The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

r coat encouragement to smuggl in g . In approach t a— of Allicant from Cart ha g ena, the steamers p ass :7 , :t two smaU islands called " Tabarca," which are iLed, by fishermen and a small garrison, and the new ,•• anti Poll, which has obtained a chaet. - .,r, uy lier Chants may land their goods there, instead of to Alicant. This, next to Carthagena, is con sidered the 'safest anchorage on the coast, but the people are not indus,rious enough for it to rise into importance. .At Alcaot the exchange on London is 37i, while good br.ls an Madrid cannot be got for less than 1-,1 1 per cent. This shows the want of security in internal cnnimunicAtion. 1 , 1 -pralnl ER A LD.—That• connoisseur in stocks, Oz.. Globe, is ut i!. again, the City pi•ople remark, and all agog and s4er,tly nodding (..;,incso mandarin in a grocery. " L e pok," it says, " imw the news of yesterday has sent up the funds acd sent down tea." There is something specially piquant and gracious in this up and down con trBst Now we go up, up, up, And now we go down, down, down— unluckily for the stock and tea man of the Globe, ;:1,,t at the moment of his writing the funds which were 'iTut up" yesterday, hP.ppened to he " sent down" to- ;y, when Consols declined to 89 a to for the opening. 3 .E . .0r such repeated fk.l, in speculations in the funus, urely the leading article sage of the evening jour ..l would best consult his run reputation by leaving stock .crs to his City collaborateur. Bank Stock was 162 3. Exchequer Bills were Bs. to 103. premium. Some lerable s Iles were effected during the day by leading en the Stock Exchae7e of Console for the Fe- Ly account at 90 to 90,i variously. A considerable .ment took place to-day in money matters, and the . discount en hills were reduced to 4i per cent., id some of the bill-brokers gave notice to the banks that •e; could no longer take in money at mere than 4 per cent. P 0 S T.—The following letter on the evils of the bank t‘yst,m has been addressed to us from a remote part the kingdom. It represents with much acuteness the '':- . 3 , lvaAtagos under which the small capitalist labours in JnpArison a ith him who is in eirtunistances to embark thousands in a joint-stock or other banking concern, .i,e;vt_.,y making, as is well explained, a twofold interest a nis :iubscription, and, if engaged in trade, driving his liunitAer competitor out of the market. The time of our loadil4; men is taken up with the squabbles of vain and itferelJed persons who are permitted to obtrude them :L•ives upon the public attention. These pretenders to monetary science have notions to advance on minor pints connected with the currency ; and it would seem that they must and will b. heard, and that no really great and striking defect in the system can be entertained until those inconsiderable matters are disposed cf. The question of what is and what is not circulation is as far from being determined as it was before Ike appointment cf the Bank Committee last session of Parliament, and we doubt not it will continue to be argued and reargued throughout the present year. Yet the question is in-olved in others of infinitely greater magni tude, such as that which is here placed before our readers, the practical removal of the grounds of which would tin s% er_F!ll purposes and silence all discussion : Notes for gold and gold for notes will not make the present paper currency a just medium or measure of value, and as little will the one or the other secure its steadiness. The notes of all banks hitherto have been the current rate of interest in every ceuntry, more valuable to the issu ing parties than to the recipients. Ido not allude to the charge for the loan of them to borrowers, but to a niffoence subsisting besides that altogether from the return yielded by the banks' capital, as previously invested. There may be ninety-nine persons who accept ci their notes in payment, and who thus give circulation to, against one person who actually borrows them. The difference of value is reluctantly admitted by hankers, but their plea is that there is nothing to hinder the public from becoming all of them bankers. There are, however, insurmountable objections to the permission, and obstructions also to the possibility; and if I can per. auatie you that a currency of more potency to one party than to another exists, you will agree with me that it is equally improper, as an unjust weight, or unfair balance, re)uiring to be replaced by an imperial standard, that the poorest in the land may have the benefit of it. It is certainly a startling announcement to make at this time of the world's age that no paper money that ever yet was issued has bsen of a just value to the public or come up to its norniaiti value. " The primitive interest, and the free use of the dupli cate of the capital invested, form a double rate of interest, and are equivalent to double the bona fide capital to the issuers, so that it is imps ssible for two competing parties to contend for anything with any chance of success to the party not being an issuer bank-notes. Granted that both have 1,000/. each. The capital of one is in bank shares, which lies probably invested in Government stock by tke manager, and the institutes of all banks afford the rartners the benefit of a cash account to two-thirds of the ••a;(1-tap capital; but it does not matter, although the whole -ere pledged by any of the shareholders, as the bank as a body is safe, nor does it affect my argument whether the duplicate be lent to themselves or to second parties. The ;profit is theirs, and thus it is equal to twice the amount of tic other's capital. The one has the primitive interest, esd; if he have any sagacity, he will know that all other :rings, as regards their respective trades, being the same, be hes, besides, an income of 351. per annum from the 'Lace-Ad-a- Half per Csats., with the use of the capital t 9 boot, which no other means can enable the second party .obtain ; thence the power of underselling, or of outbid ees r s ,e which the currency produces. Under such a system the bank shareholder can have o competition against him in his private trade. He can sell five per cent. cheaper than his competitor, although sst.il bought at the same price, and yet he will, notwith -ending, have as much profit as he who could not afford ) sell ee l ...sally low. When the issuer goes into market, pisses his own notes for what he buys, he gives a pro- Hose which is utterly false. It purports to be of the same ernonnt as the price of thu article, but it is not so, inas mueh as it cermet convey the same value to the recipient as it can bestow upon its creator and issuer ; therefore it is a false and deceitful payment, five per cent. below the prop sr amount of the debt it affects to discharge. imeeer will redound to that Cabinet which shall first establish the true principle of a paper currency. 'I Ise fact that certain State creditors still have the Government interest, after they have otherwise put the duplicate of their capital to use, and that no attempt bas been made to bring up the humbler State creditors to A participation of similar benefits, says little for the dis cernment of those quondam friends of mankind who cry out for the multiplication of soup-kitchens and Poor-law bestiles, in place of going to the root of the evil. We Isere sac, however, its cause, and, the result of the disco very once promulgated, the remedy will not be far off. Titese issuers of bank-notes. who have ordained that, when the savings' bank depositor shall seek to apply his letle capital to besiness, he shall that moment be deprived or the drawback for the texes in the shape of interest r.nicts they themselves still obtain, have thus studied to be reli,ved undeservodly from contributing one farthing to tho interest of the debt, for they get it back, although they lieve relatively no funds in the Gevcrament acuritios to gland for it." SUN—The funds have been depressed to-day by the dl4pos,tion of out or two parties to reahee profits, but the rriaM2t rallied before its close this afternoon. Con sols4ff); immediate transfer receded from 89 to 89il, but raili,ul subsequently, and closed at 89. g . For the ILte . instant the alteration was from 89 to 89:i. Ex et,,ocr Bilis improved to 7s. and 106. premium ; but La‘t India Bonds receded again to 10s. discount. Bank Stock rose again from 1611 to 162 and 163 ; arid East Jodi% Stock touched The New Three-and-a klail per Cents. were at 97:Z- to 98-1 ; the Reduced Tfirce-and-a-Half per Cents. at 981- to and the Three rer Cent. Annuities at 90 CO 801. Money is very easy. - Nothing, of particular interest transpired to-day to a cr. h „t, the value of the Foreign Securities, most t vt.; , th Avere rather heavy. The Active Bonds •,: er e at 2-14 to 24',1 for Marley and Account. Per ts...;,,e-se New Fire per Cents. brought 317,- to ti, and Lffee per Cents. 20 ; Colombian Six per Cent a. 0 . 1 !- were tit 23a ; Mexican Five per Cents. at '28 7 ; to , anti Brazilit.n at '71.' 1 . being all much the same as sterday. Belgian Stock: was at 98 ; Russian at 113 ; d Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, at 50!, to • lag rather firmer. aml.sh Bonds were 77i to ;1 The market for Shares still finds favour in the eves f those having surplus capital for investment, and the ..onsequence is that prices keep up wed. Great Wes orn Shares were 3(1 to ; 1 ,.. the New 14, the Filth 7i to ; t h e South West,ro -203 to ; Manchester a n d N ew G L ; and North New 2: 1 2 premium. ~• .Alton Shares were 5 to ; 131aekwall 4 ; Midi itd n;ii):'4,-; 16 ; Northern and Eas'.ernl3 ; North Mid ; -ti • and Birmingharn and Derby 724 discount. 'Bank Shares were at 12:1 to 131 ; and London o:,d Westminster Bank at .1 premium. arLr- - --_-_-: DEATH OF RAJA H- SINGH AND . II SON. -Tile 14.41e , a-R.ajali I.,'hurluck Singh, after a lingering ' 1 painful illness, expired cr morningthek , nown to the tin. of the sth. No • ~,,.; was t h e inelancho!i e ~at made .ister of Sirdar Mun ,: ~ en, than th e Ranee .Ls' , l''-' ) " -r ' b 1,-.1 Singh, expressed her ;I:ii, determination to . burn, w and s ~.earding nly about eleve o'clock cf the Barne a :ounolated with th ree o f h er hand-maidens. Onay she the ter- ratnation of th e f unera l t h e C ourt wa s proceeding to bathe ii,) the Revee, b u t i n pass i ng throug h o ne of the covered gateways of the town, the crush of eleph a nts causing one of the beams of immense w e i g h t to f a ll, it struck Koonwur iN; 0w- N e 111 al-Si n g la , the heir-apparent, on the head, and a youth, named Mean.O.ulum Singh (son of Rajah Golab Singh), who was on the Prince's elephant, on the loins. Oadum Singh died immediately, but the Prince remained in an insensible state until ten o'clock at night, when he exp,ired. The a , pect of affairs in the Punjaub, as regards interi:;ll politics, may be considered t o b e tota ll y a l tere d , hut to its British ally the same friendly feeling is evinced, s o niney so, that it is believed the brigade will cross the suticge on the morning of Wednesday next in progress to Peishour._Delhi Gazette Extra, Nov. 11. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE. --The official ,inns of the sick in the different division s of this force re.„ force, give. t Scotland-yard, were It sergeants and AAA constab les, w i in yesterday a disabled from d u ty en t h e w ho were prevn total number of men being 4 350 of ' i , 1 s night : the a verage of less than four per all ranks, sod making a n of sick cent. The alx;ve, although a larger proportion _front the than usual, is less than might bave been expected severity of the se a so n. it i s , to be taken into account likewise, that, from th e extension of the limits of the me. than at tropolitan police, th e f orce is 700 men strongerwas much period last year, w h en t h e ave rage sickness the coun k vg , The Commis s i oners h ave g i ve n orders to divisions that every i n d u l gence consistent with the In y publ, 'e security s h all be given to the men, so as to render their t 'Wits easy. RECJEF OF THE POOR ..--I n consequence of the incl , 1 meney of the season, several parishes have called upon the inhabitants to assemble and take into considera -I;un the best means of relieving the distressed poor. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) (From the Morning Post.) • The Morning Chronicle, jusiiy apprehensive that the British Parliament will not tolerate !Or i.nother year the continuance of an unconstitutional fraud, destructive of the rights of the legitimate constituencies of Ireland, and at once derogatory to the character and adverse to the wholesome action of the entire Legislature, has begun to prepare for the dangerous conflict in which it foresees its party, which maintains and abet; these fl tgrant abuses and incalculable evils, will speedily be involved, by opening against Lord Stanley, the determined and irresistible antagonist of perjury and fraud. the flood gates of foul and senseless invective. Lord Stanley and the strong and virtuous party in the House of C,,mmons will see in this conduct of the Ministerial organ a new proof that his Lordship isa vigorous and forwidable assail ant, and is sure to he a triumphant one, of the abominable corruptions and vices which pollute the registration sys tem of Ireland, and pervert it, from its legitimate and con stitutional purpose of presereing and purifying, to the wicked and pernicious purpose of vitiating and destroy ing the national r epresentation. We cannot resist the temptation to cull a few of the choice flowers of Minis terial eloquence with which it is thought decent to gar land a measure the principle of which has the sanction of a sure majority in both Houses of Parliament, and the enactment of which Ministers were only able to post pone in the last Session of Parliament by the fraudulent introduction of a measure of their own, avowedly for the same object, but never meant to he carried. " Infamous attempt," " Impudent pretext," " Outrageous aggres sion," " High crime and misdemeanour," " Pestilent hostility to Ireland," " Tory harpies," " Unclean birds," " Vulgar assassins," " Viper." These are a few of the amenities by which the organ of the Administration shows its respect, and that of its patrons, for the majority of both Houses of Parliament, and seeks to prepare the Irish people for peaceable and dutiful sub mission to a future enactment of the Legislature. But the duty of obedience to the Legislature is inculcated, and the feelings calculated to produce it are instilled, by this organ of the Administration in terms yet more direct and impressive. The Registration Bill is, ac cording to our Ministerial monitor, " an attack upon the vital principle of Irish liberty, and will, of course, be en countered with the fierce determination of men fighting for their being. The vital spark will survive his (Lord Stanley's) envious thrust, and serve to excite a flame that will scorch and blast him ! The people of Ire land challenge him ; strong in their cause and in their union, they call for their destroyer, hold forth the tem pered steel, and bid the viper try his teeth again." From all this, for it is not mere raving, rational people will draw only one inference, viz., that the present Ministers of the Crown have arrired at the conviction that they must go out, and have begun already to ope rate upon the established system of Whig tactics, in the persuasion that when ence more upon the Opposi tion benches an insurrection in Ireland might be a useful and convenient incident enough. The Whigs and the Morning Chronicle are doomed in this instance to be disappointed. Lord Stanley's Bill will be car ried, and there will not be an insurrection in Ireland to compensate and console them. (From the Morning Herald.) Amongst the many important questions bearing upon our foreign and colonial iatereSts, little has been said, for some time past, about one scarcely less mo mentous than any which has recently occupied so much of public attention—we mean , __ the question of the north-eastern boundary line. The adjustment in a satisfactory manner of that point is indispensable to the maintenance of our North American possessions. We have justice on our side,—and, we may be said to have necessity. It is impossible to yield to the de mands on this subject of the Republicans of the United States, without virtually ceding to them possession of the Canada:. The Canadas are of infinite consequence to Great Britain. In itself, the country is of prodigious value ; and its race of British colonists is unsurpassed in all the best social qualities by any people on the face of the earth. Of the political importance of the Canadas, it is difficult to form too high an estimate ; their commercial importance is absolutely incalculable. The United States were lost to Great Britain by gross mismanagement on the part of our rulers. The coaversion of these States from dependencies of the British Empire into noisy democracies has not (as we venture to think) added much to the sum of human happiness. England lost, at the time of the change, a large portion of her dignity and moral influence ; while she has since gained an extensive, precarious, and at times unprofitable foreign trade, she has, to at least the same extent, lost a secure and most valuable colonial commerce. The United States have become scenes of bustle, noise, and money-getting. In that country— " the new country" as the inhabitants delight to term it—many of the least amiable feelings of our nature have full scope, and amongst these unamiable feelings, we may be permitted to class the sentiment. of deep hatred with which Great Britain is regarded by all in America who incline to the democratic faction. Let the deep devotion with which the inter ests of England were defended by the loyal Canadians during the late troubles, be contrasted with the bitter enmity which the democrats of the United States en tertain towards the mother-country, and then let the most profound adept in the casuistry of " liberalism " venture to say, whether the stock of kindly feeling has not been lessened by that, the first of our modern " glo rious revolutions," and whether any cause that shall suffice to weaken the bonds of affection between men of the sante race, be likely to stregthen the solid interests of the human family. Whatever be the value of these suggestions, about one fact, at all events, there can be no dispute ; and that fact is, the longing desire of the whole democratic party in the United States to wrest the Ca nadas from England. The northern republicans have learned to regard every portion of the soil of America as theirs by a sort of indefeasible right. They do exterminate the red Indians without scruple ; and they would, if they possessed the power, exterminate the Canadian asserters of the supremacy of England with quite as little hesitation. The English power in Canada is a source of weakness to the federal re public. That federation is, in ail probability, destined to endure for but a brief period. Often already has it been on the verge of disruption. Let, however, the period of its existence draw to a close, while the power of England shall remain unshaken in Canada— and it is far from being impossible, that the next r neration of Englishman may witness the re-union of a large portion of the United States with the British Empire. The possession of the Canadas, at any rate, places the United States, in the event of a war, to a great extent, at the mercy of England. The posses sion of the Canadas places at our disposal the ener gies of a hardy, intelligent, and most loyal race—fur nishes harbours of the best description for our vessels of war—and enriches us with the materials of a colonial trade, which, if wisely prosecuted, might render the expenses even of a formidable war of little moment. In point of real value, a colonial trade is second only to a home trade. Compared with the colonial trade which England might easily create, her foreign trade is absolutely contemptible. Tire advantages of a colo nial trade are, in fact, the advantages of a home trade on a smaller scale. A colonial trade is free from the insecurity that attends all foreign trade. A colo nial trade is never afflicted with " panics." A colonial trade is, in thott, susceptible of regulation by the rulers, with whom it rests to regulate our home frade. The colonial empire of Gre A Britain might :afford endless scope to industrial enterprise, and might be made to minister, in a degree scarcely calcu lable, to the wealth and power of the mother cowl try. True it is, undoubtedly, that the tendency of modern " philosophy" is to rin es Tat color.i.:s as worse than useless—as " burdens" on tire parent State. Let it not be forgotten, however, that the tendlncy of the sane " philosophy" is to represent a large portion of our labourers—the real strength of every country—as " a surplus population," and, consequently, as " a bur " den" on the country which their energies enrich and defend. 'The beautiful t• philosophy" in question de scribes, in like manner, the monarchy as a '' burden"— the order of nobility as a " burden"—!.l,e Church as a "burden." Private charity, too, is, (if the tenets of "liberal philosophy" may be accepted) a pernicious thing ; while a public provision for the helpless poor is classed amongst the unforgivable sins. The best affec tions dour nature, as well as our most honoured insti tutions, rank, in short, according, to the Alalthusian and free-trade " philosophy,"in the category of " burdens"— if not in that of " nuisances." Our noble colonies can afford to be classed with our labourers, our monarch, and our nobles. Morning lc,r C o h r i r e o s n i c tl e a . t ) It is a lu ( e F lt r y em thi t n h g e fnr t Sir Robert Peel is the son of a cotton-spinner Having himself turned the fact to account in one of . his speeches, admirers follow their leader ; and the glory of institu tionshie that allow tha lowest in origin to become the highest in station, in addressing now an est a bli s h e d common-p l ace of Tory rhetoric addressing the multitude. In the dearth of poputar topics under which the party l a b ours, such a theme is quite i a godsend. At Co nservat i ve Operative Associations it s invalu ible. On the hus tings it may be used as a set-off , against cheap br ea d and extension of t he suffrage. The Walsall Tory can didate has grasped it greedily, and we beg to add the following passage from his 'Wolverhampton speech to the beauties of Gladstone already enumerated ;..._ " The object of the Conservative Associations was to build and not to destroy. Th e w ell-disposed operatives of the couutry felt they had a common welfare and a common in terest in tisa noble institutions of the land ; they felt that their b ene fi ts were no t confined exclusively to the rich, the noble, and the great; but that, under the happy and well-balanced Constitution of England, the poorest subject might rise IP attain the highest position in the land, and that his interest, his comforts, and his welfare, were equally protected and studied with that of his more fortunate neigh ! bonirs:—(Loud cheering.) They saw numerous instances of persons who o nce wa lk e d i n •a humble station of li fe, enjoying the etyied and highest honours' which it was in the power of this eneutr • y to bestow ; and he hoped and believed that they would be enabled to witness many simi lar instances." On the face of it, this promise goes rather too far. Those who hold out so magnificent a lure ought pot, ( were they in earnest, to be so niggard of comparative trifles. In substance, Mr. Gladstone says to the mien franchised operatives, you may become Prime Ministers and Lords, but you shall not have votes for a Member of Parliament ; and, to the half famishing operatives, sou may reaiisc immense wealth, and possess miles of property, but you shall sot eat untaxed bread, or receive more than two-thirds of the loaf you hardly earn. The " well-disposed operatives" of Wolverhatrpton and Wal sall, in their " humble station of life," will quite repay this Tory proffer of " the envied and highest honours which it is in the power of this country to be stow," if they answer " thank you for nothine." It is like the priest's blessing, which he offers the beggar in the fable, after refusing him a far thing. Mr. Gladstone knows well enough that the chance of elevation and independence which it af fords to the lower classes is the mortal objection of the Tories against Democracy. The people of Walsall will not be so imposed upon. They want free votes and not lordly titles ; cheap bread, and not manors in the clouds, or dividends of moonshine. It what street or lane of Walsall stands the foot of this Jacob's lad der whose top reaches to Tamworth and points to Downing-street? Where are the originals of Mr. Gladstone's picture of the successfully aspiring poor ? Is a poor man a mechanical inventor ? He is robbed of his credit by a rogue, of h;s profits by the capitalist, and what he has of success is embittered and crossed by the unprincipled piracy which law and lawyers seem framed to encourage. What a life was James Watt made to lead by the ceaseless attacks on his patent ! And Arkwright was harassed by the same harpies, True, he died Sir Richard Ark wright ; but none of his services to the commu nity raised him so high as knighthood. George 111. dubbed him one of the much ridiculed " Peg Nichol son's knights," for bringing up a complimentary address from the wapentake of Wirksworth. There's merit re warded for the encouragement of the weavers of Wal sall ! How many of them will it persuade to vote for Gladstone and a little loaf? And if mechanical inven tion does not raise and enrich the poor, will poetical genius? Yes ; ask of Robert Burns—Burns the ex ciseman—brow-beaten by Tory Commissioners for his free thought ; or of Robert Nichol and others, on whom the spirit of Burns descended, without redeeming them from the dreariness of his destiny. Let the Walsall operatives question Mr. Gladstone strictly about this way up stairs, which Toryism is said to keep open, and at the door of which stands the ingenuous candidate, inviting the weaver boys to enter and mount. The most familiar instances of Mat, not ordinary but extraordinary, rising in society of which the Tory makes an argument against Reform, have been achieved in the legal profession ; and while in part owing to great acquirement and skill, they have also been owing in great part to the fact that a most con venient tool for faction is presented to its grasp in the person of a shrewd, supple, and fluent lawyer. Politi cal pliancy is also a main thing. Let a plausible youth win his way to a University seat by sophisms on behalf of bigotry ; let him recommend himself to aristocratical patronage by intriguing against a plebeian Premier, though gifted with the commanding genius of a Can ning ; when expediency requires ; or the command is issued, let him introduce a large measure of reli gious liberty, in the teeth of every principle and pro fession of his political life ; let him then propitiate the bigotry from which he was apostatized by keeping his own Bill practically inoperative —a dead letter— ' a legal lie—till others call it into action and expose themselves thereby to the clamours of his followers ; let him, by cautious and cowardly silence, unworthy of any statesman or party chieftain in a free country, hold together a motley crew, with every variety of prin ciple and purpose, whom he seems to lead by adroitly following, and who allow him that unhonoured sem blance from the sordid hope of place and profit : such is the ideal of a proximate Premier, to whom Mr. Glad stone would point the gaze of Walsall sveavers as one " enjoying the envied and highest honours," and from whom the poorest weaver, with the spirit of a man, would turn away in pity or in loathing. The country profits little by upward paths like these being kept open. Thank heaven there are better ways ; those of honest industry, gradual accumulation, and judicious, yet bold enterprize. In trade, manufactures, and commerce, fortunes have been amassed, public ability called forth into its proper sphere, and benefits largely bestowed on our country and mankind. This is the tree under whose shade honest ambition and energy have thriven. The Corn-laws lay the axe to its root. They have already wounded its bark, and made its foliage shrivel. And Mr. Gladstone promises the trades people and operatives of Walsall that he will assist in the destructive process. The Peel philosophy, which he parrots after dinner, is left unapplied to the only, or almost the only, department of English life in which it is neither a fallacy nor a nuisance. What are the honours and emoluments of factious lawyers or sycophantic politicians to the operatives? They cannot wart in that path if they would. The vantage ground ie wanting for the commencement, even if the corrupt heart and sordid cunning be already there. It any e,s.r,er be open to them, it is precisely in that which Mr. Gladstone's monopoly policy threatens to close and listen. He will have no more men of Manchester and S,..itord to make the cry of the labouring poor for cheap bread heard in the Legislature. " Cheap bread," says his friend Lord Dartmouth, the sound is " particularly -greeable," so pray be " cautious." A precious recipe, to be sure, that of the Tory doctors for the privations which abound in such places as Walsall ; cut up the e (net r's work ; slice a third from the labourer's loaf; cajole, bribe, or intimidate both out of their votes, and promise the conservation of a " plum" for the one, and a peerage for the other. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The news of the brilliant success which has attended our arms in China arrives at the present moment to add additional lustre to the events of the last few months. Since the days of the immortal Chatbam the foreign policy of the nation has not been signalised by so prosperous a career as it has run of late in Syria, Affghanistan, and China, whether we take into consi deration the ability with which " the drift of hollow states" has been detected and exposed, or the energy with which their hostility has been vanquished. To all but the opponents of the present Government, this unprecedented success must servo as a proof of the capacity that organised it. To them we should not wonder, after their conduct in Sir James Graham's de bate last Session, if it were attempted to be made to appear to be wholly the result of good fortune. Be that, however, as it may, we beg to tell those imaginators of " luck" and depreciators of merit, that such " luck" is not the result of accident, but of a combination of movements end an exertion of talent based upon a thorough knowledge of circumstances, and adapting accordingly the proper means to a proper end. The Chinese question was one upon which the opponents of Government attacked the existence of the present Mi nistry. Aware that it was capable of being misrepre sented as a war of aggression for an unjust purpose, which we always repudiated, and conscious that the moral sense of this country was all powerful, they did not scruple to characterize it as as a dispute got up for the purpose of forcing on China a poisonous drug for the sake of mere gain. They even went the !mgt.'s of justifying the seizure of innocent merchants, and the demand of the Chinese authorities for the life of a British seaman, in retaliation for the death of one of their countrymen killed in a Chinese medley riot, and the poisoning of wells for the destruction of their unot fending fellow-subjects. But when the p!ain facts of the case were exposed in full debate, no amount of sophistry from Dan to Beersheba, from Sir J. Graham, or fiom Mr. Gladstone, or of plausibility from the most plausible person of the day—we nce.l not name him—could varnish the Chinese as models of morality, or per suade the merchants and people of England that a vote of censure was justly merited by the Cabinet for riot foreseeing what the Emperor of China intended to do with opium, and for riot sending out instruc tions to their superintendent for his guidancce in conjectural cases which instructions could not, by any possibility, have reached him until after the events had happened. They could not, in fact, concur in thinking that Ministers were worthy of dismissal for resenting the imprisonment of men threat ened with death,until they bad obtained delivery of other people's property, to the tune of two millions, situated beyond the boualary of the Chinese empire, and the stoppage of the trade, until a British seaman was im molated in obedience to its barbarous laws. Well might the Duke of Wellington exclaim, with his ex perience of the wildness, cunning, and treachery, o f Asiatic barbarians, rebuke his Tory partisans, and tell them that the very thought of the insults and outrages of their clients " was enough to make the blood boil in their veins !" We repeat this sentiment with pride and p rensdplyir,itbeocfatubsee because it le d a o s e u sh — on fi o r u s r t, to time it heart is and ut national Duke of Wellington—thirdly, because it is eminently tr aTio se n c a o l condemnatory of the policy of the Tories—and, fourthly, because it cuts away from them any opportunity of converting the ensuing session to factious purposes, instead of devoting it to the practical benefit of the domestic and foreign interests of the country. Although there is no party question of any moment to come be fore the Legislature, so far as we are aware, there are questions of immense importance to meet with its un divided attention ; and we hope and trust that no sanctimonious opium opinion —no further legislation re specting the observance of the Sabbath—no cavilling respecting equality of municipal or other privileges— or questions respecting that greatest of all bugbears, the repeal of the Union—will prevent them from being taken into due consideration. The people are tired, and justly tired, of everything in the shape of legislation, but that which shall practically contribute to their benefit—and they are right—and if in the course of the ensuing Ses sion of Parliament their interests be not consulted, the consequences, though only a speck upon the horizon at the present moment, will grow into a dark cloud, and overshadow the land with a convulsion, which it has never, hitherto, witnessed. It may be supposed that we have wandered from our subject, but it is not so. We began with a justification of the foreign policy of the existing Government, and be lieving that there is no point upon which it can be fairly ass Ailed, we concluch: by repeating our hepe that the improvement of the laws of the country—the interests of trade—the promotion of talent, and a due regard for the interests of the poor, will engage their attention in preference to party scrambles for places, and party disputes for the occupancy of office, which breathe of any thing but patriotism. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The official returns of the Public Revenue, contained in the Globe of yesterday, confirmed the anticipations we were enabled to offer on the preceding day, as to the results they would present. There is, as we stated, an aggregate decrease on the year ending Jan. 5, 1841, as compared with that of 1840, of 254,000/. ; but on the quarter ending Jan. 5, 1841, there is, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year, an increase of 80,602/. The Customs present a decrease on the year of 85,873/., and on the quarter of 398,3991. This decrease has been occasioned by circumstances which, to some extent, are causes of congratulation. The abundant harvest with which Providence last year, in spe cial mercy, favoured this country, so affected the averages as to raise the importation duties to an amount which effects an exclusion of corn of foreign growth, and con sequently reduces the Customs duties, which, when the markets are high, are paid on the importation of corn from foreign countries. The continued high prices of coffee, sugar, and other articles of colonial p ro d uce , h ave also tended to diminish the amount of duties received on the liberation of these articles from the bonded ware houses ; as purchasers for retail have been naturally un willing to make large purchases with a diminished de mand occasioned by the less quantity consumed by the labouring classes. The Increased difficulty of procuring articles of which, when the prices arc low, the poor are the largest consumers, is obvious, and the result on the revenue is equally plain. A rapid improvement is, however, visi ble in our West India colonies within the last few months, and there is now a certain prospect of obtaining yet more abundant supplies from them of the articles which have recently been supplied in lesser quantities at an advanced rate of charge for production, while the po pulation were in a state of transition from forced to free labour. We may therefore anticipate an improvement, where there has been a deterioration in the revenue from this cause. The same observations will apply to the dimi nution of revenue which the high price of tea has tended to occasion. The amount of duty received on this ar ticle of constant and universal consumption is large ; and has always been found to be in proportion to the facili ties afforded to the labouring classes to obtain it. The disputes with China raised the price of tea to an en ormous extent ; and the result naturally was a greatly diminished consumption, and consequently a corres ponding decrease of revenue. The anticipated perma nent arrangement of the dispute with China, and the more secure and advantageous basis on which the trade will henceforth be placed, will give an impetus to com mercial intercourse with that country before unknown. These are advantages in which all will share, and from which the revenue will in future be largely augmented. (From the Standard.) We are all one nation, with one interest, and that one interest is best promoted by, as far as we may, equa lising and extending our industry and prosperity through every part of the United Kingdom. And we have urgent motives for doing so. England has now the lead in manufactures, but she must exert all her energies to keep that lead ; for the cheaper rate of living on the Continent of Europe, and :the abundance of water power, gives her continental rivals an advantag e which it will demand all her resources to comb at with success. The first and the most obvious of these resources is to bring into use the idle popula tiort of Ireland, running to waste like their mountain streams, adequate to put in motion 100,000 mills. Sir Robert Peel, in reply to some dull Anti-Corn-law orator, made the wise declaration that it is " neither possible, nor, if it were possible, desirable for us, to prevent the establishment of manufactures on the Con tinent, because, through whatever means our near neigh bours acquire wealth, we must profit by it." But if we must profit by the wealth of strangers, it surely follows, a fortiori, that we must profit by the wealth of our fel low subjects, who, besides the necessity of sharing all our burdens, must, to a great extent, share with us all their gains. Can any one doubt that the manufactories of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Ste., have en riched the rest of England ? and why shall not manu factories in Irish counties have the same effect ? We have said enough, and perhaps, for one day, more than enough, upon this subject ; therefore we must postpone what we could wish to add as to the deep interest which the agriculturists of England have in particular, that Ireland be made, as far as possible, a manufacturing country. (From the Courier.) We arc not amongst the number of those who, re joicing in the glories of the British arms, and the vindi cation of British honour, in the East and the far East, would, with niggard hand, mete out that share of meritorious participation in achievements destined to historic renown, which corresponds as justly to the head which conceived as to the hand by which exe cuted. The triumphs of Syria and of China redound scarcely less to the honour and reputation of the Go vernment at home, by which in the first place the ma terials al ere prepared and combined, than of the gal lant officers and men of the sea and land forces em ployed, who have so nobly discharged the duties of their mission and so pre-eminently re-established the waning splendour of their country's fame. To the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs it must be no mean gratification to have his name associated side by side with those of men so distinguished in arms as the Gallant Stopford, Napier, and Elliot. Having our selves also, with some reservation only in respect of di plomatic forms on the preliminary discussions with Franco, recorded our assent, and yielded our humble support to the general policy of Lord Palmerston both on the Egyptian and Chinese questions, it would ill be come us to withhold the frank expression of our opinion, that when decisive action was deemed necessary, the measures adopted for rendering it effectual to the end were no loss skilfully prepared than promptly carried out. In this award of praise to whom praise is due, we do not forget that the East Indian Government and the Admiralty may fairly claim to enter far a large proportion ; for without their hearty co-operation, the splendid exploits of Syria and Acre, and the diplomatic " hungmaon," or w th o e uld still remain to y r p e a d rit b io e n ard a s n , d ” i p n a o c r ific ne v a ic r t p or e y ki o n f , be consummated But it must not be forgotten that the efficiency of our glorious navy, as now in a great degree restored, but previously mismanaged and dismantled so weakly and perilously by the Whig Go vernment is solely and wholly the meritorious result of the constant vigilance and persevering excitements of the Conservative Opposition in Parliament, and of the Conservative press without its walls. COUNCIL CHAMBER, THURSDAY. (Before Lord BROUGHAM, the VICE-CHANCELLOR, Mr. Justice ERSKINE, and Dr. LUSHINGTON.) CHRISTIAN AND WIPE V. GIBSON, ESQ. Tills was an appeal from an order in Court of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Is.e of Man. It appeared that previous to the Yen; 1704, by the Common Law of the Isle, the inhabitants had the right to enter upon and dig for and carry away stone wherever there was a quarry, upon the payment of a reasonable and fair remuneration ; and that right was 'further se cured by an Act of Tynwald of that year. The appel lants were proprietors of an estate named Claughbane, near the town of Ramsey, upon which there formerly had been a quarry of ex ce ll ent stone . I n th e C ourt below, evidence was given that about thirty-six years rgo the Court-house, the Church, and the Quay of Ramsey had been built of stone brought from it. In 1813 the proprietors endeavoured to shut up the quarry, and closed the road leading to it, but one of the deenasters of the Isle, wishing to build, applied for leave to take stone from it, and was refused permission. He presented a petition to the then Lieutenant-Go vernor, who, after hearing all parties, granted it, and ordered the Coroner of the District to remove all obstruction to the free working of the quarry. The plaintiffs then complied with the order, and opened up a new road in order as they said to prevent the deemster from using the old one. It appeared further that in 1815, the proprietors of Claughbane were deter• mined to shut up the quarry, and planted it all round with trees, as also the road made in 1813. In 1838 the respondent bought a large piece of valuable building ground in the neiighbourheod of Ramsey, upon which he determined to erect houses, and as the Claughbane stone was so superior to any other in the neighbour ihe v o a o n r t l , e d h , e oafp courselied for p l n e a t v h e e p t a o y n t l a c k n e t of what ea s o q n u a a b n l e t ty com pensation, but leave was refused. As it was of much importance to him, a mas o n having offered to build 21 per yard cheaper with that stone than any other, he presented a petition to the Leiutenant-Governor, and obtained its prayer, and from that judgment the plain tiff appealed. for the a The ATTO RNEY -G ENERAL an d Mr. Parker appeared the Act relied upon, part i es h a d a right to stone onlyellants, ppellants, and contended tha t ac c ordin g t o from the most convenient quarry, and it was in evidence that there were many situated as conveniently fur the purposes of the respondent as that of Claughbane. Besides it was in evidence that the quarry had not been opened during a period of upwards of 21 years, and therefore in law it had ceased to be a quarry, and the right, as land, had reverted to the proprietor. • Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER, and Mr. Campbell, appeared for the respondents, and contended that the judgment of the Court below was in strict accordance with the law of the Isle of Man, and of all the prece dents ; and as to time, it was clearly laid down in the books that a quarry was a stone mine, and that once a mine always a mi ne . The Court was cleared, and after an absence of half an hour parties were recalled, when Lord BftouGua.m said the Court had decided that the judgment of the Court below was good, and ought to be affirmed with coats. C6NTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Pierre Francois 'Pitlpin47, 40, was indicted for felo nioesly stabing and wounding David Santer, upon the high seas, and within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, with intent to murder him. Mr. Payne appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. Mr. David San ter deposed that he was master and part owner of the brig Hannah, of Dundee. In the month of October the vessel was on her way to Fal mouth from Odessa, and when she was off Cape Figuiera the men were turned out to work, and the prisoner, who was one of the crew, was ordered to tar the rigging. He did so in an improper manner, and witness told him io do it properly, and not destroy the property. The prisoner called him a vagabond and a big rogue, and refused to do what he was told, and at the same time said he would do for witness. Witness then ordered him below, and told him he would rather want his work than be always bothered with him. Tile prisoner refused to go below, and repeated that he would do for him. Wit ness then called a man named Mackay, and told him to take the prisoner below. Mackay and another man, named Watson, refused, and the prisoner said he would not go below, and abused him ; and witness at length struck him with his right hand, and knocked him down on the deck, under the starboard catbead. There had been a combination among the men in the ship since the Bth October, and one man was in" loose confine ment" on account of that combination. The men came upon deck, and made a great noise. At the same mo ment the prisoner stabbe him in the belly with a knife, and he was severely wounded, and his bowels protruded. He crawled down into the cabin and laid down on his back, and his wife and his mate tried to get the bowels hick, and they strapped the wound over with plaster. The wound was not yet healed, and it was not expected ever to be so properly. The prisoner was then placed in confinement in the forecastle, where he was kept for a month, and until the vessel arrived atFalmouth, which was about a month afterwards. Two or three minutes elapsed between the time when he struck the prisoner and his being stabbed. By the COURT—There was no struggling or fighting. Witness knocked the prisoner down, end he lay upon the deck, and he then ordered the other men to take him down below, and they refused. The men had been very violent, and he considered his life in da►,ger. Cross-examined—The crew consisted of eleven per sons besides witness, whose wife and child were also aboard. I only gave the prisoner one blow and a kick with my foot before he stabbed me. I will swear that is all I did to him. I did not give him two blows, and I never heard him cry " murder ;" if he had I must have heard him. I kicked him just as he went over on the body, but I never kicked him on the face. I believe I was on the deck in the morning after the oc currence, and did my duty, but I was not able to do it. The vessel was navigated afterwards by my orders. The prisoner shipped with me as a Belgian—the rest of the crew was composed of Englishmen and Prussians. I did not keep the ruen for 21 days on rotten beef. I remember a complaint being made by the crew at Odessa, about some maggots being in the beef. I told the men I could get no better provisions, and that it must be eaten. It was only the top of the cask that was bad. I ate the same myself. I never told the men to starve, and be d—d. The crew did not tell me while I was kicking the prisoner that I should kill him. I did not say " d—n him, I will kill him, for he has been upon me all the voyage." The prisoner went down into the forecastle of his own accord, and t.l2e hatch was lashed down with a chain, and he was kept there until the vessel arrived at Gibraltar, where he was put in irons. He was there five or six weeks, and during that time he had a quart of water and two bis cuits per day, but sometimes he had more than that. They were Russian biscuits, and weighed more than half a pound each. 1 don't know that the prisoner was obliged by hunger to scrape up some linseed that formed part of the cargo, and to eat it. I believe that he did eat some linseed. One of the crew begged me not to treat the prisoner as I did, for I should kill him. Before the prisoner struck me I called him a -- va gabond, and a-- rascal. The prisoner did not say to ine, " If you treat me as a captain should, I will do my work as well as any man ;" neither did he tell me to keep my hands off him, and he would do all that was required of him. ite-examined.—He never complained of the beef while they were in port, and they could have gone on shore and complained to the authorities if they pleased. By the COURT.-4 did not see any knife in his hand whe❑ he stabbed me. I had seen him working with a knife in his hand a short time 'oefore. We'llham Lunn, the mate of the Hannah, proved that on '24th of October he heard the captain complaining of the way in which the prisoner was tarring the rigging, and the prisoner refused to do it the way he told him, and the captain struck him, and they fell to words together, and he heard the prisoner call out murder several times. Shortly after this witness went down in the cabin, and found the captain lying on his side, and there was a wound in his belly, and his inside was hang ing, out, and witness assisted to replace it, and plaster up the wound. Cross-examined.—The captain was lying down on his back in the cabin. I cannot tell how many blows the captain gave the prisoner, but he hit him more than once. - I don't know how many times he kicked him. They were beating each other all the time. I had the charge of the bread on board, and while the prisoner was battened down on the forecastle, I gave him two his. cults, and sometimes two and a half a day, with a quart of water. He was confined for seven weeks. The prisoner had three quarters of a pound of biscuit every twenty- four ~hours, and that was the allowance ordered for him by the captain. I only gave him what the cap tain ordered. Thomas Mackay deposed that he was carpenter on board the Hannah, and he remembered the quarrel taking place. He heard the captain call the prisoner a rascal, and tell him to lay down the brush he was tar ring the rigging with, and the prisoner replied that the captain was a -- rascal for using litn as he did. The captain struck the prisoner directly, and knocked him dawn ; and, as he was attempting to rise, he knocked him down twice more. Cross-examined.—One of the men came up, and begged the captain not to strike him again, or he would kill him, and the captain replied, "-- him, I don t care ; he has been on me all the voyage." The captain was going to strike the prisoner a fourth time, when he drew out his knife, and they met each other, and the captain was cut with the knife. The cap tain then ordered the crew to take the man below, but they said that it was not neces sary, for he was so much hurt that he could not stand on his feet. The prisoner, as soon as he could get up, walked down into the forecastle, and I) was fastened in it. He considered that the prisoner was most brutally used by the captain. One of his eyes was completely closed up, and he could see v ry little out of the other. He was both beaten and kicked in the face by the captain, while be was lying on the deck. He screamed, " Murder," and it was then that Watson went to the captain, and begged him to desist. Witnes saw the prisoner eating linseed and water, while he was confined. He considered that at the time the prisoner stabbed the captain, he was about to strike him again. The prisoner was a quiet inoffensive roan on board the vessel, and was a good seaman. He had heard that he was formerly captain of a vessel himself. Mr. BanoN RoLvs: remarked that this was hardly evidence. A seaman, named Watson, was then examined, and his evidence was of a similar tendency. George Julian, a constable, at Falmouth, delposd that he went on board the Hannah when she arrived at Falmouth, and took the prisoner into custody, and asked him for the knife, and he replied that it was n his box, and witness searched and found it there. Mr. Cornish, a surgeon, carrying on business at Eli m outh. deposed that ho examined the wound in the prosecutor's side. The muscles had healed, hut a por tion of the intestines, about the size of a walnut, pro truded. The wound :appeared to have been about an inch and a half in length. Mr. CLARKSON then addressed:the Jury on behalf of the prisoner, and contended that it was time bruit! attack that was made upon him by the Captain, that was the cause of his using the knife in his own defence. Mr. Baron ROLFE, in his address to the Jury, com mented upon the circumstances of the case, and said there could be no dou'>t but that the prisoner had re ceived very great provocation before he made use of the knife. The conduct thtit was pursued to wards him after the transaction, by confining him, and half-starving him, was quite unjustifiable on the part of the captain, and he was liable to be indicted for it. The Jury, however, had no thing to do with that part of the transaction, because it took place subsequent to the wound being inflicted, and the only question for them to consider was, wheth,er the injury was inflicted under such circumstances as to justify the present indictment. The Jury found the prisoner guilty upon the third count, charging time intent to be to do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Baron ROLFE then sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment. Mr. Sergeant Arabi❑ sat in this Court in the even ing, but no case, of any importance was disposed of. POLICE IN TELLIGENC E. GUILSHALL. Richard Jarvis was charged before Mr. Alderman Johnson, with fraudulently obtaining goods from Mr. John Calvert, of No. 49, Whitecross•street. The prosecutor stated that Jarvis had been in the employment of a customer of his, named Watson, and he was in the habit of calling at his shop for various ar ticles, by Mr. Watson's order. About nine weeks ago the prisoner left Mr. Watson's service, and since that time had obtained a great number of articles in the name of his former employer, the orders for which were found, upon inquiry, to be forgeries. The prisoner, who declined making any defence, was fully committed for trial. A very young boy, named William Edwards, was brought up in the custody of Police Constable :355, ,;barged with stealing a box of figs, the property of Mr. Graham, grocer, of Ludgate-hill. . _ . The policeman said that he saw the prisoner snatch up the box, which lay a few feet inside the shop-door. sad run away with it. Alter a sharp run he succeeded in capturing him, in a court leading from Ludgate-street to the Broadway. Mr. Graham's shopman having identified the box the prisoner was committed to Bridewell for one mo nth THE PARIS PENNY-A-LINER. We call coureur de nouvelles him who supplies the petty news inserted in our newspapers under the head of Faits Divers, and which in press terms is called Faits-Paris. The coureur de nouvelles must have two qualifica tions. As he must solicit he must be audacieu.r et fluet, as the solliciteur in the play. Behold the man, survey him quickly, for he will be off and escape your view. At the office itself be appears but to disappear. Like the eagle he brings his booty to the nest, and flies off in quest of fresh captures. With a slim body and legs, a broad hat, an umbrella under his arm, a safe foot, keen eye, paper in hand, and inkstand in his pocket, he sallies forth at a venture. To lounge and look about by profession, to be the historian of every incident. solemnity, and disaster ; such is the lot of the courear de nouvelles. He is the confidential secretary of the capital, the Tacitus of the ILuievard, the Thucydides of the public thoroughfare. Who marries us? Who buries us? Who examines for us the state of the atmosphere? Who sees monu ments rise and fall, empires subverted and erected ? Who attends our funerals? Ye all will name that Argus who, like the solitaire of d'Aulincourt, sail tout, volt lout, entend tout, est partout. Oh! how many Kings he has sects rise and tumble down ! How many buildings constructed and sub verted ! He has seen and spoken to the man iinpri soned and killed ; he knows all about you and me ; the thought is enough to make one shudder. But fear not ; the good man is a very tomb of discretion ; he repeats only what he can honourably disclose. Scandal never comes from him. Yet how heroic must the discretion of a man be who has stripped more human beings and unroofed more houses than Lesage's Diable Boiteux ! Not a slate, not a tile can be removed without his leave. None can murder without his visa. None can extract a hair from our head without his inquiring into the deed. He fixes at within a line the height of the river, the direction of the wind, and the mercury in the thermometer. Like death, he has übiquity and omni potence. He has acquaintances everywhere, even under the executioner's roof The most renowned coureur de nouvelles of later times was Mathieu Donzelot, alias l'enfonee pave, a nickname derived from his solemn steps, which he re gulated by beating time and strickiHg the flags with a long ivory-headed cane. Donzelot's lodgings were on the Qum aux Lunettes, if he may be said to have lodged anywhere, for he was perpetually ex. ploring every street, nook, and corner of the town. He was at all fetes, and the witness of every mishap and disaster. If any illustrious man were to be buried, old Donzelot adapted his mien to the occasion. He hoisted a crape band to his hat, and crept into a mourning coach. He then became all ears and eyes, gathering lamentations, intercepted sighs, shed tears with his fellow mourners, and took notes. In the morning, before he sallied forth, old Donzelot consulted the sky and the barometer which ornamented his garret ; then, taking up his cane and inkstand, he would say —" Rai❑ ! We shall have people slipping and crushed under carriage wheels ;" or " The weather is stormy ! We shall record some cases of mental drrange ment and hydrophobia ;" or, lastly, " Cloudy and gloomy ! Fine weather for spleen—let us hunt after suicides." According to these probabilities Donzelot regulated his day's operations. One day Donzelot's weathercock lay in the direction of an enzezite wind. The coureur hastened to the Place du Pantheon, where the students were getting up a little riot. The moment he appeared a shower of stones hailed him. " Good !" exclaimed Donzelot, "it begins in proper style ;" and, without any dismay, he estab lished his observatory on the most perilous spot. A friend passing by earnestly entreated him to take to his heels. Donzelot, heedless of his advice, drew his watch, and recorded minute by minute the various stages of the enzeute. " Will you not go ?" roared again his friend. " Not I," replied the news-hunter ; '• but since you are flying, hare the goodness to leave this with my news paper, and tell them I remain on the spot to send them the sequel." An hour afterwards confusion was at its height. The two parties came to blows, the Municipal Guard fired, and a bullet struck Donzelot. A surgeo❑ hastened to him. " You arc wounded," said he. " I am," replied Don zelot, " and severely too, for I cannot write." " This is no time to be scribbling," roughly observed the practi tioner, "we must attend to your wound !" "My busi ness," replied Donzelot, " is to relate the occurrence, and you must do that lor me. Just write the following transcript : . . . "‘ 'Three o'clock, p.m.—Alter a discharge of mus ketry made by the military, three wounded and one killed were counted on the side of the people.'" " Who then is the dead man ?" inquired the surgeon. " 1," returned Donzelot, and he expired ! He ~xpired, like Epaminondas, on the field of battle ; like Turenne, like Bayard. He died like Moliere, on the theatre of his achievements. With old Donzelot the ancient and bright prototype of the coureur de nouvelles was extinguished. Since hitn the news-hunter has degenerated. The Gazette des Tribunaux has dealt a tremendous blow upon that wandering industry. The other newspapers borrow the day's doings in that able record of crimes. Scarcely have three or tour of them got a coureur betwaen them, whilst formerly every paper had its own. Nevertheless, the coureur 'le nouvelles still wears a broad hat, slim legs, and a little eye. He runs, listens, and observes. Obsequious and good natured in his ordinary intercourse with mankind, he becomes haughty, cunning, and important whenever those vices can yield him the information he wants. He is insinuating, and sneaks into places to which he has no admission ; there he walks with head erect, and from the height of his greatness drops a wo"d that overawes sentinels and door-keepers. He has passed himself off twenty times far a Deputy, a hundred times for a Peer, and if he re grets anything, it is that he is not a Knight of the Le gion of Honour, to render his frequent usurpations more probable. There are common-place things which never escape the coureur de nouvelles. His narratives prefer women to men, and it is no fault of his if women be not rather young than old, and eitceintes if possible, which renders theni still more interesting. Bricklayers that fall from a scaffolding are always married by him, and indebted to his humanity for a large family. He neglects none of those trifling artifices which prop the main fact with secondary details. Conscience. in short, has deserted the coureur de nouvelles. They have now more imagi nation than legs, and more ears than eyes. What cares he if the profane know not how to appreciate his merit. He passes as glorious as the sun, casting tor rents of news over his obscure blasphemers. He will cheerfully reach the end of his life of self-abnegation ; to his last gasp he will make himself useful to the un grateful paper which he feeds, and which so poorly ac knowledges that food. lie is the man to die in such a manner as to supply his paper with a very curiousfait- Paris. He will carry with him into the grave but one re;ret—t hat of not having been able to announce first, and in his own fashion, the news of h 3 death.,---Paris THE LATE THUNDER STORM. LIMERICK.—On Saturday night we were visited with a tremendous gale of wind, blowing from the north-east, which continued the whole of Sunday morning up to nine a.m. The hurricane, at intervals, threatened to raze from the ground tenemvids in our neighbourhood. It was one of the most awful nights we ever remember ; not far short of the late memorable storm, which unfor.unately destroyed so much life and property. The vessels in the river and at our quays suffered a good deal of damage ; but, had the wind proceeded from the south, much greater injury would have been done. WORCESTER.-THUNDER-STORM.-Between five and six on Sunday morning, this city and neighbourhood were visited by a storm of thunder and lightning, accom_ panied with violent gusts of wind and showers of hail. The terrific howlings of the blast, and pattering of the hail weakened the effect of the thunder, though some of the peals were very loud. The lightning was vivid and frequent. \Vc have not heard of any damage having resulted from the storm in our immediate locality, or of much in the neighbour hood. At Upton the electric fluid struck an apple_ tree belonging to Mr. Merrell, rending it its pieces, and setting a portion of it on fire, which, notwithstanding the rain, continued burning till nine o'cl( ck. It is believed the tree was struck about five. From the accounts which have yet reached us, it may be surmised that the storm was pretty general throughout England. SurFoan.—On Sunday morning, between the hours of four and five o'clock, this town and neighbourhood was visited with a violent thunder-storm, accompanied with a heavy shower of sleet and a strong westerly gale. The peals of thunder were unusually loud and prolonged, and the lightening remarkably vivid. The Hon. Charles Hanbury Tracy has acceded to a requisition calling on him to come forward for the re presentation of Monmouthshire, in place of Mr. Williams, who retires shortly after the meeting of Parliament. Not only divided parts re-unite, but even por tions completely separated and cold, and parts of different bodies. A soldier's arm was struck off at the battle of Arlon, with the exception of a piece of skin and the sub jacent vessels and nerves, and yet the muscles, bones, &c,, completely re-united in about eight months. Garengot saw a nose unite after being bitten off, trampled upon, and allowed to lie in the dirt till it was cold. Dr. Balfour saw a similar occurrence in the instance of a finger. One will be found by Dr. John, others might be quoted. Trans plantation, for instance, of the cock's testes to the hen's abdomen, as well as of the spur to the head, is very com mon, and the latter was mentioned nearly two centuries ago in Bartholin, and by Duhamel, as very common in poultry-yards,—Elliotson's Duman Physiology. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TITTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. Ycs!erday was little better than a blank day; the ° ' ilf r , bets lad being 14 to 1, in tires, agst the Rosalie colt; 2 " to 1 to 101. agst Coronation ; 27 to 1, in punks, agst C 7 nelion ; 35 to 1, in tens, egat Waliab ; 60 to 1 to /..:?'• agst S,rnoom ; 1000 to 10 agst Ben Brace ; 2400 to Ib (3° on the Nob agst Macheath, and 400 even ibetween Neg us and Macheatb. It would a mockery to attempt a quotation Mr. Weather ell's Longslight 'was expected to rea ch Scott's stables on Wednesday to be trained for the Liver pool Cup. DIPLOMATIC ET IQ U ETTE. An anecdote which has scarcely transpired even At Frankfort, where the occurrence has recently tak en place, proves what importance is bestowed on preee‘ (knee by the diplomatists of Germany. According t° custom, the Ministers of every country give precedence it home to the members of the fort ign diplomacy Th is is but a compliance with the ordinary rules of politenc ss whereby the m as t er o f a h ouse a l ways ce d es l e pus to his guests. At Frankfort, as elsewhere, the Die t ' which is on its own ground, does the honours of preee' deuce to the Ministers of foreign States ; but in the way of reciprocal courtesy, the Ministers and Envu) s to the Diet have resolved to give up the pas to the president of that assembly, so that the corps diploma; tique have the pas after the president, but before all the other Members of the Diet. It is the Austrid Minister who is in possession of the Presidency ; he was present all was therefore se ttl e d ; b u t having left Frankfort for a time his station devolved ad interim to the Prussian Minister, who, though but temporal' President, laid claim to precedence over the forei4 o diplomatists. Hence the momentous discord we ba c° to record among the events of 1840. Mr. Anstell, the Russian Minister, to whom 1 ‘ 1 ; d'Oubril has now succ e eded, had i n vit e d th e cor ps e ll ' plomatique to a dinner at his house. According t ° him and his colleagues, it was the French Minister, a ° being the senior member of the diplomatic body, s sl3° was to have the pas ; according to the Members of th e Diet, precedence was due, on the contrary, to Bare ° de Nagler, the Prussian Minister, and ad interim Pre' sident. It was with these jarring notions that all th e guests assembled in the drawing rooms of the Russia ° Legation, when all eyes were directed to the two dipir, mntists upon whose spirit, dexterity, or nimbleness t 1 1" decision of so grave a question depended. The 0 9 , ment the folding-doors were thr o w n op en , an d th e worti l l " Madame la Baronne est servie" were uttered, the Ed' voy of Prussia, who was evidently on the watch, leaPe, from his chair across the room, and gallantly tendered hi s arm to Madame d'Anstell, luckless France being still il l search of thejlady of the house, when triumphant Pruss ic had already secured her seat at table by her right sid e ' M, d'Anstell, who had beheld the issue of both s' ° , nceuvres with indignation, entered th e di n i ng - ro om aft er the other guests, and anxious both to arrange the corP diplomatique and soothe Gallia, roared out to his ° i s : sals, " Vous servirez d'abord la soupe a Monsieur Ministre de France !" The order was executed, sad a ° votage was handed to the Court of Berlin until th °l of the Tuileries, making up for its previous sluggiohne s , i ; had had leisur e t o conve y it s s p oon re p ea t e dly from it plate to its mouth. The soup retaliation would see o to have given great satisfaction to the guests, since it affirmed that they nex t d ay d espatc h e d cour i e rs 1 " their respective Courts, to inform them that the qu e tion was settled, and th:.it their Ministers would hee ee ; forth secure precedence in the tureen when not V ie enough to assert it elsewhere. Pugnacious as France has proved herself of later: i t, it is fortunate for the peace of the world that her 1 1 / 4 93 ''; ter obtained the support of Russia at the Franitfr r dinner, the account of which we derive from the ReoSii des Deux Mondes, for that he had the worst of it ° I ; will agree who prefer fair lady to soup, whether a Julienne, Aurore, la Reine, or /a Bonne Feninie• was lucky also that he was not an ambassador, o.l l ° , description of Minister is, in diplom a ti c etiquette, tall, only one considered as representin g hi s S overe ign, „, the other classes, such as Envoys, Mi n i s t ers , Resici e 'i i Ministers, and lastly, Charges d'Aff a i res , h av i n g a tri llc v less majestic character. The soup satisfaction was P r t , baby accepted the more willingly, as to uphold his P e ,, sonal rights the French Minister would have had !), appeal to the odious treaties of 1815, in compliance 01 4 which diplomatists rank among themselves, in 61 ' class, according to the priority of arrival. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS, neaL. k/aLs. Per Quarter s. to s. Rath ....... CO 72 Blaudford 56 (3 Bridport 68 Chard 58 64 Gloucester ;58 C 4 Exe;er Guildford 65 71 Newbury :A) 67 Reading 4- Salisbury 52 65 Shirborne I t 4 6 . 2 Sheldon Mallet 56 64 Uxbridge Warminster I 6 66 Winchester , 60 64 t r eovil 5B 60 S. t S. 20 33 CO 33 s. to s. 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