The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

KVENIN G SU N i.. NMERICAN NEWS (E XP-RESS FROM LIVERVOOL.) AZ-LRIVAL OF THE ACADIA. LIVERPOOL, FRIDIY, 3 A.M. arrived Acadi a , Captain Ryrie, has this moment 'Lived from Boston and Halifax with her Ma -8 11 3 811 3 8 mailS, after a speedy run of eleven days. L e left the former port on the 16th, and the Ziter on Cie 19th, bringing thirteen passengers. ;33'her or..ival we are put into possession of New 41 , 0 nt dates to the 15th, inclusive. T he Maim feature in the inte!!igence is a pre skt tad others .of th e G r a n d J ur y ' aga i nst t h e o ffi cers "I'd of the United. States Bank. No 11 14 • e rlal 'variation had occurred, in the Money 9A y. i r O tt : Let . Tikel'ate of (Ixcliange on England was 9i. ( i o rres„ . poTidence or the Neu) York Herald.) talic-se HI L , '.DELpurA, — DEc. 14, 1841.—The much en 41 - presentirivnt of the Grand Jury in the I t , Of alleged frauds in. the U. S. Bank, AC *Made , publi' this morning, or rather this Thi' t presentment was made on kird ar, and asks that the bills be Pant o t i l l for their 'action 'against - Nicho'as. Bid- Samueljai idon, John Andrews, r..nd others, jury unknown, for entering into a conspiracy I ', defraud the tockholders of the. U. S. Bank of ~ ue sum s of 40(),000 dol. in the year 1836, and "rettleavouring t a conceal the same by a fraudu utt and Mega I entry in 1840, and to sustain the r ge, the Co- z it i s autnorised to endorse Austin 4utgomery, Capt. Henry Mallory, Henry t o p', as accusers Moses Kempton, Edward Jas. S. .Newbold, Joshua Lippincott, aathau Pat tterson, Thos. Taylor, and William T,Yton,.as, 4 e eY also ask bill s aga i n st Ni c olas Biddle, Jo „,i tll Cowpe rtbwait , _.,Ttiomas Dunlap,and others, t o Jury unk n , awn, for entering into a conspiracy defrattd, &c. &c the stockholders of the 18 a llt ted Stai.es yank during the years 1836, >' 183 8, 1835), and 1840, by which the stock itiatlers ha";re - been defrauded out of a sum of Il eY ex meeting 300,000 dollars. The same Is'usprs lie endorsed as in the first case, and l wit nerise:= Moses Kerripton, Edward Coles, Pb t es Newbold, Joshua Lippincott, J ona th an .1 0 ;er,Fen, Thomas Taylor, William Drayton, ilad e rTa Cabot, Rodney Fisher, Richard Price, taeorge. Handy. • fl eY also ask for bills of indictment 'against I:l;:ander - Lardner, Thomas Dunlap, • Richard NO , Lnwreiice Lewis, George Handy,. and toe ra to the Jury unknown, for fel o niou s ly, & c ., piriog to cheat and d e fraud th e s t oc kh o ld ers th e 'United States Bank of Pennsylvania of l ea 'urn or sum s , of ab ou t 130,000' d o l., i n t h e 184 0'.' - ' To' be sustained generally by the 'fi e ssesAts before named. re attention of the Grand Jury was called to bt on 'llav: e sr by a charge in writing, signed Austiii th e d'emery, who assumes the proof of it, by Ap r :".`cport of the Investigating Committee, in , o" - t) 1841. s eti .k4 e Court directed th e names o f th ose pre tiJed to b e ca ll e d. w h e n John M. Rea d , E sq., ti o ie counsel for Nicholas Biddle, made a mo tq to quash the p resen t men t. Reasons IN" filed to-morrow morn i ng , a t w hi c h ti m e the 1 )4 ; 4 41 will probably be argued. This matter t li4 cr eated great excitement, filled the city with t e °l ' ll , and not a few with fear and trembling, t ott ge Grand Jury state that they have others in investigation. Verily, the day of I'l ' e q . and 'finance seems to be nearly run. 44 only fear now is that the Court will not join in t'ne work commenced by the Grand verrons. N ue eVidence on the part of the complaint, be lle Court-martial sitting for the trial of tta rnitir Bolton, was c oncl u d e d t o -d a y. The de ikje Will open to-morrow. That he will be ho- Tbly acquitted seems now to be conceded he business in stocks today was light, at a 114141er decline in th e pr i ce o f S tate Fi ve s, Girard 4, r1 ,,k) Mechanics ,and in fact almost all that of- Exchange on New York 6 3-8 prem. n . r rest drew a r ous i ng h ouse last night at the te c ntl, rand never appeared to be in better u 2ts or more capable of delighting his audi tTviiiiTahe house at the Chesnut was thin. Milnor, who some time since forged th ell t e k for nearly two thousand dollars on pit j"' - till{ of :the Northern Liberties of this the name of Adam IL Hinkle, is now rrisori, having been committed a few 1 11;, e58 ago by the Mayor. His accomplice in to` er iroe, and who is believed to be the instiga- N ) tn the c omm i ss ion of' it, is still at large. It they left the city together, and went to voit'Aburg, where Milnor was robbed by his Ott l ''glir, and left penniless. After which he kivi h —itted upon returning to this city, and 1 : 1 1k, g himself up to justice, and did so. The ` l. no doubt is in Texas by this time. P ROSECUTION OF THE UNITED (F t STATES' BANK. lii' ll laCorrespondent of the New York Herald.) GR AND JURY OF PHILADELPHIA, AND THEIR „ 114'1.•SliNTIKENT OP THE OFFICERS OF THE LATE itITED STATES DANK. Ittti Se etns that the country cannot go into liqui letr,,:n and settlement of its accounts and adopt Itoerlehment and reform in its expenses in a plain 'tl e . honest way; but each portion in its turn must thewith the other, in a resort to trick, stratagem, chicanery, in order that a few may encounter t o ti vils as well as bear the' burdens belonging 4 tt e , e rt lanY. We' haVe a bold game of this sort ti4 l 4l Pting to be PlaV:ed'off in our city at this i ll :3 thr ottglillik'itiedinin of the grand jury now tta e ; t BSl Th .° l4- ; subject tie dead monster United ldelißaul k , and, seV4ra 1 of her late officers. Leh eet, Mr. Anstin Montgomery, living in -street, addressed the following letter to grnd. j ury kJ - charge Nicholas Biddle, Joseph Cowperthwaite, 1 /uulap, Samuel Jaudon, and John An . drews, • rand and. theft, in taking and usin , for their own . , and aceorinnodating their friends, Nil i t t ,Zig to the the money be stockholders of the United States Bank, 14 0 D - r neY are liberally paid to guard and not to abuse. of is 1' :Le report of the investigating Committee, og the 4tockholders in April, 1841. As to the idea (; 41 3(.,v0 b e • m a breach of trust only, 'tis not so— °: idle insultingand to be pretended or entertained • o: .moment. Away with it, then, and for ever. /nen were servants and paid for their services—so ;attr. &wally domestics, to whom you give in chafge t o o ,I ) 2 4t *,ad other valuables. But if they appropriate NI, and ".) themselves, they are unhesitatingly, e i harg n e ot proceeded against as for theft—and w i. h .• "'e and the rest?" Ni l Is rare document induced the Grand Jury, are compos e d o f p l a i n good meaning citi tik .3 to h an d i n a paper to the C our t on Satur %Vast, entitled a p resentment , i n which, after • ang their attention had been called to the by the above letter, which was annexed, h k eney hadexamined the C omm i t t e e, &c., who S our the report in April, th ey req uest the 1 00 1 %; to direct the Attorney-General to send up .tem bills of indictment' as follows :=Against, o t l, l st• N. Biddle, S. .laudon, J. Andrews, and. e o sl,ers, to th e J ur y unknoWn, for entering into a t:0- defraud the stockholders of the te 4 ri Z oo o t r the United States of the sum or sums . ), ° O O dollars in the year IK6, and ended= etit —n g' - to ''eonceal the same by a fraudulent ry in 1840. .D• f., Biddle, J. Cowperthwaite,,T. Dunlap, la to ;fers, - to tbe Jury unknown, for 'entering of - vut4 piracy to defraud, &c, the stockholders Ye ar n Bank of the United States, during the the 4 ' 83 Ei 1837, 1838, 1839 , and 1840 , by which suet st OdklAo Iders have been defrauded out of the th 'Dr sums of mon ey exceeding three hundred e asand doll ars . o f rls The Grand Jury do further ask for a bill indictment against Alexander Lardner, 4 P ttas bunir., Richard P r iee, Lawrence Lewis ti, George . 11 p andy,"and oth e rs, to the Jury_ un 44rAn, for feloniously, &c. con spiring to cheat 11 4 , - L,fraud3,he stockholders of the United States clpj 4 ,.; of Pennsyli'ania of the sum of one bun and thirty thousand dollars, in the year 1840. ° '" l think,reading e would upon the above, that 0111 s tockholders of that corporation will be the of Y sufferers by failure; and certain officers frolle Bank the only delinquents. I am no ai l -e ct of the strangled monster, whose groans death struggles have for so long a time con.; V er ,, e ,c l the CO. wary, nor have I ever been the ad tll'e of suers unwieldy corporations. But I an, e advocat e o f t h e C o nstitution, the laWs, and et 011i -handed Justice. th; e r° We are presented with another view of s• subject, which will serve to show that there few Virtuous and unoffending sufferers, and not a Of I mean noteholders, and that at the hands a n k l e stockholders, through their 'investigating yi d ' dividend d er e k nd committee, Ambrose . White, J. J. Von (' ti n'T). Mr. Newkirk, and others, report lat the Bank had an aggregate of surplus pro amounting. to 4,421,289 dol. 32c., and they de clared_n a dividend of 4 per cent. ; the Board, thee ,sisting of Mr. Eyre, R. Alsop, J. Bohlen, onderkemp, M r . N ew ki r k, C. Ki c k ma n, tac,":l -V , Cope, White, a n d P r i ce , unan i mou sly d lued the dividend. H ere , th en , was a diVi- Cd of 4 per , cent., or 1,400,000 dol., paid to ti,stePlcholdPrs, and a fhlse credit given to -, or to and the poor ti l : l ced to regard them as good; while they, c noteholdersl do not receive one cent. ftb for the promise to pay oF the agents of the P. . ,, very stockholders. And lioW they aro. ton Only parties injured, while ',.nousand* 43rthe humblest men in the com7dunity. Drive, within the last few months. been intik:teed to deposit their notes 'with thee.;, Ail receive, in return, a certificate with another promise to pay interest on them at some distant day. If one of these parties is in. dieted, the whole I have mentioned should in justice - be included, and no crafty, knoning (if not dishonourable) ones make others their scape n-oats. I trust that we 41411 in our. far-famed In - city be too vigilant fot these gentry. (From the NO, York Herald of the sth Dec.) FIATE OF THE COUNTRY. With the exception of an occasional forgery, defalcation, and breaking of a bank or two, we are at present in a comparatively calm state in this country. Our relations with England have recently as sumed a morn tranquil aspect, and front present appearances we think all our difficulties with the mother tountry arc in a •murk more likely state of peaceable adjustment than they have been for some year past. And the correspondence between Me. Stevenson and Lord Aberdeen, on t-he right of search, just published, will go far Ito assist in healing the old wounds, and closing the breach between the two countries. In political matters there is a calm before a terrible storm ; the country has been revolu tionized; all the old parties have been broken up, and new ones are now forming; but the ele ments are so discordant that there will be con siderable trouble in causing a re-union. Every politician views his neighbour with distrust ; mad every one seems about to buckle on his armour for some great political battle, the nature and extent bf which neither he nor any one else can at present form any conception of. On the subject of the currency there is consi derable diversity of opinion. What Congress may do in this matter it is impossible at present to say ; but judging from the nature of the Financial Committee of the House of Represen tatives, just formed, it is probable that Congress will pass some national system of paper currency this session; -and perhaps adopt the plan recom mended by the President in his Message, strik ing out the exchange part of the scheme. And even the stock jobbers themselves, and those who recently were the - loudest declaimers for a National Bank, upon the plan of the old U. S. Bank, now seem willing to take the President's plan of a Fiscal Agent, for better lor worse, and give it a fair trial, with some slight modifications. There will be terrible work this winter, and the ensuing spring in commercial. matters. The Bankrupt Law, which goes into operation on the Ist ofFebruary next, will sweep out of existence a large number of rotten institutions and firms; and the explosions, and defalcations, and deve- • lopments that will occur will astonish both this Country and Europe. Already the ball has been opened in Philadelphia, where the, Grand Jury have presented Nicholas Biddle, Samuel Jau don, Cowperthwaite, and others, for conspiracy and fraud, and ask the Criminal Court to have them arrested,. and direct bills of indictment to be fbund against them. This has occasioned a terrible stir in Philadel phia, particularly among the pious and fashion able financiers of that city, and if properly persevered in by the Judges of • the Court, and the prosecuting law officers, may yet lead to sonic strange developments. We thus can show to England that our Juries, at least, are upright. Judge Gridley asto nished the people of England by his impartiality in the trial of M'Leod ;, and we will yet show our forefathers of the old world that their children have not degenerated, but are as virtuous as ever they were. It only remains for the Judges in Philadelphia to do their duty, regardless of con sequences, and thus wipe away the odium from this country, which the numerous bank frauds, have heretofore cast upon it. CIRCULATION OF THE FREE BANKS, AND VALUE OF THE SECURITIES PLEDGED FOR ITS REDEMPTION. MARKET VALUE CIRCU BANKS. OF SECURITIES. LATION. Agricultural Bank • 33,416 49,000 Clinton Bank Mechanics' Banking Association Farmers' Bank, Orleans Lockport Bank and Trust 99,380 166,800 New York State Stock Security Merchants' and Farmers' Bank of Syracuse 89,106 150,000 Farmers' and Merchants', • Genesee 24,861 44,095 Bank of Kinderhook Powell Bank Bank of Central New York Bank of Silver Creek 23,295 43,800 Exchange Bank, Genesee Genesee County 28,625 48,200 Port Plain Bank 47,162 80,000 Bank of Attica Ball.tort Spa Farmers' Bank, Hudson Mercantile Bank, Schenectady 67,750 80,154 Bank of Watertown Albany Exchange Bank 36,9 00 60,350 Bank of Lowville 40,575 53,000 Bank of Waterville 38,725 73,184 Bank of Corning 41,750 75,000 American Exchange Bank 121,200 274,851 Manufacturers', Ulster Bank of Whitestown 50,000 66,000 Pine Plains Bank Canal Bank, Lockport Howard Trust,and Banking Washington County Bank 30,012 66,260 Bank of Commerce 240,000 • 299,840 Commercial Bank, Troy Bank of Vernon Mohawk Valley New York Banking Company Commercial, Rochester •Middletown Bank Delaware Bank 37,900 60,978 Farmer's, Geneva . Farmers' and Mechanics', Rochester 19,800 38,900 Bank of Danville 62,650 99,000 Farmers' and Drovers', Somers 22,950 55,830 Farmers', Amsterdam Bank of Albion Exchange Bank, Rochester 12,250 21,600 Hamilton Bank Bank of Brockport 18,250 26,000 Total.. $2,320,296 $3,730,628 In every instance it will be seen the banks are heavily deficient, and the circulation in the aggregate is worth 65 • cents. and no more. A large proportion or these banks will stop, and there will be loss of near 1,000,000 dolls. to the public. These facts the Commissioners know, and yet- they state that the banks are all in good condition. The only course is to abolish this useless office of Bank Commis sioner, and compel from tae banks a full monthly statement of their affairs. The nature of the business done by the western banks, and the worthless character of the real estate paid in as the capitals of most of them, added to the great fall in the value of the stocks, . has ruined them as a mass. As au instance of the value of the bonds and mortgages, we will state a fact well known to the Commissioners. A Buffalo Bank held a' piece of land, which was mortgaged in the first place for 20,000 dol., and again for 14,000 dol„ making' 34,000 dol. This was lodged with „the .Comptroller, and when sold on the failure of the Bank, the highest cash price it would command was 3,300 dol. This, to a greater or lest extent, is the case with all the mortgages. The More speedily that red-back money ceases to circulate the better for the public. INTERESTING FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Yesterday we received plenty of intelligence from ! South America from Buenos Ayres, the British Packet, to the 10th of October, from Monte Video the El Constitutionel, to the 16th of the same month, and from Pernambuco,, the Diario de Pernambuco to the Bth ultimo: No intelligence respecting the operations of the hostile naval forces of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. A re port was current that Admiral Brown had landed at • Buenos Ayres and retired to his country seat. • Official notice is given to the residents of Monte Video that the two ports of Soriano and Paysandu, further in the interior, had been opened to foreign vessels, and every facility promised at the custom houses. A large quantity of counterfeit coin, of the smaller denominations, had lately been put in circulation. The Argentine squadron returned to their anchorage in the Pews on the 9th of October. Buenos Ayres was open to foreign commerce, but not yet for the import of flour. The United States corvette Decator, Capt. Ogden, was • at Buenos Ayres. According. to the last accounts from the interior, General Oribe was within twelves leagues of tap he capital of Tucuman, a squadron of his, under the command of Colonel Lagos , having completely routed a division of 400 men of the revolutionary troops. Lavelle, it is said, had abandoned the territory of the Republic. General Pacheco, in conjunction with the division of Cuyo, was in . pursuit of La Madrid, whp - se march was in the direction of Mendoza. The vanguard under Ge neral Benavides and Colonel Flores was already harras sing his rear: Everythin g was quiet in the pro vince of Para on the 22d of October. There had been slight disturbancs at Maranhain during the elections. which .took place on the 7th. News from Bahia to the 28th of October, state that there had been a revolt in the town of d'Aqua-Pria, and the authorities were compelled to remove the archives. Robberies and murders were the order of the day. According to the Diario do Pernambuco there appears to be a feeling in Brazil to divide that empire into three States. It is nce, , ,' rsitef2l provinces. .In a lung editorial IL that such a division would not be beneficial to the people, The only news from Rio Grande is that the Imperial SUN, LONDON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1841. '.:Lt' nY had gone into - winter quarters at Coelocina.— New York Herald. MORE ENGLISH AGGRESSION.—A letter from Ha vannah says:—" A serious affair has just commenced in the neighbourhood of Matanzas: It appears that the English Consul went a few thi-ys , since tO a plantation situated: that town, and attempted to obtain tho . ehisincipation of all the slaves belong ing to a planter who had arrived from Jamaica his seditious. counsels , might have occasioned a general revolt among the coloured population of that place. As soon as the commander of Matanzas obtained informa tion of this occurrence, he arrested. the Consul and sent him back here, escorted by soldiers under the order of the Government. We du not know what will be the result of this affair?' PIRATES IN NEW ORLEANS.—A New Orleans paper says--:-On the 19th of May, 1841, Mr. Desache, while a passenger. on board the schooner Caledonia, . Cap tain J. W. Potter, bound from Maryas . to St. Thomas, was seized, together with three other passengers, and put into a small boat at sea, by the Captain, mate and crew, armed with pistols and knives, in order to rob them of what property they had on board, Desache had 470 doubloons, besides valuable merchandize, &c. The wind blowing fresh towards the land at the time, they were blown into Porto Rico in twenty-four hours. Desache who is now in this city, learned that Captain Potter, was at this port, sailing as mate of the ship Tirien. Yesterday morning Desache made an affidavit of the above facts, before Recorder Bertus, who issued a warrant for his arrest. Police officer Hoey, with two others, • succeeded in arresting Potter. While searching for him on board the Tirien, Desache recognised one of the sailors, Frank Garnat, as having been the mate of the Caledonia at the time, whom they also arrested. They will be examined before Re corder Bertus this morning. One of the other passengers, now in Havannah, will be sent for to appear on the trial. MORE DEATHS BY SEA.—The facts so feelingly narrated by the following extract from Captain Wil lard's log=book, induce the belief that some vessel Must have been capsized or swamped in the gale, and that the sturdy voyagers of the deep who were seen in the boat, had escaped the fate of their com mits, to meet an equally gloomy one at the moment of hoped-for Succour :—Extract from the log of the Ocean, J. Willard, from New York, bound to New Orleans.— Sat. Nov, 13, Ist, 38, 15 N., lon. 73 25 W.—At 8 A. m., strong gales, high sea, and clear weather. At ten, discovered a boat about three quarters of a mile to the windward, with men in her rowing to the leeward after us ; brought the ship by. the wind immediately, with the maintopsail aback ; the boat continued to come towards ns until within two hundred yards, when a very"heavy sea swamped her, covering her - entirely. The sea was now so high that it was impossible to lower our own boat with any degree of safety. The ship . - now heaving forged ahead of the boat ; we wore around • and pre pared ropes and spars to heave to theM, but, in the wearing, we fell much to the leeward, and could not fetch so near them •as --before. We continued to make short tacks by wearing until ten minutes past ele ven o'clock, and could - frequently see the boat, bottom up, far to the windward. The boat had a varnished bottom and green streak, with four men in her. During this time, broke slings off foresail and split reefed main sal and jib.—/Yew Orleans Butetin, Dec. 2. By the packet barqUe Orb, Watts, from Kingston, Ja maica, we learn that the scarlatina prevails over the whole island, arid is sweeping off great numbers.— Baltimore American. • Samuel APllenry, late Chief Justice of Harrison county, Virginia, has been tried for stealing slaves, and convicted of the offence by the jury. General Doty has been unsuccessful in his attempt to negotiate with the Winnebago Indians for a cession of their lands and their removal to the north-west. LITERATURE. NARRATIVE OF THE L 4TE EXPEDITIOA TO SYRIA. In 2 Vols. By M,P. hunter, Esq. kmalyn, Coiburn,lB42. The Writer or thege ekdeedititly voluMeS accompanied the Syrian expedition ns an amateur observer, and being on terms of inti macy with .Admiral Walker, and several distin guished officers in the Turkish, British, andAus trian:squadrons, bad ample opportunities :of col lectimr the. best information re l a tive to the pro gr_:ss of the, stirring events of which he was an . eye-witness. His narrative is full of life, and interspersed with anecdotes of " hair-breadth 'scopes," and acts of personal prowess, such as are usually only to be met with hi works of fic tion. But Mr. Hunter has kept strictly within the bounds of truth ; so that the future historian or thiS chapter in the world's history will meet with-no safer guide than is supplied by his pages. Most or the work appeared from month to north in the "United Service Journal," and the praise which we bestowed upon it in a detached form renders it unnecessary that we should now do more than congratulate the officers and men com posing the Syrian expedition on so ccrrect an account of their exploits being now preSented to the public in a more compact and accessible shape. The volumes are embellished with por traits of Admiral Stopford and Commodore Na pier —the latter the real hero of the expedition— and with plans of the engagements along the Syrian coast. We had marked some extractsfor quotation, but at present we have only space for the following description of Izzet Mehemet Pacha, the new Prime Minister of the Stilton. 'low strikingly it agrees with what we have writ ten of this Minister, the constant readers of The Sun need not be told : Syria began to offer temptations, and to be bid for at the Porte. Izzet Mehemet Pacha, one of the - Old school of three-tailed grinding Bashaws, rich as a Crcesus with the fruits of long extortion, landed at Beyrout, rejoicing in the grandiloquent title of Governor of- Syria and of Egypt.• There can be no better p roo f o f : .the watchful surveillance ever incumbent on the European representa tives at the Porte, who may be true well-wishers of Turkish ascendancy, than the appointment, at such a moment of a man like Izzet Pacha to chief authority in Syria. ..One of the most noted of that selfish class of local administrators, whii have mainly contributed to the late abject condition of the Ottoman enitiire, - -a man who has, before now, kept beck even then shirts and shoes of his soldiers, in order to put the money allowed fur their purchase in his pocket ! It is true he for a few clays valiantly defended Varna against the Russians ; but he also evacuated it to her General (well known for certain persuasive powers) at a very opportune moment. True it is, also, that ha has many enemies in the Divan ; but, at the same time, he has more friends there than any other Pacha ; and a single individual, however rich and astute, cannot pur chase up the good opinions of a whole Sanhedrim, such as is the Council at Constantinople. Selim Pacha, on old Izzet's arrival, at once became deprived of power, although locally appointed as his lieutenant ; nay, Izzet was placed superior even to the Commander, for the time being, of the Sultan's forces. And what were his first proceedings in Beyrout ? He sent for the members of the Shorn, or municipal council, and inquired what debts of the late government remain uncollected. On being informed that every. pars of available taxes had pre viously been called in, he asked if there were not other imposts which it had been found impracticable to realise.- The latter was by no means difficult, for their Egyptian rulers had ceased only to impose burdens when the acme of their capabilities had been tested. A sum of 20,000 piastres was found to be standing against the town. " Let that money," said the new Governor, " be collected from the inhabitants by to-morrow at noon, and all who fail shall stiffer forfeiture of their effects." Alas !.alas ! for the first fruits of the vaunted reformation in Turkey. HISTORY, ARMORIES, AND ANTIQOITIES OF THE TOWER. ORDNANCE OFFICE, TOWER. The re-arrangement of the Tower Armories, cousequent upon the recen t sad disaster, necessarily calls for a new guide-book, demonstrative of their altered localization. Mr. Hewett's brochure at the same time' that it supplies this desideratum, combines with itself an authenticity derived from the Tower records. One object held in view by the writer is to imbue visitors with a moderate degree of understanding as to the exhibition in spected, so that they may judge of its merits, and enjoy its beauties; while the critical niceties which he undertakes to explain respecting the panoply of our old champions, the accoutrements of their steeds, and the uses of their war-arms, will afford keen eyes a task of discovery at a fu ture visit in the originals themselves. Among the delineations of the machines of torment which were formerly used in the various torture chambers, the refined cruelty of .the " Mater Dolorosa .' is thus described : .This was an image of the Virgin, made of wood and iron, and so constructed that "the victim subjected to its embraces had by degrees his life squeezed out of his body." The Jungfern Kuss (the maiden's kiss) was a somewhat similar punishment ; it was inflicted by an " Iron Virgin, seven feet high, which stretched forth handth itssw swords s s swallowed by fishes in hidden waters." h in eA t V i rd fa hrlll of in ti t i o e: e I little iTi in p a rce m s, d Is*.hiitchh broad e Among the antiquated relics of the gun-foun dry department, burnt in half by the late con flagration, was the following curiosity : A brass 6 pounder gun, date 1581, with the figure of a frog en the barrel, and the motto, Ich sing and spring I sing and spring - Mein feind durch dring. My foe transfixing. Among those not much damaged, it is to be rejoiced that two French brass mortars are pre served, if only for the sake of their fine motto— " Non solis radios, sed Jovis fulmina mitto"—" I dart not sun-rays, but the bolts of Jove." Much to be regretted, however, is the loss of the Chi nese trophy, composed of military arms and dresses taken at Chusan, and set up only a day or two previously to the fire. To the many Christmas-goers who will frequent the Tower at the present holiday season, at the same time that Mr. Hewitt's book is to be recommended as their best cicerone, they should especially examine the rich armour-suits described at page 66, made to commemorate the unionof our Eighth Henry with Katharine of Arragon, among the love-badges of which the rose and pomegranate abound. Among the many fables propagated, in early times, of the Tower, one legend states that its foundation stones were " cemented together with the blood of beasts." ethical chapters from - the pen of Madame Rio frey herself enjoin her salutary and efficacious precepts :LAYS AND I.4 7 jaCg. llfcazics, EV17161604 ; 1841 The author of this V°hinie of Poems states, in his Prefaee, that he was prevailed on to publish them by several kind old friends; who even so licited him to do so by round robin, Wiiieh they sent to him with all their signatures attached. Such solicitations were not to be denied, and the result is the little volume before us, Which, though it gives few decisive, tokens of what Wordsworth has somewhere called " the vision and the thculty divine," yet exhibits a quick ap prehension of the music of verse, and abounds in such healthy, unaffected feeling, as does great credit to the author's head and heart. Some of his minor lyrics, such as " Fatherland," and the " Harp of the Troubadour," are really very cre ditable specimens of versification. CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. Part IV. MASSINGER AND FORD. Part IV. MID DLETON'S LIFE OF CICERO. Part 11 7 . IVYCHERLEY, CONGREVE, 6-c. Part IV. Moxon, London, 1841. These are republications of some of our stand ard works, in monthly half a-crown Parts, which are got up with great care and neatness. By issuing them in this cheap and commodious form, Mr. Moxon is conferring a great benefit on the reading public. SIR WALTER SCOTS PROSE WORKS. Cada, Ldinlnztgh, 1841. In addition to the 'Sxtli Part of Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon, which brings down the history to the battle of Dresden in 1813, and General Moreau's death, we have here also the entire novel of the " Monastery," printed first in one octavo number; and, secondly, in a neat duo decimo volume. Both reprints are very cre ditably executed. ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR OF TIIE CITY OF LONDON, AND PARTS ADJACENT.-COALS AND PO TATOES FOR THE POOR Yesterday the Committee of this most excellent Insti tution, Ivhieh renders the most valuable assistance to the poor every winter, assembled at the Mansion-house ; Alderman Kelly in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the general distress throughout the metropolis required that the friends of humanity should assemble in numberless Committees for the pur pose of more effectually assisting the industrious poor, now that a severe season might be reasonably expected to set in. The opening of the City Kitchen, in New stieet, Blackfriars, on last Monday week, had already contributed, in no small degree, by the issue of tickets, to relieve the distress of many families, who received, by the arrangements made for their benefit coals and pota toes at a very low price indeed.—(llear, hear.) lie felt great pleasure in stating, that since the Committee had last assembled, he had received from the Goldsmiths' Company 30 guineas, from the Mercers' Company 26 guineas, from Messrs. Truman and Ilanbury 10 guineas, trom M. La Forest 3 guineas, besides many smaller cont ributions.— (Cheers.) Alderman GIBBS announced that besides the sums above-mentioned, Messrs. Willis and Co. had sent to the charity 101. 10s., Messrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., had sent 101. 10s., and Messrs. Whitbread and Co., had sent 151. 155., and Alderman Kelly had paid in his annual subscription of 51. ss.—(Cheers.) It appears that last year the distribution of coals and potatoes commenced eight days later than it has com menced in the present, and that during the interval be tween that time and the 22d of March, 22,516 bushels , of coals and 268,992 pounds of potatoes were delivered to the poor applicants by tickets from the subscribers. The Committee consists of the following gentlemen besides the Lord \layor the President, and Alderman Kelly the Vice-President and Treasurer :—Alderman Wil son, Alderman Gibbs, Rev. John Harding, A.M., Mr. B. Farrand, Mr. Dorneford, Mr. Hartnell, Deputy West wood, Mr. Simpson, Mr. J. Farrand, Mr. T. Lott, and Mr. J. Phipp, all of whom had actively engaged in ren dering the charity as serviceable as possible. The Committee, which receives vast assistance from the benevolent exertions of the Lord Mayor, adjourned till Thursday next, when they will assemble at the Man sion House. MEETING OF SPIT ILLFIELDS' SILK-WE AVERS. Last night, at eight o'clock, a very numerous Meet ing of the Unemployed Spitaltields' Silk-weavers was held at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo-town, to re ceive the Report of the Dqutation appointed to wait on the Lord Mayor, to ascertain when the funds in his Lordship's hands will be distributed. Mr. BRITTEN having been appointed to the Chair, stated that there was but one feeling that induced him to preside, and which was, that he should be assisting those who, while they were honest and industrious, were in a starving state. It was melancholy to him to see so many men before him, who were willing to earn their liveli hood by their labour, appear there, and not one of them be able to have a pint of porter before them.—(Near.) He saw some before him without a shoe or stocking, which would not be if they had emplo)ment. But whets they had work, owing to the low price of wages, they even then were scarcely able to obtain sufficient means to I support their fiunilies ; and then they were compelled to labour from 14 to 16 hours a day.—(Hear,) When they last met they felt that the distresses of the weaver were most serious, but since that day many more had been flung out of work. Mr. LEESON said that after the interview at the Man sion-house, the Deputation took immediate steps for the purpose of having a public meeting called, and some of them waited on Mr. Gammen, one of the Committee which has been in communication with the Lord Mayor. There was an idea abroad that the distress was not so ex tensive as had been asserted, but it was easy to show that a large body of the weavers were out of emplinyment. They all knew that three persons were employed at a loom, and when it was known that there were above 8,000 looms unemployed, that would snake above 24,000 out of work. J. BARTLETT said that he was in work, and it was his belief that the employed were in a situation little better than those who were out of work. He was only able to earn one shilling a day. After h few words from Mr. HORNSBY, one of the Acting Committee, as to the great distress which pre vailed in that district, Mr. CLARKE observed that when he and Mr. Hornsby had finished their Report, they would present a state ment of the distress in the district that would be appalling. They had that day visited the best part of the district, and the state of the weavers there was very bad. The Report was received, and afterwards several reso lutions were moved, among ethers a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilson, to the Acting Committee, and to the Chairman, the meeting separated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTEIISALL'S-YESTERDAY. The betting yesterday proved but a very sorry wind up to the year, we heard only three engagements, viz. : --1,250 to 50 against Lord Verulam's Robert De Gor ham, 1,300 to 50 agst Mr. Gregory's two (Barrier and Defier) ' and 25 to 1 to 35 agst Lord George Bentinck's Topsail, the latter for the Oaks. It is not probable that we shall have any improvement to record previous to the meeting of Parliament. A R.E•ACTION.—The election of a minister took place at Old Monkland church, on Thursday, the 23d instant, and the right of patronage being vested in the Heritors and Kirk-Session, the election might b e considered a popular one. About 150 voters attended the meeting, and a decided wish having been expressed by, it is understood, the whole of the heritors, that no candidate known to be connected with the Non-Intrusion party in the Church should be chosen, the meeting, net mg upon this principle, unanimously agreed to elect the Rev. Mr. Johnston, Greenock, as minister of the parish. Considering the number of voters, the unanimity that prevailed among the electors, it is belie Ted, is without precedent., and strongly marks the sentiments and feel ings of a large and very populous parish on the present proceedings of the dominant party in the Church: Mr. Johnston was proposed by General rye Douglass, of Rosehall, seconded by Mr. M`Ca.ul, of Daldowdie, and unanimously elected.—Reformers' Gazette. A note in the Debuts, from M. Dumeril,:of the Museum of Natural History, Jardin des Plantes, states that the presents of lionS and an ostrich from the Bey of Tunis have proved desirable additions to the menagerie, the losses of animals by death having been rather great within the last few months. Thus two lionesses,' a lion, and two jaguars died recently within a few days of each other ; and last winter the only royal tiger which was in the collection died, and has not yet been replaced. Out of the thirteen lions and lionesses brought to the mena gerie after the capture of Algiers, only two lionesses sur vive. Great store is placed on the ostrich, which is a female ; but as the menagerie unfortunately does not possess a male bird of this species, there is no chance of reproduction. At the present moment there are some curious instances in the collection of animals and birds that have changed their original colours for pure white. The Journal de Rouen gives the following new instance of the undue precipitation with which interments are liable to be made :—" A few days ago a woman was delivered of twins, but the infants were both so debili tated that, after lingering for a day in an apparently dying state, they were believed to have expired. The family applied for the usual authority to bury them, but the Commissary required the certificate of a physician, and one was accordingly called in. To be certain that life was extinct he applied galvanism to the children, and one of them was so tar revived that it lived ten hours more, though at the end of that time it ceased to breathe." THE, BANK AND THE TREASURY.—The Bank receives Exchequer bills for the funding ; when this operation is complete, there will be found among them many that are fratidulent. The question will then arise whether- these shall be received ; and it will be maintained on the part of the Bank that as that body acts in the affair only as the agent of the Government, the latter must bear the loss incurred by the forgeries. Those who paid in their forged bills have placed them selves in a much better position than those who did not, for the Scrip continued to be delivered by the Bank un til by an order from the Treasury the Scrip Was with held, but bills to a large amount had already gone in before this precaution was adopted. It is generally considered that the Bank ought not to suffer ; but it is argued on the part of the Treasury, that though Ex chequer bills are receivable for funding, the forged do cuments were not bills at all, and that the Bank was not authorised in taking them.. LITERATURE IN FRANCE. (From the Times.) . _ We are gradually becoming inoculated by the French and German taste for cheap bibliopolism. Perhaps our fresh issues of books of sterling and recognised merit are almost as cheap as they could be made, consistently with careful production, with the supply of a service able paper, and with the excessive duty to which that artic!e (of downright necessity) is in this country ridi culously subject. But the prices of all new books among at us, are perfectly enormous compared with those which prevail on the Continent. Every one who llda been to Germany, knows what the fair of Lcipsic producess. In France the business of publication is car ried on with perhaps still less expense to the public ; im mense editions are sold, and author and bookseller are both of them well remunerated. Fads in these cases ate the only arguments. During the last eiglteen months a servos of little works, entitled " Physiologia," as " Physiologie du Tailleurr " Physiologic de l'Etudi ant," " Physiologie I'llorrne a Bonnes Fortunes,"bas issued from the Parisian press--not very voluminous cer-• taiely, but excellent in quality, and copiously illustrated by Gavarni and all the most eminent caricaturists of France. For these little works, for which a crown at least tvou'd be charged itt London, with probably some lying nonsense in the trade puffs about " unprecedented cheapness," a single franc is charged its Pang. Let the London trade look to this. If they are ism prepared to treat the public with liberality, with what face do they complain of want of encouragement ? So long ;as they publish their books at unpurchaseable prices, that they should break by dozens is only a natural cunse• quence. A " Bibliotbeque Francaise" is now being published in Paris, in thirty volumes, presenting, for three or four francs a volume, the works of the most celebrated writers of France, illustrated by learned notes and a selection of the most esteemed commen taries. The publisher (it is no fulsome falsehood to call him " spirited") deals with nothing but chefs d'wuvre, and has literally realized his promise that" leur extreme wodicitc de prix " would place these volumes in a state of the most satisfactory completeness, " a la peace de toutes les fortunes." • There is a splendid work called "La Jardin des Plantes," with richly coloured engravings of the highest excellence, zoologi cal, floricultural, and botanical, portraits of Cuvier, Buffos, and the other naturalists of France, views and plans of the gardens, &c., now going through the press in thick and voluminous parts, for 30 centimes (3d.) each ! If it must be our fate (which seems ex tremely probable) to be speedily outstripped in informa tion and intelligence by our neighbours of the Outre- Manche, let the shame rest upon monopolising money grinding booksellers. Let not penny magazines and cyclo pmdias for the diffusion and confusion of " useful know ledge" he flung in our teeth as an answer to these remarks. They are no answer; letterpress and illustrations are both the work of inferior men,incapable of awaking the popular mind or inspiring popular interest. But the illustrations of animal and vegetable nature to which we have alluded above are the productions of the first artists of France ; and elegance and exactitude of outline are rendered complete by the most magnificent colouring after na ture—what a contrast to the stark and staring woodcuts by which foreigners are to much diverted in our " penny literature !" In addition to the vast fecundity of the Parisian press in novels, romances, and tales interminable, bristling in feuilletons, and packed into library volumes, there is likewise a translation-factory from the English kept pretty briskly at work. The lingual steam-engine is driven by M. Defauconpret, who has translated the works of Sir W. Scutt for the Cabinets de Lecture. Tnis gent!eman has also translated several copies of Cooper's novels, and some of Captain Marryat's—the prefer ence of selection being unquestionably accorded to them in consequence of their " naval" character—a school of art in which France is extremely backward. These translations, as may well be conceived, are truly Frenchified affairs ; even the very names being cu riously and ridiculously metamorphosed ; thus we have " Monsieur le Midshipman Easy" for one title, " Le Mar in a Terre" (•' The Middy Ashore") for another, and the last issued figures as " Joseph Rusbbroock.' But no Frenchman ever yet could spell an English name. The most noticeable thing about these publications is the remarkably cheap price at which they are sold. Each volume is charged only 30., whilst the pal triest translated trash that goes into our c:rculating libraries here is impudently priced at half a guinea a volume. The most splendid works of original fiction, witness Eugene Sue's " Mathilde," are pub lished at the same price as Defauconpret's translations. Observe how by this liberal arrangement author and public (and the bookseller himself in the long run) are benefited. Cheep reprints of " standard" English works, from French presses, abound ; and Galignani's establishment has been cut out in some directions, and forced in others to reduce its expensiseness, by which it rivalled even London humbug. There is scarcely a short book of acknowledged merit in the circle of Eng lish literature that you cannot purchase, reprinted in Paris by Frenchmen, yet with great accuracy, for 83., 101, or, at the very utmost, 15d. In this most asto nishing act►vity of the publishing world a very marked preference is given to English literature, the German being little cultivated. STRANGE EXECUTION OF THE LAW IN GREECE. ATHENS, DEC. 10.—A fe.w days since two of the most desperate brigands that have appeared of late years in Greece, were ordered to be executed in the neighbourhood of the capital, although they had been tried and condemned by the tribunal at Negropont ; the guillotine was erected close to the Phalerum, and the condemned were escorted from the Athens prison to the place of execution by a troop of lancers and a large body of gendarmes. As the• Government had been foolish enough to allow their French Bourreau to be assassinated in Egina, without punishing the murderer, it was with the greatest difficulty they could find any body to perform the duty ; however, after a great deal of trouble, one of the prisoners volunteered, on condi tion of being liberated, and immediately shipped off in a Government vessel for Turkey (knowing the danger' he ran by remaining in Greece), besides receiving the usual enormous fee. Arrived, however, at the place of execution, the man made a formal demand for the written orders for his liberation, and openly expressed the little faith he reposed in such a Government. After a great deal of discussion, the Procureur du Roi was obliged to send back to Athens for the necessary documents, which naturally took a great deal of time. Every thing being at length set tled to their mutual satisfaction, one of the condemned was taken from the carriage, and led into the square formed by the military, where his fetters were taken off, and he was ordered to march up to the guillotine, a distance of some thirty paces ; but as a Greek is naturally inclined to disobey orders, he walked round, instead of up to the guillotine. The executioner en deavoured, then, to lead him to the place, when a violent struggle ensued between them ; both the mili tary and policemen present refused to interfere, and they were obliged to lead the man back to the carriage, and the other was brought out. Having had such a good example before his eyes, he naturally pro fited by it, and being a younger and stronger man, he fairly gave the executioner and his aid a good drubbing, so that, after a struggle which lasted three-quarters of an hour, the executioner gave it up as a bad job. The crowd, which was immense for this part of the world, highly enjoyed the fun, and loudly applauded the con demned ; the authorities were excessively embarrassed. What was to be done? The day had been spent in a fruit less effort to execute a couple of brigands. To take them back to Athens would be too publicly publishing their shame; they were after a great deal of discussion taken to the Piraeus, and sent on board of a Government ve s sel. For three ays a Council of Ministers was held to see what was to be done. The whole town was in an uproar ; the weakness of the Government had never been more ap parent. At last it was settled in a Council of Minis ters that a ruse should be employed, and a detachment of recruits were marched down to the burying-eround of the Piraeus, and the gendarmes having brought the condemned from the ship without their having the least idea of their going to be executed, as they had been led on board to hope they would be sent to the fortress of Palamide, in Nauplia, as had been the case last year with two others, suddenly the gendarmes opened to the right and left, and they were shot by the detach ment of recruits. As this was done at a very early hour, and as secretly as possible, for fear of refusal on the part of the military, very few wer e p resent. M. Gui zot must now be delighted at his protege's p rogress i n Administration. trainer, died on the 29th u lt. a t Chudleigh, the youngest son o f M . H. Perc y, five stone eight po g u o n n d year. The deceased may be Pimperne, in his 19th considered to have been the prince . of light weights, havin recent occasion ridden only s a fe fortunate rider,*and the winner of many celebrated races. Amongst which may be noticed the Goodwood and Ascot Stakes for 1840, &c. his last performance was was a very at the recent lloughton Meeting, when he rode Lord Exeter's Scarf. After the race, being much exhau ited, a reviving draught wa; adminis tered to him, which enabled him to ride Lord Eglintoun's Young 'lin. lie was conveyed home as soon as possible, and gradually sunk under his complaint, which was an affection of the heart and lungs. The kindness and gentleness of his disposition had endeared bins' to all who knew him.—_ Plymouth Journal. A. new system of paving has been invented by M. Palonccau, and will no doubt be tried in Paris. it consists of a kind of artificial stone formed of clay, sand, pulverised charcoal. This mixture is baked , cement, and and forms an exceedingly hard substance with a rough surface ; and the stones are so formed, as not only to be placed w ith symmetrical order, but also to give a hold to the feet of horses. Many important improvements in the Post-office department :ire in contemplation by the Right Hon. Lord Lowther, the Postmaster-General, not only with respect to the transmission of letteri and newspapers to foreign parts, but also inland by railways trains, morning and evening, to districts where there vs at present only one delivery every other day, especially in several small towns and villages not Post-office stations. FROM AFRICA. ANOTHER BRITISH OUTRAGE.—We have received by the Atalanta and William, intelligence from Africa to the Ist of October. The brig Tribune of New Orleans from Charleston was at Galenas. She had lot, nearly all hands by fever. Her Captain and one boy only left. Another outrage had been committed on an Ame rican vessel by a British cruiser. We understand that . . her Britannic 'Majesty's brig Dolphin boarded the Wil liam, which arrived yesterday, whilst she was at Galenas, and whilst her officers were below. The seamen of the Dolphin broke open the hatches of the schooner and overhauled the cargo, using insulting lan guage to all on board. The Dolphin has boarded three or four oder American vessels, and treated their officers in a very insolent manner. We trust she will *soon fall in with the slaver that lately so handsomely whipped her Britannic Majesty's ship Iris. We learn from Africa's Luminary, of the 30th August, that her Britannic Majesty's vessels of war cruising upon the coast, are instructed by their Government to refrain from searching vessels sailing under the United States' colours, and having American papers. Reverend Jabez Aiken Burton, A.M., Principal of the Liberia Mission Conference Society in Monrovia, is dead. In consequence of the death of Thomas Buchanan, Governor of Liberia, Joseph J. Roberts, Esq., by virtue of being Lieutenant-Governor, is thereby charged with the Executive authority of that Commonwealth. Salt and fresh vegetable and animal food, continued to be very scarce at Liberia. like makes its appearance slowly ; flour was out of the market, and the common market products were doled out with a sparing hand. A large emigration has lately left Sierra Leone for Kingston, in Jamaica. Also a considerable number from the same place. fur Trinidad. Brig Splendid, from the United States, had arrived - out. Schooner Regulus sailed from Monrovia, Sept. 18th, for Sierra Leone. Mumbo-Jumbo, or African God of the Woods, who seems to be, to the Africans on the Gambia coast, what the " Country Devil" is to the tribes around Liberia, has been shot, much to the joy of the people. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. DEC. 15.—The sales at the Stock Board have been small to-day, and rates have not changed materially. Indiana Bonds fell per cent. ; Illinois rose I ; North Junction declined 1 per cent. ; Mohawk -4- ; Paterson rose I ; Sales of Bills on Philadelphia 6i ; Harlem 61 to 7 ; Mobile 10 to 12 ; Cincinnati 10 to 14. - - - • is bill This bi day for the Boston steamer, that takes her departure to-morrow. A moderate business in bills only was done yesterday, and rates presented but little varia don from those of the last packet. The exports of produce to France have thus far been larger this year than last, and the supply of bills on that quarter has consequently been good. On London, however, there is not so mans bills offering, owing to the unto ward state of the English market having prevented the free export of produce. To-day the Southern mails failed, the supply of bills not being equal to the demand. There was an improvement in prices. The shipments of specie have now nearly ceased. There is still, however, a great degree of caution among capitalists, chiefly arising from the great discredit grow ing out of the position of the State debts. The influen 7 ces of those defalcations extend through every descrip tion of borrowing paper ; and, while the banks eagerly seek after good business paper, the generality of paper offering cannot be done short of 1 a 1-1 per cent. per month. COTTON TRADE. The accounts of the crops continue to be contra dictory. Many ,statements from the Mississippi repre sent a great tailing off in the production of those sec tions, and estimate the yield of the year at not more than 1,300,000 bales. Others place it at 2,000,000 bales. This great discrepancy arises from the state of finan cial affairs ; and it is not improbable that 'a very great reduction in the production of cotton will take place during the present year, through the operation of the general bankrupt law, which may lead to suspen sion of business on all those plantations which were sti mulated into activity by the paper expansions a few years since, and which have thus been struggling for life by the extensive bank favours that must now be brought to a close. It is scarcely possible to estimate the extent to which the cotton production may be reduced by the change. The result will be an immense gain to those planters that are on a substantial basis. CORN TRADE. This Market is now rather inactive. Sales are made at 6 dols. 25c., which is about the average price in all the markets in the country. One year ago the average price was about 5 dols. a barrel. Comparative ,Statements of the Exports of Flour and Wheat from the Port of Cleveland, for the month of November, 1840 - and 1841, show the annexed result :- 1840. 1841. Flour. Wheat. Flour. Wheat. U. S. Ports 51,152 86,145 24,677 88,403 Canada.... .. 2,856 28,444 403 none 45,008 114,589 25,08 5. 88,403 This exhibits a large aggregate decrease in the ship ments in November. And a statement we published a day or two since, of the shipments on our canals, showed the same for the same month. .MILITARY INTELLIGECE. -WOOLWICH, DEC. 30.-92 D REGIMENT, OR GORDON IIIGIILANDERS. —By private letters from Dominica, dated 9th Noven ber last, it appears the yellow fever and black vomit had prevailed to a great extent, and this gallant corps has lost several officers, and a number of its best and cleverest men. Two officers of two companies, and three ser geants of one company, who had been in the — habit of paying it, all fell victims in the course of one week. 'Thirty-nine rank and file had died previous to the:lBth October, and there • were upwards of thirty men in the hospital at that date. The disease having somewhat abated, it was hoped that it would have ccased 'entirely, but about the end of the month it returned with twofold severity, and no less than fifty-two men of the garrison became its victims, and there were a greatmany hopeless cases in the hospital at the date of the latest letters. CHELTENHAM, WEDNESDAY.— So great is the feeling in this town become against railway travel ling, that this morning a lady offered five pounds for an inside place to London by one of the coaches, which was booked full, and no one felt inclined to relinquish their place for that sum. A DISCRIMINATING PRECEPTOR.---A school naster in .Cornwall, advertising his establishment, says, " Every boarder must be supplied with a Bible and a Prayer-book, a knife and fork, three towels, and a silver dessert spoon ; all of which, except the books, become the proprietor's perquisite oa the pupil's quitting school." Mr. George Wigney, brother of the Member of Parliament for Brighton, has issued a long address to his fellow townsmen, on the subject of the breakwater off Brighton. It appears that Mr. Wigney has taken out a patent for making solid breakwaters , of iron plates, np with 11 1 1 pioi,os that one should be erected off Brighton, in preference to the flouting break water. GOVERNESSES, or MODERN EDUCATION. Authoress, 22, li r ewman-street, - oVord-strcct: Guided by the canons of pure reason, and basing her system of instruction upon the new and enlightened principles that distinguish the Kantesian school, Madame 8.. Riofrey has effected great service to the heads of the educa tional world by her publication of this work. Swayed by the belief that to be a gOod governess it is necessary to enter into the feelings of the mother, and that as the infant mind with its deli Cate faculties should be, in its early years, carefully rendered a recipient of only the purest intuitions, our authoress, in fashioning her book, has been studious to lay down, in a series of clearly-written chapters, the elevated truths and refined morality which every female. teacher of youth should possess. In these pages, such will see, as in a glass, the loveliness of the duties which devolve upon them to inculcate, as pre- • ' ceptors of their species, and in the advocacy of which the authoress . labotirS - with praiseworthy solicitude and earnestness. Believing the mind to be a rich seed-garden, which, according to the seed sown in it by the handS of the sower, is destined thereafter to produce' the golden fruits of good, or the opposite of evil, Madame Riofrey enforces the fact, with candour andfirmness, that the governess who exercises influence over so valued and precious a possession, must be her self a highly moral and religious character. Man, it has been observed, is an imitative animal, and the soul is said to be so passive and unresisting in its primitive years, that, like a stream, it reflects within its depths whatever virtues or whatever vices may casually overshadow it in its rising source. Truly, said the philosopher—" derriere l'education est cache le mystere du perfectionne- Meld et du 'bonheur de l'humanite." In these early years, when impressions of the good, the beautiful, and the religious write themselves in effaceably upon the mind; so vice, more strong than virtue, if it only gain an exercise of its powers, burns deeper than a scaring-iron. Care ful, therefore, should all men be in the choice of the guardians of youth, and reciprocally wary should teachers be to set before them selves such high models of moral come liness as are recommended in this book, dedicated to their use and service. Better than brilliant external accomplishments, our authoress o recommends interior mental vir tue : in her estimation the finished touch of the harp-strings 'is fur less worthy of commendation in a youthful. lady, than a simple development of some sweet moral feeling, or th e practi ce of' Some ingenuous virtue. Subversive this may be - in a great measure of the present method of edu cation,but itis the only healthful view that ought to insure acceptation. The pearl of mind has hitherto been put in - a false setting but it is to be hoped that the. " mental gem," under Ma dame ltiofrey's new plan of tutelage, will de quire in the next generation a fairer lustre than it has customarily gained under the old. The papers which constitute the volume are admir ably calculated to work out the ends proposed. Petrarch, Wordsworth, Tiraboschi, Lamartine, and others, need only be mentioned to stamp its choicely-written lessons in different languages as worthy selections; while no less than forty EVENING SUN FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. ratec o X m V pg e ac e nn x iee t : r a n ol c i t mt t eh t e i e e ti f ollowing iitgws f o oni‘ Ver sai lles Monday, o n da the ,to Deb Railroads com o t e s : htey3da " , final e se pnaai resolution as to a union. The project was agreed upon several months ego by the resp ec ti ve C ounc il s o f Ad ministration. It consisted in a junction of the tw e un dertakings, taking the shares at the average price front those quoted on the Exchange during several years, or in other words, five shares in the Versailles and M.eudon road are to have only an equal interest in the new Corn road. The meeting of the la ste tt sd e o r pnue c t o ag n n fi re rm aetn et a l pany with three shares in the Versailles and St. Cl ou d treaty by a majority of 234 to 1, and that of the oritetpiekrrize4oospptoosiitiGo.n, which h se injuryto th i a s l v ia o to the cause of railroads in general in Fr ante, a 3 it has occasioned loss to the shareholders of each of these particular undertakings. The Governn tent must be sensible from this result of the error committed by the Legislature in authorising the construction of two railroads for the same place. Before signing the Treaty, the Directors of the two Companies obtained a promise that a Bill should be presented for relieving the United Company, for a certain number of }ears, from' the payment of the interest and the sinking fund, on the loan of 5,000.000 f. granted to the Versailles and Mcudon road. By means of this relief, and the eco ,antry to be made by a concentration of the service, and by - prolongations and embranchments, which will rea d er t lio two stations in Paris more useful and profit the ,: , -,svn of Ve rsa ill es an d t h e C ounc il - G eneral a bi c, t h e ,two undertakings may ris e t o p rosper i ty. et ... Loire, ha ve vo t e d a su b vent i on o f 1,200,000 f. for the Already formation of a railroad f rom Ver of the Eure sailles to Chartres. With the concurrence of the, country and the State, r; ante may now hope to rise from the inferiority in which be has hitherto remained as compared with other kingdoms in respect to railroads." A young woman, named Marie Deca urcy, had been living for some time with Julliard, a journeyman shoe malser, but became at length weary of ,his ill treat ment, and some time ago she left him. The.' man de termined to be revenged for her desertion, as, d three days afterward , : lay in wait, as she came out of .a shop where she worked, and induced her to go horse with hint in order to take away some things which she had left. Scarcely had she entered the room than Jellified gave her a deep wound in the breast, but was pee.- veuted `rpm completing his design of murdering her by; the porters as of the house, who came on hearing the: g i r l' s screams . Julliard was arrested, and yesterday' made his appeergeee before the Court of Assizes, by which he was found guilty of a deliberate attempt at. murder, and condep3n3l l to hard labour at the hulks for life. The Gazette des T,ihunaux says that Just-Brazier and Colonibier arc reported to have acknowledged all the facts imputed to them on their trial, and to have made besides some impoetant disclosures. The exa mining commission of the Peers met again yesterday,f it adds ; a new information has been set on foot, and se veral writs of arrest have been issued. The Gazette des Tribunaux says that no decision has yet been come to on the demand for mercy made by the prisoner' under sentence of death.—The .Debals says, " Yester day, after the sitting of the Chamber of Peers, the cm miuing commission met at the Petit Luxembour g in the: residence of the Chancellor , and decided that a supple mentary examination should take piec e immediatel y . It appears certain that revelations made b y Colombier and Just-Brazier have caused five or six arrests, which were effected on Monday night."—" We a.se assured," says the National, '` that the head Registrar of the Court of Peers went on Monday evening, at ff ,o'clock, to the gaol of the Luxembourg, in order to anvounect to Quenisset, Colombier, and Just-Brazier that their punishment had been commuted to deportation.• The France reports that, among the persons just .1 1 :- rested, is a gun-maker, who sold or remitted the pistoss to Colombier. On the 21st iret, the Prussian Ambassador at Munich made an official communication to the Court of Bavaria of the promise of marriage between Princess Mary of Prussia, daughter of Prince William, uncle of the King, and the Prince Royal of Bavaria. The marriage is not, however, to take place before t h e month of October 1842. The Prince Royal of Bavaria„ Maximilian Joseph, was born on the Bth November, 1811. He received his education in different Germ Universities. Princess Mary of Prussia is the youngei of the daughters of the uncle of the King of' Prussia.. She is only in her seventeenth year, having been born on the 15th October, 1825. She is said to be exceedingly amiable and beautiful. _ 111. Delecluze has lately made a discovery among the manuscripta of Leonardo da Vinci, carrying back a knowledge of the steam-engine to at least as far back as the lath century. He has published in the,Artisie a notice on the life of Leonardo da Vinci, to which he adds a fac simile of a page from one of his manu scripts, and on which are five sketches with the pen, representing the details of the apparatus of a steam gun, with an explanatory note upon what he desig nates ender the name of the Architonnerre, and of which note the following is a translation :—" Invention of Ar chi medeg.--The Architonnerre is a machine of fine copper, Which throws balls with a loud report and great force. It is used in the following manner:—One-third of this intrument contains a large quantity of charcoal fire.. When the water is well heated, a screw at the top of the vessel which contains the water must be made quite t;ght. On closing the screw above, all the water will escape below, will descend into the heated portion of the instrument, and be immediately converted into a vapour so abundant and powerful, that it is wonderful to see its fury, and hear the noise it produces. This machine will carry a ball of a talent in weight." It is. worthy of remark that Leonardo da Vinci, far from claiming the mr-rit of this invention for himself, or the meo of his time, attributes it to Archimedes. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S VISIT 10 LONDON. BERLIN, DEC. 19.—The invitation received by hit Majesty the King to visit London, for the purpose of acting as sponsor as. the christening of the infant Prince of Wales, did not arrive wholly unexpected. Since the commencement of his Majesty's reign the political rela tions between Prussia and Great Britain have pre sented the character of increasing friendly relations. This amicable spirit was alike obvious at the execution of the July treaty during the Whig Administration, and during the negotiations maintained with the Tories relative to the evangelical bishoprick in Syria. It it not, however, absolutely certain that the King will ac cept the invitation of Queen Victoria ; for it happens that at the period fixed for the christening of the Prince of Wales some illustrious visitors are expected at the Court of Berlin, and moreover the present is not the most agreeable season of the year for a journey to England. Dec. 20.—His Majesty the King at first declined to accept the invitation to act personally as sponsor for the young Prince of Wales. But a second invitation, conveyed in an autograph letter from Queen Victoria, induced his Majesty to revoke his first determination. It is now understood that his Majesty will dep ar t f or London on the 17th of January. The King will pro ceed to Cologne, where he will take the railway, and will pass through Belgium to Calais. At that port an' English attain-vessel will be in readiness to convey him to England. His Majesty's suite will occupy ten car. riages. Besides Generals Von Natzmer, Neumann, and Reeder, there are mentioned among the individuals who are to accompany the King, Baron Alexander Vs)* Humboldt, Count Von Stolberg and Bilbop Neander. BERLIN, DEC. 22 —The departure of the King for London is fixed for the 16th o f January. His Ma jesty will sup on that d a y at Mag e burg, reach Heiler , and on the next d a y go to H ag en' - d NEW POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENT.--Yes letters, terday afterno on , f or the first time, a plate with the words P°s"fficel" and the number of the house, in black convenient pl aces , as near a s p ossible to the several re were affixed on the lam p -posts, and other most cei ving- h ouses in the metropolis. TH E LATE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN Raii.wev.—The following sufferers, from the severe injuries they sustained on the morni n g of Frida y last, arc in so exceedingly- dangerous a state that their recovery i s considered to be hopeless :—Thomas Haw kins—serious injury to the great toe, a portion of the bone having been removed. Eliza Barneslaceration of Thomas Hughes—concussion of the brain. the sc al p ESizabeth Carpenter, who experienced a severe contu • o f the leg, is sufficiently far advanced towards re.. v on co veq, as to be able to leave the hospital in the course of a ay. The slip at the Sonning cutting extends up wards of sixty yards in length. From the great precau tions adopted by the Company, no further danger at this spot is now to be apprehended. Eighty men have been, ever since the accident, employed by the Company in making the necessary repairs to the slopes. A rumour is very prevalent, and amounts to a certainty indeed, at Ryde, that Mr. Sibthorp is shortly going back there, and that he will commence his labours as a Roman Catholic priest, a chapel being about to be opened for him either at Ryde or at St. Helens. Ma first sermon will be preached at Newport. DISTRESS AT NOTTINGHAM.—We are sorry to say that there.has been an increase in the number of applications for relief, and that fresh tickets have been issued by the Committee, calculated to relieve nearly 1,000 more persons. On Tuesday and Thursday, soup was distributed as usual, 800 gallons on the former day, and 1,000 gallons yesterday (Thursday): the amount of bread distributed is about 1,000 stones. in consequence of the.vititors reporting great destitution of clothing, blankets, and bedding, we learn from a eircula-, which has been addressed to the subscribers, that a proposi tion was made in Committee to vote 3001. from the relief fund, and to raise further subscriptions towards purchas ing blankets and coverlets, to be lent as loans to such poor families as will undertake to return them when called upon to do su,, on payment of a halfpenny per month for each blanket or coverlet ; which payments are to defray the necessary expense of superintending the distribution of the articles, and a uniform visite . tion to prevent them being pawned or sold.-- 7 Derbyshire Chronicle. The sum of 2,5001. has already been contri buted to the charitable fund for the relief of the dis tressed poor in Nottingham. 01 - L ift i 1,911 P ' :.i~' ; x is;