The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

MORN ING EDl'l lON. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The joy excited by the glorious triumphs of British arms and policy in the East, has hardly had time to subside before intelligence of successes, equally bril liant and equally important in another quarter of the globe, comes to give a fresh impulse to the national en thusiasm. Never. even in the days of Chatham, did a Session of Parliament open under more glorious aus pices than that which will shortly commence. Syria rescued—the strongest fortress in the Emit captured in a single day—the empire of our Turkish ally rescued from impending danger and its independence secured 'uy the guarantee of the Great Powers—the balance of power in Europe restored, and the prospect of a general war skilfully averted ; add to these, our Indian em pire extended end secured, the throne of our ally in Affghanistan este Ilithed by the defeat and submission of his rival, and the moral influence of the British name spread far and wide, into the very heart of Asia ; and, though last, not least, the speedy and complete settlement of our dispute with China, by a treaty which 1 satisfies the offended honour of the British flsg, provides 1 for the compensation due to British subjects, and holds out the promise of incalculable advantage in our futuee commercial intercourse with the Celestial Empire — these are results which, in the course of one single vacation, have attended the policy of an Administration which its opponents are pleased to designate as " weak and incapable." If the Government by whom these great results have been achieved are " weak and incapa ble," what shall we say of the Opposition, by whom their policy was thwarted, their motives attacked, and the very steps which have led to the most signal successes denounced as rash, impolitic, and ruinous With re ference to this very Chinese war, which has terminated in a manner so advantageous for the most important interests of the country, what were the conduct and language of the Conservative party ? Were not Mi nisters upon the very brink of being turned out because they had not counselled abject submission to the indig nities heaped by Commissioner Lin upon the British fl ie, and the injuries inflicted on British merchants ? Will any one now any that it would have been better for the nation if Sir James Graham's motion had been carried, and a resolution of the House of Com mons, condemning the policy of the Chinese war, had been sent by way of instructions to the Admire' of the British fleet, when on the eve of commencing operations? It is itnpos,ible to conceive a question upon which the personal credit of the leading men on both sides was more completely staked, than upon the policy and prospects of the war which has just been concluded with China. The remoteness of the scene, the novelty of the circumstances, and the vast popula tion and singular nature of the empire with which we hail to deal, all conspired to render the issue doubtful, and test the sagacity and foresight of those who ven tured to predict the result. The gloomy forebodings of the Tory leaders are fresh in the recollection of our readers. The following is the view of the question to which Sir James Graham, the leader and organ if the Tory party, upon that occasion pledged his reputation. We give it in his own words : " I am persuaded that this is no ' little war,' to be con ducted on a peace establishment, and to be terminated in a day. My belief is, that the attendant circumstances of tie war will not be leas formidable than the magnitude of the interests at stake. If this war is really to take place, it ie to be carried on at the most remote point of the habitable globe—at a point where the monsoon must con stantly interrupt the communications between the forces which we employ and those who are to direct their ope rations—a point very distant from our ports and arsenals, and where the squadrons and the forces which we employ must be exposed to dangers without end—a point accessi ble only after a long voyage which will transport our troops into a burning climate, where the new scenes to be encountered will be to them an object of horror, and where energy soon dies away. When we see, on the part of those who are her Majesty's present advisers a most pertinatious adherence to an erroneous course repudiated both by experience and reason—when we see that they have attempted Lo force on a proud and powerful people a course of proceeding to which the weakest would not tamely submit—when we see nothing done, nothing attempted by that Government, while her Majesty's Superintendent is left without instructions, and without an adequate force to Ruppert him; when we see this. I cannot help asking the Heim if they believe that the people of England will re pose confidence in an Administration, which by its misma nagement has destroyed a trade which has flourished for centuries ; and, in additi in to the losses and indignities we have suffered, has plunged us into a war, in which suc cess will nut be attended with glory, and in which defeat will be our ruin and our shame ?" It is superflous to add a word of comment. Here is the formal, deliberate declaration of one of the leading Tory statesmen, adhered to, with the illustrious ex ception of the Duke of Wellington, by the whole party. The rerdy is written in events. Could it be more speedy, more conclusive, or more overwhelming ? ( From the Morning Herald.) The news from India which we published yesterday, in a third edition, is of the very highest importance. Our military demonstrations on the coat of China, an ,1 throughout the whole sphere of our oecrations in India, would appear to have been crowned with the most wonderful success. There seems, in fact, a fair pro spect of adjwiting, on most honourable terms, our quarrel with the Chinese ; while the surrender by Dust Mahomed, of his person, to the British troops has re moved the most formidable of the obstacles to the pa cification of Affghanistan. We have, all along, dis approved of the principles, in vindication of which our Government thought fit to wage war on the Celestial Empire. We have, all along, regarded as roost im politic, our interference in the affairs of Affghanistan. Our opinions on these points have not been in any de gree modified by the results of the enterprises in ques tion. Mere success in its prosecution will not convert an unjust into a just quarrel. But, on the other hand, it were uncandid to deny, that as failure in these military enter prises would have covered the present Ministers with obloquy, so, in common fairness, success ought, e ow:- verso, to secure for them a considerable degree of cre dit. That measure of credit we most cheerfully concede to them. Up to the present point, they, undoubtedly, seem to have been most successful. Should the ulti mate resul. a p-ove less propitious than they promise to be, Ministers must not, however, shrink from the abuse, which, according to this doctrine of chances, will yet be their assured portion. For our own parts, we rejoice at the success which has crowned our arms by land and sea. We rejoice, because the skill and bravery of our soldiers and sailors constitute a rich portion of our na tional inheritance—of that inheritance, which it were not only discreditable, but perilous, to see lessened. We rejoice, moreover, because as failure its our expedi tions to China and Affghanistan Might have shaken our Indian empire to its base, so success, if not abused, may enable us to strengthen our position, and to retrieve, what we cannot avoid deeming the inherent error of tile expeditions themselves. We may now, in truth, act in the spirit of Faistars precept, and " turn disease into commodity." From China especially, the accounts appear to be satisfactory. According to our narrative, Admiral Elliot, after sundry successful mili tary demonstrations, was admitted to the honour of an interview with t h e E mperor, found his Imperial Ma jesty in a very gracious humour, and arranged the pre liminaries of a treaty, on the basis or ample compensa tion to England, an d the: establish ment o f a new com mercial arrangement en more liberal terms than have ever been conceded by the Chinese. The amount of indemnity to be paid by the Chinese is stated to he two millions for the opium destroyed, and one million to wards the cost of the English expedition, This, as far as we may judge, appears a . most favourable ar rangement for this country, yet it would not seem to have given satisfaction in India. Our correspon .dent in Bombay writes in the following strain . I am concerned to state, that the opinions of all par ties, in all quarters, whether in India o r Chi na , w h o have heard the news, are still mere decided and unanimous: There is one feeling of nniversal indignation and dismay expressed at the turn which things have taken. The Chi nese have already got us fast in the trap they laid for us, into which we seem to have walked with our eyes open-- "negotiation"--and there we will flounder till the objects of the expedition are undone. The very return of the Admiral and his forces from the 'Yellow Sea is a great triumph to them, and will at once be represented through out China as a victory. If we transfer our negotiations to Canton e 'the consummation is completed. Famine, and pestilence, and shipwreck, arc already doing their work. Give "dee Chinese time, and them for their allies, they will apwedily cripple our strength, and claim the victory. Th e cr , urses whi c h m i g h t have been pursued isy Admiral Elliot are so numerous, that it seems most extraordinary even as the mere doctrine of chance, ho should have stumbled on one so much out of tise way From its first sailing as fro tht i st? . n which he has actually fallen. petlition has taken seem ni s to 6ln h g guaranteedapore, every step the ex • verse of what was ave been precisely i the orre expected for it n Eng land, or what the most ordinary prudence would hate pointed out. Passing over the earl y parts of its progress, the Admiral's line of proceedin g on entering or: terms with the Emperor seems as simple as possible. Compen sation for our past losses, a n d f ur the expenses of a t d he cx pctiliti were the first things to be procured sOtion ought to have been taken up as strong and a s a n P e ° a; Chusaii as possible. till every tittle o f the agreemen t this head was fulfilled. Arrangements we re to be m s a o d n e I Aryl irsisted on for securing our trade on a broad and safe eoundalion• But with the Chinese commercial treaties are worse than so much waste paper, unless we have a force at hand ready to compel their fulfilment. They would have laughed at our beards had we dreamt of such a thing as good faith on their part an hour after our armaments were withdrawn." There may be some force in the observations of our correspondent ; :but to us, we will confess, these observa tions appear decidedly unreasonable. It is, let it be observed, by no means clear that Admiral Elliot will permit himself to be trepanned into any indefinite scheme of negotiation. It is by no means clear, that he will relinquish possession:of Chusan, or leave the coast of China, under the stipulated compensation shall have been made good. When it is borne in mind, moreover, that, perhaps, for the first time within tho range of his torical record, the Emperor of China has ' become a direct party to a commercial treaty with foreigners, it may cot be ,too great a stretch of magnanimity to give his Impefial Majesty cr e dit f or i nter ding to Keep hip word. " enelf4et 3blie opin on in China, j ' of Admiral Elliot's apparent submission to the Emperor —what, let us ask, is Chinese opinion to us ? If the Empe ror shall observe faith with England, he will be perfectly justified in preserving as large a measure of importance as he can, in the eyes of his own subjects. We are dispo sed, in truth, to fear that some portion of the disappoint ment manifested by our countrymen in India, in refer ence to Admiral Elliot's arrangements, may be caused , by a violent anxiety to re-establish at all hazards, the opium trade with China. Now, we do trust, that neither Admiral Elliot, nor his official superiors, will seek to abuse the advantages which have been vouch safed to us, by an attempt to force upon the Emperor of China a trade which his Imperial Majesty most justly deems to be prejudicial in the highest degree to the best interests of his subjects. It may be well, per haps, to demand, and to accept, compensation for the opium destroyed ; but to seek to re-establish the opium trade on the old conditions, after the efforts of the Empe ror of China to suppress it, could be regarded in no other light than as a most tyrannical exercise of the law of force. A great revolution is evidently approaching in India ; and it we do not greatly mistake the signs of the times, the colonial empire of England is about to re ceive a mighty augmentation. The force of circum stances would seem likely, with scarcely an effort on the part of this country, to transfer to us the dominion of the Punjaub of Lahore, and, perhaps, of Affghanis tan. To govern India wisely, is, however, a matter in finitely more important than to add to the extent of oar Indian territories ; and we do trust, that the eclat of these recent successes will not be allowed to pass away, without leading to extensive changes in the whole of our economical arrangements in that interesting portion of the British empire. The industrial energies of British India want scope ; they stand in need of a fair field for their exercise. Let Mat be secured to them, and more shall have been done to strengthen the real power of England, than may be supplied by fifty successful ex peditions to China, or to Affghanistan—if the success shall extend no farther than to mere military operations. ( From the Morning Post.) In China, so far as we can gather from the present accounts, everything yet remains to be done. Some fighting had taken place at Macro, and also at the port of Amoy, of which the ample details we have given elsewhere will be found interesting and curious. But neither of these affairs seems to have been of great im portance, or to have produced any considerable effect. The grounds for the statement of the French Consu! at Malta, which was telegraphed from Marseilles to Paris, that " the affairs of China are on the point of being terminated," and that " the Englieh were to re ceive three millions sterling as indemnity," are such as would far better hare vs arranted the statement that the affairs of China are very far from being terminated, and that the indemnity or satisfaction the English are to receive, and when they arc to re ceive it, are as little known at this moment as they were the day after the opium smugglers at Can ton were induced by the bills of Captain Elliot on the British Treasury to surrender their illicit cargoes. All that was known at Chusan about the matter at the date of the latest intelligence was that the British Admiral had proceeded to Peiho, where he had several interviews with a mandarin wearing a red button, and said to be the third man in rank of the Celestial 1 Empire, and that on the return of the Admiral from this mission the utmost secresy was maintained as to the in cidents or result of these conferences. That the Admiral himself was satisfied with what took place was naturally enough inferred ; but in this feeling, if he really enter tained it, the Admiral must have sto id alone, for all other persons were dissatisfied that this armed negotiator should have returned without having accomplished any one substantial object of his mission. At Chusan all rests upon supposition. It was supposed that Queen Victoria had been recognised by the mandarin with the red button, not in the old style of " a barbarian tribu tary," hut as the " Queen of a great nation." A mighty acquisition this, truly, to have extorted from the gentleman with the red button ! Again, it was sup posed that the negotiations were to be transferred tom the neighbourhood of Pekin to either Can ton or Ning-po. Again, it was supposed that the Emperor had promised to send Commissioners to Can ton to investigate the conduct of Governor Lin, and subsequently to confer with the British representatives. Again, it was supposed that the basis of a Treaty had been laid down, in virtue of which the said Lin was to be tried for his violence and insults. And again, it was supposed that something had been said, though nobody knew what, about an indemnity to the English of three millions sterling. The upshot of the matter is, that nothing had been done, and that the British Admiral had consented to have the questions he was sent to de cide, and the demands he was expected to enforce, bandied about from one Chinese functionary to another, and the negotiation respecting them transferred from the heart of the empire to one of its extremities, where negotiations have heretofore been carried on with no very prosperous issue. The Emperor of China, it was said, had offered to give up to the British the island of Lintin, if they would evacuate Chusan ; but to this the Admiral had refused to accede, much to the dissatisfaction of the garrison of the latter, who evidently do not relish the prospect of being com pelled to winter in a place the unhealthy climate of which has already committed fatal ravages in their ranks. (From the Times.) The intelligence published in our second edition yes terday brought down the transactions of Admiral El liot with the Chinese to the 30th of September, and was such as to raise in the minds of many a sanguine hope that the Chinese quarrel would be speedily termi nated, or at least that hostilities would cease. Indeed to talk of " hostilities"in such a case is ridiculous, if the word be meant to imply a recourse to warlike ope rations. The interest excited in the present instance has not been of a military or naval character. Few people felt the least doubt, or s'sspense, or anxiety respecting the result of whatever degree of force might be applied to the objects of the expedi tion, which was exclusively penal. A party of police men despatched after a herd of pitable runaways (offenders it would be harsh to call the Chinese peo ple), might have stirred the blood as much, and by their success would have caused as much national pride and triumph, as any victory that could have been gained by Admiral Elliot, or any concessions, whether commercial or political, that could have been extorted from the brother of the sun and moon at Pekin. Yet how this opium tempest is to be ultimately quieted, the voluminous letters of yesterday do very vaguely and imperfectly in struct us. Chusan was still in possession of the Bri tish troops and authorities, of whom there seems to have been a mournful certainty that a shocking num ber would perish through the unwholesomeness of the climate. The .26th Regiment alone had, at the date of the above advices, 545 (or two-thirds of the whole bat talion) on the sick list. Should this go much further, even a Chinese force might succeed in recapturing the island. Among the statements made, it is not easy to determine which may be worthy of credit. A nego tiatioa was said to have been promised by the Emperor, who would send a man to Canton to treat ; thus gain ing as much time as possible, and fixing the scene of the discussions at as great a distance as possible from Pekin, a scheme not unnatural for any personage who had in prospect a demand upon him of a large sum of money, by way of indemnity to those British dealers in opium who had been checked in their laudable endeavours to force a poisonous trade upon the territories of an un willing Power. It was said at the same time, but somewhat inconsistently, that the Emperor had already agreed to pay to Great Britain the enormous sum of 3,000,0001. sterling, but whether for the benefit of the opium merchants, or in compensation to the British Crown for the cost of the expedition, or how to be dis tributed between them, is not specified, nor is there any distinct or ascertained authority given for that important fact. There are further allegations, on the strength of private letters, that the British squadron, stationed at or near the mouth of the Canton river, have cannonaded and captured the forts of the Bocca Tigris, and that some of our men-of-war have proceeded tie towards Cantou ; ataillthet a blockade of the river was to be rigorously enforced. It seems to be supported by more tangible authority that there was some partial fighting in the immediate neighbourhood of Macao, where .... a f ew li ves were lost on both sides, a small Chinese hmose fort taken, and the cannon spiked. Governor Lin is reported to be in disgeace, and Chusan is to be retained until Great Britain has received her money. From ell this mass of statements collectively con sidered, we hive little doubt thit some symptoms of submission had been exhibited`, by the Chine se Government, b u t t h at a definitiver''eettlement of the grievances alleged by Lord Palmerton had be en ar rived at, or any near a p proac h to one, beifor the letters recently publishell came away,"pithout absolutely d, flying that such may have been the case, we s ee a t l e ast no proof, nor even ground o f pr'obability, in the communications referred to. The nests from India is of a more authentic, as well as more decisive, nature. Thu sovereignty of Lahore has been 'snatched by a fa tal accident from the hands of Nou-Nahal Singh (grand son to the famous Runjeet), who had succeeded for one day upon the death of his father, Kurruck. The Prince thus prematurely cut off is said to have been a sworn enemy to England. But. a more important cir cumstance is the surrender of the turbelent Dust Ma homed to Sir Wil:inin lll‘Naughten, our Minister at the Court of Shah Soojah. Alter being more than once de feated, and a fugitive for his life , this usurper finally gave himself up, and restored a better chance of security to our north-western frontier. The Nepaulese, how , ever, o n t h e oppos i te s i de, are asserte d to be in motion b but it with a f orm i da b le force, i nst i gate d , as w e are told, y China. i c l a i nno m t a b y e no u t e s b t e i o n tr e u d e , nor at Othueglpltreits, fo r the sake mo ment,t sake of ou r great Indian q andempire, nd especially for that l off indiscriminate Company and itself, to be disguised, that the system o senseless parsimony, pursued so obstinately by the late Lord W. Bentinck, was such as to hold out the strongest baits to war or insurrection on the part of all the native Powers. From all quarters we learn that by the Noble Lord the Indian army was reduced to a scale of numbers and of general efficiency below what had been known to India since the days of Mr. Hastings. It was not merely the native rank and hie, but the amount of European offi ccrs , which was cut down without mercy or the least regard to prudence ; and, as it were in emulation of the Royal army of Great Britain, the troops were everywhere severely and ruinously overworked. A return of the Eurepean force now actually effective in the East would show to what straits Lord Auckland must have been lately driven to find men for the double operations beyond the Indus and in the Chinese seas. There is, as we have heard stated on the most respectable autho rities, no parallel to the existing weakness of our mili tary resources ; and without a large addition to the estimates, military as well as naval, in this Session, the most ordinary services of India, the Mediterranean, and North America, will be left absolutely unprovided for. The good fortune which has attended us in All. ghanistan is not a contingency on the permanence of which we can rely, and the only sure expedient for guarding against the appearance of other Dust Ma homeds, is the continual maintenance of a force which may place us beyond the reach of average misfortune. An occasion may offer for touching on the Egyptian news (which, however, is not of prime interest or im portance) in connexion with matters nearer home. (From the Morning Alvcrtiscr.) The approaching Reform festival at Leeds is looked forward to with the deepest interest by all classes of the community. The Liberals look forward to it with fond and sanguine hopes, because they confidently anticipate, from the proceedings on the occasion, a new and powerful impetus to the popular cause. The Tories look forward to it with fear and trembling, because they clearly foresee in the events of the day the post ponement for an indefinite period of their long-cherished expectations of an immediate advent to office. Nor arc these the only classes of politicians who regard with a peculiar interest the approaching festival at Leeds. The Chartists are not indifferent parties in the matter. They look forward to the occasion with mingled emo tions of hope and fear—with the hope, on the one hand, that they may convert it into an occasion of confusion, disorder, and mischief ; and with the fear on the other, that their perverse and wicked purposes may be frustrated by the foresight of those who have got up the meeting. And so we hope they will ; but they can only be so by the adoption, on the part of the enlightened and judicious friends of free principles, of measures of precaution. It is, we are informed, sup posed by one of the Reformers of Leeds that no other precaution can be needed against a Chartist demon. stration on the occasion, than what will be afforded in the price of the tickets to the dinner—that price, mode rate though it be, being above and beyond the means of the Chartists generally. There is, doubtless, some force in this ; but we warn the friends of the ballot, household suffrage, and triennial Parliaments, in Leeds, against trusting too implicitly to this as a secu rity against Chartist mischief. It is to be remembered that a mere handful of persons, possessed of superior stentorian capabilities, and resolutely bent on what, in expressive though homely phraseology, is termed " a row," may, by acting in concert and with pertinacity, disturb a meeting consisting of some thousands of per sons, and offer a very serious interruptioft to its pro ceedings. To be forewarned is to be forearmed ; and it were to be deeply deplored it the proceedings of a meeting from which we anticipate such essential service to the cause of good government, were to be in any degree disturbed, through want of a few precautionary measures, by a class of persons of whom it is difficult to say whether their folly or their wickedness be greatest. We are gratified to learn that the pending festival will be attended by the most distinguished Reformers from all parts of the country. We are no less pleased to be informed that a perfect unanimity of sentiment will, in all probability, characterise the speeches which will be delivered on the occasion. This latter is of unspeakable importance. The proceedings of the day will derive their greatest moral weight, next to that derived from the character of the speakers, from a sub stantial accordance in the purposes and plans unfolded in the speeches. Nothing could be more judicious than the conduct of the Leeds Reform Association in limit ing their objects to the three great principles we have already named. They are not only principles of para mount importance, but they are calculated to command the concurrence and co-operation of a far greater num ber of intelligent and influential Reformers than any ether that could be mentioned ; and, as the associa tion is based on these principles, and limits its lehoure to their recognition and adoption by the L aster°, we trust that the speakers on the approachw e a sion will also, one and all, restrict their observations to the vindication and advocacy of these momentous principles. THE SUN, LONDON, FRI_DAV, JANUARY B l 1841. (From the Globe.) The official returns of the Public Revenne, contained in the Globe of yesterday, confirmed the anticipations we were enabled to offer on the preceding day, as to the results they would present. There is, as we stated, an aggregate decrease on the year ending Jan. 5, 1841, as compared with that of 1840, of 254,000/. ; but on the quarter ending Jan. 5, 1841, there is, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year, an increase of 80,602/. The Customs present a decrease on ►.he year of 85,8731., and on the quarter (31368,399/. This decrease has been occasioned by circumstances which, to some extent, are causes of congratulation. Toe abundant harvest with which Providence last year, in spe cial mercy, favoured this country, so affected the averages as to raise the importation duties to an amount which effects an exclusion of corn of foreign growth, and con sequently reduces the Customs duties, which, when the markets are high, are paid on the importation of corn from foreign countries. The continued high prices of coffee, sugar, and other articles of colonial produce, have also tended to diminish the amount of duties received on the liberation of these articles from the bonded ware houses ; as purchasers for retail have been naturally un willing to make large purchases with a diminished de mand occasioned by the less quantity consumed by the labouring classes. The increased - difficulty of procuring articles of which, when the prices are low, the poor are the largest consumers, is obvious, and the result on the revenue is equally plain. A rapid improvement is, however, visi ble in our West India colonies within the last few months, and there is now a certain prospect of obtaining yet more abundant supplies from them of the articles which have recently been supplied in lesser quantities at an advanced rate of charge for production, while the po e pulation were in a state of transition from forced to free labour. We may therefore anticipate an improvement, where there has been a deterioration in the revenue from this cause. The same ob,Trvations will apply to the dimi nution of revenue which the high price of tea has tended to occasion. The amount of duty received on this ar ticle of constant and universal consumption is large ; and has always been found to be in proportion to the facili ties afforded to the labouring classes to obtain it. The disputes with China raised the price of tea to an en ormous extent ; and the result naturally was a greatly diminished consumption, and consequently a corres ponding decrease of revenue. The anticipated perma nent arrangement of the dispute with China, and the more secure and advantageous basis on which the trade will henceforth be placed, will give an impetus to corn mercial intercourse with that country before unknown. These are advantages in which all will share, and from which the revenue will in future be largely augmented. (From the Standard.) We are all one nation, with one interest, and that one interest is best promoted by, as far as we may, equa lising and extending our industry and prosperity through every part of the United Kingdom. And we have urgent motives for doing so. Engtand has now the le a d in manufactures, but she must exert all her energies to keep that lead ; for the cheaper rate of living on the Continent of Europe, and :the abundance of water power, gives her continental rivals an advantage which it will demand all her resources to combat with success. The first and the most obvious of these resources is to bring into use the idle popula tion of Ireland, running to waste like their mountain streams, adequate to put in motion 100,000 mills. Sir Robert Peel, in reply to some dull Anti-Corn-law orator, made the wise declaration that it is " neither possible, nor, it it were possible, desirable for us, to prevent the establishment of manufactures on the Con tinent, because, through whatever means our near neigh bours acquire wealth, we must profit by it." But if we must profit by the wealth of strangers, it surely follows, a fortiori, that we must profit by the wealth of our fel. low subjects, who, besides the necessity of sharing all our burdens, must, to a great extent, share with us all their gains. Can any one doubt that the manufactories of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, ice., have en riched the rest of England ? and why shall not manu factories in Irish counties have the same effect ? We have said enough, and perhaps, for one day, more than enough, upon this subject ; therefore we must postpone what we could wish to add as to the deep interest which the agriculturists of England have in particular, that Ireland be made, as far as possible, a manufacturing country. (From the Courier.) We are not amongst the number of those who, re joicing in the glories of the British arms, and the vindi cation of British honour, in the East and the far East, would, with niggard hand, mete out that share of meritorious participation in achievements destined to historic renown, which corresponds as justly to the head which conceived es to the hand by which exe cuted. The triumphs of Syria and of China redound scarcely less to the honour and reputation of the Go- . vernment at borne, by which in the first place the ma terials acre prepared and combined, than of the gal lant officers and men of the sea and land lorces em ployed, who have so nobly discharged the duties of their mission and so pre-eminently re-established the waning splendour of• their country's fame. To the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs it must be no mean gratification to have his name associated side by side with those of men so distinguished in arms as the Gallant Stopford, Napier, and Elliot. Having our selves also, with sonic reservation only in respect of di plomatic forms on the preliminary discussions with France, recorded our assent, and yielded our bumble support to the general policy of Lord Palmerston both on the Egyptian and Chinese questions, it would ill be come us to withhold the frank expression of our opinion, that when decisive action was deemed necessary, the ►ncasureo adopted for Tendering it effectual to the end were no less skilfully prepared than promptly carried out. In this award of praise to whom praise is due, we do not forget that the East Indian Government and the Admiralty may fairly claim to enter for a large proportion ; for without their hearty co-operation, the splendid exploits of Syria and Acre, and the diplomatic apparition and pacific victory of the " hungmaon," or " red beards," in or near Pekin, would still remain to be consummated But it must not be forgotten that the efficiency of our glorious ❑avy, us now in a great degree restored, but previously mismanaged and dismantled so weakly and perilously by the Whig Go vernment is solely and wholly the meritorious result of the constant vigilance and persevering excitements o: the Conservative Opposition in Parliament, and of the Conservative press without its walls. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (WEDNESDAT EVENING.) CHRONIC LE —'l'ne near settlement of the China question tollowing close upon the heels of the settlement of the Syrian question, together with the surrender of Dost Mohammed and the submission of the Beloochees, brought by the overland mail, have produced very general satisfiction, and given a renewed impulse to the English Funds, The statement that the Emperor of China has agreed • to pay 3,000,0001., as an indemnity for the opium seized, and fur the expenses of the expedition, has been much looked to; but the mere expense of the expedition and in demnity of the opium are trines in comparison with the extension which the trade and commerce of Great Britain may derive front the completion of a treaty with the Celestial Empire. The suoject is too vast and extensive for us to discuss, but the results are likely to be mo mentous in the annals of civilization, and must present themselves in a forcible manner to the minds of all. What a noble field for British enterprise do we perceive in contemplating the demand for British manufactures, which would be produced by throwing open the m4rkets of China—the supply of three hundred millions of s )uls I Within the last few years (Mr. M.Gregor says) the consumption of British cation has diminished to tise extent of one-half in all the Rhenish Staten, and the consump tion is now supplied by the print manufacturers of Berlin, Westphalia, and Sixony, and also by some very large ma nufacturers established in Wirtemberg and in the great Duchy of Badeo,,and alsst e by the Swiss manufacturers. When the sprimrseitilon advinces, and the northern ports re-open, we shall be able to judge how far the recent re strictive action of the Bank on the circulation has, by forcing down prices, tended to improve the expo!t trade. We cannot, however, expect that, under our existing sys• tem of prohibitory and protective duties, the continental trade will again resume its former importance. We must look to our colonies, and the immense undeveloped regions of the East, for the means of compensation. The accounts of the Revenue for the year arc more en couraging than was generally expected, and the feeling runs strongly in favour of the prosperity of 1841, as corn pared with its predecessor. Tiie new year has certainly an auspicious beginning. Advice! from Rio Janeiro of the 29th of October have been received ; the price of Stock had advanced to 77, and the Exchange was 33 to 33i. HERALD.—The important news contained in the Overland Mail from India, communicated to-day in the Morning Herald by extraordinary express from Marseilles, impartsd. as might be expected. an immediate impulse to flume Stocks, the effect of which might perhaps have been still greater but for the unsatisfactory exhibit of the quar terly returns of revenue made public this morning. '1 be meeting of Portuguese bondholders to-day was the meat numerously and respectably attended which was ever witnessed perhaps en any similar occasion, and altogether the feeling, as the proceedings and resolutions, were alio geteer of the most uunninsous, manly, and decided cha racter. It is not necessary to particularize what tell from the speakers further than to remark that Mr. Tasker, tins gentleman in the chair, went into and directed the sr hole eusinese with a right-minded earriestness such as seldom has been seen before, and which, followed up vigorous , y hereafter by himself arid fellow members of the committee, to all its consequences, will go farther to obtain dress for past damage and grievance, and security for future good faith than all the memorials ever presented to this Government, negotiations with that of Portugal, or appli cations to and remonstrances with contractors, which nave been imagined, tried, and hitherto reiulted i n smo k e . But in the sense of tee general good much more importaes consequences must follow. Fur the immoral and m os t iniquitous system of loan-jobbing will come in such case to be sifted to its cure, aed some of the body of loan contrac tors might find themselves perhaps not exactly on the bed of roses, that is of loan premiums by the million, which they may now be dreaming of, It is not enough that loan jobbing be legislated against and the public protected tor the future against the system of loan plunder to which they have se long been left a free prey, but that the past should be raked into, and for the sake of justice public exerneles made of delinquents whenever and in tviratever station found. The morality of foreign loans or of stock-jobbing need not now be discussed, for it may be admitted that the surplus capital, or industrial accumulations, of a foreign county may be applied with advantage in loans to foreign coun tries, where the obligations of common honesty are under stood, sad adequate securities in the shape of public reve nues or property are made patent and assigned, when a higher rate of remuneration can be procured than similar investments in home stocks •neeld yield, or when no other advantageous eludes of employing surplus capital can be conveniently met with at home.. For example, when money can be profitably loaned on substantial foreign security to pay 6or 7 per cent, interest, whilst Consuls only yield a return at the rate of 3/, it is no disadvantage to the community, but the reverse, whilst it is a pons tive gain to the individual, to make his investment in the foreign loan. He makes a clear surplus profit upon his capital of 2/ or .31 per cent. beyond what the British Funds would render, whilst so much more annual income flowing in to the individual is so much annual addition to the money ste e l, of the community at large,inasmuch as the public fortune, so far as money capital, is made up of a mass of individual mites, or capi tals, great or small. The 2. per cent. surplus of interest profit thus made and regularly remitted by the foreign debtor will, in a given number of years, repay the amount of the original capital le nt, to t he lender, who then re mains in the fortunate p osition of having been in receipt of the whole of the ai per cent., which he co u ld o n ly h a v e received from the British funds, of regaining the amount of his capital lent by the accumulation of the 2f per cent. surplus interest profits within a certain period, and finally the supplementary a dvantage afterw ar d s , un l ess pa id o ff a t par, of the original capital still out and bearing interest so muck beyond what could be obtained at home. It is re ported of a certain wealthy individual, whose stake in Bra zilian funds is no doubt more considerable than that of any other person here or in Brazil either, that by this process the capital originally invested in these funds has been re turned to him twice over ; that is, by the ex-difference in excess of interest received beyond what he could have ";btained by tho employment of the same amount of capital in British stocks. Thus his original invest ments of one, two, or three, or more, hundred thousand pounds have in amount been paid back to him in surplus interests alone beyond w hat lduration. If the surplus in woultdhehasavme e be o e p ri er y a i t e io ld n e o d y b e y: tt'oarthwith l a id out i n t h e same the British funds, leering bins still with th e same or i g i na l in terest larger r d aci.n t w i receivedtni n a t e p r we e er s o s e perming dtoof be t c o q r manner as the capital, the amount of profit would of course be materially enlarged. In the example cited, it is fair to say, that, as understood, the investmeete in Brazilian stock many years ago were at considerably lower than present rates, and to a large extent in stock of the domestic debt bearing a higher rate of interest, This is the fair and justifiable side of the foreign loan system, and may suffice for explanation that no vulgar or ignorant prejudice is entertained against a system honestly understood which adds to the income and of course the substantial wealth of the country. To the Bank of England, when real capital only is lent out thus, and not credit, that is bill drawing, re drawing and paper accommodation finessed in either ways (which some of the loan contractors are quite at home about), to the Bank in such case no damage can accrue by tbe sudden abstractions of masses of bullion, because, when real surplus capital, and not credit, is lent, it never can be of more than moderate amount. When twenty millions, for example, are loaned out to foreign States within one year, it is clear the operations are based on credit and bill-drawing, because there can be no such real excess of industrial accumulation or unemployed capital existing in the country. The lean-j ibber in taking the contracts therefore is speculating upon futurity and the easiness of credit. By that credit abroad and at home, and by exchange combinations founded on aibitrations of exchange, he can manage to procure funds, that is bullion, to the value of hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, without in reality being in advance of one pound of solid money himself for a long period, for the round of ex changes, or bill accommodation, may be gone over again, if not again and again, should no money crisis intervene. Whilst the Bank by the regular incoming' of large inte rests on foreign loans punctually paid, is regularly placed in receipt of bullion funds, because such interests would generally be paid in bullion, or in the equivalent, by pre venting bullion being drawn away fur payment of balances of trade abroad. But the case is materialty different in respect of foreign loans where no int erest is paid by faithless or unfortunate states. The capital is sunk irretrievably, whilst at the smuts time not one su e ld o o f i n t ere st is receivable. Add to principal thus wreck e d, an d i nterest unpaid. the compound interest which equitably may be surcharged to show lois as well as profit, and the amount of actual loss to the coun try is incalculable upon this description of insolvent foreign debt. It will hardly be credited, but the fact, as stated by Mr. Talker, may be assumed to be approxi mately correct, that the amount of capital lent to the non paying foreign states, with the simple interest accruing added, ascends to about one hundred millions sterling, sunk and lost, that is yi e ldi ng no returns or interest, except re cently so far as th e un f ortunate sta t e of Mexico, whiz!' gave a signal exa m pl e o f Britain), thus sunk and lost, comment, and Chile, which unwillingly has been forced addition into a compornise, Observe ga t n i e ts) hundred ent "omil lions (one•eighth of the whole national debt of Great gared, and Spain and Portugal themselves of any for compound interest whatever. Such are the loan bene ha that faitht these o r fits conferred upon this country by the Governments of Spain and Portugal. In the meantime whilst the bondholders have been beg , l ees prejudiced by masses of money easily obtained and profligatelY squandered cr appropriated by successive Ministries, loan contractors have grown into unwieldy fortunes from nothing. Their profits way be reckoned by millions, and Aladdin's lamp which with proper strokes gave out gold, sil ver and preci ous stones in h eaps, was, in comparison with stock-job. bing, but as a farthin g rushlight. It may be su pp o sed these people ran mighty risks, and that realising millions of profit they made advances out of their own particular capitals by tens o froidions sterling to the state contract ing loans. Nothing of the Ewt—not a sou of their own, and the Min who dines in Si, James's Park with Duke Humphrey, is quite as well qualified to loan millions, in respect of previous advances made and therefore risk run, as many of those people regularly practising in the loan trade. The money for the loa,s is furnished, not by the contractor, but by the credulous public, and there is no reason, and indeed it happens not unfrequently, that the contractor should hold a single bond. An ungreased new bond in the hand of a contractor three months after an issue of a loan would be quite a novelty. The subject may be resumed, for it is one of public interest to unfold and trace the windings of the loan-job bing system. TIMES.—The accounts from India and China have had a marked effect on the value of Government secu rities, end appear to have brought a class of purchasers into the market who were kept out of stock by the threat ening aspect of affdrs in that quarter, aroi who never ex pected so 3peedy a termination of hostilities. The advance y.•ii;ch took place was a steady one. and was well nutro t,:.:Ded up to the close of business. The return of the quarter's revenue has provoked very te observation here, and it could not be said to have any ii,twnee on prices one way or the other. The accounts from Manchester, which describe a very decided improvement in trade, advert at the same time to thy' difficulty of obtaining money, especially among houses of the second class, as having much increased within these few days. In this respect the pressure for money is likely to have an unfortunate effect, and to prevent our reaping the full advantage of the foreign demand which has arisen. COUNCIL CHAMBER, THURSDAY. (Before Lord BROUGHAM, the VICE-CHANCELLOR, Mr. Justice ERSKINE, and Dr. LussilNuroN.) CHRISTIAN AND WIFE V. GIBSON, ESQ. This was an appeal from an order in Court of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Ise of Man. It appeared that previous to the year 1704, by the Common Law of the Isle, the inhabitants had the right to enter upon and dig for and carry away stone wherever there was is quarry, upon the payment of a reasonable and fair remuneration ; and that right was further se cured by an Act of Tynwald of that year. The appel- lants were proprietors of an estate named Claughbane, near the town of Ramsey, upon which there formerly had been a quarry of excellent stone. In the Court below, evidence was given that about thirty-six years ,go the Court-house, the Church, and the Quay of Ramsey had been built of stone brought from it. In 1813 the proprietors endeavoured to shut up the quarry, and closed the road leading to it, but one of the deemsters of the Isle, wishing to build, applied for leave to take stone from it, and was refused permission. He presented a petition to the then Lieutenant-Go vernor, who, after hearing all parties, granted and ordered the Coroner of the District to temovc all obstruction to the free working of the quarry. The plaintiffs then complied with the order, and opened up a new road in order as they said to prevent the deemster from using the old one. It appeared further that in 1815, the proprietors of Claughbane were deter• mined to shut up the quarry, and planted it all round with trees, as also the road made in 1813. In 1838 the respondent bought a large piece of valuable building ground in the neiighhourhcod of Ramsey, upon which he determined to erect houses, and as the Claughbane stone was so superior to any ether in the neighbour i.ood, he applied for leave to take what quantity he wanted, of course upon the payment of reasonable com pensation, but leave was refused. As it was of much importance to him, a mason having offered to build 2,1. per yard cheaper with that stone than any other, he presented a petition to the Leiutenant-Governor, and ohteined its prayer, and from that judgment the plain tiff appealed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. Parker appeared for the appellants, and contended that according to I the Act relied upon, parties had a right to stone only from the most convenient, quarry, and it was in evidence 'hat there were tinily situated as conveniently I,r the eerposes of the respondent as that of Claughbane. Besides it was in evidence that the quarry had not been opened during a period of upwards of 21 years, and therefore in law it had ceased to be a quarry, and the right, as land, had reverted to the proprietor. Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER, and Mr. C a mpb e ll, appeared for the respondeuts, and contended that the ,judgment of the Court belom was in strict accordance ail the law of the Isle of Man, and of all the prece erlts ; and as to time, it was clearly laid down in the books that a quarry was a stone mine, and that once a antic always a mine. The Court was cleared, and after an absence of half an hour parties were recalled, when Lord BROUGHAM said the Court had decided that the judgment of the Court below was good, and ought to be affirmed with costs. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice ,Manna and Mr. Baron Ronr ) CHARGE OF RAPE —John Chrishom, aged 30, was in dicted for aiding and assisting Peter M•Donoanue, in the commission of a rape on Bridget Lamb, on the 27th Dee. last. The prosecutrix was a servant out of place, and at the period in question, was residing with some persons named Carroll. Oa the evening of Sundny, the 27th of D. e., the Cairolls went out, leaving the prosecutrix in the care of the house. They subsequently returned accompanied by Nl'Danoglitie, with whom the prosecutrix had had some slight previous acquaintance, and by the pri soner. Thy prisoner and the Carrot's then went down stairs, leaving the prosecutrix anti M'aaog:..ue alone in tile room occupied by the Carrot's up stairs. When they were gone, M'Dinoghue seized the prosecutrix iu his arms, and she screamed out. Prisoner came up stairs, saw what was going on, and said to M'DonoFhue, " The Carrot's are gone out—you will have plenty of opportunity, and I will watch on the stairs." The prisoner then left prosecutrix and M`Donoghue, who succeeded in effecting his purpose. Her cries at length brought persons to h r assistance, when Nl•Donoghue jumped out of the window and effected his escape, and has not since been heard of. The prisoner was given into custody on tho following day. Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr. Baron ROLFE having summed up the evidence the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. PA/ NE took a technical objection to the indictment, and contended that the law did not recognise the offence of aiding in corrohittina a rape. The office was a rape at common law, and ought to have been so described in the indictment. It was the first time such a point had ever arisen. It was most important to have it decided, and he trusted their Lordships would reserve it. The Learned Judges, having consulted together, Mr. Justice Mauna said they were of opinion that the indictment had been properly drawn up. Mr. Baron ROLFE ordered sentence of Death to be re corded against the prisoner, who was then removed. Alin Castles, who was yesterday convicted of steal ing a 101. mote from a letter, was placed at the bar to receive judgment, and he was sentenced by Mr. Baron Rom: to he imprisoned for twelve months. Pierre Francois Tulpinle, 40, was indicted for felo niously stabbing and wounding David Santer, upon the hiA seas, and within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, with intent to murder him. Mr. Payne appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Ciarkson defended the prisoner. Mr. David Sinter deposed that he was master and p,irt owner of the brig Hannah, of Dundee. In the nrattli of October the vessel was on her way to Fal mouth from Odessa, and when she was off Cape Figuiera the men were turned out to work, and the prisoner, who was one of the crew, was ordered to tar the rigging. He did so in an improper manner, and -,sitness told him to do it properly, and not destroy the property. The prisoner called hicn a vagabond and a i - ogue, and refused to do what he was told, and at the same time said he would do for witness. Witness then ordered him below, and told him he would rt!hcr want his work than be always bothered him. The prisoner refused to go below, ;Ind repeated that he would do for him. Wit ness then c tiled a men named Mackay, and told to take the prisoner below. Mackay and another man, named Watson, refused, an.l the prisoner said he would not go below, and abused hint ; and witness at length struck hint with his right hand, and knocked him down on the deck, under the starboard cathead. There had been a combination among the men in the ship since the Bth October, and one man was in " loose confine ment" on account of that combination. The men came upon deck, and made a great noise. At the same mo ment the prisoner stabbed him in the belly with a knife, and he was severely wounded, and his bowels protruded. He crawled down into the cabin and laid down on his back, and his wife and his mate tried to get the bowels b talc, and they strapped the wound over with plaster. The wound was not yet healed, and it was not expected ever to be so properly. The prisoner was then placed in confinement in the forecastle, where he was kept for a month, and until the vessel arrived at Falmouth, which was about a month afterwards. Two or three minutes elapsed between thi! time when he struck the prisoner and his being stabbed. By the COURT—There was no struggling or fighting. Witness knocked the prisoner down, and he lay upon the deck, and he then ordered the other men to take him down below, and they refused. The men had been very violent, and he considered his life in danger. Cross-examined—The crew consisted of eleven per sons besides witness, whose wife and child were also aboard. I only gave the prisoner one blow and a kick with my foot before he stabbed me. I will swear that is all I did to him. I did not give him two blows, and I never heard him cry " murder ;" if he had I must have heard him. I kicked him just as he went over on the body, but I never kicked him on the face. I believe I was on the deck in the morning after the oc currence, and did my duty, but I was not able to do it. The vessel was navigated afterwards by my orders. The prisoner shipped with me as a Belgian—the rest of the crew was composed of Englishmen and Prussians. I did net keep the men for 21 days on rotten beef. I remember a complaint being made by the crew at Odessa, about some maggots being in the beef. I told the men I could get no better provisions, and that it must be eaten. It was only the top of the cask that was bad. I ate the same myself. I never told the men t o s t arve , a nd be d—d. The crew did not tell me while I was kicking the prisoner that I should kill Mai. I did not say " d- .n him, I will kill him, for he has been upon me all the voyage." The prisoner went down into the forecastle of his own accord, and the hatch was lashed down with a chain, and he was kept there until the vessel arrived at Gibraltar, where he was put in irons. He was there five or six weeks, and during that time ite had a quart of water and two bis cuits per day, but sometimes he had more than that. They were Russian biscuits, and weighed more than half a pound each. 1 don't know that the prisoner was obliged by hunger to scrape up some linseed that formed part of the cargo, and to eat it. I believe that he did eat some linseed. One of the crew begged Inc not to treat the prisoner as I did, for I should kill him. Before the prisoner struck me I called him a -- va gabond, and a-- rascal. The prisoner did not s,y to me, " If you treat me as a captain should, I will do my work as well as any man ;" neither did he tell me to keep my hands off him, and he would do all that was required of him. Re-examined.—He never complained of the beef while they were in port, and they could have gone on shore and complained to the authorities if they pleased. By the COURT.—I did not see any knife in his hand when ho stabbed we. I had seen him working with a knife in his hand a short time :ieforr. William Lunn, the maTe of the Hannah, proved that on 24th of October he heard the captain complaining of the way in which the prisoner was tarring the riggii4:., and the prisoner refused to do it the way he told him, and the captain struck him, and they fell to words together, and he heard the prisoner call out murder several times. Shortly after this witness went down in the cabin, and found the captain lying on his side, and there was a wound in his belly, and his inside was hang ing out, and witness assisted to replace it, and plaster up the wound. Cross-examined.—The captain was lying down on his back in the cabin. I cannot tell how many blows the captain gave the prisoner, but. he hit him more than once. I don't know how many times he kicked him. They were beating each other all the time. I had the charge of the bread on board, and while the prisoner was battened down on the forecastle, I gave him two his. cults, and sometimes two and a half a day, with a quart of water. He was confined for seven weeks. The prisoner had three quarters of a pound of biscuit every twenty. four ',hours, and that was the allowance ordered for him by the captain. I only gave him what the cap tain ordered. Thomas Mackay deposed that he was carpenter on board the Hannah, and he remembered the quarrel taking place. He heard the captain call the prisoner a rascal, and tell him to lay down the brush he was tar ring the rigging with, and rho prisoner replied that the captain was a - rascal for using h'in as he did. The captain struck the prisoner directly, and knocked him down ; and, as he was attempting to rise, he knocked him down twice more. Cross-examined.—One of the men came up, and begged the captain not to strike him again, or he would kill him, and the captain replied, him, I dot.' care ; he has been on me all the voyage." The captain was going to strike the prisoner a fourth time, when he drew out his knife, and they met each other, and the captain was cut with the knife. The cap tain then ordered the crew to take the man below, but they said that it was not neces sary, for he was so much hart that he could not stand on his feet. The prisoner, as soon as he could get up, walked down into the forecastle, and he was fastened in it. He considered that the prisoner was most brutally used by the captain. One of his eyes was completely closed up, and he could see very little out of the other. He was both beaten and kicked in the face by the captain, while be was lying on the deck. lie screamed, " Murder," and it. was then that Watson went to the captain, and begged him to desist. Witnes: saw the prisoner eating linseed and water, While he was confined. He considered that at the time the prisoner stabbed the captain, he was about to strike him again. The prisoner was a quiet inoffensive man on board the vessel, and was a good seaman. He had heard that he was formerly captain of a vessel himself. Mr. BARON ROLFE remarked that this was hardly evidence. A seaman, named Watson, was then examined, and his evidence was of a similar tendency. George J4lin, a constable, at Falmouth, deposed that he went on board the Hannah when she arrived at Falmouth, and took the prisoner into -custody, and asked him for, the knife, and he replied that it was in his box, and witness searched and found it there. Mr. Cornish, a surgeon, carrying on business at Fal mouth. deposed that he examined the wound in the prosecutor's side. The muscles had healed, but a por two of the intestines, about the size of a walnut, pro truded. The wound appeared to have been about an inch and a half in length. Mr._CLARKSitiN then addressed,the Jury on behalf of the prisoner, and contended that it was the brual attack that was made upon hint by the Captain, that was the cause of his using the knife in his own defence. Mr. Baro❑ ROLFE, in his address to the Jury, com mented upon the circumstances of the case, and said there could be no doubt but that the prisoner had re ceived very great provocation before be made use of ele knife. The conduct that was pursued to wards him after the transaction, by confining him, and hatf-starving him, was - quite unjustifiable on the part of the captain, and he was liable to be indicted for it. The Jury, however, had no thing to do with that part of the transaction, because it took place subsequent to the wound being inflicted, and the only question (or them to consider was, whether the injury was ntflteted under , such circumstances as to justify the present indictment. The Jury found the prisoner guilty upon the third count, charging the intent to be to do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Baron RoLFE then sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment. Mr. &trgeant Arabin sat in this Court in the even ing, but nu ease of any importance was disposed of. POLICE _INTELLIGENCE. G UILDIIALL. Richard Jarvis was charged before Mr. Alderman Johnson, with fraudulently obtaining goods from Mr. John Calvert, of Nu. 49, 'rVhitecross•strcet. The prosecut(ir stated that Jarvis had been in the employment of a customer of his, named Watson, and he was in the habit of calling at his shop for various ar ticles, by Mr. Watson's order. About nine weeks ago the prisoner left Mr. Watson's service, and since that time had obtained a great number of articles in the name of his former employer, the orders for which were found, upon inquiry, to be forgeries. The prisoner, wt:o declined making any defence, was fully committed for trial. A very young boy. named William Edwards, was brought up in the custody of Police Constable 355, charged with stealing a box of figs, the property of Mr. Graham, grocer, of Ludgate-hill. Tne policeman said that be saW the prisoner snatch up the box, which lay a few feet inside the shop-door, and run away with it. After a sharp run be succeeded in capturing him, in a court leading from Ludgate -street to the Broadway. Mr. Graham's shopman having identified the box the prisoner was committed to Bridewcil for one month' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LONI;IN, JAN. 7.—There has been a severe frost du r ing the night, which continues, Wind this day at nocn light easterly airs, and hazy, DEAL, Jax. 6 —Wind S. E., moderate.—The schooner reported ycsterday;on the Goodwin Sands, canto off c n the flood without assistance. _ RASISCIATE, JAN 6.—Arrived the Herring, Steddart, from Quebec, for Newcastk, with loss of bulwarks ot r topmast, &c,, ar.d the master and three of the crew washed overboard. AYR, JAN. 4.—The Mary, Butterwiek, from Den erara to the Clyde, drove in Girvan Bay yesterday, during a a gale, and went on shore north of that harbour, and it is supposed she will sustain considerable damage ; c:.cw saved. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6 —Wind N.E..—Arrited the Wake. field, f ro m Quebec. Sailed the outward bound, about 35 in number. The Mary, Gress, sailed this morning for o.tend; and has put back with loss of bowsprit, having beri in contact with a vessel. The Mountaineer (steamer), hence to Swansua, got upon one of the &silly Rocks, on the 4th inst., and it is expected it will become a wreck. AmotoovEv, JAN. 5.—A schooner, from Newfoundland to Liverpool, is on shore between this and Aherystwith. GREENOCK, JAN. 3 —The Loyal William, from Jersey to Glasgow, was driven on shore upon Lierkip Point, last night, but is expected to be got oft. STRANRAER, JAN. s.—Tint James Dcan, Wilson, from Montreal to Glasgow, parted her anchors to.day, and went on shore and knocked off her false keel. She is expected off without much farther damage. HULL, JAN. s.—lt has blown a heavy gale from N. W. to N. B. and East, during the last 36 hours. Several ves sels drove on shore last night between Cleaness and Grimsby. SUNDERLAND, JAN 4.—The Londonderry, Tamer, of this port, struck the south pier in entering the harbour to. day, and Funk. MARGATE, JAN. 6.—Off port, the Charlotte, from New Brunswick. DOVER, JAN 6.--Arrived the Ann and Emilie, Hen drichsen, from Laguna, with damage; Roland, Mont, Video; Fredrica Louisa, Ilogense, Rio J micro ; Lisette, Ashling, Alexandria, United States. The Planter, Zyl. stra, from Surinam to Amsterdam, plat in hero yesterday, with foremast and bowsprit sprung. Cowes, JAN. 6.—Sailed the Sophia, Fingelly, for Ja maica. The Theodore Korner, Bringemen, irom Bata. via to Rotterdam, on shore at the entrance of the harbour, has been got off after beinr , li g htened. HOLYHEAD, JAN. s.—Th e ' Fleece, Clarke, from Newry to Irvine, which was on shore on Parry's Island Rocks, bas been got off, and supposed without damage. KINGSTON, JAN. s.—The Kuysna, Rowley, from the Cape of Good Hope, parted her anchors in the Bay yes terday, and in running into the harbour took the ground, and is leaky ; she was hove into a berth at high water. LEITH, JAN. 4 —The Sarah Jane, Maitland, from Cuba, was stranded at :hc back of the Docks last night, but is expected off to-morrow. SHIELDS, Cowslip, Scott, sailed s i nce 3d !oat, for s as ,„,„ . h , 1, 04 4 p. "ut back to-day, the master and carpenter having been wat.iletj ,:erboard. 3.—The,Nico lina Emilia, Hanson, from Lynn, in ti unning for this har- MORNING 141DITiOv hour got on the Herd Sand, hut came off without d i• i ance. DUNDEE ROADS, JAN 4.—Arrived Amevell, Quebec LONDONDERRY, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Mary Campbell, Simons, from Quebec. ABERYSTWITH, JAN. s.—The Robust, Mencius, from Newfoundland to Liverpool, was driven on . . here near Borth yesterday, but got off after discharging neetly the whole of her cargo. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. Industry, Turner, from Elor.fkur, parted her anchors it) Etey B iy ycsterd iy, and went on shore, crew s a ved. HULI„ JAN. s.—Wind N. N. E., strong breeze.— Sailed the Met-Ley, Walker, for Savannah. CORN AVERAGES 'JFNERAL AN'EliAt.-IE PRICES OF 13111'1181i COlt, Fcr the Wee. eni!ca Jan. I, ]t^-iii, mad., tip from the lietiar of the laispeetiir: ii, he ilitrerent Cities and TO Wlll, in Englan." A, d Wales, per rial Qum ter. Wlleat ...... r4s. ; Oats 13,,r1ey AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. BEANS. I PrAtii% 3t 10 43 10 34 1i 4 - 1 o 34 4 41 4 32 I 31 5 4' 9 32 7 •f 0 1 Week ending WHEAT. 13Altl.1N - .1 OATS. Nov. '27 Dec. 4 1 1 32 7 '..2%). :3•2 •1 11 ~s I s', 31 6 121 25 1 , I6I 8 32 4I .1 5 32 II 43 7 41 Oil 1 41 %. IMPERIAL AoGitEOXTF. AVERAGES OF THE SIX WE: RI• 10.1 Oats , "I c. 9‘l. li canb 41 • :it Batley, . ...... 223. I Rye l3s. 10. t. Pease 4 DUTIES ON FOILF.IGN COII.N. Wheat...... s. Bd. Oats Barley l3. I I 19s. 9d. Pczse THE MARKETS-YESTERDAY COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done privately, and the public sales were of little moment, but in prices no material va• nation occurred. The arrivals continue small. TEA MARKET. There was little business done, hut holders were less disposed to sell, and it was difficult to get Company's Congou under Is. Bd. cash. TALLOW MARKET. There wan little demand for Russian Tallow, ither on the spot or to arrive, and prices had a downward ten dency. The stock is exceedingly large. HAY MARKET. There was a good demand, and the supply being small► full prices were paid. Clover, 41 to 61; Meadow Hap 31 los to 01; Straw, 32 to 345. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. 1 Wheat. i Barley. ' oats. 1 Beans. t ... ... Per Qu7rterJ:. ---- to s. 7. to . s. to s. 7 --..3 . 7( "• . 114.5t011 iSS 63 33 38 19 26 i 35 10 139 •P" Braila] tie i 5.6 65 21 31 :6 39 38 46 10 44 Bigh t on 1 51.1 '7B 211 tig 22 utt tj 47 35 40 CaLlibritige. I - ( 7.1 - 32 f - 21 38 3 " Chichester - GI - :2 - 23 1 - _. .1. ..... 41 Dunniew ' (31 11 '2B 34) 24 30 :35 41 40 44 Grantham ..H 5S fill 38 35 21) 30 I-- 44 - ' Grimsby 'sB 60 35 39 22 26 42 44 p - -' flailsham . 52 452 243 32 22 29 - 49 - 4r Hitchin 5B 60 30 :31 '22 30 i 2B 3 ! - Ipswich 55 60 1345 34 24 28 138 40 3g 4 ,, Lewas 513 fib 34 26 I .21 23 134 39 34 3 7, Lynn - 4 u Maidstone 59 66 36 39 25 32 40 50 - ---" Norwich Petworth Rom ford 159 70 26 38 20 28 34 46 3 4 1 4 " Sandwich 56 67 34 43 27 34 33 45 39 l; Tnettoid Wisliech - ---„ Witham 57 67 2 34 34 25 29 136 47 343 t . Yarmouth 6O 65 27 31 24 30 140 42 31 '' Lo V ERPOOL CORN M Li..RKET.-Jan. 4 Will:AT, English, White, per 70th.... - Red 6.1 9 ( ‘', - Scotch, Welch, and Manx - Jrish, White 8 0 8 ~ Red Foreign OATH, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 9 8 4 , 1 - Irish - Foreign iiltal.lLV, English, Malthig, per Imp. quarter 26 4) 734- 3 ' -- Scotch and Irish, pet (Willis. ----- Fccdmg 3 6 3 IlEaxs, English, per Imperial quarter 4B 9 .50 '' - I rish, &C --- Forcign Prase, Engl:sn, per Imperial quarter --- Foreign Foreign cloys, English, per 200313. - Irish OATMEAL., English and Irish, per 2.1011 is ... .. 26 3 47 " INniaN Coax, pe r 40016. - - RAP., per imperial quarter . 36 e i 0 Maur, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) 563. 583 64s Red ' 40" 58t. 4 '2 , Foreign Barley, Malting 5 034. 325. :'4s. 1 Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans Pease, Grey Blue and White Cis. 41s. 424. Linseed ... • Flour (per sack)... ... • Rapeseed per 10 quarters)...... -1. 281. :kV. i CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. il.. Per lb. d - -;, ' 'sVheat tisrley. Oats 4 0 3 0 Veal Beans .. 5 6 31 Is Pork Pease fi 0 45 0 Lamb 0 ' Hay 4/. las. to 51. O. 04 per 360. CANTENBURI MARKET. Wheat, white--,... 003. to 084. --.. 01d,....-- -3, to --- -- red ....... 575. to 1348...... 01d...........-.. -s. to --s Marley, Malting --. 3.5. to iris. ..... Gentling.. -8. 1.... .."' Oats .........---- 231. tie 375. -. 013!„--- -s. in --• 8ean5,._,,...,..,.,....,,..., 353 to 4 5..,... 0131.--....- -s. to ' Pease --------- -Os. to -, - Grey ---- 403. to ..--S• CHELMSFORD INLaRKET, li Wheat, White 67 to 71 1 Oats Red 5 - 64 I Pease, Gray . 39 .2 Batley "3 26 White Chevalier - Grinding London, No. 31, Manchester -street, Manchester squa re. The Countess of Clifford presents her co tnpl i; merits to Mr. E. Solomons, and is much gratified in tw irl ; able to say that his " Patent Spectacles," adopted toy in. sight nearly six years ago, have continued undiminishe e the perfect case and pleasure she was so delighted to ba experienced from their use immediately he so skilfully' V o ; plied them, enabling her to read or engage her sight ' 0 the most minute employment, and for any length o f 0 1 , 4 by day or candlelight, without the slightest fatigue. rrb:, is the more remarkable and gratukatory to the C ou nteis_. feelings, considering the total failure in the above resperc, and consequently mortifying disappointments attending h" various other spectacles she hitherto attempted to W eSt , indeed, it is with Otte greatest pleasure the Countess tert tifies to Mr. E. Solomons' perfectly successful treatno! of her sight, 'and submits her own peculiar case in corinir; 'nation of the strong and deserved recommendations by Spectacles have received, and of Mr. E. Solomon,' hi professional standing.—COUNTESS CONSTANTIA C1,1F0%1 To Mr. E Solomons, Optician, 36, Old Bond-street, 11 ' 1, Old Jewry. City. : v g Of PORTUGUESE. BONDHOLDERS.-A meettsig_ ty Portuguese Bondholders was held yesterday, at the L r , don Tavern. The meeting; was very fully attended. ' tr od Tastier in the chair. The resolutions proposed to adopted were seven in number, and they set forth "„ the Government ought to devote all its revenues to the et paymcnt of the bondholders, as it was pledged to do ; the rferee'i of the Portuguese Government of the ` 2 ' ) ,, November was a breach of faith ; that the British Go/ 0 ' w m'elit should be called upon t o e x er t its influence to ob t3 o ( the settlement of the claims. They ai. , o et..mplaine d the supineness of th e co n t rac t o rs for the Penir, sular Lo an e , with ropect to the claims of the bondholders; and tbilvi stated that those claims amount to no less than one W I dred millions sterling. Mr - • - • MUSICAL BOXES of high quality, the nteci l f firm beautifully finished, conveying the idea of the Cone witl. surprising perfection and accuracy / sa d A Catalogue of the various AirsrOvertures, the prices of the Boxes. is published,• and may be 144 gratis, or will be forwarda post free, in answer to a post application. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith and Silversmith. 47, Cornhill (seven doors I.o° Graceehurch-street), Lonclor 13, SILVER PLATED DISH COVERS.-A . 1 4, SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, 1"' for Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, subtni t p, choice, in their plate-rooms, many patterns of SILVP4 PLATED DISH COVERS, of Sheffield manufacture ,fr " Fifteen to Twenty Guineas the set, viz. Double Dome Pattern..- The Melon Pattern. Size. X s. d. - Size. , I Plated Dish Cover, '2O in. 5 13 f I Plated littCover, 20 in. 5 it I „ Cover, Id in. 4 76 1 „ I.ls Cover 18 in. 4 . 6 0 „ Dish Covers, 14 in. 512 0 2 „ Dish Cove rs, l4 in. ti Per Set £ls 13 0 , ," Per Set f ice The above have silver handles and niountings , and s,ar 3 shields for engraving the crest Qc4at. of arms. A 1 riee rent, illuatA - ated by tirftwitig...,,,Aieontaining every inforn is h aif relative to the purchase of silver:* Sheffield plate, may li c aet on application, or will be sent intr.tho country, free of pos t in answer to a uaid letter. TABLE CANDLESTICKS, superior to 6 for durability, equal in appearance. .t Table candlestick iii. inches high, is. per pair; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 10 inches, o f . per pair ;. ditto, with shell mountings, 9 incht s highs ei r per pair , snuffer trays; with shell mountings and chascd ',is tre, 4s. each.- The particular metal of which these a . 0 0 great variety o f o t h er ar ti c l es a re made, can only be told. P silver by reference to the scamp. Catalogues gratis. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-sire.l;eo BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. rs. J. T. Hall, of a sn. At Ahmedabad ' , M India, the lady of Sir 11. K. Arbu tlirj( Bart., of daughter. Ve r. On the 28th ult., at Leicester, Mrs. J. F. Ball, of a 31.41i111ED. (Thor On the sth inst., at St. Mary's, Reading, Mr. G. B. "v. man, Old Kent-road, to Ann, youngest daughter of J. B° ' man, Esq., of Reading, Berks. of On the tith inst., Sarah, only daughter of S. Levy, Est' tric , oaran, only (taught, - Wellcloso-squaro, to Alons. D. Picard, of Paris. f At Ross, E. Townsend, Esq., Captain 8.3 d Regt., , t) is a ,„ daughter of the late Rev. H. 'col, nsend, of Rossearberry , At Rio, Lieut. A. Ileseltine, R.N., to Georgina, da u g of Lieut. J. R. R. N. DIED sei On the :la inst., after a long and afflicting illness, at ,%'" l o e' of 67, to the deep regret of his family and friends. 'l O 4 l Hornby, late Commandant of the Portsmouth disirion Marines. FAVIP On the 6th inst., in Park-street, Westminster, - 1 ,00 Rushton Preston, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister -at aged 2'6. pre On the 31st ult., Captain J. Crossley, late of the 7th t goon Guards, aged 51. Holi er On:the 30th ult., at Burgh Castle,' Ann , the relic t of - Cor), Esq., jun., late of thee. Yarmouth, aged 64. o f On the 2d inst., at Norwood , Surrey , Marian , W " Dawson, Esq., formerly of Walthamstow, Essex. Ou the sth inst., lieurietta Lyde, fourth daughter c Horriidge, Esq., of Guildford-street, Russell-square. .10° On the 4th inst. , at IVeymontii, Sophia, widow of Sir \V. H. Mulcaster, R.N. On the sth inst., Charles, fourth son of the UK P' yd .,' Thomas, Esq., of Highbury•greve. • . rf Lendon : Printed. art Published by.MtTRDO rf Yu. 1 P n 2, Str; , d at The Sun Offiee, No. 112. - • the county of henry @, 114414 C ~\ TE Tu Fe E 3 at ve3 (vi Thai Tre, for 1 coin ga g ; sum the qUes sam( Ales! lion 'who Very - to on of th, Ge n , Lad stree Brix tary, 1,1 Phel RICTI rnov( eaus duce soft of 1 east drop the 1 and brew