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

MORNING SUN HE SHIPS EREBUS and TERROR , Extracts of a Despatch from Captain James Ross, of her Majesty's ship Erebus, dated Van Diemen's Land, April 7, 1841, and addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty : I have the honour to acquaint you with the arrival of her Majesty's ship under my command, and the Terror, under my orders, this afternoon at this port. I have further to report to you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that in ac cordance with the intentions expressed in my despatch to you, dated from Hobart Town on the 11th of Nov. last, I proceeded to Auckland Islands, and satisfactorily accomplished a complete series of magnotemetric ob serrations on the important term-day of November last. Under ail the circumstances, it appeared to me that it would conduce more to the advancement of that branch of science for which the expedition has been more expressly sent forth, as well as for the extension of our geo graphical knowledge of the Antarctic regions, to en deavour to penetrate to the southward, or about the 170th degree of east longitude, by which the isodynamic oval, and the point exactly between the two foci of greater magnetic intensity, might be passed over and determined, and directly between the tracks of the Rus sian navigator Bellinghausen and our own Capt. J a mes Cook; and after entering the Antarctic Circle, to steer S. W. towards the Pole, rather than attempt to approach it directly from the north, on the unsuccessful footsteps of my predecessors. Accordingly, on leaving Auckland Islands on the 12th December, we proceeded to the southward, touching for a few days at Campbell Island for magnetic purposes ; and, alter passing among many icebergs to the southward of 63 deg. latitude, we made the Pack Edge, and entered the Antarctic Circle on the' Ist clay of January, 1841. This Pack presented none of those formidable charac ters which I had been led to expect from the accounts of the Americans and French ; but the circumstances were sufficiently unfavourable to deter me from entering it at this time, and a gale from the northward inter rupted our operations for three or four days. On the sth January we again made the Pack, about 100 miles to the eastward, in latitude 66 deg. 45 min. south, and longitute 174 deg. 16 min. east, and although the wind was blowing directly on it, with a high sea running, we succeeded in entering in it without either of the ships sustaining any injury, and, after penetrating a few miles, we were enabled to make our way to the south ward with comparative ease and safety. On the following three or four days our progress was rendered more difficult and tedious by thick fogs, light winds, a heavy swell, and almost constant snow show ers ; but a strong water-sky to the S.E., which was s een at every interval of clear weather, encouraged us to per severe in that direction, and on the morning of the 9th, after !tailing more than 200 miles through this pack, we gained a perfectly clear sea, and bore away S.W. towards the Magnetic Pole. On the morning of the 11th January, when in latitude 70 deg . . 41 min. South, and longitude 172 deg. 36 min., land was discovered at the distance, as it afterwards proved, of nearly 100 miles, directly in the course we were steering, and therefore directly between us and the Pole. Although this circumstance was viewed at the time with considerable regret, as being likely to defeat one of the more important objects of the expedition, yet it re stored to England the honour of the discovery of the southernmost known land, which had been nobly won, and fir more than twenty years possessed, by Russia. Continuing our course towards this land for many hours, we seemed scarcely to approach it. It rose in lofty mountain peaks of from J,OOO to 12,000 feet in height, perfectly covered with eternal snow; the glaciers that descended from near the mountain summits, pro jected many miles into the ocean, and presented a per pendicular face of lofty cliffs. As we neared the land, some exposed patches of rock appeared, and steering to wards a small bay, for the purpose of effecting a land ing, we found the shore so thickly lined for some miles witn bergs and pack-ice, and with a heavy swell dash ing against it, we were obliged to abandon our purpose and steer towards a more promising looking point to the S.E., off which we observed several small islands ; and on the morning of the 12th I landed, accompanied by Commander Crozier and a number of the officers of each ship, and, took possession of the country in the name of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. The island on which we landed is composed wholly of igneous rocks, numerous specimens of which, with other imbedded minerals, were procured. It is in latitude 71 deg. 56 min. S., and longitude 171 deg. 7 min. E. Observing that the east coast of the mainland tended to the southward, whilst the north shore took a N.W. direction, I was led to hope that, by penetrating to the south as far as practicable, it might be possible to pass beyond the Magnetic Pole, which our combined obser vations placed in 76 deg. S. nearly, and thence, by steer ing westward, complete its circumnavigation. We ac cordingly pursued our course along this magnificent land, and Ott the 23d January we reached 74 deg. 15 min. S., the highest southern latitude that had ever been attained by any preceding navigators, and that by our own coun tryman, Captain James Weddell. Although greatly impeded by strong southerly gales, thick fogs, and constant snow-storms, we continued the examination of the coast to the southward, and on the 27th we again landed on an island in latitude 76 deg. 8 ruin. S., 168 deg. 12 min. E., composed, as on the for mer occasion, entirely of igneous rocks. Still steering to the southward, early the next morn ing, the 28th, a mountain of 12,400 feet above the level of the sea was seen, emitting flame and smoke in splendid - profusion. This magnificent volcano received the name of Mount Erebus. It is in latitude 77 deg. 32 min. S., andlongitude 167 deg. E.; an extinct crater to the east ward of Mount Erebus, of a somewhat less elevation, was called Mount Terror. The mainland preserved its southerly tending, and we continued to follow it, until, in the afternoon, when close in with the land, our farther progress in that direction was prevented by a barrier of ice stretching away from a projecting cape of the coast directly to the E.S.E. This extraordinary barrier presented a perpendicular face of at least 150 feet, rising, of course, far above the mast-heads of our ships, and completely concealing from our view everything beyond it, except only the tops of a range of very lofty mountains in a S.S.E. direction, and in latitude 79 deg. S. Pursuing the examination of this splendid barrier' to the eastward, we reached the latitude of 78 deg. 4 min. S., the highest we were at any time able to attain, on the 2d February, and on the 9th, having traced its continuity to the longitude of 191 deg. 23 min. in latitude 78 deg. S., a distance of more than 300 miles, our farther pro gress was prevented by a heavy pack, pressed closely against the barrier; and the narrow lane of water by means of which we had penetrated thus far, became so completely covered by rapidly forming ice, that nothing but the strong breeze with which we were favoured enabled us to retrace our steps. When at a distance of less than half a mile from its lofty icy cliffs, we had soundings with 318 fathoms, on a bed of soft blue mud. With a temperature of 20 deg. below the freezing point, we found the ice to form so rapidly on the sur face, that any farther examination of the barrier in so extremely severe a period of the season being impracti cable, we stood away to the westward, for the purpose of making another attempt to approach the Magnetic Pole, and again reached its latitude (76 deg. S.) on the 15th February; and although we found that much of the heavy ice had drifted away since our former attempt, and its place in a great measure supplied by recently formed ice, yet we made some way through it, and got a few miles nearer the Pole than we had before been able to accomplish, when the heavy pack again frustrated all our efforts, completely filling the space of 15 or 16 miles between us and the shore. We were this time in latitude 76 deg. 12 min. S., and longitude 164 deg., the dip being 88.40, and variation 109.24 E. We were, of course, only 160 miles from the Pole. Had it been possible to approach any part of this coast, and have found any place of security for the ships, we might have travelled this short distance over the land; but this proved to be utterly impracticable ; and although our hopes of complete attainment have not been realized, it is some satisfactiono_ to feel assured that we have ap proached the P I e more nearly, by some hundred mil es , than any of our predecessors ; and f rom t h e mu l t i tude of observations that have been made in both ships, and in so many dierent directions from i t, i ts position can be determined ff with nearly as much accuracy as if we had actually reached the spot itself. It had ever been an o b j ect of a nxious de s i re w i t h us to find a harbour for the sh i p s, so as t o enable us to ma k e eimultapeous observations with the numeropuosrtaoubt wohther e er .servatories that would be at work on the im term-day of the 28th of February , as_ well f. , „ ot h er a s ,„ scientific purposes ; but every part of the coast indentations appeared, and where harhonnj t hther sh ores usually occur, we found so perfectly tilled.wi h perenni al ice, of many hundred feet in thickness, that all our en deavours to find a place of shelter for our vessels were quite unavailing. • to me Having now completed all that it appeared possible to accomplish in so high a latitude, and at so advanced a period of the season, and desirous to obtain as much information as pos s ibl e of the extent and form of the coast we had discovered, as also to guide in some measure our future operations, I bore away, on the 18 th February, for the north part of this land, and which, by favour of a strong southerly gale, we reached on the morning of the 21st. We ag . ain endeavoured to effect a landing on this part of the coast, and were again defeated in our attempt by the heavy pack, which extended for many miles from the shore, and rendered it impossible. For several days we continued to examine the coast to the westward, tracing the pack-edge along, until, on the 23th February, we found the land abruptly to ter minate in latitude 70 deg. 40 min. S., and longitude 165 dog. E., tootling considerably to the southward of west. anti presenting to our view an immense space occupied by a (tense pack, now so firmly cemented together by the n ewly•forrned ice, and so covered by recent snow, as to twesent the aepearance of one unbroken mass, and defy iiir evry attempt to penetrate it. The great southern land we have discovered, whose c ontinuity we have traced fr o m n ear ly th e 7 0t h to the 7 °-1 ,1 degre e o f latitude, I am desirous to distinguish by the nam e of our Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. Followitig the edge of the pack to the N.W. as Wea ther Permitted ; vrc found it to occupy the whole space between the chore of the great southern land and the chain of elands lying n ear t h e A ntarct i c C i rcle, first discovered byl3alleny in 1839, and more extensively explored by the American and French expeditions in the following year. Continuing our course to the westward, we approached the place where Professor Gauss supposed the Magnetic Yale to be, and having obtained all the observations that were necessary to prove the inaccuracy of that supposi tion, we devoted some day s t o t h e i nvest i gat i on of t h e line of no variation ; and having completed a series of observations, by which the isodynamic lines and point of greater magnetic intensity may be determined, and which I had left incomplete last year, I bore away on c, • ttli of :April fur thi s p ort. ohart, showing more plainly the discoverit',s 1024 track of the expedition, is herewith transmitted ; and a more detailed plan, containing all magnetic determina tion, shall be sent as soon as they are reduced. I have much satisfaction in being able to add that the service has been accomplished without the occurrence of any casualty, calamity, or disease of any kind, and there is not a single individual in either of the ships on the sick list. It affords me the highest gratification to acquaint you, that I have received the most cordial and efficient co operation from my well-tried friend and colleague Com mander Crozier, of the Terror, and no terms of admira tion that I can employ can do justice to his great merit; nor have the zeal and persevering devotion of the offi cers of both ships been less conspicuous, under circum stances of no ordinary trial and difficulty ; and whilst the conduct of our crews has been such as to reflect the highest honour on their characters as British sailors, it has given to myself, Commander Crozier, and the officers of the expedition, the most confident assurance of more extended success in pursuing the important duties we have yet to fulfil. IRELAND. TRADE IN IRELAND. DcBLIN, DEC. 22.—There is, unfortunately, very little of manufacturing industry in this country ; but limited as are our sources of employment in that way, the pre sent depression is felt very severely. Within the last week a cotton printing factory, in the suburbs of this city, has altogether stopped working, and 150 persons who had constant and remunerative employment, have been discharged, at a season of unparalleled distress amongst the poor. At a recent meeting of the manufacturers of the pro vince of - Ulster, held in Belfast, very deplorable accounts were given of the depressed condition of the linen trade, which forms the great staple of industry in the northern counties. The Londonderry Journal, after a diligent inquiry in the counties of Derry and Tyrone, states that the distress is really much more extensive than had been represented at that meeting. Everywhere (says that journal) the people are convinced that their distress proceeds " from that re strictive policy of foreign States which has been recom mended to, and in a manner forced upon them, by our own vicious example ; and further, that it is only by our ceasing to exhibit the example that we can expect any abatement of their imitative system." The Londonderry Journal adds that the general failure of the potato crop, to the extent of one-third, will greatly aggravate the distress produced by want of employment. CORN-LAWS.—A meeting, on a very large scale, will be held in the Rotunda to-morrow evening, to consider the ruinous effects of the Corn-laws. The Lord Mayor. it is said, will preside. Mr. Cobden, M.P., is expected to attend. • NEW CORPORATION OF LONDONDERRY. On Monday the election for the new Town Council took place, and the Reformers obtained a considerable majority. The Tories and Orangemen in this " ancient Protestant City" made a bold fight, but they were sig nally defeated. ADELAIDE GALLERY. DISSOLVING VIEWS.---Thursday night 11r. iil. Clarke the optician, favoured a few scientific gentlemen and others, connected with the press, with a private view of his arrangements for entertaining the holiday visitors of the Adelaide Gallery, with an exhibition of " Dissolv ing Views," in addition to the numerous objects of art and science which already render this elegant and rich museum so attractive. The principal novelty in gr. Clarke's arrangement is, that the views are exhibited on a transparent screen, which causes them to have an uniform appearance. The great depth of the room keeping the nearest spectators at a cmsiderable distance from the screen, greatly heightens and assists this peculiarity. The transitions are, in some instances, contrived to produce a ludicrous, in others a sentimental effect. Thus a beautifully-coloured and life-like group of Cupid and Psyche gradually darkens and melts into a pair of devils, cut after Captain Barber, the Kaloramist's, most approved fashion, and playing at shuttlecock with a fashioliable young lady, who skips, ala Taglioni, high in air from one battledore to the other. And, again, whilst the spectator is lost in admiration of the grandeur and beauty of the Lake of Como, a mist gradually obscures the scene, and then, as slowly dissipating before the return ing light, reveals the sublime and lovely Glendalough, as it is seen from the base of the romantic Teneriff4 of Wicklow. Somewhat more than twenty years ago, the writer of this notice witnessed a very striking and interest ing application of the Camera Lucida by Mr. Clarke's father, to illustrate Mr. Charles', the ventriloquist's, lecture on " Ancient apparition of ghosts." On those occasions, by the combined arts of the ventriloquist and the optician, shades of armed warriors, and shrouded kings, transparent as thin air, were made to traverse the stage, discourse, command, and prophecy, and even sing ! Although Mr. E. M. Clarke has not the aid of the great Charles, his exhibition will be highly entertaining ; and if it were accompanied with a short popular explanation of the principles upon which the optical efforts are produced it would be also highly instructive to the young visitors of the Gallery in the approaching holidays. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. DISSOLVING VIEWS.—At the Polytechnic Institution, on Thursday night, sixteen new views of this descrip tion were exhibited. They were representations of some of the remarkable scenery and architecture of the Turkish. empire. The exhibition commenced with a spirited de sign of the Bosphorus, with a bird's-eye view of Constan tinople, which was beautifully "dissolved" into the val ley of Sweet Waters—a scene in the environs of Con stantinople. This was succeeded by the Palace of Beshic Tash, the Mosque of the Sulimanie, a view of Constantinople from the entrance to the Golden Horn, the Mosque of the Sultana Valide, the Mosque of St. Sophia, Mount Olympus, the Shawl Bazaar, and other views in Constantinople itself. One of the most remark able and attractive of these representations was the Hall of Waters. This is a species of subterranean cloisters in Constantinople, completely flooded. In the view an Englishman is represented in a boat, attempting to ex plore these subterraneous regions. The story goes that he was killed in his attempt by the mephitic vapours of the place. The water in this view is admirably de lineated, and pleasingly deludes " the well-cozened sight." The exhibition closed with a view of " the Street of the Tombs," with the grand procession on the occasion of the inauguration of the Sultan. The whole of these re presentations are executed with considerable skill ; the colouring is brilliant and powerful, and the minutim of the designs, as well as the general effect, have been attended to with success. The mechanism of "dissolv ing," it is needless to say, was managed with all the pre- ' cision for which this establishment is noted. LORD STOURTON'S LETTER. The following appears in the Leeds Mercury : " Gentlemen—Whatever controversy has arisen as to the moral causes, or the precise extent of the present distress, none can exist as to its prevalence at the pre sent period, in a most calamitous and alarming degree. This distress pervades wide districts, and prevails in some with an intensity I have never to my mind seen equalled in this kingdom, covering our roads with artizans in search of employment, and exhibiting itself in our towns under appearances the most calamitous and frightful. Failing harvests both at home and abroad have aggravated these national calamities; and a murrain among our cattle, con sequent in all probability on rainy reasons, has placed milk, one of the great resources, and with tea, almost necessaries of our labouring people, nearly out of their reach. Wars in the east of the globe and pecuniary em barrassments in the west, have combined to extend the evil. Among so many concurrent sources of distress, one ray of brightness has beamed upon us : and that it should not only gild the palace, but shed its lustre on the cottage, is the main object of these observations. Not, Gentlemen, that I should not have deemed the aspect of our wide-extended dis tress more than sufficient ground for extraordinary exertions in behalf of so much suffering: for seasons of great urgency in peace, as in war, demand and justify their peculiar sacrifices. Yet it must strike every loyal and thinking subject, that no offering to the Deity can more propitiate his mercies, both in favour of the Sovereign and her infant son, than an extensive—l would fain add, universal contribution of the wealthier classes at this doubly inclement season, towards alleviating the suffer ings of his creatures. That such an effort should be both powerful and availing, I know no better' channel for advice and co-operation than your valuable columns. Without colour of party or of creed—without one word of controversy or crimination, I am willing to believe that all will equally concur in a wish to mitigate the lot of suffering humanity, if not in the mode of compassing so salutary an end. Whether this object may be best accomplished by s'irne u great county movement, carrying its i n fl uence throgh the land, with a weight due to its own import ance, and still more due to the ends it would attain ; or wh ether any oth er suggest i on s h a ll b e a d opte d equally or more efficient, I willingly abandon to superior, ever, how am convinced, that in an empire, where, in p o g s e u e r owneeldltaostismmtreoes:egtB:emixlerienced minds. Of this, how iltlhiaerdsieoefwsmoenf has en ebemenillehx)e at least might be attainable to add vigour to those best and strongest sinew s of our country in peace as in war, viz. : the happiness and contentment of an industrious and moral people. Expo se d to great fluctuations from o ur very artificial condi t i on, we may be called upon by p"rvan t, pare n y tlaeimlrudence t o meet to extraobr humble dinar d y pressure by exeraor dat, is m sey motto. —I remai n , i dat: n Ga; r obedient STOURTON. con WO O LWICH, DEC. 23.--Extensi v t e ed with the ments are at present in progress ne improve works at Gibraltar. G eneral Sir J ohn T. Jones, c w as especially despatched some monthsof the Royal Engineers, to to make an examination of the forti fications, an cording to his opinion there app ears to b e a necessity remodel the whole, with very little exception. A str onir. - gang of convicts is forthwith to be sent to that _place, to execute the heavier, portions of the work, and-a, large re _ inforcement of mechanics is to be sent there as soon as possible, but whether they will be civil or military is at present undecided. Lieutenant 11. C. Moody, of the Royal Engineers, whose departure from Woolwich to as sume the Lieutenant-Governorship of 'the Falkland Islands was noticed in October last, when off the Bill of Portland addressed a letter to his sister, Miss Moody, Guernsey, and having enclosed it in a bottle addressed in a similar manner, he threw it overboard. The bottle was picked up last week by one of the coast-guard, off Blachinton, and forwarded to Miss Moody, and its safe arrival was acknowledged by her father, Lieutenant- Colonel Moody. From the date it appeared the bottle had beeri thirty-four days at sea. The Gosport branch of the South-Western Rail way has been re-opened for goods' traffic only. We fear that it is not intended to re- commence running passenger trains Al' some months,—Railway Times. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. TFAIES.—As every question ought to be im. partially discussed, however strong the apparea Justice of one side of it may be, the annexed let. ter cannot be refused a place : " EXCHEQUER BILL CASE. " Sir,—With respect to the above unfortunate affair, I would beg to submit a few observations, feeling assured that whatever cause you espouse, your chief desire is to be guided and borne out by facts and the true state of the case, in order to do justice to all parties whether pub lic or private. In my daily intercourse with those in the City most conversant with the larger money trans actions, I have scarcely met with a single individual, when made thoroughly acquainted with all the circum stances of the case, but who considers the parties who incautiously lent their money to the borrowers upon those spurious bills have themselves entirely to blame. First, on account of the credit and standing of the borrowers themselves ; and next, the rate which was offered for such loans : for had those parties reflected for a moment what could be the possible inducement for any banker or capitalist for the ordinary and legitimate purpose of his business to raise money for months to gether at suck a rate even as five per cent., and far less at six or seven, upon a security only yielding an interest of 31, they might have paused and concluded that the capitalist, rather than submit to so positive a loss, would sooner have disposed of the bills at once, or else that there was something more than suspicious behind the curtain. And as to the public in general having suffered or been placed in an awkward position by these fraudulent bills, that was quite impossible, since no one having purchased bills in the market, or had them ex changed at the usual periods at the Treasury, could pos sibly have come possessed of these spurious bills, which were carefully kept out of circulation for fear of im me diate detection, but were exclusively employed as deposits for loans when so cunningly obtained, and as carefully exchanged by bills of the like stamp when the periods for renewal drew near. "To confirm these remarks, I have only to refer you to many, within whose range of information I have no doubt you have equal means of access—parties who, I have understood from themselves, declined entering into the very same transactions from a conviction there must be something wrong at bottom, and therefore would only be wording facilities for some improper object. " Government, I have reason to believe, is aware of these facts, which, together with the fear of establish ing a dangerous precedent, will lead it, I doubt not, to act a very independent part inothe matter. " The tone of your arguments upon this subject ap pearing to be so much at variance to what has come within my own knowledge and I have heard expressed by leading men in the City, that my chief object is merely to put you au fait of what is canvassed upon what may be termed the opposite side of the question. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. "London, Dec. 23, 1i41." The force of this argument appears to be more specious than solid. Most of the parties who hold the Exchequer bills declared to be spurious had no knowledge of the source from which they were obtained, but purchased or lent money on them through those brokers whom they had been previously in the habit of employing. As the fact was notorious, too, that the Bank of England was in the practice of lending money upon Exchequer bills at the rate of per cent., the holders considered only that they followed that authority, and did not reflect probably on the difference in the trans action arising out of the length of time. In deed it is well known that one of the greatest and most respectable among the sufferers in this unfortunate affair was induced to lend his money in consequence of the example thus set by the Bank. This leaves, however, the far more important questions untouched, which are— whether the bills are forgeries or not, and whe ther, even if that is the case, they were not issued under circumstances which rendered all care and foresight useless in discovering the defects in them, the officers of the Exchequer being alike imposed upon by them. If Ministers really in tend to back out of the affair, it must be done by means very different from those described in the above letter. No danger can arise from tke pre cedent; if proper care is taken at the Exchequer, fraud will be impossible, and would have been so in the present instance had its now " excel lent system" been adhered to. On the subject of the right of the holders to compensa tion, another correspondent refers to the case of Mr. Gilbert Ricketts, registrar of the Supreme Court of Madras, a public officer of the East India Company, who having died, and the state of his affairs showing that he had made away with monies intrusted to his care as such public officer, an inquiry was instituted by Parliament, and the result was an Act for the relief of the sufferers, and giving authority to the East India Company to apply a part of their territorial re venue to that purpose. The practice of the Bank of England, however, as quoted yesterday, is still more relevant. The paper, the type, and the stamp are admitted, the signature believed to be genuine on the rejected Exchequer bills. and they were declared to be genuine by the OfficerS'of the Exchequer. Such circumstances cannot but implicate the Treasury and the Go vernment in the fraudulent issue. The inconvenience occasioned to the p u bli c by the circulation of light soverei gns , th e diffi cu l t i es that have arisen from the Stamp-office and other public departments refusing to take them, have been more than once noticed in this Journal. These evils are, comparatively speaking, of minor importance, but there are other.:, which show that the light sovereigns have a serious effect on the currency of the country. The mer chants and bankers, it is well known, continually look to the state of the bullion in the Bank of England, as a guide to their operations, arid, without entering into the question whether they are right or not in taking the bullion as their index, that they do so is an undoubted. fact. Hence it is material that the bul lion should be kept in as natural a state as pos sible, neither unduly increased nor unduly di minished by any adventitious cause, or the index will not represent the real state of things. Now, the Bank of England being obliged to refuse light sovereigns, it seems that a great number of these are forced back into circulation, so that the bullion in the vaults, far from representing the real state of the currency, presents too low an amount, and thus misleads those who refer to it as their guide. The wear and tear of the coin, of course, increases daily, and it is said the number of light sovereigns is already so great, that some of the Bank Directors conceive 33 per cent. re main unnaturally in circulaeon. It is generally supposed, however, that this estimation is too high, and that those who have made it have omitted to take into account the slight counter action which would arise from the heavy sove reigns being forced into the Bank vaults. At all events there is no doubt that the currency is ma terially affected, and the numerous evils show that no time should be lost on the part of Go vernment to take some remedial measure. By their own acts, at the public offices, they show that they do not consider the light sovereigns as a proper currency, and yet the country at large is obliged to take them as a legal tender, so that there is one currency between man and man, and another between the public and the Govern ment. REPORTED MURDER NEAR YORE. —On Wednesday last some excitement was caused by a report being circulated that a labouring man named Flint, re siding at Rufforth, about five miles from this city, had brutally murdered his wife on the day preceding. On the afternoon of the above day an inquest was held on the body by Mr. John Wood, the Coroner. It appeared from the evidence of several of the neighbours, that for a length of time Flint had been constantly in the habit of ill treating his wife, and allowing her scarcely anything to eat. On Sunday they were heard to quarrel, and the deceased afterwards stated that her husband had kicked her on the body, but, she being of weak intellect, not much notice was taken of it. She was seized with ill ness on Sunday, and on Tuesday morning became much worse. Flint was out at work, and some of the neigh bours went to inform him of the necessity of a surgeon being called to his wife, as they thought she was very ill, and likely to die. This appeal, however, made no im pression upon him, and he went to his dinner as if no. thing was the matter. Whilst he was thus engaged, and sitting in the same room with his wife, she died, and the stupidity and callosity of the fellow's disposition was manifested to the last. Mr. Abbey, surgeon, Collier gate, York, made a post mortern examination Of the body. lie found several bruises on the arms and legs, but none on the body, and he was of opinion that the woman had died of inflammation of the intestines, but he was unable to state whether her death had been caused by the blows, as there were no bruises to correspond with the inflammation in the bowels. The evidence was not suffi cient to commit Flint. The Jury, therefore, returned-- " That the deceased died of inflammation of the bowels, but there was not. 'sufficient evidence to show by what means it Ivas:caused," thus leaving the case open for future investigation, should any fresh evidence be ob tained.--York Herald of Friday. TRAVELLING BY STEAM ROUND THE PLA NET URANUS.—The circumference of the orbit in which Uranus revolves about the sun is 11,314,600,000 of wiles, through which it moves in 30,686 mean solar days, or about 84 years ; it is the slowest moving planet in the system, and yet it pursues its course at the rate of speed mp of th 15,000 mil es an h our. Were a ' steam-carriage to move round th e i mmense orbit of this planet at the continued e a t b e o d ut 30 miles an hour, it wou ld requ i re no less than 64,570 y ears before this ampl e c i rcu i t cou ld ; and yet a g l o b e e i g h ty times l arger t h an the eat , finish es its vast tour in 84 years !—Dick's Ce lestiulScenery. We understand that an address has been for warded to the .Archbish o p of Canterbury from a consi derable number of the resident lay inhabitants of Chel tenham, members of the Church of England, p raying his Grace to take s t eps to procure from the Bi shops a united expression of their disapprobation of those doc trines set forth in the " Tracts for the Times," which have already been condemned by many of the Bshons in heir several Charges. i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1841. THE PANTOMIMES. DRURY-LANE. This national temple of the drama opens on Mon day evening, as ohr readers are well aware, for the representation of Sbakspeare's plays. The theatre has undergone a thorough renovating, and will present an entirely new appearance, the alterations being tinder the direction of Mr. Beazley, and executed by that well-known artist and decorator, Mr. Crase. A slight description of the improvements in the interior may not be quite unacceptable. The ceiling has been repainted in the inner circle after the Elizabethan style ; or, as it is sometimes called, the Vatican order. The alle gorical figures surrounding the circle remain as usual, but the circle has a brilliant blue ground ; the second circle a blue ground also. In the dress circle, the haksperian subjects, by Lamboulett, have been re moved, and in their stead a scroll ornament, painted in relief upon a buff ground, surrounded by a handsome gold ornarneat. Tice Ike of the proscenium surround ing the stage is picked in with a deep blue, better known in the artistical world as the Victoria blue. The private boxes, formerly on a level with the pit,have, with the exception of the one belonging to Miss An gela Burdett Courts, and one opposite, been entirely removed, and the space added to the pit, making an addi tional number of seats for one hundred persons. The pit seats are covered with handsome red cloth, witiv backs stuffed end covered with crimson, each person sitting in a separate stall ; in the centre is an opening enabling the spectator to quit and return to his seat without inconvenience. The saloon has been entirely repainted and decorated, and a splendid Brussels car pet, laid down for the first time. The corridor and coffee-room, on the Vinegar -yard side, have been parted off by an elegant and substantial screen, painted a marble colour. to which there is access by a new en trance from Vinegar-yard, and a staircase, made ex pressly for the occasion, leading to the upper boxes. This is exclusively appropriated for the reception of that class of visitors hitherto permitted to promenade in the principal saloon, but who, from the present arrange ments, are entirely excluded. The figures of Kean and Garrick, in the Rotunda, have been cleaned, and re moved back into the niches originally appropriated for them ; the Rotunda has also' been painted in imitation• of porphyry and white marble. This part of the thea tre is known. to all judges of architectural beauty, as being in design and execution the most perfect specimen of taste in any public building. The whole of the boxes have been numbered, and on the. back of each box the number of seats contained therein is given. The new curtain, containing one thousand yards of crimson velvet, with gold fringe, lace, &c., will open in the centre ; on one side ate the Royal Arms, splen didly modelled and gilt, and on the other those of the Prince of Wales, carried out on each side with musical trophies, surrounded with gold wreaths. It will be seen by our report that no expense has been spared by the lessee and proprietors to render the theatre worthy the patronage of all the true lovers of the drama, which, with the high purpose of the pre sent management, we trust will not fail to be accorded. It may be as well to observe, that the whole of the scenery for The Merchant of Venice has been painted by Messrs. Marshall and Tomkins, and that of the pan tomime by Mr. Danson. Mr. Stanfield is now actively engaged at the Theatre Royal English Opera in paint ing a new pictorial effect for one of the earliest revivals at Drury-lane Theatre, the crowded state of the paint room there, in the preparation for the opening, not af fording room for him as usual. The new comic pantomime by Mr. H. Younge is unusually splendid. The first scene presents us with the hall of Good Cheer. The deity Good Cheer, seated on an enormous plum pudding, calls for the assistance of Music, when a number of animated violins enter with the conductor of the Musard con certs, who commence playing some popular airs. Mer riment and his crew then enter, and the former states that he wishes the aid of Good Cheer on a love affair. Duke Humphrey the Good has sent his ward, Lady Joan, to live at the castle of Sir Lazarus Skelton. in order to compel her to wed his son, Spider legs, and by that means make her fortune. Mischief is then summoned to their councils, when the scene changes to the bowers of Mischief. Sir Lionel Breakspeare is intro duced to the Lady Joan by Mischief, and informed by him that the only way to obtain her hand is to engage Jack Cade and his band to carry her off, to which he assents. The semis is then changed to a view of Lon don, with the Tower in the background. Jack enters with his mob, who pull down an ale-house, and kill the King's guard. They are met by Sir Lionel Break speare, who engages Jack to carry the lady off. The castle of Sir Lazarus Skelton is then seen, with a view of Starvation Hall ; a chorus of starved domestics are heard crying for food. Sir Lazarus enters in great alarm to inform them that Duke Humphrey bas paid them a visit, and will take lunch, which, as he is such a glutton, will ruin them. The Duke then enters, pre ceded by his fat servants. They are set down to a meal of red herrings and water. The Duke, highly in dignant at this, quits the hall. Jack and his band then enter and attempt to carry off the lady. but are re pulsed. The hall of Duke Humphrey is then seen, and the whole of the cortege pass in to dinner. Jack and his band next inter with Sir Lionel Break speare, and, through a secret passage, make their way to the dining ball below ; tlle Duke and his suite are then discovered at dinner ; a shout is heard, Jack and his party make their appearance, and take the duke and lady prisoners. Sir Lionel claims the lady, but is opposed by Jack, in whose favour the lady declares herself. The duke refuses bis consent, when the scene changes to the Temple of Good Cheer, who forthwith changes the characters, and the bade quinade commences. In the comic part of the panto mime are several hits at the passing events of the day —the two Houses of Parliament, the railroads, Prince Albert's stock, the sale of " the royal property," intro ducing the shade of the immortal Simpson. The pan tomime concludes with a representation of the launch of the Trafalgar. The costumes are by Mr. Smythers, and are said to exceed in splendour and correctness all that has hitherto been seen at this theatre. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Madame Vestris has taken the field with. what we understand to be a most or i g i na l pantom i me, though the title is not new, entitled " Guy, Earl of Warwick ; or, Harlequin and the Dun Cow." We present an outline of the story, the title of which is so familiar to our youthful recollections. The first scene presents a view of the hermit's cell. The hermit (Mr. Granby) is discovered at his book. It will be observed that the pictorial effects in this pantomime are of new principle, consisting of dioramic views, which are in continual motion, and carry on the story with the per formers during the whole of the opening. A view of Warwick Castle, with the town in the distance, is tem. Guy, Earl of Warwick (Mr. Payne), and Sir Tristram (T. Ridgway), enter, fatigued with a pilgrimage ; they are not recognised by the domestics. Phillis, Guy's betrothed, and Fiounce-bella, Sir Tristram's mistress, are then introduced, and, after much explanation, an eclaircissement takes place, and the great Guy discovers himself, the tenantry enter in great numbers, and he is borne with his squire in triumph to the castle. The diorama then presents the great hall in the castle ; the warder is seen asleep ; a huge bell is heard to ring, when the warder in anger tears out the tongue of the bell. A number of dwarfs then enter, and preparations for the grand banquet in hononr of Guy's return is about to commence. Guy himself enters, and, finding the servants absent, he is compelled to turn cook in his own castle. The villagers now enter in a fright, headed by the Earl of Jonas, whose daughter has been carried off by the Monster Cow, and taken to the castle of the Giant Colbrand. Guy heroically undertakes to vanquish him, the giant, and the Dun Cow. The villagers take their leave of Guy and Tristram, and here a long diora mic effect is produced, which continues to the arrival of the knight and his esquire at the magic castle of the Giant Colbrand. An encounter takes place with the giant, who yields to the victorious sword of Guy. The Dun Cow then plunges from its brazen cage, and with nostrils streaming fire, and tearing up the earth in rage, fu riously attacks Guy. He, nothing daunted, lays about with his mighty sword, and the monster reels beneath his lusty blows. Sir Tristram now assumes courage, and flies to the rescue of his master, and seizing the Dun Cow by the tail, it elongates by magic, and carries Sir Tristram round the castle. After a furious onslaught both enchanter and cow bite the dust. The diorama now arrives at a splendid fairy palace, where the bar lequinado commences. Phcebe (afterwards Colum bine), Miss Fairbrother, with Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridg way, and Pantaloon (Ireland), now commeace their mirth-exciting tricks. During the pantomime some smart bits on the local events of the day take place. During the comic scenes we have the Cannon Brewery changed to Prince Albert's Gate, a chemist's and a 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 opening 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. On Friday the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with the Nisgistrates belonging to Bow street Police-court, inspected the new Court, which is now completed. The conveniences in all departments for the transaction of business are excellent, and parti cularly commodious. The exterior is very neat, and the whole of the building, which is now being thoroughly aired, met with considerable approbation. The Magiste rial business will be transacted at the new Court for the first time on Saturday, the Ist of January. GREENWICH RAILWAY. —T he Directors of the London and G reenw i ch Railway h ave d e t erm i ne d, on and after thi s d ay (Saturday) week, to discontinue the use of second c l ass carr i ages, and to re d uce th e f ares b y the first class carriages. Henceforth the trains will con sist only of "closed carriages, at 9d. per passenger ;" and "open ditto, without seat, at Ed." These charges are still very mush higher then those of the Blackwall Railway, which is of the same length,—Railway Times. NEW SOUTH WALES. The following extract from the newspapers from New South Wales shows the large revenue in that colony, and the rates of wages which emigrants have received in the last year on their arrival in the colony:— We have the Sydney Journals to the end of June, 1841. The public attention was chiefly called to the state of the revenue ; the official abstract was published , on the 4th, of which the following is an analysis:— The total amount of Ordinary Revenue £306,349 The Incidental Receipts 4,119 The Crown Land Revenue 34,065 Total revenue £651,126 For a country only fifty years old, with a population, not much exceeding a hundred thousand souls, this is truly a prodigious year's income. The principal heads of the Ordinary Revenue are as follows :—.Spirits— Duties on importation ... £131,285 on distillation .... 13,054 Licenses to Retail 14,993 to Distil 175 £ 159,507 Tobacco—Duties on Importation... 38,888 Total from Spirits and Tobacco.... 198,395 Ad valorem Duty on Foreign Im portations 24,907 Post-office Receipts 14,191 Auction Duty 18,701 Miscellaneous 50,155 £306,349 To every 100/. composing this sum total, the respective heads bear nearly the following proportions:— Spirits £s2 2 0 Tobacco l2 14 0 Ad valorem 8 2 0 Auction Post Office 4 13 0 Miscellaneous £B3 13 0 16 7 0 £lOO 0 0 Thus the taxes on spirituous liquors are more than one-half, and those on tobacco nearly an eighth, of the whole revenue! Spirits and tobacco together yield nearly four-sixths ! Truly we are a nation of drinkers and smokers. There is yet ample scope for the philan thropic exertions of our Temperance Societies. The subject of immigration occupies as much interest in New South Wales as it does here. The following statement from the Monitor contains some valuable particulars . _ We publish the following official document, being a table of the rates of wages obtained by Immigrants hired from the Immigrants' Barracks, Sydney, during the year 1840. It is a return that we hope all Our Con temporaries will publish, as we think its publication. and thorough circulation throughout Britain will most effec tually aid in the promotion of emigration to the colony. The distress endured by the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland, from want of employment, might be averted by copious streams of emigration being opened, and we have little doubt such will be the case ere long, but while the people of Britain perish for lack of em ployment, we languish for want of labour. The friends of the poor in Britain will do well to call their attention to the Table of Wages we publish, and to assure them that a great dearth of labour exists among us. Intending Emigrants will do well to bear in mind that so soon as they have acquired some small skill in the pursuits in which they engage, their wages will be in creased, as the rates of wages we quote were obtained by persons newly arrived, and many of whom were ut terly unskilled in the situations they undertook ; so soon as they have attained expertness in their duties their wages would be proportionably increased. Return of the number of Emigrants who arrived in the Colony in the year 1840 ; each trade or calling, the average rate of wages obtained by each, and whether with or without rations. . YEARLY SALARY, WITH RATIONS. _ _ MALES-1,042 Agricultural labourers, 25/. ; 10 but chers, 40/. ; 16 bakers, 50/. ; 2 cooks, 35/. ; 61 domestic servants, 30/. 18 farm overseers, 401. ;54 grooms and coachmen, 30/..; 62 gardeners, 40/. ; 6 millers, 10/. ; 35 ploughmen, 26/. ; 108 shepherds, 271. ; 2 shopkeepers, 40/. ; 8 stockmen, 27/. ; 1 seaman, 48/. FEMALES-19 bonnet•makers, 14/. ; 26 cooks, 20/. ; 97 dressmakers, 10/. ; 313 farm servants, 14/. ; 7 general servants, 101. ; 517 house maids, 101. ; 17 kitchen maids, 14/. ; 28 laundresses, 10/. ; 12 ladies' maids, 20/. ; 14 milliners, 30/. ; 35 nursery Governesses, 20/. ; 138 nurse maids, 10/, WAGES PER DIEM, WITHOUT RATIONS. 59 Blacksmiths, 7s. ; 67 boot and shoemakers, 6s. Bd. ; 4 brickmakers, 7s. ; 9 bricklayers, 7s. ; 1 brazier. 6s. Bd. ; 7 curriers, 6s. ; 83 carpenters and joiners, Bs. ; 19 cabinet-makers, 7s. 6d, ; 9 coopers, 6s. Bd. ; 7 engi neers. 10s. ; 1 French polisher, 6s. Bd. ; 22 mill and wheelwrights, 6s. Bd. ; 30 masons, 7s. ; 2 miners, ss. ; 1 nailor, 3s. 6d. ; 11 printers, Bs. ; 24 painters and glaziers, 6s: ; 1 plumber, Gs. ; 4 plasterers, 6s. ; 6 quarry men, ss. ; 3 shipwrights, 10s. ; 13 lawyers, 10s.; 13 saddle and harness-makers, 65. ; 41 tailors, 7s. ; 9 turners, 7s. ; 9 tinsmiths, .6s. ; 2 upholsterers, 7s. ; 5 watch-makers, Bs. 6d. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, Dec. 24. WOOD V. lIITCHINS. • • Mr. TURNER stated, that this was a petition to dis charge the receivers appointed in thi s suitoviiieh related to the will of the late James Wood, of Gloucester, banker, and for a reference to the Master to tax the costs of the receiver and all other parties, and• that the costs of the petitioners and the other executors might be taxed as between solicitor and client. Mr. KINDERSLEY for the next of kin applied that their costs also might be taxed, as between solicitor and client. The MASTER of the ROLLS granted the order prayed for by the petitioner, but said he could not comply with the prayer of the next of kin. Mr. RINDERSLEY-TiliS Suit was instituted to prove a will by which these gentlemen are getting 1,200,0001. Surely then they should give us costs as between solicitor and client. The MASTER of the llous—l must leave you to make that appeal to them. The remaining petitions being disposed of, the Court adjourned till Hilary Term next. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 24. IN RE HENLEY. The bankrupt in this case was a broker in Savoy street, and the amount of his debts and liabilities have not as yet been officially announced. This day being appointed for the choice of assignees, a number of creditors came forward to prove their debts. The greater number of those submitted for the consi deration of the Learned Ccinmissioner were claims aris ing out of promissory notes, against many of which it was urged that they were accommodation bills, and that there had been no consideration received for them. The total amount of the claims proved at this hearing was 1,0081., which was established by four creditors. After a long discussion, Mr. George John Adlard printer, of Bartholomew close, was chosen assignee. DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE SCOTT, K.C.B.—We have to record the death of the above gallant Admiral, the intelligence of which reached the Admiralty on Thursday last. The melancholy event took place on Tuesday last, at his villa, at Petersham. The deceased Admiral, who was second son of Mr. John Scott, of Galor, Selkirkshire, and collaterally related to the Buccleuch family, was born in 1770, and married, the 27th of October, 1810, the Hon. Caroline Douglas, daughter of the late Lord Douglas and Lady Frances Scott, sister of Henry second Duke of Buccleuch. He entered the navy at the early Elge of eleven years, and when Lieutenant of the Bellerophon, was present in Earl Howe's actions of the 28th and 29th of May, and the Ist of June, 1794, and actively distinguished himself in the following year when in the Niger at the destruc tion of a French convoy. During the mutiny at the Nore he was!the means of rendering great service to the Government, for which he received the thanks of the Committee of Merchants. When in the command of the Stately he superintended the landing of the left wing of the army under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and for his services on that occasion he was presented With the gold medal of the Order of the Crescent,. When in the Ho ratio, in 1809. he was severely wounded in a gallant action with the Junon French frigate, of the largest class, which he captured, and for his conduct on that occasion has been in the receipt of a good service pen - sion of 3001. In the succeeding year, 1810, he captured the French frigate La Necessite, bound to the Isle of Franco with stores. The gallant Admiral was nominated a Knight Commander of the Bath Sept. 13, 1831. Ilis commission was dated as follows :—Lieutenant, Feb. 19, 1791 ; Commander, Sept. 19, 1796 ; Captain, June 15, 1798; Rear-Admiral, May 27, 1825; and Vice-Admiral, Jan. 10, 1837. • A STRANGE CEREMONY.—In front of every chair were small baskets, heaped one above another, full of small, brittle balls, filled with red powder, and alongside them large bowls of thick yellow saffron, and long gold squirts, with which each of us armed our selves. As soon as we were all seated the Rajah took a large butter-boat kind of article, filled with the said saffron, and poured it on Sir Henry s bald head ; while, at the same time, the prime minister rubbed him all over with gold and silver leaf, mixed with red powder. We were all holding our sides with laughter at the chief bowing to all this, wondering the meaning of it, when our mirth (or rather mine) was changed into grief,at having one eye nearly put out by a long-bearded gentleman opposite, who deliberately threw a ball, filled with red powder, into one eye, while another facetious youth closed up the other with saffron soup. The origin of this ceremony I am not sufficiently acquainted with Hindoo mythology to explain, but the custom of throwing red powder about is universal anon , that sect throughout India; and our servants, though prevented by respect from actually com mitting the atrocity, still bring round a plate with some of it at this season, and to expect a present in return.— Captain Pane's Five Years in India. FIRE -DAMP EXPLOSION AND Loss OF THREE LIVES.—An explosion of fire-damp took place at Horn, near Hales-owen, in the colliery of me. Attwood. A man named Churchhill, another named Jones, and a boy, were in the pit, and fell a sacrifice. Their bodies have not yet been recovered : repeated attempts were made on Wednesday last to descend the shaft, but the atmosphere was found to be too impure to sustain life, and the attempt to recover the bodies was necessarily abandoned. When the . explosion first commenced the fire spread with fearful rapidity, consuming all the wood work in the pit, together with the ropes, &c., and could not be extinguished for several da3 s. Five horses were in the mine at the time, and were, of course, destroyed.— Worcestershire Chronicle, DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. l Oa Saturday mor n i ng a fi re broke ott in the Louse ' of a Mr. Lavell, an extensive pork butcher, residirg iri High-street, Camberwell, and nearly opposite the Mother Red Cap. During the whole day, an] especially at night, the family had been exceedingly busy, and about twelve o'clock they retired to rest, and from the fatigue of business soon went to sleep. Shortly after one o'clock as the constable who was on duty, belonging to the P di vision, was passing the house he saw a great body of light issuing from one of the rooms, which induced him to go into the road, when be discovered the place was in flames. He instantly alarmed the inmates when other police con stables came to his assistance. The parish engine was procured, but by this time the flames began to burn with great fury, and placed the inmates, in a most perilous position. A little boy, about seven years of age, the son of Mr. Lavell, in the confusion was forgotten, and when he was looked after and recollected he was still in bed, it was found impossible to enter the house; fortunately a ladder was procured, and the poor little fellow was got out at the window, and thus escaped a most painful and agonising death. By this time the Southwark-bridge road, Waterloo-road, West of England, and other en gines reached the scene of destruction, but, in conse quence of the want of water, only the Waterloo-road and West of England engines could be put into opera tion, and it was then found impossible to save the pre mises. By four o'clock the whole was one mass of ruins. The loss of property is estimated at about 1,0001. or 1,2001. Scarcely bad the various engines from the above fire reached their respective stations, when they were (-tilled to a furious fire raging in the extensive manufactory of Messrs. Bryan and Sons, patent japan leather-dressers, &c., Dacre-strcet, Broadway, Westminster. Surrounded as the extensive premises were, by a dense and thickly populated neighbourhood, the utmost alarm prevailed amongst the inhabitants in consequence of the inflam mable nature of the property on fire. The manufactory, which is divided into several departments for the carry ing on the various branches of the trade, occupies a very extensive area, while that portion in which the process of varnishing and making the leather impervious to the weather is performed stands at the further point of the building, and it was in that part the fire was discovered. From it being Christmas morning a great number of persons were about, and information reached the stations in the course of a few minutes ; the Horselerry-road, Waterloo-road, West of England, Chandos-street, and County, were soon upon the spot, followed in rapid succession by the more distant ones. The portion in which the fire originated was, however, reduced to a heap of ruins. The loss is estimated at 2,000/. The loss will fall upon the Messrs. Bryan, as this part of the building and stock was unin sured, the fire-offices refusing to effect a policy oa ac count of the dangerous nature of the stock ; the other parts of the building, as well as stock, are insured in the County Eire-office. Between eight and nine o'clock, as the horses were about to be put to the diTirent engines, for the pur pose of leaving the scene of destruction, a mounted messenger arrived, stating that the whole of the ex tensive premises known as the Eagle Saw Mills, Old brompton, were in one body of flame. The informa tion appeared to astonish every fireman pre sent, and upon turning the horses heads round, those attached to the Waterloo-road engine took fright, and started off at a most tremendous speed up as far as Charing-cross,-where they were stopped. Upon the arrival of the firemen at Old Brompton, the information was discovered to be unfortunately too true. The entire pile, about a hundred feet in depth, and between forty and fifty in width, were enveloped in one body of fire. Unfortunately, as at the two previous fires, no water could be obtained for some time after the arrival of the various engines of the London Fire Establishment, and the consequence was, the devouring element consumed everything that stood in its way. Directly after the out break Messrs. Pye and his partner, the proprietors, were upon the spot, giving by their information every facility to stop the progress of the fire, but without ef fect. The place being full of timber rendered the heat nearly insupportable, and when water was procured it was with difficulty that the firemen could approach suf ficiently near to play upon two cottages which joined the mill?, one of which was saved, but the other, used as a couuting-house, was very much damaged. AN ARMY OF DESOLATION. It gives us'great pleasure to find that the manufac• . _ _.., .....--- turcrs of this populous section of th e ki ng d om are fast opening their eyes to the power—the tremendous power —which they possess, and which they can wield at pleasure, in their conflict with their despisers and con temners for justice. • The visitation of the houses of the poor of this bo rough bas brought many important facts to light. In the 2,965 houses visited, containing 3,162 families and 15,823 individuals, 1,150 families belong to rural pa rishes ; and if we estimate the houses not visited to con tain a proportionate number, deducting about a thou sand families, who (from occupancy of property of sufficient rental) have obtained settlements, we find that of the ten thousand families in this borough, above three thousand have claims for maintenance upon the I estates of those whose commercial restrictions and plundering exactions have filled our once-happy homes with destitution ! The announcement of the above startling fact, at tie meet:log at the Corn Exchange, Manchester, on Thursday last, created an extraordinary sensation ; and every deputy present seemed to say to himself, " This is a point which we have all ovrlooked except the people at Stockport ;" and the proposition to send an army of desolation to eat up the rent of the landowners was received w:th tremendous cheering. Taking into consideration the whole of the unem ployed and partially employed work-people of this borough, it cannot be less than about equal to the whole labour of above four thousand families, or one thousand families too many for the quantity of employment, even though the whole of the three thousand families, which belong to the landowners, were sent back to their kind benefactors. The rural districts want no labourers, for they, much as we have relieved them in this respect, are still over stocked. They have no remunerative employment to give to those whom the bread-taxers may compel our manufacturers to send back to them. Therefore, all that we send them must be kept out of their poor -rates ; and we find, on inquiry, that every family of five persons will consume the rent of about twenty-five acres of land! The three thousand families of this borough would eat up the rental of 75,000 acres ; and the 50,000 families, which might be sent from Lancashire alone, would ab sorb the whole rental of tracts of land equal in extent to several small counties If what we have heard be true, and we have no rea son to doubt the correctness of our information, some manufacturers have already begun to seriously entertain the idea of clearing their estates (their manufactories), and we have heard of one, not irony miles oft', who has given notice to quit his service to every family belonging to certain districts. We again warn the landowner not to push things to extremities, and above, all, let them beware of OU4 "ARMY OF DEsoLATioN-r—Stockport Chronicle. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH. FRIDAY.—Her Majesty's ship Power ful, 84, Captain M. Seymour, with the flag of Admiral Sir F. Ommaney, arrived here yesterday, from the Me diterranean. She came last from Plymouth, having been compelled to put in there in consequence of the wind being unfavourable. She will go into. harbour to be paid off in a few days. Her Majesty's ship Heroine, • 10, Lieut.-Commander T. D. Ster4art, sailed for sh e wes t war d y es t er d ay morning' s _ _ _ • _ _ Her Ntaje'sty's ship Pantaloon, TO,' Lieutenant-Com mander C: H. Lapidge, went out. of harbour on Wednes day, and will sail for the coast of Africa as soon as the wind will permit. Her Majesty's troop-ship Athol), Master-Commander C. B. Bellamy, sailed yesterday tbr the West Indies, with a detachment, :consisting of 60 rank and , file, and several officers of the 92d Regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel * M'Donald. She will put into Cork on her passage, where she will embark additional troops, being detachments of the 33d, 47th, and 81st Regiments. Her Majesty's ship Dido, 20, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, was to have sailed yesterday, but has been de tained by contrary winds. She is bound to China. ..... A detachment ;f the 59th -- "Regiment, destined fir Ja maica, will embark on board the Numa transport this day, which will sail as soon as the wind will permit. Her Majesty's ship Hazard, 18, Commander C. Bell, all a-taunt, and will go out of harbour in a day or two. Her Majesty's ship President, 50, Captain W. Brough ton, is expected here every day from South America, her Majesty's ship Dublin, 50, Captain J. Tucker, having left this port to relieve her the latter end of last August. Her Majesty's ship Vindictive, 50, Captain J. T. Ni cholas, is getting ready for sea with all possible despatch, and will, it is expected, go out of harbour on the Ist of January. Ships at Spithead.—Her Majesty's ship Powerful, 84 ; Dido, 20 ; Pantaloon, 10 ; Snakc,l6 ; and the Numa transport. Ships in Harbour.—filer Majesty's ships St. Vin cent, 120 ; Victory, 104 ; Queen, 110 ; Vindictive, 50 ; Warspite, 50 ; Excellent (gunnery ship) ; Hazard, 18 ; and Royal George yacht. DISTRESSING Loss OF LIFE IN TIIE HUM BER.—On Friday morning last a distressing loss of life occurred on the other side of the t iver, near New Hol land. The schooner Stoarbridge was coming up, having a boat in tow, when the painter giving way by which ,it lost, threw himself over !lie the Captain, Jeremiah Smi th, anxious to prevent• its being was attached to the vessel, stern of the vessel into the boat, but unfortunately alight ing with his back on the gunwale, he was stunned :arid fell into the - water; the boat drifting away at the same time, his own crew were deprived of the power to as sist him, and after hanging by the broken painter attached to the drifting boat, until seemingly ex h austed, he s ink to rise no more. It is lamentable to add that Mrs. Snlith was on board the vessel, and consequently a spectator of her husband's me l an ch oly death. A light sloop fm m Goole was going down the river, with the wind in her favour, at the moment of the catastrophe, and although pass i n g within twenty or thirty yards, those on bo and were deaf to the hail of the schooner and the cries of the crew to save their Captain.—Hull Advertiser. ~~.t~^','~.'fi err.., _ MORNING SUN AN AFFECTING LOVE STORY. A Bayonne journal gives the following romantic talc from the Aldudes :—" In the valley of the Bastan lived two brothers on the most affectionate terms, occupying the cottage, and enjoying the small property left them by their parents, in common. Ramon, the eldest, was $ robust natio, cultivating t'ae land, leading the cattle to pasture, and seldom returning home without gam e of his own killing. M an y a wo lf - fell from the bullets of his gun, or his iron shod staff. Antonio, the younger, was IT in size and strength, amiable, contenting hims elf with performing domestic duties, even works of the needle, consulting in all things the tastes and comforts of his more hardy brother. Antonio had been taught to read , and thereby was enabled to amuse Ramon during long winter evenings, while he was mending hi s nets and tackle. In a cottage near them resided a respect able family from Seville, composed of a father, mother, and three daughters. Mariana, the eldest, acknow" lodged to be the prettiest girl of the valley, not 00 1 1 managed the household affairs of her own dwelling, but frequently aided Antonio with her advice. In time Antonio became enamoured of the fair Mariana, and made a confidant of his brother, who approved his choice, and urged him to declare his passion. Th e timidity of the youth, however, prevented him from speaking, and he at length was so melancholy, from the weight of his love, that Ramon determined t° go and demand M a ri ana i n marr i age for Anto nio ; The parents raised no objection to the match, an" said they would refer t o th e i r daughter. Days and nights passed away, and no answer b Vi. sent, thoug h Mariana continued her a ccus t ome d assiduities at the cottage of the brothers. A n t on i o at l e ngth was so re duced by this suspense th a t h e too k to his bed. 9: seeing his distres s R amon th rew as id e a ll his Spam!. " ( raw haughtiness, and w en t t o hi s ne i g hb our s to their answer. H e was aga i n re f erre d to Mari ana. whom he reproached w i t h h er o bd uracy . Thus Pr e ": Mariana declared th a t s h e l ove d anot h er , and, her face from shame, avowed that other to be b Rol l Overwhelmed as by a th un d er b o lt, t h e unhapPY t he: uttering some incoher en t expressions rushed t 0 fatal { t iia bedside of his broth er , toad in two ' words truth, and dropped lif e l ess on t h e fl oor . Antonio e; ou came frenzied, and has since expired, also rav in g the name of his b e l ove d brother. They' have both be en A f o ter. interred in the same grave ; an d , i n t h ree wards, Mariana died o f gr i e f f or t h e l oSs o f Ram/a. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.____--- - ' ewe Wheat. Barley. Oats. ISeanv. .......-- ---.- ---- "--... ' 8. --- --- - Per Quatter.. S. to s. s. to 8. 8. to 8. 8. to '• A , ki• Abingdon ... 57 72 25 36 2 0 31 3.5 41 - "'" Andover 5B 63 :6 30 26 28 46 ..- tianbirry 56 68 -32 40 23 33 36 40 7,' _,, 44 4N Basi. gstoke 60 72 32 37 "t ,g 4"' ri 33 - Cirencester 53 70 25 35 22 31 43 " -40 i;oventry - 64 32 3S. 24 31 39 - •"' tJaveritry Derby ... Howden - 62 - 31 13 - - 41 41 Hungerford 49 Hungerford 46 72 29 37 25 30 40 ' l5 - "'", 4 Malton - a l 40 " Mai..en head 52 75 32 35 25 3 1 36 ""' Nottingham 60 76 2,8 :32 :z3 28 41 44 ...."'" -- Wantage 65 78 Sn 31 30 32 36 46 .... r 0 Warwick - - '4B 33 26 30 -- ". ..... - Winchester - 76 - 36 - 29 - 1 3 - -- York 5B 67 30 36 19 24 36 -I • ! Per Bushel s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s. 8. d. 8. d, ",•„' As• o 6 " " d. ' Birmingham 70 86 36 46 36 40 50 70 HULL CORN MARKET. 05. foe. Foreign Whit( (per Quarter) 6.55. 87s' t. Red . 6 0 8 . i s IT.: Foreign `" 00s. 645 ' ,- 9 , 32s Barley, Malting . ' 294 . ' Grinding s• . Os. 225 ' '2s' ' Oats, British M 13 ,1 91 1. 2.2j. Beans 385 Foreign (in bond) 318. 36 5. 3 " Pease, Grey 3 0, 380.4 0 L Blue and White 5 . 25. 5 „, fig , . Linseed ....,„ 465. ba. Flour (per sack) -.1. VI. 58. Rapeseed per 10 quarters) EDINBURGH CORN MARKET. real.; Wheat. Barley. oar, isean.. 4 85 11 a . First 725. Od 365. ed. 265. 814. 42 4 . o °' 40 d Sscond Third 31 4 ; 6d. Average price of Wheat PRICES OP PROVISIONS Xe. „ A to ," Beef, per to. ......... Us. sd. to Os.g(L Freshßutter, Its. If "" 011 Mutton, _0 5 0 7 Salt Ditt0,....- , ..* 810 fin 0 on 0 0 i I ea 1«....................... 0 7 010 Ditto, per eat....--6 0 1 ,I, 0 1'0rn.......-......... 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dot,.. ~ s 0 Lamp, per qr. ...... 3 0 4 0 OatStraw(kpl..... 9i s 12 0 Fallow, cwt...... 39 0 42 0 Wheat Ditt0....10 lO 0 2uartern L0af..... 094 010 Barley Ditto »•• 8 , 1 I Votatoes,l4lb..... 0 0 0 5 Hay, per5t......... 0 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET Dap Per Sack of 280Ib. I mp. First Oatmeal becond ditto Barleymeal P.s.sen4eal l. :' l i l l t 0 ( 0 ' B Second a First rie lOe : a d: B i m a t t t i oe o n . a . . e . l ..1.0......1....1.....4....1...b..1.....1„ .. ,-.! :00 2 11 . _ 1 8 0 Peasemeal ............... Pot Barley from 30s. to 4's. per sacit Y __ Beans Pease, Grey Blue and White.... Linseed Flour (per sack) Rapeseed per 10 quarters) EDINBURGH C , Wheat. Barley. First 725.0d 365. ed. second I6O 0 33 0 Third Average price of Wheat PRICES OF PR( Beef, per to. ....... Us. sd. to Os.gd . atutton w . 0 5 0 7 Vedi.w.........,...... 0 7 0 10 21 L P . ?t a: I m r ai r r p nc e t r iv — i . . f. - 7 ,::::.39 3 u 0 1)0 5 0 i 40 ° 2 4 100 0 7 1 Potatoes, 141 b........ 0 0 0 5 EDINBURGH N Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal 'Second ditto Barleymeal I II 0 P.asemeal 1 8 0 Pot Barley from ' --------nn Thursday DREADFUL DESTITUTION.--- 7vegeb l o n ci ; evening Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Carey-street, Lincoln's liin-fields, on of Elizabeth Symonds, aged 45. G v e i o e r w ge ° " cl ' °f d 'i v ' ed Grange-yard, Carey-street, stated that deces! nrd About with one of witness's tenants in Grange7Y— f don, was ten o'clock last Wednesday .I r . in.. d ec eased a had m°llll l ' ? brought to witness that it was bell e " died suddenly.' Witness aceordinglY ea ll_ and found the door locked. He knocked and but deceased did not answer. He then broke - toff door open, and found deceased: dead, and in'.; kneeling posture before the fife-place. A kn d l if and a piece of wood were lying near her, ~''',' she had been attempting to light the fire. i i, n t gical aid was instantly procured, but it was found . 's,r life was completely extinct. Deceased was sufferingerl - r consumption, and was in a very destitpte condition; P e , went to her room,i only means of subsistence being a trifle that shegete ve % week by going as charwoman to the house of a frien.thl. Cromer-street. She often wanted a crust, a nd was With. out the proper necessaries of life. Thomas house-surgeon of King's College Hospital , s tated t ediate did not believe that consumption was the jinni of the cause of-herdeath. She was afiii3ted with disetarsaeted by lungs, which disease would naturally be Be sed had want of proper nourishment. He believed dece Inves tigation died of convulsions. The Jury, after all d i t of a ver f -• which lasted nearly two hours, returned roper Natural death, greatly accelerated by waut 0 P Godfrel s ', l he ~ nourishment. • „ -_,, qual- SCENE IN A CHURCH.—The foliovilubviogge, crous scene occurred a few weeks ago, a t I l i. Tl2lO church not a hundred miles from Stallingborotig vini ,, in clergyman, observing a boy in the gallery beh a ol a b an a an unbecoming manner, reproved him. A n d o f his worthy member of the church, in the zeal for order and decorum, instantly. i t:u pped UPI , tt i s called out, so ring the rascal down, and I'll ki % o ng ---. 1 7 No ner was the threat uttered, than t.lVeptior urchin was dragged down, and handed over to base," "God's .O mercies of the old zealot for the honour of ook tithe by having come out of his pew to meet him, t t to t he by the collar, and very plentifully applied his f r the 610- boy's posteriors, to the no small amusement 0 , „horn gregatton, and the moral benefit of the offenqert,Lioota plenitu o and he told to "Go in peace and sin no mor e: Mercury. 1' 1 App o int E. J. DENT, 82, Stra n d, by Speoiait. ER to the menu CHRONOMETER and WATCHNI,V ALBE RT ' QUEEN and his• Royal Hi g h ness PRlNv"..atialled per obtained the great Government Reward for the uo i 'l ar i e d formance of his Chronomete r , N o . 114, whichoTiY, ad dition to four hundredths of a secon d i n twe l ve mon ths. ' f the Lord' this distinction, he has just received, by order Cis Commissioners of the Admiralty, the highest r e :r ; d nre e: by their Lordships for the good performance of, t i t w it 00 Mr. Dent, anxious to remote any prejudice u1u".,, 7 ,„,"; 19 0- to his general business from the idea that his atte,'"-• b e gs to elusively' devoted to instruments of the highest order , d to th state, that while his principal care is necessarily direcle_atchei., latter, he is not unmindful of the manufacture 05ciently which, while they are greatly lower in price, Are s b , alwe) s accurate for all ordinary purposes, and will, therefor e, , - , ca tcheg most in demand. The whule of his extensive " 50 d 4 e 4 has had the advantage of his selection and exaluilA tl , ° ",,,' D dnt s ' has arranged a departthent, under competent s upetin' - i ce 0 for offering to the public good plain watches at asl°,, w i r,. P a r ritici - - is compatible with any pretensions to correctness, tu'v,,,pery listing, from an increase of business, an advantageou s c", s G o ld sation for reducrion in price. Ladies' or G e n tleme % Watches, from 101. 10s. ea c h; Silver ditto from 41. Strand. GOLD WATCHES, LONDON-----1"11; . 0 Lon o • T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, No. 47, Corillou' ke tion A seven doors from Gracechurch-street, submits for bole of very. large STOCK of GOLD WATCHES, tle es on th e which are carefully examined by experienced wonZe. premises, and each is warranted for correct pew ll° • SIZE FOR LADIES. d' Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, in engide -turne x,lo 10 gold cased, and gold dials, warranted ............. , Fine/Vertical Watches, jewelled, vrkth double -backed engine-turned gold eases and gold dials Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled holes with double-backed gold cases and gold dials, 14 ti 14 warranted ... • .......... ...... g eld 1 00 : 4 . 4 .' l '; SIZE FOR GENTLEM EN.. , Patent detached Lever Watches ; jewelled in four holes, seconds, and double-backed gold cases, war. 13 13 0 ranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled is six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and 1 7 0 in:nfoteudr 12 12 17 enamel dials, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in •: six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and 0 0 ",, 21 . gold dials, warranted ...... Either of the Gentlemen's Watches ; .. be ...... iag ; y had 11 , '. , tjd.. cases, for 31. 3s. each extra. , 1, , ,i, ,- ,. , ~ N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in, exc1____.......2, isth i g top, Colonelda 00u 0 gni n h ttthethbr_evles:y2t...}:t lifbn.itonslise.nt inst., at Penzance, the o of % es. born. o f sirgton, of a daughter o f r i a a s dy A Artillery I u l of Laeswoen; On the 2AI ins t., at the Hall House, Ilawkhurst, the l ady Samuel Newington, Esq., of a son. lady oEfsgLi..euteoapt- w Es ao q i . in , ert t ,h o Ee MARRIED. On the 16th •.t D C 1 G orge Cowen, ins ~ at alston, near are, e Watson, Esq. tha late 111 r. Henry A 2q4 l . a :h r E g j a bn r us e tr t .yi. youngest daughter cf the late Arthur fisaottureoeSwtt,a.).PG.ime°lriegoe,s;o lir;erAtrwr.Pid'ojrf°ll:l DIED. On the 25th inst., Thomas Gtllett, Esq., second son of th e late E. I. Collett, Esq., MT., aged 35. On the 20th inst., T. Ashley, of Staines, aged FO. On the 21st inst., at Cottage-place, West-street, Mr. J. Reynolds, aged 5 9 . Stoner of On the 22c1 inst., at Upper Gower - stree t, Daniel vi.. wo rth, .t Ch O nc n th y e 22d inst., at i Angel l -place, a Edmonton , Frances 41. Eliza.;l, ~,f/ 0 0 1 beth Watts, spinster, aged 75. ? IT Atd, On the 22d inst., T. Warry, Esq., of Ne w Inn. ' iiiir„li.t ____—....--/_ 6 f London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUIIO_, No. 112, Strand, at 2'lit Sur Office, No. 112, Strand, the County of Middlesex, Monis y,Deeemb )27 1841* haw beta .Iho c bee, bei N forth N. a re n Satui Satui atur 76, E SI newly OPgl «V Use of the a.! them ter harle H. C( . v• ET 41 . Dal bury . Su; R. C. Rig arar, In pp the Af, INVjs which is not 1 thebl eav te no ity its WW di e. jestiW t nesse s 'less th her Gr the Ar 4 Ithnch , 39, I In ec `Nt~,,e~t~sa 4 ; h, St o lr , t;t4,Rgebi 444% I T 41 eals:( , teknowl the pub] t ion f b tnit y v, '`X,the 'see Wi bese, he, ellew e d the di Sold h t " h" IngdOrr Ask Name ar Governr Just put