The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

_MORN NG EDITION• TO CORRESPONDENTS. As we do not mean to publish the letter from Dover, we shall make no remarks on its contents, further than to soy that we cordially agree with the twenty gentlemen• Of that place who declare that honesty is the policy. Our exertions are all directed to enforce that homely but admirable precept in high quarters. OTICE. C• THl4] CHINA SUN" Will be Re-published THIS DAY, with the NEWS from CHINA, JUST ARRIVED. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. IN PROGRESS, THE RAILWAY SUN With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the .United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and °Lim particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD, WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, Cali be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sue Office, 112, Strand, London. MP. JAMES'S NEW WORK.! Now ready, in 3 vu's. dvo., with Portraits. LETTERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE C 0 - U It T AND OF WILLIAM 111. TIMES Addressed to the Duke of Shrewsbury, By JAMES VERNON, Esq., Secretary of State. Edited by G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of " Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV.," " Richelieu," &c. "No lib • •ary of English history can be consider el complete without these Letters."—Conservative Journal. Henry Coburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. VIE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., OLIVER CROMWELL Edited by . HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author Of " Brambletye House," &c. " A s'ory of most exciting interest, vigorously written, and presenting a singularly vivid and strikingpicture of the turbu lent times to which it refers. The distractions of that sad period, when the ties of kindred were so often rent asun ler, the kindliest domestic circles broken up, and their happiness; blighted, are eloquently and touchingly illustrated ;n the his tory of the Ardenne family. The blind devotion of the old Knight to the cause of the faithless and unhappy Charles, which leads him to cast off with fearful maledictions his only and beloved son—the exalted patriotism of his son, wl:o perils his dearest earthly hopes in the struggles for his country's li berty—the surpassing loveliness of his affianced bride, who loves with enduring and unalterable affection, but the con summation .f whose fondest hopes is for ever bla►ted by those unhappy divisions, are all detailed with singular effect, and ar rest the reader's attention with an entertaining and pathetic in terest. The immortal Milton also is introduced at various points of the tale with happy skill, an;.: with a genuine appre ciation of his lofty but unattainable aspiration after a true re public."—Dublin Evening Post. Henry colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. 1 HEA 1 ktE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U %DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRF , . THIS EVENING, JAN. 7. Will be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; ' Snout, Mr. Meadows • Snug. ' Mr. F. Matthews • Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. _ _ After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF bTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pai:taloon, Mr. Mo-.1li; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. On Friday, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. On Saturday, The Midsumn2er Night's Dream, with the New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'clock. Ti.ikets and places foiti;Boxt. 3 to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Feur, where Season Tickets may ue had upon application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and second ( ircles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price la. Private Wats to be had solely of Mr. And: ewe, bookseller €67. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The proud pre-eminence acquired at this Theatre by the supe riority of the pantomimicaf effects, is more than ever realized by the amasing hit of the Reyal Pantomime. The most brilliant overflows have been attracted by the present Per formances. THIS F'.VP.NING, JAN. 7, , - Will be represented a New Domestic Drama. entitled MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT. Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry Vining. .'7lipported by the entire strength of the Company, After which %Sill be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime. entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY GANDER. AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. En which the unrivalled Artistes, the Bolero Family Sonthhy, the Original Clown ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the ast4nishing Gyrenastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran eoni's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Gland Dioramic Synopsis of Syria. HIGH WATER AT LONDON'BRIDGE THIS DAY. . 6 rink titeA after 1. I Evening ......33 minutes after 1. •-`' l im> I,tl_l. LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 141. The news received yesterday by the overland mail frein India and China is most important to the Government and people of this country. I n China the triumph of our arms has been most complete. The presence of a victori)ui British fleet in the Yellow Sea soon brought the EM PEROtt to his senses, as from the commencement of our quarrel with China we constantly foretold it would. When circumstances render it impala live upon nations to have recourse to that dreadful war, to punish injustice or to resent injuries 1-,,,,, ma nity requires that it should be made on the most extensive scale possible, and by bearing down all chances of resistance, spate the useless effusion of innocent blood. But to defeat the Chinese in the fieid is not to realize the main object of the expedition against China. If the Celestial Go vernment, by a policy of fraudulent procrastina.ion —by a profusion of compliments and promises, e q u 'ally hollow and contemptible persuade the English to abandon Chusan, and to await at Can ton the settlement of all differences between the English and Chinese, the richest fruit of the expe. dition will be completely lost. Having bsgun negotiations sword in hand, it would be madness Admiral ELLIOT to return it to on the part of A the scabbard before all the demands which he is authorised by the British Government to make are complied with. One thing ought to be constantly kept in mind. Having acquired a footing in China, it is essential to the maintenance of our dominio 3 in the East, that we retain it at any cost. Complaints are made in several letters of the insalubrity of Chusan, and we find it stated that a regard for the health of our troops will oblige us to abandon it. W suspect these complaints originate in evils not attributable to the climate of this fine island. After so low, b a voyage, it is to be supposed that the men indulged in excesses de trimental to health in all parts of the world. The last accounts from China informed us that on lam' ing they drank to excess of an intoxicating beverage which they had never before tasted, and which pro duced a terrible dysentery among them. likely:the wells were poisoned, and deleteriou s dru gs mixed with the provisions which they found on Whore. These are ways of inflicting injury upo:, their enemies which the Chinese, from time mortal, have not scrupled to employ as often as they have had opportunities. But if the island of Chusan be really insalubrious, there are plenty of other islands on the coast upon which the Engli*h could effect a permanent settle only requisite that the island occupied 4 arbour, and be not more distant from vne already in p osses ,i on o f our With a British force constantly on „-, 3 91 •. ^t vr• . 4t the coast of China, capable of redressing any wrong offered us, our merchants would be secured against insult or oppression, and our commerce would gra dually extend from the mouth of the Canton river to the entrance of the Peiho into the Yellow Sea, thus opening a direct water communication with Pekin itself. To trust to the good faith of the Chinese would be as preposterous as to attempt to read characters traced with a pen upon the face of a descending torrent. We would just as soon ac cept the offer of a treaty alleged to be written on a moon-beam, as a mere parchment scroll bearing e imperial sign -manual, and deriving all its value from Chinese adherence to the sanctity of written obligations. We sincerely trust that this is a point which has not been overlooked by Lords PALMER.. STON and AUCKLAND. About ,even years ago there W3F, as there now is, and has ever since occasionally been, a discussion carried on in the public papers, as to the propriety of calling the Church of England the poor man's Church. It was then objected to the name by a Liberal Journal, that the rich had their well car peted pews, while the poor sat on benches or were crowded into the aisles, without seats at all. The curtained anti cushioned seat of the squire, was contrasted with the want of accomodation provided for the poor, and it was maintained that it was a mockery to call that the poor man's Church in which the distinctions of the world were preserved, and he was treated as if he were not, even in the temple of the ALMIGHTY, equal to his brother of the dust. The difference between the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church, in which there are no pews, and all persons kneel equally on the same floor, was pointed out, and the name of a poor man's Church was shown not be properly applied to the Anglican Church. At the end of seven years we are happy to find that the Anglican priest hood are taking lessons from the liberal news papers, and proposing to restore to the Anglican Church the equality of a Catholic Cathedral or a Dissenter's Chapel. A writer in yesterday's Times, quotes the following passage from a charge recently published by the Archdeacon of LEWES : " The first measure which I would recommend would be to alter the distribution of the seats, by getting rid of those eyesores and heartsores—pews, and substituting open benches with backs in their stead. Many advan tages would accrue from such a change, over and above the power of seating a greater number of people. This increase in capacity would be very considerable in our country churches, where pews large enough to hold from 10 to 20 persons, in the best situations in the church, are often allotted to small families, and may be seen gaping well-nigh empty : for even they who rarely come to church themselves are not seldom most rigid in asserting what they conceive to be their right of excluding others from their pews. Meanwhile the poor who, owing to the obtuseness of their senses and and perceptions, need to be near to the minister, arc thus driven to the outskirts of the church, where only dim broken sounds reach their ears, the connecting links of which they are unable to supply, and where, if they are not altogether out of sight, they.can but im perfectly discern those accompaniments of manner and voice and gesture, in which so much of the force of preaching lies, and which are especially requisite to per sons less familiar with the power of words, and less easily impressed by them. We all know, too, how many jea!ousies and heartburnings are perpetually springing up from disputes about rights of pews, which would thus be extinguished at once. At the same time, for the sake of order and regularity, seats might be assigned to each family, according to its numbers, and one may feel assured that such an arrangemuent would be generally re spected. Besides, do we not all know what facilities and temptation pews afford for irreverent behaviour during di vine service, what facilities they afford to the somnolent ? Moreover, the eyes of the congregation are not all turned the same way, directed towards the same object ; but people sit face to face, and thus are inevitably led to look too much at each other, which interrupts the cur rent of their devotional feelings. Above all, the ten dency of pews is to destroy the character of social wor ship. Instead of our kneeling all side by side, rich and poor, one with another, pews keep up those distinctions of rank, which in the presence of tiod we should de sire to lay aside, each family penning itself up within its high wooden walls, and carefully secluding itself from all contact and communion with its neighbours. Indeed, when one enters a church on a week-day, and sees the strange fashion in which the floor is partitioned out into large shapeless lidless boxes, one is involun tarily reminded of one of the ugliest objects on tkc face of the eat th—Smithfield market when empty. " I am aware that there arc many obstacles which lie in the way of the change I have been urging, and which may for a time prevent its being generally adopted, All our selfish passions will resist it ; pride will resist it ; indolence will resist it ; the baneful love of case and comfort will resist it. But an excellent example has already been set in the new church of St. John, at Lewes, where the whole centre of the floor is covered with open benches, for the poor, and pews on each side are so low as to be almost inoffensive to the eye. From various quarters, too, I hear that efforts are making to throw open the pews in old churches ; and I trust that ere long it will have been proved in several parishes, how much more favourable the change is to devotional behaviour in church, how it brings home to our hearts that we are all indeed brethren, all members of the same body, that we are all one before God, all one in Christ." The same point is also urged by Mr. Wallinger, of Lewes, in his consecration sermon. He says, that— " To cull the parish church the church of the poor man, when the accommodation afforded in it has no re ference to the capacity of the hearers, in an insult to the understanding and the feelings. It is like throwing a loaf at a hungry man, without thinking whether it will reach him, or whether he will be able to gather up the crumbs in.o which it may break. It is like saying, Depart ye ; be ye warmed and filled : notwithstanding tic give them not those things that are needful. Ile with good reason bletses God, that, in the Church where he was preach inl, the best places for hearing were allotted to those ' who ought to Lave that advantage,' the poor : and ho anticipates ;in early day, when the laity and clergy of every tawn and village in England will take up this godly work in right earnest ; when every parish church will be so enlarged, or re-arranged, or inultiplied, as to afford room for all to hear ; and when we shall prove to our poorer brethren that we are not selfish consumers of Gol's gilts, giving as little as we ma y to their spiritual wants, but rather that we put a right value on God's mercies to our own soul, by our self-denial and exertions to communicate them to ethers." This passage expressly proves much that The Sun, and other Liberal Journals, have urged against the poor man's Church. While the best places are pros rvcd for the pews of the r i c h, " t h e poor are ,- driven to the outskirts of the church." Pews de stroy the character of social worship, " they keep up the distinctions of rank and thus the clew themselves now confess the truth of the charges brought against the poor man's Church seven years ago. Their present complaints admit the justice of our accusation, and prove that in the poor man's Church the poor are not held to be equal to the rich, and are treated as an inferior race. All the praises which some nameless writer, quoted by the Times, heaps on the poor man's Church, describin g it as open on Sunday, where a man, cultivated by learning, imbued with piety, addresses to the poor man's ear words of inspired wisdom, describing the music as for him, and the clergyman as his friend, who will come at his call in sickness and sorrow, is the mere theory of what the Church and the clergy ought to be and ar e not. How can the Times venture to place in the same column the passage we have quoted, describing the Church as hitherto appropriated for the coin- totts of the rich, and another pwisage to this effect dug from an all in Spitalfielch, • is supposed to speak : II (lay there is a house open to me ; i%. poor shivering. shceiess wretch, o:l i( th O e n strl s ti t e i ve d n a t y here is a door, which is free as the house of prayer ; there is a seat, there is a bell, which peals on my car, and into which / may which is tree as the seats above,which rises upon toy ear, :aid ' a l t o ,d or c o a f lls l- ;) a ie ve t r o ' ; that cot, ; there is music, rolls its sacred melodies for Me; cul tivated, taught, an d there is a minister, ra con secrated his lit e his t po i w ll er d— s, a man who has and his labours, to the wor k of the sanctuary who has been cul tivated by learning, who is imbued with piety , who h as b een trained in the school of man, and nurtured in t h e word of God. The roan n ad dresses to my ear the words of ancient, almost of I spired, wisdom ; he directs to ate the living eloquence of a human voice, and he beams upon nze the living energy of a human eye ; he calls me, by all the protes tations of human reason, and all the appeals of Scrip ture promise, and all the consolation s of the Gospel— he unroll them, he spreads them out, he unfolds them for me. It is for me that these services are ordered,— THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1841 it is for me that that music swells—it is for me that that musk swells—it is for me that that eloquence is che rished—and it is for me that the gospel of God is un folded, and every seventh day declared.' " Archdeacon HARE flatly contradicts this flatter ing portrait, by declaring that the poor are shoved to the outskirts where they cannot hear what is preached. The shoeless shivering wretch would, in fact, be turned out by the rosy-gilled beadle if he had the temerity to intrude himself into such a ccm pany of well-dressed people as is generally found in a metropolitan church, and the destitute poor man no more dare to venture inside a church, partitioned into what the Archdeacon likens to cattle stalls, than he dare venture into Almack's or Buckingham Palace. Is it not matter of notoriety that the poor stay from church, because they wan t clothing to go thither ? The Anglican Church, of which the service is pei formed by rich gentlemen, which is frequented by ladies followed by footmen, and around which crowds of carriages and lacquers wait for their masters and mistresses, is no place for the poor man. The Church is too opulent for him. The clergy belong to a class, with whom at present he is unfortunately at variance, and they have, whether foolisly or wisely is for them to judge, sacrificed their Christian usefulness for the sake of the wealth and dignity they have undoubtedly obtained. Many of the clergy are Magistrates. How can the poor look for consolation to the stern Justice on the bench, eager at all times to enforce game-laws and other partial enactments ? Many of the clergy are the nobleman's son, the squire's nephew, or the great landowner's nominee and man of all work. They share the amusements and occupa tions of their relations and friends ; they never mingle with the poor ; they know nothing of their toils or their privations but by hearsay ; they belong to a totally different class of society, have sympathy with the rich, and not with the poor. To make the Anglican Church a poor man's Church, even wth all the popular reforms now proposed, with all the coaxing and blandishments with which a HARE may seek to invest it, the priesthood must be a different order of men, and must depend on the poor, not on the rich. The new Chartist Church, a specimen of which, at Birmingham, will be found noticed elsewhere, which was begun at Glasgow, and is to be propagated through the country, will beat the Church of England hollow in bidding for the support of the poor, and will soon, no doubt, earn and deserve the name of the poor man's Church Formidable rivals, in the good graces of the poor, to the Reverend J.P.'s, to stately Archdeacoil, and to opulent and lordly Deans, are starting up, and we would have them look, not to their laurels but their livings. The Post yesterday told some truth of the Tories, in an article which we copied into The Sun. They have been, it is true, very unpopular. They were, we must admit, too unbending, too cold and disdainful, too shy of making known the grounds of their harsh policy, contenting them selves by making their will our law—they were, as we all felt, utterly careless about satisfying the minds of the people and making them content with the law ; and the result of their conduct was almost universal discontent, which threatened re bellion and revolution. They were themselves frightened at the storm they had raised, which was only appeased by their throwing themselves over board at the first hint from the House of Com mons. They made a great sacrifice for the good of the country when they retired from office in 1830. The Post, we must admit, also tells some truth of the Whigs. At least, so far as saying that the people are disappointed. This is a great truth. They are no better off since the Reform Act was passed than they were before, but rather worse. The enormous mass of restrictive legislation which the Tories bequeathed to the nation has had more time to operate, and has produced more disastrous effects. It is like a strait waistcoat on a growing youth, which becomes every day more narrow and irksome. The popular enthusiasm which conquered the Reform Act subsided when that victory was acheived ; the Tories then gathered together the fragments of their power, and have ever since laboured to keep their strait waistcoat on the nation. They have been but too successful. A Kant of power, united with a feeble will, has prevented the Whigs from enlarging it, and as the nation has grown, year after year, the restraint has been more and more felt in every limb. It is not proposed, we presume, to treat the nation like a madman, and chain it down to the narrow crib of 1830. If it be, discontent will increase, and the struggles to escape will every year become more desperate ; if it be not, the Tories themselves, in stead of thwarting the Whigs, should assist in re moving the impediments. to the national growth and the national freedom. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Everything in the City wore a cheerful appearance to day except in the Tea Market, where there was a kind of panic, and a fall in price, though no bargains of any magnitude were entered into. Company's Congou on 'Change this afternoon closed at ls. 7id. per lb. It is not unlikely but that many failures may occur among the speculators. . _ The publication of the detailed accounts by the ovEr land 'mail from India, sent up the price of Consols this afternoon to 893 I for Money ; and to 89,1 for Account, making the advalice to-day 4 per cent. ; Exchequer Bills were 7s. to 9s. premium ; and India Bonds touched 55. discount ; India .‘.stock rose to 243 ; and Bank Stock to 1611. At the meeting of Portuguese Bondholders to-day, the last terms offered by the Lisbon Government were rejected, and new propositions are to be submitted by the Bondhol ders. The New Five per Cents. were 114 at 32 to 314 The Three per Cents. were not dealt in. Brazil Bonds realised 714, Colombian 23k, and Mexican 28, . Spanish Stock was depressed at 241 to 4. The Share . Market was 6fisk:and prices moved upwards a little. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.— The sides to day arc 3,000 to 4,000 bags at full pr.ces, chiefly Ainel j ean descriptions. The important intelligence from China has caused a great sensation in the city, this event not being anticipated so soon in the tea market. This morning the dealers ap peared to be panic-struck. At 10 o'clock no transactions ; offars at Is. 7d. per lb. refused, but no doubt ls. 10.1. per lb. would be accepted for Company's Conpu. The official statement of the quarter's revenue was pub lished night, by which it appears that there is an in crease in the quarter of 80,602/. sterling, and a deficiency in the year, ending sth J muary, 1841, of 254,0001. Consols, which left cff yesterday at 89 for Account, opened this morning at 891 13-, since which they have been down at 894, not quite so good. Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock 159 160 ; India Stock 238 240. In the Foreign Mai ket Spanish Active is a shade !over, left cff at 24k at present 244 it; Deferred 12 13 ; Passive 6f f ; Portuguese same as they left off, 321 ; Three per Cents. ; Brazilian 70 4 71f ; C o l om bi an 2111- 24 ; Mexican 2'4 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 49i 50; Five per Cents. 97i 98k. SHARES.—Great Western, 2930 prem. ; New. 134 prem. ; London and Brighton, 54- 5 dii. ; Blackwell, 44 4 dis. ; Birmingham, 83 85 prem. ; S )utbampton, 58 6i) per share ; Croydon, 121 a pcfri share ; Greenwich,. 8 9 per share ; Manchester and B,rtilingham, 15 13 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 9O 76 Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths . London and Brighten London and South Western 3S Londan and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 12i...... to JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25 ..•••• 35 i to f T-L-- r‘f Australia.. The British Funds are not quite so good as in the e ar ly part of the morning, w h en th e y we re 89 for the Account, since which they may be quoted at 89-a I. Their not being so firm is caused by the intelligence from Madrid that the Regency had ordered troops to be marched to the frontier of Portugal. All other intelligence is absorbed by that from Woe and India. Exchequer Bilis, 7 9 prem.; Bank Stock, improved, 160 161 ; India Stock, also improved, 242; India Bonds the same, 5 d 8. In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active 248, had been 24-7 7 ; Portuguese, lower, 32 3121 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per;Cents., 504 ; Five per Cents. 981 In the Share Market not much doing. Great Western, 95 961 ; ditto, New, 64 65 64} 65i 64 ; ditto, Fifths, 11 4 ; London and Brighton 444 45 44i ; South West ern, 58 : 1 59 58i. From Port Phillip Papers of the Bth of August:— SHIPWRECKS.—The Ocean Queen and City of Edin burgh have been both wrecked in the Straits. They were from London, with merchandise and passengers, the former for Launceston and the latter for Sydney. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 163 India Stock ....213 3 per Cent. Red B9 : ii Ditto I3onds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89a Ditto Old Annuities 3A per Cent Red. ..... .. 98a Ditto New Annuities... - New 3A- per Cent .. ... 97A Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2Ad 9 pin New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 9 pin Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 ... lndia Stock for Acct ...24l A Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Opg 894 FOREIGN FUNDS. A astrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto._ Brazilian BonOs .. .. BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, S per cent 24,E Ditto, 1824 23a Ditto, Deferred .., Danish, 3 per cent..... 77A French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek, 1825, spercent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2} per cent 5 A Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 9S SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd)... 751 Birmingham and Derby (Thirds) (paid 5) 54 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (90 p) 76 Eastern Counties Railway Debs. (2 paid) 54 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 96} Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .... .. ... 64 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ll4 London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (221 pd) 184 London and South Western Railway ........... 581 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l2l Manchester and Birmingham Railway (40p) 26} South Eastern and Dover (28 paid )... ; York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 73 LITERATURE. THE IDLER IN ITALY. VoL. Colburn, London, 1840. A cheerful, accomodating temper, a freedom from insular prejudices, and a steady determination to bear with equanimity whatever personal inconveniences he or she may be subjected to, arc among the greatest requisites that an English traveller can possess ; and Lady Blessington possesses these enviable qualities in high degree, as her " Idler in Italy" abundantly testifies. Not a page but gives proof of her truly Catholic natute, and her disposition to make the best of those various annoyances which haunt the steps of the traveller in foreign lands, with as much pertinacity as his shadow. Sterne, who knew well the character of most English tourists, and in one of the truest chapters of his "Sen timental Journey," has ridiculed their proneness to discontent, and utter abhorrence of being, what is called, " put out of their way," would have re cognized in Lady Blessington a kindred spirit, for if she have not the arch humour and simple pathos of this eminent author, she has the same unflagging animal spirits, and the same readiness to be happy, I and to make happy. Though in her present volume she goes over ground with which the majority of our readers are, no doubt, already sufficiently familiar, yet her descriptive sketches—even when she is descanting on such a hacknied theme as Venice—never weary us, for we feel that they are drawn from her own fresh and vivid itnpression , and not, second-hand, from the hearsay and reco lections of others, as is the case with some mode; writers of travels whom we could mention. H Ladyship quitted the neighbourhood of Rome the summerof 1828—how is it that she has allowed her " Idler in Italy" to remain so long in maim seeipt ?—and of course did not omit visiting the celebrated waterfall of Terni, which Byron has so forcibly described in his fourth canto of'' Childe Harold," and of which we are here told, in prose of nearly equal force, that " its mighty waters instinct with life, and fraught with super-human vigour, seem animated by a spirit of madness, into '' terrible velocity with which they dash from rock to rock." With Padua—the mention of which city will at once recal to the reader's mind some of the best scenes in the " Merchant of Venice—Lady Blessington was much pleased, observing, " one of the peculiar attractions ~f Parlua for me, is the number of old-fashioned houses, surrounded by gardens, which are to be found within its walls, looking as secluded and as quaint as if they were many miles from any tow n, and that their occupants, during the last century, had carefully refrained from changing their sober, but pleasing aspects. This mixture of foliage and flowers introduced between spires, and domes, and ancient buildings, have a charming effect, and I lin gered at the gates of some of these houses, half tempted to envy their owners." The picture which her Ladyship draws of Venice is a very sad one This celebrated city, w hose merchant princes, '• those of Tyre and Sidon, were for centuries among the most renowned and powerful of the earth, seems now to be in the last stage of hopeless decay. The busy hum of commerce is no longer heard on her quays ; the fleets of Europe no longer anchor in her ports ; her aristocracy are shorn of their wealth, her Senate of its political influence ; the glory of St. Mark's is past arid gone ; the Doge exists but as a name, in his tory ; and the Queen of Cities, whom Europe and Asia held alike in reverence, and who had so often struck dismay into the hearts of the Saracens, is now become a mere useless, unregarded cypher in the hands of Austria. On reaching Ravenna, of ' which we are told, that " of all the Italian cities, it is that which is least frequentel by, or known to, English travellers," Lady Blessington was of course reminded of Byron, who here wrote by far the best and most enduring of his poems. We quote what she says on the subject, which we do with the more readiness, because the current of popular opinion seems of late years to have set strongly in against the Noble Childe : The custude who showed us the apartments was loud in his praises of Lord Byron, and recounted various instances of his charity. He could not see a person in distress without succouring him," said he, " and the poor of Ravenna and its neighbourhood soon discovered this benevolent disposition, and beset him every day when he went to the Pigneta. But it was not money alone that he gave them, signora, kind words and a patient hearing of their misfortunes accompanied his gifts ; and, paupers as they were, they valued these scarcely less. I remember well his meeting a poor woman of extreme age, and his telling her to come here ; when he not only heard her tale of distress, but gave her gold, and a weekly pension beside." I ques tioned the man about the habits of Byron, and he an swered that they were molto bizzario, always reading or writing, taking little pleasure except in riding in the Pigneta, or playing with his favourite animals. Though profuse to the poor," continued the custode, "he indulged in no luxuries himself, signora ; and there was not a servitor in this Palazzo, that would not have thought himself aggrieved, had his repasts been so scanty, and of so ordinary a quality as those of the Lord Byr,.n. He was not, like the generality of the tra velleri we hear of (for here we see but few). pampered, and never satisfied with the fare set before them. He was greatly beloved at Ravenna, and we all grieved when he left us." On showing us the suite of apartments formerly oc cupied by the Contessa Guiccioli, he pointed to a very ill-executed portrait representing her playing on the pianoforte ; and assured us that it by no means rendered her justice, she being fairer, he averred, than even the dames of northern lands, and with golden hair. " We were all proud and glad, signora, when the Count Guiccioli brought home his beautiful young bride. Oink, we thought not that either would have cause to regret the nuptials. The Count belongs to one of the Most ancient families in Italy, and the lady descends from a long line of illustrious ancestors. Her grand mother, a celebrated beauty in her time, was daughter to the Marquis di B igno of Mantua ; and her mother, who died in childbirth only a year or so after the young Countess' marriage, was a very h an d some l a d y, an d daughter of the Contcssa Macherelli ; one of whose sisters married the Count Cobentzel of Vienna, and by another sister the family became allied to the noble houses of Erdeddi, Nadasty, and Esterhazy." The old servitor seemed to have so much pleasure in re capitulating the grandeur of the family connexions of the Countess that I listened patiently to his statemen', which appeared to delight him not a little. " She was a kind and gentle lady, with a smiling face and an open hand," said the custode. " She loved this stranger Lard, and for the matter of that, so did all who ap proached him. Poor lady ! how his death must have iifil,cted her." "In this room, Signora," said he, as we entered another chamber, " Lord Byron slept. Often has the light been seen burning in it till long after day Lad appeared ; and we used to marvel that pre who was rich, and able to command all the luxuries of life, could prefer so abstemious a mode of existence, and such incessant toil. I have seen these chambers so littered with books that there was scarcely room to move about in them." PROPERTY EMBARKED IN RAILWAYS.—A list of railways, now completed and progressing, has been compiled in order to prove the valtuieolthia.description of property, which, in a national point of view, is highly im • portant, for in the construction of these valuable works, though involving so very extensive a capital, be it remem bered, that every shilling has been expended in our own country—first in the payment of land to the land-owners; secondly in the wages for the production of coal and iron in the manufactory cf the materials; and lastly in the wages to the workmen in every department in the execu tion of these gigantic undertakings, rehich are both useful and ornamental, and prove the great master-mind of science. The energy and exertion required in the prosecution of these works, justly entitle the directors and proprietors, to the best thanks of the public. Of the railways now in the course of full work, some idea may be formed of the im mense revenue that will be established when the whole of the undertakings come into active operation: but, it mug also be observed, that the various lines, when completed, will greatly benefit those to which the last years' gross re ceipts are now given :—Liverpool ana Manchester, :7.35.979/. 9s. 9d. ; Grand Junctien 4 35,6841. 6s. 63, ; London and Birmingham 752.5921. 10s. 2d. ; London and South Western 227,2081. 2s. 5d ; Great Western 240,0841. 6s. 7d. ; Midland Courites 5 3, 2 47/. 2s. 4d. ; Birmingham and Derby 48,9131. 14s. 9d. Of this sum, 1,006,854/. is nividcd amongst the proprietors; but where dues the remainder go tot it is expended on the works, tr,d in wages to the labourers; equally beneficial to all. Toli newly created property, in a very great measure, ar.s: s from the overflow of wealth, and in every point in lob it can by possibility b e cons i dered, must afford to the . - ‘Hating rnii.d, satisfaction, in the increasing prosperity of te e our native laud.—Statistics of Railways. he alinounceirv:iii of Mrs. Gore's-new novel, Greyille, Cr a S.:ason in Paris," ha l" created a consider able sensation, fern the circumstance of its exhibiting a complete tableau of the great world of Paris, fashionable and diplomatic, at the present time. - The scenes are laid alternately amonglhe highest circles of the Carlist no bility, and these Ministerial coteries of which MM. Thiers and Guizot form the leading personages. INDIA-RUBBER PAVEMENT f—Amongst the marvels of the times, a patent has actually been taken out ft r paving the streets of Landon with India -rubber, and many scientific persons are sanguine as to its success. There is to be a substratum of wood, on which is to be put a facing of caoutebouc mixed with iron filings and sawdust o a depth of several inches. This, it is calculated, will resist the ill influence of all weathers, and make the most delightful and durable pavement. THE YOUR, OF LONGHAM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sat,—ln a letter, dated Norwich, 21st Decernbe r, signed " A Prey Trader and an Enemy to the Priest craft," the psor of the village of Longliarn are represent, d I as " subsisting on food unfit for a horse, and living in such hovels as to house one in would be to insure its death from cold, and that the principal farmer had threatened to drop the wages of his workmen to 13s. per week," leaving your readers very naturally, of course, to suppse that they had not been in the receipt of much more. Now, as every word of that is a scandalous falsehood, I trust you will grant me the indulgence of allowing me a small space in your columns to contradict what has hoe❑ asserted, and to state what is the fact, and which I will defy the base calumniator to prove that it is not. The fact, therefore, is, that the cottages of the poor are as respectal le, and such as afford equal, if not superior, comfort to what are general throughout the country ; and as every workman capable of doing a fair day's work in the employ of the " principal farmer" has regularly had 125., and several from 133. to 153. per w eck till within the last six weeks, when their wages were reduced Is , in consequence of wheat coming down in price to 303. per eootnb and under ; and as the other occupiers of the pa rish are pajing at the same rate, I will leave it for your readers to judge whether it is at all probable that, with such wages, the working class are " subsisting on food unfit for a horse." Now, my impression being that the writer has no spite against me individually, but that the object aimed at is to increase the enmity which al ready too strongly exists in, and pervades the minds of the manufacturer and tradesman against the farmer, I think if he had signed himself an enemy to his country, instead of what lie has, he would then only have declared himself to be what, after the information now given, your readers must consider him. I um not ashamed of my name, which, without further troubling you, I IA ill give, as the " principal farmer," and your obedient setvant, JOHN HASTINGS. Longham, Jan. 5, 1841. terl l y 'll ap E pea \ r V an E c A e T of il t E h i.—N ellasttowtow idtahysst,atin there i g ha t s h wi been nu very great diminution of temperature. On Monday night at ten o'clock, at Hackney, the thermometer was 28 de grees Fahrenheit, and on Tuesday morning at seven o'clock it was 29 degrees, whilst at noon it was 32 degrees. The wind, which veered considerably, was chiefly N. N. E., and made travelling ref)/ bleak and uncomfortable. There was a slight fall of snow on Monday evening, which con tinued at intervals during the night, but set in stronger on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock, and continued during the day. The accounts brought b) the Cambridge arid Norwich afternoon coaches were, that in there counties and in E2sex many fresh (bills had accumulated, which had rend, red many of the by-roads impassable. In :own the streets have the appearance of winter having resumed all its severity, the rods and footpath:4 becoming very slippery, whilst on Holborn -hill and Westminster hriilge many accidents occurred from horses falling. Penton ville:hill has also this year been particularly dangerous to hors( a, and many dangerous falls occurred on Tuesday. Vegetables and animals are prepared for almost all climates, and for temperatures high er than the heat of any country. Dr. Reeve found larvae in a spring at 280 degrees ; Lord Bute confervm and beetles in the boiling springs of Albano, that died when plunged into cold water. A species of chara will flower and produce seed in the hot springs of Iceland, which boil an egg in four minutes. One plant, urcdo nivalis, which is a mere microscopic gip_ bule, is said to grow and flower under the snow. S ome cold-blooded animals bear heat very badly. Dr. Edwards says that frogs die in a few seconds in water at 107 deg. Yct a species of tamia has been found ;alive in a boiled as bot as human blood. —Elliotsotes Ph ysiolo g y. carp ; but then the carp which it inh h a i b u i m ts a w n il p iol will hliveinogy.water HAMBURGH MAIL. HAISBURGH, DEC. 31.—The number of merchant men, large and small,;that arrived in this port last year was 2,484—0 f which 1,038 were from Great Britain, 191 from France, and 367 from Holland and Edtt Friesland. HANOVER, DEC. 21.—The Crown Prince has re covered from his indisposition, which we bear was an idlimnaation in the eyes, but does not yet leave his room. The Liepsic Allgenicine Zeitung has a letter from Aschasleben, of the 18th December, which says that the great sugar house of Messrs. Zucksctroudt and B ache!, in Magdeburg., was burnt to the ground. The loss is estimated at 200,000 dollars. The greater part is insured at London, Gotha, and Cologne. BERLIN, DEC. 25.—(From a letter.)—The proposal which has been frequently mentioned by the journals, to have the Sunday observed in the same quiet manner as in England, and particularly to prohibit music in the public-houses, has been rejected, as was to be expected. ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 24.—The Marquis of Clan ricarde arrived here on the 18th. The Russian Papers publish an imperial reseript of Nov. 29, conferring the order of St. George of the Sacond Class on Admiral Stopford. BERLIN, DEC. 31.—Prussia has just sustained a great loss by the death of Dr. Wilkin, Chief Librarian and Professor, the author of several valuable works. I is not unlikely that he may be succeeded by Dr. Jacob Gumon.—Hamburgh Papers, Jan. 1. HAMBURG BOS4iEllki ALLE, JAW. 1. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Sank Stiare; ..... . ......................................... 1575 A nglo-nussian Loan Russian 5 per Cent. Ist sem., Certificate ...... 100 N KEN Inscription, Ist Se:), ................................. 103 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, 31:111,0. 3(1 and .Ith Set ies .................................................. 9rh 95% Ditto in Certificates ........................... ...... 11()% 1 , 514 Dutch Actual Debt, '4 pe Cent ................ 41% D)t.to o per Cent ................... Polish Bond: ............... ..... . ................... 148 . !.4 New ticket ....................... . ........................ Anglo-I)anish Loan, :1 per Cats ..................... 73 73:4 Ni. wegtan Loan, 1r):11, 4 per ........... 101 Sp.:dust), New 3 per Crolts. ........................... EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 1 —:3 3.—Two months, fij • PETERSRURGH, DEC. :22. I'wo months, 39. pen, ' S Drc 4.—Seventy-five days, IL t CEIRISTIANIA, DEC.:23 —Three months, 4 53. ',JELIN, DEC t! .— Three months, 6.10%. YORK, JAN. 4, 1841. This evening the first supply of coals front th North, arrived by the Northern Railway, consisting of one hundred and five waggons, each containing' fifty-three hundred weight. The whole was drawn by four engines. Some of the waggons contained immease masses of coal marked with the names of the pits from valence they had been raised. The supply, of course, is five hundred and forty-three tons, and as each waggon is eight feet in length, the train was not far short of one mile. In the winter of 1839, coals quadrupled in price here. The selling price of these new coals is 15s. 6d. per ton. We have also West of E,;gland coals from 7s. to 16s. per ton The day being very inauspicious, the d e monstrations of welcome were not so apparent as they otherwise would have been if the weather had proved more moderwe. The York and North Midland Railway's new and most elegant depot for passengers was opened upon the 4th Jan. also. Every thing in the shape of comfort and convenience has been unsparingly supplied, and the tout ensemble is elegance itself DEATH FROM WANT AND EXPOSURE TO Com—Tuesday evening an inquest was held by Mr. V Payne, at the St. Sepul c h re ' s wor kh ouse , N. est- strect, Smithfield, on the body of Th omas A rt h ur Sadler, formerly a ci irnpositor. From the evid ence o f ma ny wilnes,es it appeared that, between one and two o'clock on Ti rursda y mo rning, deceased was fou n d 1 $ i ng on the wetFrive'""t nea r the workhouse, in We street. lie , as ‘'‘'ithoi-t shoes or stockings, and co u ld scarce l y w alk or speal , . Lln I Th e police conveyed him to that ,orkhouse, and its medical , fficers ordered liigl warm ;uni fi ca tions and iaternd stimulants, but he never railed and d eil ;he foll"iVidU, the p Irish surgeon said, of a ff ect i on o f t h e brain, 1 )- ""n` e ' probably from destitwion and exposure to the pres nt rigorous weather. Deceasocl had formerly been al able compositor, but having becom e deranged i n mind h could no longer perform his -, He sometimes would say that his companions were consii.iring against him; thi-1 they wished to stab or sho o t hi m in order to get rid of him. At other times he would wa lk as f ar as Whirechapel a wo r .t. Church merely to know the time of day. He frequently strolled penniless about the country, not knowing whither he was going. In drink h e was temperate, but lied an in ordinate appetite, equal to that of four or fi v e ordinary men. For the last five years he had subsisted (in the charity of his former f ellow-workmen, but on account of his voracity what they allowed hi m a pp ea red not to be sefficient f or hi s supp or t . V erdict— " Died from want an d exposure t o ex treme cold"" , '; _ - CIRCULA!-?.. WIND6OL, WEDNESIjAY. panied his Rlyal Egimeis Prince Albert to the lake at Frogn:ore this morning at twelve o'clock, and en joyed there the amusement the ice and season affords, for some time. Her Majesty was attended by the same party as yesterday, with the addition of Sir Ro bert Otway ; and Prince Albert was also attended by the same gentlemen as yesterday. The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell and the R, v: Mr. Canning will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening. A Cabinet Council is summoned to meet on the 16:h inst., and in the evening Viscount Melbourne will give a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers. The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer returned to their residence in Portland-place on Tues day, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Sir Henry Mildmay, Bart., and Mr. Edmond Mild may, have arrived et Farrance's Hotel from Carne House, the sea' of Colonel Dawson Darner. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were Lord Brouuliam, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Justice Erskine, anu the Judge of the Admiralty. The appeal " Edward ht,•lley v. William Carson," Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Island of New!'oundfand, was resumed and con cluded. Rrectly after Mr. Pemberton,Queen s Coun sel, had finished his reply for the appellant, their Lordship's adjourned iiithout giving judgment. PORTS OF FRANCE. IS, 11- ST. SERVANT, JAN. 2.—Besides the gr ea t m ili tary ports of Toulon, Brest, L'Orien:, Rochefort, end Cher rn Bourg, the French navy has establishments at Dunkirk, er Havre, St. Servan, Nantes, Bordeaux, and Bayonne. 1 The establishments at Dunkirk are on an exten• site scale. They consist of a sluice dock, a slip for building ships, houees wherein the workmen are lodged, and workshops sufficiently extensive for the building nod armies of ships of war . F ormerly Dunkirk was the chef lieu of a maritime prefecture, and frigates were built there neatly as well -as at L'Orient or Roche fort, but the difficulty of the navigation of the channel which commueicates with the sea tots induced the French Government to confine the le building operations to corvettes, brigs, and smaller craft. These are now in a good state, and, so long as the pair armee continues, they will probably be kept in perfect repair. The merchants and marines are also talking of taking immediate measures to render the commercial port eaiier of am-se as well as deeper ; and, judging from the present temper of mens' minds, this work will soon be set about in right earnest. From either of the wooden j. tties there is on excelient view of Cite roadstead, Beyond it is a sand-bank, in the middle of which a canal has been perfected. This canal is in reality the port, which is filled at high tide, but becomes considerably more shallow at ebb. It would easily con tain 30 ships of war. Both the jetties are defended by batteries —the one called Fort Risbau, and the other Le Rivers. They are advantageously placed. and have cently• undergone the inspection of a celebrated en gineer. During the continuance of peace, the military marine (as the French navy is called) has made but little use . of the port of Dunkirk, but it war should break out, it , e would become a fotinidable station of steamboats and , privateers. During the Ministry of Thiers, several ap ' Ocations were made to the Minister of the Marine for letters of marque, and all these applicationent is said, met with prompt attention. Gravelines is about equidistant from Calais and Dunkirk. In two short hours you reach it from either the one or the other town. Since the peace of the Pyrenees, Gravelines has always been under the do minion of France. The town has been successively visited by Philip Augustus, by Louis XVI., Louis XV., and Napoleon Bonaparte. The latter, like Vauban (who here conducted his fist siege), laid much stress on the fort of Gravelines, for they both alike saw it might be formed into a harbour of refuge, either in a period of war, or when vessels could not make Calais, Dunkirk, or Boulogne. For some years back public attention has been directed very much to this point, and the military and commercial importance of the place is now more than ever felt. From 1831 to 183 G, 122,0001. have been expended on the harbour of Gravelines, and the inhabitants of the vicinage still call aloud for a fresh outlay. Heretof6re they have been ably supported in the Chamber by M. de Lamar tine, menaced as they were by continual inundations. Whether he will support them now, when their voices are almost unanimously raised for war and conquest, is another question. The bourgeoisie in general talk in the stilted style of Louis XIV., and dream of making Gravelines one of the great keys of the kingdom. Vau ban, say they, was directed 180 years ago to render our town inaccessible on the side of the sea, and im pregnable by l a nd. B y means o f s l u i ces we could in undate, as was then proposed, the surrounding country, and defend the place against the English with a garri son of 3,000 men. I have so recently written to you from Havre that I shall merely say that in the event of war precautions have been taken for the defence of the embouchure of the Seine. The sensible, the intelligent, and the wealthy portion of the population view the present tem per of the public mind with equal apprehension and regret, but they are overborne by the giddy, gabbling, feather-brained fools who have the word glory in their mouths, but the thirst of gold and plunder in their hearts. I mean to close this letter with a few words on Ser van, where the naval establishments are very consider. able. During the war a number of good frigates were constructed here, and the flotilla of Boulogne was hence rehnerrced with canodnieres and peniches. The dock-yard of Solidor contains five slips, three of which are appropriated to the construction of frigates. A very considerable expenditure has lately been incurred to group around this establishment all the means and appliances necessary for the construction and armament of ships of war. A large depot of timber has been es tablished in the creek of Troquetin, and precautions have been recently taken to place the vessels in slip out of the reach of the spring tides, from the influence of which they had been hitherto unsheltered. Three fri gates and a corvette have been on the stocks for some time. A vote of the Chambers in June, 1836, sanctioned the project of establishing a floating dock between S'. Melo and St. Servan, by means of a sluice dike, wl ich will henceforth unite the towns, giving to them a common port of greater extent than either heretofore pesseseed. This work is now in progress of comple tine, and may be finished before the end of next year. I need not sey that in time of war the navy of France and the Government steamers would, by means of this basin, he enabled to afford to the coasting trade a protection which they could not always give during the late war. Nor would its use be simply defensive, tor it might be made offensive too, all the auxiliary marititne resources of the old establishment of Talent being incorporated with those of Solidor. The Baron Tupinier, Councillor of State, Member of the Council of the Admiralty, Director of the Ports of France, and Deputy of the Charente Inferieure, has exerted all his influence to infuse fresh activity into these operations. In his report to the Minister of the Marine he recommends, during peace, the practice of a strict economy in all the smaller ports, in order that in the event of a war the navy of France may be enabled to avail itself of resources augmented by a wise and prudent frugality. The Malouins still drive a profitable trade with New foundland, still stand in the first rank of French sea men, and hunger and thirst for the opportunity of rival ling those exploits which are carefully handed down from father to sin. They one and all tell you that the rc c )rds of the Admiralty of their town prove that from 1688 to 1697 they captured 162 vaisseaux (remark from the English and Dutch, and 3,384 merchant veracls. " And," say they, " why should not we, who pro duced a Labourdonnaye capable of making head against the military power of England in India, and a Duguay Trouin capable of meeting Englishmen on their own peculiar element, fear Great Britain now, when her navy is neglected, and when a long peace has unaccus tomed her to wield the trident of Neptune ?" These are the sentiments which pervade every breast, which are fostered and encouraged by the l oca l autho rities, and w hi c h wou ld have wed in a fierce and ir repressible ilime under the Ministry of "M. Tillers. The flame is not now certainly so violent as it was six weeks ago, but it still burns steadily, and a breath will fan it into a far-extending fire. Under such circumstances it behoves England to be vigilant, awake, and prepared. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S (EXCHANGE) CHURCH. _On Monday the remains of this venerable church were sold by auction. The outer walls, which arc about to be removed to make way for the alterations and improvements conlieeted with the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange, were then dispoced of by public sale, according to the announcements to that effect that have been made for some days back. The event, as might naturally be ex pected, attracted much attention, and during the entire morning, great crowds were assembled within the dilapi dated building —some, doubtlessly, from mere curiosity, and others to take a farewell peep at the ancient structure. Considerable 0).o-tiering aAs thereby created to the tli,roughfare, which was by no moans amended by the pave ment Irtving been removed from the front of the chinch, and the prevention of vehicles passing down that much used road. The auctioneer was stationed in the re. cess that formerly constituted the vestry-room, and the robing-room for the Minister, which had the screen re. moved from it, and formed a safe spot for the purpose to which it was now turned. Unlike the rest of the edifice, that was the porti o n w hi c h was not to b e di sposed of, which fact was announced by chalkings on the walls, so that there was the notification " not for sale" close upon the auctioneer's rostrum, and had a curkus effect on the spc et. t.ir. The church h as b een st ill more di smantled a since Saturday, and nom little remains of the ancient build ing beyond the mere bare walls. The organ loft has been entirely cleared, except the steps and seats at the aide, on which the charity children used to sit. In all other re spects the church was a mere shell. MORNING EDITION ov wr,(iTNTINs•TE,--, PA RT oi' MiDDL E SEX A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of NVLs4- roinster and part of the County of Middlesex, will be held at the Sewers'-ofliee in Greek-street, Seho.!quare, on Friday next, to transact the following business:— PROCEEDINGS. I. The orders of Ccurt on the 18:h of Deccinbec. to ho ri•ad. 2 To order payrnentg. Offi crs' salari , s erding atistnias, 1840—£6 9 3 lb 0 Collector's poundage, ditto ditto 283 2 4 G. Bird, jun., contrac•or, on account of bills to Midsummer, 1840 500 0 q £1,406 17 4 3. To bear rppeals. 4. To receive petitions and memorials. 5. Annual nomination of Chairman to take place be tween the heurs of two and three o'clock. 6 To consider the case of James Frisby, summoned to appear fur irregular drainage. 7. To receive the reply of the solicitors to the follow ing question :—Have the Court of Sewers any !ez'al authority to make any alteration in the presentment the. Jury in respect of the names and rentals inserted previous to its making its final decree ? 8. Surveyors to present reports, opinions, &c., 7.), • lows : — On new gullies required ; on letter from Fuller, of Rathbone-pace, respecting drainage (.1 . Gr.,n , ville.mews; on peirions of J. Newson for L. Dw. i to build sewers in lloruton-street, and Holland.street, N... 1 1- sington; on petitions of Dani,.l Sutton. Esq., for l e ave t' cover over, or build a wall by side of, a portion :.,f thy , Edwards-square sewer. 9. To inspect the book of informations. 10. To receive Surveyors' reports of the several wz);ks .l ;',l done, or in hand, at the expense of the respective dist.r4;t3 , , ;j Ditto, ditto, at the expense of individuals. 11. To inspect the sock book, and the day books Arid weekly abstract books, kept by the clerks of the 13. To examine hills of contractors, tradesmen, the vouchers for payments during the last quarter ; tat!' entries in the j ,urnal and ledger during the 11r. an account of the money deposited by pa:lies who o;:se,,s s petitior.ed for leave to lay drain ; a return of sums and paid during th. last quarter towards the expense Of sewers built at the charge of the district, and fcr g ully drain flaps. SEWERS IN PROGRESS. PUBLIC. PRIVATE. Ranolagh Sewer, Kilburn. Uxbridge Road, by Sliep- Eligh Road, Knightsbridge. herds' Bush-bridge Lupus-street, Pimlico. Thurloe.street, Brompton. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (TUESDAY EVENING.) • TIME S.--In consequence of an account of the state of the Danish West India islands, published un the 16th of September, on the authority of the American Jeurnale, a letter has been written by a Correspondent in St. Cioixo or Santa Cruz, as it is indifferently called, in which be gives a description of wh,,t has been done with respect to the slaves, his account differing in many points from that already given. As so long a period has elapsed since the notice in question, it may be as well to say, that according to that statement the Governor had returned from the coronation of the King of Denmark to St. Croix. and that though his idea was only that of allowing the -loot every Saturday, in order that they might earn money ta• purchase their freedom, a notion was prevalent that he had brought from his hom e Government papers authorizing emancipation, which occasioned an insurrection ht St. Thomas's, after the blacks found that their hopes h,,d baee' deceived. The letter just received, while it gives several new particulars, puts those which are already known in, a new light. The Governor, General Von Scholtee, says our correspondent, returned to his Government last June, not from the coronation, but in time to eclebiate that event in the colonies. In obedience to the com mands of the King of Denmark, the General submitted to the planters a Royal rescript, in which the King ac knowledges his satisfaction at the mildness with which the planters exercise their authority, and recommends that a free day be given to the slaves every Saturday during the six months " out of erop," and a weekly pecuniary donation during the six months of the crop season. Th° Governor accompanied this document with a communica Con from himself, in which he suggested that Saturday/ throughout the year should be granted as a free day, in place of the weekly donation, the particular advantages of which would be the abolition of the Sunday markets, the closing on that day of the rum shops, and the prohibition of labour, since Saturday would suffice for the negroes to obtain their own domestic comforts. Opinions have been divided on the island as to which of these measures of ameliorate tion should be adopted—namely, the granting of Saturday throughout the year, or only " out of crop," with the pecuniary donationthe majority of planters have, IA , all events, expressed themselves in favour of ameliora.ion generally. The question of emancipation has, according • , to our correspondent, never been raised, and hence, if his account be correct, the object of the proposed Saturday could not have been to purchase freedom. The former statement said, that while expressing their dissatisfaction ' at what had been done for them, the negroes of one estate '! said they wanted freedom, and not a grant of one day is the week ; but our correspondent denies that any such demonstration was made, saying, that the only expression of feeling that occurred at all was of quite an Opposite ten" 666 - deucy, being the declaration of some of the blacks to their catechist, that if their master would only g ive them the Saturday to work for themselves and go to market, they could never (under a continuance of their present indulgences) desire greater freedom, they would then be able to attend their church on the Sun' day. One planter has for nearly a year allowed his 5;100 1 a free day every week, but it is denied that those who have had that privilege have acted indirectly on the neighbour- ing States, as was asserted in the American journals, This denial is of small importance. since whether the n e groel who are not allowed the free day have actually followed the example of those who have their Saturday or n o t, such a result would be too natural not to take place some dal or other. As for the insurrection at St. Thomas's, the news of it seems never to have reached St. Croix. t These facts are c ons id ere d t o p ossess some degree - A interest; since, although the island in question belongs to' the Danish Government, more than halt the larger sugar estates are the preperty, it appears, of British subjects. MISERY AND DESTITUTION. Tuesday an inquest was held at the Carpenter's Airns, Brook -street, Lambeth, before Mr. Carter, Corone, for Surrey, on view of the body of Richard Pratt, aged forty five, who, with his sister (now in Lambeth workhouse), were discovered in a state of the utmost misery and desti tution, at a miserable abode in Trafalgar-court, in the neighbourhood, and shortly after which the deceased diet from the effect of such privations. The case was one 0 1 an extraordinary nature, the Coroner having held an in quest about two years back on a brother of the deceased, a ho perished under precisely similar circumstances, a t the time being with the same sister, who is now lying in a do' plerable condition from exhaustion produced by eold, and a ant. The Jury, on being sworn, viewed the body o f the dee-ased, which was in a most deplorable state at emacia tion. The house, consisting of four rooms, was in a ti:thy state, and, with the exception of two or three old broken' chairs, was entirely destitute of furniture. Mary Harrison deposed that she was a widow, and oc cupied the adjoining house to the deceased and the female who passed as his sister. They had lived in the house about three months, during which they were scarcely ever to be seen. None of the neighbours were acqu a inted . with their means. They, however, appeared to be superior sort of persons, but of very eccentric habits.. Witness had not seen either of them out for a consid.eP able length of time, and it was a matter of great, sur prise how they existed. The shutters at the !trier part of the house were almost always closed. On Friday morning, at an early hour, witness could distinguish groans in tl.e house, and shortly afterwards she ex pressed her suspicions to others that something serious was amiss. Between nine and ten o'clock the same morn ing she and Mrs. Thompson knocked at the street door for a considerable length of time. No answer w a s re- , turned; but at last the door was opened by the sist‘Jrl who was scarcely able to crawl. She was almost spe , ...ieh. less from apparent want and cold. The decease, ] was lying on the floor of a room up stairs. He was r.iive, but insensible and groaning. There was no fire in, the room, nor bad he any bedelothing to cover him. The sliver was unable to give any account of the lamentable condition they were both in. Mr. Golightly, a surgeon, shortly attend ed, but before his arrival the deceased expired. Informa tion of the shocking circumstance was afterwards given se the parish officers, when the sister was removed to the workhouse. The only provision in the house was a feav po tatoes and onions. Some meat bones were in a corner of ' one of the rooms. Isabella Thompson, who accompanied the last witness into the house, was examined, and gave similar testimony. The Coroner inquired of Hepburn, the beadle, whether the unfortunate people bad ever applied for parochial relief? Hepburn replied that they had not. The timer, who has since been taken into the workhouse, had somewhat recovered, and stated that her deceased brother possessed landed property in the country, and bad he lived a few • days longer they were going to take possession of it. He had ascertained that neither of them had any money, and there could be no doubt they had experienced the extreme of misery and privation during the late inclement season. The jury said it appeared that the unfortunate people had too much pride, even in the depth of misery, to apply for parish relief. In answer to a question from the foreman, the beadle said that no papers or documents were found in the house to show whether the poor creatures had any relatives or friends to appeal to in their distress. Tho sister up to' the present time was most reserved. She was, however„ likely to recover. The parish intended to bury the de- ceased. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased, dir d from exhaustion, produc e d b y t h e want of the comtr.on necessaries of life, and exposure to the cold during the present inclement season." SIR THOMA S DICK LAUDER'S "LEGENDARY TALES OF THE HIGHLANDS." --These tales abound in rich humour, are told with great naivete, and embody many local legends which, without the aid of Sir Thomas, must have perished before they saw the light. .Theii fssc:na" t ions have made us desert graver matters, and tua - ned long hours into short, actually and figtiratively, by keeping us nailed to cur arm chair till Jll6 watch ran down and the fire wag burnt out. While threading Highland glensr climbing hills, renctlniing caves, chatting with pedestrians. hunting fishing, lighting, and rollicking from place to place with the,,d‘ininie and the sergeant, we have become" absdutely oblivious for the time 01 everything else. To those who have not read these Legends we eau only they have lost a rich treat.—Edinborgh Advertiser It is said Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart., is abotit. to give up the Heoton fox-hounds, well known to this sportsmen of Chinhiro, lira% Lin , the E of tic Per. befor e Ning Blenh The j elms.; visit h take tl The eaunts Ladt; !age of I% fe ar( GNI th e me ti ler at kOrt a l k ajeat Plebtirt O ur thi s nu 24th u the I n 4 edri n Lo ur t Were , Al exar h ad bei Pas sen , Wt. , [Nara Preseri Aho th e p a h ero c arm y ' a Le e k b k eyed) turn to a gain v Prop os Urn • 0 t _nterta Al; wa ir leess a %lard l se lves 1 tn akin g Priv a t e 4 4d hi s 4iStrittc (F rom arrived OUr P v e fr Noti Ch us : tis h4l foi ,1 ' l 'e for .16 ..... 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