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Second price at a Quarter to Nine o'clock—Boxes, Is. Gd. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Carriages to U. in waiting twenty minutes past Ten. Mr. Seguin, 12, Regent-street, Pall Mall, is appointed sole Agent for disposal of the Private Boxes. .......—.., HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS i)AX. : Morning...... 5 minutes after 4. Evening ......22 minutes after 4 LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1841. The Peers adjourned over yesterday. The Commons met as usual. A considerable number of petitions was presented, chieflr on the Irish Bills, and against Lord STANLEY'S :Bill. In answer to Sir E. WILMOT, the ATTOR rsy- GENERAL stated, that he should recommend that a Bill be introduced to remove all doubts a s to the right of the Corporation of Manchester r, to appoint quarter sessions, and to put an end to the disputes at present existing between such co. To rate towns as Birmingham and the counties. Mr. HUTT gave notice of a motion on the Sound Dues for March 9. not accept the offer, every one of those Members has been won from the cause of Repeal, and now strengthen the Government. But the To ries, contrary to Lord BROUGHAM, regard the • agitation for Repeal as a crime, and they cheered the list vociferously, as if it were no merit to convert an opponent to a friend. The Right Hon. Baronet dwelt at some.length, too, on the relative respectability of the electors in the two kingdoms, and pointed out the greater wealth of those of England. He forgot, however, that it is the boast of his party that the county elec tors of England are the very serfs of the landlords, while the reason urged by Lord STANLEY and others for his Bill is, that the poor cottars and ten pound tenants in Ireland refused to submit tothat degradation ; they are tobe disfranchised because they had a will of their own, and yet Sir JAMES objects to a poor constituency, that it will be de pendent. Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S speech was powerful and impressive, when he referred to Mr. MARSHALL'S letter to Earl FITZWILLIAM, to the progress of democracy, and to the avowed necessity of keeping-it down. They will put down the aristocracy. He declared for the former, and the Tories; being landlords, cheered him. We were not sorry to hear such language. It will make an impression on the country—it will awaken reflection ; but it will tell more against than for the race of the bread taxers. Mr. SHIEL followed Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and co n cluded the debate. The speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman was rich in sarcasm; and in turn Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Lord STANLEY, and Sir WM. FOLLETT winced under his burning words. In reminding Sir JAMES GRAHAM that he had called Sir JAMES SCARLETT a re negade Whig, he (Mr. SHIEL) observed that the Right Hon. Baronet now felt in his own person all the bitterness of that reproach. The young Whig Lord (STANLEY), the advocate of the peo7 pie's rights in 1829, who then objected to the solvent tenant clause, and engrafted his ob jection on his Reform Bill for Ireland in. 1831, appeared to no advantage under the re miniscence. Neither did the Noble Lord like a proof which Mr. SHIEL brought of his dis ingenuousness in adopting the whole of Sir M. O'LoGnLiN's Bill, leaving out, and telling the House nothing about the omission, the qualifica tion clause. But we have not time nor space to !....,_ _. ...... .. analyse one of the most telling and caustic speeches that ever was heard in Parliament. Nor was it deficient of the higher and more searching kinds of eloquence. The appeal which Mr. SUJEL made to the Tories to observe, after he had described Lord STANLEY, what manner of man is now their standard-bearer, to note the preparation for war abroad, while Lord STANLEY was exciting insurrection at home, and to remember the confederacies 1 which have existed in Ireland, were most powerful and impressive. They made a great sensation in the House, and will produce a great effect on the country. The debate was again adjourned at a Quarter before One o'Clock. A writer in the Times, under the signature of " LCELIUS," on the 12th inst., said—" This, my Lord, is an aye of recurrence to first principles— a period unexampled in the annals of the world. The shackles of ages are falling oft; and the human intellect is rising up unconscious of its strength, and likely, in pure ignorance how to restrain and encourage that strength, to rend asunder the bones, the muscles, the ligaments, which are alike its prison and the necessary in struments of its energy and activity ; in other words, to burst through and destroy the whole framework of (political qy.) society." The journal in which that sentence appeared is a gua rantee that it is no radical or revolutionary ex aggeration. We believe that it falls short of the truth, and that the deep-laid foundations of po litical society are now actually removed. They were laid in the public mind of a past age— in the customs of our ancestors—in preju dices and theories; all of which have passed or are passing away. The knowledge and intel lect of the present time afford them no solid bed; they cannot be underpinned ar fresh piled; around them is one mass of mo vi ng, bottomless quicksand, and, as LCELIUS says, the whole framework of political society is rent asunder and destroyed by the activity and energy of the human intel lect. We add the epithet political, because so ciety, the natural result of the human organiza tion, the growth of the division of mankind into males and females,—the population of the world, with all its wants, connections, sympathies, at tachments, conveniences, science, art, and know ledge, constituting natural society,—can never be destroyed, but is destined by its own laws to increase, and expand, and absorb political or ar tificial society in itself. We add the epithet political, because there are many writers and many statesmen who never distinguish between political and natural society, and are overbear ing, reckless, and arrogant, from attributing to political society, which is weak and changing, the permanence and the indestructibility of na tural society. My Lord STANLEY is obviously one of those statesmen who has never looked for his rule of conduct beyond the statutes at large and the de bates of the two Houses. He means to govern the nation by Parliamentary documents, and while he finds in them a precedent for folly, however enormous, he discards as utterly un worthy of study the opinions and the affections of the human beings he is resolved to coerce if they will not submit. But arrogance naturally excites resistance, though the arrogance be ex hibited by a lawful authority the gorge of man as certainly and as naturally rises against cruelty, though it be in a law-maker, as the running stream rises and bounds over the rock in its course ; and while men are everywhere recur ring to first principles, this HOTSPUR of legisla lators arrogantly and cruelly provokes th 9 Irish to inquire into the very foundation of his claims to settle the franchise for them. To what do all his assertions and all his arguments amount? To this, and nothing more than this :—" We, the law-makers, the landlords of Ireland and Eng land, being Protestants, have no confidence in the Catholic Irish; they shall have neither votes nor leases ; we can trust our English Protestant farmers, and therefore we will give them votes and leases; but the Catholic Irish shall have none, or only a mockery, while we will take care not to allow them any. power, and will hold in our hands all the organized mi litary means of the empire, ready to trample them into nothingness if they stir to claim their rights or resist our will." Such, translated into the language of common sense, rejecting all the verbiage with which every passionate man can gloze over and hide even from himself his crimi nal or foolish motives and objects, is the sum of Lord STANLEY'S arguments, and he is fool enough to expect, in this age of the world, that the Ca tholic Irish will bend their necks to his intoler able legislative yoke. Not to misrepresent the Noble Lord, let us quote a passage or two from his speech : It is the pride and satisfaction of a landlord in England to believe that, in the main, his tenants will be guided by his wishes.—( Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.) We do not seek to disguise or to deny it, and every gentleman knows perfectly well, in a contested county election, though ho would condemn an extravagant and oppressive exercise of au thority, he may calculate upon the re s ult of the election by the number of landed proprietors and the party to which they respectively belong.—(lronical cheers from the Liberal , 1 benches.) No English landlord would think it proper to in terfere, if upon his estate he found that one, two, or three, or half his tenants were, in the exercise of their own independent judgment, differing with him in his poli tical views, and taking a course wholly independent of and adverse to his; but if an English landlord found that there was upon his estate a systematic influence habitually exercised over obtain control, over not ,e r r y, all his tenants, to prevail upon them as a body i n every in stance to put themselves in opposition to him, an d t h at t h at influence was one which he could avertneither tenants u would I ask, what would be the natural course for an Eng lish land lord,ihiok a i n t d ve in ry su u c n h na c t i ur rc a u l m if st h an e cp s s o , u t g o ht ta t k o e whom that influence was not exerted. In this country , where there is less of hardship than there is in Ireland, in ge g e rid of one tenant and substituting another, I do not thi n k 1 1 .4 great animadversion would be poured upon the landlord who shou ld sa y, 4 , I must have tenants who will not be habitually subject to an interest and influence which they exercise contented against me." • * ..... I ask if in England that would not . be considered a kind, and a mild, and a liberal course ?—(lro.ncal . cheers Limn the Liberal benches.) Would not any la . m . dlord . b e, in c _the opinion of HMI. t w o il eih be r einceof my prope y_ .t. g .e., I will be ustiEe_d saying tt , influence and poll icat righ . t which I o Gentlemenntne u t r a li s e entth s a c r ific e the n opposite, an y fl o co posseessoifon m of y p pr roE i l e rt e y ty , bhu4litwuiallllynotturosubed against mysel , from t t .n h if e uehe ments in the hands of others for p f and I will not of themy oz e fr s e e e e w f e il ff l e p et lac ing e t i h n a st t ru .,, - m in i a t y t o der i vehi r That is the whole secret o conduct. The landowners of I reland Protes tant,aSreTAilLEY's f t the tenantry. are Catholic, and the end and aim of the. opposition to Lord MORPETH'S Bill is covertly, but really, to re-enact the exclusive utting laws, and put down the influence of . the it C d a o th w o o lics in the elections. Of course, p - iLnegithselactuonrestaitoudenineitehs,e wGoouvledrnpmutenitt of down in the the coun try. ow heis supported des who Hence hav e ea c v e ed a re top b r y oc ra ur bi e d th P e repeal arso ns of the Emancipation Act, and have called meet ings of Protestant operatives to petition against Lord MORPETH'S Bill; and hence he is supported by all the Orangemen who have put their names by hundreds to papers to encourage their new Grand Master. Passing over the temporary effect which this may have on the Government, let us look for a moment at the possible effect of such conduct, in this age " of recurrence to first principles," on the Catholics. What i f they should ask- Lord STASLEY " by In reply to Mr-HAMILTON, Lord J. RUSSELL stated, that the power to examine person s on oath was given by the Act to the Poor-law Assistant-Commisssoners, but he declined to state whether it were expedient or not to exer cise that power in any particular case. Lord. STANLEY'S Bill was postponed till Fri day, and Lord J. RUSSELL announced that he should on Friday proceed with Lord KEA.NE'S Annuity Bill. The adjourned debate on Lord MORPETH'S Bill for settling the registration and franchise in Ire land was resumed by Mr. BROTHERTON, who supported the Bill, and in doing so said he ex pressed the sentiments of his constituents. Mr. - M. MILNES opposed the measure, chiefly because he chose to mistrust and misrepresent the motives of those who introduced the Bill. Sir W. SOMERVILLE supported it, and dwelt emphatically and effectively on the vast mischief which had been already caused by the language used in that House concerning the Catholics, to which the debate would add, and which Lord STANLEY'S success would. consummate. The Hon. Baronet made, usual . , a se nsible and conside ratespeech , giving Ins zealous support to th e .as Government Bill. Mr. Sergeant JA.cxsori exposed Mr. MACAU and ent ered in to LAY'S igno rance and of law, would supply a nume rous details to show the poverty that the Bill of Lord MORPETII constituency of ence of the Romish priesthood.paupers placed u nder the intiu- Mr. SLANEY supported the second reading as the Bill, but recommended a w prudential considerations required th at - it should be passed. Mr. THESIGER followed Mr. Sergeant JACK sox in attacking Mr. MACAULAY'S law. He de nied that the poor-rate test would afford a proper qualification, and entered into many details to show that employing the 5/. test would lead to many frauds. Mr. CHARLES BULLER picked some large holes in the coats of MeSsrs. THESIGER and JACKSON, and made an able speech in favour of the Bill. Sir JAMES GRAHAM was more bitter than ef fective against it. He declared his own lofty de termination to oppose it to the last. His strong est points were personal hits and adjura tions. He described the Government as going down the hill of concession, and called on L or d JOHN RUSSELL, who hadi declared in his Letter to the Electors of Stroud, that he would not lift the anchors of the Monarchy when he saw a storm in the horizon, to say at once openly what he meant to do and where he meant to stop. The Right Honourable Baronet made a great hit for his party, when he drew forth out of his pocket a list of the division on Repeal, and pointed. out, one after another, concluding with Mr. O'Co zi _ NELL, who affirmed in the House that he had been offered the Chief Baronship, which he would not accept because there should be no suspicion that justice was polluted in his person,. some seven or eight persons who had voted in that minority, and since received appointments under the Crown. The Right Hon. Baronet thought that was truckling to Repeal, while in fact ex cept i 4 the case of Mr. O'CtiturELL, who would what right do you Protestant landlords presume . to make laws for us? We are not your slaves. Every people and all people have a right to choose their own governors and law-makers. You English established that principle at your own revolution. We honour you for it, and mean to imitate your noble example. We have not chosen you. To disobey the laws after they are made is, we know, rebellion or treason ; but there is neither treason nor rebellion in resolving to choose our own lawmakers, and in declaring that we will not have your Lord STANLEY and your bigoted Orange associates for our lawmakers. We will choose for ourselves, we will not obey you ; we will determine, too, in what manner we will choose. We will consult the priests whom we love, the Catholic gentlemen in whom we have confidence, and we will organize our own means of choosing our lawmakers. When ynu talk of arranging the franchise, we tell you that is our business, and we will not allow you Protestant and Orange landlords to dictate to us how we shall elect our Represent-tines, nor whom we shall elect. We claim, like all free men, the right of choosing our lawmakers in the manner we please and only such as we choose willingly will we willingly obey." What will Lord STANLEY and the Orangemen say to the Catholics if they use that language ? But in fact, they use language to the same effect. In a letter dated London, 20th instant, addressed to Mr. RAY, in Dublin, and read in the Repeal Association, Mr. O'CONNELL says— The crisis is at hand. Every man must make up his mind either to stand for Ireland in the peaceably and strictly legal struggle, or to counsel disgrace and crouch beneath Orange-Tory misrule. Shame on the deserters of their fa therland I Glory to free and firm spirits whose love of country will beam only the more brightly the more the sacred flame of patriotism is trampled by the hoof of Orange despotism ! My mind is full of the coming contest. I anticipate de feat. I pass by the struggle, and, standing as it were after it was over, on the 'vantage ground of recent insult and injury, I call upon every Irishman to make up his mind at once either for Ireland or against Ireland. There will immediately be no medium, no neutral ground. When this blow is once struck, whoever is not for Ireland is against his native land. Hurrah for the Repeal 1 I 1 That is a call on the Catholics nut to submit to Lord STANLEY and the Orangemen, should they succeed in passing their Bill into a law ; that is a call to choose their own representatives, and to throw off submission to the Protestant landlords. We cannot blame the insulted, in jured, maddened Irish. We wonder they have not before now taken to their hills and bogs, invoked the aid of their countrymen in the United States, and the oppressed millions in England, and bid defiance to the insulting Protestant—and that we should be obliged to 'add, plundering—landlords, and rapacious Pro testant priests, telling them plainly they would obey no laws except those they had a voice in making. Such are the thoughts and deeds of which the ideas rise in the minds of men at witnessing the unblushing arrogance with which, by means of sorry legislation, Lord STANLEY pursues his way, and drags along his party to an odious and re volting tyranny. He is blinded by passion, and knoWs not what he does. He is bringing into question the rights of property, of which he insists on straining the power and the influence. Men are beginning to ask, at last, in Ireland, by what tenure the land lords hold the soil, and with that claim a right to annoy, vex, and oppress all other men ? If they answer, by the sword, they will have to fight for it. If they answer, by political expe- P diency, they will have to prove that the pub lic welfare is promoted by degrading and impoverishing the mass of the people. If they answer, from GOD, the' Catholics will tell them they profess a different creed, ,and though they worship the same GOD, they interpret his oracles differently from them. If the gentlemen ofEng land do not wish to make the intellect of this age suddenly burst through and destroy the whole framework of society, let them, as speedily aS possible, withdraw their confidence from Lord STANLEY, and send him to drive a steam-engine. He may possibly govern a loco motive ; his attempt to govern the nation, will speedily blow all up in one vast and terrible destruction. owners gain wealth, their object is attained; but as long as the bulk of the people remain in their present wretched physical and moral condition the Government and the Church must be deno minated failures. To the disgrace of the London University, Mr. WILLIAM Toox x has been re-elected Treasurer by a majority of nine votes over Mr. TAYLOR. The Proprietors, therefore, identify themselves with the man who used his influence as Treasurer to turn out one or the other of the Members for Finsbury, who, with all the faults that even the pious Mr. TOOKE imputed to them, have never been charged with the crime of backbi ting a friend, or playing into the hands of the Tories under the sacred name of religion, while professing contrary political opinions. We are forced to admit that this decision creates a very unfavourable im pression as regards the present state of the Uni versity, and the morality of those who superin tend this establishment. It will not afford Lord BROUGHAM much satisfaction to learn that he has been elected President by the same men who reinstated Mr. TOOKE as Treasurer. The Paris Journals of Monday have all reached us. We have pleasure in stating that they con firm the account of the disarming published in The Sun of Tuesday. We quote the article of the Quotidienne, a Royalist J ournal, on the sub ject : The disarming has commenced. Marshal Soult has made to the Committee on the Budget a communication, from which it results that the Budget of the Ministry of War, for 1842, is to be reduced 23,000,000 f. This is a reduction of 60,000 men on the general effective of the army. The motive for this communication of the Marshal is declared to be an error of calculation. The Marshal says he made a mistake. No. the Marshal made no mistake. We affirm boldly"that the Govern ment is disarming—this is the whole secret. The Govern ment disarms, and really as the Treaty of July 15 is acknow ledged by the Government to have been neither an insult nor an act of treachery, but simply a neauvais procede, as the isola tion of France has been declared in the Chamber to give greater freedom of action to France, we - do not see how the Government could justify its armaments in the eyes of foreign Powers. The declaration of armed peace was but a delusion practised by those who are resolved upon not going to war. the farce of warlike policy has ended by an acknowledgment that, as Europe would make no concession, it was for France to give way. The farce of-an armed peace was naturally destined to terminate by an acknowledgment that, as Europe would not disarm, it was for France to do so. We.rejoice tti find that the French Govern ment has plucked up spirit enough to avow its pacific policy, and that it no longer has recourse to subterfuges to deprecate the wrath of M. TRIERS and his supporters. The Report of the Commission on the Secret Service Bill indicates a determination to assume an offensive rather than a defensive attitude. This course is at once the safest and the best. It will inspire Europe with confidence, and rally round the banners of the Ministry all that is honest and patriotic in France. The Journal des Debctts has a remarkably able article on the peace and war policy, in which the conduct of M. TRIERS and his partisans is very happily denouncel and exposed. The fol lowing extract from it cannot fail to gratify our reflecting readers:— There are but two kinds of policies in the world—the policy of mutual concession, and the policy of extermination. The peace of Europe has been maintained ten years by a system of mutual concessions. Europe has borne much from France, and France bas borne much from Europe. Europe has suf fered the dismemberment of the kingdom of the Low Countries, guaranteed by the Treaty of 1615. Europe suffered the siege: of Antwerp and the surprise of Ancona. England has wit nessed the extension of our power in Africa, and our naval feats in America, without evincing jealousy. The other Powers have seen France and England support Constitutional Governments in Spain and Portugal, without interfering. All and each have sacrificed private interests to the great public want of peace Had France wished for war, she did not want for pretexts. With pain we saw Austria intervene in the Roman legations. With grief we saw Poland succumb in her heroic struggle. We protested against the occupation of Cracow. At each moment the opposition demanded war, but the wisdom of the country stifled such cries. The country fully comprehended that if we expected to make our own national point of view, our wishes and sympathies predominate exclusively, the up shot would be, either that we should crush the world, or be crushed by it. The policy of mutual concession triumphed over the policy that was exclusive and revolutionary. The grand interest of European concord and peace triumphed over secondary interests. his has been the policy of -past Go vernments—a policy which M. Thiers has professed and maintained; but our new apostles of progress denounced this system as one of cowardice. They know no means but war and the sword. They affect to despive diplo macy, would cut every knot or dissolve it in blood. With them every stranger is an enemy, every concession a trea son. They see no wisdom in the mutual respect and concert of different Powers, and do not see that the establishment of a kind of European tribunal for the mainte nance of peace is the greatest benefit of modern times. Not to desire war with fury—not to seek to regenerate nations by massacre, to adout that other countries have rights as well as our own, this exposes a person to be stigmatized in the journals of M. Thiers as a Prussian or a Cossack. M. Thiers sacri ficed the great interest of European accord to the secondary in terest of French views in Egypt. This is called by his parti sans sublime. M. Thiers has isolated France. How patriotic he is ! France used to have allies; M. Thiers has alienated them. What an excellent Frenchman I M. Thiers has de cided that there shall be no longer European concert or alli ances, no more mutual sacrifices between countries, no more diplomacy, conferences, treaties. Each power will become isolated, and cannon shall be the final decider. This is the present policy of M. Thiers, but it was not his policy when he served under former Cabinets.- The _Morning Herald of Tuesday introduced a bitter attack on the factory owners by declaring that it was desirous to promote good feeling in all classes. We will not, in endeavouring to set the mill-owners right, imitate its hypocrisy, for we boldly avow that our object is to excite, if we can, animosity and hatred against the landowners, because they insist on robbing the community. We do not assert that the mill-owners 'are not greedy, exclusively desirous of gathering riches, and getting as much work for as little wages as they can. That is the principle of their exist ence—the end and aim of their being. Why should a man trouble himself to buy and sell, to keep accounts, and to haggle with work men and with other traders, except for what he can gain ? But in this the mill-owners resemble all the rest of mankind, the landowners amongst them, and are only to be condemned if the am bition of rising in the world—the very soul, we think, of social improvement—is to be extin guished as a mere cheating will-o'-the-wisp. It is in favour of the mill-owners, however, that their pursuit of wealth is open and undis guised, and their practice of getting as much la bour as they can tor as little wages as possible, is avowed, and can deceive only those who wish to be deceiVed. They may be met and counter acted by those who deal with them, and if the other parties to the bargain suffer from it they have probably themselves to blame, quite as much as the mill-owners. Between the mill-owners and the land owners there is one palpable distinction. The former are struggling to make a fortune—the latter have made or inherited theirs. The for mer are yet contending with the world—the latter are placed above it for admiration. We have' no right to expect the same works of charity and benevolence from those who know not whether they will from day to day have any thing justly to bestow, as from those who are as sured of a bountiful income. Nevertheless, it is not true, in spite of the Herald and Dr. HOL LAND, that our mill-owners have contributed nothing to the comfort of the people. To men tion only a single instance, the most splendid and useful gift of modern times, the public garden and walk at Derby, was bestowed on the people by Mr. STRUTT—a mill-owner. Because the millowners want something them selves, they are instrumental in providing for others. They are the authors and improvers of many useful inventions. Their exertions have called into existence the extensive factories by which the people are employed and fed.. If there be not employment and food enough, the fault is more the landowners' than the mill-owners'. The former prevent the latter from giving em ployment and wages to the people. The land owners, wanting nothing, are very little instru mental either in providing for others, or pro moting improvement. They live to enjoy, not to traffic. They have no settled labour. They are emphatically the idle classes ; and If not a bur den to themselves- they are to others'.- They do nothing for society, except consume its produce without any equivalent. At the same time the owners'ofyient - pretend to do a great deal for the public. The mill-owners make no such pretence. They avow that they study their own interest; the .land owners swear they act for the gOod of the country, whether they convict poachers or make Corn-laws. They received their estates originally for the performance of certain duties, which have all merged in making and adminis tering the laws. The monopoly of the soil im poses on them the duty of taking care of the people; no such duty devolves on the Their workmen must take care of themselves. The mill-owners do their duty towards them as masters, when they honestly, and in full, pay them their wages. It is the duty of the law-makers to provide for the welfare of the workmen employed by the mill-owners, as well as others. They should make and enforce just laws between masters and w paou o wi r t k ee m rcoo e vn n et , ri s .at o hr ye that tthe t er h i a e r former i he me. They ha v e h y h - ae h l a e v hm e a av a de s ea l lc i a t tw t e l d e s for - l o a l c v i n n e g r th e workm en ley hal f h r e o mo ought t f o ra:c e hi a s an d sefleefr l t ud th ed e t m .h e e rc l y ah o nn f r t e h r e s have doomed the wor e m eaxno p excluded baer llaasmlaelnet,;wthheeyn as Ins employer. The wretched co n diti on o f the labourers is, then, far more the fault o f t h e law- mak ing With his bread -t ax an d his monopoly l l y a landowner, o r s e v p n r e e r_, w t n h e a r t , the mill owner en l t t at n i o w n s , t th b a e n n o o f t t i l e t e e n d, does not undertake to provide either for ;he in struction or the comfort of the people. lie only employs them. The Church is their hired and largely paid instructor; they are made to n i , nde t l h ih e l i e r sup port it. The Government is their endowedpro tector; they contribute to its taxes. On the s t reflect itut i o Executive Government and the Established Church, the debased condition of the pelvic, because, these institutions have for r im th m e o ir ralit d y e , promote the welfare of the multi iernoranticieel their ts lce to ' ill-owners have only to make, money. tude ; the m to carry on their private business, each for Mau disgrace,it improvide n ce, ° o V b i e c i their duty to their workmen self, and they d o honestly pay them. When the mill they horteli CABRERA has addressed a letter to the Minis ter of the Interior, praying that' notwithstanding the amnesty of the Spanish Government, the al lowances of pay and rations may be .continued to the Carlist refugees. It is not to be expected that such a request can be complied with. If the refugees will not return to their own country they must seek support by the labours of their heads or hands. The Bill requiring a levy of 80,000 men of the class 1840 passed the Chamber of Deputies on Monday, by a majority of 220 against 15 votes. On Sunday the KING reviewed several regi ments of the garrison of Paris, in the Court-yard of the Tuileries. His MAJESTY was enthusiasti cally cheered by the troops. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 18th, has the following news :—" M. de Miraflores, formerly Ambassador at Paris, has arrived at Bayonne on his way to Madrid. General O'Donnell, who was Captain General of Valencia at the time of the troubles in September, and Baron de Meer, formerly Captain General of Catalonia, have left Bayonne, where they were residing, to go to Paris. " It seems that General Simon de la Torre, who was lately appointed Commander -in-Chief in Biscay, has refused the post offered him by the Government." A letter from Toulon of the 17th has the following post script, which announces a fact which is not unimportgant:— " The Catholics in French Switzerland who have lately sus tained so severe a check, intend to leave their country ; most of the families desired to emigrate to America, but it has been represented to them that the expense of the passage would exhaust their resources, and that when they landed in America they would have to travel two hundred leagues to reach the land allotted them ; and it seems that they have been in duced to resolve on settling at Algiers. Thus it is veryproba ble that the first villages created in the Mitidja (and it is hoped that the Chamber will vote three millions for this pur pose) will be occupied by three or four thousand Swiss, who are excellent farmers, and have funds to establish themselves in a suitable manner.— Le Commerce. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, Pill. perty left by this wealthy miser must be melt ing away rapidly. Six trials by Special Juries are set down for hearing at the ensuing Glou cester Assizes, in which the first Counsel are en gaged. In the Arches Courts the argu ments lasted eight days; probably eight days more will be occupied in hearing the same arguments before the Privy Council. Some six days may be spent .at Gloucester in hearing the six actions of ejectment; and after all the enormous fees paid to Counsel, and the useless waste of time, the lawyers no doubt will find some fresh argument for starting the game anew. While all this plunder is going on, and the vultures are gathered about the carcase, we are only astonished how the old man's bones can rest quietly in the grave. au 41 ". 41 + 0 • c'' „ • 4', MOH .. 0 - , ~~ ~ ~~ ~~s BO UR SE• ••••• PARIS, .MONDAY, FEB. 22. first Highest Lowest Lrst Price Price. Price.. Price French 5 per Cent 5.......... 112 50 ... 112 75 ... 112 50 .. 112 75 3 per Cents ..... ...... 76 15 76 45 ... 76 15 ... 76 45 Rink of rlance .. .......... 3225 .7.3225 ...3 24 5 ...3223 Laffitte Bank 401304 . Shares 5150 ...5155 ...5150 ...5155 ceigian Bank '.. ...... ...... 887 50 ... 887 50 .. 887 50 ... 887 50 5 per Cent 5............ 991( ... 99% ... 99 1 4 ... 99% 3 per Cent 5......... 68 56 ... 68 50 ... 68 50 ••• 68 50 New Loan . 887 50 ... 887 50 ... 887 50 ... 8,7 50 Spanish Active .....N..•...... 24 ... 25 ... 24ii ... 25 Pa55ive............... 6 .. 6% ••• 6'4 .•• 6;4 Portuguese 3 per Cents.... 19 ... 19%' ... 19% .... 19% Neapolitan ..... ................. 101 60 ... 101 e 0 ... 101 6 0 ... 101 80 R0inari........................ 101 ... 101 ... 161 ... 101 RAILWAY SMARR& St. Germain ..r.i...................... 784 11410 735 ... 735 ... 735 Versailles i lt. ra.....;...»....... 435 ... 435 ... 432 50..... 4:i2 50 L. 8.............".... 326 25 -... 827 50 ... 326 25 .. 327 5(1 Orleans . . ................... 487 50 ... 486 75 ... 487 50 ... 488 75 !t eue n .......,................. 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 455 ... 455 'Or irburg to Ba'e ' .... '212 50 ... 243 75 ... 242 50 ... 243 75 Mulhausen . to Thann .. ...... 425 ... 425 ... 425 ... 425 AUSTRIAN FUNI/S.—Visrma, Nita, 15 ' Fiveper Cents. bletalliques • ..... ....................... 106 Four per Cents •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••04* .1.1914 Three per Cents. ....:.......••••••••••••••••••••••••••• s% B an k:, Sh ares ......................•••••••••••••••••••• ........ 1623 —illtremeine Zeitung, Feb. 20. The Madrid Journals received are of the 15th instant. The Madrid Gazette states that the Directors of the Sink ing Fund have issued a decree for the consolidation of the in terest of the home and foreign debt, due previous to the Ist January, 1841, conformably to the law of April, 1838. This decree mentions how the holders are to proceed to regularise their acts. The [paragraph relative to foreign creditors is as follows :—." The holders of Coupons of the Active Debt in circulation abroad are to appear at Madrid, or in the Spanish Finance Conimission in Paris or London. The elections for the representation of the capital closed on the 14th. The Deputies were Senors ARGUELLES, DAVILA, ROMERA.L, MEN DIZABAL, MONTAOS, COLLANTES, MORATE, VIGO, Morizo, and General SANTEBAREZ ; and the Senators CAMPUZANO, HEROS, and ARTIGOSA. The following remarkable circumstance is re ported in the Eco del Commercio, of the 15th inst. It would have been droll enough had the steamer carried off the Spanish authorities:— Advices from Malaga state that on the 7th a remarkable event took place, which the' Government no doubt noticed. It appears that one of the French steamers of the Mediterra nean, lying at anchor in the port, had a large sum on board in Spanish dollars, intended for Marseilles. The Intendant, being aware thereof, in concert with the General command ing, resolved upon causing the laws to be respected relative to matters of that nature. The French Consul was opposed to the vessel undergoing an inspection. He even went as far as to threaten that a• brig be longing to his nation, and at pr esent in the harbour, would fire, bu t these threats having been retorted in a suitable manner the Consul ended by lending himself to the required inspection. When every one was on board, and convinced of the correct ness of the information, the Consul prohibited the captain from opening the sacks containing the money, and immediately got into the boat and ordered the steamer to start. The operation was so quietly done that the a uthorities were compelled to hurry into the boat in order to avoid being taken to Marseilles. • JAMES WOOD'S WiLL.—At the meeting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council yes terday, it was agreed that the , appeal of Sir Matthew Wood and others should come on for hearing on the 6th of April next. The pro- NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Extract from a Return to an Order of the House o&f:1ommons, dated 2d February, 1841, for the following London Papers, from the Ist of July to the 31st of December, 1840, inclusive : SUN GLOBE STANDARD COURIER lll,OOO MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.. The improvement in the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afitrnoon hai had rather a favourable eff,et on the value of Stock. At one time there was a diflerence in favour of the quotation of Consols fur present delivery of per cent., the current prices being 88i to 888, and for to-morrow 881 to 88i. For Apr 1 the price was about 89 to Exche quer Bills were heavy at 5 to 7 premium, and India Bonds at 15 discount, India Stock was worth 247 to 248, Bank Stock for Account was steady at 166, and the Reduced Three-and-a-half per Cents. Annuities touched 978 to 98. The Foreign Market was dull, and beyond a trifling im provement in Spanish Stock which was marked 238 to 24, for the Active, there was scarcely any alteration in price?. Chilian Bonds were heavy at 60 to 61, Portuguese Old Five per Cents. were at 624, the New at 31-k, and the Three per Cent . at 19a. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were steady at 50k to 50i, and the Five per Cents. at 991 to 991. The value of some of the Railway Shares got up a little to-day, tut neither the sales nor purchases were to any extent. Great Western were at 24 to 4 1 , the New at 11, the Fifth at 54; to 4k, the South Western at 19k, the Manchester and Leeds at 44- to 5, and the York and North Midland at 24 to 26 r e rernium ex dividend. Edin burgh and GlasgoW were at 51, Blackwall se, and South Easttra and Dover at 16} discount. Provinci d Bank ( f Ire'and Shares were 184, aad Union of Australia New, 6 premium. We observe that 2,000 packages of tea, recovered from the Mary Elizabeth, stranded off Holyhead, are to be offared at Live-pool to public competition. This tea is said to be worse than the wastel and kiln-dried sold here a week or two back, not having had the salt washed out ef it, although saturated from its long continuance in the water, but being merely dried and re-packed. If the trade were up in arms before on account of a much better parcel being put up here, what will they say to this? At Liverpool the auction, when it comes off, is expected to excite considerable attention. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY, FEB. 23.—The Sales to-day are 5,000 bags, of which. 400 Surat, at 44. and ; 100 Bahlas, 8* 8L ; 100 Illaranhams, Bto by ; lOU Egyp tians, 10* to 104 ; and the revaainder in American, at steady prices. No report from the telegraph. MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 23.—We have had a moderate business to-day, at steady prices. Lancaster and Preston 321 ; Ditto New 19 1 , 7 • Gosport Junction 46*; Man chester and Leeds 76 to 77 ; Ditto New 321 to 33* ; Man chester and Birmingham 25 ; Bank of Manchester 91. 6s. 3d. ; Union Plate Glass 7. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of yester day, 88 I for the Account ; Money same. The market at pre sent is inactive. Exchequer Bills, 4 6 premium ; Bank Stock, 165 167; India Stock, 247 245. In the Foreign Market scarce anythin g d o i ng . Spanish Active, 231 24 ;Deferred, 12A ; Passive, 51 ; Portuguese, 31* 4 ; Three per Cents ~19 ; Chilian, 61 63 ; Colombian, 2241; Brazilian, 71} 72k; Mexican,,27*l ; DutchTw o-and a-Half per Cents., 50t ; Five per Cents. 99k. Shares.—Great Western, 23/- 24j pretu. ; New, 10i 11 prem. ; London and Brighton, 8 7i dis. ; Blackwall, 5i 5 dis. ; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 57 5.5 per share; Croydon, 111 12* per share ; Greenwich, 81 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 14 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover, 16* 151 dis. Owing to the north-easterly winds ha'ving set in again we are deprived to the present moment of arrivals, consequently we have no intelligence of the least consequence to communi cate. Since the esriy part of the morning Consols have rather improved from 88a to 888 for the Account, and at present may be quoted tittsg 4. Spanish Stock is also firmer, owing to the Administration at Madrid proscribing measures for the capitalization of the interest of domestic and. foreign debts. Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. ; India Stock 247 248 ; India Bonds 15 discount. In the Foreign Market the chief business done was in the Spanish Active which has improved from 231 24 to 24k ; De ferred 12i; :Passive 5 1 7 1 6 ; Portuguese 31i; Chilian 60 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 504 a ; Five per Cents. 99 t. In the Share Market some business has been doing. Great Western, 69 ; New, 61 • Fifths, 96 ; London and Blackwall, 174- ; Manchester and Ceeds, 74i ; South Western, 58; York and North Midland, 74 ex.-div. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 59 /4 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 884 Ditto Old Annuities 3 per Cent Red........ 98 Ditto New Annuities... New 31- per Cent .. ... 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24d 7pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 6pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860. l3 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...166 Oct 1859 — India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Acct BBB FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 62 Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 3l, Brazilian Bow's .. .. Prussian, 5 per cent.... — - . BuenosAyres,6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . 113 Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred l'2. Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... --f. —c. Greek.lB2s, 5 percent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent --f. —c, Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 4 per cent Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99-J SHARES. • Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)........paid)........ Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) ••• 41 Great Western Railway (65 paid) B9l Ditto New Shares (50 I,aid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 8 London and Blackwall Railway (22i pd) 17 ti London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. ...... South Eastern and Dover (33 paid) ..... ... 16i- York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 76 MR. VINCENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra,—Having been invited to attend a public dinner in London on Monday next, and having read a paragraph in a weekly paper, to the effect that my principle; are changed, I beg of you to permit me to declare in the columns of your Paper that my political principles are unchanged—that lam more than ever convinced of the necessity of adopting the People's Charter as the ba , is of the House of Commons—and that I am still prepared to struggle with the people for the attainment of that measure. My long imprisonment has had no other effect than to cause me to love more fervently those principles, for advocating which I have been so long under the paternal care of her Majesty's " Liberal " Ministers ; and the working men of England may rest assured that no power on earth can ever induce me to desert them or their cause. I cannot allow this opportunity to pass, without thank. ing the Editor and Proprietor of The Sun for their kind ness in readily g ring insLrtion to letters and other mat ter connected with my long imprisonment. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, • HENRY VINCENT. 5, Greenland Grove, Cromer -street, Fei. 24, 1841. IMPORT DUTIES.—We shall probably be en abled to judge from the extent of support which the re solutions of Saturday meet with amongst the Tories, of the degree in which they are friendly upon principle to the liberalization of our commercial code. If they arc, it will be an encouraging sign of the recent progress of sound principles, inasmuch as hitherto they have, with scarcely an exception, been the firm friends of monopoly and restriction. Should the course of events, however, throw the reins of power into their hands, we are pre pared to find them not only bidding for popularity by the adoption and extension of the principles of freedom as applied to foreign trade, but in other ways attempting to obtain the credit of measures which, when advocated by the Whigs, they have bitterly and undeviatingly op posed. The Ministers, we conceive, have, at this time, a valuable opportunity—which, once lost, may nut soon (if ever) recur—of strengthening themselves in the goud opinion of a very influential portion of the public, by cor dially embracing, and doing their utmost to forward the views which the inquiry of last Session, upon evidence so strong and pregnant, clearly developed, and which have evidently made an impression upon the country- not altogether incommensurate with their intrinsic importance. One thing is certain; that; if the institution of revenue duties for protecting and prohibitory duties should fail (which we do not think it could, ultimately) as a direct fiscal expedient, the imposition of new taxes would be rendered less unpopular, if it had previously been tried, and the new taxes themselves would doubtless become more productive, if the public had previously received the relief of such a large remission of auties on tl,e principal articles of consumption, as greatly to increase the extent of their use; whilst, at the same time, the bold and judicious reduction of taxes on articles of foreign mer chandise would increase, to an unknown extent, the de mand for articles of British manufacture, and, conse quently, the demand for the labour of our artisans. We cannot for a moment doubt, that Government arc quite alive to these facts; but whether they will be able to act upon their convictions must, we repeat, depend upon the degree of encouragement they receive from the commercial interests.—Manchester Guardian. _ Mr. Matthew WyEZll7ing obtained from the Goverment one of the guns taken at Waterloo, has cast the metal into a fine colossal likeness of the Duke of Wel ilni :hc ±:f:ilC3trlalit itatit which hi - . and which is to be erected opposite the entrance to Hyde Park.... Court Journal. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen will bold a Privy Council at half-past two o'clock this afternoon at Buck' , giram Palee... Hcr Majesty had an evening party on Tuesday at Buck ingham Palace. Among the company were the Sam% Miuister, the Earl of Verulam, Lady Jane Grim:ton, Earl and Countess of Erroll, Lady Ida Hay, Countess of Ux bridge, the Ladies Eleanora and Corutance Paget, Lord Paget, Lady Alin Anson, Earl of March, Earl Morky, Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Frances Cowper, Lord and Lady Fitzalan, Lord Edward Howard, Lord Jocelyn, Lord Lilford, Lord Charles Welleslev, Mr. George Edward and the lion. Mrs. Anson, and the Hon. Charles Gore. Her Majesty's private band, attended in the State Rooms during the evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of K .nt visited Ler Majesty yesterday. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Marquis of Normanby, Lady Fanny Howard, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Cowper. . . The baud of the Coldstream Guards Was in attendance at the Palace during dinner. Prince Albert did 41r. A. Pcnley the honour of giving him a first sitting yesterday morning at Buckingham Palace. Yesterday was the Birth-day of the Duke of Cam bridge. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, paid a visit of congratulation to the Royal Duke in the afternoon. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, and the Duke of Sussex at Kensington Palace. Sever of the Foreign Miiisters and many a the Nobility called at Cambridge House during Ilia day, and left their names for his Royal Highness. The Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge at tended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James'.:. L3dy Fanny Howard was in waiting on her Royal Highness, and Major Stephens attended the Royal Duke. A Deput,tion of gentlemen connected with the Royal Asylum for Destitute Females, waited on the Marquis of Normanby yesterday for tha purpose of requesting his Lordship to take the Chair at their anniversary dinner, and naming a day for that purpose. Lord Hill bad an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing_street. Mr. Mark Phillips and Mr. Grey had an' interview with th. ;Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Horne-office. Sir Charles Smith and Mr. Locker had interviews with Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Sir Edward Kerrisori, Mr. J. R. Martin, Mr. Alston,and Mr. De La Rue, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yeverday, at the Home-office. The Judicial Coliunittee of the Privy Council sat yet terday. In the master of the will cause of the late Mr. James Wood, of Glouceste , , Mr. Pemberton, Queen's Counse', applied to the Court to name a day for bearing an appeal, and their Lordships fixed the 6th April.f.m the hearing. Mr. Baron Parke, in an appehl from the Supreme Court, of the Cape of Good Hope, Alexander Macdonald and Michael Van Breda v. the Hon. Colonel John Bell, C. 13., Secretary to Government, on behalf of the Colonial Government, gave judgment at great length, affirming the decree of the Court below, but without costs. Lord Brougham gave judgment in an appeal from Bom bay, " Babeen Wullad Katch v. Davood Wullad Nunnoo," affirming the decree of tLe Court in India, of the last tesort. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Countess of Rosslyn, in Grosvenor-place, from Brighton ; the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, from Salisbury ; Lord Cre morne, in Great Stanhope-street, from his seat, Dawson Grove, Monaghan ; Lord and Lady Kilmaine, in Belgrave square, from Gaulston House, Westmeath; Lady Wharneliffe, at Wharncliffe House, Curzon-street, from Wortley Hall, near Sheffield; General Sharpe, M.P., at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Leamington Spa ; the Hon. Colonel Abereromby, M.P., at ditto, from Authey Castle, Stirling ; Captain Ives, at ditto, from a visit to Viscount and Viscoun tess. Maynard, at their seat in Essex ; Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Woods, at ditto, from tour; Sir Charles Douglas, Bart., M.P., from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Warwick, at Warwick Castle; Mr. .1. B. East, M.P., and Mrs. East, in Eaton square, from Winchester ; Lieut.-Col. Rawdon, and the Dow ager Lady Cremorne, in Stanhope-street, from Ireland; the Marquis of Grariby, M. P., in Jermyn-street, from Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire ; Sir Anthony Maitland, from the seat of the Earl of Lauderdale, in Berwickshire; Lord Charles Manners, M.P., from Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland ; Viscount Maidstone, from Melton Mowbray; Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton. Bart., in Park -street, from Oul ton Park, Cheshire ; Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Bart., , and Lady Dalrymple, in Park-street, from Brighton ; the Earl of Hillsborough, in Hanover-square, from Easthampstead Park, 13erks ; Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., and family, at his mansion, in Hyde Park-place, from Paris; Viscount Acheson, M.P., at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street ; Lord Aylmer, at ditto ; G. S. Harcourt, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Harcourt, at ditto. ; Colonel Conolly, M.P., at ditto. ; Le Comte Greffkiulo, at ditto. DEPARTURES. The Earl of Stradbroke, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn street, for Wiltshire ; the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, from Hill-street, for Wimpole Halt, Cambridgeshire ; I.ord Leigh, for Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire ; Lord and Lady Dinorben, and Lady Gardner, from Bute House, for Kinmel Park, St. Asaph ; Lord Wallscourt, for the Continent. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. FEB. 20.—The Reader in Mineralogy has announced that he will commence his course of lectures on Tuesday next, the 25th inst., at two o'clock, at the Clarendon. The President and Fellows of St. John's Coll .ge have presented the Rev. T. C. Curties, Fellow of their Sa ciety, to the Vicarage of Linton, Herefordshire, to which he has been instituted. The Trustees of the late Wm. Hulme, Esq., have presented the Rev. M. Davies, of Brasennoie College, to the Perpetual Curacy of Hinstock, Shropshire, to which he has been licensed. The Rev. Wm. Linwood, Student of Christ Church, has been appointed one of the officiating Ministers of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has collated the Rev. William Dolby, of Exeter Colltge, to the Rectory of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire. The Rector and Fellows of Exeter College have pre sented the Rev. Geo, George Dawson, Fellow of their Society, to the Rectory of Woodlcigh, Devonshire. The Rectory of Dinton, Wiltshire, has become va cant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Linton ; patrons, the President and Fellows of Magdalen College. The Rectory of Aktrcum-Stockholt, in the gift of the Warden and Fell'ewsiot New College, has become vacant by the death of the Rev. John Young. The Rectory of Remenham, Berkshire, is vacant in consequence of the death of the Rev. James Jane ; pa. trons, the Principal and Fellows of Jesus College. The Vicarage of Sparsholt, Berkshire, in the gilt of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, is vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Pearson. TIIE LATE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE AT NIITCHAM. —The prisoner, whose name, it ,appears, is Thomas Moss, and not Potts, as was stated inhe former account of the proceedings, was on Tuesday brought, in custody of the police, before Mr. Elyard, the Magistrate, at his residence at Streatham, far final examination upon the capital charge of shooting at Emma Mass, his wife, with intent to murder her. The unfortunate woman was brought from Mitcham in a fly. Her face was blackened all over from the effects of the gunpowder, and it is feared that her eyes are very much injured. The prisoner, the moment he saw his wife brought into the room, turned his head away, and he never looked up or uttered a word during the inquiry, and appeared to be almost in a state of insensibility. Since he has been in the gaol under remind, his conduct has created an impression that ho is out of his mind. The wife stated that on Tuesday even ing last she had been to chapel, and was returning home about nine o'clock, and near her own house she met the prisoner, who said, " Emma, is that you?" She joined him, and asked him if he had been to her father's, and be replied he bad not, and by this time they had got to her mother's house, and just as she raised the latch to go in the prisoner put a pistol underneath her bonnet, close to her face, and fired it off. The prisoner bad left her about a month before, and she had not seen him un.l that evening. They had no angry words, and nothieg toore occurred than she had stated before the prisoner silo'. her. A number of other witnesses were called to prove the main charge against the prisoner, when he was fully com mitted to take Isis trisl at the ensuing Surrey assizes, for shooting at his wife with intent to murder her. NOBLE EXAMPLE.—Tuesday the 16th, the larger portion of the creditors of the late Sir T. S. Mostyn Champneys, resident in Frome and neighbour hood, and whose claims have arisen since 1835. were paid in full by the munificence of the Lady Mostyn Champncys, relict of the deceased Baronet. The sum paid on that day was in addition to a larger sum lately paid in London to creditors having claims equally re cent, and also to about 20,000 guineas paid recently by her to the assignees of the creditors under the schedule of 1835. What further debts contracted by the Baronet since 1835 still remain unliquidated will be discharged by her in the course of the ev.suing month. The whole sum thus paid by her Ladyship will amount to about 30,000/. When it is considered that this large sum, the raising of which involved a great sacrifice of property on her part, has been paid by this lady to those who had no legal claim on her, it must appear to be an instance of noble munificence, and of high principle, such as is seldom wit nessed.—Devizes Gazette. The Rev. T. Dale, 111. A., late Professor of English Literature and Modern History in King's Col lege, London, has been presented with a silver waiter by the students who formed his class. EXPENSE OF POSTING IN ENGLAND.-This mode of travelling involves an expense which a very large number of invalids would rather not encounter, and which, with the much higher charges made for everything at the Spas, raises the total amount of expend:turo fir the one single object of !rj, ieg mineral waters as a means of cure, too high for, or beyond the reach of, ti.e majority of per sons requiring such a mcdc of treatment. If, for instance, any one, after having fur some weeks sojourned, in the character of a quiet b.chelor at St. Leona-d'3, for the take of sea-bathing and excellent house-room, desired to try the effect of the vaunted steel-water of Tunbridge, and proceeded thither in a posting-carriage, he would find that a sum of money suffic'ent to have enabled him to con tinue where ho was a fortnight longer would pass from his pocket into those of three postmasters and postboys, and not fewer than twelve turnpike men, upon his line of cis tauce, nominally of thirty, but in reality only of twenty and a half Y:;-: , - 21113 fll . the ;.. amples of this class I could cite from experience.....Grart vill,e's Spas of England. RAILWAY NOTICES. SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILIVAire...,r to the 31st December last, 1,008,500 passengers hadto as conveyed along this line since its opening, withou accident, except a man (not a passenger) who, WPI Crossing the rails at a place where he had P 0 to cross ; and who, being deaf, did not hear tbe onwr man's whisie. A ddi' MARYPORT AND CARLISLE RAILIVAI"' ..- 11 a • tional mile of this railway is expected to be opened,: April, leading to the town of.Aspatria which. ill 11 ? d i. 8i miles opened. The present tra ffic consicto I ! . pally of coal ; and, owing to the opening it is steadily increasing. As soon as the portion threall, the coal fields is completed, a junction will be mildew; the . Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, from Carl isi° Wigton, eleven miles.—Whitehaven Herald- t , as . PROJECTED RAILROAD THROUGH BURNMICT, BURN, &c.—A deputation from the temporary Chad tee, appointed at the meeting in this towo, 1 1, 1 ` 1 „,1 interview, by appointment, with some of the Pria al t ri o inhabitants of Burnley and the neighbourhood, a t op of new collect; Bull Inn in that town, on Friday last, to confer 0 0 0.0 subject of the intended railroad. The chair Wat ta k e , by J. R. Walton , Esq., of Marsden 1-3. 1 a11.--hir;',l bit the surveyor, exhibited to the meeting the draft 0 . plans for the whole line, which gave gr eat satisfactlol He also, at the request of the meeting, exPla iaad „;:sp fully his views as to the practicability a the 1. 7,jd and the probable cost , which, he thoni Tht, within 20,0001. per mile, including locomo tive engt o carriages, &c.—An interesting discussion subsequemi took place with resptet to the probable • for th e Committee was appointed to raise subrcrip voila o p survey, and the meeting separated, after pa ishpg l far ~ of thanks to the Chairman.—Blackburn 49 a ge , " tll O Box-TUNNEL . — This stupendous work. by is fart greatest of its kind in this or any other ,eot tour gdi approaching completion, less than forty )'a o s la : - fief now remain to be excavated, and Stlvere 1 , 5 bap probability that the entire work will be ifinisheu ci th or six weeks. The length o f a mon 3,128 yards, or 48 yards more than mile& 1;4 width is 30 feet, and the height from tb ,e lin e °f t he to the crown of the arch varies, nem !ding t e ll 40 nature of the ground excavated, from 2. sto tell fee. The total amount excavated cane 'pt ani ° : " a , o r lss than 450,000 cubic yards. The irk be al ° do avoidable in this locality , we cordially co 3Kr wo ol' Company on it s successful progress and 1. wa r ; a i r t s o c t i ' e t u u t n ifi ne o l tu n to completion. Ole tuno e ... It is unquestionably the- Wu ° . 0 1 goureratiensotnil specimen arodec". Railway Magazine. g en w hashieh the pro Railway MORNING EDITION• A FOUL CRIME. Cries (From the Gazette des Tribuna we.) A a feo of Stop thief, Stop thief'," re: toun ua :b . b days since through the market-place, 1 1 3 ° ° , - municipal guard rushed bravely into the imitt. ° ( l lir female group and discovered the accuser find t' i ; :sr quent, both ornaments of the fair sex, am b°t`ii, t a i r sle gling with most unfeminine grace. bur 'circa '7 - 0 1 tongues were forthwith let loose upon ti o i lclot h , guard, each giving a different version to th f' B. 'itt at length that important functionary, rei`r' lisja. `' tust iche, exclaimed with emphatic importill'iee'd the fence, women—one at a time, let the ac( u iscr ° nu rse. accused stand forth, and justice shall tahl• berisc;soll‘ The law throws its protecting aegis alike ooer and the strong, and you will find that I shall iniParsor administer the authority delegated to me by 11 'c Oa reign." This spirited address p roduced. t be r effect. A nzarchande de volaille ca me fi irth A jr ,:i O f : crowd, holding firmly in her grasp art 'le' whom she accused of hating unlawfully a 1 0° P i ,"„ o lltet P herself one of those volatile bipeds which; tie " ---°ll the ulgar by the name of capons. 0" The aged delinquent, who had basked • is shine of sixty-five summers, indignantly Teln't sob; charge, and resolutely declared that she vier tliu n ,;„,ere' m.t to he searched ; but the character ant t e lqoot i l l the fair accusing poulterer were not of ' r a ‘ Qhg sec ° ,„ nature that can tamely brook a denial. t ingly commenced searching the aged delis (lu cij d E n t - all her endeavours to find the missing caP °° b l ot a long time ineffectual. The Municipal ign._ ar ; ever, in whom the stern love of justice v O6 : i ts' blended with that of the fair sex, expresikd gr,-094 miration for the contour of the sexageopriaoo and suggested that the accusing poultere.r sh ° .„ u 1 0 1 rpect those beauties also ; when lo with: 1 51 ' 21 ` - ; „ e c sle horror de we write it, from out the corset valic h e e gtlfr this lovely form appeared the accusing talonis °I 1 : ',, - 00; tracted fowl, and the bird's body was at length tr i 7, oto antly dragged into day, and the deliaquesity W ‘ ,ll ll ' protested her innocence, was dragged to citirsl o ( 11 ; On . being brought before the Conunissiover, Litp, termined upon withdrawing her plea of " Dib t ss and pleaded in her' defence that she was cticeito I h•or suddenly felt a longing for the fowl , which W ss A sistible. • by " Enceinte," exclaimed the Magistrate,. •." , must be upwards of sixty." _ °P i Ilitg" 0 " Qu . c voulez vous," replied the sexageofw -P Vast des sottises a tout age. she ffolBi of In spite of this touching a o plate her faux pas in prison. - - a 'Os tC j id BRITISH GUlANA.—British Gutfoi rec til, of hastening to ruin, is prospering beyond t he e te gbe r i of the most sanguine: —One plantation Siandsast od 0y in Berbice, sold in 1840 for 9,000/4 the pre sen ; , o ri o t would not, it is said, take 20,0001. for it. P/aa t , itt : o sii ' o f pect was bought in 1840 by the Hon. Mr. gir''''' ro iiO 3 18,0001. ; he has sold one-third of it at a Pr e ' 5 s° lo 2,0001. Plantation L'Esperance ; one half of it a l o bo i in December, 1840, for the amount paid for the Platt, estate two or three years ago. Plante Fr a ser Aat dence, belonging to Messrs. Rainy and i f ,l o o/. is bought two or three years ago for 3 : 2 ,'", r 33,0001. ; they expected 60,0001. for it the 0°,, - 6 0 bv; London. Plantation Highbury, in Berbice, mad e a 'd the fv ,.o in 1836, and 400 hhds. in 1840 ; the owners siSr e t oes,' cent petition to Lord John Russell, against all, la 14/ . ' s at all to the Civil List of 1836. Plantation Fes' a y, it 1 Will c' haicony, the property of Captain Warren, W I A 00 15 ,11 , said, all its expenses of 1840 with the rum ai l " r and leave all the sugar a clear profit to the oori i i , e o f o re ' t , proprietor represents himself, in his evidence 'iv alai House of Commons, as ' distracted with fears' far p l a nt"tPl i c rity of property in Guiana. As part owner ef s Sparta, ho has lately realized a considerable Pr ° aul"' sale of it to Messrs. Bunbury and Bookef:'.. fO in A Reformer. letter 5- FETE AT NAPLES.—Extract of a , 5 4 0 Naples, sth instant :—" Yesterday the MI ' pv,e Marchioness of Sligo opened their spier ° of t iro with a ball, to celebrate the eorn itt g,,t ,of of their eldest son, the Earl of Altaol ° 4h - , reSihe ball-room, which is of a great size, and the spacious apartments, were brilliantly ligu'"foiloc King and Queen arrived at a little before niu e ' . of thg i, by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Pris ee ' s ood lerno, and their daughter, the Count of Syraet'''ere' oj ea c , t h Infante of Spain, Don Sebastian. Dancing e .f rai oa ° , l O , soon after the arrival of their Majesties, and eeri;,. W' S od great spirit until midnight, when the King's s u P P Slig ° ,,',sst trounced. His Majesty invited Lord and La d y t he Nero Mr. Temple, the British Minister, to accomPa n , rtS 11- r e Family to their supper-room. While the ReY sl e rtoll in oi thus employed, the large supper .room was o pen tope r ' t ill mainder of the guests, and a splendid standing Tooll!ad discovered. The company flocked to the suPr fr pro ci ,ol nearly three o'clock, to partake of the delieael ° o t for them. The royal party withdrew at 1 ' a L i 'l i g o 9 o 9e t et and the rest of the company had all quitted tue felts ' lid four. Thus terminated one of the most s plend id im of has been given for some time in Naples. ti e f 3 e persons were pres e nt a t it." car aiil C: There have been great rejoicings at e , and other parts of Ross-shire, on the marriage 0 10 cer t. W. A. • Ross, Bart., with Miss Ross. Afisrt„,aiacp,.. mony the happy couple left Edinburgh for the T he 5 ; THE COUNTESS OF SIIELBUILN . 14°° 'r; iito er e counts received in town, yeOterday, from w her near Salisbury, of her Ladyship's health, ictitscd favourable, and the medical attendants have pr°ll° el e le- Ladyship to be quite out of danger. allY t die' at a HARROGATE.—Like most of to r tte ors n -, t 0 1 brated Spas in England, Harrogate was. " s°Z u p covery of the opting', a mere village; but, tia-,botig" them, Harrogate remains a village to this d a y' r e e i ,P - sb, wards of two hundred and seventy years P b - i s clt e 3 ,,d since the first mineral water was tapped On it s its .oll o , - ,f by a Captain WilliamfSlingsby. While Cb c ;,: o urf e n - ia rt Leamington have converted themselves, in th into 5 ";,11. few years, from mere villages that they vs ere, Tog o S c i c a and pert towns, Harrog a t e h as rem ained v t i este n tri es It has been brushed up a littl e to be sure, A nd a t somewhat, both below and above ; but so vri w y, •of; gularly—so without any design and eerislstet: anY ti) / 1 0 1. such distant periods of time—that pr ctcasi°° delig h .l4 above a village it has none. Its situation ta ns, Nt bout n For elevation, above the Irish and German c ce3 at O te d between which it is nearly placed: for po sitie he ' 11 01 . Al equal distances from the three capitals ef gco lol o o - 0 Kingdom (about two hundred miles); and fo oa re sta formation, favourable to human f ri a nd• almost pre-eminent.— Granville's Spa s w h is re - Si Sir Thomas Troubridge, ALP" anddcatb °I at are plunged into deep distress by tai • h I resi dence Thomas's eldest daughter on Tuesday , the Admiralty. c ity SPOONS, FOR KS, — &c., ;-ui;----:erpb:orrotoobrS:,l:co,r9f,c 1;1 ; ; o j rability, equal in appearance. Table 8 Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, ss. per dozen; Ts Car' V , ati r ea ,s pia o ""' i s be ty.. inches high, is. per pair ; the partn. it . o o w, • • • that these artiele;ate madii is so like siller, 1 from it by the stamp: every article made in s ilver s toyed in this material by Po e ' ' '. ' RIPPON and BUitTON Wells -street, Oifort • ..... 0 14 1- Who, to prevent icupOsition, 'tontine the sale, of it to th ew ,Catalogues of prices graa• . --- Y' BI Air . I°l , RTII • At Buekl,ind Abbe Devon, on the 21st inst., 3 " Yenning, of a son. p cpee DIED On the 17th inst., at Cheyne-rm.v, Chelsea, -A nne Wilkie, the wife of W. B. Marshall, R.N., On the 19th inst., at New-grove, T. 13ro0ny 1 -'' s(l. ' Elder Brother of the Trinity House. aged 3-I? : _ - 1ate: 0 1 -..,,,t,t “Liti Published b f A way() 11 " 6tr iei No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112,,, 041. the county of Aliddlesex.—Thursday, FebitorY 56'1' / V 4