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THE WEATHER.-NOON, DECEMBER 30. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer_ 38 Highest__ 43 Lowest 38 Barometer 2 9'.88.—Wihd S.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. --- HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning ..... .51 minute* after 3. I Evening 14 minutes after 4. MORNING SUN MR. ♦INSWORTH'S MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. On the 29th of January will be published, the First Number Price EIGHTEENPENCE, of AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. A Monthly Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, and Art. Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq., And illustrated with Designs on Steel and Woodcuts, By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Containing the Commencement of A NEW WORK OF FICTION BY MR. AINSWORTH, With Two Illustrations on Steel by George Cruikshank ; And Contributions from several of the most distinguished Writers of the day. Hugh Cunn!ngham, Publisher, St. Martin's-place, Trafal gar-square. *** Orders received by all Booksellers and Newsmen. EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY T. HOOD, ESQ. The JANUARY NUMBER for 1842, of COLB UR N'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Edited by THOMAS HOOD, Esq., Contains the following Interesting Articles:— Anacreontic for the New Year. By the Editor. Recollections of Eton. By an Etonian. The University Feud ; or, a Row at the Oxford Arms. By the Editor. Weeds and Flowers. By Barry Cornwall. The School for Horse Play. By John Poole, Esq., Author of " Paul Pry." Inedited Letters of Dean Swift, with a Running Commentary. English Retrogression. By the Editor. Lebanon in the Summer of 1841. Graduates and Under-graduates ; or, The Proctor's Note- Book. By the Author of " Peter Priggius." Reminiscences of a Medical Student. No. 3—A Story of Galvanism. Phineas Quoddy ; or Sheer Industry. By John Poole, Esq. Wanted a Father, Mother, and a Few Sisters. By Laman Blanchard, Esq. A Strange Passage in the Life of Charles Welford, Esq. Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus. By Horace Smith, Esq. The Sea Lawyer. By the Author of " Ratlin the Reefer," Sonnet—The Lover's Appeal. Execution of the Controjanni. Lines on Miss Adelaide Kemble. The New Year being a favourable opportunity . for commenc ing a Periodical, those who may deske to tide m THE N.EW MONTHLY MAGAZINE are requested to give their orders without delay to their respective Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, Will be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. Macready ; Prcteus, Mr. Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton ; Launce, Mr. Keeley : Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silvia, Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, ea led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. ' Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 23. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 23. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr ce Is. Upper Gallery is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 31, Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.—Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. Clinks Mathews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett; Ilrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page, Miss Rainforth ; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Glover. _ _ . After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomi re, entitled GUY EARL OF 'WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to he opened at half-past Six—the performances to cammence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 29.6 d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price 23.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Air. Andrews, bookseller, 1,;7, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER TIE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. All the talent of London. Grandeur and expence unequalled. All New. THIS EVENING. DEC. 31, Will be acted a New Domestic Ds ama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN ; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, Hailequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted ! Unequalled ! Unprecedented ; THIS EVENING, DEC. 31. Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY ; or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL.—WiI- Ham Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy), After which, ROBERT MAGA IRE.—Robert Macaire, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2.s.—Pit, s.— Gellery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS. This and Every Evening during the Week, the GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN and ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST, Mr. JACOBS, will astonish, delight, and surprise his au diences. The Feats in Ma g ic surpass every thing of the sort previously witnessed. His NECROMANTIC TEMPLE is gorgeous and costly, and his Ventriloquism is the first in Eu rope: to miss seeing him is losing a treat indeed. In addition to the above, the following excellent performances are given : Herr KREUTZER'S PHANTASMAGORICAL DIS SOLVING PORTRAITS; the Classical Experiments of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS ; and Mons. ROUSSEUR, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. To commence at Seven precisely. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. THE RAILWAY SUN is NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN) AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 31, 1841. titg nu. LONDON: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1841. The principle involved in the condemnation o f M. DUPOTY by the Chamber of Peers, Which our Tories• are disposed to adopt and act en, namely, that an author is responsible for the e t._ fects of his writings on the minds and conduct of other persons, requires now to be subjected to a close examination. We cannot assent to it. An author or public writer is responsible for the truth and accuracy of his remarks; he maY be justly liable to censure for bad taste or improper language ; but the effects of his observations on the minds of others is wholly beyond his com mand or control, and it is as absurd to make him responsible for other men's feelings, thoughts, and actions, as for their peculiar organization, on which, more than on his words, their feelings depend. • Language, whether written or spoken, is the mere sign or symbol of the feelings or thoughts of him who uses it, and has no necessary or cer tain connection with the feelings or thoughts of those to whom it is addressed. Men of different nations do not understand each others language. It is for them a mere sound, musical or other- Wise, or a mere mark, crooked or straight, and "thing more. For individuals of the same na tion words have very different meanings, or are connected with very different emotions, accord ] og to their respective knowledge, situation, pas sions, and circumstances. Take, for example, the word " home." In the half-starved ragged urchin, who scarcely ever enters his wretched abode but to be scolded or beaten, and who only knows it as a place of re fuge in extremely bad weather; all whose youth ful pleasures have been found in running about in the.streets, playing in the dirt with other idle boys, getting his food by what he can beg, or earn by holding horses or sweeping a crossing : in such a ragged lad, the word "home" conjures ' up feelings almost the reverse of what the same word conjures up in a youth who has found most of his pleasures in his father's house—who has there had his toys and his playmates—who has there always found his food and his repose—who has returned thither from school, or from the outdoor world, sure to find some fond and affec tionate bosoms into which he can pour all his griefs, and sure to receive in all difficulties ad vice, sympathy, and consolation—and who has there received all his first, his. strongest, and most pleasurable impressions. For two such persons, the word " home" signifies' totally diffe rent states of mind; and is the poor writer or speaker, who uses the word, to be made respon sible for their different emotions ? Or take the word " king," as more appropriate to our subject. In the man who has been trained in the belief that kings reign by Divine com mand, and are Gon's vicegerents on earth — who looks, therefore, on them almost as deities — who has been taught that, wanting their august presence and special care, men would be brutal untamed savages—that a Court only can shed over a land the taste for the fine and ennobling arts—and in whom, consequently, loyalty is a reverential worship of the human being, who may at any moment sit on the throne : in such a man the word "king" rouses a kind of idolatrous emotion. In the man who looks at all political institutions as intended to benefit the bulk of the community—who sees a monarch in tensely selfish, spending more wealth than would feed` a dd cloth i .attlrausand of. bjects—who I(ll2okthitt tifhivtrov the \ tify in g his personal vanity and extravagance he sacrifices his duties and his oaths, living only to squeeze out of the people, with most ease and safety to himself, the wealth he requires—who is con vinced, by much reading and much reflection, that kings have inflicted great injury on society, and who therefore hates the name: in such a man the word "king" excites a scornful emotion, the very opposite to that it excites in the believer in Divine Right. In our country there are nume rous individuals who have associated these very dissimilar feelings with the word " king," and they have some antipathy to one another. At least the Divine Right man considers the Radical, Utilitarian, or Republican, as a bad man, and would make laws, if he could, to stifle the emotions which the word "king" excites up in the other. These are examples and illustrations of the principle, pervading all language, that words are mere signs, which, in a manner that would be called wonderful, were it not extremely familiar, excite in those who hear or read them, such thoughts, ideas, or emotions as they have pre viously, from education, situation, and their own passions, connected with these words. The mental condition of him who uses them may be totally different from the mental condition of him who hears or reads them, and whose sentences may represent in the minds of writer and reader, emotions as different as those which different men connect with the word ".king." In France, to quote a practical illustration im mediately bearing on the question, there are some persons, like M. GUIZOT and his friends, who believe that France can only be saved by an iron hand of despotism, and who not only see with satisfaction any attempt which Louis PHI LIPPE makes or sanctions to curtail liberty, but encourage him to make those attempts, and love and respect him the more in proportion as he departs from the principles of the Revolution of 1830. There are other persons in France who regard all such attempts as an act of treachery as well as despotism, who, consequently, asso ciate with the conduct of the KING emotions of contempt and scorn, and regard him as a selfish, vile, worthless tyrant. Is any or every writer to be made responsible for the different emotions which the conduct of the KING, more than' any writing, produces in two distinct classes of per-. sons, whenever his conduct is referred to? Yes, says M. GrizoT, in France; and yes...int3r,l the Tories in England; and yes, also,' say , the Peers of France, and troSe who entertain the first-mentioned opinion of the KING'S conduct. They assume that they are authorised to make laws and punish writers, because their language excites emotions of which they disapprove. They would make writers, therefore, actually responsible for the effect which the KING'S con duct, when it is made public, have on the mind of those who prefer a Republic to a Monarchy. We may give an illustration of the same fact from our own country. A large party entertains a strong and a decided conviction that the Corn laws are unjust, and so we always speak of them. In landlords and tithe-lords such remarks pro bably excite only indignation against Anti-Corn law men. In the mass of the labourers, suffering from short commons and deficient clothing, and already disposed, from many causes, to regard the landlords as enemies, denunciations of the Corn-laws are likely to produce indignation against the landlords. Now, are the Editors of Anti. Corn-law Journals to be answerable for that state of mind in the working classes which is, in fact, the consequence of the landlords' oppression ? To return to the case of M. DUPOTY. He has been punished for an article reflecting on LOUIS PHILIPPE, but it is very probable that the lan guage of the Ministerial Journals in Paris may have had a more irritating effect on the minds of the conspirators than the language of M. Du- POTY. They regard LOUIS PHILIPPE as a traitor to his oaths, and as an obstacle to their political success ; and they may have been stimulated to commit a grievous political crime by the insult ing taunts of their opponents. WEDDERBURN, when Solicitor-General, it is said, insulted FRANKLIN, and FRANKLIN retorted that his master should pay for the insult. The separa tion of the American colonies, regarded as a traitorous offence by GEORGE 111., followed. The Republicans, then, may have repaid the scornful and insulting language of the Ministerial Jour nals with scornful deeds ; and the words of the former might have been the provocative to make the attempt on the life of the KING. It would be absurd to punish the Editors of the Ministerial Journals with five years' imprison ment, for such an effect of their writings on the minds of Republicans; and it must be equally absurd and unjust to punish M. DUPOTY for some analogous supposed effects of his writings. Because it is impossible in any case to discri minate between the effects of a writer's words on an individual, and the effects of that individual's own peculiarities, which make words the means of exciting in him peculiar thoughts and emo tions, it is wrong to make a writer responsible for effects he is only the incidental cause of pro "dug. Unless it can be made apparent that the attempt to murder the KING of the FRENCH was exelusively th e consequence o f M. D u- PO T Y'S writing, it must be as unjust to punish an attempt him for such as it would be to find o ne man guilty of murder for having acciden tally run against another, who some short time thereafter died of apoplexy. If indeed it could be shown that such an attempt was exclusively the consequence of M. D u p e , r TY s writings, the punishment inflicted on him is much too light. We conclude, therefore, because the words which a man uses are the signs of his own ideas and emotions, and because he cannot even tell what ideas and emotions those signs will excite in others, much less control them, that it is to tally unwarrantable to make a writer answerable for the effect of his words on the minds of other men. He can only be made responsible for the truth or good taste of what he writes, and h e must leave the issue in the hands of Providence. It is necessary now to insist strenuously on thi s view, because the Tories are willing to imitate French statesmen, and call the Liberal Press of England to account for the indignation which is growing up in the land against the injustice which the Tories habitually practise. So far as our own observation goes we never recollect to have seen so many deplorable objects asking charity in the metropolis as at present. Other people have made the same remark. Of that painful feature in society our Legislators know little or nothing. They do` tot inhabit .:2;" 4 , ,„„„ • 0 ,1 0. 0 ' jt‘ ( lir ° 46 ; 2:2711 , ;41;:i3;b0SWIN • ~ . te r r THE SUN, 0141301•7 FRIDAY, DECEUHER 81, _lB4ll houses in the suburbs, which, from day-light to dark, are continually visited by beggars of all ages. They have not often to thread their way at night through any of the thoroughfares and narrow streets of the metropolis, and they behold none of the wretched objects, who, beingashamed to be seen by day, then creep out and solicit alms. They are carried from place to place in their carriages ; their houses are within inclosed parks, into which the beggars cannot penetrate ; between them and the very poorest, crowds of menials interpose, and they cannot see that wretchedness which is now daily forced on the observation of the middle classes. Such a rela tive position makes the present distress pecu liarly a middle-class question ; and it can only be as they bestir themselves, and make the upper classes share their knowledge and un easiness, that the causes of this distress will be removed. The middle classes, who may be said in gene ral to live on profit, are already the greatest pecuniary sufferers from the decay of trade ; but while they see their means diminishing, they also see the claimants on their bounty rapidly increasing. They suffer both in mind and purse. They are afflicted by the sight of distress which they cannot relieve, and are apprehensive of coming to want themselves. It is chiefly their property which is exposed to the depredations of those who are in distress. Nor is there, we are afraid, any immediate chance of improve ment. The New Poor-law is probably as ri gorous as the community will bear. A more rigid test than the workhouse can scarcely be applied, and there seems no possibility of dimi nishing mendicancy - by increase of severity. If it were supposed that the present distress, by putting many persons out of existence, would put an end to beggary, there would be some, though a very painful consolation; but it is known from the history of every part of Europe, that such distress does not wholly arrest the re production of the species; and as the present race of distressed persons are carried off, their places will be supplied with others, and probably an increased number. If the middle classes wish to live in safety, and be untormented by the painful sight of suffering fellow-creatures, they must, with that energy which belongs to them, fake up the question of public distress, and reso lutely probe it to the bottom. Far be it from us to say one word against the active charity which is ever ready to relieve the sufferings of the people ; but while that is admir ably adapted to soothe individual suffering, it is wholly inadequate to redress a public injustice. Charity is a delight to those who give, as well as to those who receive ; but it is now required to set mills in motion, and give profit to the masters as well as wages to the men. Charity unfortu nately increases the claimants on bounty without augmenting, like manufactures, the means of providing for them. Charity is not, however de lightful to the heart, pecuniarily reproductive. It will not suffice, therefore, to relieve the present distress, and still less will it permanently restore prosperity. If the middle classes wish to put an end to that distress, by which they are both morally and pecuniarily the greatest sufferers, they must have recourse to other means than charity. They cannot, with decency or propriety, rely on a Ministry which has been formed on the principle of denying redress and relief to the people. If they have not lost all that energy which enabled them to carry the country through great foreign wars, they will see the necessity of immediately exerting themselves to conquer the greater diffi culties to which the country is now exposed from domestic circumstances. The middle classes are the sufferers by the present state of the law, and it is the duty of the middle classes to help themselves, and procure the reform of the commercial code. The Madrid Journals of the 21st instant have come to hand, but their contents are of no poli tical importance. M. SALVANDY still declined being presented to the REGENT. Thr Funds had on the 21st undergone a slight improve. inept, the last bargains done being at 321 a 33 for cash, 331 at sixty days, and about 135,0001 sterling was the equivalent amount of the operations done. In the comnit'nts of the Paris Journals of Tuesday upon the KING'S Speech at the opening of the legislative session, we find ample indica tions of the folly and the madness of the war of extermination proclaimed against the Press by the Court of Peers. These comments are so written as to defy a Star Chati;ber prosecution, and yet the majority of them are levlled at the Government and the KING with a force and a di. rectness unknown in the political discussions which take place in this country. A Government which admits of the right of free political dis cussion, and after the abolition of the censorship places itself in direct hostility to the Press, is either mad, or doomed to sure and speedy de struction. If then there be wisdom in the Chamber of Deputies, and any attachment to the House of ORLEANS, it cannot too soon set about the correction of the vagaries of the Court of Peers. The functions of that most despicable Court must be clearly defined, and if trial by Jury is to exist in France its exercise must be secured to all classes of offenders not charged with the actual crime of high treason by the re peal of the infamous September Laws. But the Government objects that it cannot obtain con victions from Juries for offences committed by the Press. This is because it does not trust wholly to the honesty of Furies. While any verdictjbut that of a Jury can ruin a Jour nalist, the sympathies of Juries will naturally and necessarily be on the side of the Press. Be sides no case is referred to a Jury unless the Pro cureur-General give it as his opinion that it would be ridiculous, and therefore would excite univer sal odium, to bring it before any other tribunal. Unless the Monarchy place itself in harmony with the Press before the close of the pre sent Session of the Chambers, either France will shortly be in chains at the feet of Louis PHILIPPE, or that Monarch awl his family will be petitioners to a foreign State for an asylum denied them within the limits of revolutionized France. The monstrous doctrine of constructive treason established by the verdict of the Peers in the case of M. DUPOTY must at once, and for ever, be declared infamous by the Legislature. Nothing short of this can give security to the Press, or persuade the nations of Europe that France is not retrogading in all that gives-stability to the insti tutions, and freedom to the thoughts, of a civilized people. As for M. HEBERT, the vile tool of the Court who propounded this doctrine of complicity of treason, we regard him as a more dangerous enemy of the KING than FIESCHI, PEPIN, ALI.. BAUD, or any of the vile assassins who, in the course of his reign, have attempted his life. The veriest BOURBON conspirator could not labour more effectually to overthrow the ORLEANS dy nasty than the Procureur-General has done since the commencement of the trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices. The election for the President's Chair took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. The following is the result:— Deputies present 309 Majority required Sauzet had 193 votes. Lamartine ilgarrot M. SluzET was, therefore, to the great chagrin of Me Royalist poet, declared duly elected. But it was supposed that this would not be the only Ministerial triumph in the preliminary arrangements, as the opponents of the Minis terial candidates for the Secretary of Questor ships were supposed to have no chance. This is to be traced to the difference of opinion between Count MOLE and M. Imts, relative to the conviction of M. DUPOTY. The Court was in favour of the conviction, and prevailed upon many of the " 221,” of ? whom he is the leader, to vote with the Go vernment. M. T RIERS, in whose b reast a lingering recollection of the Journalist yet exists, shrunk from the atrocity of declaring DUPOTY guilty; and as the first duty of the Opposition will be to denounce this sentence, the MOLE party suddenly finds itself rowing in the same boat with M. HEI3ERT and the Ministry. The Moniteur of the 28th gives in its official part an account of the opening of the Session. The three Councils of Commerce, Manufactures, and Agriculture met on Monday ; the Minister of Commerce presided. The whole of the sitting was taken up with the sugar question ; all the systems already brought forward in the sittings on Friday and Saturday had new and ardent advocates, and the discussion being nearly exhausted, as there was no reason to proceed to a vote, the sitting was closed without adjournment to any certain day; only the Minister announced that the subject of discussion at the next meeting of the three Councils would be the question relative to cattle. The Councils will, therefore, have to discuss the question in their respective meetings. We hope to be able to give to-morrow some precise information respecting the discussion in the three sittings in which the Councils treated the sugar question. We see by a letter from Frankfort of the 24th, that the Marquis de Chasseloup Labot has made but a very short stay in that city: The Marquis de Chasseloup Labot, Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the French to the German Confederation, after having delivered his credentials to Baron Below, the Representative of Prussia in the Diet, left our city to-day to go direct to Paris, and take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, of which he is a Member, as Deputy for the Department of the Lower Seine. lithe presence of a Minister Plenipotentiary at Frank fort is useless, why appoint one?—if it is useful, why choose a Deputy who must neglect one portion of his duties?—Commerce. _ _ _ The National states that Baron J. de Rothschild has been created a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour by a Royal Ordonnance, dated 24th inst. The Moniteur announces the translation of M. Dupont, the Archbishop of Avignon, to the Archbishopric of Bourges, and the nomination of M. Gignoux, Vicar• G eneral of Beauvais, to be Bishop of that diocese. The Dunkirk Journal states that Captain Granara, of the Marie Louise, of that port, havinr , rendered great assistance to the Emma, of Dundee, Captain Young, in November last, when in a distressed state off Cape Fi nisterre, on a voyage to Genoa, the underwriters of the latter vessel have presented him with a magnificent silver plateau, richly chased, and hearing an inscription com memorative of the circumstance. The - Ceurrier de Lyon announces the death of an in habitant of Vaise from a broken heart ; he had sustained losses, from the inundations of 1840, to the amount of 100,000 f., but receiving only a very inadequate sum from the indemnity fund, was compelled to relinquish all hope of being able to rebuild his house, which had been thrown down by the floods, and sell his estate. This had preyed on his mind, and worried him till he died. The personnel of the British Embassy in Paris is now composed as follows :—His Excellency Lord Cowley, Ambassador; Mr. H. Lytton Bulwer, First Secretary of Legation ; Mr. Turner, private secretary of Lord Cow ley ; Messrs. Greville, Howard, Heneage, APlntosh, and Jones, attaches. Prosecutions have been commenced against the Pilate and the Haro of Caen for giving an account of a re cent sitting of the Court of Peers. The Duke Alexander of Wurtemberg has arrived at the Tuileries from Brussels. " Negotiations," says the Moniteur Parisien, " are nearly brought to a close between the Directors of the French and Belgian Post-offices, for the establishment of estafettes, to receive at Cambrai the mails from Paris for the Two Flanders, to convey them through Lille to the first station at Courtrai, or any other that may here after be nearer tl4 frontier of France, when the railroad is finished, so that very shortly letters passing through the post-office at Paris will be distributed in the two pro vinces of Flanders, nearly as soon as those for Brussels are delivered in that capital. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 28. _ first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prier. Prix,. r•feich 5 per Cent 5........... 35 ... 116 45 ... 116 30 116 45 3 per Cents. ex div 78 20 —, 78 '45 ... ;13 15 ... 78 25 8 ink of trance Latfitte Bank 1,0001. Shares 10( 250 —lOO5 ...1002 50 ...1005 5,0001. Shares 5025 ...5025 ...5025 ...5025 melvian flank Belgian 5 per Cents 102% 10234 10234 10234 5 per Cents., 184 U 103% 103 % 103 % 103% ipsnish Active ......... 24% 24% ... 24% ... 24% Pass) a ss (z ••• 5 y{, ... 534 ... 534 Old Deferred Neapolitan Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ronan.— .... 102% ... 102% ... 102% 102% RAIL WAY'nHARE, St. Germain V ervatiles. 292 50 ... 205 202 50 ... 205 tt. B ..... Rouen ..... « ....... 457 50 ... 457 51.) 457 50 ... 457 50 urle.ans itratiaurg to Bale 223 75 225 ... 223 75 228 We have published from an Edinburgh Jour nal a curious circular, - lately issued by a Select Committee of Non-Intrusionists. This violent party in the Kirk, finding it necessary to delude the people, and induce them to go along with them in their schemes of aggrandising their own order at the expense of public liberty, have formed a plan for a " Holy Association." This body is to levy money from the people ; prepare mea sures for resisting every Government plan not suitable to their views ; agitate the coun try from one end to the other, by means of tracts, conferences, and lectures; and have paid agents for carrying their secret machinations into effect , If this does not open the eyes of the people of Scotland, they deserve to be slaves. We have, however, better hopes of their inde pendence axed good sen ile. One part of this cir cular affords great cau s e' 'rejoici4g,itW•aus it puts the fact beyond doubt that the GovernMent will not yield. The Strathbogie ministers must be restored, and if any measure a t a ll is introduced into Parliament, it will be one which the members of this " Holy Association" will resist to the last. They are evidently prepared for Sir Robert Peel's plan. We shall then see whether the General As sembly or Parliament is the strongest party. CORONERSRIP OF CHESHIRE.—At the final close A. Churton, Esq., had a majority over Mr. John Wood Massey of 170. REFORM CLUE.—A magnificent marble bust of her Majesty the Queen, the production of Francis, h a s just been presented to the Reform Club by Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P. It is placed in a most advantageous situation in the grand ball of the Club-house. This handsome present has been designed to commemorate the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ; and, we doubt not the example of this truly loyal and liberal-minded Cambrian will be followed by many on being generally known. DUTCH MAIL. Tirs H A GUE, DEC. 28.—The Surinam Courant has the following article : " His Excellency the Governor-General having been authorised to renew the operations of the West India Bank, which have been suspended ever since 1831, in respect to the issuing of bills of exchange, according to directions laid down, the undersigned has been ho noured with the commission to announce this joyful news to the inhabitants of Surinam, through the public jour nals. If the difficulties in which our dear mother country bee been involved for a series of years, are the cause of great obstacles, yet the interest of the inhabitants, and the great value of this fine colony, have never been lost sight of by the mother country ; and it is certainly a striking proof of this, that, though the financial .embarrassments of the mother country still continue, the paternal care of his Majesty has judged that a petition, founded on justice and equity, should no longer remain unheard. " This intelligence may , justly be called important to us ; his Excellency feeling the deepest interest in the welfare of Surinam, cordially congratulates the inhabit ants, and hopes that the difficulties which have been so long felt will never return, but that a happier era now commences for this colony, which may carry to the highest degree its prosperity and welfare. " By order of his Excellency, the Commissioners of the Bank will meet on Monday, the Bth inst., for the purpose of receiving and issuing bills of exchange at three months' sight, and regulate the delivery of them with the Directors, according to the promised forms. " The Secretary to the Government, " G. S. DE VIER." His Majesty being informed that a great many workmen were out of employ, has given orders that those who hate numerous families shall be employed on the new cavalry barracks now building ; and, after New Year's Day several hundred may have employ ment in the Downs, behind his Majesty's country seat, Gorgoliet, where a field for the exercise of troops is to be laid down. The King has given 2,500 florins to the corn and turf porters of this town towards the expense of a fete which they intend to have on New Year's eve. SOURABAYA, AuG.6.—That fatal disease the cho lera morbus has appeared for some weeks past in several small islands in the Indian Ocean, as Lingon, Birtong, &c., and on board ships coming from those islands to Java. This disorder is not contageous here, but more fatal than it was some years ago in Europe, for any one who is attacked by it in the Indian Archipelago gene rally died on the first or second day, so that ships in the Indian Ocean, which have on board passengers at tacked by cholera, seldom bring them alive to Java. — Dutch Papers, Dec. 25. HAMBURGM, DEC. 25.—This being Christtnas-day, the Exchange is shut, and no business done ; and no Price Current is published. DUTCH FUNDS.—Minimax, Dec. 28. Money. Bills. Actual Debt. '2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per ceat. Ainart Syndic,4% per cent 0! VI% Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per cent 7O :6% Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155 155% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 101% 1024 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97y4 Exchange on London, One month... .......» 12 10 Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 681. Two months 35 4154 Dutch Papers, Dec. 29. BELGIAN 1 , UND3—BaUssal.l, Dec. 27. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ......... 101% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92% 3 per Cent. 71 1 4 (1840) lOl% Loan of City, 1v32, 4 per Cent. ........ Society of Commerce, 4 per Cent Hank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... ...... 74% National Society. Exchange on London (short) ...Brussels Papers, Dee. 27. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dxc. 21. five per Cents. Mctalliques • 11••••••••••••••• ..... 100 1 4 Four per Cents • .............. 99% Three per Cents• 75% Hank Shares •••••_••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ON. 1612 ZeUung, Dec. 84. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND publtir eptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN, M. Sauzet has been re-elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies. He had 193 votes, whereas M. Lamartine, the poet, had but 64 votes, and M. Odilon Barrot only 55. This is the first triumph of the Ministers. The opinions of the French press upon the King's Speech, selected from Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday, will be found in another part of The Sun. The Speech is denounced as a compound of rhodomontade and imbe cility by a majority of the journals. Senor Olozaga, late Minister of Spain at the Court of France, arrived in Madrid on the morning of the 21st inst., for the purpose of taking his seat in the Chamber of Deputies. When the difference took place between M. Salvandy and the Regent, the latter sent an express to Olazaga to remain at his post, but he had reached Vit- toria before. The following gratifying news from Spain is from a Madrid letter of the 21st inst.—" Nothing can be more satisfactory than the rapid development we observe in the reviving industry of this country; though the tax levied by Government on the proceeds of the mines is only five per cent., and that we must take it for granted that fraud is practised to some extent, it yields about 60,0001. sterling this year, though none is paid by the proceeds of the quicksilver mines of Almaden, and the new one of Almadenejo, belonging to Government,which yield 1,204,000 dollars per annum, or 251,0001. sterling. The mining undertakings afford employment to half a million of people, and to 50,000 beasts of burthen ; and little doubt need be entertained that the next year's ac nount will be considerably more cheering; it is thus that we see the industry of Spain springing up in every direction." The Malaga Bishop Ortigosa, who lies under the Pope's displeasure, has been raised by this Government to the Archbishopric of ,Burgos, and the canons and other members of the Seville Chapter have been com manded by Ministers not to obey the Archbishop and Cardinal Cienfuegos, and to proceed to /he election of a diocesan governor as in cases of cede racante. The accession of Mehemet Izzet Pacha, to the office of Prime Minister at the Porte, cannot but be injurious to British interests, as it was the remonstrances of our Government that caused his removal from the army in Syria, where he was noted for his atrocities. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post endeavours, but not with the happiest results, to be sarcastic on the subject of the two addresses pre sented to Lord Melbourne, from Derby, on Monday last. The whole article is a mere tissue of pertness and flip pancy, and bids defiance to anything like analysis. The Times, like the Post, affects the satirical as regards the presentation of the two Derby addresses to Lord Melbourne, and observes of his Lordship's reply, that it was " characteristic "—an expression of dubious import, but intended, we presume, to be condemnatory. The Chronicle, in reply to some remarks lately made by the Dublin Morning Register, on the question of the Repeal of the Union, says—" The Union with Ireland will never be repealed. Hundreds of thousands of men may fall a sacrifice in the attempt to effect such a repeal, but as long as England is secured by her navy from con tinental invasion, Ireland cannot be forcibly separated from her." The Herald contains an article suggested by the Derby addresses to Lord Melbourne, wherein, glancing at the Whig Budget propositions, our Contemporary observes— " That Lord Melbourne knew or cared little about the propositions, we can readily believe ; the more so, as the Noble Lord, in his reply to his Derby admirers, again gives a characteristic instance of his utter ignorance of public opinion, in protesting that he expected the greater part of the proposals would have received the sanction of Parliament. In such expectations, however, the Noble Viscount stood alone." The Dublin Evening Post contrasts the magnificence of former Irish Viceroys with the petty economy of the present, and observes—" It has always been the custom of the Viceroys of Ireland to send a fat ox to the Mendi city Institution, that the mendicants might fare substan tially on Christmas Day. It was, at least, a harmless custom; but his Excellency judged—whether wisely, we shall not say—that you might fulfil all the obligations of charity at a less expense. Accordingly, determined to send something, he ordered that a quarter of beef should be sent to the beggars. This, no doubt, is in accordance with the economy and retrenchment which the Mail as sured us so unctuously was to be the principle of his Excellency's administration." The York Courant remarks, in allusion to Lord Mor peth's reception in America :—" A private letter states, that this worthy and patriotic Nobleman intends to re turn from America to this country at the close of Febru ary, or, at the latest the first week in March. However gratifying to Lord Morpeth's feelings must be the gene rous hospitality shown to him on transatlantic shores, we feel confident the w a rm an d cor di a l we l co ni e l which will greet him on his return 'home, and amongst the Refor mers of the West Riding . ,of Yorkshire, will be equally pleasing." The following is from the Cheltenham Examiner : " Well says Mr. ChriStepher thatiNirlianierit must legis ! late on the Corn-laws —that the fi t ejins of oountry demands an imiestigatibri'iOtileV'e.antat"' and well he says ThriCiiolliociteiV'Or hilelthelitires will beaccepted. The events of the present winter, the agi tation and discussion which have been carried on, and the suffering which has been endured, have placed the parties in a very different position to that in which they stood at the close of the past session ; even Mr. Christo pher knows now that the chance of an Bs. duty is lost to the monopolists for ever." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. Mr. Sidney Smith, in denouncing the present system of emigration, observed, in a lecture on Wednesday, that this scheme transported not the drones of the hive, and rub bish of the building, but the good square ashlar and sound stone. The men who emigrated were those who worked fourteen or fifteen hours a day, while those kept at home never did more than brush their nails, or pick their teeth after dinner. A number of furnaces were blown out at Wolver hampton last Friday, but none of the workmen on the larger establishments in the neighbourhood have yet been discharged. A meeting of the ironruasters was to take place at Dudley yesterday, to take into consideration the state of the trade. COMMERCIAL REFORM. At a meeting of the Anti• Corn-law Association for St. Mary, Newington, held on Wednesday, Mr. Wickham said there were now upwards of sixty well-organised branch societies in London, and closely connected with the parent society. At a public meeting held on Wednesday at Paddington, the scheme of the Manchester National Anti-Corn-law Bazaar, was strongly recommended by the chairman to the notice of the various branch associations. Its chief im portance was, that it would tend very materially to in terest in this question, in a way peculiarly fitted for them, the female part of the community. Pura.= IMPROVEMENTS. The day appointed for laying the foundation-stone of the new Royal Exchange, has been fixed by the Gresham Committee for Monday, the 17th of January. The silver-gilt trowel to be used by the Prince is to be manu factured by Deputy Brook, of the Poultry. The amphi theatre to be constructed for viewing the ceremony will contain seats for 1,200 visitors, forming an enormous covered tent. LAW AND POLICE, On Wednesday-, at Bow-street, Richard Horton, late a letter-carrier in the General Post-office, charged with stealing a letter containing a sovereign, was fully com mitted. Inspector Musgrove summoned the landlady of the Angel Inn, St. Clement's, for having her house open for business on Sunday the 19th, before one o'clock in the afternoon. The charge was dismissed on the ground that sho had only supplied refreshment to travellers. Another of these meddling inspectors summoned Mr. Day, land lord of the Blue Posts, Southampton-buildings, for re fusing to admit the police. This charge was also dis missed. Charles Smith, a waiter, 16 years of age, at the Shak speare Head, Drury-lane, was charged at Guildhall with attempting to drown himself at Blackfriars-bridge, at noon on Tuesday. A waterman saved him just as he was about being drawn under the barges, but received no thanks for his pains. The prisoner was remanded till to-day, in order that a surgeon might be consulted respecting the state of his mind. At Thames-street a woman of the name of Upjohn, who had been charged on Monday with cutting and dan gerously wounding Edward Allen, a rigger, with whom she cohabited, was again brought up for examination. Allen swore that the woman did not cut him, and the wounds were accidental, but from the evidence of a Silt• geon and another witness the Magistrate considered him self justified in committing the prisoner. COURT-FASHIONA.BLE. Stafford House is preparing for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, who have fixed the 3d of next month for their arrival in town. The Marchioness of Westmeath is passing the season at the seat of Mr. Fergusson, at Pitfour, in Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Brownlow are not expected to leave Torquay until the first week in April. The Earl and Countess of Beverley return to Portman square on the 10th of January. MISCELLANEOUS. At the usual weekly meeting of the National Repeal Association on Tuesday, the Lord Mayor congratulated the Association on the great demonstration made on the preceding day at Dells, when from 10,000 to 20,000 per sons attended, and came to the determination to post up in a conspicuous part of their dwellings, " There is no thing for Ireland but Repeal." A hatband with the same inscription was to be generally worn by the people of that district. The magnificent Arabian horse sent by the Dey of Tunis to the King of the French, was presented to his Majesty a few days ago by the persons sent to deliver it. The total number of burials in the metropolis for the year ending Dec. 14, 1841, was 14,599. The burials of females exceeded those of males by 207. Only one per son reached the age of 100, and about 60 died between 90 and 100. The christenings were 7,505 males, and 7,629 females. DISTRESSED PRINTERS.—We are informed that the Garrick Club have kindly offered their ser vices to perform two nights for the benefit of the dis tressed printers of the metropolis, and that the evenings of the 18th and 20th of January are fixsd for the occa sion. Three additional subscriptions have been received since the publication of the last list ; one signed D. E. F., 10s. ; the Rev. J. Brown, Vice-Master of Trinity College, 14 ; and Messrs. Fisher and Sons, 2/. 2s. The amount altogether subscribed is 471. 14s. sd.—Cambridge Independent. MORNING SUN MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. Great regret was expressed this afternoon at the mention of further embarrassment having arisen to one or two houses connected with the East India trade. The quotations of the Funds were firmly supported this afternoon with a fair share of business. Consols for the Account were quoted at 89* to 89i, closing at the highest value. Exchequer Bills were worth 12s. to 14s. premium, and India Bonds ls. premium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. obtained 99 to 99k, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 891 to 89g. Bank Stock was supported at 1654 to 1651, and India Stock at 245 for the Opening. The Foreign Stocks and the Railway Shares were more buoyant. Spanish and Mexican Bonds advanced; Brighton Railway Shares were in favour. The Overland Mail is expected in a few days. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEc. 29.—We have had a good business doing in the Cotton Market to-day, the sales being 6,000 bales, of which speculators have taken 700. Prices are firm. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 29.—The tran sactions comprise—Eastern Counties, 81. 16s. 3d. ; Grand Junction, 196 ; Great Western, 86k ; Lancaster and Preston Junction, 27+ ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 251 ; Ditto, New Shares, 28k. I MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 29.—We have no alteration in the Share Market, and prices are firm. The following are to-day's transactions :—Liverpool and Manchester, Halves, 92 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28 ; South Eastern and Dover, 214 ; Ditto, New, 91 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 3L 17s. ; Bank of Manchester, 4 } i. Although money commands the high rate of interest of six per cent. on the Stock Exchange, both the English and Foreign Securities remain firm. Consols are 89k for the opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced 89* 4 ; Do. Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 99i ; Bank Stock, 165 166; Exchequer bills,l2 14 prem. Towards the close of business yesterday, some large purchases were made in Mexican Stock, and an advance of OUR per cent. took place, the last quotation being 274 28, and a still further advance has again taken place, this morning the quotation being 281.4; Spanish Active Stock has also advanced to 24f4.; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 324 331 ; ditto Threes 191 20. Consols have advanced to 89/ 1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced 894 • Three-and-a-Hag ditto, 99i • India. Bonds are quoted at 1 prem. ; India St oc k, 245(Exche quer Bills, 12 14 prem. The market looking very firm. It is currently reported, and pretty generally believed in the City, that an arrangement has been concluded at Madrid for the payment of the over-due dividends upon the Coupons of the capitalised stock. In consequence of which Spanish Active Stock has advanced to 24i ; Passive, 5 1 , ; Deferred, 12i ; Mexican Bonds are now 28 1 1 • Colombian, 21* ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 331 Dutch Five per Cents., 99. There has been a fair amount of business transacted in the Share Market again to-day, and prices continue to improve. London and Brighton are 39i a ; Great Western, 88 87 ; London and Birmingham, New, 29 ; Northern and Eastern, 29k ; South Eastern and Dover, 23 22i ; ditto New, DA ; London and Blackwall, 1 Consols, Account, 894 k ; Mexican, 281 k ; Portu guese, 334 ; Spanish, 24 . 4 1 25. There is a belief in some quarters that a plan will shortly be made public, tending to the relief of the Spanish Bondholders, and that the money for the payment of a dividend will certainly be here in a day or two. In the meantime we should be loth to encourage delusive hope, and much more rash speculation, and would fain counsel, therefore, all who are interested to wait awhile, and see the colour of the Spanish " siller." CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Rank Stock ... 165 i India Stock - 3 per Cent Red. B9a , Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red.. 99i Ditte New Annuities... New 3} per Cent i,Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 12 pm New 5 per Cent . : Ditto 5001 l4 pry Long Annuitiestoexpire t Ditto Small. 14 pm • Jan 1 1860 ..: 12 9-16 Bank Stock for' Acct... Oct. 18.59 — India Stock f0r:Acct....245 Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... ;Portuguese ' 5 per cent. 55 Belgian, 5 per cent lDit to, New Ditto 33% Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cex Russian, 5 per cent — Chilien 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 25 Ditto, 1824. .. .... 211 (Ditto, Deferred ... 12 Danish, 3 per cent —i French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — ;Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 27% French, 3 per cent 7Bf. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1837 (Dutch, 2i per cent . Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. 14% , Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Cheltenham and Great Western (72% paid) 20 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... — Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... ......... —lOl Ils 8d Great Western Railway( 65 paid) B7 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 61% Ditto Fifth (4 p aid) London and Brig hton (50 paid) , 39k London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 12 Ditto New Shares ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) ......... Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ....... . Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .... . . 71 Ditto New Shares (30 paid) 4 3ovinth. 11 . 11 . MY IC " ) " Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) _ 27i Northern and Eastern (35 paid) ...... 29k South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) THE LATE ACCIDENT AT MAN CHESTER. MANCHESTER, DEC. 2.B.—The sufferers by the re cent disastrous accident are more favourably proceeding towards convalescence than their previous symptoms would have led the medical attendants to expect. Ex cept the young man, Patrick Radical, there is every hope that the whole of them will soon be enabled to leave the Infirmary. He still lies in a most precarious state, and his recovery is quite uncertain. The lacera tions inflicted upon his head and almost every part of his body were most severe, and it is greatly feared that, should he be restored at all to health, he will never again be enabled to resume his usual occupation. There are various unfounded rumours still accredited, that many other workmen are beneath the ruins ; but this is quite impossible, since every one of those employed either by Mr. Rose or Mr. Pauling, who were nut either killed or wounded, and are now lying at the Infirmary, have been to their respective masters for their wages. Yesterday an inquest was held at the Infirmary, before Mr. Rutter, the borough Coroner, on the bodies of the seven men whose names were given in the account of the accident. Of these it will be recollected, that Dor nan, Roach, and Donelly were single men, whilst Gar land, Tully, Machin, and Selkirk were all married, and have left large families to lament their untimely de cease. There now appears but one prevailing opinion, that the calamitous event was the result of mere acci dent, and that no blame or want of precaution can be attached to any of the parties connected with the re moval of the ruins. This appeared from the evidence of various witnesses ; after which the Coroner said he thought it would be unnecessary to call any additional evidence before the Jury, as the facts before them were sufficient to enable them to form an opinion as to the case of this deplorable transaction. They would direct their attention to the question whether or not any blame or want of caution could be attached to the parties who were entrusted with the management of the build ing. The Jury consulted for a few moments and una nimously returned a verdict in each case of " Acci dental Death," adding that no blame was to be attri buted to any of the parties connected with the removal of the ruins. ALARMING INDISPOSITION OF NINE PER SONS, FROM TAKING MUTTON BROTII.—On Monday last, the inmates in the house of Mr. Carman, Faulkner -street, St. Peter's, were thrown into a state of great alarm, caused by the sudden indisposition of nine individuals, shortly after dinner on that day. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Baker (of the Theatre Royal), and two daughters, and Mr. and Mrs. 11. Hull, have apartments at Mr. Carman's ; and that on Monday, at dinner, they, as well as Mr. Carman and his two daughters, partook of some mutton broth, and, shortly afterwards, during dinner, the Misses Baker complained of a sen sation of great heat in the throat and stomach. This was followed, almost immediately, by violent vomiting. Mr. 1101 l was, soon afterwards, seized with similar symp toms. At first, of course, it was difficult to guess which of the viands had thus affected the party; but Mr. Baker's attention was first attracted to the broth by perceiving a peculiar sweetnesss in tasting it. Mr. Walker and Mr. Lowe, surgeons, were promptly called in, and they suc ceeded, by administering strong emetics, in placing all the sufferers out of danger. Mr. Baker proceeded to the theatre, but, after having been there a short time, was obliged to return home, so severe was his indisposi tion. Mr. 11011, who should also have performed that evening, was also unable to do so, and their parts were filled by other performers ; an announcement being made to the audience of the cause of this change. There seems strong reason for supposing that some ex ceedingly deleterious substance, probably arsenic, had, by some means unknown, become mixed with the oat meal which was used for the thickening of the broth. Messrs. Lowe and Walker took possession of some of the oatmeal, which we believe is to be placed in the hands of Mr. John Davies, chemist, for analysis. There does not appear to be the slightest ground for suspecting any present inmate of the house of so serious a crime as the mixing a deadly poison with an article of food ; the oatmeal has been in the house some time, but at present further observation on this point would be premature. We regret to learn, on making inquiry at Mr. Carman's yesterday afternoon, that, although out of danger, all who partook of the broth are still suffering severely from the injurious effects of the deleterious sub s t ance. W e believe Mr. Holl resumed his duties at the theatre last evening, though still exceedingly weak from the attack. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are still confined to the house. One of their daughters had by no means recovered from the more severe effects of the poison. On Monday evening, at the close of the performances, Miss Ellen Tree pro ceeded in her carriage to Mr. Carman's to make her per sonal inquiries after the sufferers; and Mr. Charles Kean also sent his inquiries. —Manchester Guardian of yes terday. A DISCRIMINATING PRECEPTOR.-A sehoSl. master in Cornwall, advertising his establish.-,;,;fit, says, Every boarder must b e 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 ex the pupil's quitting school." THE LEVANT MAIL. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. B.—ln alluding in MY la st letter to the inefficiency of the Grand Vizier Thud Pacha, I by no means anticipated that he was to be dis placed the day after, and still less that he was to he suc ceeded in office by Izzet Mehemet Pacha—events which have taken by surprise not only the public at large, but many of the Turkish Ministers themselves. The con sternation which still prevails at the Porte, or the public offices of the Gov e rn men t, i s suc h as I h ave ne ver before witnessed there, e x ce e di ng even th a t w hi c h was producedproducedby the defeat of Nezib an d th e d ea th o f S u ltan Mall" moud, and which, in sho r t, I can on ly com pare to th e terror experienced in the int erva l of the t wo shocks a f earthquake that occurred h ere some mon ths ago. But to enable you to understand this ex tr a ordinary agitationagitationof the public mind, it will b e necessar y t o g i ve youiSotn e idea ot the character and ante ce d en t s o f the man whos e unexpected elevation in the plac e o f th e feeble Raonf ha s occasioned it. Izzet Mehemet Pacha, the commencement ot whose career was signalised by the unrelenting fierce' ness he displayed in the massacre of the Janissaries, held during the settlement of the affairs of Greece the post of Reis Effendi, and this was the Minister whop Sir Stratford Canning found so intractable, and whose obstinacy proved subsequently so disastrous to the Porte. He was afterwards made Capitan Pacha, and flat" Grand Vizier ; the post of the latter he now WO for the second time. During the last Russian war, hs li l been sent with a flotilla to the relief of Varna, he frequently engaged with the enemy, and distingula" e himself by his intrepidity both by l a nd a nd sea. PI wl l , capitulation of Varna, which, it was always susPeci e was abandoned by treachery to the Russians, Izzet ga . , hemet was accused of bribery, not less than Yous s Pacha, the Governor. Certain it is that they denounced each other, and, whether for this reason, on account of his personal vices and cruelty, he for ma o 6 years laboured under a sort of disqualifi c ation, and was,, ll . ° , employed by Sultan Mahmoud in any high office. A" e n , his death, however, he was appointed Seraskier the lat e expedition to Syria, where he was wounded by aeciduencenf in the leg, and whence he was removed in conseq e :4 the representations of Admiral Stopford and Ge ne ; Jochmus, both of them declaring it was i m possible carry on the war with a colleague so capricious and b ee d e strong. Such is the individual who has now been Vizier Moutlaq, or absolute—a Turkish Pacha of th old school—a compound - of cruelty, cunning, a nd toe:,,, city. The stories that are told ot his violence 110 "r uffs tality are almost incredible. Among others, that of having, while in Syria, ordered his cook to be 1A :9 7; doed to death for having put too much salt in his 1:11:, a sentence which, but for the humane interference n' English officers there, would have 'certainly heenL• t s ecuted, is indisputably a fact. There are many t - ers, besides of this nature which I shall spare your reaa„,.. and proceed to explain, as well as I can, why e' n " to ster like this—a man not fit to live, and much las e rule—has been promoted to his present high office• any surmises on this subject are almost endless. I 3 Y 111 d. his advancement is said to have been owing to the 3 ! tii vice of Chosrew Pacha, who had lately an audience ril er the Sultan, and who, declining to become Grand himself, named Izzet Mehemet—as a worthy By others it is attributed to Russian influence, a u r n sition, in some manner, countenanced by the reli° else, his having been bribed at Varna. It is thong h 4 h i n . that his sudden advent to power at the present eP ec hia i te dicates a determination on the part of the Porte I en v war with Greece, his sentiments having beau °P d to declared for a rupture. For my part, lam dispoo believe that causes much less heroic, though q ui ...id significant, may be discovered for this appointment, U." that it is neither more nor less than a speculation. _tor Up to the present moment there have been no changes in in the Administration, though the anao"" s ubsti ment of them is hourly expected at the Porte. (From the Journal de Smyrne.) ur- CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 7.—The disastrous 0.1,0 rences in Syria between the Druses and Maronit o been taken is to consideration by the Porte, and th e e a r ew nisters have resolved upon adopting every mean s c gs. lated to put an end to this deplorable state ei ; 0 1 0 . Nothing has transpired as to the nature of thes ei i: jar dons, but there is reason to believe that they Will mediately carried into- execution, and to hope their tho, results will be effectual. The works at the arse/Is.'s:l,. tinue to be carried on with great activity ; are said to be fitting for sea, and are expecte d jt shortly under the command of the CaOitan in a a to is conceived, though not ascertained, that it is desh Ad put a stop to the hostile demonstrations of Grew!' fire / being r miral Bandiera had yesterday the honour 0 4 , , tic sentod to the Sultan at his Palace of 13ecla e ta ' o ffi e erS companied by the Austrian internuneio and th ug. /Do of Mt frigate Venere and the brig Montecu i e oa Highness received the Admiral most greeinn s 'Yi rme rotts strong terms expressed his satisfaction a t the . t; .,einn i re „ severe l to a s K.; important services he had rendered to the Turk (From the Malta Papers.) . s .rerainds A Constantinople letter in the Malta 1 1 ,,1n e e d last the reader that the new Grand Vizier woks" - , o 43eraan d year from his command in Sy r i a by the t i l l l t ie s he corn" i of Great Britain, on account of the er : s opr s " l tO mitted. It is supposed fro m this that m a f n ns ' a repor t of British interests. The sam e l e tter '- Busyiahs i n the Caucasus, and having the Circassians havingoccasione defeated theta d th e o f 1,800 111(39° a loss ~ .4 st (3 ALEXANDRIA• I*ECEGYP . 9.—The T Rrench stennler th the very mouth of the harbour Stinda.- rY mount --- • --- on bu..—..ky eve_ : te r instant), and we saw nothing more of her until Y e ' day afternoon. t t The letters were landed last n i g h t a b out sunset. a i not given out till this morning, and th e ma il from t is miss P ac ing. 11 the ha remains in Upper Egypt buying up wh ßoghoseat and Bey co, they sa. Alexandria to carry 0° " - t h tb° rn rema in s i y n g new treaty so far as it allows of i ncrease d imposts , the internal duties are promised to be reduced. co- The tariff made at Con s tanti no pl e f or this grand ..ish mercial Turkish treaty, is put in force, and on the manufactures the duty amount s t o e i g ht per cen t. 011 ,111 value. The old duty here was no m i na lly three, but r iry less. The tariff fixes the duty on m ost goods, betlg ing tended for 3 per cent, and 2 p er ce nt. added, In a coo per cent. on the value ; but when p a id in the Pa ella out' ney it amounts to eight, an d som etimes more, „r on the present market value. produce, fo Government has n ot y et renewed sales of any kind. Nothinga tionalG from Syria. l a st be en The Nuard of Alexandria has at re. completely disbanded, and the arms return ed into s t oyed One of the r eg i men t s o f G uar d s has been. efi lugth lately in road-making. A road of 500 yards I n , e g o/ 0 was cut and levelled in a week, leading from trd foie' s9uare in the direction of Fort Cretin. No ha f thil 4 rials are yet laid on it. The form and na me ° are sufficient in this country. SYRIA. e smyrna A letter of the Ist i ns t., f rom B e yrout, in on th e Journal, says :—" A war steamer arrive d rs bete on the 23d ult., from Malta, an d h as b r ought orlii t h e offi° evacuation of Syria by the English trogs . the ditiere ° : cers have accordingly been r eca ll e d fr° lll days tig points at which they wer e st a ti one d. se yero " the embarkation of the ar till e ry and _ as co w s tores : d their de' meneed. The officers are all coming in, parture, it is said, fixed for the 4th. The En,,', te force on this coast will consist of only o ne •t . ,.P6 d , two steamers. The French brig of war Aleu' a 4 risfl terday joined the sloop Creole. We have anjl'hich jo 1-1 sloop, and are expecting another ship of war, Wc,ostil' to bring out M. d'Adelbourg, the Austri an General at Beyrout." SMYRNA. . s The Journal de Smynie, of the 9th instan4:3-Cor following:—" This day we e k we rece i ve d 14 : Pl e tbe stantinople packet the official announcement ,Sf couchement of the Queen of E ng l an d. The British j - r 110 , 0 of war Daphne and B eacon were d res sed in a u'oet , 11 , 0 throughout the day, and fired repeated saluos:Turli• French ships of war under Admiral La Susse t b a r ish frigate, and the Austri an s loop and brio. in u_l d. do' hour, also displayed the British flag, whichat_llol they saluted with 21 guns each. The Beacon the 4th for the coast of Cartunania." (From the Malta Chronicle of 3 3 ° MALTA. MAILS AND .PASSENGERS FOR INDIA.--- y P c steamer arrived in port this morning. (the 1 7th) a, be ro o'clock from Gibraltar, with the mails which arrived p. b ' by the Great Liverpool on the 10th inst. at tweloo having left Falmouth on the 4th, in consequence c',.' 0 ,1 4 fe pistons of the latter steamer having. brolten,;e cap new rt one must be sent for from England befoo s s oar° Thei7.lllontros: g, h o is o sea. The Montrose, which proceeds to lile1)) t 1 evening, has brought all the passengeri)ot those t GreatLiverpool, who are destined for India' U as the for Malta, we understand, were left behind, 0 - 4 ' lle greater part of her cargo. . __ - oe' tween thirty and forty STEAM-slur INDIA FROM SUEZ TO C. 1 11 „, TA. e ' l°ll i that the . India steamer wouldpassengers destine d beready Madras, and Calcutta, have here 0 1 - do arrived._ to i assurance from Captain Barber, the agent l u 0 0 0 them to their destination- their infinite disc 4 pointrnent, they a , bee. , now learn that this steamer n a g _ ti l chartered to the Ben, •oceed to 30,,,, mein.al Government to pt What a ppear s • th tan averti:., unpardonable is, a -, yo ment from Captain Barber appears in Galignant s ot o f e i r l g?*, stating that the " India left (in italics) Cale , uez on the lith instant." England, A 94 -DEPARTURE OF TiiE MAILS FOR ENGLAND - .io- EARLIER FROM GIBRALTAR. —The Gibraltar Chro '' instant/ a t ll:tOCC:laier,s - ncially announces that from and after the 15th fof the Peninsular and Oriental steamers, with the malls Gibraltar one ay ear lier , or tore, namely, on Wednesday instead of Thursday, 1'ii,,,,41 evening gun fire (provided the steamer shall havee a_eerrtid will leave Gibr dthan herald ,i twenty-four hours previously), with a view of 16 . r v d the arrival of the mails in London on a Saturday T s pi of Monday, so as to afford an opportunity of replYingoe letters by the mail of that day. With reference to ed' paragraph in our last number respecting passen gers r e ° barking in the Prometheus for G ibraltar, they Will London on Saturday the Bth of January. braW r The following ships of the line hr.d arrived at G,, o w from Malta, namely :—On the 3d her Majesty) op. Powerful, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir ,_, di e manney ; 7th, the Calcutta; Sth, the Rodney ; 1 lto Revenge. , per c; The following Mates, lately premed in the Ol ranoan station to the rank of Lieutenant 11ave beel.,l. pointed as follows :—C, - .,_,,, y 1,,,, J. Prevost, tr... ;,' s e Vernon ; 11. Bacon,.to the Call l 7 o ' l e Ll. D4cester, to the Indus; E. F. Roberts, to tll., 1 3icl' i stant ; W. Crawford (a), to the Impregnable; fl••"' e l); , Mola r pe ford, to the Rodney ;C.J.F. E" art, to tb.?, . 11. G. Austen, to the Alagicienne; M. Bonehier, to e i t , to the Cambridge ),.4.1:), Ganges; J. M. R. Ince, to the Implacable; wit , I° tO Vanguard. I'he Prometheus steam-packet i 6 destined to conid atolt Will Rua a. 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