The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

EniTION GERMAN Y. PR ANx cazti„,..:Fotr, JAN. 7.—The military ':reparations the i t c i. ,.d with unabated industry, notwithstanding ,1 4 , : : ::: n e te o r e e vi r, li c :c sT h h s e e e ß m a s v t a o r i a existßavarian ot' Governmenttlienee d h o a f s a se warlike the . /140 t .sr c "i " . lath 1 0 0 Bauer the Quartermaster-General at Munich, which are still continued at Carlsrhue. ' 114 the mean time a great victory has been achieved over • I . beFoaular cause in Germany by the suppression of the ai:eile National Zeitung, published by Vieweg of Bruns ihre, a measur e not less significative of the state of things I t v ill att the proclamatian of the Elector of Cassel, which 1 4 Iced to my last. The editors were obliged to discon trde Publishing from the beginning of the ycar, by an ti a l e : f rona the Ducal Government, acting of course under .. I %er ; ii „„•ropulse. The crime which has been thus severely . t ti :," was the attempt to take a decided line in the dis ah,Tl4 °.fpolitical subjects, and in the dangerous example t whip, thi g Paper set of giving leading articles—a . prac t h ee i cur 'l has hitherto only obtained in di! comparatively o - *th e ' , re gions of Stuttgard and Freiburg. Nor is the Cl I L l 'eetuent ofa new Liberal paper in the Grand Duchy eitr a 4 ' en, to be conducted by M. Giehne, who wrote a de re i l l. "swer to th e P en t arc hi c some t i me back, coun cii, Is an indemnification, as his wings are sure to be z iP e ,,, (l if he t a k es adventurous flight a. ;10?11',1ungiry tha question of mixed marriages has been 1 1 / 4 b Orought before the p i üblic under a nov e l form. The liiti n i " bad pass e d a resolution, by a g rea t m a jority, n ttuili 'Von the right of all Christian members of the codm tlirinY to the free exercise of their consciences, and e t! gitto be ecntrary to the law for any clergyman to *kaki . thiTdr a written engagement respecting the education of e n from parties desiring to be married. i zt Ther Comitat of Pesth, in i's last local legislative meet s( 60,e,clueed this principle to practice, by imposing a fine 10 ae o florins on any priest of any confession who should against this resolution. The Primate of Idungar,,, a.optioz . *lii c i, h 3, has publicly protested, in a long letter,. in t ta di ctate e °Peoly assumes that the Legislature has no right f 0r ,„, 0 to tale clergy what functions they have to per " , r tin what manner they are to perform them.. the dif ti n e,, ll i, lin there seems to be some anxiety respecting . ;U sti "LLY of keeping a strict control upon the international Ile aections in the duties levied under the Customs league. l is a i l w.ho have been taught that this league had abo. *lll l 4 ' l check upon internal commerce in Germany, d ition ae al s d uraf is - , t a an to learn that wine and spirits pay an ad ern Statesul "boo imported into Prussia from the south. tio of the league, while beer and some other ar ii-tt"GPaY higher duty on entering Bavaria. Salt, which v "erhi ""t me' i tbe introduced from nop , a.y, cannot 1 1 1 4 1. , one State into another. These discriminatiag duties Cotliipaasports and all other restraints upon mental and bored).extertiort, woiked well enuh as long as people r i ,; sl " .l Y, but now that railtoods arc getting the fas are gr(tlllisseem to have their advantages, the official heads f or th ing afraid that the nations will get on too fast h ens f or I am, however,.happy to add, that the preparka fort 'or commencing the railroad between Berlin and Fran - ti a ,, s auff 'r no delay in consequence of these petty ohjec opri4R. T he worka are exp ec t e d to be co mmenced in the S'Wfi'ZERL466. tit N „ -4... ItgbaiirB:3li:es..."(l"thk:.folll4o.Tinigle Executive Council of Borne has bulletin of the late occurrences in i ate , ( ll T i g ;l 4 e G e °vern nt has received the following official iI, from the mc canton of Argau, dated last evening: tr;l,4e revolt of the free bailiwicks may be considered at po s ; 11 , 4 ; On Monday evening the insurgents were \Tre k 1 ' °Y the Argovian troops, beyond the village of ill trerlert. The loss of the insurgents is unknown ; the to% ra had I killed and '' wounded. On Tuesday.t e the:" of Muri was occupied without resistance. With stdPtion of the Abbot, all the Monks of the convent e,oiutrieillnodroned it, an d l e f t t h e A rgov i an terr i tory. Th e of State, W a ll er , an d hi s companiens incap ir,i,P were restor e d t o lib erty w i t h out h av i ng suffered any k 4 Y . The Grand Crunchi of the canton of Argau has thseolliled, and will adopt such measures as the interests of eep,ntri require. or 8 " 6th battalion and 6th company of the Carabiners frc,nerv,'e entered the canton of Argau. A corps of troops ~ ,pisle country likewise made its entry into Argau. f ti, t lire canton of Zurich had called out the entire of its f lielA c t "tk goot, the 6th battalion, under the orders o f Citr„Olatit-Colonel Markwalder , and the first company o th e i °leers, under Cap'aio Zeller, are now marching to NI r'tier of Argau . A second battalion and the cornd re,t): of artillery Wertmuller are n.w under arms, an b e Y tit n Q clired. thi, moment to tak e th e field if their co-operation G ovn Under these circumstances, it is probable that the troops will not stand in need of the other Bernese the Celled into active service, and that ere long 4 - 7 1 ," ta rY measures lately adopted may be modified. til t , '"e Canto n of Soleure, 10,566 citizens took part in k e ° t , on the new constitution, Of that number, 6,289 j4 c,i)ted it, NI 2 277 rejected it, so that there was a ma -1 of 2012 in favour of its acceptance. ." By order of the Executive Council, " THE STATE CHANCERY." G The . ,-... 4 O'CLOCK P.M. s rand Council o f A rgau has just decreed the sup tic,-,,51°,1 of all the convents comprised within the jurisdic. '4 of the canton. 115 Members voted for the measure. , rr e P . etty Council was charged with devising a mode of 11 4 ,) ,11 g it into effect. Finally, the Assembly voted ki :rks to Councillor Waller, to the faithful functionaries, 4 troops of the Canton: EGYPT. A t h , 1-" '" 11a14 DU. 26, 1840.—The intelligence which . ~ least French steamer has brought us from Constant'. to in , N ee '_' - ',Y. c OO means calculated to encourage the hopes of Qap tilin wt h were beginning to be entertained here. With ranshawe bad arrived there on the . 16th inst. lic e the ac t of submission of Mehemet Ali, which . had 1, Is..,aaieusly accepted, and a steam-boat _ was appointed til e .7:.'• that capital on the 20th instant, and convey hither Dat.l'ealncers nominated to deliver to the Pacha Egypt, and and t, iee m iv , to reinstate him in the Government of E for ti e the Turkish fleet. All eyes have anxiously watched 0 c , 41. , arriv a l of this steamer ; but although, with the fa- N s. la le Weather that prevailed, it might have been here ere t ilt 4°th ing has yet been seen of it. The sun ha s s a o s w ea s r e , t y , qeost closes to-night, and the French stearnerl l l ,avea i n ° Plios t r% !aing, so that it may be some days ere I shall ott e . tinny of informing you of the result. If the Turkish t' ' 4l s ca -L than those above men it,4,d came with no other objects . e tpt . , there would be little doubt of their favourable . re v b , t : re l°4 ‘. but the Paella has learned that the Sultan is far "kle„eing content to let matters rest there. We now q C'`and that the Divan, after receiving the convention th4C9,,tloodore Napier, made known to the Amb . assador . s i tramdisposedcm of Ecrypt en heredite, but not the militar.y up Ind It also declared that the Pacha must give up Ind stop of the Egyptian fleet, must reduce his army, Pohli.,render the keeping' of his fortresses to officers sp it N bY tho &c, llii, 18 believed that Sultan,the Pacha has long been aware of_ pkr4rtiere pense e of the Divan, and that he is pre hit r n 1 ! I t all hazards, to resist any interference witti 114,litti,';'eterY authority in Egypt (at least any Turkish i ' f lai iit n : ce) as equivalent to an attempt to . destroy a („-k`right- Every body says without hesitation, that t ot 1,40-," Paella were sent here clothed with military Ic t i, l `3'. the life of Mehemet Ali would not be safe a sin. ere lii q t . Y. If therefore the Sultan be permitted to persevere ! I N11. 1 : de mand, we shall certainly see bloodshed in Al qLo the old mats will not yield to certain . ruin . 3 44 ° 4 14 Struggle. To-day he has been exercising his and -t batteries with ball. Those adjoining the 1? A r 0 k tsh Consulates have been firing at the ~ Diamond 4 L:i i , 4 the eastern harbour, adjoining the I harillon. P't, t - • a 'el is curiously short or wide of the mark ; but ~„t e licceenta,eike, if not perfect,. at least dangerous, for 4 , Itch ' ea enineers here have said so much, and been . so v 'ke tp,..4,4hed at, in common with M. Thicrs and his war- . kiltei"'"lrnent, " Let us gain time," that they arc . now, to liie t :' kozious to have something to do, even if it . be . qe or e t ! the truth of the theorem which they still maintain 4t o e le ,llY, heat four guns in battery (24 or 32 pounders) thic t lat to broadside of a line-of-battle ship I They tikert,e_or,Siderably in the fact (perhaps I . should say, t of Vinton, although it was freely spoken of as ma i %hell s l'Poted notoriety in our fleet), that the Pam ians l Ili visi n ,? ( t o four steamers which formed the central (4;th C St h e siege of Acre (the Phceniz, the Stromboli, t ~:gcol, and the Cyclops) were all seen to fall . short ' l '4 4 nl krk by the ships stationed right and left I t o e ij lt . 0 attack. It is surprising what pains they take 11,4t tL eise ,, t he British service, and to blazon forth al h ta th k r e e e tha t go o of omission or neglect.' They ail have it kll'Air'—ar Lieutenant Hocking bled to death in . his s fi e u r r s_t Re o „ae shore for want of a tourniquet, there being no ea tile:.`anded at the time, although there were 500 m 6 its fired on the beach. 4 il toe 23d • -1, ' d courier from Gaza, 111 • inst. the Pas-a receive a 44 4 4 stated that he has received certain accounts Rh o l e , o f the forces concentrated there, viz., 4,000 men, ( ley ",, t elY left Cairo to meet Ibrahim Pacha with Namara i lle i r .." son of the Sheik Bechir, and the other Druse Ti le s . Who had been held as hostages in Egypt till now. h l's o B i e were all led by Selim Bey, who writes to te th rai 4 ; • tha he had during his march received the th th s a Loo of the revolted Bedouins, who had come ad '4 itl e theral elves, sayin g that they had been deetiv , Al ex g been led to believe that the English were masters of t th Q „ tiodria, and were marching on Cairo; and that, in fac t , I t i ii had the they were then without a Governmen kathiel)ars that Sells Boy had thought this excuse quite be li ‘ , l t i ent, and reported progress accordingly. At Giza veti,c)und ,300 more of the army of Syria collected from 1/44,4:1113 garrisons (and particularly the debris of Acre), 111,Alg Which were 8 Colonels and 3 Mizimirans. They all i t : t ll 2 e Paeha's orders there. % in ' B ey has gone to Cairo to gather money to pay the 1tr,41/e;:_l2ihe exactions in the provinces are made with ex `Y th 114° ir to meet the urgency. The amounts absorbed lNliiir various petty Paellas would of themselves empty a Ail di Y. There arc 16 of them in Egypt of the double- L 4 4 04 - g a itY, who enjoys 350 purses each, or 1,7501. per 41111' Ibrahim Pacha (nephew of ',Mehemet Ali) has haiehilPhihted a dministrator of the Chiftlik of Sharkie, `tch 'Y (the son), to the Chiftlik of Behera, and Abbas 4 (the grandson), to th e Chif t lik of Garbie. CORN -LAWS. ~,TH R ............, ;IN h- ` - ' OR N - LAWs. STARVA TION . T wo 't litnoje been committed to the Walsall borough gaol katt,?,eg bread, while in a state of starvation. The lij ~ as excited a strong feeling in the borough on the 4 t ois' e ;.o the Corn -laws and a placard, of which the f01.1t11411718 .1t11 4 11 7 18 a Copy, has been posted in different arts of the I , ll e D';','" Corn -law Crime.—Two poor men are . now . in o'shr, ol of this borough for stealing bread this morning N o t ue shop of James Wes:lees, baker, Digbeth. The 4 1), 4 b lt rs Were in state of starvation—without money, and esta,e,to procure I y -nt. Starved by Act o ar- Nell-ill'. they haveentiloPw°tombe punished by Act of Perim liotc„,Christians the curse of God is coming upon us. tla t '', "lit declares ' the bread of the needy l is o h d t . s , life, Dare hill tVraf!deth him thereof is a ma n of Is s \v`, l o. in the face of Heaven, vote for the b bread-taxer ? 413411 , but 13, 1041," . • - Ova • " ,~' % -' S Of IIeVIP IiOOS n the ,f art, ner with the con the istra. raise ; t the n the ild of th Na* rope jg gle• I, bat L ..ld of 1 2zar's strous and ill 3ritish ?ssfult ,ones scued .-- )een $ fairest inniog uke cif wer vie-- ' Eng' °rail ! pent . of 011,° a lly' Sea' so. inl' )fe' 1-0 sire I b ° !be ° to ° 1011 TURKISH NEWS. We copy the following from the Smyrna Manzari Shark of the 29th ult.:— " CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 22. " On the lith instant the British stean - .-frigate Strom boli arrived here, and brought from Mehemet Ali a letter of nominal submission, couched in terms most unexcep tionable. Since then diplomacy has had a busy time of it. The day following the Ambassadors of the Four Powers had a conference on the subject at the English palace at Thcrapia. " On the 20th they went in a body to the house of his Excellency Reshid Pacha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, where a very warm discussion took place. According to the express stipulations of the memorandum drawn up and signed in London on the 14th November, it is evident that Mehemet Ali must not only submit truly, but has no right whatever to claim the good etlices of the Four Powers until he st,ll have restored the fleet, and evacuated certain places. If' the present question therefore ho, who. titer he has done this or not, the answer is :imple—he has not, and therefore is not in a position to demand the inter vention of the Powers, or to expect the rayon- of his injured Sovereign. But public report says the Ambassadors do not exactly agree on this head, though on what grounds any of them can differ from his colleagues we cannot con ceive. In the mean time nothing whatever has been de cided on that we can learn. It is evident that the Porte cannot accept the empty assurances of a Pacha still armed to the teeth, and making the most extensive means of de fence his resources will admit of, as a bona file submission; and supposing that he were unarmed, and at the feet of the Sultan, even all the Four Powers could then do would be only to ask fur the rebel's pardon Whether it were granted or not would depend upon the Ottoman Govern ment, whom no one has a right to compel. This is, we be lieve, the present state of the affair. " Any arrangement made upon such a basis could only be a truce, and war with all its horrors would return, as certain as the sun will rise to-morrow. Deprive 'Mehemet Ali of all future power to be disobedient, and his submis sion will be complete, not otherwise. A wolf in a lamb's skin is still a wolf, and he will ever seize the first oppor tunity of bursting through his disguise to repeat, in his proper form, the depredations which are natural to hint, " The wish of the Four Powers to calm the apparent ire of self-irritated France is of course sincere, but it is impossible that they should desire to do it at the expense of probity and justice, nor can the respect able portion of the French public expect it. If France is really injured by Mehemet Ali's being deprived of the power to renew his designs against the Oaoman empire, nothing can be more evident than that she herself' must have views which, were they known, would be little to the taste of the Sultan and his true friends. Her firm deter mination to use all her influence to preserve the Egyptian scourge must proceed from some plan fixed, and which she cannot consent to renounce even at the greatest possible risk of ultimate injury to herself. It would be highly ridiculous to imagine, that for the mere sake of the tyrant himself, she would lay herself open to so much obloquy, put herself to so much expense, and, at such hazards, oppose the wishes of all Europe as she has done. This cannot be. She has views for her own advantage. Should they be legitimate, they should be first discussed, and not the rights of the Pacha, which cannot possibly exist. " The Stromboli remains here until it is quite decided whether the Egyptian affair is to assume a new form, or to remain as it was. This will depend in a great measure upon the conduct of the Four Powerr3. No attention can surely be paid to the unmeaning assurances of Mehemet Ali. " The Porte has received official intelFgence, dated the 9th instant, of the entrance into Aleppo, of Zecheriait Paella and Esaad Pacha. The former was about to pro ceed to occupy Damascus, which had been completely evacuated by the Egyptians, who were in full retreat by the Mecca road. Ibrahim Pacha, since the fall of Acre, appears to be exceedingly confused in the head—he orders into his presence officers who have long been dead, and others he should know to have abandoned him, besides which he gives directions so directly contradictory that the people about him are often completely puzzled how to act. Suleiman Pacha, on the contrary, it is added, is as col lected and cheerful as if nothing had gone wrong. " Five thousand more troops are going off to Syria as a reinforcement. The steamer 'rahiri Babel proceeds to day, and takes a detachment, besides Hussein Pacha, pre sident of the military council, who goes on a special mis sion to organize the re-conquered Sandjaks, and will re turn shortly, Reshid Pacha, late of Topkhanc, Eyub Pacha, and Abdi Pacha, who arc to serve on the staff of Zecherich Pacha, the new seraskier, who had not yet re ceived news of his appointment, when he prepared to set out from Aleppo for Damascus. " The newly-fitted out steamer the Iscudar (Scutari, formerly Orient) is now ready for sea, and yesterday the Sultan took a trip in her to the mouth of the Black Sea. His Majesty was accompanied by Riza Pacha and several gentlemen of his court, and was delighted with his excur sion, for which the weather was favourable. She is a very beautiful craft, is as swift as an arrow, carries a good cargo, and will do exactly to run between Stamboul and Trebisonde as intended. She belongs to a Turkish company, composed chiefly of persons very highly placed, among whom the Sultan himself figures. Ahmed Fethi Pacha, who has managed the whole affair with the highest credit to him self, gave yesterday a grand banquet on board. Captain Lambert, commander of the Iscudar, was in a very hand some uniform, with epaulettes and a fess. " The Persian Ambassador, Mit za Djiaffer, is in a few days to be admitted to an audience of the Sultan. " Mr. Churchill, editor of the Dtjeridei I3aeadis, has received from his Highness the decoration called Nishani Millar, in brilliants. _ _ On the 20:h there was a grand conference, attended by the Ambassadors of the Four Powers, at the house of Iteshid Pacha. The Sultan's steam yacht was placed at the disposal of Lord Ponsonby (who still resides at The rapia) on the occasion. The subject of discussion was, of course, the Egyptian question. Afterwards a council was held at the Porte, on the same momentous affair, and in the evening another took place at the residence of Rcshid Pacha, IRELAND. MR. O'CoNNELL. —The Drogheda correspondent of the Pilot supplies the following intelligence:— ~ BELFAST, SATUhDAY NIGHT, NINE O'CLOCK. YOU ill be happy to hear the Liberator arrived here safe and well at seven o'clock this evening. The town is garri soned by 1.500 fine troops. You see how very careful they are of us. The excitement here is beyond description. The Irish Correspondent of a Contemporary writes : " The violent Orange party appear to be sadly disap pointed at not having a brush' with the O'Connellites : but, from all I can learn, the Roman Catholics in this part of-the north have so greatly increased of late years that they would be fully able to defend themselves, if any at tack were made. However, the Government have wisely taken such precautionary measures that no such collision can take place, and the O'Connell party, even before his arrival, had announced their determination to have no pro cession on the occasion of Mr. O'Connell's entrance. " The military forces will be stationed in various parts of the town on Monday, when the dinner to Mr. O'Connell is to take place." RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On the night of Saturday last one of the bridgas crossing thii line of the Midland Counties Railway, near Leicester, fell in and ob structed the traffic. The mail train from Derby, arriving soon after the accident, :was embedded amongst the fallen materials, but none of the passengers in the train received any injury. After a detention of four hours, the obstruc tion was removed, and the train continued its journey, ar riving at Rugby about eight o'clock, instead of one, in the evening. In addition to this accident, another occurred on Sunday night upon this line. In consequence of the rapid thaw that took place on Saturday night the banks of the river Soar, near Loughborough, were overflowed, and a body of water collected at the cutting at that place to such a height as to cause the station keeper with his family to take refuge up stairs. At the arrival of the mail train on Sunday night, or rather Monday morning, Jones, formerly a guard on the old Chester mail- coach, and now employed in the same capa city on the railway, found that several of the rails had been completely carried away by the ater ; the result, of course, was that the train could proceed no further. A chaise and four was immediately procured, and Jones proceeded with the bags to Leicester, the passengers being forwarded to the same place by omnibus. DEATHS IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION, COLDIIATII-AIELDS.-On Tuesday Mr. Baker, officiating loco Mr. Wakcly, invalided, held two inquests on the bodies of prisoners in the House of Correction, Coldbathe fields. The first was on the body of Letitia Stringer, aged thirty-five, the wife of a policeman. It appeared that de ceased was received into the prison in November last, hav ing been convicted at the Central Criminal Court Sessions of that month, of stealing in the station-house, in which she lived with her husband, divers articles, such as tea, sugar, bread, and butter, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. When she came into pri son she was large in the family way, and consequently was not put to any labour. On the 10th instant she was de livered of a fine male child, now alive and doing well. Her confinement was preceded by convulsions, attributable to fretting at her situation. She gradually sank after her accouchement, and died on Sunday last of peritonitis.— The second inquest was on the body of Charles Dyer, aged seventeen. Deceased was received into the prison oa the 28th of October, having been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of stealing hay and corn, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. On the 20th December deceased complained of severe cold, and was taken into the infirmary. Ile got better, and on the 29th of the same month, at his own request, he was placed in the convalescent ward. On the 3d in stant he was re-admitted into the infirmary with sore throat and cough. Though every attention was paid him by Mr. Wakefield, the prison surgeon, he expired on Sa turday last of bronchitis. Verdict in each case—" Natu ral death." SUBSCRIPTION FOR DISTRESSED P00R..--- MARYLEBONE.-At a meeting of the committee, the chair man (the Rev. Dr. Spry) announced that he bad been authorised by a gen leman, who was anxious for the success of the present subscription, to stree that he would add 501. to every 4501. subscribed until the subscription reached the sum of 5,0001. The amount already subscribed ex ceeds 1,000/. The Town Council of Inverness have resolved to petition the Crown for a commutation of the sentence of death passed by the High Court of Justiciary upon the unfortunate Alexander M'Rae, sentenced to be executed hare on the 29th inst. A petition of the inhabitants is also in progress. 111‘Rae was at one poriod an extensive sheep farmer in this county, and paid an annual rent of 1,2001. for the lands of Glenquoich.—lnver ness Courier. A deput a ti on f rom t h e B an k of Asia, consisting of Mr. Ja r di ne, E. S. Cayley, M. P., an d Mr. Mont gomery Marti n , h a d an i nterv i ew , by appointment, with the Chairman Company on and Deputy . Chairman of the East India Tuesday. —Colonial Gazette. _Tiii4 Alig,___.X4. SINGULAR EFIECTS OV THE STORM ON THE RIVER AND HARBOUR. (From the Gictww Courier.) Since our last the weather has been, upon the whole, milder than for ten days previously. The change wai perceptible on Friday night. Thaw had then com menced, and about mid-day on Saturday the ice-bound river and ponds in our neigbhoarhood, and the clotted streets and snow-clad house-tops, presented unequivocal symptoms that it was continuous and rapid in its effects. Apprehensions were entertained that, in the event of an overflowing of the river, the lower parts of the city about I3ridgegate and Stockwell -streets, would be in danger from the flood ; and just fears were also enter tained for the safety of the shipping in the harbour. Prudential measures were therefore adopted by the parties interested to prevent such disastrous con sequences; and it is well that it was so ; as on Sabbath a catastrophe happened which might otherwise have occasioned the destruction of property amongst the shipping in the harbour to the extent of many thousands of pounds. The thick bed of ice upon the river above the navigable part had given way to the rapid thaw, and there having been several heavy showers of rain on Saturday night, a spate was occasioned, with which, during the early part of Sunday, the broad fragments of ice floated down at a moderate velocity. But the broken masses accumulated so fast, rolling down with impetuous violence, that in the course of the afternoon a surface was formed from Rutherglen Bridge to the foot of the Steam-boat Quay, rugged in its appearance, from the varied shapes and different positions which the pent-up body of ice assumed, but as solid in its structure as if it has been made by the best mechanical skill to last for ages. From the continued accumulation large bodies would rise to the height of several feet, and crush against each other with great impetuosity, but the pres sure below, from the bridges to the mouth of the har bour, was so great as to form an impassible barrier, while the dark surge rolled below as obscurely as if it had been tunnelled over. The scene was one calcu lated to create uneasy feelings ; but even in its most dangerous aspect there was magnificence, and many thousands were attacted to the banks of the river and the bridges to gaze with wonder on a sight so unusual in this part of the world. Some looked with deep con cernment on the scene, while others, giving full scope to their ideas of the sublime, fancied they saw in embryo the glaciers of the Alps, or the wonders of the Tyrol. It belonged to another class not to remain idle spectators—these were the masters and crews of vessels in the port, and the workmen of the River Trust, the latter of whom had spent a sleepless and laborious night in making precautionary arrangements, and were at their posts at an early hour in the morning with Mr. Bald, engineer of the trust, Captain Johnstone, harbour-master, and Mr. Russell, superintendent of the river police, giving such directions as to the proper mooring and secure fastening of the vessels as were necessary on the occasion. All the ships had chains out that possessed them, and others had double hawsers and strong hempen cables. The straining on the vessels was dreadful, and in some cases both chain and hempen cable were out, while the anchor was thrown overboard. The foresight of these shipmasters saved them ; but despite every effort, four vessels went adrift, viz. the Earl Grey, the Mary Queen of Scots, the Carl Johan steamers, and a schooner. The ' Carl Johann went down to Govan ; the schooner to the Saw Mills, a little below that ; the Queen of Scots and the Earl Grey went nearly to Renfrew ; but they were all brought up without damage. About an hour and a half, from four o'clock till near six, sufficed to clear the river of the ice, which tumbled over the wear at the rate of some thousand tons an hour, boiling and raging in its course. Before the breaking up a fool-hardy fellow, be longing to a Cheshire vessel, went on to the ice, and jumped " Jim Crow" amongst the masses, to the imminent peril of his life ; but he was wiled ashore, and deposited under the care of Mr. Russell, in the Police Buildings, for fear he would harm himself, and two boys who followed his example, were placed in the same durance till the spate ended. On the whole, great credit is due to Mr. Bald, Mr. Johnstone, the harbour-master, and Mr. Russell, police, for their exertions on the occasion, which we think deserving the especial notice of the river trus tees. Yesterday morning frost again set in, and con tinued, though at a moderate intensity, throughout the day. A large accumulation of the broken ice remained a little below the Glasgow-bridge, extending from the north quay about half-way across, and several hundred yards down the harbour. One of the tug steamers, which had been so useful the day previously, was em ployed in clearing it away, but the work was proceeded in with considerable difficulty from the renewal of the frost. PROPOSED BRIDGE, OR TUNNEL, FROM DOVER TO CALAIS. A Havre journal gives the following account of a project announced in that town :—An Englishman, de scribing himself to be an engineer, recently Arrived at Havre, has been to Paris to propose the plan of a passage by land from Dover to Calais. The inventor has given the following account of his gigantic plan to many of the inhabitants of Havre :—M. W. Cop pitt (the inventor) proposes to place twenty thousand piers of stone across the straits, which are to be laid at thc bottom of the sea. These are intended to form the foundation of a monstrous bridge seven leagues in length. A plan of this has been engraved in London, and will be publicly exhibited in Paris. According to the iinventor's account, he gives the soundings of the straits with great exactness, and the various depths of the sea along this extensive line. The estimated expense of this bridge is not to exceed 1,800 millions of francs. Though the plan of cones or piers in imitation of the dike at Cherbourg may appear ridiculous, M. W. Coppitt is an ingenious man ; and his determination being that England shall be united with the Ct,ntinent, he has another project to effect it. His plan, number 2, is this :—lt is not to travel above the surface of the water, but underneath it, neverthe less on dry and firm ground. In order to accomplish this, M. W. Coppitt proposes to fix a series of tunnels made of cast iron, three feet in thickness, and eighteen feet diameter inside. The first of these tunnels, which is to serve as its entrance, :s to be placed at Dover, and the last to terminate at Calais, after following the undulations of the submarine ground. " This plan is simple," modestly says the inventor ; and-the execution of it is so easy, that 1 dare not claim any merit for the discovery, You will understand," he adds, " that if your countryman, M. Brunel, had thought of this plan, instead of excavating with so much difficulty through a soil of sand at the risk of a thousand acci dents, he would have laid down long iron pipes from one bank of the Thames to the other, by the adop tion of this method, with a saving of twenty millions of francs in money, and ten years of labour." M. W. Coppitt thinks that this metal tunnel from Dover to Calais would not cost more than 1,000 millions of francs, - _ half of which he proposes should be contributed by France, and the other half by England. THE JEWISH PASSOVER. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) For many years the fabricating of Passover cakes in this country has been entirely monopolised by only a few bakers, who have charged the most exorbitant prices for this necessary article of food, which is so strictly observed by all classes of the children of Israel during their grand festival, which commences on ae Gth of April, when they are solemnly forbidden to cat any other than unleavened bread. This high charge has been the means of preclufling the greater part of the poorer Hebrews from obtaining it, and faithfully observing this religious restriction, unless they undergo the painful feeling of applying to their several congre gations. A society of Ole most influential of the Jew=, patro nized by the Rev. Solomon Ilirschell, their high Priest, and the chief rabbis, have formed themselves into an association, which has been enrolled pursuant to Act of Parliament of 4 and 5 William IV., c. 40, under the title of " the Jewish National Friendly As sociation," the object of which is to do away with the monopoly that has hitherto existed, by manufacturing the Passover Bread on the most economical terms, and to supply the members with it at the lowest possible price • so as to enable thousands of tire poorer classes throughout the United Kingdom, and their families, not to be driven to appeal to their more affluent brethren for the staff of life. Extensive premises have been taken at 109, Gravel-lane, Houndsditch, for this purpose, which have lately been visited daily by several leading members of the Church of England, Dissenters, and Catholics, who have been allowed, through the polite ness of the President, Mr. Lazarus, to witness the whole minutia:, in the making of the Passover Cake, which passes through more than twenty hands before it is ready for delivery ; and, at the same time, to con vince the public that blood is not used by the Jews in its fabrication, us has been erroneously stated by diffil• rent writers of their history, which superstitious idea caused the dreadful massacre of this scattered people at Damascus. METROPOLITAN IIosPITALs.—At an in quest held the other evening, at the Royal Free Hospital Greville-street, on the body of an unfortunate woman who had perished through want, combined with disease, the Rev. R. C. Packman ohscrved, in answer to a question from Mr. Wakley, the coroner, that it was the intention of the Trustees to erect a new and extensive building, in a healthy suburb of foe metropolis, and to keep the present premises in Greville-street, as a receiving house and dispensary, Mr. Wakley highly eulogis d the inten tion, and said it was well worthy of the humane, inasmuch as the sites of all the London hospitals wore anything but healthy—indeed, as a sanatory measure, it was hiuhly desirable, and reflects much credit on the originators. SUNDERLAND.—It is not perhaps generally known that there are not only more ships built on the banks of the Wear annually than at any other port, but there is absolutely a fourth part of the whole of the ships of the United Kinvlom built at Sunderland. The average num ber is, we believe, not less than 250 built on the Wear iu the course of a year.—Port of Tyne Pilot. TIitTIiNDAV._JANIYARA. 7 21, 14411 THE NitIRDEA OF MR. WEST WOOD. Under the above head some particulars have recently been given of the trial, conviction, and subsequent sen• fence of transportation of a person at the Hull sessions, who was suppossd to have been concerned in the above murder. A sort of contradiction was afterwards given, but the matter was not at all placed in its true light. The following particulars in connection with the subject have been obtained by a correspondent from a source that may be relied upon. It has been ascertained that the individual in question, a few years ago, carried on the business of a watchmaker at Kingston, and having not into his possession a number of watches to repair, he decamped with them, and went to London, and when the hue and cry after him had in some degree subsided, he allied himself with some of the gambling fraternity, and was part proprietor of a gaming-house in Leices ter-square. Soon afterwards he became acquainted with the female who was with him at Hull, and who passed for his wife, deserte l his own wife, took up with her, and they proceeded together to Hull, where the fraud and felony were committed which led to the prisoner's conviction and sentence. There appears to be no doubt that finding himself in this predicament, and desiring to be revenged on the woman, who was to some extent instrumental in his conviction, he concocted the story lie did, with a view to deceive the Magistrates, and being aware that the work; of many of the watches he had taken from Kingston were still in the possession of the female in question, at their joint lodging, he made use of the circumstance in sup port of his deception. The story of the prisoner, which was taken down in writing at the gaol, in presence of one of the Magistrates, was to the following effect : Ile states that Mr. Westwood was in the habit of going to bed at an early hour after the shop was shut up, and that the woman with whom he (prisoner) lived used to go and visit the old gentlemen afterwards, and it was she who first proposed the robbery, but nothing was said about murder. It was ultimately arranged that after the women had gone into the house to the old man, that he and two other men should be let into the premises, and that they should strip them of all the valuable prsperty which they contained. He then went on to state that everything was ar ranged, and on the night en which the robbery and murder took place, that he was to have been at the house at a certain hour to assist in the robbery, but when he got there he found the woman and a man, who was one of the party, in the act of putting the watches into a bag, and when they had placed a great number in the bag it was banded to - him, and be was told to make the best of his way from the place, and this, according to his statement, was all the share he had in the transaction, and he declared that he knew nothing of Mr. Westwood having been murdered and robbed until after the account of the murder was made public. lie went on to state that the cases were immediately removed from the works of the watches, and melted down and sold, and the proceeds divided between the parties, and a portion of the works of some of the watches were left in his posses sion, and he brought them with him to Hull, and, as he alleged, were still in the possession of the woman at his lodging. This was the substance of the story told by the prisoner, and in consequence of what he said a search was made, and the works of a number of watches were found ; but it has been satisfactorily ascertained that these watches never belonged to Mr. Westwood, and there is every reason to believe that they are the same originally stolen by the prisoner from Kingston, and that the whole of the story told by him referring to the murder of Mr. Westwood was trumped up by bun in the hope that he should thereby escape trans portation. The prisoner has since been sent to the hulks in pursuance of his sentence. HIGHWAY ROBBERY, WITH VIO- LENCE, NEAR \VIGAN. A highway robbery, accompanied with considerable violence, was committed in the neighbourhood of Wigan, during the night of Thursday last. Mr. Coupe, bleacher, of Haigh, after spending the evening with a few friends, at the house of Mr. Isaac Ogden, pub lican, in Scholes, quitted that house between twelve and one o'clock, to proceed to his own residence at Haigh, distant about two miles. Mr. Coupe, though somewhat under tEe !influence of liquor, was by no means deprived of his faculties of observation or recol lection. While pursuing his way up Roger-lane, which is situated between a public-house called the " Von Blucher" and his own residence, a man suddenly rushed upon him, and instantly knocked him down, but by what means he could not tell. The man then fell upon him with great force, and proceeded to riff: his pockets, which, however, contained only a few pence. Mr. Coupe, on recovering from the stunning effect of the blow which had felled him, resisted the robber, and a desperate struggle ensued, which lasted for some tme ; but at length Mr. Coupe was over powered, and completely deprived of sensibility by his murderous antagonist kicking him in the most savage manner tepeatedly on the head and face. On recovering from the state of insensibility induced by these brutal injuries, Mr. Coupe was discovered by a man well known in the neighbourhood mak:: the cpacanen of "Sam."_ who, knowii g Mr. Coupe, conducted him to the" Von Blucher," that being the nearest house. Here Mr. Coupe discovered that his neck and face were covered, and his shirt and clothes saturated with blood ; of which he must have lost a considerable quantity. As his hat had been. knocked off, and lost in the struggle with the highwayman, Mr. Coupe requested Sam to go back to the spot and search for it. Shortly after wards, while Sam was absent, a knock was heard at the door ; and this, not being at first attended to, was repeated ; on which Mr. Coupe desired a lad, the only individual left up in charge of the house to open the door, supposing that Sam had returned. On the door being opened, a man entered, taking off his hat, and depositing it somewhere.in the lobby, while he went for ward to the fire where Mr. Coupe was seated. One glance at the intruder sufficed to assure Mr. Coupe that w s h o e ~a h g o a in r tlysaw before before bee been him the v engaged ill a in in (i e w a d i with conflict.loi m lie With it h the natural feelings which such a recognition might be expected to awaken, Mr. Coupe sprung upon the fel low ; and, notwithstanding he was again assailed with severe blows and kicks, inflicting additional wounds, he succuded in keeping his hold of the ruffian, until some of the inmates of the house, roused from their slumbers by the noise of the conflict, came to his aid, and the man was secured. The hat was then brought from the lobby, and proved to be that of Mr. Coupe, the lining having been torn out of it subsequent to the highway robbery. The prisoner threw a handkerchief into the fire which he had had wrapped round his body ; but this was snatched from the fire before-it was materially damaged, and was identified by Mr. Coupe as his own. A policeman was then sent for, into whose charge the prisoner was delivered, and by whom he was recognised as a fellow of bad character, a native of Wigan, named James Bolton. 'rho Magistrates, after hearing the whole of the evi dence, committed the prisoner for trial on the charge of highway robbery. We are glad to hear that Mr. Coupe is in a satisfac tory state of progress towards recovery from the effects of the injuries he received in his double conflict with the prisoner. ONE hANN Or ISSUE. The principle obstacles to the establishment of one Bank of Issue are thus enumerated by Mr. Gilbart : ‘. We think the country Banks of Issue will have no difficulty in showing that numerous issuers are a check upon each other by the system of exchanges, which can not apply to a single issuer —that, were there a single issuer, there would be no greater security against undue fluctuations in the amount of currency than in the case of numerous issuers—that a currency conducted on a principle of being regulated by the foreign exchanges is wholly unsuitable to our agricultural, manufacturing, and mining ope ra ti ons —th a t a currency admi n i s t ere d by one Bank of Issue could not be distributed as at present, in a manner adapted to the local circumstances and dis tricts of the country--that the assistance now given, to trade and industry by country bankers would be much curtailed or attended with heavier charges to the parties, operating as a tax upon the middle classes of the com munity—and that in some districts banks, or branches of banks, would be discontinued from inability to pay their expenses in case they had no longe: the profit upon the issue of notes. and those districts would thus be depris ed of all banking accommodation. It may also be maintained that a sole Bank of Issue would soon become more powerful than the Government, and might be abused to the worst purposes of either tyranny or faction." The political evils that may result from a sole Bank of Issue have been too much overlooked. Were the whole currency issued by a Government bank, or by a bank closely connected with the Government, might not a foreign power, by getting possession of a few million of our notes, paralyze the national energies at a moment when the exercise of those energies would be most re quired? Or might not a political party attempt to em barrass the Government by making a run of gold ? This would be no new event. A run for gold on the Irish banks took place in 1381, when the Government com menced a prosecution against Mr. O'Connell ; and another in 1833, during the passing of Earl Grey's Co ercion Bill. A run was made on the Bank of England in 1832, during the passing of the Reform Bill ; and large sums were drawn in gold from the Sa%ings Banks in 1838 by the Chartists, actuated solely by political motives. A contraction of the currency occasioned by these means would admit of no remedy, for it is a part of the system that the bank shall issue no notes except upon a deposit of gold. Another evil would be, that whenever distress was produced by a contraction of the currency, it would be ascribed directly to the Govern ment, and hence would ensue popular discontent and insubordination. Sir Robert Peel seemed alivo to these dangers. He wished to ascertain if Mr. Loyd were friendly to a Government currency, convertible into gold upon demand. Mr. Loyd answered with his usual wariness. Sir Robert was baffled, and gave up the pur suit.—Westminster Review. THE STATE CHURCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—Knowing the strong light in which you justly view the arrogant assumptions of the Ecclesiastical Es tablishment of England, I am induced to address you a few lines on the subject. I believe there is no nuisance which the people of these countries are more called upon, as a duty to both God and man, to get rid of than what calls itself the Church of England. But, Sir, this nuisance is not to be abated merely by getting rid of the Bishops in the House of Lords ; nor will it be sufficient to abolish the Ecclesiastical Courts, which exercise a tyrannical and arrogant authority, in the name of a sect, over those Englishmen who disclaim and disdain its communion. No, Sir, the ramifications of this iniquity are spread all over the land. Thus the Parish Minister, being Chairman of all Vestry meetings composed of persons of all reli gious denominations, gives of necessity a rank to the sect to which he belongs, while it attaches to himself a po litical weight and influence that is incalculable. Let then the Bishops be sent out of the House of Lords. Let the Ecclesiastical Courts be abolished. Let the Ministers of the Moloch or King-Supreme Head of the Church Heresy be thrown for support upon the resources of their own flocks, and let the parochial divisions which were borrowed from the Church be changed into territorial communes which shall choose annually a chairman, and then the different sects will be placed on an equality. Another point which I would allude to is the Prero• gative Courts, wherein the property of the country as disposed of by will, passes as it were through the hands of Dr. Tooley, who is ignorantly made to call every exe cutor or administrator who takes out letters of adminis tration, be be Jew, Infidel, or Mahommedan, " his beloved Son." All those monstrosities had in deed their origin in the Church, as according to the primitive principle of community of goods, no Christian was supposed to keep back from the Christian Voluntary Association any portion of his worldly goods. It was usual, however, for him to de clare his wish or will how they should be disposed of, and the Bishop, in a friendly manner, took care to have such wish or will carried into effect. This might answer all very well for their own community, but what has it to say to the devising of the effects of the whole people at a nation ?_ Such a tyranny_ is _intolerable, and should long since have been swept away in England as it was in Scotland, where they substituted the Com missary for the Ecclesiastical Courts. Let me add one further advantage in doing away with the ecclesiastical establishments, namely, that this would promote the complete amalgamation of the people, as it is, no doubt, a great cause of disunion to have two different establishments at either side of the Tweed, and an anomalous bayonet-upheld Ecclesiasti cal Establishment at the other side of the Channel, which is very justly represented as one of the grievances of the Irish people, and to get rid of which I would heartily join in a repeal, if no other way could be found for accomplishing it. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM VILLIERS SANKEY. RACIN G. The weather certainly does not indicate the approach of the racing season, 1841: the last number of the old sheet Calendar, containing the weights fixed for the first great handicap (the Oatlands, with the addition of 100 added), to accept on Monday week, looks more like business. It is a complicated question, whether it be advantageous to sport to require the acceptances to be signified so long as eleven weeks before the race. I think that one fortnight is ample time to elapse between the declaration of the acceptances and the race for all the great handicaps in the kingdom. Horses only would be then named that were fit, and probably fifteen out of twenty would start for their money ; horses would not so frequently be left to bet against ; horses would not so often be drawn or start for the sole purpose of getting a more favourable weight on a future occasion. While on the subject, although too late to take effect this year, the conditions of nearly all the great handi caps having been published, I would again suggest to the Jockey Club the propriety of dividing the handi caps into two classes where the subscribers number one hundred. Ne weight will make a race between Hetman Platoff and Pluto ; no weight will make a race between Lanercost and Bandboy. Calypso gave the latter two years and near two stone, and beat him a hundred yards across the flat. Would Bandboy turned loose catch Lanercost with ten stone on his back, Goodwood Cup course ? .No. Then how can any handicapper match them ? The classification of the horses should be left entirely at the discretion of those gentlemen kind enough to undertake the no very envious task of handicapping. We should have two better races at Goodwood than we have ever yet had one. Second-rate horses make quite as much sport as clip pers, and, if I mistake not, while 9st. 71b. was the top weight, Get. 71b. (perhaps 7st.) might be the lightest. There would not be then the difficulty of procuring riders, and we should not see horses of a year running at three or four stone difference of weight. There is something unsportsmanlike in the very notion. The following is a correct summary of the betting to the present time :—One horse only has been under 10 to 1 ; nine more have been at 20 to 1 (taken freely) ; six have been quoted between this and 25 to I; from this to 33 to 1, fourteen; nine at 40 to 1 (taken) ; eleven at 50 to 1 ; at greater odds, twenty-three ; in loco, seventy-three. Pretty well, n'est ce pas, .Monsieur Jan. 15. JUDEX. —Morning Post. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER-TUESDAY EVENING. In the course of a dull morning's betting, several parties connected with the coursing meeting appointed for to morrow, at Fleetwood-on-Wyre, " drop't in." Empress appeared the decided favourite for the leading prize ; 12 to 1 being repeatedly accepted ; offers to give 7 versus the remaining► 25. THE CHESTER Cur.—This event continues a very luke warm affair ; 12 to 1 was for some time offered on the field, when one gentleman accepted . 100 to 8 on Blooms bury. A second favourite was not mentioned. 25 to 1 was repeatedly offered against Queen Bee; 500 to 20 was offered against Chasseur ; and 10 to 1 very freely against Mr. Collett's horses ; 25 to 1 was also bid against Sir Thomas Stanley's horse, with takers of 20 to 1 on Lord Derby's two ; plenty of offers were launched to give 12 versus the field, and wo thought 14 were given in one in stance. The betting at Chester is alike insipid, Tug Dtanv.-15 was repeatedly offered on the field ; 20 to 1, in sums, against the horse so much backed re cently, viz., Lord Chesterfield's Rattle colt ; at the close, 22 to 1 was bid. The takers wanted the London figure, and that, we thought, was only wished for from outside quarters. It was clear he was a little on " the go ;" for 20 to 1, in fifties, was booked in a sterling quarter last night. 500 was offered to be laid Soult beats him ; Sir Hans, Co ronation, EringO, Ralph, the Duke of Wellington, Joachim, Morning Star, and several others, were not even named. 50 to 1 was offered against the Darioletta colt ; and double the sum against Ben Brace and Clarendon. 25 to 1 would have been taken on Cameleon, and probably 22 to 1 on Soult ; 200 to 5 was laid against Brother to Tom. The Nob, and all the fillies, claimed a little attention, as far as chat, but not a step further. THE OAK: was not named, that we are aware of. ....:. C;. SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER AND PART OF MIDDLESEX. A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of West minster and part of the County of Middlesex, will be held at the Sewer's Office, in Greek -street, Soho-square, to morrow, to proceed with the following business :- 1. The orders of Court on the Bth, L'ith, and 19th of January, 1841, to be read. 2. To receive Collectors' Reports : of Cash received and paid to the Treasurer—O n Warrants granted at pre ceding Courts—Of Warrants or Summonees required for Defaulters. 3. To receivo the Clerk's Roport : Of the state of the Collectors' Accounts—Of the Money in the Elands of the Treasurer. 4. To order Payments— s. d. On Account of Commissioners' Wages 5O 0 G. Bird, Jun., Contractor, Balance of Bills to Midsummer, 1840 505 4 7 X 555 4 7 3. To hear Appeals, particularly those of Messrs. Rose, Newton, Aveling, and Owen, against the Presentment of the Jury on the Ranelagh and Counters Creeks Districts. 6. To receive Petitions and Memorials. 7. To consider the Cases of Parties summoned to ap pear for irregular Drainage in Caroline-place, and Cum berland-street, Chelsea. To sanction the Order of Court on the sth of Ja nuary fur rebuilding 100 Feet of Sewer in 11Jrnton street, Kensington, estimated at 1101. 9. Surveyors to present Reports, Opinions, &c., as fol lows:—On Nest Gullies rcquird—On Letter of Messrs. Fuller, of Rathbone-placc, respecting Drainage of Gran ville-mews—On Petition of Daniel Sutton, Esq., for leave to cover over, or build a wall by the side of, the Edwardes square Sewer. 10. To inspect the Book of Informations. 11. To examine Bill.. 12. Mr. Leslie to move—That the Bye-law, No. 10, be altered so as to stand thus :—That all Questions be de cided by the names of the Commissioners voting being taken down by the Clerk. SEWERS IN PROGRESS. PUBLIC. Ranelagh Sewer, Kilburn, High Road, Knightsbridge. PRIVATE. Thurlue-street, lirompton, Uxbridge-road, by Shep herds' Bush-bridge, Williams-mews, Pimlico, Eaton-mews, ditto, Jia ida hill West, Padding ton, North of Canal. INCREASED PREVALENCE OF SMALL PDX IN THE METROPOLIS. A circular letter, of which tho following is a copy, was yesterday sent by the Poor-law Commissioners to the Boards of. Guardians of the Unions in those districts of the metropolis where small-pox is now unusually prevalent:-- "Poor-Law Commission-office, Somerset-house, Jan. 19, 1841. " EXTENSION OF VACCINATION. " Sir—The Poor-law Commissioners deem it right to call the special attention of the Guardians to the preva lence of small-pox in the metropolis, as exhibited in the weekly returns of the mortality, and in the number of cases which arc sent to the Small-pox Hospital. " The Commissioners arc informed by Dr. Gregory, the physician of that establishment, that the number of cases sent to the Small-pox Hospital is so great that the este- Ll'shment will soon be filled, and that it may shortly be ne cessary to provide wards in the union houses for the recep tion and appropriate treatment of such cases. " The Commissioners are informed that nearly the greater proportion of the persons received into the Smallpox Hospital a:e (in the proportion shown in the annexed return) adults, who have not received the protec tion of vaccination. " The Commissioners feel assured this announcement will be sufficient to induce the Board of Guardians to avait themselves to the utmost extent, of the powers placed al their disposal by the Vaccination Extension Act, and of the influence which they possess, in order to arrest the pro gress of this fatal disease. " They would recommend the Board of Guardians to confer with the vaccinators on the subject without loss of time, to ascertain from them—l. Whether the measures for vaccination already adopted in compliance with the Commissioners' instructional letter of the 20th day of August, 1840, and the recommendations and orders sub sequently issued, are sufficient to meet the present emer gency. 2. Whether the inhabitants of the Union avail themselves of the opportunities afforded to them, or whe ther any means can be suggested of removing their objec tions (if such exist), or of stimulating their apathy. " The Commissioners would recommend that, at all events, a fresh notification of the times and places of at tendance, in large characters (and that in case the in crease of small-pox should have extended to the Union, the notification should be headed ' Increase of small pox in the parish of ') should be placed in conspicuous places in the Union, and it should be particu larly stated therein that the arrangements are not confined to children only, but are also intended for the benefit of adults. " The Commissioners would also suggest for the consi deration of the Guardians and the vaccinators, whether, under existing circumstances, it might be expedient for the vaccinators to visit from house to house in their several districts, and thus to bring to the homes of the inhabitants the means of vaccinatiun. " Under ordinary circumstances, the Commissioners would hesitate to recommend such an arrangement ; but feeling that on the present occasion, by energy and promp. titude on the part of the Guardians and the vaccinators, the progress of the small-pox may be arrested, and its at tacks rendered comparatively ifirtoLoouv, ers think it well worthy the consideration of the Guardians. . 4 The Commissioners think, moreover, that if the extra exertions of the vaccinators should require further remu neration the -Guardians would be perfectly justified in giving it. " The Commissioners are desirous that, in order that no time may be lost, you would, if possible, request the vac cinators to be in attendance tomorrow at the meeting of the Board of Guardians, in order that they may be at hand when you lay this communication before the Guardians. t' The Commissioners also wish that you will not fail to apprise the Guardians of any facts relating to the spread of small-pox which may come to sour knowledge as Su perintendent• Registrar, and that, in addition to other steps and precautions which may be decided on, you would your self inform the vaccinators of any particular parts of the Union in which you may have ascertained the small-pox to be prevalent, and that you will specially call the attention of the resident in those parts of the Union, by hand-bills, or by the agency of the Relieving-officer, to the measures provided for vaccination. " By order of the Board, (S l gned) "E. CHADWICK, Sec. " Tho Clerk to the Guardians of the - Union." RETURN OF THE NUMBER OF CASES (AND DEATHS) AD MITTED INTO THE SMALL-PDX HOSPITAL DURING THE YEAR 1840. Whereof Numbers. died. 194 87 128 8 Patients wholly unprotected ... previously vaccinated ... supposed to have had small-pox previously ... not baring small-pox 2 0 3 0 STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) The advices just received from the United States, by the Caledonia steamer, pretty generally concur in representing the amount of the coming crop of cotton as somewhat less than had been previously supposed ; and the most trustworthy estimates are generally from 1,700,000 to 1,750,000 bags, and the prices have ad. vanced in all the markets of the United States. It must be recollected, however, that these estimates arc founded upon the representa`trions of the planters, who are interested in reducing the : apparent amount of the crop. Hitherto they do not seem to have produced any effect upon prices either in Liverpool or Manchester, — cotton, as well as yarn and goods, having generally continued perfectly steady since their arrival. Yester• day, there was a moderate demand in this - market, and a fair amount of business was done at previous rates, which are still, especially in reeled yarn, decidedly be low the relative prices of cotton ; the advance in the latter being generally about lid. per pound, whilst yarns generally have advanced little more than three farthings. The spinners are, consequently, in a worse condition than before, and the foreign buyers show very little inclination to give increased prices. ROCISDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 18. —To-day we have had a dull market, an d - thinl / at tended by buyers. There is no change in prices. The wool market is much the same as that of last Monday. - CIRCULATION 01 PRIVATE BANKERS.— Mr. Loyd states, that one evil of the principle of compe tition is, that when one banker contracts his circulation, the neighbouring bankers increase their i ssue , i n or d er to fill up the vacuum which is thus created. If t hi s were t h e fcct, it is difficult to conceive how the total circulation of the country could ever be reduced. But, ne v e rt h e less, the fact is, that the to tal circulatio n does van', not only from year to year, but from month to m ont h. Th e c h arge of excessive competition has been more directly brought against the Joint Stock Banks.. If, th ere f ore, t h e pr i vate bankers reduced their circulation, ty the J o i nt S toc k B an k s wuwld,, bow of fcourse, stands e i t z of extending theirs. N average circulation of the private bankers in March, 1839, w as 7 , 340 , 793 1 . , an d, o e s l e i e the fac og o r , t i n h n e by March, 1840, it was reduced to 6,190 , 306/ , N ow, upon Mr. Loyd's principle , a large increase should have taken place in the issues of the Joint Stock Banks ; and had we not the returns of the actual amount, we could not disprove Mr. Loyd's opinion; but, on referring to these returns, we find that the Joint Stock circulati on i n M arc h , 1839 , was 4,617 . 806/. and March, 1840, i t was 3 , 895,748 1 . So far from an increase, here is a redu ct i on, an d t h at, too, in nearly the same p bankers.— Westminster roiaorfion as th at o f t h e pr i vate 'Review. QUICK' SAILING'.—The Scottish Maid, Wat son, made her passage from Aberdeen to London, last voyage, in 57 hours. Left London again on the 9th curt., arid arrived at Aberdeen on the 11th! Total 327 95 RETURN OF THE NUMBER, AND AGES, AND DEATHS OP THE CASES ADMITTED INTO THE 6 SMALL-PDX HOSPITAL, IN 1840. Whereof Nurnberg. died. 49 28 Patients under 5 years of age ... between the ages of 5 and 15 inclusive 46 9 Adults 232 58 Total G. GREGORY, M.D. Jan. 18, 1841. SINGULAR COMBAT.—A short time ago a rather curious circumstance, though not unpossessed of serious features, occurred among the mountains in the vi cinity of Keswick. Two shepherds met on Saddleback Fell, about three miles from that town, who had some time previously had a slight dispute relative to the superiority of the flocks they respectively tended on the mountains, aggravated, report says, by each having made choice of the same rosy-checked mountain maid to sharo their bed and board, and become the partner of their joys and sor rows through life. Be this, however, as it may, here, upon the top of this lonely mountain, with no mutual friend to appease their anger, did these tsvc guardians of their woolly tribes up the dying embers of their former animosity, and resolved to try their prowess in a regular turn up, unaided or abetted by either seconds, bottlehol ders, or bystanders. To work they went in right good earnest ; they fought hand to hand and foot to foot through many a weary round ; the lonely mountain bird was the sole witness of the valour they displayed. The contest long continued doubtful, till at length, by .the chance of war, one of them was thrown down upon the naked rock, and had his shoulder dislocated, and was otherwise much injured. The victor knew not what to do with his vanquished companion ; na one was at hand to lend his:aid, and he could not leave him to perish on the mountain. As a feeling of generous sympathy has alway s a place in a valiant heart, the brave shepherd, actuated by the best feelings of his nature, set about bearing his com panion from the mountain, which he found to be a much more laborious task than be had even to perform in van quishing him. Like the knights of old, whose greatest care was to provide for those whom they had vanquished in battle, our heroic shepherd bore his ill-starred opponent from the mountain with no little labour, presetting him to his friends in a condition which showed him to be at once a proof of his valour and an object of his sympathy. If ever this doughty champion should again go to battle, we arc apt to think he will calculate the trouble of conveying home a wounded antagonist with more accuracy than lie did on this occasion, and fix the scene of his future triumph nearer the abode of man, and on some less elevated station than the far-famed Saddleback.—Cantberland Pacquet. VICTORIA TIIEAT c Proprietors of this Theatre have reason to rejoice at the extraordinary improvement of late in thom -anagement of this estaestablish. , mcnt. Families of :he highest distinction throng nightly to witness Ilaines's _.-ar play. Amongst the Noblerneu and Gentlemen who this week attended the ictona we noticed M . 13., the lion. G. Ponsonby, Sir R. Dugdale, Bart., Capt. Lord Beaumont, Lord Talbot, Lord Adolphus Fitzcla- Vcsey, and J. liuddlestone, rencc, G. Byng, Esq., Esq. ;ITn morning n ifnOg l a s t, K l a N t GE'clinb--lhis gentleman u, before the ' rgh act C cd A o ß n T S E at ß u ' rd TE Saturday Marquis of Lothian, Lord Dalhousie, the Lord Provost, Lord and Lady Waldegrave (late Miss Brabam), Countess Wemyss, Lady Charlotte Fletcher, Lady Louisa Forbes, Lady Suttie, Lord and Lady Belhaven and Stenton, Lord and Lady Ruthven, Lord ]Ache, Sir George Warrender, Sir W. Anitrzlicr, Admiral MimAe , &c. PAN.Wq_ EDIVO 'llll3 Altlt-tr. Royal Artillery.—The detachment under the commehd of Captain Palmer, after having embarked in the Litt?* Ben, Ordnance sloop, on Friday last, to relieve the detach ment at Purfleet, were run ashore cn cceount of the quan tity of ice in the river, and marched back to the garrison. On the following day they again embarked, end were able to proceed to their deatination, the ricer having been con siderably cleared of the ice by the thaw which took place on Saturday. 7th Hussars.—A considerable quantity of snow had fallen at Montreal, where this regiment is at present sta tioned, previous to the 27th November, and, the weather having cleared up, the sleighing throughout the town is beautiful. The winter carriages cf the inhabitants have in most instances been altered agreeably to the ordinance, and the police were instructed to take up all who failed to com ply with its injunctiors. On the abeve-naery i rued day Pis Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, Lord Sydenliani, hap pened to he passing along the street, and, observing that Captain Warren, of the 7th Hussars, was drising a sleigh not altered, h's Excellency asked a po!iceman if the sleigh was not liable to be taken up, and being answered in the affirmative, he ordered the man to do his duty, and Captain Warren was instantly stopped. Coldstream Guards (2d battalion).—The anniversa.7 dinner of th e S t . A n d rew ' s S oc i e ty, w as held at the Albion Hotel, Quebec, on the 30:1 of November, 1640 The band a:ld glee singers of this gallant regiment attended, to the great delight of the company as:ernbled on this oc casion. 36th Foot,—The steamer Canada conveyed one hundred men of the light company of this regin;ent from Ti,vco Rivers to Montreal on the 27th November last, and tiv next day they passed over to Point Levy, on their way to Madawaska. The following arc the names of the officers accompanying the detachment :—Colonel Eden, Captain Walmsley, Lieutenant Smith, Ensign L. C. Conran, and Surgeon Campbell. 64th Foot.—The Charybdis, three-gun brig, Lieutenant- Commander E. L. Tinling, and the Dee, four-gun steam vessel, Commander J. Sherer, K. H., %rem the ves.se!s employed to convey this gallant regiment from Jamaica to Halifax, North America, where it is now stationed. 73d Foot—Lieutenant Baker has been appointed Aide de-Camp to his Excellency the Governor-General of North America, in the room of Captain Le Marchant, who has returned to England. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Malta Times of the sth Instant.) The Britannia, 120 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir J. A. Ommanney, K. C. B. ), Captain Drake, and the Howe, 120, Captain Sir W. 0. Pell, proceeded this morn ing for Marmorice I3ay, where Ad:Mral Ommanney will relieve Sir Robert Stopford. The Castor, 36, First Lieutenant Patey, in temporary command, proceeded also this morning fur Marmorice Bay. Lieutenant I3ouverie goes passenger by her to joist the Vanguard. The Acheron steam-packet, Lieutenant Commander Kennedy, proceeded to Marseilles on the afternoon of-the 26th ult. with that portion of the India mail specially de spatchedvia France. The Great Liverpool steam-packet shin arrived in port on the 28th from Alexandria, and proceeded on the follow.. ing morning with mails and passengers for Gibraltar and England. The City of Dublin, Peninsular, and Oriental Com pany's steam-packet, arrived here on the 29th ult., from the lonian Hands and Greece. It is not expected that she will return with the next mails, having to undergo some repairs. The Megatra steam-packet, it is prola_ble, will take the despatches and letters for the fleet coming in the London mail of the 12th, expected by the Alecto, from Gibraltar. The Stromboli steam-frigate is expected every hour from Constantinople and Alarmorice, with the result of Captain Fanshawc's mission to the Porte. The Daphne corvette is expected with a freight of specie from the coast of Syria. The Pique, Wasp, and Medea, arc proceeding with their repairs. The Carysfort was lying in the harbour of Alexandria on the '24th ult. The Marq&s and Marchioness of Londonderry and family, and Captain Gordon, R. N., arrived at Corfu on the 14th ult., from Scio and Sj ra. Major-General Sir C. F. Smith, R.E., arrived hero from Alexandria on the 2Qth ult., and proceeded to Et,g. land on the following day in the Great Liverpool steam ship. 11,e is succeeded in the command of the allied forces in Syria by Major-General Mitchell. Arrived at Malta, on the 31st of December, 1840, the Cornwall transport, No. 3, Lieut. J. R. Black, R.N., agent in charge ; J. Young, Master. The Cornwall brought 14 officers and 420 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 88th Regiment of Foot, under the com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel O'Hara, with a detachment of 16 men belonging to the 47th Regiment. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LOND3N, J&N. 20.—1 t turned to freezing yesterday evening, and there was a light fall of snow during the night. Wind this day at noon, fresh northerly breeze and fine. DEAL, JAN. 19.—Wind N. to N.N.E., fresh breeze. —Winnock, Ware, from Hobart Town; Minstrel, Burton, ditto ; Louisa, Jackson, Bombay ; Apollo, Mile, Grenada; Admiral Moorsom, Demerara ; Alga, Routicelge, Hondu ras. Sailed the outward bound. LIVERPLOL, JAN. 19.—Wind N.N. E., light.—Arrived the Leonard Dobbin, fioni Bombay ; Susan,Nlonte Video. Sailed the Lady Raffles, Oi•borne for New South Wales; John Sinikinswi, Htnehinson, B atavia; Ciaeoct; Bombay ; Emma, Fisher, Rio Janeiro ; Virginia, Boysin, Para ; Trinidad packs t, Hudson, Trinidad ; Lady Pan inure, Nl'Ncil, Savanna; Coronet, Bute, New ()deans ; Bow ditch, Crowell, ditto ; Leopard, Jordan, ditto ; Eliza Keith, Simpson, Charleston ; Robert Burns, Matthews, ditto; Adrian, Davies, Boston. Off port, Flowers of Ugic, Calcutta. DUBLIN, JAN. 16.—Airivcd the Branches, White, from St. John's, N.B. WATERFORD, JAN. 16.—Arrived the Indus, 111‘Farlanc, from Calcutta, with loss of bulwarks, &c., and head and cutwater damaged. The Town of Wexford steamer, and Dove of Wexford, have been in contact ; the latter lost bowsprit, jibboom, &e. WHITBY, JAN. .1 9.--- A vessel laden with tar is wrecked near Abraham Wike ; one man drowned. SUNDERLAND, JAN. I;.—Upwards of '2OO ships have been driven from their moorings from the River Wcir by the ice, and most of aim have received damage estimated at 130,000/. 111 . 1,L, JAN, 19.—Wind N.—The Mary, Blues, from Gothenberg to London, which put into Grimsby leaky, has been surveyed, and proceeded without discharging. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Wind tLe Harrington, Mercer, for New 'Zealand. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—.The Richmond, London, to Beibiee, 11th ult., lat. 20, lon. 66, by the Indus, arrived at Waterford. Isabella, Geary, from Newry, 29th ult., lat. 36, lon. 6 W.; Competitor, from St. Ives, 31st, off Cape St. Vincent, by the Clipper, arrived at Liverpool. Dela, Peyrousc, 19th ult., in lat. 37 N., lon. 27 W., in want of sails ; Stirling, Liverpool, to Charleston, 25th, lat. 40, lon. 22, by the Ann Jeffrys, arrived in the Clyde. Earl Den ham, Dundee, to Sydney, out ten days, lat. 49, lon. 12, by the Frederick Leighton, arrived in the Clyde. Em press, Odessa to Liverpool, in the Gut of Gibraltar, by the Brothers, arrived at Cowes. Voyageur, Bourbon to Marseilles, Nov: 13, lat. 16 S., 1)n. 4 E., by the Amiable, Creole, arrived in the Loire. Tagus (st. ), South ampton to Lisbon, 91 miles N. E. of Cape Finisterre, by the Iberia (iit.), arrived at Southampton. Thorney-close, Naples to Falmouth, 16th instant, lat. 51, lon. 8, by the Lousitania, arrived at Falmouth. Rowland, bound to Jamaica, 6th inst., lat. 36, lon. 21. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—lndus, M'Farlane, from Bengal, off Water ford—sailed 12th August, St. Helena 17th November; Flowers of Ogic, Amend, from Bengal, off Liverpool sailed Bth September, St. Helena 23d November ; Leonard Dobbin, Carpenter, from Bombay—sailed 25th September, St. Helena 30th November. Arrivals at St. llclena.—Jcunc Mathilde, Defoy, Nov. 21, from Bourbon, and sailed same day to Nantes; Eugenie, Souvereau, 22d, from Bourdeaux, and sailed 29th to Mau ritius ; Ceres, Guilband, 223, from Bourbon, and sailed 25th to Nantes ' • Ann Jane, Rigby, 22d, from Bengal, and sailed 23d to Liverpool ; Tanjore, Hopper, 24th, from Ceylon, and sailed 28th to London; Margaret Carmel!, Smith, 24th, from Bengal and Cape, and sailed 25th to the Clyde ; William Lee, Shepherd, 26th, from Bengal, and sailed 27th to Hull ; Neorlands Konig, &heap, 28th, and sailed 24th to Rotterdam ; Sucrees, Ranee, 29th, from Bourhon, and sailed 30th to Marseilles. The Blake, Esbelby, Nov. 24'passed the island, from Calcutta to Liverpool. Vessels in the Roads, Nov. 30.—Her Majesty's ship Persian, Symonds, for the Coast of Africa. Dec. Munster Lass, Carrcw, for the Cape in a few days ; Ellai Scott, laid up. —Premier, Keith, Nov, 21 D , f e o p r a rt i ti a r u e r s i t i f u r s o m ; N S I a t a . s t i r te o l m e n , a . 21 s t, for Rotterdam; m a . uilla, Pearson, 22d, fcr London. Airival at Tenerife —Alexandrine, Smith, Dec. 22d, from Dublin, and sailed 26th to Port Adelaide. SOUND 'MADE VISIBLE.—A most ingenious end valuable discovery has just been made by Mr. South worth, of Cheetham, Manchester, by means of which an individual, although unacquainted with the art of writing, is na hled to take down the speech even of the most rapid speaker, and, what is yet more surprising, in such a way as to indicLte the peculiar emphasis with which it may be delivered. As the inventor has not yet secured a patent r ight, all that ‘,‘ e are at present enabled to state is, that it bears some analogy to photogenic drawing. It is well known in the latter case, that when a substance properly . prepared is presented to objects illuminated by the rays of the sun, it receives a distinct and faithful impression of them, which is afterwards rendered permanent by suitable chemical agents. So also the present discovery consists of a piece of mechanism which is as susceptible of the impres sion of sounds as the t)mpanurn of the car, which impres ' sion remains permanent, and is as perfectly legible as the clearest typography.—lnventors' Magazine. EAST SURREY ELECTION.—The Liberal Ins. terest in Surrey is on the alert, and an unexceptionable can didate will be announced without delay. The very best spirit prevails throughout the district, and there is every pros pect of success. Major Beauelerek, Mr. Angerstcin, anCt Mr. Larpcnt have all been named, but no address will b issued until a meeting of the principal county electors has been held. In consequ ence requested Mr. .. . . position, Mr. \Vaklcy has a n l i c , e l, o t f h i e lli C li o s roner for the eastern division of Middlesex, to officiate for him until he is able to resume his duties. This Mr. Baker has consented to do; all in , quests in Mr. Wakley's district will, therefore, for the pro sent, be held by the former gentleman. 4K fi - '- _ ' ring )ul - ,-, Ja• ad , yet vill it a ctor rale it ' 1 0111 SeV ;off' 3 0 1 ' 2) 9g sioh