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0 0 eX,C' 11;111 In ply trn i ns te , th equal expec: B ,: versVY , L ions, he racity of a fe" is card' Indiau n gs COO ' that h e lc of :ial relv o RBE' with 'hie!) ive Round' !lion $l l6 ret a" ! hastens., ding the ; [Ban en'' c these , : :t An' TER Th . E AL AND THE IDEAL. 2 Vor.s. 1,, Saunders and Utley, London, 1840. t: 1 4 ner e is too much of the rhapsodical in these " n es', which, when Italy is the theme, is very apt d "arY on e ; for so many works, both in prose an . tc , r3 e' have been written of late years about this 'l4: t , r ) ., and so much panegyric lavished upon it, di f F r t ne very mention of the subject induces in rlnit en ce, which is pretty sure to end in disgust, N o ess it be treated in the most masterly manner. ‘‘'' unfortunately, this cannot be said of the healf and the Ideal," which is written in a sort a ri l d )°e tie prose, as far removed from true feeling / t. , as can well be ; and discourses about i 4 4 41, its landscapes, ruins, pictures, sculptures, &c., hy f : lBll ic'n which ;we cannot fitter describe than i tc , - Ydil?, that it is exaggerated common-place. read ,eying chapter in the volumes which we have `t w ith any thin° like interest, is the one headed t h e Ning s in the ' Colisceum"—which, by the bye, tq llt ,hor calls s' Colosseum," evidently thinking e n uge building in the Regent's Park—wherein to of of reflection, suggested by the brutal gladia fotkia, fi ghts of which the ancient Romans were so h u 18 Pursued, creditable to the author's sense of ui anity. CRA ItIN G CROSS HOSPITAL. Th (ALSTRACT FROM THE LAST REPORT.) Committee have the satisfaction of stating to the th e f:" r s and supporters of this hospital, that during Wi re St, Y e ar as many as 6,943 poor afflicted persons ad Year on t h e b ooks for relief ; of these, 1,151 wh o , 1-411 'ttients, a n d 5 ,785 were out-patients, (many of e h ,: t visited at their own homes.) These, with the 74,24 recorded in former Reports, make a total of Fat ed B ; s ick and needy individuals, who have partici tettp, In the benefits of the Institution, from its corn pit4rntat, to the 31st December, 1840. (The hos t founded in 1818, and erected 1831.) tLici'neir last statement, the Committee furnished a b 6f the cares of accident and sudden injuries, which 11 1 , 1 ten brought to the hospital in the preceding year. 11 14 e t a 3 e, have, during the last year, amounted to up gerou-s°' t welve hundred ; of which 291 were so dan- Pati en ; 43 to req u i re t o b e i mme di ate l y admitted as in- Pitti The following is a brief enumeration o f In 1 - 4 8 admitted for relief during the last seven years : 1 ,n0 9 7 4 ,' the total numb er o f cases was 3,681, cost 3 ,874" t° B . 9d. ; 1835, 4,472, 1 , 481/ . 15s. -lid.; 1836, 18,2i' 1,9334 14s. ; 1837, 5,757, 2,2311. 6 s , ; 2,66,;, 6,439, 2,3741. Is. 1 lid. ; 1839, 6,655, T; 1840, 6,943, 2,528/. 18s. 2,1 d. 1,4 e to tal numb er o f cases of accident for the last 1835° ,„ Ye ars wer e as f o ll ows :—ln 1834, 424 cases ; 4139' 1i2361836, 975 ; 1837, 1,093 ; 1838, 1,414 ; ; 1 840, 1,238 ; total, 7,245 cement The total 4)13 e 7 r of out-patients since its commeement, was and in- patients 6,091. WOOL — WICH—TUESDA Y. Ser R OYAL MARINES. h geant-Major Taylo N of the Woolwich division of the l'iCe )ll Mar ines was presented with a medal for long scr -1104 e nd good conduct on Monday ; and in addition to this °Wr ebie mark of distinction he obtained a 151. gratuity. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. T he '-' b • C. B , g, s . subscription originated by Captain Horn by, .• 11,‘,Ptker_ntendent of the Woolwich dock-yard, for the relief uve widows and children of the seamen arid marines 1 ,,,:: vere lost in the Fairy, now amounts to about .300/., ,"4 further sums c°nttau© to be forwarded for that praise "urthY object. T he W* • ROYAL ARSENAL. %t or_ illiam and Daniel barges are loading military ,3 to be put on board a vessel in the docks for Malta. he William, brig of Newcastle, is loading old shells 4,19L0t1., dard and CO.' 130 Ebenezer, ordnance sloop, finished loading about \' illa D eaeS °l ' powder, 6 thirty.two-pound er guns for the Pn„" e rcl, and others for the Rapid, and sailed to-day for -I,'`louth. ktui he S ir James Kempt, ordnance-sloop,. the Little Ben, i tito 'everal other vessels have been obliged to be taken ltp, h d Pk on account of the large quantities of ice moving The dow n the r i ver w i th the tide. to, a e Queen, ordn ance s l oop, took i n b allast, and sailed da y for Purfleet, for a cargo of gunpowder. IN_ ..--- *WM, IVO - ta, ti 1 'VC) .N-11. asl eep, after having had their fortunes told by the con j u ror ; and h ere th e aut h or l eaves t h e m for lv awhile in order t o i n t ro d uce hi s hero, illiam Fitzosbert, alias Longbeard, an uncom- P ih r T ni sin' Chartist, lik e F eargus O'Connor, uu who p ut not the sl i ghtest fa i t h i n t h e r tnan Ref orm B i ll. Thi s f ur i ous mo b-l ea der w 41t ,' it seems, the son o f a L on d on tradesman— r h-et fiaPs a tail or , hut having a soul above cabbage h , e ~ Went to Pal es ti ne , to distinguish himself u nder the bannzrs of the cross," where, notwith shiantinig that he formed only a ninth fraction of 4as ' t fl Inny, he ‘‘performed prodigies of valour, and r,nighted on th e fi e ld of battle by Rich ar d (Fu r de Lion 1 " —an incident in the life of a city lu:demon's son, which we are induced to ment ion, because it passes the borders of the :' i n P rp hable, and tr es p asses on th e m i racu l ous . F or th is Warlik e C ockney, who to his other recommen ,rt,'"; add,:d that of a hump-hack, Jordan 1 44 ' 4 long ent erta i ne d a sincere affection ; and doubt ', they would have ht en married in the sixth chapter of the first volume, had not Longbeard, one fine day, g ot up a public Meeting of Saxons at Paul's Cross, n' it ch was atten d e d by all the Chartists of the time, a t i ld was ush ere d i n b y suc h a stunn i ng c hi me of tr iple bob-majors, that " the bells pealed as if e ach or. e h a d b een endowed with life, and was ready !o burst its iron sides in an agony of fear !" It Is satisfactory, however, to know that the people kicked far less frightened than the bells, for they L icked IT a prodigious rumpus, and even dis• r ets ed the city train-bands and beef -eaters, leaving battle, a n d of these fat heroes dead on the field of and offering the most unheard-of insults , i ." 3 the awf u l person of the Lord Mayor himself ! 'inotediately the skrimmage was at an end, the bells, recovering from their justifiableapprehensions, took a taentimental turn, "and kept up their monotonous " if wailing and groanin g for the deeds of t -u gnter that had been done"—an instance of intinnabulary tenderness which we firmly believe to "' itt iont a parallel ! But no t th us a ff ecte d was he to moon' for she—cold he a rt e d jade I—happening l ook out a few hours afterwards, shone " as if all unconscious of the dreadful events of the depart zng day!" Early next morning, tidin gs of this PPalling bobber were brought to the Archbishop of C anterbury —but not before his Grace had read e " latest particulars " in the second edition o r the chronicle ; whereupon the vener able Prelate " rose from his table, and proceeded t owards the window of the old Monastery of St. , Pi ugustine, where lie then resided." Here he l ooked about him with much interest, and was sPeeially delighted with " the sparkling twitter of numerous sparrows ;" and being " deeply alive to t he poetry of nature"—as most Bishops are—" he felt soothed and refreshed by the view !" When h is Grace had been sufficiently refreshed, he an nounced his intention of consulting with the Queen a nd the Earl of Moreton on the sad state of Pug affairs, a n d th en coo ll y sate d own and Pla Yd a game of c h ess w i t h one F at h er A m b rose, w a l l°, bein g a discreet dog, strugled hard to all appearance to wi n t h e game , b ut i nvar i a bl y allowed isel f to be b ea t en 1" Meanwhile the Ch ar ti s t Longbeard made his escape from London ; and i'°°n af terwards the t wo Mi ss J or d ans were wa lk e d Ef, h w ith by the wicked Norman Knight whom we ave already spoken of, and who incontinently ° PPed them into his castle hr Kent, where, with ;I/ effrontery that speaks no better for his mo ,l:' i! than hi s goo d sense , t h e monster actually h s i ed th e one sister to be obliging enough to assist re r the sedu c ti on o f th e ot h er; an d w h en s h e used to do so, he professed extreme surprise and n :Cast at h er want o f or di nary politeness I Ulti ,tely the sisters went liberated from their im , trilsontnent, when the elder married Longbeard, third went abroad ; and at the close of the oftrd volume, we find all the virtuous personages hs . the story made happy, and all the vicious r&erabl e, which is just as it should be. Such s r Longheard, Lord of London—a romance °' so feeble and ridiculous a character, and evincing Peri od , d eplorable an ignorance of the nature of the c i eti od of which it treats, that serious criticism is h u. "' l l away upon it. Mr. Mackay, the author, a b a o s !' Pretty taste for poetry, but his prose is t hee' are ; and as for his powers of fiction, Beneath contempt. Invention, descrip ttit°lantaacirieroibneine of dialogue, and knowledge of esse:cterall these requisites, Which form the very e °f P r esent volu r omance, are diligently om itt e d i n t h e tinedmes, whi c h at no di stant d ate are des , We suspect, to line trunks, and wra p u p u lectionary. ----- _---- - W aRI C}N RR ' S I NQUEST.—On Saturday an i nquest and a c on the bodies of the two men killed on the Mid la,, Counties Railwa on the revious day, the particu- J 4 hih have al re ady app e ared in The Sun. The il aft evidence by J. N I er an able summing up of the dert: 7 ' Esq., the Coroner, retired, and after a consi thi,W" of about four hours returned a verdict of . " Ac- S i r ,, l death with a deodand of 300/. on the engine. nllavid Wilkie is now at Constantinople coin- F g a portrait of the Sultan for her Majesty Queen letoria. SPAIN. The Globe brings further accounts of the disorderly proceedings in Tarifa. It is re stated, that the con tending parties arc not divided by political opinions. M. Vides is so decidedly a frog, esista, that, in 1836, he put down the Moderates who were then in power. He continues ill, is confined, and shamefully treated and insulted by the Militiamen in whose custody he is ; nor ha he any great chance of recovering his liberty, though supported by a large majority of the inhabitants, because the majority, in Tarifa as almost everywhere, is timid, and the minority daring and abetted by the authorities. The article now before us, was written on the 10th day of the disturbances; and the elections were still suspended ; and, the night before, the cud gelers had again been at work. . . Iu Cadiz, the Military Commandant, at a loss bow to maintain the garrison, has applied to the capitalists of the place, but in vain : he has only been able to obtain 3,000 and odd dollars, Government being generally con• sidered as representing, not the interests of all, but those of a faction, to win c h the powerful and influential class that might have come to its assistance, does not belong. But the garrison of Cadiz is not the only one that is in danger of starving with hunger and cold : the rest of the army is not better off, according to the Madrid cor respondent of the Globo ; and the Minister of Finance, whom he had stated to be at a nonplus in his preceding letter, is not likely to find the means of feeding and clothing the thousands and tens of thousands whom he could wish to dismiss, but whom some of his colleagues (General Espurtero in particular) insist upon retaining in the service of a country which cannot afford to pay them.—Gibraltar Chronicle of Dec. 30. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) In consequence of the excitement which prevailed in the Liverpool Cotton Market on Monday, and the ad vance of price consequent upon it, there was a very uneasy and irregular market here yesterday. The spinners and manufacturers, scarcely knowing at what price they might be able to replace their cotton, were not disposed to sell except at an advance, which the buyers were by no means disposed to give ; and the consequence was that a very limited business was done, especially in reeled yarn. For goods the demand was somewhat better ; and though the manufacturers were not able to realize the advance which they had at first demanded, some sales were made in 27-inch printing cloth, at an improvement of lid. per piece on the rate of the preceding Tuesday. Both spinners and manufacturers, however, are now in a worse condition than before the late advance in cotton, as the prices of their produce have not increased in proportion ; and the buyers generally deem the recent excitement in Liverpool entirely unfounded, and do not permit it to influence their operations. In deed, the accounts of a short crop of cotton, upon which the speculation in Liverpool appears to be founded, are generally disbelieved here. No doubt, the severe weather, experienced in the United States in the beginning of the last month, has in some degree ex tended to Georgia and Carolina ; and the produce of those States may be expected to fad considerably below that of last year, when the season was more favourable, perhaps, than was ever before known ; but, so far as we are aware, there is no reason to suppose that the frost has extended into the valley of the Mississippi. Indeed, the most recent accounts from the ports of the Gulf of Mexico speak of the weather as being decidedly favourable, and the receipts of cotton large ; and, unless there should be some considerable falling-off in that quar ter, of which, at present, we know nothing, the injury to the crop in Georgia and Carolina will not account for the prodigious falling off which appears to Ise calcu lated upon at Liverpool. The whole produce of those States, in the year 1839, was only 600,000 bales ; and if the coming crop should amount only to two-thirds of that quantity, or 400,000 bales, there must be a dimi nution of nearly 400,000 bales in the Gulf States also, before the crop can be reduced, as alleged, from t 2,177,000 bales in 1832, to 1,600,000 in 1840 ; and we can gather nothing from the recent letters from New Orleans and Mobile, to induce us to suppose that any such falling off is likely to be experienced, or that the entire crop will fall short of the previous estimate of 1,800,000 to 1,850,000 bales. It is generally stated that the speculation in Liverpool, after the arrival of the packet, on Mokay, was commenced by purchases on American account, which may possibly be true ; but we believe there is no doubt, that, up to the very latest dates from all parts of the United States, cotton was selling there at prices, which, when compared with the current rates here, would leave a fair profit to the importer ; and it seems strange, that, under such circumstances, the speculations of American merchants should be made in Liverpool rather then in New *l'm k or New Orleans. This, at least, is the view very gene rally taken of the matter in this town ; and if the pre sent excitement in Liverpool should lead to any material advance in prices, the effect will be a cessation of buy ing, except for immediate use, until either the importers and speculators at Liverpool give way, or the buyers of goods and yarn consent to give the advance which is necessary to remunerate the spinner and manufacturer. llocituaLE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 11. —Though to-day has been what is called the " First Market," we have had but very little change in the de mand for goods. Upon the whole, there has been a little improvement, but no alteration in the prices. The wool market remains steady, and prices looking up. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JAN. I.2.—This was a tolerably brisk market, especially in low, plain, and fancy woollens, for which the demand continues un abated, arising principally from foreign orders. In other descriptions there is not much animation ; but, on the average, a fair general business is doing. Prices still continue firm, but low, which makes it difficult to rea lise a profit on wool. In the warehouses, there is little or no change. Stocks arc not large, and all the mills are working full time. THE BITTLE OF THE BEGGARS A scene, at once singular and ludicrous, occurred last week in the New-road. A couple of those blind mendicants who are in the habit of perambulating the streets accompanied by dogs holding little caps in their mouths for the purpose of receiving the donations of the charitable, happened to be pursuing their " but with this difference, that while the one endeavoured to procure a livelihood by vending those necessary ap pendages to the female toilet termed " stay-laces," the other contented himself with exhibiting his sightless orbs, and simply uttering the pathetic cry of " poor blind I" The two chanced to be going in opposite directions, and on the same side of the way, " tapping" the pavement with their iron-shod sticks, and varying the monotony of their " taps" with the alternate cries of " poor blind" and " stay-lace." It appears that a sort of rivalship exists between them, and on nearing each other it was observed that the " tapping" be came much more energetic, and the tone of their voices much louder and less supplicatory. The very curs seemed to partake in the excitement of their masters, for they simultaneously dropped their caps, pricked up their ears, and commenced tugging away at their strings " like mad." The eagerness of the " quadru peds" quickly brought the " bipeds" in contact, and the " scrimmage" commenced by the animals worrying each other in a style that would have thrown the veriest eostermonger in all Christendom into ecstacies. At first the united efforts of the beggars were directed to separating their four-legged companions, and which, after considerable difficulty, was effected, and, each dog being secured under the urns of its respective master, the following colloquy commenced, to the infi• nite amusement of the crowd who began to collect round the belligerents. " An' its you that ought to be ashamed of yersclf, ye dirty Scotch thafe, to be after taking the bread out of the mouth of myself and the children, by coming with your mongrel baste across the bate of a honest man. An' its bamboozling the ladies ye are, with yer dirty laces as rotten us a dry rush from the bog of Ballyshannon. Och ! and it's the treadmill that's too good for the likes of you, ye dirty spalpeen of a Scotch beggar." " Whist, whist," retorted the other, " ye'ro downright daft, man, or ye wudna' be just ex posing yerself in sic fashion. Canna ye just quietly gang ye'se way, and let me gang mine, without fashen yersel aboot me an' my wee bits o' laces ? Beggar, too ! na, na, I'm nae beggar. I dinna gang aboot wi' a tang face and a loud whine like you Irish lunzies (beggars), with Dan O'Connell at the head o' ye." This was enough. The word " Dan" had an electric effect upon the nerves of the Irishman, who, guided by the speaker's voice, dealt him a blow with a stick that sent his hat whirling to the distance of several yards and left a mark on the Scotchtnan's brow, that looked any shing but " cannie." The blow was immediately re r turned, and a curious sight it was to see these two blind men striking at each other, and to witness the sagacity with which they sometimes warded off the blows, by an ticipating where they might fall. However, some friends of tbo men, arriving at the spot, separated tho combatants, who a short time afterwards were seen " tapping" their respective ways, as orderly as though no interruption had taken place, to the well-known cries of " poor blind" and " stay-lace." THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON MAIL STEAM SHIP ACADIA.—The latest advices from Boston at New York up to noon on the 12th ult. state that the Acadia, which left Liverpool on the 4th of December, had not ar rived at Boston at four F.M. on the 18:h, which leaves her out 14 days. The last four Liverpool packets which have arrived, viz., Roscoe, Stephen Whitney, Columbus, and Sheridan, have each rescued the lives of the crews of an English vessel, and brought them into Liverpool. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GREVILLY SThEET.—Tuesday evening the quarterly medical report was read to a meeting of the governors of the above insti tution. It appeared that during the three months, ending Jan. 1, there had been admitted as in-patients 146 ; discharged cured 123. Admitted as ent-patients during the quarter 3.264. The extreme severity of thew wher since the Ist inst. had mater i ally increased the number of i applicants, and i s every case possible th e y h a d b een imme diately admitted. PUSEYISM AS IT IS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l was upon the point of offering a few remark! upon the above (which has been the subject of several c!everly-written letters, as well as of editorial remark in your valuable journal), especially when I saw the de scription, by " An Angic-Catholic," of the retired and studious Puseyites, which contrasted so strongly vvitli my own knowledge of their several characters, as onl•, to excite a laugh. I will attempt to describe one, and " ex uno disce omnes." When I first became acquainted with him, he had recently taken the title of M. A., and shall nut readily forget the ostentation with which he displayed his gown and hood before my unpractised eyes, or the elated — yea, the triumphal tone in which he read aloud the " Testamur," &c., which had conferred the envied title he bore, for he assured me that many of his fellow ►tudents " would have pawned their souls" for those slips of paper, which reminded one of blank forms for copies of Latitats. He had then recently undertaken a wry responsible duty, in conuex'o❑ with one of our oldest families. Instead of inquiries into the opportunities of extending his sphere of usefulness, he was soon buried in the con tents of the " Munitnent-room," and worked up to ecstacy by the " genealogical tree," which was two yards long, and embraced the descents and intermar riages of the whole family, from the reign of William of Normandy to that of Charles I. In one of our early conversations respecting the neigh bouring clergy, I was led by respect and affection to expatiate with some warmth upon the ministerial zeal, devotion, and eloquence of our Curate, a gentleman from Cambridge, and an evangelical urine. The learned M.A. turned up his nose (which was a snub) and echoed my words, especially " evangelical," with ineffable con tempt, and the unmannerly addition of " humbug." 1 was surprised, and perhaps showed it. He piqueu himself upon discipleship to my Lord of Chesterfield ; and immediately, in an apologetic tone, gave a learned dissertation upon evangelical " humbug," not retreating from but justifying the term. During the illness of the Vicar, he did some " oc casional duty," and employed the intervals of his attend ance at church, in attempting to scour off the white wash wherewith some " Gothic wretches " had defaced the tombstones and monuments in the chapel which be longed to the family I have alluded to. The clerk was highly amused by the duty of supplying the anti quarian Puseyite with soap, flannel, and hot water, and could not help remarking that my subject was " the funniest clergyman he ever saw." Popery and Puseyism are proverbially prudent. My Oxonian soon found that Evangelism was the besetting foible of the family and neighbourhood in which he lived, and that simple country folks could appreciate the ministerial labour that did not relax whon Sunday's duties were fulfilled, but sought out, relieved, com forted, exhorted, or warned, as their cases required, although too simple to value as perhaps they should have done his literary acquirements and antiquarian researches. He also found that his equals and superiors in birth and education were surprised at the closeness, as well as the texture, of his studies and pursuits. On a sudden he approved the curate's labours and his doctrines, and immediatel; entered upon a course of visiting, exhortation, &c., at the cottages of the poor. One morning he took up Runyan's ‘• Pilgrim's Pro gress," and opened upon Vanity Fair. I entered his room just afterwards, and he remarked, as he flung the book aside, that it was an ill-concealed satire upon " the Church" (of England). Upon inquiry, I found that the offensive passages were, the description of the commoaities exposed for sale, bodies, souls, 4c.' Passing a newly-erected chapel one day, he inquired what it was. I informed him that it belonged to the Wee leyan Methodists ; upon which lie said—" I declare I would rather see all England Roman Catholics again, than suffer these detestable conventicle: to spread over the country as they do. Then we should he a Church —but at present we are not." " Then do you consider the Rannish Church, a Church of Christ ?" inquired I. " Oh, most undoubtedly I do," replied the Oxonian. I might repeat many similar traits of character, and he very tedious ; I will, therefore, only add that pride of birth, bigotry, intolerance, and self-love, were the pro minent and leading features of his conduct and conversa tion, and if there is any wisdom or truth in Holy Scrip ture, then, " as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." More than once, when startled by his avowed opinions on politics, church government, doctrine, &c., I inquired if he expressed the opinions of his fellow collegians, to which he replied that " he was proud and happy to say yes." He soon after lost his appointment, owing to his excessive pride and self-sufficiency. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant and constant reader, A PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN. REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN- MENT. THIRD LETTER. OF SIR VALENTINE BLAKE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta.—ln my recent letters which you did me the favour to publish, I set forth briefly the origin of the Civil Constitution of England, together with the earliest interference by the Legislature, on the question of the Elective Franchise, the most valuable of the vested birth rights and privileges of the people. It is now my purpose respectfully to call your atten tion to the operation of the disfranchising acts of the British Legislature upon the analogous constitution of the kingdom of Ireland, and by which, it will appear, that even in those days of remote antiquity, it was 6.: practical policy of the British Government " to esta blish the rights of Irishmen to perfect equality of insti tutions and franchise with their fellow-subjects of Eng land." We have it OA record that, during the contests be tween the Henry's of York and Lancaster, the York interests predominated in Ireland, and that Lambert Simnel so far prevailed there, that Gerald Fitzgerald, Deputy to the Duke of Bedford, taking part against Henry VII., had Simnel crowned King of Ireland with great solemnity in Christ Church in tile presence of the Chancellor and the Judges, and this coronatkn was actually confirmed by an Act of the Irish Par liament. The generosity of Henry VII. induced him not alone to pardon the impostor, ufter obtaining possession of his person, but he also pardoned the infatuated fol lowers of Simnel. . This lenity, however, was not duly appreciated, and soon after another pretender of the name of Perkin Warbeck, was acknowledged as the only legitimate King of Ireland. Here again the extraordinary generosity of Henry was conspicuous, and instead of the scenes of blood, torture, and confiscation which in a succeeding reign occurred in Ireland, with infinitely less of provocation, the King sent over Sir Edward Poynings, with full power to pardon every one, without a single exception, on the sole condition that the Irish Parliament would enact a law to restrain any future Deputy from calling a Parliament, or from giving the Royal Assent to any Act of Parliament without the authority of the King ; and the policy of the object of this was to prevent the possibility of any Irish law, whereby the Crown of Ire land might by such an Act be separated from the Crown of England, and with these terms the people and Par liament cheerfully complied ; and then by the enact ment of Poynings' law in the 10th of Henry VII. all former Acts of the British Parliament, and of course the Acts of the 1 H. 5, c. I, and 8 H. 6, c. 7, were extended to Ireland, and thus the repeal of Poynings' law in 1782 accelerated the Union. S) that in fact we don't know whether we go too fast or too slow." I fear I am extending my observations to an unreason able length.—l have the honour to be your most obe dient servant, VALENTINE BLAKE. DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: - - - - Stn,—The perusal of a letter signed by H. M. SA. muels, copied from a Jamaica paper in The Sun of yes terday, in which the writer very naturally advocates the right that he and his brethren have to equal privileges with every other British subject, and in which he ex pres,es a hope that they will again possess the land of their forefathers, " when Jerusalem, their ancient heri tage, and the tomb of the great Christian Prophet, shall be rescued from the Infidel, and that both Jew and Christian may alike undisturbed worship God in peace and safety," is the inducement to my troubling you with this, feeling as I do, from the perusal of your paper daily, that universal good will towards mankind is the basis of your principles. It is now nearly five years since I felt it due to the Jews to address the Town Council and Burgesses of this town on the subject of their emancipation, which was then in contemplation. 1 therein endeavoured to show that every nation that had oppressed thorn (though they were under the righteous condemnation of God) had been destroyed in t heir turn ; but that every Go vernment which had a fforded them protection, and support, had in return been blessed of God. That eten their greatest enymy, Moab, was called on to succour and sustain t hem. " Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou to them a covert from the spoiler,' was the injunction of Holy Writ ; and I still think that under the appeal to Moab, every nation was addressed. Suppose we take the case of a sin gle individual whom the dispensations of God has afflicted. Do we not (or ought we nct) to seek to alleviate his sufferings? What, then, ought to be the feelings of Christians towards those who have been made the means of providing the foundation of the Christian re ligion, but who, by the sins of their forefathers, have been shut. out for a time from its privileges? For what says the word of God, by the Apostle Paul ? " If the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be ?" And if we, who call ourselves Christians, seek to add to or continue affliction to those whom God has smitten, how can we hold oat to their notice that precious offer of our Re deemer, " Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ;" or to that fiuish- 141414 ' Rink: - 1- ! ON spON ± 1 1 IR unRnA i. , ' JANUAR - v 'l4, 1641, ing invitation, " Ho that cometh to me I will in nowise cat out ?" Let us, then, show ourselves to be Chris• ti ens, not in name only, but in principle. If the Jews could only be brought to believe that He, who by the Prophet said to Moab, as the repre atative of all Gentile nations, " Be thou to them a overt," and who used to show himself in human form to Moses and the Fathers, was the Lord Jesus Christ; since whom we consider as God manifest in the flesh, awl as the Me,siali vi horn they profess to look for, they would at once acknowledge him as such ; but the:i• never must expect that they will be permitted to return to their native land under any error respecting Him ; for this was the cause why God expelled them thence. So then they may calculate that as they begin, and continue, to investigate and believe the New Testament Scriptures, so soon will the time of their return begin. And though the present generation may never expect tt; enjoy it, yet they wit, like those of old, have to view the prom se, though afar of, and rest in hope of its fulfilment. For I feel assured God will never restore them until they si.e ey e to eye with him, and then it will be found that the true worship of God in all ages has been the same, and that this New Testament. Scriptures are the revelations that will be made by God to man, be they were made by God himself, personally ma n' est in th! flash. Under these considerations let all British Christians unite in the endeavour to procure for them their It& privileges as British subjects ; that so we may lay a stepping-stone for them to ascend to d higher and more permanent security. I am, Sir, respectfully yours, A LOVLR OF TRUE LIBERTY. Plymouth, Jan. 10, 1841. THE LATE CAPTAIN HEWETT, OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP FAIRY. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE 7 1IAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH.' " Portsmouth, Jan. 6, 1841. " Sir,—l have been requested to solicit the advantage of your columns, to circulate a knowledge of the dis• tressing case of the widow of the late C.tptain Hewett, who was lost in the Fairy, surveying vessel, in the great gale of the 13th of November last ; and I feel confident that the friendly feeling that you bear to the service. will prompt you to render your powerful aid in so good a cause. " Were the case an ordinary one, Y might - have hesi tated to intrude it upon the public attention, however deeply I might have been interested in the parties ; for I hold that appeals of this nature should never be made on light grounds. Unhappily there is nothing uncom mon in the widow of a gallant and highly meritorious naval officer being left with eight children almost entirely unprovided for ; but it is seldom that an instance occurs, which has such strong claims on c public favour as the present. " That an officer who has devoted his whole life to the execution of his professional duties, and has at last perished in their actual performance, is well entitled to our respect, no one will deny, nor that his destitute widow and orphans are objects of our compassion. Still, unless he shall have performed either some bril liant or some useful public service, his family ca❑ claim little more than our sympathy, and must be left to the care of those who are nearest and dearest, aided by the casual assistance of others whose generous na tures judge of such matters by their own intrinsic dis tress. " The case of Mrs. Hewett, however, and her eight delicate children (three of whom are at this trying mo ment very ill), stands on such very different grounds, that I cannot doubt, when the services of her late hus band become generally known, she will be promptly and effectually relieved by the public. " When an officer distinguishes himself in battle, the country is never slow to acknowledge their sense of ob ligation to him and to reward him for augmenting the national renown ; or if he should fall in action, sound policy inclines them to provide for his family. But there arc other services fully as beneficial to the coun- try, and as essential to the advancement of its true glory, as those which figure in the Gazelle, and which, t beretore, are no less justly entitled to public favour. Of these the silent, unseen, protracted, often perilous, and always ardous labours, of the maritime surveyor, arc entitled, on many grounds, to a high place in our esteem. There are perhaps no exertions of any of her Majesty's servants, which produce snore decided prac tical benefits to the community—none of which the good is more substantial at the moment, or snore permanently useful in its character—none of which the results are more readily available in practice—nor any labours which require, at every stage of their pro gress, more skill, knowledge, patience, perseverance, and above all, good faith and genuine public spirit, than the works of the bydrographer. This a ill be un derstood when it is recollected that in the course of almost every other branch of the public service occa sional inaccuracies or neglects may occur without essen tially vitiating the result. " Success," said Lord Nel son, speaking of war, " hides a multitude of blunders." But this will not apply to surveying ; for no eventual gloss or pretension, no elegance of execution of the snaps, will make up for the smallest antecedent blunder in the details. Accordingly, a conscientious surveyor, like Hewett, makes it a sacred duty to superintend every east of the lead, to verify every compass bearing by his own eye, to regulate and employ his chronometers with his own hands, and to observe the celestial bodies with instruments the merits of which he has himself proved. Finally, out of an immense mass of carefully accumu lated materials scientifically reduced, be has to lay down his charts, that is, to adapt his work to the common use, not only of his own trading countrymen, but of the ma ritime world at large, " it will scarcely be asked, what is the use of all this minute care? or in what way are the public concerned in it? or why should they owe so large a measure of gratitude to this particular officer, as to be called upon to assist his widow and orphans ? I shall, however, now show what has been the extent and the nature of his public services, of which their very great utility de pends upon the zeal and fidelity with which they were carried on. The character of the surveyor, inceed, is the only guarantee we can have for the correctness o f s uch a work, and it i s upon this well-esta bli s h e d repute jtiaonneilpass ,i e that ro any 3hu r claims o f hi s family can rest. no av mer Capta in H ewett ' s surve y s o f Ri o d o co, and other distant places, because, th o ugh admirable in their way, and very useful to those who trade with those nations, they are less calcu lated to make an impression on your readers, and, in point of fact, are less extensively useful than his labours nearer home. In all the wide circuit of waters navigated by British ships, there is, I believe, no region more sailed over than what is called the North Sea, lying between the east coast of Great Britain and the Continent, nor any with which it is more important to the mariner to he well acquainted. It is thickly strewed over with dangerous shoals, many of them out of sight of land ; some lying directly in the fair way of navigation, and others far to the right and left of it, but not the less dangerous on that account to vessels driven out of their course by stress of weather. " In 1818, Captain Hewett commenced the gigantic task of surveying this immense network of shoals, and he followed it up with a minuteness anti an exact. ness heretofore unequalled in this or any other country In the process of this most useful undertaking numerous dangerous banks were for the first time examined, and their places correctly ascertained ; others, which had no existence but in the fears of fishermen and traders, were swept off our charts. All the passages among the shoals were carefully sounded and rendered avail able by means of intelligible sailing directions—innu merable buoys were laid down, and lighthouses erected along the coast, to guide the mariner by day and by night and I have just learnes's!hat the Tsinity-house have borne honourable and substantial testimony to the value of Captain Hewett's suggestions on these points, and to the singular clearness and seamanlike precision of all his operations,--by awarding 2001. to his widow. "In the midst of this career of public usefulness Cap tain 'Jewett was suddenly cut off, and the great work which he had almost completed most unfortunately in terrupted. And here it may be interesting to pause a moment to consider how different the p os iti ons are in which an officer in command of a ship may be placed. There is not in the world a more glorious situation, or one upon which the country at large looks with greater admiration, than that of a captain leading his ship into all his action, it may be to death, it must be to honour. On the other band, what stretch of. imagination can roach or sympathy embrace the anguish and horror of a com manding officer in the situation , of Captain Hewett in the gale when the poor Fairy four:idered? All the skill and fortitude which had availed him so often in rescuing his crew from perils he now sees to be utterly useless ; ;finally, dthwe washing g ped vessel completely over wave after wave beats over the devoted ship, tearing gallant companions overboard tthe masts w helmed, sinks under his feet. " May we not well suppose that along with his last mortal agonies, and the deep sorrow at being thus wrenched away from the world in the prime of life, he might yet feel supported by the reflection, that, as he had always done his duty by . his country, and contri butedos tear s , i t m i ght still ma k e 4 1 her , materially, by h is individua l exertion, to its inte rests, his country would not no w d esert those whom he could no longer assi st ; , and th at , t h ough no human band heart could t 0 dry si slug f his trdw orjo , Y, by renderin g t h e o ffi ce o f ' a a father to the fatherless. " As, however, it for ms, c o m p ar atively, an inconsider able part of my prese nt ob j ect to work on the feelings of your readers, I shall not pursue thi s su bj ect f urther , nor intrude unnecessarily on the sacre d pr i vacy of t h e desolate widow's grief, except to state, th at h er e ld est n midshipman, and and her brother, th e master o f t h e sohip,, a with her husband i n t h e F a i ry. ' s pe m ri i s d h s e h d i ie hope, for me to st a t e i n conc l us i on , which best authority, th a t h er means, even ' It t I i s do enough upon the with the highest pension that the rules of the State allow, must prove totally inadequate to maintain her in the po sition which, as an officers wife, she has hitherto been ac customed to enjoy. Neither can Mrs. Hewitt, unless as sisted by the pollie, hope to bring up her children as they would have been brought up had their father's life been t preserved to them and to his country. Let it h e re collected a l so , th at a l t h oug h t hi s appea l i s ma d e i n p irt to the generous sympathies of the public, it is not less ihreeted to their sense of justice. For, if it be true, as I pledge myself it is, that Captain Hewett has ren dered very important and permanently useful prof,s sional servi ces to t h e nat i on, w i thout h i s ever Navin;liavin had either ti me or t h e means o f l ay i ng up any pros islon lo;- ills family, they ore certainly well entitled to protec tion, and to the heartiest assistance we can render them. It is gratifyin g to be able to communicate, that two 4ilnleteen have already come forward to assist Mrs. Hewitt, one with the offer of a cadetsip, the other with a presentation to Christ's Hospital, for her sons. " Subscriptions for Mrs. Hewett will be received by Captain Beaufort, Hydrographer-office, Admiralty ; by Captain Drew, of the Trinity-house ; Mr. Thomas Lawrence, Post-office ; and by the London and West minster Bank, Waterloo-place, and Lothbury, London ; aLo, by Lieutenant Cook, It N., Addiscombe ; and I shall be happy to receive and transmit to the Commit tee of gentlemen acting on behalf of the widow, any sohscriptiocs which may be forwarded to me at Potts mouth. I have the honour to be your obedient servant, " BASIL HALL, Captain, R.N." P.S. Jan 9.—1 copy the following paragraph from a circular which has not been published :—` Subscrip tions will be thankfully received at the bank of Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross ;of Messrs. Wil hams, Deacon, and Labouchere, Birchin lane ; of Messrs. Martin, Stone. and Stone, No. 68, Lombard street ; also by Mr. Robert Miller, Blackheath-park ; Mr. 'Thomas Lawrence, General Pcs -office ; Captain Drew, Trinity-house ; Mr. John Walker, hydrogra pher, India-house ; Major Rob; R, E., Tower ; Mr. Thomas Chapman, Lloyd's ; Mr. George Babb, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire ; Captain Basil Hall, R.N.. Portsmouth ; and Lieutenant Cook, R.N., of Addis combe College, or at No. 32. Sackville-street ; from whom any further information may be obtained. " 'lnc Earl of Galloway, Colonel Conolly, Comman der R. M., Woolwich, and Mr. Charles Brodrick, have very kindly consented to their names being given as trustees, for payment into the Bank of England, on account of Mrs. Hewett, of such sums as shall 1.),t re ported to them by the above bankers, on or beforo the Ist of May next, to be payable on her account. Re mittances before the Ist of May to the said bankers should be made to the Trustees in behalf of the Widow of the late Captain Hewett, RN.'" FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD SHIP—AR in quest was held onTuesday morning before Mr. Baker, at the Queen's Hrad, High -street, Poplar, relative to the death of John Pringle, aged 19, a mariner, belonging to the United Kingdom. It appeared in evidence that on Friday, Jim. 1, the vessel was lying at anchor in the Margate Roads, and the deceased was sent aloft to stow the mlzen. topsail. The sail was furled, and he was fostering it with a cord, which broke, and, losing his hold, he fell headfore most on the quarter-deck, a distance of forty feet. The injuries were so severe that he died instantly. The body ..vas brought in the vessel to Poplar. Verdict, " Acci dental death." PARDON OF FROST.--If there is and• truth at all in the statement of the Standard's Liverpool penny-e -ither, as we hope there may be, Sir John Franklin has, " in the exercise of that heavenly prerogative, mercy," extended to Frost the indulgence of being employed in keeping books, instead of working in a chain-gang ; and then the whole pack of Tory newspapers on this side the water set up a fearful howl, charging the Government with encouraging treason, and declaring that Frost ought to have been subjected to the most irksome and degrading la bour. Truly there is no satisfying these people.— Man. cluster Guardian. COFFEE SHOPS IN LONDON.—Several coffee shopkeepers gave evidence before the Committee on Im ports. Mr. Humphreys, a coffee-shopkeeper, said, " About 25 years ago there was scarcely a house in Lon don where you could get any coffee under 6d. a cup, or 3d, a cup ; there are now coffee-houses open at from Id. up to 3d. There are many houses where the charge is Id where they serve from 700 to 800 persons in a day. There is Mr. Pamphilon, who charges 1 id. a cup, and he has from 1,500 to 1,600 persons a day." Some of these shops arc open from four in the morning until elevea at night. At one coffee-shop 43 London daily papers arc taken, and an individual who pays lid. for a cup of coffee has the op portunity of reading any of them. In addition to these daily papers, 7 country papers are taken, 6 foreign papers, 24 monthly magazines, 4 reviews, and 11 weekly periodi cals. Another coffee-shopkeeper stated that, prior to the reduction of the newspaper duty, be paid 4001. a year for newspapers and magazines, and for binding the yearly volumes. Mr. Humphreys remarked that, since be had been in business, a manifest improvement had taken place in the taste for literature amongst the classes who frequent his house. No intoxicating liquors are sold in the great majority of the coffee-shops ; while, in the accommodation which they afford, they are far superior to the public houses. At Mr. Letchford's coffee-shop, in High-street, St. Giles, which is frequented daily by from 700 to 900 hard-working men, the charge for a cup of coffee in the different rooms, is Id., lid., and 3d. " A man comes in the morning at four o'clock, and has a cup of coffee and a thin slice of bread and butter, and for that he pays I,}d.; and then again at eight, for his breakfast, he has a cup of coffee, a penny loaf, and a pennyworthy of butter, which is 3d. ; and, at dinner-time, instead of going to a public house at one o'clock, he - cornea in again, and has his coffee and his bread, and brings his own meat." Nine daily papers arc taken at this house. The general practice of the trade, when coffee is sold for I3d. a cup, is to charge 2d for tea; and, at Mr. Letchford's the consump tion of coffee is two-thirds, and of tea one-third. Within Oh. last few years, most of the keepers of coffee.shops have been compelled, by the general demand of the per sons frequenting them, to sell cooked meat. At Mr. Humphreys' house, about three cwt. of ham and cold meat are sold weekly, Temperance Societies and Friendly So cieties are getting into the habit of using coffee-shops for their periodical meetings. Mr. Humphreys, in the course of his evidence, said, " I have often asked myself the ques tion, where all the number of persons now frequenting my house could possibly have got their refreshment prior to its being opened. There were taverns in the neighbour hood ; but no coffee-houses, nor anything that afforded any accommodation of the nature I now give them."—Corn ponion to Almanac for 1841. At the meeting of the Hertfordshire Ma2-istrates in Quarter Sessions, at Hertford, on Monday, scene of a rather singular character took pl a ce, an d frPin the vio lence and excitement that were exhibited " the lower orders of the town, who had crowded the Hall, it was feared at one time that a serious dunce would have taken place. The Court, it appeared, were about to take into consideration a report of Mr. Russell, the inspector of prisons, in reference to two cells that have been made at the bottom of the Town Hall for the reception of male and female prisoners chile awaiting their trials at the Assizes And Quarter Sessions. The report of Mr. Russell was to the effect that he had examined the cells, and he consi dered that they were fit for the reception of prisoners. The moment this was said, a tremendous volley of groans and yells issued from all parts of the Town Hall, amid such cries as " Shame on you for attempting to put men into such dens"—" They are not fit for dogs"—.." He ought to be kept in one himself," &c. An almost indescribable scene of confusion and uproar ensued, and the business of the Court was completely suspended. Lord Dacre, the Chairman ; at length addressed the people in the gallery and the body of the Court, and told them their conduct was most dis graceful, and could not do them any service, and be begged them to be quiet and to allow the business to proceed. The uproar still continued, and at length the Marquis of Solis. bury suggested that some of the parties who were disturb. ing the Court should be t *ken into custody. Lord Dacre said he was unwilling to act with severity, but he would not sit there as Chairman and see the Court insulted. The uproar and confusion still continuing, the police were called upon to interfere, and one of those who was most active in making the disturbance was taken into custody and lodged in the station.houco of the Hertford police. The question was then put, and the Chairman, amid a volley of hisses and yells, declared that it was the opinion of the Court that the cells should be used fur the recep tion of prisoners as was proposed. During the past year, notwithstanding a decrease in the aggregate customs of the kingdom, the receipts at Liverpool have exceeded those of the year preceding by 373,0001. The total return for 1840 is 4.600,0004, nearly the whole of which is remitted to the Exchequer, the expenditure, including drawbacks and repayments, as well as the expenses of management, being only 130,000/. We believe there is no port in the kingdom that is so sys tematically and cheaply worked, or that gives the Govern ment so little trouble, as Liverpool. The progressive in crease in the Customs duties is a gratifying proof of the rising importance of the port, and •f the sound and im proving state of its commerce. Connected as Liverpool is with so largo a portion of .the empire, her interest is not that of her own population merely, but that of millions besides; and the advancement of her trade, and the aug mentation of her revenue, are causes of proportionate con gratulation. These improvements, we have no doubt, are destined still to go on, in an increasing ratio. Rapid as the growth of Liverpool has been in commercial greatness, there is yet, to all appearances, a career of prosperity be fore her compared with which her present achievements will seem but as a beginning. The opening of new branches of trade, and additional facilities for business, are already producing their beneficial effects, and as they come more and more into operation, will be still more sen sibly felt. At the same time, whatever may be said in favour of further alterations of management, with regard especially to the proposal for dock warehouses, the facts above stated certainly afford no remarkable evidence that such alterations are called for to sustain the falling trade or revenues of the port. —Liverpool Courier. THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—The great orators: never speak according to their turn on the President's list. M. Berryer has never spoken on the day for which his name has been inscribed. If you would make sure of a Minister or Deputy whom you wish to hear ascending the tribune to-day, inquire whether the Minis ter's IA ife, or the lady whose dinners, balls, or soirees the said Deputy most frequently attends, has received tickets. It is never the order of the day that brings on those lively and animated incidents which the public so eagerly seek ; it is such and such a Member. Ascertain from him whe ther he will speak before you apply for tickets.---Paris paper. EVASION.—It happened in the south-west of the county (Cork), with which the part before us is occu pied. One of its squires, somewhat inordinately addicted to the jolly god, swore that he would not taste, to the day of his death, whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, or any other liquor whatever, distilled on the face of the earth. Soon finding wine drinking rather inconvenient to his purse, and sorely tempted to return to the tumblers, he discovered an effectual manner of evading his oath, by fitting up a neat little private still on board one of his vessels t o smuggling vessel, by the by), and, of course, felt no scruple of conscience in drinking poteen distilled upon the facto of the waters. --: LOVE-MAKING IN CHINA. (Extract of a Letter from Chusan.) I was poking about the deserted town the day after we were assigned our several locations, when in a street, anything but a principal one, and at a window of a house anything but an inferior one, I saw, or thought I saw, a pair of eyes peeping from over a screen. and a pair of hands resting upon the top thereof. The house had its gable end to the street in which 1 was, and the window was the heat round the corner. I caught the vision as I passed—l returned, and returned, and the eyes and hands were still there. Somehow or other I concluded that they belonged to a female, but, as it was clearly possible they might not, it would have been un satisfactory to go away wondering. I therefore looked over my shoulder, and no one being in sight, I very quietly slipped round to the door, and, not think ing it necessary to wait till it was opened, I ap plied my shoulder decisively to it, and it yielded to the percussion. I had hardly got inside the threshold, when the eyes and hands I had seen made their appearance, in company with the rest of the proprietor, the whole figure in a state of evident trepidation. I believe you know 1 do not speak Chi nese, so I made no attempt to explain myself by words. I dropped on my knees, and would have kissed the young lady's foot, but she drew back, and I therefore Kissed the ground two or three times, after which I placed myself on one knee, and, concluding that Chinese have hearts as well as other people, and probably in the same place, I pressed mine with intense earnest ness, and looked--I am not exactly sure how I looked, but I soon saw a woman is a woman all over the world, for her little eyes sparkled, and her little hands put back a little veil that was worked in gold thread, and her little feet pattered towards me a step or two—l cannot say my goddess walked, and alto• gether she appeared as much impressed with my ap pearance as a modest man could reasonably expect. I never was so surprised in my life at the ease with which I reassured her, for, between ourselves, I ex pected, being of China, the precious porcelain would break to pieces from very fright. I had only knelt two or three minutes, struck my left side three or tour gentle slaps, and clasped my hands, just by the by AS you squeeze a lemon, when I saw that I was any thing but a monster in her eyes. I would have given ill possible promotion and prize money just to have been able to say a thing or two in Chinese, but it was out of the question. I had, therefore, but one resource : I spoke English, and told her, of course, she had nothing to rear, that no one living should harm her, and that I considered she was a celestial of the first water, and no mistake, left for the express purpose of striking into dazzled bewilderment with her radiant beauty the without savages. All this I have no doubt she fully comprehended. In return she told me, in Chinese, that all her family had fled in terror, she supposed, for that on coming home late one evening from a tea party, she found the house empty—she was pre paring to follow, and had got nearly out of the Western gate, when her heart failed her at the sight of some of our men, and she returned. She added that there was not a soul in the house but herself, and that she had been very frightened, but that she was not frightened any longer. Have you ever seen La Micelle di Portici .? Of course you have. Very well then, you know how I got at all this. The house was a very neat affair, indeed it looked like a large toy ; there were five or six apartments leading from one another, and up stairs, not exactly what we mean by up stairs, but yet above the others (the ascent was little more than a gentle plane) as many m ore . My little friend refreshed me with a luscious liqueur, which she gave me in a small glass globe, covered with gold fila gree work, and standing on a carved ivory stem, in shape not unlike our modern champagne glasses. I think it must have been decidedly intoxicating in its effects, for, though I took but two glasses, I felt en alloverishness very soon after. I might have gone to sleep, but the curiosity of my fair hostess kept me awake ; and find ing that I really was a very harmless thing to play with, she pulled me about almost as much as if I had been one of their own puzzles. I think I re mained nearly two hours with her, ransacking in a quiet way everything in the house, which she allowed me to do, seeing the pleasure the novelty gave me. This whole affair appeared to me when I returned home like a dream. If women all over the world are not riddles, what are they? The girl made me un derstand as perfectly as if she had been brought up in a finishing academy near London, that I was not to tell a soul of her existence. She showed me pro. visions, dried fruits, and cakes, and wines, that would last her ten years ; and seeing that I understood I was to be mum, which I made her do by pretending to sew my lips together, at which she laughed heartily and clapped her hands, she invited me to call again, to which I said yes, by slipping behind a screen, spring ing forward, and seizing her foot, which this time she did not withdraw, but rather allowed me to examine, and I can confidently say it was more like a small bag of walnuts than anything else. I intend to keep my pro mise, and if I am not " found out" I don't think she will be, while things stand as they do at present. I. have hardly time to add that I am, my dear —, your's very sincerely, —. ESCAPE OF GAS AT STRASBURG A melancholy accident occurred at Strasburg a few days since, in cons eq u ence o f a great quant i ty o f gas escaping from a faulty pipe into the rooms where a tradesman and his wife, with their servant and three children were sleeping. All except the father and mother were suffocated. The Courrier of Strasburg gives the following particulars of this occurrence, which it states has thrown the whole town into alarm : " About ten o'clock on Saturday morning M. Horst, a teacher of the piano, uneasy at finding that the house in which he lived was infected with a strong smell of gas, sent for the chief agent of the Company to ascer tain the cause. They began by examining the ground floor, and on coming to the kitchen of an apartment occupied by the family of M. Beringer, a dealer in glass and other articles from the Black Forest, stifled groans and other sounds of a dying person were heard from the adjoining room. It then occurred to M. Horst that, although the day was so far advanced, not one of this family had been seen stirring ; he called, therefore, for assistance, and had the room whence the ominous sounds issued forced open. It was in darkness, the shutters being still closed. When light was ad mitted the following horrible spectacle presented itself : Six persons were lying in different positions, either dead or in the last agonies. M. Beringer was lying in the middle of the chamber with his face to the ground, entirely dressed except his coat and waistcoat. Near him, and in front of a stove, lay the servant, a young woman, completely clothed. The wife, who was also dressed, was lying on her bed, with the youngest child, a little gill seven years old. On a mattress, near the window, was one of the two sons, fifteen years of age, with his drawers and waistcoat on, and near him, on the floor his brother in his shirt. All were foaming at the mouth, had their features contracted, and of a violet colour, and their limbs distorted and stiff, as if they had been suffering from violent convulsions. Not one of them showed any signs of life except the father, the rattling in whose throat had given the alarm. Medical assistance was given, but all were dead except the father and mother. It was afterwards found that a considerable issue of gas had taken place from the pipes into the house, and had no doubt caused the accident. In the evening M. Beringer was still alive, but was not expected to survive ; his wife re mained in a state of delirium." FURTHER PARTICULARS. The Courrier du Bas Rhin gives the following fur ther details of the recent melancholy accident at Stras burg :—M. Beringer died on Sunday morning. The post mortem examinations of the five dead bodies—the servant, the three children, and their father,—made by several of the faculty, have established beyond all doubt that they died from suffocation. Mme. Berin ger has recovered her senses, and appears out of danger, but has one of her sides paralysed. She has been able to give the following account i—ln the course of Friday (New Year's-day) the whole family became indisposed, without being able to attribute it to any cause. They were attacked with giddiness in the head, and the little girl with vomitings. She and her children always slept in a chamber above, and M. Beringer in the room en the ground floor, adjoining the warehouse ; but, as they were unwell, and there was a fire i❑ the room, they resolved to pass the night together down stairs. At eight o'clock the children were put to bed, and Mme. Beringer was preparing to do the Fame, when she was seized with a violent vertigo, and was laid by her husband and the servant on the bed, from which moment she lost all sensibility. It appears that the lives of herself and M. Beringer were preserved till the next morning only by their having afterwards fallen on the ground near the kitchen-door, under which a small stream of air was able to enter." WEATHER IN EDINBURGH.—The late frost has been unusually severe, the thermometer on Friday night having fallen to 15 degrees. The lakes and ponds in the neighbourhood have, in consequence, been covered the gloTomheosfnaolvw with a thick coating of ice, on which the exhilirating ex- erciso of skating has been enjoyed to great advantage. Lochend Lochend and Duddingstone have been both eraoswdsnerdd. andOn Saturday the latter exhibited a gay and animated assem blage. Though th w e . i s c e fi , n f e tio a m nd th t e he fa s ll ur o r f ou sn n o d w in , lv ,r ll 9i s ncik s a o sen m annd. what rough, yet there was a mo m st a n n um on er t o h u e s i c eg or e ; skaters as well as of spectators. The ice was in i ti.terthdwhich seemed secure, the day picturesque hills, with the living urinal whirl, presented a most lively scene, Saturday night e a ctear to chase away wo had occasional falls of snow, and somey' thaw, but yesterday the weather Was , and the frost clear, appearance of m so o u r t n h in m g u w st as be se v v e e ry n continues intense. deep, as the Lyndon mail yesterday con hours later than usual in arrival ; and last night the coach did not e not ig r h e t ac h l o t ur the and a hePost- until half-past ten o'clock, be °hT e half behind its time,--(:Durant, Jan. 11. duties of customs collected at Aberdeen The during the year ended s •llinstant , amount to 80,0841. 13s. 2d., being 1,199/ . 45.. 3d. more than in the preceding year. S t ) NiNt 4- 1411111' Ici SPIRIT of the PUBLIC:, JOIURNAL.;.. (FROM THE DAILY PAY.I.IIS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Morning Post.) Since the world began there never was offered to public view a more gross example of inordinate greedi ness than that which certain manufacturing capitalists display in their hostility to the Corn-laws. Never, even in this money-making country, did any class of men make such rapid fortunes es the manufacturers ;alive made since the beginning of the present century ; but nothing will satisfy them. With wealth flowing in upon them, as though Pactolus itself rolled through their smoky settlements of noise and toil, they cannot bear that any but they should be prosperous. They have no patience at the thoughts of landlords getting good prices for their land, while they are get-t ine nThre th in tio of prices for their menufaci tiros. This is the vice of human nature. Pattipst a man, and he becoint s cruel, grasping, greedy. He has 110 lea/ of aill-cuiiiinatid, hut si Inc slim , - tiou is whether our Legislature will minister to this gross sellialiness, or rattier try to in lintain a b lace of interests, and give protection to the capital of the agriculturist ngai t !osei g n competition. Some of the in inufacturers (we refer especially to those of Co ventry) are quite as clamorous for the continui.n of protection to their otvn trade as they are for the abeti tion of all protection to agriculture. Others cry that t h ey want no protection, and, because they do not want it, they insist that nobody else ought to have it. What amiable and t cry " liberal" persons ! B, e use th-y are placed in c reumitancas of cxtraord nary ad vantage, they would not only enjoy the beeetit thereof, but hinder others ;shots circumstances are not so ad vantageous from such artificial help as it may he in the power of the Leg:slat u:e to afford. There is nu part of the United Kingdom in which the opposition to the existing protection of I;:iitisli agriculture is more viru lent than it is is Glasgow, anti yet, of all cities in the United Kingdom, there is not one where enterprise and industry in manufacturing and commercial pursuits have been more prosperous. ‘Ve have been I,ld by persons well acquainted with that city that the iastances may he counted by hundreds of pars ms .vho had next to nothing twenty years ago, and yet arc now ill afiluence—spending large sums in luxury, and at the same time annually adding to their capitals. And yet these are the very persons who grudge to the landowner anti the farmer the comparatively small—very returns which, under the protecting law, they derive from their capital and their labour ! It is no unusual thing for these manufacturers of articles, the exchange able value of which depends upon the fashion attic day, to realise full fifty per cent. in the year upon the capital they employ, and yet they burn with envy because they cannot cut down those who rarely make more than saven or eight per cent, to the level of continental prices, which would yield them no income at all. With out taking into account the wondrous profits which manufacturing people frequently snake, the public can scarcely estimate the shocking and shameful greedi ness which is the soul of their opposition to the Corn laws. We have spoken of the fortunes made within twenty years, but a recent important trial at Glasgow shows the more prodigious pace at which these greedy people go. We take from a Ministerial paper—one of those which incessantly assails the landed interest with the most unmeasured abuse on account of the Corn• laws—the following particulars of the fate of the much injured manufacturers : " A very important and interesting case was last week tried before Mr. Sheriff Alison, in Glasgow, which threw considerable light on the profits of the cotton trade. The Trustees of the Clyde navigation had obtained an Act of Parliament, in virtue of which they proposed to encroach on or remove the works of Messrs. Todd and Higgenbo tham, at Springfield. Mr. Todd, the original proprietor of the works, is dead, and his representatives claimed for the land, from which they derived a feu (chief rent), in addition to his share in the value of the works. Mr. Hig genbot ham, who was formerly an inhabitant of Manchester, had attracted the notice of Mr. Todd by his business-like habits, at a time when the latter was becoming infirm, rather more than six years ago. So imperfect were Mr. ' ifiggenbotham's ideas of the value of the concern when Mr. Todd offered him a share to secure his services, that he stipulated for a salary of 4001. per annum, secured, be fore he would remove. His modest ideas were destined to no small slap: ise and expansion. " The works at Springfield contained 16,000 spindles, printing and Turkey-red dyeing works, and about 20 looms, The manufacture was entirely for the home market. The total number of hands employed was 889. The average annual consumption of drugs and dye stuffs, from 1835 to 1840 inclusive, was 29,2061. Average annual amount of furnishings for the same period was 4,5561. The average produce in the printing and dyeing department was 264,66 pieces of 25 yards each. Sales 264,252, Leaving a dif ference of only 414. "In money the average annual sales amounted to 151,2641. la estimating the capital employed, we find that five per cent. interest on the whole was deducted before the net profits were taken, and in the year 1640 that interest amounted to 5,4001., representing a capital of 108,000/. This interest, and all charges, including Mr. Higgen hothani's 4001. per annum during the copartnery, being de ducted, 0143 average annual net profits far the six years, from 1835 to 1840, were 11,6891. For this concern the Clyde Trustees offered but ; but the jury, after having had the above par ticulars proved to them, awarded 43,733/. to Mr. Iliggenbothain, the surviving partner in it, and 8,1194 to the heirs of Todd, as compensation for the head rent. Thus we find 52,0001. held to be equivalent to business profits of 11,6891. a year ; and a man who sti pulated six years ago for at least 400/, a year as his compensation enriched with .13,733/. for his interest in the concern ! Such matters, we believe, are not at all r a r i t l n w ra n rk a gt b h l in G e e verypla persons thus and us enriched, in h do n t place, u find and a clamour us though the protection which enables agri culture to exist at all were a grievous and almost in supportable hardship upon them! It is a class of people whose circumstances are thus prosperous, that pretend they cannot sufficiently compete with foreign manufac turers, who obtain labour at a cheaper rate, because food is cheaper. It is this class of people, with their enormous profits, who desire to cut down the wages of the manufacturing labourers, and to throw the agricul tural labourers out of employment ! Is not this some thing monstrous to contemplate ? We admit the great merits of these persons. We admire their ingenuity— we applaud their perseverance—we rejoice in their pros perity, and we have no wish that it should be one jot abated. But we do thick that they ought to be satis fied, that they should be content to let others lire while they thrive, and that they should not look with so jealous an eye upon the moderate profits yielded by the land. (From the Morning Chronicle.) Kent is the county for charlatans. There " Sir William Percy Honeywood Courtenay," alias Thom, found believers in his Messialiship ; and his memory has found a worthy eulogist in the person of the Hon. G. P. S. Smythe, who aspires to he the colleague of the notorious Bradshaw in the representation of Canter bury. Mr. Smythe thinks that Thom had " glimmer ings of truth dawning on his mind," and was, after all, not so much of a fanatic as Daniel O'Connell. Thera is no accounting for tastes ; if there .were, it would be worth while inquiring into the taste for quackery evinced by the Tories of Canterbury. 'Flue oration of this new aspirant is amongst the most signal specimens of flip. pancy, ignorance, and impudence, we have aver met with. On the cause of Toryism at Canterbury there rests an indelible stain. There it was that an assem bled faction, at its high festival, graced by the presence of dignitaries of the Church, listenerl with applause to the calumnies and ribaldry of a " wine.warmed indivi dual" upon the character of a maiden Queen. Those who assisted at that festival, for eve* dis honoured themselves as gentlemen, Christians, and Englishmen. They showed themselves destitute of the heart or the manners of one or the other. The policy of party, then at its high tide of disloyalty, crested. with the foamy hope of a Hanoverian succession, has since ebbed, and left Canterbury calumny aground. And what says Mr. Smythe in recommendation of himself to the people in this unfortunate predicament ? „, Ile has the boundless effrontery to talk of " a venal and cor rupt press throughout the country calumniating the a n , says) I firmly believe was never delivered, but way cient city of Canterbury," by " iitn a hitt s sh p eini e re c r l oclyv w nw l e i o i a c ur l s. ( ha h ule: applauded m d k h ti e trumped up with the view of taxing the citizens of Canterbury with disloyalty." And they, the Canterbury hey t a r d o v a e p t p s Tories, who heard al tt:t i s le in nia p l ol a it s ic t e at s li pe c e s c v h en w it an honourable warfare ! Is Mr. Stnythe ignorant plauded the ino noyp p .p u ,o d on e e n n t send honestm that this infamous . spee c h fi rst appeared in the Tory county paper ? is he ignorant that tho editor o f that paper was present at i ts delivery, and was thehimself ns to er a y st a e tve dibyPthe m eet i ng as the representative of ress ? Is he unaware that the coin npaorsei t in a o nd o f revisionthe s ' u s a p l ti y e speech a h r e a a c r t s , r m i s a e r mks e o f w g o r r e k a s t e o r f a provincial reporter ? is he ignorant that its publica tion pa ssed without protest, and that it re-appeared. with approbatory comments, in the Tory journals of the metropolis and elsewhere ? Is he aware that, in stead of being censured, it was praised and boasted of; and that the reprobation of the Liberal and loyal papers was founded upon the reports and the laudations of Tory journals ? Is he ignorant that Mr. Bradshaw himself, instead of denying the speech, humbled hi m .. ' self to the dust on the floor of the Hotiat, o f Commons in penitent apology and recantation If Mr. Smythe be thus ignorant, where is the knowledge ; and if he be not thus ignorant. where is the honesty that should qualify him for A representative ? We mean, for a representative of the people in Parliament. The representative of a very unscrupulous fraction of a very unscrupulous faction he certainly may be, very appropriately. The professions of Tory loyalty to the person of her Majesty come too late. They have recorded their own shame. The columns of their j)urnals of a, year ago and upwards, are laden with the foul false hoods which they now vainly dream of charging as ventions upon t ieir political opponents. While there was a ray of hope in Hanover, they were disloyal. While there was the supposed chance of ,hullyin