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nveNTNO FiniTION NEIVSPAPER STAMPS. 4xt: zact from a Return Order of the HOIISC of Commons, dated 2d Feb ruar y, 1841, for the following London Papers, from the Ist of July to the 31 st of December, 1840, inclusive SUN GLOBE 526,000 STANDARD 505,000 COURIER lll,OOO TIME. Sit ED-MONEY SAVED, IN TRAVELLING TO THE NORTH. Two years ago we commented, more than once, upon a projected railway then before Parliament, under the name of the " Manchester and Bir mingham Extension Railway," of which the two main objects were, first, to abridge the distance between the Metropolis, Lancashire, and the Northern Counties, by carrying a line of rails f rom the then intended terminus of the Man chester and Birmingham Railway, at Stone (in Staffordshire), to Rugby ; and, secondly, to open an entirely rjew channel of railroad communi cation between Lancashire and the Eastern Counties —the granary of England. At that time the project was opposed by the London and Birmingham, the Grand Junction, and the Midland Counties Railway Companies, by the Trent and Mersey Canal Com- P a nY, and by one or two powerful land owners, who, by their united influence and art, exercised in the •Shape of vexatious and costly delays, succeeded in defeating the Me asure for the S ess i on . Th e prom o ters were ke pt 4, fighting in th e " C omm itt ee on P e titi ons " or twenty-two (Parliamentary) days—they were referred 'to the " Committee on Standing Or and there lost four days; and they were in C ommittee " on the .1E11," for sixty-one days. They laid the foundation, however, of future success, the last-named Committee having re- Ported, that on a future application " every fa cility should b e a ff or d e d t o t h e promoters o f t h e 1 of which the forms of the House will admit." 1 , :We ar e g l a d to o b serve t h at a pet i t i on was , on lid aY, presented to the House of Commons, for c ave to introduce a measure substantially the Me as thi s , an d promote d b y t h e same p ar ti es , bu t designated " the Stafford and Rugby Rail av) tb. l t is understood that during the interval be e the fi rs t an d thi s a ppli ca ti on , t erms h ave n a made with th e m ost ri gorous o pp os i ng land b-wnery and with the Grand Juction Company, j which b o th th e C om pa n y an d th e p u bli c w ill sue ben e fi ted, the present intention being to start L e - line out of the Grand Junction Rail wa y, a t I..` 4ll hrd, thus shorteni ng th e rou t e , no t on l y t o 441111 eliester as heretofore, but to Liverpool, and eo nsequentl to Scotland and Ireland, and to wales. y 9 li a form e r o cca s i o n we ex p resse d ourse l ves ~, t i 4r -thly in favour of the original project, and our i eS ite for the a c co mpli s h men t o f thi s , it s coun verPart has not been abated by two years' addi °44l experienc e . Th e ex i s ti ng monopo li es , , " Certain ancient abuses, " have inc rease d, a r e ~.",e1 easin g , an d oug ht t o b e di m i n i s h e d ;" an d W hilst we think that to these ends Parliament maY do ( as i t i s a b ou t to attempt) much, we n ()n ear in a recen t d ec l ara ti on o f M r . L a b ouc h ere , at the surest way " by which th e pra c ti ca l mo bir,'h",.°l3r of lines of railway already existin g can b e d e ""h down, is by the establishment, in some th g*re e, of parallel lines." Such a line, to some 4 , 1 ° , 4 01 a limited extent, is the proposed Stafford 1 0e ",.. 11,1 1gby line ; with . this further and greater i t 'lt, that whilst it improves the existing routes, 80 ° ehs out new ones, and will develope the re ,Ur ~ees of districts hitherto, as it were, un liored. 4 , 44 evidence, too, as well of its substantial merit, to ° i f the fixed desire of the districts affected p r ,, ° a-ve the railway made, and of the parties tio'inoting it to carry it out, we may application an extraordinary fact. In 1839, when dr e vileation was first made to Parliament, the %Posit of 10 per cent. (amounting to a sum of A M) wa s of c ourse made ; and it is a fact not 4, 1:. of b el l he curious, and evidencing the goodness bele design, that this was then (and we 1 3 1 eve to this moment is) the first Com ji-,'ltlY Which had succeeded in obtaining a share vttii,lll.tPable of standing so stringent a test of its fo e Y• The money so deposited has been r ee ked 11 P ever since, and when, owing to the peronstruction of their plans, certain interested Iponymade a great clamour against the Com ziodY: with a view to frighten these depositors, , it , 14 doce them to escape from the project,. , 0 1. las determined to ascertain the feelings ; k n ute Shareholders, by dissolving the Coin ' 0 ~- Y , and giving any timid parties the t l l l 3 v °ll llllity to withdraw . To the accomplish toellt of this end, and , at the same time 8 t e llahle the parties to get to Parliament in this tl ia B4 , i° l l l if they chose so to do, it was necessary di ss - ni t ue meeting should be held, the Company he,,, - ,•ved, a new Company constituted, and a k B. l l eposit of 10 per cent. be obtained, within Pace of about 30 days. This, however (a thing ;di °st without precedent, we imagine), hasactu sercil)een done, few—very few—of the original sub liltd be choosing to retire, although their money tat,,,!?en so long locked up, and they might Nve, - ,„ . 7 41 Y be expected, therefore, to have become twi ce of the delay. Thus the project has been tri e l. "Put through the fire," and its validity I the severest ordeal. Rememberingtire this—and that Parliament has ti et tLY Sanctioned, in fact, a project almost idea the ni N v,ith this—that the railroad would improve th at 'l,tt and open new channels of intercourse— taco, it will establish a salutary check upon uwollolists already too strong—that the land to,oers) the only legitimate opponents of such a tooth re, are in an unusu a l d egree f avoura bl e to i at tho se w h o f ormer l y h a d the b est ground li a ; P Pose now s u ppo r t it, an d th a t th e promoters and e xpended large funds bef o r e P ar li amen t, i t ,,,. rit, therefor e , a n i m p ar ti a l award,—look will to all these thi ng s, we t rus t th e L eg i s l ature pfte%llnt allow a successful opposition to be again tik, o ' t l hY those whose sole influence is based eXt e ,' lt nd whose sole aim is the con ti nuance an d and -s ,ion of, p r i v il eges o f an exclus i ve ki n d , Dre:O .4 'ich are fou n d t o b e , i n th e i r present state, dicial to the public interests. kit. w .,,,, 41 RS OF WESTMINSTER AND c o kld urt PART OF MIDDLE S EX. b ef Sewers for the City and Lib er ty o f Westminster g ni — ',. of the C ounty o f Middl esex , w i ll be holden at the t T Wel 1 9; -31 %Mice Greek-street, Soho-squar e , t o - morrow , F e b. , .. A ve o' in Clock at neon precisely. 1. 1 1 _ PROCEEDINGS. be o f C ourt en t h e sth and I .2th of February, 1841, ' 2 -. ue read. • nfeceive Collector's reports ; 0 - 1 C4 0 .1 , 1 2 received and paid to the Treasurer. , f •u," Win* granted at preceding Courts. "' T ( r ) , - " at rrants or Summonses required for defaulters. oleceive the Clerk's report; the Collector's accounts. 4. T rln ? f o. t rd Thhe e e:M ta o te le o y f in the hands of the Treasurer. . Payment of 1,6961. 13s. id. to the Equ itable Gas 1; -1 / 1 11 1, being the amount tendered in the case o f I d 1 Y, ~so. Pritchard, in pursuance of the order of Court of the 14,.16,Yeeeraber, 1840. Upon which Tiltastax will move-- ,I t ,the BIM of 1,698/. 13s. ld. as a compromise in the -t ml, Mdle e Pritchard, cannotlegally and there- fore o ugh t not y to . l be abstracted fr om the l Sewers' Rate • Y the C ommissioners of Sewers; as the cause of such r 4t etion is shown in the R ecor d s o f t h e C omm i s ion to have ginated from an illegal order of the Commissioners, j which a prin.% benefit was conferred on one of the kfonimissioners lay making an unnavigable stream a na llable one; and that the legitimate source frowhence . 3ach compromise ought to be paid is by a ref un d ing o r se much of the purchase money paid by the Equitable 43 Company for a property so illegally benefited and unproved in value and not by a tax upon the present rat payer s of the Western Division of the Westminster _.evrers. The whole proceedings being contrary to the Statutes on Sewers and the judicial decisions thereon, e. To ;Ind conse Ap quently void ab i n iti o . 6 . l! aear eals. 7. To Con p Petitions and M emor i a l s. J . L 4 atuer the cases of parties summoned to appear, viz.:- - jj;: r _b a Paradise-row, G. Will es, and J. Maynard, for irregula r .!n ge i n t h e New-road, north of 8. s '-nelsea, ndar to Christ ..Church. _ 03 41' .! e i z ers to present reports, opinions, &c. as follows .-- ~. (\ I . evi Gullies required. Op from Home Department respecting Drainage ;if Streets in the neighbourhood of Buckingham Pa iace O n IR b e st Mode of improviro. Drainage of upper part of aekland S ''' on 5 ewer. *_P'Pes laid through the bank of the Counters Creek •.evrer for the relef of the West London and Wcstmin 9. To !ter cemetery. . eon s i ' si n , of Wet to the sating of Churches in the Eastern Di ninkin minster Sewers, with reference . to a commu *it t b 4 n f Q r . ???3 . the Solicitors respecting their conference h 1 0. ct of a ..•,..uticaitors of the several Parishes upon the sub erep sed special case. • , 11. .I.° jetlieet the Book of Informa tions. .4°, eamnine Bills. . r.i 'WEI IS l 'elth Sewer Kilburn. 0 ' l oad '‘ —num ni ghtsbrid ge , 14; 41 4. .4,,. PROGRESS. PRIVATE. Gloucester-sq., Paddington, Uxbridge-road, by Shepherds' Bush Bridge. Chapter -street, Pimlico. Eaton flews, West, ditto. Harriet Mews, ditto Chester Terrace, ditto. Maida Hill West, Padding ton nor of Canal. PROBABLE EFFECT OF A TOTAL REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAW. ARTICLE 1.-ON PRICE. Although we contend for the repeal of the Corn-law on the high ground of moral principle, denying in tote the right of the Legislature to make a law like this to alter the distribution of wealth, and enrich the idle at the expense of the industrious; and believing and declaring that such a law begins in nasty theft, slinking and creeping in the dark, and ends in wholesale starvation, yet we have never, we believe, shown any aversion to examine the effects of the law, endeavouring to demonstrate that they have been fully as injurious in an economical point of view as the law is unrighteous in principle. We do not, indeed, place much confidence in the various calculations which have been pre sented to us of the prices at which wheat can be grown abroad, and at which it would, under a perfectly free trade, be sold in England ; and we deny that such calculations, or that any facts connected with the expense of cultivation in other countries, and in this country, are proper elements, imperfectly as they must necessarily be known, and varying as they must necessarily vary from year to year, of our legislation. Ne vertheless, separating, as far as we can, facts from fiction, and just reasoning from mere fear born fancies, we are at all times willing calmly to examine the existing effects of the law, and to appreciate to the extent of our ability the probable effects of totally and immediately re pealing it. There are, for example, many doubts and differences of opinion as to what would be the effects of the repeal ; and, therefore, we think it worth while to form, if we can, a ra- tional appreciation of them. Let:us look at them, then, under the two-fold aspect, first of the im mediate, and secondly of the permanent effects. At-present we are in the month of February, and at least seven months must elapse before any corn grown during this year can be imported. The bulk of the last harvest is already appro priated, and probably as much of it nearly im ported as can be obtained. There is no reason to suppose—as no foreign country grew any corn expressly for us, or has any large storethat there exists anywhere in the world a great quan tity which can be brought into our market. What we have in store, and the produce of the next harvest, of which the seed is already in the ground—and which can only now be increased, anywhere, in consequence of any alteration of our law, by some extended growth of spring corn, not likely to be very large—is all that will be obtainable to supply the wants of our popula tion for the next nineteen months. The first question, then, we propose for consideration, is, what will be the immediate effect on prices of the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-law? That repeal would have little or no effect on the quantity of corn which can be brought to market for nineteen months. At present the price is somewhere about 605., and the duty somewhere about 265. The repeal of the law would allow all the corn which is in bOnd to be immediately entered for home consumption without the payment of any duty; and it would allow corn to be brought from all parts of the world without paying any duty, but it would not and could not augment the whole quantity of corn now in existence a single grain. Not augmenting the quantity, there would be no more immediately to supply the wants of the people than there now is. The bonded corn, the whole of which is 170,000 quarters of all kinds, would be brought in. The owners of it will not, however, sell it with out getting for it as much as they could; and though the law now appears, by levying a duty of 265. on a quarter of wheat, to raise the price to that extent, the owners of the bonded corn would certainly not sell it for 345. The power ofbringing it into the market, together with the power of im porting corn whenever wanted from all parts of the world, wherever it can be grown cheapest, the competition which would immediately take place between the holders of this corn and of all other corn, would undoubtedly lower the price to a middle term proportionate to the small in creased supply and the great many mouths to feed. To what degree the price would fall, no man can say accurately,'though a corn-merchant well versed with business might make a plausi ble guess ; but, inasmuch as the quantity of corn could not be immediately augmented, it is our opinion that the fall could not possibly exceed 10s., and perhaps might be about Gs., at once re ducing the price to about the average price of the whole period since the present Corn-law came into operation. This conjecture, which was made weeks ago, we find confirmed by the opinion of a respect able corn merchant, to whom we applied for in formation. He says that the first panic might bring down the price, for four or six months only, . _ _ _ to 525. or 565., and he thinks the permanent price, on an average of years, would be about what the average price has been since the pre sent law was passed, between 545. and 60s. That the law does not, in fact, secure a perma nently higher average price than we should have with free trade, is a curious circumstance, which we shall hereafter endeavour to explain ; we must content ourselves now with remarking, that it is another proof of the impotency, as well as the wickedness, of the law, and that the law is, as we have before stated, a lie and a cheat. There is, however, something to set off against this presumed fall in prices. The manufacturers, speculating on an increased demand for their goods in consequence of the repeal, both from the reduction of the price of food, and from those countries which would supply us with corn being then able to buy from our manufacturers, would immediately employ more hands. The merchants, too, would see other openings for commerce, and would extend their dealings and orders. There would be, coincident with the titll in price, an increased demand for food. At pre sent our people are only half employed and half fed, and the least stimulus to trade would give a great extension to their demand for food. They can consume a great deal more than they get, and they would consume more if they could get it. The manufacturers' demand for their services would enable them to get food. Nor would there be, as some persons suppose, any corresponding diminution of demand for agricultural labour. The farmers have, in the majority of cases, dis posed of their last year's harvest, and they have prepared for the next year's harvest. Their scheme of cultivation is laid down for several months, and could not in many cases be altered, except to a disadvantage. They would, till the next harvest reduce their returns, if that should be the case, continue to employ nearly as many labourers through the summer as if the Corn law was not repealed. None of their obligations would be • diminished, and they must keep up their cultivation to provide for their Michaelmas or Christmas payments. We conceive that the increased demand for food occasioned by giving to the starving people—who immediately need it, while its quantity cannot be immediately in creased—the power to purchase it, would in fact prevent any great fall in the price, and would we believe, even neutralize the little fall we have said would take place on the repeal. But if there were no fall at all, or if the price, after falling, had again, in consequence of the new demand, a tendency to rise—as we believeit would before the next harvest, and after the next har vest, unless that should be very abundant—the agriculturists would have an increased demand for labour, and there would be through every part of the empire an increased demand for food. It employing more labour were not to neutralize, and even more than neutralize, the effects of the in creased supply, it would at least prevent any immediate great fall, and would guard against any future fall. Taking these circumstances into consideration, we entertain a well-founded con viction that the total and immediate repeal of the Corn-law could not possibly lower the price, under the most unfavourable circumstances for the farmer, more than 10s. this year, and most probably would not lower it Gs. The subsequent fitll or rise must depend on the harvest and the extent of our trade. We shall stop now, but we shall continue from time to time, as we find an opportunity, to point out the effects of the repeal of the Corn-law. r ~~K Y ~ _'lfey:}.~l.~~.~:P'~~.9`.'!"..%9a?„i s'.-:-". A~-R.~+T'..: ~ ice_'. tit:K_SuN,IMNBCYK., TITURSDA_V, PRIIIIVARY is i 941. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty had an evening party, on Tuesday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty's private band attended during the evening in the saloon. Among the company were Prince Esterbazy, the Austrian Ambassador, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Ladies E!eanora and Constance Paget, the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Earl of Morley, Earl and Countess of Vcrulam, Viscount and Viscountess Pal merston, Lady Frances Cowper, Lord and Lady Ro bert Grosvenor, Lord Ossulston, Mr. George Ed ward, and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. Berkley and the Hon. Miss Paget, and the Hon. William Cowper. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the garden of Buckingham Palace yesterday forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday, and lunched with her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Ma jesty the King of the Belgians. Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell had audiences yesterday of the Queen. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel W 3 !de and Colonel Wemyss, rode out on horseback yesterday. Baron de Bourqueney, French Charge d'Affaires, had an audience of his Majesty the King of the Bel gians yesterday in Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening. The company consisted of his Majesty the King of the Bel gians, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge, M. Van de Weyer, the B Agian Minister ; the Earl and Countess of Tanker- • ville, the Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Lord and Lady Lilford, Lady Methuen, Sir Robert Adair, Baron Stockmar, the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Faany Howard, Hon, Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Lister, Baroness Lehzen, Genera! Goblet, M. Van Peet, Baron Knesebeck, Lord Poltimore, Sir Frederick Stoven, Hon. C. A. Murray, Colonel Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, and Captain Seymour. The Band of the Coldstream Guards attended at the Palace in the evening. The Prussian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Sir John Scale, Mr. Bell, M.P., and Captain Lush ington, had interviews with Lord John Russell, yester day, at the Colonial Office. The Marquis• of Nortnanby gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers, last evening, at his residence in Hill-street. RACING PROSPECTS FOR 1841. The " races to come" open as usual with the Craven Meeting. We cannot but exclaim, " What a falling off is here !" No ()attends, no coffee-room, no claret, no vacillation ; only two matches, a miserable Riddles- worth, and but eleven races down for the five days ! We can give no better tidings for the First Spring ; but seven stakes are made. The Two-year-old Stakes for the summer and autumn have filled well. Some dozen are named in the St. Leger—Pakomon the most formidable ; but matches are unusually scarce. The Newmarket entries for future years, especially 1842, arc superb. We have the largest Derby and Oaks ever known, only to be exceeded next year. In the entry for the former, 1841, the word " dead" should have been added to Mr. Etwall's e. out of Mopsa and Sir R. Bulke ley's Blucskin ; and Mr. NV imbush's c. out of Espagnolle is named Finehley. At Ascot the list looks well, but scarcely any of the stakes In re close until the Ist of April, except the Cup, for which the horses must be named on the first day of March. There are already 17 subscribers to the stakes, and 20 to the Wokingham. The Great Ascot Pro duce Stakes for 1844 has 39 nominations. There arc 23 subscribers to the Stakes at Bibury ; steward the Earl of March. There are 37 to the Pre duce Stakes at Stockbridge, 1844 , 30 in 1843. There are forty-four names appended to the Hamp ton handicap, to close and name on the let of May. The usual liberal supply of the money added by indi vidual Noblemen] appears under the head of Eglinton Park. At Doncaster there arc, to the Champagne Stakes, 26 subscribers ; to the St. Leger,l3s, the greatest num ber ever known ; 30 to the Two-year-old Stakes ; and 24 to the Park-hill. Ido not observe the much-to-be desired liberality on the part of the Corporation ; the money added does not amount to ten per cent. on the usual receipts at the grand stand. However unde servedly the St. Leger keeps up its attraction, there are 136 subscribers for next year. We pass over the minor meetings, and notice 'those only that appear coming out in a fresh place, like Gor hambury, where seven races are announced for each day. The officers of the Household Brigade are here to make sport. 'The Chester Meeting is judiciously arranged to take is the intervening week between the First and Second Spring Meetings ; 53 horses were named for the Tradesmen's Plate, and 38 have accepted. Blooms bury, 9st. 41b., the top weight, is much fancied by the co ,noscenti. The races here are spread over five days. 'l' tree, in my opinion, would be quite sufficient. To the Wolverhampton Stakes there arc 49 sub scribers ;to the Holyoake, 40. Mr. Giffard and Mr. B ewes are the stewards. The first two days of the Hippodrome are appointed for the same week as Chester ; the next the week after E2som ; both times judiciously selected. One thou sand sovereigns are advertised to be added to the Pro duce Stakes, 1843 and 1844. There are, respectively, 86 and 85 subscribers. At Goodwood there are eight races down for the first day, including the Drawing-room Stakes ; a sweepstakes or five hundred sovereigns each, two hundred forfeit, for two year olds ; and the Ham Produce Stakes (first year), with forty one subscribers. To the Goodwood Stakes there are one hundred and forty-four, the largest number ever known to any handicap race in the world, thereby in creasing my arguments for dividing it into two classes; to the Cup forty-five ; and on the last day the Orleans Cup, given by his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans, and another large Produce Stakes with 43 nominations. There are altogether 20 good stakes for the four days at Goodwood, besides stewards' prizes, and more plates, private and public, than given at any other meeting. Verily, the Goodwood 1841 will go near to eclipse its predecessor, by far the most brilliant meeting ever witnessed. The enormous Produce and other Stakes to come on in succeeding years at Good wood occupy no less than thirteen pages io the Calendar book. The Liverpool Meetings are in future to be under the same regulations as to the appointment of the stewards as Newmarket, one of the thtee retiring annu ally. The principal alteration in the July is in the St. Leger, which numbers just double the number of sub scribers it had last season ; beyond this, the entries are rather below the average. The Autumn Meeting will see a better day ; the Grand Junction Stakes for 1843 and 1844 are well filled. To the Leamington Stakes there are in the book eighty-five subscribers ; there will, doubtless, be more, but it cannot be expected that such a race-course as Warwick can keep up such a meeting as took place under the direction and liberality of the ►ate steward, Lord George Bentinck, when there were to the Stakes 130 or more nominations. The Warwick Meeting falls this year in the week immediately preceding Doncaster --a good alteration, as it will serve as a halfway house to the latter race-course. JUDEX. —.Morning Post. MEDICINE CHESTS FOR SEA. TO 7'HE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. Stn,-;—You will greatly oblige,me by inserting in your columns (which are always open to the cause of justice) the following brief analysis of the report that appeared yesterday in the Police Intelligence, under the head of " Mansion-house," respecting the supply of medicines of an inferior quality to the ship Nunez. Raving resided for the last twelve years with a gen tleman at the East-eod of London, who has been exten sively engaged in fitting and refitting medicine chests for sea during the last thirty years, I presume to be com petent to judge somewhat of the affair. First—As regards the certificates produced from Mr. Battley, and Messrs. Allen and Co., and the opinion of Mr. Hennel, of Apothecaries'-hall, it would appear to me that a medicine chest was never refitted in either of those establishments, or at any rate, one that had been entirely under the Captain's care (i. e. on board a vessel not carrying a surgeon, which was the case in the pre sent instance), for I would ask any druggist that has had experience in that branch of business, in what state me dicine chests return from a sea voyage ? The answer would be," the corks and stoppers are all, or nearly so, neglected to be replaced after using, hence the state of the " jalap, rhubarb, and dover's powder," which by ex posure to air and moisture, frequently become of a con sistence fitter to roll into pills, than exhibit in the form of powders, and the " tinctures," by evaporation, lose the greater part of their spirit. Secondly—As regards the statement of Capt. Paddon respecting his inability to take the medicines, it is ex tremely futile, implying, if Frightly understand that the bad quality was the cause ; for I should consider him as good a judge of medicine, as myself of the rigging of a ship ; and should they have been deteriorated on the passage from the cause above mentioned, the flavour, and consequently the nauseousness, would have been much removed, and therefore more agreeable to the palate. Thirdly—As regards the statement of Mr. Forster, there appears in it a great incongruity ; for it is re markable that the ship " has been to the coast of Africa, detained there during the rainy season," and yet " six months" only have elapsed since the medicines were supplied. Finally—Allow me to observe, in behalf of the cha racter of druggists, and to remove the slur that these proceedings may cast upon them, and consequently the prejudice they may incur (to their great disadvantage), of merchants and captains, that to judge of the quality of medicines on hoard merchant vessels, carrying no surgeon, they must be inspected before, and not after the voyage.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Feb. 16,1841. VINDICATOR, LITERATURE. THE LAND OF BURNS—PARry 21, 22, 23. Mackie, Glasgow, 1841. We have just received the three last Parts of this work, which is published in Monthly Num bers, and contains a series of landscape sketches illustrative of the Poems of Burns, with literary notices of them from the pens of Professor Wil son and Mr. Robert Chambers. The Parts be fore us are exclusively dedicated to a criticism on the writings and character of the great national Scottish poet, which the Professor has dashed off in his happiest and freest manner, , interspersing his critical remarks with an abundant variety of characteristic anecdotes of Burns in his youth, in his manhood, and in the decline of his days, when the hand of adversity had fallen heavily on him, and sorrow was a, constant guest at his fire-side. How just in thought, and beautiful in expression, are these observations on the general spirit that pervades Burns' poetry! To our thinking they are superior to anything that has yet been written of this trauscendant peasant poet. " Imbued with vivid :perceptions, warm feeling's, and strong passions, Barns sent his own existence into all things, animate aud inanimate, around him; and not an occurrence in hamlet, village, or town, affecting in any way the happiness of the human heart, but roused as keen an interest in his foul, and as ge nial a sympathy, as if it had immediately con cerned himself and his own .individual welfare. Most other ppets of rural life have looked on it through the aerial veil of the imagination, often beautified no doubt by such partial concealment, •and beaming with a misty softness more delicate than the truth. But BuniS would not thus indulge his fancy where he had felt so poignantly all the agonies and transports of life.: He looked around him, and when he saw the smoke of the cottage rising up quietly and unbroken to heaven, he knew, for he had seen and, blessed it, the quiet joy and unbroken contentment that slept below ; and when he saw it driven and dis persed by the winds, he knew also but too well, for too sorely had lie felt them, those agitations and disturbances which had shook him, till he wept on his chaff bed. In reading his poetry, therefore, we know what unsubstantial dreams are those of the Olden age. There is no delu sion, no affectation, no exaggeration, no false hood, in the spirit of Burns' poetry." Truer words than are contained in this last significant sentence, were never yet spoken. Burns is in deed sincere and unaffected, if ever man was. His poetry is an exact, literal transcript of his own thoughts and feelings, and gives us a better insight into the peculiarities of his private character, than a thousand bio graphical memoirs could do. Who could pos sibly mistake the nature of the man who wrote " Tam o'Shanter ?" Till Moore's Life appeared, we were all, it seems, grievously in error respect ing the character of the noble " Childe ;.' but none could ever misapprehend the sort of being that Burns was, who had once read his inimitable love-songs. We are glad to see that Professor Wilson does not fall in with the prevailing cant about this great poet's dissipated habits, but writes of him in a frank, manly, genial spirit, as conscious that he has no cause to be ingeniously begging the question, but that the bold, plain spoken truth is the best compliment he can pay his memory. We have read the Professor's cri ticism with infinite pleasure, and object only to one portion of it—that, namely, where he endea vours to institute a parallel between the charac ter of Burns, and—who does the reader think— of Dr. Johnson ! We can scarcely believe he is in earnest in instituting this parallel, for we know but of one equal to it in perverse, whim sical ingenuity, and that memorable one is, Fluellyn's comparison of Maceddn with Mon mouth. HISTORY OF SURREY.—PARTS V., VI. Ede, Dorking, 1841. We have more than once had occasion to speak in terms of approval of this local history, and having now the first half vol nme before us, find that our favourable opinion is not without suffi cient warrant, and that the want of a work illus trative of an important metropolitan county will no longer be felt. The most recent agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial changes that have taken place in Surrey, have been all pointed out with great minuteness by Mr. Brayley and others ; and the geological section of the work, f'rom the practised pen of Dr. Mantell, supplies that species of knowledge which is just now so much sought after, and which must ever prove of high value to the practical farmer. We must not omit to speak of the imbellishments—such as the plates, maps, sections, &c., which are finished 'off in a superior style of art. D ODD' S PEERAGE, 4^e. Whittaker, London, 1841. A useful work of reference, containing an ac count of the peerage, baronetage, and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland; together with all necessary particulars respecting the junior branches of the nobility and all the titled classes. The compiler is a gentleman named Dodd, who has performed a troublesome and laborious task with skill and efficiency, and to whose active in dustry we are indebted 'for the " Parliamentary Pocket Companion." The great merits of the present work are its brevity and condensation, and its introduction of the knights who, as the compiler justly remarks in his preface, " have long demanded a place among the hereditary titles of which these distinctions are frequently the precursors." The book is got up in a singu larly neat style, and is of a very commodious shape. A TREATISE ON THE COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS, 6 , c. By J. E TENNENT, ESQ., M.P. Smith and Co., London. Mr. Tennent was Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons, in 1840, on the Copyright of Designs, and in this little work has given a brief outline of the proceedings of the Committee, together with the more interest ing portions of the evidence, the actual condition of the trade of*calico printing in the States of the Prussian League, and replies to the reasons alleged against the extension of the copyright. Mr. Ten nent's main object, however, is to show that the ex isting law for the protection of designs is defective, that the term of three months during which the proprietor shall have an exclusive property in the profits of his inventions is too short, and that the extension of the period to twelve months will re medy a great many of the evils of which the proprietors of original patterns have aeason to complain. It is a very complicated sub ject, embracing a vast variety of details, and affecting more or less manufacturers, retail dealers, and the public at large, and we therefore refer our readers to the work itself, where they will find both instruction and amusement. On. one point nearly all are agreed, that the proprie tor of a design, like the author of a book, or a patentee of an invention, is entitled to have his property secured for a certain period, against the invasion of copyists and pirates, the only diffe fence is as to time, one party contending that three months is too short, and twelve months too long, and the probability therefore is that some intermediate' period, six or nine months for instance, will finally be adopted by the Legis lature. The Bill prepared by Mr. Tennent and Mr. O'Connell fixes the longer period. What ever be the result, however, the author deserves credit for the labour he has bestowed on a very important measure, and for the clear and excel lent arrangement of the arguments on both sides. THEATRICALS IN AMERICA. —I n this month we have to chronicle the entire downfal of the two large theatres in this city, for the present, under every kind of movement which they have attempted to make; tragedy, comedy, melodrama, opera , , tragi-coinie, opera -tragi c , con certs Musard, concerts d Hiver, con certs d' lnfernal, pro menades and fancy balls , winding up with legitimate farces. Power, the Woods, Braham, nor all the talent in the country could check their career, and down they h ave gone f or the present. Alas, for the legitimates I The ent i re revolut i on in public tas:e, which we have so long predicted, has reached itsclimax at last, and the Covent-garden and Drury lane of America have had to succumb to it. I n th e mean time the minor theatres, admittance 25 cents and a shilling, are doing big business. In the meantime we have the following array of talent of all sorts in th e country ; some busy, some idle, some making money, some spend i ng it : —Messrs. Braham, Sinclair, Wood, De Begnis, Giubilci, Seguin, Martyn, Bough, Manvers, A. Phillips, Lee;ier, Horncastle, Vandenhoff, Forrest, Booth, Power, Hacket Rice, Brown, and Mons. Martin; Fanny Ellsler, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Sutton, Mrs. Martyn, Mrs. Bailey, Miss In veraTity, Mrs. Morley, Mrs. Lceder, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Gibbs, Miss Vandenhoff, Mrs. Maeder, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Madame Giubilci, and Madame Lecomte. —New York MEETING ON THE IMPORT DUTIES.—We refer with pleasure to the requisition to the Lord Provost, signed by a large number of the most respectable mercan tile houses in this city, and embracing individuals of all shades of political opinion, for a meeting on the subject of the Import Duties. His Lordship, it will be seen, has appointed the meeting to be held on Friday next, at three o'clock, in the Trades' Hall, Glassford.street, and wo an ticipate that the assemblage will prove one of the most in fluential that fora long time has taken place in this city. We rejoice to find so many gentlemen coming forward, who, although differing on certain party questions, are as ono as to the necessity that exists for a searching revision into our system of Import Duties; and a manifestation of this nature from the important mercantile and manufactur. ing community of Glasgow cannot fail to have its due weight in the deliberations of the Legislaturc....-Glasgote Argue. CASE OF 31R. 31'LEO.D. We understand that official intelligence has been re ceived from Wasliing,ton of a much more satisfactory nature than might have been supposed from the news• paper accounts received by the Acadia. There is no reason to doubt that the authorities of the State of New York will liberate Mr. M'Lcod upon bail. Indeed, they would have done so already, but Mr. Nl.Leod, being a stranger in the neighbourhood of Lockport, was unable to procure the necessary sure ties. Sir J. Harvey, however, we understand, gives the guarantee of the Colonial Government to the parties undertaking to become bail for Mr. APLeod, who, it was expected, would be immediately liberated. It has been stated in previous accounts from the United States, that Mr. M'Leod had refused, or would refuse, to avail himself of the opportunity of being li berated on bail. There is, we believe, no foundation for this statement. On the contrary, he was known to be anxious to return to Canada, and was somewhat ap prehensive that his trial might have been postponed till next year. The liberation of Mr. M‘Lcod will remove the more immediate cause of the apprehension which has existed in this country since the fact of his arrest became known. For, although he can prove to a demonstra tion that he was not present at the destruction of the Caroline, even a defence so conclusive might not have protected him from a jury partaking of the general ex citement that prevails upon the subject - . The American Government will, in the meantime, have received the remonstrances of the British Govern ment, and will, we trust, see the injustice of allowing a case of this kind to be taken out of its own hands, and transferred to the jurisdiction of a local tribunal. Look at the first and necessary effect of such a course. At present the affair of the Caroline is a subject of nego tiation between the two Governments. This tribunal has been selected by the American Government itself. Suppose, then, that Mr. M'Leod is brought to trial by the Government of ona of the States, ar.d that upon the merits of the case he is either acquitted or found guilty. How can the general Government pretend to negotiate upon a question already judged by one of the States, whose delegated authority that general Govern ment administers? If I\l'Le4cl be acquitted upon the merits, it is a legal decision of the State of New York that the destruction of the Caroline was justifi able. Would the Government of Washington feel it self stopped by this decision from entertaining the question further ? No. Their doctrine is, that the British Uovernment is accountable to the general Go vernment of the States, and for the same act the servants of the British Government are accountable to the particular State in which the act may have been committed. By referring to the British Government for expla nation, the American Government recognised the case of the Caroline as one of those provided for by its own constitution as a subject for national negotiation. If a jury, in the State in which the question may arise, is to conclude the negotiation upon the part of the Ame ricans, the Queen of England should take into consi deration the propriety of accrediting an Ambassador to each of the several States. Let us suppose, again, that Mr. INPLeod bad been brought to trial, found guilty, and hanged, in the sum mary way that Lord Stanley so very feelingly appre hended ; that after the lapse of some time it was proved to the satisfaction of the Central Government that Mr. M'Leod was not even present at the destruction of the Caroline, that the witnesses had mistaken him for a brother, or that the cvidence collected by the British agents and laid before the American Executive during the negotiation was a satisfactory defence of the de structio❑ of the Caroline ; with whom should the Go vernment of England account for the murder of a Bri tish subject ? The State of New York? Or is the whole Union to be dragged in as abettors of its wrong doing ? The consequences of transferring a question clearly international in its character, from the authority pointed out by the American constitution as the agent of all in ternational questions, to a local tribunal, not the most likely, we fear, to be impartial judges, arc not merely inconvenient, but must prove in time fatal to the exist ence of the federation. In the present case we trust that reflection will convince the American Government, not only of its impolicy, but of its deep injustice.— Chronicle. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The parishes of Thame, Towersey, Sydenham, and Tetsworth, in this county, in the gift of Dr. Slater, of Wycombe, being now vacant by the death of the late Vicar, the Rev. T. J. Lee, arc immediately to be se parated, and resident clergymen instituted to each of them. The Rev. James Prosser, of Loudwater, has been presented to Thame, the mother church. This is an admirable arrangement, and worthy of being uni- Nersally followed.-o.llbrd Herald. The Rev. T. W. Peile, M.A., late Fellow of Tri nity College, Cambridge, and Senior Tutor in the University of Durham, has been appointed to the Head Mastership of Lepton Grammar School, in the county of Derby. The Rev. J. A, Mortis, to the Vicarage of Hamp ton-in-Arden, Warwickshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. H. T. \Voodington. The Rev. G. Rigge, M. A., to be Evening Lecturer of St. Mark's, Lincoln. The Rev. John Muck, to the Rectory of Walsoken, Norfolk. The Rev. John Brown, 8.A., to the Rectory of Bat come with Upton Noble, Somersetshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Coney. The Rev. T. M. Cornish, 8.A., to the Rectory o fleathfield, Somersetshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Cornish. The Rev. George Gore, M.A., to the Rectory of Newton St. Loe, Somersetshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Peter Gunning. The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital have been pleased to present the Rev. Mcyrick Beebee, Vicar of Alston, and Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Somerset, to the Rectory of Simonburn, Northum berland, vacant by the death of the Rev. Wiliam El liott. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has ap pointed the Rev. F. Russell Nixon, perpetual curate of Ash, one of the six preachers at the Cathedral, in the room of the late Rev. J. Hamilton. The Rev. John Dobie, 8.A., of Corpus Christi Col lege, Cambridge, to the perpetual curacy of Royton, Lancashire. Patron, the Rector of Prestwich. The Rev• W. M. Hurlock, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been instituted to the vicarage of Hurstbourne Tarrant, with Vernham Dean, in the county of Hants, vacant by the death of the Rev. I'. S. Fisher. OBITUARY. At Whitchurch, Salop, the Rev. Win. Kent, aged 82. At Braham, Yorkshire, the Rev. Thos. Radcliffe. At Stafford, aged 33, the Rev. Tuomas Dickenson, 8.A., late curate of 'Famworth. The Rev. Reginald Bligh, 13.1)., rector of Cockfield, Suffolk. The Rev. Robert Churchman Long, perpetual cu rate of Dunston, Norfolk, aged 70. The Rev. Tobias Adams, vicar of Aherne Cloyne, and rector of Britway. At Portsea, aged 70, the Rev. ;olds Clay. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 17.—At an Ordination held by the Right Rev. John Bird, Lord Bishop of Chester, in the cathedral church of Chester, on Sunday last, the 14th inst., the following gentlemen were ordained : DEACONS OF CAMBRIDGE.—B. Crompton, 8.A., Trinity College ; G. Gibbon, 8.A., Catherine Hall ; J. Losh, 8.A., Jesus College ; Edward Francis Manby, 8.A., Christ's College ; Robert Morewood, 8.A., Queens' College ; George Bethune Norman, 8.A., Trinity College ; Frederick Stewart, 8.A., Pembroke College ; Richard Yerburgh, 8.A., Christ's College. OF OXFORD.—Algernon Coote, 8.A., Brasenose College ; Joseph Wilding Twist, 8.A., Queen's Col lege ; Thomas Lowe, 8., Oriel College ; by Lett. dim. Archbishop of York. OF ST. BEES.—George Crawley Bowles, Lite rate ; Henry William Rae, Literate. OF DUBLIN.--Richard Parry Jones, 8.A., Trinity College ; Robert Townley, 8.A., Trinity College. OF ABERDEEN.—Angus Bethune, M.A., King's College, by Lee. dim., Bishop of Durham. PRIESTS OF CAMBRIDGE.—RaIph Congrere, 8.A., Corpus Christi College ; Augustus Gaspard Edouart, 8.A., St. John's College ; John Hickman, M.A., St. John's Col'ege; Richard William Bishop Marsh, 8.A., St. John's College ; William Matthews, 8.A., Queen's College, by Lett dim., from Bishop of Ripon ; Richard Morton, 8.A., Catherine Hall; John Sheldon, 8.A., Catherine 1141. OF OXFORD.—Edward Jones, 8.A., Jesus College ; George Robertson Moncricff, 8.A., Balliol College. OF ST. BEES.—Samuel Cavan, Literate ; Wm. Meymo't Farley, Literate. . - OF LAMPETER.-Hugh Percy Thomas, Literate, St . David's College. Or DunLlN.L—Chlrles Bickmore, 8.A., Trinity College ; Arthur Douglass, 8.A., Trinity College ; Richard Johnstone, :8.A., Trinity College ; Wm. Purks, 8.A., Trinity College ; Frederick John Walker, 8.A., Trinity College. On Friday a woman named Mary Parnell, who had reached the very advanced age of 108 years, was in terred in the burial-ground attached to the parish church of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green. She was born at Billeri cay, in Essex, where she lived about 100 years. As she was desirous, about five years ago, to come to London to be among her children, grand-ekildren, and great-grand children, of which last there aro near thirty living, she left Billericay, and lived with a grandson and granddaughter , at 180, Church-street, Bethnal-green, and the parochial authorities consented to let her have 2s. 6d. a-week, which was paid to her quarterly, upon a certificate being sent down signed by the parochial authorities of B e thnal-green. She was first married in the year 1752. Mr. Winston Barron, 3.11. P., is detained in Vienna by the illness of one of his children, from measles; which, from the severity of the weather, has been attended with peculiar danger. The Honourable Member may, however, be expected in England in a fortnight. 4 _YT%~{ AMERICA. ADDITIONAL EXTRACTS FROM THE NEW YORK AND CANADIAN PAPERS. AFFRAY AT NASHVILLE.—A rencontre took place on the 11th inst. at Nashville between R. C. Foster, son of :s: r. Foster, la!e United States Senator, and J. G. Harris, Editor of the Nashville Union, which proved oearly fatal to the latter. afferent accounts of the af fray are given by the two parties. It appears that there had been some diffcreoce between them on the subject of politics, Foster having spoken harshly of Gen. Jack son, and Harris giving the lie, Foster challenged him, but he refused to fight. Foster then, it appears, under took to chastise him, anti for that purpose went to the hotel where Harris boarded, and waited for hint as he came in to supper. As he was crossing the bar-room Foster fired a pistol, one ball from which entered his breast and another passed through his arm. In his card Foster states that Harris was approaching him with a pistol in his hand and that he fired in self-defence. ILr ris's wounds are severe but not dangerous. SAD CALAMITY WITH Loss OF LlFE.—Tuesday morning at about 8 o'clock, the steam engine used in Messrs. Pike and Perry's Sash and Blind Manufac tory exploded, producing ruin and devastation to the building, and what is most melancholy and afflict ing, Calvin M. Pike, a young man about 20 years of age, and a brother of the senior partner, was killed instantaneously. The engineer, Mr. Higby, who was standing by the engine at the time, found himself a number of yards outside of the building—and fortunately, we are told, uninjured. One or two other workmen were slightly injured. The boiler—upper part—was sent with tremendous violence through the roof of the building to the height, as stated, of 150 feet, producing in the earth on its fall an excavation of several feet, although frozen. Toe only cause which we arc at this moment able to give is, that which is common in most eases of the kind—the water in the boiler became too low, and on filling up with cold, steam was created faster than could escape through the safety valve.— Middletown County Constitution. POUTING ROOMS.—John Adams, in his correspond ence with Mr. Cunningham, gives the following descrip tion of a boudoir :—What is a boudoir ? It is a pout ing room. And what is a pouting room ? In many gentlemen's houses in France there is an apartment of an octagonal form, 21 or 15 feet across, and Z 37 or 45 feet round, and all the eight sides, as well as the ceiling above, are all of the most polished glass mirrors ; so that when a man stands in the centre of the room, he sees himself in every direction, multiplied into a row of selfs, as far as the eye can extend. The humour of it is, that when the lady of the house is out of temper, when she is angry, or when she weeps without a cause, she may be locked up in this chamber to pout, and see in every direction how beautiful she is. FANNY ELSSLER.—This celebrated danscuse arrived at Havana on the 15th ult., but had not landed at the time of our informant's writing. Business was almost entirely suspended and the Quay thronged with people anxious to get a glimpse of "la Belle Elssler." A Havana correspondent of a New Orleans paper, writes that the managers of the Tacon Theatre have engaged Fanny Elssler to perform 10 nights at 1,000 dollars per night. She will then have a benefit which will yield probably 4 to 5,000 dollars more. We understand that Mr. M'Leod will to-day give the required bail at Lockpert. This step, we believe would not have been taken had there been any proba bility of his trial taking place when the Court sits in February ; but as it is almost certain that he would have been incarcerated for many months before his per secutors would bring the cause on, it is far better that he should be at liberty in the mean time, his health • having already suffered materially from the unjust con finement of which he has been the victim.—Niagara Chronicle, January 14. VERY LATE FROM THE PACIFIC. (From the Baltimore American.) The schooner Coquette, Galt, arrived at this port yesterday in the very short passage of sixty-nine days from the port of Islay, in Peru. The republic of Bolivia was in a very disturbed state, and the opinion was very general that a revolution would break out shortly. In expectation of the event, the Pei uvians were about to declare war against Bolivia, and were concentrating their forces preparatory to joining one of the revolting parties in the latter. We have been politely favoured with the following extract of a letter brought by the Coquette : Iseas - , Nov. 13, 1840.--Wc have rumours of war between Bolivia and Peru, and the event is weekly ex pected to take place. 1 have seen letters from the capital of Peru, in which Bolivia is threatened with in vasion, and I find there is much dissatisfaction among the higher orders of people in Bolivia, opposed to the present administration of the Government. Those who have large interests in that province fear a revolu tion will soon take place, and the Peruvians are ready to join one party or the other, which will involve fearful consequences. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.-THE TWO JOHN FROSTS. There was a John Frost, a very respectable attorney, who in I 750 held the situation of solicitor to the Stamp office, about which period he commenced his political career, when he became the friend and brother Re former of Mr. Pitt and the Duke of Richmond, and acted as secretary to the Parliamentary Reform Asso ciation, held at the Thatched House, and of which the two former, and some of the most eminent political men, were members. When Mr. Pitt became Minister, he abandoned his political friends, not thinking then that reform was ne cessary. Not so, however, with Mr. Frost, who re mained firm and consistent, and continued to labour in the vineyard of reform, which, however, was attended with the loss of situation at the Stamp-office soon after Mr. Pitt became Minister. Mr. Frost's house, in Spring Gardens, was nevertheless the resort of the most eminent men of the day, viz. Burke, Johnson Erskine, Fox, Sheridan, Scott 6a fterwards Lord Stowell), John Kerible, Horne Tooke, Drs. Price, Priestley, &c. About three years after Mr. Pitt an d th e D u k e of Richmond (who also came into office) had quitted the Reform Club, it dwindled away, and Reform and its Club were shelved. But the French Revolution of 1789 produced a resurrection among the Reformers of England, the liberal-minded of the civilized warld were elevated to a pitch of enthusiasm in favour of the French revolution, and about 1790 three Reform So cieties were established in London, viz., " the Friends of the People," " the Constitutional Society," and " the Corresponding Society.' The elite of the United Kingdom were members of the two former—viz., Mr., afterwards Earl, Grey, the Duke of Bedford and his brothers, Tierney, Erskine, Sheridan, Horne Tooke. Earls Stanhope and Lauderdale, Drs. Price and Priestley, " cum multis aliis." The members of the Corresponding Society were chiefly tradesmen—viz., Hardy, Baxter, and Ashl, y, shoemakers, Thelwall, po litical lecturer, &c. When Royalty was abolished in France, Mr. John Frost and the well-known American author Joel Bar. low, who was a member of the " Constitutional So ciety," were by that Society sent as Deputies to Paris to congratulate the National Convention oa that event. They presented a congratulatory address at the bar of the Convention. Mr. Frost soon after returned to London, when, dining at the Percy Coffee-house, he made use of some intemperate expressions which were construed into sedition ; on which charge he was tried in the Court of King's Bench, sentenced to sx months' imprisonment, and the Judge, Lord Kenyon, on his own authority, inflicted the se verest punishment, which was, by striking him off the roll of attorneys. Mr. Frost, although possessing competent fortune, became clerk to the Commissioners of Pancras parish, for watching, lighting, &c., which situation he held many years, and acquitted himself honourably and satisfactorily to the Commissioners ; and '.'hen he retired from his situation they allowed him a handsome pension. He was many years, not withstanding the change of his situation in life, on inti mate terms with the late Chancellor Eldon, Lords Sid mouth, Stowell, and Erskine, Sheridan, &c. When he quitted his parochial situation he retired to a cottage of his own, in the vicinity of Brighton. Such a man was John Frost the First, once the friend of Mr. Pitt. If Mr. Frost be now alive, he must have attained his 90th vear.*—(Correspondent of the Times.) * We believe that Mr. Frost is alive and in good health. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. On Friday last, at one o'clock, at the Police Court, Liverpool, a clerk, named John Denton Holt, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on a serious charge of having robbed his employers, highly respectable mer chants of that town, in December last, of a large amount in cash. Mr. Dowling, Commissioner of Po lice, stated, as introductory to the examination, that the prisoner stood charged with having robbed his em ployers, Messrs. Hall and Co., of the sum of about 1,5001., in two sums, namely, 1,200/., received by him from Messrs. George Crossfield and Co., and upwards of 200/. received from Messrs. Buchanan and Browne, for which he had not accounted. 'these facts having been proved, the prisoner was remanded, and wa s again brought up at the Police Court, before Mr. Rushton, on Monday last, when Mr. Buchanan, of the firm of Hall and Co., stated, that the prisoner had not acc ounted to him for various sums andstete oddoud tohaN:bndse. n if the precise balance were re ceived by him. The balance against the prisoner on the pr the ?s d on o e f r said, December,tilat h was stated to him, and it agreed with his previous notions, he would, to save trouble, admit it. Ile stated that all the cash entries were mad e in a rough c as h-b oc k, before they were entered fairly in t he Rushton was of opinion that that wouldca s h not-b o o a k ie — c t Ahis. culpability ; but as he expressed an anxiety to know the balance from the rough book, it was sen t f o r ; and Mr. Buchanan stat e d , on looking into it, that the amount there ent ere d by the pri s o n er o i the 3(1, as received, was 1,7021 . 5 the prisoner's deposit s. 6d., and ISO/. was credited to account, the same being due to '=_ IN 1. NO. fol I TON. The amount found at Huddersfield was 175/. and the watch ; at Mitcham, 1,440/. 2s. Gd. taking the louis d'ors at 16s. 2d. each. Altogether, valuing the watch at 11/., the value recovered was 1,626/. 2s. Gd. It is proper to state (continued Mr. Dowling), that the pri soner said, that amongst the money (the 1750 was `2 0 / belonging to a niece of his, and 25/. belonging to himself, both of which sums ha had taken wish him from Liverpool. The prisoner also F aid, that the sum he took belonging to Messrs. Hall and Co. was 1,6004 and odd. (11e stated in Court at this part of Mr. Dowling,'s evidence, that there was probably an error in the addition made by. Messrs, 11111 and Co. ; and that the amount was more likely 102/. than as stated by them 1,702/0 The prisoner (continued Mr. Dowling) said that there was a deficialey of WV, which he could not account for. Wc returned on the same night from London, and arrived here this morning. Samuel Lloyd, police-otliCer, who had accompanied Mr. Dowling, corroborated the testimony given. He found the 10/. note on Mitcham Common, about 100 yards from where the other money was found, about three y.A.ds from the side of the water, and half a yard deep. _ _ 'lie prisoner here said—l calculated that the Louis d'ors were worth 300/., and they are jut down at only 2301. This being all the evidence forthcoming, Mr. Rush ton, addressing the prisoner, said, " You are remanded." The case is sufficiently remarkable, and is not a little romantic, us here give❑ in evidence ; but we un derstand there were circumstances connected with the recovery of the property, which do not legally bear on the case, but. may transpire after the prisoner's trial, which render it still more extraordinary. The two re• mote spots in which the money was hidden, are, we learn, upwards of 200 miles apart. — Liverpool Standard. IVIISCHIEVOUS COLONIAL LEGISLATION. • By recent accounts from Jamaica, Jamaica, it appears that the Legislature of that colony, not content with hin dering us from buying sugar from other countries upon better terms than those on which we can buy it from them, have lately been making a serious addition to their own duties on the import of British manufactured goods. We have now before us a circular, dated King ston, Jamaica, December 31, 1840, and signtd by a considerable number of the principal merchants of the place, which is to the following effect : Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 31, 1840. We beg to acquaint you that an Act has just passed this Legislature, continuing the same opprossite duties on all provisions and other similar articles imported into this island from Great Britain and her possessions, and raising the duty upon all British manufactured goods so imported from one per cent. to five per cent. ; foreign goods are alone exempted from its operations ; the duty is payable at the time of importation, and cal culated on the invoice cost and charges. A drawback of this five per cent. is given upon such part as may b e re - ex p orte d w ithin three years ; but the trade, with buyers so sensitive as our foreign dealers are, must be injured, as well by disgust at the embar rassing Custom-house formalities required for the drawback, as by the suspicion that a part o f the duty will in some way be thrown upon them ; and wit hout doubt it must seriously affect tine importer both in l oss of interest upon so hi g h a duty le goods arrive, and becaus e much time ed m the u s t instanteiep se the fore the burthen can be thrown u p on the consumer ; for which reason also y ou will observe tha t imports must be seriously affected, as all speculative s hi pments must be deterred by so heavy a loss and imp ost star i ng them in the face. You will observe, also, that British manufactures are placed on a footing worse than foreign, which pay no duty if re-exported, and, if entered for home consump tion, do not pay until taken out of bond. We may add our firm conviction, that the spirit which has raised this duty, without the least previous notice, at once from one to five per cent., will, if un checked, soon raise it higher, perhaps evea to ten per cent., especially as the instructions to the Governor, whi c h prevented his passing such acts without suspend ing their immediate operation, appear to have been withdrawn. We have, therefore, been appointed a Committee, to prepare a memorial to her Majesty'g Government, and to communicate with the Chambers of Commerce in the several mauufacturing districts, to prevent, if possible, this!Act receiving the Royal Assent ; and we earnestly request your assistance to the utmost extent of your influence. The undermentioned gentlemen, of London, viz. Levis Lucas, A!exander Stewart, Sigismund Stiebel, A. G. Da Costs, James Hozier, D. Q. Henriques, and I. I. Leon, Esqs., have been named a Committee to present the memorial to the Secretary of State for the Colonies ; and w•e trust you will b. good enough to communicate with and assist them in this object. lIEALTII OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR,- We arc glad to learn that the aniwcr to the numerous in quiries after the health of th e L or d C hancellor, made yes terday at his residence inßcuton-street is, that his Lordship is much better, and is going on favourably. Tho attacks of inflammation from which the Noble Lord suffered were of so serious ar.d alarming a character, that it was found necessary to bled him very frealy ; the consequence of which has been that in arresting the progress of the synip. toms the Noble Patient has been considerably reduced. It is gratifying, however, to gate, that notwitlndanding the recurrence cf these attacks, his L:rdsbip is now out of all danger, and, it is hoped, speedily advancing towards a state of convalescence. him u Wage,,.—Mt. Dowling, being aworoasid oo Frid a y l as t I saw M r . F r od s ha m , attorney/. t rad from r t information which he gave toe, I went to office, '" in King -street. I Ciere saw the prisoner. Mr. Frodsham sa'd, " This is Mr. Holt, who wishes to sur render Itinself." I took en officer with roe. and the prisoner walked up with me as far as the Bridewell. On the way, he told me he had buried part of the money he had taken from his employers at a lame near Huddersfield, in Yorkshire. That, however, he added, was hut a small part of it. He said, the great bulk of it. I have buried in Mitcham Common, on the other side of London. He was shortly aftewarda brought to? before you (Mr. Rushton), and alter the examina tion remanded. 1 have since gone to the places named, with the prisoner and the police °flitter Samuel Loyd. On Saturday night we reached a lane about three mires and a half or four miles from Huddersfield, on the road to Elland (as we understood the witness), We there searched a particular spot, at some distance from the lane, pointed out by the prisoner, end searched for the portion of the property said to have been there deposited, but all in vain, owing to the darkness of the night. On the following morning, at daybreak, we returned to the spot ; and, after searching some time, the offi cer, Lloyd, pulled from a hole in the bank, pointed out by the prisoner, a silk handkerchief. I took the handkerchief out of his hand, and in his and the pri soner's presence proceeded to examine the contents. I found it in two parcels, which I numbered fifteen and sixteen. One of them contained twenty-six louis d'ors, and the other one hundred and four sovereigns ; and 451. in Bank of England notes, and a gold watch. The prisoner told me he had changed the English money for French coin, and that the louis d'ors cost him about 163. 3d. each. He also said that he had bought the watch out of the money, and that lie had paid 11/. for it. He appeared to be much gratified when the money was found. Lloyd, the prisoner, and I, afterwards pro ceeded to Wakefield, and thence to London, where we arrived about half-past nine on Saturday night. On Sunday morning we left London for Mitcham Common, a distance of about nice miles. The pri soner took us over by a mill, and thence to a spot which was indicated only by a few shreds of a woman's bonnet. They saw the white handles of two knives, which Lloyd took up, and began to dig, by the pri soner's direction. In a short time lie found a piece of a newspaper, which was found to contain 100/. in sovereigns and half-sovere:groa The prisen,r then pointed to a risiag, piece of ground a short distance off, and requested Lloyd to dig there also, which he did. After turning up the ground about a !oat deep, they found a cash-box, locked, and carefully wrapped in two pieces of canvas. (Tne box, &c. were produced.) The prisoner raid, there was still some further pro perty, and Lloyd continued to dig under his direction, and found this piece of linen (or diaper), produced, which contained four canvas bags and some gold beside:, in two small papers. In one of the papers there were thirty louis d'ors and five half-sovereigns. In another there were one hundred sovereigns. In one of the bags there were twenty-two sovereigns and a gold ring, which last prisoner said was his own ; is another bag, eighty-six louis d'ors ; in the third, sixty louis d'ors ; and in the fourth, forty louis d'ors. The prisoner several times told me that he had one night gone to the cash box to take a ten-pound note out of it ; that he had taken one out, had put it into his hat, in which there were some pieces of brown paper ; but in his agitation had somehow lost it on the Common. This, he said, happened six weeks back on Saturday night, and that he could never find it. We looked for it on the Common, over the track which he thought he had taken wi.on he lost it, but with little or no hope of success, when, to toy great astoni:donent, Lloyd saw the 10/. note at the root of some rushes, add about half a yard under sa me clear water. When we got to London we dried it, and it was now perfectly passable. The prisoner stated that he buried the money on the moor forty-eight hours after taking it from Liverpool, and ten weeks from the time it ft as found. Ile said he had gone on the folloaing day to the Common, and frequently afterwards, in hopes of finding the 10/. note, but could not. He also informed them that he lived at a small cottage at. Oval Kennington ; and we went to it, and found at his lodgings the key of the cash-box. On opening it in his presence, they found in it several neatly packed paper parcels. In one there were twenty-eight 51. Bank of England notes, in another, one twenty-pound note, 16 ten-pound notes, and 10 five-pound ditto. In a paper parcel were 100 sovereigns, in another 100 ditto, in another 100 ditto, in another 96 sovereigns and four louis d'ors, in another 100 sovereigns, in another 100 sovereigns, all of which I consecutively numbered, as now p ro d uce d. The watch found near Huddersfield (also produced) was not quite new ; but he must have bought it cheap, as I have since had it valued at 18/. ;~e~ rrence tant t al in event y►SS ai the a, a' n into at in pable ;uglit said ut on treat e fir' im to 111 0 tb° ic el •