The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

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LONDON READDRS who prefer a SUNDAY PAPER, may be supplied with a THIRD EDITION, published exclu sively in the Metropolis on Sunday Morning, containing the SATURDAY'S POLICE and the GENERAL NEWS brought down to the time of going to press. Sold by all News men in Town and Country. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 21. Will be repeated Shakspere'i MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; liermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vesttia ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy', Miss Rainforth. After which, Tin NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN ♦ND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. AIo►.11i; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. O■ Saturday. The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the Now Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the perforraances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Titkets and plum for the Bow.: to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets =ay oe had open application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. ; Gallery, Is. Private Boat to be had soa.ely of Mr. Audi:es, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Triumphant again ! Overwhelming Success of Ainsworth's Tower of ;London. Nightly overflows. Upwards of 57,000 Persons have already witnessed the best Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING, JAN. 21, Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrated George Cruikshanks. Aker which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr. Sonthlsy, the Original Clorrn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran coal's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Immense success of Haines' New Domestic Drama, THIS EVENING, JAN. 21, "And evert Evening until further notice, will be performed, THE YEW-TREE RUINS, or THE WRECK, THE MISER, AND THE MURDERER. Cain Kynan, Mr. Haines (who has been expressly engaged for;thia ecccsion); Valentine Trevalian, Mr. Hicks; S►r Alfred Penreugh, Mr. Dale ; Beatrice Penreugh, Miss E. Montague. Grand Tableau of the Interior of the Tin Mines in Cornwall! and extraordinary Clog Dance. To conclude with the Grant! Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JACK OF NEWBURY, or BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP, and the OLD WOMAN of BERKELEY. Harlequin, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Mademoiselle Cooder ham ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard ; Pantaloon, Mr. Ashbury ; the Cat by Young Mitchinkus. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. The MANAGEMENT of this THEATRE beg respectfully to inform the Public that they have entered into an engage ment with those Wonderful Artistes, so truly denominated by their countrymen "Les Encroyables," or The Incredibles of Paris, who will in a few days make their fitst appearance in England, and exhibit their Classical Performances, which have excited the wonder and astonishment of all Paris. Haines' New Play of the WRECK, the MISER, and the MUR DERER, with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JACK of NEWBERRY, or BAA, BAA, BLACK SHFAP," and the OLD WOBIAN of BERKELEY, every Evening untill further notice. A Grand Eastern Spectacle, written by Mr. Haines, will shortly be produced, embodying the whole resources of this Theatre. PRINCESS' THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON. This splendid Theatre is OPEN EVERY EVENING with PROMENADE CONCERTS, Under the Direction of Mr. WILLY. THIS EVENING, JAN. 21.—PROGRAM11IE. PART FITttT. Orr rture—Don Juan—lllozarte. Quadrille—Le Carillonneur—Dufrene. Waltz—Die Abenteurer—Lanuer. overture—La Fiancee—Auber. Solo en the Flute by Mr. Carte. Selection from the Mountai4 Sylph—Barnett. PART tECOND. Overture— Tancredi—Rossini. Qoadrille—Vendetta—Tolbecque. Waltz—Der Feen Welt—Labitzky. Grand Selection from Adis and Galatea—Handel. Promenade, Ig.—Dress Circle, 2s.—Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. Private Boxes, I!. ls. and 10s. 6d. each, may be had at the Box-office. and of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street. Mr. WILLY begs respectfully to minounce that his BENE FIT will take place on MONDAY, JAN. 25, being the LAST NIGHT of the SEASON. WATER AT LONI)ON BRIDGE 'I 0-MORROW. Morning.... 45 minutes after 1. I Evening fS rnii.utes after 2. The Publication et tt • Evening Edition of Tux SUN corn menped at 20 minutes after Three. LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, IE4I. We are sometimes reproached with speaking harshly of the landed gentlemen, and with attribut ing to them improper motives. One of their lead ers, however, whom we used to consider, beforc he sacrificed to party his understanding as well as his consistency, a very clever clear-headed man, will bear us out in all that we have said against the landed gentlemen. The amount of our reproaches has been that they have sought to enrich themselves utterly regardless of the public welfare. They have a law to raise rent, which ruins trade and min v • the people. Now this is what Sir JA AI ES 10 - 111 said to the landowners in 1826, in his entitled " Corn and Currency," when he i . ; ', 4 fik • ngermg about hims 1:: of the' ingenuous- I- • ness of youth, and some of the honesty of a man who has never been in place : Since the year 1815, when the prohibition of the im portation of foreign corn, excepting at a fixed price was first substituted for a protecting duty, your con stant and avowed object has been to raise the price of agricultural produce in this country greatly above the level of the continental markets ; the obvious effect of 'his has also been to raise the rate of wages, and to re duce the rate of profits. By the rise of wages the labourer gains nothing, because, when corn is dear, all the articles of first necessity are also dear. There • fore, though his wages be increased, his real reward is not greater ; but by the diminution of profits, every class of productive industry is deeply injured. For on all hands it is allowed, that profits fall as wages rise, and the capital of a nation is but the accumulation of the profits of its inhabitants. Rents, however, are raised by high prices, which force inferior soils into cultivation ; since the lower the degree of fertility of the worst land in tillage, which yields no rent, but only reimburses the cultivator—the higher on all land of superior quality, is the extra profit beyond the ordinary return of capital, when expended on the worst. This extra profit is rent, or, in the words of Mr. Mill, " rent increases in proportion as the effect of the capital successively bestowed upon land decreases." High prices, therefore, by increasing rents, benefit the land lords, but they confer no advantage on the labourer ; they are an injury to the productive, and a tax on the unproductive classes of the community.—P. 10. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, then, distinctly charges the landowners with continually endeavouring to raise prices that they might raise rents ; and he distinctly avers that raising prices does not benefit the la bourers, and diminishes profits to the injury of the capitalists. He charges the landowners who made the law with making it for the purpose of putting pelf into their pockets. He shows them that they do this at the expense of the capitalists ; he proves to them that they injure the manufacturers by so doing; and Sir JAMES GRAHAM is now one of the foremost advocates of that Corn-law which he de monstrates to be downright plunder and rascality. It is a received axiom in political economy, that capital is saved from profits. Very rarely is capi lal saved from rent, and still more rarely from wages. But capital is at present the means of giving employment to labour. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in the passage we have quoted, proves that the attempt of the landowners to raise prices lessens profits. Of course, therefore, it lessens the means of saving, it lessens capital, it lessens the means of employing the people, and it lessens wages. All these arc the avowed consequences of the Corn-law, which Sir JAMES GRAHAM now supports. He therefore, and those who act with him, support the tax on bread, we conclude designedly, to obtain the ends of curtailing profits, lessening employment, and injuring manufactures. In another part of the same pamphlet we find him setting forth, at considerable length, the im moralities of a • manufacturing population. They are described as dissolute and idle, working two or three days in the week, and living in debauchery during the others. They are said not to be, like the agricultural labourers, attached to their masters, and not to be loyal to the Throne. Turbulence and revolution are described to be characteristic of them. Such being Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S opinion, and the opinion of his class, in which Sir ROBERT PEEL, as Sir JAMES GRAHAM shows by a quo tation from a speech of his, shares, and they having passed, and now maintained a law, which lowers profits, injures capitalists, and limits manufacturing employment, are we not warranted in concluding that the landowners, knowingly and designedly,aim at the limitation or extinction of our manufactures by the Curn-law. They wish to restore the supre macy of the landlords, and they endeavour, by means of a law, to realize that wish. The desire which one of their supporters lately blurted out to destroy half our towns, thus becomes of ominous importance, because it is con sistent with the plans and designs actually pursued by those landowners who support the Corn-law, though they want the candour of the Reviewer to avow their object. What he said, however, expresses their long and steadily pursued project. The ma nufacturing population is a new population, it car ries with it the germs of great political changes, inimical to the supremacy of the landlords and the clergy ; and therefore have these two classes, knowingly and wilfully, combined to make and sup port a law which shall check the growth of manu facturing population, and secure their own power. We distinctly charge them with that, and affirm that our charge is proved by the language and conduct of Sir JAMES GRAHAM. If this be an approximation to truth—and the outcry raised against Sir R. PEEL by the advo cates of the bread-tax, when he last Session said a word in favour of manufactures from forgetfulness, shows that it is—the manufacturers are extremely foolish to bring before the Parliament evidences of their own decay, in order to induce the Parliament to relinquish the law. That is the very thing the law was made to effect, and the more they com plain the more they delight the landlords, and the more they confirm them in their resolution to main. tain the bread-tax. On the same principle, we begin to apprehend that what we thought the strongest argument against the bread -tax, namely, that it annually starves multitudes out of existence, only the more strongly recommends the maintenance of the bread-tax to the Conservatives and the Clergy. It would seem from Sir JAMES GRA HAM'S remarks, that he and the rest of the sup porters of the bread-tax, have long been aware of this effect, and on account of it cherish and preserve the law. Our legislators, being chiefly landowners, entertain an aversion for the manufacturing popula tion ; they ask with a sneer, as did Lord ASHBUR TON, if the whole land is to be covered with Man chesters and Birminghams, and they have taxed the bread of the people to prevent it. Parliament is about to meet, and those who compose it stand arraigned before the public of high crimes and misdemeanors against the country. The language of accusation, not confined to one journal, has resounded throughout the land. It has been placarded on the walls of Walsall, and boldly used in the agricultural districts. Extortion, robbery, and murder are all ascribed to the law. Such lan guage is wholly incompatible with respect and willing obedience. How can the Legislature re pel it ? H ow can i t st ifl e t h e voice of public complaint ? Privilege, vast though it be, is un equa l to the task. Truth cannot be suppressed even by files of soldiers. The charges and accusations can not be answered by the SPEAKER'S warrants. Yet they must be repelled, or the Legislature will be irretrievably damaged in public estimation ; its power will he shaken, and the political fabric founded on it will crumble to dust. There is but one way to retrieve its character, and throw off th e charge with which it is branded, but one way t o • save the authority of the Legislature, and pre serve our political institutions, but one way to appease the discontent of the people, and reconcile them with the law-makers, and that way lies through the total and immediate repeal of the bread-tax. The landlords may point to their pockets—we tell them that interests far dearer to them, and dearer to us all, than any pocket in terests, are at stake, and that if they delay much longe r to do justice they - mill ruin the empire. We have on several occasions dwelt on the im policy or folly of the Legislature meddling with banking, with the circulation of promises to pay, and with currency, which it obviously does not comprehend. How can it ? The art of banking, with all its consequences, is of yesterday's growth, and is still in a state of rapid development. A science of astronomy we have, because the objects to which it relates are permanent, but a science of banking we have not, and cannot have, be cause the thing is not yet complete. It is, there fore, sheer folly in the ignorant gentlemen who meet at Westminster, and in the equally ignorant and equally presumptuous gentlemen who write pamphlets, to be extremely anxious to lay down laws for banking. Many specimens of this folly have been laid be fore the public, such as the Bank Charter, making a body of interested merchants the regulator of the currency—the enacted lie, that the protnise to pay is an actual payment—the restrictions on pri vate banks—and the sweeping away of small notes. Banking in all its branches and consequences, in cluding the issue of promises to pay on demand, is one of the common businesses of life, like selling tea and sugar, or making hats and shoes ; it is a portion of trade, like exporting woollens and im porting wines ; and if the Legislature may attempt to regulate the business of banking, including the issue of promises to pay on demand, we cannot see a single reason why it should not regulate every business even that of the scavenger and the milkman—in the whole empire. To be sure that would be impossible, gigantic as may be the ambition of the Legislature ; and tterefore we conclude that it ought to leave every business alone, including the modern and yet incompletely developed business of banking. One of the arguments for interfering is to secure responsible banks for the public. The Legislature has been anxious to have large and wealthy concerns. Private banks, banks set on foot by individuals, have been discouraged by the law, and sneered at by writers. It having been the object of our legis lation to secure wealthy banks, let us call the atten tion of the public to a proof of its failure to add to the many others already on record. We quote the following passage from an article by Mr. GILBA RT, in the last number of the IVestminster Review : The numerous banks in America are not the result of free trade, but are the result of the Acts of the Le gislature. The State Legislatures have thought proper to give a large number of charters, and of course there is a large number of banks. Had the charters been fewer, the banks would have been larger and more re spectable. The number of banks in England, too, have been the resultof the interference of the Legislature. In the renewal of the charter of the Bank of England in 1708 it was enacted, that no other bank having more than six partners should have the privilege of issuing notes. As the growing trade and wealth of the coun try required banks of some sort, and as banks having more than six partners could not be formed, a great number of banks, each not having more than six part. ners, rose into existence as they were required by the increasing trade and wealth of the country. Hence, instead of having a small number of large banks, we have had a large number of small banks. If we look to Scotland, where banking has been free, we find that the total number of private and joint-stock banks is only twenty-eight. Banking has been free beyond fifty miles from Dublin for the last fifteen years, yet throughout that district there are only five banks of issue, with the exception of the Bank of Ireland. In England, where there has been, as we are told, a frenzy in their favour, the joint-stock banks of issue are only ninety-one, and probably they would have been less numerous had not the law excluded them from London. The capital which has been embarked in a number of small local banks would have been invested in large London establishments, and the place of the local banks would have been occupied by branches of the London banks. From these facts it seems fair to infer that some of the small joint.stock banks and many of the private banks will, in the course of the next twenty years, be merged in larger establishments. The sup position that unlimited freedom of banking would lead to the establishment of an inconvenient multitude of banks, is wholly unsupported by the testimony of ex perience. If chartering the Bank of England, and limiting the number of partners, have had the effect of preventing the establishment of solid and large banks with numerous proprietors, having branches in the country, the intention of the Legislature has not been realised ; and in this, as in many other cases, we find that the busy haste of the lawmaker has far exceeded his wisdom. The Supplement to the Malta I imes of the 6th instant has the following important news from the East : By the arrival of the French steam-packet Tancrede we have received advices from Constantinople to the 28:h ult. from Smyrna to the 29:11 ult., and from Egypt to the 26th ult. The news from Constantinople is very impor tant, but may be given in a few words :—The Porte re quires Mehemet Ali to give up the Turkish fleet—to re duce his army and navy—to proclaim the Hatti Scheriff— and then the Sultan will most probably reinstate him in the Pachalic of Egypt, and cede to him its hereditary posses sion for his family. Admiral Walker has already left Constantinople for Egypt, to take possession of the fleet. Our Correspondent from Alexandria says—" that all communication with Syria is cut off by the desert, and that there is mach doubt as to the real position and move ments of Ibrahim Pacha. It is said ho has 37,000 troops under him in pretty good condition somewhere in the neighbourhood of Damascus, on which City be has leviod very heavy contributions. Mehemet Ali had asked Ad miral Stopford to communicate pith his son to announce to him the cessation of hostilities, and the Admiral had kindly placed at his disposal the Hydra to convey the letter." We like not this form of dictating terms to the PACHA, nor ought the Four Powers to permit it. Having been invited by the Porte to interfere be tween the SULTAN and his vassal conqueror, and having pledged themselves to certain conditions in the exercise of that interference, they are bound to fulfil them in the spirit in which they were made. To talk of the indecency of preventing the SULTAN treating one of his own subjects as he pleases is a farce, now that the reduction of that subject to a condition in which he can be the object of Impe rial vengeance has been the act, not of the Porte, but of Foreign Powers. The SULTAN left the settle ment of the dispute between himself and M E LIEMET ALI to the Four Powers. They, on behalf of the SULTAN, offered conditions to MEHEMET ALI, which, not being able to refuse, he;has accepted. The principal of these conditions was that, on restoring the fleet and evacuating Syria, the SULTAN would grant him the hereditary administration, civil and military, of the Government of Egypt. It now appears that after MEHEMET ALI shall have given up the fleet and evacuated Syria, the SULTAN will consider about giving him the Egyptian Paclialic. This will not do. When MEHEMET ALI has complied with the terms proposed by the Four Powers the hereditary administration of the Pa chalic of Egypt is his, not as a matter of Impe rial grace and clemency, but as a right. That' right he derives from the convention made between him and the representatives of the Porte, the Com manders of the British and Austrian blockading squadrons. It would, therefore, be infamously un just, on the part of the Four Powers, to suffer the Porte to violate the terms of that engagement. " The transition from the school to the col. lege," says Dr. Johnson, " is, to most young scholars, the time from which they date their years of manhood, liberty, and happiness." This is true; but it is a hope seldom realized. Men look back too often with envy at the plea sure of their early academical days, rather than with self. congratulation at being freed from them. A public school is, however, not always a happy place : it is so only to the independent in fortune, while to those whose cir cumstances are narrow, it is an abode whose self-denial and mortification are severely felt. A new novel, exhibit. ing in powerful colours the contrast between the lives of two students in the same college, and teeming with the strongly-marked incidents of their after career, is on the eve of appearance, entitled " The Schoolfellows." 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 obtain the support of the Reform interest. The electors are therefore called upon to withhold their promises, and to prepare for an active demonstration of their strength, as essential to success. 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 pariah being much wanted. The Hon. Miss Grimston has liberally contributed 5001. towards the endowment of it, and the Vicar, Lord Fred. Beauclerk, D. D., at the bead of a C omm i ttee, is act i vely engaged in promoting this laudable object. SINGULAR BAPTISMAL NAMES. --Jonathan Collins, cotton spinner, at Heywood, has l ate l y caused four of his children to be christened in the following names, at Si. Luke's Chapel, Heywood :—First, John Jonathan George; second, Martha Maria Hannah Victoria; third, Sergeant Hall Oliver Cromwell ; fourth, Camereska Albert Napoleon Louis the Twelfth, a 0 '41111),' Wigs • ..111& r 1;. 1 -411 9. -44 _qn ,nn. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 1811. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 21.—There has been a hard frost throughout the night, which continues. Wind this day at noon, light airs at W. S. W., and fine. DEAL, JAN. 20.—Wind N.—Sailed the Trusty, Eladon, for Swan River; Berkeley, Tcrner, Jamaica; Superb, Wilson, Trinidad; Diamond, Dempster, St. Vincent. LIVE rc 01, JAN._ 20.—Wind N. N. E.—A rr i ve d t h e Flowers of Ugie, &nail, from Calcutta; Herald, Alex• andria. Sailed the Nightingale, Hunter, for Pernam buco; Orciala, Child, New Orleans; Chevalier, Knight, ditto; Europe, Marshall, New York ; Niagara, Cole, ditto. The Queen of the Ocean, bound to New Orleans, which put back 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, with loss of fore mast, was seen off Puffin Island this forenoon. A vessel. apparently a brig, was seen this morning of Point Lvnas, dismasted and making for Beaumaris, in tow of a pilot boat. DOVER, JAN. 20.—Off port the Eclipse, Duncan, from Boston ; La Fayette, Port au Prince. HASTINGS, JAN. 20.—Arriyed off port the Premier, Keith, from the Mauritius. BRISTOL, JAN. 20. —Sailed the James Leman, Stone, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Mini, Dillon, St. Thomas. STOCKTON, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Septine, Guttle stone, from Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, JAN, 20.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Sophia Elizabeth, from Rio de Janeiro. tHOREHAM, JAN. 20. —The John, Holland, of this port. in coming in this morning, struck upon the Bar, and it is 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 on the Bth inst., touched on a sunken rock, became very leaky, and was run ashore on the beach. CARDIFF, JAN. 20.—The John, of Youghal, got on Breaksea Point on the 11th inst., but came or the follow ing tide, and is row in dock for repairs. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. .-- The sales to-day are 5,000 bags, chiefly American, with a very firm market. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 20.—Grand Junction, Half Shares, 95,1 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 63 ; Ditto, Fifths 10k ; Great North of England, 52i ; Lon don and Birmingham, 172 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 58 ; South Western, 57,4; Midland Counties, New Shares, 15i MANCIIESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 20.—A steady market to-day. Local Bank Shares continue in demand at higher rates:—South Eastern and Dover, 14 to 13i , Gosport Junction 464; Manchester and Birming ham, 25k ; London and South Western, 571 to 581 ; Eastern Counties, 8 4 to 9 ; Manchester and Leeds, :78 to 7Si ; Ditto Halves, 29 to 294. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester. day's date : BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. 18.—The Bourse was insignificant, and without variation. The actions of the Society of Commerce were weak and fell from 162 to 1611. Ardoin's Spanish sustained the price of 22 1-16th to l after the close. A letter dated Frankfort, Jan. 12, has the following Prince Felix Lichnowsky left here this morning for London, to engage the English Government to assist him in the demand he is going to make of the French Govern ment, for the liberation of Don Carlos. From London he is going to Paris, and afterwards to Bourges." BrxssEt.s, JAN. 17.—We arc happy to state that the waters from the inundations have fallen more than a foot since the morning. The Quebec Papers state that there was a procession of some hundreds of ship-carpenters ; they went to Anse-des Meres, to cheer Messrs. Black and Lampson, at whose yards carpenters work at 4s. to sa. per day. The Woodstock (New Brunswick) Times, of the 12th of December, has the following :-- " The Maino authorities have been playing a game on this part of the province that is anything but creditable; their spies and pedlars have been prowling about the country, endeavouring to poiaon the minds, and lure from their allegianze, the French population, who, we are happy to learn have their eyes opened, not, however, with out generally getting well fleeced beforehand. We learn that these invasions of our country and our liberties will no longer be suffered with impunity." The Quebec papers state, " We are happy to learn that the ship-carpenters are at work in all the yards, and we trust that the difficulty between them and their employers will be entirely forgotten, or at least forgiven. The Montreal Gazette says that his Excellency the Governor-General has caused a communication to be made to Dr. Rolph, intimating to him that he ap. proved of his appointment as agent in England for the Toronto Emigrant Association, and would give him all the aid in his Lordship's power. THE FUNDS. There being no arrivals this morning of any importance, the speculators in the various funds are inactive, and up to the present time there is not a feature in either of the mar kets worth noticing. Consols may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 89i 90 for the Account; Money, 891 i; Exchequer Bills, 6 8 prem. ; India Stock, 250 252; Bank Stock, 169 171. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives the same as they left off, 244•/; Deferred, 12/ a ; Passive, ; Portu guese the same, 321; Three per Cents. 201; Brazilian, 73 74; Buenos Ayres, 19 21 ; Colombian, 231 Mexi can, 284 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 501 I; Five per Cents., 982 994• .9.11/MS.—Great Western, 26 28 prem. ; New, 12 13 prem. ; London and Br'ghtoe, 64 4 disc. ; Blackvrall, 31 disc. ; Birmingham, 82 84 prem. ; Southampton, 57 58 per share ' • Croydon, 1 2 1 per share ; Greenwich, 84 per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 disc. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western London and Birmingham .• Condon and Greenwich........... 20 Midland Counties ... PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 19. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 976 j Grand Can a l St oc k Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New, 1630 ...... 96i Ditto 4 per cent 36 per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE. By the Flanders mail received this morning we hear of a failure at Rotterdam of a house which speculated largely in tobacco; but we understand it will not cause any great mischief here, as its insolvency has been suspected for some time past. We have a great dearth of intelligence in the City, in consequence of which every thing is very dull. The Ft ench mail is still due; also three Hamburgh and one Dutch. Consols continue inactive, and m a y b e quote d at t h e early price of the morning, 89- 90 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 8 6 prem. ; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India Stock, 252 251; India Bonds, 4 dis. In the Foreign Market some business has been done. Spanish Active 24} ; Portuguese 32-k ; Brazilian, 73 ; Buenos Ayres, 2(g ; Colombian, 23& ; Mexican, 281 H ; Russian, 1133 . ; Dutch Tvro_and-a- Half per Cents. 50i ; Five per Cents. 981, have been 991. In the Monoy Market little doing. Great Western, 92k, 911, 921 ; London and Birmingham, 173 ; Midland Counties, 80. HAMBURGII PAPERS. ANTWERP, JAN. 18.—The navigation being again open the Soho steamer will ply as usual between London and Antwerp. During the month 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 Ostend on 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 Mi nister 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 ho had the rank of General in the service of Don Carlos, likewise arrived at Brussels a few days ago. A crowd of persons wentiout at the Anderlecht 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 Seine had brought, remained in the causeway of Anderlecht when the waters subsided. BRUSSELS, JAN. 19.-13; 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 Ncgropo'st. 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 jesty's birthday was celebrated on the 21stlinstant, with the usual festivities. ATHENS, DEC. 30.—Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of I3a. varia arrived happily in the Piraeus, on board an extra steam-boat belonging to the Company of the Austrian Lloyd at Trieste, and was received with open arms by the King, his brother.—Aligetneine Zeitung, Jan. 15. The Aagemeine Zcitung has no article from Vienna or Constantinople. DELGIAN P UNDS—BRUSt ine, JAN. I% Actual Deist, N per Ccnt. Rothschild's Loan 5 per Cunt i 6 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. Ell (1,4'9 ! ,67,i --- 3 per Cent. --Thirty.sevcn-- P9 Loan of C1ty,183:2, 4 per Cent 9l) Society of Commerce, 4 yi per Cent ll2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent P9 National Society . — Exchange on Londos (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 19. ----- THE ROYAL CHRISTENING.—We hinted in our last that it was the intention of the loyal inhabitants of the " faithful city" to celebrate the birth and christening •f the Princess Royal by a ball, and we have now the pleasure of stating that at a meeting held at the Guildhall yesterday, it was agreed that a ball should be given (the proceeds to be appropi laced to charitable purposes), and the Mayor was requested to convene a public meeting to consider the subject. His Worship has accordingly call e d a meeting for Monday next.— Worcexier Chronicle. THE IVEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE STRE ET. Nooy, JAN. 21. Barometer 3O 42 In. Thermometer Highest 4O Low cat Freezing Point 32 Deg. ROLLS' COUR.T.-(THIS DIY.) The Court was occupied during the early part of the morning in hearing motions, none of which were of any public interest. QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. THE BIRMINGELANI AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY BOMPANY. Mr. WAKLEY moved in this case for a rule to show causo why a writ of certiorari should not issue to bring up an indictment which had been preferred against the Bir mingham and Gloucester Railway Company, at the Sum mer Assizes for the county of Worcester. One of the Di. rectors hud been summoned to appear, and not appearing a distringas had been issued, and some of the property of the Company had been seized. The indictment was, he understood, for not having complied with an order of Ses sions, in making a hedge pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Parliament, and the S:ieriff having seized some of the defendants' property, still retained possession of it. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Don't you know what the in dictment was for ? Mr. WAKT,Er—Not exactly, my Lord. Mr. Justice Lirrt.iiinALE—You said you understood it to be for disobeying an order of Sessions +? Mr. WAKLEY—Yes, my Lord. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE —1 never heard of such a thing before. Mr, WAKI,F.Y—At the last assizes of Worc:ster, some of the property of the Company having been distrained, he ( Mr. Wakley )had appeared and offered to plead, but the clerk of the indictments said he could not receive his plea, and on applying to Mr. Baron Parke he said he did not know how the defendants were to proceed, but not in that Court at all events. lie (Mr. Wakley) suggested whether the indictment was not a nullity, and Mr. Baron Parke ex pressed an opinion upon it ; but at the same time recom mended him to remove the indictment by certiorari into the Court of Queen's Bench. All he was desirous of was to get rid of the indictment, and it was somewhat difficult to say what course he ought to adopt. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE —Dues your affidavit state what you believe to be the object of the indictment ? Mr. Wm:LEY had applied for a copy of the indict. merit, but could not obtain it ; but he was himself perso nally aware of the fact. The COURT granted a rule absolute for a certiorari. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) CRIMINAL INTORMATION.—TIIE QUERN V. LOMAX. Mr. RaVIS moved for a rule calling upon Mr. Lomax, the proprietor of the Stockport Advertiser, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him, for the publication of an article reflecting upon a Mr. Foster, a member of the Society of Friends and a respect able tradesman, in the town of Stockport.-- He was also Deputy Chairman of the asard of Guardians. It ap. peared that the Board of Guardians had come to a resolu tion unanimously that the s3stem of paying rates by instal ments was highly prejudicial, and that the resolution be communicated to the Magistrates, with a request that they would abstain from ordering the rates to be paid by instalments, and instead would fix a time when the rate must be paid, or if the rate-payer in their opinion be entitled to relief then, that they would reliere them at once from all payment. An article sub sequently appeared in the Stockport Advertiser, stating that the Board of Guardians had come to a resolution to enforce the payment of all rates upon the first application of the collector, and imputing to Mr. Foster, that he had been most active in procuring this resolution to be passed; that the resolution, signed by Mr. Fester, had been trans mitted to the Board of Surveyors, with a reqstest that they would act thereon ; and that the Board, after hearing Mr. Foster, had scouted the proposition. These representa tions, which were every one of them false, were calcu lated to do Mr. Foster great injury, and therefore ho had applied to this Court tor redress. The whole of the alle gations in the libel were denied on oath. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS did not think the pressure upou Mr. Foster sufficiently strong to call for the interposition of the Court. The Chester Assizes were at hani, when his remedy would be open to him, Application refused. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) MORRIS V. STAMP. In this case, which had already occupied the Court two days of this week, and of which we have already given the heads, Mr. Smith, for the defendant, addressed the Court at some length in support of the rule ; whereas we had un derstood the arguments to be closed by the Solicitor-Ge neral and Mr. Sergeant Bompas on the same side, with Mr. Smith, on Tuesday ; and that on this day their Lord ships would give judgment. The Court having heard Mr. Smith, took further time to consider. RANDALL V. SWEET. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL!, moved fur a rule to discharge the defendant out of the custody of the Sheriff of Smiler setshire, he having been in prison more than twelve months for a suns not exceeding 201. i■ debt and costs. The Learned Sergeant said that the application was made under the statute the 48th of George 111., cap. 123, and it had formerly been the practice of this Court to grant in the first instance the rule nisi only, whereas the practice of the other Courts had always been to grant the rule absolute at once, upon affi. davit of notice to plaintiff. The COCRT observed that in the present application there was a defect in the affidavit of notice, namely, the omission of an attesting witness to the defendant's signa ture. The Learned Sergeant might have the rule nisi now, but it would be better to amend the affidavit, and have the rule absolute for defendant's discharge on another application. MILLET V. SANSOM. Mr, Sergeant CIIANNELL obtained a rule to show cause why proceedings should not be staid in this case until the plaintiff should give security for costs, upon of i lavits that she, being a native of Spain, and having her principal residence at Nantes (France), was about to leare this country. MORISON'S PILLS-MORISON V. SALMON. In this case an action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages from the defendant for selling a certain drug under the name of Morison's Pills, to the infringe ment of the plaintiff's rights. It was tried at Guildhall at the sittings aftcr Michaelmas last, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff in damages one farthing. The de fendant subsequently applied for a new trial which was refused, and this day Mr. Seijeant TALTOURD applied for a rule to show came why the plaintiff should not be deprived of his costs, not withstanding the cc rtificate of the Learned Judge ( Mr. Justice Maule), before whom the case was tried. The ground of this application was that the cc ri ificate was con trary to the meaning of the Statute of 8 and 4 Victoria, commonly called Lord Denman's Act, which enacts that the Judge shall have power to certify in cases of damages less than 40s. for libel, slander, assault, tresspass, &e., only when the action was brought to try a right, other than the right to damages, or where there was malice. The Learned Sergeant contended that in this case there was no right beyond the common law right which every man had to sell his own goods, and that was the right merely to the damages which the Jury assessed. But there was no peculiar ,sr private right, such as the Act contemplated in the exceptive words, authorising the Judge to certify. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE dirLnot see any right which the plaintiff had beyond the common law right, which was the right to damages, as indicated by the Act. If so, cer tainly the costs should not be certified. Rule to show cause granted. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. The Judges met this morning in the Exchequer Chamber, for the purpose of choosing their respective Circuits for the ensuing Assizes. The following was the List as settled by their Lordships : HOME C►RCUIT —Lord Denn;an, Mr. Baron Parke. Mini.AND.—Lord Abinger, Mr. Justice Paulson. NORFOLK.—Chief Justicu Tindal, Mr. Justice Bo sanquet. OXFORD.—Mr. Baron, Curncy, Mr. Justice Coleridge. WESTERN CIRCUIT.-Mr. Justice Erskine, Mr. Baron Rolfe. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Maule. _ _ WALES —Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Just:ice Coltman. It is not yet finally settled that Mr. Baron Rolfe shall go the Western circuit, he holding himself ready oither for that or the Northern, according as it shall be found convenient when the new Judge is appointed. Mr. Baron Alderson will be the Judge in town. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). COLONIAL MARKET. The market was in a dull state; privately little business was done, and the public sales were few in number ; prices, however, underwent little variation. The imports keep light. TEA MARKET. The transactions were very brisk, and there was less firmness amongst holders. Sales made in the Trade.— Low Congou at about :1 5 d por lb lower. The speculation price of Company's Congou was 'ls qd and is 6d per lb. TALLOW MARKET. The demand dull, and the tendency of prices is down ward. Sales made iu P. Y. C. at 46s on the spot, and at 453 9J for delivery. DRIED FRUIT MARKET. Currants in good request, and full prices obtained, 70s to 72s per cwt. ; Valencia Raisins of fine quality sold at 789, which is the extreme quotation; Figs to dttnand at the late reduced quotations. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply was moderate, and all sold. Corn 41 to 61; Meadow Hay, 31 123 to 4118.; ; Straw, 333 to 35s per load. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—Sir Astley and Lady Cooper, in Conduit -street, from Kent; Mr. and Mrs. Daring and family, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, from Ayott, lierts ; Sir Georgo Talbot, Bart., and the Misses Talbot, from Leamington Spa, at Mivart's Hotel ; Mr. George and Lady E Rep:on, in New Norfolk street, Park-lane, from Baynard'6 Park. The King of Hanover has transmitted, through the hands of Sir Frederick Watson, the sum of 501. to dis tribute in coals, &a., to the poor of the parish of Kew during the late inelernew weather. OURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. -- The Q:leen's private band attended after dinner yesterday at the Castle, and her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, and the distinguished guests, danced quadrilles and gallopades in the course of the evening. The compare s•parated about 11 o'clock. _ His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to Swinley Park this morning to enjoy the sport of shooting, at te ided by Colonel Bouverie, Mr. G. E. Anson, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Lord Alfred Paget. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Bouverie, rode out in a pony phaeton this afternoon ; and after the return of the Royal patty, her Majesty and his Royal Highness walked on the Terrace of the Castle and the Slopes. The Kiri and Countess of Erroll and Lady Ida Hay arrived this evening on a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, walked on the Slopes for some time to-day. Sir James Clark arrived this morning at the Cattle, and took his departure in tbe evening. The Right Hon. Sir NV. Fremantle, the Earl of Ux bridge, the Ladies Elcanora and Constance Paget, Lord Paget, Lord George Paget, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, will have the honour of dining with her Majesty this evening. The Dake of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. The Solicitor-General, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Grey, and Mr. Pattison, M.P., had interviews with Vis count Melbourne yesterday in Downing -street. Sir Frederick Adam and Mr. Lynch had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Edward Villiers had an interview with the Mar quis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-office. The Earl of Ranfurly has given 501. in aid of the erection cf a new church at Donoughmore, Ireland. Lady Gardiner has sold Tackley Park, Oxon, to Mr. Manning, the purchase money being, w•e under stand, 16,000/. The Marquis of Lansdowne has issued cards for a grand dinner at Lansdowne House, on Satu-day next, to all the cbrps diplomatique. We are informed that the admission charge to the crown jewels at the Tower, has been reduced from two shillings to sixpence, and with the usual effect, a great in crease of visitors, and also that a suitable edifice is nearly completed for their reception. The readiness of Ministers to niset the wishes of the people in allowing a more free acc. ss to so many objects of curiosity and interest dies them great credit, and the results must be to them, as to all promoters of national improvement and civilization, highly satisfactory. ZOOLOGICAL GA RDENS.—It is stated, that it is the intention of the Members of the Zoological Gar dens, in the Regent's-park, to remove their extensive and valuable collections of animals at the latter end of March next, (the lease being expired), as the Commis sioners of Woods and Forrests in tend raising the rent for a grant of another lease, which the Members of the Society will not agree to. It is not known for the present to what locality they will be removed. Lady Dover is staying at Stafford House, the town mansion of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Her Ladyship's family are expected to-day from Gowran Castle, having recovered from the small-pox. THE CONSERVATIVE PRESS.--Within the last two years, no less than six Conservative editors and proprietors of Lancashire newspapers, besides one in Cheshire, have passed through the Gasette as bankrupts, at a time, too, when Conservatism is said to be increasing throughout the land.—Manchester Guardian. FATAL EFFECT OF ADMINISTERING CAN THARIDES OINTMENT BY MlSTAKE.—Yesterday . morning an inquiry took place at Spital, Berks, into the cause of death of Letitia Friday, a girl only sixteen years of age, who died on Friday last in consequence of cantharides ointment having been administered to her by mistake for sulphur ointment by the hospital-sergeant engaged to dispense the drugs at the Infantry Hospital at Spital. The jury, bay iegbeen a short time in consultation, came to the decision that the death of Letitia Friday was occasioned by the ap plication of blister ointment by mistake for the usual sul phur ointment, for the cure of the i7ch. LAMBETH IMPROVEMENTS.—The inhabitants of the extensive and populous borough of Lambeth are be stirring themselves to obtain a portion of the large sum granted by Parliament for the improvement of various pests of the metropolis. Several meetings, at which Mr. Hawes, M. P., the Rev. Dr. D'Oyley, the rector, and other influential residents, take an active part, are being held to consider in what way that desirable object may be most speedily accomplished. AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE OF AMUSEMENT.— A Morning Paper, noticing the attractive quality of the amusements at the Garrick Theatre, says, " Conquest has made several happy hits in his career ; but, in this in stance, it would appear that the author has taken his mea sure to a nicety, for he keeps the house screaming all the time he is on the stage." WARM, WARMER, WARM EST.—A house with a wife is often warm enough ; a house with a wife and her mother is rather warmer than any spot on the known globe ; a house with 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. ELECTION FOR BRIDGE•NI ASTER. AT TEMFTED SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH PEE.ll:llY.—Yesterday a young man, apparently not more than 19 or 20 years of age, presented himself before the poll-clerks, on 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 crmpany to which he said he belonged bring referred to, it was found that no such name as the one he had given was inserted therein. He was given into custody ; and on sub sequent inquiry 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 police sheet by Inspector Todhuntcr. tie was placed in one of the cells, and, at about 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. He was immediately cut down, and some constables despatched for surgical assistance, and by a quarter before six he was sufficiently recovered to be removed to the City Compter, in Giltspar-street. The young man, after being taken into custody, and on being questioned by the inspec tor at the watch-house, stated that his name was Baker. He is said to be respectably connected. As it may be imagined, several unpleasant rumours are in circulation, reflecting on the character of curtain influential individuals ; but as the affair will undergo a judicial investigation, we at present abstain from giving them publicity. Two PERSONS KILLED BY THE FALLING IN OF AN OVEN.—The following accident, unfortunately ac companied by the loss of two lives, occurred on Tuesday evening in the parish of St. Mary, Paddington :—Mr Torre, a master baker, had lately taken the premises situated 49. Dudley-grove, Harrow-road, Paddington, for the purpose of commencing business there, and had caused a new bakele,use and oven to be constructed. Mr. Collins, a master bricklayer, had just finished the buiiding of the oven ; end on Tuesday evening, between five and six o'clock, he, Mr. Morre's brother, and a lad, named Elisha Palmer, in the employ of Mr. Morse, entered the oven to clear away the loose fragments of brick and mortar that remained in it after its construction. Whilst so employed the crown of the oven suddenly gave way, and the three persons just mentioned were buried in the ruins. Mr- Morrc, alarmed by their cries, hastened with some neigh. hours to their assistance, but twenty minutes elapsed be. fore the bodies were extricated. They were ail in a state of insensibility, but Messrs. Anderson and Stewart, sur geons, having been called in, restored Mr. Morre's brother to life, but were not equally fortunate with Collins and the lad Palmer, who were irrevocably suffocated. Their bo dies were removed to the dead-house near the Paddington Police-station, to await, before interment, the verdict of a Coroner 'a Jury. IlitiutiToN.—The Earl and Countess of Har rington and suite have arrived at the Gloucester, and the Hon. Mrs. Lamb at the Bedford ; Captain Lovett, Capt. Burdett, and Major Clarke and family at the Gloucester. Lord Tenterdeo has taken his departure for London. Viscount Neville has taken a house in Itegency.square. The made between here and London have been in such a dreadful state that the crack coaches have frequently been from one to two hours after time. THE LATE EARL SONIERS.—The mortal re mains of the above lamented Nobleman reached Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, yesterday week. The next day the body lay in state, and on Friday the in.. terment took place in the neighbouring parish church, where the ancestral vault is situate. Shortly before two the 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 coronet, and in the first mourning coach were Earl Somers, Vis count Eastnor, Hon. and "Icy. 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 Lechmerc, Bart., and upwards of thirty car riages of the nobility and gentry of the counties of Hereford and Worcester, many of whom attended the obsequies out of respect to the memory of the deceased Earl. The bu rial service was read by the domestic chaplain of his Lord ship to a numerous congregation, the church being crowded to excess. A LAW SUIT FOR A PENNY.—SHERRIFF and e COURT, EDINBURGH —Yesterday the fo llowin g car came on for trial before Sheriff Tait :—A farmers wife tclaeuy did g ter hadinonelatelye f occasiontheir owntoe caort. m s e to T he carter, Edinburgh, t? which h pro_ tact the t clothes he be t bottom m d f e t f h the ladies, the vehicle ht Messrs, : cos s p srm r s e : c h a l u oby t a t d o g n ts: o df f strewing straw, t,utt for the which, t ae ks on entering u t p h o e n e c 'i h ty ar , ging ore penny in which was paid. The farmer, however, of the illegality of tl , e charge, brought abnneairanagecto of c us tom, persuaded before to m the Small Debt Sheriff Court for the recovery of the penny. The case was argued on both sides at great length. On the one band, the tacksmen contended that straw was an article subject to custom, however small the quantity—that even a straw seat, or a chaff bed was liable. In support of which they handed up the new Act of Parliament, which the Sheriff care fully examinc d, The pursuer, on the other hand, main tained that straw was only subject to custom if brought to the market for sale. The Sheriff was clearly of the same spinion, and decernecl for recovery of the penny with coste...Scotsniani EVENING EDITION CHARTIST MEETING iN 818 MINGHAM. TUESDAY.—Last night a meeting I °' ls held in one of the numerous di ssen ti ng c h a pels 'a this town which have been recently rented and opened int. Divine service, under the name of the Christian Chartist Church. The meeting was convened "to take into con sideration the propriety of sending delegates to e xpress the opinion of the Chartists of Birmingham on the clu n h , g tion of Universal Suffarge, at the ensui n g m e eting to " held at Leeds," and at seven o'clock the Christian Church , which is capable of holding some hundreds of persons, wall filled to overflowing. After an animated discussion, the passing of several re: solutions, the formation of a eo.nmittee, and other prelim nary business had been disposed of, Mr. COLLINS observed, that lie had been deputed 1 2 move the first resolution : —" That thi s mee ti ng v i e ws wi t " intense interest the approaching meeting to be held O Leeds ; and being f u lly sens ibl e o f t h e great i mpor tance f a perfect understanding amongst the various ;.lasses of the print iples and intentions of such meeting, do herchi, declare that havi ng , a f ter mature cons id erat i on , a dopted as the object of their political struggles the princiPle s contained in the People's Charter, we will neit her countenance nor assist any b o dy, h owever nu merous ° e I ' , wealthy, or however spe c i ous t h e i r pretexts , w h o shi ll it through expediency, se t k an enac t ment s h ort o f the O.', measure of rights therein co n t a i ne d." M r . C o llins said that whether he looked upon the meeting at Leeds BI S movement of the Government, to see hew small a measu re would satisfy le a l as the price of retaining office -- whether t was movement occasioned by the necessitieg of the middle classes, to try on what terms the working me?. could be induced to co-oper a te w ith th em — or w hether l'' were called to consider the best means of promoting the interests of the country,, it was a subject of the utmost in g " portance, and one that demanded their most watchful cir lance. They must not b e a ll ure d by a p ara d e o f wealth °, titles on the one hand, nor should they suffer themsel ve , to be cajoled by flattery or by sophistry on the other; bu they must recollect that they were to contend for nothi n g more, and accept of nothing less, than the principles CO tamed in the People's Charter.—(Cheer s ) The g . „r e ', question they would be c a ll e d u p on t o cons ider was uri' ,versal Suffrage as opposed to Household Suffrage, and in . b d hoped the Delegates whom they elected to re present th e at the meeting would exhibit that temper, intelligence. an firmness, which would prove to the Whig and Radical c, thcring that they were not und e servin g o f th e r ights Whi n they claimed.—( Cheers.) The resolution was unanimously adopted ; and, on O n motion of Mr. EMPSON, seconded by Mr. BLaxnas°' late Member of the Town Council, Mr. Collins, of Iltr mingham, and Mr. Arthur O'Neill, of Glasgow, were a r pointed Delegates to attend the meeting at Leeds. Mr. BLAXLAND hoped th a t th e Ch art i sts o f Birming" li bs would act together, and at the next election, whic h considered to be now close at hand, they would ba"",. opportunity of returning Feargus O'Connor as Me'll'7o, for their borough.—(This proposition was re ceived 'N I loud acclamations.) A Committee was appointed to arrange for the dee; ture of the Delegates, and to correspond with t he F during their absence; after which ; iosi Mr. O'NEILL read an address, embodying the o P' n b a t of the Chartists of Birmingham on the various topics t ,d, were likely to engage attention at the approaching 1 . 4 ` demonstration. e ~, A subscription was made to defray the travelling penses of the Delegates to the north. INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE. The Rouen papers mention that never, in the incei°rl n of the oldest inhabitants, Lave the small str eams , the ": bee and the Aubette, been so much flooded. In the C2s" r c i tier Bouvread, the rue Verte was quite under water, a."" l i i the occupiers of the ground-floors had to remove ‘ 5l „ their effects. Several bridges have been carried a!, ; ( and two persons belonging to Maronne, and seve rs o , other communes, have been drowned. Many manUfACtibe ries are stopped, in consequence of the destruction O f water-wheels. leo° Extensive inundations have taken place at fa r : points along the course of the Somme, and near A/1'1d; where a good deal of cattle has been lost. At 1 1 ° e ville, near Fontainebleau, at Beauvais, and at Aubefil°: in the Aisne, extensive flaods have prevailed. At E/ re „ ° 4 the lower part of the town has been considerably &nab by the waters.. er' We learn from Pontoise, that the Viosne has °° tor all the low grounds round that pl ace , and has t :Pe ped most of the mills. The Couleuvr e , too, has much damage. • ilia Extensive inundation s h ave b een cause d by the M e t o - of the snow near Ch a t eau d un , Ch artres , an d I)r e° ' the Eure-et- Loire. f die Advices from Arras i n f o rm us th a t th e melting e ; snows and the rains has caused great fh o d s in all ti districts round that city. The low grounds on the banks of the S e ine, bat h °ci es " - and below Paris, are under water to a c o nsidera bi fider. tent ; but hitherto no damage to property of any e° ,, n i - with able extent has taken place. Thi river is on ley the tops of the arches of several of the bridges. We are happy to h e ar that our army i s to ebh increased to the extent of 10,000 men. T he y arc tD _ nt wanted. There is also a rumour—how true we know , "/;" —that an addition is t o b e ma de to the Marines. --Brig (077 Gazelle. Foust LIVES LOST.—ISL AY, .1 AN . . Ft.'" Oa Thursday. the 7til current, when Donald Al at , hic :r Ai d John M'Queen, Alexander Currie, and John Keit"' ere John crossir:g the trackless waste which lies between lay and Kinagary, they lost their way and perished. Thiulp friends and neighbours went out in search - of them , , b h ut the to the 10,h no trace could he found. On Sabba'n ) ,•4 10th, the Froaig shepherd discovered the horse, % l ila they had along with theta, buried below the snow in A s . t ac and romantic valley called Gleann do' Phroaig, a i n .", t b is remains of the unfortunate men were fouud on the ' - ",,, e re the same glen. Alexander Currie and John ficiw n ,. ea found together, but Donald Mathieson and John.g i i 7 e s d were about a mile from each other. Currie, Ke it ''' lef t M'Queen were unmarried, but Donald Mathicsori hts Qs a widow and three young children, and also his age u rents, to lament his loss.—Scouish Guardian. I per CH EL TEN II A M.-The frost being entireiYv 00 Lord Segrave's hounds went out for the first tn nc nii el Monday last since their return to the Cheltenhao r ': ss s this month. The eet wa at Stancomb, when ai" rt. almost immediately m found, s and afforded ex cellent no 5 1 ) 1. 10 He made for Foxcete, when seeing the pursuit too h° ale retraced his steps to Stancomb, 'where, seeing t i l d g aate . was up, he became " resigned to his fate," mid die° b ao rt On Tuesday the gallant pack afforded some excelle nt Ligli to a very numerour field. The weather was caee c A ", tb a - unfavourable, and the cold and sleet combined tr' ll " - f rere scent bad. Hazleton was the' rendezvous , and th er d e tot c i t motor three capital runs, but:alaster Reynard seei nc h ee 're his pursuers at defiance, and succeeded in baffling forts to take him captive. We rejoice to learn tW:;eced" Griffiths and Ballinger, of this town, have been 'Tao , ' ingly successful in obtaining subscriptions for thc n i ti ee• tenham Annual Steeple Chase.—Cheltenham EX 111 " e v o illg FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday eligsr an inquest was held at the Charing-cross Hospital' Nest' street, Strand, before Mr. Higgs, Coroner ° r o d 0 , minster, on view of the body of John Hine, og: ne es' whose death occurred under the following eirettO t— t ° —William Harriet, of No. 6, Savoy-place, cellarn;srr. Messrs. Mitchinson and Co., ale merchants, DonhY%,." last Sivey•street, Strand, stated that on Monday eve nia9 so o' 6 he end deceased were unloading Messrs. fl it l ili tree t i (their employers) cart at the bottom of Sav e /at °- when the horse suddenly ran back. Deceased ge t f r oth the cart to lay hold of the horse's head and stop hiril fore e backing. While doing this, the animal continued 1 ! be the cart back, and deceased was violently jammed is tween the cart and a wall. He was immediately n d, pi i to the Charing-cross Hospital. On being exau l t in h e i, rib ° breast-bone was found to be fractured, and six da y'' Ivyrebrokea, of which injuries he died on the follo wing . _ Verdict--. Accidental EXTRAORDINARY QUEST. (A dent,_ who perso:3ally vouches for the correct C nc ° s rsrer e si l l' a ; facts, requests us to give insertion to the followino l ,l o o° inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, Cl e vedon, o n itl say last, to inquire into the death of Fowler, s P e , of 14 years of age, servant to Mrs. Violet o f that /ins After the jury had been swan, /Le Coroner adoPteu (: very unusual step of ordering all stra4-crs to be eo appeared that, in consequence of a rinziour having TO with some industry circulated to the prejudial thegttpoa mistress, some of her friends had felt it their dot; lidepes and watch the proceedings in her behalf. Th e eircuni-d"„, of we briefly learnt were these : —Mrs. Violet , t he mistre of the girl, who is a widow and the mother of four c hildf ro two of whom arc ill o f the measle s, on her servant to complaining, administered a litt le medicine and applielir, the Parish Union, who directed the attendance of Shipton ; the girl, howev er, g raduall y sank, end 'l'd moment of delirium, among other extravagancies deelsrf, her mistress " had poke d her wi:h a fender." 'The 511 0 geon, on this uncertain testimony, declared, in the evebee of her death, that he would have an inquest held on body. In conseque nce of this, Mrs. Violet, at the V., gestion of her friends, desired the attendance of t he Sprague and Mr. Lawrence, who, on examining ..,k„ patient, found that she had been bled, and was fast SIP e , • o ing from exhaus ti o n, and in spite of stimulants, 2- nt at, di ate iy adopted by them, the girl expired in the e e . e pt of a few ho urs. On this senten ce; uttered in A refrper of un consciousness, and containing a charge agai °s ( 6 et mistress, which she was never known to have made P e i , - t r at and of which the body presented not the 5h,, 5 0. , corroborating evidence, the most unfeeling an u e from fore enabled an amiable wom an , judicious statements were circulatedam ong the of the neighbourhood, whos e had WWl' the feyt station she once held in society, to r bri y ng up an db ,re patronage geatl family in comfort and respectability Her fries therefore anxious that the most searching iovestigP e should be made into the truth of this assertion, e n a 1 e l were desirous that it should be publicly made. They wiebre; therefore, no less surprised than indignant whe ri ,. - v io found the Coroner desirous of conducting the inq" u rse private. On learning from the Coroner that this co lb reduced: was to continue throughout the whole of the investigat;e and that none of Mrs. Violet's friends would havl ieg a, opportunity of being present to watch the proeeeier s od thoy prote s t e d aga i nst it. The room was, hossever, enip and a po s t mor t ena examination directed to be made , l el/ which Messrs. Sprague and Lawrence we re p artieu excluded. The inquest was adjourned un til Sater next, twelve o'clock.—Bristol Gazelle. 10 41) D READFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON ~e 0 BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—Another frightfu l accident has !fit t is place on the London and Brighton Railroad. whic h : t r - feared, will end in the loss of severa l lives. It is, a ing sent, impossible to collect the full part i cu lars, there P ; for so many stories abroad , and there having been no 1!,: , 7,- nc y inquiry. Four men have been taken t o the Sussex u u earo It apr Hospital, and one is lying dead at Clayton. , faie that the melancholy and fatal accident arose from tno who ing in of a shaft of a tunnel, Thel un fortueate Olen' ' have been taken to the hospital, are in a precar ious ea Illy ne sp, ing} wall List Civi paid sour jest; 100 willi an i most and all i this toss Sado %ill ties. Hot Prac gosj Paci low Ntil AN Ilb •t go : llt ' • Olp, ' 11 tl