The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-11 00:00:00

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE THIS OAY. riling 25 minutes after 4. 1 Evening 4i minutes after 4. A i i -f) to „......., ' • 4 .. 4 ::, 'E tx, 4 , • v, ••••!2;-;eft...,....i..V.---. r ;U c:r Z i rfle LONDON: MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1641. The Leeds Times says that The Sun, in re commending us to " throw aside" our agitation for extended Suffrage until the Corn-laws be repealed, unconsciously repeats the gross blunder of the C iartists, who demand that all other political ques tions should be sacrificed to that of Universal Suf frage." Our Contemporary surely forgets that the Chartists not only demanded that all the other po litical questions should be sacrificed to that of Uni versal Suffrage, but that they opposed every species of agitation for any other reform, attended meetings called to consider other subjects, moved resolutions of their owe, and, so far as they could, absolutely interdicted every other agitation but that for the Charter. Surely The Sun has done nothing of th e kind. Far from opposin g or thwartin g our Leeds friends, we have, in our humble way, said something in their favour, and done something t 0 forward their views. Far, too, from demanding that all other political questions should he thrown aside, we have simply recommended the agitation for the Corn-laws as preferable ; and totally unlike the Chartists, we have professed our willingness to aid any one scheme which the Reformers will unite to promote. As practical men, looking at the im * 'mense force—which all the sinister interests com bined to oppose any and every species of reform, • however small or however great—bring to bear • against us, we have adjured all Reformers to bend all their energies, because all will scarcely be suffi cient to achieve any one reform. This opi nion, we are happy to see, is shared by some of the most intelligent Reformers of all ranks, and we must maintain and enforce this opinion, though the Leeds Times should repeat its accusation that we commit the " gross blunder of the Chartists." The Leeds Ilefolmers can only hop e to rea li se their scheme of reform by unitin g all Reformers in 1 its favour. When that is to be accomplished, we cannot at present guess. The Leeds Mercury and other papers of that stamp represent a large sectio n of the Reformers, who have declared by it their hostility to the plan of the Reformers of the L ee d s Time:. But, without the assistance of the form er , the House of Lords cannot be stormed ; ane. at „ .14 .riod are they expected to be won over ? • ip ‘ ;of the Leeds democratic Refor mers' • oaf electoral districts. However just and on principle it has our full. asppro - - - -;;.s4estion, 4 -quite a novelty in our electore.l system. 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Boards of Guardians and masters of workhouses will probably think it their duty to be kind towards unfortunate paupers, and give them an abundance of food, when the Legis lature has learned to respect the rights of industry, and does not wilfully withhold food from the labour ing classes. If the Times and its co-mates, instead of raving against the new Poor-law, would inculcate a respect for justice on the Bench of Bishops,—would inspire the Dukes of BUCKINGHAM and RICHMOND and their followers with some little regard to the rights of the starving Manchester weavers, the Sheffield cutlers, or the Walsall smiths, not only would the poor-houses have fewer tenants, but they would be much better cared for, and much more kindly treated. As long as a law exists which starves a large number of the people every year—as long as the Legislature betrays a terrible disregard of hu man life, how can it be expected that the charities, amenities, and kindlinesses of our nature, should be cultivated by the servants of the Legislature, who preside over workhouses ? When they are partieu - - lady cruel they take their cue from Parliament. The Post professes good intentions, but it cannot all at once shake off bad habits. While it advocates moderation, and reprobates exaggeration, it asserts this morning that " The Sun hopes and believes that the assertion of the Standard's correspondent is true, refers to the Australian Journals as corroborating a part of it, and boldly maintains that Mr. FROST, as an oldfriend of the Government, and a stanch supporter of Liberal principles, deserves, not only pardon, but office, and rapid promotion in the QUEEN'S service." Now this is not merely an extravagance or an exaggeration, such as the Post accuses its friends of committing, but the wilful fabrication of an un truth. All that we said was that Ministers would not do wrong if they had lightened Mr. FROST'S sufferings, now that he has lost the power to do mischief. We said not a word about pro- motion. Neither can the Post all at once acquire know ledge. In ignorance of the fact that consumers, capitalists, and labourers, may all be benefited by the repeal of the Corn-law, it calls those cheats who affirm that the repeal will have such effects. At present the duty on wheat is 275. 8d: per quarter, say 28s. Now suppose that this sum, being remitted, is divided as follow:, :-18s. to the labourer, in the price of bread ; ss. to the consumer in the price of goods ; and ss. to the capitalist as profit, will they not all be benefitted ? Something like that would actually occur, and yet the Post, in its ignorance, (mils those cheats who affirm it. Our Contemporary is alarmed as to what is to become of the agricultural labourers, who he ex pects will be thrown out of employment. That is a mere fancy of the Post to excuse a wrong. At present there are more labourers in the agricultural districts than can find employment, and whether the surplus be 10 or 1,000, the effect in reducing wages to the lowest possible level is the same. The agricul tural labourers now can scarcely be said to live— they starve. At all times the surplus hands of the rural districts have found employment in towns, and the only effect, as far as the la bourers in agriculture are concerned, of the repeal of the Corn-law, would be to extend that market for their labour in the manu facturing districts, which is the chief means of keeping them from a state of hopeless, helpless d l e u p i e r n es. denc p e l , ,he agricultural present, on the farmers and the s labourers' wages would be increa bed, not diminished, by the abolition of the Corn-law. The Paris Journals of Thursday, with private advices from the French capital, hare been received. ' In th e C omm i ttee on t h e f o rtifications of Paris, dif ferences had arisen between Marshal SOULT and Ai• i f ' E Rs —the ex-Minister contending that a grant eighty millions of francs should he voted immediately for the works, while the illustrious Marshal would only consent to a vote of fifty-four millions. Five Members of the Committee were ready to vote the larger sum, and four to grant only the lesser, so that M. TIIIERS has a majority in i hints disapprobation of that part of the scheme. The Leeds Mercury has not merely opposed it by argument, but has gone the length of declaring that all the old boroughs and chartered towns will stre nuously resist it. But their assistance is necessary to carry any plan of reform in opposition to the united landowners. At what period may that be calculated on ? Not months merely, but years must elapse, and in the meantime are we to accom plish no reform whatever ? That must, however, be the result. We can command no reform unless our energies are united. We cannot now unite all Reformers in favour of the plans of the Leeds Re form Association ; and, unless we can unite on some other plan, be it the repeal of the Corn-law or the Ballot, we shall have no reform. To put an end to the hope of reform, when it might be achieved, is, in our opinion, to promote revolu tion ; and therefore we are for now uniting all Re formers around the Anti-Corn-law League. Two flagitious cases have lately been brought before the public of cruel and scandalous treat ment of paupers. At Eton a woman was shut up in an unwarmed room, without bedding or clothing, with a slight intermission, for thirty hours, her offence being a wish to dress her child's chilblains. At Hoo several girls have been whipped. It is the business of the Times and some other Anti-Poor law journals, to paint these cruelties in the darkest colours, and most certainly it is not our business to extenuate them. We abhor such eonduct as that of the masters of the workhouses at Eton and Hoo, who are especially bound to be kind and considerate to the many helpless children of misfortune and misery who are placed under their care, and at their mercy. We know nothing much more atrocious, except it be similar conduct in parents to children, than for the legal guardians of the suffering and dependent poor to treat them with cruelty. At the same time, we cannot allow it to be:supposed that such cases never occurred under the old law. We are well convinced that they did, and were probably much more frequent than at present. In fact, considering how jealous a large portion of the public has been of the New Poor-law, how closely some public jour nals have watched the manner in which it has been carried into execution, and how eagerly they have been to detect and expose faults, we are inclined to believe that the cases of cruelty under the adminis tration of the Poor-law have been remarkably few. If they had been ten times more numerous we should not have been surprised. How can workhouse masters have compassion fur the poor when spiritual and lay Peers, and rich country gentlemen, starve them by law ? When a Noble Duke, whose family and relations are quartered on the public, and provided for out of the public funds, does not think it beneath his dignity, at a Board of Guardians, to more a resolution to de grade the food of the poor, is it not to be ex pected that the servants of the Guardians should catch the spirit of their masters, and flog and imprison those whom the law and the Guar dians treat so scandalously ? We shall have but little improvement in the servants of the State till the Bishops, the nobility, and the gentry, set them the example of respecting the rights of the people. Humanity will flourish in work TIIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1841 the Committee. This, however, is of little import ance, as the Ministers calculate upon a considerable majority in the Chamber of Deputies. M. TRIERS was not in a mood to push matters to the last ex tremity. Seeking to stand well with the Court, and deeming the prospect of a return to office safer by means of a modification of the Cabinet than by an attempt to storm the Hotel of Foreign Affairs, it was supposed that he would be content with his victory in the Committee. The French Journals report that the Four Powers have sent orders from Vienna to the Envoys at Constantinople, to request the SULTAN to send a firman to Alexandria, conferring upon MEUEM ET ALI the Pachalic of Egypt, the VICEROY having, previous to the delivery of the firman, restored the Turkish fleet. If we may place any reliance upon the Coustantinopolitan correspondence of the Semaphore and other French Journals, the agents of Russia are hard at work to persuade the SULTAN to refuse the demands of the other Powers. Russia is dissatisfied with a settlement of the Eastern Question which has not required the presence of a Russian army at Constantinople, consequently there is nothing at all incredible in the reports of the sayings and doings of her agents in the East. But even in France it begins to be discovered that England has as strong an interest in the main tainance of the PACIIA in Egypt as the warmest supporters of M. THIERS ; and that there is no thing in the conditions of Admiral STOPFORD'S Treaty Inconsistent with the principle of Eastern policy laid down by the ex-President of the Coun cif. The devastating, Wood-thirsty designs atti buted to the Four Powers as regarded Egy and its wonderful ruler, now appear mere moonshine to rational Frenchmen of every class in society. They now acknowledge that England executed the Treaty of July with all pos sible tenderness towards the PACHA, and with the utmost regard for the lives and properties of the in habitants of Syria and Egypt. We trust that a very short time will produce the correction of many other grave errors of opinion, and the removal of numerous prejudices which interrupt a return to more amicable relations. Of general news there is nothing of interest in the Journals of Thursday. The rumour of a re volutionary movement at Madrid, noticed in The Sun of yesterday, was discredited by the French Papers, as well as by ourselves. . Baron Mounier and Count Walewski had each private audiences of the King yesterday. Lord Dinorben had the honour of being received by the King on Tuesday evening. The Cherbourg Journal says, that the French naval officer who was recently stated to have been killed in the Plata, was M. de Gineste, enseigne do vaisseau of the Perle corvette, who, having been sent with a working party into the Aroyos, was assailed by a hand of individuals, who killed him, and wounded several of his men. A letter from Toulouse, sth instant, says Yesterday, a detachment of 333 Spanish refugees from various depots, passed through this place, on their way to Spain, having profited by the late amnesty. Their satisfaction at again visiting their native country was strongly depictured on their countenances. The discharges which have been delivered to the soldiers of the class of 1833, whose period of service has expired, are so numerous that most of the diligence: are filled with those persons on their return to their homes. The Abbe de Lamennais has surrendered himself a pri. goner at St. Pelagic, where he will undergo the year's im prisonment to which he has been sentenced by the Court of Assizes. The Journal des Debats has an article on the state of parties in England, in which it announces— " That public manifestations have had much less eclat this year than the year before. The Tories have seen that the brutality of some of their attacks hurts their cause. Their banquets have become more sober and more rare, their toasts more regllar, their addresses more polite, and their declamation less brutal. The Whigs are even dis. appointed at the unexpected good behaviour on the part of their enemies." The use made of Queen Adelaide is then stated : " At certain epochs of the year the Tories draw Queen Adelaide from her modest obscurity, from around a bril. liant cortege of her public and private virtues—just as on days of fete priests bring forth from the tabernacle 'certain images and relics, which are exposed, covered with mock ornaments, for the veneration of the faithful." BO URS E. —PARIS, THUIVID•Y, JAN. 7. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French per Cents 4 per Cents 99 30 90 30 20 99 30 3 per Cents 77 25 77 55 ... 77 W..... 77 50 Bank of trance Lattitte Bank 1,00111. SO.— 1035 ...11.435 ...1035 iseigian Bank 5 her Cents 9S ... 98 ... 18 New Loan Sp4lllBll Active ... 24% 24% ... 24% Passive sy ... 5% ... 5% Portuguese 3 per Cents 21% 21% ... 21% 21% Neapolitan Roman 911% ... 99% ... 9:4% ... 99% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Verstulles,K. B 4lO ... 412 50 410 41 ' LB 3lO 912 50 ... 310 ... 3 1 2 50 Orleans . Strasburg to Bale 248 75 2.48 75 ... 447 50 .. 246 75 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. ( From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) We received this morning the Calcutta papers to the 19th November, in which we find that the report from Malacca, of the capture of the Bogue forts, is not true, which arose, probably, from the attack upon Macao barrier. By the Singapore papers to the 16th October we have accounts from Batavia, stating that the markets were as un favourable as ever for European imports, and produce was declining. Coffee could be contracted for at 231., and sugar at 101. per picul. Exchange at Singapore upon London.—Navy and Treasury bills at 30 days' sight, 4s. 4d. to 4s, sd. ; pri vate bills with shipping documents, six months' sight, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 7J. per Spani s h d o ll ar; wanted ditto three months' sight, 4s. sd. to 4s. 6d., none. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—OGT market. subsequent to the stock taking was gradually hardening in prices, but slowly, until the news recently received from the Eaet was made known, when the demand became more lively, holders less inclined to meet it, and the result is id to id advance being obtained for American descriptions, and Surat, and id to id on Brazilian. Egyptian and Sea Island no change of note, though holders of the latter. looking for a great falliniT'-off in the su p p li es, are demand ing very high prices. Speculators have taken 11,000 bales of American. 3,800 Surat ; 200 Maranhams ; 250 Carthegena ; and 60 Egyptian ; exporters 116 Bengal ; the demand is very brisk to-day ; about 6,000 bales sold less than would have been the ease had not the high prices asked prevented the trade buying more freely. LIVERPOOI. SHARE LIST, JAL B.—Chester and Bir. kenhead, 35i; Eastern Counties, 98 ; Debentures, 5, 7 ,-; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 294 ; Glasgow and Paisley, 24; Great Western Fifths, 11 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 1861 ; London and Birmingham 321. Shares, 514 ; Quar ter Shares, 283-; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 ; Mid land Counties, new shares, 154. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 8 We have had to-day rather a quiet market, and prices scarcely so buoyant as yesterday, though very little stock offering. Manchester and Leeds 81 to 82 ; New do. 31 to 34 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26} ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 30; Hull and Selby, 44 to 44i ; Liverpool and Manchester, 186, half shares, 904 ; Grand Junction, " Quarter Shares, 53i; London and South Western 591 i. to 60; Manchester Fire and Life Assurance, 91; Man. cheater and Liverpool District Bank, 10k. Th- sly " Je quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, from October 13, 1840, to January 5, 1841, both inclusive, havo been publishsd, from which the following is the result : Circulation last report Present Less 334,000 -- Deposits, last Report Present time 7,049,000 More • 712,000 Securities last time 99.362,000 Last Report 22,078,000 More 284,000 Bullion present time 3,557,000 Last Report 3,511,000 More this time 4QOOO Consols, which left off yesterday at 893-a for the Account, opened a t 891 with little doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills 11 13 prem. ; and Reduced 90-; Bank Stock, 163 164; India Stock, 244 245. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is a shade lower, left off 24 1, at present 248 ; Deferred 114 13 ; Pas sive 61 ; P ortuguese same as t h ey l e f t off, 32.{-; Three per C en t s. 1 .0 / ; Brazilian, 70i 711 Colombian, 234 244 ; Mexican 9 84 29 4 1 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 501 ; Five per Cents. 981 SIIARES.—Great Western 30 31 prem. ; New 14 15 prem. ; London and Brighton, 51 I dis. ; Black wall, 4 31 dis. ; Birmingham, 83 85 prem. ; Southampton, 581 591'per share ; Croydon, 124 4 per share ; Greenwich. 8 9 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto Fifths ... 4 .... 11 London and Brighton London and Birmingham Ditto * Shares Ditto New Shares South Eastern and Dover The private letters by the overland express from India do not contain any further particulars beyond those already published respecting affairs in China. We must wait for zhe official accounts, to be informed of our operations in the above quarter. It is stated that Canton is to be the place where the negotiations are to be carried on. Neither the Lisbon mail nor the President's Message have as yet been received. Consols may be quoted a shade better than they were in the early part of the morning, 894 for the opening. Re. duced, 90i ; Exchequer Bills, 11 12 premium ; Bank Stock, 163} 164 k ; India Stock, 244. The Foreign Market is inactive. Spanish Active 243. ; Deferred 121.; Portuguese Three per Cents. 201- ; Dutcb Two-and-a- Half per Cents. nothing done; Five per Cents. 98. i. The Snare Market is deserted and inactive. London and Brighton, 44j 431 ; London and Birmingham New Shares, 60. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9OA Ditto Bonds .. . 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89a Ditto Old Annuities 3, per Cent Red........ 984 Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent .. ... 98 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 10 pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ l2 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ll pm Jan. 1860. l3 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1859... — India Stock for Acct ... 244/- Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12i Consols for Opg B9d FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bonds ... .. BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. .. Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 241 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred 124 Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... --f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 2S French,3 per cent --f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per eent peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..... SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd)... 761 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .... ... 641 Ditto Fifths( 4 paid).. ................... lOl London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) : 44q London and Blackwall Railway ( 22 1 pd) 114 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) .. 214 Ditto New Shares (24 paid) London and South Western Railway .... '' North Midland Railway (100 paid) B2 paid)... .. South Eastern and Dover (....,N IMPROVEMENTS IN THE AMERCAN TRADE. —The improvement which we have bad occasion to notice in the American trade during the la s t f ew wee k s st ill con tinues. The packet-ships which sail weekly are all taking out full n freight s. upwards of 1,5001. of freight on board She carries out an immense quantity T h o e f goods,VirgWan, whi c h sa il s to -d ay , h as and 175 p ac k ages , i nten d e d ts to have been sent by her, must await the departure of the North Ameriea, owing to w an t o f room. The last named vessel, which sails on the 7th, has already a considerable part of her cargo engaged. Th e change in the financial system of the United states, contingent on the election of General Harrison to the P res id ential chair, prom i ses to keep the manufacturing districts in a more than usual state of activity. The benefit of the change is already be ginning to be felt ; and, if the p o li cy o f t h e new P res id en t be of that liberal and com pre h ensive cast which the com mercial classes have a ri g h t to ant i cipate, i t must consi derably extend the business relations of the two countries during his term of office. The existing tariff expires, we believe, this year, and fears are expressed by some of the New York papers that the necessities of the Government will compel it to make the new tariff less favourable to British imports than the old one. This, however. would be at variance with the policy which the supporters of General Harrison, in all the Atlantic cities have a right to expect. _ LITERATURE. OLIVER AND BOYD C S NEW EDINBURGH ALMANAC for 1341. This Almanac fully maintains the character which it so justly obtained four years ago when it appeared for the first time in its present shape. It is equally copi ous , exten di ng to 528 pages of small but distinct type ; and, exclusive of very complete information respectino. Scotland on almost every subject connected with the church, law, commerce, statistics, &c., it contains the Army and Navy List complete towards the close of the year, a great number of useful tables, and several articles on dif ferent subjects prepared expressly for the work. It resembles in some respects " Knight's British Al manac, with time Companion," but in many respects is more comprehensive, as, in addition to the ar ticles specified, it gives the Peerage of England abridged, th at o f S cot l an d at length, and a brief historical account of all the present Representatives for Scotland. It is hardly necessary, therefore, to say, that it will be found a very useful book of re ference for persons in every rank of life in the United Kingdom. The following brief memoir of the Attorney-General is taken from the notice on the Members of Parliament for Scotland : Campbell, Sir John, Knight, her Majesty's Attorney- General (Edinburgh), born 1778, second son of the late George Campbell, DD., Minister of Cupar, in Fifeshire, from 1771 till 1825, and Magdalene, only daughter of John Hallyburton, Esq., of the Fodderance ; was called to the bar in 1807 ; married 1821 Hon. Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Abinger, created in 1836 Baroness Stratheden, and has issue; held the office of Solicitor- General from 1832 to 1834 ; was appointed Attorney- Gyneral in 1834, and has again held the office since April 1835 ; sat for Stafford in 1830 and 1831, and for Dudley from 1832 to 1834 ; has represented the city since 1834, Residence, 9, New -street, Spring-gardens, London. EN CY CL OR/ EDIA BRITANNICA. VoLs. XX., XXI. Black, Edinburgh, 1840. Among the various scientific, literary, &c , arti cles of which the voluMes before us consist, we have been particularly pleased with the biographi cal account of the well-known Horne Tooke, which, brief as it is, gives a very accurate estimate of his character—indeed, tells us all about him that we care to know. Though a clever, well-read man, and an acute politician, Tooke did little or nothing, whether in literature or in politics, that should cause his name to be handed down to posterity. his chief excellence was a clear and vigorous un derstanding, of a decidedlypractical character, which rendered him formidable to his opponents—espe cially the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Fletcher Norton, who used to tremble whenever he heard his name mentioned. Had he but given his robust, manly intellect fair play, and not have frittered away his energies, now in squabbling with Wilkes and Junius, and now in mixing himself up with petty legal questions, unworthy the serious consideration of such a man—had Tooke, in short, abjured ultra-Radical politics, and stuck steadily to the law, there is little doubt that he would have be come the first lawyer of his day, for his talents were precisely of a nature calcu lated to win him fame and fortune in this difficult profession. At present he is chiefly re membered for his great conversational abilities ; but in a few years he will be altogether forgotten, for his " Diversions of Purley"—an etymological work on which he greatly prided himself—is, however in genious, and at times witty, of far too superficial a character to ensure the favourable suffrages of pos terity. Of the numerous other essays, criticisms, and biographies to be found in these volumes, we must content ourselves with saying, that they are each and all written with that tact for which this EncyclopEedia has ever been remarkable. THE CRACKS OF THE DAY. Ackerman►, London, 1840. In this work, which is handsomely got up, and is devoted to sporting subjects, we have full par ticulars respecting' many of the most celebrated races that have taken place at Epsom, Newmarket, Doncaster, and elsewhere, for the last ten or twenty years and upwards. The volume is embellished with numerous portraits of well-known race-horses and their sporting owners, and, to our thinking, the horses are the most intelligent looking animals of the two. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and the Royal Household, attended Divine Service this morning in the private Chapel of the Castle. The Rev. Mr. Gosset and the Rev. Dr. Short officiated ; the latter Rev. Gentleman preaching the sermon from the 4th chapter of Galatians, and 7th vase. The Hon. Miss Pitt has arrived as the Maid of finnor in Waiting on the Queen, and has succeeded the Hon. Miss Cocks, who left yesterday for London. The Rev. Dr. Short and Sir James Clark will have the honour of dining this evening with the Royal circle at the Castle. Her Majesty accompanied Prince Albert to the ice yesterday morning, and enjoyed the sledge-riding for some time, as did his Royal Highness skating. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess of Bedford, Hon. Miss Paget, Earl of Fingal!, Sir Robert Otway, and Lord Alfred Paget. His Royal Highness was at tended by Colonel Bouverie, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Dr. Pretori us. Her Majesty commanded 50/. to be forwarded to the Rev. Mr. Gosset, and 201. to the Rev. Mr. Haw try, to procure necessaries for the poor. His Royal Highness Prince Albert also sent 2.5/. to the Rev. Mr. Gosset for the same benevolent purpose. Prince George of Cambridge visited the Duchess o Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. His Roya Highness honoured Covent Garden Theatre with his presence on Friday evening. Mr. Pattison, M.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday at the Colonial Office. Major Mitchell and Captain Dawson had an interview on Saturday with his Lordship at the Colonial Office. Viscount Melbourne has issued cards for a full dress dinner to a large party of Peers on the 25th inst., at his official residence in Downing •street. Despatches were sent off from the Colonial Office, on Saturday evening, for the Governor of Gibraltar. Her Majesty the Queen has graciously corn mended a further order of lace from the destitute lacemaker of Woodbury, Salterton, in Devon. Her Nlajesty has also condescended to receive from them a lace frock ior the Princess Royal, and has in return sent a munificent present to the lacemakers. Mr. John Ryves D'Arcy (?) has addressed the electors of Reigato " upon Conservative principles." Sir John Twisden,Bari., who di e d on Thurs day, at Bradbourn H a ll„ .{eta, was born in 1785, and suc ceeded to the baronc,'* . in 1810. In the following year he married I:Atherine J. Coppard, daughter of the Rev, %Val. Copparsi, who died in 1819. ADULTERATION OF SUGAR.—We understand ,hat the high price of sugar is likely to load to consid blc posses.ierae adulteration of that commodity, and we have in our MRS. GORE'S NEW Woax.—We are re ;11 i G s r d e a v y il b le y , ogrueastse Season to so n sta in te p t a h r a i t s,,, M i r n s. 3 Gore's vc . i n s ew publishednvel, sion a sample of a substance manufactured expressly for the purpose, and offered for sale to several grocers in this Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough -street, and may now town. It consists, we believe, principally of potato-starch be had at the libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just pub- Traditions o f E ng l an d , b y J o h n mixed apparently with some h eav i er mater i a l , pro b a bl y not lished the f o ll ow i ng new wor k s o f fi ct i on :—i. P eter quite so inno ce nt.—M anc h es t er P aper . Priggins, th e C o ll ege S cout, e dit e d b y Th eo d ore H ook, C OINAGE AT MA: , iCIIESTER.—We were Esq., 3 vol s . , w i t h i l l ustrat i ons , by Phi z. 2 . P opu l ar pretty we ll aware t h at eerta i n o f h er M a j esty ' s subjects, numerous wood engrav i ngs . Roby, Esq., 3 vols., with resident here, occasionally employed themselves in fabri. 3. The Naval Surg e on, by eating base shillings and sixpences; but we did not kn ow , the auth o r o f Cavendish, &c., 3 vols. 4. Legendary until very recently, that a legitimate coinage of money i s Tales of the Highlands, by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, at the present time g o ing on in the town, We base now 3 vols., with ill ustrations, b y Phi z . 5. L ove an d W ar , 1) ieg before us some specimens of copper mo ne y f or th e or the Romance gf Military Life, comprising stories of is l and of Sumat r a , now coining by Messrs. Vivian and France, Switz9lind, Spain, Portugal, &c., by Captain Sons, copper merchants, of this town. The coins are Quillinan, 3 vols. 6. The Secretary of Macchiavelli, about the a•ze of an English farthing, but much thinner, or the Siege of Florence, by Daniel Macarthy, Esq., 3 vols. and probably not more than half the weight, an d b ear a 7. Oliver Cromwell, an hi s torical romance, edited by resir st ran ge mixt u re of English and native devices and Horace Smith, E sq , 3 vols. 8. The History of a Flist , inscri p t ons ; some p ast of wh ic h, at any rats, will puzzle second e di t i on, 3 Vols. 9. The Cashmere Shawl, by the Sumatrans more than a little. —Manchester Guardian. Captain White, 3 vols. ; and 10. Sandron Hall, or the MORTALITY FROM SMALL-PDX.—From July Days of Queen Anne, b y the lion. Grantley Berkeley, 1837, to Dec. 1839, Mr. Farr h as s h own t h at t h e d eaths M. P., 3 v o l s . from small-pox in the metropolis (Lancet, Nov. 1840), RAILWA Y CONFERENCE .—We are glad to an- amounted to 5186; the quarterly deaths rose from 257 to nounce that the next meeting of Railway Directors will take 1,145 ; the increase was 445 p er cent ., or more t h an f our. place on th e 19th, at Bi rm i ng ham. As the meeting is 101 l The increase was in a geometrical progression, and expected to be very full, only one Director from each C ome the quarterly rate of increase was therefore the cube root pany is expected to be present ; but it will be attended by of 4 45=1.65, or 65 per cent. The epidemic is now on the engineers, and other official persons, from the different the increase; 35, 54, 60, 58 have latterly died weekly. railways, for the purpose of collecting all the experimental This is melancholy when vie reflect that the disease might information they can. One of the principal objects is t o be .arrested in one week by vaccination. Five children at arrange an efficient system of signals to be used on all rail. the very least are destroyed daily by small-pox in London. ways. This is the proper course to take, both for the saf e ty Vary the statement a little, says Mr. Farr, and what would of the public and that of the railways. Collect a n d con- be the effect of the announcement in the public papers ? centrate the results of all the e xperience upon railways, Five children will be thrown from London-bridge daily and bring them before men practically acquainted with th e : during the next week—the next twelve months—and the subject, and it will be better, ten thousand times better, than , number will be raised to 6,7, and 8 daily in the next sea all the Government Railway Commissions, and the em. . son ; the very supposition i s revolti n g. B u t th e mo d e o f ployment o f military engin eer s and other inexperienced death is mild compared with that from small-p ox ; linger persons.—Railway Magazine. . ing pain, nay torture, under hideous cl-formisy—the sur- DETECTION O F ARSENIC IN THE BLOOD (?) visors escaping as from the fire, with faces cicatrized, de ---Dr. Van der Broeck, according to Respell, has detected . formed irreparably, and perhaps blinded for life. arsenic in arterial and venous blood by means of Marsh's ' WALSALL, FR ID It Y.—The canvass goes on fa apparatus. This fact, if confirmed, will o p erate a g ain st v ourably, and there is every prospect of the return of Mr. the evid ence o f Orfila given in the instance of the trial of J. B. Smith, although the contest will be a sharp one. Mad. Laffarge, Dr. Shaf haeutl, i n this journal, in the He has received a number of pledges from persons who re report of the meeting of the Association at Birmingham, fused to promise their votes to Mr. Lyttelton. Addresses showed that all kinds of iron contained arsenic. fiance to the electors have been received from the Anti-Corn the peroxide of iron which M. Laffarge had taken medi. law Associations in Siourbridge, Rochdale, Kendal, Car cinally, would undoubtedlyconvey a rsenic to the system. hie, B o lt on , W arr i ng t on , G reat T orr i ngton , M itcham, Atheneum, , Uxbridge, and Stockport.—Manchester Times, • HAMBURGH MAIL. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 31.—His Majesty has directed the Central Commissariat to report whether everything necessary is in readiness for our contingent to the army of the German Confederation to take the field, in case it should be suddenly ordered to march. The amount of the revenue for 1839 is made up, and will be speedily published, with the very satisfactory account of a balance of above two millions of dollars for this year. The Budget for 1841 is preparing, and will probably be published in January. HANOVER, DEC. 30.—The Prussian Colonel Van Radowitz has had several audiences of the King. He would already have left us, had not the King been pre vented by an indisposition, happily, however, slight, for giving him a final audience. This indisposition, we hear, is only a slight cold, which his Majesty caught in one of his walks, which be daily takes, in fact, not withstanding the severe cold and the cutting east wind, in his uniform coat, without a cloak. The Crown Prince has recovered from his indisposition (which is said to have been serious), and has already rode out several times. As an instance of the spirit of Christian piety which distinguishes our Royal Family, we may mention that the Queen has surprised the Crown Prince with a Christmas present, which has given him great pleasure ; it is an ancient copy of the Bible, in which the names of Luther and Melancthon are in their own handwriting. We hear that some English lawyers are now here, who, in conjunction with some members of the Cabinet, are making investigations and inquiries to ascertain what part of the jewels of the English Crown which are claimed by the King of Hanover is to belong to the Hanoverian Crown. Some think that these lawyers are sent as Commissioners by the English Government, to endeavour to settle this difficult affair by a compro mise, but it seems more likely that they are engaged on the part of the King to collect materials, and the de position of witnesses according to the usage of the Eng lish Courts of Justice for the lawsuit which the King of Hanover intends to institute against Queen Victoria on account of these jewels. agj HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, JAN. 5 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank shares l5OO 1555 Anglo-Russian Loan IOSX 105% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cortiticate 101 ICON Inscription, Ist Swiss ll3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 250 per Cent 48% Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds 144 New ticket Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 73 72% Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... Spanish, New 3 per Cents. — EXCHANGES ON LONDON. Hawaiian, JAN. 5.-13 33 r .—Two months, 13 1% VIENNA, DEC. :144—Three months, S. 45. Lairstc, JAW. I.—Two mo..ths, It. 11 %.: DUTCH FUNDS.—Amemanan, JAN. 5 Money. Bills. tctual Debt, `2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. Arnett Syndic, 4 % per cent 863 86% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent Commercial Company, 43 per cent 15 8 ,4 11595( Ditto (1835 and 1H37) 5 per cent. Loan 1337, 5 per cent. ................. Exchange on London, One month IS 0 Two months Dutch Papers, Jan. 6. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dec. 28. Five per Cents. Metalliques Foer per Cents. 99% Three per Cents. Bank Maras.... - :516 ................ 0.4 PO. —4llgemeine Zeitung. Jan. 2 TRIAL FOR MURDER.—John Wilson was put to the bar, at the High Court of Justiciary, Scotland, on the 6th of January, charged with the murder of Eliza beth Croll, or Wilson, his mother, in having, on or about the 20th of September, in a house, in or near HiMown of Dundee, inflicted a wound on her forehead, and a contu ion on the top of her head, from which she died soon after. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The Jury retired about twenty minutes, and returned with a verdict, fiading, with one exception, the pannel guilty of culpable homicide. We understand that the single Juryman who dissented from the rest was for a verdict of murder. Mr. Milne then stated that a number of certificates from respectable individuals had been put into his hands in favour of the prisoner's former good character. Lord Mackenzie pro posed a sentence of transportation for fourteen years, in which Lord Moncrieff concurred; and after an impressive address from Lord Meadowbank, Wilson was sentenced accordingly. THE EARTHQUAKE NT MOUNT ARARAT. ST. PETERSBURGII, DEC. 22, 1840. Our Home Department has published the following report on the extraordininary earthquake at Mount Ararat, the first official and circumstantial account which has hitherto appeared on the subject, all previous descriptions having been very defective and confused, and frequently contradictory. The report proceeds thus " About sunset, on the 2d of July, a violent earth quake occurred in the Armenian province, which lasted nearly one minute. The village of Achturi, situated on the declivity of the Ararat, in the Surmanlinsk dis trict, with the whole of its inhabitants, the more ele vated cloister of St. Jacob, and the house of the former Sirdars (governors), were completely overwhelmed by the masses of earth, stone, and ice, which rushed down from the mountain. Inundations of melted snow mixed with mud, flowed over the neighbouring fields, to tally covering them, and destroyed all the grain and fruits within a circuit of more than ten wersts. In the Schrursk district also, at seven o'clock in the evening of the same day, no less than 3,137 houses, with all their subsidiary buildings, were levelled to the ground by the earthquake, whereby 13 men, 20 women, and 253 head of cattle perished. The loss of property to the inhabi tants of this district is estimated at 43 929 silver ru bles. At the same moment the shock was felt in the fortress of Shusha and other parts of the Ka rabacha province, where it also lasted exactly a minute. The fortress sustained no damage ; but in the province, one church and 169 inhabitated houses were destroyed. The eastern wall of the ancient Armenian convent of Tatuvsk gave way, along with the roof, from which the carved stone; rolled down, and the towers were demolished. The rocks in the neigh bourhood of the villages of Shingen sank down, by which an Armenian, two women, and a great number of cattle were killed ; immedaitely after, the whole of the road to the village was covered and closed up. As yet the inhabitants can only communicate with each other by means of ropes. In the Talusin Khanat the town of Concoran and its neighbourhood experienced three heavy shocks, one after the other, which lasted longer than a minute, but did no damage. In Alexandropel, in Tiflis, the earth quake was likewise felt, but there, too, it was attended by no injurious consequences. Throughout the whole district of Surmanlicsk, but chiefly in the villages near Mount Ararat, slight shocks of two or three minutes' duration were daily observed from the 3d to the Bth of July. On the Gth a second downfall of Mount Ararat took place, in consequence of which vast rocks, stupendous blocks of ice, and immense floods of water rushed down with such rapidity and force, that in a few minutes everything that stood in their way was destroyed. Great streams of the various substances thrown up ex tended over a surface of more than twenty wersts. e inhabitants of the numerous villages in the Surmanlinsk district, situated at the foot of the Ararat, are left destitute by the devastation of their houses. Though the torrents rushing from the mountains did not reach all the villages, yet the corn fields were dreadfully in jured by the snow -water mixed with mud. The General Commanding-in -Chi e f in Georgia has sent Major Voskobanikoff to Mount Ararat to make a correct survey, and collect on the spot all the details of the earthquake. THE CHARTIST PRISONERS. From the Van Dieman's Land Colonial Times, July 21). The manner in which Messrs. Frost, Williams, and Jones, have been treated by a Waig Government is most disgraceful, and perfectly opposed to even the old and most abominable practices enforced by the Tories under the " iron rule" of my Lords Liverpool and Castle reagh. Our " Victoria" contemporary of the Review has the following remarks upon the mode of treat ment : " Mit. FROST.—This gentleman, with the two other persons sent here for treason, have been sent, we sup pose, by order of the Secretary of State, to Port Arthur. How they are to be treated there remains to be seen. This is the first instance of political offen ders being classed with felons, and it is by a Whi., Ministry that such unfitting punishme n t i s p erpetrate d . ' In the Tory times, persecuting " at home" as they did all such offenders, they treated them according to their stations in life when they sent them to Australia. Messrs. Margarot, Fyehe Palmer (father of the mem ber for Barks), Skirving, Muir, and others, sent to New South %Vales, were all there treated with marked at tention and kindness, landed free of all restraint, and colonial pardons immediately issued to them. The pre sent unfortunate persons were sent away while their case was under discussion in Parliament ; certainly not, as in a well-known former case upon the ground of its illegality, but upon other very strong grounds." We can say more about this affair. When the Man darin anchored in this port, certain despatches, or orders, were delivered to his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, empowering him to transport to the penal Settlement at Tasnaan's Peninsula these unhappy " poli tical offenders ;" they were not permitted to land with their " co-mates in exile," but were unshipped from the transport, on board a Government vessel, and forthwith conveyed to Port Arthur. SLAVERY IN INDIA.There is no such thing as slavery, properly so called, known in British India, nor is compulsory labour of any kind recognized by the laws. The individuals are called slaves in contradistinction to servants and ryots, for no other reason than that they are not at liberty to leave their land or their service. Domes tic slavery of this kind is common all over India, but agri cultural slavery, more properly termed villeinage, is known only in some districts. The slaves are sometimes released by their masters, sometimes (in cases of ill treatment) by the decision of the Magistrate, and, more frequently, by running away. When a slave dislikes his treatment, he runs away ; and, as it is the principle and policy of the British Government to discourage this species of servi tude, the master has very little chance of recovering hint. A law having been passed in 1811, prohibiting the buying and selling of domestic slaves, the master must prove before the Magistrate that the runaway was his pro. perty before that date, which, of course, he can rarely do. The law was not made in favour of agricultural slaves, because these cannot be sold without the land, and it is contrary to the custom in India to sell the land at all ; moreover, agricultural slaves were never known to run away. In fact, they had no motive to do so, They are on exactly the same footing as the other ryots, except that immemorial custom requires them to remain on the land. Like all cultivators, they pay their rent in produce ; and it their master raises their rent exorbitantly, they appeal against him to the Magistrate. Compulsory labour is en tirely out of the question ; they enjoy their personal liberty in every respect, and have the same civil rights as their master. When slavery was abolished in Coorg, on account of the tyranny of the Rajah, the slaves never thought of availing themselves of their liberty, but remained on their ground as before. In cases of a litigation between master and slave, the benefit of any doubt is always given to the latter, and the full burthen of proof imposed upon the former; so that the practical result is, that, for instance, out of ten slaves who run away, only one reference is made to the courts of justice; and, out of ten ref erences to the courts of justice, nine are dismissed. India is not go verned practically by the Hindoo and Mahomedan laws, but by those laws modified by the Company's regulations; and when new cases occur not touched by the regulations, the judge has a discretionary power of setting th e f ormer laws aside, and d ec idi ng accor di ng to justice and equity. A clause in the East India Act of 1833, recommended the extinction of slavery in India. The spirit of the clause, however, had been acted up to by the Company many years before, and continues to be so; but it was not carried lite rally into execution, because the very modified form .of slavery was not a practical evil. It is enough that the feel ing in favour of abolition has spread in India; and legis.a tion on the subject would merely break up the established usages of the country, and give satisfaction to neither party. "_East Indian Teleyraph, ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE. —An accident, attended with loss of life, occurred on Saturday morning. Five passengers, two men and three females, hired a bust of a waterman, named Elijah Barton, at the upper Cus. torn house stairs, to convey them on board the Earl of Liverpool steamer, bound to Ostend, which was lying in the middle of the stream. The boat had not proceeded many yards before the fields of ice floating down the river carried the boat towards the tier of Newcastle traders moored off the Tower. It was in vain that Barton and his assistants endeavoured to make their way through the ice to the Earl of Liverpool. The boat was driven against the inside vessel of the tier, when one of the passengers, a French courier, imprudently got up and seized a hawser hanging over the vessel's bows, to which he clung in his fright. The boat was dewed roun.l clear of the ship, leaving the Frenchman clinging to the rope, and it was im possible, owing tot he immense icebergs pressing against the boat, to render him any assistance, he perished. The waterman, after being carried some distance, effocted a landing at Alderman's -stairs, Lower East Smithfield, where the passengers went ashore, and deposited their luggage at the St. Katharine's steely-packet wharf. None of them were able to reach the Earl of Liverpool, which left her moorings at seven o'clock, and cut through the ice. The French courier was in the employ of the Prussian Ambassador, and had two large packages ; one contained important despatches directed to the diplomatic functionary at Aix la-Chapelle. They were conveyed to the station-house in Tower -street, and in the afternoon were forwarded by Mr. Harvey, the Commissioner of the City Police, to the residence of the Prussian Ambassador. We believe the Earl of Liverpool was the only steamer which got away from the pool during the day. On Saturday evening, at six o'clock, two men imprudently made an effort to steer a boat through the ice in the lower pool, for the purpose of reaching the south e n shore, and were drifted as far as Limehouse, %%here the boat was crushed against some vessels at anchor, and both men perished. They called aloud for help betel, the' bat reached the tier, but it was impossible to approach them. The Royal William steam-ship arrived at St. Kath( - rite's wharf on Sunday, at one o'clock, from Leith, which place she left on Tuesday night. The voyage was a lows and boisterou s one , an d s h e encountered a severe gale on her way to London. Three lightermen, in a lug boat which had been frozen in among the ice near the west end of the wharf, were enabled to get ashore. In consequence of the heavy fall of snow in England the London mail did not arriv e in Glasgow yee terday till about half -past four o'clock —being nearly three hours behind her fixed time. —.Glasgow Chronicle. MORNING E ETION. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF GALE OF WIND OFF THE COAST OF SYlll' (From the Malta Times ) When the gale commenced on the Ist inst. th°'; lowing ships were lying in St. George's Bay, BeYti' . : —Princess Ch ar l otte an d B en b ow, of the line, tn. l : Gorgon, Hyd ra , S rom b o li ,an d P rometheus (since err" at Malta) steamers. The Bellerophon was off the toe's Beyrout. Two Austrian frigates (one with the 1 14 Admiral Bandeira, an d t h e ot h er commanded IoY , Royal Highness the Archduke Frederick). The g' commenced on the afternoon of the Ist, and tote ; noon of the 2d it bec ame worse. E arly on that 01°, ing the Bellerophon put to sea, and stood to the r1 (1 ward. She lost two boats, all her sails, and t hreo" quarter-deck guns overboard. The Powerful was sit on the near bow, which started her fore chains, was only by the quick evolution of wearing that t fore-mast was saved. A heavy sea took the Aus lr corvette's fore-mast clean by the board. Elevererr chant vessels (names not reported) went on s hored a fine brig lost her masts and filled at hsr anchors' number of lives must have been lost. The follow' are the particulars of the providential escape °f: Bellerophon from total loss, and show what courage' d'scipline can effect under the most difficult and ttl circumstances : " The evening of the Ist of December was fine, with little wind, but it fre,hened up during, night to a gale. At half-past five in the morning` anchor came home in an awful squall of wind ant l : s3 , a second anchor was l et go , b ut th i s was of no av ail, ship kept driving broadside on, never looking t ° aechors. The only chance now was to slip a nd 1 5 " sail ; this was done very quickly, leaving the aneh° s ' : deep water. We s ot sail o n th e s hi p , carry i ng a bei press to keep h e r off from shore, both the pi n nace e barge were sw am ped w hil e t h e s hi p d rove. By nit!, the morning it blew a hurricane, nothing could role , —the sea was running high, and no sign of a lull. fore and main courses were blown clean away, als°, foretopmast stay sa il, not l eav i ng a dozen yar l . canvass in the tree. 'Fne fore-topsail s plit after noon, the maintopsail went to ribands, saving the part reefed ; then main trysail. Th° was now labouring heavily and the mainmast 5 plaining. We threw overboard the upper deck and shot, which appeared to ease the ship 1 °_.., 1/ all hands employed s hif t i ng sa il s, as well as the "7 would permit, which, during the storm of rain, hail'' wind, was no easy job. Towards sunset it becant° l dent that nothing less than a miracle could W I , The ship kept dragging along shore—a shore prese s , no place o f re f uge . W e b ent the cable to the 5 1 anchor and made every preparation for cutting awill masts, as by •nine o'clock at night every one was° fled that nothing more could be done, and our safetY,,' utterly hopeless. A t t hi s t i me, during a pelting?, of rain, the Captain sent for the ship's company al t l told them the position of the ship—saying e that!! depended on their coolness and conduct, and to tention paid to o rde rs g i ven ." Th e men went up wt will to bend fore and man topsails—just at, tune the wind lulled for a moment—and the broke off two points, now heading right on 5 0 not more than fi ve mi l es o ff i t, some saY 11. three. A s our so l e c h ance, we put the up, and the Bellerophon wore where perhaps vet. ships would ; indeed, this fine ship behaved through the whole gele. After coming to on th e , board tack, the wind came aft two points, the ; coming up S.S W., and sometimes a p o int 114 ,' We made all possible sail we could carry—r& sleet still continuing, but wind a little at hated., 4 o'clock in th e morn i ng we were some 10 miles o°o land, and l ea di ng sout h- west. The watch was eitj all hands had been on deck twenty-four hours. the whole it was an extraordinary and very ° escape from most imminent peril. H a d the grounded, she would have gone to pieces, and all It must have perished. Nothing was to be found tide board, the ship leaking from the tremendous at'' l ' during the gale, an d th e prev i ous heavy firing °Li the campaign on the coast. The coolness of our and the steadiness of the men during this trying sion, were beyond all praise. Thank God we ar e ? all safe, refitting and setting to rights in Mar° l harbour." " Marmorice, Dec. 13, Ic 4 o " We left off Alexandria on the 28th of Noye; and arrived h ere on t h e Bth instant, having fril le d with one o f th e h eav i est gales it has been raY,oil encounter since 1 have been in the service ; tots sustained little damage, the main shot locker onlY - Ft adrift, no sails lost ; the Rodney lost a qua rtet and maint o p sa il ; V anguard, maintopsail ; r°"forr laboured ver y h eav il y, carried away larboarultie channels, and endangered foremast ; C e mbridire , all but gone ; Revenge . not much damage. IV, lerophon had a ver y narrow escape at 13eyroLdi(41 broke from her anc h ors, was o bli ged to make 11°,,i'1 every sail but miz en -t opsa il, h ove e i ght upper d'e,i`joesl overboard, an d, i n f act, was saved by PrO''aei The Zebra i s t ota ll y l ost, and three men drf l , the Pique (both at Cain) cut away all her la was saved only by the goodness of or L,'" o cable, both ch a i ns h av i ng parted ; great MI au ' merchant vessels have been wrecked on the CO i t ' t s" ships are ex p ecte d to l eave this for 1b1; namely, Powerful, Edinburgh, and Gange 01,r"' I dl other two I kn ow not . Lieutenant Fitz-James' cieret Ganges, has exchanged with Bridges of the Th°,, ° o o : Another Cou r t- mar ti a l i s to ta k e place on the nos' of an Austri an corvette ; one charge is, I un d e rs cowardice on the attack at Acre." The Pique re ac h e d t hi s h ar b our on the 2F2d ip having sailed under jury masts from the coa st of and having occupied 18 days on her passage. 0 0! This frigate has been left in command of the „ Acre for the w i n t er , i n company with the stearn%,/ suvius, and had taken up an anchorage o ff Cl l ° s being the most sheltered part of the bay. 0' On the 2d inst. it began to blow violent squell°,oo tit. lasted with occasional intervals for two days. wort` 4th the wind s hif te d roun d the point of Carmel, 005 had hitherto sheltered the anchorage, and comi" IS ° with unbroken violence upon the shipping, drar e to iltv brigs from th e i r anc h ors, and compelled the Vesi to put to sea, after losing both her anchors ; 55 ,d: two brigs, one , h er M a j esty ' s ship Zebra, had eu t i her roasts early in th e d ay, an d made a signal °,sie° tress. To render her any assistance while toe, bar and sea r age d so f ur i ous l y was of course imprae.t i t iel The steamer made a fruitless attemt with (11 0 , and herself h ar dly succee d e d in ger thig clear ° d 0 51 coast and taking th e open sea. The brig still 1 1 °' tot by her remaining anchors, the seas breaking 06 '0 16 dismasted h u ll w i t h resistless violence, and at lo t ' 03 1 ' her again f rom h er anchors. She drifted shore 0)1 and after striking repeatedly on the sandy bottol°Z eo ct , thrown by th e v i o l ence of the sea high up on the b eech, and her crew were thus providentially rescue d 0 115 their a pp arent l y hopeless situation. Three 111°a g tl were drowned i n an attempt to save their own . , lowering a boat, which was swamped alongsid e ' other lives were lost. ,Te° The frigate had meanwhile imitated the ex° ll/ ririll her consort, and cut away her masts, after b n i ell from two iron and one hempen cable. She stu' es fe on by her last hempen cable, which was so much C '',o l by the wrecks of her masts, as ' to destroy any 11°Pee'' t ot tin d forwento its holding th e s hi p much longer under the violeile the safe the tempest, d night.wn •A almost EstaPrrliaoylitdaenntutinaelloyuslyat thisand she next day the steamer re n t erl is f,^ o ; v peered, an d h av i ng towed the frigate 140 miles ° , f 3)' sea, left h er a s h eer hulk, to make the best of her et to Malta. She had lost all her masts and bowsPr tr ,',C guns, and her four best anchors ; her rudder wa s ously damag e d, an d s h e was found leaky. In thts'of' dition she was jury-rigged; and . being favoured bsi iro o perate weather, she has reached Malta, 18 days ' the day on which she teas towed out. 1 , TRIAL OF THh, HON. cAPTA PLUNKETT. LANCASTER SESSIONS, j e °"' As soon as i t was k nown that the trial ha d the intelligence was quickly communicated to to - : r e•i c the tow n , an d persons flocked into the Court in '0,3; numbers —n o t on l y to hear it, but also to get a Pee'oo one who, from his high family connections, f or tun e' 0;e VV aterfordia n f ro li cs, had made himself one ° I ll° " lions" of the day. Upon his release from prisn"'—u,j the Wigan affair, a Q ueen ' s B ench warrant was, for his re - apprehension upon the deposition mad-goo fore the Visiting Magistrates by Atkinson, the P, whom Captain Plunkett had assaulted. Upon t `',..eb was apprehended, and held to bail in 1,000/.--r u h t i v ,'":o in 500/. and two sureties in 2.50/. each. v e ' c oe t twelve and one o'clock he entered the Court, panied by his friends and Mr. Armstrong, Pre i s yo t, his professional adviser. He was most fashiona'''. o o o tired, and his appearance and soldier.like heariniOt it) created considerable interest amongst those Pr ese • il e d his beh a lf. H e took his seat by the side of his fl trr , in on e o f t h e i nner circles appropriated for the bar! p, and sat during the hearing of the p roce eding' lino • Wilkins was ret a i ne d f or the defence, and Mr. 11" for the prosecution. 0' On the Clerk of the Court reading the indiefo' the defendant pleaded guilty to it. The CHAIRMAN, after considerable deliberation , c oo called upon Captain Plunkett, who immediately /lotto; up. H e th en b r i efly said— " The sentence of this C on' is, that you be imprisoned in Kirkdale House of rection fo r t wo months. " te Mr. WILKINs hoped the Magi,,trates would nl iti° the sentence. Cou rt The CHAIRM AN sa id, h owever muc h the might regret the decision they had conic to, sft c i r d g o t ing th e matter t h e i r b cst consideration, they uulotteli reverse the sent e n ce ; th ey were b oun d , as Mag' 6 ,.. t v. to protect their offi cers i n t h e execut i on o f their du el. 1.0 111 ' $1 THE SUFFERING P OOR.— S evera l Pa' rnet ro meetings were held o n Friday in various parts of the du polis in order to migit a t e t h e sufferings of the poo l l the present unprecedeotediy severe season. Nu` er oo' charity more need e d th an it is new—the evils of dear b were perhaps seldom more frightlay conspicuot!: • ./~' eni[ the CM] 1) 031 lion ent e rnil e not ( that to u, be ea r. only took Pour Prov thy have void parts Ti fore , body In di Coot and Inge 1 Pass, who great throe Of few i 'musk Ti Wat, and 'owe .., i f. ~ ~ ,1 ~'` TI, 4 ..ieut horse of th, Capt, them order lots bur Jae app Was Thi mop rest sem buts rchc .$ Age tinul rive( Ing I Hop no r was the r an I real] bisa early with Into chief] . WOur I Q day, th e , Re tu me 2 pi • 7g 4 Cu sig 21! 4 Co ge; 25: bete, an( bet?, Retu Pie D c beta dat beta, 1s Li, ver betas te v Detai mu firi Eli% be ell en ; Whitt l'i orc Si d ate Bale, tu rf, 11/4te vi ces Ploy, re g i r, tu d i„ ta e i lt Pear l have, . e'4l l ho w l C.lpl Ilktil Affg