The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-13 00:00:00

.ISTING EDITION ~. rapport, are instrumental in bringing on society, to t he ges . i, first and last, ever-living CREATOR. T he Church of England for example, has for many Years been the cause of strife in the land, yet they affirm that it is Con's Church. To gratify 14 'miser abl e ma li gn i ty , t h e Di ssenters were f o r a 1 _ lu ng iitrike denied the privileges of citizens, vet they ate told dint this malignancy was of Gon. T he ar etchrgl avarice and political ambition of the ele Fey, doomed the Catholics to slavery in the land of their fathers ; but they, too, were instructed that 11113 agent of wrath is GOD'S Church. The Church 1(4 ! levies rates tilling the laud with strife, and this, I cePrdin to th e priests, is also of Gon. Eccle satstical Cor,rts arc the instrturents it uses to in strt!et melt in the A LmIGHTY'S attributes, and t hey are also of Goo. Tithes are notoriously said toUe of divine origin, though time and experience. the Popular voice and the decrees of the Legisla- L ure, have all d enounce d t h em as ru i no u s t o th e 11 - A Bishop receives . five thousand or ten th ousand pounds a-year. Deans, Prebends, and other Irlenaber3 of the higher clergy, revel in opulence, Rectors favoured of fortune, hold two or three liv hgal and very frequently r e side at neither ; they, too, r e large incmn e s, w h l e t h e Curates and working, er a have very often no larger incomes than journey -111, e a• Nev ert h e l ess , t h e Ch urc h w hi c h c h eats t h e deserving labourer of his just hire, and bestows it on the idl er , i s GOD ' S Church, and ordained by him. It 's ni possession of large revenues, given to in inflict the people, and the clergy affirm that it is a i ce°4l in to GOD' S ordinances that they divert these funds from the service of the poor, to enrich , Ilte mselves. E ven now i s t h e Ch urc h lif t i ng up its mitred fro.:t to oppose the education of the e Peonl r ; never:he!ess the people are taught that it co'r'es directly front Him, and exists by His ap pointment. Such assertions, continually acted on, while the conduct of the clergy is directly opposed t° the precepts of Christianity, are well calculated „ i t° make our pe o pl e l o s e a ll rev e r e n c e f or th e ir ‘'. ll E-A Tort. Fortunately for the future morals of so eletY/ they are raising themselves above their pre tended teachers, and no longer believe that the Hliseries they suffer come from Gon. They call ou t a gainst men, and demand—not charity, but justice. S hould the voice of the Bath people find an echo 1 " the laud, it will confer a signal benefit on pos terity. We have of late more than once stated that it "a 4 not improbable that sonic alteration would be p ro posed in the Corn-laws this next session. A litoilar opinion is embraced by a writer in the 146th u mber of the Edinbumh Review just published. O hs • 4 ntele on t h e e ff ects o f t h e protect i ve system b ased th e excell ent ev id ence and report of the Import TA le ' Committee, contains the following passage ' S o lons,, as the Corn law s ex i s t in th e ir present ',:itre, the same event [the derangement of the !currency] O le r ecur ever y b a d harvest that takes place • because i i rn graduated scale of duty will prevent that early I,ollPurt atic u o f corn which enterprising merchants of a id have recourse to, the moment any prospect t a . deficient harvest showed itself. Such is the condi tn vvhieh al the great interests of the country—corn tee• inanttra elt res , revenue , profits of capital, employ .6l4 0,, labour, is aced by these laws ; and as the 1,, -e stye of the case p is now fully understood, it cannot plies matte r of dcubt, that a proper remedy will be ap titio matter evil. On a question of this kind, adverse di -48 In Parliament are of very little consequence with 4 - t fl A ard to ultimate success; for when a case is so unjust, i tt " has no solid basis to rest upon, ariy defection amongst of anPporters will lead to complete defeat. Symptoms th;„ B4 ch a defection have appeared. In conversation, no. te i t ",g is no w so common as to hear landlords who arc in- L *eta, and impartial, and above seekin g to add a few . u o t t ind r i ds a-y-ar to their rent - rolls by a too-high price br e . d I a dmitting that the present plan of the Corn wrong, and that a fixed duty ought to be este ,Ted in la of it. The opinion of a considerable i h N IY, of them was expressed by those who admitted le,,,tne debate of last Session, that a change was —t f3'. It may safely be anticipated, that the preva einpeal laidt disposition will soon lead several of the prin de i„,,d Members, in both Houses of Parliament, to tli:i f e i n favour of a fixed duty ; and when this happens, * i ll eat and surrender of the exclusicmists of foreign corn f ...°_tl instantaneous, and a new law will pass. In point ttii i . e r , the state of the question has come to be, not so t h e wheth er th e laws shall be altered, as what shall be they fix k ed duty The exclusionists will, no doubt, do what the lib e f a have it m a d e so hi g h as to b e pro hibi tory ; b ut the. eral landlord s , after they h ave carried the repeal of Th oa . graduitted scale, will not act with such unfairness. co rn form themselves accurately about the price of i t to for 10 Arise Hero Countries, and the charges for transporting ingdom ; and wh e n they find that the average a I PLI is 40s. a quarter , t h ey w ill b e conv i nce d t h at qi i ra le duty, added to the 10s. a quarter for charges, b e 1 " ) ,u the British l an dl or d an amp l e p ro t ec ti o n. They they " ., tere disp o s e d to come to this conclusion when Ils e , r eflect, t h at for the six years ending in 1837, the 'crith 6g a e •Priee in E ng l an d was no more than 50s. ; and that tsrriti' pene, cultivati o n w a s n e v e r more ex t en d e d, or ° l l with more spirit and greater success. ti gh ' e fi xed duty p ropose d w ill not , h owever , sa - T 4e J: tt ut justi ce o f t h e case, nor enable our inanu -111. 11r et's to recover their lost ground and keep on a r ith their rivals. tt The last news at Not says Col. T HOMPSON i n a l etter to t h e cc'tershire .211ercurg, "is, that German goods °i dle ten t ' ni ne quality are o ff ere d i n America fifty per an ; under t h e price of Nottingham." If that be g o , o l) ,Yr°ximati on to the truth, and if new and vi roh" rivals are starting up in every part of Eu fixrregi' to toad our strutg manufacturers with a N ee - on their bread will cripple than for the that' : n " will Speedily make them break down. Now f orth, r.e s ee• this proposition of a fixed duty put of acc wr.pan;ed by the assertion that the state t 9 ' " fl e`tio is not whether the law shall b e al- Ite what s h a ll b e t h e amount o f fixed duty, pr o Ir •ii mak e i t our b us i ness to ie - exam i ne t h e th' t'sitioi t with alention, and shall hereafter state result. A d --iv • ersity of opinion connected with adverse ' 4 , 44 " to diffe rent c l asses , l y i ng at t h e b o t tom o f u 't of our disputes, and leading to confusion, re -4:111°11, a n d anarchy, seems now prevalent in w - . elet Y, and worthy of public notice. Believing 4KENsIDE, that "action treads the path in C el t opinion says it follows good," we conclude a s t . action will only be just and proper when t 1)1 1 11 , 1°4 is correct and true, and that our internal h ° Consequently will never be good till our p ti e l ci i i ; LeB of Government are well . founded. The i -J "e con only hope for an approximation to t lefor agreement and peace, by first k eeo ,, e ,i ng oug ht tru e principles on which soc' .dl i nstitut i ons hot he framed. At present, however, there is both n ' ere lY a d;.lference, tliere is a complete contra s t vieir s of different classes, and to th a t we pur - Ivow to direct attention. _eP•o.inconsiderable portion of well informed and 'lien, such as Mr. MARSHALL and Mr. :TANS F ELD, of Leed contend s, that the suffr age more extensive. The Chartists affirm 4:lt tuet n: I ought to be un i versa l. " U n i versa l , " say all i e 'lien of p roperty throughout England, say opulent members of the Protestant Church ; t i 4iverca l , say th e l or dl y owners of the great facto.. al eB ° f Mttnehester an d Gl asgow ; un i versal, say the IP 7 rvu 'ers and great merchants of London: " taal ..itiffrage I what, would you give the power of 44 g l aws, or of choosing those who are to make 411 %*%, into the hands of the priest-ridden, lumper-fed V ."ssntry o f I re l and, into the hands of the tattered itl'hahhants of our crowded alleys and closes, who "w not h ow to read, and are not worth sixpence beyon d l th e i r labour To talk of pl ac i ng the power of u al tilig laws for this great empire, with its vast cftm eree, of th e ram ifi cat i ons of which these persons er heard" , and with comp li cate d re l at i ons, both erlial a n d external, which they c annot possibly eettiprehend, is truly ab•u7d." " Not more absurd," theinhabitants Poor ragged peasantry of Ireland, than for y ou gentlemen of Manche s t er an d L on d on , th an f or Y°4 country squir es an d opu l ent P rotestant par rus to claim the exc l u , ive power of waking laws us, with whom you have no sympathy, on t w i n ° ll l you even l oo k with aversion, of whose affec nciioYs, and sorro ws , you know nothing—to Who oti habits of living you are strangers ; you might, with equal propriety, pretend to make laws for the Ilindoos as for us Catholic Dish, or the hard-working, half. starved weavers and spinners, who dwell in garrets or cellars, and crowd into .►►arrow and confined alleys for warmth." This :s the real point at issue hutween the classes. • The del: and the intelligent shudder with horror at the very idea of the poor and the ignorant making laws; but the poor, and perhaps they were the ignorant, now declaim, with equal vehemence, against tin rich and the intelligent exclusively making laws for diem. how are these classes, how arc thcir conflicting opinions, their adv:ise interests to be reconciled Why should property legislate for numbers, or why should poverty make laws for wealth ? We pretend not to answer the question, but it puts the diffi culty before the public which must be surmounted before there is the smallest chance of again bringing the different classes into an harmonious obedience to the law. Custom we admit is entirely in favour of property making laws for numbers. That has hitherto been one principle of our Constitution, and property has not been consided safe unless it re tained the power of making laws. It has, how ever, used the power harshly and unjustly. The condition to which industry is now reduced, as contradistinguished from property, has gene rated new ideas and new thoughts in those who have no property, or comparatively little ; and they now generally contend against the ancient custom— the ancient principle—of property having the exclu sive power anti privilege of making laws. This is for them a compratively new idea, but it has al ready taken deep root, and grows and spreads every day. We believe that there is not the smallest chance of rooting it out from the minds of the mul titude. But it must be rooted out, or property must give up its ancient privilege, or there can he no hope of ever again seeing the classes live to gether in their ancient harmony. We have indi cated the source of the difference of opinions be tween the different classes—it is for practical statesmen to consider whether they can dry up the source, or what must be done to prevent the con flicting actions which will arise from such conflict- ing opinions? The following paragraph occupies a conspicuous place in the leading columns of a Morning Con- temporary : We understand that if the British Government thinks proper to recommend to the Porte the recognition of the French conquests in Algiers, such an act will be considered by the present Cabinet of France as a decided step to wards a reconciliation. We arc told that an immediate resolution to disarm on the part of France, and thus re-establish the tranquil posi tion of Europe, will follow the proposed recommendation. What the British Government may think proper to do with respect to the recognition by the Porte of a French dominion in Africa, we cannot pretend to determine, but there appears to us no good rea son why England should decline such an offer, see ing that the Porte has never protested against the conquest of the provinces of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine by France. That her African con quests are a source of weakness rather than of strength to France has long .. been our conviction, but seeing that she will not abandon them—that the Porte has never asked her to abandon them, nor complained to the other Powers of their occu pation—we can discover no good and sufficient rea son why England should not prefer the certainty of maintaining the peace of the world to the absence of any title which the SULTAN can give to France to a territory in the occupation of France, and which never more . than nominally recognised the authority of his Highness' predecessors. We readily admit that a no less consideration than the certainty of maintaining the peace of Europe, and eventually of the world, would induce us to recommend our Government to take any part whatever in this affair. The conquests of France in Africa were made in violation of the faith of treaties, and are maintained with an utter disregard to the sacred rights of humanity. Razias, or wholesale massacres of the entire inhabitants of vil lages, without 'distinction of age or sex, the burning houses, and the carrying away of cattle, constitute the sole means by which civilized Christian France combats the disaffection of the African tribes. The French war in Africa has hitherto been a war of extermination. And what except a tract of desolate barren territory has France gained by it ? Why nothing. Instead of gaining she has lost. Independently of the treasure wasted in im mense armaments, Africa has cost France in men only during the last nine years an annual loss of about twenty thousand of her choicest troops. Most of these perished miserably of diseases brought on by the insalubrity of the climate. Last year there was little fighting, and yet the loss of men from the attacks of the Arabs and disease amounted to seven teen thousand. To protect the valueless conquests already made by France, the constant presence of an army of eighty thousand men is necessary, and this army must be maintained out of the taxes of the French people. Perhaps the recognition of the French conquest of Algiers by the Porte might reconcile the Arab tribes to the presence of their conquerors, and thus one direct advantage wou'd flow from British interference, independently of the maintenance of European tranquillity. The Paris Journals of Monday have all reached us. They contain very little news of any interest. The snow prevented the arrival of the wails from the provinces, and in Paris little was talked of bes;•' the question of the fortifications. Utv ject we find the following artier' .., es this sub- in the Cousfi/u- lionnd : We> are hal, to able to rectify what has beets tAid for the last whet we have oursclveo,Ad on the differs_ between the Ministry and the Com. r .fee, respecting the project of the fortification of Pal is. Every 'ova has felt the deplorable graYill• tna disunion on a question so decidedly national. On Saturday, through a transaction, which both parties did right to accept, the Ministry and Committee agreed on all poixts. " The following are the oases of the transaction 1- -, --The original project divided the works into twe Uitegories— viz., the most essential and the seeetiaary works. The first category included the principal outer works and only a portion of the wall of circumvallation: The wall of eirtumvallation being a useful pro tection but inasmuch as it is complete, this dis tribution of works contained in the project of Govern ment gyve rise to serious objection. It might be supposed that by this Condition the Government might consider itself authorised to commence by the forts and to adjoin the wall of circumvallation. The amended pi-eject of the Committee rendered obligatory, on the contrary, a simultaneous commencement and continuation of the works. The Ministry has consented to this medification. Another important change has been made in the project of law. The minis'erial proposition was in a measure a financial pro position. The Committee made its project, a project an • uouncing the works. The technical conditions relative to the execution of the wall of circumvaliation are in the law, and the Ministry has adhered to the wording of the Committee. The Committee, en the other hand, has entered into the Ministerial views relative to the length of execution. The Committee had stipulated in its amended project that all the works of ihe fortification were to be terminated within three years. To diminish the annual burden oft he expenditure the Artistry solicited a prolongation, and it was decided that the whole should be terminated within from four to five years. It is quite evident that, should circumstance% make the execution of the works lime ur gent, the :Ilioistry would easily be able to push it on more briskly. The whole supply bring voted, the Ministry would have merely to change-the grant either by a Bill, or by a Royal ordinance, opening supplementary credits for the year. We cannot but congratulate all those concerned in this important deliberation for having made party or systc. walk: spirit yield to a common sentiment of patriotism. This transaction is of too sacred a nature not to reunite the immense majority of votes, and we may fully expect to sec this great work of national interest voted almost unani mously by the Chamber." The French fleet in the Mediterranean is said tQ consist of 22 sail of the line. Among the strange rumours current in Paris on Monday was one to the effect that the Great Powers had resolved to erect Syria and Candia 1 into an independent Christian State, after the ex- I TuiP: LONDON, WEIDNI4:SI)AY, JANUARY 13, Is4l. duple of G►eece, and that the Kings of Naple s , u►d Sardinia were in the field as candidates for th, C ro w n for younger l►rancl►cs of their respectirr families. Of course, not the slightest credit is du , 7o a rumour 50 utterly absurd. The Paris journals make a great noise of the dramati censorship having stopped the representation of a melo frania reflecting or ridiculing the Queen of Eng!and. The Republican papers instantly declared that the prohi. bition was in consequence of the interference of th, English Ambassador ; but the English Anibassadoi n. ither knew nor cared what the authors or actors of th , Renaissance Theatre were concocting or rehearsing ; seC tie official evening paper denies any interference on hi, part. The momentary stopping of the piece is, however. , lenounced as a monstrous piece of cowardice on the part if the French Ministry. We suppose, then, that ths utcr of cowardice consists in insulting a female and a Queen. French politeness has come to this. The following comparative table of the revenues of England and France for the year just expired is given b) the Qrotidicnne. It is obtained for the former country from the official published returns, and for the latter iron; the ludget for 1340. The sums are in francs:— ENGLAND. FRANCE. 493,858,500 166,19.5 000 THE MARKETs._.(TtIis DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. There has been little Corn fresh ' Thnday, ex ,:ept Irish Oats, of which liberal quantities continue to ar lye. Wheat dull at. the prices last quoted. Barley met t heavy s,le, and the factors were wilting to take rather -ess terms for such as is not superfine. Beans and Persc tationary. Oats hardly maintained their late value. There has been a stock trade for Flour this week. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. All descriptions of Meat was in fair supply,trade in. ..ctive, and prices as last quoted. Beef 3s to 43 2d ; Hutton 35 2d to 4s 21 ; Veal 4s to 5s 4d ; and Pork .1, 8d to 45 Lod per stone of Blbs. There was but a mo ierate supply of Game and Poultry, but trade was good, and prices as follows flares 2s 6d to 3s each ; Rabbits 9: to 18: per dozen ; Geese 53 to 7s each ; Grouse 2s 6d 0 35 ; Partridges Is 61 each ; Ducks 2s 61 to 3: 6d ; Wild Ducks is 61 to 2. ; Widgeons 61 to is ; Chickens 1., 6d to 2s each ; Surrey Capons 5s to 10.; Fowls 5s to is per couple ; Pheasants 7s to 9: per b , ,ce ; Black Game 3s 6d to 55 each Snipes 12s per dozen ; Plovers 3, to 61 each ; Teal 65 per uuzen ; Larks Is per dt.vii ; Live stock fcr shipping—For old liens Is 61 to Is 91 each; Ducks 24s to 30s per dortm ; Turkeys 2 i to 4s 61 each. Eggs dull of sale at 6: to 85 per 120 for English, and 55 9d to 65 per 120 for Freriels. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business done by private treaty, and the public sales were unimportant; prices were, however. lirm for most of the leading articles. Thu imports were small. TEA MARKET. The market was in a very dull brace, and prices had still s downward tendency for all det.criptions; Is 6d was the (potation for Co—ninv's Con e mi each. TALLOW MARKET. There was a lair business transacted in Piime Yellor. Candle, and prices werp firm at 47s on the spot., and 47% 3d for delivery ;n th,• next two and three months. FRUIT MARKET. The supply being large of bulb Currant; and 11;iins nices are no the decline, still a fair business has bee!. TansaCtrd. Fine Valencia Raisins were worth 3Ss per cwt. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUE,DAY—The demand for Cotton continues to be exten•ive to-day. The sales were 7,000 to 8,000 bags, of which about one-half have heen tAkeu on speculation, at ,an advance on Friday, quotations. _ _ LIVERPOOL. SHARE LIST, JAN. 'l2.—Eastern Counties Dcbs., 5 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 621 ; Ditto Fifths, 104 10g- ; Midland Counties, New Shares, 15 ; Bat.k. Royal Liverpool, 7661. MANCHRSTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 12 We hive had a dull Market, and prices ate lowering►. The following are the sales of the day :—Manchester and Leeds, 81, 1 ,-; Ditto 'Halves, 301; Eastern Counties, 9, Midland Counties Quarters, 15; Rochdale Canal, 84. We have received Montreal papers to Dec. 15:— We are sorry to hear that the differences between the ship builders and their workmen are not yet terminated. ‘Ve hear of agreements come to by the employers and the employed, to persist on certain terms. These agree ments set them up as contending bodies, who are very apt to carry their opposition too far, to the prejudice of the common interest. The north. cast wind, vsYch prevailed from the 6th inst. till yesterday, has passed over without giving us any more snow. Exchange since our last,—Very little has been done in Foreign ; prices, however, continue steady, with a pros pect of being well maintained. We quote Bills on Hol land, 401, 4q- per cent. We have received Quebec papers to Dec. 12. Toronto papers of the 3d are received. Everything appears to he quirt in the Upper Provinces. (From the Baltimore papers, received this morning.) ANOTLIER. SEIZURE BY VIE BRITISII.—By the brig Cypher, arrived yesterday, from the Coast of Africa, we learn that another American vessel hLs been seized by a British cruiser on the groundless suspicion of being en gaged in the slave-trade. These piratical manifestations of the British cruizers secra to indicate an intention to drive the American traders from the coast, and deserve the immediate notice of our Government. Instances of petty inso!ence on the part of John Boli's armed vessels towards the Americans have keen frequent on that coast Accounts from Vienna, of the Ist of January state, that the Count Appony, son of the Ambassador, is to de part in a few days from Paris, charged on the part of Prince Metternich, with a request to M. Guizot to reduce the 500,000 men that the Cabinet of the 29th October wished to maintain its a time of pence, and should M. Guizot refuse to comply, the moment the flee weather takes place, the project concerted between Austria and Prussia, to form a hostile line of obsrvation on the fron tiers of France, will take place. CHAIN CLRY CoURT—(TIII DA Y.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. TIIE FISHMONGERS ' COMPANY. The I olio Cliwwcw.okgave judgment to-day in th:s :ase, a hick came before his Lordship some time since, upon two appeals from the decision of the Master of the Rolls. The first info' mation was filed for the purpose of axing upon all the property held by the Fishmongers' Company, under the will of Sir Thomas Kneebsworth, he characer of charity. Sir Thomas Knecb►werth gave , he property in question to the Company in the first in stance for the purpose of applying it to charitable pur rwses, and i ❑ the next to lend certain sums to the mem bers of the Company that might require them, provided they said (Trials' ayes and patci-nosters for the rest of the •estater's soul. The Master of the Rolls decided that in the first instance the property was charity pro oorty, but in the second that, under the Ist of Edward VI. it was void, and went to the King, as icing left for superstitious uses. His 1 ordship, after going at considerable length into the facts of the case, which we gave at the time of the arguments, stated his "pinion clearly to be that the decision of the Court below was correct, and ordered the appeal to be dismissed with costs. 1 lie other information was Wed for the purpose of hav , ng it. declared that certain jiroperty in Leadenhall-street .nd Losibatel street, which bad been held absolutely 1) the Fishmongers' Company for 400 years, was eharit3 property. The Master of the Rolls on the case coming before him dismissed the information, and the Lora) CHANCELLOR to-day, eoncuri ing entirely with that deci ,ion, dismissed the appeal with costs, observing that it ,cas greatly to be regretted that the informations had been itcd with so little research having been made, as the usult if that research would have rendered them totally unne cessary. ROLL'S COURT-(FHIS DIY.) The CLunT hcard mottuis WIIITTAXER V HONE This was a motion to restrain the defendant from prac iicing or carrying on business as a solicitor in any part of Great Britain. The motion was founded up in an agree ment which had been entered into by the cefendant with the plaintiff, but we forbear publishing the circumstance of the case until judgment shall have been de:ivered he Court. Counsel had not concluded their arguments when 'se went to preis. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) his Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR proceeded with the hearing of the remaining cause petitions. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in B.irco.) TIIP BrusToL AND ntr.mrsoirAm RAILWAY COMPANY V. LOCK. Lord DEN AtAN gave judgment in this case, which vra, an action for the recovery of c( rtain calls on shares, in which a verdict was had for the plaintiffi. A rule for a new trial was subsequently obtained, and objection was made so the tight to recover by the plaintiffs from the mode of kuping the registry book. Tnat objection had bean considered and di-posed of in a judgment which had just been pronounced in the Excheyn r Chamber, in the case of " The London Grand Junction Railway v. Free man," where it Lad been held that each of the holders of the scrip certificates had been properly entered as pro prietors and original subscribers before the passing of the Act, although they had not signed the Parliamentary con tract. It was also contended that the pkintiffs were de. barred from suing the defendant as proprietor, in conse quence of their having declared his shares forfeited ; but the notice of forfeiture does not excuse payment of calls. and is not valid until it has received the'sanction of a general meeting of proprietors. The rule for a new trial, there fore, must be discharged. LONDON GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY V. GRAHAM. The COURT also gave judgment in this case, which turned upon the same objections, none of which, for the reasons just mentioned, would be sufficient to bar the right of recovering. The rub for a new trial was then:discharged. HAWKINS V. [AXTON. The Cover gave judgment in this casf.., in which a rule had been obtained to enter a verdict for the plaintiff fur the sum of 931. It was an action upon a bill of exchange, and the defendant pleaded satisfaction, and gave in evi dence a letter and conversation of the plaintiff, but the Court was of opinion that they did not prole the plea The plaintiff's demand was for money paid to the defend. ant subsequently to the date of the letter which specified payment in full of all demands ; but these must be taken to be demands existing at the time. The rule for entering a verdict for the pla;ntiff must therefore be made absolute, BAIL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. CC WILLIAMS.) THE SHIP DRYAD IN RE WALLACE AND ANOTHER. In this case, in which Mr. Jervis yesterday obtained a rule for a habeas corpus, to bring up the bodies of Patrick Shaw Stewart Ws Ilace, and Michael Shaw Stewart NVallace, in order to have the cause of their commitment inquired into, Mr. CLARKSON this morning, on the part of the prose cutor s, said that the case was one of the utmost importance. and that as yet his clients bad not been able to obtain office-copies of the affidavits, and therefore tlvit he sbou:d not be able to proceed to-morrow. He, therefore, wished for further time. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said the Learned Counsel had better speak to Mr. Jervis on the subject ; his application seemed a reasonable one, and if the Court heard nothing further on the subject the case had better stand for Friday COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) b:ALE V. WILCOX. This was an action for assault and false imprisonment, brought by a captain upon half-pay against one of the mes sengers of the Army Pay-office, who seized the plaintiff, and gave him itto the custody of a policeman, upon a charge of violently assaulting his °tin %life in the hall of the Pa)-cffice. The case was tried here in the sittings alter last term, and the jury found for the plaintiff, in dr mages one far,hing on the first plea, of " Not guilty," and for the defendant on the second plea, of justification, Mr. Sergeant CIIANNELL now obtained a rule to show cause why judgment should not be entered fot the plaintiff, notwithstanding the verdict of justification, which, he con tended, was against cvidenco• EXcHEQUER COURT—THIS DAY. At the sitting of the Court this morning the following new rule of Court was promulgated, being rendered Ile bcs9at,y) Baron PArtkis said, from the extreme d;ffieulty that was found in cases where judgment was moved against the casual ejector Hilary Term, 4th Victoria—lt is ordered that a party entitled to appear to a declaration in ejectment, May appear and plead thereto at any time after service of such declaration, and before the end of the fourth day after the term in which the tenant is re vired by the notice tO rippgsr,and may proceed to compel the plaintiff to reply thereto, or may sign judgment of mitt prutessi notwithstanding such plaintiff may not have obtained a rule for a judgment on such service of declara tion, and that a plaintiff who may hare omitted to obtain a rule for judgment within the time prescribed by the pre sent rules and practice, shall be entitled on production of such plea, to an order of a Aviv for leave to draw up a rule for judgment, as of the time at which such rule for judgment would have been obtained." Signed by all the Judges. HOLFORD V. DUNMETT. Mr. DUNDAS allowed cause against a rule fcr entering a verdict for the defendant upon the second issue in this case. Toe action was brought by the plihtiff for a bleach of contract, the defendant having been tenant to the plaintiff, and having covenanted to keep and leave the pseniiirs in tenant-like repair. At the trial it was proved, that on the defendant giving up possession of the premises, which were situated near Manchester, the walls were damaged, many fruit-trees cut down, the soil removed, end its place filled with rubbish, &c. The Jury found for the plaintiff, with 10/. damages. The Learned Gentleman contended 'bat the verdict ought to stand, for it was dear that the pl4intifT was entitled to all the damages given him by the Jury, although, perhaps, he might have made an error in pleading. Mr. COWIANO followed upon the same side. Without calling upon Mr. Cressvrell to sustain the rule, the Court said it was clear that the plaintiff could not re cover upon both points. Ile must therefore elect—either reduce the damages, or have a new trial. Mr. DUNDAS elected to have a new trial. Rule absolute. THE LATE CAPTAIN HEWITT. We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter fr om the Secretary of the Trinity House, the follow ing extract from which will show the estimation in which the services of the late Captain Hewitt we, e held by that Corporation : " The numerous occasions which bare brought that officer in communication with this Corporation have af forded its members the means of justly estimating the value of Captain Hewitt's exten,ive labours in the peculiar branch of piofcssional duty to v!hich his later years have been zealously and ably devoted, and f.om which this Board has derived important assistance in maturing various measures for promoting the safety of ships and vessels of all classes, and of all countries, navigatin g those eangercus parts of our coasts to which his scientific examinations have been principally directed." This testimony from a body so well qualified to judge of the merits of Captain Hewitt, as a survey ing ,ffieer, is alike honourable to them, and to the talented in6ividual whose lamented death has elicited it, and cannot fail to impress on the public mind a deep sense of the lots the country has sustained by that event, and to awaken their s)mpathy for his bereaved widow and children. We rejoice to have it in our power to state that, in addition to the above handsome tcstim')fly, the Corp. ration of the Trinity House have liberally subscribed 'he sum of 100/., and the Elder Brethren the same sum :rum their private fund, in aid of the subscription now ,r 1 foot for the widow and children of Captain 11. THE WEATHER. The than continued yesterday in the metropolis, and the lowest point of temperature at the Zoological Gar lons was 29 degrees at 10 o'clock on Monday night. Yesterday morning at Hackney, at 8 o'clock, the ther ,nonuter was 33 deg., and at noon 36 dg. Fahrenheit. Incre was a very slight tail of snow in the night, which nerely covered the surface of the ground. The wind blew briskly from the west, and a few points inclining to the north. Walking in the City was very unplea , ant on account of the melting snow, which had been but in `'esv places removed. Navigation on the river was much impeded by tl.e masses of floa.ing ice, and the adjae , .. , nt creeks and rivulets were r,enerally locked up. Employ ment at the docks is quite at a stand still, and many hands have been thrown out of employment. At the Royal Exchange upwards of 100 hands were dismissed yesterday, the weather being unfavourable to the ob aining of Thames ballast, as well as in laying the few) Cation for the new building. No delay occurred by the nails, coaches, or railroads. KENSINGTON-GARDENS.—Both on Monday and yes (lrcli,y, notwithstanding the partial thaw, a considerable portion of the ice on the round pond was uncovered x•ith water, and afforded a fair opportunity for skaters, cumbers of whop► were in attendance. O. the long ,vacr the number of skaters was on both days very few, ,wing to the quantity of sodden snow by which the ice was covered. TIIE SERPENTINE —During the early party of Mon- tlay there was a considerable accumulation of water on )ortions of the ice, while the remainder was covered by ~he additional fall of snow on Sunday night, whieli was in a sodden state. The attendance on the ice, with the exception of a few boys sliding, was, therefore, not considerable. In the course of the afternoon, however, the Duke of Brunswick and a few other gentlemen ven tured on, but for some time, owing to the absence of the men who, previous to the partial thaw, were in attend ance to sweep the snow away, their efforts to skate were almost useless. Yesterday still fewer persons ven tured en the ice, which appeared in an exceedingly bad state. Sr. JAMES ' . PARK.—The ice very dangerous and sloppy. The icemen exerted themselves greatly in preventing persons from going thereon. REGENT'S-PARK.—The ice more firm than in the other parks, and the skaters more numerous. The ice is, however, in parts much covered by water and sod den snow. In neither of the parks, since the thaw has com menced, owinv, to the strenuous exertions of the ice men of the Royal Humane Society, has a single acci dent occurred ; and, to their credit be it said, that since the commencement of the frost only one life has been lost. On the river, above the bridges, there was yesterday a great accumulation of ice, which, should a renewed frost set in, would in a few hours be set. GLASGOW JUSTICIARY COURT• TRIAL OF THE " LADY THIEF."—OiI Saturday Jane Petresie, or Harris, was charged with the crime of theft, in so far as on the night of the iiith or morning of the 16th of October last, within the Commercial Hotel, Glassford street, Glasgow, occupied by Mrs. Stewart, she bad stolen from the pockets of Thomas Bayne, Esq., commercial traveller from Manchester, seven one pound notes and five sovereigns; also, from M. Gobert Jacob Mces, of Rotter dam, a Bank of England note of five pounds, and three sovereigns, from same hotel; also, oa the I 6th of Octubcr, from the Royal Hotel, George-square (Carrick's), from the pockets of Crean, the police.officer, two bank notes, as also a card-case ; also, from the pockets of Robert Paul, Esq., of the Commercial Bank, Edinburgh, same place, Manager of the Commercial Rink of Scotland, seven pounds—all the above sums having been taken while the owners were asleep in bed. The prisoner, in an audible voice, pleaded not guilty. This trial excited a deep interest in the public rninrl. The singulareircumstances attending the thefts with which the prisoner stood charged—the boldness and dexterity which had characterised their commission—the knovoi superiority of the prisoner in point of education—and. above al!, the mystery which hung over her history, all combined to create a strong feeling of cur:ash ' , and to beget an anxi us desire to see the prisoner and hear the proceedings on her trial. The Court was accordingly very much crowded, and among the spectators there was a greater proi ortion of ladies than is usual. On Mrs. .Harris making her appearance, the utmost eagerness was manifesied to get a sight of her countenance. She was veiled when she first entered the Court ; but, on her name being called to hear the indictment read over, she lifted the veil from her face. We were exceeilingly struck with the alteration which bad taken place upon her from the period of her imprisonment. Before her committment to jail, we had an opportunity of seeing the prisoner, and could not fail to mark, what every person who saw her had observed, that she had a pair of most attractive, we had almost said bewitching black eyes. On Saturday. how ever, her eyes bad undergone a most complete transforma tion. At. a distance the white portion of the eye-ball ap peared to be unnaturally prominent ; while a nearer in si.ection showed that she had a decided squint. This sin gular change gave her countenance, as may be supposed, an appearance very different from that which formerly characterised it, and certainly not in the way of improve ment. The impression upon some people in Court was, that the squint was feigned; but, upon inquiry, we find that it has been observale for above a month ; and that the Surgeon of the gaol has given it as his opinion that in ali likelihood, the strange alteration has been caused by some disorder brought on by excessive anxiety of mind. Unless when spoken to her by her counsel, Mr. Maxwell, or by her agent, Mr. A. Young, the prisoner, throughout the whole of the trial, kept her eyes shut, and, though pale, maul sted the most perfect composure. She was dressed in a straw hat and veil, and black silk gown and shawl, end altogether her dress might be called becoming, if not elegant. Aft,r all the evidence had been adduced, Mr. Maxwell, the prisoner's counsel, addressed the Jury, and Lord 1 Cockburn having summed up, stated his perfect belief of the guilt of the prisoner. The Jury, without retiring from the box, gave in a ver dict, unanimously finding tee prisoner guilty of all the charges, with the exception of that relating to the theft frum Mr. Mees, which bed been departed from by the public prosecutor. The prisoner was then sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment in the prison of Glasgow. Lord Medwyn, in proposing, and Lord Cockburn, in passing sentence, both expressed a doubt that they had dealt a too lenient sentence The prisoner was evidently a woman above the rank and condition of the ordinary race of criminals, and, from her superior education, must have well known the aggravated nature of the crimes she had committed. Thes were not sure but seven years' transportation ought to have been awarded ; but the Court bealg always inclined to mercy, had, after consideration, resolved on doing so on the present occasion. The prisoner then left the bar. CIIILD MURDER AND MUTILATION.—Yes terday an inquest was held before Mr. W. Carter, at the King's Arms, Roupell-street, Lambeth, on the body of a child (the sex of which could not be ascertained, in conse quence of the horrible way in which it had been mutilated), found on Waterloo-bridge, on the afternoon of Friday last. The particulars relating to which, anti the way in which it was mutilated, appeared in The Sun of the following day. Evidence having been given as to the finding of the body by a captain in the Prussian service he said, on hip examination yesterday, that he via , led to look over the Inlustrade in consequence of seeing a short stout woman, enveloped in a cloak , came out from one of the recesses in a hurried manna r, and go off the bridge towards the toll -gate us the :::;urrey side. Ile had not told this to the police , but had kept it to himself until lie should give pis evidence before this Court. Mr. Havers, surgeon, nig) examined the child, said, on comparin;: the various parts of the body which was divided into eight, lie should think the child had been born about three days, but owing to an interior portion of the body being missing he was unable to state positively whether it was born alive or not. The neck had evidently been stretched to fullest extent before the head was detached from the body, which had been done with a large knife, and before or immediately alter death. The body had not been used for anatomical purposes, Spector said he received an anonymous letter on the previous evening, hut he thought its purport should not on the present occasion be made public. Verdict, " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." F O RTIFICATIO NS OF PA RlS,—Tie journa l des 'Sciences illilitaires gives an ac count of itlleprobable ex pense of the fortifications of Paris and it s d e t ac hed forts. The cost of each fort, of whi c h t h ere are to b e 100, will be 3, C 00,000 francs, and cons , (lucidly of the whole, 300,000,000 f. Twenty forts, or ortrestes, including the f o rt.fied points of Charem son, Denis, and Mount Va lerian, Wilt Cost 16,000,000 francsrants each, making altogether m j , igrrne, &e., cost another 60,000 000 franc: therntillery and totalstoresf 20,000,000 francs mere, ineicin 60,000 000 francs, to g nothing c ! ".m"s Ur say of the expense of keeping, them up doting a period of peace. EVENING EOITION. t oURT CIRVULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked on the Terrace this afterncon for some time. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode out in a pony phaeton, at tended by the Duchess of Bedford, Hon. Miss Page►, Earl of Fingal!, Sir Robert Otway, and Col. Bouverie. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge waled out for some time, attended by Lord Allred Paget. S:r James Clark will hate the honour of dining a the Castle this evening. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron knese beck, left Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, the residence of the Duke of Rutland, yesterd,:y morning, for Leiccs ter, from whence his Royal Highness came to town by a railway train to the terminus of the London and Bir mingham Railway, in Euston-square. His Royal Highness arrived at Cambridge House at six o'clock. Ilia Serene Hightuas Prince Edward of Saxe IVei mar arrived in town by the London and Birmingham Railway on Monday afternoon, from a visit so her Ma csty the Queen Dowpger at Sudbury HAI. His 8,- retie Highness left toAn in the evening tor the Roy al Military College at Sandhurst. The Agent for Jamaica had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial Office. Cap• Lain Puttinger and It. M . Gurley,,Esq., had al,o au in tersiew with his Lordship yesterday. Mr. 13,ake had an interview with the Marquis of Normanhy yesterday at the Home 011iee. Despatches from Lord Sydenham. in Canada, and from the Governor of the Bahamas were received )t s• tesday at the Colonial Office. WOOL WICH-T UESDA Y. ROYAL MARINES Sergeant-NI jor Taylor, of the Woolwich division of ti' Royal Alarines Ras presented with a medal for long rer_ vice and good conduct on Monday ; end in addition to Clis honourable mask of distinction he obtained a 15/. gratuity. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The subscription originated by" Captain II rnby, C 8.. Superintendent of the Woolwich dozlt-yard, for the reli4 f of the widows and children of the seamen at.d mann• who were lost in the Fairy, now amounts to about 301,1, and further sums contißue to be forwarded for that praise worthy object. FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD SIIIP—An in- qeest wns held yesterday morning before Mr. Baker, at the Queen's dead, High.street, Poplar, relative to the death of John Pringle, aged 19, a mariner, belonging to the United Kiligdom. It appealed in evidence that on Friday, Jan. 1, the vessel was lying at anchor is the ;Margate Roads, and the deceased was sent aloft to stow the m zee topsail. The sail was furled, and he was fostering it with a cord, which broke, and, losing his hold, he fell heodf,re mos:t on the quarter-deck, a distance of forty feet. The injuries ‘.sere so severe that he died instantly. The body Was brought in the vessel to Poplar. Verdict, Ace'- dental death." lIMADAYS AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS.--Mr. Editor,— Being an old Etonian, I sent my son there, who during the last twelve months has had nearly five months' holidays, which 1, in common with many others, consider a great evil. Being one of a large family, and having his own way to make in the world, his prosperity in life must of course greatly depend on his scholastic acquirements. I am myself too much occupied in my profession to attend to hint properly. I am, therefore, reduced to the altenia tire of allowing hint to waste his time in idieness, or incur the great additional expense of a private tutor for him during his holidays. The very m,ny parents in the same situation will, therefore. agree with me in saying that addi tional holidays is not the most eligible mode the masters can adept of showing their loyalty to our Most. Gracious Queen. Private letters from Madrid, dated the 31st ult., mention the deperture of Marshal Saldanha's son for Li,- bon, with despatches of a nature said to ho somewhat con ciliatory. It seems that the leaders of the Portuguese Soptembrists had communicated to M. Soler, the new Charge d'Affaires of Spain et their Court, that anything but conciliatory measures en the part of Spain would only serve to fix more firmly the present Chartist Admit istra tion, AS M. Magalhaes had contrived to turn tie Douro question into a matter for popular excitement. At the some time the Septembrists engaged to overthrow the Chartists, provided Spain would abandon her present war like attitude; and this, together with Mr. Aston's uncles yours to avert extreme measures, is said to have cooled the indignation of Espartero against the Portuguese. Letters received by the Spanish Minister fur Foreign Affairs frem his agents in France state that the Moderados who have emigrated into that country are divided among themselves, and are dissatisfied with Queen Christina for her favour able reception of M. Zea Bermudez, while they conceived that the Marquis Miraflores, Count Clcona'J, and others of their leaders, were .lighted. THE FUNDS. Console opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yesterday 894- I, both for the Account and Money; Re duced, 891 z, with little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem.; Bank Stock, 1641 1651; India 5t0ck,;248250. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active as they left off, 244- f ; Deferred, 121 4 ; Passive, 61- ; Portuguese as they closed, 311 321 ; Three per Cents.. 191 . 204- ; Co lombian, 231 1 ; Mexican, 281 1 • Brazilian, 701- 711 : Chilian, 57 59 ; Dutch Two-and-a:Half per Cents. as they elcsed, 501 i ; Five per Cents. 981 /. SnAaßs.—Great Western, 27 28 prom. ; New, 12 13 prem. ; London and Brighton, 61 1 dis. ; Blackwall, 44 31 dis. ; Birmingham, 81 83 prem. ; S o uth am pt on , 57 58 per sare ; Croydon, 121 1 per share ; Greenwich, 8 9 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western i 65 Ditto New ... Ditto Fifths London and Brighten . J 0 ..... 44* to London and Greenwich..... . ... 20 London and Greenwich (Ne w ),~ 20 Ditto Scrip ........................ 2 Loudon and South Western 3BB 57%..... to 581 JOINT STOCK RANKS. Colonial ... ........................... 25 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam C F. 1" 5 Gibraltar-. .......... .... 48 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 9 U. 12 51:Genoa 25 85 Antwerp ...... 1 2 41 Milan HamburAh.......111,11. 13 10 Venice • 47 Altona.... ...... ....„.••• 13 101 Naples ~ 394 Paris, 3 days sight, 25 40 l'a ermo, per ea Otto, 3 m0nth5......... 25 65 Lisbon... • • • • - 52% Marseilles... .. ...... .... 23 70 Oporto „. I% Bourdeaux... ...... • .... 25 73 Rio j„,i t0 ,„,.„ . „,... , : tB i Frankfort on Maine.... 149 , Bahia 27 Petersburgh, 3 U 5...., 37 Buenos Ayres • _ . Berlin 7 0 NewYerk, 21 days' sight 44 Vienna, effec. fl. 3AI lO 4 'Philadelphia •- • • 40 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36 354 Portugal Gold Colni9 66 Cadiz ;Foreign Gold, bars„ 3 17 9 Hilboa 351 New Doubloons :0 0 0 Barcelona Seville 35 ;Silver in Bars ..,..•.„0 5 06 lIA LP- PA S T (MN. Extract of a letter posted tt the North and South Ame rican Coffeehouse...—. " New York, flee: Ii) 4 P.M. The steam boat 1 ve }ettcrday7at 4 p. rr This Leaves JAI Artitt=tl tom Boston. The her Sul - nt, • Acadia bittl not sr.:. a try more than 14 days." ' r .:Le British Market during the course of the morning hes been inactive, and without a feature worth observa tion: Motley is comparatively easy, and the rates fur dis count are according to the soiidity of the persons who require it. The dullness of the weather, with the scarcity of Continental intelligence, tends to damp speculating for the present: entisois Crete= as in the early part of the morning, at 891- for the opening. Reduced has fluctuated from 891 a ' Exche q uer Bills are lower, 9 8 prem.; Bank Stock, nothing done; India Bonds, 6 8 discount. The Foreign Market is also in the same dull state as that et tht British. Spanish Active, 2.1 ; Portuguese, nothing done; Russian, 113 '1; Colombian, 23 ; Dutch Two.and:4-Half per Cents. GDS + lower ; Five per Cents; 98k. The Share Market also inactive. treat Western, 9,1; Ditto, New, G2' , / ; Fifths, 101 ; London and Brighton, 491 ; London and Greenwich, Si ; Ditto, New, 17 ; Ditto, Seri), 31; London and South Western, 58k. ROYAL Vrta't tiosVITAL, GIIEVILL6- o'o:At—Yesterday evening the quarterly medical report was read to i meeting of the governors of the abo 4 :e insti tution. It appeared that during the three months, ending Jan. 1, there had been admi,ted as in-patients 146 ; discharged cured 123. Admitted as out-p a ti en t s during the quarter 3,2 64 . T he extreme seve rity of the:weather since the Ist Inst. had materiall y incre ased the number of a d p ia p t l e it i; n a t d s tri , a it u t d od i . M n every case possible th ey h a d b een i mme - ST. JAES'S, ^ WbsTm I , i3tElt,----The cler g y church-wardens , r. nd inhabitants have liberall y subscrilv I and distributed to the poor, during the last week, upwards of 4 000 tickets tdr coals, each ticket entitling the holster to 1 cwt., besides donations of blankets, bread, Fee. WORMS DESTROYING Sit IPs.—The brig St. Nicholas, but very lately built at Taganrog, and nos at like psi Cl e:t ioe°lol:gifs':irti:,rdeEi taking f r :p. a l . t o l v 3 t p lis a i ft i r os t n np u i s s e m c b o c i r t a t . anchor at Salta, eras ility.six days at anchor at Sebasto pol, and during that time all its side planks were so broken tk b i tei l le e nl el : to: o ff, i l rn, e a h o les, resembles s, t ooc h imf e : e el f i e en t ire Ma gistrates picr c e tl by these forrn i d unfita li le i i n sects, nft(r fisen servi c e. — German, litec:tconsideration they G er i n o la ok n tap e h i a a li c : t r l or y i fori ou t side eittthyue :L o p: f uA: t tipt , b ,o e l sponge, and it is quite gistrates was held on Monday at the sbile. _ ia _, I II Hertford, against it 34—majority 4. A me in the toutuy of Herts. There were for the adoption of the e ria ru l rwa'alsPt°hleincer3o,Bvn; up, and signed by the Magistrates present, for the sanction of the Secretary of State. The duties of customs collected at Aberdeen during the year ended sth instant, amount to 80,084/. 13s 2d., being 1,192/ 4s. 3d. more than in the preceding year. . CORoNErt's INQUEST.—On Saturday an inquest was held on the bodies of the two men killed on the the Mid land Counties Ra ilwa y on the previous da y , the particu lars of which hav e already appeared in The Sun. The anJuriyg,uyaf,teErsq.the able Coroner, s umming , Ac cidental death , with a deodand of 3001. on the en g ine." DEATH FROM COLD.—A report reached town on Wednesday, that a murder . had been comm itt e d n e a r Shettleston. Im mediate in q uir y was made b y the autho rities, when it was ascertained that a man had been found on the road near that village dead ; but on examination by a surg eon, we understand the death appeared to have been cause by exposure to cold...Scottidt Guardtan. Customs.. Stamps of all kinds Excise in direct taxes Direct and assessed talcs 98.661,100 392,764 951 Po t-office Crnu•n lands Public Instruction Various products Loans and repayments Ext raordina. i means 57,255 29: :34,577,632 Woods and fisbcries Total 1,118,600,000. 1,184 523,365 Several journals again take up the report which has been spread ct an engagement supposed to have taken phce in the Red Sea, between a French and an English ves sel. According to the new version the French ship is no longer represented as a Goverstment vessel, but as a brig belonging to merchants at Bordeaux. The Government has received no information, but that previously published under the date of the 2d of November, and which seems to be confirmed now by further accounts from Bombay, which are to the 30th of November. Count Hulin, a retired Lieutenant-General, Great Officer of the I_, , ginn of Honour, died to-day at the age of 82 years.—Moniteur. As soon as toe law on the fortifications shall have bee, discussed in the Chambers the Mini-try intend to bring forward the law on secret, service money. The sum for which a vote of credit will be asked will be one million.— Moniteur Parisien. PARIS, JAN. 10.—The Gazette du Midi, among the news brought by the Mentor steamer from Malta, says : —" A report was current in Malta, on the departure of the Mentor, that Ibrahim Paella, far from obeying the orders of his father to return to Egypt, had answered that Mehe met Ali might treat for Egypt if he thought fit, but that he ( Ibrahim) was Governor of Syria, and would not leave it while he livid. lie announced, it is added, that he was going to march ag.inst St. Jean d'Acre, and that, winter favouring hint, Ile hoped ea,ily to get the better of the English garrison, now that they were no longer supported and supplied with provisions by the allied squadrons.— Le Commune. MUNICH, JAN. 4.—To-morrow or the next day Major. General Von Bauer, accompanied by Captain Baron Von Gumppenberg will go to Carlaruhe to take part in the military conferences which are continued in that city. We understand that Major-General Von Muller and Captain Von Rosier, will attend on the part of \Vurtcmherg. The Minister of the Interior has confirmed the seques tration of the writings of Ludwig Borne, Third Edition, Third Part, published at Stuttgard by Broadhag.—Ans burg Gazette. No news from Vienna or Constantinople. BOUR SE, —PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 11. first Highest lowest East Price Price. Pric, Price French ?. per Cents ll2 10 ... 112 25 112 10 ... 112 !O 4% per Cents _ 101 ... I'9 50 ... 10? 50 ... 11:2 NJ 4 par Cents 99 99 ) 1;9 :3 per CCIIO 77 50 ._.. 77 60 ... 77 47 ... 77 40 flank of trance i,tillitte Sank 1,0001. Sh lO5O ...1 , 51 ...10511 !tc•lgtnn rank 3 1 cr Cents OO 10 09 15 ... 10 09 15 New Loan Ipkttash Actave Passive h% ... 5% ... 5 3 4 ... 5% Neapolit•n Roman 9:1% ... V 9 , , ,,,, ... LON, ... 99}.4 PAILINA VSHARES. .... St. Germain 407 50 419 50 ... 417 50 411 25 LB. ....... 3117 50 ... 312 50 .„ 307 50 310 Orleans . . 487 5(1 487 50 415 487 50 Strigniire to Bale Mulhausen to Thann The Dutch Papers, which arrived last night, of the 9th, mention the death at the Hague of his Excellency J. E. Baron de MEY VAN SIIEEF KERK, Minister of State. The following was the price of the Dutch Funds Bth January : DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAI4 ' JAN. FL Money. Bin a. tetnal Debt, '214 per Cent .)itto, ditto 5 per cent. A 'owlt Svndic,4V, per Cent B6 IA ti. , % Ditto, ditto, 34 per cent 7oli 71 , 4 Commercial Company, 4 1 / 2 per cent 15734 H55. , 4 Dltto (IN 15 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... Lan it 37, 5 per cent. t, 9' 95 a Exchan g eon London, One month l9. 0 Two months Dutch Papers, Jan. 9. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BEttoN, JAN. 5. Bin.. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4', per cent. 10:37,c, PIN Prussian En g lish Loan, 18:30, 4 per cent 100 9:,;,,,i ISxchan g e on Laudon,three months 6 16?4 --Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 6. 1.140 YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 13 —There has been a light frost during the night, which continues. Wind this day nt now., moderate easterly breeze, and hazy. DEAL, JAN. 12.—Wind \V. S. W., moderate.—Arrived the William First, from Batavia; Piet Hein, ditto; Wit.. Liam Shand, Potter, Calcutta. MARGATE, JAN. 12.—Arrived Kilblain, Shaw, Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 12.—Wind W. N. W., light.—Arrived the Circassian, Sprowle, from Calcutta; Venus, M‘Do nald, Lima ; Eliza, Kilbek, Porto Cabello ; Deucalion, Hawes; Rajah, Bangs; Leila, Higgins; Ellen Brooks, Howes, New Orleans. Off port, the Palmyra, from Demerara. The Circassian, Sprowle, arrived here from Calcutta, saw, on the 22d of November, in lat. 1 S., lon. 19 W., the top of a sand-bank just visible in the hollow of the sea. The break of the water bore E. and W., and and extended about a quarter of a mile. The Irocside, from this port, reported to have arrived at Texas, had not arrived at Galveston on the 28th of November ; but a ship. supposed to be her, was seen off that port on the 3d ult. CcrK, JAN. 10. —Arrived the China, from Prince Ed ward's Island. KILRUSII, JAN. 9.—The Bryan Abbs, liergill, sailed for London yesterday, and has been towed back again to. day with loss of rudder. StitELDs, JAN. 10.—Arrived the Margaret and Sarah, Avre,y from Quebec. DOVER, JAN. 12.—Arrived Ceres, Bergman, Boston. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12. —Wind W.N. W.—Arrived the Macassar, S!ruben, from Batavia ; Great Liverpool steamer, Ingledue, Alexandria, &c. OFF TIM WIGIIT, JAN. 12.—Java, Batavia. Poo►.s, JAN. 12.—Arrived the Fame, Thomcr, from Newfoundllnd. IMPORTANT TO MARINP" - SAND BANK DlSr' -- It will be seen on refe--: -,vERED. of this day, and to our Shipping inteiligenCO Sprowl- _.. under 1.1 . 14 head Livettioni, that Captain of the eireatsittit% is stated tb have seen a sane , . ,unft Matt VVAttil hitt just visible in the hollow of the sea, in lat. I sc*.► ton. 19 W. Which macs it in the direct tratk of vessels bound homeward tdth gt. Helena, &c. Ilorseburgh makes n'd tcaention in his Directory of any bank having seen here, and it is more than probable that. ‘rt.t sets have sailed immediately over it. No coloured grater has, that we arc &Aare of, ever been swan Mit hat, And if it were not for the dlffertntt Cf § degrees. cf ion gitudo between this Etippobed batik and that of Vigia, it might be etitteitttied that it nilist bate been the latter; As there Can now, however, be hitt little Elobbt, if the latitude and longittde gi! , eit be oirett, that snob a Lank does exist; it is highly important, that the Government sbonid take some steps in this matter, and that Capt ini , a vessels bound to the East Indies should endeavour to corroborate it for the safety of all mariners, Ali 1 • VESSELS sroktn sk i n= Columbus, from Holland tb #3atavitr, ft cp. B, in the Straits of Sunda; Piet l~citi; itiarvegh, Batavia to Rotterdam, Nov. 25, lat. 6 N., lun. 23 W. ; Alexander, Bremen to New Or leans, sth ult., lat. 25, lon. 63, by the Orion, Vandeilin. den, arrived in the Downs. Laura, Rio Janicro to Trieste., Nov. 1, lat 23 S., lon, 34 W. ; Acastni_ foe' the tittitg of Patagonia, 233, lath 11 N., !on. n w., by the Venus, Martin, arrived tlt lalmouth. Nancy, West Indies to Bordeauk, 24th ult., lat. 42, lon. 20; May, Boston to Liverpool, 27th, lat. 46, lon. 19; Felicity, of Greenock, for Liverpool, Ist inst., lat. 47, lon. 11, by the Orion, Vanderlinden, arrived in the Pormst riegiithunde, CMgar, ofißrotnen, fats 11 n.; lint. 33 W. ; Antigua Packet, for Demerara, tat. 32, lon. 26 ; Harrison Chilton and Wilt shire, from Venice. 7th inst., lat. 41, lon. 7 ; Cyrus, of Dundee, Bth, thirty miles S. S. W. of Scilly, by the Pharr stead/ Lim, arrived at Liverpool. Folkstot.o, Emndtm to China, Nov. 2, lat. 0 N:, lon. t 3 W , and Chkftain, Liverpool to Bombay, 4th, lat. 7, lon. 23, by the Gecrge M‘Leod, art ived in the Clyde. Riblain, ShEtv, from Calcutta, 4th ult., lat. 6 N., lon. 23 W. ; Sydney, (brig ) 13th. lat. 23, lon. 37 ; William Shand, Potter, 16th, 'pt. 27, lon. 41 ; Merettry, ;o,h, lat. 37, lon. 30, by the B!- ton, Kiel ) at-rlved at Plymouth. WEATHER IN EDINOHRbIi.—TIie late Most has been unusnalfy stVere, the thermometer on Friday night having fallen to 15 degrees. The likes and ponds in the neighbourhood have, in ccnscquence, been eacted with a thick coating of ice, en which the exhilratirg ex ercise of skating has been enjoyed to great advantage. Lochend and Duddinptone have been both crowded. On Saturday the latter exhibited a gay aid anima•ed assem blage. Though the ice, from Vic fall of snow, was some what rough, yet there was a most numerous concourse of skaters as the well day as of sl'cct'gQll. The ice was solid and secure, ." i tine, and the surrounding rocks and with the living mass on the ice, in a con ,'P presented a most lively scene, which seemed 'co chase away the gloom of a winter day. Saturday night we bad occasional falls of snow, and some p.ppearance of thaw, but yesterday the weather was clear, and the frost continues intense. The snow in the south must be vt ry deep, as the Landon mail yesterday morning was seven hours later than usual in arrival; and last night the coach didnotre hours achthe Post-office until half-past ten o'clock, being eight IL and a halt bc!:in,4 tirno.—courant, Jan. . y tr~,:~, ROYAL ARSENAL. The William and Dank! barges are loadirg military stores to be put on board a vessel in the ducks fur .11..1 a • The ‘Villiatn, brig, of Newcastle, is loading old I.lielig for Goddard and Co. Tho Ebenezer, ordnance sloop, finished loading about 130 esses of powder, 0 thirty-two-pounder guns for rho Vanguard, and others for the Rapid, and sailed to-day Sur Portsmouth. The Sir James Kempf, ordnance-31ov, the Little and several other vessels hAvo been obliged to be taken , into dock on account of the large quantities of ice moving up and down the river s ith the tide. The Queen, ordnance :loop, took in ballast, and sailed to-day fur Purflcet, for a cargo of gunpowder. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals at Singapore-The Hero, Hughes, August 20%. from Lombock; Bombay Castle, from Bombay, and • and sailed 23, for China ; Tartar, Young, 21, from Bomlav, and sailed 24, for Manilla; Danish 0 k. 21, from Copenhagen ; Orixa. Aver, S: pt. 8. from Rhin, and loading for London : Thetis, Rorke, 10, from Ma dras, and, sailed 13, for China; Adele, 11. from Bom bay, and sailed Oct. 14, for Bombay ; Governor D.J. herty, 17, from Calcutta, and sailed 21, fur China; Fort William, 18, from Bombay, arid sailed 23, fur China ; Lord Amherst, 18. from Calcutta, and sailed 2 - , for China ; Lloyd's, 19, from Madras, and sailed 20, for China; Bengal Packet, 19, from Calcutta, and sailed 21. for China; William, 20, from Penang, and sailed 30, for China ; Moira, 20, from Calcutta, and sailed 26, foe China; Prima Donna, 21, from Penang, and sailed 26. for China ; John, 22, from Bombay, and sailed 25, for Chusan ; John William Dare, 22, from Bombay, and sailed, Oct. 7, for Siam ; Esther, 23, from Batavia, and sailed 24. for Calcutta; Avoca and Bengalee, 24, from. Sydney, and sailed 27, for Calcutta; John u'Gaunt, 24, from Liverpool, and sailed, Oct. 4, to Manilla; Fortitude, 27, from Hobart Town, and loading for London ; Premier, for Sydney, and sailed, Oct. 11, fur China ; Lydia. front Calcutta, and sailed 30. fur China; Parrock Hall, 12,. from Madras, and sailed 15, for China; W. S. Hamilton, Brown, 21, from Siam, and sailed 30. for London ; St. George, Heaton, Oct. 5, from Sydney, for Bombay ; Emma, .5, from Colombo, and sailed 6, tor China; 801. ton, 5, trom New Zealand, Lombock, and Java; Acasta, 7, front Calcutta, and sailed 7, for China; Earl of Clare, - 8, from Bombay, and sailed 12, for China ; Mary Gor don, from Bombay, and sailed 11, for China ; Sanderson, front Sydney, for China; Columbian, for Sydn e y, anti, sailed IS,' for Manilla ; Good Success, 9,-from Bombay, and sailed 11. for China ; H.M.S. Herald, 9. from Syci nay, and sailed 12, for China ; Monarch, 'll, from BoM bay, and sailed 12, fur Chins ; Clifford, from Liverpool, and sailed 21, for China ; Broxbornebury, from Sydney, for Rangoon ; Lady Bute, 7, from Batavia, for Liverpool ; John Blake, 12, from Liverpool. for London ; Westmore. land. 16, front Bombay, and sailed 20, for China ; Scale. by Castle, 17, from Bombay, and sailed 20, for China; Francis Smith, from Madras and Penang ; Lady Grant, 20, from Bombay ; Resolution, from Calcutta ; Preciosa, 17, from llamburgh ; Stag, 18 from Manilla, and sailed 21. for B rtavis._ Dopartures nom Singapore—Duche.s of Clarence, Sept. 10; Golcondu, 10 ; Sophia, nod Minerva 12; War_ king, City of Derry, nod Virginia. 13; Chieftain, 23 , Mimics Kg.rr, Oct. 2, all for China ; Sirah Scott. Sept, 21; Duko of R )xburgli. 30, for London ; Ellen. Rog. rs, Oct. 16, for Glas.gow ; DL von, 6, for Ball and Adotaidc. SPAIN". The (:lobo brings further accounts of the disorderly: proceedings in Tarifa. It is re-stated, that the coo, tending parties are not divided by political opinions. M. Vides is so decidedly a Progiesista, that, in 1836. he put down the Moderates who were then in porter. I - le continues il!, is confined, and shamefully treated and insulted by the Militiamen in whose custody he is ; nor has he any great chance of recovering his lihert)„ though supported by a large majority of the inhabit an t s ,. because the majority, in Tarila as almost everywhere. is timid, and the minority daring and abetted by the authorities. The article now before us, was written on the 10th day of the disturbances; and the elections were still suspended ; and, the night before , the clad piers had again been at work. In Cadiz, the Military Commandant, at a loss hoir to maintain the garrison, has applied to the capitalists of the place, but in vain : he has only been able to obtain 3,000 and odd dollars, Government being generally con sidered as representing, not the interests of all, but those of a faction, to which the powerful and influential class that might have come to its assistance, does not belong. But the garrison of Cadiz is not the only one that is in danger of starving with hunger and cold : the rest of the army is oot better off, according to the INfivirld cor respondent of the Globe.; and the Minister of Pi noes, whom he had stated to be at a nonplus in his preceding letter, is not likely to find the means of feeding and clothing the thousands and tens of thousands whom km could wish to dismiss, but whom some of his colleagues (General Espartero in partiCular) insist upon retaining in the service of a country which cannot afford to pay them.—Gibraltar Chronicle of Dec. 30. -- -- - -- - DREADFUL DEATHS BY BURNlNG.—Ych terday morning an inquest was Ovid before Mr. Whitley, whoa ,re.sitensbe M.l'., at the Angel Tavern, Iligh-street, St. Giles'a, on view of the body of Mary Burke, a fuse little Or:, aged five years, who was burned to death under the folio% Mg circumstances :_Mary Burke, mother of deceased, stated that her husband was a labourer. They were in very poor circumstances, and resided at No. 4, Georgc.strect , Seven-dials. On Wednesday morning lust, in conse quence of the frost, witness had occasion to go out to fetch some water, when she left the deceased, with another daughter, two years old, in the room, telling them at the same time not to go near the fi re. On her r eturn in a few n.inutcs she found deceased snvcloped in flames, and likewise the bedstead and cdUnierpane burning. The bedstead Mood near the door, towards which, i sho had no doubt, deceased ran on her e l o y t "e h ny e de s dd c ei a tc, t e :: . i s s te r i t ,i g- je, fire. being T , n r e ap fl p a e in d es in we a re tbllia7keext,tinLusish cd, it llnfreretesxpinirteidle. St Gllcs's workhouse infirmary, greatest agony till Thursday morning, 1 On subsequently questioning the yodune, child, he Was e. in front of the lire :caching something i ff the mantel-piece, given to understand front her that eccascd was standin g when her clothes being drawn by the draft towuros the Verdict, " Accidental death."— A second grate ir•nited. inquest was held bef.;rc the same Coroner, at the North years, whose death t ir r e le ci l s i e " ly leb' under Y asgiettidilb r c ee ircumstances. A ver dict y t , o f f'da fi ne ‘ Accidental death" h av i ng Wakley said that it was really astonishing to think of the n umber of inquest, he held on children who were burned to death, and which more frequently occurred in the fami lies of poor people. lle should strongly advise the removal of all mantel pieces from the habitations of such persons, for the accidents generally happened through the children seeing on and trying to reach therefrom something which attracted their attention. Mr. Stikeman, the Secretary of the East India and China Association, has prepared a comparative state ment of the number of British ships, with their tonnage, entered into, and cleared outwards, from and to places within the limits of the East India Company's charter, in the yea , s 18:39 and 1840. By this statement it appears that the tonnage inwards for 1839 was 246,758; and in 1840, 9 35,440, which shows a decrease of 11,319; and the ships were 640 for 1839, while they were 59 9 for 1840, giving a decrease of 48. In 1839, the ships entering the London port were 403, and in 1840 they were 404 ; this i s a decrease of 59 . Liverpool show an increase o f fi ve , the 138, and for 1840, 143. Th e ton . i B n 4 g o was 359,567, which, as c o mpared n r i l :tr a Li g nm e m e b s e h e r i u p f t s o: e a n l u t e l e 3 r i fti:: l b ng e with 1630, which was 279.322, gave an increase for the former period of 80,235. The number of ships entered outwards was 932 for 1840, and 708 for 1539, being an increase of 224. Altlertouit parley is about to retire from the ile,,d Office a Police, and is to be succeeded by Alderman Firstling. Mr. 13.0 rut is to succeed to thi , liaealie,y ere. it t vii by the death of Mr. Hamilton ; and Mr. F. Thorpe Voiler in the room of time late Major `,:3i[r.—Dublitt.Even, ,ing .1/ ;i/, this hold cad, iOW - that vole ;p ea t he lags 3 01 Ygil lore► d to leful :$ as ) re' etter aid lakes have ;11 st f the tate floo r, and, ; did, a s t° .1111 5 ' sarY , loW' ' f ile tifo