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

E VENINra EDITION 16 Seizure of the steatn.ship British Queen by her Majesty's Board of Customs for smuggling. Mehemet Ali refuses to accede to the Treaty of the Four Powers, and declares that he will repel force by force. 18. The King of the French visits Boulogne, and is re ceived aith enthusiasm. 19. Accident on the Eastern Counties Railway, bi which two persons were killed on the spot, and many others severely injured, of whom two afterwards died of their woundi. --Mr. Mccreth, a commercial traveller, is wounded in the throat whilst asleep (being mistaken, it is upposed, for another person,) at the Artzel Inn, Ludlow. 20 Death of the Bishop of Chichester at Broadsta'rs, aged 72. 22. Execution of John Randalsome, at Norwich, for the murder of his wife. 24. Mend a- of Mr. and Mrs. Cook, at Pe tver, near Knutsh rd, Cheshire, by an Irish vagrant. 26. The Coroner's Jury, on the inquest of the bodies of the four persons killed by the accident on the Eastern Counties Railway, returned a verdict of aceideatal death, with a dcodand of 5001 oa the engines. 27. Great fire at Messrs. !lore's wharf, near the London .cks; at Mr. Year's saw-mills, Bermondsey; and at E,st Mount-terrace, Whiteclutpel. 30. Loss of eleven lives by the upsetting of a bolt on the river Lea. 31. Grand Reform dinner at Paris, which is attended by 6,000 persons. M .ka• Clibborn, proceeding with 450 infantry to the relic f of Captain Brown, shut up in the fortress of Ka hun, is attacked on the mountains by the BAuochees, and forced to retreat with the lots of half his force, and all his camels and baggage. SEPTEMBER. - - - 1. Rios at Madrid. The municipality at Madrid de. Glares its.lf permanent. 2 Madame LatTrage i 3 placed on trial, charged with the murder of her husband by poison. 5 M, hemet Ali rejects the ultimatum of the Four Powers. 6. Liberation of all the .hwish prisoners accused of the supposed murder of Father Thomas and his servant at Damascus. . . _ S,,cicty on the proposition " That Popery is the parent of disloyalty." 7. p,. S .uttleworth is appointed Bishop of Chichester. 8. Acc.i lent on the Blackwell Ltailway by the rope breaking. Two men arc killed, and the lives of many oth.:ri are placed in the greatest jeopardy, 9. E oiartero publishes a manifesto demanding the revo cation of the municipal I.iw, the dissolution of cue Cortex, and the dismissal of the Ministers. 10. Alnrder of Thomas flenshall, one of the gamtkiepers er the H gh Sheriff . of Cheshire. 11. The French Mediterranean fleet arrives at Athens. Bombardment and capture of Beyrout by the Eng lish fleet. 12, Duel between the Eai 1 of Cardigan and Captain Tuekett, when Captain Tuckett was wounded. Capture of the Castle of Gebail, by the English squadron under Captain Martin. 13. Accident on the North Midland Railway by the axlctree of one of the carriages hi caking. Three persons are killed and others seriously injured. 14. Accident on the Eastern Counties Railway by which one person is killed. Capture of Djouni by the Castor, Carysfort, Dido, and Hydra. 15. Capture of Patroun by her Majesty's ships Carys fort and Cyclops. Accident on the Eastern Counties Railway, by -which four persons are seriously injured. 17 Capture of Caiffs by the seamen and marines of her Majesty's ship Castor. Wreck of the ship Bengal in Table-bay. - Murder of Mrs. Keeling, at Newcastle. 18. A treaty of amity and commerce between the Ne therlands and the republic of Texas, is signed at the Hague. Dost Mohammed Khan is defeated by 500 native troops, under Brigadier Dennie, with the loss of 500 killed, and All his baggage and ammunition. 19. Madame Laffarge is found guilty of poisoning her husband, with extenuating circumstances, and is sentenced to the pillory and hard labour for life. Sudden death of Mr. Hugh flammersloy, and con sequent stoppage of his bank. - Wreck of the ship Catherine Jamieson, near Cape Town. 20. Commencement of the fortifications which arc t 3 surround Paris. 21. Death of Lord Kenmure, in his 91st year. The Consuls-General of the Four Powers strike their flags at Alexandria, and retire on board the shippinc. • /.2. Death of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, in her 724 year. Death of the Countess of Dysart, aged 95. Birth of an heir to the Turkish throne. Sit 3, The Consuls the Four Powers strike their flags at Alexandria, and embark on board the steamer. 24. Defeat of the Egyptians by the Turkish troops under Commodore Napier. 25. Unsuccessful attack on Tortosa by the seamen and marines, under Captain Stewart. Commencement of the court-martial on Captain R. A. Reynolds. Death of Marshal Macdonald, Duke de Tarcnto, at Coureelles, near Orleans, aged 75. _ 26. Ca tore of 'Tour bithe seamen and marines of H. M. S. Pique and Castor. 27. Capture of Sidon by the seamen and troops under Commodore Napier. Fire in the dockyard at Devonport, by which the Talavera of 90 guns is destroyed, two other ships injured, and a large quantity of stores. burnt, 28. The Earl of Cardigan is held to bail, himself in 1,000/. and two sureties of 500/. each, to answer the charge of shooting at Captain Tuekett. Captain D,Juglas, his second, also held to bail. Launch, at Chatham, of the Polyphemus Rat steamer, and the London ship of the line. 30. Laying of the foundation stone of the Nelson memo rial in Trafalgar-square. Death of Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly, K. C. 8., aged 77. OCTOBER. . 1. Ito-opening of Black friars.bridge by the Lord Mayor in• 3 ether Civic Officers. 2. Discovery of a tire in the midshipmen's berth of her Majesty's ship Camrrdown, lying in Sheerness Dock— the supposed worn of an incendiary. donclusion of the tr . al of Prince Louis Napoleon, who is sentenced by tae Court of Peers to perpetual im p-rigour:lent in a fortress, and his accornplieci to imprison inut for various periods. .. The Court-marthil on Capt. R. A. Reynolds finds Lim guilty of the ellargts against hint, and sentences him to be cashiered. •—• Emir 13ccilir abandons the cause of Nfebernet A li. Et traination of John llenty, a carpenter of her Ma jesty's alit') Ocean, employed in the dockyard, on a charge of having intentionally set fire to the Camperdown. 7, Abdication of William 1., King of Holland. 8 Death of the Marquis Camden, in his 81st year. Great Meeting of the Highland Society at Aberdeen. 9. Tumultuous assemblages at Lyons. 10. Ibrahim Pacha evacuate; Eleyrout. - Ibrahim and S rliman Pacha are denoted by the Al lied troops at Calat Maiden. 12. Abdication of the Queen Regent of Spain. 15. Exhumation and dillvcry by the British authorities at St. Helena of the re ma i ns o f t h e Emperor Napoleon to the Friace de Joirtville. Attempt of Darrnes to assass:nate the King of the French. 16. The Egyptians evacuate Tartusa and Tripoli. 17. Accident on th, Loudest and Southampton Railway, by one train overtaking and running against another. One fernale'servant is killed and many persons reverely injured. 19. Loss of the ship Chick Castle, of Liverpool, arid nine of the crew. 20. The Coroner's jury on the body of Catherine An drews, killed on the Southampton Railway, returns a ver dict of Accidental Death, end levies a deodand of 3001 oa the engine. —. Her Majesty's approval of the sentence of the Court. martial on Captain R. A. Reynolds. A true bill is found by the Grand Jury against the Esti of Cardigan and the other parties in the duel. 21. Death of the Bishop of Meath, in the 81st ear of los age. 22. Resignation of M. Thiess and his colleagues. Ile King sends for Marshal SoultX, - Sudden death of Lordlliolland, at Hollard House, Kensington, in his 67th year. 23. Accident on the Cantefaury anl Whitstable Rai!- way, by which a whole train is shattered to pieces, aui one asaa killed. 24. Colonel Hodges presents the Sultan with the flag td Ibrahim Pacha. 2 5. Collision of the Britannia and Phenix steam-ships, off Dungeness, by which the Phenix is sunk. Two persons are killed on the Farringdon station of the Groat Western Railway. 26. Death of the Earl of Seafield, in his 74th year. Dissolution of the Junta of Madrid. 27. Death of Mr. Vigors, M. P. for Carlow. 28. Public entry into Madrid of the young Queen cf Spain and the Infanta, accompanied by Espartero. - Sir Moses Montefiore and Suite are admitted to an audience of the Sultan, and deliver an address for protec tion to the Jews. 30. Appointment of a new Ministry in France ' • Mar shal Soult is President and Ministe r o f W ar, an d M. G uizot Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Hon. Admiral Fleming, G overnor of Green wich Hospital, died at Leamington. Earthquake at Zante. 31. Inauguration of the Duke of Northumberland as Chancellor of Cambridge University. After a lengthened trial of five days the court-mar tial on John Henty came to the decision that the third charge—viz., that of having, on the 2d day of Octet) , r. made a false repo% to his superior officer, Captain Sir John Hill, of the eitent of a fire, which, on the afternoon of that day, bad taken place on board the Camperdown, was fully proved; but, in consideration of his good con duct, the Court adjudge him only to be severely re; ri. minded, and he wus reprimanded accordingly. The Cyclops steamer arrives at Malta, bruntig on board Emir Bechir and suite. The Earl of Clarendon is appointed Chanc , ilor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the room of the late Lord Hol land. .—. Captain Reynolds addresys a letter to the papers, reesting all further interfereece, oa the part of the Tablio, on his behalf. NOVEMBER. 2. Death of Sir Anthony Carlisle, the eminent surgeon, In the 73d year of his age. 3. St. Jean d'Acre is bombarded by the British fleet under Admiral Stopford. During the bombardment a . g .. detiassefine explodes, by which 1 , 700 Rifteii '' f EU 1; Egyptians are 'i 4, 011 0 za ide at Bordeaux for tLe murder ..iiif two "9tiatdrefand their mother. 7 ,,,,,,,_ ii„, vt : .l. .....'64omnidations in France, by the overflowing of i t Atite Rhone alidth, Saone. Macon abd other large towns Nr% TXt\ IL • - ' - '''-' l ,t'- - f '" ' ' are for the greater part under water, and many houses de. mol;shed. St. Jean d'Acre is abandoned by the Egyptian troops, and taken possession of by the united British, Turkish, and Austrian forces. 5. The King of the French opera the Session of the Chambers. 6. Explosion of another powder-magazine at Acre, by which above 250 natives and 30 British are killed and wounded. 7. The Sultan of Turkey grants a firman of protection for the Jews. 8. The Quern-Regent of Spain publishes a manifesto, recommending her children to the care of the Spanish nation. 9. Mr. Alderman Thomas Johnson enters upon his office as Lord Mayor of London. Birth of the Duke de Chartres, second son et the Duchess of Orleans. 10 His Majesty the King of the Belgians opens the sessions of the Chambers. Explosion of an engine on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway by which the eng.. cer and his as sis'ant arc killed. 11. Collision of trains on the York and North Midland Railway, by which two passengers are killed. Mehemet Ali, having received news of the fall of St. Jean d'Acre. informs the Consuls of his intention to restore the Turkish fleet. 19.. Accident on the London and Birmingham Railway, by which two engineers are killed. 13. Loss of her Majesty's ship Fairy, and the crew, consisting of 42 men, on Haitborough Sands. Rising of the waters and devastation of property at Southampton, Portsmou'h, and the adjacent coast. Storm at Sunderland—two ships lost and several men drowned. 14. Hurricane, by which much damage is done to the shipping in the Thames. The Coroner's inquest on the body of Mr. Pattison, one of the persons killed by the accident on the York and North Midland Railway, returns a verdict of Accidental death," and levies a deodand of 500/. on the engine. -- Proposal of the Four Courts to Mehemet Ali, offer ing, on condition of his instant submission, to guarantee him the hereditary possession of Egypt. 15. Two carriages are dashed to pieces on the Eastern Counties Railway, by an engine overtaking a train, and many persons injured. Alderman Harmer announces his resignation of the Alderinan;c gown. The Germanic Diet accepts the Treaty of the 15th July. 16. Treaty of reciprocity between Great Britain and the republic of Texas. 11),tstruc:ion by fire of two-thirds of the village of The rapia, at Constantinople. 17. Concert and ball at Guildhall, for the benefit of the Polish refugees. IS M. Bergeron, of Paris, is sentenced to imprison ment for two years, and to pay a fine of 50 francs, for an assault on M. Girardin. _ . . V -.- Lyons and other towns are again inundated by the rise of the ithone and the Saone. . Shipwreck of the City of Bristol Irish steam-packet with the loss of 35 lives. _ . 19. The jury to inquire into the deaths of the persona killed on the York and North Midland Railway, not being able to come to a unanimous decision, are discharged by the Coroner, and bound over to appear before the Judges at the nest Yorkshire assizes. The brig Nerino is cast on shore on the Scilly Islands, bottom upwards, having been so suddenly blown over on the 16t.h, in a gale of wind, that the crew, consist ing of five persons, were enabledto ivo in the bold, the confined air keeping out the sea. 21. Accouchnseut of her Majesty, and the birth of the Princess Royal. 22. Arrival in Paris of the Queen Regent of Spain. Wreck of the barque Westminster from Singapore off Margate. 24. The Coroner's July on the body of the engineer killed on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway returns a verdict, " That the deceased came by his death by the bursting of a boiler, constructed of iron plates of insuffi cient thickness," and levies a deodand of 601 on the engine. 25. Debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the address. . 26. After a correspondeace between Commodore Napier Boghos Bey, Mehemet Ali decides to accept the here ditary government of Egypt, to restore the Turkish fleet, and to evacuate Syria. 23 Inauguration of the King of Holland, at Amsterdam. 29. Dastructive fire at Rotherhithe. Termination of the debate on the address in the French Chambers, by 247 votes for, and 164 against it. By a decree of the Regency of Spain amnesty is granteA for all political crimes and offences committed since 19. h July, 1837. DEC EMBER. 2. The Coroner's inquest on the bodies of the persons killed on the London and Birmingham Railway at Har row, return a verdict, in the case of William Dawson, of wilful murder against Jos. Simpson, and in the case of Jos. Simpson, telo de se, and levies a deodand of 2,000/. on the engine and tenders. The Jury also express their opinion of the necessity of appointing better educated and more experienced persons as engineers. Dissolution of the National Guard of Carcassone. -- Edward Jones, aged 17, is discovered secreted un der the sofa of her Majesty's dressing-room. lie is com mitted to the House of Correction for three months as a rogue and vagabond. Overthrow of a train by a truck being left on the Birmingham and Derby Railway, one person is killed and several others meet with fractures and concussions. A coroner's jury returns a verdict of manslaughter against K'ng and Barber, two men employed on the line. Sir R. Stopford addresses a letter to Mehemet Ali, refusing to ratify Commodore Napier's " hasty and unau thorised convention." 6. V Sir Robert Stopford transmits to Mehemet Ali the ultimatum of the Four Powers, agreed to on the 14th No• vember, requiring the " prompt" submission of the Vice roy, and the evacuation of Syria, Adana, Candia, Arabia, and the Holy Cities. 7. Wreck of the brig Howard, of Exeter, off Teign• molth. The Spanish Government addresses a note to that of Portugal, requiring the performance of the treaty of 1835, relative to the free navigation of the Douro, and threaten ing, in case of non-compliance, to march an army into Portugal to obtain the object in view. The Portuguese Government lays the matter before the British Ambassador. b. Arrival of the rernaihs of Napoleon Bonaparte al Havre. - - - 10. Mehemet Ali, in answer to Sir Robert Stopford's note, submits himself unconditionally to the Four Powers. Committal of an engine-driver in the service of the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway, for having run his train without due caution, and thereby run into and de stros cd a train in advance. The Vesper Gravesend steam packet, having run down a small boat in Woolwich Reach, by which two pe r sons were drowned, a Coroner's Jury returns a verdict of accidental death, with a deodand of loot upon the steam boat. _ Murder of Mr. Lim Gre e n, a Suderintendent on the Edinburgh and GlaTow Railway, by some Irish la rers. 15. The remains of Nap-Aeon were deposited in the Hotel drs Invalides with great pomp and state. •20. Death of Thomas Hill, Esq., in the eightieth year of his age. 23. Mr. William Tooke, for many years Treasurer of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge sent in his resignation to Lord thougham, the Chairman. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, YESTERDAY. The attendance was unusually thin, and the business so flat as to require no other notice than is contained in the following, bets and offers : DERBY. 4 to 1 agst Scott's lot—offers to lay 14 to 1 agst Rosalie colt—taken to 1101. 18 to 1 agst Paimmon—taken to 1601. 20 to 1 agst Coronation—offers to lay 25 to 1 agat Camelcon—taken 28 to 1 apt Sir Hans—offers to take 30 to 1 10,000 to 100 agst Lord Stradbroke's lot—taken 1 000 to 10 agst Ben Brace—taken and afterw. offered 1,000 to 10 agst Two outsiders—taken A GHOST STORY.-111 the hot weather of this last summer Lord Ashburnham's very old uncle, the Biihop of Chichester, was waked in his palace at four o'clock in the morning by his bedchamber door being opened, when a female figure, all in white, entered, and sat down near him. The prelate, who protests he was not frightened, Fair!, in a tone of authority, but not with the usual triple adjuration, " Who arc you ?' Not a word of reply, but the personage heaved a profound sigh. The Bishop rang the bell, but the servants were so sound asleep that nobody heard him. He repeated his question : still no answer, but another deep sigh. Then the apparition took some papers out of the ghost of its pocket, and began to read them to itself. At last, when the Bishop had continued to ring, and nobody to come, the spectre rose and departed as sedately as it had arrived. When the servants did at length appear, the Bishop cried, " Well, what have you seen ?" " Seen, my Lord ?" " Ay, seen ; who or what is the woman that has been here?" " Woman, my Lord I" (I believe one of the fellows smiled; though, to do her justice, Lady Onslow did not say so.) In short, when my Lord had related his vision, his domestics did humbly apprehend that his Lordship bad been dreaming; and so did his whole family the next morning, for in this our day even a Bishop's household does not believe in ghosts ; and yet it is molt certain that the good man had been in no dream, and told nothing but what he had seen ; for, as the story circu lated, and diverted the ungodly at the Prelate's expense, it came at last to the ears of a keeper of a madhouse in the di o c ese , who came and deposed that a female lunatic umk r hi s care had escaped from his custody, and, find ing the gate of the palace open. bad marched up to m y elters eha m b, ;r. The d , ponent furthe r said, that hi s prisoner was a l ways rea ding a bundle of papers. —L o li. Walpole. VOTE OF A PIECE OF PLATE TO THE CHAIR MAN OF TILE BI.AcKFRIAR'S-BRIDGE COMMITTEE.—The members of the Blaekfriar's-bridge Committee have deter mined to set the public an example of what ought to have been done long ago, by presenti ng Mr. Prior, the in defati g able Chairman of the Committee with a piece of plate, com memorative of his exertions to make such improvements and repairs in the structure as to place it amongst the most useful and elegant of modern metropolitan edifices. The following is the resolution to which the Committee came, by acclamation, at a late meeting:—" Resolved, unanimously,—That it be recommended that the members of the Committee should subscribe the sum of 50/. for a piece of plate, to be presented to Jonathan Charles Prior, Esq., Chairman, as a testimonial of the sense of the Com mittee of his great services during the execution of the important works for the substantial repair of Blackfriars bridge." TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY I, 1841. FRANCE. ( From the Paris Papers of Wednesday.) On Monday evening their Majesties received the Tus can Minister, Count Mollien, M. Vigier, General Count de Latour d'Auvcrgne, and several ladies. The Spanish Minister, M. Olozaga, had an interview yesterday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Committee on the Fortification of Paris Bill sat yesterday morning. At one o'clock the Minister of War, Marshal Soult, entered, and remained till four. The sit ting did not break up till half-past five. After the King had reviewed the crews of the Belle Poule and Favorite at the Tuilleries, on Saturday, his Majesty gave to the commander of the Favorite 3,000 f. to be distributed among the men of the two ships. E a ch sailor will have 7f. 50c. for his share. The Prince d. Joinville, after the reception, informed the men that each of them, without distinction, would receive a gold medal, to be struck in commerroration of the transfer of the re main of the Emperor from St. Helena. _ . • It is stated in the Constitutionnel that numerous travel lers to Russia have this winter perished with cold, and that considerable quantities of game are picked up there frozen to death. The budget for 1842 (says tie Debats) will comprise e complete plan cf finances, and an exact expose in detai' of all our resources. It will contain a particular chapter for extraordinary expenses, in which the Minister will de mand, in order to cover them, the faculty of creating Rentes. There will, therefore, be no special Bill for a loan, as has been announced. The Constitutioonnt mentions a rumour of Count di Flahault being sent to St. Peteraburgh to replace M. dt Barante, who is to go to Vienna as Ambassador, instead of M. de St. Aulairc ; while this latter diplomatist will take the post lately occupied by M. Guizot at London. We understand," says the Presse, "that the French Government has selected Baron Billing as a fifth commis sioner, to act, in case of a disagreement, as arbiter between the two British and the two Neapolitan Commissioners who are to discuss the settlement of the sulphur question. Baron Billing is the senior of French Secretaries of Legation, and by a fortunate coincidence, has filled that office both at London and Naples. The British and SieilianGevernments have hastened to notify, that no choice could be trade w'tich could be more agreeable to them, nor one which could inspire them with greater confidence. Baron Billing, to all the guarantees which his character and for tune give him, joins the advantage of being well informed in matters of litigation, having to occupy himself with them every day as a member of the Commission of ladem nity for the colonists of St. Domingo. A better chick could not have latea made." Advices frcm Algiers of the 15th instant state that Abd el-Kader has given a cone of three months to his re gular infantry, in order to save the expense of keeping them during the winter months. The Bishop of Algiers had written to Abd-el-Kader to propose tho exchange of some Arab prisoners against M. Massot, military sub-in tendant, who was captured near Douera, in the early part of the campaign. The Emir had replied with great po liteness that he was ready to give M. Massot up without any conditions, provided two French horsemen would come and fetch him from Razza, and to whom he would give a safe conduct. At the same he demanded a safe conduct for a horseman of his own as far as Algiers. The Havre Journal quotes advices from Buenos Ayres of the 21st October, and from Monte Video of the 29th. At the former place a considerable quantity of merchan dise had been introduced, notwithstanding the blockade. Most of the French residents, who had been protected by the British Consul, were preparing to depart. Admiral Mackau's division had arrived at Monte Video on the 25th, in 31 days from Goree. Preparations were making first for a landing at Martin Garcia, and then far going up to Buenos Ayres. It was said that a Lieutenant of tho French navy had been put to death by Rosas, but no par ticulars were known. The total number of French vessels of war, gun boats, &c., in the Plata, were forty-four. At Venice letters mentions the arrival of the Duke de Bordeaux in that city on the 17th inst. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING OF DEC. 29. The President read to the Chamber a letter from the Minister of the Interior, announcing that his Majesty will receive, on the Ist of January, at noon, on the occasion of the New Year's-day, the greed deputation of the Cham ber of Deputies, and all those Deputies of the Chamber who may choose to joie it. The order of the day was the adjourned discussion on the factory child-labour bill. M. Renouard, the Reporter of the Committee, an nouneod, that conformably with the instructions of the Chamber, the Committee had re-considered Article 10, and had come to a resolution to propose the following mo difications on Articles 10 and 11 : " Art. 10. The Government shall establish inspections to watch over and secure the execution of the present law. The inspectors are to have the power of compelling the production of all registers, regulations, &c., connected with the execution of the law, and of examining the cer tificates of the children and the children themselves ; they are to have the power to adjoin to them a physician, to be chosen by the Prefect. " Art. 11. The right of preparing and recording a Re port to prove the cases of contravention shall only belong to inspectors, prefects, and sub-prefects, without preju dice to the direct action of the law offieees of the Crown. These Reports shall be considered evidence until proof to the contrary be offered." Art. 10 was put to the vote and adopted. A discussion now ensued on Art. 11. Several Members spoke shortly for, and others against, it. The Minister of Justice said, he preferred the at ticlo as it stood originally, for it came more within the limits of the common law than the present draught. M. Renouard supported the article as modified by the Co:nmittee. The original article was then read ; it was as follows : " Art. 11.—In case of contravention, reports shall be prepared by inspectors, which shall be considered valid until proof to the contrary be offered." . . .. M. Renouard then proposed a new article as No. 12. viz..— " Art. 12 —Par. 1. In cases of contravention of the present law, or in the regulations:of the Government as re gards its execution, the managers of establishments shall be summoned before the Juge de Paix of the district, and punished by a fine, which shall not exceed 15f." Paragraph 1 was then adopted. Paragraph 2 of Art. 12 was next read:— . " The contraventions which may take place, either as to the admission of children under the prescribed age, or as to excess of labour, shall be punished with fine in every case ; but the total amount of the fine for the same offence, although in several cases, shall not exceed 200 f." —Adopted. Par. 3. " In the event of a second commission of the same offence, the off,nders shall be tried before the Tri bunal of Correctional Police, and, if found guilty, be pu nished with a fine of from 16f. to 100 f. If there be several cases, the total fine shall not exceed 500f."—Adopted. Par. 4.—" The fathers, mothers, guordians, and all persons who may, in sending children to factory labour, have been guilty of a contravention of the law, or the re gulations made for its execution, may be sentenced by a Juges de Nix to a fine of sf. for a first offence, or any fine not exceeding 15f. for a second offence." M. do Lamartii.o objected to this paragraph, and de manded its rejec.ion by the Chamber. M. Renouard supported the paragraph in the name of the Committee. The paragraph was then put to the vote and carried Par. When the saine offence shall have been re peated within 12 months, it shall be considered a second offence, liable to the increase) penalties."—Adopted. Art. 12 was then adopted in its ensemble.... Art. 13. " The present law shall not be obligatory until six months after its promulgation."—Adopted. The Chamber then proceeded to the ballot on the en semble of the Bill. The numbers were— For the Bill Again. t it The Bill was then declared to be passed, and the Cham ber adjourned to the following day. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 22. The Duke de la Vitoria continues to be slightly in. disposed. The press has undergone some modifications lately. El Pueblo Souerano has discontinued publishing; the journal El Constitutional, which is about to appear, 'will, it is said, espouse the principles of the Regency Ministry. It is not believed here that the difference between Spain and Portugal will be carried to extremities. British in fluence will no doubt find the means of settling that affair amicably. By a circular, dated yesterday, the Minister of the In terior, Senor Cortina, gives notice to all the competent authorities that, as all the provincial deputations are to be installed on the Ist of January, it is necessary to proceed immediately to choose electors who are to name the De puties to the Cortes, and propose the new Senators that are to be elected. In the principal towns very few elec tors of the Moderado party have shown themselves for the election of the provincial deputations and Ayuntamientos. On the 22d of December 48 bargains for 24,400,000 reels in the New Five per Cents. were done at 28i for cash, and 29 at sixty days' date. In Vales non consoli dated 130,000 piastres were negotiated in three operations, at 13, for cash and at thirty days' date. In the debt without interest one bargain was affected for 2,000,000 reals, at 61, at sixty days' dates. Exchange on London at ninety days, 36k. It is generally thought that so great a rise in stock will not stand. A large failure had been announced on the Madrid Exchange. _ _ (From the Madrid Gazette.) CIRCULAR FROM THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR TO TIIR POLITICAL CHIEFS. The periodical press has often pointed out abuses and violent acts which it supposes have been committed in the elections of alcades fur the next year. Although the rage may increase v th bad intentions of facts of slight import ance—although slander may have invented some which have never existed, it is )et possible that some excesses may have been ct!mmittcd which the law must suppress. lo every way it behovis the dignity of the Goveronn.nt, and that of its agents in the provinc, s, to sock out the truth of those allegations with all possible celerity. Therefore, the Provisional Regency of the kingdom has resolved that your Excellency shall make known to it, by return of post, without omitting the most trifling circumstance, all that has taken place during the period of the elections. Your Excellency must likewise give an account of the measure's which it has adopted for respecting the law and freedom of voting enjoyed by citizens. Madrid, Dec. 18. MANOEL CORTINA. SEUOND CIRCULAR. The Provisional Regency of the kingdom has noticed your Excellency's several reports and those of his prede cessor, which inform it have excited the zeal of the Procu_ radores Reales, in order that they may indict several journals for divers articles which they are of opinion come within the scope of the law as to being suppressed. The Regency has charged me to make known to y our Excel lency that its intention is no way to shackle the free exer cise of the faculty of expressing their opinions, which is granted to all Spaniards by Article 2 of the Constitution, However severe may be the censure on the measures re lorted to by the Government, and however violent and re peated may be the attacks of which the members of the Re vency are the object, your Excellency is to abstain hence- F,rth from similar proceedings, by allowing the Procura im es Reales full liberty to act according to their o;vn con viction. Madrid, Dec. IS. MANOEL CORTINA. To the Political Chief of the Province of Madrid. LEVANT NEWS. The Scamandre steamer, bringing the Levant mail, ar rived at Marseilles on the morning of the 26th ult. ( Sa turday last); but, in consequence of the quantity of water she shipped during an exceedingly stormy passage, there is reason to believe that a large portion of her levers has been destroyed or rendered altogether illegible. The sub joined communication from a Correspondent at Marseilles will be found to embody the substance of the intelligence brought by the Scamandre :_ MARSEILLES, DEC. 26. The Scamandre steamer, from the Levant, which was due on the 21st, did not arrive here until this morning, the 26th. As far as Leghorn she bud a very stormy passage, and between that port and Toulon she was in such danger that all the passengers were obliged to work at the pumps. The letters were so completely swamped that they formed a sort of paste, so that it was almost imposs . blz to dis cover the addresses. Several commercial documents have thus been lost, and one of the first Greek mercantile houses has received several envelopes without their contents. This vessel brings letters from Alexanth ia of the NI of December. Those received by the Plim.on were dated the 12th, so that those just recived are of no interest, ex cepting that they bear witness to the deplorable position of M. Cocheict and the merchants, whose protector he is by a legal fiction. This functionary goes no mote to the palace, and the merchants are quite resolved to have uo further disputes with the natives, as in the prese: t posi !ion of our Government they wuld be sure to be in th..: wrong. The Egyptians even go so far as to reproach our Consul for having caused all their misfortunes by having persuaded the Pacha not to allow the fleet to leave the port, as they say that it would have brought the English quadron to action, and have enabled Ibrahim to recover his lost ground. This fanferonade comes rather badly from people who carried away the guns, in order that they: might not be obliged to fight, as soon as Commodore Na pier hove in sight. But the French Government has SO conducted itself as to be treated With deserved contempt. Constantinople letters are dated D e c. 8. The Sultan's loan with the English bankers has been ratifiod at London, by the obligation to make the first payments very shortly. Tnis money is expPeted great impatience, as one of the first principles of the. Treaty is that the Turkish Government shall call in all' its nommade paper, which is now at a discount of five or sir for cash. A fearful tempest has lately swept over the Black Sca" and the Sea of Marmora, and incalculable damage has been done. The vessel belonging to the Danube Company, which was chartered by the Government to carry troops and money into Syria, has been wrecked in the 5.. , a of Marmora. The soldiers completely pillaged the vessel before leaving her, and three of them, who jumped over board, have perished. The Russian steamer from Odessa to Constantinople was wrecked on the coast of Khili ; the engine became in-- jured during the storm, and the vessel, no longer minding her helm, was thrown on the rocks, and nineteen men and passengers perished ; the captain, however, was saved. The Trebisonde steamer had 600 men on board, five of whom were swept away by a wave ; three others have gone raving mad from fright and cold, and were obliged to be lashed to the masts ; twenty more, who were taken at Constantinople, have their limbs completely frozen. The changes which have been talked about in the Divan are confined to Mehemet Reschid Paella, the Chief of the Artillery. This functionary, who must not be confounded ith his namesake the Grand Vizier, was educated at Paris, but is, nevertheless, a bigoted Mussulman, and has numer 7 ous enemies. The Circassians have lately reaped some more ttiumplis over the Russians. They have taken and razed to the grounds the fortress of Ghelingik. This place was one of the firmest strongholds of the Russians, with a fine deep bay affording excellent anchorage for their fleet. Al SOOl4 as the Admiral saw that the Circassians had got into the fort he opened a tremendous fire from the fleet upon the place, without distinction of friends or foes; but although the carnage was fearful, all his efforts were unavailing and could not save the fortress The only place they now pos sess is the stone fort of 'Napa, and the Circassiaus are now making preparations to attack it. EGYPT. The following iatereepted letter from Ibrahim Pacha to Mehemet Ali, received from Constantinople, will be read with interest : TRANSLATION. " Ejub Aga yesterday brought me the letter of your Highness, which I read and understood fully. On the same day, the 31 Ramadan, Selim and Ismael Paellas, with Goubran Effendi, arrived here. The basna being low, I was unable to make the payments. 47,000 purses are indispensable, and you must send them to me.* Selim and Ismael report that neither the artillery nor the cavalry regiments have any barley, and it is impossible to procure any, because the peasants conceal everything. They will neither contribute nor give anything; the infidels of Saida have made them insolent. We are in want of many things; Syria will be no longer tenable, if the sea is not soon free. Affairs stand thus :—Eleven days ago had your Highness ordered me to withdraw hence, I should not have done so. At pre sent everything has changed. Our infantry would be good, but the Syrians are worth nothing ; I had allowed them to leave me, after obliging them to render up their arms. The Arnauts being in league with some seducer, demand either their pay or discharge. I have allowed them to retire. The same with a part of . . . We are alone. The rains and cold are disagreeable. The bivouacks are worth nothing. I cannot hold my present position till the end of the Ramadan ; but in case your Highness should desire to abandon Reri Schen (Syria) temporarily, I shall not be able to take away the cannon. Our enemies receive assistance from Constantinople and Malta. Ships, soldiers, and ammunition arrive daily, and they overrun the coast of Sy ria in as many hours as I could do in days. It is there fore prudent not to come here with the fleet, for the Eng.. lish would take it before our eyes. The Consuls have given me to understand that Acre will be bombarded ; bombarded perhaps, but taken not yet. Everything there is in excellent order. Mahmoud has requested matrosses, and I have sent 340, for, to use in my position here, they would be useless. From the frontier there is nothiog new. Maghium Bey is at Aleppo. Ahmed Bey will withdraw as soon as the Ottoman troops advance. The season is unfavourable to our enemies, who arc not very numeraus. Maghium supposes that at Aleppo there arc both spies and people to seduce our soldiery, sled that the vulgar are blind. The same may be said of Damascus." * A purse is about a sterling in round numbers, conse quently the sum required by Ibrahim would be 235,0001. NEWS FROM TURKEY. VIENNA, DEC 22.—The accounts from Constantinople of the Bar inst., which arrived hers by express last night, and appear in the Austrian Observer to-day, stating the Porte had declared the conventions concluded by Commo dore Napier with Mehemet Ali to be null and v,-,id, had the effect of greatly increasing the apprehensions of our Exchange, and depressed the funds, so that Bank Shares were to be had to-day, 1540, and other stocks in the came proportion. It may, however, bs justly doubted whether these apprehensions arc well-founded, since news may be daily expected that Admiral Stopford has concluded a similar convention at Alexandria, which may, perhaps, dif fer only in the form from that of CAnniodore Napier, as it is known that the instructions sent to Admiral Stopfcrd contain a clause that the unconditional submission of MAciliet Ali, and his own application for pardon, is to be considered as the final condition of his reinstalment. 11 is highly probable that Mehemet Ali will not make any op position on this point, since he must be sensible that he has no alternative but either to accept the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt on these terms, or to expose himself to total ruin. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, DEc. 30.—According to custom the Minister of Finance laid on the table of the Chamber of Repro. sentatives, at the beginning of the Session, the account of the state of the Treasury on the Ist of October last. This document shows what was at that time the excess of the expenditure above the revenue ; an other words, what was the dtficiency of the Treasury. setting out with the year 1830. This document, the details of which would be uninteresting, amounted on the Ist of October, 1840, to 18,455,0001., requiring an equal sum in Treasury bonds to be kept in circulation. To this amount of float ing debt must be added the four millions for the loan made to the Bank of Belgium, and the eight millions necessary for restoring the administration of the national debt to a regular state. But on the other hand, as five millions!are to be taken from the produce of the loan to reduce the c o ating debt, this debt will be only 23,500,000 f. It will be further reduced by the application of the overplus of the current year, which promises to be considerable. Baron Norman, Belgian Charge d'Affaires in America, returned to Brussels two days ago. nELGIAIt N urins--BRUSSELII, DEC. 3). Actual Debt, :2 1 ,4 per Cent. to Lean, 5 per C,nt 96 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. BB . ----(1 4.) 96 ----------- 3 per Cent. — ....—...Thirty•SQVCll.. •. Loan of City, Mt?, 4 per Cent 9O Society of Conunsrce, 4 y ‘ i per Cent llO Bank of Plelgitnn, 5 per Cent ............. ~ F6 National Society. ....................... Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Dec. 30. AUSTRIA N FUNDS.—litunivit, Dcc. 22 ril C per C,,qts. illetallique Fo&I per Cents. ... ............ .... Three p , r Cents. ........... .. ....... .... ro sank shares ... ........................................... . —Ail,:emezne &slung, D cc. 27 TIIE KIRKCALDY BURGHS.—CoI. Ferguson arrived in this city on Monday, a n d is no doubt now among his constituents. Of his success t h ere i s no doubt, a n d t h e Tory gentleman who has been reconnoitring the ground, is now sati.fied, we presume, that he might have spared himself the trouble.--Scotsman. _ LISZT AT HAMBURGII.—A letter from Ham burgh of the 10th of December, announces that M. Liszt gave the entire proceeds of his first concert at the great theatre there, amounting to 3,189 rixdollars (nearly 7001.), for the foundation of a pension list for the benefit of the members of the orchestra of that theatre. The musicians thus munificently provided for went in a body to the celebrated pianiste's hotel with an expression of tht ir gratitude. On the following evening they executed a magnificent serenade, including some of his own chosen compositions, beneath the windows of the apartment which he occupied at the hotel. LONDON: FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1641. We rejoice to find the old year departing and the new one commeneing with discussions on the first principles of Government, because it is impos sible to contemplate the abject condition, physical and moral, of the mass of society throughout Europe, while the bounties of Heaven are unspeak able, without suspecting ;that there is something fAndamentally wrong in the mode of administering the affairs of society. If discontent be natural to man, we know no mason why it should now be almost universally concentrated on Govettnent, the creature of man's will, like his houses and his ploughs, which never excite his anger,—unless it be that Government no longer answers the purposes for which it was created. If his house, instead of sheltering him from the wind and rain, continually exposed him to the pitiless storm, and acted, like a chasm in a mountain, to draw all its fury on him, if it were also continually catching fire, and scorching him with its blaze, or wounding him by its down-tumbling rafters, he would begin to he discontented with his house, and would probably conclude that it would be better to give it a prey to the flames than be at the trouble of continually repairing and upholding it. We know no other way to account for the general dis content with Government but to suppose it is like such a house—a supposition that seems warranted by the manner in which the bulk of the people al most everywhere suffer from its proceedings ; and the bare possibility that such a supposition may be correct makes us rejoice that our Contemporaries, at the close of the now departed year, have begun a discussion on forms and principles of Govern- merit. We have on two or three occasions lately been called on to notice the doctrines of the Times and the Post on this subject, and yesterday the latter had some remarks, transferred to The Sun, which seem to give a short explanation of the phenomena. " We do not dispute," it said, "that the tendencie s ()f :mciety arc towards democracy, but the more pal pable the tendency becomes the more incumbent it is upon dutiful subjects of monarchical governments to resist That tendency." We believe that the Post in this sentence expresses the opinion of the great majority of the Tories, while it also correctly desig nates whet has throughout been their conduct. They have laid it down as a principle that it is their duty to resist the democratic tendencies of society, and they have acted on that rule with ereat pertinacity and equal rigour. If they had confined themselves to argument and per suasion, we should have had nothing to say against them, but they have endeavoured to enforce their own views by many unjust, and not a few bar barous and most cruel enactments. Without going one step further, the avowal that the Tories think it their duty to resist the progress of democracy, coupled with the fact that they have long acted on that principle, both in office and office, is I quite sufficient to account for the discontent of the numerous democracy who have been coerced and constrained against their will. To satisfy them that this is for their benefit, while they are exposed to such an immense number of physical and moral evils, is hopelessly impossible, and as they keenly feel both the evils, and the rigorous restraints, can any man wonder that the multitude are discon tented? But what is meant, or what can any man mean, by the phrase tendencies of society ? Not surely the writings or speeches of one or a few persons ? They do not give a tendency to society. What is meant, apparently, is this, that all the members of the same community being created with a rough kind of equality, there is a constant tendency, whenever that equality has been disturbed, to restore it. That is, and ever has been, the course of nature. The slave-owner deprives another man of his li berty, and the slave incessantly tries, while lie has any hope of success—nothing but an overwhelm ing conviction of the impossibility of success puts a stop to his struggles--to regain his liberty, and make himself as free as his tyrant. The course of European society is an illustration of this on a large scale. We know enough of the condition of our Saxon ancestors to decide that they were divided into masters and slaves, and that the latter were most rigorously, and often very inhumanly treated. What is true of them is also true of almost every ' other tribe in the infancy of European society. Then almost every year was marked by predatory incursions of contending tribes or nations, which ended in carrying off men into slavery, or in occu pying their soil, and making them slaves in the land of their fathers. The conquest of WILLIAM of Normandy, totally unlike modern conquests, though quite consistent with the freebooting excursions which were common to that age, ended by his ap propriating amongst his followers the bulk of the land of England. "He bestowed," writes SMOLLETT, "upon his uterine brother ROBERT the county of Cornwall, comprehending 2538 manors, besides 558 which he possessed in other pro vinces. The next brother, ODO, was created Count Palatine of Kent and High Justiciary of England with 400 fiefs in different provinces." His other friends were provided for in a similar manner, so that the whole of England was ap propriated by a very few persons. Now, veer since that period there has been a continual tendency to break up into comparatively small portions the usurpation of the soil thus established. At pre sent the number of landed proprietors is almost in finite compared to the few among whom WILLIAM divided the country ; and only here and there one, like the Duke of SUTHERLAND, possesses any thing like a tithe of the possessions which were conferred on ROBERT and ODo. The Legislature indeed has always done all in its power—by rigidly preserving, as long as possible, feudal principles, the:right of primogeniture, and strict entail—to prevent this tendency of society, but its labours have been in vain. When we take into consideration the many pecuniary bur dens which now rest even on the clearest estates—many of the largest being only nominally in the hands of one person, the income going really into the hands of several mortgagees or annuitants—we shall be:convinced that the breaking up of landed property into comparatively small por tions has been carried much further than is apparent, (though the lawgiver, who has been throughout the landowner, has laboured to prevent this effect), by the tendency of society to restore the condition of equality amongst all its members. But when the soil was so appropriated the people were in a manner appropriated with it, and for a considerable period there appears to have been in general only the two classes of landowners and slaves. That was the height of inequality, and gradually the struggles of the oppressed, and the extravagance anti folly of the oppressors produced a middle class. Towns arose ; opulent citizens pur chased parts of the domains of the Nobility ; and hundreds, and even thousands, came to cope with the landlords in opulence, and raised themselves up to be their equals in every branch of ac quirement and enjoyment. Finally, to jump to our con elusion, the numerous middle class, who could no longer be kept out of political power, were admitted by the Reform Act to share it. We maintain, therefore, that the tendency of society, marked through a progress of a thousand - years, is always to restore that equality which conquest and oppression originally disturbed, and legislation sought to perpetuate. Now comes, at the end of these thousand years, a still more numerous class, who have gradually been throwing off the slavery to which their ancestors were doomed, and gradually acquiring the rights and the knowledge of the middle classes, and who demand their share of political power, as they have acquired a large share of social power. To this struggle they are incited by much fell misery, and by the bright example of their happier brethren on the other side of the Atlantic. They must be put down, says the Post, in substance ; they must be put down, say the Tories by their practice, by severe and cruel laws. In fact, ever since the Norman Conquest, one great object of most laws has been to check the rise of the middle classes, and keep the serfs from enfranchising themselves. These laws have not succeeded. The base of the aristocracy has been so widened as to become almost a democracy, and now the whole democracy are struggling to acquire an equal sl:are of power. As the Legislature has not suc ceeded in time past, neither w ill it succeed in future. It will not be able, though guided by Tory :coun cils, and supported by Tory bayonets, to prevent the tendency of society ; but it will, as it has already done, degrade and brutalise the bulk of the people. Let the Post, or the Tory principle of setting up Legislation in opposition to the tendency of society, or of na• ture, be followed with vigour some time longer, let the Tories again lay their heavy hands on our le gislation, and the spring of improvement which is inherent in the mind, and which has hitherto en abled society to go forward urider the many burdens they have heaped on it, may be too weak to resist the load, and the equality restored may be the dead level of the lumper-fed, pries t-ridden population of Ireland. The Standard has grown qui to complimentary to the Ministers, but whether from quarrelling with its own friends or from a mean conviction that it !las erred by abusing them, we a,re unable to deter- mine ; we are inclined, however, to ascribe it rather to temper than conviction, as we km nv that the appa rently tragical pen of our Contenvorary is gene rally guided by some petty passion. It allowed, in deed, its feelings to creep out, when it said that the expressio❑ of its satisfaction with Lord MEL BOURNE'SGovernment " may not be very welcome at the Carlton Club, or among the p,ople who are panting to exchange newspaper wages for official salarg,” but we believe that it is pretty'generally the feeling of the country. We should be better pleased wit} r the Standard's testimony, could we ascribe it t o sober convic- Lion rather than to temporary spleen on account of the rebuke of the Duke o f WELLING TON, and the general disapprobatior t of its party. But whatever motive dictated the lang -nage, it is too remarkable, as 'applied to that Mini ster, who has been so long denounced by the Tories.; for giving a EVENIN G E D ETION. heavy blow and great discouragement to Proles• tantism." who has been reviled as a semi-infidel, and spoken of in the Tory journals in the most op probious terms, not to he preserved and rememb.-red• We copy them from the fiercest foe of the so-called O'CONNEL L Ministry, and the hottest friend of the Church—we copy from the ultra-Tory Standard the following words : " It would be enough, however, for us to know than Premier's conduct is good, as far as Englar.d is con cerned. We will not rob Lord Palmerston of his just praise by any reference to the foreign policy of the Government ; it would he enough—we repeat it—for us to know, that, with whatever motive, Lord Mel bourne ~aoverns well, to h e sa ti s fi e d with hi s govern ment ; but when we remember that among the aspi rants to his Lordship's succession there arc persons, like Lord Ellenborough, whose fear of a Catholic question' would cause them to strangle the Reforma tion itself ; and when we further know that en Ellen borough Ministry would, instead of being, like the pre sent, pressed into the right path, be pressed from that path, we see abundart reason for contentment with things as they are. This feeling," it adds, in the passage already quoted, " is pretty generally the feeling of the country." If the people generally are contented with things as they are, for what purpose does the Standard and the rest of the Tories labour day after day to blacken the character of the Ministers, and involve the country in all the difficulties 'end perplexities of a change ? Is it merely to gratify the Carlton Club, and the few people who are panting to ex change newspaper wages for official salaries ? What a motive for a Ministerial revolution T. By the arrival of the Independence packet ship at Liverpool, yesterday evening, we have received New York Papers of the 10Lh ult., being one day later than the papers brought by the Great Western. In consequence of the great depth of the snow, which rendered travelling extremely diffi cult, when Congress met on the 7th, there were not members enough present to form houses for the discharge of business so that an adjournment from day to day was resolved upon, till the requisite number of members were in attendance. The Pre sident's Message was not therefore delivered when the last mails left Washington for New York, nor was it known when it might be expected in that city. These Papers bring no news of the slightest in terest. More was talked about sleighing and skat ing in New York, than about banks, currency, and the President's Message. The brief intervals be.. tween the sailing of the Great Western and the Independence, had witnessed no arrival either from the South American States, or from the Canadas. The following is the latest account of the state of the New York Money Market : NEW YORK MONEY MARKET—Dsc. 10 . The resumption of the Philadephia banks, on the 15th of January, if not sooner, which is now generally au" flounced and believed, does not seem to give any an.ma° tion to the markets generally—indeed the reverse is felt. In the stock market a general tall has taken place, v ary. ing from I to 2 per cent. Money is also scarc., a nd dearer. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. 15.500 Philadelphia Exchange 20,000 Min ;is Sixes 50 shares Merchants' Banking Assc. 120 do. Mechanics' Banking Association lO2 50 do. Vicksburg Banking do. 100 do. Union Bank 25 do. Bank of America 25 do. Dry Dock Bank 10 do. Commercial Bank 5 do. Lafayette Bank 5 do. Bank of Commerce lO2 200 do. Delaware and Hudson 9Ol 84 - 150 do. Long Island Railroad 5.3i 15 do. Manhattan Gas B5 12 do. Syracuse Railroad 23 do. Patterson R 10 do. American Ex. Bank 25 do. Farmers' Trust., sq 75 do. North American Trust thw 26'Z 75 do. United Status Bank 65/ 50 do. Bos. and Prov. 6Ol 93 40 do. North Jersey Railroad 76 50 do. Stonington R R... . . b3o 27 50 do. Haarlem R R b3O 3 9 200 do. Canton Co. SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD. 25 shares Vicksburg s3o 1 3 25 do. Mechanics' Banking Association B4 25 do. Canton 50 do. Delaware and Hudson nw 84 25 do. North American Trust blo 2 3 50 do. Haarlem 50 do. 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TIIE CONCLUDING VOLUME OF SIR E. L. BULWER'S WORKS, Containing DEVEREUX, _ _ - - - - Ijltkatrated uniformly with the preceding Volumes, price 6s. bd. IS NOW READY. • Order a received by all Booksellers. Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. ''DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRF THIS EVENING, JAN. 1. Will be presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartle• ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews; Ford, Mr. Cooper; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. Aftei• which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled TIIE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo•elli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Alidsummer Night's Dream, with the New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to _!olomence at Sere: o'Clock. Tick: is and plat ss for the Boats to be taken of Mr. Grogan, the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets :nay De had upon application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 33. 6d.; First and Second ireles, ss. ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. .7. ; Gallery, Is. Private Bona to be had solely •f Mr. Andt SKS, bookseller 67. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. ..„ _ Stxth Night of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, and Grand !Dioramic Annual. The principal Characters in the Panto mime by the Bolen° Family; Mr. Southby, the Popular Closn ; Signior Felix Carlo, from Franconis, at Paris : and Miss Sharpe. TIIIS EVENING, JAN. 1,• Will be represented a New Domestic Drama, entitled MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT. Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry Vining. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, After which will be repeated the New Comic Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY.—The LESSEE of this THEATRE begs most respectfully to inform his numerou s Friends and the Public thathe has at great expense entered int an engagement with M. LAROCHE and M. NOEL, Profes sore of Gymnasium of the Royal College, &c., and who ar styled by their own countrymen The Incredibles of Peri These extraordinary Artistes are now by their wonderful per formances astonishing all Paris. The Lessee begs to state the will make their first appearance in. England on the llth Jay nuary instant, on which evening also will be produced Mr. J 'r. Haines' new Domestic Drama, which has been a long time in preparation. The Now Grand Christmas Pantomime of "BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP;" OR, HARLEQUIN JACK OF NEWBERRY, every Evening until further notice. HIGH WATER AT LONDON MUDGE TO.MORROW. Morning 39•mioutes after 7 I Evening 8 minutes after 8. The Publication •f t e Evening Edition of 'f Hz Sox coax menced at 40 minutes after Three. . „., OrF4P.o%,___At, ""1. ~~'"uno CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, DEC. 30. M. HUMANN'S SPEECH ON THE BUDGET. 4' Gentlemen, the King has ordered us to lay before yon‘ the budget of expenditure and receipt for the year 184 2 .. Considerable expenses are imposed on us by circum stances which had taken place before taking office. Our first attentions have necessarily been directed to ascertaining the extent of the expenses already consume mated or commenced, and to calculating the importanae 0r the sacrifices that the interest and the honour of the nation might require. In soliciting the audits necessary for tbe' year 1842, we laid before you an apercu of our financial= position ; it reveals an important fact, viz , that, indepen" dently of accidental necessities, the public revenue, in spit° of its progressive improvement, no longer suffices for the' ordinary expenses of the State. Exclusive of these ex penses, the Chambers have granted for works of public' utility upwards of 4,000,0" which successively absorbed' the funds which the Sinking Fund left free ; these granter by their yearly increase, have at length exceeded the pre scribed amount of the annual revenue. In short, we have to meet extraordinary expenses, which was without doubt. modified by events, or by the resolutions of the Chambers,- but which oblige us, in the present state of things, to include in our ealcuation a deficit, which, though reduced by the combination of a special law for the War and Marine Departments, still amounts to 500 millions , We must also keep in view that the treasury supports an other deposit of 256 millions, previous to the year 1833, and which has hitherto absorbed, in part, the resources of the floating debt. You are well aware, Gentlemen, that the resources granted by the law 17th May, 1837, consisted of the o ver. - plus of the revenue riot otherwise employed, of the re serve of the Sinking Fund, and in short, of the rentes in case of insufficiency of the other ways and means. Now , would it not be a fo!ly to reckon on an overplus of rezeipts when we see them yearly exceeded by our expenditure? You must also rerreirk that the adjudication of l o ans wes indicated by the law of 1837, as a subsidiary resource' , and allow us to add, with the hope that it would never be employed. It is then beyond doubt that the sy9- - tern of the law of 17th May, reposes entirely en the resource of the Sinking Fund. A short tins ago, Gentlemen, the Five per Cents, were so near par, that we were on the point cf seeing the accumulation of the' resources at an end. Had this taken place, the sinking' fund, instead of being of any assistance to the Treasury , would have added to its embarrassment ; for it would have become necessary to borrow for the purpose of reim bursing non.consolidatcd funds previously absorbed ; it would have become necessary to borrow to continue the works already commenced, and which could not be stopped suddenly, and also to borrow to meet the still more impe rious necessities arising from circumstances. We consequently submit to you propositions —one to affect from 1842 the reserve of the sinking fund to the extension of the deposits of the years 1840, 1841, and 1842; the other to authorise a loan of 450 millions to meet the expenses of the public works belonging to the' ; War and M ar ine Departments. An e s p ec i a l pro j ec t or law will be laid before you shortly, dividing the total ex pense of the works on a series of years, and fixing for eacb year a limit not to be exceeded. The sinking fund belongs to the debt—its real and especial destination is to liberate the State ; we cannot, therefore, apply it more appropriately than in paying dr the deficits. The consolidation of the available sums operated every half year will confine within the limits of a prudent foresight the obligations imposed on the Treasury by the sth article of the law of the 7th and 10-h of June, 1833. It will per haps here be objected that should our Rentes get below par, the resources of the sinking fund will not be available for the declination we intend. This is true—but wilgt would arise thereupon ?—why, the extinction of the de ficits would be slightly prolonged, and the floating debt, with the elasticity which belongs to it, would easily pre side for it. Gentlemen,—The plan we submit to your discernmen t is very simple, and the following may be considered as a summary of its results —You will efface with the Sinking' Fund, if circumstances favour you, the deficits of 184 0 , 1841, and 1842, in the space of a few years ; at the end of which you will find this powerful resource increased by cow" pound interest. You will secure the termination of the giteat works of public utility by ways and means not exposed OF Independently of these results, you can, if energetietqlf inclined, increase the revenue of the State so as to (qua) its necessities, without creating new taxes or augmenting tariff duties. We will explain this when we speak Or receipts. I have now to refer to the necessities of the yerr 1842. All the expenses required to keep our civil and military org a Lave boot exp o of L pleti irori bein elucl. otd of 9 diria char the l crea Alai %till oii 105. set t by