The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

r 0' MORNING EDITION: BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS. (From the (:ommerce.) The vesion whether Park cv.ri be destroyed by a bom bardment depends entirely on its distance from the da tached forts, and the actual distance projectiles can be thrown from them. We quote first M. Arago'a calcula tions rs to the impulsion of artillery as drawn up in 1833, When M. niers, then Minister of Commerce ; M. Guizot, Minister of Public Instruction ; and Marshal Soult, Pre sident of the Council, proceeded by an ordonnance to execute General Bernard's system of the erection of 15 detached forts or bastiles to burn Paris. The Committee f the Chamber of Deputies at that time, in its report, declared that the forts being at 2,000 metres from the octroi wall, the capital was safe. M. Arago combatted that opinion by the following figures : In 1740, projectiles could be thrown 4,500 metres. In 1771, Bezont, with 24-pounders, reached 4,442 metres (a metre is about three feet thiee and a half-inches.) In 1811, at Antwerp, 4,950 metres were attained. M. Arago adds, that the range is considerably increased In proportion to the height of the hills or elevated spots where the batteries are placed. The range of 4 000 metres is obtained with every de scription of metal attached to an army, with 8-inch Spanish howitzers, and with Russian licornes. In 1610 Seville was fired upon, and, in 1811, Cadiz, from a battery placed at 6,000 metres from the city. The English Congrevc rockets, called carcass rockets, which carry 171bs. of combustible materials, may ba thrown at :1,400 metres. General Tirlet adds that there arc war-rockets of a lanse 0f.4,000 metres, and which may be thrown from any Point without any other instrument then a trcvit. But cannon used for bombarding has a considerably greater range. Official experiments have been made on this subject. M. Arago has published a statement, which Is as follows : EXPERIMENTAL RANGE FROM GREAT ANGLES. Calibre. Weight. Range. Antw-- 7rp 1811 43-inch - 5,144 metres. Brest .....,1811 36-inch - 5,350 metres. Seville -1810 10-inch Z 1751b5. 5,574 metres. 10-inch 8 1601bs. More than 6,000 metres. La Feu lBll 11-inch 1751b5. 6,000 metres. Indret 1512 11-inch 1801 bs. 5,900 metres. The Viloutrey mortars range from 6,000 to 6,600 metres. We must observe that the latest experiment was made twenty-eight years ago, and that since that period great discoveries and important improvements have taken place in the artillery branch of the service. Therefore we are within the most moderate bounds in stating that, since those experiments, the range has not increased, and in stopping at 6,000 metres. Let us add, however, that, in military circles, a new process is much spoken of, which throw projectiles at much greater distances. Those points being mathematically established, there remeins but one simple thing to be done, and which is slot above the comprehension of a child ; it is to take a corn 'pass, in short the plan which has been distributed to the Chamber, and to measure the distances which separate the different forts from the outskirts (faubourgs) of the city, and then from its very centre. According to the plan which we have just alluded to, the following is an account of the fortresses to be built:- To the north, St. Denis and the Eastern Fort.; to the south, on all the line from the south-east to the south west, the forts of Ivry, Bicetre, Montrouge, .Vanves, and hay ; to the cast, on the line from the north-east to the south-east, the forts of Romainville, Noisy, Rosny, No gent, Vincennes, and Charenton ; to the west, Mount Valerien. Total, fourteen fortrcs , :es. The fort of Romainville is at 1,500 metres from the enceinte continue (or union line of defence), at 3,700 metres from the city walk, and at 4,900 from the in terior Boulevards, (in the quarters of St. Denis and St. Martin.) Tho fort of Vincennes is at 1,200 metres from the en ceinte continue. (It hats since been brought closer by several hundred metres. ) It is at 2,000 metres from the city walls, end at 4,500 metres from the Place de la Bastille. The fort of Charenton is at 3,500 metres from the en teinte continue, at 3,900 from the city walls, and at 5,300 from the wine market. The fort of Ivry is at 2,500 metres from the enceinte continue, at 3,900 from the city walls, and at 5,306 from the wine market. The fort of Bicetre is at 1,200 metres from the enceinte continue, at 2 500 from the city walls, at 5,100 fi am the Cathedral of Notre Dame, at 4,400 from the Pantheon, and at 4,500 from the nine market, and frcm storehouses in abundance. The fort of Montrouge is at 1,600 metres from the en ceinte continue, at 3,000 from the city walls, at 4,300 from The Luxemburg, and at 5,590 from the Pont Neuf. The fort of Vanves is at 1,900 metres from the enceinte continue, at 3 500 from the city walls, and at 5,800 from the Hotel des Invalides. Mount Valerien is at 3,800 metres from the enceinte continue, at 4,600 from Passy, at 5,700 from the city walls, and at less than 6,000 metres from the Faubourg du Route. The eastern fort is at 5,400 metres from the city walls. From this summary, which we guarantee to be correct, for it has been carefully drawn out and verified on the Ministerial plan, it results that only three fortresses out of the fourteen that are to be erected do not threaten some point or other point of the capital. Eleven of the forts can bombard it. Amongst them eight are at 4,000 metres, or even at much less, from the faubourgs of the capital ; they are-Romainville Vincennes, Charenton, Ivry, Bicetre, Montrouge, V...nves, and Issy. All that will be requisite for them is the usual range of heavy m etal. For the three others, the greatest, range allielsd to by M. Arago, and of which he has made several ex periments, will admit also of havoc being committed :within the very walls of the city. But if it be recol lected that the greatest range at which projectiles are tiirown exceeds 6,000 metres and more ; that Bicetre is but at 5,100 metres from Notre Dame, and at 4,400 from the Pantheon ; that Montrouge is at 4,300 -metres from the Luxemburg, and at 5,500 from the Pont Neuf, is it not evident that those forts can spread death and conflagration in the very heart of the capital ? That Vincennes, at 4 500 metres from the Bastile, can send its shot to the very bottom of the Rue saint Antoine, and that Romainville, not being far from it, at 4,900 metres from the Portes Saint Denis and Saint Martin, can extend its devastation even beyond those very populous quarters ? Therefore the southern forts, Bicetre, Montrouge, Van. Yes, anti Issy, command and can set fire to the whole of the left bank of the Seine, and even shower red-hot shot into the very heart of the city. They keep the Faubourg Saint Marceau within their grasp, whilst Vincennes has also all that of Saint Antoine, and uniting with Ivry to the loft. and Romainville to the right, commands all that im mense population of inhabitants from the Faubourg Saint Denis to the Pont d'Austerlitz, and from the city walls to the interior of the rues Saint Denis, Saint Antoine, and of the Temple. But this is not all. If from the fort of Vanves at the south-west to the fort of Romainville, at the north-east, a straight line is drawn across the whole breadth of Paris, and, taken in the direction of the Pont Neuf, an extent of 12,500 metres will be found in that line comprised between *.hose opposite forts. Whence it results, that from the greatest range of the two forts, combined one with the "her, amounting to 12,000 me tres, Peris can be entirely kombarded on all sides, with the exception of an interme diate space of only 500 metres. But if mortars a la Viloutrey were planted on the two forts, which, according to M. Arago's calculation, can ensure a range of 6,500 metres, it would result therefrom that the bombs would war the whole breadth of the city, and that their shot would cross each other in the very centre of the capital. Let us add, however, that from the fort of Romainville to the fort of Montrouge, which is but at 2,000 metres from Vanve s , that said line in ail its lengths has but 11,500 metres in extent. We have yet many observations, but we must limit our Vete. We think we have said enough to prove that M Thiera's plans, in IS4I, arc concocted in the same view, and 13 iiplay the same danger as M. Thiets's plans in 1533. The detached forts of the man of the Ist of March will cannonade aroi burn the Parisians with not less certainty Led efficacy than the detached forts of the man of the 11th of October. M. Thiers then denied that the forts could Iseach Paris. He now admits that he was deceiving the country. M. Thi ers , i n 1841, renews the same protesta tions. We have just prosed that he wishes again to de ceive it. TH E FLOODS IN WORCESTERSHIRE.—The flux of water into the Severn, from the melting of the 'new in 'Wales, has now overflowed its banks. Nor is the Severn the only river in our locality thus affected, the Avon being so swollen that the road between Pershore and Evesham is impassable, the Sovereign coach and the Oxford mail, on Monday night and yesterday being obliged to go round by the upper road, through Fladbury and Wyra Piddle to Pershore, thus losing a good deal of time. The Ludlow mail has also been delayed in consequence of t nebvight of the Ton e , a t Newnharn Bridge, being many feet above its ordinary level The London mail to this C ity. ty " railway " through Birmingham, and the Oxford Thail by road, did not reach our post-office until consider ably after time on F r id a y morn i ng , name l y, t h e f ormer at b alf-past eight instead of twenty minutes before seven, and the latter at half-past one o'clock P ax, , instead of eight " 4 . The delay was in both instances the same, viz., the interruption of snow which the train bringing the Lon d°ll Mail encountered at Rugby, and the Oxford mail at Woodstock. The latter mail was brought on in a post chase and four by the guard, who states that he left the coach behind him embedded in snow to the depth of nine feet; he raft) states that he met the guard of the up-mail 00 Thursday ni g h t between Woodstock and Chipping Nor- on hcr.eback, laden with the bags, which ho bad brought on from Chipping Norton, beyond which the coach could not advance, from the blockaded state of the roads. On Saturday the Oxford mail succeeded in coming the who le way, but did not arrive here till two o'clock in the afternoon, while the London mail was an hour and a half beyond its ti me . T he following day the rapid thaw had blare d the roads of Snow, and the mails arrived as usual. In some parts of Wales the floods have been much more serious than in our locality-. At Newtown, early on Sun day morning, t h e i n h a ' oiLants were aroused from their s lumbers, and were compelled to make the most strenuous some e xertions t : preserve tkir prop e rty f rom d amage, t h e loner part c f their dwellings being under water, and orne sheets being completely ibodec.--- Worcestershire Chronicle. LAMBETH I.NIPROVENIENTS.—The inhabitants of the extensive and populous borough of Lambeth are be stirring themselves to obtain a portion of the large sum g r anted by Parliament for the improvement of various Parts of the metropolis. Several meetings, at which Mr. flaw E B , M. P., t h e R ev. D r. D'O y l ey, the rect:o, and Other influential residents, t a ke an a c ti ve p art , are beine to consider in w h a t way t h at d es i ra bl e o b ject may b e host speedily accomplished. AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE OF AMUSEMENT.-- A Morning Parer, noticing the attractive quality of the os ements at th e G arr i c k Th eatre, says, " Con nest has made revera l happy hits in his career ; but, in this in stance, it would appear that the author has taken his mea sure.to. a nic e ty, f or b e keeps the house screaminy all the lie be is on the stage." C ....,,, , . 4 4 • AA INUNDATIONS IN FRANCF. The Rouen capers mention that never, in the memory of the oldest inhabitants, hac:• the small streams, the Re bec and the Aubette, beets so much flooded. In the Quar tier Bouvreuil, the rue Verto was quite under water, and the occupiers of the ground-floors had to remove with their effects. Several bridges have been carried away, and two persons belonging to Maronne, and several of other communes, have been crowned. Many maoufacto• ries are stopped, in consequence of the destruction of the water-wheels. Extensive inundations have taken place at various points along the course of the Somme, and near Amiens, a here a good deal of cattle has been lost. At Houdre ville, near Fontainebleau, at Beauvais, and at Aubenton, in the Aisne, extensive fbods have prevailed. At Evreux, the lower part of the town bre been considerably damaged by the waters. We learn from Pontoise,. that the Viosne has over flowed all the low grounds round that place, and has stop ped most of the mills. The Couleuvre, too, has done much damage. Extensive inundations have been caused by the melting of the snow near Chateaudun, Chartres, and Dreux, in the Eure-et- Loire. Advices from Arras inform 113 that the melting of the snows and the rains has caused great floods in all the low districts round that city. The low grounds on the barks of the Seine, both above and below Paris, are under water to a considerable cx• tent ; bat hitherto no damage to property of any consider able extent has taken place. The river is on a level with the tops of the arches of several of the bridges. HA MBU it Gli PAPERS. ANTWERP, JAN. 18.—The navgation being again open the Soho -steamer will ply as usual between London and Antwerp. During the mouth of January it is to leave London every Thursday at nine o'clock, and Antwerp every Sunday at ten o'clock. The Princess Victoria will leave Ostendon Wednesday. BRUSSELS, JAN. 17.—The papers are full of details of the inundation, which seems to increase. The railway is rendered impassable in several places. •JAN. 18.—The Chamber of Representatives has met to-day and continued the debate on the Budget of the MB ni=ter of the Interior. We have received a letter from Lisbon, which informs us of the arrival in that city of M. Beaulieu, the Belgian Charge d'Affaires to the Court of Portugal. He was most graciously received by the Queen and her august Consort. Prince Lichnowsky, author of the " History of the House of Habsberg," who enjoys a high reputation In Germany, has been for several weeks in this city, explor ing our literary treasures. He is engaged almost every day in the archives of the kingdom, and has already col lected numerous documents, of which he will make use in the continuation of his work. The Prince, his son, who has acquired some celebrity in Spain, where he bad the rank of General in the service of Don Carlos, likewise arrived at Brussels a few days ago. A crowd of persons wentiont at the Anderiecht gate yesterday afternoon to see the inundation. We are happy to be able to state the Seine has nearly returned to its proper channel. Yesterday a quantity of enormous masses of ice, which the &line had brought, remained in the causeway of Andericcht when the waters subsided. I3aussEt.s, JA N. 19.—8 y a Royal decree of the 16th of January, the contingent of the army for the year is fixed at 10,000 men, to be laid on the several provinces in propor tion to their respective population. ATHENS, DEC. 27.—Several deaths occur daily among the Egyptian prisoners who were wrecked on the island of Negropont. Fear, cold, and other causes of suffering, affect these unfortunate men. It is not known what the Government has decided with respect to them. His Ma jes.ty's birthday was celebrated on the 21stlinstant, with the usual festivities. L'ATIIENS; Dre. 30.—Yesterday afternoon, at throe o'clock, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of I.3s varia arrived happily in the Pirzeu.3, on board an extra steam-boat belonging to the Company of the Austrian Lloyd it Trieste, and was received with open arms by the King, his brother.—Allgemeinc Zeitung, Jan. 15. The Allyemeine Zeitung has no article from Vienna or Constantinople. EEL:jilt?! f!UNDS—diatisv , ELd, JAN. 19, Actual Deist, 2 per Cent. Itc.thschild's Loan, 5 per Cant ! 6 7 4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. Ft) -- (1 , 4) 1.6 ,7i, 3 per Cent. --- Thirty.SeVCll—-•-...-• .., G:3 c,‘ Loan of City, 153'.. ) ., 4 per Cent !AI Societ:, of Commerce, •t!,.i per Cent li •? Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent r9 • National Ssciety. . _ Exchange on Lon,losi (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 19. GRE [CE. 4 ATHENS, Dec. 30, 1840. A considerable number of visitors are sojourning here at present. and among them there are no less than nine clergy men of the Church of England. The Crown Prince of Be varia, Maximilian, arrived here yesterday in an Austrian steamer from Corfu. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are expected here this afternoon from Patras, Delphi, Corinth, &c. In consequence of much publicity having been given by the English and Continental Newspapers to the recent horrible acts of torture and cruelty practised by the police of Athens, sanctioned, as it would appear, by the King, some attempt at explanation has been put toi th by an Athenian Journal in the interest of the Court, but not one of the chareei Iras been refuted. It is to be hoped that these disgraceful outrages will be discontinued, or, if not, that the European Powers, who placed a Bavarian dynasty on the Throne of Greece, will insist on such truly mon. strous outrages being abolished. The City of Dublin steam-boat has been placed upon the station between 'Mita, the lonien Islands, and Greece, and has proved totally unfit, in every respect, for the work, so much so that she will now have to lay up at Malta a second time, to make good defects, and it is notorious that not only is there a want of power in the engines, but that the accommodation for passengers is excessively bad; in short, just what might be expected from a coasting steamer destined to carry pigs and their attendants. It is incom prehensible how those who act on behalf of the London Post-office authorities can permit the contractors to em ploy such incompetent vessels. The sum paid by the Post-office to the steam company is very large, and should at least entitle the plebe, whose money it is, to have the service properly and punctu oily performed. TEXAS, We have been favoured by a Correpondent with the tariff of Texas, as modified by the second Congress. GOODS .ADMITTED DUI . / FREE. Axes for husbandry Iron and steel unmanufac- Arms and all munitions of tuned war Iron implements of husban dry, Bacon or of any description, it Bread stuffs brought by emigrants for Bale rope their owe use Barley Liquors, malt Beef, pickled Lumber Beets Lime Beans Machinery of all l,;nds Books Cats , Baggage in actual use belong- Oniens ing to emigrants Pork Bricks Potatoes Building stone Ploughs Carts Rice Corn Super Coffee Salt Cotten bagging Slates Clothes in use Seeds Coal Tongues Drays Tea Flour Tools in ae'ual use Farming utensils Tiles for banding Furniture of all kinds Vinegar Hai ness Wheat Harrows Wagons • Hoes The following articles are subject to a specific duty : Almends, per lb., 3 cents Nails and Screws, per ICO Butter, per lb., (ii cents lbs., 100 cents Brandy according to strength, Pepper, per lb., 5 cents per gallon, 50 to 75 cents Raisins, per lb., 3 cents Cinnamon, per lb., 10 cents Spice—Pimento, 5 cents Cloves, per lb., 10 I etas Cloves and Cinnamon, 10 Candles, Tallow, or Sperm, cents 2 cents Spirits, unenumeratod, same Wax, 4 rents as Brandy : Curls, 121- cents Saltpetre, perlb., tii cents Cordage, 2 cents Tobacco—Cigars per 1,000, Fish—Cod, per 100 lbs., 100 250 cents cents Whiskey according to strength, Mackerel, per brl., 150 cts 25 to 50 cents Salmon, per brl., 200 eta Wines—French, per gallon, Herrings, per brl., 160 cis 25 cents Herrings in boxes, per 100 Port, per gall.. 371 cents lbs., 100 cents Teneriffe, per gal., 37 , cts Shad, per brl., 150 cents Spanish, red or white, per Filberts, per lb., 3 cents gall., 23 cents Figs, per lb., 3 cents German, red or white, per Liquors• in bottles, per doz., gall., 50 cents 100 cents Madeira, per gal., 75 cents Molasses, or Syrup, per gal- Char pagne, per doz., 100 c lon, 5 cents Upon the following articles the duty is charged ad valorem:— Apples, 25 per cent Ilats, 25 per cent Boots and Shoes, 25 per cent Iron, manufactured, 20 per et. Brass,', manufactured, 0 per Ivory, 20 per cent cent Jewellery, 33 1.3 Fr cent Brushes, 20 per cent Lead, manufactured, 25 per Cotton, manufactured, 10 per cent cent Mustard, 25 per cent. Clothing, not in use, 30 per et. Oils, 15 per cent Copper, manufactured, 20 per Pickles, 25 per cent cent Pewter, manufactured, 20 per Carriages for pleasu re , 25 per cent cent Paints, 20 per cent Cards, playing, 50 per cent Silk, manufactured, 30 por et. Combs, 25 per cent Soap. yellow, 4 per cent Drugs and medicines, 20 per —, other sorts, 2 per cent cent Tooe, not in actual use, 15 Earthenware, 20 per cent per cent Fruits, apples, and peaches, 25 Tin, manufactured, 20 per ct. per cent Tobacco, otherwise than in Glass and glassware, 20 per et. Cigars, 30 per cent. Unenurnerated articles are subject to a duty)of 25 per cent. ad valorem. .. The rules and regulations of the custom-houses in the United States are adopted in this Republic as far as• circumstances and the applicability of the laws will permit. , SINGULAR BAPTISMAL NAMES.—JOllathall Collins, cotton spinner, at Ilywood, has lately caused four of his children to he christened in the following names, at St. Luke's Chapel, Heywood :—First, .T.)lin Jonathan George; second, Martha Maria Hannah Victotia; third, Sergeant Hall Oliver CroMwell ; fourth, Camerceha Albert Napoleon Louis the Twelfth. The Earl of Verulam is about to erect a chapel of ease to St. Michael's Church, St. Alban's, a place of worship at the extremity of that parish being much wanted. The Hon. Miss Grimston hs liberally contributed 5001. towards the emdownient of it, and the vi,rtr, Lord Fred. Bcaucleik, D. D., at the brad of a Committee, is actively engaged in promoting this laudable object. TILE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1841. THE MURDER OF THE- BISHOP OF ERNIELAND. OFFICIAL REPORT TO THE FRUSSIAN MINISTER FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. O❑ Sunday: We the coach man, one of the footmen, and the two maid-servants of the Bishop went to the parish church, in the lover part of the town, :1 order to be present at the close of the 40 hours' prayer. About a quarter of an hour later the other footman follow,Rl, by the express order of his master, after two gentlemen who bad paid a short visit to the Bishop had taken their departure. Before this inter view, which had been solicited from the Bishop, he in his kind manner desired his old housekeeper, Bosalia Pfeiffer, aged 76, to make all fast after the servants should be gone. Nevertheless, the two maid-ser vants, on returning about a quarter-past seven, found the doors all open, and looked in vain for the house keeper through all the lower apartments of the ground floor and in the kitchen, places from which she had sd dom before been missed.. . The two footmen, having on the conclusion of the church service, besides attending to some busimss of their own, inquired, by the Bishop's direction, respect ing the health of a cation, returned after the lapse of another half hour, that is to say, about half-past seven, and learned that the housekeeper was nowhere to be found. The coachman went, after the service, to a public-house to get a glass of beer, and was still later in coining hoMe. One of the footmen proceeded up stairs, but rushed instantly down with the alarr'eing information that the Bishop was lying bathed in his blood on the floor, and that Rosalie Pfeiffer was sitting by the stove in a state of insensibility. The two foot men and the two maid servants ran up, and were hor ror-struck at the spectacle which presented itself—of their venerable master lying on the floor, stretched out ale his length in a flood of blood, with his face down wards. The housekeeper, whose countenance was also covered with blood, and who sat, as has been said, near the stove, had several severe wounds on the head. After repeated questions, loudly put to her, as to what had passed, she only pointed to the dead body of the Bishop, and with difficulty gave utterance to the scarcely intelligible words," Who is that—what is that ?" The Bishop's servants having made the dreadful event known, the Burgomaster, Novakovsky, the ca thedral physician, Cirski, some canons, and severalciti zens of Frauenburg, hastened to the Bishop's residence. The body of the Bishop, which, though lifeless, was not yet cold, was laid on a bed, but all the means of restoring animation were tried in vain. Three severe wounds bad been inflicted by a hatchet, or some such weapon, on the head. One of these, which was three inches long, and three-quarters of an inch broad, and by which the brain on the right side was laid open, had evidently been given by the mortal blow. The house keeper, who had received three severe wounds on the heed, was conveyed to her bed. The physician de votes the greatest attention to her case, and there are now. hopes of her recovery ; but how and when she got into the Bishop's apartment, and came to be seated upright by the side of the stove, cannot yet be known. The horrible occurrence appears to have made such an impression on her, that she has not hitherto been able to communicate anything of importance. The few half intelligible words which she mutters at feverish inter vals appear to have reference to the instructions given her by the Bishop before the murderous deed. The burgomaster ordered the Bishop's curial domain and all the outlets of the town to be watched, and the houses of all suspected persons to be searched. At the same time about a dozen mounted citizens patrolled all over and about the town in every direction, for the purpose of arresting any to whom suspicion might attach ; but all this had no result. The Cetbsdral Syndic, Virs bovski, was also occupied during the night, from 3 to 4, in examining the Bishop's domestics ; there appeared no ground for suspecting any of the individuals belong ing to the establishment. The news of the aesassina tion having that night reached the neighbouring town of Braunsberg about 11 o'clock, the district Judicial Coueselior Dulle hastened to Frauenburg, whither the military commandant also sent a detachment to assist the police, and took upon himself the investigation of the case. Near the spot where the Bishop had been struck down there was found a kind of mask. Tue upper part of this mask, which is made of coarse linen, has two round holes cut out for the eyes ; the under part, which hangs down in the form of a beard, is of dark cotton much %ion), by washing, and is stitched to the linen with blue thread. In the Bishop's sitting room, where a listed lamp stood beside his reading de s k, some d raw s% of a commode, which had before been locked, were open and things taken out. In these drawers, in a closet under some linen articles of clothes, and in a secretaire, pieces of money, securities, and certificates of shares in the public funds to a coosi derable amount were found. The articles at once missed were, a gold watch, a gold snuff-box, and a paper with one-sixth dollar pieces, which she Bishop used to have always lying open before him. Soon after, hok ever, the servants noticed the absence of a silk beg, in which some Polish coins used to be kept. Whether the Bisl op had a greater amount of money in his possession cannot at present he ascertained, but the- disappearance of the articles already mentioned left no doubt that a robbery had been committed. The exarniuction of witnesses called by the Bishop's servants confirmed their Oeclaretions as to where they had been during the time in which the murder must have been perpetrated. Public rumour quickly pointed out as the murderer Rudolph Kuhnapfel, whom the burgomaster had before had reason to regard with suspicion, and who was a man likely to have committed the deed. From the documents of former investigations produced against him, and from public fame as to his character, the following particulars have been collected :- -Rudolph Kuhnapfel, between 26 and 27 years of age, of the Catholic religion, had worked for a long period abroad, in Pomerania and Saxony, and had served in the :3d Regiment of Infantry. He is dis sipated, discontented with his condition, an avaricious, irreligious man, who has cherished, in a particular man ner, hatred and malice against the clergy of Frauen burg, as is proved by several strongly-expressed threat ening, and firebrand letters. He lately underwent the punishment of imprisonment for three weeks. About the time of the murder, between six and seven o'clock, he was seen by several persons near the Bishop's residence, and moreover, as in consequence of the repeated searches in the house where he lived, besides several other arti cles calculated to cast strong suspicion on hire, the greater part of the money and valuables missed from she Bishop's apartment have also been found. The said Rudolph Kuhnapfel, his parents, with whom he lived, and his sister, are arrested and placed in special safe keeping. The further proceedings will take place before the Criminal Judge. CANApA. The accounts rcteiv,d from Canada ''by the packet which has just arrived, aro in every resPcct'satisfactory. The happy effects of what may be fairly termed the Durham poli c y, a d op t e d b y 'L or d Sydenhain, are already showing themselves, not only in the improved political condition and subsidence of party excitement in both provinces, but in the still more important and gratify ing result of a revival of confidence and prosperity, and of an active and energetic spirit of local improvement. In a word, Cana:la is beginning, to borrow a phrase from her American neighbours, once more to " go ahead," and bids fair, if the present judicious system of administration is continued for a few years, to leave far behind, in the career of rapidly advancing pros perity, all recollections of past disasters and political ex. citement. The following facts, which have been communicated to us by a Correspondent resident in Canada, and inti mately acquainted with the situation and resources o f our American provinces, will be sufficient to satisfy our rea(lcrs that the statement of the change which has taken place since the commencement of the present sys tem of Government is not exaggerated : "There is every appearance," our Correspondent writes, rf a great and salutary change in the general feeling in both provinces, but more opecially in Upper Canada, where, at the present time, the greatest prosperity pre vail=. The tolls of the Welland Canal have increased during the last season from 12,0001. to 20,0001., with every prospect of a further advance; and, when once the union shall have taken place, the credit of the province will be so much improved as to enable it to complete its public works. When this shall be done, and when Canada shall have become the high road for conveying the produce of the whole country •west of Lake Ontario, there will be little fear of political storms. The people will. be too buy and too prosperous to lose their time in mere specu lative discussions." This is remarkable, as showing the spirit is which the union is looked forward to by the British residents on the spot, who, from their intelligence, have the best means of judging of its probable result ; and from their capital, energy, and enterprise, have the deepest stake in the success of the experiment. It shows how far practical men on the spot are from participating in the gloomy forebodings in which the Tories so liberally in dulged. It is singular enough, also, that the causes pointed out by our Canadian Correspondent as having been principally instrumental in • bringing about this ex traordinary revival of prosperity, are preciSely those which the Tories selected as the especial objects of their animadversion, and • from which they predicted the most disastrous consequences. With respect to Lord John Russell's circular on official responsibility, it will be remembered how the Tory leaders, in their attacks upon the Canadian policy of Government, dweltw►pon it as an expedient by which a reluctant assent to an union destructive of their liberties and best interests bad bee❑ extorted from the loyal population of the Upper Pro- Vince. Our Correspondent explains very clearly how this cir cular, without infriuging in the slightest degree upon the letter or spirit of the constitution, has, by strength ening the hands of the Government, cud introducing unity of action ailing its supporters and official organs, placed in the Governor's hands the means which would otherwise have been wanting, of taking a decided lead, impressing a new tone upon public opinion, and rally ing all parties around the common banner of practical and progressive improvement. Even among the French Canadians of the Lower Province, symptoms of a favourable change are not wanting. The ordinance prohibiting the destruction of the public roads by the use of " Cahots," or whiter sledges, which in former days would have been almost sufficient to provoke an insurrectibn, has, contrary to expectation, met with general approbation. Great de sire is manifested in different local districts for turnpike roads, which, until last spring, were almost unknown ; and, contrary to all previous experience, considerable sympathy is beginning to manifest itself on the part of the French settlers with the undertakers of public works. The Municipal and Registration Bills which have now passed through all but the last stage, are confidently expected to contribute much to the rapid march of im provement in both provinces. In Lower Canada, espe cially, the Registration Bill will mark the commence ment of a new era, in which the free transfer of land, which is above all things essential for the prosperity of a new colony, will no longer be s h ac kl e d by the impediments thrown in its way by obsolete feudal principles and the cumbrous technicalities of a sot of interested notaries, The Municipal Bill is also looked forward to as one of the greatest practical boons ever bestowed upon the country, and as especially valuable at a time when the spirit of local improvement is likely to become more active than ever. The patronage and powers which this Bill proposes to place in the hands of local Lollies interested in the prosperity of their respective dis tricts, were formerly abused in the most glaring man ner by the Assembly for political purposes. it was no uncommon practice when a county returned a mem ber opposed to the majority of the House, to starve it into submission by withholding all grants for roads, bridges, schools, and otherjeeat purposes. This fertile source of abuse and of party excitement will, there is every reason to hope, be completely removed by the measure which is now on the eve of passing ; and the municipal councils will at the same time serve as excel lent schools for training the people to use legislative powers, With these prospects bsforc it, there seems little to fear for the future prosperity of Canada, unless, indeed, some unlooked-for chance should restore to power in the mother -country a party, so long distinguished for its pestilent gm - cm - punt of the Canadas.—Morlthw Chro nicle. THE CHARTISTS' LEADERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—lt is with feelings of sincere regret that I ado p', the present mode of giving warning to my fellow-country. men who bear the name of Chartists. In the first place, it will be looked upon by many of them as the voice of a Whig; and, in the second, es that of some disappointed person, whose ambition has received a check. To all such I say, read me well before you judge me, and I promise you that your eyes will be open to the truth ; arid, instead of condemning me for either of the above suspicions, you will respect me as a good citizen, and an unflinching Chartist. Now, fellow-Chartists, that we are about to enter a fresh campaign—ny, a fresh struggle for those principles so dear to every lover of freedom, and so just in themselves, that our very enemies dare not deny their purity, let us not be led away by that frothy intemperance which has hitherto . disgraced our Leaders ; an intemper ance which, while it destroyed every chance of our sue easy, fed cur thoughtless vanity, and lulled us into a belief of their sincerity. But, oh, how sadly were we deceived, dad bow disappointed did we not look upon each other ! Shame followed reason, and disgust quenciled the fine of enthusiasm. But it'was not disgust at the princiil:s for which we were disposed to risk all. Oh, no, my f,llow countrymen ! they arc too gloriously surrounded by the shades of departed - patriots, whose tn.2mories arc our support, when powerful knaves attempt to despise-- but it is disgust at our own weakness, in being led by men whose interests lay in keeping your minds unset tled—men whose very fortunes depended upon the amount of excitement they produced—men whose venality is be yond dispute —men whose vtry trade lay in politics, whose career is to be traced from beggars to that of independent money-loving and grovelling shopkeepers, more covetous than the very shopocracy they took so much pains to de nounce. It is against such men as those I would warn you in future, and against such exhibitions as they are capable of producing. Oh, it grieves me to the heart to see the vampires feeding fat upon our weakness, and that, too, before the face of the world; and yet no one will be bald enough to expose their villainy, and show them that their occupation 's gone. I assure you, Mr. Editor, that I am in no way at dag ger's point with those men calling themselves the Leaders of the working classes—on the contrary, I have received from them great kindness—at least as the world has it— and have no other motive but that of preventing such ex hibitions as Smithfield was a short time ago the field of action, such as, " Are ye ready to die to a man?" "We are, we arc !" " Are ye ready to storm Newgate if the Lord Mayor should think it necessary to invite me to a visit ?" " We are, we are !" These Punch and Judy ex hibitions I wish not to have repeated ; and, indeed, my ,countrymen must be fully aware of the great injury such are likely to do our cause, which with prudence must cer tainly prosper. I will ask the London Chartists a fee questions. Is Frost or the man who spread the Ila:ne of vie leace in Wales most to blame? Can the man who spread that violence be trmted as a leader of the people, when I tell you that when Frost was upon his trial for life cr death, that man kept snugly at home under pretence of family affliction 1 Ay, under pretence. Coward like, he skulked as a mouse into a hole, instead of, by his presence in Wales, sympathising with the unfortunate, whose sufferings were owing to the temerity of an adventurer. Sir, I could fill your paper with characters—names-- ay, and residences of parties calling th amselves the friends of the people, the lc•,aders of the people, alien in reality their substance is n , Ahill„o. but What has been created by the weAness and gullibility of the masses. To cneek these evils, Sir, is my only object. And to prove to you I am no enemy to Chartism, I forward YOU my real name and place of residence; and remain, 'Sir, with great respect, your obedient humble servant, - A LONDON CHARTIST. London, Jan. 20, 1840. THE APOCALYPSE AND THE cnußcin. TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Sia,—/laving in the course of my ecclesiastical studies found frequent mention of " Sauderson's Essays on the Apocalypse" (a duodecimo volume which came out four or fire years ago), I shall feel obliged to any of your nume rous readers who can inform me where it was published and by whom sold. It may seem extraordinary that a book of so very recent a date should not be found any where in the trade, yet such is the fact; and the reason giv. to inc by the book sellers is, that it was bought up by the Conset vaiives and the High Church party, with a view to its suppression. They are reported to have felt extremely indignant at the application to themselves of certain portions of the Apoca lypse, which had been supposed until then to apply to the Church of Rome. Should the above curious anecdote be true (and the scarcity of the book appears to confirm the statement), it may furnish a solution of the enigma of reli gious dissent which has sprung up throughout the Esta blished Church. Et:angelica& pull one way, and Paseyites anuther way, whilst Methodists, and some others also, prefer soiling under their own flags to taking convoy from . any adverse sect. Who this Mr. Sanderson may prove to be, whether an Ecclesiastic or a Layman, anybody, or nobody, I cannot learn, for there may be no such person in existence. One thing, however, must be admitted by (Nay unpre judiced person, v:z., that, if the Conservatives supposed his attacks upon ?loon to be unfounded, it would have been far more manly to have answered his charges and accusations than to have endeavoured to elude them by suppressing the volume in which they are contained. There i 3 an old adage that, ".Magna sit veritas, et prtvalebit," for truth will always make its way. Great wealth may, indeed, impede its course for a mown, but ultimately it will emerge in redoubled splendour, and such will unques tionably be the case with these suppressed essays when ever they shell be republished by their author. I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, Canterbury, Jan. 20. ANDRONICUS. . The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-sh:p Ramona, Captain John . Maybank, running be tween London and Yarmouth, ea her passage up from Yarmouth, on Wednesday ufternon, saw a schooner off the Sunk Light, with her colours in her main rigging, denot ing distress. Went to her assistance, end found she was the James, of Selby, bound from London to Selby. She had been run into by a light collier, was cut down to the water's edge, her la board quarter completely cut away, and very seriously damaged. The Ramona gave her every assistance, towed her up to London, and left her in safety. JAMES SMITH'S " CONIIC . INIISCW,LLANIES, LETTERS, AND MEmoras."—lndependently of the great amusement to be bound in this work, the result of the au thor's own genius, perhaps no production has ever appeared in which a greater number cf persons fignred, eminent for wit, beauty, accomplishments, and eccentricities. Among o'hars will be found Lady, Blessingto n , Lord By ron , Countess Guiccioli, Thomas Moore, Lady Harrington, Ro gers, Maria Edgeworth; Count D'Orsay, Miss Torre Holme, Sir Walter Scott, Theodore Hook, Miss Pope, Sir E. L. Bulwer, Mrs. Somerville, Lord Abinger, Lord ILrtford, Mrs. Lane Fox, Professor Wilson, Jack Bannis ter, Mrs. Austin, Miss Kelly, Charles Lamb, Lockhart, Southey, Miss O'Neil, Miss Farren, Charles Mathews, Mrs. Jordan, Miss Foote, Kean, Charles Young, John Wilson Croker, Madame Vestris, Miss Paton, Signor Garcia, Mrs. Siddons, &c. DR. GRANVILLE'S " SPAS OF ENGLAND." —The public will be glad to find that the above-mentioned work, which is dedicated, by express permission, to her Majesty, is just ready for publication. In a country so rich in minmal waters as England, it is rather surprising that there have existed so many individuals for whom they seem expressly provided, who deny themselves the benefits_ readily to be derived from them, at small cost and_ trouble, and travel a great distance to incur every possible incon venience and expense to reach sonic feshionable watering_ place on the Continent, where the advantages promit ed to the invalid are very rarely obtained. Chemical analysis proves beyond a doubt, that among the various Spas in England, several exist that must, from their peculiar composition, he equally, and in soma instances mere efficacious than the most esteemed of the Spas of Germany, when had recourse to wader like circumstances; and with this authority we have :Ilse extensive medical experience, showing that the results of different diseases treated by native mineral waters arc encouraging to an extent it would be difficult for any of the foreign springs to exceed. This has rendered ne cessary the publication of a work in which the composition, the operation, and the virtues of every one of the mineral waters of England, may be seen at one vie*, together with every infortnatiou relating to them which mey be o f most interest and value to all who have occasion to make trial of their efficacy. ELECTION FOR BRIDGE -MASTER. - AT TEMPTED SUICIDE OF A Yt)UNG GENTLEMAN CHARGED :VIM PERJURY , —Wedritsdar a young man, apparently not more than 19 or 20 years of age, presented himself before the poll-clerks, en the hustings, to enter his vote for Mr. Gibbs. A clerk was about to record his vote, when a gentleman, a member of Mr. Ledger's committee, stopped him, considering that the voter, from his youthful appear ance, was not duly qualified as a liveryman. The young man was questioned on the point, but persisted that he was eligible. He was then requested by some of Mr. Ledger's committee to accompany them to their committee-room, the Guildhall Coffeehouse; when, on the books of the company to which he said he belonged being referred to, it was found that no such name as the one he had given was inserted therein. He was giver, into custody ; and on sub sequent ir.quiry it was ascertained that, previous to the dis covery of the imposition, he had voted three or four times. The business of the Guildhall police-office having termi nated, he was taken to the Cripplegate watch-house, when a charge of perjury was entered against him on the pelice sheet by Inspector Todhunter. He was placed in one cf the cells, and, at abotit a quarter before five, the policeman whose duty it was to inspect at certain hours discovered the unfortunate youth suspended by his pocket handker chief. Ile was immediately cut down, and some constables despatched for surgical assistance, and by a quarter before six he ryes sufficiently recovered to be removed to the City Cempter, in Giltsper-street. The young man, after being taken into custody, and on being questioned by the inspec tor at tho watch-house, stated that his name was Baker. He is said to be respectably connected. As it may be imagined, several unpleasant rumours arc in circulation, reflecting on the character of certain influential individuals ; but as the affair will undergo a judicial investigation, we at present abstain from giving them publicity. WARM,. WARMER, WARMEST.----A house with a wife is often warm enough ; a house with a wife and her mother is rather warmer than army spot on the known globe; a house witle.two mothers-in-law is so ex cessively hot that it can be likened to no place on earth at all, but one must go lower for a simile. EAST SURREY ELECTION.—The death of Capt. Alsager has occasioned a vacancy for East Surrey. A Liberal candidate will be in the field, and one who de serves and will obtai n th e support of thc Reform . The electors are the re fore called upon to withhold tau. promises, and to prepare for an active demonstration of their strength, as essential to success. .::% COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday the first Court since the regulation of the Wards, by which a considera'ule diminution in the numbers of the rekresentatives has been made, took place. THE WARD OF FAhRINGDON WITHOUT. Mr. ASHURST presented the following remarkable petition from Mr. Wells, one of the candidates for the representation of the Ward of Farringdon With out, in the Court of Common Council, who was de sirous of sitting in the Court until a new election should take place. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Common Council, in Guildhall assembled, The petition and claim of right of Samuel Wells, of Sergeant's-inn, Temple, Esq., showeth that your pe titioner, and fifteen other persons, were elected, in the year 1839, Common Councilmen for the Ward of Farringdon Without, in the City of London, and were sworn in and took their places in the Court of Com mon Council during the year. That on St. Thomas's Day last past another elec tion took place, when sixteen persons (your petitioner not being one of that number) were elected and returned to the Court of Common Council, which election and return have been declared void by the Court of Al dermen. That your petitioner is advised ,that until a legal election takes place for Common Councilmen for the said ward, or your petitioner and his colleagues (so duly elected in the year 1339) are ousted under a judgment of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, he and they continue, and have a legal right to continue and exer cise ail the. functions and duties of Common Council men for the said ward, in order to preserve all the in tegral parts of the Corporation from being lopped off (the said ward being part thereof), and that the rights and interests of such Ward may be duly preserved and exercised. Your petitioner, therefore, prays that. he and his colleagues, so duly ele c ted i n th e y ear 1839, ma y not be hindered or denied their several and respective rights, but may be permitted to take their places and exercise their functions in the Court of Common Council and elsewhere, until a legal election of Common Council men for the said ward shall have taken place, and others elected hi their stead. And your petitioner will ever pray, &c. SAMUEL -WELLS. (The reading of the petition was attended with some laughter.) Mr. WELLS, upon being asked whether he wished to add anything to his petition, addressed the Court. There were, he said, two ways in which be might ap proach the Corporation. He might obtrude himself, and wait to be handed out »touter maim, and thus have his action against the officer of the Court, and he was at liberty to petition. His respect for the Court induced him to adopt the latter alternative. He regretted that his petition lied excited merriment in the, Court, be cause it referred to a constitutional question, which, as it was likely to affect the privileges of the Corpora tion, ought to be regarded with gravity and seriousness. He did not mean to admit that the Lord Mayor and members present constituted a court, deficient as they wore of the representatives of the Ward of Farringden Without, which formed one-sixth integral part of the City. The authority to levy the sewers rates, the tem selidated rate, and the police rate, in that ward, lay with the Common Councilmen, who also had to inquire into nuisances and other matters affecting the morals and comforts of the ward community, and those who had last year performed all those duties, ought in reason and in law, he contended, to exercise the power until the now election should be completed. It had been said to him that there was no occasion for their interference, as the election would take place on Monday, and he would be returned without further trouble.—(A laugh, and cries of " Hear, hear.") He, however, was jealous of the privileges of the citizens of London, and would not suffer one day to pass without claiming, the restora tion of their rights. But supposing that a new election did take place, was it not possible that the would not make some other mistake ?—(A, Ilere were, he assured the Court, severe'. other errors in the proceedings in the electron, although he had nut uctieed them in hi; petition, quite strong enough to vitiate it. Suppose then, that on the approaching elec tion, mistakes were again committed, and a scrutiny were demanded, who could s,ay how long that process ould continue. and what injury might arise from leas ingpo- the ward unrepresented d ur i ng t h e i nterva l ? Sup posing 'that 'that any body i n th e war d was trou bl esome enough to demand a scrutiny—(A laugh)-=was the ward to be deprived of the proper moral supervision during the whole time to which the investigation might be extended. Mr. Wells then argued legally upon the propriety of entertaining his petition, cad the impropriety o transacting business in the Court in the absence of an integral part of the Corporation. Alderman GLIM said it :appeared to him to be a question whether the petition was presented to a tribu nal competent to decide upon its merits. The 1 - I,mm:trete, who entered the Court at the con ciusion of Mr. Wells's observations, said, upon being in formed of the heads of the petition, that it he had been informed that a subject of such importance was expected he would have attended at au earlier period. It ap peared to him that the Court had no authority to entertain the subject. No person could take a seat in that Court who was not summoned and acknow ledged as a member. There was no power of which he knew any thing by which the Court could revive an old member, He should ; , however, if the question were put into a proper shape, give to it his best attention, and apply to the Court of Aldermen on the subject. Bat until that should be done he should recommend to the Lord Mayor to dismiss the petition, on the ground that the Court cf Common Council was not competent to entertain it. Mr. AEIIURST was of opinion that in what the:Re. corder had stated, there was an infringement on the rights of the Court. He disagreed with the Learned GcntU'inan as to the supposed incapacity of the Court to decide the question. The Court of Aldermen might decide on points of disputed elections, but the Court of Col'llllol Council could, if they thought the petitioner entitled to a seat, under the circumstances stated, give him permissicn to take it. Ile (Mr. Ashurst) did not consider him entitled. The RECORDER. said that ha knew of no authority by by the Court of Common Council could adju• dic,ate on the question. Could any precedent be cited? Mr. Asia) asT said that the case was quite new, and be would bow for the present to the opinion of the Recorder. Tile Lunn MAYou than informed the petitioner that the Court could not entertain the petition. The petitioner of course will not be allowcd to sit in the Court until elected. CITNIIvIritOVEMENTB. Mr. HUNTER prtlikted a'petition praying for im provements in the narrow passages leading from Col man-street to 13asinghalt-strcet, and called Mason's allcy and White Rose.court. The petition stated that upon an average from 12,000 to 15,000 persons passed through those extremely narrow and inconvenient thoroughfares daily. Referred to the London bridges Approaches Com mittee. The Court then proceeded to appoint the Commiitee for the year in busine ss , i n w hi c h th e y w ere occupied during the rest of the day. THE WEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE- STREET. NooN, JAN. 21. ilzrometer 30.42 In. Thermometer Highest 4O Lowest Freezing Point 32 Deg. Oa Wednesday the 30th ult., a Newfoundland dog, belonging to Mr. Cameron, Tontine Hotel, Peebles, captured a fine salmon in the river Tweed in the following singular manner :—Hector (for such is the dog's name) is exceedingly fond of the water ; so much so, that whenever he gets loose from his chain, he is off to the river, and with the greatest industry brings to land all the drift wood, Sze. he can, floating down the stream. On Wednesday the 30th ult., while thus employed, he was observed by some boys to dive suddenly under the water, where he remained entirely out of sight for about half a minute. When ho arose again to the surface be had a salmon in his mouth, which was struggling violently to es cape ; but he held is fast in his capacious jaws, and brought it safe to land, and would on no account quit his prize, until he carried it safe home to his master. The fish was of the real salmon tribe, and weighed about four pounds. —Scotsman. FREAKS OF AN INSAN•E SAILOR.—AII ex traordinary scene occurred about eight o'clock yesterday morning on Tower-hill. A seaman named Harris, about 24 years of age, who has recently returned from a voyage to the West Indies, and has since then been staying at the Sailors' Home, in \Veils-street, Upper East Smithfield, about the time above-mentioned approached the residence of Sir John Hall, the St. Katharine deck-house, upon Tower-hill, pulled off his shoes and flung them at th e windows. He then jumped over the railings round the Tower ditch, and, having divested himself of all his clothes, leaped into the ditch, and was immedi ately im mersed in the mud up to his chin. An a larm being reisod, bein g; perilous l e reised, several labourers from the St. Ka tharine Docks a procured ropes and ladde rs, and a fter ecusidcra dif ficulty succeeded in extricating hint fro m hi s predicament. Upon the mud bein g washed from hi s fac e , and some remedies app lied, he soon recovered, and swore his life, saying telfif y l l i l ethought proper. t a h t a t t ls i o le se bad r: , had righ been e t c o thensa smother ic medic; himself of saving; fie was conveyed back to the Sailors' Home, evincing every symptom of insanity. It appears that the seaman previous to starting upon hie last voyage was intimate with a young.woman to whom he canto back, hut on his return was h to be married when he .c Out of sight out of mind," c found that the old saying, had been verified in his mis tress, who during his abs else. This preyed open ence had gut married to some one his mind very much, and he re sorted to drinkin g to drown reflection, 'which, combiucd with the loss of h sis hiut jute a slats of frenzy. MORNING EDITION SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. Upwards of 3001. was laid out upon Palm Mon. at 15 t. 1, which must be received as the outside laying prie: one party, we believe, would have laid the same ouds a the close, but we doubt if they were obtainable elsewhere. The Rosalie colt was backed fora pony at 20 to 1, and t% or three offers were after;vards made to invest at the sate figure ; the subsequent biddings, however, " against any ',lung, bar one," did not exceed 18 to 1, and it may bc questioned whether the honour of being second favourit , s ►nay not be challenged by Eringo—it was a very nef'• thing between the two ; 4 to 1 was laid in hundred against Scott's lot, and 28 to 1 offered (in one quarte7. only) against the Knight of the Whistle, whose partisan ; were uncomm. - .nly thy ; 30 to 1 either about Wahab Prince Coradie. In other respects the afternoon's business w s 1 . .1'. and uninteresting. MORE CORN-LAW MURDERS. On Friday last an inquest, exciting considerable public interest, was held at the house. of Mr. John Turner, the King's Arms Inn, Heywood, before Mr. Dearden, the Coroner, respecting the decease of Eliza Frankland, the youngest child of an extremely poor man, named William) Frankland, an operative clogger. The deceased, who was two years and six months old, appeared to have died from the effects of hunger and cold. The first witness, Joshua Bold, policeman 92 of the county constabulary, stated that at an ear! ) , hear on Tuesday morning, whilst he was passing through Hart -street, Heywood, his attention was at tracted by the dismal cries of children, proceeding free a cellar. Having called another policeman to ,accompany him, they enterod the place, and found the only inmetes to be three young children, huddled together on a wretched bed. Oa examining them, one was found to be a corpse ; and upon further search, the dwelling was found entirely destitute of food or money. All the children were in a state of starvation, and most deplorably situated as regarded clothing. The policemen went speedily to Mr. John Phenix, superintendedent of police, .and informed him what they had discovered. "The superintendent promptly attended to the wants of the poor famished survivors, and provided them at once with food. Having learned where the father of the children was, he lost no time in bringin g him to Heywood. The father was at work at Stockport, from whence he returned weekly to his wretched abode. Being a widower, his family were much neglected in his absence, and the rest was what we have already stated. Mr. Phenix confirmed the testimony of the police, and added, that the purpose he had in view in causing the inquest to be held, was to inquire whether the death wag attributable to the misconduct of the father of the deceased, or to the in attention of the assistant-overseer of Middleton, to which township the family belonged. William Prank hnd, the parent of the poor child, a lank, thin-visaged, and pitiable-looking perAn; stated be had been out of work for some time ; but within a few weeks, he had obtained employment at Stockport at nailing clogs. In answer to questions from the Cotentr, he stated that his earnings yielded only kil le 6d. per week, out of which he paid 49. for food andlailgings at Stockport. Having only Is. Gd. for the sustenance of the three childreu weekly, he had purchased solaosste, aconadraheaflvoinui;r,oobft'awi'nheiedhthhee e f porridgelaiep n Sunday againoo rO n ll woman to proceeded t attend t os t o o e e c k a p s o i a r i t i . a 1 In to o r e the ply to whether h e h a d b een relieved by the eived a pittance o f I s . G d . weekly from the sme t te o obar : i e vld • qt r ile t c: s rl township vies a 3 3 which ho belon ge d , he stated th a t for 'ollveerrisyeer of Middleton : that, a few months ago, he waited nearly a whole day to obtain this trifling sum from the assistant overseer, who asked him what was the reason he did not get work. He replied that if he had some blocks he could get on better. The Over seer, consequently, gave him 12s. to enable him to get som e work, and from that period the assistant overseer had never been to visit the family, or rendered them any assistance. He therefore thought it was useless to ma k e an y further applications for parochial aid. Betty C:lemployed t o atten d to t h e ia' Spoke Ethe old woman em to the condition o f t h e c hi ldren, and stated thi ia i llY' they re had gone about begging for food. Mr. Sa muel Ram ,d ee , the assistant overseer of Middleton, who was questio ned as to the relief o f F ran kl an d, twelve shillings, and h e h a d never inquired into t the family sinc e . M r. Leach, surgeon, o silla t i'.(iii i i i ts e htye state of ocnl ,he had never seen him s i nce the cl i ne be gave who had examined the body of the tic ceased, stated that the child had died of inflammation, produced by cold and want of food. He observed that there was but a very small quantity of food in the stomach, and the case was one of the most painful he had ever witnessed. A verdict iu accordance with the evidence was returned. The gentlemen of the jury, a l on g with the police superintendent and a number of his men, feeling for the pitiable :tats of Frankland and his family, entered into a liberal subscriptioa for their relief, to which the Coroner contributed. Much sym pathy has also been mantiested by respectable inhabi tants of Heywood for the suff erers.—lllanchester ,Guar diem. The King of Hanover has transmitted, through the hands of Sir Fredcrick Watson, the sum of aol.•to dis tribute in coal?, &c., to the poor of the parish of Kew during the late inclement weather. (From the Elbing Gazelle of the 7th instant.) To-day another strict search was made in the house of Kuhnapfcl, the tailor of nauenburg, to discover the gold watch and snuff-box missed from the Bishop's chamber. The result of the search was successful. Several articles were found, some on the roof of the house, others in a hole under the ,qairs—viz., one gold watch, one gold snuff-box, about 100 rix dollars, in gold and silver, and, it is said, an other mask of the same kind as the oae left in the Bishop's apartment. During his examination, Kulmapfel displayed the greatest daring and levity. Turning to the corpse of the Bishop, he said quite coolly—" A bad job for the old man. Why he secass to have got a sabre cut on the head,"and then he looked up at the pictures on the wall. His extraordinary in difference tells in people's minds against him ; for how could an innocent man be indifferent to such a dreadful accusation? It was, too, such a moving sight to behold the gray head of the venerable victim covered with blood and disfigured with frightful wounds! A wax taper was found near the Bishop ; it is therefore pro bable that he had opened the door to the murderer himself, and, according to his affable condescend ing habit, had turned back for the taper and lighted him up the stairs. How horrorstruck must he have been when he saw an unknown person masked and armed with a hatchet ! The mask found on the floor in the blood was pro bably torn from him by the housekeeper, who must have had a hard struggle with him, as she had cuts in her hands, and Ler cap bad been pulled ofr. She is still in a state of inscnsihiiity, and if her life does not become a sacrifice, it will be long before she rccovers complete consciousness. The murderer's parents are in general believed to be innocent. The distress of the mother has almost deprived her of reason. To-morrow Kuhn apfel will be again examined, when ;the articles found be exhibited to him. Tile most anxious expecta tion prevails among the public as to his future behaviour —whether he will confess or not. The Bishop is to be buried on Monday next. As we find that in several of the country towns balls in celebration of the christening of the Princess Royal are fixed for the 10th of next month, conditionally that the ceremony takes place on that day, we think it as well to repeat our former announcement that the Princess will be christened on that day. THE LATE EARL SOMER3.—The mortal re mains of the above lamented Nobleman reached Eastnor Castle, near Lecibury, Heittordshire, yesterday week. The next day the body lay in state, nod on Friday the in terment took place in the neighbouring parish church, where the ancestral vault is situate. Shortly before two tic funeral procession left the Castle, preceded by above 300 of the family tenantry and dependents. Immediately before the hearse was the bearer of the late Earl's coroner, and in the first mourning coach were E ar l S omers , Vis count Eastnor, Hou. and Rev. James Cocks, and Colonel Cocks. After the family carriages came those of the Earl of Beauchamp, Baron Thoren, the Dean of St. Asaph, Sir Anthony Lechmere, Bart., and upwards of thirty car riages of the nobility and gentry of tile counties of Hereford end Worcester, many of whom attended the obsequies out of respect to the memory of the deceased Earl. The bu rial serv ice was read by the domestic chaplain of his Lord ship to a numerous congregation, the church being crowded to excess.. A deputation from the Bank of Asia, consisting of Mr. Jarclinz E. S. Cayley, M. P., end Mr. 'Mont gomery Martin, had an intervicw, by appointment, with the Chairman and Deputy- Chairman of the East India Company on Tuesday.—Colonial Gazelle. DERBY. 4 to 1 agst Scott's lott--.aken and afterwards off. 1000 to 8 agst Lord Stradbrokt's lot—takan 15 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's l'altemon—taken 18 to 1 ago Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt—offers to takc 20 to 1 18 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—do. do. 22 to 1 agst Coronation—offers to take 23 to 1 28 to I agst Knight of the Whist!e 28 to 1 .agst Vahab 35 to 1 agst Duke of Wellington—taken. 40 to 1 apt The Nob. 2000 to 20 agst Mustapha—taken and afterwards di: 1000 to 10 agst Snel.vsirop—taken, 3000 to 300 agst Ralph, Coronation, and Knight of tho Whistle—taken 700 to 50 agst Palutnon and Knightsbridge —taken NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brighton Gazette.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—The Avon steamer, Lien". Pritchard, and Pluto steamer, Lieutenant Blount, are run ning to and fm with volunteer seamen for the ships fitting out. The latter vssscl is to accompany Captain Trotter's steam squadron to the Niger River, afterwards to return. to England. The Athol troop ship, Mr. Bellamy, master, command ing, was to rail from 6ork on the 13th instant fur Corcu, with the 42d Regiment on board. The Apollo troop ship, Mr. White, will proceed during the week to the same destination, with the 97th Regiment. Tho Lizard steam vessel, Lieutenant Estcourt, is daily. expected from the river. This vessel is intended for sur veying service, under the orders of Captain Beechey, era the coast of Ireland. The only ships equipping at this port are the Indus, 64, Captain Sir .Ja►nes Stirling, and Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas. There is, however, the same activity in the. public establishments as heretofore; several large ship, are rapidly approaching to completion for commission, is' required. hc Cracker tender, Mr. Rogge, ms.3ter, is to rem:, to Jersey in a fey, days with provisions andstores for tL , cutter Seaflower, stationed there for the protection of C.v., fishery. Tire new steamer Driver, in charge of the master of Victory, has departed for Woolwich to be fitted with en glees a!,(1 other machinery by Messrs. Seward and Cl. 14:111C11(iLlit:. The only vessels of war for the protection of - mercantile property at Lisbon, on the 12th instant, wcr, the Trincule, 16, and Espoir, 10. This station, it i is said, will in future be presided over by a Commodore of the i The Lecua steamer, Lieutenant Lunn, is to relieve Ns Confianee stemer. The farmer arrived at Malta or , Christmas-dry. The Monarch, 84, Captain Chambers; Iris, 2G, Captair;. Nurse ; and Pelican, 16, Commander Napier, are the ortll ships of war fitting out in the river. They are all neariy ready to leave ror Spithead. The Ringdove, IG, Commander Steuart, and Satellite, 18, Cony.aanler Hobbs, are daily expected from Halifax to be paid off. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LONDJN, JAN. 21.—There has been A hard frost throngt out the, night, which cuutinues. Wind this day at noon, light airs at W. S. W., and fine. DEAL, JAN. 20.—Wind N.—Sailed the Trusty, Elstfon, for Swan Hirer; Borkeley, Turner, Jamaica; Stipub,., Wilson, Trinidad ; Diamond, Dempater, St. Vincent. LIVERPC or., JAN. 20. —Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the Flowers of I,Tgie, Annan, from Calcutta; Herald, Alex andria. Sailed the Nightingale, Hunter, for Pernam buco ; Oiciala, Child, New Orleans ; Chevalier, Knight, ditto; Europe, Marshall, New York ; Niagara. Cole, - ditto. The Queen of the Ocean, bound to New Orleans, which put hack leaky, on the 18th inst., has been sur veyed, and the leak ascertained to arise from an auger hole left open. A schooner in distress, wifh loss of fore mast, was seen off Puffin Island this forenoon. A vessel apparently a brig, was seen this morning of Point Lynas. dismasted and making for Beaumaris, in tow of a pilot boat. DovEit, JAN. 20.—Off port the Eclipse, Duncan, from Boston ; La Fayette, Pert cu Prince. HASTINGS, JAN. 20.—Arrived off port the Premier, Keith, from the Mauritius. Bilts - ror., JAN. 20.—Sailed the James Leman, Stone!, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Mini, Dillon, St. Thomas. STocKroN, J'N. 13.—Arrived the Septine, Guttie stone, from Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JAN, 20. —Wind N. N. E.—Arrived the- Sophia Elizabeth, from Rio de Janeiro. SIIUREIIAM, JAN. 20.—The John, Holland, of this port - , in coming m this morning, struck upon the Bar, and it i; feared has sustained damage. She had previously shipped a sea which carried away her long-boat, bulwarks, &c. GUERNSEY, JAN. 17.—The Horatio, Le Page, bound to Bristol, in leaving St. Sampson's oa the Bth inst., touched on a sunken rock, became very leaky, and was.run ashore or, the beach. CARDIFF, JAN. 20. —The John, of Youghal, got on Brcaksca Point on the 11th inst., but came off the folios ing tide, and is row in dock for repairs. THE PEEL FAMILY. The introduction calico-printing into Lancashire is ascribed to the Messrs. Clayton, of Bamherbridge, near Preston, who began the business on a smell scale as early as the year 1764. They were followed, and with great vigour, by Mr. Robert Peel., the grandfather of the present Sir R. Peel. Mr. Peel ~ , •;:5 originally a yeoman farming' his own estate, and lived ee: Cross, afterwards called Peclfold, near Blackburn. Beira , of an active e.nd enterprising disposition, he began the manufacture of cotton, and he is mentioned as one of the first persons who tried the carding cylinder. He ale) took up the printing business ; and he made his first expe riments secretly in his own house ; and the cloth, inateae of being calendered, was ironed in; a female of the family , the pattern adopted being a parsley leaf. Stimulated, by the success of his experiments, he embarked in ter- printing business with small means and convenience:, and shortly after removed to Brookside, a village two mile. from Blackburn. Here he carried on the business for some years with the aid of his sons ; and by great appli cation, skill, and enterprise, the concern was made emi nently prosperous. His eldest sea, Robert, afterwards. created a baronet, possessed strong talents, which he devoted assiduously to business from an early age, an thus contributed much to the success -of the printing-. spinning, and manufacturing businesses ; and in each of these branches the Peels soon t took a lead in Lan cashire. They eagerly telopted every improvement suggested by others, and many improvements origi nated in their own extensive establishments. As the elder Mr. Peel had several sons, Robert quitted his father's concern shout 1773, and established him self with his uncle, Mr. Haworth, and his future fa ther-in-law, Mr. \William Yates, at Burr, where the cotton-spinning and printing trades wore carried on for many years with pre-eminent success, and on a most ea tcnsive scale, and are, indeed, continued, though in other hands, to the present day. Mr. Peel, the father, with Wa sons, and another, Mr. Yates, established the print-works at Church, and bad also large works at Burnley, Salles Abbey, and Foxhill Bank, and spinning mills at Althacn, and afterwards at Burton-upon-Trent, in Staffordshire. So widely did these concerns branch out, and so liberally and skilfully were they conducted, that they not only brought immense wealth to the proprietors, but set an ex ample to the whole cotton trade, and trained up many "'- the most successful printers and manufacturers in Lau.. easliire.—Baines' liistory of the Cotton Nantfacture. N:hts'LLltlo Us PROFESSION.—" Now, Tom," said the printer of a country newspaper, in giving direc tions to iris apprentice, " put the foreign leaders' rcmuis into the galleys and loch 'em up—let Napoleon's k larger head—distribute the • army in , the east ' —take up. as line and finish the British 1111 , n ho ls t t u c jc r obec — sbs fn ego a at ic s l e iKic t a f t : 7: 3: g o nhl u ot h ii g e, Princess' to run on with the t eh a. ase—get your sh e e t an d u c e o . rte into dinner, and then see time. RESS. - -Within the: co th n e clu i( d c e ir ith h e u l l ) ' o l Cr o id ut rthhoy,oitz is coalcirsics,saarzienioltddVl A c ' e T s l t V h!n i s 3 ix Conservative editor; C Y rs o f Lancashire. newspapers, besides one in. b„. s ., passel through the Gazette as bankrupts, talaC: at r ld ' ac t:l l :;: i ltr ii i ni wr ; r i E o P e e l u :' i when anci. _CI through c v i r L i e t Conservatism is G s u rt ( i l d r d t i o a n b . be increasing ns ° u r rd i e h r e ' t ter NTEIt OF TIIE RIGHT SORT.--A should have courage, but nothing more, to make him war. he is required to be—neweiy, not afraid to leap at an, fence his rider thinks proper to put him at. His mouth will dcpcnd unon two things: first, upon the judgment ee' the person who breaks him in in his celthood ; and, se condly, upon the position of his hinder legs, but chiefly upon the first. The mourh ought to be endowed with Fl', much sensibility, that the slightest motion of the bit shona. give him warning, end direct his course, which is signii tautly implied by Horace, whoa lie says, " The .ear of,. horse Ilea in his bridle." It is true, that what we call the. " mouth" of a horse is an artificial feature; at all cvents, a figurative term for his being easily acted upon by the' bridle; but it is a point of the utmost importance in abuse. r tor. Without it, in fact, he is absolutely danger ous to ride; for, although the skill and power of hie ri , ler may prevent his running away, yet he ire always in Jaeger of bring placed in some unpleasant altos-- lion or other by him. In the first place, he cannot be a large fencer, nor safe at all :Wits of leaps, if lie will ii st. suffer his rider to pull him together to collect him for the effort of rising at them. Secondly, he is as dangerous in gates only partly ope ne d. Thi r dl y, if t h e before hint should fall at a leap, he i s - very apt to leap upon him, or hi s r id er; an d l ast l y, hi s goin g hote r hnrnc throughdmtely streng th is soGeer exhausted th en t h at o f a horse, perhaps.not naturally so good, whi c h i s go i ng qu i et l y, an d w i t hi r; himself, by his side. When we consider how often it is nup, or even turn a horse very short in. crossing o pull gen t elosed c ountries, the value, even on the score of cordart, of a good mouth cannot be too highly appre. elated by the sportsman. But action, after all, in the huuter is the main consideration. He should have encrge in all his paces, but he way have too much of what ie generally called action.—S men, of January. • ,~ ~,;:• eat f We 01 g 1 11301' under , t the ince? pur" i rf;oP 41 0, Co (4 co OW ;;rO O , :crA a t he Corr setitc' 'or° ,r It 11 )