The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-29 00:00:00

MORNING SUN Presidential Message, and a passage in the Royal speech. Mr. TYLER speaks of the " communi cation between the distant parts of the Union being; occupied by railroads, which, from their nature, possess a complete monopoly." King Louis PHILIPPE tells his Chambers " that a Project of law will be presented to them for con structing the principal lines of a great system of 'lnroads." In the Republic the gigantic work is achieved ; in the Monarchy the Government i s again talking about it; and, judg,inr, from the Past, years will elapse before it can be begun. In the Republic there is no collision between t he PreSs and the Government. In the Monarchy t he Government has staked its existence on put ting the Press under its feet. Either it will tr ataple down and destroy that great engine 11f social improvement, or be itself destroyed. „, 'ilie'attempts to establish a despotism are the s °rtrunners of another anarchy. In opposition c 7the Press, no Government can now exist; and the destruction of Louis P H ILIPPE'S system is as certain as if it were already accomplished. den who have the reputation of being moderate 4 41 wise, like M. GUIZOT and the Duke DE Ii3OGLIE, seem to have taken the lead in pro keting this terrible system of coercion and dis trust, making it impossible to adopt any other conclusion, than that the system they administer i s founded in some grievous error repugnant to the laws of nature. Though Mr. President TYLER'S Message ap- Pears so much to advantage when contrasted with t he Speech of the KING of the FRENCH, it is by no means a. favourable specimen of its class of Productions. It is deficient in dignity, verbose, ill- Written, confused, and, in speaking of England, trifling and querulous. The affair of Mr. M'LEon first engages the PRESIDENT'S attention, and he rejoices that the independent action of a criminal Csurt and an enlightened Jury, by acquitting h`LEon, dried up one source of angry conten tion between the two countries. Mr. TYLER ob tiously feels the reproach which the Press of Europe has thrown on the Federal Government, that it has no means of stopping judicial proceed- It igs in one of the States, which may implicate it With foreign nations. To remedy this now manifest i inperfection in the American Constitution, he r ecommends Congress to enable all parties to re move, at their option, " all such cases as may aereafter arise, and which involve the faithful O bservance and execution of our international O bligations, from the State to the Federal 'ildiciary." The PRESIDENT next adverts to the attack made on the Caroline in 1837, and stoutly con.. t ends that our Government was not warranted, ti nder any circumstances, in invading the Amer-- e nn territory. The pith of his observations on t his subject, which imply rather a timid than a f riendly spirit, lies in his conclusion, that "I can not but indulge the hope that the British Go lernment will see the propriety of renouncing, 4 ' ll a rule of future action, the precedent which h as been set in the affair at Schlosser." Neither in this observation, nor in his remarks a bout the Boundary, do we see any cause for ap prehension ; but knowing how much the Ameri '44 detest bein g searched by British men-of-war, l owing, too, that the right of search has been most arrogantly exercised, we foresee the germs of violent contentions in our un fortunate, though well meant, efforts to 4 4 1:Tress the slave trade. Mr. TYLER denies • the right of all the nations of the earth to make t til k Y:4lterpolations in the Maritime Code without _Lie , cons en t of the Americans. He adds, " when we are given to understand by a foreign Govern- I l ient, that its treaties with other nations cannot ;e executed without the establishment and en- i c i reeinent of new principles of maritime police, 'be applied without our consent, we must em- P l °Y a language neither of equivocal import, nor , ilt s Optible of misconstruction." He expresses h " 4111 deterinination to urge on Great Britain to 1 Want full and ample remuneration for all losses I . l lstaired by American citizens engaged in law- 1 .Ll. commerce, and he indulges a hope that Great • talc: will not refuse remuneration for wrong k to those citizens by the exercise of rights N ,e h the American Government cannot recog- 4 . ,-e as legitimate. This is the most important, t the most painful part of Mr. TYLER'S. Met e• 'lt indicates an additional and festering 14. - Jet of piarrel between the two nations. kr. TYLER infers, from the manner in which 1 1 /a Per money has been abused, that society wonld have been happier without it; and lie re e'°,.intriends Congress to inquire whether the 4111 11 Its cannot be made to resume cash payments, t l t liquidate all demands on them. At the same 414 1 he announces a plan for a new fiscal agent ' furnish 4. a sound paper medium," to be pl aced under an independent Board of Control, ,o have a capital of 15,000,000 dollars, agencies : t lifferent parts of the Union, and be a discount " exchange agent. In this scheme, which Pea to e s t a bli s h a powerful rival of the excutive 1 7vernment, we trace the contriving hand of Mr. 113 13 LE. It is the work of a profound financier, rt rut on disguising what he really means, and ter can have sprung from the simple mind of 111 .' TYLER. The scheme is, in truth, the esta- j Bll Tnent of an independent National Bank, ' without adopting the name. W e shall notice one topic more , in whic h the , monied,‘ classes are much interested. The PRE hi: tNY asserts that the indebtedness of the seve -0 i lt States amounts to 200,00 0 , 000 dollars, which , I N n ay has generally been spent in impor tant hi e l'ilal improvements. Though lie expresses i: belief that each State will honourably fulfil i,,i!ngagements, and points ou t t he ra p id de 613tlient of their resources as reasons why they`4 811 ° 11 W, he declares that he ca n do nothin g 4, v n i a ,.... k ethem. If the separate States , therefore, e . ' 1 " that feeling of honour and conscientious tii.g rbleb the PRESIDENT attributes. to them, ell' debtors in Europe . may give up their claims,B: The hopes that were founded on the in terfere, that the general Government would must now be at an end. Like the 1 , 4. E , SYDENT, we trust a great deal to the sense of 4 :Aitudi which is strong in every free people, qwe shall be slow to believe that any of the S tates will repudiate their engagements. saw The whole of the Paris Papers have been re teived. They contain no news of the slightest European interest. Though the Chambers were t o be opened on Monday, the circumstance a t:Acted no attention, nor was the expected 'Peed), from the Throne the object of a single .1131 Nrtant, conjecture. The Government is - "PP O 4ed to have gained a great accession f :o •stren th in the Chambers by the conl. ' ictl " Of DUPOTY, which havin g p roduced " aO ollibreak, is regarded as equivalent to ,1, . complet e victory over the Press of 1 1 /In ce. To the credit of M. TRIERS i t must be that he did all in his power to procure ,IpoTy's acquittal, and that nearly the w hol e : 44 ;ke minority consisted of his personal friends. -, i f - digNissEr's life is to be spared as a reward 4 6 t-'exertions , in the conviction of his less guilty ;lelllpliCeS. COLOMBIER and B RASSIER alias Ckl suffer sudeath. 4, 41311. Saturday, at two in the morning, the condemned h"rasse, Pelet, Dufour, Boggio, Mallet, Launois, Du ' transferred, and B az i n , were taken from the Luxe m b ourg to b e 'some to Mont St. Michel, th e ot h ers it , I , ; ," l lgst them D u p o ty, to Doullens. B ouc h eron st i ll Miain s at the Luxembourg. The advocates of the three condemned to death were p e rmitted to s e e th e m. They had all on the strait ' waistcoat QuenisEet and Colombier were calm. Brazi er , ) . e tted by the thoughts of his mother, prayed his ad t„'ite M. . Blot Seguenne, to try to console her. Ile is "r_ more calm. Abbe Grivel visited the condemned. The Comm er e e announces th a t the Pilote du Cal va d os an d the Hero de Caen are to be prosecuted for giving an account of th e secret d e lib era ti ons o f th e Court of P ee r s . lit he Marquis of Lavalette, Secretary of the Neapo -4,n embassy, arrived on the 21st at Marseilles, and Zoarked i n t h e S esostr i s, L evant steamer , to l an d at gleS with despatches. v Ac counts from Algiers of the 15th reached Toulon on n e 2 0th. Rear-Admiral Rigodet and M. de Rumigny ha ve arriv e d. Th e l atter r e places ad interim General ugeatid. The system developed by Count Pellet ' s Bill, in the C ouncil of Agriculture A • Lure and Commerce, relative to sugars, received unanimous support. It consisted of equalizing deity on both sugars within a period of five years, re , the tax on colonial sugar 3f. each year, and aug, 7 7 , "Ling that on heetivot sugar if. each year, so - that at the end of five years the duty on both would be 30f.— Presse. - We find the following article in the Petits de Calcac'es (Caen), of December 23 : " Just as our paper is going to press we learn that we are summoned to appear before the Court of Correc tional Police on the 31st of December, to answer for a violation of the laws of September in articles of our cor respondence of the 17th, which are accused for the ac count given of the deliberation of the Court of Peers." The Augsburg Gazette announces that the Journal des Debate has just been prohibited at Rome. What a com fort to the Gazette ! The Eclaireur de la Miditerranee of the 21st inst. writes : " At this moment there is great activity in the con veyance of troops from Toulon to Algeira. We learn that several steam-boats are preparing for the purpose." The 10th Regiment of Light Infantry will be em barked for Africa on Tuesday next. Besides the sending of the regiments to Algeira, it is observed that those which were to return to France, are making no prepara tions to leave Africa. Hence it is naturally inferred that the army in Africa is going to be augmented, according to the wishes said to have been expressed by the Gover nor-General. This measure was rendered necessary for the execution of the system adopted by General Bugeaud. —Constitutionnel. TOULON, DEC. 21.—The Marango (of the line) which left Algeira, on the 15th, anchored in our road on the 20th. When it left that city the Meteor had just arrived there with General de Rumigny and Rear-Admiral Ri jodit. We have not yet been able to learn what effect was produced en the minds of the army and the colonists by the provisional or definitive removal of Gen. Bur geand. The Marango has brought no letters.—Le Commerce. Some of the London Aldermen boast of the City sobriety at this season, and attribute it to the New Police Act, and the vigilance of Com missioner Harvey. Had they attributed the cir cumstance to Father Mathew, or Father Pusey, or Sir Andrew Agnew, or want of money, they might have obtained some credit; but what be comes of their conclusion, when it is known that at the West-end, and even within the City boundary, no such sobriety was observed ? At Clerkenwell Police-court the number of drunken charges was very great; and at Queen-square the police-sheet on Monday presented "along list of drunk and disorderly charges." SAVE THE LANDED INTEREST FROM THEIR FRIENDS.—The landed interest objects to the repeal of the Corn-laws, that they are over burdened with taxation; and instances, amongst other taxes, the Land-tax. That is not cor rect, reply the Corn-law repealers, and the landed interest have evaded the Land-tax, which is legally set at 4s. in the pound on the actual rental, and, instead of producing less than 2,000,000/., ought to produce at least 10,000,0001. To rebut this, a learned lawyer in the Times proves that the Land-tax, so called, falls on personal property as well as on land, and is not exclusively a Land-tax. It quotes the following passage from the Land-tax Act :—" That all and every person and persons having any estate in ready money or debts owing to them, or in yoods, wares, and merchandises, or other chattels or personal estates whatsoever (with certain exceptions), shall pay to his Majesty the sum of 4s. in the pound, according to the true yearly value thereof for one year; that is to say, for every 1001. of such ready money and debts, and for every 100/. worth of such goods, wares, and merchandises, or other chattels or personal estate, the sum of 205. (being 4s. in the pound on the income of such 1001., calculated at five per cent.)" This is, therefore, a tax on personal pro perty as well as land, and it is little felt, because the total amount, divided amongst counties, is levied according to a valuation made in the reign of King William the Third, and not since in creased. If a larger proportional share of it now fall on land than on personal property, the reason is that personal property has, since the reign of William the Third, increased even more than the rent of land. The Times, however, has effec tually demolished the landlords' claim to tax the bread-eaters, because they exclusively pay the Lind-tax. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The arrival of the Independence with the President's Message, caused, in addition to the receipt of the Speech of the King of the French, some bustle in the City this afternoon. Both of these State documents were looked upon as of a pacific tendency, making due allow ance for the national tone and vigour which they must usually preserve when touching upon foreign relations, in order to give satisfaction to the citizens of the coun tries to which they are addressed. The Stock Market was rather neglected this afternoon, and closed with a slight degree of heaviness. For the opening Consols realised 89*, leaving off at 888. Exchequer Bills were marked 1 Is. to 14s. premium. Reduced Three-and-a Half per Cents. 98k to 99, and Three per Cent. An nuities 89. Bank Stock was firm, at 165-4- to 165:I. The Foreign Securities were very little dealt in, and did not improve in value. They closed in fact a shade Le‘ow the opening rates. Spanish Actives at 23k to 24; Portuguese New at 32k; Colombian at 204; Dutch New Five per Cents. at 97k, and Danish at 81. Shares have not lost their elasticity. The following are the official Returns of the exports of bu Fon from the Port of Loudon for the week ending I.lrursray last:— Silver lk in to Hamburgh •Rotterdam 15,000 Silver Bars to Ditto (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 27.—We have had an active business doing in the Cotton Market to day, the sales amounting to 6,500 bales nearly, including 1,200 Surats, 34d. to 4d. Speculators have taken 1,400 American. In exports nothing doing. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 27. Great Western, 85; New 591 ; London and Birmingham Quar ter Shares, 254; Ditto, 321., 56; New ditto, 271; London and Brighton, 38: 4 1 . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 27.—We have no material alteration to report in our Share Market to-day. Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 168 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 31. 16s. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 434- 44 ; Manchester and Leeds, 65 67 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 27i 28. By the arrival of the London packet-ship Ontario, at Portsmouth, from New York, papers to the 4th inst., have been received at the North and South American Coffee- house. The packet-ship Montreal, had arrived at New York, after a quick passage of twenty-seven days. The New York papers do not contain any political news of the least interest ; all parties were anxiously waiting for the President's Message. The following is the state of the Money Market. The sales at the Stock Board to-day were to a fair extent, but prices did not vary materially. Delaware and Hudson improved k, Stonington Paterson 1, Mohawk 1, Bank of America 1, Long Island declined I, Illinois Sixes per cent., Indiana fives 1, Sale of Bills on Philadelphia 5 to 51-, Baltimore 4, Mobile 10, New Orleans, 6 to 61. Another sale of State credit was made to-day at auction, being 100,000 dollars six per cent. stock, nomi nally at par. The actual price was much less than that. The state of things in regard to uncurrent money remains much the same. All the bills are bought with caution, and those of the Bank of Watertown, at Water town have been thrown out. Consols opened at 89 ; Three per Cent. Reduced 89i; Three-and-a-Half, 98i 99. Exchequer bills, 1 Is. 13s. prem. Spanish Active Stock 24k 4 ; Passive, 5i 1; Deferred, 12i ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 32+ 33+ ; ditto Threes 194 20. Very little business doing. The English Securities have improved since the open ing. Consols are now 891 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89* ; Three-and-a-Half do.. 99; Exchequer Bills, 13s 14s premium. Very little doing in the Foreign Market; the following are the only quotations :—Danish Bonds, 81 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 194 ; Spanish Active, 24+ » ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52k. There are only three quotations in the Share Market to report :—London and Brighton ; 39 ; Northern and Eastern, 29 ; Eastern Counties, 84. . Consols, for the Account, 88i 89 ; Mexican, 26+ ; Spanish, 23,1- 24. In the Canadian accounts this morning we have a statement of the trade of Kingston, in reference to Ame rican produce, from which it appears that from January to October there were received 108,729 bushels of Wheat, 39,289 bushels of Corn, 21,512 barrels of Pork, 543 bar rels of Beef, 133,169 barrels of Flour, and 5,023 bar rels of Salt. May seems to have been the chief month for business. There is no feature in the Money Market just now. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... 1651 India Stock 3 per Cent Red. B4 Ditto Bonds —pm 3 per Cent Cons Ditto Old Annuities ... 86a 3i per Cent Red.. 9Bl Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 991 \Ex. Bills, 1,0001...2}d 12 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l2 pro Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. 12 pm Jan 1 1860 .. 12 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct . 1859 l2 5-16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 18 60 . — 'Consols for Open BBi FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent !Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres, 6 per eel Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic.. . Colombian, 6 per cent. Spanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, 1824. ........ . ..... Ditto, Deferred , Danish, 3 per cent....... 81 French, 5 per cent. Greek, 1825, 5 per ce nt. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. — c Ditto, 6 per cent, 18.37 Dutch, 2i per cent 52 Peruvian 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) • • •.....• 28 Eastern Counties Railway ( 23 paid) ..... Great W es t ern Railway( 65 paid) Ditto New Shares (5 0 paid) ....... 60 Hull and S e lby (50 paid) ..................... 39 Londo n an d B r i g h ton (50 paid).. •••••• •• 39 LLLondonoopnn ddDittotootLondon and aQanr Newuidaßr: . 8 1 eoi a rhru c mat k rhi we Shares ( 1 . Railway paid)( ....... p . ........). 81 1 1 t I 8d No D r i t t h to erli N; d Shar esE tnew Sha r esrg Eastern Birmingham ?;5:. paid) a o pd ........ 4292 9 4 59i North Midland Railway (1b0) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) South Eastern and Do ver (43 pa id)... York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 90 THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY, .D THE THEATRES.. DRURY-LAIVE. - - - Mrs. Inchbald's amusing comedy of Every one has his Fault, was produced at this theatre last evening, Macready sustaining the part of Harmony. This is quite a new line for Macready, and although the benevolent old gentleman of Comedy does not afford the same scope for the exhibition of histrionic talent as the higher range of characters in which we have hitherto been accustomed to see him, yet, even in characters such as these there are laurels to be gathered, there are points to be illustrated by study, there are conventionalisms to be got rid of, there is a mine of feeling and pathos to be worked, and therefore we were glad to see Macread an nounced for the character. A s m ight be expected, his Harmony is perfectly different from that of his . regular comic predecessors. He has laid aside all stage tradi tion, has studied the character as though it were a new one, and has, as might have been expected, completely succeeded. His Harmony is a quiet graceful piece of acting, in perfect keeping from the first scene to the last. We were glad to see Macready announced for this cha racter, for another reason—it proved to us that the love of his art was with him paramount to every selfish con sideration—the comedy was to be produced—it would add materially to its efficiency and completeness as a whole if he were to take the part of the benevolent old man. and he does so at once, without standing on any of that absurd punctilio with which we have in some actors been before now disgusted. After the example that he has thus wisely set, we trust we shall hear no more about actors refusing parts on the score of dignity. Mr. Hud son, the gentleman who, on Monday, appeared as Gra tiano, was the Sir Robert Ramble; the eccentric Baronet has often met with a much worse representative. Mr. Hudson is an effervescing bustling actor, with a good voice, distinct enunciation, and agreeable and gentlemanly manners, and is well adapted to take a lead as a principal light comedian. The comedy was strongly cast. Compton was Solus, and the eccentric old bachelor lost none of his oddity in Compton's hands. Keeley and his wife, as Mr. and Mrs. Placid, were first rate. Those who recollect him last year in the cognete character of "Dolly" Spanker, in London Assurance, will easily understand that nothing could be better. An derson was Captain Irwin, and Mrs. Warner Lady Eleanor—both excellent ; and little Miss Vining. as Edward, their son, was touchingly pathetic. In the scene in which Edward voluntarily sacrifices. Lord Norland's friendship, and quits his Lordship's house to accompany his mother in poverty and wretchedness, the tears of the audience bore witness to the beautifully pathetic acting of this very clever child. The comedy was well got up in every respect, and the applause was unanimous at its conclusion.- Macready was called for when the curtain fell, and on his appearance, was received with all the honours. The new pantomime followed. The house was, we are happy to say crowded. 3:CgMBER 29, 1841. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. The Gazette of last evening contains a list of 162 ad dresses of congratulation, transmitted for presentation to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the occasion of the birth of his Royal Highness the Princ e of \Vales, and presented to his Royal Highness by the Right Ho nourable the Marquis of Exeter. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vtibitt eptltton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Two of the three prisoners condemned to death by the French Court of Peers, will, our Paris Correspondent says, be guillotined. Quenisset, the guiltiest of them all, is to have his life for betraying his accomplices. His Holiness the Pope has prohibited the circulation of the Journal des Debuts in the Papal States. This comes of writing saucy letters to such Venerable Prelates as the Bishop of Chartres instead of humbly bending to receive in silence episcopal correction. The Church is always insulted when men attempt to reason with their pastors. And yet we would Let our inkstand against a crozier that the Debuts in the long run will be more than a match for the Bishop and the Sovereign Pontiff.—From Madrid we have accounts of the 19th inst. Up to the afternoon of that day, the dispute between M. de Salvandy, the French Am bassador, and the Cabinet, as to the presentation of his Excellency's credentials, had not been arranged. M. de Salvandy claims to deliver them to the Queen in person in a private audience, and the Ministry insist that as her Majesty is a minor that they must be presented to the Regent as the Sovereign de facto. M. de Salvandy menaced to demand his passports, and the reply of Senor Gonzales was, that his Excellency might have them if he thought proper. . . In a Madrid letter of the same date we find the fol lowing :—" TWo thousand four hundred and fifty-three butts of sherry wine were exported from Jerez and Port St. Mary's during the last month of November, and this month's export is expected to be larger ; but the grand aim of the shippers should be to send none but good wines, for the purpose of keeping up their reputation, instead of some of the trash, miscalled sherry, which has been sent to England of late years. PUBLIC OPINION. The object of the principal leading article in the He rald is to show that the recent conviction of M. Dupoty by the Chamber of Peers, must hereafter constitute an event in the history of France ; inasmuch as it proves that our neighbours have now, despite the revolution of July, " a law of constructive treason in operation." The Herald then goes on to ask, " what have the French gained by that revolution ?" and adds, " a Government sufficiently strong to protect the nation against anarchi cal principles, in which Government alone there is safety for France, tranquillity for Europe." The Times has an article on the subject of Mr. Cob den's project of a land-tax, the object of which is to prove that the whole of his theory about an original title in the Crown or the State to " certain services or pay ments in kind out of the land, and a subsequent reserva tion of a rent-charge in exchange fur those services or payments," is not merely unsustained, but absolutely contradicted by facts. The Advertiser observes, in the course of a leading article speculating on what may, or may not, be expected from Sir Robert Peel, " we know not what he will do ; but we are quite certain that he has prepared the public mind for no great changes on any question; but on the contrary, everything indicates his intention, as much as he can, to avoid all alterations and reforms." The Post affects to reply to some observations that ap peared in Monday's Chronicle on the subject of the present dull and disconsolate aspect of the Tory party ; and, without denying the fact, simply contents itself with taunting the Whigs with their " bitter abusiveness," which, in the Post's opinion, " indicates a most morose condition of mind, and a very disturbed state of the bodily juices." The Chronicle contains some comments on a remark made by the late celebrated Mr. Ricardo, to the effect that country gentlemen have not only a temporary, but a permanent, interest in prohibitions of the importation of corn ; and adds, " when we shall have arrived at a state of things in which the pinching bellies of the la bourers will so much increase mortality as to make the deaths equal to the births, Britain will be the Duke of 'Wellington's paradise." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. Waddesden, and its adjoining parish Wotton, of which the Dukes of Marlborough and Buckingham are the chief landlords, are in a deplorable state at present, and the most able-bodied agricultural labourers are unable to ob tain work. COMMERCIAL REFORM. The following plan of " Bread-Tax Receipts is now pursued by the Anti Corn-law Association :—By an ar rangement with a baker, the party who receives a bread tax ticket from the Association is to receive the 41b. loaf, (price 81d. for 5d.), the effect of which is to show the people the amount for which they would obtain the 41b. loaf at all times but for the landlord's tax. AGRICULTURAL. Whortle-berries are now extensively cultivated by a company in Russia, for the manufacture of wine and brandy. The agricultural dinner to the Duke of Buckingham, at which his Grace will make his annual pro-Corn-law speech to the farmers of Bucks, is to be given on the 11th of February. - LAW AND POLICE, Mary Ann Gifford was finally examined at Worship street charged with committing various robberies in dwelling-houses, into which she gained admittance under the pretence of seeking a situation. Not less than twenty cases were brought forward against her, but the Magis trate was satisfied with taking proof on nine only, and fully committed her for trial. Iler husband, described as a journeyman cabinet-maker, was also committed for feloniously receiving a portion of the booty. At Marylebone, on Monday, James Galley, coachman to Mr. Ducas, solicitor, Regent's-park, was committed to take his trial for robbing his master of two ten pound notes and some sovereigns, in the month of August last. He absconded at the time, and had not been heard of till Saturday last, when he was arrested at Taunton. Mr. Rose, solicitor, residing at 17, Great Prescott street, gave information at Lambeth-street on Monday that he had been robbed of 301. in the course of the morning in one of the Mile. end omnibuses, and that the robber, a well-dressed man who sat next to him, had escaped before he missed the money. Upon this Mr. Henry, the Magistrate, said that strong suspicions ex isted that the conductors of certain omnibuses were in league with thieves, and shared in the plunder. It appears also that these worthies, as well as cabmen, are in the daily practice of paying away bad money in giving change, and that steps will be taken by the officers of the Mint to bring them to justice. FINE ARTS. Mr. Weekes is said to have been selected by the East India Company to execute the statue of the Marquis of Wellesley, voted by their Court some time since to be placed in their Court-room. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. 14,763 persons visited the British Museum on Monday, being a much larger number than on any " boxing-day" that has preceded it. 3,500 visitors attended the exhibition at the Polytech nic Institution on Monday, and the dissolving views had to be repeated several times. THEATRICAL. We are sorry to hear that Mr. Sheridan Knowles is so indisposed as to be unable to give his lecture on the drama at the Westminster Institution, advertised for to-morrow. We understand that Mr. Balfe's opera of Elfrida will be represented in the course of the season at the Italian Opera. COURT-FASHIONABLE. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness arrived at Woburn Abbey on Friday. The Members of the Worcester Hunt are about to give a grand ball, in celebration of the christening of the Prince of Wales. The Earl of Wilton arrived in town on Monday even ing, from Strathfieldsaye, where the Countess still re mains. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro are also visiting the Duke of Wellington. The Marquis of Conyngbam, accompanied by Lord Mountcharles, has arrived at Slane's Castle, Ireland. Lord Walsingham has gone to Paris for the winter. The Duchess of Buckingham has a splendid ball on Thursday week at Stowe, in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales. RUMOURS OF THE DAY. It is reported that Sir C. Wetherell, the Learned Re corder of Bristol, is about to resign that office. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took walking exercise both this morning and afternoon in the slopes and on the terrace of the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, also walked out to-day. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Partridge this morning with another sitting, and Prince Albert honoured Mr. Lucas with a sitting to-day, for a whole length portrait. Their Serene Highnesses Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, left the residence of their august Relative, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, Sudbury Hall, yesterday morning, for town. Their Serene Highnesses arrived at the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway soon after six o'clock yesterday evening, and immediately proceeded to Marlborough-house, Pall-mall. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday, from his r es id ence at Kew, and paid a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci arrived in town yesterday afternoon, from a visit to his Grace the Duke of Beau fort, at Badminton, Gloucestershire. COURSE OF EXCHAD Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 8 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 8er1in..... Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto 9 55 Madrid Cadiz i GE — (YESTERDAY). Gibraltar Leghorn ........ 30 40 Genoa .............. 25 90 Milan .......... •3l Venice ................. 47 Naples ............. QO Palermo, p er oz l9i Lisbon ....... . ....... sli Oporto ................. • 51 4 Rio Janeiro ..•, 27 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21days sight 46i ,Philadelphia ....... (PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold C0m...3 17 5 New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0 New Dollars... ........ 410 Silver in Bars... 0 4 111 Bilbao ... 36 Barcelona Seville A MAIDEN LADY.—The Public Advertiser of December, 1777, states that on " Sunday se'nnight were interred at Woolwich, the remains of Mrs. Gott, a maiden lady. She left 50s. on condition of being carried to her grave (and attended only) by females, which was complied with, so that there were no male officiators at her funeral, except the parson and clerk." CONCERTS A LA MUSARD. Notwithstanding the attractions of the Christmas pantomimes, these Concerts were not neglected on Mon day evening. The audience that attended on the refined and classical entertainments which their music afforded on Monday night, was numerous and select, and Mr. Laurent gathered around him, to our great surprise, a silent and delighted auditory, when it might have been otherwise expected that harlequinade and clownery would have entirely secured them to those circles. This is a pleasing proof of the fast hold which music is gain ing upon our countrymen. Tolbecque on Monday night was the leader, and with an orchestra composed of sixty instrumental performers from the Opera House and Phil harmonic, played off in a most light and finished manner the exquisite Overtures and Concerts set down in the programme, and selected from Rossini, Haydn, and Mo zart. But the appearance of a new and juvenile pianist formed the most novel attraction of the evening, in the person of Mr. Henry Laurent, who is not more than fourteen or fifteen years of age. His execution of Herz's intricate variations in the " Pre aux Clercs," of which Herold is th 6 original composer, brought down great and deserved applause, and the rapidity of his fingering on the instrument, gained under the instruction of Mr. W. Holmes, does signal credit both to master and pupil. VICTORIA. This house was so crowded on Monday night with gay Christmas play-goers, that it was with much difficulty standing room could be obtained to view the perfor mances. Susan Hopley, which is a drama drawn from humble life, interested the audience, and excited their applause to the tip-top of any manager's desires. Robert Macaire was the second piece ; after which came the Victoria pantomime, with all its music, mystery, tricks, tumbles, and devices. It resembled an ordinary drama more than a set harlequinade, and, under the title of Peter Wilkins, or Harlequin and the King of the Aerial 1611nds, represented the romantic adventures of that re nowned hero of melodramatic celebrity. The talent of Miss Vincent, and the enterprise of Mr. Osbaldeston, have produced ample amusement for the gratification of their Christmas audiences. Heathorn's moving panorama was a brilliant piece of scenic display ; and some dis sclving views, by Childe, furnished a skilful phantas magoric spectacle. If variety and amusement are to be sought, the Victoria will supply them. BATTY's OLYMPIC CIRCUS. As often as Astley's Amphitheatre has fallen a prey to devouring flames, it has revived, like the fabled pheenix, from its own ashes, and more magnificent and attractive than before. It is true, indeed, that since the destruction of the last edifice some fears have been en tertained by the lovers of equestrian feats and gorgeous spectacles, that its power of reproductiveness had pe rished with the fabric ; but, thanks to the enterprise and ability of Mr. _Batty, those-fears turn out to be altogether groundless. Already the necessary measures are in progress for the erection of a new building on the Buttonto assembleand the d sa ts n e l i e pl s e p s o o t f i ti vl e le o r ff e re t y he Ga a m dm ba ir d e o rs we o r f e l i 3ly t so many years to learn the way "To win the world with noble horsemanship." To fill up the dreary interval from its commencement to its completion, Mr. Batty, with creditable zeal and in genuity, has converted the area and appurtenances of the National Baths in the Westminster-road into a tem porary, but at the same time capacious and elegant theatre, wherein the same exhibitions which made Ast ley popular and Ducrow famous are successfully re enacted. The adaptation of these premises to the pur pose has been successful ; nor is it unclassical, for baths made a part of the ancient gymnasia, and were frequented more for pleasure than for health. There is a spacious gallery here, which last night contained upwards of 1,200 gods, the celestials, by this superior accommo dation, having a decided majority. The boxes are nu merous and comfortable, and have a commanding view of the riding circle_; the pit possesses almost equal ad vantages. Altogether it is really an agreeable structure, being well ventilated and .tastefully decorated, and, as one of the clowns very properly observed to the riding master, like a punch-bowl, because it looks best when full. The performances on Monday were multifarious. First, there was the phenomenon rider, the volant Mr. T. Lee, who while riding one or more fiery steeds, made " ex traordinary and wonderful leaps," as the play-bill says, round the arena, and whose sinewy and symmetrical form, and untiring activity, drew forth the admiration of the audience. Next came " Herr Ludovic's celebrated extravaganza of Jim Crow and his Granny," in which the old trick of carrying " two faces under one hat" is ludicrously exemplified. Mr. W. Walker followed with " his wonderful feats on the flying rope and his celebrated tourbillions," in which he proved himself to be anything but a walker. He was speedily displaced by "M. Leo nard, the great French rider, on two fleet steeds," who was miraculously adventurous. A group of ponies was then introduced, and delighted the spectators with a va riety of amusing and sagacious tricks; they fought, they leaped over poles, and through hoops, they sat down and stood up at command, they wore cocked hats and cloaks, lace caps and mantles, and supped with the clowns on oaten pies, sitting at the table with all proper decorum ; they fetched and carried, they played at leap-frog, they marched, they danced, they walked on their hind legs, they bowed, an d t h ey went d own on their knees, for here that was an accomplishment, and not a detriment to any nag. A company of vaulters, each having two legs fewer than their fellow-performers, next performed some daring leaps and threw somersets ad infinitum, backwards or forwards in rapid succession. After all this, a little pathetic exhibition was made by Miss C. O'Donnell, in the character of Agnes de ito salvi, or the Betrothed One. A series of gymnastic and equestrian exhibitions, witha new piece called The Wan derers of Thonor and of the Sifitns, wound up the enter tainments of the evening, which were interspersed with the witticisms and waggeries of two very clever clowns, one of whom is a good punster, and the other a supple posture-master, and a capital musician on—the penny trumpet. ---- COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, AND HUMORIST, FOR JANUARY, 1842, EDITED BY THO MAS, HOOD, ESQ.—Amongst the admirers of true wit, humour, and pleasant reading, Colburn's New Monthly has always taken the first rank in periodical literature. Under the editorship of Thomas Hood, and at the com - mencement of a new year, its claims to the attention of the public are redoubled. The January Number con tains an extraordinary variety of entertaining and amus ing papers by the most distinguished writers of the day. The Editor himself has contributed no less than three articles, " An Anacreontic for the New Year," " English Retrogression," and " The University Feud ; or, a Row at the Oxford Arms," all in his best style. Mr. Poole, the author of " Paul Pry," has a most humorous paper called " The School for Horse flay," and continues his caustic story of " Phineas Quiddy.' Barry Cornwall re appears in these pages with some excellent verse, en titled " Weeds and Flowers ; " Mr. Laman Blanchard furnishes a laughter-exciting sketch called " Wanted, a Father, Mother, and a Few Sisters." The author of " Rattlin the Reefer," presents us with a stirring story, under the title of, ," The Sea Lawyer ; " and Mr. Horace Smith appeared to great advantage in his " Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus ; the faceti ous " P e t er Prig gins" continues his "Gra duates and Under-Graduates with unfailing spirit ; and besides all these attractive papers we have several others of a more than usually ex citing kind, and which will attract much attention. Amongst them some original letters of Dean Swift, now for the first time given to the public ; " Recollections of Eton," by an Etonian; an " Account of Lebanon in 1841;" the "Reminiscences of a Medical Student;" and the re markable story, "A Strange Passage in the Life of Charles Welford." Altogether the first Number for 1842 of Colburn's New Monthly Magazine may be said to distance all its competitors, and give extraordinary pro mise of the future exertions of its distinguished editor and his coadjutors. The remains of the late Earl of Westmoreland were deposited in the family vault at Apthorp, near Peterborough, on the 27th instant. They were attended by the Dowager Countess of Westmorland, who left America fifteen months ago, in consequence of letters from the Noble Earl, earnestly and affectionately entreat ing her to retail. WAR- OFFICE, DEC. 28, 1841. 2d Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut. D. J. M. Macleod to be Captain, by purchase, vice Forde, who retires ; Cornet E. Barnett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macleod ; H. T. C. S. Pigott, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Barnett, Dec. 28. d Regiment of Foot—Brevet Col. Sir C. W. Dance, from half-pay Royal York Rangers, to be Major, vice Brough, pro moted ; Brevet Major G. D. J. Raitt to be Major, by pur chase, vice Sir C. W. Dance, who retires ; Lieut. S. W. Jeph son to be Captain, by purchase, vice Raitt ; Ensign G. G. Webb to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Jephson ; H. W. B. Cleveland, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,viee Webb, Dee. 28. 4th Foot—Ensign W. Crawley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Palmer, deceased, July 29; Ensign P. L. G. Anderson, from the 88th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Crawley, Dec. 28. _ 7th Foot—Second Lient. W. H. Hopson, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Persse, who retires, Dec. 28; Lieut. C. W. Tupper, from the 69th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Craigie, who exchanges ; Ensign H. B. Bertles, from the 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Troubridge, promoted, Dec. 30. 10th Foot—Ensign J. T. Gorle to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Cane, who retires ; J. Taylor, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gorle, Dec. 28. 16th Foot—Ensign L. R. Elliot to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Fairtlough, who retires ; R. Lawton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Elliot, Dec. 28. 26th Foot—Lieut. J. W. Johnstone, to be Adjutant, vice M'Donald, who resigns the Adjutancy only, June 4. 47th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class R. Battersby to be Surgeon, vice Mair, who exchanges, Dec. 28. 57th Foot—Lieut. H. Hill to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bate, deceased; Ensign E. D. Armstrong to he Lieute nant, vice Hill, Sept. 11 ; Ensign L. N. MacLachlan to be Lieutenant, vice Armstrong, whose promotion on the 19th November has been cancelled, Nov. 19 ; Lieut. J. M'Namee to be Adjutant, vice Hill, promoted, Sept. 11. 69th Foot—Lieut. R. C. Craigie, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Tupper, who exchanges, Dec. 29. 79th Foot—Lieut. R. Ferguson to be Captain, by purchase, vice M'Dougall, who retires; Ensign T. J. Reeve to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ferguson; H. J. Gordon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Reeve, Dec. 28. 86th Foot—Capt. H. J. Sharp, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice R. N. Everard, who exchanges ; Lieut. C. W. Gore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sharp, who retires; Ensign W. Edwards to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gore; Wm. H. Weaver, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ed wards, Dec. 28. 88th Foot—Gentleman Cadet E. Corbett, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ander ' son, appointed to the 4th Foot, Dec. 28. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign C. Steevens to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Geddes, who retires ; G. Cary, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Steevens, Dee. 28. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—H. Agar, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, Dec. 28. UNATTACHED. —Lieut. W. O'Neill, from Staff-Adjutant at Edinburgh, to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 28. FIDSFITAL STAFF.—TO be Staff-Surgeons of the Second Class—Assistant-Surgeon R. H. A. Hunter, from the 2d Foot, July 2 ; Surgeon J. Mair, M.D. from the 47th Foot, vice Battersby, who exchanges, Dec. 28. BREVET.—Lient.-Col. G. Macdonald, on half-pay of the 16th Foot ( Governor of Sierra Leone), to have the local rank of Colonel, on the western coast of Africa, Dec. 24. Capt. H. J. Sharp, of the 86th Foot, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 23. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEc. 27. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major P. D. Stewart to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Stopford, re tired on half-pay ; Second Captain W. H. Hennis to be Cap tain, vice Stewart; First Lieutenant W. E. Heitland to be Second Captain, vice Hennis; Second Lieutenant W. P. Pol lock to be First Lieutenant, vice Heitland, Dec. 20. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire. North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—H. T. Fitzgerald, Esq., to be Captain; J. W. Eastment, Gent., to be Cornet, Dec. 17. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Chester. King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—Arley Troop.—R. Brooke, Esq , to be Captain, vice Warburton, re signed, Dec. 20. fatton Troop—T. J. L. Brooke, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Leycecter, promoted, Dec. 20. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. RICHARD WATER S, iron-manufacturer, Newport, Monmouthshire. THOMAS WOOSTER, jun., ship-owner, Peckham-rye terrace, Surrey. THOMAS FOR TY, hotel-keeper, Richmond. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. CHARLES JOSEPH CARTTAR, banker, Greenwich. BANKRUPTS. JOEL GARDINER, common brewer, Bristol, to surren der Jan. 14 and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Commercial-rooms. Bristol. Gingell, Henbury ; Meredith and Reeve, Lincoln's Inn. JOHN STEVENS, brickmaker, Limehouse, January 14, at two, and February 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, Abchurch-lane, official assignee; Tucker, Bank Chambers, Lothbury. THOMAS FITT BALLS, coach and omnibus proprietor, Brixton, Jan. 6, at one, and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Gaunt, Newgate-street. JOSIA H CLOSE, glove manufacturer, Worcester, Jan. 6, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Hop Market, Worcester. Bed ford, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Bedford and Pidcock, Worcester. ELLIOTT WHITNEY, soap boiler, Liverpool, Jan. 12, and Feb. 8, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Booker, Liverpool ; Holme, Loftus, and Young, New Inn, London. JAMES BEDFORD, chemist, Hunslet Moorside, Leeds, Jan. 13, and Feb. 8, at two, at the Commisioners'-rooms, Leeds. Robinson and Barlow, Essex-street, Strand, London ; Ward and Son, Leeds. SAMUEL SHINGLER, linen draper, Liverpool, Jan. 10, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Sale and Worthington, Manchester ; Baxter, Lincoln's InnAtelds, London. MICHAEL MARSHALL, money scrivener, Chew Magna, Somersetshire, Jan. 14, and Feb. 8, at one, at the Commercial rooms, Bristol. Burfoot, King's Bench-walk, Inner Temple, London Davies and Foster, Wells. AMOS PROCTER and ROBERT PROCTER, coach proprietors, Kingston-upon-Hull, Jan. 11, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Bell, Brod rick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, London ; Tenney and Sidebottom, Hull. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. DIVIDENDS. - - G. Anton and G. D. Mitchell, corn factors, Corn Exchange, Mark-lane, Jan. 18, at twelve—J. A. Warren and J. F. Tay lor, ship builders, Little Hermitage-street, St. George's-in the-East, Jan. 18, at half-past eleven—G. Muirhead, tailor, Oxford-street, Jan. 18, at half-past one—J. B. King, carpen ter, Old Broad-street, Jan. 18, at one—J. H. Barlow, stock broker, Change-alley, Cernhill, Jan. 13, at twelve—W. Cross, grocer, Mountnessing, Essex, Jan. 13, at two—J. Green, draper, Cheltenham, Jan. 20, at half-past twelve—J. Silver, silversmith, Hatton-garden, Jan. 20, at half-past one —W. and F. J. Appleford, drapers, Holborn-bars, Jan. 20, at twelve—A. G. W. Biddulph, J. Wright, H. Robinson, and E. W. Jerningharn, bankers, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, Jan. 20, at eleven. In the Country. J. Newham and G. Pearson, linen drapers, Ryde, Isle of Wight, Feb. 19, at three, at the Fountain Inn, Cowes—B. R. Broadbent, flannel manufacturer, Spotland, Lancashire, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Commissioners -rooms, Manchester—W. Pilling, manufacturer of cotton goods, Droylsden, Lancashire, Jan. 20, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester— C. Benson, solicitor, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—R. C. Squibb, rope maker, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Bugle Inn, Newport—J. Copplestone, grocer, Plymouth, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth—S. Smith, farmer, Pedmore, Worcestershire, Jan. 29, at one, at the Talbot Hotel, Stourbridge—J. Price, jeweller, Birmingham, Jan. 19, at two, at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham—C. Sayers, money scrivener, Great Yarmouth, Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Bear Inn, South-town, Suffolk—R. Slack, paper ma nufacturer, Heafield, Derbyshire, Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—R. R. Walker and R. J. Peel, Manchester warehousemen, Manchester, Jan. 20, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—E. Weatherby, J. H. Ford, W. L. Hilton, R. Addison, and R. Gibson, cotton spinners, Manchester, Jan. 21, at ten, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES—JAN. 18. W. Dox ford, ship builder, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham— G. H. Garnett, chemist, Queen Ann-street, Marylebone. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. J. Doogood and C. W. Wisbey, printers of the " Welsh man" Newspaper, Carmarthen—W. H. and C. F. Mills, wine merchants, Mark-lane—J. Adams and J. Lightfoot, lace ma nufacturers, Nottingham—C. and H. Bolton, general mer chants, Kingston-upon-Hull—W. Wilkins and E. Cox, work ing engineers, Castle-street, Long-acre—G. Shaw and T. Blinkhorn, wire workers, Manchester—T. Squire and J. Waring, tanners, Warrington, Lancashire—W. and J. P. Gruggen, surgeons, Chichester—E. Brooke and J. Sturmey, milliners, Bath—G. and S. Grimmer, farmers, Burgh S:. Peter, Norfolk—J. Sproule, C. Harris, and W. Cunning ham, wine merchants, Liverpool—R. Cros sley and W. F. Ni cholson, worsted spinners, Halifax, Yorkshire—J. Baker and J. Smith, wine merchants, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket —T. and S. Lunn, farmers, Great Hampton, Worcestershire —H. Gaaquoine and A. Morris, calico printers, Manchester — J. Sheppard, sen., and J. Sheppard, jun., maltsters, Langley Burrell, Worcestershire—W. Wilks and G. C. Temperley, coal merchants, Dartford, Kent—R. Wight and W. D. Bur linson, brass founders, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham—T. Was sell, sen., J. Wassell, jun., and J. Wassell, engine founders , Coseley, Staffordshire (so far as regards J. Wassell, jun. ) E. and A. F. Christian, wine merchants, Duke-street, Port land-place—J. Curll and J. Glover, coach manufacturers, Sutton-street, Soho-square—T. Croudace and W. Dunn, coal factors, Cross-lane—J. Marlow and J. Gillson, millers, Farn don, Nottinghamshire—E. Blane and E. Day, silk mercers, Manchester—J. Dalton and W. J. Capper, linen drapers, Re gent-street. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. PETER LOWSON. shipmaster, Dundee, Dec. 31 and Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, D►dndee. PETER HENDERSON, coal merchant, Perth, Jan. 3 and 25, at two, at the Chambers of D. Clark, Perth. ALEXANDER BANNATYNE, grain merchant, Glas gow, Jan. 4 and 25, at two, at the Writing Chambers of J. Monteith, Glasgow. SUICIDE.—On Monday an inquest was held be fore George Carttar, Esq., and a respectable jury, at the Hope public-house, Loampit Vale, Lewisham, upon the body of Georgina Caroline Death, who was found sus pended by a ribbon, in a bed-room of the above inn on Thursday last. The jury were empannelled on Friday evening last, in order to investigate the case, but stood adjourned without going into any evidence, in conse quence of the person of the deceased being then un known. A number of witnesses were examined, among others the brother of the deceased, an engraver, residing at 83, Aldgate, and it appeared from their evidence th at the deceased had for some time been i▪ n bad h ea l t h , and was liable to great excitement from sli▪ ght causes. Tho mas Mee Dalby, surgeon, New Broad-street, City, at tended deceased last twelve months for hysteria. She had taken large doses of laudanum for three years, for (he considered) the purpose of destroying lif e . Suffered frequently from hysteria mania. A. very trifle would excite her ; was kindly treated at home ; a more united family he did not know.—" Temporary derangement." The father of the deceased was for many years a Common Councilman for the wardof Portsoken. BODILY STRENGTH. --A friend of ours says, he is growing weaker and weaker every day. He has got so weak now that he can't raise five dollars. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. We have waited, before pronouncing an opinion upon this dreadful event, for . the result of the inquest held upon the bodies of the sufferers ; and this we wish we could say, that after perusing the evidence, it was pos sible to exculpate the Directors of the Great Western li.tilway Company from responsibility for what has hap pened. It may be true that no regulations wbich can be devised would provide absolutely against such oc currences as the sudden slipping of an embankment ; but in this instance it is only too clear that the proba bility of such an event might have been foreseen, and ought to have led to precautions, which were not adopted. The verdict, therefore, of the jury, which imposed upon the engine and tender a deodand of 1,0001., was a most proper one ; and we trust it may have a salutary effect in checking similar negligence for the future. That the embankment in the Sonning-hill cutting, at or near the place where it fell, had been observed for some time previous to be in a dangerous state, so as to attract the observation of persons living in the neighbourhood—that some of those persons had ex pressed their apprehensions to servants of the Rail way Company—that partial slips had taken place, and had been recently patched up under the direction of one of the assistant engineers, were facts fully esta blished by the evidence upon the inquest. So much as this was admitted by Mr. Berthram, the assistant engineer, himself ; and although this witness and his foreman deposed " that everything was done which was thought necessary," and were " quite sure" that the particular slip which led to the fatal catastrophe was " new, and without any pre vious indication of danger," we have to oppose to this testimony that of Mr. Gosling, jun., who perceived the ground bulging, where it afterwards fell in, on the very day before the accident happened. Under these circumstances, it is impossible for a reasonable man to doubt, that the spot was known to be unsafe, and that the Company's servants had warning amply sufficient to put them upon their guard against the impending evil. The very least which they should have done was to keep a watchman constantly stationed in the immediate neighbourhood, ready to exhibit the cus tomary signal of danger upon a moment's notice. Instead of which, the watchman who had been placed there while the first slip continued, was re moved as soon as it was patched up, without the least regard to the probability that the same causes might, in the existing state of the weather, produce another. At the fatal moment, this watchman was stationed half a mile off from the critical point, and, instead of being of service, held up the signal of safety, and unconsciously lured on the unhappy travel lers to their destruction. We may observe here, that although some evidence (of an unsatisfactory nature) was adduced by the Rail way Company, with a view to show that the fall of the embankment took place at the moment when the train was passing, and under circumstances against which the presence of a watchman could have afforded no security, the contrary was distinctly proved by the per son who, of all others, must have had the best oppor tunities of judging. We refer to the statement of the engine -driver, Thomas Reynolds, who deposed that " the engine ran into some loose earth which had slipped from the side of the cutting on to the rails." The accident, therefore, being itself mainly owing to the negligence of the Company's servants in not setting and keeping a proper watch, or in not paying proper attention to the warnings which they received of the dangerous state of the cutting, we must add to this, that if any regard had been shown to the safety of the passengers in the mode of arranging the position of the trucks by which they were conveyed, the lives which have been sacrificed would probably have been saved. These trucks were placed in the front of the train, next to the tender, with all the luggage-trucks behind them—a position at once the most uncomfortable, being directly exposed to the sparks and cinders thrown out by the engine, and the most dan gerous. If an engine come into collision with any object in front of it, or run over an embankment or be brought to a sudden check, in all these cases the first carriages are certain to be destroyed, as at once participating in the immediate shock, and having the rest of the train violently forced up upon them. This has been the history of almost every serious acci dent which has yet taken place ; insomuch that it is now a matter of experience that the risk of fatal con sequences by railway is almost entirely confined to the carriages next to the engine ; and suggestions have been made (with which we hope the Legislature will compel the Railway Companies to comply) to the effect that passengers should in no instance travel without, at least one empty carriage between themselves and the tender. The Great Western Railway Company, however, consider that no post is so fit for the humble hard-working class who travel by their luggage trains as the post of danger, thinking (it would almost seem) that the safety of the luggage is of more importance than the lives of stone-masons and waggoners.—Times. AN OLD SMUGGLER. Monday a man, who gave the name of John Smith, was brought before Mr. Ballantyne, at the Thames Po. lice Court, charged on a Custom-house information. It appeared that on Friday morning last a Custom house officer, named William Taylor, was stationed on board the City of Edinburgh steam-ship, lying off St. Katherine's, which arrived from Hamburgh on the pre ceding night, when the prisoner came to the gangway and was about to pass out. He was interrogated by Taylor, who asked him if he bad anything liable to duty about him. The prisoner replied that he had not, and passed down the ladder into a boat alongside. The officer then observed that he appeared very bulky, and called him back. The prisoner returned to the ♦essel with much reluctance, and on being overhauled in the cabin 51bs. of foreign-manufactured tobacco and 41bs. of cigars were taken from his person. The whole was very ingeniously concealed round his legs and waist. He en treated of the revenue officer not to take any notice of the discovery, as he had a sick wife and dying child at home. Taylor said he must do his duty, and conveyed the prisoner to this Court. He bad scarcely entered it when, taking advantage of the officer speaking to a person, he started off at full speed down the passage into the street, passing several policemen and others in waiting. He was immediately pursued by Taylor, who called out " Stop thief," but on reaching the end of the alley, in descending the steps he stumbled and fell head foremost into the street. He received a severe wound on the forehead, and was quite disabled by the fall. A Thames-police constable, named Harry Hambrook, took up the pursuit, and gave chase to the prisoner along High street, Wapping, for some distance. Several persons tried to stop him, but without success. He knocked down one man and kicked two others. Hambrook, who is an active young fellow, chased him over wharfs and barges for some time, and ultimately gained upon him, when the fellow darted into the warehouse of Mr. Kimm, a mast and block-maker, and ran up stairs into a parlour, where several females were seated, who were greatly alarmed at the sudden appearance of the intruder, and screamed aloud. Their screams guided Hambrook to the apart ment, and he fell upon the prisoner, secured him, and brought him back to the office. The prisoner, in defence, said he was not off the vessel when the officer called him back, indeed he was only two stairs down the gangway-ladder, and had there fore net unshipped the tobacco. Mr. BALLANTINE believed the defendant was an old smuggler, and he sentenced him to pay a fine of 1001. to the Queen, and be imprisoned till it was paid. A MERRY COUNCILLOR, OR COURT FOOL. " Frederick William was so pleased with Gundling, that he immediately secured his services; he soon be came his Majesty's daily guest, and accompained him wherever he went for the sake of pleasure. The most dangerous privilege which the King conferred on Gundling was free access to the Royal beer and wine cellar. The Learned Councillor addicted himself to drinking so immoderately, that, both in the smoking) party and at the Royal table, he very often appesatareted, intoxicated, and never quitted it otherwise than co t n. pletely drunk ; sometimes, indeed, in so helpless a that he had to be carried home. As the his provosts wear French bags, thatKi ng made they make th e be regarded as ignominious, so he strove to might Court gala dress ridiculous, by re quiring K G . undling to appear in no other. This dress th u tton..h o o f t e a s r red and a o l him in 1717, with the appointment of Gran d ana l tdr n ,g g lei‘i niF s ae e srd n etwen t rcit t oh o f b th ia e ck C v e e r l e v m et o , ni w es it . h consisted g l o t ldb cuffs, and a richly embroidered waistcoat. Hitse head was adorned with a prodigious w ig of white goats' - hair descending in many hundred cur ls, and a large b red ostrich feathers. The b with these he wore breeches were straw- coloured Thisgala ore red-heeled shoes. dress was not l ong wearer rarely went in the best condition. The some ditch or kennel 7 e sad,without 'vi , be did chance to keep upon his legs, he could not escape the very coarse practical jokes in general at the if tumbling into played off upon him , instigation of the King Once, in winter, when the Grand Master of the ceremon ies. was reeling across the bridge from the palace of Wustcrhausen, be was seized by four stout grenadiers, who bound him hand and foot, and let bim down, with terrible outcries, into the moat, which was frozen. The rope slipped out of their hands, and Gundling fell with such violence that the centre of gravity broke through the ice, and he had the greatest difficulty to keep himself from sinking with his elbows and his feet. Means were instantly taken to get him out, but be lost both hat and wig in this cold bath. T he Ki n g was so delighted with the scene that he had it painted several times. On another occasion, some mischievous wags put two young bears, remarkable for their nastiness, and which ran about like yard-dogs at the palace of Wusterhausen, into Grundling's bed, and then carried the drunken historian to pass the night with these delectable bedfellows, who made him in such a pickle that for several days he was not admitted to the Royal table."—Campbell's Frederick the, Great and hi. Timm MORNING SU TIME FOR A FORWARD MOVEMENT OF THE LIBERALS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.' 16-;1. , ; Sut,—Allow me to follow up the expedieney_ of arranging a general forward movement of the, Liberals on the basis of the F ree d om of Traele ,k, :i - K; by insisting on t wo or three points strongly tend= ing to recomme n d suc h an operation. First, That the Liberal party at large have no prospect of success but by setting up some great and stirring object, which shall aim directly at the sources of the hostile power by which they are oppressed. The time is gone by when a Tory Ministry could be ousted upon a point of eti quette. It must be a question of justice or no justice,—freedom or no freedom. It must be a question competent to rally one portion of the nation against the other, and give the honest men the victory. The game of the opponents is to make the war keep the war; in plainer terms, to rob in order to bribe. Like those that drain a bog, we must go to the spring which is at the bottom. Secondly, That supposin g th em t o h ave ever such good and sound ground to fight upon, there is no use in their attempting any struggle, unless they can screw up their souls to the determina tion to bid highly to the " Slave Class" for their assistance. That the slave class will not move without, may not be wise, but it is in " human nature'' Such young politicians as they, cannot be expected to act the part of old diplomatists. All the good in the world might be ready to dmp into their mouths, and they not open them unless they were to be paid for it. Do the Li berals want help or not ? If they do, they must give the popular battalion some object for march ing which it can understand, without asking whe ther there are fifty reasons why it should march without. Not one of them but knows indivi dually and personally, that he was beaten at the mock Election because he had not the Working Classes and the Ballot. And yet these men Niggle about what they shall bid. Lastly, to the populars. If they were old diplomatists, as they are not, they would simply ask themselves the question, whether they should be better for the breaking down of the Trade and Food monopolies or they should not. It is true, attempts have been made by the engines of the monopolists to persuade them they would not; just as attempts have been made to set them against the Ballot, in the full knowledge that where the people had a penny weight of influence through the open voting, the monopolists had a hundred ; which may now be reckoned among gone-by mummeries. But if they_ should determine that they would be better, the question instantly becomes independent of how much gratitude, how much good faith,or how much virtue of any kind, they are to find in the middle classes. Put the case that all these were absent in the highest possible degree ;—that the middle classes were curious in displaying themselves in every discreditable light. Still it would be the part of a child and not of a man, to take pet and quarrel with the cake that could be had, on pre tence of being afraid of being deceived in the expectation of some other. The port of wise men would be to take what can be got, whether the middle classes cheat or not ; and to take as much in the way of gratitude or justice from the middle classes, as Heaven shall send besides. In fact this terror of being cheated by the middle classes, may be set down as one of the sugges tions of the enemy. Its object is to hinder us from taking what we may secure, whether the middle classes prove to be gentlemen or not. Permit me to take the opportunity of assuring the working classes, that nobody has a worse opinion of dependence upon other men's grati tude or virtue than myself. As a proof of it, they may some of them remember, that after the sort of movement towards them which appeared to proceed from Manchester, I took the earliest opportunity, at Huddersfield, of saying, "Blessed are they that expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed !" and b egge , of all things, not to be considered as among the chargeable for any disappointment which might ensue. But I did my best to impress at the same time, that this was no reason for not walking in at an open door, or for refusing to take the good the gods provide us in one direction, for fear of failure in some other. And now, to revert to the general subject,—Look at the positio❑ of the Minister. He is pitted on the support of a string of the most obvious, glaring, insulting fallacies by which one man ever attempted to take another's money in this dubious world;—falsehoods which come home to every man's bread-basket and store-room, and break in upon every little trader's hoarded notions of prudence and integrity. How is he to get out of the scrape ? Either he knew what he undertook to support, or he did not. if he knew, then why is he to he tolerated longer than any other man who has attempted a public injury and failed? If he did not, then what claim has a man so far behind the knowledge of his age and time, to set up for a ruler in a popular Government, though under any imaginable quantity of apologies for his insulated ignorance? The Minister has had one five months' delay already, on the ground that he had not come to the knowledge of whether rob bing a man hurt him or not. Surely he will not have another, however when beaten be may declare himself to have gotten light during his period of incubation. There never was a better board ; if only the old Mar-ails could be pre vented from having more than a reasonable finger in the game.—Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Dec. :27, 1841. MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF A REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. An important meeting composed of those friends of a total and immediate Repeal of the Corn-laws, resident in the various metropolitan districts, was held on Monday at the Office of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Asso ciation, No. 448, West Strand, for the purpose of report ing the progress which the question has made in their respective localities within the last fortnight; George Beacon, Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. MURRAY, of Bethnal-green, apprised the meeting that in his canvassing for signatures to the Repeal of the Bread-tax petition, he discovered that in New York street, Bethnal-green, there was not a single bed, a frightful indication of the state of suffering to which the iniquitous Corn-laws had reduced the people in that populous and industrious district. The petition as a con sequence was most numerously signed in that district. Mr. ANDERSON, of Bishopsgate, stated that out of fourteen Common Councilmen whom his ward returned at the late election, thirteen of them had declared in fa vour of a " total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws," and were, on that ground, returned. . . A letter was read from Mr. IL Cove, representing the growing state of the Tottenham Association ; and, that while the clergymen of the Established Church, in their district, declined to sign the petition, those of the Bap tist and Roman Catholic congregations, and also some of the members of the Society of Friends, had signed it, and pledged themselves to do all in their power to further the objects of the Association. The letter suggested the % Jeffrey, various riCongregationaleuys,di district t r ic t e l l ' e e r t g i y t i Im o n e s n , ." of which Mr. Smith very highly approved, and for that purpose, the of 100/. had been raised b 3' g r w e ,e a a t ilt i i i n t u r g g o : n o ' : c' t f : t h r e: A letter was con gregation of that town, by a penny subscription, collected by means of cards, havine• 940 s eares marked out on a penny, receipt. Letters were also bAylatithlsetomnee,tisitaodtiisntg chapelthat a sum each, one of which was perforated with a pin by each person paying e e ri l ng 'ay a l s or a , of l;xbridge, from the Rev. Mr. I\ ewland, of Chalfont, and from a correspondent at Beaconsfield, stating the distress in their districts frightful amount of iereepderbfr lo.nGaenosr‘gy 1 'ere so much " under the and that the peoll-e " ~ b iron heel of the ~, s ign the petition. " Bread-tax bread-tax, as . .to e afraid in many instances, t e- ed . y Cormac, of Hammer receipts," smith, were o s ri tr te n g a ly recom_ mended to be brought under By an arrangement with a baker, the present season. who receives such tax-ticket is to receive the the notice of all bodies and persons dispensing charity at the party . p persons (h 41b. l oa f; p . p o cecallrocure the tickets from the Anti- Corn-lawlld., for sd. ; the charitably disposed Association), paying the additional 311-d., w hich is the landlords tax on the loaf. The effect will be to s how the people the amount for which they would obtain the 41b. loaf at all times but for the landlord's tax . Mr. Herne proposed a plan the reverse of this, namely, that the people should only pay the tax, and that the charitably disposed should pay the value of the bread. - .Alscussion followed, which ended in leaving the ques tion open, both plans having the merit of exposing the landlord's tax on the poor man's loaf. Mr. SYDNEY SMITII reported the rapid progre ss w hi ch the question of repeal has made within the last fortnight, and the meeting then separated, elate with the f act t h at the working-classes are rapidly uniting in all quarters in the just and desirable objects of the Association. About a fortnight ago, a farmer of Montredgar, in the Loire, whether out of a juke, or with an intent to steal, cannot be known, took away the horse of a neigh bour, named l)estemonts, from the door of a public house, where its master was drinking. Being informed of what had taken place, Desremonts sallied forth in pursuit, and was soon perceived by him who had got the horse. The latter left the beast, and ran off, but was overtaken by his pursuer, with a knif e i n hi s h an d, and was struck down with a severe wou n d. R ecove ring himself, he again ran off, followed by D esremon ts, re peatedly plunging the knife into his victim's loins, and having once more got him down, buried the weapon in the poor man's bowels, and left him dead. T a king his horse, Desremonts returned to the public-house, and, showing his bloody hands, boasted of what he had done, then paid his score, rode home, went to bed, and slept soundly till morn ing. A little reflection, however, induced him to set his af fairs in order, and leave the house. Gendarmes have been ten days in search of him, without finding him. The Journal de Saint Etienne, from which we take the ac count, observes that all the acquaintances of the brutal murderer still speak of him as a brave home. ~c ~'d4 • 1