The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

EWENING EDITION COURT CI R CULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —His Royal Highness Prince Al trt, attended by Colonel Bouverie and Lord Alfred let, Mr. G eorge Edward Anson, and Dr. Pretorius, 14 0 k the exercise of skating on the lake at Frogmore'this 211Orning. Her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sent have not left the Castle to-day. Mr. Byrne, the blind Irish harper, had the honour of gqing national airs before. her Majesty at the Castle ISt evening. His Excellency Monsieur Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, an d Madame Van de Weyer, left their residence 14 Portland-place yesterday morning, and embarked on 'hoard a steam packet for Ostend, en route for Brussels. Mr. Drouet, Secretary of Legation, arrived in town on Thursday from the Continent, and will officiate as Charge d'Affaires during the absence of his Excellency. Baron de Bourqueney, French Charge d'Affaires, trans meted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Attorney-General, Sir Harry Verney, ant Mr. !lames, had interviews with Lord John Russell yester day at the Colonial-office. , The Judi c i a l C omm i t t ee o f h er M a j es ty' s Most H o nour- We Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present ! er e. Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Justice 4rrltiue, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. bMessrs. P em b erton an d B urgo , Q ueen ' s C o unsel, w e re eard for the resp e cti ve p ar ti e s in an appeal from Jamaica, Vidal v. Girod." The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment I ' l l. o the p art o f t h e C ourt, revers i ng t h e d ecree o f t h e Court Sir William Follett and Mr. Edmund Moore, for the Vpellant, were heard in " Magnus Smith v. the Judges of tierra Leone." Lord Brougham gave judgment on the Part of their Lordships, that there were no grounds for the Girder disbarring Mr. 0 Smith, and that there was nothing IN :,hatever in the p ro c ee di ng s, which in any way a ff ected Lip character. WINDSOR-FRIDAY. The greatest possible excitement prevailed yesterday evening in the Castle in consequence of a packet of im portant letters addressed to the King of Belelum, and a ~9x of valuable jewellery belonging to the Duchess of teem, havi ng b een lost by one of her Royal Highness's 'errant!. Is is:said that the servant was dispatched from the Castle in the early part of the evening to eon the packet to London, but before he had or , rive d at Slough he made the unpleasant discovery that the za _Pikr eci p ia l tey with which he had been entrusted was lost. He ire returned to 'Windsor, making anxious inquiries a s he proceeded for the lost packet, of which un- Sartunataly he could collect no tidings. Supposing that e Property had fallen into the hands of some dishonest person, he at once determined on making his misfortune own to his Royal mistress, and her Royal Highness was Wvthwith acquainted with tne loss of her jewellery and lett!ers. Th e informat i on was soon sprea d over t h e cas tl e . 'Without the delay of a moment, a number of servants, by "order of the Duchess of Kent, were despatched in the direc ‘tiew of Slough, with instructions to institute the most diligent inquiries for the recovery of the property. Her Royal Highness seemed greatly annoyed at the unfortunate 'occurrence, and evinced the utmost anxiety for the safety IA her letters. The uneasiness of her Royal Highness. however, was not permitted to •continue for any length of time, for shortly after the servants had left the Cas e le a servant of Captain Sidwell, of the Ist Life GuaTels, arrived with the missing packet in his possession. The men stated that as he had been walking through Eton 'he Cowie it, and supposing from its appearance that it be longed to some of the distinguished party at i,he Castle, te irnmedietelv proceeded thither in search of its owner. 'When 11, li) u i ntelligence of its recovery was conveyed to the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness expressed herself e,,, eT l g r ill Y delighted at its restoration. A reward of one so ' • 1 ,g 4 Was Oven to the man for hi= honesty " Was has ben most intense here for some days past, mu ch so that the Thames is frozen across at Windsor fo, et , a circu m stance which has nut been known before r ''erel years.— Times Correspondent. TIIE ROYAL CHEESE. This wonaler, which is also denominated the West e nnard Cheese, and is intended as a present for 'uer Majesty, - in the name of all the inhabitants of the I,rish of We.f Pennant Somersetshire, is now exhi- Tlted to the public at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. t 18 the largest chesse ever made, measuring 3 feet i tleh in diameter, 9 2 inches in height, and weighing 14 present 10 cwt. and a half. It was made on the 28 t.h o! June 1839, from the milk of 750 cows, by 50 dairy maids, June, hundreds of the parishioners as spec tators This wonderful cheese is of an octagon shape. ! P ith tll,e impression of the Royal arms on the top, and P i l ib the finest state of preservation. No doubt the poet din had this monster in view many years before it w4B Made, % Alen he indited the following verses, which have been set to music by Mr. T. Williams, author of the airs ‘• Not a drum was heard," " Old England 1 : 11411 weather the storm," &c. Some additions and at 411.inra3 have been made to adapt the words to the liceat NEW SONG. A Pennard man set sail for Spain, To deal in merchandise; 4-1 4 0,.:4Vosooner he arriv'd there than Spaniard he espies (bis). Who says « You English dog, look here, Rich fruits, and spices fine (bis) Our is tnd produces twice a year (bis), That, 'st no such fruits in thine (bis)." • The Peuoard man went to the hold, And brought up a Pennard cheese ; Says he" You Spanish dog, behold, Thou'st no such fruits as these ; " Your land produces twice a year What proudly you display ; But such as now my hands do bear Our lands give twice a day." Zeal fired each honest Pennard breast When they this triumph knew ; And fifty blythe young dairy maids Resolved some feat to do. To drove their loyal heartfelt vows, What could they offer more, Than seven hundred and fifty cows To yield their precious store? T aese Pennard dames then built a cheese, The like was never seen ; 'T was made, and press'd, and fit to please , Our gracious Lady Queen. And, wedded to her Royal Love, Ma v blessings on her fall ; 'Ad Pennard cheese, at dinner, prove The best thing, after all e a t i e r qaje.sty and the Court will leave Windsor s t i e Co!' tweli:cigharn Palace on Tuesday, the 22d inst. in, Ll* ina,(,ty the Queen has gracious coin -old a N i .' o e u ', 4 , fur : he order of lace from the destitute lacemakers cowl 'utiry Salteiton, in Devon. Her Majesty has also rin..eseertd.ed tt, receive frcm them a lace frock Jar the rho laces Royal, and has in return sent a munificent present laceinaker3 n attis ----ISTENING TIIE PRINCESS ROYAL.— CrePorted that, in ordcy to give all possible splendour 13 6 1 c orning ceremony of the Royal christening, the ti Taco will be baptised in the Chapel Royal, bet, teams,nsequence of tCe great inconvenience ex ;t-t 2, ( *need in he very small Chapel Royal at St. James's, ex a4s marring' • ceremony of her Nlajesty in February last. fo r h , Pel R oyal, at Whitehall, is admirably calculated lind 4 HY grand state ceremonial, both from its ample space l a "'MY decorations, having been built expressly for a ItuVeuetting ; and its beautiful ceiling, painted by ns, at the cosnmand of his Majesty King James, above ,4do'reenturies a go , is i n a p er f ec t s t a t e o f preservation, and „ geth n ed with e l a b orate carv i ng an d g ildi ng , an d i s alto tern" one of the most beautiful ceilings in Europe. The 4 % ,,h i " c ni°l) Y is expe.e.ed to take place in about a month, sill give time for the necessary preparations. This Pratt banouettin hall was the scene of many pageants and 7stivais in • forme g r times; amongst others, the marriage of 14n Princess Elizabeth, in 1613. the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley has Riven 2001 . towards the erection of a new Church at llishopwearm ou th ; the Bishop of Durham has also given 1 00/. ; and the Marquis of Londonderry has given stone liatEcient for the structure. Mr. John Ryves D'Arcy ?): has addressed the electors of Reigate " upon Conservative principles." He proceeded to the borough yesterday. WORCESTER, JAN. B.—The Worcestershire Hunt Club Annual Ball will take place on Tuesday. the 12th inst., and is expected to be more than usually bril liant. Mr. Benjamin Edginton, from London, is en gaged to erect a temporary supper-room, sufficiently large to accommodate 500 persons, and from his well known experience in these matters the whole of the arrangements Will no doubt be complete. Sir John Twisden, Bart., who died on Thurs day, at Bradbourn Hall, Kent, was born in 1785, and sue ' s eeded to the baronetcy in 1810. In the following year he married Miss Catherine J. Coppard, daughter of the Ree. Coppard, who died in 1819. TILE SUFFERING POOR.—Several parochial illoetings were held yesterday in various parts of the metro ' P 01 ;5 in order to migitate the sufferings of the poor during the pregcut unprecedeutedly severe season. Never was chart'' more needed than it is new—the evils of dear bread w e' e perhaps seldom more frightfully conspicuous. COLLISION BETWEEN A MAIL STEAM—SHIP AND A Elven l' STEAMER.—Yesterday morning, about eighteen minutes before seven o'clock, as her Alajesty'a steam-ship M er li n was com i ng down the river, on her Way to Dublin, and the Earl of Bridgewater steamer ,at on h er way up from George's Basin to the Duke's j eek, the two vessels came into collision, and both weth received considerable damage. The Bridgewater `tilt the time just passed under the stern of the Windermere Amer, then riding at anchor. The precise cause of the r e sets thus coming into contact has not transpired, but, . "out what we can learn, the collision—the light being im trf,e2t---% was in all probability entirely accid enta l or Ifn i Ne one was in the slightest degree h ur t i n ' it i o et vessel. N e ith er th e stern of the Merlin nor h er gure-head are injured, and the damage sustained may be Pt AV I.y r epaired.—Liverpool paper. CARREN-GROVE PAPER-MILL TOTALLY DE "RD AY Flat above mill, situated near Denny, heAingshire, Was totally destroyed by fire on the night of 1)4 may, the sth inst. and it is with deep regret we learn, . mach' . 14 •machinery and stock in trade destroyed are uninsured . .. L'ay remarkable providence, the dwelling-house, which is ';otti k tuous to the works, escaped uninjured, which is the Tel I rovidential as Mrs. Lusk had been confined only ten eYs In "evious to this sad c:lamity, No farther particulars 443 t transpired THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. THE WALSALL ELECTION._ TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Reform Club, Friday, January 8. SlR,—The position at present occupied by the Anti- Corn-law League has by no one been so forcibly and laconically expressed as by yourself, when you said that the election of Walsall was capable of being made for Corn la.v repeal what the Clare election had been for Catholic Emancipation. I do not, with Mr. O'Connell, undervalue the ef forts of those liberal and accomplished men who for so long a period fought the battle of Catholic Emancipa tion in the English House of Commons. But Iso far agree with him, that I believe had not the Irish Catho lics taken the matter into their own hands, the exclusion of Catholics from the rights of citizenship would still have existed. The literary and Parliamentary advo cates of Catholic Emancipation were s sme of them men who professed attachment to the cause merely to serve their own ulterior purposes—some of them men who sincerely wished to get what they asked for, but who had also other objects to carry, many of them more important in their estimation—.3oMB of them men who would have postponed every thing to Catholic Emanci pation, but who were trammelled by party connections. And all of this motley band were hampered by the legis lative forms by which they endeavoured to accomplish Catholic Emancipation. The exclusion of Catholics from the Legislature was part and parcel of that very legislative system by which they sought to emancipate the Catholics. Every form of Parliamentary proceed ings told for their antagonists and against them. They fought with their hands tied ; they opposed buttoned foils to the sharp points of their adversaries. But the Catholic Association was hampered by no conventional rules. Excluded from the pale of the Legislature, the Irish Catholics did not need to conduct their movement in consonance with the forms it had prescribed to itself. As the Austrian General complained of Napoleon, the Anti-Catholic party complained of the Associations, that it " o'bserved none of the rules of war." Parliament was for fencing according to the rules of art, like M. Jourdain ;, but the Association, like M. Jourdain's housemaid, laid the foil lustily about their cars, totally regardless of quarte and tierce. The Parliamentary and literary Liberals of those days were quite as much shocked with the irregular proceedings of the Catholic Association as the Tories ; they deprecated and de nounced its violence—they begged and prayed it to proceed scion les.regles, and scolded it because it would not. And yet the Catholic Association bullied King, Lords, and • Commons into the grant of Catholic emancipation. The circumstances of the Anti-Corn-law League are the exact counterpart of those of the Catholic Asso• elation. The League has a strong minority favourable to its views in the House of Commons—an accom plished, generous minority, containing among its mem bers many gentlemen well versed in public business. But in Parliament, and conforming to Parliamentary modes of transacting business, these gentlemen fight at disadvantage. There is a conventional morality within the walls of Parliament which prevents a man doing what he could do out of it, and enabling a man to do there without shame what would damn him everywhere else. "We cannot expect Mr. this, or Lord that, to vote with us on this question—he has a country con stituency to manage." "We must not push this ques tion too hard at present, it would endanger (or, as it may be, confirm) the stability of Ministers." " Minis ters are not in the giving vein to-day—we must wait a more favourable season." And then an insincere pro fessing friend, well acquainted with the forms of " the House," can so easily keep pushing a question back all the time that he seems to be eagerly urging it on, that no reliance can be placed upon the Parliamentary attack on the Corn-laws. The battle of the bread-lax repeaters, i/ won at all, must be won out of doors. It is acting upon this conviction that the Anti-Corn law League has taken up a position independent of all political parties. It has turned a deaf ear to the in vitations of the Chartists. It has turned an equally deaf car to the invitations of the advocates of House hold Suffrage. It has thrown its weight into the scale against Tories, because they supported the hread-tax. It is bound, in consistency, to pursue the same course when a professing Mi• nistcrialist comes forward and refuses to declare against the Corn-laws. It is not quite cor rect to say, as some do, that the Corn-law question is not a political question. More correctly, the Corn-law question is a question of administrative, not of constitu tional politics. Now, party distinctions in this country, Whig, Tory, and Radical (if, indeed, there be sach a thing as a Radical party) turn upon constitutional questions. Whig, Tory, and Radical differ irreconcila bly as to the extent to which popular control over Government ought to be conceded ; but there are many administrative questions upon which the Whig and the Tory may agree, while Tory differs from Tory. Of these the Corn-law question is one. The Tories con stitute the main body of Corn-law supporters at pre sent, but that is accidental, because the landed aristo cracy are at present the most important members of the Tory party. The Corn-law could not be an article of the Tory political creed before 1815, because, prior to that time, the Corn-law did not exist. About the time of the Revolution the majority of the landed aris tocracy was Whig ; had the Corn-law been invented then, we should have had the Whigs out•and-out Corn law men, and a section of the Tories (at the least) bawling against it. This is not a mere guess. Pitt payed homage to the wisdom of Adam Smith, before Fox recognised his merits, Tory Cabinets (Huskisson to wit) Lave made large concessions to the principle of (vet trade. On the other hand, we find both Whigs and Radicals entertaining narrow and inconsistent view sof that question. It is clear then that the aboli tion of the Corn-laws is a question upon which Whig, 'Fory, and Radical may co-operate without sacrificing one iota of their principles. The bulk of the constituen cies may, and ought, to come to an agreement that whatever their representatives may be in other respects, they must be Corn-law repealers. It will be difficult to bring matters to this pass, but it is not impos sible. Single constituencies, and even more than one or two constituencies have been known ere now to merge their political differences for the purpose of carrying some local im'rovement, some harbour, road, police, or railway bill. What local improvements like these are to a town or county, the repeal of the bread-tax is to the whole kingdom. A majority of the electors may be brought to see this truth. But somebody must begin —some sheep must leap the fence first. The Anti-Corn-law League has taken the plunge. Its members have declared that no candidate, however he accord with their views on other matters, shall have their support, unless he be pre•- _oared to vote for the abolition of the Corn-laws. When men deliberately undertake to carry into effect a resolution so startling at first view to the prejudices of many, they also make up their minds to be vilified, sneered at, run down in every way. They know the risk, and have no right to complain of suffering which they have braved with their eyes open. At the same time they arc entitled—nay, it is their duty—to de fend themselves against obloquy, because it injures their cause, making the timid stand aloof, and weak brethren fall cff. It is for this reason that I ask your leave to add a few remarks to this already snore than sufficiently lengthy epistle. The points to which I advert are the accusations against the League, of having been actuated in their movement at Walsall by hostility to the Ministry ; and of their having, by that movement, endangered the Liberal cause. First, As to the alleged hostility to Ministers. If I am walking quietly along the road, in the prosecution of my lawful business, and find a man planted there, for the purpose of making me turn back, am I to be ac cused of hostility towards him or his employers, be cause I lift him out of my way and pass on ? The Mi nisterialists placed Mr. Lyttelton in the position of candidate for Walsall, to make the League turn back. The Ministerialists knew that the League was resolved, wherever it could, to oppose the return of candidates not hostile to the Corn-laws. They brought forward Mr. Lyttelton, friendly to the Corn laws, and thereby challenged the opposition of the League. If there be any hostility in the case, the first overt act proceeded from the Ministerial supporters, who complain of the hostility of the League. On the part of the League, I have seen no indications of hostility either towards Ministers, or their candidate, Mr. Lyttelton. The League has only said to Ministers, if you set up a candidate opposed to our principles, we cannot sup port him. To Mr. Lyttelton they merely said, Unless you are at one with us regarding the Corn-laws, you must look to find us against you. They have not spoken angrily either of Mr. Lyttelton or Ministers. But what have Mr. Lyttelton, and the newspapers un derstood to be the organs of Government, dine to the League? They have misrepresented and vilified them. Mr. Lyttelton represents the deputation from the Council of the League as sent to oppose him, whereas it was only sent to learn his sentiments regarding the Corn-law, and to oppose any supporter of that law. The language in which the Globe and Moiling Chro nicle of last week spoke of the League is too well known to require repetition. What hostility there has been, has been•entirely on the side of Ministerial sup porters—(l have no right to attribute it to Ministers themselves): it is the old fable of the wolf picking a quarrel with the lamb in a modern dress. The wolf blames the lamb for occasioning the torrent of dirty words that proceed out of its own mouth. The allegation that the League has endangered the return of a Liberal for Walsall, may be easily dispensed with. It rests upon the assumption that Mr. Lyttelton could have carried the borough. Mr. Lyttelton's friends never ventured to assert that he could carry it, till after h e h a d w i t hd rawn . In his retiring address expectl‘lr . LL. prompteo mpl a i n a s n — d either lukewarm neutra li ty or d ec id e d o pposition," ‘orlCVlihalerseu 2 I p 0 r h t , a d I e h v a o v r e y reason m e t with i to ti, This was independent of the Anti-Corn-law opposition 3 to his claims, for he proceeds to say, "In addition to these discourasing circumst ances , I b a d to encounter y THE SUN - , LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1841. the hostility of the agents from the Anti• Corn-law League." It is clear that even before his opinions re garding the Corn-laws ware avry.ved, Mr. Lyttelton's prospects of success were anything but cheering ; and it is also [clear that part of the support he had was ob tained by allowing a misapprehension of his views re garding the Corn-laws to exist, for his law-agent, Mr. Belhan, in a letter to the Morning Chronicle, admits the " secession of several of our most active committee men, who entertain Corn-law notions," as soon as they knew Mr. Lyttelton's views. Mr. Smith may succeed or fail, but he is stronger Chan Mr. Lyttelton, for all his supporters have had a frank explanation of his opinions beforehand. Let the industrious population of the country remember these things. Let them remember when attempts are made to bully or seduce old mem bers into withdrawing from the League, or to prevent new ones from joining it, that the Liberal cause has, it anything, been strengthened by the substitution of Mr. Smith for Mr. Lyttelton, as candidate for Walsall ; and that although there has been hostility towards the League evinced by the partisans of Government, there has been none shown by the League towards Govern ment. The League is independent of all parties—con have nothing to do with any of them. It holds on the even tenor of its way regardless of the effect it may produce upon their interests, but without entertaining any towards them. Still more, let every labourer who has his meal cur tailed—every capitalist who is kept in constant leer of the Gazette by the Corn-law, remember that men arc only bound to act right—that consequences are beyond their control. Do we blame Huss, Sydney, Wallace, because their efforts were unsuccessful? Were their efforts indeed unsuccessful because they were martyrs, and the triumph of the cause for which they died was reserved for a later period ? " The Anti-Corn-law League is on its trial," says the Morning Ckonic/e. It is ; but that trial will not finish with the,.Walsall elec tion. If that election'be lost many may fall of for a time, but the best heads and hearts of- the League will persevere, regardless of the storm of words whistling round their heads. Their cause is just—their course of action is the only, one which the "impotence of pur pose" on the part of our leading statesmen has kit open to them. Their ultimate triumph may be deferred, but can only he deferred. A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE. IRELAND AND THE TORIES (From the Morning PorLY • • • • - We hear from Ireland that a good dell, of uneasiness has been excited there a mong t h e b est c l ass o f emiservatives by an article on " Romanism in Ireland," which appeared in the recently published number of- the Quarterly Re view. The class of Conservatives to whom we refer are landlords and their families, sincerely ,attached* to the Church of England and to English habits.and sentiments generally, but resident in Ireland, both from affeCtion to the land in which they were born, and because of the duties which they owe to their respective neighbourhoods as proprietors. They have been sufficiently accustomed, ever since they could read and take any interest in public affairs, to hear of plots, and conspiracies, and secret machi nations on the part of Romanist priests and politicians, against the existence of the Protestant Government of England and the security of the Protestant people of Ireland. By long habit they had como to regard these rumours as a kind of stock exaggerations convenient for the use of speech makers in moments of excitement, and of newspaper writers when " something strong" was con sidered appropriate to the occasion. They did not think that such alarming statements were totally without founda tion, but they believed that they went my far beyond what cautious and calmly investigating persons could believe, and that they themselves (tile Irish. Protestant landlords), though not quite so safe as they would be in England, had, nvvertheless, not much to fear. But the writer in the Quarterly Review hes thrown up a fire-ball—a horrible blue light—which discloses to them the nets of Romish stratagem by which- they are surrounded, and the mines of Romish enmity and ambition which are ready to be exploded under their feet; The writer in the Quarterly i3' not only learned and acute, but he evidently wishes to be very candid, and to guard himself against being carried away by the exaggera tions of certain Irish witnesses, who testify with great ve hence upon the subject of Romish conspiracy. And yet he goes beyond any of them. He declares that the grand source of the evils of Ireland __the Eons et origo of all the various mischief—is religious dissension. " The whole circle of life," he says, "is filled with jealousy, and bitterness, and fear, rumours of rebel lion, and secret conspiracies, which no art can fathom, be c,tise4igticus assoeeations exist drawn up in array against ceeltaitther; each laid under spiritual obligation." The Writer iae however, of opinion that religious truth should be thelrst thing considered, and he despises any thing like making terms with religious error, by what has bee:l called " conciliation." We cannot but agree with him here. We doubt, however, that his way of advancing religious truth wouldsensWerahe end. Look of orations of the state of affairs in Iroland, and the attempts which are made to remedy that state:--- « First, What would be said of a man who, on' meeting a naked, starving, infuriated maniac, should proceed to re lieve him by putting shoes on his feet, a coat on his back, food into his mouth, and maxims of love into his head, overlooking his one great calamity, disordered reason— forgetting that the mind, and not the body, is the man, and that where the mind wants truth, in whatever degree, whether in madness, or error, or ignorance, there to dress up the body is only, as Bishop Taylor expresses it, 'to wash the face of the dead?' We ask if religious truth be not the first and most essential of all truths, and whether a nation, of which one portion at least, without at present deciding which, must be destitute of this truth, is not like the maniac labouring under a radical disease, which must be cured before any other remedies can be applied to its ills ? " Under this head fall the evils of poverty, ignorance, superstition, ill-management, intemperance, excitability, lakehood, and the like, with which Ireland is now afflicted. " Secondly, What would be said of a man who, seeing an officer of justice struggling with a man for whom he hal a warrant, should fall into melancholy lamentations over the anger and animosity excited by the struggle, should endeavour to soothe the feelings of both parties by texts from Scripture, and exhortations to mutual charity and amicable association, forgetting that it was the ap pointed duty of the officer to take the culprit into custody, and the vital interest of the culprit to make his escape, and that, while human nature continues, no struggle can be carried on without at times risking violence and heat, but that, where ;the struggle is a matter of duty, violence and heat are far less evils than quiescence andfriendship ? " Let this be applied to the second class of the evils of Ireland—those whVi arise from the conflict between the old Catholic Reformed Church, and the schismatic intru ders of Popery, and consider whether it be possible, or even allowable, to remove them, till in one way or other the conflict is not suspended, but decided, and one party or other is victorious." This is taking the " conciliation " bull by the horns, at all events. There is no mistake and can be none about this writer's determination that the battle should be fought out. But we think he is wrong, and that his own illustra tions show it. The deduction at which the writer arrives from his con sideration of the prime source of evil in Ireland is thee expressed:— " Here, then, we arrive at three distinct 'measures to be siopted, one or the other, as the first step to the cure of the ills in Ireland, either convert Popery to the Church, or give up the Church to Popery, or let both continue as they are at present, and prohibit any rivalry, any conver sion, any attempt at mutual instruction, any jealousy, any bitterness of feeling, or condemnation of error. Chain up the combatants, and place them both in one cell, till they have unlearnt their lesson of hostility. " Of the three plans before us the last is evidently the one contemplated by what are called the Liberal politicians of the day." The error cf the above representation we conceive to lie in supposing that. they_ who differ in religion must necessa rily be " combatants." This writer manfully contends against the plan of non interference of professors of one religion with the belief of the other. Religious truth being the most important of all things, he proclaims the duty of inculcating it, and declares that the business of the Church is to proselytise. If we connect this writer's views of the duties of mem bers of the Church, with his details of the means of per secution and punishment which the Romanists have at their command, we are not at all surprised that he should have made dutiful members of the Church in Ireland very un easy. But we entreat them to be not so easily carried away by the melodramatic excesses of this author's mind. If they continue just and kind to those around them, and, in the best sense of the word, " charitable," we do not think they have much to fear; and we know they have much good to do, with the duing of which a sense of alarm would seriously interfere. STATE OF THE RIVER, AND PAR TIAL STOPPAGE OF THE NAVIGATION. The ice, which had accumnlated in such large quanti ties, and seriously obstructed the navigation last week, was completely dissolved by the thaw aid the rain which fell on Friday night and Sunday morning, and notwith standing the intense frost of the last five days the river was very clear of ice until yester d ay morn i ng , w h en , ow i ng to the severity of the co ld on the two prece di ng d ays and nights, the ice again appeared in large quantities. The ebb tide of Thursday afternoon brought large quantities down the river, from Fulham and Chelsea, which in creased to such an extent yesterday morning that a great number of vessels and barges above and below bridge were ice locked, and unable to move. At eleven o'clock the ice was so thick all along the Lambeth shore, from Westminster-bridge, that it was found impossible to bring any lighters or boats to and from the wharfs, while the pier at Lambeth Palace-stairs was blocked up, and could rot be approached. At this time the wind was blowing from the S. E., and a good deal of ice was blown over towards the north shore, below bridge, which caused a complete stoppage of the navigation inside the tiers, from Irougate-stairs at the east end of the Tower to the west end of the Custom House -quay. Several vessels, barges, and boats coming up with the tide were terribly damaged by the ice driving them against each other alongside the Tower-wharf, and after a great scene of confusion, the crashing of ice against the sides of the craft, and the de struction of several boats, a f ew vesse l s an d barg e s got out into the stream, while others brought np and remained im bedded in the ice. In the neighbourhood of Shadwell. Ratellfr. and Limehouse, where the collier tiers are moored, the ice-bergs had amassed to such an extent, and become frozen together during the night, as to suspend nearly all coals into the barges, as few The ice on the river is much thicker and h ar d er th an i t was last week, and has already done much damage to the could tl. bu get siness amongof discharging shipping. The craft. ft came up in large quantities with the flood tide, breaking and creaking against the bridges and piles, to re turn with the ebb, when more was brought down from the up country. At eight o'clock last night the ice between LondLii- bridge and Blackfriars was vary thick. The whole surface of the river was covered with it, and thefrost would increase it hourly. workingdmouEilotsresadi nvoss'thtte.f. East, :GySidl bneagoabtrdcrobeglwucairtet,en.hisrlei 'sni neighbourhood yesterday, toeur Lowerrdba The general - suspension popu o la f ti b o u n s . ine m ss a o n n y th th e ou ri s v a e n r d , s a h lo a t v i . g e shore, and in the docks, has caused the greatest distress employment, and are suffering very among its, ii :r :adra inieeonegonitnircl parishes, nhsfiehree t dfi h l und thrownea et tni ha, tenements, enoef d of whereA I 1 dpagpaet number , E St, s t . Our 'rl'c reporter P r iv a v t i i s o i visited ofm severely from the inclemency w ol ap t p h i e ng w , e a a n t d he n r t , he a r n w d at t e h r e . many . little food fire, nhg:ctihhn the eastern and south-eastern part of poor fellows ands heir t f i a le m y il c i o e u s i w ; r r a e aisn s e e d en mth h oen u ier d y d b, le epd d asw to na g erd e :(.l known, forcie um b a u on t s ; t i i t in tl a e vvo has for k b n e ou e ft n r bi done -s there are no Ward Inquests and Coal ;anntdoincollect subscriptions for the poor. The el : : lel thcr er vd w ja i s t rt h tr o icc u sl s t e e fi ox r ni e s well ever those places who bestir themselves I : n o aosn al i alleviate v ot i hu a en t e cciii i r t y , of the metropolis is London Dock Company, soup and broad among their unemployed labourers, tu:d the example is worthy of being followed by other mer cantile companies. A frightful accident occurred on Thursday afternoon, (AT volence, have distributed large Pic.tle Herring-stairs, liorsel) down. A billy-boy (elle masted Yorkshire vessel) was driving up the stream amidst large masses of ice, with a boat hanging astern, when a lad heionging to the vessel, fearing the boat would be crushed by the ire jammina it against a barge as the billy-boy went alongside, got into the boat to shove it clear. The vessel, however, came upon the side of the boat, which was driven against the ha: ge, when the captain of another vessel along side, seeing the boy in danger, jumped on to the barge, and put his arm out towards him to save him, when kutfor. tunately the billy boy came to, and jammed his arm bu tween that and the barge. The l : 9...Y'head was also dread fully cut, and he Tv4s. sA Wiien injured that it was f oun d ne cessary to igniVeY 'hirli to Guy's Hospital, where he now lies with little or no hopes of recovery. The captain was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where his arm wag RkA. putated. ......__----- -- 7 - --_ ---------___ the to th e f und now in course a r tt . eib m u Y ry for th e b enefit of our poor We have to qiingtmPt 3 the roun ineent g if t o f 211. of hy collection o n . • 1 / a fellow-citizens at this inclement season of the year,—.Ken ttsl4 Gazette. ADMIRAL STOPFORD AND CAPTAIN BAKER. "My DEAR cannot leave this place, which I propose doing to-morrow, without expressing to you my sincere thanks for the many valuable services I have re ceived from you in every circumstance relating to the .cap tore of St. Jean d'A cre; t h e b oun dl ess pa i ns you too k in slunding, and laying down buoys upon the most dangerous shoals, rendering the approach of the ships towards the works of the place perfectly secure. Your spirited and gallant conduct in going on board the when under the enemy's fire, for the purpose of placing them in proper positions, which your knowledge of the places entitled you to do, merits the highest praise ; end whenever anything is to be done, you are always the tJremost. " Under thi3 conviction of your zeal and skill, I am most happy in having such an officer, to whom I can entrust the ~.cfety of Acre ; for I am certain that the fire of the Pique and Stromboli would contribute more to the safety of the place than all the ctforts of the Turkish garrison. " I therefore leave it in safe hands, with my best wishes for your health and prosperity. _ " Believe me very truly your's, (Signed) " ROBERT STOPFORD. " Princess Charlotte, Nov. 7, 1840. " To Captain Beker, of her Majesty's ship Pique." WALSALL ELECTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The contest, being now finally settled to be between Mr. G. N. Gladstone and Mr. J. B. Smith, Chairman of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce,—.he former a staunch Conservative and supporter of the connection between Church and State, and the latter a Liberal and a thorough Corn-law Repealer,—is now proceeding ac tively, and both parties seem sanguinary of success. Mr. G. having been first in the arena has now completed his canvass, and from a placard issued by him yes tertlay, we perceive he states he has obtained the pledges of a majority of the electors, and has the utmost confidence of being returned as the re presentative of Walsall. While, on the other hand, the friends of Mr. Smith seem equally certain of sue• cess. They state that so far from Mr. Gladstone having got the pledges of more than one-half of the electors, he has not got one-third ; and that Mr. S., so far as he has yet proceeded, having not yet concluded his canvass, has been promised a large and decided majority of his calls ; and more, that the able ad dresses delivered by Messrs. Smith, Acland, and R'tw son, on the nature and effects of the iniquitous Corn laws, and the beneficial influence free trade would have upon British industry, enterprise, and happiness, have caused many individuals who were supposed to have pledged to Mr. Gladstone to withdraw their sup port in favour of the anti-bread-taxer. Betwixt these conflicting statements, there is one thing certain, that it will be a hard fought struggle, enhanced in keenness, no doubt, on account of the very small majority Mini sters have in the House of Commons, which makes every vacancy in the representation at present an object of much importance and anxiety to their friends, as well as to their opponents. Mr. Acland, the appointed lecturer for the League, accompanied by Mr. Rawson, a retired manufacturer of Nottingham, deliver highly interesting speeches, or rather lectures on Political Economy, to the inhabitants every evening, in the large room attached to the Dragon Inn ; and what is most gratifying, are well attended. Indeed, whatever be the result of the contests, there is no doubt the people of Walsall will have received a vast amount of valuable knowledge and an elevation of moral character, which will in due season, richly reward the labour bestowed. At the meeting last night, Mr. Smith appeared along with Messrs. Ashworth and Beesley, extensive manu facturers from Bolton. Each of these gentlemen ad dressed the meeting in eloquent terms. They parti cularly pointed out the serious duty the electors had to perform in the approaching struggle, and that Wal sall being the first arena in which the great and im portant battle of free trade was to be fought, they did earnestly hope they would not fail faithfully to redeem the trust confided to them. They triumphantly re futed several objections which had been urged by Mr. Gladstone's party through hand-bills, against the repeal of the Corn-laws, namely, " that the price of corn re gulates the price of wages ;" that the repeal of the Corn-laws would be the cause of universal distress throughout the country, &c. They called upon non electors to do their duty, to form themselves into Committees, and exert their influence in every possible way, to obtain the return of a man whose principles, if practically carried into operation, will be their sal vation. He. also hoped that ere long they would be in possession of their rights, of which they were so un justly deprived. They called upon Mr. Gladstone to come forward and discuss the question fairly and openly, and thereby enable the electors to decide whom was the better man. They promised them to have a great many visitors before the contest was over, and that never in Walsall will there have been a tougher, harder fought battlt, a more determined stand-up fight, than the one about to take place. Addresses, we understand, have been received from seven or eight Anti-Corn-law Associations, calling upon the electors and inhabitants to return an anti-bread taxer. To-day, I understand is to be issued the first number of a weekly periodical, to continue until the election is over, called the " Walsall Letter bag ;" and until that awful time arrives, verily our good old town will be shaken to the very foundation by the thunders of the Corn-law Repealer!, the advo cates of liberty, and the friends of humanity, truth, and justice, who, praised he God, have been sent amongst us to raise our latent spirit of love, freedom, virtue, and intelligence—the Divine portion of our nature—into becoming activity. Walsall, Friday morning. EGYPT. ALEXANDRA, DEC. 24, 1840.-0 o the 17th inst. the Great Liverpool steamer reached here, with London ad vices to the 4th inst., by which I learn that you were in possession of the news of the fall of Acre, and this event, as you would see by my subsequent letter, had decided his Highness to yield, as he saw that lie could not place any dependence on the promises of the French Government, after they had acted with such duplicity. These circum stances arc greatly calculated to favour the British interests here, if her Majesty's Government follow up the work they have so well succeeded in, by the proper recognition of Mehemet Ali and his family as the hereditary Pachas of Egypt. lam daily expecting an . arrival from Con stantinople to confirm this appointment, although I am well aware that Russia feels so dreadfully annoyed at the easy manner and promptitude with which the British have settled this question, that there is no doubt she will do all in her power to protract the set tlement of it, and the jealousy of France will make her an abettor in this policy. I hope, however, Lord Ril merston will see the necessity of having it immediately settled, and I think he has great right to almost dic• tate to the Sultan the fulfilmennt of these terms. The Hydra steam frigate arrived here on the 17th instant with Sir Charles Smith on board, late Commander of cur forces in Syria, who goes home in the Liverpool. He paid a visit, in company with Captain Martin, of the Carysfort, a few days ago, to the Nebo, by whom they were well received. Advices from Beyrout, dated the 15th instant, state that Ibrahim Pacha had left Da mascus on the 10th instant with 26,000 troops, bound for Egypt, across the desert ; therefore it is not true, as reported, that he had reached Gaza on the sea-coast. It will be a very arduous journey traversing the northern desert; but we may expect daily to hear of his approach. The Pacha has quite made up his mind to direct the few remaining years he has to live in im proving the resources of this country, and intends placing his best officers over the different districts to ensure this all-important object. Said Bey is already ap pointed to his chieffick, and many others, such as Abbas Paella. As far as I can judge from conversations with the best-informed and highest rank Turks, they are glad that the Pacha has no longer the government of Syria; for, to use their own words, s it took away everything and yielded nothing.' I am .f opinion that as soon as all is settled, the Pacha will do wonders to improve this country, whirls will add blessings upon millions, besides benefiting largely the commerce of the country. The weather has been vet., severe off the coast of Syria ; eleven merchant vessels principally Greeks, 'have beets lost. Her Majesty's ship Zebra has been wrecked near Beyrout, the Pique frigate dismasted, and the Bellerophon was obliged to thro.: overboard several of her guns ; the other men of-war rode out the gale, and afterwards proceeded to the Bay of Mar morice. We had a case of plague reported a few data ago, but we do not fear its increasing, as it is much earlier than usual.—Adverliser. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 18.—The English steamer, the Stromboli, arrived here yesterday, direct from Alexandria, with despatches, announcing the unconditiona' submission of the Pacha of Egypt, wLo throws himself en tirely on the kindness of tile Allies. A e ounc ii , f War was immalir.tely held at Lord Ponsonby's, by the four re presentatives. Nothing of their deliberation has yet been made known. . _ ...- - The Louth Tories, according to their own ac count, intend gtarting tw•o eandidatel to oppose the ', l iberal Members at the next election....the persons solicited for this hopeless experiment are Mr. Skoffington Foster, soli of Lord Fcrrard, and Major M'Clintock of Drumcar, IRELAND. AGGREGATE MEETING OF REFORMERS. STANLEY'S DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL. The rcqu'sition, which covers our first page, exhibits the thorough union of all ;shades of the Irish Reformers in the demand for equal rights and franchises with England and Scotland, and in the determination to resist the atro cious attempt of Lord Stanley and the faction to annihi late the electoral privileges of the Irish people. We point to that requisition with pride and with confidence— it affords to Ireland a guarantee that the disfranchisement scheme of Stanley shall not 3ucceed. During the struggle of the last ten years the `Liberal party has often put forth their strength, and as often have they conquered. The present requisition proves that their ranks are augmented, and that the moral power derived from the cordial union of men working in a good cause ab , des with them. This requisition exceeds all others in regard to the splendid array of Reformers, although—and this should be remembered—only eight days have elapsed since the Secretaries were appointed by the Committee. From the tapidity with which the names are crowding in, we are compelled ,to omit a large number of signa tures. This, certainly, is a proof most gratifying, of the zeal and energy that animate the friends of Reform and just go vernment in Ireland. The meeting is to be held in the Theatre Royal. Ilaw kins's-street, on the 15th inst. —Dublin Evening Post. COURT-MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT CURTEIS. A General Court-martial assembled at Clare Castle on Monday, the 4th instant, for the trial of Lieutenant Wil liam Curteis, of the .36th regiment, who was arraigned upon the under-mentioned charges, viz. :—" For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, and highly subversive of military discipline, in having, at Clare Castle, on or about the 12th of November, 1840, sat down to the officers' mess-table of the depot, 36th regiment, to dinner, in a state of intoxication, he having also been at the time on duty as officer of the day." The prosecution was instituted by Captain John De Lacy, Senior Captain of the regiment, who stated the case against the prisoner, and was then heard in evidence, when he swore that Lieute nant Curteis was intoxicated at the dinner-table. The other witnesses examined for the prosecution were—. Lieutenant Maulever, 36th (Depot Paymaster), who swore he noticed the prisoner intoxicated at mess, and un fit for duty. Ensign Carew, 36th (Depot Adjutant), de posed that the prisoner was not intoxicated, or unfit for duty, but that he was not in a state fit to sit with gentle men ; and Ensign Bruce, 36th—the last witness in sup port of the charge —swore the prisoner was influenced by liquor, though not intoxicated, and fit for duty, though not to sit with gentlemen. The case for the prosecution having closed on Tuesday, the Court adjourned to Thursday, whou Lieutenant Curteis will enter on his defence to the charge. In deference to the expressed wish of the distinguished President and his gallant associates, who are members of the Court, we shall offer no note or comment upon the evi deuce, on the direct or cross-examination, as at this stage of the inquiry it would be premature and injurious. Lieut. Cur teis is an officer of 15 years standing in the service, and pur chased his ensigncy and lieutenancy. There is a company vacant in the regiment since the promotion of Capt. Ash - more to a majority on . the retirement of Major L'Estrange, and the prisoner was the first Lieutenant for purchase, when this untoward event occurred, and suspended all promotion in the junior ranks. There has not been Court-martial in the 36th since the period of Lieutenant Sir James D. Flay, depot paymaster, when that officer was obliged to retire, a few years ago, on account of finan cial deficiencies, embarrassed with a young family, and little provision for them. MURDER OF THE LATE MR. T. POWELL.-FURTHER PART'• CULAkS. An inquest on the body of Mr. Powell was held w Monday last, anal was continued by adjournment on Tues- day, when the Earl of Gosford, Lieutenant of the county, Barnett M'Kee, Esq., J. P., and several stipendiery Ma. gistrates attended. The Jury (twenty-three in number; were unanimous in their verdict of " \Vilful murder, corn mitted by Patrick Woods, of Tullyard, and others un. known." The deceased, who (we believe) belonged to the south of Ireland, had been sent down by - Quinn, Esq. (barrister-at-law, and Assistant Poor-law Commissioner), to make certain improvements on his property in the town land of Tullyard, particularly on Drumgoose-hill, such as planting, &c. A schoolhouse was in course of erection, and the design of Mr. Quinn was also to build a suitable residence for himself convenient to the lake. To effect these improvements, however, it became necessary to re•. move some cottiers and others, possessed of small hold ings, who were noticed accordingly, but other equally good accommodation was provided for each of them on a different part of the estate. That these arrangements were unsatisfactory to the parties alluded to there can be no doubt; but the manner in which that dissatisfaction has mani fested itself is at once revolving to humanity and disgrace ful, in the last degree, to the character of the popnlation. We grieve that we arc obliged, from a sense of duty, to add, upon undoubted authority, a fact which stamps with eternal infamy the neighbouring population. The murder took place whilst numbers of the people were going home from the market, the leading road passing within a few perches of the house. Some of them met the deceased's daughter when running into Newtownhamilton for the police, and, when informed of the awful occur rence, gave themselves no trouble, expressed no concern, but went their way. Even the immediate neighbours, living not more than ten or twelve perches distant, re mained aloof, and made not the slightest inquiry at the house, although, it appears, the screams of the two girls ware heard nearly half a mile off. All parties that we have conversed with agree in one point—namely, that Mr. Powell was a civil, inoffensive, upright man. His orphan daughters (the only part of his family in this part of Ireland) have found a safe refuge in the town of Ncwtownhamilton. Woods, who has been committed to the county gaol, is a near relation of a per son of the same name who was tried at Armagh in 1838, for the murder of -- M'Creisin He is advanced in years, and of a forbidding aspect. Since the above was written, we have learned that an other person, named Hughes, who has been distinctly iden tified by the Misses Powell, is in custody. When appre hended, his clothes were deeply stained with blood. A meeting of the County Magistrates, upon this melan choly affair, was to hare taken place yesterday,—Netvrg Telegraph of this day. THE ANEMOMETER.—A very ingenious self registering instrument bearing this name was yesterday put into operation at the Royal Polytechnic Institu tion. The inventor is Mr. A. Follett Oster, of Bir mingham ; and his machine is intended to register, on paper, the records of storms and the fall of rain, for meteorological purposes. The importance of self registering instruments for obtaining a sufficiently ex tensive and accurate record of meteorological facts will be obvious to all who take an interest in ascertaining their causes and effects, and the results of the erection of the anemometer at the Polytechnic Institution are, therefore, looked for with corresponding interest. A general notion of this machine, and its mode of operation, will be obtained if we state that a vane, of a particular construction, is ele vated much above the roof of the building, and that to this vane is attached a rod, or tube, which communicates with the machinery in the apartments beneath. The direction of the wind is registered by means of a pinion being attached to the lower extremity of tbis rod, which works in a rack, sliding backwards and forwards as the wind moves the vane. To this rack a pencil is fixed, which marks the direction of the wind on a paper intersected with the cardinal points, and so adjusted as to progress at the rate of half an inch per hour by means of an attached clock. The force of the wind is at the same time asce..- tained by a plate placed at right angles to the vane, sup ported by two light bars on friction rollers, and communi cating with a spiral spring in such a way that the plate cannot be affected by the wind's pressure without instantly acting on this spring and communicating the amount of its action by a light copper wire passing down the centre of the tube to another pencil below, which thus registers its degree of force. Similarly ingenious arrangements accurately determine the time at which any rain falls, as well as the amount and mode of falling. The institution of means for correctly guaging wind and rain is a good step towards the development of admitted facts of which the science of meteorology, perhaps, snore than any other, stands particularly in need. The directors of the Poly technic Institution are, therefore, entitled to the thanks of sciAilific men-for having purchased, and put into useful operation, this most interesting instrument, whose name, taken from two Greek words, signifies a measurer of wind. A STARVING KlNG.—When the House were in a Committee upon the civil list, there were some re flecting ouches. Mr. Smith happened to express the necessity of the family in an ill-utiosen word, though with a good meaning, saying that the King was in a starving condition. Mr. Grenville took a fancy to repeat the word very often ; and if the King were starving, why then were such grants made of crown-lands, and why such grants and great pensions, and \llly foreigners enriched and made lords.—Juaites's Court and Times of William MODERATION.—" Once," says Master Fuller " a gaoler demanded of a prisoner newly committed unto hint whether or no he were a Roman Catholic? No,' answered he. What then,' said he; ' are you an Ana -1 baptist ?' Neither,' replied the prisoner. What !' said the other, ' ave you a Brownist or a Quaker ?' Nor so,' said the man ; lam a Protestant, without wealt or gard, or any addition, equally opposite to all heretics and ree ntries.' Then,' said the gaoler, 'get you unto the dun ' geon ; I will afford no favour to you who shall get no ad- I vantage by you. Had you been of any of the other reli gions some hope I had to gain by the visits of such as are of your own persuasion, whereas now you will prove to me but an unprofitable prisoner.' This is the misery of mo deration." • FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MID LAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. BIRMINGH AM , FRIDAY NIGHT.-Intelligence w a s re ceived in the course of to-day of a serious and fatal acci dent which occurred on the Midland Counties Railway be tween 2 and 3 o'clock this morning. I learn from the most authentic sources that a down luggage train left Rugby for Derby at 20 m i nutes past 9 o ' clock last night ; but, owing to the severity of the weather, between Lei cester and Derby the engine pipes were frozen up, and the train consequently unable to proceed. It is said that when the stoppage took place a signal lamp was placed in the rear of the train ; but be that as it may, the precaution, if adopt ed, appears unfortunately to have proved of no avail. The mail-train from London started from R ug b y to D erby (the point at which it leaves the Birmingham line) at 1 o'clock, p.m., being then 3 hours and 40 minutes behind the goods, train. The distance between Rugby and Derby is between forty and fifty miles. Notwithstanding the advance of the luggage train, and the precaution said to have been taken of holding out a signal light when within a few miles of Derby, the mail down train ran in upon the luggage car riages, and the consequence was that the engine of the mail train was th rown o ff the trams, and the engine driver and stoker precipitated on to the line, and both killed on the spot. These statements will, I believe, be found to be a cor rect outline of the details of this distressing affair. Tee are, however, two points which appear extraordinary, and will require explanation. The night was extremely clear and bright; and it is natural to suppose that even in the absence of a signal light, the unfortunate deceased might have noticed the luggage train, then stationary, before they unhappily came in contact with the train which caused their death. Again, it appears strange, seeing the advanced position of the luggage train, that its conductors, instead of holding oat a mere signal, did not despatch messengers to apprise the mail train, which they knew must be upon them, of tho impediment which was in their way. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. One of those lamentable accidents which have lately oc curred on railways, was yesterday morning occasioned on the Midland Counties Railway in the following singular manner :—The night merchandize train left Leicester with loaded waggons and two engines, an hour and a half be fore the mail, and went regularly on, passing the Spondon Station, 2-1 miles short of Derby, three quarters of an hour previous to the mail. When within a mile and a quarter of Derby, the pumps of one of the en gines were completely closed by the intense frost, the thermometer was within a degree or two of the zero point,: hat is full thirty degrees of cold; the train came to a Stan ~ , _and the usual precautions were taken of sending back the guards, six or seven hundred yards with red signal lamps, while the frozen engine conveyed the useless one to the Derby station. The effective engine returned, and gut the remainder of the luggage train again in motion, and having done so, sig nalized by the whistle for the guards to return. They had just got back, and the train was gathering speed, when the mail train Mme rapidly up, and though the red signal lamp on the last luggage waggon was in its right place, the very thick fog prevented the sight of it, and the engine with the mail and night car riages ran with extreme violence into the merchandise tram. The death of the mail engine-driver and of the stoker was the melancholy and almost instantaneous con sequence ; but although a first-class carriage, nearly full of passengers was next the engine, providentially none of them were hurt; assistance being procured from Derby, the mail proceeded northward, after an hours' delay. Immediately on the intelligence reaching Leicester, the Chairman and some of the Directors, with the Secretary and Superintendant, proceeded to Derby to inquire into the cause of the accident, which will also be made the sub ject of investigation before the Coroner's Inquest, which is to be held this day at Derby. WOOL WICH-F RIDA Y. ROYAL ARTILLERY. Lieutenant-General Lod Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G. C. H., has joined, from leave, and resumed the com mand of the garrison. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Fearless steam-vessel, Second Master H. Blehaut, left Woolwich o❑ Wednesday to tow the Boyne transport ship from Gravesend round the Foreland, and then pro ceed to Portsmouth. The Goodwill arrived from Portsmouth on Tuesday. The Pheto steam-vessel, Lieutenant W. J. Bluuut, and the Lizard steam-vessel, Lieutenant W. G. B. Est court, arc expected to be ready for sea by the end of next week. A meeting of the Committee for raising subscriptions in aid of the widows and children of the persons who pe:ished in the Fairy, was held here on Thursday, Lieutenant•-Co lonel Burton, of the Royal Marines, in the chair; when it was unanimously resolved that the sum of 701. should be immediately divided amongst the most necessitous. It was never intended, as has been erroneously stated, that the subscription should be exclusively for the benefit of Mrs. Hewitt, the widow of the gallant Captain of the ves sel. The gentlemen who originated this praiseworthy ob ject only contemplated that she should share with the others; but when this intention became known to the amiable lady, she stated that she felt grateful for the assistance offered, but declined being put on the list, as there were so many persons who had suffered a similar loss who bad no other resource to depend upon, and she bad made up her mind to be content with the allowance to which site was justly entitled according to her husband's services. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered, in the week ending Saturday, the 2d January, 1841." The Table is issued, from the Office of the Registrar-General ; Weekly CAUSES OF DSATIi. Total. .tverage 1838. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases. .54 265 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses lB2 156 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Hea-t and Bloodyessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the kidneys ' &c. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 1 .. Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, or Natural Decay 135 79 Deaths byViolence, Privation, or Intemperance 41 26 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes 1377 - Average Weekly Deaths ... 1,013 Deaths in the Average Weekly elkli•••••• Week. Deaths, 1!38. wmasciol Western Districts ... 224 ...... 156 North Districts Central Districts 268 ..... 208 East Districts 2BB ...... 239 South Districts Total 1377 1,013 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are com prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of London within and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes within the bills of mortality—and the parishes of St. Marylebone ; St. Pancras ; Kensington ; Fulham ; Hammersmith (thapelry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington; St. Mary, 'Stoke Newington ; St. Leonard, Bromley ; St. Mary-le bow ; Camberwell ; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford; and Woolwich. The population as enu merated in 1831 was 1,494,890. The weekly average for 183$ was obtained by dividing the deaths registered in that year by 52. In comparing it with the weekly deaths in 1840, it must be borne in mind that the metropolis in creases nearly two per cent. annually ; and that, if the population had been the same in 183$ as in 1840, the deaths would have been 1-27th part more numerous. General Register-office, Jen. 7, 1841. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THISDAY.) LONDON, JAN. Y.—Wind this day at nocn fresh breezes from S. to S. W., with fine clear weather and hard frost DEAL, J.A.N. B.—Wind N. W. by N., moderate.—Sailed the Lord - William Bentinek, Crow, for New Zealand ; Charles Herartlev, Hopper, Sydney. LIVERPOOL, JAN. S.-Wind variable.—Arrived the Sweden, Homan, from New Orleans. Sailed the Heroine, M‘Lagan, from Vera Cruz; Asia, Sears, New Orleans; Rocket, Bishop, Africa ; Myrtle, Martin, Terceira ; Flora, Farren, ditto. Off port Elizabeth, St. John's, New Brunswick. POIZTSNLOUVii, JAN B.—Wind E. to N. E.— Arrived the Clyde, Match( s, from Batavia. The Christine Louise, Mo ritzea, from Gefle to Valparaiso, on shore on Hamilton's Bank, as been got off and proceeded. FALMOCTII, JAN. 7.—Wind N. N E. to E. N. E.—Ar rived the Chatham, Aftleek, from 11.1iramiehi. Dunnix, JAN. 7.—Arrived Naparina, Hill, Quebec. SHIELDS, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Earl Gray, Clarke, from Taganro g. HULL, JAN. 8. —The Tiger steamer, Knolker, arrived here from Cui:baven, left on the morning of the 6th, and reports very h , !avy ice in the Elbe, and a large llamburg barque, upward bound, lying in a dangerous situation near to Cuxhaven. The Hebble Float has been stove by the ice, and has drifted on shore. The Mersey, bound to Savannah. is on shore near the Dolphin, and received considerable damage last night from the ice. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 8. —The Matilda, Anderson, from Scotland to Newcastle, which was on shore, has been got oil; but with much damage. VESSELS SPOKEN \VITH.—The Wetherell, Liverpool to Batavia, lat. 4t N., lon. 10 W., by the X.liance, Harper, arrived in the river. Chili steamm, London and Rio de . Janeiro to Valparaiso, Sept. at the eastern entrance f' the Straits cf Magellan ; a steamer, supposed , the Peru, from London ter Valparaiso 24; Lady Harvey, b . t. Übe', to 111onta Video, Nov. 15, lat. 8 N., lon. 23; Woodbine, for Philadalpha, Nov. 14, lat. 39, lon. 66; St. Cloud, Liverpool to Philadelphia, 15, Ist. 39, lon. 64; Lucilla, of Richmond, 15th ult., lat. 50, lon. 20; Ann and Margaret, Bay of Fuhdy to 11011, and supplied wi t h provisions, 18, lat. 51, l on. 19; Calypso, Cl y de to W est Indies, 23, hat. 49, lon. 13, by the Eagle, Grey, arr i ved at Portsmouth. Symmetry, Quebec to Southampton, 6th ult., ha. 42, ion. 50, by the Breeze, arrived at Bide. ford. BADMINTON. -The Duke of Beaufort, with his usual consideration for the poor on his estates in Glou cestershire, caused twelve fine fat oxen to be slaughtered early last week, and to be distributed to the necessitous Loss OF 100 SAILORS.—It has been ascer tained that upwards of 100 seamen, connected with the ports of Newcastle-upon-Tyn e and Sunderland, unhap pily pe,!ished in the awful storms which raged on the eastern coast in tilt! month of November, many of them leaving wives and children in a miserable state of desti tution. EVENING EDITION. MISCELLANEOUS INDIAN N6M's THUGGILE IN CALCUTTA.—A communication has just been tecei,ed by Government, from the Deputy Superin tendent fcr the suppression of Thuggee, requesting the assistance of the Calcutta authorities for the apprehension of about 20 men belonging to the Calcutta militia. These men, it appears, have been away from their corps since 1834, applying fcr leave of absence at various times. And from information received by the Thuggec department, they are believed to be engaged in gaining a living by the atrocities of the Thuggee system. They are supposed to be practising their dark deeds in the vicinity of Calcutta, and prices have been set for each of their apprehension. The same communication throws forth hints, apparently on tangible grounds, of the existence of a system of boat Tnuggee carried on in Calcutta ! Several comparatively respectable people are concerned, and the way in which it is practised is by inveigling people into the Thuggee boats which are always good boats, with convenient accommoda tions, and despatching them, in many cases, almost imme iliat,!, after Lhoving off from the shore, and in broad day. leant. NEW COINAGE IN INDIA. FORT WILLIAM, FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT, NOV. 11, 1840. Paocr.AmATtos.--The Governor-General in Council is pleased to notify th;.:t, from and after the 11th day of No vemter, 1840, in respect to the mint of Calcutta, and from r.nd after the Ist day of April, 1841, in respect to the mints of Fort Saint George and Bombay, those parts of Act No. 17 ef 1835, which were suspended by Act No. 31 of 1i37, directing that certain silver coins issued from the mints within the territories of the East India COM- Pan% shall bear on the obverse the head of the reigning Sovereign cf the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, will be again in force ; and that the device of the sil ver coins which shall be coined from and after the said dates recretivelr ill the mints of India, in conformity with Acts 17 of 1835 and 21 of 1838, will be as Act No. 17, of 1835, requires, viz.— On the obverse the head of her Majesty Victoria, with the words " Victoria Queen." On the reverse the deno mination of the coin in English and Persian in the centre, encircled by a wreath, and around the margin the words " East India Company, 1840." The coin will be milled on the edge, with a serrated or upright milling like the rupee ncws current bearing the head of his late Majesty William IV. The weight, standard, fineness, and value of the Company's rupees, as defined in the Act, are here repeated. Weight -180 grains troy, or one tolah. Stand. and quality—Eleventh-twelfths silver, one..twelfth alloy. Velar—The same as the Company's rupee of 1835, the Madras, Bombay, Furrukabad, and Sonat rupee, and equal to Efteemsixteentbs of the late Sicca rupee. The other silver coins authorised to be issued from the Government Mints by Act No. 17 of 1835, and Act No. 21 of 1838— viz., double, half, and quarter rupees, and two anna pieces _will bear in all respects a due proportion to this rupee. The Governor-General in Council hereby directs that all magistrates, collectors, and other public officers will promulgate this proclamation throughout their respective districts ; and that a translation of it be affixed in a con spicuous place at every public treasury. 'Money-changers shreffs, podars, and others should be required to take notice of the provision in Act No. 17, of 1835, agi,inst clipping, filing, punching, or otherwise defacing the legal coin. The silver coins issued from the mints of Government under Act 17 of 1835, if not cut, clipped, marked, or otherwise wilfully impaired, ere legal tender for their full value until by rradual wear they have lost two per cent. of their ori ginal weight. Published by order of the light Hon. the Govenor- General of India, in Council. G, A. BUSIIBY, Sec. to the Govt. of India. CEYLON. THIETY• EIGHT PERSONS POISONED FROM EATING TURTLE.-Wu hove been horrified by hearing of the must extensive mortality we ever remember to have known from eating noxious food, that occurred within the few last days near Pantura. It appears that two turtles were caught and brought to the I).lztar, where they were cut up and sold ; and that every individual who ate part of them was seized in about twenty-tour hours with a species of cholera, Qf which it has been ascertained beyond a doubt at least thirty-eight persons—a:en, wunien, and children—died, and that upwards of forty more are dangerously unwell.— Coloatho Observer. Oct. 22. PURCHASE of LAND IN CEYLON.—We learn from Ceylon that coffee speculations are rapidly increasing, and that the principal civilians in the island have entered largely therain, as a safe investment for capital. They are also turning their attentioa to the cultivation of sugar, indigo, and canon. As yet only two persons in the island have hail any experience in growing the former produce of superior quality, but both consider that the climata and soil of Ceylon are well adapted thereto. Amongst the largest purehasera of land it; the Governor himself; his Excellency has just got 2,000 acres most desirably situated, z.d of very fine soil. A gentleman of tilc civil sccvice of this presidency has also lately pur chased :runt 300 to 400 acres, and Mr. Campbell, the Bombay advocate. has become a large proprietor. The upset price of land is ss. the acre, but by the end of the third year, when it boons to brim; a haadsomo return, its cost may be calculated at about 10/. per acre. A gentle man on the island has kindly favoured is v.ith a great deal of information on the sulject of the Ceylon coffee specula tions, which we shall lay before our readers as soon as we have leisure to arrange aid condense the matter in our possession.— Colombo Observer. RANDY.— We arc sorry to learn from cur Kandy COT rei,oondeHt that the cholera stilt rages there. I: a return which we have jest received, it appears that storing the period from the Ist to the 19th instant, there were in the town of Kandy 49 cases, out of which 19 died. Mattelle Town, 95 cases. Interior of Matelle and Badulla. 52 eases, iu all 147 persons, the whole of whom are deed.— Cali/on lloald, Oct. 23. SINGAPORE. TILE ISLAND OF SONII3RERO. " American barque Stag, Singapore hoads, Oct. 21st, 1840. " On the 9th of August I was boarded off the Island of Sombicro, by Captain Benson, of the ship Morrison, of New Yerk, who stated whilst off the outer island at the east entrance of the Streik; of Bassaland, himself, a passenger, and a boat's crew went on shore unarmed, and had landed only a short time, when they discovered some natives comin g towards them, and before they were aware of any danger, a spear was scot through one of his men, which killed him. The whole perty then made for the boat, which fortunately was pushed off the shore by a boy in it as soon AS he discovered the attack of the natives. Captain Benson and the others, except one more of his men, who was likewise speared, succeeded in reaching the boat, but not without great danger, being obliged to keep their heads under water nearly the whole time, in order to avoid the spears thrown at them. The Morrison was from Sydney, N. S. Wales, bound to Manilla. "—Singapore Free Press, Oct. 22. MAURITIUS. MILITARY EXECUTION.-The environs of Port Louis were yesterday morning (13th Sept.) the scene of one of the most solemn and heart-rending spectacles which we conceive it possible for a by-stander to witness, and which (God be praised !) arc of rare occurrence in this colony; use allude to a military execution. Upi , n the present occasion the culprit was a private sol dier of the sith regiment, named John Tolmie, who was arraigned for having on the Sth of last month, shot at, with intent to kill, Corporal John Maher, of the same re giment, wheat he seriously wounded, and who still lies at the hospital in a very dangerous state. The act was committed about mid-day, when Corporal Maher was occupied in the distribution of the men's dinner ; and no motive whatever, appears to have existed for it, beyond the declaration, subsequently made by the prisoner, that he etas tirod of his life, and sought that method of getting rid of it, as he knew that its forfeiture would be the con sequence of the murder lie had attempted. The culpr it was immediately seized, placed under close arrest, and subsequently tried by a general Court-martial, by whom he was found guilty, and condemned to he shot to death. From the moment that his sentence was pronounced and communicated to him, the prisoner was unceasingly attended by the Rev. Mr. Perring, the military chaplain of the colony. who spared na pains to prepare his mind for the s: ttobiobm.faotenhhwhndi the awful doom he was to undergo. The unhappy man enter taiaed, in the first instance, some hopes that he would ob tain a reprieve, but these were, a few days before his death, finally dissipated; and he was at last impressed with the conviction that nothing was left for him but to die. The respite having expired, t ec h do e stiun p :d r , i ed si . a ru n m er s, w a a n s a yesterday morning, before day-light, from the condemned cell to the main guard, in which he had been confined, to the barracks, escorted by the officer and soldiers of the r guard tgiul c t i h i t a . t and d d hheaeviiing the relieved, coffin, preceded li h iehtlhbowaaddit hebtaeoff:hbeta-hvn death-vestment contain remains carried immediately before him. usual practice he wet Lot array a.alma_dnewshsoanfodrms self-possession; s o s f i o th n e ; a; li ieh is commonly the garb of those whoCs:cunartrcareilniYintyhraerietfiabrr.l execution, but wore his ordinary ever, had the first strokes of the mufil few notes of the Dead March in Saul I , aye . been sounded, before five or six young recruits who have prisonerre ocntc' cution,The prisoner himself ,‘ contrary, maintained during fell back to the r o c ri ar t , h o e vercom, e wiih.faintness. c g c u t a 't r l a ) ; n e • c li n iC. u h r e u se t .o t r o u , d he tl c re o f : y by . J t ci e c a t r i , d i ri c :a ii : d i: , ,,2 .l , l i : ot fh e% ,. l:.,p;ac t i, l is there co his n grave adnwe deposited, s i t at h ler e de a, e scort already s dug, counte nance which natned.. and walked with a . more upright carriage and a more e observed, that a s he apprc aritrdal he h a dB previouslyu t h e speedily exhibited, rallied, knelt re his dttibihaienn,n.preorsbtj ti, t liwc,sraasn:one however,nl u: , ,,ja ir ,, F i, h ntil e i, became s i t r )eti n ii r fl; deadly ,:os iniifin,cr c d his eyes to be bandaged, and sub laittcd to his tate with a firmness and resolution which were worthy of a better cause. There was riot, we believe, upon the ground a single man in ~t was not moved by this melancholy spectaele, however Just might he the retribution the prisoner had entailed upon nimselt. In 'woof of this we may state that whet the firing party, which as usual consisted of twelve men, commanded by a Sejezia, was called out, and the signal Olsen to fire, one .1 the men was so overcome by his feelings as to be enable to obey, and fell down in a fainting fit. Our readers are net perhaps aware, that upon these sad occasions, in order to avoid the feelnras of compunction which might either at the moment or afterwards arise in the breasts of any of the firing party, the men to whose lot it falls to form it, are not allowed to load their own muskets; but that these are handed to them indiscriminately , some being loaded witft ball, and others with blank cartridge. At the execution of yr:me:day, seven balls out of the eight muskets charged with ball cartridge struck the criminal, who was killed ' lrstantan cously, although to p revent t h e poss ibili ty of his sufferings being prolonged by any breath of life re maining in bier, a last shot was, according to custom, fired elasa to his head by the sergeant specially appointed for t h at purpose. The two regiments then formed into close c.ilunan and marched pan the body, the men being cotta in order that each might regard winded to keep eyes left, the corpse, and retain the recollection of an act of retria Ibutive justice d stirred to inspire horror at the punishment reserved by military law for crimes of a similar order.... Alaiiritius Paper. 0 ~~`~ ,4_r- tists, rads rover 13t vocri 0, 1 care• he r.eray pal!! and p re 33). eyed e Les' frost Dd of nude, ) the I , be wee fire Tar• a nd , No. abe ,seyl ley` , WO :kW anal Ibid. ether aal it tbe )ng° t oi l trot' tor its e od I- Il' de' hy- t •