The Sun. — London, England, 1841-02-06 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION. " T1114,` CHINA SUN ," Which was RE-PUBLISHED on the oth INSTANT, with the LATEST NEWS from CHINA, IS NOW ON SALE. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at The Sun Office, No. 11:2 Strand. IN PROGRESS, TH RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAll WAYS in the United Kingdom; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD, WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJE&TY, THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Em pire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office,.ll3, Strand, London. ALCOCK FOR EAST SURREY Four days only have elapsed since at one of the largest meetings ever held in this county, THOMAS ALCOCK, Esq., was nominated with acclamation to be the champion of the Liberal interest. A personal canvass at this late period is obviously impossible, but he has already visited many distriets, and will attend meetings in other parts of the musty, so as to afford the fullest opportunity of ascertaining his sentiments. We are delighted to state that we have found the independent Fleetors true to the great cause of civil and religious freedom. he returns now sect in prove that, by a continuance of the noble determination and exertions already displayed, success mast, and will be tlte result. COMMITTEES for promoting the Election of Mr. AL COCK SIT DAILY at the following places : Central Committee . The Bridge House Hotel, Borough. Bermondsey Simon the Tanner, Long-lase. Rotherhithe Old Kent-road The Turk's Head. Lambeth The White Hart, Kennington-cross. Christchurch ... Newton's Hotel, Blackfriars-road. St. George, St. Sa-1 The Central Committee Roo m. viour's, St. Olave Camberwell Wandsworth ... The Spread Eagle. St.vathant •• •• Kingston Richmond ..... The Talbot Re . gate Croydon . It is particularly requested that all communications which may lead to secure his election may be made at any of the above •mentioned places. SAMUEL PALMER, Chairman. GEORGE G. DE H. LARPENT, Vice-Chairman. Central Committee-room, 30th January, 1841. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, FEB. 6, Will be repeated .'.hakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. I3artley ; Bottom, Mr. Harley ' • Flute, Mr. Kerley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ' • Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Olseren, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Hainforth. To conclude with The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND TFIE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clowa, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo••lli; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. On Monday, the Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. Doers to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to continence at Seven .'Clock. Title's and places for the Bons to be taken of Mr. Grogan ei the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets ay me had open application. Dross Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 641. ; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 641. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. ; Gallery, Is. Private But, to be had solely of Mr. AndiBl73, bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Continual overflows, signal success of the Cask Vaulter, and increasing desire of the Public to witness Ainsworth's Tower of London, and the best Pantomime of the Season. THIS EVENING, FEB. 6. Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableau Yivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrates George Crniksitanks. After which will he repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask Vaulter will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria ; the Pantomimic Characters by the unri valled Bolen* Family; Mr. Seuthby, the Original Clogn ; Bliss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Franeeni's, at Paris. NEW STRAND THEATRE. On MONDAY EVENING NEXT, And Every Even:ft g during the Week, lslh. JA.CORS, the Royal ntooeio and Engli h Improvisatore, whose wonderful and extraordinary performances last season attracted many thousands of surprised and delighted spectators, has taken the above Theatre for a short season ; the Entertair.ments are entirely new from these of last year, the Tricks; Transformations, and Illusions per• formed with a splendid and gorgeous set of apparatus made ex pressly fur the occasion, and the Ventriloquism greatly int. proved by the introduction of a NEW PIECE, entitled THE LANDI:GBD AT HOME; or, Gout versus Family Griev• ante, in which Mr. Jacobs gives his astenishing imitations of twelve imaginary persons. Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pt, Is. Gd. ; Gallery, Is. Second price: Boxes, Is. Gd. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 6d. To cummenco precisely at Half-past Seven o'Clock. Half price at a Quarter to Nine o'Clcck. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS SAY. 1L , tning.....53 minutes after I. I Evening 16 infanta after 2. LONDON: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1841. The Earl of RiroN's motion concerning Persia, which stood in the Lords for Monday, was post poned, in consequence of the death of a relative of that Noble Lord. Lord BaoucuAm presented a petition for an equalization of the duties on East and West India produce, the prayer of which he sup ported. The Noble Lord also presented a peti tion from the Finsbury Working Men's Asso ciation, for the Charter, and in favour of FROST. Amither Report on the mode of proceeding in the case of the Earl of CARDIGAN was presented. It was confined to the persons who may occupy the space about the Throne. The Duke of WELLINGTON, it will be seen by our report, was obliged to leave the House of Peers on account of illness, but subsequent in quiries at his residence were answered by the assurance that his Grace was a great deal better. The Peers adjourned to Monday. in the Commons a considerable number of pe titions were presented against the Poor-law; for the Copyright Bill ; for more Churches ; for the Charter, &c. A new writ was issuedlor King's County in the room of Mr. FITZSIMON, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Lord STANLEY gave notice that he will, on Monday, put a question to Ministers on the ap prehension of Mr. Mact.non, a British subject, by the authorities of New York. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD having given way with his motion on the Copyright Bill, Lord Jon RUSSELL moved the thanks of the House to Sir ROBERT STOPFORD and the officers and men employed in the Syrian expedition. The motion was gracefully re commended by the Noble Lord, and warmly supported by Lord STANLEY, Lord F. EGERTON, and Sir H. HARDINGE, wllO, referring to Acre and Sir SYDNEY SMITH, recommended that a monument should be built to the memory of that Gallant Officer in St. Paul's. The vote, after. several Members had spoken, was unanimously agreed te. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved the second reading of the Copyright Bill, and explained that he had been misunderstood as stickling for the period of sixty years ; he was not wedded to that period, and would be ready to adopt thirty years, according to the Bill introduced_into the Chamber of Deputies. Mr. MACAULAY opposed the motion in a long and able speech, full of anecdotes and facts bear ing on the question. He moved that the Bill be read a second time in six months. Sir R. Ixous supported Mr. Sergeant TA L POURD'S motion, and the Learned Gentleman having replied, the House divided, and the se cond reading was carried by 45 to 38. Mr. Hawks obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relative to the Medical Pro fession, after a few remarks from Mr. WAKLEY and Mr. WARBURTON, recommending a reform in the College of Physicians, the College of Sur geons, and the Company of Apothecaries. The Bill was immediately brought in, and read a first time. Lord MORPETH'S Irish Registration Bill was brought in, and read a first time. The House adjourned till Monday, at a Quarter before Eight. It was of course to be expected, after Lord STANLEY'S remarks on Lord MORPETH'S Bill, that all the Tory press would join in a furious attack on it. We are not disappointed; they have done so ; though none can surpass the Standard in shameless misrepresentation. Lord MORPETH quoted in his speech, from the Report of two gen tlemen who had been instructed to inquire into the practice of rating to the poor in the Unions already established in Ireland, the following sen tences. We quote from the report of the Morn ing Chronicle which the Standard admits it has seen:— By the operation of the 74th section of the Act, the lower the test of value adopted in the union, the less proportion of the rate which is to be paid by the tenantry, and the greater that of the landlords. But, probably from the causes already referred to, the inhabitants generally wish the valuators to adopt a long scale of value. In this desire the majority of the Board of Guardians in every union we have visited concurred. The impulse towards a low valuation is nearly universal. We made minute in quiries in each union with a view to ascertain what test of value had in fact been adopted. The test of value en joined by the Poor Relief Act is the rent at which, one year with another, the tenement in its actual state might be reasonably expected to let from year to year, the pro bable annual average costs of the repairs, insurance, and othes expenses, if any, necessary to maintain it in its actual state, and all rates, taxes, and public charges, except tithe, being paid by the tenant. In all the unions, however various the forms of language adopted by the valuators in their evidence, we found that the test of value which had been infect adopted in valuing a tenement was the rent at which a good landlord ought, in their opinion, to let it. And in pplying this test the valuators have almost universally re auced their valuations below the rents even of the most dndulgent landlords in Ireland. In nine out of the eleven rural divisions of the union, the actual rents exceeded the ,valuation in proportions varying from 5 to 30 per cent. So throughout the Report it is stated that the valuation for rating to the poor was always taken below the actual rents, and even below the rents of the most indulgent landlords. A similar prac tice prevails in England, and notwithstanding the recent Act of Parliament to assess property to its full value, it is very generally, we believe, assessed below that value. At any rate, to the time when the Parochial Assessment Act was passed, it was the general practice to rate pro ptrty to the poor at one-third or one-half of its actual value. The Editor of the Standard would not have dared to accuse the inhabitants of pious Islington, or liberal Clerkenwell, of perjury, for swearing that their property, measured by the rent, was as 60/. when measured by the valuation for rates it was only as 401. Yet the Standard boldly accuses the Irish of perjury on account of a simil discrepancy. Lord MORPETH gave a list of the electors in different places, who, judg ing by their rents, had been placed on the re gistry, and who, judging by the valuation, would have been rated below 10/., in order to show that, by adopting the criterion of rating, and preserving the 10/. franchise, the number of electors would be decreased. On this difference between the rent paid, or the actual value of the property, and the value put on it by assessors, in order to rate it to the popr, the Standard makes out the following case : Registered electors, all of whom have sworn up to a 101. qualification 2OO Number of those whose tenure was really worth less than 10/., but more than 51 5O I Number of those whose tenure was worth miss THAN FIVE POUNDS I i • Leaving of unperjured electors, but 133 out of 200, or about forty per cent. of perjurers. Such are the gross and shameless misrepresen tations by which the cause of the Church and of the Tories is supported. These men are no more perjurers than the Editor of the Standard would be a perjurer if he should swear that a certain house in Clerkenvvell is worth 701. a year, when it is or was rated to the poor only at 501. But piety and Protestantism are of themselves such estimable qualities, that no vice seems too gross iu the professors of them to secure their predo- Having thus exposed the calumnious misrepre sentation of our Contemporary, we shall proceed to notice the not less mischievous conduct of his leader. Lord STANLEY has introduced into the House of Commons a Bill to establish a vexa tious system of registration in Ireland, allowing of objection after objection, and appeal after ap peal ; and to make this more vexatious and more objectionable, he 14as left undefined the thing to be objected to. What would our readers think of the Legislature establishing Courts to try bur glary or forgery, and leaving the people ignorant of what is meant by forgery or burglary ? What would be said of it if it multiplied excisemen, and created Excise Courts in every village, to pit down contraband trading, and omitted to state what is contraband trade ? But this is tantamount to Lord STANLEY'S conduct. He makes a whole heap of regulations about the exercise of a pri vilege, and leaves that privilege so vague and un defined, that neither Judges, barristers, nor states_ men are agreed as to what it is. If the Noble Lord had deliberately concerted a scheme to pro mote vexatious litigation, and to disfranchise the people, he could not have acted in a manner more appropriate to attain his object. Lord MORPETII has gone to work in a different manner. He, too, has proposed a Bill to amend the registration of Ireland, but he has accom panied the regulations with a clear and precise franchise. Whatever opinion may be formed of the sum at which he fixes it, no person can for a moment deny that it is wise, philosophical, and just to define the franchise before making regu lations for its exercise—to settle what the privi lege is before appointing Judges to decide whe ther it be possessed or not. On all the principles of common sense, the course pursued by Lord MORPETH is superior to that of Lord STANLEY, who would punish a man for not performing a duty without telling him What his duty is, and without enabling him by any possibility to find it out. But while Lord STANLEY pursues this unjust course, let the reader mark the excessively arro gant tone with which he speaks of those who have a dwelling of the net annual value of 5/. He sneers at such persons as constituting a body of free and independent voters. They are not born to riot in the spoils of others; they are not ric landowners ; they do not swell their rent-roll taxing other persons' bread; they are hones, hard-working me n , w h ose i n d ustry scarcely sui: fices to supply their wants, because rapacious law makers plunder and degrade them. He may di s _ pise them ; but it is surely a more praiseworthy occupation to cultivate the land than to make bad laws. It may be agreeable to some man's tem per to make rabid speeches night after night against masses of his fellow-creatures, and kindle into active strife all the latent prejudices of people having a different origin, and professing a different religion; but such injurious to the community as t o i r i a e to la r oratory is a rso s f the humble husbandman which feed it are beneficial. Better is it to harrow the ground than insult the feelings of a sensitive people. Better is it to break clods and cut turf than to send artillery galloping through the land to extort wealth from a population of Ca tholics, for an idle, worthless, Protestant priest hood. By such conduct has Lord STANLEY dis tinguished himself; and has been as great a curse to the country as the honest cultivator ofthe ground is a blessing to it. He may be proud of his oratory, but it is one of the most mischievous gifts that ever made a man an object of national hatred. He may despise the dwellers in houses rated to the value of 51.; but when they come to know themselves, and appreciate properly his and their relative worth—his title will no longer command respect, and he will be deprived of the power of injuring, and of the privilege of insultin g his humble fellow-countrymen. We were amused yesterday to find two Jour nals which have taken directly opposite views ' . _ ,N.4 , p . . ~ .1.i.,, ';',NSJ , ,,. ,„,,,, ."' 4 .4 ( , i,i.., , ~.-.:,'" ' ffigg t ht '41"11 k ‘ . ..0 Alc ; -rP-1..,, 4 4 AL .nW.441,21.31;41111tt0.ac-4t14... • -.;-. ~.W: ,_ ..i. _ ~. S- 1- , -' p', . ) . ,:. 14U _Sim. ~/i THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FE on the subject of railway superintendence, which in fact for some time maintained a controversy on the subject, both glorifying themselves on Mr. LABOUCHERE'S Bill. Here is what the Times said : It is with feelings of peculiar gratification that we wit ness the successful result of our labours for the public good upon the subject of railway accidents, in the Report of the officers of the railway department of the Board of Trade, from which we yesterday published copious ex tracts, and in the Government measure founded on that Report. Up to the time when we first directed attention to this subject, the railway proprietors had every thing their own way ; the public mind seemed lost in a kind of bewildering astonishment at the results produced by the application of steam-power to inland travelling, and the few who considered that it was necessary to watch with jealousy the progress of an important social revolution (for it was nothing less), were in danger of being decried as illiberal opponents of all scientific improvement. The Chronicle was not less pleased : We perceive, with much satisfaction (it said) that in the Report of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, and in Mr. Labouchcre's Bill, founded thereon, similar views are taken of the subject to those which we repeatedly advocated during the recent discussions. We paid some attention to the subject at the time of these discussions, and of the accidents which called them forth; and we, too, had then the satisfaction of seeing our remarks quoted and praised by some of our Contemporaries, and borrowed by others, but we cannot boast that our " labours for the public good" have found any countenance either in the Report of the Commissioners or Mr. LABOUCHERE'S Bill. In truth, we are rather astounded, and so are, apparently, the Commissioners themselves, as well as the BOARD of TRADE and PLANTATIONS, at the vast power they recommend to be confer red on that hitherto unimportant and little known and little exercised branch of our Government. If we recollect right, Mr. HUME once recom mended that the Board should be abolished; we are not quite sure, if this Bill be carried, that it may not, bye and bye, like AARON'S rod, swal low up all the other branches. Mr. LABOUCHERE, in proposing the Bill, said " Hon. Gentlemen might be alarmed at seeing in the Bill very large powers ;" but those powers seem to have had no alarm for the Times, which has been for years such an opponent of the lesser power conferred on the Poor-law Commissioners, in relation, not to the whole community, not to what will probably soon be the sole means of in ternal communication, but to the poor and the paupers. That the Chronicle should not be alarmed does not at all astonish us, because our Contemporary has long been a zealous advocate for increasing the power and extending the operations of Government. In what shape the recommmendations of the Commissioners, and to what extent, may be embodied in Mr. LABOUCHERE'S Bill, we know not, but when we remember the vast extent of railway property, and the certainty that, till some swifter and safer means of communication be invented, railways will monopolize all travelling, we look with some suspicion on recommendations of the lbllowing description : We recommend, therefore, that a general power should be given to the Board of Trade of issuing regulations for enforcing upon railways in general, or upon any railway in particular, such arrangements and precautions as from experience appear necessary for the public safety. We are aware that such an indefinite power is apt to be looked upon with jealousy, but we see no alternative be tween assuming it, and fettering the action of a supervis ing authority so as to render it practically of little use. The principle of Government supervision necessarily im plies confidence in those to whom it is intrusted. If the Legislature is afraid to intrust discretionary powers to pub lic and responsible officers who have no conceivable mo. live for abusing them, this is an argument not for tying up their hands so as to deprive them of the power of doing good, but for dispensing with supervision altogether. In the present case, also, it must be remembered that an ef fective supervision for the prevention of accidents is as bene ficial for the railway companies themselves as for the public, and that it is especially fcr the interest of the best conducted railways to have the precautions which they themselves adopt generally enforced. Indeed, from what we have seen in our intercourse with the directors and manag ing officers of many of the principal railways in the king dom, we are convinced that a supervision exercised on the principles, and confined to the objects above stated, would be regarded with anything but apprehension or distrust, and that we should find the Railway Companies generally willing and anxious to co-operate with us in the common object of insuring the greatest amount of safety to the public. Should the Legislature think proper to grant to the Board of Trade this power, it is evident that it ought not to be fettered by a proviso similar to that inserted in the 3d section of the 3d and 4th Victoria, c. 97, compelling it to issue Inc same rrgindou.. 1.. we the same time to all Railway Companies. As a general rule, the regulations should of course be as far as possible uni. form ; but there arc many cases in which regulations proper on one railway would be improper en another, and there are also particular cases (as for Instance those of railways having a common terminus, and using a portion of the same line in common) in whieb it might be neces sary to make regulations more in detail than would be necessary on other lines. The best check upon any abuse of these discretionary powers would be a proviso that no order or regulation should be issued by the Board without a minute stating the reasons for its adoption, the pro duction of which might be at aay time called for by Parliament. " Public safety," " precautions which appear necessary," may be largely interpreted ; and it is something new in theory, though not in prac tice, that those who administer the Government in every branch are to be implicitly confided in, and all other classes of men are to be objects of suspicion and mistrust. We will not now enter further on this subject, but we shall watch the progress of the Bill, stating at once that the late conduct of the Legislature—conferring immense monopolies without knowing it—refusing or ne glecting to establish railways on any general and public principle has given us no confidence whatever in its present legislation. What is the Board of Trade and Plantations, that it should at once be endowed with a power hitherto denied to aay branch of the Government ? The country will joyfully concur in the vote of thanks by wliich the two Houses of Parliament have testified their admiration of the chivalrous exploits of the British and Austrian seamen and marines on the coast of Syria. The history of naval warfare supplies no example of the achieve ment of so many successes in so short a period; and when it is considered that the peace of the world depended upon the celerity of Commodore NAPIER'S movements, his brilliant victories ac quire an importance which it is impossible to over-rate. Nobly have our gallant tars and their brethren of the marines, wiped away the stain of degeneracy which was sought to be fixed on the wooden walls of Old England. Triumphantly have they vindicated the immaculate honour of that flag, which, borne on the wings of conquest, " braved a thousand years, the battle, and the breeze ;" and which we trust is destined to brave them a thousand years more with out quailing before an enemy. At the expiration of services, the principle of which was disap proved of by a large party in this country, it must be truly gratifying to such brave men as Admiral STOPPORD, Commodore NAPIER, Ad miral BANDEIRA, the Archduke FERDINAND, Admiral WALKER, Major-General Sir CHARLES SMITII, and the whole of the officers, sea men, and marines, who took part in them, 'to find the British Parliament unanimously con curring to lay at their feet that tribute of admiration and gratitude which is never obtained but by the most heroic achievements. Other, and in a mercantile sense more substantial, rewards, we doubt not, await them. In earning Such praise they have earned solid pudding. But in the estimation of brave men, the unanimously ofan d oi e l l i i s h e a l;a u t i. ely Jo m e x i p n r o e n s s s ed is k not a s of h b a r r t en e reco Housesrecom pense pense of glorious deeds. The objects of such thanks are •self-exalted and ennobled by them. To merit the thanks of a nation is a noble object of generous ambition ; to obtain them is often a reward for the most distinguished service, which the brave recipients would not exchange for all the hidden wealth of Peru and Mexico. When our readers consider that the failure of the Syrian expedition would have plunged this country into a hostile conflict with France, they will not require to be told that no honours await the principal officer in achieving the success of that expedition, and his brave companions in arms, to which they are not fully entitled. Co mmodore NAPIER at once performed the part of a gallant tar, and a consummate diplo matist. He displayed not more courage and self-possession on the quarter-deck of the Powerful before Acre, than he did saga city and persuasiveness in the VICEROY'S divan at Alexandria. The services which he thus rendered to his country and to Europe are not to be estimated by the ordinary standard of naval success in war. The same remark, in a restricted sense, applies to the conduct of his colleagues in arms, included in the Lords' and Commons' vote of thanks—a vote which, we are confident, the country will ratify by unanimous acclamation. We beg leave to direct public attention to a letter from a Correspondent at Walsall, which appears in another place. It gives us pleasure to be the means of publishing anything which tends to redeem the character of that borough. The influence and intimidation used ought not to have been borne, and we blame the electors that they were not all like the one honest and honourable man mentioned by our Correspondent. Walsall has much to perform to recover its character, but we will hope with our Correspondent, that, in spite of Mr. FOSTFR and the landlords, it will do right at the next opportunity. There is no news of the slightest political in terest ,in the French Journals of Wednesday . . The noisy partisans of all parties are so well pleased with the passing of the Fortifications Bill that they are for the moment indifferent to everything else. That the Secret Service Money Bill would be passed, and the Commercial Treaty with Holland ratified, was the general impression in the best informed circles. An Englishman named ALcocK, who robbed his employer, a banker at Nottingham, was tried a few days ago at Tours for travelling with a false passport. He was fined 15 francs and discharged, notwithstanding the demaz.d of an English police officer that he might be surrendered to justice This protection of thieves by foreign Govern ments is somewhat startling. The Moniteur of this morning publishes in its official part— 1. The law containing the definitive regulation of the Budget of 1641. 2. The law granting to the Minister of Public Works a credit of 3,000,000 of francs, and another for 600,000, on the Budget of 1841, for the reparation of the damage done by the inundations. To-day the appeal will come before the Court of Ces sation, relative to the property of the domain of Chem boid, claimed by the State, against the Duke of Bordeaux. Yesterday, by virtue of an order of M. Fraissinaud, Ex amin:ng Judge, a commissary of police seized in the office of the Journal du Psuple 130 copies of a printed paper in 18mo., bearing the title of a " A Second Letter to the Workmen," by Norrel, journeyman weaver at Rouen. The Toulonnais of the 29th of January announces that the second division of the squadron was to sail on the fol lowing day to join Admiral Hugon.—Le Constdutionnel. BOURSE.—PARIS, WEDNRSDAT, Faa. 3. drat Highest Lowest I.ast Price Price. Pricy Price f re,ch 5 per Cents ;l2 90 ... 1l•? 90 ... 112 t 0 ... 112 85 4 per Cents ii9 25 ... 99 25 ... 99 25 .. f,ll 25 3 per Cents 77 10 . 77 10 ... 7E 95 ... 77 dank of trance sielgian Bank 5 per Cents...« Spanish Active 25% ... 254 ... 25% ~„ .2554 Passive 6% ... 65( ... 0% ... 6% New Lleferred veapolitan [lonian «,. 1003 i ... 100% ... 1(0% ... 100% German Journals of the latest dates have reached us. We extract from them the follow ing account of the negotiations at Constantinople for settling the Eastern question : CONIITANTINuPLE, JAN. 13.—The important Hatti- Scherif by which Mehemet Ali obtains the hereditary Go vernment of Egypt, is a proof that in spite of the evil fore bodings lately excited by the press, the solution of the Oriental question in this stage also has been effected by the joint efforts of the Powers concerned. The state of the case, after the taking of the fortified towns, was as fol lows :—The Porte, having recovered possession of the con quered provinces, had certainly little inclination to revoke the decree deposing Mehemet Ali. The Allied Powers had considered this revocation and the grant of the Pacha lick of Egypt for his life as the minimum, which the Sul tan should be advised to accept in this state of affairs, while the grant of the hereditary investiture of Egypt was assured as the maximum, which the Sultan might be pleased to concede. We see that the notion of a " Prince Vasalle" was entirely out of the question. While the Turkish Cabinet seemed little disposed to leave Egypt to Mehemet Ali, and Loud Fonsonby would perhaps have preferred the minimum, it was in the first in stance, the Austrian Cabinet which, in accordance with Prussia, negotiated for the hereditaty investiture of Mehe met Ali ; and it was above all the energetic representations of Prince Metternich in London and Constantinople, that were believed to be favourable, and decided the removal of this obstacle, which threatened the peace of Europe. We need not remark how essentially the position of the French Ministry has been thereby injured. The confidence whieb _M. Guizot has constantly had in the honourable eirdsivours of the Aitted Courts is fully justified by this final decision. Even the FresehOpposition will hardly deny how much equitable consideration has been bad to the situation of France ; and how much this influenced the con duct of the Allied Powers, particularly of Austria and Prussia. BELGIAN P UNDS—EausexLe • FEB. 3, Actual Debt, 2ti per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent :dsk Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 6it 4 (1 4. ;) 9,54 3 per Cent. — --..Thirty•seven—.. _,.... Loan of City, le4:1•2. 4 per Cent DU Society of Commerce, 4i- per Cent 10:2 Bank of Belgium. 5 per Cent.... ....... ......, t•7% National Society . _ Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Feb. 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—NIIPINA, JAN, 26 f ire per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three par Cents. Bank Sham IC44 —Allgemeine Zeaung. Jan. 31. The Madrid Journals and letters from Madrid of the 27th ult. have come to hand, but are des titute of interest. The Regency had received satisfactory news from Lisbon. The Portuguese Government had pledged itself that the Douro navigation question should be settled before the close of January. The Gazette of the 26th contains a decree of the Regency, providing that hereafter the regis tries of births, marriages, and deaths shall be kept by the municipalities. The decree was for the present to be executed only in towns and boroughs containing upwards of 500 houses. The operations in the Five per Cents., 41 in number, amounted on the 27th to 34,400,000 reals —viz., one for cash at 28i, and the others at 29i at 60 days. The debt bearing no interest was done at 6 7-l6ths at 60 days. DUTCH AND HAMBURGH MAIL HANOVEIt JAN. 2.s.—The accounts from Bremen are every day more deplorable. The bridges from Bunkum to Bremen arc destroyed ; and the adjacent pillages are underwater. The communication with the parts of the road not under water, to Hanover and Os naburgb, is with difficulty kept up by means of boats. Srocutouir, JAN. 19.—We learn from Karisharnur that the valuable manufactory of cotton yarn At S;ro racna is burnt down. It is said that a capital of 200,000 dollars banco was invested in it, of which only 152,000 are insured in England. HAMBURGII, JAN. 29.—The Rhine and Moselle Gazette has the following article from Coblentz " By the favour of his Majesty the King (of Prus sia) the English residing in this city, who are more nu one if t, Landsome: the don itself perhaps hardly pos.:sgt s a more beautiful chapel. Our guests duly appreciate this Royal favour, this proof of hospitality. This is the first church on the Rhine that has yet been granted to the English for their sole use.-11aniburgh Papers, Jan. 0. DUTCH FUNDS.—ASISTEADAII, rn. 2. oney. Bli's, ~ctu Altl4rADittot.)ttto. itspd yi dittoet; lbdoti,s,:pi4s4r Commercial Company, 4.v i•er cent • 159 x, leo i 4 percppece.r:cc. Cent ce.n.tt. 78% 99 ,4 Ditto (11!35 and Irt37) 5 per cent. Loan 3537, 5 per cent. 913 93 Exchange on London, One month ll $.7% Two months Dutch Papers, Feb. 3. HAMBURG BORSEN 11 ALLE, JAS. 29 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Share5... 107, Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate 10234 Inscription, Ist Se in lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9144 96 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Ditto... b per Cent ................ Polish Bonds New ticket .. . ................................................. Ariglo-Oanish Coan, 3 per Cent .... .......... Norwegian Loan, 1534, 4 per Can:... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. .. ....' l9 ZICHANGES ON LONDON. Mumma, JAN.II.-13 434..—Tw0 months, 13 VA. VIENNA. JAN 23.—Three months, 9. 0. BREMEN. J4rr.26 —Too months, 611. PaTsaseuriar JAN. 22. —Two months, SO% pent*. CIIRISTIANIA. JAX. 20 —Three months, 4 50. BERLIN, JAS. io.—Three months, 6. .111 i • PRUSSIAN FUN ' BERLIN JAN. 29. Bid". Money. St. Schuld. Sell., 44 per cent. .............10 k 1) 334 Prussian English Loan, 1630, 4 per cent. 100% IEO% Nactunge on London, three months,,,""' 0 17% —Prussia* State Uszatc, Jan 30. look 102% Es) tne rAtglisn resitting in finis Guy, wily are more nu- merous than i.t any other city lri the Province, have ob- tained the beaittiful chapel of the Faint., which has not been usid for many 3 cars for the pitblic performance - of Divine Worship according to On rites of the English Episcopal Church, The'noble style o f t h e architecture, the splendid manner in which it is fitted with white marble stucco and gold, and the ceiling ornamented with paintings by Feck, make this c h urc h one of the handsomest on the Rhine, and L 0..- RUARY 6, 1841. MONEY and COMMERCIAL CITY, FRIDAY EVENING There was a heavier market than ever for the Eng lish Stocks to day. The correspondence between M r.' Fox and Mr. Forsyth on the subject of Mr. M‘Leod's imprisonment had an unfavourable effect, and the anti cipation of increased tightness in the Money Market, both here and at Paris, when the new loan comes out, tend to increase the depression. Consols for immediate transfer receded from 89k to 88k. and fur the Ac count from 89k to 88k and 89. The market left off heavily. Bank Stock was rather better, viz., 165, but East India Stock dropped from 248 to 247. Exchequer Bills were steady at 3s. to ss. premium ; the Reduced Three and a Half per Cents. ranged from 98 to 98k ; and the New Three and a Half per Cents. from 974 to 97k. There was nothing of any interest stirring in the Foreign Market to-day. The Active Spanish Bonds realized 24k to 24 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. 31k to and the Three per Cents. 20k to 19k. 'I be South American Bonds were scarcely dealt in at all. Pertivian brought 16} to 16k ; Buenos Ayres, 21 to 23 ; and Brazilian, 721. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ranged from .50 to 501. The Amsterdam mail brings prices as lower on Tuesday, the Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock closing at 50 1-16 ; Danish Bonds realised 78f. We have to notice a heavy market for the Railway Shares, and lower rates. Great Western brought 25 ; the New 11 to 11f ; the Fifth 51 and the South Western 19k to 18a premium ; Brighton Shares were 7 to 74 ; Eastern Counties 15 ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow 5/ discount ; Union Bank of Australia Shares were 8k ; and London Joint Stock 2k premium. The rates for bills of exchange on the Continent were heavy again this afternoon. On Paris the quotation was 251. 50e. to 55e. ; on Hamburgh 13 7 ; and on Am sterdam 12 24. The season for the re-opening of the navigation of the St. Lawrence is looked forward to with considerable interest by those connected commercially or otherwise with the British Provinces in North America. It is expected, now that the,Canadian Government has an accredited agent in this country for emigration purposes, there will again be even a more considerable addition to the population of that noble possession than there was last year, through the indefatigable exertions of Dr. Rolph, and it is unquestionable that the employment afforded to shipping, and the demand created for the necessaries of consumption by such an influx, together with the amount of money added to the local circulation, must prove highly beneficial to our commerce in that quarter of the globe. (From The Sun of Last Night.) We have received the American papers by the Cambridge to the 9th January, which contain the fall in the United Stites Bank shares to 50 for six months, afterwards are quoted 52. SALES OF STOCK, JAN. 7.—A fair business has been done to .day at the Stock Exchange Board, and in most instances a downward tendency. United States Bank closed yesterday at 55*, and opened this morning at 52, at which price 200 shares were sold. The next sale was 55, when the sales fluctuated until they got down to 50 sellers, six months. The last cash sale was 250 at 52k, being 2 3 / 4 below the cicking sale of yester day, which is a decline of 12i per cent. on the sales of Mon day last. Exchange upon London 8} 8:34. Accounts from Mexico, received at New Orleans via Ha vannah, state that a law has been passed by the Mexican Con gress at its late session, imposing a duty on capers of four dollars per arroba. Advices from Tampico, by private letters dated in Novem ber, give the important information that Tampico is destitute of flour, the inhabitants were anxiously waiting the arrival of the Fame from Vera Cruz Kith a supply. One of the accounts state that all bakers have suspended their business for want of flour. A Vera Cruz paper of the 24th November says, a violent gale, about the lit of the month, caused the entire destruction of three vessels in the port of San Blas, on the Pacific shore, two of which were] Mexican, and one foreign. Fire lives were lost. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The sales to day are 4,000 bags, of which 600 Egyptians have been taken at 106 d. to 116 d. ; and 150 Maranhams, Bd. to 86d. ; 50 Bahia, Elst. to 8&d. ; 100 Peruvians, 9,1. to 96d ; 30 Sea Islands, 160. to 18d. ; 509 Surat, 46d. to 56d., the remainder Ameri can, without change in prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, FEB. 4.—Chester and Birken held, New Shares. 166; Eastern ;:ounties Debentures 86 ; Glasgow and Paisley 221 ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 52 ; New, 28; Great Western, Fifths, 96 6 6; London and Birmingham 321. Shares 586; Brighton United , C ompany 43 ; Midland Counties, New Shares, 156. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB, 4.—Our marke is very flat to-day :—Lancaster and Preston 196 E ; Mancheste Assurance, 9; Manchester and Birmingham xtension, 21 16s. 6d., 21. 18s., and 21. 18s. 9d. ; Manchester and Birming ham, 25 ; Manchester and Leeds, 726 73 ; London and Bir mingham, 177 178; London and South Western, 571 58 North Midland, 74 76; Stafford and Rugby, 31; Grea Western, Fifths, 9110 ; Manchester and Salford Bank, 106 101 The New York Money Market exhibited the same depres sion on the 7th which the following day presented in reference to the United States Bank. Other Directors had been ap pointed, but their influence had not been exercised to the ad vantage of the Bank when the last accounts left. The various statements should be received with great caution; the prejudice and personal animosity among the .►merican Journal►sts is ex ceedingly obvious. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. Bouese or ADISTritDAM, Faa. I.—The Dutch Funds are in demand, and for all of them there were buyers at the high prices. The Integrals were 50 1-16 ; Society of Commerce 1601. The Foreign Funds were more firers, except Ardoin's, which were lower ; Coupons were offered at 20i. It is known that, for some time past, there was a negotiation between the Cabinet of Madrid and the Northern Powers, for the acknowledgement of the Spanish Government; it now ap pears, by the Gazette of Cologne, that the King of Prussia will give the first example of this acknowledgement. The Baltimore Patriot if the 7th January, has the following in respect to:the United States Bank : —" We present in to day's Patriot, the full exhibition, fuller than any that has been recently published of the condition and affairs of the United States Bank, as submitted by the President and Directors of that Institution, at the annual meeting of the stock-holders, held on the 4th January. The statement is held to exhibit the statement of the. Bank in an aspect somewhat more favour able than the general ant'cipation; in the absence of these details, no dividend is, however, declared, tha profits of the business of the Bank for the e last six m , ,nths being applied to the making whole of for:ner losses, and thus strengthening its position. On the eve of resumption a Board of Directors for the current year were elected at this meeting, and Mr. Dunlop was re-elected President. Consols opened at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 89A for Money. 89i for the Account, at which price they are at pre sent, with nothing doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 3 5 prem. ; Bank Stock, 164 165 ; India Stock, 246 248. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 24hi ; Deferred 1236 ; Passive 6; ; Portuguese 31i 32; Three per Cents. 19 u z 201 i ; Brazilian, 72 73 ; Colombian 22i 23 : Mexican, 27i 4 ; Chilian 63 65 ; Buenos Ayres Bonds 21i 22i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 50i ; Five per Cents. 9Si 99. This morning money is rather tight. Consols have continued during the morning at the opening price, 69* for the Account ; the report of a dissolution of Par liament, SI it h an expectation of a loan, causes the Market to remain inactive. Exchequer Bills 5 3 prem. ; Bank Stock ; India Stock 247. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 24i; Portuguese Three per Cents. 20; Peruvian I6i. The above Market has been inactive during the whole morning, which will Le per ceived by there being only three quotations. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties London and Brighton London and Greenwich........... 20 . Ditto Scrip London and South Western 3Bl 5B .. to The Share Market is in the same state as that of the others. London and Brighton 43 ; South Western 513. We have no further arrivals. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red B9i Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent C0n5........ 881 Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent Red........ 96h Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent ..... 97i Lx. Bills, 1,000/....2id spm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ 4pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 l2 13-16 India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... l2l Consols for Acct B9 FOREGGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 1 3elgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Boni's .. .. .. 721 Prussian, 5 per cent.... _ BuenosAyres, 6 percent Russian, 5 per cent... _ Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred ... 12i Danish, 3 per cent..... 781} French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek.lB2s, 5 percent. Exchange .. —l. —c. Mexican. 5 per cent.... French, a per cent... —f. — c . Di to; f; pet• , _:(1;1., 1. 1 . - s%'.: Dutch, 2it per cent ..... 50 Peruvian,l62s,6 per ct. lYstly, 5 per cent.— 99h SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)........ s t G'aegow 6 Paisley, and Ayrshire Railw a y .... 29i Great Western Railway (65 paid) 9O Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9l London and Brighton ( 50 paid) `COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ......0 F. 12 5 !Gibraltar. Ditto, at sight .......... 12 2 !Leghorn Rotterdam 2 U. 12 si:Genoa 27i 85 Antwerp l2 s(Milan .. ilansburgh... ..... M. B. 13 10 ;Venice . 47 Altoaa l3 10i Naples 39. Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 i ra ermo, per ox 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 6.5 ,Lisben. .. 51/ Marseilles... .. ...... .... 25 70 :Oporto Bourdeaux... ...... . .... 25 70 i Rio Janeiro 2B Frankfort on Maine.... 149 ißahia... Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... 37 (Buenos Ayres Berlin 7 0 fNewYork, 21 d a y s ' sight 4-4 Vienna, efec. 5. 3 M lO 2 Philadelphia 10 4 ' nticx r G a o u ld t. co ttr it N ix , 7 447 1. 1 7 0z 6 . Trieste, ditto 3.5 i I Portuga O l Madrid .. Cadiz - - Gold, bars.. 317 9 ✓k Barcelona 35 Bi !ville 3s} ign New Doublooms 0 0 Silver in Ba rs 0 4 10i 0 5 Oi INew Dollars. The Earl of Cardigan returned to the barracks last Thursday, for the purpose of mustering his troops at the end of the month, according to his usual practice. Oa Saturday morning the reg i ment passed through the town in marching order. His Lordship took bis departure on Monday for London, having resided at the barracks during his stay in Brighton.—Brighton Gazette. THAMES POLlCE.—Thursday It. W. Cook master and part owner of the schooner Alligator, and G. Wake, the mate, charged with the wilful murder of Wm. Sago a sailer boy, were committed by Mr. Ba llantyne to tike their trial at Maidstone. The investigation did not terminate till seven o'clock, and the office and every avenue leading to it were densely crowded up to the last moment. L I T.E R. A t' UL{ : A DICTIONARY OF SCIAACE, LITERA 7'URE, AND ART. PART I. Edited by W. T. Brande, F.R.S.L. and E. Longman and Co. London. The title of this work, of which the first num ber has just appeared, sufficiently explains its object, and all we have to do, therefore, is to state briefly how it is executed. Without the ampli tude of the en_ cyclopedia„ or the limited range of the special dictionary, it contains short ab stracts of the principles of the most popular and important departments of science, lite rature, and arts, together with notices of their rise, progress, and present state. The editor, whose name is so well known to the public, as to be a guarantee for the correctness and skill with which the department allotted him is illustrated, announces that no statement is made as to any unusual or doubtful matter, without referring to the authority on which it rests, and when sub jects of general interest are noticed, the reader is referred to the publications relating to them, which embody the fullest and best information. " The work," he adds, "was distributed into divi sions or departments, each embracing one or a class of closely allied subjects, and these were sepa rately assigned to gentlemen distinguished by their attention to, and proficiency in, the subjects they embrace. This seemed the most likely means to avoid mere compilation and book-mak ing, and to make the work not only a compre hensive and accurate, but in some mea sure a l so an original, digest and synopsis of hu man know ledge." Th department which Mr. Brande has undertaken embraces chemistry, geology, mine ralogy, medicine, and the arts and sciences de pending on chemical principles. Mr. M'Culloch, so well known for his works on political economy, statistics, and commerce, in addition to these, en gages also, with the assistance o f M r. J oseph Cauvin, to furnish articles connected with gene ral literature. Botany is allotted to Professor Lindley ; gardening and agriculture to Mr. Lou don ; and most of the other departments to men eminent in their respective professions. The work, which is beautifully printed, and illustrated occasionally by engravings on wood, gives the derivation and definition of all the terms in ge neral use, and appears altogether to be arranged with much 'taste and judgment. Some of the articles are written at considerable length, and most of them contain as much information on the particular subjects as general readers require. The following extracts give fair specimens of the shorter notices APOCALYM (Cr. at;;Y.a.?,:nrrz.o, I reveal ) The Book of Revelations, the last in the canon of the New Testament. Many conflicting opinions have been enter tained as to the authenticity of this book ; but, though re jected by Luther, and neither admitted nor rejected by Michaelis, the opinion of the great majority of critics and divines in modern times has been decidedly in favour of its genuineness. There have, also, been great varieties of opinion as to the person by whom, and the period when, the book was written : but the prevalent opinion is. that it is the work of Sr. John the Evangelist. Different commen tators have differed widely in their interpretations of (Life. rent parts of this book ; and it is looked on by many as being still a " sealed book," admitting, in the present state of our knowledge, of no satisfactory explanation. The phrase apocalyptic writings is frequently used to de. signate those portions of the Scrip'ures which contain pro phetic descriptions, under the form of visions, of the future state of the Church : such as the book of Daniel ; and, among the Apocrypha, the fourth book of Esdras. ALLSPICE. The dried immature berry of the Myrtus Pimento; called also Jamaica Pepper. It. is supposed to possess the mixed flavour of several spices, amongst which that of the clove p , cdominates. AsiauscaDE. A military term derived from the Italian imboscata, concealed in a wood. It is also applied to any snare laid for an enemy. HISTORY OF NAPOLEON. Tyas, London, 1841. Among the numerous biographies that have lately been published, of the Imperial despot of France, the one before us is entitled to hold, if not a prominent, at least a respectable rank, for it is copious and accurate in its details ; exhibits no decided bias either for or . against Napoleon, and is embellished with innu merable wood-cuts, not a few of which are exe cuted in a style that would have done credit to old Bewick. The present Parts relate the event ful circumstances of the Emperor's first abdica tion, his retirement to Elba, and his unexpected return to France. PARTS 24, 25. XIVIGHT'S PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE, Pent XXIX. C. Knight, London, 1841. - In this Part we have the entire comedy of " Measure for Measure,'' embellished with nu merous plates, . two of " the Moated Grange"—which furnishes the subject of one of Tennyson's finest lyrics—and the " Sulphurous Bolt," representing a gnarled old forest oak shat tered to atoms by a thunderbolt, are of exquisite beauty. The " Supplementary Notice" enters at some length into the character of the comedy, , ind makes special mention of Master Barnardine, which—as the critic rightly observes—" is one of the most extraordinary of Shak speare's creations." BRITISH MISCELLANY, VoL 1. Hastings, London, 1841. A cheap and lively periodical which comes out in weekly numbers, and is sustained by the talents of Leigh Hunt, Agnes Strickland, and several other popular writers in prose and verse. We think the speculation bids fair to answer. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. Moron ' London, 1841. The author of this little work, as we learn from the advertisement, is an American, and he re cords his naval experiences in so simple and truthful a manner, that those who once coin-. mence the perusal of his narrative, will have some difficulty in laying it down before they have brought it to a close. It has, in addition, this great recommendation namely, that throughout it, the characters of sailors are pour trayed in their real colours and proportions, without embellishment or distortion. Two sons of the late Rev. Joseph Preston, Rec tor of Galbally, met a watery grave i►, the Thames steamer, from Dublin to London. They were nephews of the late Lord Tara, on their way to Paris. Joseph, the eldest, was in his twenty second year, and James, the youngest brother, only eighteen. The aorvant man who atte►aded them is also supposed t 4 have perished. The second brother, who survives, will inherit the estates,.... Glasgow Courier. MAXWELL'S LIFE OF WELLINGTON. PARTS X. X 4-13nily, London, 1841. These Parts commence with an account of the battle of Vitt or i a , w h ere, i t may be remembered, King Joseph of Spain was u tt er l y d e fe a t e d, and all his military stores capt ure d, tog-ether with Jourdan's baton of a French Marshal ; and close with the sanguinary action at Toulouse, which not a few of our Continental neigh bours still firmly believe was won by Soult. These great battles are described with Mr. Max well's wonted animation ; his details, in particu lar, respecting the desperate conflict at Vittoria abound in picturesque touches, suchas we so often meet with in Scott's Life of Napoleon. • " War," he tells us, " has its picturesque, and the open ing of Vittoria was singularly imposing. A wide expanse of rich and varied landscape, on which an artist would have gazed with rapture, was re posing in a flood of sunshine. From a gentle eminence in front of Avinez, the whole array of Joseph's army was visible, and on that height the Allied staff were collected. There Lord Wellington was standing, dressed plainly in a grey frock-coat, with nothing to mark commanding rank, except ing a Spanish sash, and the hat and feathers of a field officer. His telescope at one moment wan dered over the extensive position occupied by the enemy, and the next, turned with fixed earnest ness on that point from whence he expected the crash of battle was to burst." After the battle had been fought and won, and while the French were in full retreat, the following strange scene was exhibited in the British camp : " Night was not to the weary conquerors a sea son of repose, for property in value and variety such as no modern army had abandoned, pre sented itself at every step, and the work of plun der commenced, before the fire of musketry and cannon had end,ed. The camp of every divi sion was like a fair; benches were laid from waggon to waggon, and there the soldiers held an auction through the night, and disposed ofsuch booty as had fallen to their share to any who were inclined to purchase it. Even dollars became an article of sale, for as they were too heavy to be carried in great numbers, eight were .offered for a guinea." A scene not less singular. vas displayed on the field of battle after the French army had retired : ' " Here," says Mr. Maxwell, " was the personal baggage of a king—there, the scenery and decora tions of a theatre ; and scattered arms, drums, silks, embroidery, and jewels, mingled in the strangest disorder. Here a lady had been overtaken in her carrriage—in the next calash was an actress or fille de ehambre ; while droves of oxen were roaming over the field, intermingled with an end less number of sheep, goats, mules, horses, asses, and cows. Camp followers were arrayed in the state uniform ofJoseph's Court; and the coarsest female s who accompany a camp, drunk with champagne, and bedecked in silk attire, flaunted in Parisian dresses which had been envied by the denizens of a palace." We repeat, what we have said before, while noticing former Numbers of this work, that it is incomparably the. most entertaining and authentic life of Wellington that has yet ap peared in print. The portraits and illustrative maps are numerous, and the majority of them are finished off in a skilful and careful manner. .% MORN I NIG E Dt KE t;F Lev i We are are hippy to state that t he ht WELLINGTON was a great deal bette r last nig WALSALL ELECTION. TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SUN t o SIR,--I cannot allow the observations respe c t ~ t' Walsall election, which appear in your parr! , ur i .Y es • ~e a day, to pass without retnona ranee Us to the uneer lod of condemning the a hole borotuh, far the cupi.ditYrsto tyranny which en a b ed a small knot of Petty t Y r4l3 seri effect the return of the slave-dealer and the bread•ta, it , As an elector who voted in favour of Mr. Sin 10, not hesitate to affirm, that under the piculiarly di° efotie to eons cireu.nstances in which he was placed at the n a IleJ monement of his canvass, the fact of his harig r b 335 votes against his opponent's 362, wi.ieh the most sanguine of the Liberal p a rty ,e od i, w,ss a t rid o ld not have anticipated when be fist a ppeared as % a t datethe ; and I easert, without fear of contradictiou:o of _Hon. Mr. Lyttelton, the Wh;g candidate, w i • ir o fist in th 2 field on the reform interest, withdrew ti ll the contest under a thorough conviction that "e -„°1°011 not poll 200 el ec t ors ; an d dthough I bav,oaki myself been a Whi g , an d was as anxious as a W an ;fell be for Mr. Lyttelton's success, I ant bound t o a) ; r iili my real opinion to be pretty much in accordance ti that of the Whig candidate. I say, therefore, it L is s ge umph, a glorious triumph, for an entire stranger lis. e t . e a Smith—unaided by local interest—unsupp orteJ ' l,, d opposed, even by the Whig squirearchy of the, bl)- Aoll' and_ or neighbourhood--by the moral force or th e , 59$ cruelly exercised • • electors—in question, to rally round his bitterly,stania rs—in spite of the overhearine. influent et s i s, and t —in spite of the a t I rv ' dictiventss in m , the corrupt tyranny of a party , ., h air l'. Smith and his friends at the onset with pro' d!n, were in the end so far alarmed by the r i nP. o ists gress which he made, as to be driven to everYueteieno expedient to secure, at a grew!. cost and m ore lu ef , anxiety . than had ever before characterised theiriegsoo ttons,the pitiful majority of 27, in a constitneaY°' eee . N si o Tory in the Borough, by contra dr to peaatohydowohhi doubt h i 0 r m o a o r ekedmoment' deteratise I, t c hu 'astir of the people after the exposil icsn ° f 'O l6 Lyt h tel h to e n a , %vi er- t ies* grievance by Mr. Smith and his r i l Se their reoeP . , „esee in this borough is virtually carried, whenever t O Pt coma a general election. c • ,l f the m u ,_„ i Convinced 0 . • „ow the question,the • inhabitants only require ,edeix, registration to place the Borough ep tire _ li nn r t or ., dent of the tyranny by which it is for the ."- - ,V t ieee pressed. Even at the last registration 70 o' l ' o lo Corn-law repealers might have been laced 00 lb i'll p• . ..,, e per . by only ordinary atten •Wm on the part of 59r i mi lfisi duly auth • orized ; ,so that we aioubt7 ha' are now an , cat t l e _, that tni7brl:rele sh:it forward to that period when we may "nee been rough from the temporary disgrace which O s l i pot thrown ,ti upon it. When I tell you that it contains or p l um 'on of upwards of 20,000, a nd th at the s, l ai enthusiastically almost to a mar, and 335 eleet °r t i 00 t usiastically in favour ofrepeal, I trust I . ° e tsi do _, admit that you:- censures should have lea ~ r isre against the s • }stem which enables 362 ova to to 0 000 You cannot form any no:ion of ti, e l, o B or° sent iss. tof expedients which Gladstone's party have bad tall banner s inge e the purpose of drawing to their venal t.on and corrupt spirits in the borough • I a°4lcl iall it ! s o,- o t I too many where they have beer, sueces ~,, , ,griv. i is more pleasing to dwell on the honst Ot t. ohor those electors who, in thi s g de, vio l , p i Jef to place their own "daily brew ' cit ' Ll e s opardh in fo r vi i o . perform their part towards enabling their, I. le llo oo neighbours to get employment. One stural"o" who was pestered hourly bthe sters w - iiii , 1 petty ma 0 00 o casionally employed • bin-, was heard to say 1° ~;, c ies° fellow -workmen, -aorkmen, in a dialect !Asir ristic of,Pr al e ‘ w ' Pee hoard the Anti-Corn law . 'LI-cer•eures, O a b t . PI ,o e m llsatisfied which side is roight, that: they 0 ,;" ; .Ise he drive it out on me with a hommer and ch we• "• . _ga L v o e u his vote to Smith, in defiance of coereiomotot I • id name many similar instances wh iab bi•ch i° fairly to redeem our town from the stig ma i l l ° cast upon it ; but time will only unit 1-- 1 1 11 ; ) most assuredly, that good seed is own which a 01, an early day produce an abundant and gimlet's ii° I am, Sir, yours very faithfully, IDES' EDMUND IRON S Walsall, Feb. 4. 1841. COURT CIRCULA • o tto ak 14e:41 • The Queen held a Privy Council at ',..oree i'! c. „ l f terday afternoon at Buckingham Pakei. Ii ' I 16 7 b l' oi ° t h e A rch b i : 0 11 06 by his Royal Highness Prince A:bert, Canterbury, the Lord President, the Lord c hi ' r j 1 9 : 1 1 the Lord 1 3 , ivy Seal, the First Lord of the Tro j il o lo l Secretaries of State fur the Home, Foreign, 4 ", the:: Departments, the Chancellor of. the Eseheque,l, 0 ; Lard of the Admiralty, the President of the Itri;toi fe the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and r°. 01' President of t he B oar d of Trade lit. Chief Secretor tb. Ireland, the S ecretary at War: t an . cl the Mi ater - Horse. • we o f d P° O At the Council, it was or d ere d th a t the ils • - seo Riyal High ness t h e P r i nce Albert s h ou ld be I P the Liturgy, Her Majesty p r i c k e d t h e Li st o f Sh er iffs for th e ! ° I ll: tics of Engl an d an d W a l es during the pres ent i r e s o oo 4l • - Mr. C. C. Greville was the Clerk of the ( 1,0 t,Waiting. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Msnr is ,,rns•_.../. down°, Earl of Ciarendon , and Viscount Alei b e ° , - h - e kieLli The Court was attended be the Treasurer oyii'lla y - is bold, the Comptroller of the H u eb ld boral a t erl Stick in Waiting, and Colonel °s \Vein ' Yoh — . II Ai d Waiting. The Earl of Ab o y ne an d M r . Ri c h were tme Groom in Waiting, r o eet on ' r ist Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured —4 `"Th den Theatre with their presence last evening. " t o e tit;• l Suite included the Countess of Mount- E d g ee- W1 1 " - Oa Earl of Aboyn e, Colod Wem v, and Colone' b o or The Royal Dinner Party at ss Buakinghe lli ' l, :0 1 . 1 ., ' Thursday Yl' evening, includ e d her Royal Hi fo ci h -e chess of Kent, the Marquis of Lansdowne , '' sc arei Ve gd. bourne, Lady Fanny Howard, Lordßo.,he gtir . l G : ;:;;! m°6, Right Hon. George Stevens Byug, and lur l ' i b' ward Anson. A .' The Band of the Scots F us ili er G u ards atte nd ed . Palace during din ner . H igh s ele The Duke of C am b r id ge v i s i te d his R I s ' ' C al # Prince Albert y e st er d a y. mkt Her Royal Highness the • Duchess of Kent t '' e • tlr li riage drive yesterday. loll s The Duke of Cambridge and Prince . George s otior'...r Duchess of Gloucester yesterda at Gloucestering ofislo A Deputation of Jamaica Proprietors, y' cons„ i4. l,oP did A. Grant, the Agent for Jamaica, aid Mr. , i7, ‘ st an interview with Lard John Russell' yester da y 001 Colonial.office. The Bishop of Lond o n h a d an interview with ITO-h r Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-sucet. f r 0:1 ) Sir Charles Lemon, Sir Bruce Chichester, 3 "- - .. io r , - ,,, i ton Stansfield, and Dr. Sutherland, had il e .,, rs. 0 9 Sir the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at . tho 4 ,i c l e 0 ' MAjor N. Fucks ht.cl an interview with be"' ) ael yesterday, at the Colonial Office. la r b l4 FASHION Al INTELLA- ARRIVALS. k Ll ' 0 , The Earl of M ou i : tca,lael, front Moore Pa rk a 1" ` he Earl and Countess of Bev, rley and the L ' 4 " .e t in hir P e tiorttiomunse-s,q;rtorm a visit ; the is Dukettothe H o I D o e n v o c n eirnehain t o id o f t e , f s therine C a v en di s h, at Latiniers, B u cks;t""forn ° Countess N, lson, in Great Cumb , rland•str cet : s• s lio'; falgar P ar k, near Salisbury ;tlzc Bishop oc;l c be ti ' e li : from the Palac.3, Salis'eury ; Lord and La d y the in Cumberland place, from their seat in Stlss e; ,. t, ' its Cai_tain Duil,y Pentair, in Arington gr-ekorti.,•' Brocklt.by, Lincolnshire ; Sir Robert Gord on, in 11 k f t ri Bond -street, from Scotland; Mr. Hutt, _3 1 . 7. ,' ,;iO. duit-street, from Gibbuside, Northumber o 7' the and Counte s s o f E ssex , f rom C as hi o bery ParTh ° quis of a monde, from his seat in Ireland ; t he " 1 , 0 Dundas, in A r li ng t on - s t ree t, f rom Yorkshire; t ir o P o i ; ger Duch ess o f B eau f or t ; L or d John Fitzroy' Tbetf ton 11,11, the.seat of the Duke of Grafton, p ear t he P. e' Mr Algernon Greville, in Grosvenor-place ; Stet' Wm. B. and Lady. Harriet Baring, in Grea t tre ew r io ; street; Lord and Lady Ernest &we, in Curzon o ' h s c itolli i . 6 o o Kent ; Lord De6es, in Curzon-street, from ‘l"criOl o e. the Right Hon. * Henry Ells:from Paris; C °1 6•05 4 1,0 tom Canada; Vircount Upper j. street, from a vi s it to S. r F reder i c k a nd 143 , Y Vill' e oe Johnstone, at atchley Park, Oxon; it , ; M P., in B er k e l ey - square , from a tou r of sq u i r t :l; Dowager C oun t ess o f Scarborough, in Po rttpar : e t, Su' J. H Seale, B ar t., M. P. in Albemarle.'t("ltlifsgio Nlonot B .one, Devon ; the R v. J. Pee l ' at C avt, t' Hotel, Brook -street, from Waresley, Stourrr ° t; f Steventon, at ditto, from Cheltenham H. MA' 11 1 0 ' r rY,,,%tir; stoek, in B. lgrave square ; th e Hon. H• T. , o i Grosvenor street ; the Hon. Capt ,irupron ; the C. A Ponsonby ; the 114' irolo I go" Lady Caroline Lascellcs in Hanover-square. Georo wood House, Yorkshire ; Lord Bexley, 101 . . ent ; r " 0 , street, Westminster. from Footscray-placerfT rie r ~e s t Spencer and Lady Louisa Do Horsay, Lsir verso:-street ; Mr. Knight and Countess Neis'gento;ao‘, Cumberland street, from Godmer,ham k k ' cc orth - Edward L. Bulwer, in Saville-row, from Ki" -- DEPARTURES. ; g or, Price Soltikoff, from Bond-street, for rJo i Gay° f o r and Lady Carington, from Whitehall, fur • .or eetl i g, fain Wro• pr e , Bucks; Lady Ele..nor Lowther, from Brut°. the 1 " 0 Cotesmere, n a visit to the Earl of Lons" e ,,,,ret i f chioncss of Clanriearile, from St. Janies'i.iireat .'l O visit to the E irl and Countess De Grey,. at cas tle , Beds ; his Excellency M. Dedel, for seat of the Duke of Ro land. Sin A. ... tlTii MAY AND 111 E r'C ' ll. ic r i ) t u h d ,r respect s ee l T e t • E all 4 f h t t e o t h m e t e h l e fi a I;lcLdhi p y e d n ea to th of BURGII3. burgh Sir Andrew bas been recently canva',..lo, de' electo s rS and his success, we understand, has l' el a tt llB , s _ tided. In an addre,s Sir Andrew contradicts a r h eP" lOr he is h • ostile to the present Government. 141 l o i ' e r 0 11 pions are are well known, and when formerly in . 1 : 1 , 1$ 0 1 i o b ol eral constituency Soifr i‘Aar.drGe vril:fljtc.bio.lobill it(i Andrew was one of the 1 and set'" I most useful a . cur Scottish represcn • tatives, part lyii ; °, 1 NEWARK, FEB. 3.—The Duke Of ; a II o H r d . a t arrow escape a few dal s sines. The horst ° " o ",t to " ee's carriaue r..n away with him and broke it all ii p aots. His Grace escaped unhurt. / - The *kik al Lori Noble Id ea d i 'HI !eel Th e fr s ir 1 N of i 'lB ip h f 14r • ro t , . hv our ° l ay pia ;e late , l ° ork 'g Sir 1 jc 1114 4 1 0, 0 0 a ut ti , or ‘ i i N r. iv o , v eh, 'fla lege ter d , 4 1 11° off tio4i 7 Dili . 14 1„1:1 Si r /3 Al kee4 of d , 4 4() 41 rly furl pet ~ fl t% ° ,l' t S" gt th e t: I e ltr or eci k4 r} I r 'Ri4t t s (k ki tte w' e r J rd C aP e t °l 11°Pee: