The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

_MORNING- -.EDITION 'NOTICE. • 141.1 4/ H _A CINA SUN," Which was RE-PUBLISHED on the 6th .IiNSTANT, with the' LATEST NEWS :frdin CHINA, . IS NOW ON SALE. Price :SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112,, Strand. IN PROGRESS, 4H. RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, and a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED -IN LETTERS OF GOLD, WITH A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF I IER MAJESTY, THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. ILOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP FAIRY. 111 E Public is earnestly appealed to in Behalf ,) or the WIDOWS and ORPHANS of the SEAMEN „? perished in this unfortunate Vessel. NtNlbseriptions are received by Captain Phipps Hornby, C. 8., .'" lw iell • 1 M C tts and Co.'s, Strand ; and at , asoat . essrs. ou Lubbock and Co.'s, Mansion-house-street. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., with 12 Illustrations, 1 1 E SPORTSMAN in FRANCE, RAM nt Comprising -ES THROUGH PICARDY and NORMANDY, An d BOAR SHOOTING in LOWER lIRITANY. By FREDERIC TOLFREY, Esq. He nry Collnini, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers. RIIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of a . AUTRIA having AUTHORISE D an d GIJA: 120 TE ED S several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY eft WNDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) erraany possibilities of obtaining •• • LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGII, p;nnvc SELLING BONDS for , the said DISTIIIBU lONS. rn kni s desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions re7eive PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS OUCI.TUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH- I :. DELAY, a line to Tll HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGIL b, E NEXT DISTRIBUTION, contains SEVEN HUN. "s 0 DIVIDENDS, amounting to £72,170, T'no Dividends being R 2 i,000 £OOO £l2O £BO ?MOO 400 110 70 • ' 4 ) 0 0 • 2OO 100 60 1 ,010 150 • 90 50 Sterling. too uNti• HEATRE. ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. t 'itthe MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. W`,ji••• THIS EVENING, 'JAN. IS. presented Shakspere's Comedy (with Music) of I; THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. theVohri Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma ; Pord, Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. _Harrison ; Mrs. IG, Mr,. Nisbett ; 'Mrs P . age, Madame Vestris; Ann Page, 4 Raioforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. Ilk , • After which, N EB' GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be THE repeated, entitled —c• CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. P a t t lequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; 'F u " , Mr. ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. 11 4 °•tnorrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Monday,lie: . the Midsummer Night's Dream, with The /)„.. ntornirne. %,`,7rs to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to i,erice at Seven o'Clock. • k t ,„litets and places for the Boxes to be. taken of Mr. Grogan. tp,'"e Box-offic.e, froM 'Ten till Four, where Season Tickets )/ b e had upon application. ti rd "'. ll oxes, ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second %, s s; ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 32.; Second Price. 16.Pvete Boat. to be had solely of Mr. Andr.ovs, bookseller s' , -,'Zevir Bond-street. • - . . T ROYAL SURREY ,THEATRE. —4l nlihant • Success—lmmenseWovelty—Crowded Houses— . •, Fifth Night of Ainssorth's Tower oft London. I'H 'IS EVENING, JAN. 15. ' ag ;acted a Grand - Historical Romance, founded on and • entitled Th e abl - THE TOWER OF LONDON. f m ,„7: L eaattVivans, -splendid Costume, and Appointments, Aft betsigns -of the celebrated George Cruikshanks which w ill be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomi . me, entitled nOREY • 1 11 14 . 1 47 1 th 144 A . N T B Il Y SP I A D L Y . 11 --- ( 1 1i F NI) O G R dStING S. t unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr. tiZ43,.the Original Closn; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and wit" -- Ir 4ll . Gyronastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran 'Land DinPraamniC , at per o .frm • concluding with Brunning's Synopsis of Syria. 11 174 --- rhlgßllll WATER AT LONDON'BRIDGE THIS.'AI. .2.2 minutes alter 7. I Evening • 6:nuvutes atter 7 . ~ , , ,Z 4 --,.. ''''' r•- • - --:4 J t' c .k ,I#P,A 4 : : • . 1' 'e tol' - V '''' ..-.ZT . ,' ,.... 4 4 ., ,-.P479'44' --14 L: ..•:. ,•''', , - i : : - Zhe ,A.llx+ LONDON: , . FRIDAY, JANUARY ]5, IE4I. The present duty on heat is 265. Bd., and al tp Yof our peop l e are per i sh i ng from cold and w 4lin e. W e scarce l y ever l oo k i nto a Journal ith ou . finding, as in the Courier of last evening, ttte articles with headings of this description ; ` l tAll is RO M STARVATION. Every such k elt ri t h ought t o b e h eaded CORN-LAW MURDERS, 14 4 t: it Will probably be useful to the good cause then t° give) in a few words, a correct description of Isth r effe cts of th a t l aw . Th e cases , h owever , ,IT'ell are broiviht before the public, through the tnni entality o f a C oroner ' s i nquest , d o not f orm 4 - the, nor the hundredth part of those whom that th W i e " ti nually puts t o d eat h. M en sacrifice other l 4 ; ti gs to procure food—clothes, fuel, shelter—all the dis pensed w i t h to obta i n bread ; and whatever r.etefore deprives the people of bread deprives them t r t °F cl ot h es, fuel, and shelter.' A ut we oty•six s hilli ngs and e i ght-pence is now the 61 / °II a quarter of wheat, while the price is (1.; consequently at this moment, in this my weath er , w h en the most comfortable cloth- I ng i ) t he larg est fi res, and the driest shelter, arc re 'c4ll4.ttsed to preserve lif e an d h ea l t h, t h e C orn- l aw a °fl very near l y one - t hi r d o f every man ' s loaf, . i k' h e - h "Prives all the poor of food, clothing, fuel, and What an unspeakably barbarous and • cru e l j aw. 1 1e e coal m i nes of England are inexhaustible ; "wet to manufacture clothing is absolutely OOt nliinited and illimitable ; her command (naturally, "impeded b y f ull timber d u ti es ) over f ore i gn t i m b er , y eq ua l to her manufacturing powers ; and 4 1 , 1 ,B.lne n tlY the means o f c l ot hi ng, she l ter i ng, nu:. " winning t h e p eople, by their own industry, are Mi Of an d i nexhaustible. But all these bounties Plovidence, 'all these testimonies to its infinite ~,R ? ° th' ess, are ren d ered vain and unavailable by the '''l9kedness of the Legislature in decreeing and in ',41.4ce1-114intaining, in sp i te of warnings and demands, the d Corn -law. br Will the electorS of Walsall by their votes for a k ea d-taxe r , ismiction and confirm this murdering t 114? Will they make themselves accessories, now th at _t_ile fa ct is known, to the wilful starvation of foe 1" Ple ? Porbid it j ustice, f or bi d i t human i ty, )41 it reli,Ti o I the T he bread -taxers, we see, imp u d ent l y b oast i n dis 'r's , 111 "'"ittp; Post, that ‘ , the Wesleyan M e th o - v e, with a very few exceptions, resolved to te " ha th e i r influence into Mr. GLADSTONE'S ttlae The E p i scopalians, the Puseyites, the i;os' Papists, and other deriders of and deserters 0111''cr the upright and f ear l ess P rotestant i sm of our 4, 5, would no doubt be very ready to catch the 1 t "leyan s i n their net. In every part of the coun irY t he Epi scopalian priesthood, whose pecuniary ofltere3i ls boiled up with the maintenanc e fa t he Co rn -l aw, have lectured and spoken in its S vc " ir ' and dot vp p et i t i ons against abolishing it. o t c i l l i e c °o n tin du t e r t , has added very much in every p ar t t e to the unpopularity of the Episcopal thtit.Y. The n ames o f the Bishops who voted for ..H la vi, have been paraded in many popular '• r 0%/ice !journals... Titcd, apparently, ,of the . ITorri",ir: an popularity which makes- their religious teaching. most unwelcome, the EpisCopalians now wish to *have co-partners in this iniquity, and , impudently assert that the Weslcyans throw their influence into Mr. GLADSTONeS -Stale. It is impossible. No man with a spark, of religion, no man who wish - es to impress on the world a reverence. for the ALMIGHTY and make it rely ,on a good and just- GOD, can vote for a law, or contribute in any way to support a law, which interposeS, in the man , . . ner the Corn-law interposes,. as , above. described, between man and his Maker. -GOD gives abundance to our industrious people, but the law decrees starvation and death. The Correspondent of the Morning Post calumniates the Wesleyans. Even if they have, in ignorance of the terribk effects of the Corn-law, promised Mr. GLAD STONE, such a promise cannot bind them to be the murderers of their hapless fellow-countrymen. If they support him, they will make Wesleyan Me thodism a by-word with the people, who will sepa rate from it as from a pestilence. The subscription which is now opened for widows and orphans of the seamen lost in the Fairy, of which an advertisement appears in our columns, will, we hope, be worthy of the country. On the seamen it must ever rely for protection, and too much cannot be done to convince them that if their lives be sacrificed in the public service the public will take care of their relatives and friends. Dr. ADAM SMITH stated, and we beg that our readers will remember that he wrote the memo rable words before our Bank Restriction Act was called into existence, before the French Revolu tionary .Government had issued . itB assignao, and before the several anti-Revolutionary Governments. of Europe, those of Austria, Russia, Denmark, Prussia, &c., had acted on the same principles as the Revolutionary Government of France, and issued immense quantities of paper in payment of debts which afterwards became almost valueless, and destroyed the fortunes of many individuals— Dr. ADAM SMITII, writing somewhere about the year 1770, and therefore ignorant of the many Mal versations of Government, in respect to money, which have since his time so amply confirmed his memorable words, said that Government, by tam pering with the currency, had " sometimes pro duced a greater and more universal revolution in the fortunes of private persons than could have been occasioned by a great public ealamity.'i Since his time the stream of - theory has set in against enlarging the powerS of- Gov - ernment in respect of the currency, while the stream . of -prac tice has set in the opposite direction, and Govern ments have been, ,and are, importuned to' meddle Kith it. Since his time, however, it has been found much more easy and convenient for Govern ment to practice their scandalous trickS with the paper money, which is now in-general use, than with coin, and the brief allusions above made show bow common has been the practice all over Europe. In deed the almost universal degradation of paper money in Europe about the commencement of the present century is a somewhat striking example of the influ ence of some general laws on the conduct of princes and statesmen, while they are entirely ignorant of the influence under which they are acting. • Governments are supposed, particularly when they are representative Governments, to be - responsible to the people ; and yet, though they have acted under this responsibility, they have first, with me tallic money, and since with paper money, continu .ally_pliyid,scandalous tricks which have produced a greater and more universal revolution in the for tunes of private persons than could have been oc casioned by a great public (or natural) calamity. We cannot be. surprised, therefore, at the stream 'of theory having set in the direction stated--while we must feel and express great surprise that the stream'of practice should have set in an opposite direction. i MOM The power has now, indeed, passed in some measure from the hands of Government into the hands of merchants ; from those who were, and are, responsible to the whole people to those who are only responsible to a narrow constituency of proprie tors ; from Parliament acting tin public to a few Bank Directors, acting in secret. The Bank of Eng land, managed by a few merchants, not always of the most reputable character or most undoubted resources, is now ". the regulator of the currency." So it was yesterday styled by the Morning Chro nicle aid Times, and so it is frequently styled. Thus an immense power, which no Government ever possessed without abusing it, is now, by our practice, in direct opposition to all sound theory, placed in the hands of a few irresponsible mer— chants, who have a strong interest in abusing it, and who do continually abuse It has, also, been stated by the great authority above quoted, that Government cannot direct, with advantage, individuals how to employ their capital, and the whole of SMITH'S work is directed against Government meddling with trade. We have the equal authority of Dr. FRANKLIN, for declaring tha an assembly of legislators endeavouring to regulate commerce is the greatest fool on earth. The wisdom. of these two great me❑ on this point, has since they wrote been amply confirmed by many facts, of which our own Corn-law, Timber-duties, Sugar duties, &c., are examples. There is as little reason, thei . efore, to extend the power of responsible go vernment over commerce as over the currency. What, then, shall we say when we find the same irresponsible body, which has become the regulator of the currency, also endowed with the power of controlling and circumscribing commerce ? The monied men and merchants of the city of London knew what they were about when they decried the action of Government on money and commerce, and when they wet - tried that power, from its hands, and usurped it for the Bank of • England. This is the language of the writer of The Times' City article yesterday : " There is required evidently, in this state of things, the most careful and judicious conduct on the part of the Bank of England to give free scope to the new en terprise which has arisen among the trailing interest, without encouraging overtr►ding and speculation. Af ter the lessons which the Directors have lately had on the subject, and the responsibility they arc under at the present moment to perform their exact duty to the coin Pierce of the country, it is really to be hoped that they will give to it all the encouragement that it ought to receive, and in the manner best calculated to make that encouragement effective. They have already lost more than one similar opportunity in taking the alarm when they ought to have felt and to have inspired confidence, and have been punished for it by the lowest stock of bid lion, taking the length of the time it has continued low, that the Bulk has ever experienced." So the regulator of the currency is also the encourager, and, of course, the depressor of com merce, and the regulator of commerce. Our un taught and unlearned ancestors would have shrtnik back with shame and anger at such a statement, and would at once have resolved that these great branches of society, necessary for the due nourish ment of the whole, should not be dependent on a selfish narrow Company. Liberal -minded English men sometimes mock at the meddling of the King of Pitusst A, or at the French Government, under taking to watch over and encourage commerce— .l*.t what is their usurpation, foolish though it be, to the usurpation of a few adventurers, stock-jobbers, and merchants of the city of London undertaking the same task, and conducting it with a view to their private advantage ,? This is monstrous, more monstrous than any proceeding of the most despotic I . GOvernment : of tkly,(,iyiiti4o,t, and not to, t)e cre diied of The country in which the language of ADAM Smirx is spoken, and in which his books are considered to be authority. We have little more than room to call the- at tention of the public to the Report of the meeting held at Manchester on Monday, to 'take into con sideration the propriety of dissolving " the Man chester and Birmingham, Extension Railway Com 7 pany," and forming another on a much more en larged and comprehensive scale. The line, as originally laid down,, made no pro Vision for the transfer of traffic from the Great Junction ; and consequently the town of Liverpool, and the vast floating population, whose route to and from Lon don traverses that p'tace, would have been practically excluded from the lieneflt of that line. The new plan, theiefore, is to obviate these defects, and to afford an opening bir the Trent Line for the traffic between . tondOn and Liverpool, as - well as a vast proportion of that from Scotland and Ireland. The Company Was accordingly dissovled ; another will be formed in a few days, and the most active measures will he adopted for carrying a new Bill through Parliament this Session. This is a mea sure of such national importance that we trust no personal interests on the part of landed proprie tors, or other Railway Companies, will be allowed to throw obstructions in the way of its speedy com pletion. The Madrid Journals, of the sth instant, have arrived. By driving the POPE'S Nuncio from the capital, the Regency has got itself into a very dan gerous dispuw with the clergy, which, in the pre sent distracted state of Spain, it was the excess of folly to havte provoked. Queen CHRISTINA had sent some, elegant presents from Rome to the Duchess. of VICTORIA, to whom she again recom- Mended, the care of her.children. The agitation about the Douro question was subsiding, nor was.it long's doubted that an amicable arrangement would be . .made through : the mediation of Great Briton. The Fives were, on the sth, at 284 on the Bourse for cash. There is no political news worth recording in the French journals of Tuesday. In the circumstance of the Frenca Government having prevented the representation at the Theatre de la Renaissance of a libel • upon her Majesty Queen VICTORIA and Prince ALBERT, the French Opposition journals find matter fur a fresh attack upon the SouLT-Gurzor Cabinet. We have elsewhere given a long account of this projected base and cowardly attack upon one of the most deservedly popular Sovereigns and most virtuous and exemplary women in the world, nor do wd believe that there is -a man of honour or a virtuous wife and mother in France, who will not blush that so scoundrelly an attempt had been made to asperse the immaculate parity of the do mestic life of the:Queen of ENGLAND. We are only surprised that after the infamous celebrity France has obtained for the cowardly atrocities committed, less upon the persoa than the pure reputation of th e beautiful and unfortunate - MARIE ANTOI NETTE, there should be found a man of letters in Paris so utterly loSt to all sense of shame-.. 50 en tirely forgetful of every principle of honour and virtue that dignifies manhood—as to court 'for his country any additional notoriety in this respect. But much as it grieves us that such an author should be found in Paris for the sake of France herself, we are still more grieved that the suppres sion of his mean and malignant slanders should obtain for him the sympathy of any portion of the French daily press. Most certain we are, that were the British stage to be prostituted to any'attack upon the domestic charac ter of the King and Queen of the FRENCH, the indignation of a London audience would hardly suffer it to let the actors and actresses escape with their lives. But, thank GOD, disaffected as are our people, our very mobs know how to_ respect domestic virtue in the highest as well as the lowest rank of life. The French Government received on Tuesday a telegraphic despatch from Brest, which stated that a treaty of peace had been concluded between France and Buenos Ayres. It was certainly high time for the settlement of a quarrel the origin of which was so trifling, and-whose continuance was so injurious to the commercial interests of France, England, and the United States. The last ac counts from Buenos Ayres stated that the question would be settled through the mediation of Mr. MANDEVILLE, the British Minister, but no par ticulars regarding the ultimate arrangement appear in the French Journals. The following telegraphic dispatch from French Africa was likewise received by the Government on Tuesday afternoon : TOULON, JAN. 11, 1841-ALGIEkS, JAN. 5. " MARSHAL VALLEE TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. " The province of Algiers is perfectly tranquil. The had weather has interrupted our communications with Mcdeah. " A slight engagement lately took place at Mostaganem, in which the Arabs were defeated. " The Constantine mail has not arrived." The question of the fortification of Paris has lost none of its interest for the French people. They arc as eager to see Paris surrounded by strong walls as if an allied army was again within a day's march of the banks of the Seine. The correspondent of a Contemporary, writing:upon this popular mania for defensive walls on the part of a nation of heroes, has the following just observations : It is true that Paris is France, and that a person in pos session of the capital commands, by the system of cenlral isation latterly adopted, the whole of the departments. True, so far as Paris is in communication with the pro vinces; but no longer true when Paris is isolated, and cut off by a f,reign army from its usual support in the interior. In such a case, if ever it should occur, r aris will be an agglutination of human beings shut ap within walls, depending for their daily food on supplies from the outside, and having no means of being re lieved from any other quarter. • A beaten army—arid we suppose the French army beaten, if the Allies pierce so far as the 3 capital—would retreat fight- ing on Paris, and take refuge in it. The rest of 'France is left at the mercy of the enemy ; and Par;s can only hold out as long as it has provisions to maintain itself. The river, the great artery of supply, both above and below the city, would 'ha barred by the enemy—the roads leading in all directions would be cut up. A blockade would be established within a distance safe from sallies of the garrison, and what is to become of Paris in the course of a few weeks? A million of people will not willingly starve, and the gates will be opened to the enemy the moment provision begins to fail. Recol lect that the French is not Spanish nature. Parisians will not bear the same privw.lant endured at Saragossa, Gerona, or Astorga ; and even if they would, a blockading force would take care to leave them to their last rat ; for such a force as should invade France would seal up, I may say herm'etically, all approaches to the besieged capital. All this is well known to the French Govern ment, and would be seen at a glance by the French people, did not their ridiculous hostility to Eng land blind them to the presence of an engine de signed as a bridle upon their liberties. While they foolishly fancy that they arc raisin , obstacles to German—and English conquests, they are, in reality, forging fetters for the limbs, and making gags for the mouths, of French citizens. But such is their infatuation, that nothing can save them from the consequences of their own madness. A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, received at Paris yester day, announce the arrival of a body of 2,000 cavalry at Maycoce. Another division of the same strength is ex pected in that city. --La Ft anc'. The armaments continue in all the Italian Peninsula. The King of Naples is raising his army to 100,000 men, The King of Sardinia has, at this moment, a fine force of infantry, which amounts to 72,000 men. We have already spoken of the terrible hurricane which commenced at Barcelona on the 22d of December, and continued two days and three nights. Three ships of tire French Royal Navy were in the - port—the Meleagre brig, Captain Belvoze ; the Surprise brig, Captain Rigault de Gcnouelly, and the Emancipation transport. A letter from - M. Belvoze, of the 25th of December, to the Minister of Marine, gives the following details -- ‘• I shall not attempt to describe the storm which has caused such immense disasters. The effects will show better than any words of mine, the dangers which the King's ships have so happily escaped. More than ten mer chant vessels sunk at different parts in the interior of the T_HE i sUN, I,_,QNI]ON, FRII)AY, JANUARY 15, 1841. port; a hundred other ships at anchor in the port have sustained immense damag,e laitli, a part of the Mole, and all the establi,hMentS upon it, are destroyed.".—Lc Commerce. The Tartare, which has the mail from Africa on board, and many convalescent soldiers, was obliged to put into Port Mahon, on the - 21 of January; - having suffered great damage. Aboth fifty of the passengers were conveyed to the French hospital. The Tartarc, not being in a con= dition to continue her voyage, the mail was put on board the Gregois steamer, which had just touched at Mahon, and was able immediately to proceed to Toulon.—Le Consti. tutionncl. 130 CTRSE.—PARts, TUESDAY, JAN. 12. first Highest Lowest I.ait Price Price. Pricy. . Price Ficnch 5 per Cents 112 20 ... 112 30 ... 112 20, ... 11 2 25 4 per Cents 99 .. 99 ... 99 '.. g 9 - 3 Per Cents 77 ,5 - 7 7 60 ••• 7 45 ''' 7 -7 . 11 6° 0 4,. of min ce ....3260 ...32.- I.st/itte Bank I,llooi. So._ 1050 ...1 , 50 —lO5O -. 165 ' ) 5000 f. Shires 5132 50 .4132 50 -.5132 50 .4132 fq 'elgian Bank 5 per Cents... . ... 3 per Cents New Loan ... 9 969 . ... : 1 , 9 ...... 92 559 ...... 60 10 9114 ... wig ... 95% ... 9 81 4 ~, . ..irrsh Active . 24 , /, • ... 24% ... ‘24% ... 24% l'a,sive ' 6 ... 6 ... 6 ..• 6 • s:cal4,lil 4o . PAIL 190 j 1144.) ::: ' 90911461 , ion,all St . i.errnain 69 .5 ... 095 ... C 95 ... 695 Versz.:lle:!ll. It L. 13 ( )means S risburg to Bale quihaus.en to Thann .. ...... 2445 42 '47'77 5 24 :'sso'o' ......•:..: : .2 1 4344 2. 9' 1 75 i •.. ......... 4 3444 2 811 5 5287 52575005 . ......... 11 ! )..4 : 82 2 8850 5 77:2 ADMIRAL STorFortp, we arc informed, has accepted the office of Governor of Greenwich Hospital, and may be expected in England about March. CONTEST AT REIGATE.—Lord Eastaior has been started at Reigate by his Conservative friends, in oppe sition to Mr. D'Arcy. This split amongst the Tories may perhaps open the door for some Liberal to walk into the scat. TILE CHURCH AND THE ARISTOCRACY THE ENE MIES OF TRUTH.----" No, no ; we cannot help our con vietion—our knowledge —that the principle of free trade is true. We cannot resist—i,nd we will not suppress— the conviction that its judicious app:ication would be an incalculable boon to the empire, and to every human being in it.. But we will not be di.iven by misdirected — sometimes intemperate—zeal in defence of a legislative blunder, to abandon our allegiance to the Chu-ch. So says the .Manchester Chronicle, a thorough-paced Tory print, which at the same time bitterly abuses the League for speakio , *.itl of the - Aristocracy and the Church. The Chronicle pays a divided allegiance. It cannot help being a commercial print, believing free trade to be true and good,--Ht cannot help being also a Tory print, believing that the Uhutch and the Aristocracy are .also true and good. But the latter are opposed to free trade, and opposed, therefore to what the Chronicle regards as true and good. The divided al legiance of the Chronicle is another example to be added to those of the Post, Standard, and Dublin Evening Mail, of the homage which the Tories are reluctantly compelled to pay to the noble principles of free trade. Like the unfortunate Scott, they seem about to hang themselves, and certainly we shall not interpose to pre vent them. CONTEST FOR THE OFFICE OF 13RIDGE-MASTER. Yesterday a Common Hall was held, for the election of a Bridge-master, in the room of Mr. 'Watson, de ceased. The City has been in a bustle for some weeks in consequence of the exertions of the friends of the two gentlemen who have actively sought the suf frages of their fellow-citizens, and who seem to be ex pending a great deal of money in tho struggle. They arc both most highly esteemed. At one o'clock the Livery assembled in no very great number, for upon such an occasion, when a contest of seven days is known to be about to take place, the show of hands is considered as no test of future victory. Alderman LAINSON proposed Mt% George Ledger as a gentleman qualified in every - respect to fill the office of Bridge -master. Mr. LAWRENCE seconded the nomination. S:r PETER LAURIE proposed Mr. David Gibbs, who had contested the election for Bridge -master ten years ago, and expressed a hope that that candidate would prove successful upon the present occasion. Mr. STEVENS seconded the nomination. There were two other candidates. Mr. Richards, who was proposed by Mr. Price, seconded by' r. Deal ; and M. Hoard, who came forward for the purpose of withdrawing from the contest. The show of hands was declared by the Sheriffs to be in favour of Mr. Gibbs, and a poll was immediately demanded upon the part of Mr. Ledger. The polling commenced at three o'clock for the day, and ended at four, when the following numbers were exhibited Gibbs Ledger • . ...... . . 191 The Hall adjourned to this morning. It is expected that the struggle will be tremendous. THE WALSALL ELECTION AND PUSEYISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Str,,—lt oppeark-.to . , ine worth ~chyle to take notice of a remark in Mr. Gladstone's last leiter to the eke tors of Walsall, which is to the effect, " that the Anti- Corn-'nw League were making unwarrantable quotations from the Bible in support of their views." Mr. Gladstone, in speaking thus, seems to forget that the doctrines of the Oxford Tract and Puseyite party are not, as yet, so un i versa lly rece ived and acted upoP, that this opinion of his con have much weight. Things are not already come to such a pass that people must inquire of Mr. Gladstone what quota tions from the Bible are warrantable or otherwise. Ac cording to his notions, they arc, I presume, expected to wait for the approbation of Church authority, - . before they can even venture to quote from the Bible such pas sages as shall appear to suittheir purpose ; in the same way vs they are also required by him to accept all interpretation of its meaning solely from the same 'hands. But until that despotic power is acknowledged, and the right of private judgment given up, it will, perhaps, be deemed proper by the Anti-Corn-law League to apply the precepts and commands of the Bible in aid of the great cause of humanity, and for - the purpose of convicting those who profess such extreme veneration - for it, of their iniquitous disregard of its contents. 1 cannot help thinking that. the public are placed in a most embarrassing position in respect to the sacred volume. There ate many who would make it the only vehicle of knowledge and the sole basis of education ; and when minds have been thus narrowly restricted, and proceed to turn this, their only knowledge, to a practical account., by quoting it in support of the princi ples they may profess, then Mr. - Gladstone, or some other High Church authority exclaims, Oh I you see making most unwarrantable quotations. Of course, this observation does not apply to the enlightened members of the Anti -Corn-law League, but is meant to show the natural tendency of the views of certain or thodox people in reference to the use of the Bible. Tile electors of Walsall will, doubtless, consider that the Anti-Corn-law agitators hare as much right to make use of those texts of the Bible which lend support to their views, as M. Gladstone can have in employing other passages to support the claims of apostolical succession, and Church authority, of which he is such a zealous and notorious champion. I trust that it will spur the electors of Walsall on to en increased oppositio n to this gentleman, by recol lecting that. he is not only an enemy to the free trade of provision for the body, but is equally so to tha' freedom of conscience, and Protestant principle, right o) . private judgment, which desires the same kind of ali ment for tic soul. _ That he may be defeated on both these grounds, and that the advocates of a free trade in corn, and the friends of 'civil and religious liberty, may obtain a triumph for these principles by the return r f Mr. Smith, is a t)rayer in which all true Reformers will cor dially unite. Hoping this letter may be thought worthy of inicr tion in your columns, I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant, Jan. 7, QUOTE AD LIBITUM." COURT CIItCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. Colonel Cowper, First Equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived to-day at the Castle. , His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambri37e and the Earl of Erroll took their departure from tie Castle this morning. The Earl of Uxbridge and the Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget will have the honour of joining the Royal circle at dinner this evening. Neither her Majesty, Prince Albert, nor the Duebess of Kent, have left the Castle to-day. indsor Castle. nertdCaya,mfbrroimdgao Prince George of C t zli s t r i e d:l, - , e ci, a ) :rr k iv y e e d st visit,h u stco, leer Piccadilly, e sty at at w Mr. \Vilday, Registrar of Demerara, had an inter view with Lord John Russell yesterday' at the Colonial office. Mr. G. Gillespie had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. Mr. John Shaw Lclevre, Captain WOollcombe, and Mr. Forrester, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. Despatches from dr) Governors of the Mauritius, New Zealand, Sierra Leone, and St. Helena, were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial Offic e . Sir Henry St. John AllidmaY, Bart., has left Far rance's Hotel, on a visit to the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton. • E at.—Monday the A QUAKER 13 fol lowing Gentlemen Quin, M. Synnot, jun., T , Sanders, F. M'C art h y , R . Foley, G. F. H o dder, F.. Somer s , J . S . Bl a k e, J . C . Ogle, 0. M'Causland, Vl'. A. Ch a yt or, an d T . J. White, se .A re ß I c t I s , e l d ' to the I r i s h b ar Esqrs. Mr. Chaytor Jelongs to the Society of Friends. This is the first instan , , , e of a member of that Society being called to the bar. T ...inder the 2d and 31 William IV., Mr. Chaytor was e , Asbled to make affirmation, in place of taking the oaths r,rmn - ibed by law.r - Dublitz Alai/. • . 1 ' 1' MONEY "and COMMERPIA4 NE i'V& 011 , Y,' THURSDAY EVENING. The Funds were buoyant to-day, with a moderato extent of business. The chief attention was directed to the options and preparations for the settlement to morrow. The purchasesof the Bears caused a further slight advance in Consols to 891- to 1 ; and the conti nuation to February was full per cent. Exchequer Bills realised Bs. to 103. prem., and East India Bonds, 103. to 6s. dis.; Bank Stock improved to 165 and 166, and East India Stock to 249 and 2501, being for each a rise again of about 1 per cent. The New Three-and a-Half per Cents. were at 97i to 974, and the Three per Cent 3. at 894 to O. Little was done in the Foreign Securities, and the quotation s were very trifling. The settlement went off comparatively easy. Spanish Bonds were 241 to 244 for Money, and 24 to 241 for the 29th instant., being a c3ntinuation of k per cent. ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were steady at 'l2 to and the Three per Cents. at 20 to : 1 • Colombian Stock touched 23i to 4. but Mexican were still at 28%; Brazilian Bonds im proved to 714 ; Danish Bonds were 771 ; Russian, 113 to 1 ; French Five per Cents., 111 f. 75c.; the Three per Cents., 77t. 25e. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 50i to The market for Railway Shares had a tendency to improve. Great Western were at 30 to 29 ; the New, 14 to 15 ; the Fifths, q-; the London and Birming ham, 82 ; the Quarter ditto, 221 ; the New, 25 ; the South Western, 19-k to 19?-, ; and the Gosport Junc tion, 71 prem.; Brighton were 51 to 5 7 7- ; Croydon, and North Midland, 21 dis. ; National Bank of Ire land Shares aro 2-k dis. ex -die. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON •MARKET, WEDNESDAY—The sales to-day are 12,000 bags, of which about 6,000 have been taken on speculation. Prices for American are fully main tained, and for Surat rather higher. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 13. Eastern Counties Debs. 5n- 359 d ; Grand Junction 212; Great Western, Fifths, log- ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 15!,-; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 491; Brighton United Company, 421; South Western, .54; Manchester and Birmingham, 26. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 13. We have had a quiet Market, and prices may be quoted as follows :—Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 304 ; South Western : -fret ,- to s©; Great Western, 93 , to. 947 South' Eastern, 13 to 14 • London. and Brighton, 43j- to 43i,; Manchester and dirmingham, 25} to 26 ; Eastern Coun: tics, 8 to 9k. We have rece:ved the Antwerp papers of yesterday's data : HAGUE, JAN. 10.—An order of the •day has been is sued, addressed to the offieeri of the army, ordering them not to get into debt, with a menace of destitution should they do so. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, JAN. 11.-Our National funds did not maintain the prices of yesterday, the Five per Cents, and the actions of the Society of Commerce, never theless, were firm. Affairs were restricted, Ardoins Spanish fell on the arrival of the prices from Faris, they were done at 22 1-16Lli and 21 15-16ths 22 217 ; Coupons, 171 ; 1'%%0-and-a- Half per Cents., 504; Five per Cents., Ardoin's, 21 15-161hs. Accounts frO:;1, Berlin state the Russian Government has demanded of the Court of Rome that the Archbishop of Cologne should be raised to the dignity of a Cardinal, alien he -is to receive from the Russian Government a pension of 20,000 thalers. The only intelligence received this morning of conse quence, is by the express from Paris stating, that the French had made their peace with Buencs Ayres, said to be received by the telegraph from Brest ; no particulars have as yet transpired. The Philadelphia packet of the 20 , h has arrived, we have no papers as yet; its news is one day later than the last arri val from there. This being settling day in the Foreign Market, the brokers and jobbers are arranging their accounts, aslvell as paying and receivinc , the various ballances. At pre sent we do not hear oCany. mischief having occurred in the settlement. To. morrow is settling day in the British Mai ket. Consols opened this morning both for Money and Time 'at the leaving off prices of yesterday 898 ; for the 25th February," 891 buyers ; Exchequer Bills, 8 10 prem. ; Bank . Stock, 1641 165,1; India Stock, 249 250. In the 'Foreign Market Spanish Active is a shade bet ter left off, 241 s, at present 248 4 2 - ; Deferred, 194 i; Passive, 61 ; • Portuguese same as they closed, 314 32f ; Three per Cents. - . .191 201 ; Brazilian, 701. 711; Co lombian, same as they lett off, 231 ; Mexican, • same, 281 1; Chilian, 57 59 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. left off 501 i , ,•at present 508 i; Five per Cen:s. also bet ter, 98199. Up to the present time there is very little doing in either of the Markets, (ming to the settlement of the Foreign Account. Sitanas,=-Great Western, 29 30 prem. ; New, 13 14 prem. ; London and Brighton, 6 54 dis. ; Blackwell, 44 34 dis. ; Birmingham, 81 83 prem.'; Southampton, 574 584 per share ; Croydon, 12+ i per shaie ; Green wich, 8 9 per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 dis. ; South Eas.ern and Dover, 144 i dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths , .... ... 4 .... 114 ..... to Gosport Junction - London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O Ditto New Shares London anti Greenwich .. ... ...... 26 . Ditto Scrip - South Eastern and Dover 2B - to • JOINT STOCK BANKS. National of Ireland , ....... 171 lsi to PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 13. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97llGrand Canal 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced ...... 1 Ditto Debt. 6 per cent... Ditto New, 1830 ...... 9 8 A Ditto 4 per cent •• 31 per-Cent. Debs. ,..9011R0yal Canal Stock To the present time the settling of the foreign account is going off well, and we do not hear of Any feature in the British Market worth observation.. It is expected that on to:morrow, being settling day in the above market, .a good `deal of stock' will be taken. Money bc li rather easy, -the merchants in the city corresponding with Buenos Ayres are•very anxious for a confirmation dr the blockade of•'Buenos'Ayres being.' taken vff by - the French, as the. 'commercial• intercourse with that country- will again pros per. We understand .that a great number of dur ships, laden with all descriptions of manufactured goods, in anti cipation of the Treaty of Commerce with Peru being con eluded, have been for some time, past proceeding-there.. Consols have been during the morning, alternately berm' and sellers, 891 ; at present ,may be quoted 8911' for the 15th in , t. Reduced, 89i 90 ; Exchequer bills, 8 10 . prem. ; Bank Stock, 165 166, rather im proved; India Stock, 249 2481, nab: r lower. In the Foreign Market little doing. Sp an i s h A ct i ve . reached 24a. at present 241 ; Deferred, 12i ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 20+; nothing done in the Five per Cents. ; Brazilian, ; Russian, 1 M i l; Dutch Two•and a-Half per Cents. 501 ; Five per Cents, 98/1 99. In Shares very little has been doing. Great Western, 951 94 ; Ditto, New, 641 65 64 ; Fifths, 11 ; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 441 1. There was a failure in the Shares yesterday, but not of importance. CLOSING PRICES.j BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9O Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons , - 891 Ditto Old Annuities._ 31 per Cent Red. ... ... 984 Ditto New Annuities... 87g New 31 per Cent ... 97 f t Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d Bpm New 5 per Cent ... ...... ' Ditto 5001 lO p m Long Annuities to expire Ditto ' Sniall 9pm Jan. 1860 Oct 18.59 . . - Jan. 1860 ... ... :.. 123 Consols for Opg B9l FOREIGN FUNDS. A u...-trian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... 32 Brazilian Bonds - .... 714. Prussian, , s per cent.... BuenosAyres,6per . cent - 7 - Russian, 5 per cent..... 1134 Chilian, 6 percent Colombian:G percent... -, ; Spanish, 3 per cent...- 24i Ditto, 1824 ' ' 231 • Ditto, - Deferied .. 12a Danish, 3 per cent..:.. 771 French,s per eent...lllf. 73c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. ,- Exchange .. :.. f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 234. Freneli,3 per cent... 77f. Vae. Ditto, 6 her cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent 504 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 3 per cent..... 99 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)........ Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) .... ........ ... - 5.4 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ...... ... - ,64%. Ditto - Fifths ( 4 paid) lO4 Gosport Junction Railivay (35 pd) ' 421 London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 172 ..Ditto Quarter Shares( 5 paid) ' . 274 Ditto New Shares (24 paid) London and Greentvich.Railway (20 paid) ,-.. Ditto Scrip. ( 2Taid)... 33 London and South . Western Railway ..~. London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l2l North Midland Railway (100 paid) 79 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) South Eastern and Dover (28 paid)... .. _ 134 CHARGE OF SHOOTING NEAR YORK.--A case has jest occurred in York which has excited much interest. The facts of the ease, so far as we can collect them, are as follow :---On Monday night,. about eleven o'clock, a person named James Hallett, a labourer, and seven or eight other persons, were going tom York to Fulford, rather in liquor and enjoying a spree on the road. The former had a rail in his hand. When they had pro ceeded as far as Fulford Church-lane, they met a young man named John Moor, an articled clerk to Messrs. Sharp, architects. Hallett went up to him and shouted " Boh I" On this Moor said, " Stand back, or I'll blow your brains out ?" at the same time drawing a pistol from his pocket. Hallett not doing so, be fired and lodged the ball with which the pistol was loaded in the left side of the head, near the temples. The poor man fell as though he were dead. Mr. Hope, a surgeon, was immediately brought to the place by one of Hallett's comrades, and Moor was detained. The ball was ex tracted, but he still lingers in great danger. An examina tion took place at Mr. Wilkinson's, the Bay Horse Inn, ..Fulford, before Lord Wenlock and the Hon. B. R. Law leg, East Riding Magistrates, before whom the above facts Were detailed. In defence, Moor stated that he was ,ficst.,sty,uck at by the rail, and that he fired in self defence, but ihe comrades 'of Haiku give a different version of the story. He also stated that he had taken the pistol With him because he had bCfore been" annoyed on the road. After,a', long investigation he was committed To York . alt.le t to take his trial on the capital charge at the nest orlcshiVe assizes, but bail was taken for his appearance, hip : self id2ool, and two sureties of 20/. each.—Lieds CHARTIST MEETING AT B TO 771 P 'EDITOR TEE SUN account from a Cerrespondenc of the Cha ritT Meeting at Bath, is so gross a mis-statement,tharit is impossible for any o ne 'h av i ng a regar d f or - truth to suffer it to pass without correction. That the Mayor took the chair upon -that - occasion,a-that most of the Clergy were present, and that the:authtory were' com posed of e. large' proportion of the t4ortkieg Closes; is just all that is correct in • the ciarriniunicaticin of your Correspondent. Forinitan*lie'statei, that •tlie-speak ers instead of being met with chcera;' were tissailcd with vociferations from hundred's of - voiceta " We won ' t jni tiee; and not 'charity." Instead of this ttere 'was not i t speaker i 'frona the opening address of the Mayor torhe last step of the meeting (his returning thanks), that was . not heard attentively, and with marks of the most un-. equivocal satisfaction. One attempt there was at inter-. ruption ; it was by a woman—but She was immediately called to order, - not by the chair,'hut by . the people. Your Correspondent also states that the proceedings were for the most 'part --dumb i'shoW; and were hurried through antidSt much visible' fear. I have sboan you already how attentively the speakers acre listened to, therefore you will regard that 'statement of . " your Cor respondent" as one of those contradictions inevitabk to the exercise of mendacity. But then, says your Correspondent, the Mayor quitted the chair when. Mr. Philp rose to move a resolution On the contrary, the Mayor vacated the - chair to re ceive the thanks of the meeting, which Were cordial:, voted to him, and which he rose to at:lane - fledge; when Mr. Philp got up to speak upon the Charter ; for' tfo sooner had this meeting (called for by the inclemency of the season and the pressing necessities of the podr) been advertised, than the ChartiSts issued a placard inti mating their intention to pervert the meeting into at, occasion for insisting upon the Charter. Now the inha bitants of this city felt such a design to be nothing less than an outrageous attack upoa their consti tutional right' of 'meeting upon any giver. chjeait, and therefore it was the determination of every one,' except the - Chartist:3, that no such aggres sion should be submitted to. But the truth is the proceedings of the Chartists in . this case were Most unusually out of order. The business of the day Was concluded, the Mayor had left the chair, and re ..eci-vad the thanks of the meeting, when the Chartists commenced their interruption. In demanding, there fore, to be heard at that time, they asked for nothing less than a re -commencement of the morning's business, a course-that never would have been attempted but by a party that seem bent on prejudicing their cause by outraging every established rule of order and decorum. The business of the day being done, the Mayor, there fore, 'left the room. I cannot conclude without again correcting your Correspondent. lie says the police were" exceedingly active in pushing the people out of the room." There was not a policeman present, and the Chartists them selves soon left when they found there was none but .their own party to give them audience. In corrobora tion of my statement, 1 have sent you one of our local Journals ; and to satisfy, you that there is nothing of party representation in the matter, I will send you another in the course of the week. I have been the more concerned to correct this statement in your Paper, becnuse of the Liberal charac• ter it has attained. It is deplorable indeed to see a print like yours lending itself to the errors of the Chart ists, and pandering (not designedly) to the meanest rice of our nature, misrepresentation. I am no enemy to the Chartists conbidered as men, much less as English men ; but I am, and always hope to be, an enemy to their errors. It is in your power to do much to cor rect these errors, so obstinate at present to the progress of improvement, and so hostile to the principless - and very name of liberty.—l am, Sir, your obedient, Jan. 13, 1841. VIGIL. [We haVe inserted the letter of " Vigil" entire, al. though it makes unjust reflections on the line adopted by this Journal. We must, at the same time. for his information, state that while " Vigil" writes anony mously, the Correspondent of whom he complains, gave his name.] RELIEF OF TROOPS ABROAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia—The attention of the public press has been lately directed to the petty squabbles of a frippery regi ment of Dragoons, while the interests of that part of the Army, one which comprises the very " pith and marrow" of the service, is comparatively neglected. I allude to the Infantry of the Line, by whose exertions, combined with those of our gallant Navy, England has acquired a far more extensive dominion than the 11.3- mans ever possessed even iii the zenith of their power. The press, Sir, owes something to the Army of England, but for whose devoted gallantry you, Sir, would be at this moment subject to a censorship, Such as Napoleon established over the press of France. The gross acts of injustice and favouritism daily prac ticed towards this branch of the Army, is engendering a vast degree of discontent, and unless it is put a step to, may lead to consequences which it is fearful to dila of. Among the many causes of complaint, the allotment of torein'n stations is a most fruitful one, and the late order for the embarkation of the 22d Regiment has created the most • unbounded disgust among military men. A Correspondent of the Times, has attempted to justify this arrangement, but his defence has been a most impotent an,' lame one. No regiment, Sir, would complain of being sent abroad, even out of their turn if the exigencies of the service required it ; but they do complain that there are certain regiments who monopolize the good stations, while others are as sure to go to the bad ones. It is in excuse for this injustice to the 22d, that it was the firsufor foreign service ; but, Sir, all who know any thing of the subject, agree that they became the first by one of the most flagrant acts of jobbery that was evar practised. ' • • - When it became evident, from the cloudy state of af fairs in :India, that a reinforcement would be required, and whenit so happened that four,of the corps,,which the Army generally denominate " Pets," stood first for for foreign service, i. e. the 7th, 88th, 42(1, and 79th, neither of which have ever served either in the East or West Indies, the two first were immediately sent off to the Mediterranean, and at the moment when a peremptory order from the Secret•try of State ar rived for a force to be sent to India, the 42d were at Cork, under orders for Gibraltar. Now Sir, the most obt ions means of obeying the call was to embark them for India, but this arrangement would not tuit the con venience of the " Pets," so they were, as if in mockery of the wants of India, hurried off to their original des tination. It may also be said that men were wanted also for the Mediterranean : to this I answer, that this could not have been the case, as the 79th Regiment had at that time formed their depot, and were - .already for that station ; but they are at this moment at home, so that it was as evident as the sun at noon day, that the plan was to get the 42d out of England as fast as possib'e, to secure them from a twenty years' Indian tour. Now, Sir, mark by what a glaring departure from all decency, was the 4th Regiment on the list saved from India. When the requisition for troops arrived, the Rifle Brigade'(another of the pets by the by) were ab.mt embarking for Malta, and a small detachment, consisting of 100 men, were hurried up per railway, from Manches ter to Deptford, and embarked in the same transports with the Rifles, a thing I should tell you never done before, as when a regiment goes abroad the head quar ters always are the first to go, 100 men 'could not have any effect on the affairs of the Mediterranean, as is evident from what I have said of the 79th, who were then, and still are, in readiness for that station. But it was necessary to say that the 79th were not available for India, as they bad embarked for another station, and they have been cunnicgly so returned in the Mili tary Papers, while the head quarters have actually until the last week, been snug at Weedon, consisting of 700 men ; and even the convenint detachment of 100, ha.ve only sailed within thedast ten days. Nov, Sir, is not this enough to excite the disgust of every man in tl:e kingdom'who has the welfare of the State at heart? for believe me, that if the Army be comes discontented the Sate will stand on a sandy foundation. • • Lord Hill has the character of being a good man at heart, but he has alto the character of yielding too much to•men-who have introduced .and fostered a sys tem of partiality and favoritism; which is the curse of our Army. He has served his country well in the field, but it is possible that he may find the fatigues of office too great fOr him ; the mind will give way with an in• crease of years.. We are told that even.'.' Marlborough died a driveller." HECTOR COUNTERSCARP [We have been obliged to curtail very. considerably the letter of " Hector Counterscarp," on account of its great length and personal allusions to certain authori ties at the Horse Guards.] I..e,in Active exertions arc making by the D irectors to accelerate .the completion of the Docks now constructing at Southampton. The great Tidal. Dock, embracing an area of 16 acres, is d pr o o n gr i e t s , men being employe si a n c g eo r rd ai in d g i y t , o frthoem 0 a o the to r 700 addition to a large 'force of steam and horsepower, at work day and night. It is expected to be ready for th e recep tion and despatch of eight .steam-ships belonging to the Transmarine Mail Steam Packet Companies. The Observateur des Pyrenees mentions that during the last week of December, an enormous bear made his appearance on a mountain near S aint Engrace. Eight hunters, h r e i a e le(.l Brbuy a miller, w ent i n pursuit, and c(1- aiu to an ele vate d summit, whence be lvod tn • drive had no escape , but by throwing himself down a precipice. Tillie miller wha was in advance of ' his brother sportsmen, met the beast face to face, and firing, bit him in the head, The bear fell, and rolling forward, came in contact .with the miller. A desperate and doubtful struggle en sued, but the weakness of the animal from his wound, ena bled the miller to escape from his grasp, and kill him with another shot. The game was carried to Sainte Engrace in triumph. He yielded.4olbs of grease, and his skin was sold for 60 francs. IVIORNIN G E ITI ON. ■ Fa0:41.1 STARVATION. , • A lengthened inquiry took place on_Weanesday (Attn. ing at the - Lo - ettoti - 11 srital, livfore Mr. 'Baker, the co roncr, relati , e to the death of -Hannah 810,3., aged :21, who died in the NWhituchapel workhouse on on Monday last. It appeared in 'evidt.nce that on Friday evening* last the deceased went into the tap - room of the. Black Horse, Brow:1%-Lnc, Silit,tllidds. Mr. Barker;the landlord, saw that she was very ill, and he instantly sent.•for a doctor. He also gave her !nod, as she reanedlO be almost Starving ; and then took hest() the station , house. The deceased said that she had been in service in Spittilfields; that her relations were in G:ouces tersbire ; and that she had not had any food for four days but that whicii she had received from Mr. BA': ker. By the orders of the inspector the was then taken to the Whiteehapel workhouse. She WAS there provided with food, Which she ate voraciously, but sl4 soon bCcan.e insensible, and died at three o'clock on Monday. morning. Mr. Millar, the surgeon of thu workhouse, said that the deceased had died from in flammation of the lungs, produced by exposur4 to the cold and want of sustenance. Verdict, " That the de ceased died from inflammation of the lungs, produced by exposure and want." On Tuesday night, an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at the George, Old Bailey, on the body of Short, aged fifty, formerly a private in the Grenadier Guards, but more recently an out-pensioner of Chelsea hospital.. From the. evidence it appeared that for three yeers past the deceased had lodged ate a miserable house in a narrow turning called Bishop'e court, imwcdiate!y opposite Newgate. A person named Cliff tenanted the room, to whom deceased paid ono shilling per week fur sleeping. Cliff and a boy sleep ing in the same room, but in a separate bed. The de ceased's pension amounted to one shilling and a halfpenny per day, which was paid quarterly, his next pay day being Tuesday next. When without money he was in the habit of borrowing from a person residing in the next house till his pay day. On Sunday week. last the de ceased was found to be ill, and unable to leave his bed ; and although Cliff and the other persons residing in the house knew this fact they did nothing for him. The person alluded ,to above called on him, and asked it she should make a fire (seeing a sack containing coals in the room) ; when lie replied, ‘• Pray don't ; for it you do, Cliff will throw me out of the window." Oa S ur day last she called on him again, and, on his saying he would like an •apple-pudding, she made him one, hut was unable to say whether lie ate it or riot. Tee boy who slept in the same room said he had never seen the deceased eat anything, and it was his opinion he died of starvation. Mr. Lynch, surzeon, said he saw the decased on Sunday morning, and fout.d him dead ; he had never seen such an appalling sight before. The body was lying on an old mattress, and Was covered with vermin and fifth ; it was a mere skele ton ; the knees were drawn up towards the f.e , appa rently for warmth. There was no covering on the hod, and he was stark naked. Ile found the deceat•ed laboured for some years under a severe stricture, and his opinion was that death arose irons an organic di,- ease, greatly accelerated by the want o warmth and the necessary comforts of life. Verkliet,—That t h e deceased died f, ern a n organic disease, accelerated by the want of warmth end the comforts necessary to life—the Jury at the same time censuring the conduct of Ciiff. _ -- ENTERTAINMENTS -77-7-7-7 AT THE MANSlON nousp..—The first public dinner which the Lord Meyor usually ;eves on his accession to (lace, is that on Plough Morviey, , when his Lordship invites his household, con sistiag of the Sword 13earer, the Common Crier, and ethers; together with gentlemen in the Chamberlain's and Town Clerk's officers, the three Governors of the city prisons., and other municipal functionaries. The berquet is one of much state and splendour, the Lord Mayor presiding, and his Chaplain taking the opposite seat at the other end of the table ; the guests being served off Mete, and all the servants attending in full livery down to the postillion, in his gold surmounted c..p. The dinner of Plough Moo day last was excellent; the wines, especially the Hock and Claret, were of superior qualify ; and the whole enter tainment was unusually agreeable to - the guests, in cue• sequence of the kind efforts of the Lord Mayor, and the adnaireble talents and disposition of his Chaplain. His Lordship had preceded this entertainment by fore, al others, amongst which was a dinner to a juvenile party on Twelfth Night, on which occasion many young hearts, as well as heels, danced with joy. KIRKALDYI3URGHS ---We-understand that 110 signatures have been appended to the requisition to Dr, I3owring ; of which three were from Dysart, twenty-four from Pathhead and St. Clairtown (nhich are both included in the Parliamentary boundary of the burgh of Dysart), and the remainder from Kirkaldy and Linktown ; but it does not appear that any of the electors in Kinghorn or Burntisland are friendly to him. The general feeling in Kirkaldy is, that the Doctor has no chance even tho Ugh he come forward, as it is well known mans have given their names in the hope of hearing Dr. Bowring, but do not consider themselves pledged to give him their votes. The original intention wes, not to send tile requisi tion unless one-third of the electors subscribed it, but it has been despatched A ith little more than a fifth, though the most active means were used to obtain signature:. Should Dr. Bowring be so ill-advised as to present him self, he will find that the unanimous support of his sitionists will not be forthcomieg. The opponents of Col. Ferguson' are getting flat- on the matter; but be is no friend to the Colonel who represents him as indiffere'lit to the oppo.ition. Such cannot be the case. He wishes to be Member for the burghs—and unanimously if possille . as he is well aware that a contested election creates ani mosities and heart-burnings which even the lapse of many ye irs salon entirely oblitera'e —Edinburgh Obseri er. CALAIS, TUESDAY MORNING.— (Extract from A Private Letter. )_A voyage from London to Ca lais at this season of the year is not without its vicissitudes. We left London at nine o'clock on Sunday reo fling by the Menai, General Stearn'Navigation Company's steamer. \Vc had good reason to Ire satisfied with the atteution on board, and the admirable seamanship of th e ca pt a i n . Going down the Pool, if it had been crowde 1 at all, would have been impossible from the masses of ice ; but we were carried through carefully. Clear wa ter from Blackwall to Gravesend; every bo'at corn ing, up the river shouting to us as the, only weenier going down, to learn the state of the pool. Beyond Gravesend 'we had thick fogs, which delayed us consider ably, and when we were cff Herne Bay the wind got up after such a lively fashion that the captain deemed it pru dent to lay to for the night. At daybreak we were off again, and in a south-west squall made Calais harbour at half-past twelve o'clock, after a disagreeable passmge of twenty-eight hours. On the voyage we bad heavy fells of snow, feg, frost, sleet, hail, &c. with divers bumpiegs. Glad enough were we to be ensconced in the comfortable quarters of Robert's Royal Hotel. The weather here has been as bad nearly as in England. Nothing but snow meets the eye, and the cold is i n t ense . E ver y thing is below freezing point except the warlike ardour of the in habitants of the north, and of this there is no dirninutim!. JOSEPII BONAPA RTE.—The Count de Survd- Hers (Jos. ph Bonaparte) whose health suffered severely in the autumn, has had it quite re-established, under the care of Dr. Granville. The poor of Monks Kirby, a village adjoining the domain of Newnham Paddocks, where the Count resides, have had twenty-five guineas distributed amongst them by his orders. The uniform benevolence displayed by the ex-King, during his protracted residence in this country, would seem to indicate that the epithet of " the good Joseph,'' applied to him by Madame Junot, in her memoirs, was fully merited. lie is extremely popular in his neighbourhood. COURT-MARTIAL.—A court-martial was assem bled on board her Majesty's ship Powerful, on Tuesday, Dee. 14, in Marmorice Bay, to try Lieut. G. W. Wink), of her Majesty's ship Implacable, upon a charge preterrvd against him by Captain Harvey, of that ship, for havi! on h)ec. 22, -Is4o, appeared on the quieter-deck in a state of drunkenness.. The Court fully acquitted him. The lower we descend into the scale, the greater tolerance of violence and the greater powers of reparation and renewal do we observe. When a salamander's held has been cut off, the weund has healed.• If the Lead of a planaria from our ponds is divided longitudinally a cer tain way, the wound heals ; if completely, other row matt , r will be deposited and join the two heads into one of gre,:t size, with ono or two additional eyes; or each halt will become a new head. If the whole body is divided, emeept tit the tail, Siamese twins arc made, which pull discordantly and tear asunder their bond of union, and Irccome inde pendent. Not only does a planaria acquire a new Lead after decapitation, but, if the two heads which have been p t b r r o e cl e u t e i e m d e b a y i n division v are in, a r m d , o t v h e e d, a o n t i b m e a r havebein being p t r u h n e ro a h t e di vided throughout and its head cut o ff, one head onl y wzs a a il d. If cut now produced. If the animal is divided across, tail the rinks,an terior halfbut a swftiemrsaoffieawnddaelvsenEesneldas furrotih a across into three, the anterior and posterior proceed thus, and the middle part shoots forth both a head and a tail. Nav a planaria has been cut into ten pieces, and each has become a perfect anima—Dr. Elltotson on Human Phy siology. • - IRISH REFORMERS.--The Dublin papers are nearly filled with the names of the requisitionists for the c „ it i ng -aggregate meeting. In a supplemental requisi tion the names of the Duke of Devonshire and the Earl o f Fitzwilliam appear. FALSE ALA llMS,—Either some pettifogging politicians, or some penny-a- liners, have been mischievously misleading even the leading journals of London, with Chartist wars in this county. There is as much truth in such reports, as in Mr. Attwood's vision of a Russian fleet at the Nom—Monmouthshire Merlin. DESTRUCTION OF TIIE SALMON FISHERY-- On Wednesday last the conservators of the Severn ap pointed for this city (Messrs. Hood anti Flinn) exhibited before the sitting Magistrate at the Guildhall ( Mr. Side bottom) the heads and spawn of two salmon, which were a few days since caught in the Severn, near Gloucester. The object of the conservators in producing the above was to show the great mischief which was occasioned by taking this fish out of reason, which practice is now being carried on, especially at Gloucester, to a very considerable ex tent, where salmon was recoatly sold at 6.1. per lb., while the same species of fish in season often fetches 3s. 6d. per lb. there. The two fish in quertien ecntained 51bs. of spawn ; the one having 3ilbs., the other 41bs. This quantity of spawn would, it is calculated, have produced 08,000 fish 1 Here we have brought to our own doors further proofs of the extent of the injury which is con stantly being inflic!ed upon the fisheries; thus curtailing the means of sussistence of the honest fishermen, many of whom in this city are unable to obtain employment. We arc informed that in the Teme much illegal netting and spearing is carried on, to which the attention of the conser vators have also been directed, and wo.have no doubt we shall soon hear more from tbeto aetivo bfficere.--Wurces ier Chronicle. • . • -4c .--- D e \ \ 4 r. -car o f the ;es,' 11 0 rc Ole s 5 io n s' l , l l ) , ° , V 1 11° Ne o° l 4 st c y ( o ec 1:0 a:''"~;