ill, we rejoie s to state that her Ladyship has not been so ill as represewd, and is gong on pro gressively towards recovers f a n her late very serious ec cidslit. The venerable r''l" , rilaselazeri slightly indisposed, but is getting better, and is a present extending the hos pitalities of Ilolkham to tie 'earl and Countess of Rose bery. Viscountess Anson, Mi, and Lady E. Stanhope, the Right Honourable Edwar( Ellice, Sir Robert Adair, Sir Archibald Macdonald, J. ktteux, Esq., G. Lambert, Esq., &c. ; and Earl Spencer s expected on Thursday. Lord Coke completed his eigSeenth year on Monday._ Burg Post On Wednesday morn...: at eleven, the main body of the 79th Regiment :ghlanders, under the com mand of Colonel Ferguso a 'ived from Weedon Bar racks, by the London I , Birmingham Railroad, at Euston-gruvo terminus, a . immediately afterwards marched, en routs, throu g h 'streets of the metropolis, over Waterloo Bridge to De with their elegant band performing numerous martial On Monday and Tues day the advanced gu'rds of a regiment arrived with the baggage ; t o -dly tole of the regiment in ill embark, and sail fro m . 'ock-yard, at Deptford on board the General a, Government ship, of Gibraltar. His Royal Higlne h hike of Cambridge, although absent from l ow , 3 T unmindful of the poor in that parish. He com er • , ‘r. Scard to supply all the poor families in that p a good dinner on Christmas-day, and thep ear ;Rion workhouse be longing to the parish, ma aaa e hat the children in the uldinh e Re ad Queen's F ree S c h oo l s l ou la b e na±- 1 on New Year's d Crown ay with llotel, and to s roast beef anupplyd piune.p. ll of g t..ein t as re o with cl o thi ng , & c ., duri ng this se incl ement weather, suirenit at Ws Royal High ness ' s exp ens e , HER MAJESTY A ND TEC. PRINCESS R _l n consequence of th e sever i t yof th e weat h ers. arrival of the Court at Windaor, sae, the Royal i n f aie in most excellent he a lth , not h Av ig experienced th e est indisposition since she has bat s at the Castl e ), h as been taken beyond th e nursery a d the other rooms ewe nected with that department o r he Royal household ap propriated to the use o f her loyal Highness and her several attendants. It is the isae iable custom o f her Ma jesty, upon l e avi ng t h e draw i ng ously to retiring to rest, to vis' ioa i t h , the nursery for th e pur poseand taking lea ve nom at night, and previ - of ascertaining th e sta te o; of the infant Princ ess . HEAVY JU DGMENT .---1 judgment has been R recovered against th e l ate eo,ver-General of Canada, Sir John Caldwell, f or 54,06 currency, for which hi s large estates, consisting of theleig mory and fief of La cole, . 00 acres of 2,e with extensiv e m ills thero n, and 2 land, were conveyed to the Goernment in full satisfac tion.—New York Herald. HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY. THITIV4TJAY EVENING. rho British 6,ocks were rather dud to-day, but they supported yesterday's value. Consols for the opening were 881- to s ; Exchequer Bills 2s. to ss. premium ; Bank Stock 1571 ; the Reduced Anruities 88, to 89 ; and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 97i to ex.-div. for the opening. The attention of the speculators in the Foreign Market has to-day been chiefly occupied with the settlement of the half-monthly account. The business done has been limited. The differences arising from the extreme range of prices since the 15th inst., were about 2 1 1 per 'cent. in Spanish Stock, 21- per cent. in Portuguese, 3 per ce n t. i n C o l om bi an, an d la per cent. in Mexican. As the account has gone on from day to day, the jobbers, however, have had frequent opportunities of changing the items, and by this means have diminished their balances, so as to prevent inconvenience. The settlement, therefore, was unattended by any embarrassement, and the rate of interest for continuing stock ruled low, viz. at about 3 per cent. Spanish Bonds were in active demand ; they sup ported their previous advanced value, ranging from 24';1- to 25i for money, and from 24 to 251 for the Account. In Portuguese Stock there was scarcely any business. The New Five per Cents. were dull at 32i, and the Three per Cents, at 21i. Columbian Bonds remained at 24 ; but Mexican touched 29. The new Venezuelan Bonds will be ready towards the close of next month, after whi c h th e di v id en d o f _ per cent. for the half year will be paid. Belgian Bonds were steady at 97i ; French Four-and-a-Half per Cents. were marked 1011. 50e. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realized 511 to 4. Some of the operators in Railway shares having ra ther overdone themselves, have had to pay 15 to 20 per cent, interest for the privilege of not at present making mood their losses. This, while it has limited business, has given a lift to prices, which were to-day most cur rently these :—Grvat West ern 27 t o 26 ; t h e N ew 12 ; the Fifth 64 to 7 ; the London and Birmingham 81 ; the New 251- ; the Quarter 22 ; the York and North Midland 18 ; the South Western 171 to 17 1 3 -, ; and the Eastern Counties Debentures 21 premium ; Brighton Shares were at a rise to 61 and 5:1 discount; New Greenwich at 31, and Blackwell at 4to 4i die. Lon don Joint-stock Bank Shares were at 3 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVRRPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The de mand for Cotton to-day has been to a moderato extent. The sales 4,000 bags at steady prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, DEC. 30.—Chester and Bir krnhead New Shares 161, deb. 98s. 6d ; Grand Junction 2111 ; Quarter Shares 52 ; Great Western Fifths 10i ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares 27; Brightun United Company 4,31-; Manchester and Leeda 76.3 Letters from Carthagena of the 13th November an. flounce the pacific solution of the civil war in Columbia. Marshal Soult, who is known to possess a large fortune, eiaims in the budget 164.000 francs—viz., 100,000 f. as President of the Council, 30,000 f. as Marshal, 24,000 f. us Ancient Senator, and 10,0001. as High Dignitary of the Legion of Honour. Still this is not enough ; he also claims 40,0001. as expenses for representation. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester• day's date. 130eRSE OF AMSTERDAM, DEC. 28.—1 n consequence cf some business in the Integrates, our National Fuhda were better, and the prices more firm. The operations in the Actives of the Society of Com merce were to some extent ; they opened at 1584, and got up to 159 y i; for the close 159; after the Bourse they fell again to lsBi 4. Ardoins Spanish had again receded after the close 21 1-16; Coupons 171 i. Consols at present may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 888 for the Account ; Reduced, 1364 a, with little doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills, 2 4 pre mium ; Bank Stock, 1561 1571; India Stock 237 239. In the Foreign Market the chief speculation is in Spa nish Active at present, which maintains the quotation of yesterday's leaving off price 24± 25 ; Deferred, 12± 13 ; Passive, 8± :1; Portuguese have receded, left off 331 :1., at present 321 4 ; Three per Cents., 211 ; Colombian, 23} 24; Mexican, 28± 29; Brazilian, 7O 71}; Dutch Tvt•o-and-a.. Half per Cents. 51+ ; Five per Cents. 971 98. Sll ARES. —Great Western, 251 26k prem. ; New, 11 121 prem. ; LoncLn and Brighton, 6 discount; Black - - wall, 4 discount ; Birmingham, 81 83 premium; South ampton, 551 .56 : } per share ; Croydon, 121 1- per share ; Greenwich, SI per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Great Western Ditto New . Ditto Fifths lull and Selby London and Brighton Lwidou and Birmingham 9O -171 to Ditto i Shares Ditto New Shares London anti Greenwich ..... ...... 20 Ditto ';:•rip Lohtini nd South western 3Bi 56 ... .. to 56114 ' ottr STOCK BANKS. i.o.rvivait; 0....t...a. CtuucK ... ........ .. 10 eItICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 29. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97 Grand Canal Stock ...... ... Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto New, 1830 34 per Cent. Debs. Accounts from Montreal to the end of November state that the Bank there discounted a greater amount of paper than for some time past ; but owing to the difficulty of making Upper Canada Funds available, the Board de cided not to negotiate drafts on Upper Canada at present, unless applicants submit to the ruinous commission of two and-a-half per cent. This being settling day in the Foreign Market, little or nothing has been doing in the British Market. The brokers and jobbers are chiefly occupied in settling their accounts, as well as paying and receiving their balances. The heaviest accounts to settle are Spanish and Portu guese, as well as Columbian. Up to the present hour all is going off well. There has been scarce any fluctuation during the course of the morning in the British Funds, and Consols may be quoted at the opening price of 881 for the Account. The favourite speculation at present is in. Spanish Active. which reached 2.5 , a . In the other Foreign Funds little doing. The rise in the above stock is attributed to some import negotiations at present going on at Madrid with the English Government, and which will shortly he known here. Within a short period Consols have improved to 88i for the 15th January ; Bank Stock 1571; for the Account 158 ; Exchequer Bills improved to 2 5 premium. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is the chief operation; it has been fluctuating from 241 25k, and at present may be quoted at 251 ; Passive, 6i .; Portu guese 324- ; Colombian, 24 ; Dutch Two-and a. Half per Cents. 51 : 1 ,- k ; Five per Cents , 97k. In Shares a fair business has been doing, with an int. provement in the prices. Eastern Counties Debs., 4/ ; Gres Western, 92; ditto, New Shares, 52 ; ditto, Fifths, 10k ji ; Hull and Selby, 424 43 ; London and Brighton, 44; London and Birmingham, 171 ; ditto, Quarter Snares, 27; ditto, New Shares, 494; South Western, 561 1. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank stock ... 157 i India Stock ......... ... .. 3 per Cent. lied B9 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. Ditto Old Annuities 3 per Cent Red— .. 97i Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. ... 971 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 3pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860 l3 Bank Stock for Acct ... 158 Oct 1859 — India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... — Consols for Opg &AL FOREIGN FUNDS. A astrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 97- Ditto, New Ditto..... 321 13razilian Borrls .. .. BuenosAyres,6 percent Russian, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cant - Ditto, lletallic Cohan titan, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 214- Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred . Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek, 1825, spercent. Exchange lolf. 50c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. C. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent SIA Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 971 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway Debs. (2 paid) 4 Great Western Railway (65 p a id) 9l Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .... .. ... 52 Ditto Fifths( 4 paid) ll Hull and Selby (50 paid) London and 11;iiliton Railway (50 paid) ... 44i London and Blackwall Railway (22a pd) 18i London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 171 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) ... 27 Ditto New Shares (24 paid) London and Greenwich Railway :(20 paid) 1)i*) New Shares (20paid) 161 Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid). London and South Western Railway 56i South Eastern and Dover (28 paid)... .. 12i York and North Midland Railway (50 d) 68 LISZT AT HAMBURGII.—A letter from Ham burgh of the 10th of December, announces that M. Liszt gave the entire proceeds of his first concert at the great theatre there, amounting to 3,189 rixdollars (nearly 7001.), for the foundation of a pension list for the benefit of the members of the orchestra of that theatre. The mit.icians thus munificently provided for went in a body to tl:e celebrated pianiste's hotel with an expression of their gratitude. On the following evening they executed a magnificent serenade, including some of his own chosen compositions, beneath the windows of the apartment which '‘e occupied at the hotel. We are given to understand that the Lord Chamberlain has most considerably extended the license of the Haymarket Theatre, by which act the manager of t os place of amusement will be enabled to continue his r,, successful season beyond the 15th inst., at which •to he must otherwise have closed his doors. Es, DEC. 31.—The Hon. H. Fitzroy and L. • :fillip° will to-morrow present such of the elec. tors borough as choose to accept the gift, with a quarte tc.: of coals each • —Brighton Gazette. T IRKCALDY BURGHS.—CoI. Ferguson arrived 1. siis city on Monday, and is no doubt now among his const ents. Of his success there is no doubt, and the Tory ger nan who has been reconnoitring the ground, is now sa ed, we presume, that he might have spared himself the )üble. —Scotsman. TIME TABLE FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1 41. The following Diary, showing on what day of the week each day falls throughout the present year, will answer many of the purposes of an Almanac, and is so portable that it may be transferred into a Pocket-book without incumbrance ( Friday. Satur- Sun- M on - T ues- Wed- I Thur day. day. day. day. nesday. day, ______ _____ _ JA N...... 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FEB. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 '27 28 MA nett 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 APRIL .. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16- 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 JUNE. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 2.5 26 27 29 29 30 JULY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 'l7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 AUGUST. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 SEPT 1 2 -3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 • 15 16 17 14 - 19 20 21 2 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 OCT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 '2O 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Nov 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DEC a4JS 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 i 26 27 28 29 30 31 EDINBURGH CEMETERY COM PANY. We understand that a numerous and respectable meeting of the subscribers to the new cemetery, was held in the Merchants' Hall, on Monday, for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the interim Committee regarding the state and prospects of the Company. A proposal was considered to raise the number of shares entitling a partner to a vote from 5/. to 20/. in order to meet the wishes of an influential party who had, some months ago, entertained a similar project, and who now propose to unite with those by whom they have been anticipated. The alteration was objected to as de stroying the popular basis on which the undertaking was commenced. At the same time the importance of the union was admitted, and a general desire ex pressed that an amicable arrangement might be effected. Accordingly, it was agreed, after some discussion, that the Committee should propose a 10/. suffrage—that is, that each individualtholding ten shares at 1/. per share, should be entitled to a vote. This offer, to meet the other party half-way, which was almost unanimous, will, we trust, be accepted. An impression has gone abroad that the cemetery is intended exclu sively for the poor : and the co-operation of a number of gentlemen belonging to the more opulent classes would tend to raise the character and secure the success of the undertaking. The object of the new cemetery is to obtain a burying-ground beyond the control of Kirk- Sessions or any other exclusive body, and in order that it may be carried out with spirit and success, it is essential that men of all classes and parties should unite. We have no doubt that, if the arrangement now pending be completed according to the wishes of the shareholders, it will give a vast impetus to the scheme, which is one of great public importance. A new and ornamented burying-ground, established on a popular footing, is obviously much wanted in Edin burgh.—Scotsman. DOCTORS DISAGREEING.—He told me that Sir Thomas Millington, Dr. Radcliffe, and Dr. Lawrence were yesterday at a consultation concerning the King's health, in presence of my Lord Albemarle and Lord Jersey; but the two first agreed in nothing, neither as to the distemper nor the remed;es. Dr. Radcliffe thinks the swelling in the King's leg is little less than a dropsy, and he advises purging and asses'milk. Sir Thomas Milling ton thinks them both contrary to the King's constitutions and he was for the King's taking garlic, as it might be pre, pared and qualified. Radcliffe says, that will destroy lung. so weak as the King's ; and Millington thinks the King's lungs the soundest part about him. The first says the King will be worse for going to sea; and the other says, he will be better for going to Loo. Both these opinions may be well enough consistent. But Millington happen. ing to say that Dr. Hatton ought to be called to the con sultation, he being the King's first physician, and long ac. quainted with his constitution, Radcliffe, as if he were frightened at the name, flung out of the room in a passion, and so they broke up, resolving on nothing.—James's Court and Times of William 111. A BLUE JACKET'S OPINION OF STEAMERS. —lf you wish to put an old sailor's patience to a severe test, although it is not quite fair, talk to him about steam-boats. It is his questio vexata—the hedgehog that he cannot help attacking, though he knows that he will suffer by it. Ile will tell you that this smoky, dirty craft will ruin all good seamanship, and put all valour and gallant bearing out of the world. Although he hates a steamer as a nui sance, and damns it as an impertinence, he has a se. cret and superstitious dread of it, and holds it to be a machination of the devil. Thus runs his opinion : —46 While things was as they was, d'ye see, we blue jsckets had it all our own way ; for d'ye see, if Johnny Crapau fought, we wopped him; if he built more ships, we took them I And so Beelzebub grew spiteful ; and sea he, whilst a British sailor get his grog and prog, d'ye see, I shall never be able to shove my oar in his boat, and turn the world tapsy-turvey, d'ye see ? So he plans with the teetotallers and the sair.ts, and tries to disrate the grog_ tub and promote the tea-kettle, d'ye see ? But he could not do that job by halves, for which, d'ye see, may there be an eternal frost in his fire-place, and his coals run short. So, having partly failed, what does the devil do ? }laving got the right hint, he turns the tea-kettle into a boiler-- claps wheels to the ship's sides, as if they were no better than hackney coaches or so many dung -carts—and thus ruins d'ye see, the out-and-out blue-water English sailor for ever. I've done it, says he, d'ye see ; and I never hears one of these varmint steamers sputtering, fizzing, hissing, but I thinks I hears the devil a saying,' Ab, Jack, you willain, I've done you at last 1' d'ye see ?" A GHOST STORY.—In the hot weather of this last summer Lord Ashburnham's very old uncle, the Bishop of Chichester, was waked in his palace at four o'clock in the morning by his bedchamber door being opened, when a female figure, all in white, entered, and sat down near him. The prelate, who protests he was not frightativd, said, in a tone of authority, but not with the usual triple adjuration, " Who are you ?' Not a word of reply, but the personage heaved a profound sigh. The Bishop rang the bell, but the servants were so sound asleep that nobody heard him. He repeated his question : still no answer, but another deep sigh. Then the apparition took some papers out cf the ghost of its pocket, and began to read them to itself. At last, when the Bishop had continued to ring, and nobody to come, the spectre rose and departed as sedately as it had arrived. When the servants did at length appear, the Bishop cried, " Well, what have you seen ?" " Seen, my Lord?" " Ay, seen ; who or what is the woman that has t een here?" " Woman, my Lord l" ( I believe one of the fellows smiled; though, to do her justice, Lady Onslow did not say so.) In short, when my Lord had related his vision, his domestics did humbly apprehend that his Lordship had been dreaming; and so did his whole family the next morning, for in this our day even a Bishop's household does not believe in ghosts ; and yet it is most certain that the good man had been in no dream, and told nothing bet what he bad seen ; for, as the story circu lated, and diverted the ungodly at the Prelate's expense, it, came at last to the ears of a keeper of a madhouse in the diocese, who came and deposed that a female lunatic under his care had escaped from his custody, and, find. ing the gate of the palace open, had marched up to my Lord's chamber. The deponent further said, that his prisoner was always reading a bundle of papers.—Letters o H. Walpole. JOHN MILTON'S AGREEMENT FOR " PARA DISE LOST."-This curious document—namely, John Mil ton's original agreement, bargaining with Samuel Symons, in 1666, regarding the copyright of " Paradise Lost," is stated (by the Inverness Courier) to be now in the posses s:on of Mr. Rogers. who is better known to the world ge nerally as a poet than as a banker; indeed, it is doubtful whether the fact of the poet being a wealthy banker, and having a splendid mansion in St. James's-place, may not be news, or an apocryphal statement in the estimation of many, The document was for some time in the possession of a dis tinguished publisher. It consists of one page of foolscap, signed by the contracting parties, and witnessed by "Jahn Fisher," and "Benjamin Greene," servant to Milton. The poet was blind at the time of the signature, nevertheless his autograph is remarkably clear, and regularly written. The copyright of the roem was sold for 101,, there being 51. paid in advance, and Si. at the expiration of two years, when 1,300 copies had been sold. For each edition, not exceeding 1,500 copies, the poet was to be paid 61. ; but in seven years the poet died, and the widow sold the remainder of the copyright for 7/. And yet seventy guineas, it is said, was the purchase money for even the agreement. It is now framed and glazed, and occupies a conspicuous position in the the banker-poet's dwelling in St. James's. place. MORNING ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1U THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Permit me to enclose to you an acou n of the e ff ec t s o f a general election in the Unite States. As to a Police governing the United States rs- out of the question ; no army could ; but they re' quire neither, as they can govern themselves. While the mora l s are as sound as they a re at present, and the increased attention be paid to ele' mentary educati on , t h e present system of goveril: ment will unquestionably continue. During thela' half century, nearly every Government in ELLOP I has bee n revo l u ti on i ze d, yet the Republic has bee' internally calm and externally energetic. I attribute that calmness and energy to freed OR mainly ; thi s i s cont i nue d and sustained throtio the Ball o t b oxes, I may say the Superinten dol' General. Although I am f or some qua lificati°'' even in that country, yet, not of property ; the i law , already requ i re c i t i zenship, long residence, 80“ 50 thing m ore i s want i ng i n my opinion than to be re gistered in towns only. A CONSTANT READER OF YOUR ',APO tjALM AFTER THE STORII.—It is surprising l soon alter the political tempest which has swept °t , the land, th e warr i ng elements are settled into lio it is true we now and then hear of a congratulat,? rf k , dinner or su p per , an d occasionally a gun is let oU t i e the few l ast popp i ngs of undisciplined militia, but is b,.01 main the tumult is hushed, and the er a o f good fee d has retur ne d. M en can now meet a political 0 1 1 0 , nent without gnashing their teeth upon him. lb e ; 0 1 feated party b ear t h e i r disappointment with a becoel' equanimity, an d th e v i ctors the i r triumph with a go o degree of moderation. European nations cannot understand the mystel e a great p eo pl e engaged in political warfare, as if the: salvatio n d epen d ed upon the issue,—call each °t all mann er o f h ar d names, and workin g thernscive sup to a pitch of violence amounting almost t o phreoi) eir and then, w h en t h e contest is decided, res umiag tb wonted calmness and their neighbourly feelings , l is ut nothing had h appene d . Judging from the excito:l-28 which prevailed two months ago on the subject 01 et , Presidential election, and which was almost 01 , 0 0 sal throu g h out t h e country, an observer unaccustwee ye the peac e f u l wor ki ng of our icstitutions, would 0,„ said that whichever way the balance might tul l ' u ij whicheve r p arty m i ght carry the day,—the other Oe never submit t o i t , b ut a revolution, or attempt atrfe volution, w ou ld b e t h e consequence. Possibly if the ti suit of an electi on i nvo l ved the entailment of a 407, upon the cou n t r y, w hi ch might continue for centur;,; something of this sort would occur. But as the c s t now stands, it i s on l y f or four years at longest, th i the new Admi n i s t rat i on i s fixed upon the coilo t o e and the defeated party, if honest, of course caleP - e d that before the expiration of this period, the t a w sense of the people w ill return, and that everri'reo will then be pl ace d u p on i ts proper footing. Abebt democrat, be h e Whi t or L oco F oco, can never dO, O the ultimate w i s d om o f t h e people. He knows t'o they are li a bl e to err, b ut he knows also that e"; due time th e y w ill di scover their error and retr i d it. So although he may regret the necessitY of their learning wisdom by experience, instead e j receiving it f rom hi s own lips, yet he feels 004:0. that they w ill l earn it ; and this in his judgment. I°,,y, rantees the ulti mate triumph of his p r i nc i p l es ac d We are not h ere spea ki ng of any one party in !Orb/ cular, but of a ll part i es. Now more than ever t.e Whigs will assent to t h e d octrine of the ultimate 11;0 dom of the people. For a long period they have, be p o endeavourin g t o conv i nce the nation of the soutO.io of Whig principles, the necessity of their adopt° o lt high places, and the vast benefits which would l e t from it to th e country at large ; and behold, tls have at length succee d e d . A majority of the Pe°roo, are convinc e d, an d h ave expressed their 401, viction in a m anner too p l a i n to be misunderstood. titudes who have heretofore acted and voted with tb 0 0 Jackson-Van B uren party, have come to the conclusi that all is not ri g ht i n t h e management of our po bl , affairs. They see on every s i de the evidences of°o barrassment and distress ; and as the Whigs say 1 „, 1 ,r, nearly all owing t o th e measures of the party in P°";00 they are disposed to try what a new Administration , 0 do. They are sure the state of affairs will not be O' ev b under Whig m anagement , an d t h ey hope it will be /0 ter. They are p re p are d to cont i nue their adhes i o e the party, in case they are satisfied with its meas dr be i and equally re a dy t o go b ac k to t h e old ranks if t find their expectations disappointed. sre t The new Admini s t ra ti on , t h ere f ore, comes i nto P ° under delicate, as well as propitious circumstances. 1 , 0 political revolution has been effected, and they wh.) ba given it their sanction, expect to soe the fruits Ole They expect the new Adtpinistration will avid curs or the oio, whatever those errors may be, and taarl out for itself a course in accordance with the best - terests of the country. Among other things, theY, e i r o pect that th e pr i ce of labour will be enhanced the labour er , b ut not to the employer ; that agrieull; ral produc e w ill b ear hi gher prices to the farmer bud not to the co nsumer ; t h at commerce will revive and d° risk, but th at t h ere w i ll be no over ; the rea l -: tate will look up, but that there will be no speculati° l / 1 ; that the ba n k s w ill b e restored to soundness, altb°4 the natioaal gov ernment h as no control over any en,,e,,001 t them ; that th e revenue will be increased, but any increase of the Tariff ; that the expenses of the ' O l vernment will be di m i n i s h e d , wh i le the navy, the natte' defences, an d a ll ot h er objects of national importan;t are fostered an d susta i ned as they deserve. In shi; they expect i mposs ibili t i es. Gen. Harrison, we d° . say, will guide the helm of state with the eye 0f a statesman ; his administration, we doubt not, w ill be, good one ; b u t to expect, either from this or that ministrati on , a cure f or all the.ills which flesh is heir to. is expecting more than will be realised. HOW TO HAND A NAME DOWN TO • o ef TERITY.—There is no w t o b e seen on a post at the enr.,l of a str ee t f orm i ng i n the Faubourg du Temple, Ncl.ibs placard w i t h t h e following notice :—" To be sold, right of giving a name to this street." CURIOUS INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY.—.. the 25th of last November there died in a commune "T r e tween Chalon and St. Yrieiz, in France, a cesteO whose d em i se presented this remarkable circumstance' 4 He was b orn on the 25th of November 1740, and died o the 26th of N ovem b er, 1840, having thus lived exact,/ century and a day. Extract of a letter, dated from on board 111 e Princess Ch ar l otte, Marmorice Bay, Dec. 13, 1840 ',, o n " 1 am s orry to i nform you that the Zebra was driven e r shore and tota ll y wrecked, with the loss of three of I'l, ~ crew. Th e B e ll erophon was nearly lost, and the 4,1 c lost he r masts. Dreadful weather on the coast. We, tbtri God, h ave escaped, but most miraculously ; four aneu°,o a-head. I never saw worse weather. Wo have Wl' sail of the line here, and a host of small craft." It is calculated that at the Shrewsbury Christl o : market there were sold in one day 6,000 turkeys, vtb i t, realised the sum of 1,8001. ; 8,000 geese for I , Bo° ' ducks and fowls (couples), 7,000 fur 1,0504 ; making $ grand total of 4,650/. Worcester Journal, LIABILITY OF PARISHES AS T O E XPOSI CHILDREN AND D EAD B ODIES, —At an inquisition 11 ° - on the I s t u l t., at the Gloucester Arms Tavern Gloucester -road, Kensington, before Mr. Waklelt M. P., Coroner for the western division of oid ; dlesex, on the body of a male child about t he months old, tst.,su tato been found exposed on •-,, night of Friday, the 28th Nov., at the gate of the hous e No. 14, Maida-hill West, Paddington, and who died in few ohurs aft er i ts removal to the workhouse of tv - Kensington Union, a question arose as to the po le :, of the parish officers of the Board of Guardians issue advertisements offering a reward for the covery of the inhuman, parents, which has slot from the P oor -l aw C omm i ssioners an opinion that " parish officers have no power to incur any expenses ;;,,, the prosecution of vagrants, and have no duty b. provide fo r t h e b urial of a corpse found in the par r the Commi ss i oners consider that there is no authority I°/ their incu rr i ng expense in advertising for the discovery ° the person who exposed such child or such corpse. If, i° ' deed, upon an y suc h advertisement the party were discovere ,l r a prose cut i on m i ght be instituted, but the Commissioners not know bow any reimbursement of the expense incurred could be compulsorily obtained from such party.. , The re' suit of the correspondence from which the above is all es'tract, app ears to b e, that there are no funds whatever aPPi;" cable to the payment of expenses incurred in the proseew Lion of p ersons deserting and exposing their children, eve s should the offence amount to murder, as in the above case , nor to advertising a description of the child, &c., or offer ing a reward for the apprehension of the delinquents. His Excellency General Alava, Lord Grenville Somerset, and a crowd of fashionables, have visited th e Royal Polytechnic Institution, in Regent street, &nig the present week. The attractions of this place of in: structive amusement are daily receiving additions, sou' amongst the novelties that are announced as in prepara tion are a new form of railway carriage, which is to be ex hibited in the G reat H all, and an ingenious modification of the powers of the hydro-oxygsn microscope, which by entirely novel invention can be adapted so as to magnotS# by refl ect i on , opaque bodies. The first application of th . le discovery w ill b e to exhibit the pictures thrown by the, , Dagu erreotype on metallic plates, which will thus have a " the effort of a natural panorama, strictly faithful to the ori ginal view. ENGLISHWOME N IN ITALY.—The English' women, too, evince a no less warm attachment to the customs of their native land. Balls, soirees, and tableaux , a-/a- mode de Londres, are continually given, where may be seen assembled many of the same faces to be met with at Almack' s every spr i ng ; wearing the same smiles, and lisping about the fetes of the previous and ensuing weeks just as they are wont to do at home. In short, men andwc ) ; l ° men endeavour as muc h as i n the i r power to forget, aP make others do so too, that they are dwellers in the " Niobe of nations ;" and though they leave London, take with them all its luxurious habits and dissipations. It is P positive tact, that one English lady of fashion proposed to exclude from her circle any individual who should in C OP' versat'on revert to the works of art or antiquities of ft" le. —Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy, Vol 111. ",04- i F ~~~