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

EVENING SUN poulterer's to a magic toy-shop, concluding with the launch of the Trafalgar. It will be seen that this is a departure from the usual scenic custom observed in the open,ng of pantomimes hitherto, though there is no rea son to imagine it should not prove an alteration for the better. A vast number of persons have, we know, been employed in its preparation, and the acknowledged ta lent of every artist, before and behind the curtain, gives promise that it will be as successful as that species of performance has hitherto been. IRELAND. DunLIN,DEc.24.--:- . The Corn-law Repealers of England may rely upon it, that the people of Ireland not only sympathise with them in their endeavours to obtain a sufficiency of food at a moderate price for their country men, bitt that they will heartily co-operate with their br'ahren in effecting so desirable, so holy an object. A series of demonstrations in favour of free trade in food will be made in this country during the interval between this and the meeting of Parliament. The first , of them took place. last night in the banquetting room of the Mansion-house. The meetinc , was originally intended to have been held in the Rotunda ; but it vas found that the place would be totally inadequate to accommodate k. the numbers applying f or ti c k e t s ;it was accor di ng ly determined on holdin ,, it in the Mansion-house, and the result was a complete triumph for the Repealers. At seven o'clock in the evening the Lord Mayor took the chair. The Loan MAYOR, oh taking the chair, said it was with the greatest alacrity ho obeyed the summons to take the chair... It was impossible for any subject to be, in its nature, of a deeper or graver interest than that mid,* called them.together that evening ; it related to the food of the people. The effect of the present law was starvation. The world had arrived at a period when it was 'emphatically necessary, for all statesmen to look to the good of the working classes. There was no danger of the wealthier classes of th e St a t e , unless they involved themselves in that peril by pertinaciously insisting that a portion of their wealth should be derived from the taxation of the people.—(Hear.) They had met that evening to consider the effects of the bread-tax ; it was a tax which made bread dearer to every human being—(Hear, hear)—and, of course, the pressure of that dearness was felt by the poor and labouring classes. A's to the wealthier classes of the State, the quantity of bread they consumed, as compared with their general expenditure, was trivial, but to the working classes it was 'a question of life and death. The pressure of this tax • was - grossly unequal, and the pressure on the wealthier classes was totally insignificant, and that was demon strated by the single reflection that the quantity of bread that wealthy persons consumed was very insignifi cant in comparison with their expenditure ; whereas the quautity of bread the poor man consumed was the entire Lul of his expenditure for food, and made nine-tenths of The value of his productive power and of his wages.— ' iUlear, hear.) If the Corn-law were of any value any- Where it would be of value in Ireland. Now, he ap pealed to every man who heard him, if wages were not lowr in Ireland than in any other portion of the British • &minibus ? Wages were lower here than in any other part of the entire world.—(Hear.) A miserable six pence a day was the utmost the labourer received in Ire , land, except in the vicinage of the greater towns, where • the wages. apse higher. If any country profited by the Corn-laws it would be Ireland, and if the Corn-laws had a tendency to raise wages it would raise them in Ireland, whereas the direct contrary was the fact.—(Hear, hear.) That demonstrated that the Corn-laws did not raise wages. But C;tri if it were useful to Ireland, and in jurious to the British dominions, he would say, perish the advantages that were thus obtained for Ireland at the cost of any other portion of the country. He would say, that though he was a Repealer, and preferred Ire land, yet he did not wish to give her a preference by means of injustice or iniquity.—(Cheers.) It was their duty to stand by the people of England in that struggle, and a gentleman would address them who had come there to join with him in calling on the Irish to juin in that struggle. On his left was Mr. Thompson, whose name .was inscribed on the brightest pages in Mae history of human benevolence.—(Cheers.) Ile was one of the men that was instrumental in striking the chains from off 100,000 of their coloured fellow subjects, and in o!uining that splendid act of generosity, the emancipation of . the negro slaves through - the British dominions.—(Cheers.) They had also amongst them another' distinguished English gentleman, Mr. Bright, • who had taken an active part in the emancipation of the ,sJuves of England from the tyranny of the oligarchy.- 4Cheers.) His knowledge and information would in- Street and delight them, and though his accent might be „ differetit from their own, the generous emotions of his heart beat responsive to theirs in the cause of suffering lunnanity.—(Cheers.) They would hear the gentlemen, he was sure, with the deepest attention, their charac ters deserved that every respect should be paid to them, and the information they were capable of giving would reward any lengthened attention they bestowed on them. They should all recollect that they were struggling to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and they would now be addressed by Mr. Bright, one of the gentlemen of whotnle had .spoken. Mr. Ilerowr and Mr. THOMPSON subsequently ad dressed the meeting : they were listened to throughout With the greatest attention ; and on resuming their seats, were enthusiastically cheered. Mr. Thompson concluded by expressing a hope of seeing an Anti-Corn Assoclution formed in Dublin, and petitions sent in from i•arioirS parts of the country, for the repeal of the unjust • laws, the effects of which he had been describing to them. —(Cries of " So you will.") • .The Loan MAYOR said that such an association should be formed, and the announcement was hailed with eheero. APTIERNAN, of Mount Tallon, then came for ward, and was greeted very warmly. He was most happy to have that opportunity of informing the gen tle:nen who had conic there from England—and he told them so as an Irish landlord—that he, fur one, who possessed estates in this country, was favourable to a repeal of the present system of Corn-laws.—(Loud cheers.) He spoke there as a landlord, and he knew that a%vast number of landlords in this country enter , taimed similar opinions —(Hear, hear.) The law, as it stood at Present, was murderous in its nature and ten dency, and he had no doubt whatever that the time was come when Sir Robert Peel himself, and the most vio- lent upholders of the present system, 'must yield to the overpowering voice of the people, and repeal those ac cursed laws, which in their tendencies starved half the population of this empire.—(Loud cheers.) Counsellor MOORE then addressed the meeting in an eloquent speech, and concluded by proposing the follow ing resolutions " That the total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws, by permitting the unrestricted importation of food, would essentially advance the agricultural condition of Ireland, and would establish and revive Irish trade and manufacture. . " That it is expedient that all Ireland should petition for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws ; and that measure* be taken to procure signatures to the petitions The LORD MAYOR said he would undertake to get signatures to the petitions, • Mr. Alderman GARDINER was then called to the ' Ohair, and a warm vote of thanks, which was proposed by Mr. THOMPSON, and seconded by the general meet mg, being passed to the Lord Mayor, the vast multitude separated, givitg three cheers for the Queen, the Lord Mayor, the Repeal of the Union, and the Repeal of the Corn-laws. , . MEETINGS TO ADDRESS LORD DE GREY. The: Queen's County gentry and freeholders have fol lowed the example of the Corporation of Dublin, and refused to address Lord de Grey. On Wednesday last his Excellency's admirers, agreeable to requisition duly Pr esented to the High 'Sheriff, m e t a t M ar yb oroug h f or the purpose of voting a connTatulatory Address to the Lord de Grey, but those wilt do not admire the Noble Lord met the re also, an d as the latter happened to be in a tonsiderable majority, they moved an amendment to the e . :!,t ella t an Address t o the Queen on the birth of the Prince of Wales should b e presented, in place of the intended one to Lord de Grey. The amendment was proposed by Atr. P. SALON in an admirable speech. W hen the gentleman h a d cease d .... — rol n - utio speakingi, - .The Hirai SHERIFF pr oceeded to put th e es q and amendment separately , and altho ugh it uite evident that the resolution wa s ne g atived, and tZe as ment carried by at least ten too one, the Hi g h sl:,7lend otherwise. Here a scene of great nff de clared commotion en sued, with cries of "Divide, divide," but the Sheriff' not consenting- to adopt that criterion , decam p ed w ith hi s " followers throtth a side door into the street, amidst the hooting and sift! uting of the victors, who were left in full possession of the Co - urt-hotise. At this time it could be easily discerned the disparity of the numbers, as the Tories who decamped did not leave a chasm visible in the crowded Court. The Sheriff made his exit most unceremoniously, without waiting, according to the usual mode, of votinc , another person to . the chair. On the flight of the Tories, Mr. Lalor was p r oposed as chairman by MICHAELPUNNE, Esq., J.P., and sconded by JOSEPH LYONS, ES(I., J.P. Mr. LALoit was procevding to show the turpitude of the runaways, when he was accosted by the Sub-Sheriff in a low tone. Mr. LaLon, addressing the people, said—Mr. Turpin says he will bring the police to clear the Court-house at the point of the bayonet.—(Cries of " Manchester !") Here Mr. DUNN, J.l'., came forward and stated, that if he considered that such a thing would be attempted, he would stop there till night to see would they dare to do it. When the irritation of the people had subsided, a re solution, proposed by Mr. J. Delany, and seconded by Mr. Fitzpatrick, was adopted with acclamation, de nouncing factious ascendancy of any kind, and declar ing the necessity of such an administration of the law of landlord and tenant as would protect the occupier from the tyranny of rack-rent landlords. A vote of congratulation to tha Queen and Prince Al bert, on the' birth of the Prince of Wales, was adopted with a cclamation, and three cheers were given for th e Queen, Pri nce Albert, and the Pr i nce of Wales. Three cheers were given. for O'Connell, and also for " honest Patrick Lalor." The people then quietly separated, greatly elated with their victory over the Orange faction. I,lle Orange and Tory party left Maryborough com pletely chop-fallen. They arrived in the morning pre pared for victory, and went home defeated and humiliated. OUTRAGES IN TIPPERARY. The Limerick R eporter, received this morning, says that outrages On person and property never were so pre valent (even in the most disturbed periods) in Tippe rary as at present. In part of Limerick and Clare a .similar spirit is manifesting itself, and yet the Govern //wilt is insane enough to thi n k o f di sm i ss i ng the respon sible Alagistracy. girlie Marohioness of Queensbury has arrived at Farrunce's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from her seat in Scotland. VDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CL.—TO ADVERTISERS.—ADVERTISEMENTS intended for insertion in No. CL. in the EDINBURGH REVIEW are requested to be sent to the Publishers as early as possible. The latest day ADVERTISEMENTS can be received is THURSDAY, January 6; and BILLS (8,500 required), up to FRIDAY, January 7. London : Longman, Brown, and Co. EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THOMAS HOOD ESQ. On the First of January will be published the First Number, for 1842, of COL BURN'S NEW 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 Editor. The Author of " Peter Prig. John Poole, Esq., Author of gins." " Paul Pry." Douglas Jerrold, Esq. Barry Cornwall. Laman Blanchard, Esq. Horace Smith, Esq. Author of " Ftattlin the Reefer And other distinguished writers. " Many circumstances combine to render this periodical a general favourite. The Editor has won an exalted reputation, and his selections are as judicious as his contributions are clever. Sustained as it is by the essays and sketches of so many first rate writers, Colburn's New Monthly may well be esteemed the most attractive of all our periodicals."—Sun. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ARMY AND NAVY. On the Ist of January will be published, the first Number for 1842, of COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MA GAZINE, and NAVAL and MILITARY JOUR- N A L, continued Monthly. The attention of the public, and particularly that of the United Service, is respectfully invited to this Periodical, which has now been established fifteen years, and embraces subjects of such extensive variety, and of such powerful interest, as mast render it scar;ely less acceptable to readers in general, than to the members of those professions for whose use it is more peculiarly intended. *** Those who may desire to commence taking this Maga zine with the New Year, are requested to send their orders immediately to their respective booksellers or newsvenders. " This is confessedly one of the ablest and most attractive periodicals of which the British press can boast, presenting a wide field of entertainment and instruction to the general as well as the professional reader. 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. The Public is respectfully informed, that this Theatre will open for Theatrical Representations THIS EVENING, DEC. 27, When Her Majesty's Servants will aet the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspeare. Duke, Mr. G. Bennett; Antonio, Mr. Phelps; Bassanio, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia. Mrs. Warner ; Nerissa, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After which will be produced the New Christmas Pantomime, called 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, Z. 6J. Pit 35., Second Price is. 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'g Comedy of SHE WOULD AND SHE WOULD NOT.—Don Manuel, Mr. W. Farren ; Don Philip, Mr. Cooper ; Don Octavio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Trapanti, 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 le 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, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2s. • Gallery, ls. 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 apoa application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF7MR7DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. Al the talent of London. Grandeur and expence unequalled. All New. THIS EVENING, DEC. 27. Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. To conelude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN ; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Hu line ; 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! Unprecedented; 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 P a nt om i me suppor t e d b y th e Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to theßoxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEW STRAND THEATRE. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. Monday, Dec. 27, and every evening 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 Classical Experiments 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, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d., Children, Is. ; Gal lery, 6d. Half-price a Quarter to Nine ; Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, no half-price. Carriages to be in waiting Ten Minutes to Eleven. TIM RAILWAY SUN ]S NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN) AND THE P.ARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SLYPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 27, 1841. THE WEATHER.—NooN, DECEMBER 27. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 30 I Highest 46 Lowest 25 Barometer 29.83.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning 22 minutes after 1. I Evening ......48 minutes after 1. The Publication of the Evening Edition of nix SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. t 2 mt. LONDON MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1841. The Morning Post has supplied a _ wonderfulwitl'a testi t n h : e_ of conduct which c annot fail both to li establish character of the Tories , and be provement to morality, considered a s a science. " Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S speech," we are t o ld , 4C i s a specimen of yenhine liberality, whielt afford s a favourable contrast to the spurious liberality whereof Whig-Radicals are so apt to boast." W e 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 essence consists, according to the Post, in " Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S willingness to make such changes in the present Corn-law as will lessen. (lower, qy.) the existing bar to the import of corn under 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 20s. to 30s. The proof of the genuine liberality of the Tories, a n d , p I .arti- cularly of Mr. CHRISTOPHER, lies in the effects of these two alterations. Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S plan for altering the ave rages, is to " exclude all the head quarters of rge consuming districts, such as Wakefield; ondon, Liverpool, Hull, &c.," and " to make up the averages by the sales of both buyers and sellers, in every market town (the above excluded) in the kingdom." He proposes also to take the averages from the sales of the growers as well as the buyers. The certain effect of his plan would be to exclude from the 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 average 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 " 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 655., 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. 4s. 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, thougtrthe 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 cruard 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 3s. would be a fixed duty at all prices above 655. " Within the last four months (says the Morning Herald, Is 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 - - - - %..7 • the whole Christian world celebrates and glory fies the mercies of the great CREATOR, the Tories of England, aided by the priests of 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, bypocriti- cal classes, one of their members, supported by the journals of his party, has the astounding impudence and ungodliness, under the tmask 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. 4 , The reckless agitation now so rife," according to Mr CIIRISTOPHUR, nmst be got rid of. " You will please to observe," he slys, "that Parlia ment is now caged to entertain the question and what ever we may thi n k as to the prudence or policy of Par liament entering into this discus:don, it is not in our power any longer to resist it. "I would ask you. as practical men, as men not merely well acquainted w i t h agriculture, but well versed in general public affairs, can you, in the present state of public, feeling, refuse any longe r to consider in detail the existing Corn-laws The ")"-law rep lerB, then, have driven , ,-.-, s.tv4 . .. e-,,,,, . ..„. ~., 4 ., :.,„ ._ „ft.:A, ~.... 4 .. ~,,, , , ....4 3, , F-,,,... 7 , , f_ . ~ .. ...4, M.,...;''12?!..t° ' , 5 ,, ... '"11 a. O ' ''''- 41 % 3' ' ' ' •;-- . . ... - .4" „F a . ~ ,, t y wu , ,,,..et.,4 0 , 1 44, _ , • , -,..,- -,v.1,„----;...-• t,,,,. ........--_ _ i THE SUN, LONDON, MQNDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1841 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 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 tbr 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 Ibeen 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 1 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 com parative ease and independence. The present condition of England, which has for years past 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 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 result 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. Letters from Constantinople, of the Ist of De cember, announce the arrival there of Major FARRANT, with despatches from Sir JOHN M'NEIL, the British Ambassador at the Court of Persia. The SHAH, finding that his efforts to get rid of this Minister were quite unavailing, changed his former conduct and received him most graciously. To mark the good will of the Government, the Commer cial Treaty with England so long pending, was produced and signed, and will reach London for ratification in a day or two. Some Kurdish ban ditti had plundered and slightly wounded two of the attaches, Messrs. TODD and ABBOTT, but they reached Tabreez without further accident. The following is the latest news from the Circassian coast : Intelligence has been received by way of Trebizonfl, of a victory gained by the Circassians over the Russians; the most signal and decisive, it is said, that has oc curred since the beginning of the war. A large ex pedition, consisting of thirty thousand men, had been disembarked on the coast, with a view of destroying the grain, which had been collected by the Circassians after the harvest, when a storm having suddenly arisen drove the ships from their anchorage. The Circassians, availing themselves of the opportunity, assailed them fiercely on every side, and the Russians separated from their stores, which had been carried out to sea, were compelled to commence a disas trous retreat through a country consisting entirely of mountain forest and defile. With the exception of two thousand who escaped to Anapa, the whole of the thirty thousand were killed or made prisoners ; such are the accounts from Trebizond. Further details of this tre mendous disaster of the Russians are eagerly expected here. We have Madrid Papers of the 18th inst. M. SALVANDY, the French Ambassador, and the Spanish Government were not on the best terms. His Excellency, before delivering his credentials to the REGENT, demanded a pri= vate audience with the Young QUEEN. This was refused on two grounds First, because the Spanish Government could not recognise him as an Ambassador, before pre senting his credentials, and, again because the QUEEN, being a minor, could only be seen in the presence of her guardians. M. SALVANDY talked big, and threatened to demand his passports, which lo his no small chagrin were at once of fered him by the F,oreign Minister. The Funds were not quite so active on the 18th. The Fives closed at 321 for cash, and 33i at 60 days. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all reached us. No political event which occurred in France since the Revolution of July, produced so deep and painful an impression in the capital as the condemnation of M. DUPOTY by the Court of Peers. The whole Press seemed to reel under the stunning effect of this tremend ous blow aimed at the right of political discussion in France. Even the Debats staggers under it while eszaying a sort of lame apology for the Peers. The illoniteur announces that by Royal Ordon nances, dated 23d instant, the following person ages have been raised to the dignity of the Peer age : — Vice-Admiral B ERGERET Co un t AR THU BEUGNOT, Member of the Institute—Vis count DE BOND; formerly a Prefect—M. BOUL LET, first President of the Cour Royale of Amiens —Baron DE BOURGOING, Minister Plenipotentiary —Baron DE BUSSIERE, Minister Plenipotentiary —Lieut.-General Count CHARBONNEL—M. DE CHASTELLIER, formerly Mayor of N ismes—Baron DUFOUR, Mayor of Metz, President of the Coun cil-General of the Moselle—M. FERRIER, Presi dent of the Council-General of the Nord— Viscount DE FLAVIGNY, Member of a Council General--M. FRANK CARRE, First President of the Cour Royale of Rouen—M. DE GASCQ, President of the Cour des Comptes—Lieutenant- General Baron GOURAND Chevalier JAU BER r, Member of the Institute-I\L LESERGEA NT DE BAYEUGHEM, formerly Deputy, President of the Council General of the Pas de Calais Count DE MURAT, formerly Deputy and Prefect —Baron D'OBERLIN, formerly Deputy—Lieute nant-General Viscount PELLEPORT—Count DE SAINT PRIEST, Minister Plenipotentiary. Of these twenty creations, nine have been Royalists, namely, MM. BEUGNOT, BOUR - GOING, BUSSIERE, DE CHASTELLIER, FLA VIGNY, LESERGEANT, MURAT, PELLEPORT, and ST. PRIEST. M. JAUBERT is the father-in - law of M. DUFAURE. The deaths, in 1841, of Peers have been nine, namely, Baron BIGNON, Marshal Duke DEBELLUN 0, CORM DE L AROCHE FOUCAULT, Count PERREGAUX, Count DE CES SAC, Duke DE PRASLIN, the Prince of MONACO, Duke DE GI:LAMONT CADEROUSSE, and General Viscount Tis LET. A report has been circulated this evening, and was generally believed, that at a Council of Ministers held to-day the King had commuted the sentence of death passed on Quenisset, Colombier, and Just, to that of transportation. It was added that all the persons con demned were to leave Paris this evening, to be trans ferred, some to Mont St. Michel, some to Doulens. As for M. Dupoty, even if the state of his health did not afford a reason for granting a delay, another motive would keep him at Paris; he is to appear before a Jury on account of an article in the Journal du Peuple.— Comnzerce. It is said that the counsel of the principal persons con demned have received an assurance of a respite from the Keeper of the Seals, and that no decision has yet been come to on their application for mercy. A Ministerial order, transmitted to the Director of the Prison of the Luxembourg, informs him that the removal and transfer of the condemned individuals is provisionally deferred. - The Reine Blanche frigate, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Dupetit Thomars, commanded by Captain Alix, and the Triomphante corvette, Captain Balijot, sailed from Brest on the 20th of December for the Pacific Ocean, where they are to be stationed.—Constitutionnet We shall have several high tides in 1842. Those of January 28, February 25, March 26, August 5, Septem ber 4, and October 4, will greatly exceed the average, and may cause great damage if they are seconded by the wind.—Courrier Francais. BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, DEC. 25. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pm... Prier. French 5 per.Centi llO 60 ... 116 60 ... 116 55 ... 116 55 3 per Ceuta. ex div. 71 50 _ 18 55 ... :13 45 .... 7e 45 Sank of vrance -.457 50 ..n4,7 50 ...3440 ....3441? Lad!ltte Bank s,oool;Shares 5035 ...50.35 —.5030 ...5030 delgiari Bank" 793 ... 791 ... 790 ... 795 1811 Belgian 5 per Cents. S per Cent:., 1840 lO3 ... 103 ... 103 ... US ipanoth Active % .... 24% ... 24% ... 24% Paisive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% New Deferred Old Deferred 5% ... 5% Neanolit. 105 75 ... )55 73 ... 10; 7 5 ... ;05 75 Portugueses per Cents 28% ... i'.B% ... 28% ... 28% Amman...:. lO3 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Ver.ilich, L.li 197 50 .. 197 50 ... 147 50 .. 197 50 R. 8 3 3 75 ... 3 , 3 75 ... 323 75 ... 323 75 490 __ ... 493 75 487 50 ... 493 75 Orleans . :. _ . Straburg collate 223 75 223 75 ... 2`M 75 223 75 DUTCH FUNDS.—Ansmacram, Dec. 21. Money. Bill Actual Debt, 254 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Ainoit Syndic, 43,E per cent 20 %. 01 1 4 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 75% 76% Commercial Company, 4% per cent 154% /55% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Loan 183'7, 5 per cent. 97% 97 Exchange on London, One month l2 10 Two months ..... Hamburgb, One month 35 67% Two months 35 50 Dutch Papers, Dec. 25. BELGIAN 1 . UNDS—Betnissca , Dim 21. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. ...... ------- 3per Cent. — --- 71% —(1840) lOl Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent. O6 Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent. — Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent... ......... NationalSaciety. .... — Exchange on London (short) — —Brussels Papers, Dee. 24. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Deo. 17. f iye per Cents. Metalliques Foliar per Cents. 99% Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgeeseine &iron,. Dec. 21. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dec.2l . Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1625 Anglo-Russian Loan lOBO HP% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, lstSeLies 1034 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 9sq Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cant. (1840) 864 86% Dutch Actual Debt, 254 per Cent 5034 50 Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds 154 New Picket 161% Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent............. ....... 77% 775 k Norwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cleat.... 102% 102% Spanish, New 5 per Cent 5.......... ....... .. Th irty .seven• EXCHANGES OK LONDON. HAMBURG, Dec. 21.-43 6 3 4.—Tw0 months, 13 5. STocEnoLm. DEC. 14.—Seventy-five days, 12. 12. BERLIN, Dec, 13. - Three months, 6,1:,%. 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 u unj st 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 conclusion ; 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 unavoidably continue to be, 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 other of very inferior land, on which a great deal of capit a l h as 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 oppressiveness of taxes on rent. We doubt, indeed, whether it be possible to suggest any tax more decid e dly at variance w i t h every sound principle, or more adverse to the progress of improvement."—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 direct and from its indirect effects, and no Government is warranted in levying a single sixpence on thapeople by taxation Nt hich is not strictly necessary to the performance of its functions. TAKING IT cooLLY.--Commodore Napier was sitting in an arm-chair by the wheel, and although several gallant officers on board began to look a little astonished at the thickly-coming missiles, the sturdy Commodore did not so much as turn his head ; but in a calm voice, and motioning with his hand, said to the steersman, "Port a little—port—that will do;" and thus the ship's head being slightly altered, the enemy's range was so far confounded,—Hunter's Expedition to Syria. GREAT WESTERN RA IL WAY ACC I DENT. (B Y EXPRESS.) (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate individuals who were killed by the late fatal ac cident on the Great Western Railway was re sumed this morning at theShepherds'-house where the previous proceedings had taken place. The C oroner, Mr. May, arrived at nine o'clock precisely, but some delay was occasioned in consequence of the non-arrival of one of the jurors. I visited the slip at Sonning-hill this morn ing, where the melancholy occurrence took place. The Workmen are still employed in clearing away the rubbish, and making good the face of the slope. .The statement that the cut ting was extremely steep, appeared to me, from the position in which I viewed it, to have been made without good grounds. The bank slopes away very considerably on either side, and is co vered with a green turf, giving it an appear ance of solidity, which unfortunately it does not appear to have possessed. The patients in the Reading Hospital are; I understand, going on extremely well. Another was discharged yesterday afternoon, making five out of the seven teen originally brought in, and it is stated that the persons who received injuries of the spine, and about whom the greatest apprehensions were en tertained, are in a fair way of recovery. The following are the names of the Jury:— James Millard, foreman ; Benjamin Lovegrove, John Silver, Chas. Millard, Gyles • Dearlove, William Manners, George Brown, William Wa nilow, John Wheeler, Richard Manners, Wil liam Bromley, George Mills, William Harling. Mr. Saunders, the secretary of the Company; Mr. Brunel, the engineer; the contractors, assist ant engineers, and other persons connected with the railway, were present, as were also Mr. R. Palmer, M.P., and several influential gentlemen of the neighbourhood. When the proceedings commenced the room was crowded in every part. The missing juryman having arrived, The CORONER said the. Jury were aware that the inquest had been adjourned from Saturday last, for the purpose of obtaining further evidence as to whether the slip had been sudden and without notice, or whether it had occurred after previous indications so as to call the attention of the Company to it. They were also to obtain evidence to identify the bodies, and 'as there were several strangers in attendance for that purpoFe, it would be perhaps an accommodation to them to take that part of the evidence first. John Williams—l live at Ctleltenhain. lam a stone-mason. My son accompanied me in the luggage-train from London, on Friday-morning. We started from Paddington between four and five o'clock. My son's name was Charles. He was a stone-mason, and about twenty-four years of age. I saw my son at the time of the accident under the wheels. The first thing I felt was a dreadful shock, and soon after I found myself on the ground. The carriage in which I was riding was upset. There was something on my arm. My son was in the first carriage ; I was in the second. I tried to get up and fell again, when I recovered my senses. I went to look for my son; he was under the wheels of one of the luggage waggons with another poor man. The wheel was on his throat, and his arm was through it. He and the other man were quite dead. One carriage was on the top of the other. I have seen eight dead bodies lying in a hut near this' place. The bodies are lying in a row, my son's is the second. The stoppage of the train was very sudden, but I can not tell how it occurred—it was dark at the time. Jabez Clee, a stonemason of Cheltenham, was one of the passengers, and was about 19 years old. George Mabbott, of Gloucester, a stone mason, was also one of the passengers. The hinder carriages ran upon and crushed the ones in front. I cannot say whether any of the car riages remained on the rails. I had too much on my mind to attend to anything but my son. George Allen—l live at No. 2, Haddington street, York-road, Lambeth. I am a stone mason, and foreman to Messrs. Grissell and Peto. I have seen the bodies of the eight per sons lying dead near this place. I can recognise three of them. One is Charles Williams, another George Mabbott, and the third is Jabez Clee. They are all stonemasons, and were in the employ of Messrs. Grissell and Peto at the New Honks Of Parliament. Clee was about 35 years old. They were going to the country to spend. the Christmas holidays with their friends.. Hear ing of the accident, and knowing the men, I was anxious to see after it, as I was aware that many of them were g oing by the train, and we always wish to have a good feeling with our men. A person who was prey, at said that Mr. Ar nold, a medical man of the neighbourhood, had seen some of the persons killed immediately after the accident; and it might be as well to examine him. The CORONER did not think it necessary. If he was wanting he would be sent for. Samuel Huish—l live at 58, Clarence-gardens, Regent's Park. I am a painter. I have seen the eight dead bodies, and know two of them, Joseph Hands and Jabez Clee. Hands was a painter, and lodged with me. He left my house at half-past three o'clock on Friday morning, to go by the luggage train. He was about 22 years old, and a native of Cheltenham. Susannah Ralph—l am the wife of William Ralph, of Buttwell, in Oxfordshire. My husband is a victualler. I have seen the eight dead bodies and recognize that of Richard Ralph, of Har well, Berks, my brother-in-law. He dealt in fruit.• It was here stated that the witnesses to identify two other of the bodies had not yet arrived, and' the remaining one there was no person to identify. The CORONER said as these witnesses had not arrived, he would now proceed to another, and the most material part of the case, namely, as to whether the slip was sudden, and without notice, or whether there were such previous indications as required the attention of the Company. He wished to know what evidence there was on tha point ? Mr. GOSLING had no char g e whatever to bring against the Compa n y, b u t hbelieved there were witnesses in attendance who 'could prove the pre vious slip of the earth. The following witnesses were then called in and examined. Robert Hatton, of Sonning-4 live Dear the Sonning-hill cutting, and cross the bridge twice a day. I know the spot where the slip of earth took place on Friday morning last. It is on the south side of the cutting. I observed it a fort night previously. I was goinc , over the bridge, and I saw the slip of earth and some drain tiles. The slip was about eight yards up the bank. I observed some of the drain tiles dis placed. It was precisely at the spot where the earth fell on Friday last. The earth bulged and drove up some of the d rain tiles apparently. The tiles were completely out of the ground, and laying on the top of the mould. They did not appear to have been placed there. I was on the wooden bridge about 250 or 260 yards from the spot. That was on yesterday fortnight. Some of the mould had fallen down upon the—road between the rails and the bank. A couple ofcart loads fell. All the sward between the cut and the road was covered. By Mr. Brunel—l saw this on Sunday fort night. I pass twice a day and never saw any men there removing it. I don't know whether it was cast down—by shovels or not. I saw the same thing a week ago still there. It was in just the same state. Thomas Goodchild—l am a bricklayer. I live at Sonning. A fortnight ago last Thursday I was going up to one of Mr. Palmer'sn cottages. Between 9 and 10 in the morning, as I was crossing the wooden bridge, looking towards Twyford, I saw a slip on both sides of the cutting. They were nearly opposite each other. The earth was nearly to the rails on the south side, where the accident took place. It had slipped down be tween the bank and the rails. There was more than two cart-loads, and lay in a sort of circle. The earth appeared to have slipped ten or twelve feet from the bottom, and it appeared to me very dangerous. lam not acquainted with the nature of the soil. I saw' two men at work there at the time, and they appeared - to be removing the earth from the ballast. I saw no tiles. I .00k notice every morning for six mornings, and ,he soil was put back, but the break in the slope was not made good. Mr. Brunel—Do you know that it is the prac tice to leave the slip open in order to drain it?— I dont know. By the Coroner—The slip on the south side seemed to me in precisely the same place as where the accident occurred on Friday la s t. I was there shortly after the accident. By the Foreman—l thought there was danger when I observed the slip. I assisted when the accident occurred, and when I had done all I could, I was ordered off by a policeman. I re mained from seven o'clock till all was over. When I got there the first waggon was dashed all to pieces, and the second was turned up edge ways, and another pitched into it, and caught two poor fellows. [We shall give the conclusion in our Second Edition.] Despatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Gover nor of Jamaica, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. EVENING SUN . 7 1 : 1 if 0 p`' Er E W J'a AND Vutatt Opuntia. " Who runs may read." FOREI. The King of th e French h as G cre N ated a batch of Peers. Twenty new names are added to the Grand Hospital of Incurables. Whenever we now hear of a French crea tion of Peers, we set ourselves about inquiring in wr; way they were ass i st i ng t h e C ourt i n tram pling e foot the liberties of France. The deaths in the French Peerage during the lastyear were nine ; and of the new creation nine were Royalists. As an encouragement to M. Herbert, the Procureabe General, to persever e i n hi s exert i ons to extinguish tan liberty of the press, M. Frank Carte, his predecessor office, figures as one of the new Peers. Three hundred Deputies had arrived in Paris o n Ss' turday, to be present at the opening of the Chambers. The sentence of the Court of. Peers upon M. Dupety, continues to excite an extr a ordi nary s ensation ill l' 4 l In our columns o f thi s day will ba found a surinna r Y ° the opinions of the French Press upon this question.. II The National and Commerce assert that s.g order, order, signed by Lieut.-General Darriule, has Just ow. read in al the barracks in Paris, calling upon the % ye nels of regiments of the first, military division a all the cartridges taken from the cartridge the troops, and to see that none be given out e xcept at the moment when the regiments are ordered under arinin The National states that this order has been is sued ps consequence of the disclosures of Dufour, who has me lts tioned some soldiers as having sold cartridges to Pell° amongst the working classes. Arabag - The following is the speech of the Austrien,"isscel sador to the Queen of Portugal, delivered at his: r - has lency's first audience :—" The Emperor, my twas ii c tion cartridge-box es charged me to assure your Majesty of the a n ' hich which he has for his august niece, and the interes t sa , he feels for the consolidation of her-throne and e.pct:o,;:v perity of the kingd om w hi c h Di v i ne P rov idence has the fided to her care. The rights of your Majesty to ror crown of Portugal were never d ou b te d by the E ta P e my master." s that A letter from M a d r id o f t h e 18t h i nst. i n f o rms It lie there is likely to b e a severe struggle as to who hall the President of th e Cortes. The Ministerial deP ties intend, it is sa id, to propose M. Argue lles ' . tes Queen's guardian, b u t t wo ot h er part i es o f the Cor have each their candidate to propose. priests The tribunal of M a d r id h as acqu i tte d the 43 aith who were arrested in the ex-convent of Gelite s s ' s out even sentencing them to pay the expenses 01. ..."" re ` although they had persisted in exercising the",,„, Go astical functions when forbidden to do so V " vernment. A letter from Constantinople of the Ist of ember, Pee l dertain says :—" Our news from Persia this week .111Se'a — pro importance. The commercial treaty, so long w hi c h jetted between Great Britain and Persia s iinsittir , , th '. i . ely the Shah had hitherto demurred, has been ne"" - w i t l h l it, signed. Major Farrant is now on his way b°w e , f i e stP and it is intended he should return with her 1 - ; *rhea ratification. He was in the Lazaret of Trebisontio w as last accounts left that port, and, as his quar t° by the to be finished to-d a y, we may expect him dew very very first steamer." Novele ber. The Tabreez letter s are t o t h e 11th w here Things were going on very smoothly in Sir John M'Neill and the whole mission were in d Mr. lent odour. Mr. Tod, an attache to the mission, and the Abbott, on their way to Persia, were at t a cked nY . iis otw l t-' Kurds on the frontier, wounded and plundered, standing which they succeeded in reaching Tabree in pretty good health. Business is represented as good that country. 03d, t he According to the Frankfort Journal of the - ria s Municipal Council of Osnabruck addressed Sao ine,:the, to the Legislative, body praying the assembly to t a. King of Hanover to restore the Constitution of f „her °- Persia, excel, The Cassel Gazette states that the Second Loan p a y, the States of H anover has put on the Orders of ti'7_,„ e of a motion exp ress i ve o f regret at the exclusion of s'"" its members from taking their seats. sione ° The Emperor of Russia has been granting,: Pe w s the widows of th e officers who fell in resisting' t he r an d rious attempt f or th e i n d epen d ence o f their ne t ' made by the Poles in 1830. v i c tory The Circassians recently obtained a glorio us killed killed over the Russians. Th e l a tt er l os t 28,000 w e and made prisoners. PUBLIC OPINION. _ t oe on The Morning Advertiser contains a leading. the ope rative resent state of the country, especially t. „teals classes ; and proves, by several statist: Ger tions, that if a comparison be made of th en amount of comforts enjoyed by an English be found to man operative or labourer, the balance will be greatly in favour of the latter. article abound- The Morning Chronicle observes, in an ‘ heavy drov ing in sarcastic allusions to the present of their dull siness" of the Tory party, that the cause that " their ness and gloom originated in a conviction landlords and Prime Minister will fail in satisfying the the nation ; that, in fact, it is beyond his power' dig' The Times has an article on a project, now under .s tor cussion, both by the English and German Journal] the establishing a German colony at the groupe named the Chatham Islands, in the vicinity of New Zealand , object of which article is to show that the nominal c e d , ‘ drselative sion to Hamburgh of the sovereignty over these isle' ) a l would impose on En g l an d th e t as k o f k eep i ng a counre i l o guard, and watch over eve r y movement o f t h e int s y Government and its visitors, whi c h wou ld so on &S t ' of the effect desired by both parties of the es t a blishmen t . he a neighbourly feeling between the settlers a t Chatham Islands and our own colonists. The Post, in the course of an article on Stade Du ties, states that the negotiations between ft or E n , and () . 4 " broken Hanover on this subject, have not bee n have been postponed, but that, on the contrary , t he y completion, brought nearer than ever to a satisfactory_ made new the Hanoverian Government having recently the since proposals to Great Britain, " in order to prove t settle rity of its wish"—adds the Post—" for a Prom meat of a question which Hanover has never done any thing to prolong." the ry , use 'ice The Somerset County Gazette, speaking of the a m d y o s p t t e e r d y , by t htuhse Div i n a g e the a v d e e r r y doctoines, says :—" The Puseyites wrap rel to that o h s r i i t s e tia 7i o t Y rs : legl - w e i ruys' for the first time removed religion out of the regi . ' . °` Th e y tery, and made it plain to the meanest carel' eui front seek to enslave the minds of men by aw in g a t to wh ich thought. Such is the principle of Puseylsl this is i L ts ir e er nd peo an l d its forms and lesser articles of faith are only 50 eservient; , last Protestant operative meeting that took place soc i e ty', C a l i i m ro . n " icle observes, in reference we ak in Liverpool It is certainly unfortunate for t hat and still more unfortunate for the clerical chore_ t, e ree ds), priests, in all ages ( we spea k w i t h out referenceet;t:ad ufl have been the m os t unc h ar i ta bl e, the most hit lave heal, relenting relenting persecut ors o f t h ose w h o h o ld, or dis putan t opinions contrary to themselves. Cleriea, h eo ntealP, A beyond all other men, delight in treating w l ", cu wo't' the divine injunction, "Do unto others e s they should do unto you." , The We take the following from the Cal nu i t cin le ``sp eck cloud that now:obscures us is seen rather ter, t b i c des no bigger than a man's hand,' which J °l.- a d, to b e deluge and the tempest. It is not a surface wou t h e r $ cured with the cautery of fire and bullet, hut rather I' welling artery; not a passing complaint, b i u ;oe tlY chronic disorder,_ threatening dissolution. . 1-4 .tba proportion to . the conviction of the people, t hat rti" several branches of their foreign trade are Pe n I ,i a ns, pidly away into the hands of the Swiss, i ; il ° - French, and Germans, one after one, do t stria week mends against the monopolists become more strstoweeit Speaking of the Anti-Corn-law meeting held llov'ing in Dublin, the Dublin E ven i ng Post makes th e f° elf a remarks :—" The very pl ace of meeting was in B ound striking feature in the scene. It was held in the feSSaw Room built twenty y ears ago f ur t h e purpose O . F rot ten George Where he was. feasted by the „al* cele - Corporation—now, thank Heaven, in its infaineV": Upon the occasion referred to, the Notables . s ei. brites of the Empire, then in Dublin, were invit o e osai e O'Connell was the only man of eminence Wh o ' s . have was left out of the invitations. Twenty Tycounell passed, and are gone, and that same Daniel an d the presides as Lord Mayor in this very room the New tirst use to which it has been turned, Dynasty, is to make it a hall for the some truths, liberal sentiments, and sound sense. is the kind of triumph that we should like to e . rJ e ut of the The Scotsman thus refers to the recent conduct Chartists at Edinburgh :—" At an interesting 1et'41,., the subject of the Corn-laws on Wednesday eveu'diTieteg Mr. Curtis, an American gentleman, these Ct e lelle e d for a voice in the Legislature broke into open ase mb le and turned the church in which they were is , s i l ld into a scene of alarming riot and confusion. - 1 -` eballi that Mr. Lowrey afterwards rebuked them ; b u ss theY dons of this kind are not without instruction, tact i 3 show of what sort of men the Chartist partY l ac aing heatirnirdigr_osfe.whlalhi; quarter is composed. The spirit of blind unreae fury displayed by these men must gain the co-op of every honest workman to put it down. • MONEY—TRADE—conyretzact thr ough The total quantity o f f ore i gn sp i r i ts i nt roduce e r the port of Lond on f or home consumption for the 1841, up to l as t wee k , was 1,331,302 gallons, showrleld., decrease of 43,38 6 gallons, as compare d with the p u ing year. The decrease has been chiefly in rinn.. The distress existing in the Isle of Man is y. OO , by an instance that occurred last week. The wife °f respectable artisan purchased at a brewery tn.tpl d worth of the grains used for cattle, but not having for them, the man followed her home. On enter"„a hef house he beheld the poor woman, t Clio breast, her husband, and four children devouring grains, not having tasted food for four days. d oint-stack The circulation of notes by the private an resent bY banks of England and Ireland is less at present sco ot 1,500,0001. than it was about a month ago.. - 1 - 1 ! with s child Bing by 65,6241. The aggregate amount for the Unitedch notes. iun 3,448,660/• is in Scot _ _ s ap banks, on the contrary, have increased their circu . dom is 38,110,000 i, of which the Ship-building in Maryport (says the Ca rlisl2 od Jou' es partakes of the general dullness that 1) 0 bee n country. A great number of hands have lately__ong discharged from all the yards, and the distress their families is intense. I:•:ZECTIONEERING. ar° The present vacant seats in the House o f Common- Lynn, Leominster, Bandon, and the Univer sit y of llahliv • NAVAS. 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