The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-23 00:00:00

I NOTICE. " THE CHINA SUN,' Which was RE-PUBLISHED on: the 6th INSTANT, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. IN PROGRESS, TH A ILWA Y S UN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Inforrnation and other particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, g RINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD, WITH A B-EAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF IER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, n be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office' ? 112, Strand, London. NEAMERICA AND THE AMERICANS. R. BUCKINGHAM'S NEW COURSE of LECTURES on AMERICA an d t h e AMERI TUTION, 1 `'"NS, at the CITY OF LONDOTERARY INSTI 65Aldersgatc-strect, N on MONDAY EVENINGS, at Eight ; and .at the AIARYLEBONE LITERARY IN STITUTION, 17, Edward's-street, Portman-square, on FltrioaY EVENINGS, at Half-past Eight. Tickets, 2s. each, to be had at the Rooms. Course Tickets ared ced prices, THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U NDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING. JAN. 23. Will be repeated Shakapere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus. Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, .111 r. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Herinia, Mrs. Niibett ; Oberon, Madame Ve s t r i s ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS .PANTOMIME will be peated, e THE CASTLE OF re OTßANTO; entitld OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mi. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. ~.On Monday, th e Mid summer Ni g h t ' s Dream, with The New Pantomime.: roors to he opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and ?left t 3 for the Bout to be taken of Mr. Gropn, at the Box_office.; from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets %lay be had aporrapplication. e ir D eie c s 7 s l3 , :m ; es, 7s. ,• Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Seeond Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, ti• ; Gallery, Is. 161 rivate Boxceto be had so'eiy of Mr. A n d s ews , b oo k se ll er New ISond-qtreet. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Triumphant again ! Overwhelming Success of Ainsworth's Tower of London. Nightly overflows. Upwards of 57,000 P ersons have a l rea d y w i tnessed the best Pantomime in London. Will THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, be acted a: Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableaaa Virans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of tha celebrated George Crnikshanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN ;AND MY LADY LEE ; R, GOOSEY GANDER AND , THE SPELLBOUND G O SLINGS. In which the udrivalled Artiste?, the Boleno Family; Mr. Southby, the Ortinal Closn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gfrpnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran.. coni's, at Paris,.will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria. PRINCESS' fHEATRE, LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. Tkis splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. =THIS EVENING, JAN. 23.—PROGRAMME. Orerture FART FIRST. an—Mzarte. quadrilf e—L Carillo nneur—Dufrene. Vatz—Die Ab enteurer—Lanner. I )y rrture---L a x iancoe—Auber. Ne le IS:olo o ion w the Flageolet by M r. Ch ampion. ct from the Mountain Sylph—Barnett. e vertu re — Tan e di—llorAsslniTc. ECOND. Vilu_a,drille—Vendreetta—Tolbecque. litz--Der P een Welt—Labitzky. kirand Selection from Acis and Galatea—Handel. pPrutnenade,ls.—Dte% Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. I goz riv m ate Boxes , 1/. ls.and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Al - ; ° ce, and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. p WI LLY beg s respectfully to announce that his BENE JT will take place o n MONDAY, JAN. 25, being the LAST of h ko rnin . WAT r, ER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS jA Y. after 2 I Evening 4 minutes alter 2. }f-. K ` •. `•f _ T.Fi3~ ,;* cc--L;;r) . LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, IE4I. W als a ll ' ar e to ld in private commun i cat i ons f rom 414 11, that Mr. SMITH'S prospects are improving , ,„ °ay. The enth us i asm o f t h e peop l e has been —ll3 ed by the numerous addresses sent to them from all Parts of the coUntiy, and by the spirited appeals /l iell have been made to them. They feel that a great cause depends on their votes, and casting aside 1111 minor consideration s they are prepared to make 4°7 sacrifices which may be demanded of them to a t : s a u te success: The C ar l ton Cl u b f oresees defeat, a --4 begin s to regret that it h as not offered to the -eee Ptance of t h e electors some man of m ore we i g ht 4 c ni of bett ed . kno wn lib era li ty as to trade than Mr. l ' x c t osToN E , ha r. Suttn, wh o h as starte d on the Anti-Corn -I",w interest,', is a gentleman well known to the pub anti-Ile has b een f rom t h e f i rst Chairman of the wCorn-l aw League. He succeeded Mr. G. ° 413 as Pre s id ent o f t h e Chamber of Commerce that Manchester. The men of Walsall may be sure plat he was not nom i nate d to t h ese two important re . e , e3 b 7 his t ownsmen w i t h out possessing great --r it• In fact the memoir of the Chamber of Corn ketee an the currency, and which was chiefly his of uet i°N . and his evidence before the Committee teen e r of of Commons, prove that is a great of economical science, and that any consti :„e.neY in election, him, even were he not distin "shed as the representative of one of the noblest causes in which suffering humanity ever struggled 11 4gai , n8 t an odious and sordid tyranny, would confer 111 11 nononr on itself. .0 0 account of his acquire enta) he is a most an appropriate Memb er for any theretile o r manufacturing community, and should pr e .eboice o f the electors fall on him, they will b e 4 118 ed, and we hope fe as t e d an d honoured through- In t h e country, r , lllB oppo nent was never before heard of. The itatiton Cl u b, we are assured, is now sensible that 3uft h as in su l ted the electors, by offering f or th e i r iv. ra ges, and for the highest honour which a corn feu:city Can confer on an individual, a youth per tet:nisYthliu who has no other claim on any icinkenymytnh'an that his brother is a Protes val l'apist, and his father a church-building sugar nt er and slave master. Not one deel has he r done torecommend himself to the high honour borne ePresenting Walsall. His name, except as it is by two very notorious relatives, is unknown; and to el h im, : when there are so many well ,. " Tories in existence, ready to serve their - Aintry . % tact ' (1 , in these times be a dis g race to any pla42,ll.encY, and particularly to a constituency th e l i ke Walsall, in the front of the great fight for Itaoiton of the bread -tax. h oe 13 be cause the Tories despair of Walsall, and b e . : great d oubts o 14 f Cant er b ury, that their journals Borst (s 1 "re Proach th e ten-pound electors as the it~ Se t of Englishmen in existen ce ." 4 1 1t1 They ar e --fOr joining in the base and sordid .cry If S , _ " MORNING E DITION TO CORRESPONDENTS. All that " An Inhabitant of Wellington-street" states re specting the nuisance of which he complains is probably quite true, but it is sometimes dangerous to state the truth. The parish authorities and the owners of pro perty in that quarter should consult together on the subject. • *let • for cheap bread. They are even denominated the most irreligious part of the population, because it is suspected that the electors of Walsall will not re turn a Tory. As long as the people submit to be the slaves of the Tories, they arc praised as honest and religious men ; but when they exhibit a sense of independence and a love Of justice, they are de nounced as immoral and irreligious. Naturally the Tories hate the people, and hate every exhibi tion of popular power. They are tyrants by Divine right ; and though necessity sometimes so far dic tates their conduct as to compel them to speak the people fair, they take every opportunity of exhibit ing their contempt and hatred. For any popular constituency to vote for a Tory, is to vote for an enemy—to vote for an oppressor—to vote for a ty rant, and to vote for " chains and slavery," as well as dear bread and little employment. To make out a case for themselves the Tories harp on the dictation of the Anti-Corn-law League, and sneeringly ask if the men of Walsa will suffer the League to dictate whom they shall elect ? The Leaaue, however, has only recom mended ; it has given advice ; it has joined the bulk of the town constituencies of England ; it has, in conjunction with the starving weavers, im plored and supplicated the Walsall electors to choose a bread-tax repealer; it has, with the ma jority of the people, appealed to the Walsall men peacefully to relieve the nation from a most grind ing tyranny. The Tories call this dictation I We can conceive nothing more honourable, more en nobling, than such an appeal and supplication. A great nation asks the electors of Walsall to give a just, honest, and enlightened vote. The Tories would bribe or browbeat them into giving a dis honest vote. Between these two we cannot doubt, but that the men of Walsall will make a right choice. B4orc we leave the subjecCof elections, we must , remind the electors of Canttibury that almost as much is now in their power as in the power ©f `the electors of Walsall. The coptest is not in words between a bread-tax and an ;anti-bread-tax candi date at Canterbury, but it is - ti fact. ty the nc of their position the Whigs must bcconic,re - - pealers, while the Tories will remain bread.taxers; and for the electors of Cai s iterbuty to return Mr. YTII E , IS to vote for the continuance of the bread- tax. Though they do not. suffer equally -tij the manufacturers, they must be cianvinced, the state of the rural population in their r4Fghbotirboajoiid throughout Kent, that the Corti:ihw is a'tPeadrul curse to the country, and tliv, we are sure, will never vote, by electing Mr. SMYTHE, for_starvirig the old, the feeble, and the helpless. It is tpually reckoned the height of barbarity in savages their infants and their aged geople, but that bar barity is daily practised by the'', Corn-law, and will be sanctioned by the electors Of Canterbury if they vote for Mr. SMYTHE. To the electors of Kirkakly we must say, that we highly honour their independent spirit in resolv ing to choose for themselves. It is an excellent sign when they refuse to be handed over from uncle ,o nephew. We wish every constituency in the empire would in like manner think and act for itself, and would, as the :ICirkaldy Burghs pro pose, choose the most:worthy man they can find as their representative. At the same time we revere those old attachments founded on mutual and reci procal knowledge, which sometimes connect a par ticular district with one family. If a member of such a family should possess the requisite qualification, should be a staunch Corn-law repealer, ready to pledge himself to the total and immediate repeal, and should be a proper Jerson to represent the burgh, it would ba t alike geourable, we think, to him and the constitulk? Trprefer him to a stran- ger. But the Kirkaldy constituency have begun independently, and will en d, we h ave no doubt, wisely. Either Colonel FERGUSON or Dr. Bow- RING would serve the good cause, and the honest electors of the united Burghs 'of Kirkaldy have only to take care and return one or the other, and keep out a bread-taxer. The state of the public revenue, the onerous im posts on sugar, coffee, timber, &c., which affect all classes, the valuable information which has recently been collected on these subjects by the inquiries of the Import Duties Committee, all indicate that the approaching Session will be one of arduous discus sion on our fiscal regulations. Certainly those sub jects cannot be too soon, nor too earnestly, nor too frequently brought under the notice of Parliament. Not only are our people suffering great poverty and great misery, which have a tendency to perpetuate themselves and cause a great deterioration and de moralization of the community, requiring us to re lieve them, but other nations are preparing to revise their tariffs, and their conduct may be much influ enced by that of our Legislature. In the next Ses sion of Congress the Atnerican tariff will be revised, our commercial treaty With the Brazils touches its termination, and the German League will speedily modify its regulations. We,would ask nothing of these States, but we would take the earliest oppor tunity to set them a good example, and by freely letting in their produce, such as corn, timber, su gar, and coffee, encourage them to act on the same liberal and just policy.::. By setting trade free the Legislature would confer an immeasurable benefit on our own artisans, r(nd would make an ally and friend of every nation with which our trade was ex tended. The approaching Session, under this aspect, may be very important, and may have a very great influence on the future' fate of our trade and the con tentment of our people. An influential portion of the public shares our sentiments. At a gerteral meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh, held on 'Wednesday last, Mr. MITCHELL moved that the Chamber petition Parliament to adopt the remission and al teration of the import duties, recommended by the Committee of the Muse of Commons. To this motion the Chamber agreed, and a Committee was appointed to draw up a petition. That is the first step, which will be followed, we have no doubt, by all the sea-ports and manufacturing towns of the empire. Notwithstanding the prodigious improve ment made by steam navigation, the rapid increase of our population, and the continual extension of their skill and knowledge—notwithstand ing the multiplication of our colonies, and the extension of our empire, its trade and wealth have not made a corresponding progress. Nature, by implanting in every individual a desire to improve his condition, has provided for the per petual improvement and perpetual extension of na tions ; and if our country does not now rapidly in crease in wealth and prosperity, it must be owing to a mischievous system of fiscal regulation. In ge neral men are agreed that such is the case. No persons speak in favour of our banking regulations, our customs dutics, and our excise laws. They arc all condemned. But, with a supineness and cowardice we can scarcely und e r s t an d, th e princely-, merchants of London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, who . used to take the lead in promoting fiscal improve ments, to whose admirable exertions the country is mainly inch. !nut for the alterations made by Mr. HUSKISSON, and by M r ., now L or d W ALLACE , and fo r open i ng the, trade to India and China, now hang back, and no tn' ore trouble themselves about our fiscal reguk!tions titan if they were only ruining the inhabitants of Otaheite or the Moon. We are in clined to hope, however, now that the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh have set the example, that the'otber great cities of the empire will be shained -" ~Y'_ out.of their inaction, and will be compelled to int(r fere to save themselves and their country from dis I . tress and ruin. If our merchants allow the Chartists and Re pealers to monopolise politics, the world will soon forget that the merchants exist, except as mere tricksters, and they will fall to the rank of the ancient pedlars. Mere buying and selling is not a very honourable employment, unless connected with the more worthy pursuits which dignify the citizens of a free State. At present, too, trade has ceased to be mere buying and selling, .and has assumed the character of ga . nbling. The rapid fortunes made and lost on the Stock Exchange have infected the commercial community, and tinctured it with the reckless attributes of agamester. It has ceased to rely on steady industry for success, and wor,hips chance. The onward march of improvement has become, therefore, to it, of comparatively little consequence, and the once princely merchants of London, Liverpool, &c., who formerly almost gave laws to the empire, have become of less political weight in the community than their own servants. This is not right. If our opulent merchants wish to re ' cover their lost ground, they will bestir themselves and demand a revision of our fiscal code. They must not be afraid of doing right because the Chartists are doing what they think is wrong. Their negligence and supineness only encourage others ; and demagogues would melt into insig nificance if our merchants took the lead, as be ' comes them, in demanding fiscal reform. Soine of them, we are aware, have interests adverse to those of the people. Some have mortgages on sugar estates, others are owners of rotten ships, which can only be employed bring ing timber from Canada ; others, again, profit by sending coffee from the Brazils to the Cape of Good Hope, and then importing it into England as the growth of our colony. But the small number who profit by the vexatious im posts on timber, sugar, and coffee, should not be allowed to influence, and so degrade, the whole body ; for the bulk of the discriminating duties are most mischievous, and they ought, in spite of the interested few, to bestir them selves, and redeem the character of the mercantile classes. The landlords have earned for themselves a most unenviable hatred, which the opulent classes of towns will soon come to share, and will deserve it, if they do not inter fere. But we cannot believe, now that Edinburgh has set the example, and now that the injurious character of our fiscal regulations has bee❑ so clearly demonstrated, that the merchants of Lon don, Liverpool, &c., will, by silent acquiescence, sanction the continuance of the present system. We have received the Paris Journals of Wed ncsday, together with Tuesday's Papers, which, had the weather been favourable, would have reached us yesterday. M. HUMANN'S project of law on the Budget, which was presented to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, and which will be found in our report of the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies in another part of The Sun, has opened the eyes of several of the Deputies to the real mis chief of the war policy, and to the immense lore which France must sustain by persisting in main taining what she calls an armed peace. The amount of credits required by the Finance . Minister is five hundred and thirty-four millions of francs, being eighty-four millions more than .the proposed loan ; but so enormous will be the expense of fortifying Paris, and so great the outlay required by the war policy, that the Government will be compelled to withdraw one-half from the amount annually ex pended on roads and bridges, and for a period of eight years to come no new public work whatever can be ilndertaken. More money will be uselessly sunk in the morasses round Paris, to restore to us a worthless relic of the feudal ages, than would suffice under proper management to cover France with railroads, and give such other aids to commercial and agricultural industry as would in seven years increase her prosperity more than the whole period nce the restoration of the Bourbons. Now the Goverrinaent which assumes the right of doing every thing in France, declares that before the expiration of the year 1848 it can do nothing to improve the state of internal communication. Why in less than eight years the progress of steam shall have revo lutionized Europe, and France with her forth - red capital, after the example of a frontier town in the thirteenth century, may as well go back to the social habits of that period as to dream of remain ing so long stationary. Such, however, is the glorious prospect which her armed peace policy holds out to her. The Treaty concluded between France and the Argentine Republic, first denounced by M. THIERS' organs, is seized by the Ministerial to cover with obloquy the THIERS Administration, from whom Admiral MACKAu had his instructions. Upon this question the Opposition Press evince a singular absence of both tact and memory. Their blows have recoiled upon themselves. In endeavouring to get out of this scrape, the Constitutionnel of Tuesday has the following defence of the late Go vernment : " The instructions given to Admiral Mackau signified that he was to demand two things—indemnity for the French who had been injured, and the same treatment for French subjects as that which was shown towards the most favoured nations. As to the Allies of the French, Admiral Mackau had orders to, inform them he was negotiating with Rosas, and to include them in the Treaty if they consented to his doing so. The instructions laid down only these three bases, and the Chamber approved (..f them. We have new to look at the Treaty concluded by Admiral Mackau. The fundamental conditions dic tated to him by the Minister are contained in it; but the drawing up of the Treaty is his own, and the spirit of the instructions is in fact compromised by the form. This is our opinion, and it is also that of the Conservative journals, which make of this Treaty a ground of accusation against the Cabinet of the let of March; but if they find that the Treaty does not sufficiently enter into the spirit of the instructions which M. 'lhiers had given in conformity with his engagements to the Chambers, let those journals employ their inilucnce with the present Ministry to induce it to refuse its ratification. As to the Cabinet of the Ist of March, it will be easy for it to prove that the instructions which it gave were neither more nor less than what it had said in the Chamber, and which there met with approba tion." The Ministry, it appears from the Courtier Francais, will ratify the Treaty, leaving whatever credit may result from it to their predecessors. This journal insists, that by ratifying the Treaty, M. GuizoT assumes the odium of it, and that M. THIERS is to be held immaculate. The same journal bears the following direct testimony to our repeated observations on the bad state of things necessarily engendered by the French system of colonization in Africa : " Marshal Vallee is to leave Algiers on his return to France this day. Notwithstanding the flattering assur ances of pacification which have been given through certain interested publications, it appears that our affairs in Africa arc more embroiled than ever. Abd-ol.liadcr, who bas been sup pused to be completely subdued, bas or dered-a levy of one man out of every two men of all the tribes under his domination, and he intends to open a new campaign in the spring with 10,000 cavalry, as regular as his cavalry can be, and 5,000 disciplined infantry. The Governrreht is further said to have received an appli cation for an immediate reinform:ment of 12,000 r,un -4.00 of Vi horn arc for the province of Oran, which will, it is believed, be the first object of the enemy's at• tack. It is reported that the departure of General Bu geaud is fixed. for the 28th instant." Here, after ten years' fighting—ten yens of con tinual victories on the part of France, if we may credit the telegraphic despatches, we fi n d th e Fretich provinces as exposed to invasion as they were the first day of their occupatiOn. This is The fault of the Government which allows nothing to be ac complished by associations of private • individuals. It must have a finger in every man's pie. If the Government of France leave a man a spoon, it in ,i%;ts-on prescribing the way in which he is to carry it to his mouth. • The following extracts from the Journals of 1 4; 1 04 •Aai s,t4 :Ake.„4 v If° v ciaki roill►~ of 111 0 1 I °. roe ee ed° 0, 04 re d tt ;to s r°. of 0 op thy' " cr the of 0' 0 4 ,1 der- w icti I Jo. th e e C r roters ffic ia 1011„' t C ° ' Of 00 . % S d e' IC vv. v . P' b ei • the th c ' )bli° Y I !e 3e . 1. 0 i' t ° ICS° - THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1t,41. Tuesday and Wednesday contain all the news they bring of any interest : NAVAL PREPARATIONS..--111 compliance with an order of the Minister of Marine, a board of superior officers had been appointed to visit the gun-beats Cyclope, Vulcain, and Volcan , w hi c h , after the campaign of Mexico had been disarmed, and decided which of those vessels shall be im mediately put in readiness for sea service. The second division of the squadron, under the command of Rear-Ad. miral Cssy, was about to sail from Toulon for the purpose of exercising the crews. That division is to consist of the Souverain, three-decker, and the Marengo, Alger, and Su ffren. The first and third divisions, under V ee- Admi ral Hugon and Rear -Admiral Renault de la Susse, were taking in provisions, and wcu!d shortly follow the second division. They were composed of fourteen sail of the line, of which two are three-deckers. SWITZERLAND. —There appears still to exist in Swit zerland much agitation. The march of tht Government was, however, firm and decided. The suppression of the convents in the canton of Argau had been adopted in the Grand Council by a majority of 115 against 15. One of the chiefs of the insurrection, Dr Bever, physician to the convent of Muri, hae. sought refuge in Lucerne. All the German canto ns h a d placed t h e i r cont i ngents o f t roops under arms i n the course of 48 hours. The Grand Coun cil of Bern e agree d , on the 14th, to a partial revision of the Constit u ti on b y a majority of 55 aga i nst 26, un l ess that th e p eop l e d emand a more sweeping or total re f orm. The Legislative Council of Nettfehe.tel decided, on the llth, that the authorities should be called the next day to an account for having surrendered Borel at the request of the French Government. THE FORTIFICATIONS OF PARIS —lt wasreperted in Paris that the Ministry was in an unsatisfactory state ; that Mar. shal Soult and MM. Hurnann and Teste were opposed to the proposed fortifications (although the Marshal would willingly accept one portion of the plan—theforts detaches) —and that the other members of the Cabinet warmly sup ported the measure. The approaching discussion in the Deputies continued, therefore, to be looked to with much interest. PORTUGUESE SLAVE-TRADE.—The 200 slaves and young Arabs found on board the ship taken by the Prevoyante, and carried into the island of Bourbon, were in a perfect state of nakedness and starvation, so that the magistrates of the island were forced to clothe as well as feed them. The Arabs were free men, whom the Portuguese pirates had carried off by force, and reduced to slavery. A letter from Bayonne of the 16 , .h instant mentions the arrival in that town of M. Ramirez Arrellano, the Pope's Nuncio lately expelled from Madrid. 'The Regency has granted a delay of 30 days to the Bilboa merchants, to introduce into the kingdom the goods end merchandise existing in the entrepot, and which were imported in Spanish vessels, on payment of the re duced duties formerly levied on those articles. This delay once expired, they are to be subjected to the duties they wee.ld be liable to pay if imported in foreign vessels. The following late intelligence from the Turkish capital, and which has also the merit of being more favourable than the previous accounts, is from the Adrian Observer of the 13th inst. It is ex- ttactcd from a letter from Constantinople, dated the 30E11 of December—being two days later than the advices received direct from the same quarter : The Sultan I-as accepted the submission of Mehemet Ali, tendered by him in a despatch forwarded to the Gaud Vizier, through the medium of Captain Fan shawc, and which fact Reschid Paella, Minister for Fo reign Affairs, has notified to the representatives of the Four Allied Powers, in a note addressed to them on the 27th of December, adding that " his Highness now only waits on the part of the Pacha of Egypt the fulfilment of the neitions imposed upon him by the London Coivention, dated November 14, before which his submission could not be considered as complete. The Suiten reinstates him as Pacha of Egypt, and adopts the ot'aer mean re& relative to his re-investiture;" that, " con sequ •ritlye the Po:te had resolved on sending Vice-Admi ral Walker, who has been raised to the rack of Pacha under the name of iYaver fa •ha and Mazhuni Bey, a member of the Imperial Council, in the capacity of Commissioners, to Alexandria to receive the Ottoman fleet, and insure the performance of the promise made by Mehemet Ali to evacuate all the pints occupied by his treops out of Egypt." " In the meantime, the internuncio of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the Ambassador of her Britanne Majesty, were requested to send, on their side, Commis sioners to be present at the restoration of the Ottoman fleet, agreeably to the fourth paeagraph of the Separate Act of the 15th ofJuly," BO URSE.— PArds, WEDNESDAY ; JAN. 20, First Highest Lowest . Last Price Price. Price. Price I'm - eh 5 per Cots ll2 25 ... 112 49 ... 112 10 ... 112 5C 4)4 per Cents ..... „ lO2 50 ... 11:2 50 ... 102 50 ... 102 50 4 per Cents O9 ... 99 ... 99 ... 99 3 per Cents 77 25 77 50 ... 77 lb ... 77 35 840. of trance , elgien sank 5 per Cents... 3 rcr Cents 69 ~. 09 ... 69 ... 69 Spanish Acute 25% ... 2514 ... 25% ... 25% Passive 6% ... 64 ... 6% ... 64 New Deferred Portuguese 3 per Cents 20:34 ... 01„,i ~. 2( ... 20 3 ,4, Neapolitan Roman The Madrid papers received are of the 12th instant. The Regency received an extraordinary express from Lisbon --on that day, with despatches from the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, to the effect that the Portuguese Cabinet would support the question of the navigation of the Douro before the Cortes, and if they failed to carry it that they would retire from office. There was some talk of Spain putting two or three ships of the line and five- or six frigates into commission to oppose the Portuguese navy. The first question we would ask, is, where are the ships to come from ? Private letters from the Spanish capital speak confidently of the maintenance of peace between Portugal and Spain. General CILACONA, the War Minister, was se riously indisposed on the 12th. The duties of his office were performed, ad interim, by the Minister of Marine. A good deal of business was done on the cash, n° urB a e nc o l n 29 ti l i at e12 6 t 0 days h.Ti:e, Fives were at 28i for MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Foreign Exchanges were without any further improvement this afternoon. The tendency, in fact, was barely to support the slight increase of buoyancy which took place on last post day. The quotations were 25f, 521 - to 571 c. on Paris, 13 71 on liamburgh, 12 21 on Amsterdam, and 1484 to I on Frankfort. The Funds were rather better to-day, but there was no speculation going on. Fer present transfer Consols realised 894 to 90, being a shade better, and for the Ac count, 901 to i ; Bank Stock has been down a trifle, viz., to 1701 to 1691; the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents . have realised 984. to 974, and the Reduced Three per Cents. 90 to 901 ; Exchequer Bills were at 65. to Ss. premium, and India Bonds at ss. discount. The feature in the Foreign market was, an improve ment this afternoon in Spanish Stock, which got up from 241 to 25Z; there were, however, but one or two bargains at the rise, the cause assignod for which was the receipt of higher prices from Madrid. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were rather better to-day, being 321 to s for looney, and 32.1 lor 'the account; the Three per Cents. wejrz not dealt``` Buenos Ayres Stock vas rather firm at 21 ; Bra -1, - 711,q from- 73 to 74 ; Colombian were at 231 ; a 281 Peruvian were 16i; the Old Belgia Centa. were marked 984 ; and the Scrip of th, was at 2 prem. Russian Bonds ranged 934 to 114} ; and Dutch Two-and-a-half per 4 were steady at 501 to 5 _ The market for ma was. not quite so dull, but still cannot be called active; .Great Western were 261, and Birmingham 84 prem. Batlihton were 6i disc. ... , (1 7 :om The Sun of Last Night,),, : ,,,,,,, e in LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET , THURSDAY. 71:" : Ilib•! Cotton sales today amount to 5 ,000 bags, chiefly Ameri can description, at full prices. MANtIIESTER STOC K EXCHANGE, JANUARY 21..—. We G ve r r e y at lit Ntlleresdleelreng, to day ; no in-aerial chan Halves, 62 ; Manchester g and have lric had cs: _ B:rmingham, 25 ; Bank of Manchester, 81 and 9/. 3s. 93; 5 (Quarters) 14 to Manchester Assurance, 81 ; London an d S outh Western, li B d i lan to d 9 ; Counties po . Debentures 5 to i l. 57A- to 581-; Manchester and Leed s , 7 7 to 78 ; Ditto 1 1 1 5 ; Eastern ;I v es ' 2 S . to c 2 ou 9 itiesA, We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester. prices are weak. The Actions of the Si.d remained at 'OA-. The Coupons day's date :- 9 :d — fe L l i l i t t o le l6 b o7, l9e go sg t got up to-day, and done mit e vessels coming from Flushing are in As o r p n e ß n D e A d m' at jA l:., l a &IMRE of doing, ocuifpcAtavradoaofi a ni nadtiol Commercein l iv i e 6cl4,2ai : at 22 3-16 I. After the closing of the Bourse, Coupons 191. Accounts from Antwerp state that the navigation is sight. HANOVER, JAN. I.l.—The lots caused by the incendiary again open ; of the Royal Chateau is very considerable ; a great quan tity of valuable furniture, clocks, and pictures, let down from the windows, have b een much damaged. It was re _ marked that the engines were exFlusively confided to the military of the garrison. The King epened his wine cel lars to the seß,iers to refesth them. The Gazelle of High Germany has the following:— " In a short time a Congress will be held by the Allied Powers, at which France will take a part, which it is thought will be held in Lond.m." Imiiinal-e-,N5.---The water in the Grand Basin of the port of Antwerp oserfiowed the environs of the country and the stocks. Several quarters of the town are inun dated. The waters have interrupted the communication with the town, and the inhabitants were obliged to take refuge in their garrets. The railroad is covered with water, as well as the fields where tho mills are situated, and a great number of houses situated in the environs have been abandoned by the inhabitants, BRUSSELS, JAN• 19.—From all quarters we have ac counts that the waters have fallen. Ten o'clock at night —The Seine, which fell about 40 centimetres since Sa turday last, the 16th instant, at four o'clock in the even- irg, augmented again during this day, owing to the heavy rain. LiEon, JAN. 19 —We announce with pleasure that the waters of th e M euse , a lth oug h we have bad weather, have diminished since yesterday. AMSTERDAM PRICES, JAN, 19.—Two. and a-Half per Cents., 50 5-16 tbs; Five per Cents , 98; Ardoin's Spanish, 9 24. The French Mail of Wednesday, has arrival, but its contents are of a meagre description. Consols, which left off yesterd4v at 90 for the 25th of February, opened this morning rather better, at 90h for the Account; Mcney, 894 g. 'lee Market at present is in active, owing to the scarcity of contir ental intelligence. Exchequer Bills, 6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169 171; India Stock, 251 253. In the Foreign-Market Spanish Actives the same as they left off, 244 ; Deferred, 124 Passive, 614 ; Portu guese also the same, 324 ; '1 Lace per Cents. 2ft ; Bra. zilian, 734 743-, rather better; Mexican, 284 ; Colom bian, 234 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., same as it closed, 504 4; F:ve per Cents., 98'1 994. SHALT:S.—Great Western, 26 27 prem. ; New, 11 12} prem. ; London and Brighton, 64 6 disc. ; Blackwell, 44 34 disc. ; Birmingham, 82 84 prem. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share ' • Croydon, 124 per s h are ; G reenw i c h , 8 4 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 13 14 disc. ; South Eastern and Dover, 15 144 disc. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western. 624 304......, to London and Brighten ‘lalleheiterand Leeds (New Sh. )25 . 30 Alidland Counties North Midland Ditto New JOINT STOCK RANKS. _Australasia 4O 54 MINES. Rhymncy Iron The British Market continues in the same dull and in animate state as it was during the whole of ycsterdati without a feature worth noticing to the present hour. The speculators, both in the British and Foreign Markets, are entirely inactive, and, it is expected, will continue so until they gain some information respecting- her Majestyal Speech at the opening of Parliament. Money continuer easy in the house. A rcpo:t prevails that there will be a new election in Durham. Consols may be quoted at present as in the early part of the morning,' 90 for the 25th Feb. ; Money, 894 ; Exchequer Bills 6 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1701 1694 rather lower; India Bonds, 5 dis. In the Foreign Market Sp an i s h A c ti ve a s h a d e hi g h er , 244 , Deferred, 124 4 ; Brazilian, 74 , Buenos Ayres, 214, improved; Danish, 784; Dutch • Two-acd-a-HaN per Cents..so4,} ; Five per Cents. 994. In Shares littre doing.—Cheltenham and Great West ern, 30i ; London and Brighton, 43i ; Manchester and Leeds, New Shares, 29 ; Midland Counties, 79 ; North , Midland, 79 ; Ditto, New, 38. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Steck ' 1691 ' India Stock ......... ... .. 3 per Cent. Red 9Ol Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 90 Ditto Old Annuities 11 per Cent Red........ 98L Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. ... 984- Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2Ad Bpm New 5 per Cent ... ...... 1 Ditto 5001 4pm Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small m Jan. 1860 Oct 1859... — India Stock for Acct ... - Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Opg 9o,i FOREIGN FUNDS. 4 A astrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 pqr cent. - Belgian, 5 per cent 9Bl Ditto, New Ditt0....., 34 Brazilian Bonds ....... Prussian, 5 per cent.... —• BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 21 Russian, 5 per cent... 114 Chilian, 6 per cant — Ditto, Metallic Colembian,G percent... Spanish, 5 per cent 25/ Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cant..... 78/ French,s per cent... —f —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange L —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.,.. French,3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent 5Ol Pcruvian,lB2s,6 per et. 161 Ditto, 5 per cent..... 994 SHARES. Birmingham , and Derby Railway (100 pd )... 72 Cheltenham and Great Western (621 paid) 301 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .. Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) 5.1 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 9ll Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid).. lO London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) 431 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 173 London and South Western Railway .....-••• 57/ Manchester and Leeds Railway (70 paid) Ditto New Shares (25 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .....• 79 North Midland Railway (100 paid) 771 • Ditto New Shares (40 paid) South Eastern and Dover (28 paid )... . COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam C F. 12 51Gibraltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 6 .IGenoa 25 85 Antwerp l2 51 Milan -. __ . Hambuith... ....M. B. 13 10 'Venice Altona l3 101 Naples ... ............. .... 39. 4 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45 '.l')a ermo, per 07 1214 D;tto, 3 months 25 70 'Lisbon ... 514. Marseilles.... ........ .... 23 75 ;Oporto ..... Bourdeaux... . .... 25 75 jlio Janeiro 28,.; Frankfort on Maine....l49k Bahia 27 Pctersburgh, 3 Us.-- 371 --. Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 0 . New York, 21 days' sight 461 Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M lO 3 Philadelphia ...... ...... 46 Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz 36 Foreign Gold, bars.. 3 17 9 13ilboa l5l -3 !New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona 3 5 ,- INew Dollars ' 0 4 10} Seville 3si ;Silver in Bars 0 5 og COURT CIRCULAR. WiNDsort, FainAy.—Her Majesty and Prince Al bert walked for a considerable time this morning on the Slopes and on tl.e Terrace of the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended b 3 Lady Fanny Howard, took her departure from the Castle in the middle of the day for town. Baron Stocktuar left the Castle this naoroing. Tlie Countess of Erroll and Lady Wit Hay drove out in the Park in a pony phaeton this ru4hing. The Royal Dinner Party at the Castle this evening wul include the Earl of Uxbridge, the Ladies Eleonora and Constance ''apt, Lord Paget, and lair. G. E. rind the Hon. Mrs. nson. The Queen's private band will he in at tend a n c 'n the Castle this evening for quadrilles and gallopades. The Court will leave Windsor for Buckingham Palace to-morrow afternoon about two o'clock. Her Royal Ifghness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived at ber residence In gestrie House, • Belgrave-square, shortly , before two o'clock yeterdal , afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Baron Koesebeck, heft town yesterday morning for Richmond. Their Royal Highnesses spent the forenoon shooting in Richmond Nth, and i❑ the afternoon returned to Cambridge House. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock, yester day afternoon, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. It was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers. The Council sat two hours and a half. Mr. Jardine, Mr, Cayley, M.P., and Mr. Montgo mery Martin, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-of f ice. Despatches from the Governor of the Honduras were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, Sir Colin Campbell and Mr. Spain had interviews yesterday with Laid John Russell at the Colonial-office THE NE PORT CONVICTS. 7'o THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I, a country Chartist, have just read the letter in your Paper of Jan. 19, of a London Chartist. Whether in town or country, Chartists are ail one as to " the Charter;" in ell other matters they , may differ, as heads and faces differ. I agree with my London brother so far as thinking that pcor Frost suffered rather for the headlong folly of some of our brother Chartists than for his own ; but I dis agree with my brother in his opinion of the Whig Ministry, whom I deem far more worthy of Frost's punishment, for having prosecuted him,than was Frost himself. In the case of Frost and his companions, law and a jury weigh as nothing in my mind. Ino more believe that Frost sought to take and ransack Newport, than i believe it to be the Whig Ministers' determination to keep their places, though at the imminent hazard of the Crown—which I do not at all be lieve, despite my low opinion of them ; or than I believe that the design of the great meeting at Leeds on this day is to throw all the country into confusion, and, if possible, at least to annihilate the bread-taxing landlords. A jury of Tories would no doubt bring all the principals of that meeting in guilty, if the principals used such language as ycu, to your high honour, have been continually using, and if the Attorney-General prosecuted for sedition; Frost teen to dethrone the Queen, or to take Newport ! All Chartists whom I know scorn and scout the thought. But the prosecuting Whig Attorney-General would hare it so; and the jury would have it so; and the most ridiculous law in the world for all things but its hor rible penalties, would have it so; and the present corrupt state of the franchise, allowing no unbiassed jury of their peers to the masses, would have it so ; and thus, in m; own most sincere belief, and in the utterly imrnoveatle conviction, I am certain, of the masses, poor Frost was basely condemned to death, and reprieved to what was, probably, at the time, worse to him than death, and has been transported to a convict settlement by a Government deaf to the supplication of a million and a quarter of the '. eeorle hacked, as they were believed, and knoen by , them valves to be, by far greater numbeis 1 I cannot, therefore, join my London brother Chartist in thanking the Whigs fer what they have done—on the contrary, I execrate them ; yet will I give them my aid in keeping the Torres out, and from my soul will I thank them, and ever with all my might will I labour to keep them in, if they will restore Frost, mid strive honestly and their best to abolish the accursed Corn-laws, end to make every honest Erg- its man, Irishman, and Scotch - I - ran in the United Empire frr.e, by securing to him a free and unembarrassed vote in the Guvernment of the courvry. I remain, Sir, a cordial lover of your principles and con duct, so honestly manifested in your paper, Jan. 21. A COI NTI.:1( CHARTIST. The statement which appeared in a morning Fper, that Mr. Larpent will stand for East Surrey on the Liberal interest, is, we have reason to hclieve, unfounded. The Hon. I\liss Devereux, only daughter of Viscount and Viscountess llcreford,,has br en appointed by her Majesty to succeed Alia Spring Rice, as Maid of Honour to lscr Majesty; EDINBURGH CHAMBER OF COM MERCE. The Annual General Meeting of this body was held yesterday, Mr. SAwEas in the Chair. THE IMPORT DUTIES. Mr. MITCHELL, of Leith, brought forward a motion on the subject of the import duties of the country, which had lately been considered by a Committee of the House of Commons. He had himself, he said, the honour of being examined before the Committee, and several other gentlemen of great experience and influ ence, and the opinion of every one was, that the Bri tish tariff was a mere piece of potchivork ; that the du ties on raw materials were enormous ; and that, though they had been in some instances reduced, yet these re , ductions were not at all commensurate with the exigen cics of the times. In fact, the war taxes on commerce were still continued, though every thing else had been reduced since the peace. He would give on instance of the abs u rdity o f th ese l aw s. A friend of his lately sent to Rotterdam, and bought a cargo of coffee. It was shipped on board the gentleman's own vessel, and carried to the Cape of Good Hope, where it was landed, then re-shipped, and brought to this country. Could any thing be more preposterous than that? Mr. MACFARLAN-0!), yes ; he heard of things as bad as that—for instance, the carrying of Norway timber to Anierca and back again. —(Laughter.) Mr. MITCHELL—Tnat was just ;mailer instance of the absurdity and impolicy of these laws. The duty on, European timbe r was now 565. 61 per load, or about Is. 2d. per foot, which, among other evils, had much :njured toe trade of the place. When the duties were low, the Norwegians carried on a great trade here ; hey were, in fact, our best customers ; and even the common sailors spent their wages in Edinburgh on goods of Scotch manufacture. But this had in a great measure ceased, through the operation of the heavy duties; and for whom were these duties maintained? Why, for the advantage of a few shipowners, who sent to sea a parcel of rotten ships, endangering the lives of our excellent seamen ; and, for their advantage, the inhabitants of this country were prevented from using the best and most durable timber. They were prevented ' from using the raw material of what might prove a most valuable manufacture—oak timber; for if the duty on that article was reduced, this country might build ships, not only for themselves, but for other nations. He could state as a fact, that Russia and other Euro pean Powers were at present building steam.zhir.s in America, and fetching them over with all the machi nery fitted in. Now, he l:ad no doubt, from our supe rior skill in machinery, that all those orders would have come to us but for the high duties on timber. He should, therefore, conclude by moving that the Cham• her petition Parliament to adopt the remission and alte ration of the import duties which was recommended by ;he Committee of the House of Commons. Mr. DICKSON seconded the moticn, which was unanl nously adopted ; and a Committee, Mr. Mitchell con rener, was appointed to draw up the petition. The Chamber then adj)uraed.—Edinburgh Courant. CHURCH-RATES. It is calculated by the Tory journals that mere money is often expended is a Church-rate contest than would pay the whole amount of the rate proposed. They re present this as a very . lavish outlay, and aro much grieved that the antagonism should be so inveterate as to overlook the superfluous costliness. The legal taxa tion of Ecclesiastical Courts, by which a disputed rate of a few slangs drags after it a long tail of costs, at the rate of something like five-and-twenty pounds per shil ling, also seems to them a 7.0E11 and wasteful extrava _ ;ante. And when imprisonment excites a sympaihy that becomes palpable in the form of hard cash, they elevate their hands and eyes at the profitable trade of Church-rate martyrdom. The donation of nine hun dred pounds to John Thorogood plunges them in deepest horror. They inter that clearly the hostility to Church rates is a sort of theological cantankerousness in which the money power is lavishly employed to gra'ify the ma lignity of sectarian bigotry. Such is one Tory view of the Church-rate question ; but there is another. At times we are seriously told that conviction, conscience, and sincerity, have nothing to do with the resistance. The plea of religion is stig matised as a contemptible subterfuge. Tory perspi caeity has penetrated into its entire hypocrisy. The opposition is resolved altogether into pecuniary greedi ness and sordidness. The argument then goes that Dis senters do not dislike the doctrine, but begrudge the gold. They arc charged with prtferrieg the saving of a sixpence to the saving of a soul. Their theology is construed as thievery, their conscience as cheating, and their resistance as robbery. The rate is affirmed to be simply and solely a money question, and the Dissenter a dishonestwaTler of his lawful debts. tliker il argues a subject twine without self contraMrioi It cannot escape the brand which na ture, in the constitution of the human mind, has fixed upon unprincipledness. Each of the foregoing views implies the falsehood of the other. If the anti rate oarty be Lavishly malignant, it cannot be grossly sordid. 'Nor, if grossly sordid, can it be lavishly malignant. In one of the two modes of putting the case there must inevitably be a calumny. But although both cannot be true, both may be false. The identity of malevolent spirit exhibited in the irreconcilable diversity of argu ment, furnishes a presumption that both are false. The presumption is confirmed by any fair view of the merits of the question itself. Put the Church-rate on its lowest ground, that of a pecuniary burden, its infliction on the poor Dissenter is a grievance. Why should the cobbler or labourer, who in his poverty yet contrives to " keep a conscience," be double taxed fur religion ? Is it not enough t-hat he is taxed in all the articles of necessary consump tion ? Is it not enough that he is taxed in his daily bread ? Is it not enough that he taxes himself, ac cording to his ability, for the form of religion that mi nisters to his own edification ? He pays his five shil lings, hardly earned, to the chapel where he prays. 'Co plunder his little hoard, if he have one ; or to take his bed or his Bible, to get other five shillings out of him for the Church, is an imposition that every honest heart is impelled to resist. Put the Churc!i-rate on the ground of a legal claim ; treat it as any other payment, which by law may be euferced ; an objection so far as to become a principle of opposition is immediately evident. The claim al leged to be legal is founded on fraud. The rate, ori ginally, was not given to the Church, but stolen by the priesthood. The endowment with tithes included the repairs of the fabric within its purposes. The rate in addition was obtained by the perversion of spiritual in fluence. The robbery has survived the superstition, but not changed its character thereby. Robbery it is, and robbery it will remain to the end of the world, unless in the case of those who make it their voluntary offering. Nor is the imposition at all dignified by the change in the machinery for enforcing payment, and the substitution of legal chicanery for the now defunct terrors of excommunication. Politically, the Church-rate is offensive and intole rable, as a civil distinction which creates a privileged and a subordinate caste in the country. The rights of property ought to be equal in all classes of a free community. Generally, they are so. At least, the inequality which does exist is veiled ; it is the inei di,Nital result of the inability of poverty to cope with legal expenses ; but the law itself is open for all, as well as the London Tavern. But Dissent puts one portion of the rights of property in abeyance. Tho chapel-going man can be taxed for the Church ; the church-going man cannot be taxed for the chapel. his money is taken without his own consent, because he is a non-conformist. That is a license for picking his pocket to a defined amount ; or if he resist, to an amount not easily defined. Here is inequality. Here is a subordination which no member of a free State can submit to, without compratnising the character and rights of a citizen. Were such an invasion tamely endured, the quiescent victims would be no batter than plundered renegades from English feeling and principle. But there are those who might even bear this, for the sake of quiet and godly lives, did it not touch them still nearer. They inquire not closely into im perial claims, but " render unto Caesar the things which are Ctosar's," until they find one who to them must appear as a surpliced marauder, in Caesar's name; demanding " that which is God's." At that point, conscience sticks. They pay for the purity of Christianity, they cannot pay for (to them) the cor ruption of Christianity. They pay for the propagation of the true faith, they cannot consent to pay for the propagation of a false faith. They must, by Peac ab t le ,, means, hut as eiT , ctively as possible, resist. l them " very stuff o' the conscience ;" and v not iou3 t t ot i o h o e s tr: only, but to all who hold that, in their consciousness, however mistaken, the great principle of religiousli berty should be respected. is c h o u n r l o y il l! r y a t u o n i o t a e n d , e o x r e e r d t i r o e n s s t e l d t t each a thingg r grievance as as It t ie short of a compromise of p r i n ciple should , be e ci a o cc , o k. nl i m i od l a of Lyndon t ed to the production of such union. he port of the Dissenting Dep uties passage which, if we iiAhtly tand it, is seAreely great ca object. Ny e extract it: le p u a l r i t t l t ) c , d io t to h p o ro h n o t i o ie te o f t lios being found less la:prat:dna t.s ble than we apprehend : " In blay last, it was p roposed to introd uce i nto t h e House of Cominons a 13:11 for relieving Dissenters from Church-rates on their making a (leclaration of their being Dissenters. Your Committee intimated to the proposer their o bjections to the principle of this measure, as they d:ssired a total abolition, and could not agree to declarations and tests on the part of Di-3r_•nter% The plan eventually foil to the ground. Thu advancement ef religious yhas ; in the his tory of our country, been gradual. We have at 011 times been willing to accept the smallest instalments, but the very idea of recurring to a test, and thereby mrking a civil distinction on religious grounds, reminds us of that Test Act, which it required so many plats and such arduous struggles to remove. Your Committee will feel satisfied with nothing leas than a total and unqualified freedom from CLureu-rates, and this they would fain hope, by a Wong MORNING E general, WO united effort of liberal Churchn-en sad wr principled Dissenters, may soon be obtained." Now whatever objections may lie against the forms declaration proposed in Mr. T. Duncombe's Bill (1 , : , alluded to), we do not see how the principle can be r jured, and the relief obtained independently of some s, of declaration. No Dissenter can reasonably object Churchmen's taxing themselves for their own Church s worship. Their " total and unqualified freedom fru Church-rates" is no part of the relief now strugg for. As to them, the rate may be an imposition ; 1 that is their business, and a distinct question. Ho' . then, is the discrimination to be made ? The declar • tion is not necessarily offensive. The civil immunit , ,l of Dissenting ministers are obtained by a declaratico of faith before a Magistrate, which they general make. Corporation offices also imply a declaration faith in Christianity, Under the Marriage Act, wi. which Dissenters have expressed their satisfaction, n' only is declaration of Dissent, but of the particular s or forms of the parties, made to the civil officer. T hostility to such test, as a declaration of dissent wet: imply, especially when required, not for degradation b for immunity, does seem to us unreasonable. Aboliti of the rate, as an involuntary payment on the part any who do not conform to the Established Church, the point to be aimed at. With that, any mode of ale, , taining the parties liable may ho tolerated which is e, . purposely offensive ; without that, no friend of religiot s• freedom can be satisfied.—Morniiw Chronick. NEW FACTS IN SCIENCE. The muting of the Geological Society, on Thursday, Was marked by feaures of peculiar interest. The proem!. ings commenced with a most elaboratepaper from the of Professor 0 wen,on the remains of reptiles found in tbo r sandstone of Warwick, and the relation of that deposit to the keuper formation of Germany. 'rile Professor detailed the result of some microscopic examina tions, conducted with his usual accurary and persever ance, and exhibited some microscopic drawings of sin gular fidelity and beauty. As the summary of his ob servations, we may state that he proved that the ani mals considered by Dr. Jaeger, of Stutgard, to form three genera of Mastodon Saurus, Phylosaurus, and Dracosaurus, are, in fact, the same creation, whiert Professor Owen, from the intricate form of the teeth, denominates the Labyrinthodon. The Professor sue-• gested the probability of the Warwick sandstones being identical with the keuper sandstone of Ger many, a proposition which mot with some objectioni., though but one opinion prevailed as to tho value and importance of the Professor's investigations in re zoological paint of view ; the accuracy and patienca of his research ; the truth and importance of LEA conclusions. The next paper was on the del/ratio-1 of a part of the coast of Ireland, in the vicinity of Waterford, by Mr. Austen ; white a communici. tion from Mr. Dell, on the fish and pther organi:: remains of the Crag of Norfolk and Suffolk, terminated the written communications of the evening. 'Then': various topics gave rise to animated discussions, And a fine display of, intellectual gladiatorship was exhibited, the combatants being Professors Buckland and Sedp wick, Messrs. Lyell, Delaboche, Murchison, and other:.. PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY.---It i 8 well known fact that, during certain past ages of 6J:- history of our earth, volcanic agency was developct: on a scale of infinite grandeur and importance, ar.O. that in particular a considerable portion of thra centre of France, including the whole of the ancient; province of Auvergne, as well as the country bordering on the Rhine, was once the site of volcanic: agency of exceeding power and extent. We owe to the zeal and energy of two English geologists , Messrs. Hamilton and Strickland, the discovery of a series oe dormant volcanos, situated in Asia Minor, cpmmensurate in importance with those of central France and the Rhine. In a district in the vicinity of Smyrna called the Katake kaumene (name indicative of its burnt iad parched cha racter), our spirited countrymen have disebvered a serii.s of volcanic vents, which though now in:a, state of repos , . were once awakened to the most fearfa activity, and must have presented a scene of devastation far ; excelling that of Etna and Vesuvius at the present clay, It is ae instructive and an awful lesson, to .reflect..that these once active fires are hushed, but not extinguished ; and that the same Almighty hand which called ithem first into being may again rouse them to .all';thqr pristine energy and power of devastation. " MEETING OF MIDDLEStX MA- GISTRATES. A very numerous meeting of the Magistrates of the county of Middlesex was held on Thursday at the Sessions house, Clerken well, for the despatch of county business. A very lengthened report of the Visiting Justices of the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell was read, from which the following is an extract " Among the many suggestions for diverting the me lancholy and exciting better feelings among the violent patients the appropriating of one evening in the week to innocent amusements has been found signally beneficial. On Thursday evenings those who can attend are enter tained with music on the organ, and also those who are able join in the hymns which are sung on the oceasiolk_ " These are among the various means which tlreVisiting► Justices hope to see more generally adopted in the asylum, by which the good feeling of the patients may be strength ened and their violence in the most effectual way con - trolled. Many instances could be given of patients on the. female side in whom, by the considerate care and at• tention of the matron to these little matters of amusement and recreation, and by the absence of all harsh trcatmen: and bodily coercion, the most gratifying changes ha% been brought about. Cheerful and decent behaviour hr t taken the place of violence and obscenity, and compara tive aptitude for instruction and industry are now in ninny instances to be seen instead of sullen stupidity or idleness. Where cure may be hopeless surely much may be done these means to call forth what remains of mental facult;, and in s , Ane degree to humanise their manners and con , versation. " The Visiting Justices on this, as on former occasion . are gratified in being able to repeat that the managem ei of the insane in the Asylum is carried on without person: coercion, and that nothing has occured since their last r, port to shake their confidence in its final success. The . think it due to this humane system to say thus much, with out committing themselves so far as to deny tie posslbilit . . of a ca,te arising which may require a return to one c ether of the old instruments of coercion. This, howeve they can declare, that there has been no such instance a Hanwell, and they sincerely hope, for the sake of humanit: that there never may. if they have been led to spc: with confidence, it is because they believe much to be,. stake, for though their attention has hecn limited t its effects upon the patients within the walls of the Asylun they cannct shut their eyes to the fact, that if this hums, system he proved by experience to be the right one a , Hanwell, the medical profession, rid thuse who have ti , regulation of s'enilar institutions, will not bo long in cll. covering end admitting that such a system, if e,,rried et. with judgment, cannot we wrong elsewhere." The N.ev. Mr. Triimuria then rose to call the attentie of the Court to the last Report of the Visiting Justices the County Lunatic Asylum and of Dr. Conolly. The worthy Magistrate entered into a levy lengthened state ment relative to the treatment of patients in the Asylum, and said he altogether disapproved of the s 3 stem of treat ment adopted in the Asylum since the retirement of William Ellis. The Chairman and several other Magistrates replied r very considerable length. After a discussion, vdlich lasted several hours, the d • bate was adjourned to a faturo day. The Report of the Committee on the County Tre surer's Accounts was read, and a county rata of a pen in the pound agreed to. It is stated in the City that the Lord May , does not intend to swear in Mr. Gibbs as the new bridg master, in consequence of the disclosures relative to son personating voters; this is the more likely as the reject. candidate intends to demand a scrutiny. Since the conclusion of the Mackau treaty ti people of Monte Video arc in the utm ost des p air. TI apprehension is certainly not wit hout cause, the I'o people having been placed under the protection of Franc i tir o s in da t y owa n i t n g! l —Charicari. FATAL ACCIDENT,--Ott landlord of t o I ark corner the horse to, about ten o'clock, as Mr. J. Lawleo, George Inn, Hounslow - , and formerly proprietor o f t gig, on arriving rOctunrniTn Telegraph, Reading at co l a l c . : i d , veh i c l e _against the railings fright and ran the ; the co , eussion was so great that the unforttnate gentleman vz ti:rovvn with Inch violence on his head that his death v., Almost instantaneous. FISHERROW, JAN. 18.—A melancholy ac ( dent occurred here on Saturday last, A yawl, om by John Cunningham, an infirm old man, gin belou - • g t hi s place, had left the harbour at h a l' oast nine o'c c t hi s morning,• with a crew consistin,., of himselfa m nam ed Ritchie, and two boys, aged 'fourteeni - 444 fifty years, for the purp ose o f dredging oysters. They I gone shout two miles nort h- west f rom t h e pier-he when a sudden squall from the cast struck the sail, r the sheet being fast, th e b oa t ca psiz e d. Cunningbi. i who s an excellent swimmer, assisted by an oar, kept self afloat, and was picked up about 15 minutes alter • accident ; but, we regret to say, the other man the two boys were drowned. Yesterday (Sunday>) greater number of the boats and crews belonging the place, in a most praiseworthy manner, turned out, were all day engaged under the ab'e superintendenet Mr. John Gibson, fish curer (and who rupplicd refr• moms), in dragging for the bodies, and were ruccesafu finding them all, teg ether with the boat, near the p where the accident happened. To-day the whole fisl men have remained at borne to attend the obsequies, have just followed the bodies in procession to their resting-place in Inveresk church-yard. The kindness syrnralhy displayed to the survivor and relatives of the ceased, in the present ins=tance, by the seafaring 1)34 our ropu i, t h oo , i; dererving of the highest praise, and altog-ether sierthy of their proverbially blunt and ho: character. —Edinburgh Paper. THE CORN-LAWS.—A Correspondent info! US that Sir Robert Peel will take en opportunity o'• in the House of Commons that it be referred to a C m ince to take into consideration the present iuctua duties on corn, with a view to the reduction of the s, if such.shGuld be deemed advisable. According to a Vienna coirespondent of sth instant, accounts have been received there from P. creating great alarm as to the health of the Archduc Maria Louisa.