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The rublication oft e Evening Edition of THE Sur( corn ____ meneed at 30 minutes after Three. 114,' ` - ^r'-• • 1 , " is tuniUXL LONDON: TUESDAY. JANUARY 12, 1:41. We publish in our columns of this day the Pit E SIDENT'S Message—the last which Mr. VAN BUREN is ever likely to deliver to the Congress of the United States. Copies of it reached us from 'Bristol and Liverpool at the same time, havin i . ; besn brought to Liver') 00l by the packet-ship Sheffield, and to Bristol by the Cosmo, which yes eels left New York on the 19th ult. They salted five dais in company, when the Sheffield fell to leeward. Our thanks are due to our Bristol Cor respondent for the obliging attention manifeshd on this ocr'asion. 1 The Message is moderate in its tone, and pacific in its tendency. The Presidency of Mr. VAN BUREN being about to expire., he has taken ye' Aiiion to submit to the Consideration of the Con" ;press the leading ilinciples by: which ,his four years 'administration were guided. These may be reduced to two--namely, the maintenance of pc ace, and an adherence through good and evil report to the cash system. The peculiar objects of 4r. VA N BurtEN's llwiror are a National Bank nd National Debt, and a;:tinst these his dying kiel: is ruthl e,ssly directed. \lr. VAN BUREN'S S to a Na•iol,i Debt, though not over and ab we compinnentary to the monarchical Govern n; ems of Europe, are sound, and based upon the ' ..afest political policy. We recommend the passage -to the earnest attention of our British Liberal statesmen : The policy of the Federal Government, in extinguish ing as rapidly ossible the national debt, and subse. quently, in resistinj every temptation to create a new one, deserves to be regarded in the same favourable light. Am- ing the many objecti9ns to a national debt, the certain tendency of public securities to concentrate ultimately in t/,e coffers of foreign stockholders, is one which is every day gathering strength. Already have the resources of many of the States, and the future industry of their citi zens, been indefinitely mortgaged to the subjects of European Governments, to the amount of twelve millions annually, to pay the constantly accruing interest of borrowed money —a sum exceeding half the ordinary revenues of the whole United States. The pr, text which this relation affords to foreigners to scrutinize the management of our domestic affairs, if not actually to intermeddle with them, presents a subject for earnest attention, not to say of serious alarm. Fortunately, the Federal Government, with the exception of an obligation entered into on behalf of the District of Columbia, which must soon be discharged, is wholly exempt from any such embarrassment. It is also, as is believed, the only Government which, having fully and faithfully paid all its creditors, has also relieved itself en tirely from debt. To maintain a distinction so desirable, and so honourable to our national character, should be an object of earnest solicitude. Never should a free people, if it be possible to avoid it, expose themselves to the ne cessity of having to treat of the peace, the honour, o r th e safety of the Repubilc, with the Governments of foreign creditors, who, however well disposed t general they may be to cul tivate with us in friendly relations, are neverthe less, by the law of their own condition, made hostile to the success and permanency of political institutions like ours. " Out of debt out of danger" is a homely maxim, not truer of individuals than of nations ; nor do we believe the corruption of political principles en• gendered by jobbing in national securities, in coun. tries deeply in debt, to be compatible with the main. tenance of simple republican institutions. Mr. VAN BUREN takes great praise to himself for having diminished the public expenses during the four years of his administration. The expenses of the current year, for example, he calculates will be less by nine or ten millions of dollars than the expenses of 1837. This is a legitimate subject of s elf gratulation ; but looking at the present financial and commercial condition of the United States, and comparing it with what it was at the close of Genera l JACKSON'S second Presidency, we cannot discover any peculiar claims which Mr. VAN BUREN possesses to the gratitude:of his fellow -countrymen ao far as relates to the mere question of finances. During the Presidency of Mr. ADAM, half the national income was required to pay the interest and principal of the debt then existing. Forty-five millions of dollars were expended in this way during the four years this distinguished statesman was in office: , General JACKSON succeeded, and during the )eight years he administered the government of the United States, sixty-four millions of dollars were required to extinguish the - 17 2 :11;4:/Ciri \. l S' public debt. When Mr. VAN BUREN entered upon the Presidency he found the debt extin guished, and an overflowing Treasury, and at the expiration of four years he makes it a matter of boast that, after diminishing the expenditure to the amount of nine millions of dollars, a minion and a half of surplus will remain in the Treasury with out there having been any fresh taxes imposed. 'Tis true hat extraordinary expenses, to the amount of twenty millions, are enumerated, but even this proves nothing extraordinary in the finan cial ability of the PRESIDENT. We are happy to learn from the Message that there is a fair prospect of a speedy and ami cable settlement of the North Boundary question. "The excitement," says the PRESIDENT, "which grew out of the territorial controversy between the United States and Great Britain, having in a great measure subsided, it is hoped that a favourable period is approaching for its final settlement." And after enumerating the steps taken by both Govern ments to effect a speedy and amicable adjustment, he continues :—" From the character of the points still in difference, and the undoubted dispo sition of both parties to bring the matter to an early conclusion, I look with entire confidence to a t promp and satisfactory termination of the negotiation." We are well pleased to receive such an assurance from the mouth of the PRESIDENT of the United States. The question cannot be settled too soon for the welfare of Great Britain and the United States. While it continues in abeyance, evil-dis posed persons have it in their power to disturb the harmony between two nations whose uninterrupted friendship is essential to the progressive civiliza tion of the human race. The Message concludes with a denunciation of the atrocious African slave trade, which cannot fail to give pleasure to the friends of humanity in every part of ,the world. The PRESIDENT states that two American vessels are at present cruizing off the coast ofAfrica, charged with instructions to pre vent the violation of the American flag by any parti cipation in that infamous traffic. But the PRESIDENT does not stop here. Finding that the past efforts of the opponents of slavery have been unsuccessful, he proposes, as a remedy of the evil, the suppression of all trade whatever with the slave factories on the African coast. His words are worthy of being remembered :—" I submit to your judgments," he observes, in concluding his Message, " whether this Government, having been the first to prohibit, by adequate penalties, the slave-trade—the first to de clare it piracy—should not be the first also to for bid to its citizens all trade with the slave factories on the coast of Africa ; giving an example to all nations in this respect, which, if fairly followed, cannot fail to produce the most effective results in breaking up those dens of ini quity." This is a noble conclusion of a' Message which, taken all in all, is of an extremely satisfactory character. As it will be universally read, we have touched but upon a few of the leading points in it, and these we have not had time to examine very carefully. The commercial treaties between the United States and Portugal, Belgium, and Prussia, manifest the zeal with which America pursues her commercial interests in every part of the world. Besides the New York Journals, we have re ceived files of Canadian Papers, from which want of space prevents us making any extracts in our columns of this day. Lord SYDENHAM had suc ceeded in maintaining undisturbed the tranquillity of the Upper and Lower Provinces, notwithstanding several attempts to get up once more the steam of rebellious excitement. The sympathisers, too, on the AmericarF side, were kept in pretty good-order by the Government of the United States, which certainly has not been wanting in proofs of good and kindly feel;ng towards Great Britain. For commercial intelligence we refer to our City Article. We have on two or three occasions lately, par ticularly on the 28th ult., directed the attention of our readers to the order and decency with which the great body of the electors of the United States had voted in the late election of President. There are no religious tests in the United States ; there I are some restrictions as to residence, but none as to property ; the greatest approach to Universal Suf frage that ever was known exists, and the result was the collection of 2,400,000 votes without a riot or a scuffle. Having reminded our readers of these facts, we now beg them to turn to another part of The Sun, where they will find amongst our extracts an article from the 7 Imes, the latter part of which de scribes an election at Newfoundland. There the poll was closed without making any return, the Magistrates were unable to suppress the riot, one of them was knocked down and his skull frac tured, and two houses were destroyed. But we 'iced not repeat the impressive lesson narrated by the Times, except to close with its moral : such are the results of a " community of enfranchised Pa pists under a Protestant Monarchy." Before the Papists could be enfranchised they must have been enslaved. There arc Papists in the United States ; they have never been enslaved, and they are as orderly as the Methodists or the Episcopalians. Papists have more freedom in the United States than i❑ Newfoundland. It is not, therefore, freedom, but the pre-existing slavery which is the cause of their turbulence under our Protestant Monarchy. In the Protestant Mo narchy the Judges, the Commanders, the chief offi cers are most probably Protestant. In the United States little or nothing is said about a man's reli gion. Under a Protestant Monarchy the Papists are provoked by present inferiority, and a sense of past wrongs, into an attempt to imitate their oppressors, and obtain power by coercion. In the Republic they are not excited to such outrage by any sense either of present inferiority or past de privation ; and in the United States an election for the Chief Magistrate is conducted with the greatest order ; in Newfoundland the election of a Member of the House of Assembly terminates in a bloody riot. These events teach us that the mode to avoid such riots is to do no wrong. Do not exclude the Papists, do not condemn a great body of the people by political exclusion to inferiority and degradation, and all the incentives to outrag e and riot, which grow from such exclusions, will have no existence. But the statesmen of a Protestant Monarchy, and the public writers of such a Monarchy, have sup posed, and still suppose, that the only way to avoid outrage, is to degrade a large portion of the people by law on account of their religion, or on ac count of their poverty, and so excite anger and discontent. They set the example of having re course to violence to obtain their ends, and they reckon, but without their host, that their example will never be followed. Untaught by the results of former vicious intemperance and vicious coercion, which always led to riot and outrage, our ultra- Protestants, or ultra-political knaves, are even now engaged in demanding the re-enacting of those restrictive and degrading laws, from which alone have flow e d the evils they weep over. The worst consequenc eithasde of their vicious system is that, after graded the people, it has a pretext for con tinuing th e degradation. The evil perpetuates it self, and increases with time. It should be stopped, therefore, at the outset, and no temptation of pro mised advantages should encourage men to begin it. The contrast between the election of the Presi dent of the United States, and th e e l ec ti on of a Member of the Legislature for Conception Bay, Newfoundland, reflects no honour on the Protestant Monarchy, and no disgrace on, the Republic, which has no State religion. New foundland has the benefit of our institutions and our example,—the United States has framed her institutions according to her wants. The United States are peaceable, with 14,000,000 of people ; the little community of Newfoundland is split into factions, and the people crack each other's skulls, in all the rage of intolerance, during a contest for political power. Whether the Protestant Monar chy or the irreligious Republic be the better Government of the two, we must leave our readers to judge. It is plain, from our Correspondent's letter from Walsall, and from the first number of the Walsall Letter-Bag, which has reached us, that the Anti- Corn-law party are prosecuting the contest at that place with great spirit and great success. It de lights us to see that a Non-Electors' Committee has been formed to influence the electors in favour of Mr. SMITH by all legal means. We hope that their example will be followed by the women, who have much at stake in this contest, and ought not to be silent or inactive. We know with what reluctance they mix in po litical matters—we are aware of all the just repug nance there is to ask them—but in a contest like this, in which life or death, abundance or starva tion, are involved, they ought to ehcourage their husbands, brothers, and friends to vote for the anti-bread-tax candidate. Let them remember that infants of both sexes are now exposed to severe toils—in the agricultural distrists, weeding or pick ing up stones—in the manufacturing distriets, piecing and knotting—from which there is no other chance of relieving them, but by obtaining good wages and plenty of food for their parents. The condition of the children of Britain should move every mother's heart to exert herself to insure the success of Mr. SMITH at Walsall. We see, by our Correspondent's letter, that there is one class of tradesmen who fear the conse quences of the repeal, and he properly recommends that the League should direct its attention to the point. It should endeavour to prove to the tradesmen, that though the receivers of rent may and must suffer for a time, yet the farmers will benefit. They will have less to pay for seed corn, for every thing they have to buy, and for every thing they consume, and will, very speedily, if not immediately, benefit by the repeal. There is no reason whatever to suppose that the quantity of our agricultural produce will be less after the repeal than at present ; that the farmers will not have as much or more to give in exchange for the production of the manufacturers as now ; and no reason therefore to suppose that their cus tomers will suffer by the repeal. The farmers have been made the victims of the landlords' cupidity, and it might perhaps be as well if the League should give them an assurance that it wil l stand by them in endeavouring to obtain any rea_ sonable compensation for losses, should any be consequent on the repeal, in cases where leases have been entered into under the faith that the present law would be continued. We honour the British agriculturists, we detest the cupidity of the owners of rent and rent charges, and while we think the League should do all it can to re assure the former, and encourage them to make common cause with the manufacturer, as they have a common interest, in order to get rid of the Corn law, it should go on boldly, setting the latter at de fiance, for their sole object in keeping up this law is to enrich themselves at the expense of others. Nor have the farmers been so prosperous since the Corn-laws were enacted, as to make it a diffi cult task to persuade them that it is disgraceful, as well as disadvantageous, to be the instruments for levying a tax of 275. per quarter on the food of the labourer, in order to hand it over to the receivers of rent and rent charges. We have no doubt the League and the active agents it employs will work these points well on the spot, and convince both the farmers and the saddlers' ironmongers that they cannot possibly lose by the change. They have powerful reasons for exerting themselves. If the election of Walsall be carried against the League, it may give up all hope of repeal this year ; if the League can carry the election, there is good reason to believe that the Ministers would then feel themselves constrained to undertake at least a modification of the law. Its. pealers throughout the kingdom, as well as at Walsall, you are all on trial, and your reputation is at stake The following extract from the Monmouthshire Merlin sets at rest all the speculations on the sub ject of the treatment of Mr. FROST. It is what might be expected, and is no otherwise than credit able to the authorities::— JOHN FROST.—A letter has this week been received by the family of John Frost, in Newport, dated Port Arthur, 4th July, in which he gives a de tail of his voyage from the Cape of Good Hope, whence he dated his former letter, to Ho bart Town, and from thence to Port Arthur. The contents of this letter, which we have from the best autho rity, will serve to set aside the contradictory speculations of the London papers. Frost states that, on reaching, Hobart Town, on the 30th of June, he was given to understand that some ameliorating arrangement had been determined on respecting him, Williams, and Jones—that they were not to experience the rigours of a penal settlement. Without beim , allowed to land, they were sent from Hobart Town to Port Arthur, where they arrived on the 4th of July, and were brought to the office of the Commandant, where the rules for their future government were read to them. These rules Frost describes as stringent, but nevertheless such as he shall be able to comply with. He states that there was a marked distinction made between himself and his companions and the other convicts—that while the latter were sent off to the hard occupations to which convicts are consigned, they were employed at less onerous toils, that Frost was taken into the office of the Commandant, that Williams was employed in a subordinate, though not a laborious capacity, on the public works, and that Jones was appointed to a convict school. The letter appears to have been written in a spirit of hope and exhiliration, but no allusion is made to the extension of a free pardon, which the Standard has assumed. `We received last night the French papers of Saturday. The news brought by them is not im portant. On Friday the Chamber of Deputies met, and after a brief discussion on a Bill rela tive to judicial sales of property, broke up, as, on a division, it was found there was not a suffi cient number of 'Members present to form a House. The Journals, in general, are very mo derate in their tone, and are occupied chiefly with articles relative to Spain, the late accounts of our operations on the coast of China, and the re ported collision between a vessel belonging to the East India Company and a ship belonging to Bordeaux, to which they attach much importance. Despatches had been received from Marshal VALLEE, dated Algiers, Dec. 22, but they contain no news of importance. The colony was said to be perfectly tranquil. In the Court of Assize at Paris, M. THORE, author of a work entitled " The Truth on Democracy," was condemned to one year's im prisonment, and a fine of 1,000 francs. The fol lowing are the only extracts worth quoting : The Messager of Friday evening says that the French Governme n t h a d received news from Alexandria of the 24th ; from Beyrout, of the 7th ; and from Da mascus, of the Bth of December. At the latter date Ibrahim Pacha was at Damascus. On the Ist, the troops from Adana, Aleppo, an d other places, had re joined him, making his army amount to 40,000 men, of which 20,000 were regular troops. On the 24th of November an Emir of the Mutualis having endea voured, at the head of a corps of 4,000 men, to excite a rebellion in the Hauran, Ibrahim Pacha attacked and destroyed them. The prisoners were all massacred. The desertion from the Egyptian army was diminished, but Ibrahim had been forsaken by another chief of the Druses, who heretofore had rendered him great service. Letters from Spain, of the 3d instant, boast of the tranquillity of the capital, and the favourable commence ment of the year. The priest Perez de Arellano, who exercised, up to December 31, the functions of Apos tolical Nuncio, though destitute of sufficient authority, had been ordered to leave the capital by the Duke of Victoria. A squadron of twenty horse was appointed to escort him to the frontiers. The documents to this effect are published in the Madrid Gazette of the Ist. ARMING OF RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA.--The Deutsche Blatt says, according to letters from Warsaw of De cember 20, that a Russian army of 120,000 men, with 420 pieces of cannon, is to be collected on the left bank of the Vistula by the first days of May. It is to be under the command of Generals Krentz, Rudinger, Prince Sokohocoski, and Kajzacof. Under date Berlin, December 22, the Gazette of Eberfeld says that orders have been given to put all the Prussian fortresses, even those of the north and east, iu a state of defence. The Paris Journals of Sunday have just reached us. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied with the Report of the Committee on Petitions, and:a project for the extension of Departmental Roads. The overflowing of the river Tet has laid Perpignan under water. Several houses have fallen, and much property destroyed. The question of the fortification of Paris is, however, the only one that seems to interest the capital. The following paragraph, from the Debats of Sunday, contains the latest news relative to this all-engross ing subject Marshal Soult, in the Commission of Fortifications, consented in the name of the Ministry to the simultaneous execution of the detached forts and wall of circumvallation. During five consecutive sittings the Commission examined different inhabitants of the suburbs, and then proposed amendments to the ministerial plan. On the 6th Marshal Soult gave his answer, which adopted some of the amend ments of the Commission ; but he rejected two amend ments, one being a change in the place fixed on for de tached forts, the other an augmentation of the sums to be allotted. Government proposed spending fifty-five mil lions of francs in 1841 and 1842. The Commission pro posed to spend eighty-seven millions, which would have upset all the plans of the Finance Minister. The Minis try having persisted in its views, the Commission decided on acceding to the views of the Ministry." There was a fall of snow on Saturday night in Paris, which, although a thaw had come on on Sunday, had blocked up the roads. No mails from Germany, Spain, Italy, or England had come in by one o'clock on Sunday. Great activity is displayed in tracing the Coburg rail road, which is to connect Coburg, Hildburghausen, Meiningen, Gotha, Weimar, Erfurt, and Eisenart, and is to join the Prussian railroad further north. The work will begin in spring. What an advantage when this is finished I—a traveller can go in two days to Nurem berg, the centre of South German commerce, or from Bannberg, the junction of the Main and the navigation of the Ludwig Canal to Berlin, or Bremen, or Hamburgh. Franconian Mercury. BOURSE.—PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 9. Brit Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents lll 80 .., 112 ... 111 80 ... 111 90 4 per Cents 99 .., 99 ... 09 .. 99 3 per Cents 77 25 ~.. 77 45 ... 77 95 ... 77 40 Bank of r'rance .. 3250 ...3250 ...3250 ...3250 Laftitte Bank I,ooof. 5h.... 1040 ~.1045 —lO4O ...1045 5000 f. Shares 5130 ~.5135 ...5130 ...5135 Belgian Bank Spanish Active 24% ... 24% ... 2' ... 24% Passive 5% ... 6 ... 5 % ... 5% Neapolitan Roman .... 90% .„ 99% ... 99% ... 99% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles,R. B 4OO ..„ 405 ... 4CO ... 405 L.B 305 ... 307 50 ... 305 ... 305 - 485 485 ...485 __ ... 485 Orleans , • Strasburg to Bale ........ 245 '43 75 245 Mulhausen to Thann . CAFE DE PARIS.-SUNDAY, JAN. 10. HALF-PAST Two.—Last night, Saturday, the Three per Cents for the Account were done at 77f. 30c. No thing has been done to-day, unless it be one bargain re ported to have been at 77f. 321 c. THE RAILWAYS AND THE MAILS. The mail train from London, which ought to have reached Manchester at half-past six o'clock on Wednesday morning, did not arrive till nine, and the same train did not arrive on Tuesday morning till half-past nine. These de lays were not occasioned by any of the trains being actually snow-hound, but chiefly by the slipping of the engine and tender on the rails. MANCIIESTER AND LIVERPOOL.—There has been no ma terial interruption on this line; some of the trains, as is usual in the winter season, being a little behind time. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.--The first 'train which left Manchester on Wednesday morning, on reaching,Little borough, was detained for sonic time, owing to a heavy drift of snow which had lodged on the line. The carriages were detached from the engine, which was run forward for some distance to clear the way, and then returned for the passengers. Between Todmorden and Leeds the impe diments were still greater : the engine and tenders were again detached, and driven forward, in some instances, more than two miles, and then returning for the passen gers. A great number of workmen were employed in clearing off the snow, by whose assistance the line was ul timately cleared, and the subsequent trains enabled to pro ceed without much interruption or delay. The London mails which ought to have reached Man chester on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings were de tained about three Lours each morning, and subsequently they have all been more or less too late. The York mail, which left this town on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock, on arriving at Littleborough was so much impeded that it was necessary to yoke eight horses, which were continued to Halifax. On the same evening the Colne and Burnley mail, which should have reached Manchester at six o'clock, did not arrive till ten, having had to cut its way through' eight or nine feet of snow between Burnley and Skipton. The north mails, which are due here by six o'clock in the evening, did not reach till seven o'clock on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Throughout the whole of the week the deliveries at the Post-office have been more or less too late.—Manchester Chronicle. PROIOSED -- PLAILWA T FROM LONDON TO STAINES.— Yesterday a most numerously attended meeting of the owners of property and occupiers of houses within the pariah of Kensington. who will be affected by the projected new railway from Knightsbridge-green to Staines, was held, pursuant to public notice, in the large room of the Swan Tavern, at Old Brompton, for the purpose of adopt ing measures to prevent its being carried into effect. Mr. S. Carter Hall was called to the chair, Mr. Martin (the solicitor for the opposition) then read from the book of reference attached to the plans the names of the parties whose property would be most materially affected by the railway, amongst which were Lord Kensington, Earl of " Harrington, Earl of Listowell, Lady Hotham, Lady Langford, Sir Charles Cockerill, the Westminster and West of London Cemetery Company, and Messrs. Gunter, Hutchins, and Poupart, the extensive market gardeners, &c. It also appeared that the site of the new church and burial ground at Brompton would also be required for the purpose. Letters were then read from Mr. Cresswell, M. P., and the Count de Peperi, excusing their absence and expressing their decided opposition to the measure. The following resolutions were carried una ❑imously :—" That the meeting views with great alarm the proposal of an intended railway, to be called the Staines Railway, and which in their opinion will most injuriously affect the parish of Kensington and destroy the interests of the neighbourhood. They therefore resolve to oppose the said railway by every means in their power.—That it is highly desirable that all necessary proceedings be taken for effectually opposing the said measure in and out of Parliament." A committee was then appointed to conduct the proceedings in opposition to the Bill, and to collect subscriptions to defray the expenses ; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting broke up. EFFECTS OF RA ILWAYS, —The important turnpike trust, comprising the Fisherton, Wilton, Heytesbury, &c. lines of road, was last week put up to be let by auction for the forthcoming year, but not a single bidder appeared. It is said that the present lessee, who also rents several other lines of road, is now losing 1.61. per week by his turnpike speculations.—Salisbury Herald. THE AGGREGATE MEETING OF IRISH RE FORMERS..--.WC publish this morning a portion of the sig natures attached to the requisition for the Great Reform Meeting of the 15th. As a manifestation of strength and determination, of energy and public spirit, on the part of the Irish Reformers, it far exceeds anything of the sort we ever recollect to have seen in print. In every respect it is a most important document, and not the less so because of its pledging the requisitionists to continued exertion until the rights of the Irish people having been completely vin dicated and triumphantly achieved. —Dublin Freeman. [To this requisition we find affixed the names of 34 Peers, one Bishop (Tuam), the son of a Noble Marquis, 11 Honourables, one of the Tory family of Trench ; one Roman Catholic Bishop and 9 Bishops, 20 Baronets, 2 Counts (de Salis and d'Alton), 49 Members of Parlia ment, 42 Deputy-Lieutenants of counties, and some thou sands of names of gentlemen of station, property, and in telligence throughout every part of the sister country. The whole list occupies nearly six columns of the Dublin papers, presenting such an array of names as no public do cument hitherto signed in Ireland could boast of.] An instance of the severity of the weather at sea, was afferded by a flock of Rid gee se being seen, on Monday morni ng , as f ar i nland as the top of Muirton Locks. They alighted on a turnip field, and one of their number was shot.—lnverness Courier. Some of the London papers are, we observe, still quarrelling about the object of Baron Mounier's mission to this country. We stated, upon his first arrival, that the purport of his visit was to announce to the Eng lish Government Louis Philippe's intention of marrying his youngest son to the Queen of Spain. We now repeat the statement. That was the only object of his mission. We have it from an authority which cannot be contradicted. — _Liverpool Albion. CHRISTMAS-DAY IN R OME . —A leiter from Rome of the 26th ult., in the 4ugsburgh Gazette, says: 7 — " To-day being Christmas-day, the Pope officiated ponti fically at St. Peter's. In the reserved seat! were the Queen Dowager of Sardini a , Q ueen M ar ia Christina, the Duchess of Cambridge and her daughter, the Princess Augusta, Don Miguel of Portugal, and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strclitz. The Queen of Spain arrived yesterday evening." Hoo UNION. -- ROCHESTER, MONDAY NIGHT.—The investigation relating to the conduct of James Miles, master of the Hoo Union workhouse, was brought to a conclusion. We can merely state that the case has been sent to the Assizes for trial. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). COLONIAL MARKET. The demand for most kinds of produce was steady, and prices firm. Raw Sugar met a fair demand from the gro cers:and refiners, and prices were well maintained. Brown 715. to 755. ; Yellow 755. 6d. to 795. 6d. ; and Fine 80s. to 345. per cwt. A few lots of Coffee changed hands for home use at former prices. Rice was sought after, and brought extreme rates. Rum inquired after by the ship pers, and prices looking up. TEA MARKET. The market was in a dull state, and prices little better than nominal for free trade. Company's Congou flat at Is 7d cash. TALLOW MARKET. The trade operated with caution in Prime Yellow Can dle, and prices had a downward tendency ; 46s 9d was the quotation on the spot. The stock is mach larger than last year. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supply *as moderate, with a good demand, at firm prices. Cloves, 41 to 6/; Hay, Si lOs to 41 18s; Straw, 1/12s to 11 14s per load. LLO YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 12.—it commenced freezing yesterday at about 8. 30. P.m., and continued through the night, with a light fall of scow.—Wind this day at non, light airs at W. S. W., and very mild weather. CLYDE, JAN. 9.—Arrived the George M'Leod, Dick son, from Singapore ; Union, Crawford, Demerara ; Eukaw, Tucket, Charleston. YOUEMAL, JAN. 7.—Arrived the Active, Kelm°, from St. John's, New Brunswick. WARREN POINT, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Heroine, Logan, from Vera Cruz. It has blown a heavy gale to-day at S. W. BELFAST, JAN. 9.—Arrived the Hampton, Balderston, from Miramichi. SeARDOROUGH, JAN. 11.—The Sovereign, Bolton, of Whitby, has been got off Filey Brig, and put on the main. WATERFORD, JAN. B.—Arrived the Palemon, Long ridge, from St. John's, New Brunswick. The Eliza, Ro bertson, which put in here yesterday leaky, has come up to the Quay to refit. WAINFLERT, JAN. 10.—The Arctic, Herby, from Mai don ; Waterford, Deskett, of Weymouth ; and Unanimity, Plitt, of Wick, are on shore near here. The first, it is expected, will become a wreck, but the others are expected to be got off. LivsarooL, JAN. 11.—Wind E.--. Arrived the Jamaica, Pratt, from Bahia ; Elizabeth Radcliffe, Lima.—sailed 11th Sept. ; Rival, Nassau; Britannia, Cook, New Or leans ; Sheffield, Allen, New York—sailed Ist October. Off Port, the Patriot, King, from Calcutta ; New York, New York—sailed 19th ult. Sailed the Higgenson, Hogg, for Barbadoes. The Leonidas, from Quebec to Dublin, was fallen in with 21st Nov., in lat. 46, lon. ,;0, waterlogged, crew saved, by the Columbus, Crapper, arrived here. The flannah, of Dartmouth, with loss of master, first and second mate, and one seaman, was fallen in with 29th November, and a navigator and one seaman put on board to assist her into port, by the Roscoe, Huttlestone, arrived here. The Mountaineer steamer, to Swansea, on shot_ near the Menai Straits, has sunk in deep water. Bum., JAN. 11.—Wind N.E.—Thu Caroline, from London is on the Dolphin Point at the entrance of the Humber. BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 11.--. The Mercy, Clark, from Yar mouth to Sunderland, and the Alexander from Sunder.. land to London, ran on the rocks off Flamborough Head yesterday morning, and aro both much damaged, but ex pected to be got off. DEAL, JAN. 11.—Wind W. S. W., squally.--Arrived tha Prince George, Foster, Halifax ; Orion, Vanderlinden, from Batavia. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 11.—Arrived the Wild Irish Girl, Atkinson, from Quebec. BRISTOL, JAN. 11.—Arrived tho Cosmo, Beak, from New York. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON AIARKET,J.N. 11.—The sales to day are 4,000 to 5,000 bags, chiefly American descrip tions, at full prices. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JANUARY 11.— The Market to-day has been somewhat languid, and prices have rather a drooping tendency. Hull and Selby, 44 ; South Western, 59 ; Manchester and Leeds, 82 ; Ditto New, 31 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26; Lon don and Birmingham, 173 to 174; Ditto Quarter Shares, 284'-; Midland Counties, 83; New Ditto, 15i; London and Brighton, 43-. New York Papers of the 19th of December have arrived, by which we have received the President's Mes sage, which was delivered on the 9th, the contents of which are not of much interest, and have not created any great excitement at New York. Accounts from Philadelphia of the 15th of December state that Stocks continue heavy, and prices, in most in stances, merely nominal. United States Bank revived, and may be quoted at full a 3 or 1 per cent. higher than previous rates, but with very little sale at the Boston Board. United States Bank at 66. Closing prices, United States Bank at 66i 66i; Exchange, 8, 1 2 - 9, Accounts from Philadelphia state that the navigation is entirely unobstructed with ice, and vessels and produce arriving and departing as usual at this season. Business is dull, and operations in merchandise very limited. It appears from the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress this session, that the exports during the twelve months which preceded last October, amount to 131,571,950 dollars; whilst the imports during the same period were only 104,805,891 dollars. We have received Montreal papers to Dec. 9:— It is gratifying to learn from the Toronto papers that the Hon. H. Dunn has placed at the disposal of the Canada Emigration Association, 2,000 acres of land of the best de scription, and 500 acres of which he has made a free gift. Mr. Sheriff Jarvis has also given 1,600 acres. LOWER CANADA.—The shipwrights employed in seve ral dockyards struck work on Thursday morning on a de mand for increase of wages ; and we believe that the com bination has now become general. 6,000 persons by this means are thrown out of employment. The weather during the last few days has become very changeable ; we had a little snow last evening, and have high westerly wind this morning with indications of more snow. A good fall would be serviceable to our farmers, for the roads at present are in a very bad state. THE FUNDS. The British market is heavy this morning. Consols, which left off yesterday at 894 I for the Account, have re ceded to 891 ; Reduced, 891 i; Exchequer Bills, 9 11 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1631 164 k; India Stock, 245 247. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is also heavy, left off at 244 at present may be quoted 24i ; Pas sive, 6k ; Deferred, 121 ; Portuguese same as they left off, 314 32; Three por Cents., 191 to,-}; Bra zilian, 70i ; Colombian, 231 24 ; Mexican, 28} 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 601 # ; Five per Cents. 984 4. SHARES.—Great Western, 28 29 prem. ; New, 13 14 prem. ; London and Brighton, 64 a dis. ; Blaekwall, 41 dis. ; Birmingham, 83 85 prem. ; Southampton, 57 584- per share ; Croydon, 124 a per share ; Greenwich. 8 9 per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 13 dis. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 14i 14 dis. HALF-PAST ONE. FROM TEXAF..--.The New Orleans Papers of the 30th of November and the Ist inst., brings us the details of a most remarkable piece of treachery and meditated cruelty : The first accounts that reached New Orleans were of the 30th ult., that on the 23d of October the Texians bad been handed over by Molano to Montego, and all shot to death by five times their own number, after a desperate resistance; but, on December 1, further advices were re ceived at New Orleans, brought by a passenger from San Antonio, which gave a very different account of the matter. This gentleman, a Mr. Dwyer, on his way from San An tonio to Hudson, fell in with Col. Jordan, the commander of the betrayed Texians, and learnt from him, that on discovering the treachery of their Federalist allies, the Texians withdrew to a walled enclosure in the vicinity, determined to face the worst. At this time the citizens of Saltillo, considering the cholera at an end, opened their houses and shops and gave the soldiers whatever they wished to eat and drink. The consequence was that most of them got drunk, and in this situation were ordered by their Commander to attack the Texians. The battle commenced abeut two r.x., and lasted nearly nine hours. The Texians were well protected from their assailants, well armed, and abundantly supplied with ammunition. The result was that the intoxicated incapable of inflicting injury, were slaughtered or: all hands. At this juncture the besieged sallied forth and captured three pieces of cannon, which they turned upon the enemy, and mowed them down like grass. More than four hundred of the treacherous foes were left lifeless on the ground. Consols continue heavy, and may be quoted at present 89f for the 15th inst., which is settling day in Consols. Their heaviness it is supposed, is owing to the put and calls which take place on the above day. Reduced, 89i, also lower ; Exchequer Bills, 9 11 ; Bank Stock, 165 ; India Stock, 248 ; India Bonds, 5 8 discount. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active, 241; Portuguese 32 ; Three per Cents., 20i ; Brazilian, 70*; Dutch Two•and-a-Half por Cents. 50k; New Loan, 96i. In Shares scarce anything doing. Birmingham and Gloucester, 85 ; Eastern Counties„ 9 ; Great Western, 93 ; Ditto, New, 63 ; London and Brighton, 43i ; Lon don and Birmingham, 1 72 ; London and Croydon, 14. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 894 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89# Ditto Old Annuities — 3/ f per Cent Red........ 988 Ditto New Annuities... New 38 per Cent .. ... 97i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2*d 9pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 9pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l2 pm Jan. 1860 l3 Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1859 l2 15-16 India Stock for Acct ... - Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... 108* Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto— 318 Brazilian Bonds ... .. BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian ' 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 percent... Spanish, 5 per cent 24* Ditto, 1824 24 Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. _c. Greek, 1825, spercent. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 24 French,3 per cent —fi —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent soi Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 85 Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) „. a Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .... .. ... 63 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) lo* Gosport Junction Railway (35 pd) London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 172 London and Croydon Railway (Tritnk)turii 12i CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DA Y.) CAMPBELL V. GARLY. The Loup CHANCELLOR. was occupied the entire day with the further arguments of Counsel in this part heard case. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICE- CHANCELLOR, heard petitions. ROLL'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) CAUTION TO LETTER-WRITER!. The MASTER of the ROLLS on coming into Court this morning, stated that a letter had been written and sent to him by a party in a cause now standing for judg ment. His Lordship handed the letter to Mr. Tierney, who had been one of tile opposing Counsel to the letter-writer, with permission, if he thought proper, after reading it, to send it to his clients; and added, that the writer was evidently aware that in writing to a Judge he was guilty of a very gross contempt of Court, for it was anonymous, and manifestly written in a feigned hand. Such conduct was .highly improper'; were the party before him he should have very little hesitation in committing him to the Fleet. Mr. TIERNEY, after reading the letter, obtained his Lordship's permission to destroy the letter, and imme diately tore it up. The MASTER of the RoLL.y then disposed of the unop posed petitions, and afterwards heard motions. QUEEN'S BEN CH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) ROTHSCHILD V. CURRIE. Lord DENNIAIt/ gave judgment in this case, which was an action upon a bill of exchange, drawn in England in fa vour of a mercantile house in Paris, and payable there. The bill was endorsed by the defendant to the plaintiff, who remitted it to Paris for payment there. It was a bill at three months' date, which expired on the 30th of April,and there being no days of grace at Paris, and the 30th falling on a Sunday, the bill became due on the 29th, on which day it was presented and dishonoured. By the French law the bill was to be protested on the day it was dishonoured, and by the 176th section of the " Code de Commerce," the notary was bound to make an exact copy of the protest, and to have it registered the following day. The Ist of May, the first day on which the registration could be made, was thefete du Rot:, and the office was closed, iu conse quence of that and the pressure en the following day , the notary was unable to complete the protest and re gistration till after the post hour on the 2d. The notice was rent by post on the 3d to England, and reached it on the sth, the same day on which it would have reached the defendant if he had I ,, !en entitled to three days' grace. The question was whether the notice of dishonour was in time under these circumstances, In the first place, it was left to the Court to decide whether, on the assumption that the French law should prevail, due diligence had been used, and upon that point the opinion of the Court was in favour of the plaintiff, the delay being attributable to circumstances over which the notary had no control. It was assumed in the course of the argument that the registration should have been made before notice of dishonour could be regularly given, but there did not appear to the Court any necessary con nection between the registration and notice. The second point was, whether the notification of the dishonour was a part and parcel of the contract, or merely an incidental matter. The bill being made payable in France, although drawn in England, must be taken to be a foreign bill, and viewing it in that light, the Court was of opinion that ac cording to the French law the notification of dishonour was a part of the contract, and that was according to the opinion of a learned French writer, who says that " the law of the place where the bill is made payable must be followed, and the contract must be regulated by the law and usages of the place to which the contracting parties must be con sidered to have submitted themselves." Upon principle, therefore, and that authority, the Court WAS of opinion that the French law regulated the time of giving notice of the dishonour, and as notice was given in due tinie of that dis honour, the judgment of the Court must be for the plaintiff. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. jusTiot WILLIAms.) THE QUEEN V. WALLACE AND ANOTHER. Mr. Jert.ie applied on behalf of Patrick Shaw Stewart Wallace and Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace for a rule to show cause why they should not be brought up by habeas corpus and discharged from the custody in which they were at present, or admitted to bail, or dealt with according to law in such manner as the Court might direct, and also for a certiorari to remove the proceedings into this Court. The parties making the application had been taken into custody, together with another person named Stott, on suspicion of having wilfully caused the loss of the ship Dryad for the purpose of defrauding various Insurance Companies. On the 29th November, Patrick Shaw Stewart Wallace and James Stott were taken to the Mansion-house, end on that occasion the only evidence offered was, that Stott had effected aninsu rance upon certain goods stated to have been shipped on board the ship Dryad, for St. Jago de Cuba ; that the Dryad had been lost, and that Stott had received the in surance for the Wallaces as for a total loss, on giving security to repay any amount of salvage that might have appeared to have been made. On that occasion a witness had stated that he had reason to suspect that he should be able to bring forward evidence to show that no such goods as those on which the insurances had been effected had been shipped on board the Dryad ; and on this evidence, which did not at all affect Wallace, the parties were remanded for a week. Bail had been offered for Wallace and re fused. The next time they were brought up, a witness named Kelly, who was on board the Dryad, said that he believed that tie Captain had determined to lose the ship, because two days after they had put to sea, he bad put two tackles into the long-boat, and this was the whole of the evidence that had been produced to show that there had been any wilful losing of the ship; arid the Magis trate refused to allow this witness to be asked if he had ever been in custody. They were then again remanded, and bail was again refused. They were remanded at various subsequent times until the 2d of January, when they were again brought up and Stott dis charged upon the application of the Counsel for the pro secution. Application was made to the Magistrate to admit the \Vallaces to bail, when Mr. Clarkson, the Counsel for the prosecution, said that he had evidence to produce if the Magistrate was not satisfied, but that it would take five or six days to go into. The Magistrate stated he was perfectly satisfied, and that he should re mand the Wallaces to the 29th of January. Thus had these persons been remanded over three sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and now a fourth must elapse before they could be tried. They were kept in prison without any commitment, and, he spoke advisedly, with out any evidence to warrant a commitment—on a speou lative fishing for evidence—on the bare assertion of the counsel for the prosecution that it was probable he might procure evidence. The reason of the last remand was an amusing one; it was because a witness stated that he had heard of a boy at Liverpool who had heard of a relative of his who had been on board the Dryad at the time she was lost. The only evidence given to warrant a remand of two days, was the assertion of the counsel for the prosection that he had received information of a seaman belonging to the Dryad, being on board one of her Ma jesty's ships, and that application bad been made to have him brought home. The object of these preliminary in vestigations before Magistrates, was to enable parties to have a general notion of the case to be brought against them, i« order to be prepared to meet it, but in this case the evidence which, it appeared, would take five or six days to go into, was purposely kept back, so that the parties would be committed to take their trial at the end of the month without having any idea of the case they should be called on to meet. Was it not altogether a speculation to seek to intimidate these parties to obtain money from them. A more curious jumble than the depositions in this case had never been seen—the assertions of Counsel, the statement of witnesses on different occasions, before different Magistrates, and the observations of the Magistrates were all jumbled together in the most extraordinary manner, while all the importants parts of the evidence were left in blank. He wished to draw his Lordship's particular at tention to these depositions, as he was convinced that without ocular demonstration no sober-minded person could believe that in this country the liberty of the subject could be put in jeopardy upon such trumpery pretexts. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS thought quite enough had been shown io entitle the applicants to a rule to show cause why they should not be brought up to have the validity of their commitment inquired into, and then the Court could deal with them according to law. Application granted. The COURT afterwards sat at Nisi Prius, and disposed of several undefended causes. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT.-SASSIDY V. STUART, M. P. In this case an outlawry had been issued from this Court against the defendant, a Member of Parliament (and late one of the Lords of the Treasury), who was at the time out of this country. A supersedeas was subse quently obtained, on the ground that the defendant not being liable to arrest, by privilege of Parliament, be could not be outlawed for not doing that from which his privi lege exempted him. Last term Mr. Sergeant Spankie obtained a rule to show cause why the supersedeas should not be set aside, and the outlawry confirmed. Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS now showed cause against the rule, and contended that inasmuch as a capias could not be en forced against a Member of Parliament, neither could an outlawry be issued for neglect of proceedings which had such a writ for their object. The plaintiff's proper course of proceeding was by distress. In the well known case of the Countess of Huntingdon, the attorney for the plaintiff againt that lady was committed for having issued a capias against her ; knowing her to be a Peeress, and the capias was set aside. In the case of Lord Rokeby, who was an Irish Peer of Parliament, the attorney, who had issued a capias, pleaded in support of his proceeding that the de fendant had gone by the name of " Thomas Morriss, Esq., commonly called Lord Rokeby," and had pleaded in that name, and suffered himself to be arrested thereby ; yet the Court in that case held that the attorney had sufficient notice of the privilege to render it incumbent upon him to inquire before he proceeded. He was accordingly com mitted, as happened in the case of Lady Huntingdon, and the Sheriff was ordered to return non est invcntus to the writ. The meaning of that return was not literally that Rokeby could not be found, for he was well known to be resident in London at the time ; it was clearly that the defendant was not found within the jurisdiction of the Court for execution of the capias ad satisfacien dum. The Learned Sergeant cited at great length from the statute of William the Third, defining and confirming the privileges of Members of the House of Commons, by which be contended the members of that branch of the Legislature were placed in respect to per sonal privilege precisely on the same footing with members of the House of Lords. Ho held that the cases which he had quoted, and those of Lord Egremont and others, were conclusive, that outlawry could not issue against any Mem- her of Parliament. He submitted, ther,9fote, that the rule must be discharged. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE, in reply said,that` the object of the Act of Parliament on which his Learned iend relied, that of William 111., was to limit and restrict the un bounded and absurd privileges which the House .of Com mons had before laid claim to. That House had claimed for its members as such, not only an equality of Privilege ion from the Peers of Parliament, in respect to protect on from personal molestation, but also privileges which 'the Peers never thought of claiming, and which no rational man could think of conceding. The Commons decla, - ed it a breach of privilege to institute any process of la w whatever, or take any proceeding in Chancery against at member of that House. They went so far as even to, commit all the parties to such proceedings—even the Judge. But the House of Lords took a more reasonable' view of the matter, and ordered the parties to be dis charged. But this did not satisfy the House of Commons. The Speaker (Seymour) went so far as to take the office of Sergeant upon himself, and with his own hands dragged out of. Court the lawyer Pemberton, who appeared in an action against a member. The Lords discharged this per son also, but the Commons continued the unseemly con test, until the presumption of that House was con quered by the sobriety of the Lords—(A laugh--in which the Bench joined)—and after the revolution the Act of William was passed to confine the privilege to exemption from personal molestation, and to give to the creaitors of Members lawful means for receiving their just debts. The Learned Sergeant then cited numerous cases, to show by analogy that there wes no irregularity in issuing a capias, but in enforcing it.- The return non est inventus warranted the plaintiff in issuing an outlawry, which would have the effect of com pelling the defendant to satisfy the debt, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. There was a wide difference between the privileges of the two Houses in respect to arrest. In the Peers it was perpetual and inherent in the person, in the Members of the House of Commons it was only contingent, and might determine in several ways—by the act of the individual, or of the Crown, and by accept ance of office, or by a dissolution. There were no legal objections to a plaintiff's proceeding with his action to the end, so as to be prepared with his execution, when either contingency should give him the opportunity to enforce it. The LORD Crites. JUSUCE gave judgment at considerable length. He said that if the Court granted this rule, and allowed the outlawry to stand, their Lordships would in effect give orders to the Sheriffs to arrest a person whom they themselves would then be the first to discharge from custody. The other Judges concurred, and the rule was accord ingly discharged, with costs. LOSS OF THE THAMES STEAME Et (FURTHEIt PARTICULARS.) Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's, from their agent at Scilly, dated sth January, 1841 : " It is our painful duty to report the loss of the Thames steamer, Captain Gray, from Dublin, bound to Plymouth and London. She struck on one of the westernmost rocks off these islands, called Jockey's Rock, at about six A. M. yesterday morning, the 4th instant, Three women were saved, by being hauled with lines through the sea to a small boat, that went at great risk of life to the vessel, from St. Agnes ; and whilst the boatmen were getting the women into the boat, they shipped a heavy sea, which nearly filled her, and obliged them to quit the wreck. Soon after the flood tide having made to the north against the wind, caused a tumultuous sea, and the ship unfortu nately went to pieces, and all the crew and passengers CM board were drowned, except the three women before men tioned, and one seaman, called Edward Karons, who with ten others of the crew, got on a piece of the wreck, and were driven on the small uninhabited island, or rock, called Rosevear, but who were so much exhausted when they reached the shore that they could not get up the rocks, and were drowned. The bodies have since been taken off the rocks and carried to St. Agnes, the light-house island; from whence Karons, and the three females saved, have this day been brought to St. Mary's. " 6th January.—As far as we can at present ascertain, there were on board, when the vessel left Dublin on Sa turday, the 2d instant—five gentlemen passengers, twenty recruits, two soldiers, and one sergeant (three of them were lost in getting into one of the ship's boats, which was capsized) ; two women and an infant ; Captain Grelv. two mates, six firemen, and twelve crew; and, we beliewo, a few deck passengers. " Persons saved.—One young lady, two stewardesses, and one sailor." PENZANCE, JAN. B.—The Scilly packet, after being detained several days by contrary winds, arrived this morning; by her we hear of the loss of the Thames Irish steamer, which took place about five o'clock on the morning of Monday, the 3d inst. The Thames was on her voyage from Dublin to London, and the weather being exceedingly boisterous, with showers of hail and snow, they lost their reckoning, and, mistaking the St. Agnes (Scilly Islands) light for that of the longships (near the Land's-end), ran on the Cribewidden rock, and in a short time became a total wreck ; out of at out seventy persons on board, only four were saved. 'nese were a young lady passenger (who with her father was going to London), two female attendants belonging to the steamer, and one of the seamen. Soon after the vessel struck she was discovered by the inhabitants of St. Agnes, and one of the boats' crews, at the risk of their lives, im mediately put off to render assistance; they succeeded 16 getting near her, and though there was scarcely a hope of escape, the Captain, with the true bravery of a BritiAll seaman, ordered that not a man should leave the vessel until the females were safe ; the th r e e wh o we re saved'. were then prevailed upon to go in the boat, but another refused to part with her babe, and was conoequentlf drowned. The young lady saved is named Morris ; she wanted to stay by the vessel, but was thrown over by her father. The seaman saved owes his life, after he had reached the Isle of Rosevear, from the circumstance of a eask of porter be ing driven on shore, the head of weich he contrived to be at out; he drank a little, and suffered the rest to escape, anJ in this cask he passed the Monday night, a season of most unparalleled severity. Captain Gray, the commander, a fine young man, had only been married three weeks ere he met his untimely end, *SC,IM= T=FIFT?" CHARITY MEETING AT BATH. (FROM A CORREISPONDENT.) A public meeting was announced for this day (Monday, 11th inst.), for the purpose of appealing to the inhabitants of Bath for a public subscription to relieve the wants of the poor. The Mayor having agreed to take the Chair, opened the business of the meeting to a very large assembly, tho spacious banquetting-room being crammed, principally by the labouring classes, who appeared sensibly alive to the: motives of those who are generally the principal actors' in such proceedings. On the platform were several members of the Town Council, and a host of the clergy of the " Establishment," and amongst others, the:Reverend Messrs. Tottenham and East, two gentlemen of the Magee and M‘Neile school. Amongst the auditory the proceedings excited but little interest, and the whole affair as it regards the meeting was a decided failure; and the spirit and indignation the people evinced was something new in the history of such pro ceedings. The speakers instead of being met with cheers, as was wont to be the case on such loccasions, were assailed with loud and vociferous shouts from hundreds of voices-- " We want justice, and not charity !" " Give us justice and our rights, and keep your charity," and many other such pertinent exclamations. The promoters of this " work of love" were in evident alarm, for a large body of police filled the different avenues within the hall, and appeared to be prepared for action. The proceedings were for the most part dumb show, and were hurried through amidst mucs visible fear. Mr. Philp rose to move a resolution, when the Mayor precipitately qu itt e d th e c h a i r , f o ll owe d by th e w h o l e o f his supporters, who all disappeared in an instant, amidst the hooting, hissing, and other indignanb expressions of the Assembly. Cries of " Justice, not chanty is what we want," followed them in their retreat, when the police be came exceedingly active in pushing and driving the people out of the room, It is said "there is nothing new under the sun," but it; really appears to be a new feature in public affairs when' large bodies of the labouring people see the real cause of the misery and crime which surrounds them, and raise their voices for justice and their rights, instead of pity and Charity. THE WEATHER.—The thaw which commenced on Sunday morning was succeeded by a alight frost in the evening, and during the night there was a fall of snow.. Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, the thermometer stood' at 32 degrees, (freezing point) with the wind south-west, and during the middle of the day, the sun having con siderable power, it again thawed, but very slightly, except in the metropolis. In the course of the afternoon the wind shifted to the west, and when the sun had set it again began to freeze, so that by seven o'clock the roads and paths round the metropolis were coated with ice, which made it for persons walking or riding both diffi cult and dangerous. At that hour the thermometer stood at thirty degrees, two degrees below freezing point, the wind being last evening N. N. W. In the course of the night there was another fall of snow, and this fore noon there has been a partial thaw, which still continues, with a west wind and bright sunshine. ADELPHI THEATRE. Deeds of Dreadful Note, notwithstanding its ominous title, kept the house in a roar. This novelty is full of fun, and a better provoca tive to mirth could scarcely have been produced. The performers in general sustained their parts most effectually, and at the fall of the curtain the farce was announced for repetition. ANOTIIER OBSTRUCTION TO BAIL. Yes terday the Insolvent Debtors' Court refused to bail out a person named Deane, at present confined in a country prison, because the proposed sureties, affidavits, and re cognizances had been made before the prisoner's attorney instead of the Court. GUARANTEES.—The Court for the Relief of Insolvents held yesterday, in the case of a Mr. Dauncey, who had become guarantee for his creditor to the amount of 6,0001., that they could not remand as for a debt contracted. IRON STEAMER.—The iron steamer mentioned in the following account, taken from an American paper, is one of the largest iron steam-vessels afloat, her dimen sions being about 170 feet long, and 28 feet beam. She was built by Mr. John Laird, of North Birkenhead, for A. Pope, Esq., of Mobile ; and from her light draft of water and speed, is particularly well adapted for the Mobile river.--" Iron Steamer.—The new Iron steamer, W. W. Fry, was ready to sail from Louisville on the 12th inst. for Mobile, touching at New Orleans. The Louisville Journal says of her, We can assure the citizens of Al barna, that they will have in her the noblest steam craft ever launched in American waters. Her hull is entirely of iron, and is divided into four water-tight compart mews. The iron ribs arc nine inches thick, and the outer iron covering half an inch. She is superbly finished, ap pointed, and furnished. Her berths are unrivalled mat tresses of curled hair. On a trial run she showed that she Pommes great speed,' "FmLiverpool .~~ Th e is the g e s B ) a , 01 th e , 0,04' it int kti 14 be $1 11, , 141 1 1c 11 ; 41 - ior 4 e d by e Q4nt 'r rid kla tr r ec re t he 13 Pt.suv. .01 t o c " her on,i tiere( and e° nsis 4 ited s ktd t kddi ti ge ry B e „ io g i tary tai 4i ttrel ro ig t IP t ker to eed„ th„, : r . an r Ev 1 ANING 1 THE SUN, L ON DON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12. 1811. EV EN!NG _~ 'e..—. s..