The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

S „> victory for themselves, for humanity, and for their country. In the admission that the present law must be altered, to put an end to reckless agi tation, lies a confession, that total repeal must be speedily granted. Some of the promoters of systematic emigra tion now and then use phrases which allow us to see deeper into their scheme than they are aware of. Speaking of a proper Government for the Colonies, and discussing the means of supplying such a Government with money to carry on its operations, by means of a revenue raised by in creasing the price of land, the Colonial Gazette objects to , it, that it might prolong the " term of the labouring settler's servitude." Such a phrase admits, therefore, that the labouring settlers are to go out to those new Colonies, of which capitalists at home buy the land, to a con dition of servitude. The Government, of whom the capitalists buy the land, comes by the sale under an obligation to compel those labourers who are carried out to the colony, and by whose labours alone the land is made valuable, to remain in the capitalists' service, or, as the Colonial Gazette expresses it, in a state of ser vitude, till the capitalist has been amply repaid for his advances. The systematic system of emigration, therefore, is a systematic extension of a system of servitude, by which other colo nies are to be made to rise rapidly into wealth, as the colony of New South Wales was made by a system of convict labour, at the expense of the freedom, prosperity, and dignity of the labour ing classes. Such a scheme implies a coercive system of Government, and accordingly the same journal, far from allowing the colonists to govern them selves, as in the olden time, which men in *a state of servitude cannot do, proposes that a Go vernment should be established for each colony, and that a "good efficient staff of governors" should be given to it, to be paid at some time or other out of the slave-labourers' produce. What a delightful device for those who hover about the Colonial-office seeking for snug births in these governmental staffs ! Scores of the younger sons and dependents of the nobility might be at once provided for by borrowing a large sum to transport the half-starved English labourers to this newly found out condition of quasi slavery in new colonies. Public opinion having set in strongly against carrying off the blacks from Africa to America, the English are to be enticed abroad, and there kept in servitude, as their re mote ancestors were at Rome. Between the Tories and the Radicals, who are smitten with the emigration mania, there is a considerable agreement. Both advocate a " grand and statesmanlike plan of emigration," to quote the words of the John Bull, or would " apportion labour and capital to land," to use the language of a so-called Liberal Journal. One is anxious to establish in every colony "an epitome of the Bri tish Constitution in Church and State ;" the other, to have an efficient Government, staff and all, ap pointed by the ColOnial Minister. If one propose a large land fund for all kinds of purposes, another would ingraft the system of tithes on the new colonies. Both agree in perpetuating in them the system under which this country is. at psesent groaning in agony and anguish. We do not make such remarks exclusively in the interest of the labouring classes. The inte rest of all is identical. It is for the advantage of the aristocratic and opulent classes to lighten and lessen, by all possible means, the servitude and degradation of the labouring classes. No condition of society is so truly immoral and truly unhappy, because for ever filled with alarm, as that of a few masters surrounded by discon tented slaves. Every approximation to such a condition of society is an approach to moral dis ease, which ought to be avoided like a pestilence. We have recorded the fact of an American vessel, employed apparently in transporting slaves from one part of the Union to another, having been seized by the slaves, who murdered their owner, and carried the vessel into a British colony. That is an extreme example of the consequences of the terrible condition of society which unhappily prevails in the United. States. We feel alarmed for them, with their millions of slaves ; but when we look closely at home, and see the congregated masses of our towns, and the scattered peasantry of the country almost destitute of the means of subsistence, we cannot avoid feeling some alarm for England too. It would be, in our judgment, infinitely for the advantage of the aristocracy and the capitalists were they to abate somewhat of their pretensions and demands, and were to allow the masses to raise themselves to corn- parative ease and independence. The presen condition of England, which has for years pass _. . _ _ excited the solicitude of the truest hearts and most comprehensive minds, is, we think, as fear ful for the upper classes as it is miserable for the working classes. It cannot be denied that this condition of Eng. land has arisen in conjunction with our constitu tion, if that have not caused it, as we think it has, The servitude, or slavery, as Mr. BRIGHT, of Rochdale, called it, of the working-classes, is ob viously a part of our constitution, and those who advocate a grand and statesman-like scheme EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CL.—TO • buyers and sellers, in every market town (the ADVERTISERS.—ADVERTISEMENTS intended above excluded) in the kingdom." , He proposes for insertion in No. CL. in the EDINBURGH REVIEW are requested to be sent t o th e P u bli s h ers as ear l y as possi bl e . also to take the averages from the sales of the The latest day ADVERTISEMENTS can be received is growers as well as the buyers. The certain THURSDAY, January 6; and BILLS (8,500 required), up to FRIDAY, Janua r y 7. effect of his plan would be to exclude from the London : Longman, Brown, and Co. averages all that corn which has paid the cost of conveying it from the agricultural districts to the " head-quarters of large consuming dis• tricts." It would also exclude the profits of all middle men concerned in the sale of corn in those districts, and till it reaches them. It would extinguish the means of speculating for a rise, and increase the means by which the agricul tural interests, made by this plan the controlling master of the averages, could keep them down. In fact, the averages under this scheme will be mainly determined by the agriculturists, and will not exceed the price of. wheat on the spot near to where it is grown. The striking effect, of course, would be to lower the average prices to which the liberal Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S new duties would apply. On this question, as we stated on Thurs day, details are principles; and hence it is of great importance to ascertain how much Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S plan would lower the averages. We cannot state precisely, but he has supplied us with the means of making an approximative conjecture. "Looking back," he said, "to the real state of the averages, and taking one year with another, since the passing of the present law, the average price of wheat in this county has been about 565. per quarter, and in the country about 68s. per quarter.—(Cheers.)" Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S plan would substitute the average of Lincolnshire, 565. per quarter, or the average of the agricultural districts, for the average of Eng land, 68s. per quarter. Accordingly, his pro posed scale of duty would come into operation, on a series of averaie prices, 12s. per quarter, or about 20 per cent. lower than at present. Perhaps the difference would be something greater, for the present general averages include the low averages of the agricultural districts as well as the high averages of the 4 centres of consumption," while the general averages under his scheme would wholly exclude the latter. But taking the difference at 12s. in 605., or 20 per cent., let us see what it would amount to. At present, when the average price of wheat is 735. per quarter, the duty is nominal. Mr. CHRISTOPHER proposes that when the price is 655., the duty shall be ss. But 655., raised 20 per cent. by his scheme of taking the averages, would be equivalent to 78s. by the present mode of taking them ; and whereas we now import wheat when the price is 735. at a nominal duty of Is. Mr. CHRISTOPHER shows his liberality, by proposing to levy a minimum duty of ss. when it has reached a price equivalent to 785., under the present mode of taking the averages. By his alteration in the averages, equivalent to 135., conjoined with his minimum fixed duty, 55., he would, as compared to the present scheme, en hance the price of wheat whenever it reached 655,, and as long as the starved people had anything to give for it, 18s. per quarter. When the price is below 6:55., Mr. CHRIS TOPHER proposes an ascending scale of duties, so that when the average price under his system shall be 505., equivalent to 625. at present, he will levy a duty on it of between 20s. and 305., whereas the present duty is 11.45. Bd. We quite agree, therefore, with Mr.CHRISTOPHER, that the Lincolnshire farmers—and they responded to his statement by cheers—" taking all matters into consideration, would, from the settlement of the question, and the destruction, to a great extent, of fraud, derive more permanent benefit from a fixed minimum duty of ss. at . 655., than they now do with the present scale." These consequences would ensue, though the farmers and landowners, who are not supposed now to have worked the averages to their own advantage, were never to make any fraudulent sales with a view of keeping down the averages and keeping up the duty and the price of good wheat. But the control of the averages, which this scheme would place in their hands, would enable them, by selling parcels of inferior 'Wheat only, which they would probably keep by them for that purpose, and by other contrivances, to regulate the averages as suited their interest, and instead of being lowered only 20s. per cent., they would be lowered 30 or 40 per cent. To increase the benefit to the landowners to that enormous extent, if possible, is no doubt the object of the genuine liberality of Mr. CHRIS TOPHER and the Tories; but from submitting to that, may Heaven and our own strong resolution guard us! Without taking into consideration the impor tant proposed change in the mode of forming the averages, Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S plan would be worse for the consumer than the present scheme. We now, by evading the intention of the law, import most of our wheat at is duty. His ss. would be a fixed duty at all prices above 655. " Within the last four months (says the Morning Herald, w hich has adopted our views), a million and a half quarters of wheat have been entered for home con sumption under the Is. duty at a cost of only 75,0001. Mr. Christopher's proposition is that 300,0001. should have been paid thereon, and that without the smallest additional benefit to the home grower. Does the landed interest really think that the adoption of such a scale would get rid of Anti-Corn-law agitation ? We believe that such a minimum, and, so far as importation of fo reign wheat is concerned, such a fixed duty, as ss. would increase and strengthen the agitation." The Herald, therefore, declares against Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S scheme, though the Times ap proved of it, and agrees with us, that a plan which abolishes the nominal duty, and levies a fixed duty, is opposed to the principles of the Cabinet, and cannot receive its assent. The Tories, therefore, disagree as to the genuine libe rality displayed by Mr. CHRISTOPHER. That is, however, a minor consideration, compared to the enhancement which will ensue in the present scale of duties, should Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S scheme be adopted. This proposed aggravation of an accursed law is the Christmas present which the Tories talk of making to the starving people. At the time when the whole Christian world celebrates and glory fies the mercies of the great CREATOR, the Tories of England, aided .by the priests pf England, who are for ever canting about religion—of which they have apparently no other conception than that of a device for giving them wealth and power—at this Christmas time, when the land, instead of being immersed in festivity and re joicing, is covered with wretchedness, caused by the avarice of the canting, hypocriti cal classes, one of their members, supported by the journals of his party, has the astounding impudence and ungodliness, under the [mask of liberality and generosity, to propose a scheme for increasing their own wealth, and for increasing the burdens and the sufferings of the mass of. the community. Their conduct, in our estimation, speaking of them not as indivi duals but as legislators, deserves but one epi thet. It is political villany ; and the public mind must be blunted to all moral perception -all right feeling must be extinct amongst us, if such conduct excite not that kind of indigna tion with which we pursue a determined thief till we have chased him from society, or brought him to condign punishment. It must be to the Corn -law repealers an exqui site satisfaction to learn from the liberal gentle man who proposes this substitute for the present law, that this latter cannot be continued. The r h i e d of. reckless agitation now so rife," according to Alr "that ssys, Parlia tuosto observe," be r v got e. p E l ff Le in policy of Par liament is now obliged to entertain thecqeuoerstiont and what ever we may think as to thepruden our discussion, it is not i n ica l l tu ni re en b , ut as we m ll e v n er n sod t power lain en a t n e longery nt erng t oi int o resist th is it s merely y w w o e u l l i d ac a q s u k ai y n o te u a w as ith p a r g ac rieu detail the o public feeling, refuse any longer to consider in general public affairs, can you, i n in the:present state versed existing Corn-laws." The Corn-law repealers, then, have driven those who, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, positively refused to take their case into consideration, now to admit that it must be considered. They have gained a great advantage ; let them but perse vere—scouting Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S scheme as it deserves, though something like it has been pa tronized by the Globe, and is said to be favoured by the Whigs, and they will achieve a complete EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THOMAS HOOD ESQ. On the First of January will be Published the First Number, for 1842; of COLBURN'S N'E W MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Edited by THOMAS HOOD, Esq. The New Year being a favourable opportunity . for commenc ing a Periodical, those who may desire to take in THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE are requested to give their orders without delay to their respective Booksellers. The January Number, for 1842, of this popular Periodical, will comprise articles by The Author of " Peter Prig- The Editor. John Poole, Esq., Author of I gins." " Paul Pry." Douglas Jerrold, Esq. Barry Cornwall. I Laman Blanchard, Esq. Horace Smith, Esq. I Author of " Rattlin the Reefer. And other distinguished writers. 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The suggestions for the bene fit of the two Services are numerous, and distinguished by vi gour of sense, acute and practical observation, and an ardent love of discipline, tempered by a high sense of justice, honour, and humanity, and a tender regard for the welfare and personal comfort of our soldiers and seamen."—Globe. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Tlie Public is respectfully informed, that this Theatre w, open for Theatrical Representations THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, When Her Majesty's Servants will act the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Test of Shakspeare. IXke, Mr. G. Bennett; Antonio, Mr. Phelps ; Bassanio, Mr. Anderson . ; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Mscready; Portia. Mrs. Warner ; Nerissa, Mrs. Keeley ;, Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. _ _ _ _ _ _ . After %" , hich will be produced the New Christmas Pantomime, ca led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER : OR, JACK CADE,_ THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr.ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, Will be performed, Colley Cibber's Comedy of SHE WOULD AND SHE WOULD NOT.—Don Manuel, Mr. W. Farren ; Don Philip, Mr. Cooper ; Don Octavio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Trapnti, Mr. Harley; Hyppolyta, Mrs. Nisbett ; Flora, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Rosara, Miss Cooper; Viletta, Mrs. Orger. After which will be produced the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Secon'd Price. 27.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. AndreNs, bookseller, 1-i7. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. Al the talent of London. Grandeur and expense unequalled, All New. THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scencry, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted ! Unequalled ! Unpreeedented; THIS EVENING, DEC. 27. Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY • or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL.—Wil liam Dean. Mr. E F. Saville ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy) - After which, ROBERT MACAIRE.—Robert Macaire, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 6d.—Half-priceto theßoxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. Monday, Dec. 27, and every evenink , during the Week, Mr. JACOBS. the ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST and GREAT MODERN MAGICIAN, whose performances during the last two seasons created a great sensation, will, for a third time, have the honour of submitting to the public his unrivalled and truly pleasing performances. His NECROMANTIC TEM PLE will be found superior in every respect to those on former occasions. His Ventriloquism has undergone considerable change and improvement; in the delineation of the various characters he is the first in Europe ; a great treat is afforded to the audience in this department. Mr. Jacobs, in addition to his own interesting entertainment, has added these of Mons. ROSSEAU, the celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRIST ; Herr KREUZER'S PHAN TASMAGORIAL DISSOLVING PORTRAITS, which are on an entirely new system ' • and the Classieal E x p er i ments of the PATAGONIAN WONDERS. The tout ensemble forms a Combination of Talent not to be surpassed. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. 6d., Children, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Children, Is. ; Gal lery, W. Half-price a Quarter to Nine ; Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, no half-price. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TIIE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sign Office, Dec. 27, 1841. HIGH wATzR AT LONDON B RIDGE THIS DAY. wirning......2B minutes after O. I Evening ..... .56 minutes after 0. r ..... , , ~ . .., , - 7•-. i1 ,, ,,, t0 ~. -... ' ~, o' l. " 1 44 ( o;* , , • 91 if ( 4 , 40, k ,. 41,1 A. ..' - 1' . ..... ' Cnk </ . „. 1 .:.t -^) *V ..."'",,,,,,,, , ... " ' AM. LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1841. The Morning Post has supplied us with a test of conduct which cannot fail both to establish the character of the Tories, and he a wonderful inr provetnent to morality, considered as a science. i‘ Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S speech," we are told, "is a specimen of genuine liberality, which affords a favourable contrast to the spurious liberality whereof Whig-Radicals are so apt to boast." We need not at present describe or discuss the latter, for which we claim no More credit than it de serves, and we shall confine ourselves to analys ing. the former. Its es,ieuce consists, according, to the Post, in "11 r. CHRISTOPHER'S willingness to make such changes in the present Corn-law as will lessen (lower, q,j.) the existing bar to the import of corn tindcr certain circumstances." He proposes to lessen this bar, according to the Post, by an alteration in taking the averages, and by substi tuting, for the termination of the sliding scale in a nominal duty-, a minimum duty of ss. and a maximum duty of from 203. to 30s. The proof of the genuine liberality of the Tories, and parti cularly of Mr. CHRISTOPHER, lies in the effects of these two alterations. Mr. CIIIIISTOPIER'S plan for altering the ave rages, is to " exclude all the head quarters of la rge consuming districts, such as Wakefield, o radon, Liverpool, Hull, &c.," and " to r a t k e• up the averages by the sales of both ' MORN INGISUN THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBEIViI27, 1841. of emigration, aim at propagating that condi tion of servitude. As such a condition is equally injurious to the Mother Country and the Colonies—as every approximation to a condi tion of slavery is to be avoided as alike pernicious to all classes, making the master class even more vicious than the slave class—we advocate getting rid of slavery at home before the Government be called on to engage in grand and comprehen sive schemes of emigration to adjust labour and capital to land, in their due proportions, all over the globe. To us that scheme seems the object of creation, and. probably the foredoomed resul of man's instincts, and not to he accomplished by his will. It is the great end to which the principle of population is hurrying forward the human race; and it is rather the duty of men to do justice, and love mercy, among one another, than ambitiously to aim at forestalling the de signs of Providence. It is our painful duty to relate another of those awful railroad accidents which within the last twelve months have excited alarm in the public mind, for the success of these great undertakings, and caused the deepest affliction in private families; and it would be some consolation if we could state that the calamity which has just occurred near Reading, was one of pure accident, or a visitation of GOD which no foresight or caution could avert. Unfortunately, however, the friends of the killed and wounded, and the thousands who sympathise with the sufferers, have no such grounds for resig nation. With proper caution it is pos sible all the unfortunate persons who were hurried in a moment into eternity, might have escaped. After the fatal accident on the Brighton line from slips of earth, and considering the vast quantity of rain that has fallen since, it was the duty of the Superintendents on every road to order the engine-drivers to go at a moderate rate, whenever the trains passed through deep 'cuttings. The fall of earth in this in stance, it would appear had taken place but a few minutes, or perhaps seconds, before the train reached the spot, and no precaution could prevent this, but had the train been mov ing at a slow pace instead of going, during a dark morning, at thirty miles in the hour, such a loss of life could not have taken place. But this is the least melancholy part of the horrible catastrophe. The Directors had suf ficient warning, from the last fatal accident on the Brighton line, that there was little or no chance ofsafety for a carriage placed immediately behind the tender, with eight or ten in succession ; yet, on this occasion, all experience and facts were set at defiance. The truck in which the poor passen gers were placed was attached to the tender, a long line of luggage carriages followed the engine was forced off the rail, the truck was thrown ' athwart the line, and in a moment was over whelmed by the carriages behind, which were thrown up in the air, and fell with a fearful crash upon the devoted passengers.' Had the • truck been placed last, and the train been moving (as common sense might have dictated) at a moderate pace, we assert confidently that not .one life would have been lost. Many of the Directors are excellent, humane men; the engineer deserves every praise for the admirable and se cure line which he at last accomplished, is spite of vast opposition ; and we believe all connected with the Company sincerely regret the result; but still we are bound to state facts and con clusions which cannot possibly be refuted. And why do the servants of the Company attempt to conceal facts which must eventually come to light ? By so doing they only increase the ge neral alarm, and make the public believe that the calamity is greater than the reality, and that there - is some gross mismanagement or culpable negli gence which they would cover in darkness. Let them tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and they will serve their own interests, and relieve the public mind from a vast load of anxiety. We received a report on Friday night of the fatal event, but it was so frightful, and evidently so magnified, that we refrained from even alluding to it. Two o'CLocx.—On making inquiry at the sta tion we are glad to learn that no more deaths have been reported, but the servants of the Company now admit, when the truth can no longer be concealed, that the ac counts in the papers are not at all exaggerated. It has been discovered that one of the persons killed was named JOHN HAYNES, from the name in his hat. The following leading paragraph appeared in the Herald of Saturday morning. We give lit without comment, solely on the authority of that Journal : We have reason to believe that a very serious mis understanding now exists between the British, Go vernment and the United States, arising on the one hand from the unwilligness of the American President to Apologise for the detention of a British subject (M'Leod), on an unfounded charge, and on the other, from the alleged fact that vessels . engaged in the slave trade are notoriously fitted-out in American ports. Lord Aberdeen, as we learn, has written repeated and decided notes on both these subjects, without as yet receiving satisfactory answers ; and, considering the fresh obligations imposed on this country by the new Anti-Slave Treaty, it is much to be feared that, something unpleasant may occur between both Govern ments. Our information on this subject is derived from a mos authentic source. On Thursday afternoon Baron PASQUIER, Pre sident of the French Court of Peers, pronounced the sentence of that Court upon QUENISSET and his accomplices for an attempt to assassinate the Royal Princes, and fbr being members of a revo lutionary association. The wretch QUENISSET, who throughout the trial conducted himself' rather as a prosecutor than as a criminal, and who seemed to take a fiendish de light in involving as many persons as he could in his own guilt, has not es caped having sentence of death recorded against him. It was, however, supposed from the high favour in which he appeared to stand with the President of the Court for having as sisted the Procureur-General in brow-beating his fellow-prisoners in the course of their exami nation, that his life would be saved. Still the smiles and blandishments of such partisan Judges and Court parasites as Baron PASQUIER, are a poor protection against the sharp axe of the guillotine, when bared by the sentence of a criminal court. The following report of the sentence of the Court of Peers upon the prisoners implicated in this affair, is from the Paris Correspondence of the Post, dated Thursday afternoon : The Court of Peers met this afternoon, and the public was admitted at a quarter past one. The prisoners, ac cording to custom, wer e not p resen t. Th e Chancellor, Baron Pasquier, read with a firm voice the judgment. It was as follows : Quenisset Death. Colombier --- Death. Brazier alias Just .... Death. Petit Deportation (confinement for life: Jarrasse Dufaur ldem. Boggio Fifteen years' detention. Alailet Boueheron ... . Ten years' detention. Launois ' Idem. ~ • . Dupoty Five years' detention. Bazin Martin, Fougeray, Bouzer, Prieul, and Considere ac quitted. .__ Boggio, Mallett, Boucheron, Launois, Dupoty, and Brazier to be under the surveillance of the police for their lives at the expiration of their confinement. The detention is a peine infuniante, and Dupoty thus loses his right as a citizen for ever. No execution is contemplated, as the clemency of the King will be exercised, at the request of the Royal Princes who were fired at. The meeting of journalist s t o - n i g h t, to take into con sideration Dupoty's conviction and the results for the press, is expected to be important. Paris is as yet tranquil. By convicting DUPOTY of the crime of treason for merely editing a journal read by traitors in common with other readers of newspapers, the Peers have declared war to the knife against the Press. They have now indeed drawn the sword, and flung away .the scabbard. We shall now see how much of that power which hurled the tyrant CHARLES THE TENTH from the throne, continues to be wielded by the Press of France. By condemning DUPOTY, the Peers have virtually abrogated the Charter have proclaimed to Frenchmen in the face of Europe that no laws exist in France which can screen innocence itself from their vengeance. The struggle will be a fierce one. May it terminate in the prostration of this infamous Star• Chamber, and its base progeny, the September Laws! We have received the whole of the French Papers of Thursday, with Madrid Journals of the 16th instant. The following are extracts : It is believed that the Council-General of Commerce is determined on declaring for the abolition of the beet root sugar system, allowing an indemnity to the growers. The Council of Agriculture, it is expected, will pro nounce itself for the preservation of the beet-root sys tem, with some changes in the duties ; and the Chamber of Deputies, it is supposed, will oppose any indemnity on account of the state of the finance. From this, it results, that it is still impossible to foresee what will be come of this important question.— Temps. BAYONNE, DEC. 19.--The Spanish Government has just appointed M. Soler, formerly Secretary of Legation in Greece, to the post of Consul at Bayonne, Marshal Saldanha, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal in Austria, arrived at Bay onne the day before yesterday. He is to embark at Marseilles for Italy, whence he will proceed to Vienna. Lieutenant-General Espeletta, formerly Captain-Ge neral of the island of Cuba, has passed through Bay onne on his way to Spain.—Commerce. It being a question at Toulouse what means should be taken for introducing greater uniformity into the lines of the streets, and for widening the narrowest ones, the Minister of the Interior, on the recommendation of the Prefect, has most judiciously adopted the principle of ordering the general plan for this purpose to be drawn up by an architect of taste and judgment, who is a member of the Committee for the preservation of monu ments. M. Mege has, therefore, been instructed to pre sent a plan in which all the public monuments shall be respected, and not sacrificed to the supposed exigencies of the locality (as is unfortunately too often the case in Paris); and in which all private houses and buildings of historical interest shall be carefully preserved. If a similar plan had been adopted a few years ago in the capital, at Rouen, and some other large towns in France, the country would not now have to deplore the loss of many of its most valuable historical relics ; and Paris, in particular, would be much richer in public and private buildings of real national value even than at present. In no part of France is public and official Vandalism car ried to a higher point than in the capital. The Royal Academy of Medicine made a distribution yesterday of the annual vaccination prizes to the candi dates who obtained them for 1839. The grand prize of 1,500 f. was divided between Dr. Belloz, of Besancon; Dr. Litschgi, of Molsheiw, near Strasbourg ; aid Dr. Nichet, of Ly ons. Four gold and 100 silver medals were also awarded. The total number of vaccinations effected in 1839 was 528,268, being 45,417 more than in 1838. b ln ee t n he on s ly am 9, e 4 y l e l a c r as t e h s. ere had been 14,917 cases of small pox, of whi c h 1 ,497 were fatal; but in 1838 there had The number of hands engaged in mining operations in Belgium is reckoned at from 38,000 to 40,000. Out of these about 100 suffer from serious accidents every year. A farmer and his wife, at Nonan-sur-Loire, having been accused of petty robbery, and fearing the conse quences, went last week to a notary at Beaugency, and made their wills in favour of the children of the husband by a prior marriage. They then proceeded to a rela tion's at Courbouzon, where they dined. A short time afterwards the husband was seized with violent pains, and died. The medical men, who examined the stomach 'after death, found in it sufficient arsenic to kill twenty persons. The question is whether this was an act of sui cide or of murder by a third person. The general belief is, that both the deceased and his wife had contemplated self•destruction, but the latter had failed in her resolu tion when the time came to carry it into execution. The Magistrates ar making the requisite inquiries to ascer tain the truth. • A correspondent at Amsterdam confirms the state ment that the Dutch.,. Government had decided on esta blishing, as soon as possible, a line of steam-packets, to run regularly between Amsterdam and Batavia, the capital of the island of Java. Depots of coals and pro visions are to be formed for them at Cape St. Vincent, in Portugal; at San Jorge del Mira, on the coast of Guinea; at the Cape of Good Hie, and on the island of St. Paul, lying about 600 geographic leagues from Java, and nearly desert. A letter from Luxembourg, in a Frankfort journal, gives the following particulars of the late melancholy affair in that town :—" It appears that at the ball supper at Diekirch, in honour of the King Grand Duke, M. Durion. the burgomaster, having made a speech against the German Customs Union, which was severely criticised by a Dr. Kuborn, M. Dumont, the receiver of the registry duties, went up to the Doctor with a knife in his hand, and challenged him to repeat what he had said. Kuborn having repeated it, Dumont plunged the knife up to the handle in his heart." The Correctional Tribunal of Chatelherault, in the Vienne, having, on the 23d inst., been called upon to try certain inhabitants of the commune of Cernay for resistance to the Government agents for taking the cen sus, delivered a long and elaborate judgment declaring that resistance to an illegal act is a lawful right ; that the agens des' contributions did not possess the quality authorising them to take the census ' • and, consequently, the resistanc e o pp ose d to them in this quality did not constitute either a crime or offence. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 23. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric.. Price. French 5 per Cents ...... • 11d 65 ... 116 65 ... 116 50 ... 116 60 4 per Cents lOO 95 ... 100 95 ... 100 95 ... lOU 95 3 per Cents. ex div 7B 40 —7B 5U ... ;8 40 ... 78 50 Rank of trance 3455 „.34`5 ...3155 Latfitte Bank I,ooot. Sharer 11:40 ...1040 —ll'4o ~.1040 5,000 f. Sh ares 5060 ...5061 1 •..060 ...5060 flelelan Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. S per Cent!, 1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 102% • 102% ipsnish Active 24% _ 24% ... 24% ... 24% Pallgive 5 56 ••• 5 56 ••• ••• 5 % Old Deferred Neapolitan lO5 65 ... 195 75 101 65 105 75 ..... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Venality.. ....... 197 50 200 ... li7 50 ... 197 50 R. B 321 25 ... 3.?5 ... 321 25 ... 325 Noun Orteans Strasburg to Bale 213 75 .. 223 75 ... 222 50 ... 2a 50 DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21. Money. Bill Actual Debt, 254 per Cent ........ 51 51% Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen Syndic, 454 per cent 90% 91% Ditto, ditto, 354 per cent 75% 76% Commercial Company, 454 per cent 154% 1535 Ditto (183.5 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 9714 97 Exchange on London, O ne month l2 10 Two months Hamburgh, One month 35 e 7 Two months 35 50 Dutch Papers, Dec. 25. BELO LAN I. UNDS—nausena, DEC. 2f.: Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, S per Cent... . ...... Loan of Thirty Milli ons, 4 per C ent 921% 3per Cent. Thirty.ieven• (134(9 .................. 101 Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent y6ll Society of Commerce, 45.; per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ...... 74% NationalSeciety. Exchange on Loncleir (short) ............ —Brussels Papers, Dec. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEc. 16. Fsleeper Cents. Metalliques ..... ......... 1 E 0 4 64 ORI per Cents. . . .............. Three per Cents. ....... ........... •••••••••••••••••••.. 75 Bank Shares ..»..«....».......»....» ............. ...... 1623 Zeiluig, Dec. 71. HA SIBU RI3 BORCENHALLE, Dn. 21. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares _ Anglo-Russian Loan 1625 108% flit% Russian 5 per Cent. I s t series, Cert i f i cate Inscription, IstServis lOl% -- Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series .....•••..... 98% Ditto in Certific a t es Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 861; 86% Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50 Ditto 5 per Cent — - Polish Bonds 151 New ticket 16134 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 77% 77% Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cant. 11'2% 102% Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l5 k ON LNDN. Mannino, Dec. 21 -. 13 .-13 644.—Tw0 m o nth s , 13 5. STOCKHOLM. DEC. 14.—Seventy-five days. 12. 12. BERLIN, DEC, 18. - Three months, 6. 1,%. AMERICAN NEWS, MUTINY IN A SLAVER. Captain J. E. Crosbie, of the brig Elizabeth Wood, from Nassau, New Providence, sailed the 21st November, reports that the brig Creole of Richmond, Virginia, bound to New Orleans' arrived at Nassau on the 9th November, with about 150 slaves on board, in a mutinous state. They obtained possession of the vessel, and de manded that they should be landed at a British colony. Having disabled the Captain, and killed some of the crew, they murdered Mr. Howell, part-owner of the slaves, who was passenger on board, by severing his head from his body, and afterwards throwing his remains overboard. They compelled another ship7paptain,w.ho Wag on beard as passenger, to steer the.brif,v,,to Nassn.u,•where he made the above report on arrival. Several of the ringleaders were placed in prison, and the rest of the slaves suffered to go at liberty. It was reported that the Americans protested against their being allowed to land, hut without effect. The Creole had sailed again for New Orleans in charge of the crew. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) There is no business doing in the City to-day, the Stock Exchange Bank and all the public offices are closed. There are several arrivals this morning, but the only one of a later date, is from th e C a p e o f G ood Hope, the papers reach t o the'2lst October. The paper of the 20th contains an extract of a letter from Port Natal, dated 31st August, which states that—" 'With respect to political affairs, every thing goes on quietly. Umpanda, it is said, has paid Dingaan's debt and his own to the emigrants, but trade with his people is not yet permitted." MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 24.—We have had a quiet market to-day, without any material change in prices. —Eastern Counties Debentures, 101. 7s. Bd. ; Alliance Bat.k, 17i ; London and Birmingham, 164 to 166 ; London and South Western, 58 to 59 ; Manches ter and Leeds, 66 to 66. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RIPON MEETING, DEC. 17.—A Sweepstakes of 8 sovs. value was won by Mr. Meek's L a dy, b eat i ng Mr, Clarke's Atalanta. The second Sweepstakes, value 8 sovs., was won by Mr. Patker's Crucifix, beating Mr. Thornton's Bess. CRESSWELL PARK, DEC. 16.—The Cup was won b' Mr. Crawford's Speed, beating Mr. Aadson's Thistle. :LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING—(FRIDAY.) THE DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Attila 11 to 1 agst Chatham 22 to 1 agst Robert de Gorham 45 to 1 agst Meteor—taken 000 to 20 agst Master Thomas—taken .000 to 25 agst Seahorse—taken TAXATION.—Mr. M'Culloch is said to have observed , that "it is clear that the public interests require that , every practicable effort should be made to lighten the pressure on the national resources, and to check the ' efflux of capital to other countries by adding to the pro ductive powers of industry, or, in other words, by in creasing the rate of profit ; and this will be most effec tually done by making every possible deduction from the taxes affecting necessaries, and by ceasing to bolster np and protect any such single species of industry at the expense of the rest." And also "In a practical point of view, taxes on the rent of land are amongst the most unjust and impolitic that can be imagined. It is quite impossible to separate rent into its elements, or to say how much is paid for the soil, and how much for im provements. No two agriculturists ever arrive, in any given case of this kind, unless by accident, at the same cc*clusion ; and the best judges affirm that, generally speaking, the distinction is utterly impracticable. When, therefore, a tax is laid on rent it is necessarily proportioned to its gross amount, or to the total sum paid to the landlords, without regard to the sources whence it is derived. But any such tax has always been, and will un avo id a bl y cont i nue to b e, a formid able barrier to improvements ; for the return paid to a landlord for capital expended on the soil being in cluded in the rent, a tax on it discourages or prevents all fresh outlays of capital, lest they should occasion a corresponding increase of the tax. The injustice of this impost is not less obvious. Two landlords are each in the receipt of an equal sum, say 1,0001. a-year ; the estate of one consisting of naturally fine soil, on which but little capital has been laid out ; and that of the ether of very inferior land, on which a great deal of capital has been expended. A tax on the former merely abstracts a portion of what is principally the result of the bounty of Providence, ,whereas a tax on the latter abstracts a por tion of what has been mainly produced by the labour and industry of man. Hence the obvious injustice and oppressivenes s of taxes on rent. We doubt, indeed, whether it be possible to suggest any tax more decidedly at variance with every sound principle, or more adverse to the progress of improvernent."—From which combina tion of remarks it, would appear that Mr. M'Culloch is adverse to taxation of every kind. We think he is right. It is a prodigious evil, both from' its di rec t an d f rom i ts indirect effects, and no Government is warranted in levying a single sixpence on the people by taxation ti hich is not strictly necessary to the performance of its functions. WOOLWICH, DEC. 24.—NAVAL INTELLI.• CENCE.—Admiral the Right lion. Sir George Cockburn, G.CJL, one of the Lords of the Admiralty,visited the Dock yard on Saturday last, and was accompanied by Captain Phipps Hornby, C. 8., Superintendent of the Yard, dur ing his examination of several of the departments. The Shearwater steam-vessel, Commander John Washington, arrived at Woclwich this forenoon from the North Sea. The Lords of the Admiralty have directed the master shipwrights of Plymouth, Portsmouth, Chatham, Sheer ness, and Woolwich Dockyards, to assemble at Woolwich on the 3d of January next, to take into consideration Mr. Blake's improvements for strengthening the bows of ships, and the system of ship-building generally, with the view to the adoption of :some fixed principle in a mat ter of such vital importance as the construction of our ships of war. S F: 7 l MARY g F E S AND Vitbitt aptizton. " Who runs may read." N i The Fren c h Court FORMZG of Peers decded on Thursday the fate of Quenisset and his accomplices. Baron Pasquier, the President, in the absence of the prisoners, pronounced sentence of death u p on Quenisset, Colombier, and Bazier ; imprisonment for life upon Dufaur, Jarrasse, and Petit ; imprisonment for fifteen years upon Mal let and Boggio ; imprisonment for ten years upon Lau nois and Boucheron ; detention for five years, and loss of all civil rights upon M. Dupoty, for writing a Journal read by the conspirators ! A similar sentence was passed on Bazin; and Prioul, Martin, Fougeray, and Considere, were acquitted. The necessary prepara tions were made for the decapitation of two of the three prisoners condemned to death. The King of the French will open the new Session of the Chambers in person to day "It is reported," says the Constitutionnel, " thatin the last meeting of the Council of Ministers a warm discussion arose on a para graph in the Speech from the Throne which M. Guizot had proposed. It was a question in this paragraph of giving express approbation to the project of the treaty of commerce with Belgium. M. Humann is said to have opposed himself very energetically to its adoption, and the Council was unable to come to any decision at this sitting.* During 1840 there were 144 money letters, containing 230,000 E, confided t o th e P ost - o ffices through out France, and have not yet been claimed. The total number of such letters not claimed since 1830 is 482, and the value of their contents 765,800 f. In a letter from Madrid of the 15th inst., we find the following :—" In the event that any of your Liverpool readers should feel disposed to enter into contracts with this Government•—which I neither recommend nor dis courage—l convey the intelligence that tenders will be received at the public offices on the 15th of February next, from such parties as are willing to sell to the Spanish Government five thousand tierces of Havannah, and two thousand hogsheads of Kentucky, in both in stances leaf, tobacco, at prices whieli' shall not exceed 20.1. dollars per quintal of 100Ibs. for the first-named, and 13 dollars for the other, deliverable in equal propor tions in May, June, and July following, at the Govern ment stores of Corunna, Seville, Alicante, Valencia, and one other port, the payment to be guaranteed by the mortgage of one•third the gross proceeds of the whole sale and retail sales of the article at the Government stores. Your readers are not, probably, aware that the sale prices are about 1,000 per cent. more than those of purchase." M. Mendizabal, the ex-Finance Minister, and M. Weisweiller, Rothschild's agent, had arrived in Madrid, on the 15th from Paris. The Correo Nacional states that its editor has been acquitted by the Jury of the charge preferred against him by the Government. A letter from Oviedo, in the Castellano, announces the capture of seven bandits who had, for some time past infested the neighbourhood. The municipal elections in. Alicant were the occasion of serious rioting. A band of 20 or 30 assassins entered the hall in which the elections of the parish of St. Mary were quietly proceeding, and one of them stabbed with a poniard M. Luis Maria Proyet, a deputy in the Cortes, who was acting as secretary in the assembly. Strong measures were immediately adopted by the authorities, and several of those miscreants ' were apprehended and committed for trial. General Amor had been arrested by order of General Rodil, and was to be tried by the court-martial sitting at Vittoria. Four new periodicals have been started at Madrid, the Independiente, the Argos, the Peninsular, and the Censor del Ambos Mundos, the latter especially dedicated to sub jects connected with the colonial possessions of Spain. On the 14th inst. Sir Robert Gordon was formally received by the Emperor of Austria, to whom his Ex cellency presented his credentials as Ambassador to Austria. Letters from Constantinople of the 30th in the Gazette of Upper Germany of the 20th inst., state that advices had reached the Turkish capital from Beyrout of the march of Selim Pacha, Governor of Syria, at the head of three thousand men, for the Lebanon, and that the. Maronites had laid down their arms on being summoned, but that the Druses had retreated into the mountains. Colonel Rose (the British officer) had gone on a mission to the Emir of the Druses to induce them to submit. A letter from Smyrna of Nov. 27th, says, "By con fidential letters from Alexandria we learn that an Euro pean Power has been instigating Mehemet Ali to acts of hostility against the Sultan ; but the Pacha, who has not forgotten the lesson given him last year by England, ,does not seem inclined to risk losing what he has been allowed to retain. French agents are very busy in the Archipelago. Oa of these agents lately received a re mittance of 2,000,000 f. • through a house at Smyrna. The money came direct from Marseilles." PUBLIC OPINION. The following appears in the Morning Post :—" Among the queerest things which have happened at this Christ mas time may, we think, be reckoned the sudden twist of that enlightened' Whig-Radical organ the Morning Chronicle, regarding the present Corn-law. Arost people who care anything at all about newspaper discussion. (if by that name it may rightly be called) must be pretty well aware that for months . past the Chronicle writers have been assailing the Corn-law in a fashion which inure resembles the bellowing of mad bulls than the ex postulation of rational creatures. All the epithets of fury and ferocity which the more vehement parts of our language supply have been 'used up' over and over again in successive' attacks upon the Corn-law. This, we say, is very well 'known. Well, then, on Christmas Eve out comes the Chronicle with its disco veries that the Corn-law is not so very bad after all. It has its good points in the shape of certain openings to fraud, which Whig-Radicals find rather convenient, and they have no notion of quietly surrendering these pet portions, for such, it seems, there are, of this very well abused Corn-law. And whence comes this change. Why, the Corn-law has . been touched by the Conservative wand of that potent magician, Mr. Christopher, in the county of Lincoln, and straightway it becomes tolerable (by comparison) to Whig-Radical vision," The Herald contains the following seasonable observa tions:—" Never did appeals to the charity of English men—never did demands upon their active humanity— arise so thickly round them, after a quarter of a century of peace with all the Powers of Europe, as those which are addressed to them at this moment by hundreds upon thousands of their destitute compatriots! How this ac cumulation of misery can have attained its present fear ful height and extensive prevalence—in what degree fluctuations in our manufacturing prosperity, convulsions of our monetary system, defective harvests, the surplus supply of labour at home co-incident with an adequate demand for it abroad, deficiencies of the public revenue, and declining imposts—in what degree all these may have operated to produce so fearful a combination of distress and physical suffering, we propose not, now, to inquire. Our purpose is, rather to implore all classes of the British public, who are happily placed beyond the reach of sordid want—of that intense and abject misery which we will characterise by its well known and emphatic designation of pauper destitu tion'—now to come forward, and with a timely bounty— with hearts open as day to melting charity'—hands liberal and unstinting (moved by pity but guided by dis cretion), to relieve the misery and loneliness of the children of want—the great family of hunger and of desolation 1" —The Herald would be much better employed in appeal ing to the justice of the Government, than in appealing to the charity of individuals. Private charity may cer tainly do much in the way of alleviation, but it is the broad and comprehensive justice of Government alone, that can effectually relieve the great and increasing family of hunger and of desolation. Unfortunately, however, but scanty justice is to be expected from a monopolist Ministry. We quote the following from the Chronicle :—" A merry Christmas—we were going to say, to all you good people of England. But the mockery of the unmeaning compliment grated on our ear before we could commit to paper ; and we 1 ,, ithheld our pen from writing words that would have had the semblance of an un- feeling jest on general and acute suffering. A merry Christmas it is to the present rulers of the people of England, proud of their newly-acquired power and the maintenance of their monopolies ; but we cannot say that we wish them a monopoly of mirth. A .merry Christmas it is not to the people governed by them, and our wishing will not make them enjoy destitution and despair. Our rulers are gone into the country, and the cares of governing give place for a while to those of shooting and the festivities of the season."—lt must be exceedingly consoling to the thousands of famishing operatives of Paisley, Bolton, and elsewhere, to know that though for them there is this year no " merry Christmas," yet that their Tory rulers are spending the season at their several residences in all due merriment and festivity. What though there be starvation in the Manchester cellars and attics, is there not feasting at Drayton Manor ? This is a reflection that should calm the spirits, and appease the discontent of the starving artisans, and subdue that "ignorant impatience of taxa tion," which the late Lord Castlereagh so justly accused them of exhibiting. The Times, alluding to the appointment of the Com mission respecting the Exchequer bill fraud, says : "We do not remember that we ever saw a contrivance so exactly answering to the common phrase, 'neither the one thing nor the other.' Two legitimate subjects are before the Government and before the country. The first is, to see that the ends of justice are answered, and to make it quite clear that no impunity has been allowed through favour or affection' to any persons criminally concerned in the recent forgeries. As the matter stands, various honest men in the City of London are defrauded of large sums, which either they or the natio n must ultimately lose. Now, the general voice demands that those who have committed this great crime shall be strictly and impartially . brought to justic e ; and a considerable degree of dissatistsetion exists, and is spreading, from a doubt whether this h as really been done. To meet this question in a frank a n d sa tisfactory manner, would indeed be an object worthy o f such an investigation. A second purpose would b e , to devise means for the ef . ectua prevention of any suc h frauds in future ; and th f is,,Soo, l be admitted t o b e a very fit topic for t he g ravest inqu iry. But neith er from the language of the above quoted document itself, nor yet from the character of the p ersons whose names appear in it, can we discover which of these two points is to form the sui)ject for in vest i gat i on ; or whether both are to be, in some strange way, combined. There is not a word mtrheis commission mssi(one amongtoueh theingth wholeedisc four'olery Cm of delinquents, no s who can be imagined to have the least skill in thief-catching.' " MONEY— TRADE —COMMERCE. The state and condition of Darwen, near Blackburn, MORNING SUN i another deplorable instance of distressed trade. A t 1 meeting held there on the 13th inst. it a eared that, out of 1,200 families visited, comprising 8,00 pp s incieridua ls, 684 persons were out of work ; and that 602 individua ls of the whole received only 71 d. Der head a week. At Nottingham, ont 0f4,700 bobbin-not nischines formerly work e d by 8,000 men , t h ere no w not employ ed more than 1,600 machines, worked by 3,000 men. COMMERCIAL REFORM. held at In addition to the c o nf erence o f m i n i s ters to be Edinburgh, there will also be a demonstration at Glasgow in favour of a total repeal of the Corn-laws the following days:—Friday, the 14th, and SaultlaY , 15th of January. AGRICULTURAL. the Coffee and pepper are about to be cultivated on • western shores at Sumatra. rich Many of the tracts in the United States are so thit the cultivators are compelled to plant Indian corn on them for timr or five years to impoverish thew be fore wheat is sown. A small plain in Piekaway count), of about 1,500 acres, planted with corn, has producea 100 bushels to the acre, and this same amount of al has continued for two or three years. 64, the two ECCLESIASTIC.AZ. An odd game seems to be now playing in one cornert of the sanctuary. When it is objected by some `e " Mr. Williams is no Protestant," it is answered, `. but he is a poet." When it is objected that he is n poet, it is replied, " True, but then he is a PusePte' PI Paul Delaroche's grea NE t pa Aß intin TS * now exhi biting at the School of Fine Arts, Pari g s, represents Ictinus, he Apelles, and Praxiteles, judging the world of ar t. great painters, artists, and sculptors, of all ag es ' ar j e f grouped upon benches. The face of Apelles is that ' Delaroche himself. LITERARY AND SCIENT/rW • w hich It is proposed that to prev en t the effluviu m Qu id l , ilia arises from the decomposition of bodies, the coffin_As4"weith be filled up with Plaster of Paris, which, n 3 ix e " .. h - water, and poured into the coffin in a liquid state'p be water, comes in a few minutes fixed and hard, and P re i l dn n ot every escape of effluvia. The additional cost we ll " be more than 2s. or 3s. for each neral. h the The tenderest roses may be preserved thr eu g - nd winter, if by thatching and , burying their roots li t. stems, the earth about them is protected from the fros C OURT —FAS HIO NABLZ• returned The Marquis and Marchion e ss of Thomond retlL to Beigrave-square early in the week. square,Th E or a l l ,h a ura nd da C y o , u f n o t r es s s or- Gro sven e tn. ° Duke of Wellington. t f h W fiel i d lt s o a n left ~.fsda The Countess of Jersey arrived in town on TR' . 1 evening from Brighton. fray visit- Lord Fitzroy Somerset has returned to town " ing Lord Hill at Hardwicke Grange. for N a ples Lord and Lady Seymour have arrived at the winter. Ba th Lord Ashburton returned to the Grange from House on Monday last. Lord Stanley left Knowsley on Friday for too' MISCELLANEOUS. corn' The oriental ingredients which enter into the ha ve position of our Christmas mincepies are supposed to have t h e a reference to the offerings made by the • e well ° East ; and it was anciently the custom 0 rea' e ang er pies of an oblong form, thereby representing the 133 ., - d a nt in which, on that occasion,the ' found the sages Ye, the seat of tb Jesus. ; entirely The gulf of Cronstadt on the 3d instants ft ' her in free from ice ; an unusual instance of mil%vett" Russia. ',ared, and The slip on the Croydon Railway is now cl eL • u the Brighton trains pass through without interruPT,.),-;9. ot ''' The most rigid winter on record w as th at All the rivers and lakes were birds and beasts were strewedthaendbllt;l6ll; beings perished by thousands in their houses. 1 c rrentli i n ice-boundththe fields, tn A Worcester Paper states that the females c"„ not preponderate over the males in England. " c ab o und surprised at this, for the Tory old women 31 " e in prodious numbers. in There ig was a great display of excessive Tee-t°tslism once the streets last night ; and the president of . a j TV e l e ngth Society in the East, was discovered stretene" “ b y the in a gutter in Cheapside, overpowered, no delln4 nervous excitement arising from green ten. ___ ovffiecrylatedrvice ill COURT CIRCULAR • a prime WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and. and Albert took their usual walk this murol---r'iirate afterwards attended Divine Service ill t h b e a P e ss the Chapel of the Castle. Her Royal llici te and Duchess of Kent and the Royal I tev . pr. Household also attended. The Merewether, Dean of Hereford, The Dean of Hereford attended the S e as did St. George's Chapel in the evening, . 4 so me Viscount Sydney, Hon. C. A. Murray, a " . of the Ladies of the Court. The Very, Rev. Dr. Merewether, V.ettic,aylla is l at the Castle, is the only addition to , ii -, ,- Dinner party this evening. Albert; and Yesterday her Majesty and Prins Visitors and a the Duchess of Kent, and the 1 1 93.; pr ivate Suite attended Divine Servic e yoruw. Rus. Chapel of the Castle. The Rev' the sell officiated. andnuchess Their Royal Highnesses the Duk e dinne r of Cambridge received a select party at on Saturday at their residence at Kew. #fi i.dar Lord Stanley arrived in town on Sav -- J r from the seat of his father, Knowsley Hall, cashire. ° G vef" Despatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, ‘,, d i e nor of Jamaica, were received yesterday 01 " - Colonial Marcos -(T. A The Marchioness of Queens-bury has arrive'. at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave- street, fro m her. in Scotland. 11 The 'Rev. Lord W. Russell, 3-ra j °r-Genel‘ and the Lady Isabella l E V . er a n n Yr th g e li o 3 l l l l l ll l n r .. : buthnot, 'and Mr. G. Anson had the honour of joining the ,11°Ya ner Circle at the Castle in the evenllls. THE QUEEN DOWAO s ' ; culatedThe m re o sp st ec d t i i s n s g ati h s e la r cto m ry a jersetpyo,srtesoncvoatitinue‘ t° be -r able appearances in her health have proved qui t* i l l , ceptive, and that they are only those changes vibito treacherous disease under which her MajestY 1,.. invariably presents. Even her own immediate dome ~ Cu entertain not the slightest hopes of he r 1141 :0: recovery, io and those best acquainted with her e ( H / A ii i r y, t n insist that the damp and marshy nature of Se v ur rea d accelerated in no small degree the tendency it e a l s o, towards pulmonary disease. Her MajecviotY hai,,,,cks for a series of years, been subjected to lent a ttacks of erysipelas, which showed itself to her ! stifle and which confined her, at different ; a n ,. her periods, for several weeks to , the Palace is r - a s inl° s ; 'Royal husband's lifetime. Such a o r o:a ffli c ted phere as Sudbury is truly inimical to Fetr - denie d with that complaint. It cannot, hevierbee.'latbee, illness that so debilitated is her Majes ty II t oje d w ith to e that her removal at present might be sae l a d llt e r l ,enai r esu lts it i s the 00, i t a o tio a o d ti d oo th o s f t ' parti ortirei j e ig; to that those awful anticipations resp ecting h er - ' ' '' repo rts 4 health may not be realited. Amo ng st o ther er 's is said- that the real state of '6 Quee n 13°Vrag Cr Majesty's iffialediSte -e.faeiv. co health Fs concealed to r o l a it e • a cle ed el t, oac the approaching P eut throwing ninitdtes:siodhuleetesrtdiherwise the air of hear ppreitsuere festivities at Windsor• Sec-,:yr re' would be indeed truly silly, and by no me i " cr -- ; r ; spectful towards' the Royal sufferer —Sun ciail 4.llvcs. pirmrrooamisydLeeirfntao.etfea _, ANTI-CORN-LAW CONFERDiI IN EDINBSRGH. f ~,,,mbetg O _A preliminary meeting of ministers and .---- a its Dissenfing Churches, residing in Edinburgh an • - neighbourhood, was held in Broughton-Place S o eig a n i : n d house on Monday eveaing last, upon lb' P r- 12tb , meetings to be held in Edinburgh on the llth, 7 . 7 00 , and 13th of January, 1842, for the purpose of P" 4" t hs ing for the total repeal of the Corn -laws . Filun ter report of those who had notified by fion to attend, it appears that the numbers AN Belaalr these : Ministers and Members from ec.. t Indepead ti, Churches, 384 ; Relief Churches, 130 ; Churches, 110 ; Bapiist Churches, 52 ; smaller se e . 36 ; making a total of 712 ministers and mernbere! ; than as possibly Out, much larger meeting .already w . , ....wit pated. Of the secession class it is not a little I ,v7 if o pi ahle that not one minister out of 494 ex presso s f l if all mon in favour of the present Corn-laws, andt):ll4 ° pie their congregations only three state that thV i. r e m is t rees is are not nearly unanimous. Total abolition 01 letter their in a almost unanimously advocated by their raela bers '• l IV not one minister states that a majority of hi. Ongr eg ti,, tion approves of these laws. Out of the stnalle r _„ Sec r of only one out of 23 pastors and ministers is in raT ir log monopoly. The only bodies who have declined _bir-oi, part in the proceedings are some of the Eploce' a of tt : heeirlapa y te a o n p s le , and are s ß tr o o i n n g a i n Catholdics, buth p ale . ans' vers ol generally state in decided terms that they 0 the other do not answer y othpepoqsueeriteos.t e r°V7ioll'o6; PLEADERS. —WB I. r. tends to offer himself as candidate for one of the tcao ships Richardab o e n S yra — can W t. P : l t t L o rnock, of the Inner, Temple, barrisrnier 8 understand that i n . Jove COMMITMENTS TO ABINGDON GAOI,-""' James was committed by R. Currie, Esq., on gocitYo last, for trial at the ensuing County Sessions, on a ehlV r . of stealing a quantity of cut wood, the property o f ;',..,, W. 11. Davis, a farmer at Dry Sandford. Jane l i s.- e ll ' f f , was committed for trial, for participating. in the tli 'I but bail being offered she was allowed - to go at large eietiv ltahset,sebsys.i\olrtisi.liaGmeoioleis,Clack was committed on Thu rsu t j ringdon, for the sussionsE. Esq., ir, A GENUINE WOMAN HATER:" gray , s id will you never marry ?" said a fair girl to a browil()0 for stealing a gun a FP bachelor. " Ahern ! why—l don't know—Yes -43a et —I might get married, perhaps, if it were possible to g married to anything but a woman "—Richmond Star. as TAKING IT COOLLY.—Commodore Napier as sitting in an arm - chair by t he wheel, and a $ lth° li tt le several gallant officers on board began to look i t . cif astonished at the thickly - coming missiles, the st% 0 Commodore did not so much as turn his head ; he t , l t he calm voice, and motioning with his hand, said ,t'', l , - 0 9 steersman, " Port a little—port—that will do; , S f a ns the ship's head being slightly altered, the enemy 's 1. , 11.-v WAS so far confounded.—Hunter's Expedition ,to Sr" , Xll WO moi a le of t of : IC( Org fror firm Roo red, deaf epic of Vie (list was and esp e , Furth th e obssi NVfii who deli; eake s , . • Ttrodi grie C u i ljgred t quiet' tl " 4 4 ( Taw , ' )1 4 4 bi'actic 1 4antag c 4 raetic he w 1- 34 ttedirh s . .c 41, 10 48 ,e 'he 4 itt o at ' t' 4l ‘ tnt , te . , 10,;,,litet ar t ; 41 ; 1 13 t' h Ji tl ift:l t h i vo 14 .§,i be t %; kty A `ll htt u tl t c u,