The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-22 00:00:00

VESTING SUE iv co nsiderable length during the present term. - The Court e l s °f opinion that as a certain letter writt en by Schol fe d to Lees and Co., o f M anc h ester, wh i ch had been re , tos had not been given in evidence at tbe thrand as the presiding Judge had expressed himself ather strong terms with regard to certain points, e e ia re ,ought to be a n ew t r i a l, an d t h at t h e l etter of Schol ' anntdd be g i ven i n ev i dence at that trial.—Rule for nes , trial absolute. pl.', ll E QUEEN V . THE INHABITANTS OP CHALLERTON. en Ate COURT also gave judgment in this case, which was indietnAnt for the non-repair of the road, and granted s hite f or a new trial. B AIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) air,LIADIS AND WIFE V. PANTON. IiELLY moved for a rule to show cause why the • )),receedings in this case should not be stayed, or why T?,plaintiff should not give security for costs; why the I'Judges' order permitting the plaintiff to sue in forma ,n)eris, should not be discharged; and why the attorney the plaintiff should not pay the costs of the present thA atien arising This_:-f yin was an action for a malicious prose indictinent, which was tried at ;7 : 01 , d against'dgentleinan charged with forging t ,, A ,'• The gentleman was acquitted. At the same time t i; ° simila r i n di ctments had been preferred aga i nst ka subscribing witnesses to the will. These two ersons had subsequently brought actions against n‘ t r• Penton, the gentleman who had preferred the indict ,une of the plaintiffs in the present instance, who. 1 ) - „" A su usequently married a person named Williams, and ,dons' g." a verdict with 300/ damages. A bill of excep w,„°4s head been tendered, and the case had been moved by ofdb fl error into the Exchequer Chamber. The plain and her husband, who was joint plaintiff with her e; _ t _he r had in the meantime brought a ah l a `e facias on the judgment, the. defendant had pleaded, h"r the proceedings had gone no further. On the case 4 ' l g argued in the Exchequer Chamber, judgment was 1 „ 4 ", 111 favour of the bill of Exceptions, setting aside the Wiereent, and allowing a venire de novo on the ground of a isdirection. Notwithstanding this the plaintiff had man. : to procure the certificate of Counsel and a Judge's '4der, allowing them to sue iii forma pauperis, in this very 4tnent, which had been'set aside by the Exchequer 4 4 , til her. Now, if the case proceeded to trial, the de ptt would be obliged to set forth all the facts in the nit ' 4B ; great expense would be incurred, and he could kb Lrecover his costs, because the plaintiff sued in forma i Peris. Th e attorney for the plaintiff in this suit had e e : L ! ) een attorney for the plaintiff in the former pro sFs, and therefore must have been aware of what pl i i,`, D ; K :n Place, and ,yet he was found encouraging the te t i""us, who were ignorant people, to proceed in an s t ,:u in which he must be aware it was impossible to C' e ad, as he was ptoceeding on a judgment which had set aside. —Rule granted. YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) fr:T i N t , b ° l `z, Nov. 22.—Wind variable, from S. and W. -. 'Eu-NEss, Nov. 20.—The Constante Margueretta, end Persgruna to Mersey, put in here yesterday leaky, with da mage. shoe "I, Nov. 20:—Wind S.W. strong. 21st,. S.W. ti„g•-•—Arrd. Jenny, Barwick, Cuba; Essequibo, La- I va n ! , Antigua; James Herris, Quebec; Patriot, west- IV, kidLothian, Morison, Singapore. kri'"llsoATE, Nov. 20.—Arrd. Delight, Stockton for I, l le illes, with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c., strained and v. kid, "84 ° 17 TH, Nov. 21.—Wind S.S.W. to W., strong . euel t s T a llY.—Arrd. Rachel, Leghorn, with loss of sails, Il e ° use, &c.; Caledonia, Gottenburg, for the Cape ; beti'crY Tanner and Camilla, London, for Jamaica. Put • Li, itu atim of Mucat, for Ceylon. The Facility, from 1141 3 %1 to Graveiend, ran ashore last night on the Sand e st "' but was assisted off to-day by the Sprightly (re barle °u tter) and brought into the harbour. The George, t ea t hg e, Came into ,the harbour this morning, and is laid e east mud. • tib t l 's a lv i ts " P ° o l , , Nov. 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Zuna, 14 1 %;" 4 ..: Queen Victoria, New Orleans ; Huskisson, 'ct, Vou ' ' °unY, sailed 4th August • Mastery, Tobasco ; ter, Ocean and Enterprize, Quebec. Sailed Amelia, ; Francis, Savannah ; General Wiltshire, New 1,1..7"; Sarah Fleming, Africa ; Wave, Bombay. The e bound t o O porto, h as put b ac k l ea k y. Arr d . o ff m P 1 one barque, and five schooners. /4.11 1 4 , 11e ATE, Nov. 21.—Arrd. off, Jenny Jones, Wake. k do t , : 4a gatireg. The Caroline, from Quebec to Lon wns get on shore on Ole Woolpack Sand yesterday, but „it eottswsisted off and proceeded. eap e , „! 8, Nov. 9 0.--Arrd. Amos Scott, London, for )4, Tri„.',nawlins, ditto, ;for Jamaica ; Scourfield, ditto for I.4"ad, and proceeded to the Motherbank. Comet, to t ° tit, with cargo shifted, and pumps choked, bound p, °nd °n• Hiram, Copenhagen, for China. da ti i'LE, Nov. 20.—Ar r d. Ed en , N ewcas tl e , w ith ru dd er p t ged, after being on shore on Gros 'Bank. „tea, i t N - 4 . °1 - I TR, Nov. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Welling ror s ' w laort, for Charleston, leaky ; Forrester;-Hull, 4„ Bale TYrna, with loss of fore topmast. It has bloWn a V 1 414, t SAV, since the evening of the 19th, and con ;di ha s b; The Libertas, from Shields to Constan. no le do wn tght in the crew of a small vessel, which she ran s i t t t io ; p At i, tho Hart on the 19th inst. 1 "v• 21.--The Atlas, from Honfle• r to kid % %I ; l: Tung a leak off Fecamp, on the 17th instant, 'Wry", :bung 18th in a sinking state—crew saved. to LiboZ n u° E , Nov. 20.—The Prosper, from Newcastle t ",•1 4 3 7 -- " fr u totally wrec k e d o n the Burrows yes -c ALM: - saved. Arrd. British Queen, Tilley,Quebec. gales 't. Pet . ar e t r d: b v u i ro l ir T ,t o : i . ol 2o.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong s(analls —Arrd. Pere., from Smyrna to rell' of bulwarks, sails, &c. ; Due t e ir " a, with . loss loss of bulwarks, &c. ; In ian, 't'r Ir a • r an rheman's Land ; Morgan, Newcastle, Qibr4,rseilles, with mainmast sprung ; Montrose steamer, 16 ; ITlar---left 11th i nst., Cadiz 12, Lisbon 15, Oporto k a „,,lgn• 17 ;a her Maj est y' s s hi p Illustrious, Ports alifx. c !lrty, Nov. 19.—Arrd. the Eliza Ann, London, for 11 1 - , lll dad, with loss of an c h ors an d ca bl es, and other 3 4 ,-,'e,having been in Contact with a ship in the Downs. 4;,?ItnAY, Nov. 19.—.Arrd. the Jamaica, London, for 1 0 ;,,"gua; Thetis. Shields, Barcelona, with loss of boom, &c and foretopmast sprung. hr tl ermoir'Th, Nov. 20.—1 t has blown a tremendous 11'these two days from S.W. to W. and N.W. The it f ro -r44 ineer bound to New Orleans, and Neptunus, ()? Sehien, ' 'are riding with two anchors ahead. : i t " s ft . e. , Nov. 17.51 d. Unity, Gibraltar ; Charles, EtleriEv -- lk ; E MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. N l.l4lst "Pk's arrivals of both Grain and Flour were (i r a nd the fresh supply w as t o lerably g oo d o f mos d r a i_ Nlndi,'. Ae arly all' the English Wheat was in ten r ba r ' t ° n, and so ld very h eav il y at Is. to 2s. per la, ter decline from last week's prices : Foreign also 'i l a4,131,t" q ua rter low e r. B ar l e y, excep t very fi ne, I s. per ' urtri,, e j t. cheaper. B eans an d P eas h ar dl y supporte d 4 , 4 4 „.. ertn s• Oats, unless dry, more slack in demand, PAde,, - " r eelY maintain last week's rates. The Flour ' 4 ltiy, e rY dull at the decline in value noticed last week. Ph --.." OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST . WEEK. i; Vio l Wheat. Parley. °R". Flour ,' 4 lt . ......... 5,777 qrs. 10,503 qrs. 7,580 qrs. S, asa 17,131 ........ 28 "(15 1,18 '1,5 , ) ,_ 9. - 219 847 , th 1......Z.a.t.:ited - num; ort se SPIT , AR.D OF Beans, Si (ld) ,mall (new) 38,.40;. ........... z ... w hite 1 ......... -S. -a. (old) ..... 42 • 465. ''')* '''''\ t ed;lB:l ) 1 " - ' - '' 7 4 ' - Tick (new) 31 32; le \..._ ,_ Flue " * "" S ,F: - A g c * - (old) 35..40. \...-- kpe i r ........ "'" - * Harrow (new) 341.35 s 1 1 ~., W hi ._ _lie ..... .66i. 675. -. 4 .. `'.... v 4 7 . ,. 1 1641) ....Ms. 531. _ . 1 . P: 4171 7 ** " . V . 59'. P ra trFeed ..,.... „.4.% I (old) 3Bs. 425. ..-P i -.IIIAL, .. ei... ...... .s. 725. a . , j _ v 185.245. ,3% ..... suiree . . .... 565. 765. -' '''. 41,,, %....„ ......... .. ........... 38s. 40t. - Poland .-S --II ....,.... 41. 114:" . .••••••••...263. 325, -...--New 22.. 26 4 . ) 4 ; 1( 4 ,. ,lit.„, ma....... ..... .265. 321. - Potatoe 5.-s. ~ 4 1, ...5."., 7,_ "g •••••••......345. 38s r,i czikj, • ••••••.... ... . . .5Gs. Ns. ......... Scotch .. ? 6 ,!: 3 .„9. 3 .1 %„2, G rt Ze i T... ..... ....645. 684. - Irish.... ..... 16s. ... It , ...i Wl ' : 1 „7: ,; .. ..... .:135. 375. Flour Town (er sack).. 55 . ,. 625. 524 546. • "'"' Ball ' eA ...... ::1 5. 11, Itt: ....'".".. Seconds itorCountry 50, 541. 7s as . •••••....375. 42;. Bran The n,,,„; SMITI IPTELD MARKET. to e ,. ..-4.)er of beasts 4e With a triflin .klerable d at market this morning was 'l°4 4' an of fair average quality. The demand improvement in prices. Of I „ t lancf the s uPply was - butoderate with a steady de 't C l an( ' last week's quotations m were' readily obtained. ! i l eara lt r i tes the supply was short, and the whole were cleared ° Et' at full prices. Of Pigs the supply was mid til r , with a brisk demand, and fine qualities were much ( alv e s _ llle , St . Beasts, 3,540 ; Sheep, 19,840 ; Pigs, 560 ; ' 3 ' , S e : 414 ..„ . • Bee . 4f, d. 3s tO ss. Mutton, 3s. Bd. to ' ; Veal, 4s 4d. s • Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. Bd. h c , ,_. TEA MARKET. ' itilunidings were languid at the public sales, and but L1F,,1 Proportion found buyers, but the first day's rates 11, . • 1 i ;t:or Congo, middling and rather coarse, Is. 10 d. l ' ii O. paid. Company's Congou dull of sale, at • , cash. A rci • TALLOW MARKET. r jail' d emand, and prices steady at 465. 9d. to 475. t411 ;;i 1C. Can le on the s pot, and 465. d. for deliveru end of the year. Town Tallow 9 535. 6d. per cwt p 1 I latt s , PROVISION MARKET. _ ,: ~( It a, t --r in fair request.-and prices firm ; fine Dutch, . Net 4. 5 10 8 s. per cwt. The host Irish, 102 s. Bacon 7 , 11 4 .k t o fil jr sale at firm rates. Prime Meat, 61s. Lard, 4044., ' 9 51. for the best bladdered: . i '1 WOOL MARKET. , i 1 4 .1. 1 e , , , e ,, ' s.fi.rin for all sorts of wool, and a fair demand for fish and F ore i gn. ' pr.''HOP MARKET. . .. s ti te es . &t h i rath er lower for common sorts, but good sorts ),'', 14 eXp tl e ed tbe value. The market dull. The official duty I, J ete d to be daily declared. t , ,r 0 S lMte IV ETAL MARKET. 11 th e r Met a fair sale, and prices were firm at 364 ss. „_ 'P ° t• Lead dull of sale. Iron met a fair s 1, Np.-i a "•-_-_-_..---____4.-- . -.....-_____ . • 44 T ING ''il i , OF SPANISH BOND -1/4) r A tee ~ H OLDERS. -(THIS DAY.) L„ .irt pi . e qng of the holders of Spanish Passive Bonds 4 -' g_lll t ,,i' v ee to-day at the King's Head, Poultry. We v.• Q a '4O O/b , full report of the proceedings in our EDITION. sti., ...,„ y. -4, -ATE FIREMEN, PARKES AN)) WEBB. „Itho wo re d ay the 0 wg.re lc , bodies of these two unfortunate men, . t i es i killed at the late fire in Blackfriars.road, were t lt h li i tet 4 l S s t. George's Burial-ground, in the Borough ; iroe„. concourse of people ussembled to witness l l th e f;-'3,011 and ceremony. Previous to the starting tb r e kled tiallier,a), Superintendent Murray (M division) p-syscroeeeitptiones °f Ata,_ e kist A bT bte l' to Mr. Braidwood, informing him that the above division had entered into a 114 us wh for the benefit of the widow of Webb ; the ° hi s h ercof, !Mounting to 61. 13s. id., lie also put w e ands. I)sh ' t arkare happy to find that it is intended to ap t(' ill cic:!eventh company to every regiment in India t e _ ir ecto rs In h a2, immediately the consent of the Court of tt c ‘attr e t 44 been obtained. The necessity of this ‘l'444 lth or n i lts ti been strongly impressed on the Court. b_y Qaz e t k " (3 t . the Horse Guards.-Naval and MX- - DREADFUL (Abridge&frOm the Hull Rockingi-- - To inquests w ere held last night at cbates Tavern, Wincohnlee, before John Thor ney, Esq., Coroner, and'a respectable Jury, on the bodies of Robert Hickson, and Sarah Hick son, his wife. After having been sworn, the Jury proceeded to view the bodies. They were found lying side by side on a slight raised platform, in - a small, neatly-furnished room in Owen's-square, New George-street. The sight was a most appalling one, the throat of the man being cut from ear to ear, whilst the woman's skull was literally smashed to pieces. The floor was deluged with blood, but partly covered with saw dust. Immediately over the corpses was a portrait of' Hickson, painted in oil by himself, and said to be ,a correct likeness. In another part of the room was a painting of Christ, in the same style as the portrait, and most likely done by the de ceased. The Jury then returned to the tavern, where an inquest on the body of Robert HiCkson com menced. • Selina Hickson, a child seven years old, the daughter of the deceased, having been told the nature of an oath, which she appeared perfectly to comprehend, was.sworn and said,—l am going of eight years old, and lived with my father and mother. They quarrelled yesterday about marrying. I got my breakfast with them this morning. My father went out soon after break fast. He was deaf and dumb. He came back at twelve o'clock to-day to his dinner. He came in dripping wet, and mother said she was so poorly she could scarcely wash for him, when he took a razor and cut his throat. He was angry because there was not a dry waistcoat for him to put on. Mother, talked to him with her fingers. , Father seemed in a passion when they were quarrelling,.hut I have seen. him worse before. We were getting our dinners, and so_ was mother when he came- in. He took up a . poker from the fireside and struck mother four or five times. She fell doWn on the hearth, and - I never heard, her speak again. Father took a razor from; the cupboard top and cut' his : then I ran out. Mary Lee was sworn, but her evidence was unimportant. Francis Lee deposed—l am a mariner, and live in Owen'S-court, near the deceased. lißetween twelve and one o'clock to-day I was getting my dinner, and I heard a screaming in the square. I heard a woman say, " Oh dear, Mr. Hickson has cut his throat." I went in and found him sat on the floor against the drawers with his head knocking about and his throat cut. His wife was laid on the hearth bleeding. He was bleeding frOm the throat. I saw a razor lying on the floor partly covered with blood. I have known Ro bert Hickson four or five years. Never saw any thing to induce me to believe he was not of sound mind. John Binning deposed—l live in Lucas-square, No. 9, and am a dealer in coals. Robert Hick ' son has been in my employ off and on more than seven years. Was in my employ to-day as a coal-porter. He was at work to-day till half past twelve. He left Charter-house crane at half-past twelve or twenty-five minutes to one. I observed that he did not look as usual, and he made a sign to me that his depression was caused by his wife having committed„ adultery. He said he would shoot the man. I understood his signs, and made him understand he must not do so. This , was sometime before dinner. He helped me to deliver fbur half chaldrons, and was as keen of working as ever. By aJuror—l first saw him depress7ed on Wed nesday last. He never mentioned anything re specting being jealous of his wife till that day. Have heard a man, named Charles Richardson, say that he had walked with Hickson's wife, and would do so again. I . told him he might be ashamed of himself. Richardson worked for me as well as deceased. He is about 20 or 21 years of age, and not married. Charles. Richardson was sworn and said—l live in Aldborough-street, and am a coal-porter in the employ of Mr. Binning, Have known Ro bert Hickson eight or ten years. Have worked with him about twelve months. He made a great noise in the street either on Tues day or Wednesday, and seemed angry; but I could not tell what he meant by his signs. He accused me of having been connected with his' wife, but very little. Has never repeated the ac cusation. He appeared quite lively this morning when he came to our stable, smoked his pipe, and offered me his tobacco box. I saw him at a quarter to one this afternoon at the corner of Charter-house-lane. By a Juror—Was never at Hickson's house but twice; last time was a fortnight ago. Never met his wife at Mr. Binning's stables. Have spoken to her in the street, but nothing more. I never met her by appointment, and have only walked the, length Of a street with her when we met accidentally. Will swear that I never knew whether she was man or woman. Several Jurymen expressed themselves as .per fectly satisfied that this witness was morally guilty of the deaths of the deceased. John Binning was recalled, and questioned by the Jury. He said—l taxed Richardson with being too kind with Robert Hickson's wife, the morning after she had been at the stall. He said that was not the first time she had been there. Charles Richardson—l told Mr. Binning that it was of no use her going to the stable, as her husband was in bed. The CORONER—You, Richardson, are guilty in the minds of the Jury, and have had recourse to perjury to cover your crime. I have no power over you, and you may retire. If you have caused the deaths of these two persons, I hope you will repent, for the offence is of a most hor rible description. The matter rests within your own conscience. John Hickson examined-=-I am brother to the deceased, Robert Hickson. About eight or nine years ago, he was very fresh and knocked two young men down in the street. We got him to bed and thought he was all right ? but he got up and seized an old sword, with which lie got upon a wall. We secured him, and he was quite sane in the morning. The Jury returned a verdict of temporary in sanity, caused, in their opinion, by the improper conduct of one of his fellow-workmen, with re ference to deceased's wife. Immediately afterwards, the inquest on Sarah Hickson, the wife, was held, when the Jury re turned a verdict of " Excusable homicide." DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR KENDAL. (Abridged from the Kendal Mercury.) A daring highway robbery, accompanied with extreme acts of violence, was committed on the evening of Satur day last, on the Kendal and Sedbergh road, aout three . ' miles from the former place. Mr. John Benson, who has travelled that road, as a carrier for upwards of 30 years, was passing along, on horseback, about half. past six o'clock in tho evening, when he -was suddenly attacked in a furious manner by some ruffians, who sprang out of a plantation by the road side, pulled from his horse, and savagely beaten on several parts of his body. They then robbed him of all the money which he had with him, and which consisted of 451. in bank notes, eight sovereigns, three guineas, and some silver, with which they decamped, leaving Mr. Benson lying senseless in the road. In the struggle the horse made off, and was not found until next day. Soon afterwards a person proceeding home from Kendal market found the sufferer in this deplorable condition, and he was con veyed to the Greyhound public-house, not very far distant from the scene of the robbery, to which place medical aid was promptly despatched. Infor mation of the robbery was speedily conveyed to Ken dal, and Mr. Wright, the Superintendent of Police, being told that one of them wasjall and well-dressed, attended with policeman Grimes, went with all speed to the rail way station, to watch the travellers as they booked. 'Presently, a tall and fine-looking gentleman arrived, and on the sight of Mr. Wright seemed to hesitate about booking. Ile was muffled up, and had every ap pearance 0r a commercial traveller. Mr. IVright imme diately suspected him of being one of the highwaymen who had robbed Mr. Benson, and went up to him for the purpose of speaking to him. As soon as Mr. Wright touched him, he made a terrific spring, and at one bound cleared the whole of the steps at the front of the Railway Station, but stumbled a little from the very heavy shake he received on alighting. As soon as the gentleman in disguise sprang off,.lllr. Wright, determined to secure him, also cleared all the steps at a bound, and seized him, when a dreadful struggle ensued, during which both were on the ground. Policernan Grimes came up, and, with the help of others, he was, though with great diffi culty, taken to the station , a nd from thence was c onveyed to Kendal on Sunday . evening. It has been ascertained that he is a person of the name of Christopher lon, who for some years kept the Black Bull public .house in Kirkland, Kendal, from which he removed to Liverpool about twelve months ago, where it is understood he has been keeping a low beer-shop. lon had formerly liied as a servant with Mr. Ben ' son, and knowing his habit of generally proceeding from Kendal on Saturday evenings with a quantity of money on his person, it is presumed he had gone to ' Kendal for the especial purpose of committing the rob bery. Mr. Benson was so far recovered as to be abte to visit Kendal on Wednesday. In consequence of so many alarming and desperate robberies in the neighbourhood, the Secretary of State for the Home Department has been requested that a Government reward might be offered, and a pardon held out to any accomplice. BRISTOL, SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 19... . _ Sugars remain very firm, and the better qualities rather dearer. We have still the same observation to make re lative to our market ; " hardly any thing doing for want, of a supply." We have no Mauritius, no Bengals, and the show of West India, during the week, not worth notice.—Bristol Mercury. Fri/DER and SUICIDE -7- - .. 1 of S HA A I I 3 URCLI - Land ' FLAX BUS-41AI L. - - y.) HANOVER, Nov. 14.—P r i vate l etters from Brunswick, -aturda "'A Sett).- which may be depended on; have just brought us word that the Chamber there has resolved to let the Customs •.'` T-T anover continue for another year. --- , her of ships, of all nations, that 1 841, - was—from the .. 4 . 1 . 1,829. Of • • Rl3; union wr L.. ELSINORE.—The nu.. passed the Sound, in October, - North Sea, 1,303 ; the Baltic, 526 ; these 493 were English—viz., from the North Sea, the Baltic, 180. WARsAW, 'Nov. 7.—The Vice-Chancellor of the Em. pire has informed the Prime Governor of the Kingdom that his Majesty has recognised Colonel Du Plat, who lately arrived at Warsaw, as a British Consul for the kingdom of Poland.—Prussian States Gazette, Nov. 14. BRUSSELS,' Nov. 18.—A letter from Luxembourg. published in the Cologne Gazette, 12th November, states that a commercial treaty between Holland and Belgium has been concluded, and will shortly be laid before the Belgian Chambers. The Journal of Dutch Limburg says that the King of Holland has appointed two engineers to prepare as soon as possible a plan for an iron railway from Maestricht to Aix-la-Chapelle. BRUSSELS, Nov. 19.—Generals Vandersmissen and Vandermeeren, and Captain de Crehern are placed in in small rooms, but all communication with the other prisoners is prohibited. The remainder aro still in the cells of the military quarter. BELGIAN M UNDS...I3BUSSIILE, Nov. 19. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant lOl Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92 Sper Cent. 71E,, .. 101 U (1340) Loan of City, 1732, 4 per Cent. .. 9 - 1 34 Society of Cowin - ince, 4 per Cent lOl% Bank of Belg ium, . 5 per Cent.... ......... NationalSomety. Exchange on,Londow (short) —Brussels Papers, . Nov 19. NiAjeomDwoUrdtiltsd't(yonf-.lds:FepeU4r:CDpeenS.:—.. Cent., Amar N!Yv. 1 5 9 1 . Actual Debt, 2 h per Cent. 99% 9614 Do. do. 3% per Cent. Commercial Company, 4% per Cent 15%4' 97q je Dutch Papers, Nov. 20. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VigNsa, Nov. 11 Five per Cent s. hletalliques F "r P er COAL ••..."•"... eeeeee •••••••••• 000000000000 9 8 % Three p,:r Cents Bank Shares 1561 ...Allgemeine Zeilung. Nov. 16. HA SIBU RG BORSENHALLE, Nov. 16. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank shares 1590. Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 109 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se , ies loid Rusilan 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series ... IA% 98 Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840)..... Dutch actual Debt, 2% per Cent lO Ditto 5 per Cent - Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ~., 76 75% Nmwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent...". ..... ... Iti% 102 k Spanish, New 5 per Cents.... .......... ..... .... 15% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, Nov. IG.-13 7.—Two months, 13 53;. CHRISTIANIA, Nov, B.—Three months, 4 52. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beaurt, Nov. 13. Bills Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 46 per cent. lOl% .05% Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent 102 Exchange on London, three months 6 16% —Prussian State Gazette, Nov. 14. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Nov. 20.—The Ztfouiteur of this morning publishes the general Budget of the Ways and Means for 1842. It amounts 105,850,612 f. According to custom the Minister of Finance has caused the general situation of the Treasury to be pub lished. From this it appears, that on the Ist of January next, the total amount of the excess of the expenditure above the receipts since 1830, will be 9,777,000 francs, and adding 8,810,000 f. for the interest and redemption of the several loans, and the four millions lent to the Bank of Belgium, there will be a real deficiency of 22,500,000 f., which will be provided for by an equal amount of Treasury bonds. We regret to learn there an explosion of fire-damp has taken place in the coal mine of . St; .Felix. It is said that a great number of workmen were in the mine ; four killed and five wounded, had been got out. .Tha fate of twenty-nine other workmen is not known ; they were at work in a gallery, the access to which is impeded by a falling in of the earth to the extent, it is thought, of three or four hundred yards. Workmen are employed day and night to get at them. Our Government has received information that the Spanish Government has delayed for forty days, from the first of November, the execution of the new tariff in respect to Belgian produce and manufactures. DISTRESS IN PAISLEY. TO 7'HE EDI7O.R OF THE SUN. SIR, —Along with this you . will receive a state ment of the number of persons depending on public charity for existence in the town of Pais ley, and other places in the Upper Ward of Renfrewshire, amounting to 10,670. The allowance given by the Local Relief Committees averages in amount from lid. to lid. per day, for each individual, and in provisions only. Many families, notwith standing the inclemency of the season, are without fire frequently for two days at a time. Hundreds, if not thousands, have sold or pawned every article of their bed or body clothes, except what they appear with on the street, to keep themselves in life; and such is the desire of a greater portion of the population to main tain themselves independently by their own ex ertions, that many have to be offered relief by their neighbours; and some have been found on the point of death from want, who declined to apply for public aid. In referenCe to , some statements which have appeared in the public papers regarding the un willingness of the weavers in this neighbourhood to accept work at aloes rate, it may be proper to state that a Committee has commenced this week to give out webs in the way of relief, at which an expert workman will not earn more than five shillings per week. From this they have to deduct rent, light, and other expenses— yet yesterday and to-day the demand for these webs has been so great, that crowds of people have been in waiting, eager to obtain them. For the Paisley Relief Committee, JOHN HENDERSON, Provost. Paisley, Nov. 18, 1841. AN APPEAL TO THE GENEROUS PUBLIC. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—I observe with pleasure in your valuable Paper, there are contributions and subscriptions open for the relief of the distress of the labour ing classes of the town of Paisley. My anxious prayer and wish is to see a general fund, call it the British National Fund, for the relief of every distress of the manufacturing classes throughout England, including printers, tailors, me chanics, and every trade that is in want of employ. If the goodly inhabitants of every market town and large village in Eng land were to form Committees composed of gentlemen and respectable tradesmen, and so. licit subscriptions for the same, I think great good would be done if the head of every family were to subscribe ls. per week, every Society of the different trades who are in employ Is. per week, servants in every establishment that is in constant employ—in fact, every person who is not in actual want, I feel assured would come forward with their Gd. per week, others ld. per week, according to their means. This, col lected with the bounties of Royalty (if applied to our beloved Queen would be at the bead of so glorious a cause), the nobility, and gentry of this country, would procure for every starving family in England daily bread. Oh! then, let not a widow's prayer or appeal be made in vain. She seeks not gain or fame— she is a humble and unknown individual, who feels' that if something is not done for the relief of the thousands or our distressed country men, they must die in our streets from hun ger and cold. What a disgraceful record in the annals of Great Britain, to be handed down to posterity that England's indus trious sons were allowed to starve and die in this our land of plenty May God put it into the hearts of those men who have so much of this world's treasure, to come forward with their 200/., or 5001. They well know, where much is given much will be required—he that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord. A WIDOW. A somewhat singular occurrence took place at Keswick about eleven o'clock on Saturday night last. A very large flock of wild geese passed over .tlie t6wil'of Keswick, and flew so near the house-tops that many' per sons who had retired to rest heard the screeching dis cordant noise the wild geese invariably make during flight. It is conjectured that having been attracted by the lights in the streets, they had descended from their wonted elevation, or it might be that they had been com pelled by the violence of the wind, which at the time was blowing faiiously, to avail themselves of a lower altitude than under other circumstances they would have chosen. However, be this as it may, their visit has in the present instance verified the generally received opinion that their appearance indicates the near approach of stormy weather. On Sunday morning it was intensely cold, and all the hills, even to their base, were covered with snow. On Monday morning the frost was very keen, and the air so piercingly cold that winter may b e said to have commenced its . somewhat unwelcome reign in the lake district.—Cumberland Pacquet. We have been informed, on good authority, that the Britannia, a fine vessel of 1,400 tons burden, sailed from Rotterdam about the 29th of October, for the coast of Africa. She was to purchase of the King of Ashantee one thousand blacks, to reinforce the Dutch troops in the island of Java, and was to take in fifty soldiers at Ilel voetsluys as a guard. We mention this fact with great pain; but we shall probably find another opportunity of expressing our sentiments on it.--Anti-Slavery Reporter. It is an extraordinary fact that a cuckoo was heard pouring forth its well-known note on Tuesday, the 2d instant, in the parish of Tolpuddle, n ear f or , chester. It was observed by three individuals, who dis tinctly heard about a dozen repetitions of the note, and saw the bird.—Dorset County Chronick. THE SUN, LO OW, yi.oxativ, NOVEMBER 22. 1841. dislocation C io o n ns o t f it t u h t e ion i tz r e e /, nc i nh --T HE - PREAreirisrAN Y. h it a c rg a e ils o t f fl a e navy an d the cvh d a is t c portion of the crews, gives some details of the , way in which seamen are raised, which marbe.new to some of our reade rs . I t i nforms us that in the year 1681, when the number of seamen employed in th e commerce of all countries was 2 0,000, of whew only five to six hundred ite-iled . under the French flag, an ordonnance was issued, declaring ii 7 Z. 4 ry man, who should have embraced the profession of a sedmal; and been enrolled as such, should, up to the age of fifty, lie liable to be called upon for the service of the State, and that this ordonnance, sanctioned by subsequent legislation, is now in force, and is applicable to all seamen whether engaged in the merchant service, or the, coasting or fishing trade, al: though it has been so far modified in practice, that the men, when taken for the Royal navy, are kept_only for a limited time ; and then dismissed with an understand ing that they will not be called up again, unless on an emergency. -It•appears also that, when a seaman has reached the age Of forty years, he is no longer liable to be called on to serve the State. The Constitutioncl considers that 'this lap was absolutely necessary, find that it must be in principle still enforced, and observes that the English impress system is but another and mo-e -brutal mode of manning the navy. But our Contemporary suggests the propriety of further modifi cations and ameliorations, with a view of rendering the service less repugnant than it now is, and which ap pears to be so great that although the registers of the seamen liable to serve in in France show a force 0E107,000, the , aosire to evade, and the means of evading, the service are 'such; that, according to the statement of Baron Tupinier, the Director of the Ports, there are only 53,000 really available to the State, and the Constitu tionnel tells us that in order to avoid this maritime con scription, not less than 12,000 of the best sailors of .France are at this moment engaged in the merchant service of other States. In addition to the regular supply of seamen, there is in France a force called equipages de- ligne, which is composed of men taken out of the conscriptions for the land. The men thus raised and sent to sea become, says the Constitutionnel, good sailors, and it recommends that this ,source of supply _should be carried out to a greater extent. The system of volun tary enrolment is not one Which our Contemporary sets much value on, for, it informs us that M. Lange, a naval commissioner who was sent to England by Admiral Duperre, , to study the system of maritime recruiting, has returned with a conviction that it begins to appear insufficient even in time of peace ; but it may here be observed, that it is precisely in time of peace that the difficulty of obtaining recruits for the royal navy must be greatest, for it is then that seamen are able to find employment in the mercantile navy, frequently at a higher rate of wages, and always with a degree of liberty which they cannot have on beard the ships of the State. A time of peace, when a sailor can obtain employment in the merchant service; with liberty to change from master to master until he finds a berth to his mind, instead of entering on board a Government ship, where he must serve for a certain length of time, and without the faculty of change, is not the most fa vourable for voluntary enrolment. In time of war, when an immense number of merchant seamen must necessarily be thrown out of bread, they must .enter into the royal navy or starve. REGULATIONS OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. (From the Medical Gazelle.) The Council of the Royal College of Surgeons has shown some judgnignt in the new regulations which have recently been put forth. They appear to us to be part of a system which is not yet fully developed, but which we incline to think will be very advantageous to the profession and the public, if fait ly carried_out. The amended regulations have added six months to the study of the practice of physic in a recognised hos. pital, making it in all twelve months, but the practice of physic and that of surgery may now be followed at the same time, instead of separately, as formerly ; so that two objects are gained—an augmentation of study, and a diminution of the time of attendance. The first year, it may be presumed, will be occupied by most students in the laboratory of an hospital or dispensary, or in that of a private practitioner, and the three re maining years at a public hospital and school which has been recognised by the Council as competent for the purposes of instruction. A vacation of three months is allowed in each year, and as the period for the lec tures on anatomy is fixed to be from October to May, the principal part of each annual session must of course be during that season. The time allotted for positive study is twenty.seven months, but by the regulations they cannot be consecutive. We have reason to believe that the diminution of the term prescribed by the re gulations of the 20th of August, 1839. has: taken place to meet the wishes of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons, and with , the view of equalizing the code of regulations for the three Royal Colleges. A slight increase of hospital study in Edinburgh will now ef fect this object between the London and Edinburgh Colleges. The increase of the study of the practice of physic has taken place, we understand; in consequence of the conferences which were held between the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Society of Apotheca vie!, in the spring of this year; and, we apprehend, with the view of so arranging the system of education, that a member of the Collole of Surgeons wish ing to praAise as an apothecary, may undergo his examination in pharmacy, and such,of Apothe points as relate to general practice, b y the Society. caries, without referen ce to t h e course o f stu d y pre scribed by then, and w i t h out having been.an ap - preotice. The two exam i nations form onp who l e ; the one faculty system being divided into two or more parts between the existing constituted bodies, neither inter fering with the other. We do not precisely know whether this was the real object of the parties, but it is quite evident that the Apothecaries' Act would pre vent its consummation, unless repealed, or its offensive clauses were removed ; and we hope, for the character and honour of all the partie s concerned, that one or other will be done. The stringent enforcement which is announced, of the registra)ion of students in London at the College, and by their respective teachers in other places, three times a year, will go far to prevent those false and forged certificates under which many have attempted, and some have obtained, the diploma of the College. Interlineations, erasures, or alterations, now render a certificate inadmissible ;-and we hope the Court of Ex aminers and their Secretary will strictly adhere to this resolution. Nothing will, h owever , -fully prevent the evil, but a regular regi s t er o f atten d ance k ept at eac h hospital and school ; an d we trust the t i me i s not f ar dis tent when this will he insisted upon every where. The laxity which has taken place amongst teachers of late has been, and is, very extraordinary with respect to the accuracy of these certificates ; and the manner in which some students have falsified them, and then de clared in the most solemn manner that they were true, is more extraordinary still. We hear that the College is instituting inquiries , into several acts of this kind, and we trust that the guilty will be punished in such a way as will deter others from committing a like offence. The list of the members for the current year (the College year begins in August), contains, for the first time, the date of each diploma, some of them so far back as 1770, the owners of which, we suppose, are long since dead ; but the Council, it appears, have no means of ascertaining this fact, except by calling on the mem bers to register themselves annually at the College during the months of May and June. No great num ber, it seems, have done this, as most of the old ad dresses have been omitted in the present list, and those which have found admission are few and far between. As the Council have, however, an nounced their intention to omit the names of all members who shall not have registered in 1842 and 1843, the-list will, cce have no doubt, soon be come sufficiently perfect. The professed object of the Council is, to furnish the pablic judges, magistrates, clerks of the peace, boards of guardians, &c., with a correct list of qualified surgeons ; and it is so desirable for, the hulk of the prafeision that suc h a list should exist, that we hope the wishes of tho i V ounc il w ill b e aided by all the members to the best of th e i r a bility. - Mr. Wailiurton proposed in his bill t,p tax - caeca mem berg iast r by r Act of . par;iament, and toAnake pl a C es f or re-, clerks, &c. ; the Council of the College of Sur geons offers to do it for nothi ng . ladepandently of the present list, containing the narues'ofseveral hun dreds, perhaps thousands, who are - dead, the new list will do away with a great evil whioh'prevails in many places, and in Ireland in particular—viz., the practice of erasing the name and-date from the diploma inserting and ng th a t `.. the person of a man whorl; dead,; ~.e who wishes to appear to be a member of the College. The Council, it is true,' by 'its lite announcement de claring all diplomas. to be EPiirieeS or' forged in which alterations or erasures, exist, ham struck forcibly at this evil ; but nothing can be so efrectual a protection to the public and the profession as a correct list published annually of all qualified surgeons — a li st wh i ch any one may purchase for Is. When we compare the present regulations for the Museum and Library with those which formerly ex isted, we perceive a great change to the better. The Museum may be staid to be open to the public on four days of the week, instead of three. as formerly ; it is no longer a private, but a great public institution. The disabilities under which the members laboured with regard to it and to the Libre. y, have been removed, and a member of the Council possesses no privilege be yond the members of the College generally, except that of electing into the Council. The efforts which the Council have made with the Poor-law Commissioners and the Government, to secure the employment in all public situations of qualified per sons, do them great credit s ,and they may rely upon it, that as long as they continua to net for the advantage of the public and of the profession on l y, outy, : w i ll meet with the support of both. .7 • The Manchester Courier, in oing a fire at Runcorn, states that there is not a si ng l e f i re-eng i ne in the town .or neighbourhood, although th ere the popula tion is 8,000, and the place cont a i ns a ship-building property, vast tunount of LITERATURE. HOURS WITH THE MUSES. Sinipkin and Marshall, London, 1841. A brief biographical sketch, prefixed to this volume of poems, gives us some curious and in teresting particulars respecting the author of them, Mr. John Critchley Prince, which i mpress us with a very favourable opinio n of his character. He is, it seems, a native of Wigan, where he was born in the year 1808 ; his father was a reed maker for weavers, and, having a large family, and but slender means of subsistence, he was un able to give his son the advantages of a good education. His mother, however, an intelligent *Oman, did her best to instruct him ; and con trived with some difficulty to procure him ad mittance_ nto the Sabbath school of a Baptist chapel in the neighbourhood, where he gained an imperfect knowledge of reading and writing. At nine years of age he was put to learn his father's trade, and worked at it from fourteen to sixteen hours a day. It was at this period that a love of books cameon-him like a passion. "`When the family Yttl retired to rest," says his biogra pher, " full often would young Prince at mid night leave his bed, creep down stairs, and by the dim light of the slackened fire revel in Robinson Crusoe,' and the romances of Mrs. Ratcliffe and Monk Lewis." in his thirteenth year he first met with the works of Byron, which produced, as might be expected, a powerful effect on his imagination, and inspired him with an ardent desire to become a poet. While yet not quite nineteen years of age, he " entered into the ma trimonial state with a pretty and interesting young woman of his own rank of life," which so crippled his means, for a family came quickly upon him, that he was induced to leave England,and seek for work, whiCh he had learned was to be obtained in abundance and on excellent terms, in Picardy ; unfortunately, howeVer, when he reached France, he had found that the Revolu tion of 1830 had destroyed all his hopes, for busi ness of every sort was at a complete stand-still. Under these adverse circumstances he decided on proceeding to the great seat of manufactures, Mulhausen, on the Upper Rhine, and repaired thither, by way of Paris, where he staid eight days, and saw all the lions of the metropolis; when, finding his finances reduced to the lowest possible ebb, he made all possible haste to Mul hausen. But trade here was little better than in Picardy, and Mr. Prince would have starved if it had not been for the generous kindness of the Mayor, who gave him such assistance as it was in his power to give. After a brief stay, our un lucky traveller set out on his return home--not •in the slightest depressed, though he had to walk many hundred miles through a strange land, without a guide and without money. It was in the middle of winter when he commenced his long journey, and purposely kept along the banks of the Rhine, bearing up against privations with a cheerful spirit, his poetical enthusiasm excited to the utmost by exploring the beautiful land scapes and ruins that lie along the course of that romantic river. On the first night of his arrival in England he applied f or food and shelter at a workhouse in Kent, and was thrust into a miser able garret " with the roof sloping to the floor," which was tenanted by eight individuals, all of whom were serious invalids, and one of whom died during the night ! Next day Mr. Prince proceeded, penniless and shoeless, to London, "begging in the day time, and lying in the fields at night." To allay the cravings of hunger he went to Rag Fair, and taking off his waistcoat, sold it for eightpence! He then bought a penny loaf and fourpennyworth of writing-paper, with which he entered a tavern, and calling for some porter, proceeded to write out as much of his own poetry, which he had composed during his travels, as his paper would contain. As soon as he had finished his task, he went to a number of booksellers, in the hope of selling his MSS. for a few shillings; but as a matter of course was repulsed by all, for who would have faith in the genius of an author without a waistcoat? He stayed in London two days, "lying on the cold stones under gate-ways, or on the bare steps of rich men's h ou s es ," an d then started on his road back to Lancashire, "sleeping by the way in barns, under hay stacks, and hedges, with ballad-singers, match-sellers, and mendicants," and on reaching his home, found his wife and children in Wigan poor-house. Thither he im mediately repaired, and brought them all to Manchester, where he hired a garret " without food, clothes, or furniture of any kind; and Where he and his family slept on straw for many Months." At length, his circumstances began to improve ; his poetry, some of which was in serted in the local newspapers, found admirers; a. volume was soon after published by subscrip tion—the volume before us—and he is now, we understand, comparatively speaking, well off, in point of worldly matters. It is greatly to the credit of Mr. Prince's heart, and - the diVine art which 1w pursued with such - .enthusiasm, that poverty has had no power to sour, or. corrupt his nature. He has passed through the fiery fur nace without so much as a singe. His poe ms show an innat e re fi nement of mind, and a sweet, healthy lone of sensibility, together with a pure and ennobling morality, which speak volumes in favour of their author's head and heart. We cordially wish him success, for no man seems to • have suffered more, or to have borne his suffer- . ing with such exemplary patience, and, we May . even add, magnanimity. We conclude with a graceful and melodious passage from one of Mr. Prince's poems, entitled " A Vision of the . Future :" There Woman moves with beauty7moulded form, First inspiration of the Poet's song, Her heart with fondest, purest feelings warm, — Soul in her eyes, and music on her tongue; Vsteenied and taught, she lives above the storm Qf social discord, poverty, and wrong; Graceful and good, intelligent and kind, The leveliest temple of the mighty mind! Her offspring, too, unfettered as the fawn, With elfin eyes, and cheeks that mock the rose, Chase the wild bees o'er many &flowery lawn, Or gather pebbles where the b roo kl et fl ows: A littl world of purity is drawn : Around their steps; a moral grandeur glows, -Serene in majesty, before their eyes, Moulding their thoughts and feelings as they rise. Oh, blest community! calm spot of earth! Where Love encircles all in his embrace; Where generous deeds and sentiments have birth, Warming each heart and brightening every face; Where pure Philosophy, and temperate Mirth, The lore of Science, and the witching grace Of never-dying Poesy, combine To feed the hungry soul with food divine! ARMY AND NAVY PROMOTION. There are a variety of reports in circulation re lative to the probable extent of the anxiously looked-for promotion; but it is agreed on all sides that the present state of the finances of the country will not admit of the Brevet being so large as was at first hoped for. In the Navy it is supposed by those who believe themselves to be in the secret, that the Flag promotion will not at most go below the year 1807, thus taking in Captain Charles Gordon; and that in the other ranks it will be limited to a cer tain seniority, together with the length of the actual services of each officer now hold ing a command or filling. an executive situa tion; thus, for example, promoting as . it is said all those Commanders who have held that rank ten years, and who have been, three years ac tually employed; and all First Lieutenants who have held commissions ten or . , perhaps fifteen years, and who have been full six years of this time in sea-going ships, the half of it as First Lieutenant : and with regard to the Mates, that all those who have passed seven years, and who have been in active service two-thirds of this period, and are still serving in sea-going ships, will be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. We . sincerely lode that these predictions will prove correct; for though they are not to the extent that was at one time expected, yet as these ar .rangements seemfounded on justice and fairness, we consider that they cannot but give satisfaction to the service. One thing is certain, viz., that - the First Lord of the Admiralty is most strenu ous in his endeavours to obtain a considerable promotion for the Navy ; and the authorities at the Horse Guards, we know, are equally active on behalf of the Army. During the week Lord Haddington, Sir Henry. Hardinge, and Lord Fitz-Roy Somerset, have had several interviews with the Premier and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. Amidst the Royal favours that will no doubt be bestowed in honour of the happy event which, to the great joy of the nation, has just occurred, it is sanguinely hoped by both Services that her Majesty may be graciously pleased to make pro motions and new nominations in the Order of the Bath, and we trust the Marines will come in for their full share of these favours; ,and could our beloved Sovereign be advised to enlarge this distinguished Order to a fourth class, whereby it might be conferred on the junior officers of the Army and Navy who had gained reputation before the enemy , it would, we k4ow, b e h a il ed with grateful acknowledgments by both the pro fessions. At the same period the alteration Which has been so often suggested mightwith equal satis factionbe made, that ofcreatingall the Companions Kn i g ht s; for it has, we are assured, often proved very mortifying to many old and distinguished officers, more especially to those who have been serv i n g with their regiments in Ireland, and Who had been twenty years and upwards CoMpanions l of the Bath—the proud reward of their gallarii se rvices in the field, in th e Peninsula, Anil 'et' Waterloo—to find themselves obliged to yield precedence to some Lord-Lieutenant's Knight, who had only gained that rank for steering the Viceroy in a cock-boat across a river, or for hav ing held some subordinate situation in the house hold at Dublin! 'Tis time that these things should be amended; and no period can be more auspicious than the present, when England has just the happiness of possessing a direct heir to the throne.—Xaval and Military Gazette. ENGLAND BY A FRENCH ARTIST. The following representation of English manners is made by a writer in the Quotidienne : " Two things are much talked of concerning London, the comeliness of the people, and the cleanliness of the street•. For my part I was struck with the ugliness of the inhabitants, and the filth of the thoroughfares. " I was told, again, of the beauty of the banks of the Thames ; I found them very inferior to those of other great European rivers ; scenery or landscape they have none. It is only as a maritime and commercial river that it can be looked upon indeed as marvellous. " We are told, again, that the soil of England is better cultivated than ours. This we may allow, but, on the other hand, France possesses a deal more of pie , turesque and graceful landscape and woodland scenery. " The appearance of London is immense, rich, sump tuous ; be it so. But the aspect of Paris is elegant. London is, in a commercial point of view, prodigious ; but it is a mere hodge-podge of things that annoy one. Paris is more complete; more finished. If the London streets are wide, and of interminable length, the streets of Paris have an air of majesty not to be found in those of London. If London, from its wealth, is the first city in the world, Paris is the first from its intellectual qualities. All that money can give or can procure you will find in England ; not so in intellectual researches. In London people not only wish to be rich, but to ap pear so ; in Paris we are less anxious for public admi ration; we are more modest, and our instincts are far more refined. In London the mansion of a nobleman or of a wealthy man is right upon the street, staring you in the face, courting admiration ; in Paris it is hid den with care in ,a court and garden, and thus sheltered from the•prying eye of the public. " If we acknowledge that the English are a busy people, more stirring than the French, who are so fond of lounging, we must add, that the English appear in the walk as a heavy, calculating species. The French man, on the contrary, has a vivacious and inquisitive look, animated by a cheerful heart. If an Englishman meets a relation or an intimate friend, be assured that he will not lose a moment, if ho is on business, in ex changing a few words with him. The Frenchman, on the contrary, will forget his most important affairs to give himself up to the pleasures of chit-chat with his friend. The two nations put me in mind of the fable of the ' Hare and the Tortoise.' " The man who first compared England to a magni ficent steamboat, regular in its march, going and com ing, about its affairs, should compare France to a beau tiful sailing vessel, often impeded in its course by con trary winds, but always noble, grand, and picturesque. It is said that the parks in London are superior to our promenades. I do not absolutely deny that, but the London parks have not the appearance that be longs to a 'great city—they are too rural. The little river that Bows in St. James's Park displeases me, for it intercepts circulation; and the tame ducks that are on its waters remind me of a farm, and I am inclined to inquire for Clarissa Harlowe to feed them. Some willsay that Hyde Park is preferable to the Boise de Boulogne. It is not so —or, if it is, place it to the account of the Serpentine River, which flows through it to Kensing ton. And mark, that the English people, who pretend to be so chaste and so modest, allow little blackguards of all classes to bathe in the waters of this river, so that a noble lady, or a delicate miss, may be sure of finding, when she goes out to take a morning's walk, a naked male population swimming in the river or running upon its banks. " Of a Sunday, you find in the parks itinerant preachers, who gather round them groups, like Punch in our Champs Elysees—sometimes a Wesleyan, some times a Lutheran, mount a chair or a tub, and very often these sermons end in a general fight. All these sacred orators are mere spouters without talent—they will talk and talk for ever. Indeed, I have remarked that there exists in England an intellectual malady, which I should call a mania of being a speaker. " The immorality of Paris is much talked of, parti cularly by the English ; but it is nothing compared to that of London. Would you believe that in a country where religious feeling is carried to austerity, where the Sunday is so sanctified that the most innocent re creations are forbidden on that day, that debauchery reigns triumphant, without restraint—wild, disgusting, hideous. In Paris, vice seems to be accompanied by remorse and shame—there, it is the result of misery, of hunger, or of neglect ; in London, vice is vice for vice sake, from a delectation that is felt in its enjoyment, and may be looked upon as a sort of business among the English. What adds to the disgusting features of de bauchery in ',laden, is drunkenness. " The English are not aware that the focus of in tellect is in Paris, and they fancy themselves original when they are mete copyists. The English are too proud, however, to lay hold of customs actually in fashion with us, but they go and look for types and figures in our former history. The British aristocracy of the 19th century are , a proof of my observation. Like the aristocracy of Louis . XIV. it is magnificent, luxurious, and hypocritically religious ; and be assured that it is because Louis - XIV. danced in the ballets of Fontainbleau that Queen Victoria sings at this day at the concerts at Windsor.. The English, therefore, have no originality ; they have only manias." This very amusing, and well-informed ! Frenchman, promises on some future day a sketch of the domestic manners, the ladies, the politics, and on the state of the tender passion in England. CONCENTRATION OF THE WEST INDIA STEAM-FLEET AT SOUTHAMPTON. (From the Greenock Advertiser.) This large fleet is rapidly assembling at the port of departure, and the Southampton river will soon present one of the most splendid scenes that has ever been wit nessed in any of our harbours ; fourteen steam-ships of the largest s;ae and power, all of the same dimensions, the property of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com pany, are rapidly coming forward to this station as they are in succession completed. Three of them, the Clyde, the Tweed, a nd th e S o l wa y, have al ready , arrived from the place of their construction in Scotland, at Southampton, and others are soon expected from the Thames, the Mersey, and other ports, where they are rapidly progressing. Already, however, the capability of the Company's ships has been shown by the passages they have made. The following are the fastest trips yet made by each ves sel on her trials, and they show the speed of these large ships to be greater than that of any vessels of a similar class. A measured distance of rather more than 15 2-3ds statute miles has been performed on a trial trip as follows : By the Clyde, 1 hour 11 min., being at the rate of 13 miles an hour. • By the Tweed, 1 hour 13 min., being at the rate of 12 3-sths miles an hour. By the Solway, 1 hour 17 min., being at the rate of 12 miles an hour. By the Tay, 1 hour 9 min., being et the rate of 13i miles an hour. These trials are the more interesting on this account, that three of these ships have precisely identical engines —viz., the Tay, the Tweed, and the Clyde ; and there fore the difference of speed is to be attributed solely to the slight differences in the form of the ships them selves. The chief peculiarity in the form of the Tay is the introduction, to a considerable extent, of the wave principle at the bow. The differences of these ships in going round loaded from the Clyde to South ampton are equally remarkable. The distance of 15 2.3ds statute miles was performed by the loaded sl • ups as follows : Clyde, with 425 tons of coals, lh. 17m., being 12 miles an hour. Tweed, with 265 tons of coals, lh. 16m., being 12 1-5 do. do. s a iW a y, ' with 250 tons of coals, lb, 24m., being 11 1-6 do.' do. • - in. like manner, the passages of the ships to South ampton show a speed which is the greatest attained by Clyde compl e t e d t h e passage fsr h o ip ma of this, class. The the Clyde to the Needles at Southampton in 6.5 hours, the Tweed in 56 hours, and the Solway in 73 hours—a distance of 650 statute miles, in weather by no means favourable. These performances of the ships give grounds for the most sanguine hopes of the success of all the other ships of the Company, and augur well for the prosperity of a system of inter.colonial communication, which will con tribute in no ordinary degree both to the prosperity of the West Indies and of the mother country. IN THE TDurinHgE WEATHER M the whole south-we hole of Saturday night and strong gale with heavy squalls from about st accompanied at intervals with heavy , EtThrßoOuPghOoLultsy.e—s terday, it bl ew a falls of rain. The accounts received from sea of the in jury d one to the shipping, particularly on the York shire coast, coast, are gloomy in the extreme, several ves yleasvtieirgdabyee, been lost with all their crews. Notwith standing the violence of the gale throughout Saturday and none of the shipping on the Riversustained any_ serious damage. Several vessels in the Lon don and St. Katharine's Docks were yesterday ready for sea, but 1 owing to the tempestuous' tate of the weather they did not take their departure. Numerous coasting vessels are I also detained at the wharves on both sides of the River 1 from the same muse. The gale moderated last night, but it still continued to blow strong from S.S.W., occa sionally with heavy squalls. Such boisterous weather at this period of the year has not been experienced for many years. The three Poor-law Unions comprising the manufacturing population of the borough of Manchester and Salford, with their immediate neighbourhood, con tain altogether no less than 354,142 individuals. , The severe indisposition of the Very Rev. th e '' i sean of Down, at his residence near Downpatrick, con tiiitles.--BeYast- News Letter. EVENING SUN LEGALISED MURDER. (Prom the British Queen.) such things be?" Aye! can suc h things be ? and in the nineteenth century, too, that the enlightened people of this country should not only sanction a law which dooms a fellow creature to death, but congregate in thousands to wit ness his execution on the scaffold ? It is true that such is the fact—it is true that a miserable wretch who had been guilty, in a moment of maddened fury, of an enor mous crime, was doomed, alcording to law, to die the death—it is true, that he was " hanged by the neck until he was dead"—it is true, that 'there were -thou sands present, men and women, to witness the clenched band, the convulsed limb, the blackened face, and the heaving chest of the dying victim of an unwise, and worse than an Ashantee barbarian law—nay, it is true, that the last - svords that reached the ears of the " con demned," were either yells of execration, or sounds of delight at the human butchery about to take place ; last, and worst of all, a portion of the press of the United Kingdom, has been found to defend the practice of extinguishing a life, which God had giv en, and which no man has a right to take away. Tile crime for which Blakesley has suffered the last extremity of a barbarous law is indefensible, so far as punishment is concerned, both in law and in equity, towards every member of society ; but that any man or any body of men have a right to deprive a human being of existence, we utterly deny. We take up a new position upon this subject, and we urge as an argument that the very fact of the miserable wretch having fallen a victim to the baibarous law of his coun try, is a proof that murder is the greatest of crimes. He committed an unintentional murder, so far as the murdered person was concerned, and both law and re ligion say " Thou shalt do no murder . ;" and yet by a judicial process —a mere form of unnecessary proof—Me murder is legalised by the deprivation of the victim of life. The private individual—the subject of accusation —stabs one of his fellow creatures to death ; the act is proved ; the doom of death is pronounced ' ; but its order that the right of taking away life may not be with out its exemplar, the law by its practice must commit another murder, and thereby sanction that for whicls the original murderer is doomed to death! - Horror of horrors Only think of a human being, possessing many of the feelings of our common na ture, imprisoned, tortured by the presence of others, and strucg up, like a mad dog, for the amusement of ruffians, while his father, aad mother, and relatives were sittiug in sackcloth and ashes--mourning his fate, broken-hearted, thrilling with terror—the hopes of the family blasted, and doomed to an unacquired infamy._ But we can go no further ; for the more we;think of the matter, the stronger is our disgust, and the greater our abhorrence of the punishment of death. It is years ago since, in a journal which we trust will be conducted in a manner to command the respect of its readers, we advocated the abolition of punishment by death ; and it is with insuppressible pleasure 'that we find it maintain an honourable consistency upon the subject. We allude to the Morning Advertiser, from which we make the following extract : " Our hostility to the infliction of the extreme penalty is grounded on a firm persuasion that such punishments are at once barbarous, unjust, and inexpedient. Their barbarity and injustice we have proved on repeated pre• vious occasions—though their barbarity and inhumanity stand not in need of any proof. Who can reflect on the circumstance of a fellow•creature being hung up in the public streets, and in the presence of thousands of the most depraved of mankind—for the bulk of the spec tators consist of persons of this character—and not shudder at the thought. And anything at which the mind of the better class of society thus instinc tively revelte, must be of an essentially barbarous nature. But public executions are not only bar barous, and the offspring and relicts of barbarous ages, they outrage every feeling of decency ; for what can be more indecent than ushering a rational and im mortal being into the presence of his Judge, from a pub lic scaffold, in the very centre of the city ? The law does not allow an ox, or sheep, or pig, or any other ani mal, though without intelligence, and without a soul, to be killed in the public streets, and yet it dooms human beings to be slaughtered by the hands of a person spe cially appointed for the purpose, in the most centrical locality in London, in the presence of tens of thousands of individuals. On the abstract injustice of capital puoishments we do not now touch. We s have, we trust, made that sufficiently rich on previoitsvecasions. When the advoca:es of these punishments undertake to show us by what right, revealed or natural, legislatures or governments arrogate to themselves the right of tak ing away the life which the great Creator alone could and did confer—rte shall be prepared to !Ilea them, and to demonstrate that no Nislature or government, either has or can have any such right. We shall then find it no difficult task to prove that they who claim for themselves the right to deprive a fellow-creature a life, do in effect seek to ' Snatch from Heaven's hand the balance and the rod, Usurp his righta, and be the God of God.'" In these sentiments we cordinlly concur ; they breathe the spirit of wisdom and humanity ; and although, for the present, there is no hope of carrying them into practical effect, we doubt not that the time is not far distant when barbarism will give place to civilisation, and legalised murder shall no longer be known in the land. FUSE YISM. Puseyism is a great and growing evil. Though es sentially and primevally a theological system, it contains within it the seeds of the most absolute political ty ranny. It is impatient of toleration to opinions, civil or religious, which are opposed to itself. , It has all the persecuting spirit of Popery, as that spirit has been exhibited in inquisitions, dungeons, stakes, and 'scaffolds. It is even worse than Popery, inasmuch as, the perse cutions instituted by the Litter were, in almost every instance, for relgiuus opinions at variance with the Romish Church ; whereas Puseyism takes cognizance of liberal opinions in civil and political matters, and would consign to the dungeons, if not to the scaffold, any one who ventures to question its authority. It ar rogates to itself an authority above that of the Sove reign or the Constitution, and, could it only command a majority in Parliament, it would reduce the Queen to the extreme condition of a mere machine, and would compel her to act as its puppet. Such is the system which is now making such rapid progress in the land, and sshich, if act speedily at tacked, will soon overrun the entire religious Esta blishment of England. Already three-fourths of the clergy of that Church are deeply tinged with this despotic system. Should it ever obtain the ascend ancy in this country—and there is too much reason to fear that it is rapidly tending that way, it will, at one fell stroke, deprive us of all that is liberal in politics, and deny us the right to worship God according to the dictates of our consciences. The existence of Dissent would be incompatible with its supremacy. It would compel uniformity with a rigorous hand,—it would supersede the Constitution altogether, and demand a univesal and prompt obedience to its new authority, under the penalties of imprisonment and death. Such is the nature of Puseyism. It is as bad re ligiously, and worse civ la y, than the rankest Popery, while it is much more to be dreaded, than the Roman Catholic faith, inasmuch as it works its pernicious pur poses unseen and under false pretexis ; for it assumes a Protestant name though essentially a Popish system. — British Queen. The .Antvver Papers annotinee .4ittk - A K ", nego tiations for a commercial treaty 4eitweigitikl and Franc e are again renewed with activity. It would be gratifyin g to see a w spirit of liber a lity introduced into the commercial-. relations of countries with each ether' which would benefit man ki n d at large ; , but we are sorry to hear opinion s d ec id e dl y expressed, by _persons inti mately acquainted with t ra d e i n F rance , that the class interests there will prove too strong for the Government, and that they will not permit the Ministers to offer to foreigners such equivalents as would be considered by either Belgium or England reciprocities for the favours demanded in return. 1 CHAMBER of CoamEßcE:-.4A4pecisiteneral meeting of this body was held on Wedney at the Exchange, S. T. Hassell, Esq., President, in the chair, when motions were passed declaratory of the .great services rendered by the proprietors of the London Times newspaper, in first announcing the names of the swindlers who intended to defraud the leading bankers of Europe, and in afterwards proving the correctness of their information before a Court o f justice, at great labour and expense. The opinion of the meeting was, that these eminent mercantile services deserved more than the thanks of the mercantile com munity ; and the Chamber approved of the design o f the London Committee to raise some suitable and lasting which ienw o w o e d r e yr m i o i v o e i d_ testimonial of the obligation of the mercantile world to the proprietors (as they refuse any indemnification), an d that a subscription of not more than two guineas from each men, firm be' commenced in Hull, to be transmitted to the L from Sir don Committee, such subscription being headed by fi on v : guineas from the Chamber, and a a C le o t tn te tu r itt.tee Vvas a-i -apnodinsteedcotnodcesdrrbyyoGut. tih.,eiddrcesllo,lujtiaomness, consult the 0 the advan derness, Charles West, Thomas Wilson, G. Th b an ; d y, Esqrs. e Chair manGeorrgeepßorutcelidton, that a li n e d h . a To d h r n ee l e ' i e v r t r , attempts to b urn Ed ward Parry, who will be in Hull this day, to t merchants, e shipowners, ieonia n C a a n n d a l b masters,eing completed a s the pre ,HNNa.ertr.eismona,dea irnestpheeectaobulre farmer, expense.—. Hull Rockingham. at' public o s f e t o b t Tuesday night residing at Several most daring i m i i o s r e fi s e o l df fir.H il places, and but e house was set last. The furniture in the rooms attention on the part of the family, fire to in ten different must have ended —Bfor the most vigi lantihnasthfealdleesntruonetiaongiort; t n h a e me house, d i c e ates, stables, a stern. nt, Suspicion inthe house, form ed : vohno undoubted s n in do u e b u t s e t custody.—Bristol d authority,y. i that l3 f Bogle, e thehero ln of e cunt • MATCHLESS EFFRONTER . -' Y.—_W ar e • the " Bogle v. Lawson" ease, as commenced another action against the Times newspaper libel being stated to consist of th for libel; the alleged e reported observations made upon him by the various speakers whei Piave taken ar rangements for the testimonial so active a part in the so well•merited by our able Contemporary.—Shipping Gazette. - - .) in3P' t ioo , 40'1 wb° of ritl tO , Y ry