The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-11 00:00:00

v ORN ING SUN how , be cheated.—(Hear.) Gentlemen, it is the e :st i y of th ose i n Parliament to take up some d e fi ne d I l l ft well-underst oo d p r i nc ipl e , an d tl-at I conceive to be th e a Principle of lo w p ro t ec ti ve dude.. Don't let us make • st and against new protective duties, because I see very little difference between Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel—between new prohibitive duties and the sliding scale. Even at preset..,may not Sir Robert feel teo snn ifo you not see how many millions of guar lei ." wheat have come in ? I will lower the pivots a And my Lord J. Russellprotestsagainstprohibi tiittl ve _ du ties ; and he gets the "Marquis of Tamboff , " he is sometimes called, to say he sees very little din- Tice between the Noble Lord and himself in principle — that corn can be brought in when necessary. You are Tr, protection, and so are we.—(Cheers and laughter.) tern is no probability of any opposition taking such a ell as this maintaining its ground with the pub .. 44 e r e - (Loud cheers.) l 'On the other hand, if we ' 44 up the principle of no protective duties, if we take ct r.stand upon the principles of free trade, that will form • such &cement and bond of union, that heterogeneous as • are #lt... elements composing the Opposition benches, I ''Mures to say it would be the most powerful and "°Mplete that ever sat in the House of Common.s k,_Great ch eer i ng .) Th ey wou ld no t mer ely have power, but it w ou ld g i ve f orce an d v i ta li ty to a ll their efforts, against which the enemies of free trade, powerful as they !re, and unscrupulous as they are, never would be able to stand two years in succession. —(Great cheering.) t his I exh or t you to look at the importance of taking Las stand t o support those who are in support of those P r inciples only. I thank you for having listened to me s ° Patiently ; I thank you cordially for the instructions Pitt have this day given me. I entreat you to go on in Pa great work you have so gloriously begun, and hence forth let the midland counties have the honourable dis tinction of being the head and van of this great move kept for free trade.—(Loud and tremendous eheering.) The Rev. M r . B URY , in an eloquent speech, proposed The heal t h o f E ar l Fi taw illi am , an d tho se Members of t he 'louse of the House of Peers who voted for an in .l,llirY into the operation of the Corn and Provision-laws. • he toast was drank with much cheering. I BOWRING, M.P., said it was a most gratifying and ' n nourable distinction to him to be invited to meet on the present interesting occasion — to communicate 7 them all so much of instruction, distressing in struction, and which had put into their hands so many now argu men t s , if argum ents were wanting, as if they fo re b available to plead that cause in_ which alb were en -I,„"gell•—(Cheers.) He had been asked to. propose the rtitst, "Free Trade with all the world, and may the in stri ous millions of all nations be governed by equitable oa's., and permitted freely to exchange the products heir labour with each other."—(Much cheering.) He : 410 st - blushed, when in the presence of civilised men, such toast as that was to be proposed, not as a result accom plished,but as a n object to be desired. The rudest sa vage)i, saw with d e li g ht the man who came to take from Mill th e lit t l e o bj ec t s h e h a d acquired, and to give him _EI r eturn one which he did not possess. Now , was it th e goi ng of civilisation and Christianity, that instead of more intimately united, they were no longer to form part of the great family of man. They had reasoned l tu the L eg i s l a ture long and in vain—their argu ments heit been exhausted, and why ? because they a ppealed no t to th e i r conv iction, but to their interests, ando angels and arch. angels might have come, trumpet • r igued into the House of Commons, and appeal to them in v ain , —(Cheers.) They were now about to try the emphatic eloquence of the press. His Hon. Friend knew tha t When they were pleading the cause of destitution, 4 1 8 4 sease, and death, which they had witnessed, they were ti4un t ened to with impatience—they were refed examina --they were called distress-mongers us —and they he re sent back to tell the people that they had ll Pllealed i n va i n —for, in that House, there were ; 41 ,, e to h ear . It was said that the distress was l i tt a Fgerated ; but within the last few days they had seen lt tstical results of the mast alarming character. Would he halieved that in 1840, as compared with 1839, the a mount of mortality had increased in the ratio of five pore cent, and in the manufacturing districts ten per ?---(Hear.) In May, 1839, the mortality was one in 14e , while in 1840 it was one in 38. Would that tell in b e / louse of Commons ?—and would the great teacher, a t,n, at last come to their' aid, they could not continue N.,. t aeir present position.— (Hear, hear.) A few 1 17 ,:s ago, there was a disposition on the 0 „ . " °f Forotign Governments to meet them by mutual ," : e essions, and they then expressed a willingness to -e .'Procate. He had been authorised to say to the , t Nish Government, that if they chose to take foreign 1.11 and timber they would entertain the question of a inution of the duties on British manufactures. The e t i: e rnment had refused to entertain the proposal, be t] ,„ 8 1 e ; they s a id, they were sure it would be rejected by - " 2 'use of Commons. At the present moment there disposition, on the part of these Governments, , 4 1 'ePeat that proposal. The agricultural interest tin Weakened, while the manufacturing interest had th e 'u strength, and he anticipated the period when s h° l lld ask for food from these countries, and meet r aj tv a re fusal. Then would come the horrors of cala .i.; and then will be seen the results of that selfish Istation which, desiring to grasp much, had perished,. th ile f i siled miserably. His Hon. Friend had referred Ea r0 1 :, - aud• tax, and lie ° believed there was no country in *rl t o p e Where the land was so lightly taxed. Their. - Irs -° the United States amounted to 120,000,000 '4) /1 ; 1. : and of these England took one - h alf ; and of the —e l 7 ' tni . America she consumed fully three-fourths. Now, fu x r t asi i l l i tt suppose that of the food which that country • iv ) rts er t iley would take a larger proportion of the ' sea neur from America. In 1839, only one sixth Mon tto u, lent t h is country. The Americans, at the present Ler , ? tariff was about to undergo . a great change - "n€ Aious to meet them in ,a spirit of peace and eo, enee in and he asked were Alle to enter regard an Eng % aan, not as a friend and a brother, but as a foe and val ? And it would depend upon their legislation 1 ,' , 01 her their interests were to be hostile or amicable, hei •e was something exceedingly pernicious in that it"lation which had made the great resources of their mity and machinery, not a source of wealth, but of ►te ak ness. Their country had been favoured with won ors I capabilities and deve lo p ments p ossessed b y no achy and it was strange, that with their industry, and .ty, and capital, their operatives were in a state of d ostit :ution and starvation. He contended that they had It to procure what they wanted in the cheapest ma rh et, and to sell what they produced in the dearest. h e 3 had a long account to settle with the landlords, rh o' aught, at all events, to bear a fair proportion of the burdens ; and he for one would be willing to for - It ; t tteir long series of offences, and to enter upon a new s hd et 'r• Their past misdeeds would be forgiven li e forgotten, but they must not repeat them. h.slid not like, he should say, to see that system which ifr ted capital in its activity but not in its repose, which ted it in its transit and not in its accumulation. tit - 7 whole object of our fiscal system was to protect t , t tti a and to sacrifice labour. He did not wish to r rass the question of the repeal of the Corn frWs'a with the question of an extension of the suf tor' -- (Hear.) At the fitting time he might be ready or, is r his te s ti mon y, an d to express his conviction that ti n sed as the representation at present was, there was c bailee of any redress until they had reformed that 11 0 , re sentation. He knew that many excellent and iii I t e llt able men were of opinion that public °pl at p ill Was mighty enough to redress public griev ft are alone but h e b e li eve d there were many upon whom ab °ne could operate. In conclusion he would exhort LI 10 meetin g to ea _ to persevere' in that great cause which was ai "se of nations, and the cause of the world.. EvAars M.P gave the toast of ".Sir John f" ,, i . h ei e e p e e s , te A r f ,! .. Wynn Ellis, and the Corn-law Repealers s pees Sir „J . 1 , • -. , ASTHOPE returned thanks in an eloquent P Aibi• , Which we regret our limits will not allow us to at length. CRAIRMAN then gave " Sir John Hobhouse, Sir 21, ingi'":_ y rpent, and the Corn-law Repealers of No t- Si r Z• k r • LARPENT returned thanks. 0 brie proposed the health of the Chairman , so% e y returned thanks, and shortly afterwards the %11 1 separated. ~ ~.. THE ARUNDEL BANK. le f it i "nia, TRURSDAY.- Yesterday afternoon a numerous a o C n g of the creditors of Messrs. Hopkins and Co.'s bank 4 0 place at the Norfolk Arms Hotel, Arundel. R. Watkins, vs 1 4:,, th r ,e Mayor of Arundel, was called to the chair. • ~„",`-, R AialiAli stated that at the last meeting he made a // t ° t l d s `, ti on for ' them to take 13s. 4d. in the pound, thinking it ol) "e of advantage to all parties; b ut Mr. Drewett, j un., to it. He (the Chairman) now wished to recal that t " •oi , I° °. He hoped they wo uld allow Mr. French to go altthe statement of the affairs without interruption, and 4 — k war ds the creditors could put any question they might Pr Pi per. tExcx then read a statement, showing the total °li nt of liabilities of the firm to be 40,0861. 4s. 4d., and it 9 ass ets, 23,146/. 12s. 3d. ; leaving a total deficiency of 3 9/. 12s. Id , 1 01 1 , 1 '•ITi „„ *lr * Hopkins' estate was stated to be 10,0791.: his Nr,kpb lte liabilities were 4,2101. ; showing a surplus in favour of lent estate of 5,869/. , 4 1 4 t - b . s r.• brevvett's private estate was 12,8131. 15s. ; and p rivate , it including rent, &c., 4601. ; leaving in favo ur of the • 4r a bal ance of 12,3531. 15s. 11 V 1i: to two estates making a total of upwards of 18,0001., t, ; ; ISt the deficient I 16 239/.125. ld. leaving a balance Pward s f Yis on • '• d ° 0001.; at the same time all Soubtful debts have educted t 4isilla.ctlioroyL.LiE(.s said he considered the statement perfectly Hear, hear. se A e j °te of thanks having ) g been passed to the Chairman, the k, %L I 'ng separ a t e d, apparent l y we ll satisfied with the result. I R. BIRKBECK'S FUNERAL, !th ON MONDAY, DEC. 13. L e following is the order determined on : e 4 ,,i:e Funeral will leave Finsbury-square for the w e i , ' 3 . l , - green Cemetery, on Monday morning at eleven precisely ; all persons therefore who desire to in Puny it, whether on foot or in coaches, should be M ourners at half-past . ten o'clock at the latest. anv_ on foot are requested to arrange themselves t he side of Finsbury-square, between Sun-street 'lug-street ; they will be preceded by mutes, and 43 w alk immediately before the hearse four abreast. a 4feN%a!rivin„.• at the Cemetery they will proceed to within s e t t , Yards of the Chapel, then halt, and arrange them ' Ina double line on each side of the path through the procession will pass. C em u ose mourners who prefer meeting the funeral at the Ic k eter Yt are reuested in like mner to arrange them . cla both sides of the path and wait its arrival. urzierS in carriages will take their places in the b e T Ar of th e i r arrival in Finsbury-square ; prece d ence ti l 9 , "!: re. ,evh e gi,ven to the L on d on M ec hanics' Institution, im 'lt'elY after the family and private friends of the d. p a -t i, t iz- 1 necessary to remind all those who intend to take to in this ceremony, that the strictest attention should th o pid to these arrangements, and to the request of e to will carry them into effect ;soas to avoid a - onr _ . t which wou ld b e equa ll y indecorous and painful. Lib coin's Inn-fields, Dec. 10, 1841. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White , Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Giant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her seventeenth appear ance upon the English Stage). After which, a New Farce, entitled UNITED SERVICE. Captain Whistleborough, Mr. W. Farren; Capt. Pacific), RN., Mr. Bartley ; Rivet, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mr. Euclid Bam, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Coo, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Orger. After which the Ballet Divertissement of THE WOODEN LEG.--Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. •, Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. tls. • Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167. New Bond-street. On Monday, the New Comedy, entitled Court and City, with Wooden Leg, and Free and Easy. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Mr. Graham, Mr.'Phelps, and the most powerful Company, supporting Shakspere's Tragedies. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11. Will be acted Shakspere's Tragedy of OTHELLo.—Othello, Mr. Graham ; lago, Mr. Henry Hughes; Cassio, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Desdemona, Miss Waverley ; Emilia, Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with the successful French Drama of rivetting situations and intense interest, THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, OR. POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, 8:c. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 'JNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Immense attraction. Virginius, supported by Mr. Osbaldiston, Mr. E. F. Saville, and Miss Vincent ; and only appearance of Messrs. Cony and Blanchard, with their celebrated Dog. THIS EVENING, DEC. 11. For the BENEFIT of a CHARITABLE INSTITUTION. Will be acted Mr. Sheridan Knowles' Teagedy of VlRGl- NlUS.—Virginius, Mr. Osbaldiston; Idilius, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Dentatus, Mr. Dale ; Appius Claudius, Mr. Seaman ; Virginia, Miss Vincent; Servia, Mrs. Lee. After which, WOMAN'S LOVE 2 • or, THE WIVES OF CLtTHEROE.—WiIford Clitheroe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Old Wynsley, Mr. James ; Hollyhock, Mr. Gardner ; Kate Wyn sley, Miss Vincent; Lady Adeline, Mrs. G. Lee. le conclude with MY POOR DOG TRAY.—In which Messrs Cony and Blanchard, with their Dog, will perform, conjointly with the strength of the Company. boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—usilery, 6d.— cialt-price to theßoxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE WEATHER.—NooN,' DtoE'misa • 10. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 52 1 Highest 52.1 Lowest . 3B Barometer 29.47.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point Z 2 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. U0ri1ing.....21 minutes after 0 I Evening 0 minutes after V. LONDON: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1841. We have given at great length, but not greater than the importance of the subject warrants, a report of the proceedings which took place at the great. Conference of Manufacturers held at Derby on Thursday. The meeting lasted for five hours, and during that period the gentlemen deputed from numerous towns in the Midland districts ad duced well attested facts, showing the ruinous influence of the Corn-laws . on the manufac turers, shopkeepers, and operatives. These facts no arguments can gainsay. The distress has not been brought on by over-trading, or by the introduction of improved machinery, or by wild speculation. No. It is the irre sistible result of a system which has for years been undermining the trade and commerce of the United Kingdom, and raising up successful com petitors with our merchants in every market in the four quarters of the globe. Owing to this competi tion, and the high price of food, all kinds of ma nufactures in the Midland districts have been- de clining for years, the spirit of even cautious spe culation in trade is checked, and unless some relief be brought, and that speedily, the country will be involved in one general ruin. Sir Ro o. BERT PEEL, who, no doubt, has heard the result of the meeting, attended a Privy Council yesterday at Windsor, for the pur pose of fixing the period for the assem bling of Parliament, and was able therefore to communicate to his Sovereign the cause of the general distress, and point out the urgent neces sity for taking immediate steps to meet the fearful crisis that hangs over the country. No half measures now will do. If the Prime Minister does not listen' to the general voice of the manufacturing and commercial population, he will, before Parliament haS been assembled two months, find more formidable opponents than RICHMOND and BUCKINGHAM, and all the representatives of the landed interest united. For want of space we must, in . the mean time, only refer our readers to this great meeting, which forms such a remarkable feature at the present moment. From the train of argument adopted in the Tory Journals; their perpetual references to the black bread in use on the Continent; from the assertion printed in the Standard, with all the emphasis italics can give, that " English misery would be comfort in most of the continen tal nations," our standard of living is so much superior to theirs ; and from the inquiries which the Premier is said to have instituted into wages and prices on the Continent, it appears without disguise, and in all the hideousness of unpatriotic brutality, that the monopolists found the de fence of the misery they inflict on their own countrymen and countrywomen on the perhaps equal, or possibly greater, misery inflicted on the comparatively recently emancipated serfs to the eastward of the Rhine. What amiable, what patriotic, what noble-minded men these Tories and monopolists must be, to seek for the rule ;of their conduct, not in the best and . most elevated condition of human life, but in the lowest, most degraded, and most depraved ! If the monopolists must have a foil for their own guilt in the wretched condition of some other people, we would recommend them to turn their eyes to the nasty Hottentots, with yet quivering entrails of hunted beasts hung round their necks ; to the savages of New South Wales, grubbing for a scanty meal in a worm-eaten log; or to the mild warriors of New Zealand, feeding- on a well. fed European; and then.assuage, if they can, the hunger of the starving artisan, by telling him how much better off he is than the wild men of the southern hemisphere. Badly off as the labourers of Germany and Belgium may be, we very much doubt whether the comparison will suit the monopolists, and whether, if they stop short of the interior of Africa, they will find any body of human beings in quite so destitute and deplorable a condition as our ingenious and in telligent labourers. At the same time this unpatriotic and hideous principle will not suit another branch of the Tory policy. When the bread-tax is under dis cussion, then our labourers are to be satisfied if they are not quite so badly off as those who must subsist on black bread on the Continent ; when the New Poor-law is the question, then no measure can be found for the indignation of the Tories against those who would degrade the condition of the labourer by the workhouse test. When it has been desired, too, to enlist the pre judices of the people against the French or Germans, then they were represented as wretched frog-eaters and wearers of wooden shoes, or as the slaves of rascally Princes who sold them body and blood, and with all the ac coutrements of a soldier, at so much per head to any Prince who would buy them. It will not do, therefore, now for the monopo lists and the Tories, who still boast of their pre eminent attachment to the glories of Britain, to tell the people that they must be contented, be cause they are not quite so badly off as JOHNNY CRAPAUD or the boors of the Elector of HEssE. If the Tories and monopolists, with Sir ROBERT PEEL at their head, fancy that they will make free-born Englishmen, living under a paragon of constitutions, submit to a bread-tax, or any other bad law, by the most lugubrious pictures of wretchedness on the Continent of Europe, they will be completely mistaken. They must be driven to their last shifts when they dream of having recourse to a mode of justification which dispels all the illusions, and strikes down all the prejudices, on which their power and the praise of the Constitution rest. The population returns supply some corrobo ration of the unfortunate condition of the three midland counties, which was brought so promi nently and painfully under notice at Derby. The test of all national welfare is the increase in the number of the people, while their con dition remains undeteriorated or is improved. The United States are very prosperous, and in them population' doubles itself under the in fluence of their natural and healthy circum stances, in less than twenty-five years. It is now ascertained that, during the last ten years, the population in England has not in creased at the same ratio as in the previous de cennial periods of this century. Between 1801 and 1811 the increase was 14 per cent. ; between 1811 and 1821 it was 17 per cent. ; between 1821 and 1831 it was 16 per cent.; while, between 1831 and 1841 it was only 14.5 per cent.; or, it has made no more progress during the last ten years, than during a period of calamitous war. Now we find, on looking to the population returns, that of the three midland counties only, Derby equals the average of the diminished value of England and Wales. During the last ten years Derby has increased 141 per cent., but Leicester has increased only 9.5 per cent., and Nottingham only 10.8 per cent. The average of the three is 11.7 per cent., or 2.8 per cent. below the average of England and Wales. But where all have been suffering, particularly during the last four years of the decennial period, the suffering of these three counties, as • evidenced by the population returns, must have been very great. We should suppose that such facts as were brought forward at •the Derby meeting will en able Sir ROBERT PEEL to open the eyes of his colleagues. His own eyes, we believe, do not require to be opened. He is as strongly con vinced as we are—we firmly believe—of the mischievous effects of the Corn-laws; and if he would not be branded by posterity as the most infamous politician that ever stood at the head of affairs in• this country, he will throw over board the , colleagues whom he cannot enlighten, and repeal the Corn-laws. We have received the whole of the French papers. The trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices continued to occupy the Chamber of Peers. These Journals con tain no political news of engrossing interest : " The departtire of M. Oloza„aa " says the Gazette de France, "is certain, but it is not for the Presidency of the Council that he is going to Madrid. He is going thither to do merely what M. de Salvandy is to come back to do at Paris ; he is going to give the aid of his vote to the Government. M. Olozaga has again demanded, in a pressing manner, the re moval of M. Martinez de la Rosa and M. Zea Bermudez." BOURSE-I%mm, TUESDAY, DEC. 7. Itst Highest Lowest Last Prie. Price. Prick. Price. French'. per Cents lid 35 ... 116 35 ... 116 Y 5 116 35 3 per cult'. ex div. 76 40 78 40 ... ;8 30 ... 78 30 Loan ex div 1100, Cl erance Latlitte Bank 1.0(011. Shares 1120 ...IC3O —lO3O 5,0001 Shares 5050 ...5050 —.5050 Belgian Bank, Old. 790 ... 790 ... '790 ... 790 New 1(20 ... 10 - 20 ... lil2o ... 1020 Belgian 5 per Cents. Her Cents., 1840 lO3 103 ... 103 ... 11.'3 Spanish Active 53% ... 23% 23' 4 ... 233 4 Passive 5% ... ... 51 4 ... 5 % Old Deferred -• 5% •-• Portuguese 3 per Cents 28% ... 28% ... 28% Neapolitan Bomar, ex. div * ftb 4 4 , 4 , 1 / 4 Jr T m tlll . 6" % ,;)ttit.. NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE SOCIETY.—ROBERT CURREY, Esq., in the Chair. The Members and Friends of this Society will Dine to gether at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, on MONDAY, 27th December, at Six o'Clock precisely. Tickets, One Guinea, At the Bar of the London Coffee-house, and at the Office of the Society, Arthur -street West, London-bridge. Just ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., MADAME DE SEVIGNE, AND HER CONTEMPORARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. **"* Orders received by all Booksellers. MAJES A T u Y sTp th IA e , EMPEROR of His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain 'rig LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, tre now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DlS riusu TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions nay receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/., 18,0001., 9,0004 5,0001., 3,6001., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,6001., 800/., and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dublin; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001., 700/. and 6001. to Li verpool ; 900/. to lewcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/. to Hull ; 9001. and 6001. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 6001. to Bideford ; 600/. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, Without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THE SUN, LONDON, SATE] RDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1841. RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. B 312 50 ... 312 50 ... 310 ... 310 L.B 197 50 .. 197 50 ... 19 4 3 25 .. 198 25 Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 Ml ... 457 50 Orleans .. 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75 ... 478 75 qt r , s h u rgrr, Rale,shares red 21'7 50 ... 217 50 ... 215 ... 215 Yarn (Maberley's) DUTCH I , UNDS.—AnsTElluslt, Dec. 7. Money. Bill Actual Min, 236 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amort Syndic, 4)4 per cent 90% 91% Ditto, ditto, 336 per cent 75% 76% Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155 153% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cent Exchange on London, One month l2 1236 Two months ..... Hamburgh, One month 35 81% Two months 35 5N Dutch Papers, Dec. 8. BELGIAN k UNDS—BRUSend, DEC. 8. Actual Debt, 236 per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92 ----"--- 3 per Cent. — —-- Thirty-seven (1840) lol7i Loan of City, 1=32, 4 per Cent 97 Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent — Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7 436 NationalSeciety. Exchange on London (short) - --Brussels Papers, Dec. 8. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Das. I. five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents Three par Cents. Bank Shares 1602 ....111gemeine &Rune% Dec. 5. HAMBURG BOItSENHALLE, Dac. 4 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1625 1615 Angla..Bussian Loan las% 108% Russian 5 per Cent. lst series, o.rtiticate Inscription, lstSe , ic - 10;4% /t per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th 98 us:in 5 Series %. Ditto in Certificates ... .................. .... ..... New 4 per Cent. (1840) 86% 56!$ Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50A," Ditto . .5 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket ...... 1644 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ;6t6 764 Norwegian tAan, 1834, 4 per Grill... . 1t i)4 102 k Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l5 ~ Sir Robert Peel is resolved to hold no com munication with the public, therefore, gives no information to the Tory Journals. They are as ignorant of what is going on, till certain an nouncements appear in the Gazette, lis the Whig Journals. For example, the Post states that Lord Hill is to retire, and that Sir G. Murray is to be his successor. The Standard asserts po sitively that the report of Lord Hill's retirement is groundless. When they agree in giving the nation any information it amounts to such im portant intelligence as this : The Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Aberdeen, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer met at the Home-office this morning at half-past ten o'clock. Mr. Woods, of the Heralds' College, was in attendance, with the drawing or pattern of the coat of arms for the Prince of Wales, which was.examined by the Ministers previously to its being laid before her Majesty for approval, at the Privy Council.--Standard of last night. The Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Wharn eliffe, the Earl.of Liverpool (Lord Steward), the Earl of Delawarr (Lord Chamberlain), accompanied by thelArch bishop of Canterbury, le..ft, town to-day at one &clock, in a special train by the Great Western Railroad, for the purposaof attending the Privy Council at Windsor. They are as contradictory also in their policy as their information. The Herald, with the Rev. Chandos Pole, and the unctuous Baronet of Bed ford-square, is all for Church Extension ; the Times convinces us that Church Extension was merely one of the baits that was thrown out to catch office, which being hooked, the bait has served its purpose, and is to be thrown away as a nuisance. Such uncertainty in the present state of the national affairs, is as delightful as the sensations of a prisoner in the hands of savaos, ...who is in doubt whether-he is to have his flesh ctitbq by a knife, or whether he is to be roasted alive. Poor commercial England is a prisoner in the hands of monopolists, and the consultations of her toes, as far as she is informed, relate only to the mode by which she can be with most lingering torture made to yield the most pleasure to her savage oppressoo3. TREATY WITH DENMARK.—The Gazette of last night contains officially the Treaty finally approved of by the Governments of England and Denmark, on the 7th of October last, relative to the Sound Dues, the substance of which, with the schedule of tolls, has already been published in The Sun. THE PUSEYITE CONTEST.—We agree for once with the Standard that the contest at Oxford is one which will not admit of compromise. The faith and the honour of the University are as sailed; the fbllowers of Dr. Pusey are denounced as more attached to Romanism than to Church of Englandism and the followers of Dr. Pusey denounce their opponents as having left the Church and taken refuge in Calvinism. A com promise between these parties would leave the feud still rankling, and would expose the Church to all the terrible suspicions which now cleave to her of having no faith at all. The question must therefore be decided in the person of Mr. Wil liams or Mr. Garbett, whether the Church of England has relapsed to Romanism or gone for ward to Calvinism. The middle state of doubt and nothingness is worst of all, and must be ended. For either partyto consent to a compro mise would be, not to give up the Chair of Poetry, but to sacrifice what it deems the vital principle of Christianity. The contest must be decided by the votes of the e l ec t ors . Mr. Rayner, who has been starring with some effect at Newcastle-on-Tyne, for eight nights, commences an engagement at Southampton on Monday evening next as " Tyke" and' Risk." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. There was a dull market for stocks to-day, but it did not appear to be the result of any depression, for prices were even rather higher before the close of business. Con sols for special transfer rose from 89i to 894. For the Ac count the quotation was steady at 881 1 to f. Exchequer Bills realised 10s. to 12s. premium, the Reduced Three and-a-Half per Cents. 98-1- to 988, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 888 to R 8 Bank Stock was worth 165 to 1651. The increased dullness of the markets abroad for Spanish Stock caused a good deal of flatness here. The Actives were at a decline from 248 I to 23i. Portuguese New Five per Cents. realised 33*. South American Stocks were not dealt in. Brazil Bonds again ranged as high as 63* to 64j. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were worth 52* to 518. There were a good many bargains in Shares to-day, and at full prices. London and Birmingham were 72i- ; Ditto, Thirds 23; Great Western 19; South Western 18* prem. Brighton 13k; Manchester and Leeds, 3; Midland Coun• ties, 17; North Midland New, 7 ; Eastern Counties, 15; and South Eastern 248 dis. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares 16 prem., and National Provincial of England, New 5 premium. The - Foreign Exchanges were steady this afternoon. The rates were as follow :—Paris 25f. 75c. to 773c.3 Ant werp, 12 3,1; Frankfort, 150; Amsterdam, 12 44 to i; Hamburgh, 13 101 to 5, and Trieste, 9 52 to 53. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 9.—We have had a quiet market to-day, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales, with out any alteration in prices. The descriptions sold are chiefly American, and all to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 9.—The business re ported is in Eastern Counties at 73 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 43 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 22% ; Great Western Fifths, 9 ; Liverpool and Manchester Halt Shares, 92 ; Mid land Counties, 82. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 9.—Our Market is firm, and we have a fair demand for Shares in several of the Railways. North Union, 753 ; London and Birmingham New 321. Shares, 253 ; North Midland Thirds, 145 ; Manchester and Leeds, 65 ; Ditto, Quarters, 33 ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 26. Both the English and Foreign Markets opened steady, with but little doing. Consols for the Account are quoted at 883 3; Three per Cents. Reduced, 883 3 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 premium ; Bank Stock, 165 3. Spanish Active Stock, 243 3 ; Passive, 53 8. ' Deferred, 123 3 ; Brazilian, 63 65 ; Mexican, 25 3 / 4 26 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 333, and the Three per Cents., 193 20. Both the English and Foreign Markets continue inactive, with scarcely anything doing. Consols, for Money, are now 88 1 / 2 5 / 8 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 883 3; Bank Stock, 165; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 premium ; Spanish Active Stock, 243 3' • Portuguese Five per Cents., 333 ; Brazilian, 64 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 523. In the Share Market very few transactions have been done. London and Brighton are 363; Great Western, 833. Consols, 883 3, Mexican, 263; Spanish, 243 3. There has been a good deal of conversation respecting the forgeries committed on the Bank of Belgium, and an other case has come out of a house in the City having been defrauded by a foreigner to a large amount, he having obtained from them Bank of England and Bank of Ireland notes under false representations. The delinquent is publicly advertised. In Vienna parties of some consideration are said to be implicated in certain forgeries, discovered at Paris a short time back. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. pink Stock 1633 India Stock 3 per Cent Red BBi Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 9Bl iDitto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 10 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001.... l2 pis Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. 13 pm Jan 1860 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2 5-16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. — IConsols for Acct BB/1 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cea •—• Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent - French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek,"lB2s, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent. —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent s2k Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. Manches ter MidlandG Eastern rDDDe aiiitttttttoooN Is Counties lTNcohreeotliwuhvrandnossts difh:e aas:Err ß 2eß S nee e a sgsp H ad s i l l ia((al N A is v w2nd a o(o ß da) y 7yp E pc IR ( aa 23 ( S aiipddii . alo;v p i odaa)i paid) North a. i (. d. 90.) . . . .. paid) 66:69757:11 Great Western Railway( 65 paid) B4 591 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) •• 3Bfr London and Brighton (50 paid) 361 London and Birmingham (9 0 ) ......... —162 i Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) • 26 London and Greenwich Railway (29 pd) 61 • London and South Western 83 North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) 33 South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... COURSE OF EXCHANGE—kYESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibraltar ... . Ditto, at sight 2 I j. 12 12 4 8 i Leghorn Genoa .... ..... ......... 30 4 90 0 Rotterdam • Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 1314 Venice . Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 119 Ditto, 3 m0nth5........, 25 85 Lisbon _ _ Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... mai Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres Berlin . .... ... ............ 7 New York, 21 days sight 46i Vienna, effec. ii. 3M. 953 Philadelphia - 46 Trieste, ditto 9 55 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid .. Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville ... 36 Silver in Bars... 0 4 11i GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO PANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--I shall feel obliged by your contradicting a statement which appeared in the Boston Herald, de scribing the Water Witch steamer to have got on shore off Yarmouth and abandoned. The Water Witch on her passage up from Hull, on Saturday week last, in a fug, got aground at low water; but came off as soon as the. tide flowed, without the slightest damage, the weather being fine throughout, and the pasSengers not having left her. It would be well if the Boston Herald in future would be 'more careful in making such statements, without good authority, as it may be easily supposed what dis tress is produced on the minds of the friends of the pas , sengers on board. I am; Sir, your most obedient servant, T. BROCKELBANK, Managing Director. Chief Office, 69, Lombard-street,Dec. 10, 1841. THE PRIZE CATTLE.—Yesterday the fine prize cattle, exhibited at the show, at the Horse Bazaar, King-street, Portman-square, were sold. The animals of all descriptions realised large prices. Some of the prize oxen, the purchasers state, will cost them from ls. ld. to ls. 3d. per lb. at first band, and mutton in proportion. ROUTE TO INDIA.—Mr. Allen, of Leaden hall-street, has just published an excellent map of the countries between England and India, for the use of over land travellers, and in illustration of the " Hand-book for India and Egypt," by Mr. Parbury. In addition to the countries of Europe, and those of Asia, to the West of Calcutta, it contains a map of Africa on a smaller scale, and will be found a very useful companion for travellers to the East. Major-General Lord Saltoun left town with his Aide-de-Camp, Captain A. Cunynghatne, 60th Rifles,lfor Ply mouth, on Wednesday night, rby the Great Western Railroad. The Gallant Lord is accompanied by his brother, the Hon. William Fraser, General Brown, and his oldest military com panion and subaltern at Waterloo, Colonel Charles Ellis, who will take leave of his Lordship at Plymouth, where the Belle isle is under orders to convey the Noble General and the 98th Foot to China. The flag-ships of the Commanders-in-Chief at this Port and Portsmouth are in future to bear a commander. Commander Worstold, late First Lieutenant on board the Ca ledonia, is accordingly re-appointed to her in the rank to which he has been recently promoted. --Plymouth Journal. EXTRAORDI NA RY ESCAPE.—On Thursday morning a boy, about twelvd years of age, was amusing himself leaning over the parapet wall of London-bridge, when he over balanced himself and fell into the river, from the height of fifty feet. At the moment a steame r was pass i ng under the arch, and the poor boy fell within a foot of it. A drover, who observed the accident, ran down the steps of the bridge, and ibeing an excellent swimmer, he threw off his coat, and rushed into the river, and succeeded in bringing the lad safe on shore. this year broken up somewhat earli er th an usual for the Ch r istmas holidays , in consequence, as has been stated to po us, of King's the College apem r a Sueeehoo f School, we regret to learn, has illness amongst the pupils. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt aptliton. " Who runs may read." IVIONZT—TEADE—COMMERCE. A few months ago, of the entire population of Bradford, 9,553 resided in the manufacturing district, of which 6,000 were maintained by labour in the factories. Now, none are fullyemployed : 1,650 only half employed ; and as to the others no account, except the most painful, can be given; 4 or 5,000 persons are living on their savings, the produce of their gar dens, or by pawning their furniture and clothes. ' At a meeting of the members of the Protector Life Associa tion, held on Thursday, at the London Tavern, it appeared from the Report that since it had been joined with the New Equit able there had been an increase on the last year's balance of 11,5911. Bs. 3d. Forgeries to the extent of nearly 600/. have been lately committed en the Bank of Ireland by Henry Laporte Smith, of Guernsey. He has been tried by the Court of that Island, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. We hear that there has of late been some improvement in the general trade of Birmingham, but that in the iron and coal districts the aspect of affairs is somewhat discouraging. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. On a proposal made on Thursday, at the Court of Common Council, for putting an additional tax of sixpence per ton on coals to open the bridges and carry out the streets and buildings already planned or scheming, Mr. Wells observed he was scholar enough to know that the time of the greatest prosperity of Rome was not when her buildings were most grand and im posing, and he did not see why the analogy should riot hold as regarded London. For his part, he should rather see the coal tax taken off entirely, than see a new street make its appear ance amidst the distresses of the population. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Lieut.. Colonel Knowles, Commander of the Artillery in China, recently transmitted to England tin assortment of Chinese war-arms and costumes of the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. The whole of these articles, and a figure of a Chinese soldier in his tiger-dress, have within the last few days been arranged in the Royal Depository at Woolwich, where the public have free admission to witness them. LAW AND POLICE. At Guildhall on Thursday Mr. Atterton, a newsvender, ap peared to answer the complaint of Mathew Beak, a police constable belonging to the General Post-office. It appeared that some time ago a memorial had been presented to the Pest master- General, by several respectable newsvenders, stating that they were continually robbed by their boys, who are en trusted with their papers to post, and the permission to remain in the hall of the Post-office afforded them great facilities for committing the robberies. The Post-master therefore gave directions that the practice of exchanging papers in that place should be discontinued. Some migunderstanding on this point took place between Mr. Atterton and the officer, who complained that he had been assaulted by him when obeying the orders of the Postmaster. On the understanding that Mr. Atterton would for the future obey the order, and on the pay ment of 2s. costs, the case was dismissed. At the London Petty Sessions held on Thursday to grant transfers, or continue licenses to publicans, the widow of the late Mr. Burdon was among the applicants, and the continua tion of the licence was granted. In the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Thursday, Mr. Jas. Goldie, late a distiller at Whitechapel, was discharged on sureties from the Queen's Bench prison until his hearing. It appeared that the insolvent had passed his examination as a bankrupt, and had since been taken in execution on a verdict arising from some accident. There was little doubt that the creditors would be paid 20s. in the pound under the estate. FINE .11R.TS. The Committee on the models and plans for the tomb of Napoleon, began their labours by first reducing the competi tors to 80, then to 19, and afterwards to 4, and at last has decided that not one is acceptable. A new competition is proposed. THEATRICAL. The temporary theatre erected by Mr. Batty, at the " Na tional Baths," Westminster-road, is well attended, and the equestrian feats appear to give much satisfaction. Mr. Batty is to be the lessee and manager of Astley's Amphitheatre, when rebuilt. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Professorship of Architecture in the London University College, has been filled up by the Council, by the appointment of Mr. T. L. Donaldson, the well-known author of several professional works. COURT-FASIZIONABLE. Sir Robert Peel arrived in Whitehall Gardens on Thursday, from Drayton Manor. 'rhe Earl of Jersey will left Berkeley-square yesterday for Windsor Castle, to attend the Privy Council. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are shortly expected at Wynyard Park, from Ireland. Earl Delawarr arrived in town on Thursday from' Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor are still at Moto:mite Park, where they intend remaining till next week, ,wben they join the family circle at Eaton Hall. Lord Castlereagh is at present at Gibraltar, and iutends prp ceeding shortly to the Holy Land. i itursokzzak.z.TEOTTS. ! The mortal remains of Sir Francis Chantrey were consigned to their resting-place in the chancel of Norton church, un Mon day. Tlio funeral was followed by thousands of. the inhabit ants from the neighbouring districts, who were desirous of pay ing this tribute of respect to their illustrious countryman. ft is said that the fortune realized by Sir Francis does not exceed 50,000/. ' which with the eXcepti on o f a. f ew l egac i es , i s sett l e d upon Lady Chantrey for her life. Thursday was the anniversary of the death . of Washington, in 1799, win.) for his public virtue will lie beloved in all climes and ages. At a county meeting' held at the Town Hal?, Devizes, on Wednesday last, the 'Marquis of Lansdowne moied addresses of congratulation to her Majesty and Prince Albert- on the birth of the Prince. Lord Radnor immediately proposed an amend ment by which her Majesty should at the same time be made acquainted with the " appalling, distress " at Bradbury, and was supported by several speakers. . Great interruption pre vailed at the meeting. The amendment was finally put and lost, about one-third of those present voting for it, and the original address carried. he Members of the Mechanics' Institution meet together on Monday next, at nine o'clock, to accompany in procession the funeral of their revered President, Dr. Birkbeck. A Contemporary states that a short time ago one of the Scot tish islands was surprised by a visit "of an extraordinary bird, bearing the closest possible resemblance to a goose."—We have some reason to believe that this visitor was no other than an eminent N.P. (late of the Surrey Theatre), who, we under stand, has for some weeks past been travelling in Scotland. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at - Windsor Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert; the Archbishop of Canterbury • Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council ; the Lord Chancellor • the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Privy Seal • Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury ; the iarl of Liver pool, Lord Steward; the Earl Dclawarr, Lard Chamber lain ; and the Earl of Jersey, Master of the Horse. The Lord Chancellor had an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the patent creating the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. The impression of the Great Seal was enclosed in a silver case beautifully embossed with the Royal Arms, which, with the patent, was placed in a box, lined with white satin, and covered with crimson velvet. At the Council the name of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was ordered to be inserted in the Prayers of the Liturgy after that of Prince Albert. The Arms of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales were taken into consideration at the Council. Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued, from Tuesday, the 21st of December, unto Thursday, the 3d of February, and a Proclamation was ordered to be is sued, summoning Parliament to meet on that day for the dispatch of public business. An election for a Scotch Peer was ordered. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. James Lord Wharncliffe be Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of the County Of York, his Lordship took the usual oaths. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Sir Robert Peel, the Loll Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham, and Lord Wharncliife, left town to attend the Council by a special train, which left the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway at one o'clock. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from his residence atliew, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester-House. In the evening his Royal Highness went to Exeter Hall, and honoured the Sacred Har monic Society with his presence at their performance of Handel's Oratorio, " The Messiah." A meeting took place yesterday morning at the Home office, which was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Sir James Graham, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, on a special mission, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Thursday. Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales, and also from the Governor of Newfoundland, were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked for some time on the terrace of the Castle. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Buck ingham, Lord Wharncliffe, and the Hon. William Bathurst, took their departure from the Castle after the Council broke up. The Lord Chancellor, Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Earl of Liverpool, Earl Delawarr, and the Earl of Jersey, remain on a visit to her Majesty. It is expected that Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of Jersey will leave to morrow. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, and the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Party this evening. By command of her Majesty, Mr. W. C. Ross, A.R.A, had the honour to-day of painting a sketch of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The unfavourable weather has prevented the Prince and the Princess Royal from being taken their usual airings. The Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot had the honour of joining the Royal Circle at dinner yesterday. A military band, as well as her Majesty's private band, attended at the Castle in the evening. FOOLERY AND FASHION.-In the " Journal of a Residence in Great Britain," by two native Indians, Nourogee and Merwangee of Bombay, which has been lately published, occurs the following passage, relative to the opera, where the authors went to see Taglioni dance :—" Only think—one hundred and fif ty gu i neas every night to be paid in England to a woman to stand for a long time like a goose upon one leg, then to throw one leg straight out, twirl round three or four times with the leg thus ex tended,to curtsey so low as to nearly seat h erself upon the ground, to spring occasionally.. from one s id e of the stage to another ; all of which jumping about did not, on her part, occupy an hour ; a n d to get more money for that hour every evening; than si x weavers in Spital fields • ( w h o produce beautiful silk f or d resses) could earn all of them, working fourteen hours every day, in twelve months."—rWe do not wonder at the authors' astonish ment at this extravagant foolery of our English fashion ables ; but how much more wou ld they be surp rised —not to say disgusted—if they were told that those who lavish such vast sums on a mere dancing -puppet, cannot find it in their hearts to contribute a single penny to relieve the distresses of their own starving countrymen ! , . LITERATURE. HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL. Colburn, London, 1 8 41. If this be not the best number of the " Comic Annual" that its author has yet put forth, it is at any rate among the best, which is no slight praise, whenwe bear in mind how many exquisite pieces of humour, in prose 'as well as in verse, have appeared .in the " Annual." • The first rhymed story, entitled " Miss Kilsmansegg, and her Precious Leg," has already been published, though without the illustrative plates, in succes sive numbers of •the New Monthly Magazine, wherein it soon became a favourite with the public. lt is a Clever bagatelle, but we do not rank it among Mr. Hood's most fortunate efforts, for there is evident throughout it a constant and painful straining after effect; the lines, too, move on heavily at times, and the humour is not always sufficiently obvious. It has none of the ease, spirit, or raciness of the author's mock sentimental ballads, though we cannot deny that its satirical flings are frequently very felicitous. " The Friend in Need" is a prose story, embel lished with several capital wood-cuts, one of which, under the quaint heading of " Enough to sicken a Dog," represents . a morose-looking mastiff, evidently one of the old school, running away with disgust from a litter of puppies, each of whom is smoking an Havannah cigar with the coolest and most complacent air imaginable. The contemptuous look and upturned nose of the old mastiff, who is evidently shocked at such an innovation on canine propriety, are full of ster ling humour. Phrenologists measuring the head of a murderer, who is seated in his dungeon with chains round both legs, is a not less effective plate. With w hat an air of smug self-conceit the leading phrenologist of the party feels the ruf fian's head, accounting for his crimes, as one can see at a glance, by the absence of some, and the presence of other, bumps on his occupit ! The Sheriff who is witnessing the scientific examina tion, wears the true official aspect; and his dull, stolid, formal phiz does honour to the Shrievalty. But the criminal is the most characteristic pot.- trait. He is just the sort of fellow, with his thick pug nose, short bull-neck, bow-legs, and great swelling calves, that you would expect to see standing beside your bed at midnight with a dark lanthorn in. one hand, and a crow-bar in the other. He was manifestly born for no other purpose than to swing from an Old Bailey gallows, and furnish the surgeons with a subject for dissection after death. " None so deaf as those who will not hear" is illustrated by an old maid, straight from head to foot like a stick of sealing-wax, who is turning with lofty contempt from some poor little beggar-girls who are supplicating her for charity. The withered old spinster has, it is ,plain to see, long outlived all the charities of life, and has no notion of being beset by such vulgar importuni ties in the public streets. Her nose tells you that she has not yet taken the Temperance pledge, and her eyes have a cantina, by expres sion that has been cultivated and brought to per fection at-the Tabernacle. We feel convinced, infleed, that she is a rigid Methodist, one who believes in the infallibity of Sir Atidrew Agnew, and is averse to all Sunday baking and travelling, except when they interfere with her own per sonal comforts. " A Screw Loose" represents an elderly gentleman starting aghast with horror from an enormous boa-constrictor, who has just escaped from his den, and is rearing himself up for a spring, not ten paces off his victim. The snake, as we can see by his look of satisfaction, expects to make a pleasant dinner off the old gentleman, who cannot, however, at all reconcile himself to the idea of being thus compelled to administer to the epicurean propensities of an. other. He looks sadly woe-begone, and his hair stands erect on his head, like so many wire strings. • We close our notice by an extract from a " pathetic ballad" entitled " Pompey's Ghost :" . 'Twas twelve o'clock, not twelve at night, But twelve o'clock at noon, Because the sun was shining bright, And not the, silver moon : A proper time for friends to call, - •. Or Pots, or Penny Post ; When, lo ! as Phcebe sat at work, She saw her Pompey's Ghost ! Now when a female has a call • • From people that are dead, Like Paris ladies, she receives Her visitors in bed : But Pompey's Spirit could not come Like spirits that are white, Because he was a Blackamoor, And wouldn't show at night ! But of all unexpected things That happen to us here, The most unpleasant is a rise In what is very dear : So Phcebe scream'd an awful scream, To prove the seaman's text,, That after black appearances, White squalls will follow next. " Oh, Phcebe dear ! oh, Phcebe dear ! Don't go to scream or faint ; You think because I'm black I am The Devil, but I ain't ! Behind the heels of Lady Lambe I vvalk'd whilst I had breath ; But that is past, and I am now A-walking after Death ! " No murder, though, I come to tell, By base and bloody crime ; So, Phcebe dear, put off your fits Till some more fitting time ; No Crowner, like a boatswain's mate, My body need attack, With his round dozen to find out , Why I have died so black. "" One Sunday, shortly after tea, My skin began to burn, As if I had in my inside A heater, like the urn. Delirious in the night I grew, And as I lay in bed, They say I gather'd all the wool You see upon my head. " His Lordship for his doctor sent, My treatment to begin — I wish that he had call'd him out, Before he call'd him in ! For though to physic he was bred, And pass'd at Surgeon's Hall, To make his post a sinecure, He never cured at all "The doctor look'd about my breast, And then about my back, And then he shook his head and said, ' Your case looks very black.' And first he sent me hot cayenne, And then gamboge to swallow, — But still my fever would not turn To Scarlet or to Yellow ! " With madder and with turmeric He made his next attack ; But neither he nor all his drugs Could stop my dying black. At last I got so sick of life, And sick of being dosed, One Monday morning I gave up My physic and the ghost !" 1 FREDERICK THE GREAT and his TIMES. 2 Vols. CoThum, London, 1841. There are many memoirs and scattered no tices extant of Frederick the Great of Prussia, but we have never happened to meet with a memoir so full and so every way satisfactory as the present, which not only gives in detail the leading features of the hero's political and mili tary career—for he was eminent alike as a soldier and a statesman—but discusses also the charac ter of Vae remarkable times in which he flou rished ; and furnishes, in addition, biographical sketches of his half crazed father, the First Frederick, and his celebrated ancestor the Elec tor of Brandenburg, deservedly styled by hi s subjects the most ill ustr i ous man bey o "the n d all Great. question vas of the age in which he flourished, and on which in some d egree he stamped the impress of his own character. Though a againstgreat portion of Eu ropefi him ; and h e superior to hi.sownel;d was arrayed in arms Opposed in the tbhyQugfohrchees i l in Va i s neasurably frequently was redwzied at times t o such a state of despair that he 1 nore than once, thought of ending his tro übles e b o y u r s a u g i e ci ai ; suicide 3eet , in the end, hi s indo mitableperseverance vanquished all obstacles; and at the terminati on o f th e famous Seven Years' wa r , h e was the only gainer, having ussi achieved the object r for which he drew the sword ; raised Prussia from of a first-rate State to the ran k P ower, ,and established his claims to the title of the most consununate vt , • arrior of his age. The great blot ort Frederick's escutcheon is undoubtedly the active share he k _ took in in conjunction with the Empress Catherine—a despot capable of any atrocit:7—in the partition of Poland. The ex cuses he made for this infamous act of wanton spoliation, when it began to excite the indigna tion of Europe, are anything but valid, and indeed serve, if possible, to aggravate the enor mity of the case. But Frederick, though he appears to have found a gentle biographer in the author of the volume before us, was always a despot in his heart; and though he was laudably anxious to promote his country's prosperity, yet it must. be after a fashion of his own. When, h owever , the circumstances of the times in which he livec l, are considered, he may be pronounced on the . whole a liberal and enlightened Sove reign; and when we think of him in connexion w i t h 4 6nis .the Fifteenth, for whom he possessed the ' most hearty contempt, he shines with re doubled /usu.?. As a literary man—for Frede rick was tambitious of the character of an author, as well a s of a soldier and a statesman—he dis played Brut very indifferent ability. His works, which. tide voluminous, have long si • nce descended MORNING SUN . to their just level; and if he is ever thought of at all as a literatenr, it is chiefly by reason of his friendship with Voltaire, who afterwards be came his bitter enemy, and, under the title of the Xing of Bulgaria, has satirised his despotic habits with the -severest acrimony in "Candide.' ' In the volumes before us, the fullest details are given respecting Frederick, both as a man and as a monarch. Every memoir, bearing on' the subject, has been diligently ransacked ; the so cial and political peculiarities of France, Austria, and several other European States, are also con sidered with attention; entertaining matters of Court gossip are introduced; and the result is a livelier and completer picture of the condition of Europe during the greater portion of the eighteenth century, than has yet issued from the English Press. The opening chapter is the most indifferent in the work. It is too vague, and sketchy, and unsatisfying, and though aspiring to the dignity of history, is anything but histo rical in its character. In the course of this chapter the author expresses his surprise that a witch should have been persecuted in North Germany so late as the middle of the eighteenth century, when he might have known, ou a little consideration, that even at that comparatively recent period, witchcraft was believed in through out the greatest part of the Continent, and per secuted accordingly. Re speaks, too, of the German armies, at a somewhat earlier period, being too often recruited from the dregs of the population; unaware, apparently, that the Eng lish armies were thus recruited, through the vile agency of press-gangs, as late as the year 1810. Many a gaol-bird fought, and fought bravely too, in the Peninsular war. On the whole, we consider the present volumes the most entertain ing works of the sort we have read for some time. They are not exactly history, for history deals with the great outlines of particular periods, and seldom deigns to notice their minor peculiarities; but they are the next best thing to it, and are about the same calibre, in point of literary abi lity, as Mrs. Thompson's entertaining Memoirs of the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough. We subjoin an extract, by way of sample of the author's manner. He has been speaking of the military jealousy of Frederick and his occasional brusque manner towards his Generals : Frederick, though a consummate judge of military merit, showed himself, through his Whole life, but too ready to affront even his best officers on what might be deemed very slight occasions. Thus we have seen that, during the second Silesian war, the brave Marshal Schwerin, who had rendered the most important services to his Sovereign, as yet inexperienced in military opera tionS, had fallen into disgrace, quitted the arm y, an d re tired to his estates. Accidentally meeting his brother at the Ridotto, soon after the conclusion of peace, the King inquired—" What is the Marshal doing ?"—" He is attending to the cultivation of his estates and the management of his affairs, your Majesty ; for the rest, he is quite well." " When you write to him, salute him in my name," rejoined Frederick. "He is a great man, but he is obstinate, and forgets that lam King." A year afterwards, he invited the Marshal to Berlin. Schwerin went, and was in the King's ante-chamber by eight o'clock in the morning, just as his hussar was taking in coffee. He sent in his name. The King gave no answer, took up his flute, and walked to and fro for a quarter of an hour extemporising. Laying down the in strument, he buckled on his sword, and then ordered the Marshal to be admitted. He motioned the attend ant to retire. Of the conversation that ensued nothing is known, but that it was at first loud and warm, gra dually subsiding till nothing could be heard in the ante-chamber. Schwerin was in high spirits when he left the King. who had given him an invitation to dinner. Before the commencement of hostilities Frederick was anxious to conciliate another of the trope' and distinguish ed leaders of his troops. Zieten, the dashing commander of the hussars, had been for some time in disgrace with the King. He, with many other officers, had early con ceived a jealousy of Winterfeld, because Frederick was thought to honour him with his more especial confidence, and frequently gave him commissions to which his rank might be supposed not to entitle him. In 1745 he even preferred a formal complaint on this subject to the King, and accused :Winterfeld of doing him ill offices with his Majesty. "Be assured," replied Frederick, " that I have seen with great pain from your letter that you enter tain the idea that I have taken a dislike to you or am dis contented with your services. I beg you to believe that neither the one nor the other is the case ; that, on the contrary, I esteem you us a meritorious officer, and am perfectly satisfied with your valour, skill, and fidelity. But, if at times I give particular commissions to Winter feld to do this or that; according to my instructions im parted to him in Secrecy, I cannot stiffer anyone to inter fere in such matters or to tie my hands, especially as in these cases there' is nothing that trenches on your rank and seniority. I hope this' will make you quite easy on the subject." . __ • . - Zieten had in his n.:-4-iment many volunteers of dis tinction, in favour of v. - lvnn he was less - strict in regard to discipline, anti this drew upon him the severe dis pleasure of the King. In the year 1753, a great encamp ment was forme.l near Spandau. Zieten was there with his hussars. The regiment was advancing into the live, preceded by the kettle'-drUms, which it had taken at Katholisch-Hennersdorf. " You are good for nothing," cried the King, " back, behind the front !" After wards, at the special review, he upbraided the whole regiment in the severest terms, and said that it was composed "of rude unplaned clowns." In this man ner he continued to vent his displeasure. Zieten, who was standing before the front with drawn sabre, could no longer repress his indignation. Turn ing towards the King, and thrusting his sabre, rat tling with the vehemence of the action, into its scab bard, he said, in an emphatic tonc—" If then, in the devil's name, we are good for nothing now, there was a tune when we knew how to do our duty like brave men. At that time, when we were needed, we were good enough." " Yes," cried Frederick, quite as angrily, " then you were good, now you are good for nothing whatever." During the time the manoeuvres lasted, Zieten never drew his sabre again, but remained in the camp as a mere spectator. THE WEATHER ALMANACK, 1842. By P. Murphy, Esq. This indefatigable weather-seer has, in the " Scientific notice" for the year, introduced a new• element into his system of calculating the seasons and weather, namely, a barometer, not 30 inches, but 2,000 miles long. The reader no doubt will be anxious to know the name of the maker, in what part of the world it i s erec t e d, and who the enormous giant is that, with an arm one thousand miles in length, marks with the sliding-pointer the rise or tall of the fluid in the tube. Mr. Murphy shall answer for himself . " Our barometer of the seasons," says he, "is d le s tboo herh time the and wk e k e o a f r e n at u elementsr e, iin n v d h i o s s p e e n h s a a n b ope rations; the tube of the barometer is no other than the bed of the Nile, whose length, from Donga to the Mediterranean, is estimated to be 2,000 miles." He then goes on to point out the con nection between the inundation of the Nile, and the weather for the ensuing year, for which we must refer to the Almanac all those who are desirous to know whether a fair is to be held on the Thames on the 25th of Ja nuary, or Windsor Castle is to appear like an oasis" rising out of the waters on the day fixed for the christening of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. We are glad to see that Mr. Murphy has,taken the hint, and given the pub lic something more than prophecies and discus sions on meteoric phenomena, unintelligible to ordinary minds. The Almanac is now one for general use, containing a good calendar, with many of the list s usually given in such works, and all sold at sixpence less than the price of that extraordinary publication which stamped his name with immortality. T - w -HE DISTRESSED SPITALIIELDS . SA VERS.--The Lord Mayor received in aid of the dis tressed Spitalfields' weavers, the sum of 101., as the con tribution of Mr. Russell Ellis, and 12/. 19s. 4id. from Mr. Hicks, of the Bank of England, which had been collected from various officers of that establishment, in small sums, from Id. upwards. The donation of 100/. in aid of the Spitalfields' weavers, mentioned in a paragraph a few days ago as baying been transmitted to t he Lord Ma y throu g h Childs' banking-house n c k i in rd g-tvoouod se bd r iN ou irg.h ha V t lt t .lo, was sent by Mr. Robert , R medium. During a recent trial before the Correctional Tribunal at Verdun, it was shown that out of the 700 police, as being dishonest domestic servants employed within the town, 500 were or s nSi r A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Ly ons, iumndmeorraluspicion of the on the 2d inst., at a little before eight in the evening, A t the same time, a shock was experienced at Vienne, on the Rhone. No damage was done, but the was stronger at the latter place than at the former.'euleikt O N Prime E T AG Minister,E —l' l h ias e s l i t g i efi t ed li h o i inten tion of receiving, on Monday next, at th Chambers, a deputation from the Committee of RobTeHrtEPeeßl,Aalts Treasury of the Be- , ronetage for Privileges with a representation of th e i r proceedings (approved of by general m eet . to their chartered and patented rights, and whieh l have b een egs)' relative c onfirmed by various Acts of Parliament, subse quent Monarchs, since the Royal found er, r ights and privileges of the order ar e Cl' by which the the sixth degree of hereditary nobility, early defined as We have reason to believe that th e George Dawson will be the new Commissioner Right Hon. the place of the late Sir George Henry of Customs, in While Marshal Clausel was r ecently Freeling, Bart*-1:"L he refused several public testimonials at Algiers were offered to him ; but at a diner given sympathy which Rozey, Lieutenant-Colonel of the r given him by M. a toast thanking the Marshal for ocal National Guard, Algeria was proposed. The M his military services in took occasion to observe, that if Marshal, in reply to it, for him on the two occasion it had been impossible s - when he was General to develop the immense Governor which the colony possessed, it germs of prosperity it was only because the means of doing so were *n !ver pl ace d at hi s di s p osa l. More fortunate th an added, "General Be,cre me in this respect," the Marshal aud who is talent, and energy,.vvill att a i n ' this object, we have every reason to believe, unless the;t bad will which I had always to struggle again A cor a man of courage, aes to neutralise his efforts asit did mine.' la eS ; P°' Ob le .na , % 0 vo' ,be