The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

EVENING SUN 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL, " THE MAN OF FORTUNE," WILL BE READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES On Wednesday Next, Dec. 22. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, embellished with Portraits of Dr. Dee, Paraeelsus, and Cagliostro, THE CONCLUDING VOLUME OF MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS. Comprising :—The Alchemists, Pretended Antiquity of the Art, Avicenna, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Raymond Lulli, Roger Bacon, Pope John XXII., Cornelius Agrippa, Parseelsus, Dr Dee and. Edward Kelly, The Cosmopolite, Sendivogius, The Rosicrusians, Alchymical Writers of the Seventeenth Century, De Lisle, Albert Aluys, Count de St. Germains, Cagliostro, Present State of the Science, &c.— Fortune Telling, The Magnetisers, &c. By CHARLES MACKAY, Esq., Author of " The Thames and its Tributaries, Bcc. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, DEC. 20, Will be repealed Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flaying, Mr. Clement White Groves°, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotil da, Miss Grant; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which, the New Farce,wntitled UNITED SERVICE. Captain Whistleborough, 111 r. W. Farren; Capt. Pacifie, RN., Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Barn, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.—Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Joors to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. ()rep.; Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Sec , in.4 Price. 21.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten fill Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boaes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, 000kseller, 167. New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with Charles the Twelfth. POPULATION RETURNS. We have had so many inquiries for The Sun, containing an abstract of the Population Returns ; that we shall republish the tables, with consider able additions, on Saturday next, the 25th inst. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 20, 1841. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter from14r.1:1al;;;;;Ulef lead to aeorrespondence of little interest to the public, and we must therefore decline t, publish it. THE WEATHER.—Noon, DECEMBER 20. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 32 ll;ghest 33 1 Lowest . 24 Barometer 29.41.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW minutes after e f Evening .14 minutes after 7. The Publication of the Evening Edition of TEE Sum com menced at 10 minutes after Three. necessarily, destroying the attachment of the people to a Legislature which passes such laws— is also the duty of every man who wishes to cor rect injustice, and promote the prosperity of mankind. To say that such language is " incen tives to rebellion," is to pronounce a severe con demnation against the Government, which is thus set in direct opposition to truth and justice. But the language of the Times is mere raving, for it can no more be incentives to rebellion to denounce the unjust laws which the aristocracy have passed to enrich themselves than to criticise the ordinances of MENU. It is, unfortunately, a lamentable fact, that the conduct of the Legislature, in reference to the Corn-law, which the Times formerly took the lead in denouncing, has taught the people to despise its authority. Shall that fact not be stated, even to warn the Legislature ? Shall the people go on blindly submitting to injus tice, because it is practised in the name of the law, till England be reduced to the condition of France under the tyranny of Louts PHILIPPE ? Those, in our estimation, are the best friends of the country, and the best friends of the aristo cracy, who warn them in time of the dreadful consequences of their present career, and endea vour to frighten them back, by a representation of the dangers which await their onward course, as was ably and honestly done by the Leeds meeting. From the company which the Tory Ministers keep, it is plain that they will not need to be spurred on by English journalists to try high handed measures with the people. They have begun that in Ireland. They are incited to go on by all the menials of the despotic Courts of the Continent by whom they are surrounded. There is scarcely one of these, from an Ambassador Ex traordinary to the lowest Vice-Consul, who does not continually reiterate that no such free discus sion is allowed abroad. These gentlemen do in deed continually use incentives to rebellion against the people, and against the duty which the Government owes the people. They con tinually remind our aristocracy that on the Con tinent there is the knout, or incarceration in for tresses, for those who use their tongues or pens, or there are laws against bringing the Govern ment into contempt, however much it may de serve to be brought into contempt ; and, according to them, it is a weakness and a disgrace to our Go vernment that public writers and public speakers are at liberty to use their pens and tongues so freely. They manage such matters, it is said, better in France and Russia; and it will not go well for the aristocracy and the G overnment inEngland till the free expression of opinion be put down here as it is put down abroad. With such en- couragement, and incited to rebel against the public and against justice by the Times and Post, it would not surprise us were we to find, amongst the measures which the Tories are con- cocting to relieve the public distress, some plan for putting an end to the meetings of the manu- facturers, and for enchaining the Press. From an erroneous analogy, the precept that self:pre servation is the first law of nature has been ex tended from animal life to constituted Go vernments and under the influence of this error—as the unjust laws passed by the aristocracy for their exclusive benefit cannot possibly be maintained if the pr e s s an d th e suf- fering manufacturers be allowed to speak freely of them—we dread that the monopolist and starvation Government will endeavour to pre serve itself by striking a heavy blow at the liberties of the people. We can assure Mr. WARD that we had no per sonal motives for our observations last Tuesday, and no intention of making a personal attack on him. He is, however, a public man, answerable to the public for his conduct. His connection with the Weekly Chronicle is notorious and avowed, and we could not allow sentiments to pass which were obviously his—which the writer in the Weekly Chronicle does not repu diate for him, and which, in our opinion, struck at the very principles for which the free-trade and Anti-Corn-law party arc contending—without alluding to the fatal in fluence which such sentiments might have on the welfare of Mr. WARD'S constituents. We did this in few words ; declaring, however, that if those were Mr. WARD'S sentiments, the confi dence of the free-traders of Sheffield in him was misplaced. „zy .., ct, , t 4 4 3"-- ' l9ll m 'rte • - - • int 2 lt. LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1841. The hardy men of the North are too bold in conscious rectitude to allow themselves to be scared from the noble purpose they have taken in hand by the foul and big words of the Tory Journals. The Times may rave according to its wont, without having the smallest influence on the stout hearts in the manufacturing districts that are resolved to stand up for their rights. On Saturday it said : But though the Leeds Conventionists be harmless enough in the way of argument, they may do plenty of mischief in the way of inflammation. Their discourses are intended to be disseminated by- a Radical press among multitudes of people, all of them more or less pinched by want, and all of them persuaded that their wages, whether high or low, are at all events lower than they ought to be. And, for the, edification of such. persons, Mr. T. Flint moved a resolution, that " this meeting, regards the Corn and Provision-laws as equally unconstitutional, unjust, and injurious; and as tending, if pertinaciously maintained, to destroy the attachment and allegiance of the people to the Government." It is absurd to say that such passages as this are merely the expressions of free opinion. They are direct incentives to rebellion. And, that nothing may be wanting to render the hint intelligible, Mr. T. Plint 1 takes care to add a gloss of his own. " I do fear," says he, " that this will be the case ; and if the Legislature should present itself in the odious light of upholding these laws fur their own particuLtr benefit, who can won der if the bond of aliegiaNce be severed? I hope they will be wise in time. Then follows more such " perilous stuff,". about curses loud and deep, and so on. Itwould not be safe to say, " If the Corn-laws be maintained, the people Should rebel ;" but there is thought to be less of hazard in saying, "If the Corn-laws be maintained, we cannot wonder that th e p eop l e s h ou ld rebel." And these are the patriots who told us, ten years ago, that if we would but pass the Reform Bill, the people would be so justly and truly represented, that they could never more have occasion to complain of Parliament ! it is unfbrtunate fl.>r the reputation of the Times that. it comes with its hints and threats about rebellion after the Morning Post. It is some weeks ago since the latter Journal under took to denounce some of time opinions of the . ...Liberal Press as seditious and treasonable; but it - was, we belieVe, slanted front such unworthy- tactics. The course Which for the Post was unsmccessful and abandened, the Times has now t aken up, with this difference, that it directs its arrows against the suffering manufacturers, svi wile the Post, with a brotherly love, contented its elf with aiming at other Journals. The Times a till suc ceed as little as the Post, and neither Illa .PLINT, nor any other manufacturer, will modify- his lan guage the shadow of a shade fa on 1 any • fear of the Attorney-General. pleasure at knowin,, , tt mat the For our parts, we feel unfeigned mantitheturers have the sense and spirit: to adopt and we- should desire Nothing such laugnage, better for their cause than that the lam id ed aris- the great que s ti on • tocracyahould bring . . at issue _- between it and the other classes to a deals ion, by We have published a letter on the Observance some criminal p r oceedings against then .anufac- of the Sabbath, not that it contains any argu turers before - the Judges of the land. ments which in the slightest degree invalidate Let us look, howevei, a little dos , it yat the those urged by another Reverend Correspon language said to be " incentives to r, !.1 )ellion." dent last week, but in order that on such Is it not true that the present Provision , laws are an important question both parties • may 97) have "equally unconstitutional, unjust, and in itir. ; olis • a fair hearing ; and we are glad to find that though the two venerable pastors of Is it not unconstitutional—nay, contrai ly to the th very principles on which political s. wiety is to eChurch pursue different routes, they come to the same point founded, on which any Government ventures Christianat last, namel • that the Sabbath (adopting the words of ask or to hope for the allegiance of the . maple— St. IGNATIUS) ought not to be kept as ato tax one class to enrich another? The Govern" Jew ish Sabbath. This , however, is all the praise tnent is established to gi ve equa l prof em, to t h a t can b e g i ven to the arguments of "J. S." i n every individual and every class, and ti then it opposition to those of his fellow-labourer in the taxes and oppresses one class it forfeits i s right vineyard, and as he seems to boast of his supe to the allegiance of that class. Is not tba ..t the rior abilities at the advanced age of four score, question which was practically decided. I 'y the we may be permitted to remind him that both success of the United States? his logic and his memory are defective. He The injustice of' the tax is equall 1 d that because our Savicrea y e eaa an argues, appeared to admit on the first ted• Has not Lord STANLEY Said ti tat it his disciples twice day of the week, enhances rent, or puts money into the po ck 3 tS o f that d ay should be observed as the Sabbath the - avanak a Can 401 i- ' l a that he appeared to ' ers anything be more ab 3 Mi - without reetec-inie them noble than that they should make laws t oen rich a third time, when th e y were at sea fishing, tbemselvss? i s it no t their argument t: nit t. heir If he studied his Bible a • carefully, he would fi n d , estates would remain uncultivated to a c e. t taro to o , that Sr. PAUL preached oftener on the last extent if 7 ll ''Y did re 4 tax the people's . . b i 'a d ? than the first day of the week; that he preach e d , Can f.nything be more scandalous . r than t hat t tiff in fact, on all days; and that he never made should compel the rest of' the attr i buted to him— cornmunit yto 1 ri Y use of the expression for the cultivation of their estates? P keep it holy.' eine. th us ‘: Remember the Sabbath day to :unconstitutioal and ' . unjust can In a n If our venerable friend confounds MOSES with doubt that the la w i s in • • „ _ any jurious : . Does i [11 1 S"' Q PAUL that his quotations are tice mean anything e a . .J _ ,at. he must admit ainerent tr( only de- It does not, and to . 4,1'. inji ary 1 , worse than useless, because they persist in an Ur , -- Mr , t cour, ' °A. ceive. He assumes also that the letter to policy,' because it is supposed t - ' fi to the Ob is to eclair' the teeth of •"be 7 ) ene cial, which he refers, was opposed . 0 ,... ex r • R an esty servance of the Lord's Day, whilst it is notignly tne best, it is tl • le only akd a ad a had the opposite tendency, and described, in law wltich , is unjust, that i s, f a icy; Z. .Na-, . orbid .. . d e a b y 1.11 terms of great exultation, the blessings which a Lure or`taon, is . necessarily In • . jiITIOUS. Christian (not a Jewish) observance of it confers w r iters , and and it i s To state such truths is the bness, )i . all public on mankind. If ar gu ments are not founded on absurd them as incentives to rebellio n . To .. to describe I.,:lets, they only defeat those who use them. WS. • 4ise inevitable consequences of su c h i n ' ribe the i itous laws me news brought by the Levant mail from qu on the minds of the people—al t E ay producing aft is exceedingly unfavourable to British first, suffering, suffering, then discontent, a n d, finally, but commenialists. A letter from Alexandria ofthe In reply to our remarks, instead of proving that Mr. WARD continues worthy to represent Sheffield, the Weekly Chronicle pours out two thirds of a column of fretful, peevish vituperation of The Sun, and of its proprietor. We have no inclination whatever to imitate the Weekly Chronicle, nor come into collision with Mr. WARD, or any other individual, and no intention to indulge in personal remarks. As public Jour.. nalists, however, serving a great and a good cause, we have public duties to perform, and we can only regret when the performance of them obliges us to speak harsh and unpleasant truths. The Weekly Chronicle reproaches the pro prietor of The Suin with being, in his political opinions, "Everything by turns, and nothing long." Such an assertion is the effusion of mere spleen, fbr The Sun has steadfastly adhered to the Reform cause and the Liberal party, having never changed its opinion of any great measures or principles, though it has been driven to change its opinion of men, since it came into the hands of the present proprietor. Un doubtedly The Sun has, at former times, sup ported Mr. WARD, and, if it cannot do so now, the change, it is presumed, is in Mr. WARD, and not in The Sun. The Sun has seen with regret two or three of Mr. WARD'S proceedings, but only noticed that part of them which ap peared to it to be a complete sacrifice of the principles for which Mr. WARD, as a Corn-law Repealer, professed to contend. We have reason to believe that the Hon. Member for Sheffield's conduct has not given satisfaction to his constituents, and the Weekly Chronicle would better serve his interest by reconciling him to them, than by making a fidgetty and somewhat contemptible attack on us. 6th of November, states, that MEHEMET Au had ordered the Commercial Treaty between England and Turkey to be carried into effect in all the ports of Egypt, and that one of the immediate results was the raising of the duty from 3to 12 per cent. British goods which had paid a duty of 3 per cent. were required to pay the remaining duty of 9 per cent., and in case of refusal to be seized. In con sequence of this order large seizures of British goods actually took place at Cairo, nor did it appear that the new Consul-General was over eager to afford protection to the merchants', whose commercial rights were thus fraudulently invaded. The PACHA gave no notice to the merchants of his intention to inforce the Treaty, and his conduct in claiming an extra duty upon goods upon which the regular duty ch arge d when they were landed in Egypt had been paid, is clearly a violation of international law. Madrid Papers of the 11th inst., have been duly received. In the Gazette of that date we find a decree of the Regent, granting an am nesty to all the soldiers implicated in the attack on the Palace on the 7th of October. This is a very salutary measure, and a complete answer to all the furious and unfounded diatribes of Mr. O ' CONNELL at the Dublin Cora Exchange. On the Madrid Bourse, on the 11th, one bar gain took place in the Threes at 23, for 60 days, to the amount of 200,000 reals; twelve bargains in the Fives, at 32k for cash ; 321 331, for 60 days, for 5,960,000 reals ; seven bargains for 10,309,576 reals took place in the debt without interest, at 5k 6 for cash, and 61 f, for 60 days. The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have been duly received. On Friday the Court of Peers found a batch of the prisoners guilty, but as the Court will have to deliberate upon their punishment, it may yet be a week before sentence is pronounced upon them. In the mean time confessors are set at work to terrify them into confessions of guilt, and hopes are held out to them. that if they find more work for the Procureur-General and the Peers, they may look forward to a mitigation of their sentences. DUFAUR and COLOMBIER have already swallowed the bait. These men sent for M. PASQUIER, the Chancellor, to whom they made confessions as black as that judicial hack could desire. The consequence was, that on Friday two car riages full of workmen, in the Faubourg St. Antoine, were seized and lodged in prison. Of course the example thus set by one portion of the prisoners will be followed by the rest, and thus we may expect to hear of arrests enough to keep the Peers employed for weeks to come. But the great affair of interest in Paris is the case of M. DuPoTy. If this man be found guilty, the Charter of 1830 is of no more value to Frenchmen than an old song. The Peers will then have as openly violated the constitutional liberties of Frenchmen as QUENISSET violated the law in levelling a pistol at the head of the Duke of NEMOURS. From that period the bonds connecting the Crown with the nation will be broken, and it will be a question of policy and convenience how long France may submit to the despotic yoke of the House of ORLEANS. The Court ,of Peers, in trampling upon the charter, releases Frenchmen from any allegiance which they may suppose themselves to owe to the ORLEANS dynasty. We have given in another column the opening Speech of the Minister of Commerce to the Coun cils of Commerce, Agriculture, and Industry , now sitting in Paris. We recommend it to the attention of Pro-Corn-law legislators at home. In France the effect of protective duties has been nearly to ruin the elegant manufactures of Paris, and to lead to a decrease of trade with Portugal, Egypt, North America, and various other States. The beet-root monopoly is playing the very deuce with the French Colonial trade. By a Royal Ordonnance, dated the 7th inst., the sum of 649,126 L remaining unemployed out of the credit of 6,000,000 E opened to the Ministers of Public Works and War, by the law of the 10th June, 1841, is placed at the disposal of the Minister of War, to contribute towards the expenses of the fortifications of Paris, authorised by the law of 3d April, 1841. 31. Gervais, the deputy for Provins, in the Seine-et- Marne, has, in consequence of his failure, resigned his seat. M. d'Ossonvile, son-in•law to the Duke de Brog lie, comes forward to succeed him, and M. Simon, a late Sous-Prefect, is also named as a candidate. A correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette at Brussels says that it is now proved that the persons implicated in the late abortive conspiracy kept up communications, not only with the Orangeists, but also with the French Republicans. A Toulon letter, in the Commerce, says that the four ships of the line, un d er or d ers for sailing, left that port on the 12th inst., and, it was believed, would proceed to Tunis. A letter from Rome states that the Duke de Torlonia has brought a company of French actors to Rome, for the winter, at his own expense, to give a series of re presentations in his Palace. By Royal Ordonnance, of the 7th inst., none but French vessels are to be employed in transport between France and Algeria, except in cases of urgency. General de Rumigny, who is going to take the govern ment of Algeria ad interim, arrived on the 11th at Toulon, The equipages of the Prince de Joinville reached Toulon the same day, and are waiting his Royal Highness's return. The Sentinelle of Toulon says :—" The four ships of the line, destined for the Archipelago, are all ready for sailing. They are to be joined by several frigates. Ad miral La Susse, having completed the term of his com mand, will, it is believed, be succeeded by the newly promoted Admiral Le Ray." The steamer Havre, bound to that port from Rotter dam, was run foul of by an American vessel as she was coming out from the port of Rotterdam, on her last voyage, not many days back, and was forced to return. She repaired her damage, and sailed again, but the weather was so bad in the Channel that she was ob liged to put into Boulogne for several days. She has at length made llavre. The Municipal Council of Mulhausen, on the propo sition of the Mayor, M. A. Kceehlin, has just voted an annual sum of 100,0001. for an indefinite number of years, together with the land required in the banlieue of the town, towards the formation of the Mulhausen and Dijon railroad. The Bordeaux papers state that the Abbe Lacordaire, the Dominican, is now preaching in that city, where he excites the greatest attention. By order of the Minister of Justice and Public Worship he is not allowed to appear in the dress of his order, but only in the usual ecclesiastical costume. A heavy inundation has been experienced at Rennes within the last few days, where a bridge has been carried away, and some of the quays damaged, but the waters have at length subsided. The Hare of Caen announces the destruction by fire of the house of the Count de Bricqueville, and also of the great shot -manufactory of M. Benard, near Pont l'Eveque. The latter accident was caused by lightning, during a storm in the night of the 7th instant. Several smaller houses in the neighbourhood were likewise burnt, so that numerous families are thrown into great distress. A correspondent at Calais says that the weather was so bad yesterday, that the steamer for London could not leave the harbour. A fishing-boat from Boulogne foun dered off the port during the previous night, and its crew of five men perished. The father of Quenisset is said to have arrived in Paris, with the purpose of presenting a petition to the King for the pardon of his son. The professors of the Ecole des Beaux Arts have elected M. Ingres as their President, and M. tarry de Mancy Vice-President, for 1842. Count Le ion, the Belgian Minister, left Paris yes terday, to be present at the opening of the Tubise and Mons railroad, a ceremony which is to bo honoured with the presence of the King and Queen of the Belgians.— The Belgian Embassy was brilliantly illuminated on Thursday evening, in honour of the birth-day of King Leopold. Admiral Jubelin, late Governor of G-uadaloupe, has been named a member of the Commission, of which the Duke de Broglie is President, to inquire into the slavery system and the political condition of the French colonies. A correspondent of the Sud writes from Beyrout that the Maronite Patriarch has taken refuge on board an English ship of war, and intends to proceed to Malta. The Sad states that the Sultan was lately insulted while going to a mosque in Constantinople to perform his devotions. A fanatic in the crowd caJied him a giaour, for the reforms which he patronised in the Em pire. The man was immediately arrested, and severely punished. A letter from Constantinople represents the first wife of the Sultan to be dangerously ill, tae physicians having announced her to be in an advanced. state of pulmonary consumption. • It is stated, in a letter from Rome, that, as soon as the railway of Castellamare shall be finished, the King of Naples will matte another, which will ex t en d t o the frontiers of the R oman States, near Terracina, and that a railway will be made from Leghorn by tfie Tuscan Government, through the Maremme, to the frontier. A letter from Vienna, in the Swabian Mercury, states that the creditors of the house of Geymuller who hold bills will receive a dividend of 50 per cent., but that there will be no dividend upon book debts. M. Dupont, an inhabitant of Verviers (Belgium), died there on the 12th inst., aged 102. He retained all his faculties to the last moments, tuid, until within a few the da violin.ysofh s death, passed much of his time in playing on During the last harvest at Diever, province of Drenthe, THE SUN, LONDON, 'MONDAY, DECEMBER 2O, 1841. in Holland, a plant of rye was cut with 42 stalks, 6 feet high each, having a ripened ear, containing 100 grains upon the average, so that the produce of the seed from which they sprung was 4,200 fold. ‘ l\re learn from Berlin that as the Prince of Prussia wag, on the ith inst., returning from an inspection of the barracks of the Cuirassiers of the Guard, attended by Colonej. de Stockhausen, the horses ran away with his carriage, drove it against the town-wall, broke the pole, and threw the coachman from his box. At the moment the horses were checked by the shock, the Frince and the Colonel jumped from the carriage, and received no in jury, but the coachman, being entangled in the reins, could not be released in time before the frightened ani mals got away again, dragging him with them. He was much hurt, but is not in danger of his life. BOURSE-PARIS,SATURD A Y, DEC. 18. first Highest Lowest last Price Price. Prici. Price. French 5 per Centr.......... • 116 40 ... 116 40 ... 1:6 40 ... 116 40 4 per Cents lOO 911 ... 1 0 90 ... 100 90 ... 10u 80 3 per Cents. ex div 7B 25 .... 78 30 ... :8 20 ... 78 20 4snk of erance Laffitte tank I.ooof. Shares 1141 .._llO4O ...11'40 ...1140 5,06111. Stares !AO ...Wit) —.5065 ...50,10 '.I ran Rank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per C.:Mt., 1840 1027 ... 182% ... 102% ... 102% .n.nish Active B4-. ... :141,, ... 944 ... Portuguese 5 per Cents. wcapulltan, ex div. ri,.sian..... RAILWAY SHARES St. Germain 772 50 ... 772 50 ... 773 50 ... 779 50 V er sat Ilts. L.H 197 So .. 197 50 ... 197 50 .. isn 50 B. B ........... ..,, 3lB 75 ... 120 ... 3.8 75 ... 320 itousn .... ................ Orlearib .. 4BO ... 48(1 ... 480.. 4so Str..sourgtoßale.shares red 225 . 225 ... 2 23 .75 ... 2z3 75 CRAIG VERSUS FENN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU2V: Sin,—l thank you for inserting my letter i n your print of this evening, and in answer to the editorial note which you have appended to it, have much pleasure in reciprocating courtesy by affording the information you require. The letters of Mr. Davis (the surgeon referred to by the proposal, and examined for the plaintiffs on the trial) were dated March, 1836, and de scribed Mr. Talbot's habits as having been form erly intemperate; and that his face bore the marks of irregular habit, but added that he had retbrmed, and was at that period perfectly mode rate, and temperate, and of sound constitution. In August, 1837, the policy was granted; and an extra premium charged in respect of deteriora tion by the before-mentioned intemperance (as no man can repeatedly indulge in excess with perfect impunity), the substance of Mr. Davis's_ letters being WARRANTED by the plaintiffs. The very considerable interval of supposed good con duct, induced the office to effect the insurance; it being their uniform practice to wholly reject all cases of continuous intemperance, as leading to results not to be predicted by medical acumen, nor estimated by any observations, however ex tensive. The Directors having subsequently learned that Mr. Talbot had not reformed, tend ered back the premium within three months, and forthwith filed a bill in Equity to raise the ques tion on merits during Mr. Talbot's on the present record they put the single issue on their ability to prove txtemperance, by plead ing that fact with what is called verification— thereby taking the onus probandi on themselves, and, consequently, relieving the plaintiffs from any proof whatever. The latter, however, de clined the offer in open Court, merely for the sake of beginning and ending with speeches from their own counsel. The verdict you know was for the defendant.—Your obedient servant. GEORGE FARREN 70, Cornhill, Dec. 18, 1841. [The above explanation is quite satisfactory ED. Sun.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 18.—We have had a very quiet Cotton Market to-day, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales, of which 410 have been taken for exportation. Nothing doing by speculators. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 18.—The trans actions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise —East ern Counties, 8,-1-; Ditto, Debentures, 10,; Great West ern Fifths, 94; London and Brighton, 39; North Mid land Thirds, 17 ; York and North Midland New; 31. All the vessels that have been wind-bound at Liver pool got under weigh on Saturday and yesterday. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 18.—Rail way Stock is in good demand, and prices generally are well maintained. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 434; Lon don and South Western, 574 ; Manchester and Leeds, 64 to 66; North Midland, 72;1- to 73f; Midland Counties, 844 to 85. There are but few arrivals do-day. Cape of Good Hope papers to the 14th October have been received. The paper of the 13th states that at a meeting of the Legislative Council, his Excellency the Governor made several statements respecting the revenue, which induce us to hope that the finances •of this colony will shortly be submitted to revision. The prospects or the wine farmers continued very gloomy. The Hamburgh mail due on Friday, and the one due this morning have arrived. Exchange comes lower, the quotation being 13 5. Gold, 248, same as before, THE FUNDS. Both the English and Foreign Securities opened with out any variation from the closing prices of Saturday. Consols are 894 for the Account ; ' Three per Cents. Re duced, 89f a ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 23i 3; Passive, 54 4; Deferred, 111 12 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 33; Ditto Three per Cents., 194 20; Brazilian Bonds, 63 65 ; and Mexi can, 264. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Great Western Ditto Fifths Gosport Junction London and Brighton 5O 38a to 37ii London and Birmingham . Ditto New London and Greenwich Ditto Scrip...... ............ 64 London and South Western 3Bi 5B to North Midland Ditto New Ditto Thirds JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia 4O ...... 534...... to HALF-PAST ONE. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the present time, and the quotations in the English Market are the same as at the opening. In the Foreign Market the only alteration to notice is a slight decline in Spanish. Active Stock is now 234 i; Passive, si; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 ; Belgian Bonds, 101; Chilian Six per Cent. Bonds, 72. The Share Market is rather flat. Great Western, 841; Ditto Fifths, 94 4 • London and B r i g h ton 374 ; Lon don and Birmingham,; New, 27 ; London and South Western, 58; North Midland, New, 36. COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTU RAL MEETING.-(THIS A A general meeting of the Eastern Coast of Central America Commercial and Agricultural Company took place this day at one o'clock, at the Jamaica Coffee house, St. Nicholas-alley, Coruhill, but we are unable to give any account of the proceedings, as one of our re porters was refused admission to the meeting by the Secretary, on the ground (as the Secretary stated) of the meeting being called on the private affairs of the Com mittee of Directors. When Parliament assembles on the 3d of February, it will meet no improved accounts of the state of the country. This week has added another to the list of great meetings to declare the advance of embar rassment, if not of ruin, among all classes in the menu facturing.districts. The whole West Riding of York shire has just made such a declaration. However tedious these reports may be in the detail, from their sameness and the triteness of the subject, as well as from their gloomy character, they merit the profoundest attention as emanating from such wide and important tracts of country. District after district, each comprehending great counties, has avowed itself unable to cope with the burden that oppresses it. If the reader were to take a blank map of the United Kingdom, and to colour:those parts which have thus spoken in one tint—say in the appropriate hue of black—he would find a large portion of the country clothed in the shade of trouble ; and that the most important and wealthy portion. It com. prises the iron district of Western Scotland, with Paisley and other trading places ; the iron district of Wales ; Liverpool and Manchester, and the districts belonging to them in Lancashire and North Cheshire ; the West Riding of Yorkshire ; Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, and their surrounding districts. The accounts from this wide region are all alike ; they represent such a state of things as, when it is permanent, is called the - -decay of nations—their retrograde condition. Now these repre sentations cannot be neglected in the ensuing Session. If they are denied, proof must be brought against the ac cumulated evidence in support of them. If they are ad mitted, it becomes those who make the admission to say, whether they pronounce the evil to be hopeless, And dare openly to resign the empire to its decline and fall, or whether it is to be remedied. In the last case, if they will not accept the remedies offered, they must produce other remedies of their own. No one will venture to think of prolonging paseive neglect—Spectator. The Municipal Council of Troyes has voted from the funds of the town 500,000 f. towards whichever Gf the two lines of railroad, Paris and Strasbourg,, or Paris and Lyons, shall traverse its district. The Council General of the Department (the Aube) had previously voted 1,000,000 f. for the same purpose. The Minister of Finance has sent a reply to some representations made to him by the Chamber of Commerce of Strasbourg, on the subject of the railroad between Paris and that town, in s hick], he says, that he ardently wishes to see the line commenced without loss of time, and that the town of Strasbourg may rely on his eagerly seconding its views. The General S team N av i ga t ion Company's vessel the Giraffe, A. Stranack, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house yesterday, with the Dutch mail. Also the John Bull, from Hamburgh, with the Ham burgh mail. The Neptune, Whittingham, from Ham burgh, arrived this morning, after a favourable passage of 55 hours, with the Hamburgh mail. BAD LAWS SHOULD BE RESISTED FOR THE east, OF THE LAW.—They vitiate all law and make it the object of abhorrence. To secure obedience to the law it must first be made just. What reasonable being could i hare the heart to inflict a punishment on a man for not obey ing an unjust law ? ,x 7,9 G rti AND Vuttir Optatott. " Who runs may read." ronnicakr. Seven tribes on the bankS of the Tafna have made their submission to the French Regency at Algiers. The chiefs in alliance with France were everywhere defeatin g the adherents of Abd- e l-K a d er . Li eutenant Pelle had returned to Algiers on the 6th instant, from a razzia among the tribes of the East. Th e v i ctor i ous Lieutenant reckoned among his spoils 800 sheep, and 1,800 head of cattle. In his wars with the disarmed and defenceless peasantry he had shot twenty Kabyles, thus covering the French name with immortal glory (?) We ask for the hundredth time, is not such a buccaneer ing mode of warfare as this a burning shame to France ? The Moniteur publishes a report to the King from the Minister of the Marine and the Colonies, dated the 15th inst., on the disasters occasioned by the overflowing of the Senegal, representing that all the places on each bank of the river had been so entirely flooded that the inhabitants were obliged to traverse the streets in boats ; that the current had thrown down several houses ; that the Government warehouses, as well as those of private individuals, were more than three feet under water; that the shops were all closed, commerce at a stand, the Courts unable to sit, and in fine, there had been a com plete stagnation of all business. The report concludes with a recommendation that the subsidy for Senegal, of 320,000 f., granted by the budget for 1842, should be in creased to 500,000 f. This proposition is approved by his Majesty, and the Report is followed by a Royal Ordon nance granting the additional credit of 180,000 E to the Minister of Marine and Colonies to meet the urgency stated. The Court of Peers in Thursday and Friday's secret Sitting pronounced the guilt of Quenisset Boncheron, Colombier, Brazier, Petit, Jarrasse, Launois, Boggie, Mallet, Dufaur for the attempt, Quenissett as principal and the remainder as accomplices. A telegraphic dispatch in Saturday's Moniteur an nounces that M. de Salvandy and the persons composing the new French Embassy in Madrid, entered that capital on the morning of the 12th inst. The evening Moniteur states that they had been well received on the entire road. The Madrid Gazette, of the 11th inst., publishes an amnesty of the Regent for all private soldiers who took parkin the revolt of the 7th of October. The officers are excepted. s Private accounts from Athens, dated 30th ult., state that France had at last consented to pay the million of francs demanded by the Greek Government. The Am bassadors of Austria and Russia are almost openly at war ith the present Greek Government, and vie with one another in their attention to Mavrocordato and his friends. PTIBLIC OPINION. In a leading article suggested by the proceedings of the late Manchester Conference, the Chronicle mak es th e following remark s: —" W e regret to be obliged to ob serve that there is but too much foundation for the re semblance which has often been discovered of late between the aristocracy of France before the Revolution and the present aristocracy of England. The French aristocracy refused to pay their share of burdens to the State. The English aristocracy not only refuse to pay their share of burdens, but actually avail themselves of their power as Legislators to tax the industry of the country for their separate profit. At the revolution in 1688 nearly the whole of the public burdens were levied on land. Since that event, which gave the powers of Government to the great proprietors, the landowners have contrived to throw all the burdens off their own shoulders to those of the other classes."— There is a greater likeness between the French aristo cracy before the Revolution, and the present English aristocracy, than is to be found in the fact that both refused to pay their share of the burdens of the State. The English, equally with the old French, aristocracy, hold themselves haughtily aloof from the people ; en courage a special ignorance of their pursuits and feel ings ; refuse to assist them in their distress by sound remedial measures of legislation ; and even reject all ideas of sympathy with them. Can they wonder, then, that the people look on them with other feelings than thosesof respect and gratitude ? Rank is fast losing its false glitter in the eyes of the country at large ; and the time is approaching when an English nobleman must have other recommendations than those of a star or a coronet, if he would desire to maintain the respect of the people. The Post says :—" The opponents of the existing Ad ministration tauntingly demand of its supporters in the public press what are the projected measures of which we are illustrating the principles, or the necessity, or the tendency ? The answer to this is plain enough. The existing Government did not come into office under any pledges to any particular measures. They came into office in consequence of the House of Commons avowing, by a large majority, that it had no confidence in the late Ministry, and that it did not approve of the plans put forward by the late Ministry for raising the public revenue to an amount equal with the public expenditure."— We agree with the Post in these remarks. The Tories did not come into office from any merits of their own, but solely from the demerits of the Whigs. They did not come in " under any pledges to any particular mea sures," because no really serviceable measures were ex pected from them, except by those who are more san guine than sagacious. It; therefore, they give nothing —which is by no means unlikely—they will, at least, have the consolation of knowing that they have not dis appointed the public, for nothing was expected from them. The Times makes the following hap-hazard observations in reference to the recent great Manchester meeting : " Another Anti-Corn-law meeting has taken place, and Manchester, the great centre of the cotton trade, has been the scene of it. Again the items of distress have been minutely particularised, and again the pernicious attempt to excite the people against the laws and the Legislature has been renewed by their pretended and self-retained advocates. But the thermometer is mani festly falling. 'The atmosphere has been refreshed with a little truth from without, and the mercury of the League can no longer be kept at fever heat. The symptoms of cooling were very evident at this Convention, which was held on Thursday last in the Corn-Exchange -buildings, under the presidency of Mr. R. H. Greg, the late Member for the town. It had been announced that this meeting, the object of which was to receive com munications respecting the depressed state of the cotton trade, would consist of the principal merchants and manufacturers engaged in it, who were to attend as deputies from their respective districts in Lancashire, Cheshire, and elsewhere. But the at tendance was such as to evince far less the depressed state of the cotton trade than of the cotton agitation."— If the Tories will not be convinced by the late great pub lic meetings in the manufacturing districts, that the trade of the country is in a state of extreme depression, and that it is hazardous much longer to protract the consi• deration of a remedy, we know not by what facts or a' guments, or warning's or indications, it can be convinced. At Stockport, at Leeds, at Oldham, at Derby, at Paisley, at Manchester, and several other places that we could mention, the sentiments broached and the arguments advanced, would, one would thank, be quite obvious and significant enough to bring conviction home to the minds of even the most prejudiced. But none are so deaf as those who will not hear—none so blind as those who will not see ; and the Times, like many others of its party, has neither eyes nor ears, except for its own par ticular views of a question. The Herald, reverting to the sprightly question of the Corn-laws, remarks as follows :—" Improved details in the Corn-law, so as to regulate the more easy supply of food in deficient seasons, to regain a part of the carry ing trade with South America and the West Indies, which we have of late years lost by our inability to sup ply those countries with flour, and to render grain a more important item in the commercial exchanges be tween this country and the rest of the world, are by no means incompatible, as we have frequently shown, with due protection to native agriculture. But any Corn-law, which assumes, as Lord John Russell's fixed duties did, that in ordinary years the United Kingdom is incapable of growing an adequate supply of corn for the consump tion of its inhabitants, will be founded on so fatal an error as to provoke the general hostility of all patriotic politicians. Believing that there is in these islands an increasing power of production the result in Great Britain of improved, and in Ireland of extended, culti vation —any law which aims at a large annual importa tion of foreign grain, and thereby at throwing domestic soil out of culture, or by preventing the development of the great resources—now in waste—of Ireland, will, we trust, meet with a very general and irresistible op position." In an article on the subject of the advantages that have accrued to the country from the Reform Bill, the Advertiser says :—" All that is intelligent and virtuous about Chartism may be said to arise from the agitation for Reform. The deep, earnest, and intense desire of the working men for the franchise was enkindled during the struggle with the boroughtnongers. The principles they avow in the Charter (not perhaps the opinions) are but the legitimate consequences of the arguments that demolished the decayed boroughs of Sarum and Gatton, and gave the franchise to the great metropolitan con stituencies. The torch of Chartist enthusiasm was lit at the altar of Whig Reform. It has been fearfully misapplied. With careful guidance, prudent energy, and close union the Chartists might now have pre sented a phalanx less powerf u l i n i ts num b ers t h an i n its moral weight and influence. Sincerely do we hope they may avoid their former errors, and would they but heartily coalesce with the middle classes in the struggle for commercial freedom, they would do more to secure a favourable consideration for their demands than by any other course."— The Chartists can never hope to become' a really influ ential body, except by abandoning some two or three of their, at present, impracticable opinions, and making common cause with the middle classs in their efforts to obtain such sound,. serviceable Reforms as are really practicable. One Reform will be sure to pave the way for another —it is, in fact, to get the wedge in, which may afterwards be driven home. In holding aloof from the middle classes, and sternly cleaving to every minute item in their political creed, the Chartists are beginning agitation at the ivrong end. Alluding to Sir R. Peel's difficulty as regards Ireland, the Dublin Evening Post observes :--" Sir Robert Peel has enhanced this difficulty ten-fold by the appointments he has made or sanctioned, and by the wild way in which his officers have gone to work. We said repeatedly at the commencement of Lord De Grey's Lieutenancy, that though he might not receive cordial and earnest support from the Liberals—this, indeed, he could not expect— yet, that if his Government was conducted with common sense, he would not experience the opposition with which it is now beset." The Scotsman, after remarking that the reign of Castlereagh has come again, goes on to remark " A good Government appeals to the people's sense of justice, a bad Government to their tears. The Whigs showed how Ireland, with all its imputed turbulenc might be safely governed on the former principle, and some fondly hoped that the old system of insurrection.- bills, and seditious -meetings-bills, and State prosecutions for libel, was gone for ever ; but Tory rulers have brought back Tory practices, and coercion is once more in the ascendant." The Devonport ludependent contains the following observations, in an article on the operation of the Corn laws :—" Fur the moment, the Corn-laws are deservedly the leading topic, for people are day by day perishing , for lack of the food they would have but for the opera tion of those laws—enactments, in our deliberate and sober judgment, as tyrannous and impious as any to be found in the blackest codes of the misrulers of mankind. Egyptian bondage was light compared with English ser vitude." Speaking of the tactics of the Puseyites, the Oxford Chronicl3 says :—" We mentioned last week, upon the best authority, that Dr. Pusey had declared the success of Mr. Williams to be of" MORE IMPORTANCE THAN THE APPOINTMENT OF A CABINET MINISTER ;" and it appears, from their movements, that the party generally concur in this estimate of the importance of the struggle to them : they are straining every nerve for victory. with as little scruple, as to the means, as any Committee of mere secular men anxious to carry their candidate at a borough election." • The Cambrian observes :—" Hundreols are starving, thousands are thrown out of employment, and thousands are forced to accept of wages which barely keep body and soul together, and which, after all, there is reason to fear, can only be paid out of the decreasiny capital of the masters. The literally total stagnation of the ird'n trade, coupled with the simultaneous extinction of their forges by the English, Scotch, and Welsh miners, must throw countless multitudes upon the poor-rates in the course of the winter." The Blackburne Gazette remarks, in an article on the present distressed state of the country—" It will end— "it can only end—unless immediately arrested—in the de struction of the trade of the country, the utter demorali zation of the labouring Population, and the consequent demolition of the fabric of social order." MONE Y — T T LADM — corani.Ezzem. The commerce of Trieste has been progressively in creasing up to July 15, 1840. In 1839 it amounted to 9,500,000 f., and in 1840 reached 12 ,000,000 f.. but since that period has decreased. On January - 1, 1640, u dif ferent ports of Greece possessed 2,354 vessels under thirty tons, and 886 above that burthen. She reckoned 18,66 f sailors in employ, and 15,891 unemployed. A gentleman at Bristol, highly connected, and holding a high situation in the Custom-house, is alleged to have absconded, having committed forgeries to the amount of about 8,0001. or 9,0001. About 7,500/. of forged accept ances have been already ascertained, one or two of which it is said are held by the braneh of the Bank of England. ECCLESXASTICAL. A French Paper states on authority that the Sultan has refused to allow a Protestant Church to be erected at Jerusalem. The English Bishop, therefore, on his a-ri val, will be absolutely unable to present to the inhabit ants of the country a celebration of his worship. Galig nani doubts the statement. A " Chartist Clergyman" asks whether he may not, when Parliament meets, omit • the * prayer for the High Court of Parliament when he reads the Liturgy, as cler gymen at their option omit .the offertory and prayer for the Church militant, and as he fancies David's Psalms very deficient in politital allusions, why may he not in troduce a selection of Corn-law and Chartist hymns? PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. The Coventry family have refused to surrender the ground in the Green Park, opposite Coventry House, which was to form part of the new improvements, they having it on a lease for sixty years, granted to them by George IV., at a ground -rent of thirty-six pounds. STATISTICS. The number of foreigners who have been sent out of Belgium, or who have been prohibited from entering the kingdom during the first eleven months of the year 1841, amount to 1,350. NAVAL AND MiLITAILIT. The gentlemen cadets underwent their half-yearly examination, previous to the Christmas vacation, before Lord Blomfield and the officers of the Ordnance corps on Saturday last. The Master-General will, in a day or two, report the names of those entitled to commissions. LAW AND POLICE. George Haley, a middle-aged respectable man, was this morning fully committed at Marlborough -street for stealing publicans' pots. He has five times before been convicted of the same offence, and had been but a short period before released upon his last committal. It is invariably observed that on approach of the in tensely cold weather, the number of charges for drun kenness at the Police Courts of the metropolis invari ably increases. No less than twenty-three cases of this description were brought to Marlborough-street Police Court this morning. COUICT----FASTIXON.II.23LE. Sir R. Peel leaves town to-morrow, or on the following day, for Drayton Manor. The French Ambassador and suite intend to pass Christmas day at the Marquis of Lansdowne's. Colonel Peel, M.P., the Surveyor-General of the Ord nance, has taken Lord Berwick's house in the Stable yard, St. James's for a term of years. The house is now undergoing repairs, with a view to its occupation early in February. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Carlton House-terrace, on Saturday last, for Broadlands. . Lord and Lady John Russell have gone to Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford. Lord Stanley leaves St. James's-square on Wednes day next, for Knowsley. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers leave Mivart's Ho tel to-day for Drayton Manor. The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness are expected at Woburn Abbey on Wednesday. The Duke of Buckingham has left Buckingham House for Stowe, Bucks. Earl Spencer arrived at Althorpe Hall, Northampton shire, on Wednesday last, from Spencer House. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Saturday, from Windsor Castle. PINE ARTS. A beautiful statue of Northcote, the artist, executed by Sir F. Chantrey, according to the Western Times, is placed by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral in such a position as completely to hide its beauties from view. LiTZIZARY .A.ND SCZENTIrIC. The house No. 5, Craig's Court, is being fitted up for the Museum of Economic Geology, to be under the direction of Mr. Delabeche, the Government Geologist, and Mr. R. Phillips. No. 6, the adjoining house, is to be the depository of mining records. A letter from Brussels, of the 18th inst.. states that a splendid painting by Rnbens 'has just been discovered. The subject is the battle of the Amazons, of which there is a finished sketch in the Gallery of Munich, which is well known to connoisseurs by the engravings. This newly-discovered painting is said to be one of the most highly finished and the most powerfully coloured of that great master. It is in the possession of M. La inoens, a rich amateur of Antwerp. THEATUXCAL. Monsieur Perlet, so great a favourite in London a few years since, has been engaged by Mr. Mitchell to com mence the season of French plays at the St. Jame4's Theatre. Many of Moliere's finest comedies will be given before Easter. Plessy, Dejazet, and Bouffe, ap pear at the conclusion of M. Perlet's engagement. Private theatricals have been performed during the last week at Woburn Abbey, in which most of the distin guished guests took a part. Mr. Lumley has re-,engaged the celebrated artistes of the last season at the Queen's Theatre, except Signor Tamburini, who holds out for the same terms he received under the late Mr. Laporte. Carlotta Grisi, cousin to the cantatrice, and her ca ra s p osa P errot , w ill lead the ballet at least before Easter. sPonTING. Prince Albert hunted with the Royal stag-hounds on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday last. The stag on. the last day, after an hour and a half's run, took refuge in the chimney corner of the kitchen at the Rose and Crown, about a mile and a half from Sandhurst College. To-day the Prince hunts at Stoke Common, and on Thursday with the hounds in Surrey. Lady Gardner's coursing establishment at Kinmel has been broken up in consequence of the late calamitous tire ; the greyhounds are to be sold this week. Ballinkeele, the famous Derby racer, has been sold by Mr. Maher for 2,000 guineas to Mr. Dixon, of Knights bridge. MISCELLANEOUS. On Friday evening last, owing to the collision of the down -train from London with another engine on the Croydon railway, three or four railway labourers, and four or five passengers were severely injured. At Hatfield, the Marquis of Salisbury's seat, which her Majesty is expected to visit in the spring -time, there still exists the oak-tree under which the Princess Eliza beth sat when the messengers from London came to re move her from a species of prison to a Throne. At Malta. illuminations in the public streets . of Va letta, the naval and military offices of Government, and the ships of ult. in the harbour, celebrated the birth of the Prince of Wales : the people are stated to have shown but faint demonstrations of joy. To-morrow will be the shortest day. The winter of 1564-5 was remarkable for a very severe frost, which began on the 21st of December, and, according to Hol lingshed, " some plaied at football on the river as boldly as if it had been on the drie land ; diverse of the Court being then at Westminster, shot daily at targets set upon the Thames; and the people, both men and women, went on the Thames in greater numbers than in anie street of the Citie of London." A man named James Fryer. one of the workmen em ployed at the new glasshouse, Mexborough, near Don caster, has manufactured a glass coffin, which he has bequeathed to his cousin, who holds a situation in Guy's Hospital, London, for his own body to be inclosed in when he dies, so that his cousin will see if he rots any faster than if he was coffined in lead. The coffin is made of clear glass, quarter of an inch thick , six feet two inches - long, 21 inches across the bosom, and 15 inches deep. He has ornamented it with blue glass death' s h ea d and cross bones on the side, and his name is inscribed on the lid. rarmoun Or THE DAY. A report has been current during the week that Sir Walter James is about to be called to the Upper House. THE DEPOPULATION SYSTEM IN IRELAND. —During the last ten years, as appears from the result of the Census, the decrease in the population of Ireland has been 527,590! The three sons of General Raindre, of the Ar have all served in Af r i ca , and have become vic ttiilmlesr', to their duty. The eldest lost a leg at the siege of Constantine; the second was killed before Blidah, towards the end of 1839, and the youngest died lately in the hos pital of a disease caught in the last campaign. Neither of them had attained more than their thirtieth year, and each had reached the rank of Captain. EVENING SUN LAW INTELLI4ENC-0 ce, I ; CHAN CERY CO utzT,_(Tais DAY. , PRICE V. IiOtTLI.—.TUDGMENT. The LORD. CHANCELLOR gaTejUdgm en t f o .day in tbi° case, which was argued before the Court a short r t tilll° since. His L or d s hi p sa i d that the question in the ca se related to the construct i on of the will of a p e rson nul le ti Roderick Wynne. B y that will the testator direl t e d l first, that his d e bt s should b.e paid, a nd h e th en devise his real estate to his daughter for life, with the rcnitlia der to her first and other sons, and with remainders over . He afterwards gave some legacies, and then he be' queathed his personal estate, after subjecting it t the payment of hi s d e b t g to his daughter ; aid tb e question for the consideration of the Court in that state of circumstances was, whether the will constituted a charge upon the real estate for the payment of ( 101 1 Now, there could b e no d ou b t that the first direction e the will amounted to a chsrge for the payment of deb ts a upon the r ea l es t a t e ; b ut i t was sa i d that that was ; charge merely by i mp li cat i on , an d that it m i ght be re but ted, if there app eare d anyt hi ng i n the will to show that l t i l i was not the int en ti on o f t h e testator to charge t h e re estate. In the case of Thomas v. Brechner, de c ided Sir John Strang e w h en M aster of t h e Rolls, it was 11e that a similar p r o v i s i on did not re b ut the implirAftic:,,y and in more m o d ern times, as the cas e o f D owse v• -` 4 :" 55 • Torrington, and P a l mer v . G rave, the same doetritle_,`:,d held. Now, i n t h e present case, what was there rei it g , upon for the purpose of repelling the implication ? It " .3 ' ere ; last clause with respect to t h e personal estate but wil the a testator bequeathed hi s p ersona l estate subject t O t he t he payment of d e b ts t h at i s not i nconsistent w i t h general ch a r ge , b u t i n accor d ance with it and w ith h general law. Hi s L or d s hi p t h ought, therefore, t h a t se c c i , a disposition m a d e at suc h a t i me could not b e 07 0 dered as rebutting the implication ; but then it ho said there were no similar words with respect tp ,,,,, e a personal estate ; hi s L or d s hi p t h ought that circunisr:., , too slight to justify hi m i n d e f eat i ng the general char;,.. and his opinion, th ere f ore , w as t h at there was a gene „ charge created by th e fi rst di rect i on, an d t h at that b i . neral charge was no t repe ll e d b y any subsequen t Pr°y sion contained in the instrument. .lto• THE ATTORNEY-GENE RAL V . THE EARL OF ST..- .v - o r e., The arguments in this p ar t-h ear d case wer e then, sumed, Mr. pzi Wethere.• behalf of the trustees. / I Gentleman had' hot concluded his a meats when rgti: we went to press.. ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY' ) LANGTON AND ANOTHER V. HORTON AND B IENIF ;0 This case, which was partly-h ear d a s h o rt time and then noticed in The Sun, was resumed this rnornio but, as there was no probability of its being conc lu .. to-day, it was arrang e d th a t t h e case o f t he Plai ntffk t ill should be conclud e d, an d t h e su i t t h en stan d pver Hiliary term next. e'•" The suit was instituted by the plaintiffs, who ell e d as mortgagees of one mo i et y o f a w h a li ng vessel °i t a, '4- the Ann, and of her car go , aga i nst t h e d e f en d a nt 1: 1 °; e f who claimed an absolute interest in both, but wh° alleged to be only a prior mortgagee of this meieti:A o r to have no interest in the cargo. It appeared that cbo • to the year 1837, th e d e f en d ant Birnie, "s was the owner of one moiety of the shin i i ,get which was th en engage d , i n a whaling „."',.tua, had had extensive de a li ngs w ith th e d e f en d a nt Ja• A % s a•, and in that year appli e d t o hi m f or ass i s t ance , in "r t i ceptance of bills to the e x t en t o f 4,2 00 / , an d in cons e th is tion of this made over to Horton, by bill or sa le 'dia , moiety of the vessel, and d e p os it e d w i t h hi m a policy -nese surance thereon. These bills were f rom ti me to tune rt sf e. ed five times, the l as t bill s b e i ng , b y arrangement' urii.ll4 by Horton, and accepted by Birnie. Before the last or became due Birni e b ecame em b arrasse d i n his his stances, and was. obliged t o com p rom i se with n' t t hat ditors, and Horton a cqu i esce d i n t h e arrangemen%ieti made, but claimed to be absolute owner of ene" ° ;yer, of the Ann, and of the entire cargo, which, 13 °%bot had been previou s ly mor t gage d to t h e pl a intigs , ,$ with Birni e , a ll ege d t h at h e was only e nt e l oe l, ~(1 to a mortage on th e mo i ety o f the o p which was redeemable in the ordinal'," ya ltr• • In the meantime the ship having arrived with t, o i e tf able cargo, H or t on t oo k p ossess i on an d so ld his 1- „pou in the vessel. an d th e cargo, and kept the amo unt ' hat oat which the pl a i n tiff' s filed abill for relief; and pr a )A, thcr an account might b e t a k en o f t h e money recetve. defendants on accoun t o f t h e sa l e, an d that Horton" - n be declared to be a mortgaeve only. „ ri te& Mr. Pembert on , M r . Bolt, and Mr. Hall rep re-- roeci the plaintiffs, and Mr. Turne r an d a nother L ' A ' Gentleman the defendants. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY') ' (Before the VI CE -C HANCELLOR of ENG-- LA D.) THE ATTORNEY -GENERAL v. LANGTOI''' , Atto/' This was an infor m ati on fil e d b y h er Majest , ,, nr chs s° ney-General, for the purpo se o f se tti ng a side r 'no t ° made by the defendant of certain tenements '' e deratl' a charity, on the ground of an i na d equa te con" - hain been given for them. i e lengt b '' After the case had been argued at considerab the Counsel for the defendant intimated that thoi of t , ready to give up possession and to p a y the CO sts , tb. t suit. The Court accordingly m a d e a decree effect. (Before Vice-Chancellor DatrcE.,) •. COCKIIURN V. SINGLETON. C 1 The further arguments in this cause were rese' - 0 this morning, and were not concluded when we lc to press. (Before Vice=Chancellor WiwiAm.) MONTRIO v. CARVICR. Aor i,g . His HoNouß wa's engaged in his pri va te room "i o the greater part of the day in hearing the argunl ejl doi this case, which came before th e C ou rt on " c4l ` . by order. QUEE at N N 'S isi BENCH.—(THIS C be i f i or . ;Sittings 1. )]1N3 Special Jury.) SHEPHERD AND OTHERS V. •aCti° tt b hh r ee o . I b i b g r ar gqtriult.H elorAT E rg S eeu t s G sop E velel a rar, v id) stated nfaglmvhacigoeneh t ls h etf e h( ernetpatoishaeeic.noiti iff Irovcri wit th e :S the river about half a mile above' Gravesend , .h January last. It appeared that the Vesper laden with coals and some crates of gla s :' b )I. f from Sunderland to London, on the day in question off Grave-lE ‘,% n 'a cl s and at the turn r, tho tide orders were given to heave up the a r li a ° a r ci !I s a ll proceed up the river to London.' The Captain anc hor come en board from Gravesend, and the „ wt P r; u:ji the act of being heaved up, the vessel haviriq -- N °ra'• 4 upon her, and there being no sail set, when tng ta ct y which' was standing up the river on her starboart; came down upon her. She was re p e atedlY ' l , 9 ' 0 by Captain Shepherd and some of the er es o l r aar square her yards and put her helm down , ill them' e or to avoid the accident, b u t tl disre gar ded and her bowsprit go t ent ang l e d in the rigginngeher the Vesper, and one of the flukes of the dr icea rhich was at that time about the wake level, wasdelay ' into her side, and she filled rapidly. After sorfl e , in l A ' the vessels were separated. The Vesper he' i ti a 1 " sinking state, she was run ashore near Gravese n i: b 1 r all attempts to raise her proved ineffectual, ann s-e r o re • came a total wreck. He would call witnesses to P lt[ the manner in which the accident occurred, an d it : 1 :11 u 1p be shown that the crew of the Vesper were not , fault, and that they could have done nothing to Pr e° , the collision. He would prove the value of and cargo, and it w o uld be for the Jury to sn Y.. " c • ir • damages the plaintiffs were entitled to under thoe cumstances. James el Hutchinson, mate of the Vesper-4 I 0 -It re the 28th January last. We were at anchor G r n end. Our vessel was laden with coa ls and soP ) , e sos of glass, bound from New cast l e to L o ndon. e to the windlass, and ho ve th e anc h or short. Th e the tain then came aboard ; and ordered us to 11 0.c° ; 1 . ' 4 anchor up. The tid e was runn i ng u p, and the N n g ? head was down. Wh en t h e anc h or wa s off the groli, the vessel was drifting up with the tide. It "1'1 ( ;4 - that time the brig Argus bore down upon us. Th e the tain was on the quarter-deck at the helm, and hal' n to people on board the Argus. He called out to t 1 aet square their main-yard and put their helm do ‘'' did not notice him, and he hailed them aga'n* al" told him to starboard his helm, and they w°n l " l reee it clear. Captain Shepherd said the barque w' `s one log in the water ! and would not obey her lie ir bo fore-topmast back stay caught the Vesper's .1° and the Argus swung a long s id e . The consAti ( ri ce to that the anchor was driven into the Vesper's s i ",t, r; . ° ll, the shank ; there was only five inches water in before the accident. I called to the master of the .a to let go his anchor and get the ships clear• t - go did not do so till he was spoken to ver...Wl or three times, and till he was told that t he was sinking. The fluke of the anchor went in O h • e ra seven feet below the water line. In five minutes t " , 0 0 , was three and a half feet water in the well. Wye Ire all sail, and ran the vessel on the south shore. , we, not done so she would have gone down .in deep wij " 1 4 , We got her on shore, and she • p her bearn.el The Vesper could have done nlovtehltnilg-trp.reveat th f A cc f ,CL. dent. The Argos had plenty of room to h ave 'a be c fo r r o e s s s h . e e x r a a m n i i n n e t d o . u -- 3. We had heaved the anchorn_ ,telf fore the master came on board. Re told u lr n b ' e t: to heave the anchor, and the Captain we quarter-deck, and put the helm a-port. went aft V t he ,„„ we, - f at the windlass the Argus struck us, and we ran' 01 , ear of some accident. There were eight raea m to yself: The Captain be geed them two or three tilos let go their anchor before the Arius into tia;• ran d • Captain called out to him to squre his main-yard an his helm down. esth Mettle d w ea --am a Gravesend pilot. On the of January I 'was on board the sloop John A,,Adani,• While for which was in tow of a steam tug. It was. within hundred yards of the vessels w 1 'n the accident ne,:. curred. The vessels had swung with the ti de about hlo', an hour. I saw th e b arque Vesper and the brig reaching t.. the northward. I said at the time the brig- wouldl3l'2' the barqu e if h e did not heave his yards aback , or Plo" the helm down. 'The brig was on the starboard Mei*, I heard them call out from the ba rk. If ',,t!" barque had heaved her foreyard aback , or put her " helm down and tacked short he might 11'11. avoided the collision. The Argus was g oing iloar knots an hour. Had the anchor been dropped it ".` a not have gone into the vessel, but I suppose their atteny... tion was taken up by the vessel bearing down on they° Cross-examined—l thought the Argus bid to hit •!., barque from the course she was going in. I don't th , lp.„ r the vessel altered her position further than that the I to; drifted her up when her anchor was up. It is often h s ,,6c - ; to get a ship under weigh without any sail being e, upon her. i g# Wm. NeSlingham —I was chief mate of the , cutter, in January last, I was on board the Vesper few minutes before the accident occurred. I was on • quarter deck with the captain. The Arg us was stars' . 1 1 11- d I I ~' n '~51~( L ,4 4 H; 74 ,,, 41 1.,;"4 r t . ou 3 a 41 % (4,