The Sun. — London, England, 1841-02-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. THE LATE DR. GILCHRIST _ The Journal des Debuts announces with a well merited tribute to his memory, the death, on the 9th instant, of Dr. Gilchrist, the well-known Orientalist, who had, for the last few years, resided in Paris. Dr. Gilchrist was a native of Edinburgh, where he was born on the 19th of June, 1759, and was consequently in the eighty-second year of his age. After corn• pleting his studies, he resided for several years in the island of Grenada, from whence he returned to his native city, and soon after went to Calcutta, in the medical service of the East India Company. There, be devoted himself to the study of the Orien tal languages ; and was one of the first Europeans who recognized the importance of the Hindostanee tongue, in transactions with the natives, and set methodically about acquiring it. Till his day, the otileers of the Company had been content with a slight knowledge of Persian, in which language the acts of the Government, as well as the proceedings of the tribunals, were at that time registered. The popular tongue was believed to be a mere jargon, and neglected accordingly. Satisfied of the benefits to be derived to the natives in their intercourse with Europeans by popularizing their language among the latter, he devoted some years to this labour of love. Ilaiiited in the Oriental garb, and accompanied by learned moonshecs, he visited those parts of India in which the Hindostanee is spoken most purely ; an], by conversing with the best-educated amongst the natives, acquired al! the idioms and refinements of the language. The earliest conspicuous result of these labours was th e first volume of his Anglo-Hin dostanee Dictionary, which appeared in 1786, and was followed by th e secon d i n 1790. To these, in 1796, succeeded his Hindostanee Grammar. He edited, besides, several Ilindostanee works, caused nume rous manuscript copies to be made of others, and continued, snore and more, to facilitate . the study of the language, by the publication of elementary works. The Marquis Wellesley, then Governor- General of India, munificently aided and encouraged the researches of Dr. Gilchrist ; and when the former founded the College of Calcutta, the latter was at tached to it, as Professor of Hindostanee and Persian. After liaviag discharged these functions during four year:;, the state of the Doctor's health compelled him to return to Europe, in 1804. For many years after wards he continued, first in Edinburgh and then in London, to deliver gratuitous courses of lectures on the Ilindostanee tongue—to publish new works on the sub ject--and to revise and reprint his old ones. These active occupatio ns cease d on ly a t th e biddi ng o f age and its infirmities. COMMERCIAL TREATIES. The delays and disappointments which have invariably attended the commercial negotiations and commercial treaties undertaken or concluded of late years between the British Government and foreign Powers, have thrown a good deal of unmerited distrust upon that mode of extending the trade and manufactures of this country. That distrust ought more properly to be attached to the department by which these matters have been so grievously mismanaged ; and the failure of our previous attempts is so manifestly attributable to an imperfect acquaintance with the subject, or gross volun tary neglect of the best opportunities, that these exam ples prove nothing against the advantages which a more active and enlightened system might assuredly confer re ciprocally upon ourselves and our Allies. The great basis upon which the whole fabric of commercial intercourse rests, is the growing and ever unsatisfied wants of civilized men. The more the globe is explored, occupied, and peopled, the more need is there of those productions of nature and of art which are indispensable to the life and happiness of mankind. Great Britain is, of all the nations in the world, best fitted to supply this demand, by the extent of her own productive dominions, by the power of capital, which is ever seeking for investment in every shape of enter prise abroad and at home, by the energy and skill of her industrious population, and by the strength and numbers of her maritime power. Hence it follows, that Great Britain has a larger share of commercial advantages to offer than any other nation. She has it in her power to assist by the legiti timate influence of commerce the prosperity of every other nation, to open wide markets for their internal produce, to raise their revenues by increasing the de mand for colonial produce and cheap manufactured goods—in a word, to apply her own mighty commercial machinery to the development of resources in other countries which are as yet unknown to themselves and useless to the world. It may be inferred from the in6ifferent success of our negotiators, that they have seldom held this language. We are looked upon in Europe as a nation of merchants, supplicating for privileges we will not grant to others, and seeking to reap :here we have not sown. At other times reports have been made by the commercial agents of Downing-street, framed to suit some party purpose at home, and intended to assail the defects of our own commercial legislation, rather than to explain the real condition of foreign countries. The result has been, that the British Government, with an undoubted power of conferring the greatest benefits by a fair system of commercial intercourse, and able to outbid every other nation in supplies, in capital, and in navigation, has been baffled in the paltry attempts which have been ostenta tiJusLy announced from time to time as boons to British industry. The consequence has been, that the Austrian Treaty, not having been combined (as had been intended by the sagacious Minister of that empire) with the negotiations then pending, but abruptly concluded at Constantinople, and having been framed with an entire oversight of some very important ele ments in the relations between the two countries, has given no proofs of vitality except in the Bill of indemnity which was brought into Parliament last Session to rectify its illegality. The Turkish treaty, as we showed to demonstration some months ago, had the effect of creating insurmountable restrictions on British commerce in some parts of the Ottoman em pire, whilst it professed to remove those restrictions in all. The Neapolitan treaty, which was a fair specimen of what might be done all over the world by the in fluence of common sense, was disavowed and smothered by Lord Palmerston. The French treaty, after years of fruitless negotiation, was at last brought to the eve of completion, when it was frustrated by political occur rences, although we venture to affirm, on very good French authority, that if the matter had be en urge d as it might have been by Lord Palmerston, that treaty would have been signed before our relations with France had chanced to be put in jeopardy, and would conse quently have afforded an additional pledgo of peace to the mercantile communities in both countries. 'The inquiries made by Dr. Bowring as to the Garman Customs Union appear to have been attended with no result, and the periodical revision of that system is allowed to pass without any improvement of our rela tions with the large communities which constitute the League ; whilst, instead of making:the:most of the supe rior liberality of the tariff of Hanover and the northern German States not belonging to the Prussian Union, we raise objections to the Stade dues, which involve no real principle or example of commercial legislation. If it be an object with us to stand upon a better footing with the great German League, the obvious method is to confer advantages worth having on those States which have refused to belong to it. Our present tariff, with all its inconsistencies and injudicious duties, at least en ables us to cede with a good grace upon points which are a positive restriction to other countries, although they only act as a negative and unproductive restriction to ourselves. It appears from the evidence collected by the Com• mittee of the House of Commons on import duties, that there arc 516 articles in our tariff which produce on an average 139/. each to the annual customs revenue. Ten articles produce upwards of 100,0001. and below 500,000/. Nine produce upwards of 500,000/. each, but these nine articles produce collectively 18,575,0711. out of the "",1 00 ,095/,, which is the total amount of duties collected. In short, those nine articles, being all of primary necessity and vast consumption, are the wand source of our national income : a slight propor. tionate increase or falling-off in them is of more im portance than all that happens to the other 854 taxed articles put together. The object of the imposts on the former is revenue ; that of the imposts on the latter, a costly and injudicious system of protection, frequently amounting to virtual prohibition : But although we admit that there is ample room for the revision and improvement of our own tariff, we do not adopt the sweeping measure of reform recommended by the Import Duties Committee. Example may be one mode of forcing open foreign markets, but negotia tion is another ; and in treating of these matters it is not unworthy of consideration that we have a number of points to concede, which it is even more important for other nations to gain than for us to grant. It is this duty of the Legislature and Administra tion to hold the balance evenly between those in terests which have acquired the importance of ma turity, and those which arc yet to be created and nurtured in the various dependencies of England. Without doubt there are elements of prosperity in the world sufficient to meet the undiscovered wants of un born generations. One nation will be enriched by producing them, another by exchanging for them its own productions. Mankind will learn more and more that commerce, like mercy," blesses him that gives and him that takes ;" and the same power whose wealth and energy in time of need equipped all Europe for war, may employ the same gifts as generally and veaer nusly for the purpose of opening new channels of coin munication, promoting new plans of improvement, and proving that the welfare of each derives its security from, and contributes its share to, the welfare of all.— Times. --- COURSING.--.THE GAME vast number of informations recently have been laid under the Game-taws, to recover penallies f rom f armers an d trades men for bein g c , prevent at, an 4 assisti ng i n , cours i ng . t M. M. G. Dowling, — 'Esq. was on Saturday called to the bar by thy Honourable Society of Gray's Inn. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. (From the Courier.)_ According to notice, Lord John 'Russell last even ing brought before the Commons House his motion for leeve to bring in " A Bill to Continue the Poor-law Commission," not for one year, not for five years—to which originally limited by Lord Althorp, with an in timation that machinery so expensive might thereafter be dispensed with—but " for ten } ears," that is to say, for ever. Supplementary to this announcement so con soling for the poor, the Bill professes to be also for the "'further Amendment of the Laws relating to the Poor in England." We might have been tempted to hope, even against despair, for the concession of some boon to the poor in these amendments, so called, to be proposed. but reference to the speeches of the Noble Mover is quite sufficient to extinguish whatever ray of comfort might have glimmered in the far distance on that score. The amendments will, in fact, be only in the way of ren• dering the provisions of the new Poor-law more stringent, and of enlarging the despotic powers of Somerset House. Lord John pretends to justify the repeal of the more wise and humane enactments of the law of Elizabeth, on the ground of certain abuses which in the course of nearly two centuries had grown in the working of that law. Upon the same principle lie would be equally right in vindicating the repeal of Magna Charts, the Bill of Rights, or, to come to more modern times, Ca. tholic Emancipation, because rebellious Nobles had levied civil war, or reform agitators had broken out into rebellion in South Wales, or Papists had broken their oaths. The abuses of rights and privi leges by the rich and more powerful have been at least equally salient with those on the part of the poor under the old Poor-laws ; and where transgression is equal the punishment should not be one-sided. But the abuses were those of mal-administration merely, and did not affect the principle of the old Poor-law. Lord John assumes, indeed, that the principle of the Elizabethan Act is left unscathed by its modern tra vestie, but we incline to believe that he is single in the conceit which, as we cannot attribute it to ignorance, we must challenge as of bad faith. The law of Eliza beth says the poor shall not starve, but it does not make imprisonment in workhouse gaols, and dietary worse than that of felonry, the conditions of such relief as may keep soul and body from parting. It does not enact the separation of wife from husband, and both from children. " There were four workhouses (said Mr. Wakley) in the Kensington Union : that for fathers at Kensington, that for mothers at Chelsea, that for daughters at Fulham, and that for sons at Hammersmith." Will Lord John pretend this cruel classification and division of families to be part and parcel of the Elizabethan " principle ?" One of his largest boasts in favour of the new system is, its tendency to moralise the people. " The labourer (says he) was raised by this change in the law." *T We hold the veracity of these reports, from frequent and public conviction of their notorious perversion of truth, at a very cheap rate. The exist ence of the Commissioners may be said to hang upon the supressio veri add asscrtiojillsi. As to the mons trously exaggerated abuses of old Poor-law administra tion—exaggerated with malice prepense and afore thought—they were slight and endurable evils, taking them even as depicted, when compared with the fright ful barbarities perpetrated under the sanction of the new system, and naturally flowing from it. (From the Globe.) c are happy to find that the Liberal electors of East Surrey arc alive, not merely to the necessity of union and energy in the cause of Mr. Alcock, as the candidate in whom are found the qualities which merit their unanimous approval and support, but that many electors, who would support a Conservative candidate under other circumstances, are deter mined to stand aloof from the present contest ; and thus mark their sense of what is generally felt to be an affront offered to the whole constituency, by the pro posal to convert the county of Surrey into a pocket borough—to transfer it, with the ease of changing a mere banking account, to the house of Coutts, Trotter, and Co. One partner (Mr. Trotter) already repre sents the Western Div:slon of Surrey ; and now an attempt is made to introduce a mere youth, the son of Sir Edward Antrobus, another of the firm / The young gentleman's pretensions to a scat in Parlia ment would not have been weakened in the esti mation of any constituency had he tarried a little lon ger before he aspired to the honour and responsibility of a Legislator ; but when the County of Surrey is affronted by having a mere youth, scarcely emancipated from the restraints of pupilage, proposed for one of its members, and this in order to place the county under the domination and control of a banking firm, we are trot surprised at the resentment high-minded men feel at the indignity—the surprise would rather be ex cited if the indignity were not resent e d, an d th e proposal spurned as it deserves. 'lle Liberals of East Surrey, on the other hand, have reason to congratulate themselves on their candidate. Mr. Al cock's respectability, independence, experience, and un compromising consistency, render him all that an en lightened constituency could wish for in a Representa tive. The enthusiasm with which be has been received at the meetings he has attended; the activity evinced by the Local Committees ; and the encouraging com munications received by the Central Committee from the several districts, warrant a strong hope that the late ness of Mr. Alcock's appearance in the field will not militate against his success at the poll. ( From the Slaw:turd. ) Lord John Russell proposes to continue the Poor law Commission for ten years morel in addition to the seven years that it has been in existence. Is not this without precedent? The Poor-law Commissioners are legislators, and to a considerable extent they exercise the power of levying taxes. When before did the Le gislature delegate its legislative and tax-imposing functions for ten years ? And what is the necessity for such an extraordinaey proceeding ? IVhen the New Poor-law passed, it was distinctly stated, that the Commission was to be but temporary, to put the new law in motion ; and now, after the Commission have ruled seven years, a prolongation of their reign for ten years more is demanded. The country, we think, has a right to demand an explanation of this ex traordinary project. Why should not the Poor-law Commissioners annually submit to their re-appo'ntment by Parliament us the army and navy do ? Is it that they have given so much satisfaction to the country ? We abstain, however, from this view of the subject, be cause we wish to hold attention to the constitutional question—is Lord John Russell's project sanctioned by precedent, by analogy, or by the principles and practice of the Constitution? UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 30. —On Saturday last, George Ga briel Stokes, 8.A., of Pembroke College, the Senior Wrangler of this year, was cleetcd a Foundation Fellow of that Society. SMITH'S Parzns.--The Examiners yesterday evening adjudged the first prize to Ds. Stokes. of Pembroke Col lege, Senior Wrangler; and the second to Da. Jones, of Trinity College, the Second Wrangler. The Rev. Dr. Graham, Vice-Chancellor and Master of Christ's College, in this University, has been appointed Chaplain to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.—The following gentlemen have likewise been appointed Chaplains to his Royal Highness :—Rev. Lord Wrioth esley Russell, Rev. Archdeacon Wilberforce, and the Rev. Dr. Richardson, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. The Norrisian Prize for this year was on Monday last adjudged to the Rev. Daniul Augustus Beaufort, 13. A., of Jesus College, for an essay on the following subject : " Both in the Old and New Testament, everlasting life is off,Ted to mankind, only through Christ. On Monday last the Rer. W. P. Musgrave, M.A., Chaplain of Trinity College, in this University, was col lated by the Lord Bishop of Hereford to the rectory of Eaton-Bishop, in the same county and diocese.—And on Tuesday last, the Rev. Fred. Custance, M.A., late in curnb:!nt of Ripponden, Yorkshire, was collated by the Lord Bishop; of Hereford to the rectory of Colwall, also in the same county and diocese. On Thursday week the Rev. George Henry Clarke Bidwell, 8.A., of Clare Hall, in this University, was in stituted to the Rectory of 13lessingliam, Norfolk, on the preiontat'ea of Leonard Shelford Bidwell, Esq. of Thetford. The Rev. John P. Greenly, of St. Peter's College in this University, has been presented, by W. R. A. P. T. Long Wellesley, Esq , of Scagry House, Wilts (but now residing at Brussels), to the united rectories of WurLs ton and Athelhamstead, Dorset, void by the death of the Rev. G. H. Lang,don. The Rev. William Adams, M. A., of Queen's Coller_Te, in this Univers:ty, and Curate of Newton Bromswold, Northamptonshire, has been instituted to the Rectory of Throcking, Herts-Patron, Rev. W. Adams. • • WAGES OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.— It appears that the custom of boroughs maintaining their Representatives in Parliament had not ceased in the early portion of Tart century. Hall, whose collections were brought down to about 1739, speaking of llel stone says, " This place and others in Cornwall, arc not able t.) maintain their burgesses in London during the Ses sions at their own p►oper costs and charges (as of old was accustomed) in any tolerable post or grandeur ; but have found that profitable expedient (as many others) of making country gentlemen free of their town, who bear the bur den and heat of the day for the honour of their cor porations, distress their paternal estates to exalt the reputation and perpetuate the privileges of a petty so ciety, made up of mechanics, tradesmen, and inferior practioners of the law." The same author states that " Padstow, Lelent, and Marazion, formerly sent Members to Parliament. but were excused upon their petition on the score of poverty." IRE FRENCH CAVALRY.—GeneraI Count de Sparre has, according to the Echo de In Frontiere, arrived at Valenciennes as Inspector-General of the horses pur chased for remounting the cavalry at that town and Dun kirk. This Journal adds—" The Remount-Commission at Valenciennes, presided over by General Dandre, has already received about 3,500 horses, and expects only be tween 800 and 1,000 more. The lowest price paid has been 4031., the highest 850 f. The first are intended for the waggon train, and the last for the Carbincers. The paymaster at Valenciennes has paid for horses to the amount of more than 2 000,000 f. The prohibitions in Germany against the expert of horses have not had any sensible effect on the supplies brought to this place."— Galiyirairi's 411essolyer. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, J,tv. 39. CHEESWadAN AND OTHERS V. COUNT AND HAANI.EY. This was an action brought by the creditors to a trust. estate against the trustee, for money due upon an account stated. The defendants disluitcd some of the items, hut the Jury found for the plaintiffs. Mr. Sergeant Bompas since obtained a rule nisi fora nonsuit on the ground that there had been no account stated, that is,the document put in by the plaintiffs was not legally sufficient for that description, in asmuch as the defendants had not recognised it as an ac count between them and the plaintiffs. Yesterday Mr. Sergeant Channull showed cause against the rule, and the reply was then heard. The argument was of great length, but purely technical, and the Court dis charged the rule, holding that the account set out in the declaration was an account stated according to the legal meaning, the defend ints having admitted the greater part of the items, and so far recognised the account. The ver dict on the whole was according to the evidence, and there was no reason to disturb it. BAIL COUR'', JA x. 30. Mr. Justice Williams sat is this Court during the early part of the morning., and disposed of several cases of no public interest. His Lordship rose at eleven, for the purpose of sitting at the Guildhall. (BeforeM Jr. ustice COLERIDGE.) IN THE MATTEL', OF W. GREEN.-11AISEAS COLIPU:3. In this case it appeared that Green was a prisoner in the Fleet prison, having been committed by the Court of Review. Application was this day made for a rule calling upon the Warden of the Fleet to bring him up by habeas corpus, and to hare the cause of his committal inquired into. It was submitted to the Court that the committal was bad, inasmuch as it did not appear from the warrant of committal that the Court of Review had committed him for contempt of the Court, further the warrant ordered the Warden of the Fleet to detain him during pleasure of the Court, thus imprisoning for an indefinite term. Rule granted. ROLLS' COURT, JAN. 30. This was the general petition day. The unopposed, which occupied a considerable portion of the morning, were taken first. BOULTER V. BOULTER. The object of the petition in this case was to have an account taken of what was due in respect of a mortgage, and to charge the mortgagee, who had consented to a sale, with what he had received, or without default might have received, and with the expense incurred in respect of dilapidations during the time he had been in possession. _ The petition was opposed, but after hearing Counsel Fro and con, the Court granted its prayer. PURLOINING A CHURCH-RATE BOOK. The parish officers of St. Chad's, in this town, for the present and past years, assembled yesterday in the vestry, to sign a " declaration," in the nature of an oath, that they had not purloined the Church-rate book, nor did they know who had stolen it, nor where it was. NV. Stokes, Esq., was voted to the Chair. The Mayor attended to take the "decla rations." After considerable debate the officers proceeded to sign the declaration, with the excep tion of two, who said they would not sign it till a similar oath was taken by the inferior servants of the parish. Whilst a duplicate of the oath was being written for this purpose, Mr. Jobson proceeded to the residence of the late senior warden, who was unable to attend, and having ascertained that he did not object to sign the declaration, Mr. Jobson and Mr. Blakemore attached their signatures : the other dissentient did not sign it. The meeting then broke up, their proceedings being ordered to be laid before the Committee of Church Trustees, to guide them in their future investigations in this extraordinary transaction. We purposely ab stained from stating a single word of the painful dis closures and recriminations that have arisen since we first gave publicity to the fact, that the Church-rate Book of this extensive parish had been stolen, and all arrears of rates thereby cancelled :—and our motive was, to put no impediment in the way of the Book being returned, and the honest and respectable part of the parish thereby saved the infliction of paying a church rate three or four times over.—Shrewsbury Chro nicle. EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF LONGE YITY.—A female pauper named Wbiffin, expired on Fri day in the workhouse of St. Luke's, Chelsea, Arthur. street, King's-road, having attained the extraordinary age of 107 years. She had been an inmate of the above workhouse upwards of twenty years, and retained all her faculties unimpaired until a short time previous to her death, when she fell into a state of second childhood. Mrs. Whiffle, who was a most intelligent woman, was born in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in 1734, seven years after the accession to the throne of King George the Second. She thus lived during the reigns of five sovereigns, one of which ( George the Third's) is the longest on record. The old woman was frequently in the habit of collecting a number of the paupers around her, and entertaining them with stories of her early days, and drew amusing pictures of the ccntrast between the mannrs and customs which prevailed a hundred years ago and those of the present day. She described Chelsea in those days as a quiet, secluded village, the communication between which and the metropolis was rendered a matter of some risk, in consequence of the swarms of highwaymen and desperate characters who infested the " Five Fields," the site of the present magnificent buildings composing l3elgrave and Eaton-squares. About five years ago a person took the old women to Battersea-bridge, fur the purpose of showing her one of the steam-boats which plied between Lonion and Richmond. Upon its being explained to her bow the vessel was propelled she appeared per fectly amazed, and inquired the number of tea kettles ne cessary to provide the required quantity of steam. Her memory was excellent ; and she gave a graphic descrip tion of the state of the metropolis during the No Popery riots in 1780, and the excesses committed by Lord George Gordon's mob. The old woman had sur vived all her relations. It is said that she belonged to a highly respectakle family, but nothing certain is known re lative to her connections. The Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes have directed the surveyors throughout the country to obtain from the several assessors an account of the number n houses and cottages in their districts not already assessed from there being less than eight windows ; and also of the number of farm-houses at present exempt. We have been horrified by hearing of the most extensive mortality we ever remember to have known from eating noxious food, that occurred within the last few days near Pantura. It appears that two turtles we , .e caught and brought to the bazaar, where they were tut up and sold ; and that every individual who ate part o'f them was seized in about 24 hours with a species of cholera, of which it has been ascertained beyond a doubt at least 38 persons (men, women, and children), died, and that up wards of 40 more are dangerously unwell.—East India Telegraph. THE MURDER IN THE RUE ST. HONORE.- The water carrier who was taken into custody for the as sault on the two diligence porters, is named Tiniere, a Savoyard. He voluntarily surrendered himself and gave the name of the man who actually committed the murder as Roussi, another water carrier. The latter was taken into custody next morning as he was filling his pails at the fountain in the Carrefour Gaillon, and was shut up for a time in the guardhouse of the Pointe Sint Eustache; but when the police officers came to conduct him to the Pre fecture he was found quite dead, having hung himself with his handkerchief to the window bars. In the Calcutta Courier of the 16th November, we find sonic account of a company forming at Bombay for trading on the Indus. Government, i seems, is r.bout to establish a steam end monthlypackets on that river, which will ascend en the Glare)) or eastern branch of the river as far as Ferozepore, l) ins about sixty miles south of Lahore, and 1,200 miles from the sea. The un friendly spirit of the people on the lower par t of the Indus will perhaps prevent any considerable trade from being carried on with them at first; buc in the meantime all the Punjab will be cpen to us, with its three millions of pihabi tants, and the transportation of goods to Affghaaistan will be ' , ready facilitated. The channel of the Indus will even be the best route to Bokhara, and ultimately it will lay open countries possessing six or seven millions of inhabitants to our commercial industry. We cannot help thinking that due advantage has not been taken of steam navigation as a means of intercourse with the interior of Asia.. A ship with no other moving power than sails is helpless in a river, ' especially in ascending, but the use of steam completely removes this disadvantage. Supposing, for instance, that we were on good terms with Persia, why should rent some of our merchants establish one or two steam-boats to ply on the Euphrates and Tigris? The latter passris through a well peopled country, and is navigable for three or four hundred miles ; the territory along the Euphrates is less populous, but in the season of floods the r',ver is navigable to the confines of Syria. With two sir three guns the vessels would be secure against any attack of the predatory tribes ; and the fact that British goods reach the northern parts of Persia and the eastern par is of Turkey at present by an expensive overland journey of 800 or 1,000 miles from Trebisond, shows how ranch more profitably they might be carried into these countries by the channel of the rive D r s . E — A S T c i t somF T e n. lIE REV. Mr. MUSOR.AVE, ONE OF TUE CANONS OF WINDSOR.—WINDSOR, JAN. 29. Intellig e ot n hf c e e sui t : a y s .Gic j t just ao r sd a c c h headp AdolphusoN i n w d hi s o o lse r es o gd f ro t aa h , : e : , stouondoedkeepnfl place de ceasechat o n so of near Brussels, a few days since, whither he had gone to reside for a temporary period, with his fantil-t, consisting of a wife and three children. The s t a ll t h us Tendered vacant is the fourth that has lapsed at Windsor since tho Act of Parliament came into operation for the regulation of ca thedral duties and revenues. As it is intended to reduce the canons at St. George's Chapel from twelve (the origi nal number) to four, as deaths may occur, (appoie ting a new canon upon every third vacancy which may be so cre ated), no new appointment will take place upon the decease of the Rev. Mr. Musgrave, nor until trio more vacancies in the prebendal stalls arc declared, arising either from deaths or otherwise. INTERMENT OF HATFIELD.—After the death of Hatfield, who attempted to assassinate King George the Third, his relations, who reside in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, applied to the authorities of Bethlem, to have his remains dclived up to them for interment, but their re quest was not granted. An intimation was made that Government would undertake the whole of the eEpensea of the funeral, leaving it to the friends of the deceased to se lect a spot for the interment. Arrangements were ac cordingly made for the funeral, which took place on Satur day in the burial-ground of St. Andrew's, Holborn, BE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1,184 i POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION--HO USE. Loss OF TIIE DRYAD.—On the prisoners Patrick and Michael Irallace, being brought up for examina tion on this charge on Saturday, Sir Peter Laurie asked whether the counsel for the prosecution had any Pappli cation to make ?—Mr. Clarkson said that he had an ap plication to make with respect to the insurance effected on board the Lucy, to which he had alluded on the last day of examination ; but he should forbear to enter upon the subject until he should hear what the Magis trate was determined to do with the prisoners nn the original charge. The counsel for the prosecution, he begged to say, were not able at present to bring for ward the evidence necessary to show that the offence committed by the prisoners amounted to a felony. If the Magistrate considered it to be his duty to commit under existing circumstances upon that charge, the counsel for the prosecution would not enter into the case of the Lucy. That the case of the Dryad was not perfect was not the fault of the prosecutors, who had done all they could to procure the necessary evidence. S.r PETER LAURIE asked Mr. Charles Phillips whether he had any observations to make ?—Mr. C. Phillips replied, that he had already said all that he con sidered necessary. Sir PETER LAURIE confessed that this case had cost him much anxiety. He had never witnessed any case in which great crimes had been committed in a more artful manner. He had carefully read over the deposi tions taken lately, and those taken by Mr. Hobler in the first instance, and he found that there was not a material fact omitted in the former which was to be observed in the latter, as far asthe former had gone. There had.however, been new evidence of an important kind brought for ward since the new investigation had been commenced. If he were to exercise his own judgment, he should re mand the prisoners over the next session, but as the subject had been noticed by a higher tribunal, it was his intention to commit them ; and he did commit them, in the strongest confidence that the Judge who should read the depositions, and should learn that the Government of the country had sent for a witness to a most important fact, and that the whole of the com mercial community were deeply interested in the mat ter, would, without hesitation, postpone the trial. God knew he did not wish to add to the sufferings of the prisoners. He considered punishment to be inten• tied to deter others from the commission of crime merely. Great ingenuity had been exercised to deprive public bodies of large sums of money. The whole mercantile interest would be deeply indebted to the insurance companies for the great zeal they had mani fested in prosecuting. As the sessions was to sit next week, he felt no difficulty in committing the prisoners. Sir P. LAURIE then said—Now as to the Lucy ; arc the counsel for the prosecution ready to make any state ment with regard to the vessel ? I wish merely to hear so much evidence as will bear out the counsel in the statement on the last day of meeting, as to the in surances effected on that ship, that it may not be said the representation was made in order to excite a pre judice against the prisoners. Mr. Clarkson said that the prosecutors were able to go fully into the case of the Lucy. Sir P. LAURIE—Very well ; I shall be satisfied with hearing a witness or two to the leading facts. Mr. Clarkson then called— Mr. Johnson, of the house of Seldon and Johnson, ship-brokers. The witness stated that he effected an insurance for the sum of 935/. in the Indemnity In surance Company, on goods said to have been shipped on board a vessel called the Lucy, on the 17th of Oc tober last, for Michael Wallace. Patrick Wallace had nothing to do with that insurance. He produced a copy of the policy, by which it appeared that the goods stated to be on board consisted of earthenware, pork, beef', and other articles, insured on a voyage from Bris tol and Llanelly, to Valparaiso, in South America. He also produced a letter in the handwriting of Michael Wallace, directing the insurance to be effected, and a copy, or extract, of the bill of lading, from which it ap peared that the master of the Lucy was Houston Wal lace, the brother of the prisoners. Witness considered Michael Wallace to the owner and treated with him as such. Mr. C. Phillips could not see what object the state ment just made could answer. It certainly was not cal culated to benefit the prisoner. Mr. Clarkson said his object was to show that he was borne out in what he stated before the Magistrate ex pressed his intention to commit for the charge relative to the loss of the Dryad. Mr. Bodkin (also for the prosecution) said that he had a document from Glasgow on the subject, but as he had not evidence to prove it, he would not, of course, call it legal evidence. That document stated that a similar insurance had been effected in Glasgow ; that the amount was the same, and that the marks and numbers were the same. The certificate from the Light-office of the Custom-house of Bristol stated that the Lucy had cleared in ballast for Llanelly on the 16th of October; and the certificate from the Custom-house at Llanelly had stated that the Lucy had cleared that port on the 3d December with coals only. This was moral, but not legal evidence. Sir P. LAURIE, expressed himself satisfied with the evidence, and committed the prisoners for trial in the case of the Dryad. Oa Wednesday application will be made to the Judge presiding in the Central Criminal Court for the post ponement of the trial, on the ground of the unavoidable absence of a necessary witness. BOW-S7'REET. POST-OFFICE PriosEcuTioN.—../okii Ilarringion, a young man of respectable appearance, was charged with stealing a 10/. note from a l e tt er th a t h a d b een entrusted to his care by virtue of his employment in the Pest-office. Mr. Peacock attended to conduct the case on the part of the prosecution, and in support of it called the following witnesses : John Ivey stated that he resided at Farnham ; the prisoner was his son-in-law : In the month of Novem ber last the prisoner sent him a letter, enclosing a 10/. Bank of England note, which he gave witness to assist him in the purchase of a horse and cart. Witness paid away the note to a Mr. Dance of Farnham. Mr. Nicholls, the postmaster of Farnham, stated that the note produced was sent to him by the Post office authorities, in order that be might trace it, and that on inquiry he traced it to Mr. Dance. Milliam Monk, of Lower Grosvenor -street, tailor, stated that Colonel Mills, of Brancepeth,ncar Durham, was a customer of his, and that he had reason to believe that, on the :31st of October, the Colonel posted a let ter enclosing a 10/. Bank-note, directed to witness. The note produced witness believed to be the one so en closed. W. Bowden, of the New North-road, stated that he was an inspector of letter-carriers in the employ of the General Post-office ; the prisoner was employed there as a letter-carrier in October last ; Lower Grosvenor street was in the prisoner's district ; the letter to Mr. Monk was in the prisoner's delivery, and in the usual course of business would have been given him to de liver. Matthew Peak, a constable in the employ of the Post-office, stated that he apprehended the prisoner on Friday night, in Bedford-street, Red Lion-square. I - Ic told him what the charge was against him. The pri soner said he was innocent, and did not know anything about it. Witness told him that the note had been • traced to a Mr. Ivey, at Farnham, and asked him if he had any relation of that name living there. lie ad twitted that he had, and said that he occasionally re mitted him a few shillings, but denied that he had ever sent him a 101. note. Witness took him to the station house, and on the following morning to Bow-street. While at the latter place, prisoner told witness that when he took hint into custody he was so agitated that he did not know what he said, but that be would now tell the truth. He then, after being again cautioned, said, that one evening he left his great coat hanging on a rack at the post-office, and that on getting home he found a quantity of loose paper in one of the pockets, among which was a 10/. note, and that he afterwards forwarded that note to his father-in-law as above stated. The prisoner was remanded for a week. HENRY VINCENT THE CHARTIST. - w o p ersons named Cameron and Minigan, entered into their recog nizances in 50/., that Henry Vincent, now in O a kh am gaol, should keep the peace, and be of good behaviour for the next three years, A certificate of the bail hav ing been put in, was forwarded to the Home-office, and it was expected that the Secretary of State would send the prisoner's discharge to the gaoler b} Saturday even mg's post. ROBBERY AT A PRIZE FlGHT.—Jaines Wilson and Joseph Payne, two well dressed men belonging to the "smell mob," w ere b ro ught before Mr. TRAILL, charged with hustling a farmer named Perry, at a prize fight near Newmarket, and robbing him of a cheque drawn on the Saffron Walden Bank for 40/., besides 491. in sovereigns and silver. Mr. Nehemiah Perry, stated that he was a farmer at Saran Walden, is Essex, and that on Tuesday, the 27th of October, he went, accompanied oy a friend of the his, a medical man, to witness a prize light at a place called Six Mile Bottom, near Newmarket. When they got on the ground, they pressed forward towards the ring, with the intention of obtaining a good view of the fight, and when it concluded, there was a general rush, during which he (complainant) was tightly pinioned by the arms by a gang of well dressed men, who held him in i that position until they turned all his pockets i ns ide out, and robbed him of a cheque and money to the amount of 89/. The robbery was e ff ected in such a short s p ace o f ti me , an d h e was surrounded with such a number of persons, that in the confusion he was un able to identify the parties who had committed the offence, but to the best of his belief Wilson was the man who held his arms while others robbed him, although he should be unwilling to swear positively now as to his identity. The complainant added, that the check for 40/. was in his left hand breeches pocket, and that the 491. in gold and silver was in the pocket on the opposite side. Mr. TRA.L—Then you can't speak with any de gree of confidence as to the identity of Wilson ? Com plainant—He is very like the man who held me, but he appears to be rather thinner i❑ the face now than he was at that period. It was here stated to the Magistrate that both the prisoners had just been liberated from Guildford, after three months' imprisonment and hard labour, for iv tempting to commit a robbery up stairs in the bedroom of a publican in Wackfriars-road. Since their incarce ration, Wilson particularly had lost flesh. In answer to the Magistrate, the complainant said that he was perfectly sober when he was robbed, and that it took place about half-past twelve o'clock in the day. A cheque of 40/., drawn by a Mr. Newport on the Saffron Walden B ink, was here exhibited to the complainant, and he identified it as the one: of which he was robbed on the day in question. • Mr. TRAILL—Did you attend the fight for the pur pose of betting on it ? Complainant replied in the ne gative, and said that he merely went over from his resi dence to witness a pugilistic encounter between two prize-fighters. Mr. TRAJLL asked him how he could have ventured to such a place with so large a sum in his possession? Complainant—l thought that I was amongst gentlemen, for all the persons by whom I was surrounded, were as well, if not better dressed than myself.—( Laughter.) Mr. TRAIL', —That was no criterion for you tojudge of the respectability of the parties. Yon will, however' know better for the future. Complainant—l am sorry to say I have dearly bought experience. Thomas Brown stated that he was a surgeon, at Saffron Walden, and that he accornpaniel Mr. Perry to the fight. When the fight was drawing to a close be (witness) pressed forward towards the ring, in advance, when he heard the complainant call out that he was robbed. He (witness) turned round as well as he could owing to the pressure on all sides, when he saw his friend endeavouring to follow him as we ll as h e could, every now an d then exclaiming that he was robbed. There was such a rush of persons and such confusion at the time, that it was quite impossible for any one to discover the parties who actually committed the robbery. He added, that when they afterwards got out of the crowd it was found that all the com plainant's pockets were turned inside out, and the whole of his money gone. The witness added, that he was confident he bad seen Wilson in the crowd at the fight, but at the same time, he should not like to swear to the fact. Policeman 134 L stated that on Wednesdiy, the 28th of October, he took the prisoner into custody at a public-house in the Blackfriars-road. They went into the public-house with two other men, and called for a private room to transact some private business, and were shown into the front room first floor. When the mas ter went down stairs two of the men immediately as cended to the landlord's bedroom, and were about to break open his money box when they were disturbed, and ran down and joined their companions. The gang then attempted to escape ; two of them effected their object, and the prisoner and his companions were secured, after a struggle to get into the street. On examining Wilson on the spot, the check (produced) for 401. stolen from Mr. Perry at the fight on the previous day, was found in his possession ; and on the prisoners being taken before a Magistrate, they were committed for three months to hard labour ; and in the meantime Mr. Perry was made acquainted with the discovery of his lost check. The policeman added, that on the previous day the sentence of imprisonment on the prisoners having expired, he watched at the gaol, and again took them into custody. The prisoners declared their innocence ; and, after some further evidence was gone into, Wilson was re manded, and Payne was adjudged to enter into his own recognizance in the sum of liol. to appear at the next examination. THAMES _POLICE. George Wakehanz, a tall, man, chief mate of the schooner Alligator, from Constantinople, who was not apprehended until four o'clock yesterday (Saturday) afternoon, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with the wilful murder of 'William Sayo, an apprentice belonging to the vessel. James Stirling, the second mate of the vessel, who first applied to Mr. Ballantine, and stated that the boy had died from ill-usage he had received from the cap tain and mate, and John Cox. were examined at length, and from their statement's it appeared that the Alli gator had been on a voyage from Liverpool to Con stantinople, and thence to London. The deceased lad was ill-used on the outward voyage, which induced him to desert t he ship at Constantinople the morning after she arrive d there, and before the hands were turned up. He was ashore a month, and was part of the time in the hospital and part of the time roaming about the streets of Con stantinople. He was brought on board by the port-mos ter the day the ship sailed, and was then labouring under' illness arising from tumours and sores in his legs, and was in a very filthy state. He was not allowed to sleep or take his meals in the fore castle, but was thrust int.) the long-boat on deck, and a blanket only allowed to c over him. Ho was compelled to take his regular watch es and perform the usual duty, and the captain and mat e gave orders to another boy always to rouse him up 1 iy striking the tarpaulin over the boat, and to beat hi tn with a rope's-end and hand spikes if he did not get ap, and one day he came out with a severe black eye, caused by a blow he received. In the Channel, the boy s !offered so dreadfully from the cold that he was put int 3 the forecastle ; but the men complaining of his filthy co ':ndition, and that the alluvium from his person was very t a auseous, he was forced into a coal-hole in the run of the ship. Here he remained se veral days while the ship svas performing quarantine in Stangate Creek, and, al though a medical officer came on board daily, the c sptain and mate invariably reported all well. One .day the lad was on the wea ther side of the deck, and . the prisoner drove him to the lee-side, and threw a bu .cket of water over him, and said he ought to have as much more thrown over him. Oa Thursday the 21st, St irling found the lad in his berth quite naked, and in a dyin g state. The clothes had been taken off the boy by the cc Ttain's orders, and given to the cook to be washed. At 5 p .m. the captain was told the lad was dying, and that somet sing ought to be done for him. He was then taken into th :c cabin, and died in about an hour and a half afterwar is. The witnesses attributed the lad's death to ill usage,. neglect, and exposure to the cold, particularls during the frosty weather, when the ship was in Stangate Crc ek, where lie was compelled to walk on deck all day, w ithout sufficient covering to shield him from the inch Imency of the weather. He had been compelled to won 'k when he was in a very bad state, and not the least c. t.re was taken of him. Stirling mentioned that the lad suffered dreadfully from being forced among the wet co& The prisoner, in defenc e , said the deceased was not ill used by him, but he wa s very dirty and offensive, and was forced out of the for es as tle by the men. Stirling was one of the first to drive, him out. The crew had a great objection to the la 3, on account of his offensive condition, and treated badly, from a supposition that an outrage had been committed upon him by the Turks at Constantinople. Mr. BALLANTINE said it was the duty of the pri soner, as chief mate, to ro itect a boy who appeared to be quite helpless from th a ill-humour of the men. The prisoner declared I 1,0 was not aware that the boy was in the coal-hole, and that he only flung a small quantity of water over th a lad. Mr. BALLANTINE said the deceased had been dread fully ill-used, and the case dust be further investigated. Any other persons implicat I'd in the harsh usage of the lad must be taken into c : , ustody. He remanded the prisoner until Thursday. Valentine and Fox proc raided immediately afterwards to the residence of Capt ain Cook, the master of the Alligator, to take him into custody. We are glad to ann 3 unce that a sudden and complete thaw seems at lent nth to have arrived, to release us from that state of block, tile in which we have bL on placed for some weeks. Up to yesterday, the 25th instant, there were no symptoms of ehanee. The most intense frost, and frequent falls of so o w, prevailed in all directions. The severity of the weather has produced sad changes. .‘ The river Spey," says a c arrespondent in Badenoch, .‘ has disappeared from our polar landscape—froz en up, and covered with snow. \V 111 great difficulty can even a scanty supply of water be procured ; the mills are all stopped. Hundreds of moo rf owl may be seen in the morning, between the corn y arc! and barn-door, associated with the domestic poultry. For the last three weeks the robin redbreast has taken regular possession of the barn, unterrified by the swinging• rpf the noisy flail." The average depth of the snow is eighteen inches, but at short intervals occur long wreaths of from ten to twenty feet.— hives ness Courier. -• FAMOUS SHOEMAKER..—A correct catalogue of shoemakers who have in any one way or other made themselves remarkable would be a curious thing. It is yet among the undiscoverable mysteries; why dustmen should wear red plush breeches, and as unsuccessful Lave been all attempts to account for those very peculiar reflective habits to which the craft of Crispin are notoriously addicted. The mei ss circumstance of the reflecting turn presents no difficulty- 3 more or less it is incident to all sedentary pursuits ; it s especial tendencies in the case of the shoemaker are the great marvel. From the turbulent days of Quaker Fax, aml Reformers Hans Sachs and Jacob Behrnen, to the scarcely leer unruly times of Radicals Ilolcroft and Hard; y, we 'tote, in this most respectable trade, such a long ist of religionisms, radicalisms, jacubinisms, and every variety of isms, as we hid in no other class of men. It WP.S against this tendency indeed, the old proverb was launched, as far back as the age of Appelles. Why is this? Can any orpt explain it? Fitness is the object and endeavour of the trade. Is there of necessity associated with it the restless inz t pulse to dis cover in everything else an eternal - unfitness. We wish we could consult Philosopher Square..—Ex 6 miner . PA ItL IA 'MEN T.—The system o: Rarliaments commenced under the Saxon Goveriin tent 3 but the first regular one was in 1204, during the reign of I{.'ng John. The epoch of the House o f Commons is generally considered to be January 23, 1265,, ender Henry 111.: and the first Peer's eldest son who Over sat in the Lower House was Francis Russell, son of th e Earl of Bedford, and who was the brother of the Willis m Rus sell so celebrated for his milftary services in Irci and (of which he was for some time Lord Deputy) in the time of Elizabeth. In 1649, after the death of Chari'esi a Peer was elected, and sat as a member of thss Hou to of Commons. Parliamentary grants were origi [tally m ade to the King in kind ; and in 1340, 30,000 sa As of wt.T l are included in the grant then made. MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. The English Opera House will be opened early in March, by an operatic company, consisting of Messrs. Balfe, Wilson, Barker, Stretton, Phillips, Madame B tile, Miss Macmahon, &c. Leader of the orchestra, Mr. T. Cooke. Liszt has met with a splendid reception at Edinburgh and Glasgow, where his performances on the pianoforte have been applauded with enthusiasm. His coadjutors, Miss Steele, Miss Bassano, Richardson, Lavenu, and John Parry, have succeeded in affording the highest gratification to numerous and brilliant audiences. The party were to have given a concert at Newcastle on Monday, and on Wednesday atDurham and Sunderland ; then at Darlington, Richmond, and Halifax ; after which they will return to London. The Glee Club had an excellent meeting lately John Cape!, Esq., in the chair, supported by Sir J. L. Rogers, and a number of amateurs and professors of music. Among the latter were Messrs. Hawes, Hors ley, Sale, Fitzwilliam, Bishop, Elliott, Collyer, T. Cooke, J. O. Atkins, Walmisley, Evans, Hawkins, Bradbury, Spencer, Blackbourne, Hobbs, &c. Several fine corn positions of the o; d masters were excellently sung, and among those of modern date were Horsley's fine glee, " Awake, my lyre ;" T. Cooke's " Fill me, boy ;" Evan " Shall I be wasting ;" Elliott's " Bee ;" and Bishop's charming round, " When the wind blows," accompanied by the composer, which was loudly encored. The Melodists' Club met on Wednesday for the first time this season, on which occasion the following artists were invited—Willy (violin), Carte (flute), and W. H. Holmes (pianoforte). THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY.--John Imrnyns, who founded this Society, in 1741, was an attorney, but his vocal coadjutors consisted of Spitalfield weavers. Their first meeting used to be held at the Twelve Bells, in Bride-lane. The Society at present has a library of upwards of two thousand madrigals, from the earliest period, which is, perhaps, the finest collection in the world. Drury-lane and Covent-garden have been crowded every evening by the admirers of music at one house, and the lovers of Shakespeare and splendid spectacles et the other. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. At an early hour on SAL - L - 17day morning a fire of con siderable magnitude, and most destructive in its ra vages, occurred in Westminster. It originated in the manufactory belonging to Mr. Rowland Ames, tool maker, situate in the Almonry, a colony infested by brothels, thieves, and the very lowest of the community. The premises were rather extensive, and approached by a gateway on the south-side of the street above named. They consisted of a manufactory, saw-mills, store-rooms, engine-house, timber-yard, and stables, all abutting the workhouse of Saint Margaret's. The fire was disco vered by an unfortunate female at about twenty minutes after three o'clock. She, it appears, lives in one of the brothels on the south-side of the Alrnonry, and ob serving a great light in the manufactory, immediately gave the alarm to the policeon duty in the neighbourhood. who proceeded to the spot, and aroused the foreman of the manufactory, whose place of abode adjoined the premises on fire. On the gates being forced open the flames were found to be raging in the store-rooms the most valuable portion of the property, they containing manufactured goods to the extent of 1,000/. or 1,5001, and the fire had attained so firm a hold of the premises that to save them was impossible, and in the course of five minutes it burst into the atmosphere,and all West minster was illuminated. To describe the scene of con fusion that ensued in the Almonry is beyond the power of our informant. A large body of the B division of police were very quickly on the spot after the alarm had been given, and, by taking charge of the several trades men's houses in the vicinity, prevented depredation being committed. The first engine that ar r ived w a s that belonging to the station in Horseferry-road, fol lowed almost immediately after by those belonging to Saint Margaret's parish. Others from the County, Waterloo-road, King -street, Crown-street, West of Eng land, Wells -street, and Furringdon-street stations, arrived soon after in succession, and there being plenty of water running from the plugs about the neighbourhood, the greater portion of them were got into play. By the time that he first engine came up, the store-rooms and workshops above were completely on fire, and the flames were spreading to the saw-mills and the timber yard. The firemen lost no time in conveying the hose to that quarter, and directing the full force of an en gine on to the roof, which had ignited. The other engines prevented the engine-house and timber-yard from taking fire, but it was nearly three quarters of an hour before they were considered safe. By five o'clock the fire had somewhat abated in violence, the roof of the workshops and store-rooms having fallen in, and by six o'clock, the firemen had succeeded in getting it entirely under. Mr. Ames had endeavoured to trace out the origin of the fire, but up to last night his efforts were unsuccessful. The workpeople left the place early on the previous evening, and at the time of their quitting the premises appeared apparently safe. Mr. Ames is insured in the County Fire-office, but to what amount our informant was unable to learn. The saw-mills, engine-house and stables are saved, but the other portion of the premises is totally consumed. A great many of the fair sex of the Ahnonry worked at engines until the fire was subdued. Fortunately no accident happened. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL. ANTWERP, JAN. 27.—Fishermen who have arrived to-lay from Goedereede report that the Ocean steamer, bound from London to Rotterdam, was aground there, and that nothwithstanding all the efforts that were made, it had not been posible to get her afloat. HELVOE'TSLUYS, JAN. 2G.—The English steamer, Sir Edward Banks, Capt. Stranack, is still aground. The people are landing their furniture.—Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, Jan. 29. The Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, of' the 29th and 30th, does not make any mention of the Ocean steamer. BERLIN, JAN. 10.—Accounts from St. Petersburgh say that important changes are going to be made in the Russian Legations. Among others, it is said that Ge neral Buteineff, now Ambassador at Constantinople, will be sent to Naples, that Baron Brunow will be Ambas sador at Constantinople, and that Count Gourieff, now Ambassador at the Court of Naples, will retire. TRIESTE, JAN. 18.—Just before the departure of the mail, the Metternich steamer has arrived from Syria. The letters will most probably not he delivered to-day. I can, therefore, only say, that, according to the report made by Captain Zencavich, nothing decided was known respecting the fate of Mehemet Ali. The ac counts from Alexandria were of the 7th of this month. Ibrahim Paella, with the remainder of his army, was still at Damascus. TUE HAGUE, JAN. 28.—The Avoadhode has the following account from our Indian possessions :—ln the island of Sumatra the state of things was on the whole favourable. S sme of the troops employed in the expe dition against Sinkel, had returned to Padang, and thence to their usual quarters . Accounts from Ben coolen, say that the district of Caner had been invaded on the 29th of June, by 500 Passumabs, and that Linaw was invaded by 200 more, led by one Pangeran Poeting, and a priest. These bands had destroyed some buildings and prows, belonging to the natives, but all necessary measures had been taken to restore tranquillity. ST. PETERsBURGH, JAN. IG.—His Majesty the Emperor has been pleas! , l to order that Anatole Von DmidofT, who was attached to the department of foreign affairs, shall be dismissed from the service. Hanauncii, JAN. 26. We have not yet received the English mail of the I 9th of this month.—Ham burgh Borsenhalle, Jan. 26. La.cit AN NDS—naessEtt, JAN. ‘.29, Actual Debt,S.! per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C,nt , e7 Loan or thirty Millions, 4 per Cent fU 411) 95)4 . _ ------ .3pci Cent. ----••Thirty-seven — ... F9 Loan of City, 18314 , 1 per Cent 9O Society of Commerce, 4 t . per Cent ll2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .. hi National Society . Exchange on London (short) t) _Brussels Papers, Jan, 20. DUTCH FUNDS.— A si,uctinAli, JAN. 29 Money. Bit's. tettial 1).:1a, ..:..', per Cent .)itto, ditto 5 per cent. A Min A tivtittie,4l,i per cent ...... .... ....... Ditto, ditto, 3(4 per cent 7 0 ,4 71 Commercial Company, 4,, per cent 15934 16.1; Ditto (IKIS and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1t. , 37, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month ll !..7% Two months Dutch l'apers, Jan. 30. AUSTRIA N 1 , 111 4 4D6.- I .le , ibrA, JAN.2O liveper Cents. Metalliques Fosir per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgemrine Zritung, Jan. 25 HAMBURG BORSENIIALLE, JAN. 26, Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Sham 16:.5 Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 106% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist serves, C.rtilicate Inscription, Ist Seiigs lO3 Rus:ian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. :Id and 4th Series 964,, 96 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, `..? per Cent 49 ..9 1 4 Ditto 5 per Cent —•- Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cep , Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per C...ri' Spanish, New .3 per Cents. l B l,l itACHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 4.—Two months, 13 24 VIENNA. JAN. 19.—Three months, 9. 41. BREMEN, JAN. 22 —Two months, 611. PETEILSBUIWII, JAN. 15.—Two months, 39% pence STOCKHOLM, JAN. 15.—Seventy-tive (lays, IL 35. BERLIN, JAN 26.— 'Three months, 6. 17N. DRURY LANE THEATRE.—Lord Cardigan, who occupied the front scat in one of the private boxes at this theatre, on Thursday night, was perceived and recognised by some persons in the pit, who commenced pointing him out to others as the black. bottle man ;" he was g roaned and hissed by a majority of the house, but he had a considerable party rho cheered him. His Lordship remained in the box to the close of the perfor mance, apparently disregarding the reception he met with; of course under these circumstances very little of the beautiful music could be appreciated. When the per formances were over numbers of persons rushed out of tl e pit to giro him, which they diA, a lusty patting groan in the street. E"NINTG 141D1TIONT. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS, ULPUIN . I It Y UOICIIN is! it mu, 2kJ • . Wheat. Barley. Oat.. bf.,..na. 1 Fease. Ver Qua, ter s. to s. s. to s, s. to s. S• to '• s ' ' f., , Ibing(iiiii 54 l 5 30 41: ;;it 34 44 5.2 4 Andover , 54 03 3'l 41 :6 31 --- -- ..,.. Binilmry 52 — 4 0 Liasi gstoko 1 - i IA 27 39 2 6 3V 4S 52 42 Cirenc-ster l6 6 34 36 29 :12 40 42 --- Coventry — 61 33 —24 33 37 — 4O vaventry .... Derby ...... - • ...- Howden — 711 24 cL'•2— 40 42 --• 6 Hiingerford 50 64 3: 1 5S 25 33 44 52 39 Mallon .. . 68 70 :35 38 33 -- . Ma' -L - h: Oad 53 75 35 40 25 34 43 5 0 1,,,7, --- -‘. Nottingham 54 07 20 30 t 4 L',2 47 10 —.--- .... Watitage 6O Hi 31 40 26 32 36 4 6 "" Warwick - It Winchester 70 36 '29 4 3 -- • - .ii. York — 60 33 46 28 30 Per Bushel s.d. s.d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. tl. a. d, a. d. a. d. . 5 7 ' Birmingham 6744 9LL 3 9 53 40 49 5 6 68 6 6 v WAKEFIELD CORN MARK ET. Wneat, Red, Norfolk and Sufliilk —s, Ills. to al. NU 4 1 -- Lin. and Cam d. s. d. s. d. Is. d. s. 0. 8.0. s. 0.1 s d, s, 6 9 ( 3 9 53 40 4 9 5 6 68 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. ''neat, Red, Norfolk and Sufliilk —B. 01'. to 625. On Lin. and Cam. -s. G4s, to tll9. line -- Yorkshire —s. to 545. kilt J' 3l ' hi te .----- Fortino, heti White t o Barley, Norfolk —s. 7 2 : 8 8 t o 0 0000 ,n n :f e eee -- Lincolnshire -- Yorkshire %Vold Foreign licanB, New -- Old 48+ Oats, Potato Poland ndand Small '''' tttttooooo fillItt:1•1:":1111::er to -Ob. IvoalinShaping g l°.! to Halt Rationed • NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. White. Red, Nheat, Northumberland SO;. -5......• -5.!..,',/,'l Norfolk and Suflolk 633. 643. c6, ioo 673. Berwick and Scotch 613. 65s . - 1 , r . Foreign 6•2s. 665...... 6'2. , ('''' itye, Norfolk 'aid Sullolk 36s. 3.`;3....... - 8 . "I' Foreign 293 334 ....... --s• --- Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suftblk -s. -5....... -s• ""t Grinding and Feeding ?Os. 330...... --s• ---- Malt, Norfolk and SuMilk.. f.B3 69i. ...... --s• ---€' Beans, Small --- - Tick Pease, White 444 . •• *" 463 --s• •-‘• .....s. Gray . . -s. -s ....... -5 ' --8.- -5 ' Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ..... .... 30s. 3:2s _...5.•-•''• ---.__... Feed Foreign 4;:s. 33s '• " -I Flour (par sack) ' SCOTCH AIARKE Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. 01" '... .....0-." 3 5 ---- , 3 ,,, kberdeen 5O to 00 25 to 2>l 18 to •r 2 —to :,'„• 43/ Berwick 33 42 19 21 16 22 a? • ''' , Coldstream Cupar (File) 48 65 26 31 18 '22 '22 20 " , Dunbar 4B 68 20 49 23 27 40 4'2 4 0 .... Elgin Inverness Kelso .......- 36 45 19 23 17 19 31 34 -7„ ... Kirkaldy Perth L:k . Thu size of the measure varies throughout the coou t '' , EDINBURGH CORN MARKET. gel Wheat. Barley. Oats. l' t lA.!. 4 ,:,, , First 69s. MI. 33i. 92. 2-ls. 8:4, 425, 02. :40 0 Second 59 0 3> 0 25 0 38 0 3 4 0 Third Average price of Wheat 0 1 18s. 6d.. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per in........... Os. 51. to 031.8.1. Freshßutter, Its. 1.1 2 . 1 . to I s4l 1 Mutt0n.......,..,,.. 0 5 0 8 Salt Ditte—............ 011 l i4 0 Veal.--......................, 0 8 1 0 Ditto, per ess t..„91 0 1 6 Poric...--............... 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dog... 0 0 S " Lamu, per qr. —.,. 1 6 4 0 OatStraw(kpl.).... 7 0 II , i fallow, cwt.......-40 0 42 0 Wheat Ditt0,....„ 6 0 6 8 Quartern Loaf.... 081 0 9 Barley Ditto „.....,„ 5 0 I U Potatoes, 141 b....,. 0 4 0 0 Hay, per 5t............. 0 0 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. , Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. £1 16 6 F First Oatmeal Second ditto.~, Barleymeal. . I It 0 1iar1eywea1.„,..........--• ci 1 Veasendeal 1 8 0 Peasemeal .................•. First t P o er at te e n a e l ........ 4 . .. .... ... ........... fi ;11 , I'ot Barley from 30s. to 503. per sack. II ADDINGfON CORN MARKET. 14e 3 1j Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. I 3 05 , First (Ts Od 33s 62 26s 04 36s 02 /• 00 Second 531 Od 30s 02 24s Od flis 02 I 3 1 3 S O d 'Third s4s 02 27s 02 22s 02 32s 02 Average 2/, 17s. d 4.120.1. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. . !win,' Wheat. ' Barley. I Oats. 1 Pease. 1 3 7, vo First o7s to 3is 51 : 26s 02 I 37s Od I - yt:i 1 : 41 Second 598 02 2iis 6rl 1 ..2.: 4d I 36, (Id -. 34 Oi Third 4ls lid 24: 62 18 82 30; 02 GLASGOW CORN MI RKET. ~ s.'", Wheat, per 2401 b. S. d. s. d. :12 6t035 6 Irish ...... .. ...... pe t 041 b. .......... 1151 ,. "1 1; toIll British, old 1 new 24 0 31 0 British Cdnada, free — 0 0 24 0 28 0 Engli ß sh eans, Per ‘26°lth g ) ° ,, sl ' ; 3 1°0 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b Scottish .d.l i, 0 English 26 0 2) (1 Pease, Scottish ...... -5 0 IC U Scottish "2 0 25 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b.... ) 44 0 r''' Irish CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. L it. to L cf. a. d. t• S. d. I s• (!; t° Fruro 0 7 8 0 3 s 3 liclatone - e n 2 ; St. Austell '7 0 5 0 3 6 : 3 • lindmin o 9 0 4 0 -- n 2 - iskeard C ti 7 6 3 0 3 6 -- 0 0 Launceston 0 8 0 • 0 3 3 A 2 (7.uncl ford 6 8 7 8 3 6 4 0 g I 3 Penzance. 6 6 7 4 4 0 4 4 2 --- _y e sterd a y, MILITARY " DRUMMING-OUT." o as vr b a private of the 10th Hussars, named Yates , dero ,eo , r , flogged a few weeks ago for thieving t 'in the the further ignominy of being " d rummed out" o l'c'" h tb lig Regiment, which was thus purged of the stain of il within its ranks a confirmed bad character. Althougdro• mode of dismissal is, according to custom, called „ r ain' using -out, it was in thin instance a perf ormanc e 0 ` 1 ,, - o.et‘ pets; the fellow being led out of the Barrack s by a"" and then turned up under the sound of the Rog March. Coventry Herald. MA RCIIMONT PEERAGE.—The claim o f Car tain F. D. Home, Bart., to this Peerage, which has . ° ,,, c- o ef pied much of' the time of the Committee of Pri vl V during the last three Sessions of Parliament, and ° t heir has ah eady received nine lengthened hearings I n 11) 6 Lordships' House, will, we understand, come under, i>9' final review of the Lord Chancellor for decision all n°9l mediately. SILVER TEA SERVICES.-A. B. SA Y v and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, e cil ith s London, opposite the Bank of England, submit the prices °TV following SILVER TEA and COFFEE SERVICES' $O 4 Cottage Pattern is plain, standing on shell feet, the 14:4'0 coffee-pots with a flower ornament on the lids. T r h i c , s he Pattern is richly embossed with flowers and scrolls. of either is new and elegant t— -001TAGE PATTERN. ZING'S 6. 1 Strong Silver Tea-p0t.....12 0 StrongS7l:::T P e A ap T o T t rg ...:;•1. 0 I CI. I Ditto Sugar Basin 616 Ditto Sugar 13 2 ' ir :. ,r) I t ) Ditto Milk Ewer. 410 Ditto CreanoEf" . p Ditto Coffee-pot. 15 0 Ditto Coffee•p°t':„.l X 4° Complete ..£3B 6 Complete ......... •, , A variety of upwards of fifty Tea and Coffee Servl e e ye: Le seen in the Show-rooms, where may be selected evolirlilel of Silver requisite for the sideboard or plate •chest. P, an 'e ti of prices, illustrated with sketches of the various article ,t, and forwarded postage free to any , part of the kingii"g l 'oaiA Savory and Sons, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the England. MARRIED. 601, On the 26th ult., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Ai r i i ia ,4l' Simpson, of Crawford-street, liryanston-square, to sof dig, second daughter of John Harris, Esq., of Camberwell' jer,.o On the 26th ult., at Miltcn, near Gravesend , . I •„dte' Esq., of New Broad-street, London, to Helen, only d''''' fi , A. iiransby, Esq., of Elgin. ll' o f . On the 27th tilt., at. Compton Bisho S om ersetsh l o re, ot or S. Payne, E s q.. o f Hutton-court, to Kate,' third (I :> , / P. Fry, Esq., of Compton House. DIE .0 D. " d o t : 0 , ~, On the 25th ult., at Clapham, Surrey, Caroline , P r of viving daughter of the late Rev. W. Goocle, Be et° v ile' Ann's, he ars. IP o' rle 4 On the 25th ult., at Wimborne, the Rev. CI ) a, s oie 0 , Vicar of Mordeu, and one of the Ministers of Wir e °r of ' , wer, Dorset, aged 72. T SO ° On the 26th ult., Frederick, eldest son of Mr. ,' , 010 Coopers'-hall, I3asingliall-street. JO' 'OO, On the 26th ult., at Milbrook, near SouthamPt er4 ,D e wife of J. Dayman, Esq., of Mambury, near Torrin gt° r. rr• MONTIILY MILITARY OB l7 ' llAl serv' i Major. Generals.—Henry Roome, E. I. Genii). Paterson Smith, ditto. St' L C i ( e ,l u o t n . e .. l c .— ao H n c e ;r i n s. b_y, w la m te . o l f ‘ R ya . lk ll e l r a , rin c e . s l3 .. , It. 3/0 40 5 ' r h Jean d'Acre ; J. F. Crewe, Unatt. Captains.—M'Gce, 31 F., Dublin; Stean, c e 49 jr.,111, san, China Seas ; Read, h. p. R. Art. • Sir ' L d' si o, Bt., h. p. 25 Dr. ; W. 'l'. Smyth, h. p. 35 F. ; P •orso t .j i to o ,' rier, h. p. 103 F. ; H. Fothergill, h. p. 28 F. ; 1.10„ i bel" h. p. 48 F. ; H. Walker, late 1. R. Vet. 1 311 * ; f • Cal",p; h. p. Indep. ; J. 31‘Nab, h. p. Nova Sco. Fen• late 4 R. Vet. Bn. ; J. Cates, Unatt. ; R. E. J. Spalding, do. ; Jas. M'Donald, Unatt. ;S. 1101nn6' str. of 13 Dr. and Mil. Knight of Windsor. ; th s Lieutenants.—Giveen, 97 F. ; H. Popham , Patten, h. p. R. Art. ; Craig, R. Mar., 411'05'4, of,cir Thames steamer off the Rocks of Scilly ; Marsh, ' 3 . - o r Vet. Bn. ; Duncan Macdonald, do., and Town Mai Go r lisle; Sloan, h. p tiB F. ; Hopkins, h. P . 74 ; h. p. 81 F.; Taylor, h. p. 3 Prov. Bn. of Mil. Paymaster.—Bannerman , late of 7 8 F. h • /1 0;f rie° Quartermasters.—Shaw, 3 W. I. Reg. ; JaseP Life Gds. ; Smith, h. p. 23 Dr. ; Jackson , 1 1 . P' goat' Fen. Cay. Commissariat Department.—Ass. Com. Gen' . Dep. Ass. Corn. Gen. C. Gunning, h. p. . 11e Medical Department.—lnsp. Gen. of H S osps., v s ii oo o Insp. Gen. of Hosps., Dr. J ames Strachan ; man, h. p. R. Art. ; Surg. Smet, h. P. 5 2 F. ; St". h. p. 84 F. ; Assist.-Surg. Heyn, h. p. Rlls Reg' d io London: Printed and Published by MURDO }-;114 No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 1 t 184,1. the county of Middlesex,—Monday, February 10 i beat Art The ihtj Di rt 17f011r.1 ( 16 LO CRip, Pv: rty ! Peri l l4 th e n 01‘1,1 v i 1 4t= i-str, A s ia] Str "/ iTazgituiu. 0 PLATE SUITED FOR PRESENTAT I mll l s Committees or private individuals requiring splendid c r oioill articles of PLATE for presentation, may, by a d ' r ol , paid let, er as under, have di awings sent for their applei to is desirable letters should state about the sum inte r expended. o' l T. COX SAVORY, b ur Silversmith, &c., 47, Conti till ( Seven doors from Grace el .erect), London. ti e' ` t il t N.B. A Pamphlet, containing a detailed list of th e P a g rs Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &e., may be )r will be forwarded, post free, in answer to a post-pau cation. PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS. 605. `le',t of FULL SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE . Superio r 10 4 ; Table Knives, with i vor y h an dl es, 14 s . per el°2e°„.rf°,-, Poles for Window Curt a i ns , inch diameter, Is. 3 "' 2 inches, Is. add. per foot ; bronzed fenders, 4 feet I°P; Catalogues gratis, cont a i n i ng th e pr i ces o f s t ove s, fer e ic a ' -' irons, kitchen utensils, and every article in Rallis° mongery. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-stre e t, Oxford'sWet' Established 1820. BIRTHS. . , 0 4 On the 26th ult., at Hendon, the lady of H. C. A ir e s ' of Kingthorpe, Yorkshire, of a son. On the 27th ult., at King's-Weston, the lady off% 0. .; inson, Esq., of a son. On the 27th ult., at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, the W ife.l . . 6 Rev. 'l'. England, M.A., of a son. 10 4 On the 28th ult., at Doughty-street, Meeklenbulo Mrs. W. Atkinson, of a daughter. 4