The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-09 00:00:00

'MORN ING SUN ire levi e d chiefly on the necessaries, or on the 'posed necessaries of life, and which will only off as the population are starved out t. If such works as those published by .Messrs. Chambers, the Penny Magazine, Cleave's Penny Gazette, &e., &c ., should llnlinish i n sa l e, that would be an index to the u_eteriorating condition of the people, which it 7 ° ° l d be judicious, we think, to put the public Possession of. Tradesmen of various kinds, deal in the little luxuries of the poor, can, o ,th,ey will, throw much light on the condition 0 ` the people, by stating the progress of their vril business. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND ihtbitt Opttaton, " 117 w runs may read." , N. _ POIZEION. sA -He blank of France has issued a notice that it will —r an ee of of the value of stock deposited . in its "ands, according to its usual terms of transacting busi inesse ' to effectuate the payments of the three next instal- Ar e i to ,,q the New Three per Cent. Loan by persons who nice mers o f i t. lion. Mr. Fox Strangways, British Minister Ple .Petentiary to the Germanic Confederation, gave a r in d full d ress ball on the 2d inst., at Frankfort, i n °eour.m.of the bi rt h o f t h e D u k e o f C ornwa ll. All th e th e 4-n Ploniatique, the local authorities, and most of T he Pe_ rsons of distinction at Frankfort, were present. ll elow attniber of guests were 400. .At supper the Banilis finis and Fritsch, the Prussian and Saxe-Coburg thttiters, proposed toasts to the health of. the Queen, the', 114 of Cornwall, and Prince Albert, expressing, at *C i a rne time, their wish that the good understanding Beanie has so long existed between Great Britain and the Iltfluanie Confederation might be long continued.. . The hsh . . 1e.... Minister acknowledged the compliment in suitable - •148. It 1 .• tkj rumoured that M. Guizot, having been strongly C by the Belgian Government to conclude the pro tVelnmercial treay with Belgium in time to submit !pkilDe Chambers at t e commeneement of the Session, 4 'is *nte d a Commission, with M!' - liossi, Peer, of psi l !e, at i ts head, for the purpose'of accelerating the t ' ) th„ e t ss of negotiations, but that the fact having come . th e k nowledge of the parties 'interested in preventing bitC°llelusion of the treaty, they exerted themselves eto n sll ,eh effect, that the subject was brought before the !tiv'",; of Mipisters ; and that, after a sharp discussion, oef e : ueeided that the treaty should not be concluded a e ,1 Th e T r e opening of the Session. N ii , - ''Layors of Pan's have just published the pro ir It ri le of the gratuitous course of instruction in sin t Di,. Ate t , - ,. en by the city in the municipal schools. T el48; 1 " now takes place in fifty mutual schools, a d rid B t o en o cult s of adults ; upwards of 4,000 children an ° IN; p r ofit by it in its full extent., and more than 12,000 itole'.ekieritiare receiving preliminary instruction of the Th e ?) • hi eh t resse says that the changes of temperature very ver y have occurred during the past month have a Il4q)eNtidicial effect on the health of the capital, and the s ear] o f of deaths during November have exceeded by l aoritf, ° lle-half the average of any of the three previous tet o t ' (8)1 0za t r ga, the Spanish Ambassador, is preparing to eta f or ', c 'r Madrid, to be present at the opening of the the 'uxed for the 26th inst. Several of the attaches of I`Cassy are already en route for Spain. have Bentinelle of Toulon, 2d inst., states that orders li lle : Just been received in that port for four sail of the kt t° hovers] light vessels, and the steamer Brandon, to edi: e a, immediately. The ships of the line are 'l the Bo I N CU'', 120, Jemmapes, 100, Ville de Marseille, t hat tTereux, 80. Victuals and stores were sending on ' 44 th; hose ships with rapidity, and it was rumoured L em t were destined for the Levant. tier°, :art de R o th esa y h a d an au dien c e of the Ern : Til , r, Russk dentials. ia on the 20th ult., at which he presented v1 '4 41441 4 Session of the Transylvanian Diet was ' en the 1 5t h ult., with the usual ceremonial. Th PUBLIC OPINION. kfr •° 4 • 0 4. gMe Herald, referring to the Exchequer bill .h t f ,' Pl ' e a - d a Ys :—" The course pursued by Beaumont Smith ,'hav e i l s ag ' Guilty '—(by the bye, this plea appears "414: "een recorded without the usual precautionar . y l'ach,lens which the Judge is accustomed to make in 4 .e - " er , s es, or any pointing out to the prisoner the inevit te;l:iseqUences of his determination)—this course ",t 1 th e 5 Y Precluded the necessity for calling Rapallo ' '", e lat' s ,, lv lness-box, and the public from learning the 4 , - De 4 ,' 2 .7., 'le had to make—if any. And were there none 1 11 48 12 , — n e ssof unusual interest—of unusual importance „, t 'vse „--"y redolent opine criminations involving some of Im e ,„, eare e , l iQC'rabl e If ..Isibility, aaddarkly dat in the significant r ang a ddress of the prisoner, as ' invested with o utii !ler e , te... Power, and ta . lent wlc could not resist ?' i `dal " such revelations to be made the defrauded B ea have advi ce some right to question the soundness of the ha v il 'annt s' !t * upon such advice he acted, tendered to t -1 ~ .t he n te , ,k _ telth, i nas much as w hilst it may be said to el--. 4 - i t t Te:it - Z ti him in an oubliette of legal and civic ex were" 'tea i`i: L ed a loophole for the safe escape of more -ifs 1 4°1 , it i, 7 1 e and more guilty criminals. If there ee l) o 4 ,' i i ?, shou - i d i ae-C,, nceivable why, .up to Thursday last, La I 41 1 'lave been the object of a strong and '"e t and P i'eal to the civic magisterial authorities, and -41t -' e e rgo rigorous examinations and imprison %he ,i.ti , f %p, Ch rOill'ele makes the following, observations on ~,N eill iar po ition of Sir Robkim Peel :--" Thpre i's , 4 *-ii s re ll- . .NSCan s ee in the . he . haviour of every organ of •tt on 1 4 in the press which would. shake, any faith less in lit it 4 than that which we havethe truth of its con- Ni assertion, that the present Ministry is the mos t It a cting united, and trusted Ministry that ever met N i a hllieti l di n ners. There is one circumstance that Nrkif we had not the word of the Times, the I 'N / i t ' and Standard, to the contrary, make us d so i , that there is a screw_ loose somewhere, an 111 T . ' apprehended ; and that is, that every . organ of q ` ° l'Y part has carefully provided, and is perpe . tu- It Y I NC y • r.% • I ng to its own particular . means of retreating it Present connection with Sir Robert James I,eat 4— b eannot be connected with the same Govern t'''' P ' eel must make his election ; and of course, as ko q aPists said in Titus Oates' time, "to pot James N),,,, t) ." The Times has its own casus belli with Sir a - ,i' ;if he does not repeal. the Poor-law he ;' ; 13et ned man ; he must go the wa . y of Tyler."— R ` ll ,ty t- r , are tvvo parties among the Tones who, though t P: It Y use him as their tool, have an innate distrust of h o ° hen pm. The one is the high aristocratic squad, er g the all for the old Castlereagh system, o_ f dragoon i4taPe, be '"Pl.e into passive obedience ; and the other is t v • ll Ythi;, e ,of the drivelling bigots of Toryism, who resent m. 1 4 ,‘ t ; Qii g o ,L i ke i. Reform or innovation as an. impeachment ist, -11 ioresight and sagacity. one would fain h lt ra :. 11 . th eir Premier carrying matters with a lofty and t i Z t ttitir:l2au,thority ; and the other would havehim eat him . all, but just stand stock-still, staring . stupidly Nev e r as they themselves have been in the habit of k ct4 N since they could count ten on their f finger rs s. i t , l e t hese two, and the opposition of the Reorine , t o e p't is like to have a troublesome time of . it. _ ,N I , al o m st thus holds forth on the text furnished by 11 . N ett er!ston at Bridgnorth :—" While Lord Pal olth t h Proclaims to the illustrious burgesses of B . r . i . d- A at t h . t a ,: 3 rtsii, , e victory of his political opponents will be lv - f t ,, t 're, :": and while some of his friends, in a poetic a v ti n ll4 . ti 1 1 : 1 , 4 6 that ' the glow of hope is upon them,' 11 a ye 'eading journal of Whig-Radicalism incul decaldirt P Y different lesson. Whether this argues 11 'ere!) o f ! • h and actions, on to-. Art , ne e intentions ! hopes, ,illl llc l l l . r °` the ex-Ministerialists, we need not stop . k i.,(l 1 0. N who is acquainted with them titt .t Cl u e - an, t h a a nd t ° t s h o o ey n,e will g t back to office as soon ef them have of late been giving 14110 1 ) 1 : .n ag r a i i (i ti le v li e l r eells indications me that they intend to get 'Prh:f t4D' e, : Y soon. Of this the Spectator has taken to ~,th'e t, 'n order to show that these . Whig patriots, 414ee,d j o pe o sk so confidently of their probable return ael, t are to l' e t take an ai sto show how the mea !ltztitik T he l r carted to which they have pledged them s to be to get their places le ht s t hA v o i n n zl: to ienteernsaelemdi,sselnsion which they look for re en s ar „l'rvative party.' will not be by the dis liort d ee i"ung the Ministers, t bu . but by the bold and ge e Y pri deer of the people in favour of . anti-mono 'qq 4 eipl lial l Pow e es, that the Liberal party will again get Yth i " And unless the Tories change very mate -1..?,i th eir Present course of policy, it will not be long tt. o , ll ts ea „ Places are supplied by the Liberals. a t o ‘'llt st ., - aet possibly continue much longer in their V,.' 4 4e, h7, t e, • The contagion of distress is now affecting_ t ri ptir i ,;V' every branch of trade. It is not the manu a 11 1 "tilse mis triets only that are suffering, but every tow th:so ti r t l e , t where any thing like a trade is carried on. it hi t ,,e st . ellimes in with the north, and the, east w an t! . 01' di' sr , lll one loud, heart-felt complaint of distress there 11 ,. ) : 1 1 set J,Pointrnent. And are we to be told that h k.by a "Y for this condition of affairs—and to be told 1 4 • tit '(I set of men who are paid expressly for doing Ic t i t Y ' Y s t ° Us ? Are we to have mockery added to hil t eriz;i n Jr. Robert 'Peel little knows how thoroughly Ph' canner is is the ground he stands on, or he would not 4 (3‘ ( 4 ,11 `' fel r o s Illith such ineffable sung fi . .oid. 4 S lot • 'nag is from the Time! .—" Lord Palmer- Alt. ' 4l s t • ev o i A O .PI e of its present discouraging aspect, is Ittilligh' ili :C r n d dr h y i little cheering er passages, after all. nd stood to suffer more men "l (T r ,?, s siori from th P e l u s p u -break of the late Cabinet than r,Cally's.ether members, his superior sensitiveness is lirby" i ye in indemnifying itself with small and thqu'ih e e 'rls w ola . tio rs n s . Amidst the universal desertion hi have recently experienced, the 4i,ii:kept,tr,ia Shropshire 6 Town-Council are hailed by the t mh:lvo-r44l:i,scount. as the pledge of a happier future. 4k.iiiicartiel,ilisFantiriess of addresses complimentary to , t r a ct ' ,the o Ministry, naturally tempts his Lordship . to io n ill. ridgnorth eulogy as a v . ery . singul . a . r dis bt'ades ' a eu 1r the fervid terms in which the noble re. CI, ‘ 11. (1 -. , tre turns thanks to the authors of that document at;4)..Pir.tk"):.,j_ns.t criterion of the sanguine hopes it has 4{ 1 , 1 ' is h ope should certainly infer that Lord Palmer -1:,,t1 as d ing' himself in readiness to kisshands_as 4 4 1 , 4 ' Peli t i2, 1 )'-laiesty and Parliament m k e Is el,' a ! Influence of Lords J. Russel a l y and Palmer -4.1?t er art Y Proved !ly the sensation that their move te'ele e a te among the Tory Journals. I Neither of the 1 , 1 „lee et aid s tan stir an inch, or speak so much as a sen- L l°6 sr % P, ll hile meeting, but they instantly throw . the . ' c t i,. 'Ort lit t t t " Ito hysterics. The Times is specially agt- O k ',l4i q e hhject—an involuntary homage to citiag...._iftli‘t'oeoeuxi-d.ll.litu'sters, which it would dispense with itepe:44eetiser thus expresses itself on the subject of a s titet e _ec'llection at Manchester for the relief of the p a st k eo.'Peratives':—" We are happy to be able to state " r Pose ti o r s n ittee his been formed in Manchester for the 1 "cerving immediate contributions, however small, in money ; which will be applied the moment they. are received to the relief of those whose necessities are most urgent. This is as it should be ; it is what the extremity of the case demands, And, we trust, that the announcement of the committee, that they are ready to receive subscriptions, and to incur all the personal trouble consequent on seeking out the fittest objects of charity, and administering to their wants, will not be made in vain. Under judicious management a comparatively small sum may be made productive of incalculable good. For example, we can state, from pri vate sources of information, that many of the more ex tensive manufacturers are willing to give large pieces of cloth to be made into garments for those who, ai this in clement season of the year, have scarcely a rag where with to cover themselves; but then it cannot be expected that these benevolent persons should also give the money necessary to pay for the making of these pieces of cloth into articleg of wearing apparel." MONEY-TRADE-COWLMENCE. At a meeting of the journeymen printers, held last Thursday in Edinburgh, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best method for alleviating the distress of the unemployed letter-press printers in London, it was finally resolved—" That a committee be appointed to draw up an appeal to the nobility, gentry, and the public generally, in behalf of their unemployed brethren in the metropolis, and be empowered to receive subscrip tions for their behoof." At an Anti-Corn-law lecture, delivered on Tuesday by Mr. Sidney Smith, in Marylebone-lane, he stated that " the poorer the locality the richer were the public houses, and the more magnificent the gin-palaces. It was literally a true saying, that sorrow was dry.' The poor unemployed labouring . man poured liquid fire down his throat, to drown fur a time his pain and sorrow." AGRICULTURAL. At the show of the Horticultural Society in Regent street, on Tuesday, there was a dish of rare but fine fruit, called the purple guava, from the gardens of Lord Sondes, at Swaffham, Norfolk. Also some oranges and a shaddock, grown out of doors, by Mr. Wigels worth, of Clitheroe. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Martin Von Wagner left Rome last month to resume his functions as Secretary to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The celebrated sculptor Thorwaldsen is suffering at Rome under catarrhal complaint. He employs himself in making designs, said to be of extraordinary beauty, more especially one series, in which the seven days of the week are represented by Genii. The brother of Stothard, the artist, some years since recovered in Normandy the lost effigies of several of our deceased English monarchs. Stothard now pro poses that they should be deposited in the Abbey of Westminster. A high mass was lately performed before forty luna tics at the church of Bicetre, by order of Dr. Lewret, who considers that nothing is better capable than music, along with the cultivation of the mind, to procure a return towards sanity. The Papal Government by decree has placed several new works in the Index. Amo lig others thus honoured are " Ranke's History of the Popes," and the novels of Babzac. No English hook figures in the list. LAW AND POLICE. At Guildhalr.on Tuesday three men, named Griffin, Steptoe, ".and Sharman, were charged with stealing a bale of silk, value 1201., from the Chipping Norton wag gon on the Ist of December. The waggoner, who was also a prisoner, had turned evidence against his accom plices. As further evidence was required, the prisoners were remanded till Friday. A summons was issued on Tuesday at Bow-street, at the instance of a common informer, against Mr. Yates, proprietor of the Adelphi Theatre, for allowiag spiri tuous liquors to be sold on the premises without a license. At the Woolwich Police-office, Mr. Clark, the respect able proprietor of the Three Dews public-house, ap peared on an information laid against him by the police authorities, for suffering drunken and disorderly persons to assemble in his house. The clearest evidence was adduced that a number of drunken soldiers and women from a neighbouring house rushed into the tap-room, and that the landlord had made every exertion to prevent them entering, but without effect, and had refused to serve a drop of liquor. The case was dismissed on pay ment of 2s. costs. The case of Snasse v. Dick (the Member for Waldon) was struck off the list on Saturday, because the plaintiff's attorney had not re-sealed his record.• The action, how ever, will come on shortly, as Mr. Quintin Dick rejects any thing like compromise, and is resolved to defend. Four men attached to a notorious gang of poachers in Lancashire, known by the name of the " Long Company," have been taken taken into custody on sus picion of being the murderers of Mr. Grayson, the farmer, at St. Helens. SPORTING. _ _ _ _ _ Frederick Vane, Esq., whilst hunting with the Oakley hounds, seriously broke his ancle last week. He is now doing well at Lord St. John's, Melchbowin Park. COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Earl and Countess of Kinnoul have left their marine residence, near Edinburgh, for Dupplin Castle. The Earl of Cadogan will give a dinner to the Fo reign Ministers on Saturday next, in Piccadilly. The Earl of Tankerville gave a dinner-party in Mansfield-street, on Sunday. The Earl of Aberdeen will give a grand dinner to the French Ambassador and a distinguished party to day, at Argyle-house. Lord Lyndhurst will give a grand dinner-party on the 14th instant. MISCELLANEOUS. The monuments erected in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, at the public expense, from the year 1750 to the present time, to the number of about 54, have cost the nation 82,1751.. Commissioner Lin and his favourite wife, attired in the splendour of the Celestial Court, have been added, we perceive, to Madame Tussaud's collection. Governinent, it'is Understood, have determined on of fering, a reward for the discovery of the persons who set fire to the premises at Chitton, Berkshire, on the 22d of November last. The old oec 'tree, planted 300 years ago, by Bishop Ridley, in Pembroke College Garden, was blown down by the hurricane of last Monday. Tuesday was the anniversary of the execution on Tower Hill of Algernon Sydney, the famous English Republican, in 1683. He was the second son of Robert, Earl of Leicester, tried by Judge Jeffries, along with Lord William Russell and others, for the Rye-house plot. One of the first acts of the Revolution was to re verse his attainder. All who maintain the principles of free Government honour his name. A meeting was held last evening at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, Dr. Bedford in the chair, to propose ad dresses of congratulation to the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, on the birth of the Prince of . . Wales. The meeting was not well attended. The loyal address to her Majesty was agreed to with an amend ment, praying for an inquiry into the complaints of the people, pardon to all political offenders, and for the Charter to become the law of the land. Addresses were then moved to Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent, and amendments, in both instances, to consider them that day nine months were carried by great majorities. RUMOURS or THE DAY. Mr. William;, — TiTefu;eTite candidate for the Profes sorship of Poetry in the University of Oxford, will be elected. He has a majority of three to one among the residents, a circumstance which, it is thought, will have a great moral effect upon the country masters. The new Popery mania has made great progress within the last few weeks, attributed by some to the remarkable de rangement of the magnetic instruments, and Mr. Mur phy calculates that if the strange phenomena should again manifest themselves, the University of Oxford, in less than six months, will be more Catholic fgan Maynooth. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS. The Lord Mayor said yesterday, at the Man sion -house, that he felt the highest gratification in announcing that he had received the following liberal contributions for the relief of the dis tressed people in Spitalfields, within the last two days : From W. Body, Esq., of Mark-lane, 501. From the Rev. J. H. Fisk, of Norwich, through the London and Westminster Bank, gpo/. From Richard Wood, Esq., through the house of Child and Co., 1001. From Mr. Justice Bosanquet, through the house of Bosanquet and Co., 501. Fromi John Hall, Esq., of Weston Colville, Linton, Cambridgeshire, 501. STOPPAGE of the TWEtD BANK. The following notice was posted on the door of the Tweed Banking-house, on Monday morning:— "'Messrs. Batson, Berry, and Co. beg to in form the public, that, owing to unavoidable cir cumstances, they are obliged to suspend payment.' " Berwick, Dec. 6, 1841." (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BERWICK, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 6, 1841. The Bank did not open to-day, and the above bill was issued about eleven o'clock. The public had the utmost confidence in their stability, and there is hardly an individual in business but has suffered in consequence. Many have lost their all, and the circumstance has caused a very great sensation. I have not heard any reason assigned for their failure ; but there are many heavy individual losses, and it will be a long time before the town recover, from the shock. EXCHEQUER. BILL FORGERY. MR. RAPALLO. (FRON A CORRESPONDENT.) In consequence of Mr. Smith leading Guilty, the prosecutors did not go before the Grand Jury to prefer a bill against Ernest Rapello, who stood indicted for a like offence, and in consequence he was discharged on Tues day night. lie had not left Newgate half an hour before an Inspector of Police arrived to intercept his egress, or to lodge a detainer, upon a new charge of uttering similar Government documents, but the bird had flown. A good deal of surprise was expressed that the bill was not submitted to the consideration of the Grand Jury, as there were forty-nine witnesses indorsed on the back of it awaiting an examination. There appears to have been a great deal of mis management (to say the least) in this affair, from be ginning to end, and the public will not be satisfied until the truth is more fully disclosed. Our weathrr has been fearful ; rain, rain, rain, such as we have not seen in this town for twelve years. The consequence has been a very great deal of sickness ; especially in the shape of scarlet fever. Several children have fallen victims to it. Yesterday a north wind, searching and bitter, brought dryness on its wings. It is to be hoped, as the glass has been gradually rising since Thursday, that it is the commencement of a change for the better, as regards the elements and the general health of the community.--Boulogne . Gazette of Monday. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. In the market for, the•l3ritish securities the operations to-day were not of magnitude, but the quotations were welt supported. There is nothing just now to exercise any material influ ence upon speculative transactions. Consols for Money realised 891 1, with the 'dividend, and for the opening 89k 1 ex div. Exchequer Bills were 10 to 12 premium, and India Bonds 2 pre mium. The Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities were 881 to 881, and. the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced at 981 to I. There was a partial revival of activity in the Foreign Market, as regards the Active Spanish Bonds, and, owing to the improvement at Madrid, the rates advanced a little, having touched 24 to 241 for Money, and 241 for Ac count. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were heavy at 331, and the Three per Cents. at 191. the Mexican Bonds were as high as 26k, and Colombian as 201 to k. Brazilian Bonds of 1839 were at 55; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 511 to 521. An advance occurred in Shares, which were taken rather more freely by purchasers. All the lines participated more or less in the improve ment. Great Western were 171; Gosport Junc tion, 51; and Birmingham, 71 to 72 premium ; Brighton were 14 to 131; Croydon, 21 ; and. North Midland, 34 discount. National Provin cial Bank of England shares were 1 discount, and Provincial Bank of Ireland, 151 prem. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 7.—The sales to day are 2,500 bales, without any change in the market. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 7.—The business reperted in this market was, Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 22i. ; Grand Junction, 198 ; London and Birmingham, 32/. shares, 541 ; ditto new, 25i ; North Union, 75i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 7.—There continues to be a very good demand for Manchester and Leeds, and Manchester and Birmingham Shares. Man chester and Leeds, 60 ; Ditto, Halves, 25 ; Ditto, Quar ters, 31 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24 ; Manches ter and Liverpool Halves, 92 ; Northern and Central Bank, 4L Bs. 6d.; Union Bank, si ; Manchester and Sal ford Bank, The British Market opened steady, with but little doing. Consols for the Account are 88i -I ex. div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88f 2; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 98kf; Bank Stock, 165 166; Exchequer Bills 10 12 prem. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock has slightly improved upon the closing quotations of yester day, being now 244 ; Passive, 51 ; Deferred, 12+ ; Portuguese Five per Cents, 33k; Ditto, Three per Cents., 194.20 ; Brazilian Stock advanced yesterday 2 per cent., and a good deal of business was done ; they opened this morning 61 to 63. The ghare Market exhibits an improvement in Lon don and Birmingham of 2 per cent., having been done at 162, and are nominally 161 162 ; North Midland 66 ; London and Brighton 36i. Consols, Account, 88f ex div. ; Mexican, 26i ; Spanish, 24 -I. _ BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock — India Stock ..... ......... 3 per Cent Red. BBl ;Ditto Bonds 2pm 3 per Cent Cons B9ll 'Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red.. 9Bk Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 99i Ex. Bills, 1,0001—.21d 12 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 l2 pie Long Annuitiestoexpire , Ditto Small. . Jan 1860 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 !lndia Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese, _5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per eel Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent.... Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 24i Ditto, 1824 ... ..... Ditto, Deferred ... l 2 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. . _ Greel,lB:ls, 5 per cent. Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 26i French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2A per cent b2 Peritvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. 14i i Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Cheltenham and Great Western (72* paid) 17A Great Western Railway( 65 paid) B2A Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 9 Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) London and Brighton (50 paid) 36A London and Birmingham (90) ., 161 Ditto Quarter Shares ( b paid) 24 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) .. 254 London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) 6 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) / 1 } Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 3l Northern and Eastern (35 paid) ...... .... 22i North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) Paris and Rouen (12 paid) /0A South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)......... 17i SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield has published a very long letterin the columns of the Siamese twins devoted to Wakefield-principle—we , mean, of course, the Colonial Gazette and the Spectator. In this imposing proclamation of " principle" Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield de clares that he shall not admit that his "principle" has been fairly tried, till Government shall resort to a system of borrowing money to carry it into effect! Now, then, the murder is out; and we know what this school means by National Emigration. It has been curious to trace the progress of the " Wakefield principle." Ten or eleven years ago it was announced assuper seding, all action on the part of Government beyond the merely allowing free play to the " principle." It was to work its speciosamiracula, if the Colonial office would but laisser faire. The Wakefield principle was to be all-sufficient to open Paradise in every wild. But now it appears this princi ple cannot work, if Government won't borrow money for it. Oh, most lame and impotent conclusion ! Government, then, is to borrow money on " the Wakefield principle," for colonization by wholesale. What is the object commensurate to such a stride beyond its right functions ? Forsooth, the giving a " fair trial" to " the Wakefield principle!" What is the secu rity? The scientific accuracy of" the Wake field principle." But how if " the Wakefield prin. ciple ' has no pretension to scientific accuracy? Government surely can't entertain a doubt so in jurious ! It would be little short of imputing fallibility to Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the Spectator, and the Colonial Gazette, and drawing down on.the Government the same dis interested hostility which every previous one has incurred which failed to espouse implicitly their sanguine schemes ! We are utter unbelievers in the boasted sufficiency of this " Wakefield prin ciple." It has some trite enough truth in it, and a prodigious deal more of delusive assumption. STANDARD.—It is said that Sir Robert Peel employs the present Parliamentary recess in making inquiries as to the prices, the rates of wages, the condition of the labouring classes, and generally the resources of the several corn coun ties in Europe and Asia. It is acknowledged that these inquiries, if properly made, are likely to prove useful, which is an admission that they are not unnecessary to a perfect knowledge of the subject, and, as such, they sufficiently justify the Premier's refusal to improvise a re peal or modification of the Corn-laws, when strongly urged to do so, about two months ago; the necessity for these inquiries, too, even up to the present time, reflects an unfavourable light upon the rash enterprise of the late Cabinet, made so long ago as the month of April, and if we believe its authors—which, how ever, in candour, we own not to be the case —determined upon twelve months ago. The inquiry ascribed to Sir Robert Peel is per fectly in accordance with the conscientious and prudent character of the statesman to whose care the destinies of the empire are happily committed. Nearly twenty years ago the late Mr. Cobbett, no complimentary critic, acknow ledged that " Mr. Peel was distinguished from every other politician of the time by the care which he took always to make himself thoroughlyacquainted withfacts." And whoever has watched the Right Hon. Baronet's course can scarcely have failed to observe that, excelling as he does excel, all competitors in the qualities of a public speaker, he excels them still more in a perfect knowledge of the facts connected with every great question that comes before Parliament. This is the characteristic which distinguishes Sir Robert from the great' states men of the past ages, as well as from the greatest among his Contemporaries. He has never in 30 years been caught tripping, never found in a rnis-statement, or even a mistake, as to the matter of fact, this must be the fruit of extraordinary sagacity, sound judgment, and im mense labour, stimulated by con sc i ent i ous zeal— attributes of a statesman, , scarcely en h anced i n value by even. Sir Robert Peel's eloquence. MONEY MARKET and ciTy NEWS. FROM THE,MORN!IiG PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TES.—The suspension o f Messrs. Batson, Berry,"and' Co., bankers, of Berwick-on-T wee d, was fortnally announced this morning, though no reason was given by them for their stoppage. Yesterday there was a rumour of their suspen sion, which now turns out to have bee n well founded, but even those parties who had th e b est means of information were so uncertain as to the real state of affairs, that it was advisable to take no notice of the matter until better authenti cated. The bank is not of any great magnitude, and its stoppage can scarcely occasion any run on the other banks in the vicinity, as they are known to issue only Bank of Englandnotes. POST.—The mails received in town yesterday from Mexico Pring some intelligence from the mining districts. The Director or the United 4. s THE SUN, LONDON, THURSD Mexican Mining Company, unable , to bring the, Sardanapala family and other Proprietors either to agree amongst themselves or to accede to the terms offered by the Company, had resolved to close the mine and suspend all operations; con ceiving it better policy that the Company should wind up their aff a i rs an d rea li se, (st ill claiming one million of dollars as a mortgage on the mine due to the English Company) than submit to dictation or imposition. The Brazil mail brought the informatiOn that the 20,0001. deposited twenty years ago as a guarantee for the d u t y now re d uce d, is to be re turned to the B raz ili an Mining Company,agree ably to a vote pa sse d i n t h e Ch am b er o f D e puties - to that effect, to which reference was made yes terday under this head. The question of interest was not settled. The returns at the mine were at the rate of about 51b. of gold per diem, and the prospects of this Company, owing to the dis covery of some large veins of jaeotinga, look, on the whole, more cheering than for several years past. The stock is rather better, having risen from 4/. and 31. to 6/. and Si. per share. The Bankruptcy Court has been occupied for some days past, as it seems likely to be for several days yet to come, with a case, the exami nation into which has already led to some extra ordinary disclosures. The evidence thus far given is ex parte, and we therefore abstain from entering, for the present, into details. We may, however, observe that much of it is of a nature to bring disgrace upon firms that have heretofore stood well in the general opinion. The showy warehouses fitted up in the leading thoroughfares are, it is quite evident, in too many instances started by moneyed people for' no other purpose than that 'of promoting, for their own benefit, a system of plunder of the most wholesale description, which is carried on by means of fictitious credit, or rather credit based on false appearancPs. The extensive.kale of manufactured goods of late at much less than the prime cost, of which numerous examples. have been detected, has rendered it apparent that they could have been obtained only by a species of thieving. XOXIWEIVIBER 9 5 1841.1 COURT CIRCUL A R. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.-Prince. All;4 l enjoyed the sport of shooting, this morning, in the neighbourhood of Sandpit-gate, attended by Sir Edward - Bowater and Mr. George Edward Anson. Her Majesty and Prince Albert left the Castle to-day for an airing in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, attended by the Countess of Gainsborough, the Earl of Warwick, Lady Catoline Cocks, Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish, and General the Hon. Sir W. Lumley, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Sir &Bowater, on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, walked on the terrace of the Castle. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson will have the honour of joining the Royal Circle at the Castle at din ner this evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester had a dinner party on Tuesday evening, at her residence, Gloucester House. The company included their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge ; their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi lippsthal, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. Lady Augusta,Somerset was in waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Baron de Spesshardt (Chamberlain to the Duke of Saxe Meiningen), was in waiting on his Serene Highness. Her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Wei mar left Marlborough House at a quarter past four o'clock yesterday morning, to embark at the Custom house for the Continent. _ _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, left town yesterday morning, for his residence at Kew. _ _ His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, attended by his Chamberlain the Baron de Spesshardt, took his departure from Marlborough House shortly be fore twelve o'clock yesterday, for the Continent. Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi dence in Downing-street. Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office. ►SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—On Tuesday morn• ing a female named Imms, living in Gloucester-street, New-cut, Lambeth, committed suicide by strangling her self with a piece of tape, which, having twisted round her neck, she made fast to a nail of not sufficiont height from the floor to suspend herself, and then, by bending herself backwards, drew the ligature so tightly round her throat, that she effected her purpose. The cause of her commit ting the dreadful act is attributed to a quarrel she had had the previous evening with a man she cohabited with. An inquest will be held on the body this day. The Strasturgh papers state that a serious mutiny occurred a few days sinee at Mannheim in the HMO of Detention. The prisoners barricaded them selves, in a court, and several of them were severely wounded before they submitted to the soldiers and the police agents sent to restore order. ATIEMP-TED SUICIDE BY A GlRL.—Be tween five and six o'clock on Tuesday evening, Mary Broomhead, between thirteen and fourteen years of age, the daughter of respectable parents living at No. 8, Brewer's-green; Westminster, was brought into West minster Hospital, suffering under the effects of having swallowed a portion of sugar of lead. She stated that she had taken it with the intention of committing sui cide, as she was tired of living at home, and wished to go out in the world, which her parents objected to. The usual antidotes were applied, and she is expected to recover. STATE OF TRADE, --11l Haslingden, Burnley, Colne, and the neighbourhood, the woollen and printing trades are very bad ; prices not only being low, but em- PloYment scarce. The masters, in some instances, are even going the length of making considerable reductions in the wages of their managers. Thin calicoes, 28 yards long, for printin, for the Persian trade, principally , are now woven at bid. per cu t, b y the h an d-l oo m weavers, who size their own warps also ; and num b ers, a l t h oug h eager to do so, are unable to get work at this rate, which is greatly embarrassing the power-loom trade, as that branch cannot, with any profit, manufacture them at the same price, because th e manufacturers who employed hand loom weavers have little capital at stake, and are at no ex pense either for steam power or machinery. Last week but one, a ;manufacturer at Preston paid the wages of 200 weaver34ith 91. A gentleman from this neighbour hood was passing through Edenfield on Saturday last, and saw a female prostrate on the earth. She was re moved into a house, and, on recovering, Was found to be a respectable female thrown out of employment by the stoppage of a mill, and at length had turned out to beg, being almost hungered to death. The, day was wet and windy ; and, being almost exhausted to commence with, she had fallen down, being at length overpowered by buffeting against the storm. REPORTED LIVING ENTOMBMENT. -- A TOUCH OF THE HORRIBLE AND RIDICULOUS.—The town of Manchester was " thrown into a state of great excitement" (to use an ordinary newspaper phrase), on Thursday evening, by a report that a man had been dis covered to have been wandering about in the main sewers under the streets of the town for upwards of two days, unable to extricate himself, but that his moans and cries of distress having at length been heard in the streets, the authorities of the town were taking active measures to disentomb and set him at liberty, provided he should survive long enough. We have since heard the following account :—lt is stated that a man was em ployed to empty some filth from an uninhabited house in Dickinson-street, and was putting it down the eye of the sewer in the street, when he was startled with a half-smothered cry, apparently from below, of a man who said, " For God's sake don't put any more of that stuff down here, or you'll smother me !" When the man's alarm had sufficiently subsided, he inquired who the mysterious petition came from, and was an swered " Bill Gregson," and that he had been em ployed repairing a sewer in Deansgate two days before, but having undertaken to explore the sewer to see if it was not stopped up in another place, he had lost himself, and been wandering about ever since. A policeman coming up was told the same tale, and he made it his duty to report the case at the office. The result was, that Mr. Shorland, surveyor, was communicated with, and feelings of humanity overcoming more prudential inqui ries, nearly a dozen men were set to open the sewer in Dickinson-street. The story . was the more readily be lieved by the police from the singular fact that a man of the name of Gregson was missing, against whom a sum mons had been issued. On opening the sewer we believe the men at once expressed a conviction that the whole thing was a hoax. The sewer, it appears, does not exceed three feet in depth, and is one of the line of sewers through which the river Tib flows, and when opened was so deep in water that it was impossible any living being could have existed in it past a few h ours . These facts having been related at the Police-office, inquiries of a different kind were set on foot. It appears that in the house which the man was carrying the filth from there were two painters employed, named Joseph and John Tilbury, one of whom, being a ventriloquist, had exerted this singular power out of a pure "lark," to frighten their companion. The affair, however, is likely to be no "lark" for them. It has cost the town about 121., and the two brothers, we understand have been in the hands of the police, and called upon to give bail for their ap pearance to answer any charge that may be preferred against them, if it shall be found their offence comes within the cognisance of the law. — Manchester Times. We stated, a few days ago, that Sir Robert Peel's agents were on the Continent, collecting statistical information relative to the prices of food and rates of wages ; but, from some information we have since re- ceived, we are disposed to fear that those gentlemen are not applying to the best sources if they really wish to be accurately informed. Our vice-consuls up the Baltic are, no doubt, very respectable men, but they are most of them, if not all, engaged in the corn trade, and, in many - instances, co nnected with the very men w h o live and thrive by working the averages. However honour ably men may be disposed, they are often themselves un conscious of the extent to which their facts and opinions are biassed by their wishes and interests, and it would be a wonder, indeed, if the consular body on the Baltic were exempt from the infirmities which attach to human nature. The hint thus throWn out may be useful, if at tended to in time. Sir Robert Peel's wish must be to, receive his statistical information in as complete a form as possible, and as nearly as possible approaching to accuracy. SACRED HARMONIC SociEiv.---The annual performances of the Messiah at Exeter Hall are an nounced for the 10th and 17th instant, a fortnight before the usual time. . LITERATURE. • r IVANHOE. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1841. ,;We have here one of the most popular of the Waverley Novels, published first in an octavo form, and secondly in a duodecimo, and in both cases got up with remarkable neatness. These editions are far preferable to the original ones in forty-eight volumes, which were much too bulky. SCOTT'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1841. This is the Fifth Part of the Second Volume of this well-known historical work, and com mences with the proceedings of the year 1806, and goes down to the Battle of Busaco t which was fought in the year 1810. Thp work is singu larly cheap, considering the elegant manner in which it is published. ANECDOTES of CHANTREY, WITH A LIST of his WORKS, CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED. 1782. On April the 7th, our Sculptor was born at Nor ton, a small village on the borders of Derbyshire. 1790. Death of his father ; his mother marries again, and apprentices Chantrey to Ramsay, the poet, then a carver and gilder in Sheffield. 1793. Leaves Ramsay, having served him three years. During the leisure hours of his time, instead of making ornaments or moulds for picture frames, he purchased clay, and, in a small room in Sheffield, wrought, often far into the morning, at his art. Let us notice, here, that there is, among the treasures in the house of the Poet of " Memory" and " Columbus," a table, with the ornaments by Chantrey ; it was recognised, the story goes, by the great sculptor when dining one day at the house of the poet. "Who made that table ?" said Chantrey. The poet named the maker. " No, no !" said Chantrey, "he did not make it, but I did ; I was in his employment ; I wrought those ornaments." Mr. Rogers directs the visitor's attention to the table in the MS. catalogue of his curiosities. 1802. Chantrey, confident of his own genius, pur chases from Ramsay the remainder of his engagement, and in April comes to London. Here he at first painted miniatures, and entered the Royal Academy, where he tear* to draw and model. He painted a likeness of him self in oil, which Allan Cunningham has now over his fire-place. 1804. Chantrey's first exhibited work was a Portrait of D. Wale, Esq., on the walls of the Royal Academy. He then resided at No. 7, Chapel-street West, Mayfair. 1805. In this year he was living at 22, Vine-street., Piccadilly, and exhibited at the Academy three Busts : one of a Gentleman ; one of W. Younge, M.D. F.L.S. ; and one of the Rev. J. Wilkinson, late Vicar of Sheffield. 1806. This year he exhibited a Bust of Bigland, the essayist ' • and was living in Charles-str e et, Si. J a m es ' s . 1808. When at. 24, Curzon-street, Mayfair, he exhi bited a Bust of Satan, still in his studio. 1809. Chantrey in this' year received his first order, one from Mr. Alexander the architect, for four colossal busts of Howe, St. Vincent, Duncan, and Nelson, for the Trinity House and the Greenwich Naval Asylum. He also married, at Twickhenham Church, his cousin, Miss Mary Ann Wale, the present Lady Chantrey, and re moved to Eccleston• street, Pimlico, a place he never left. 1810. In this year Chantry executed a posthumous Bust of Mr. Pitt, for the Trinity House. 1811. In this year his career of fame and fortune com menced. Chantrey had six Busts in this year's exhibi tion, viz.-1. Horne Tooke '• 2. Sir Francis Burdett ;3. J. R. Smith ; 4. Benjamin West, P.P.A. ; 5. Admiral Duckworth ; 6. William Baker, Esq. Horne Tooke and Raphael are among the best of his busts. The delight experienced by Nollekens at the Tooke, we have before related. Chantrey was also elected by the City this year to execute the Statue of George 111., now in Guildhall. 1812. Busts of Johncs of Hafod, Curran, Stothard, and Northcote. 1813. A Bust of Cline and six others. 1814. Busts of the King and Professor Playfair. 1815. Bust of James Watt. 1816. Busts of the Marquis of Anglesey, Sir Everard Home, and Sir Joshua Banks. 1817. Made an Associate of the Royal Academy. " The Sleeping Children," now in Lichfield Cathedral. There is not a more exquisite group in the whole range of modern sculpture than this. The sisters lie asleep in each other's arms, in the most unconstrained and graceful repose. The snowdrops which the youngest had plucked are undropped from her hand, and both are images of artless beauty, and innocent and unaffected grace. Busts of Nollekens, Sir James Clarke ; Bone, the ena melist ; Bird, the painter; and Hokham Frere. Or ders now crowded in upon him as they were never known to crowd before upon a British sculptor. To busts and portrait statues, more than he could well execute, were added orders for poetic figures, left to his own selection, from the Prince Regent, the uke of Bedford, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir Robert Peel, an excellent likeness ; and a Bust, the last he lived to execute, of Lord Mel bourne, for the Queen. 1818. The Royal Academy created him an R.A., and in this year he exhibited his Bust of Sir John Rennie, and the exquisite Statue at Woburn of Lady Louisa Russell, the present Marchioness of Abercorn. The child stands on tiptoe, with a face of the most exquisite and arch ex pression, proud with delight of the dove which she fon dles in her bosom. All who have been at Woburn will will recollect this little figure. 1836. Chantrey was made D.C.L. at the same time that his friend the Marquis of Camden was elected Chan cellor of the University of Cambridge. He at the same time received the honour of Knighthood from King Wil liam IV., and had a Baronetcy offered him; but he re fused, on the ground that he had no one to succeed f4in in the honour. Of Chantrey's statues in bronze there are those of George IV. at Brighton and Edinburgh ; of Pitt in Edin burgh and in llanover-square, London; of Sir T. Munroe, on horseback, at Madras; of George IV. on horseback, for wherever her Majesty's Ministers may choose to place it; and an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, for the City of London. This last, though incomplete, is left in that advanced state by its great artist that a common foundryman may give it all the finish that it wants. We wish that we could say the same of the two statues on one bench of those noble brothers, by birth and genius, Lords Eldon and Stowell; or of the statue of Dr. Goodall, for Eton, or the Marquis Wellesley, for the India House. " We cannot," says a Contemporary, who witnessed the scene, " avoid referring to the solemn sight his body presented in its winding-sheet on the night of the inquest. In an exquisite little gallery, built for him by Sir John Soane, who always was good when his limits were cramped, lay the body of the great sculptor—his eyes closed, his face calm, but with an expression serene and solemn even in death. Above were wax-lights burning clearly, and all around a collec tion of the finest casts from the antique. The Lao coon was at his head, the Venus and the Apollo on his right and left, and around the room the Ilissus and the Theseus, and other of the glories of Greece, with one or two of Canova's own casts. This was no get-up for the occasion—no manufactured pro priety ; but nothing we thought could be more appro priate, or more suggestive of thoughts suitable for so so lemn an occasion. He has left the bulk of his fortune for the sole encouragement of native art. The terms of the will arg not yet known, being as yet unread ; but we believe it is left, not for sculpture, but for competi tion pictures. Sir Francis, not unmindful of the - long and valuable services of Mr. Allan Cunningham, for eight-and-twenty years the foreman of his works, has left him 2001. a year. ANOTHER CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.—On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. Higgs at St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park-corner, on view of the body of Henry Wiggins, a child aged five years. It ap peared from the evidence of William Hallett, of Shep herd's Bush, brickmaker, that about twelve o'clock on the morning of the 25th of November last, witness was at work in one of Mr. Bird's brickfields, opposite to the White Horse at Shepherd's Bush, when, hearing a vio lent scream, he looked round, and saw two children running out of a shed iu the field, evidently in great alarm. Witness instantly went to the shed, and there found deceased enveloped in flames. Witness, assisted by deceased's father, who also hastened to the spot, im mediately extinguished the flames, but not before de ceased had been most dreadfully burnt. In spite of every care and attention he died of those injuries on Saturday morning last. Verdict—" Accidental Death." The Droil states that a gentleman of property arrived in the capital a few days since from the country, and immediately sent for his nephew, who had been for some time resident here. The young man came, but, in stead of embracing his uncle, drew a pair of pistols from his pockets, and swore he would first shoot his uncle, and then kill himself, if he did not instantly receive a written engagement for 5,000 fr. The uncle attempted to remon strate, but the young man was so determined that nothing was left but to sign the paper. While this was doing some one knocked at the door, and the uncle hoped for a moment that his nephew would be deterred from his crime ; he, however, persisted, and would not suffer the door to be opened till he had the obligation, and then passed out as the , other person came in. The uncle has laid a complaint before the police, with great distress of mind, as his nephew, up to this criminal act, uniformly conducted himself with propriety. THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT FLOODS AND INUNDATIONS, says Mr. G. T. Smith, " is the approxi mating conjunction of the two superior planets Saturn and Jupiter, accompanied as they are, in this instance, by the southern declination of all the planets, the effect of which (as far as research will assist and comparison de termine) has invariably been a decided tendency to con tinual rains in summer, and excessive rains or snow in winter." Mr. Smith adds---" Reasoning upon inductive principles, some further proof of the effects produced by southern declination may be expected towards the middle of September, 1842 ; all' the planets but one will then be in southern declination from that period. In the months of Oct., Nov., and Dec., 1842, there will be a continual tendency to heavy rains."—Mr. Smith lays claim to the honour of having predicted the general state of the. weather in 1837 and 1840. If he have such power, the sooner his talents are made available to the State the better. He should be constituted Meteorologist to the Home-office, and the Legislature might, under hisdirec don, pass a Corn - la w in such y ears as 1835, and suspend it in such years as 1838-1841, informing all the world, two or three years beforehand, that th e p eop l e would require great supplies of food. DUBLIN SOCIETY.—The Society having com municated to the Lord - Lieutenant their intenti on - to dis continue the news-room on the Ist oi h J i a s nrry, ll they have b een informed by Lord Eliot that recom mend to her Majesty's Governmen t toupeetietinocnyiVir-1 turkent (so Lord Eliot expresses himse lf) for a g rant of 5,3001. for the current year endi ng 3 1st March, 1842." Dublin Pilot. NEW INYIRMARL—A tradesman at Wool wich, who is a maker and mender of various articles, writes over his door, " Hospital for umbrellas—none turned out incurable." LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, DEc. B.—Wind this day at noon W.S.W. DEAL, DEC. 7.—Wind N.W. by W.—Arrd. Provi dence, Singapore ; Heroine, Traill, Rio Janeiro; Sophia, Pocock, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Royal Consort, Westram, Calcutta ' • Prince George, Foster, Halifax ; Persian, Sunderland for Constantinople. Arrd. from the River—Ophelia and Ann, Singapore ; John Bremer, for Hobart Town ; Sheppard, Swan River ; Valleyfield, Columbia River. Sld. Dovecot, China ; Dartmouth, Bombay ; Tomatin, Sydney. TORBAY, DEC. 6.—Arrd. John, Sligo for London, with loss of sails, bulwarks, &c. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 7.—Wind W.N.W. Arrd. William Shand, Bombay ; James, White, Sydney, New South Wales, sailed 19th July, Pernambuco 23d Oct. ; Mary Worrall, Gardner, Lima, sailed Bth Aug., Pernambuco 27th Oct. ; Janet, Valparaiso, sailed 27th Aug.; James Ray, Rorison, Buenos Ayres ; Nonantam, King, and Tremont, New Orleans ; Rhode Island, Savannah ; Cosmo, New York ; Scotland, Quebec; Diamond, Fayal; St. Mark, Alexander, Savannah. IN THE CHANNEL.—Arrd. Marmion,_Calcutta. WHITEHAVEN, DEC. 6.—Arrd. St. George, Quebec. CORK, DE C . s.—A rr d . M ax i m, Mackie, and Navigator, Monte Video ; Regina,St. Domingo ; Galata, Odessa. LEITH, DEC. s.—Sld. Oceanus, Messina. KINSALE, DEC. s.—A rr d. Dykes, Restigouche. DARTMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Dewdrop, Newfound land. Put back, Maria Theresa steamer, for Marseilles. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Racer, Malta. Sailed Mangles, London. FALMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W., strong gales, with violent squalls.—Sld. Braganza steamer, Vigo. Arrd. off, Phoenix, Boyson, Buenos Ayres, and proceeded for Rotterdam. BRISTOL, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Recovery, Bowman, and Sir F. B. Head, Quebec. GLOUCESTER, DEC. 7.—Arrd. Baron, Hall, Miramichi. MILFORD, DEC. 6.—Acrd. Emerald, Irons, Quebec ; Greenshaw, Bristol, for Sierra Leone. The Lady Grey, for London, which ran ashore on the mud at Pembroke Dock, on iriday night, is discharging. The stern of a vessel has been washed ashore outside the harbour, marked Ann, of Newcastle. LARNE.—Arrd. Chas. Arran, Liverpool, for New York EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Providence, Jackson, from Singapore, in the Downs, sailed 27th June, Anjer, 4th August ; Royal Consort, Westren, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed 12th June, Cape, 26th September; Marmion, Dyet, from Bengal, off the Wight, sailed 28th June, Cape, Ist Oct., St. Helena, 15th Oct.; Science, Rowland, from Mauritius, in the Downs, sailed 12th September; Mary Catherine, Rundle, from China, off Brighton, sailed 6th May, Cape, 9th Sept..; William Miles, Sampson, from Bombay, off Swanage, sailed 4th July, Cape, 27th Sept.; James, Whyte, from New South Wales, at Liverpool, sailed from Sydney 19th June, Pernambuco, 3d Oct.; William Strand, Potter, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed 13th August, St. Helena, 24th Oct.; Mary Bannatyne, Picken, from Bengal, off Margate, sailed 22d July ; Mary Ann, Ikey, from the South Seas, in the Downs, sailed from St. Helena 10th Oct. Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales—Martha, Ist July, from Newcastle ; Lady Raffles, Osborne, 2d ; William Hughes, Robinson, Ann Simpson, Frankfield, 3d, all from Port Philip ; British Sovereign, Spurling, 3d, from the South Seas ; Sterling, Low, 2d, from Bos ton ; Sea Horse, Ewing, 3d, from Hobart Town ; Co lumbine, Capes, sth, from Hull ; John Knox, White, 6th, from London ; Abercrombie, Douglas, 6th, from Hobart Town ; William, Le Grand, 7th, from Launces ton ; Waterlilly, Johnstone, from Hobart Town; Black Warrior, Woodbury, 10th, from Port Nicholson ; Su- lazes, Williams ' frOm Bourbon ; Achilles, Neale, 12th, from London ; Jewess, Crews, 14th, from Port Philip; Herald, Coubro, 15th, from Greenock ' • Duke of Sussex, 15th, from Hobart Town ; Giraffe, Wright, 16th, from China ; Catherine, Somerville, 19th, from Newcastle, and sailed on the 24th to Port Philip ; Terra Nova, 17th, from Greenock and Cape, and sailed, Aug. 22, to Manilla ; Dundee Merchant, Lakeland, 17th, from Ho bart Town ; Georgiana, Stevenson, 17th, from Port Philip, and sailed, 18th, to India ; Malcolm, Malcolm, 20th, from Liverpool ; Volante, 20th, from Valparaiso ; Countess of Dunmore, 21st, from London ; Australa sian packet, 22d, put back, and sailed again, 24th, to Port Philip ; Sultana, Lyell, 24th, from Hobart Town, and sailed, 27th, to Singapore ; Potence, 24th, from Bay of Isl an d s ; P erseverance , 25th, f rom Entry Island ; Piscator ' from Moreton Bay ; Governor Philip, from Norfolk Island; Isabella Anna, 25th, from St. Antonio Ovalle, 28th, from Valparaiso ; Dorset, 29th, from Ade laide ; Magnet, 30th, from Olago ; Marian Watson, from Hobart Town ; Comet, from Adelaide and Port Philip; Lowestoft, 31st, from Launceston ; Enterp:ize, Aug. 1, from Manilla ; Charlotte, 2d, from Launceston; Antoninus, 2d, from Liverpool ; Margaret, 3d, from, Benecarlo; Hebe, Wishart, 6th, from Hobart Town ; Emma, Bth, from Port Philip ; Cadet, 9th, from Liver pool ; Sea Horse, 9th, from Port Philip, sailed, 15th, on her return; Bombay, 10th, from Hobart Town, and sailed 19th, to Moulmein ; Bertba, 11th, from thd Cape of Good Hope ; Lucy Ann, from the Sperm Fishery •, Regia, 12th, from New Zealand ; Nimrod, from Bay of Islands ; Jupiter, 16th, from Launceston ; Australasian Packet, from Port Philip ; England, 17th, from Port Philip ; Fair Barbadian, 18th, from Manilla ; Fame, from the Sperm Fishery ; Cacique, 20th, from Colcutta ; Anna Watson, from Valparaiso ; Helvellyn and Flora, 22d, from Valparaiso. Departures from Sydney-Cheerful, 29th June, to Manilla ; Naiad, 30th, to Newcastle ; Transfer, Ist July, to New Zealand ; Avon, Ist, to South Sea ; Charles Heartly, to Guam; Christina and Thetis, 2d, to Port Philip ; Catherine, 4th, to ; Tare, 4th, to India ; Bright Planet, Bth, to New Zealand ; Sis ters, 9th, to Hobart Town ; Onyx, 18th, to whaling ; Gunza, 11th, to Madagascar ; Frederick Stultz, to Ba tavia ; Venice, 12th, to Manilla ; Australasian packet, 13th, to Port Philip ; Camden, 14th, to South Sea Islands ; Caroline, 15th, to South Seas ;" John Bartlett, to Guam ; Ariel, 16th, to New Zealand ; Argo, 18th. to Guam ; Beatrice, 20th, to London ; Sea Horse, 27th, to Port Philip ; William, 29th, to Launceston ; Jewess, 31st, to Port Philip ; Caroline, to New Zealand ; Ban dicoot, to Hobart Town.; Integrity, Aug. 1, to India; her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror, sth, to Bay of Islands ; Jeannette to New York; Lady Raffles, 6th, to Auckland; Diana, to New Guinea ; Orwell, 6th, to India; Hannibal and Frankfield Bth, to Manilla ; John, Knox and Actress, to India ; Margaret, 11th, to New Zealand ; Dundee Merchant, to Launceston ; Colum bine, and Guiana, to India ' • Sterling, to Manilla • ' Chris tina, 12th. to Port Philip ; Lowestoft, 17th, to Launces ton ; Matilda, 20th, to Port Nicholson. The Cuba to sail in 14 days, and the Australian and Giraffe in three weeksi for England. Arrivals at Mauritius-Peru, 12th August, from Ma dagascar ; City of London, 13t1t, from Bordeaux, and sailed 31st to Moulmein; Juliana, 15th, from Bordeaux ; Maria, from Sumatra • Dream, 16th, from the Cape, and sailed sth September, on her return ; Ernestine, 16th, from Padang ; Lord Saumarez from Algoa Bay ; Mercure, from Nantes, and sailed 28th to Bourbon ; Watkins, 17th, from Fort Dauphin, and sailed Ist Sept., on her return ; Victor Jacquemont, 21st, from Nantes, and sailed 7th Sept. to Bourbon ; Richmond, 22d, from Algoa Bay, and loading for London ; Eleanor, 24th, from Timor, and sailed 31st to Muscat ; Olympe, 24th, from Pondicherry, and sailed 27th to Bourbon ; Reli ance, 25th from Calcutta ; Deborah, from the Cape ; Francis Ann, 26th, from Calcutta ; St. Lucie, 27th, from Lombeck to Rotterdam ; William Allen, 29th, from Point Laree ; Mary Malaby, from Bourbon ; Porcupine, 31st, from Tamatave ; Bourbonnais, from Nantes, passed to Bourbon ; Amphitrite, from Bourbon; Hindley, September 1, from the Cape ; Phoenix, Shaw, Ist, from Rio ; Pioneer, Bargotte, from Nantes ' • Venus, Bener, 2d, from Mozambique ; Maria, Louisa, Taylor, 3d, from Bordeaux ; Pauline, Suillant, 6th, from Nantes, passed to Bourbon; Cinq Freres, Martin, 6th, from Nantes ; Black Nymph, Hall, from Singapore ; Mauricien, Le Lievie, 7th, from Rochelle ; Tenasserim, Taplez, 7th, from Moulmein ; Caroline, Hughes, Bth, from Calcutta • Tanjore, M'Leod, 12th, from London, and sailed to Bombay ; Newburn, 18th, from London ; Stratford, from Calcutta. Departures from Mauritius.-Emma, Aug. 6th, Ta matave ; Ballochan, 18, to Bourbon ; Swallow, and Thomas and Joseph, Crisp, 24 to Calcutta ; Manchester, 24th, to Maranset ; Reunion, Sept. 1, to Bourbon ; Ariel, 3d, to Algoa Bay ; La Perouse, sth, to Bourbon ; Deborah, 7th, to Bourbon ; William Allen, to Manilla ; PoSteu pine, to Tamatave ; Seid Said, and Pioneer, to Bourbon. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. -- A very full meeting was held yesterday afternooa at the Society's rooms, Regent-street, George Loddiges, Esq. , V.p. , - in as the chair. The show, both of flowers and fruit, was very superior, considering the late and in clement season show of the year. There wa s an unus ual l y g o od of with 31ontserrats 4 i z l b e. s. From l l O Z., the gardens of L or d pines, amongst which was an Enville pine, weighing black 7ilbs., from some gard ens at Cobh am , Surrey ; ghing and ja Queen's maipineOf very large size. Sondes, at Swaffham, in Norfolk, was a dish fine fruit, called the purple guava. There rof rare but collection of apples from the gardensof ere Was a large nard, of Dunmow, in Essex ;dens and _ Viscount May gardens of the Society. From m of,rars, from the Clitheroc, there were some oranges , r. iglesworth, of grown out of doors. Amongst and a shaddock, novelties were some new spec the flowers the chief and a very large collection of of orchidaceous plants, gardens of the Society. The chrysanthemums from the ver Knightian medal to Mr, Bisset,sil ver for his Enville pine ; lection of plants ; Mr. G Mrs. Lawrence, for her col- Antrobus, for specimen Green , gardener to Sir Edmund Mr. Miles, M.P for en plants ; Mr. Match, gardener to and Mr. Baton; two pines; Mr. Ross, for two pines; Bateman, f or Banksian orchidaceous plants. Several certificates of • t were also awarded. T he extract from th merit e meteorological register kept at the gar dens, from November 2 to December 7, g ave ;—Baro meter, high est, N ovem b er 7, 30.391 i n ches - ; lowest, No vember 30, 28.845. Th ermome t er , highest, November 12, 63 de g . F. ; l owest, N ovem be;l6, 15 deg. F. ; and quantity of rain, 4.31 inches. FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE WEST INDIA Docks.—Ori Tuesday forenoon,. a b o ut eleven o'clock, a shocking accident, a ttended with fatal consequences , oc curred in the West India Docks, to a youth named John Brundell, 15 years of age, in the employ of Mr. Hatch, plumber, of Osborne -terrace, Commercial-road, East. It appears that Mr. [latch has some plumbers employed on board the ship Good Intent, lying in the export dock. At the above hour the deceased, who was in attendance upon the workmen,was desired to fetch some coals for the fire at which they were heating their irons. Some time having elapsed mid the deceased not making his appearance sea rch was made after him, for some time unsuccessfully,*at length groans were heard to proceed from the hold of the vessel, which was open, and on going d o wn the unfortunate youth was discovered lying insensible on some chain cables with his skull shattered in a shocking manner. He was immediately brought ashore, and conveyed in a cab to the Loudon H os pit a l, but he expired shortly after his admission, MbRNING SUN FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. A few days ago a slater, named Mary, residing at Milli (Seine-Ft-Oise), having scolded his son, a boy of 14, for not going to his work, the lad sent out his sister to buy some st r i ng , qu i et l y s i tting down to eat some dried plums during her absence, and when she had re turned went into a garret, the door of which he bolted, and, knocking a nail into the wall, fixed the string to it, and round his neck, and hanged himself. The mother, having been told by her daughter that the boy was in the garret, called to him, and, receiving no answer, burst open the door. He was by this time quite dead. A Vienna letter says that the reductions in the Aus trian army will be carried to such an extent that 30,000 horses will be able to be offered for sale, and the Govern ment has decided that the sum arising from this source shall be devoted to works of public utility, especially railroads. The contractors for several lines, it adds, had been forced to ask assistance from the State, and the Go vernment had promised to grant it. The Marquis de St. Aulaire, Secretary of Legation at Vienna, has arrived in Paris with dispatches. Captain Leray, who recently commanded the French squadron stationed off Tunis, has been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, a vacancy in the staff having been occasioned by the removal of Rear-Admiral Martineng to the Ist section, or the reserve. The Gazette de France says—" The residence of the Duke de Broglie, who returned to Paris a few days since, is encumbered with visitors from morning till night. Most of them are candidates for the Ministry. The Duke of Orleans visited M. de Broglie, and had a long conference with him. M. de Broglie has already paid several visits to the Tuilleries." M. Martin, a notary, residing at Hornoy, in the Somme, three days since committed suicide by dis charging a musket into his mouth, after having unsuc cessfully tried several (Akar modes of self-destruction. He was only 25 years of ag, and, as the state of his affairs is not yet known, many persons who had placed confi dence in him are under great alarm. The police of Hamburgh has discovered a band of more than 200 thieves, all men, employed in the ware houses of merchants dealing in colonial produce. They have been in the habit of carrying away only small por tions of goods at a time, and giving them to a man, formerly a merchant's clerk, who disposed of them. At the residence of this person immense quantities of these goods have been found, with a book, in which are regular entries to the account of each thief. A money-changer, named Davanne, of the Passage des Panoramas, who has been declared a bankrupt, has just been sentenced by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to three months' imprisonment. It was proved before the Tribunal that the personal and household expenses of M. Davanne were excessive, that his bopks were badly kept, and that, at the moment of his failure, they could not offer any exact account of his situation. We find the following in the Memorial Bordelais : "When we announced the failure of the house of A. Balguerie and Co., we were far from expecting that the Parts Journals ..would mention the catastrophe accom panied by assertions altogether incorrect, and which, had they had any local information, they would have avoided. For example, they have stated that this house was at the head of the undertakings of the bridge at Cubzac, and the Teste Railroad. It is, on the contrary, notorious at Bordeaux, that the house has never had any connection with the above-mentioned grand concerns, and never exercised the least influence over them. We are happy in informing our colleagues of the capital that the re spectable commercial houses wbo have been, and still are at the head of these two great undertakings, are now in possession of all the esteem and consideration in which they have ever been held." A BRETON WEDDING.—The Quimper Journal gives a long account of the marriage of the daughter of a wealthy farmer of Ploare, in that department, named Penerez. The bride is said to have been dressed in a robe of scarlet, embroidered with gold and silver, which cost upwards of 500 f. 'The bridal party, including friends and relations, amounting to five hundred, all proceeded from the farm to the church mounted on horses decked with ribbons and favours. Numberless oxen, sheep, and calves, were killed for the marriage feast, and the consumption of liquor was not less than six bar rels of wine, two of brandy, besides a great number of casks of cider. The, bridal garments of the guests were resplendent in colours and texture. The feast was kept up for eight successive days, and even then was not terminated, as, according to ancient custom in Brittany, the table is constantly replenished with fresh viands until the last which are put upon it remain untouched. Letters are published in the Ministerial Evening Jour nal from General Bugeaud and General Lamorciere, by which it appears that on the advance of General Levas seur's column from Oran towards Mascara, 26 douars or villages—viz., 20 of the tribe of the Douairs, and 6 of the Smelas, came and joined the French, with all their flocks and herds. By this an accession was made to the French force of 350 horsemen, well-mounted, and more than 500 camels. These people possessed and brought with them 254 tents, 3,000 oxen, and 7,000 sheep. They have all been quartered near Oran, and are protected by the Freneh troops and the native allies. Some of the tribe of the Amian had also come over. Last year these people had all joined Abdel Kader. M. Meilheurat has been re-elected a Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Moulins, by 'l l .BB votes out of 517. His opponents,-MM. Bureau de Puzy and Durye, obtained 111 and 109 votes respectively. Dr. Verity has arrived at his residence in Paris, hav ing been in professional attendance on Lord Granville, during his journey to Nice. A cart, containing a quantity of phosphoric matches. was passing along the Rue des Fosses St. Victor, two mornings ago, when, on reaching the front of the Gobe lies, the friction of the inflammable contents caused them to ignite, and in a moment the vehicle was enve loped in flames. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood came out with buckets of water, and extinguished the flames ' • but the horse had a narrow escape, for the har ness had caught fire before he could be got out of the shafts. The cart was saved, though greatly damaged, but not a vestige of the matches was left. The Courrier de Strasbourg states that Messrs. Hol linger and Adolphe, cotton manufacturers, at Ste.-Merie aux-Mines, have just been declared bankrupts, and that M. Adolphe, who was the father of seven children, not having the courage to bear up against his misfortunes, blew out his brains on the same day that the house stopped payment. The King of the Netherlands has directed that, in future, all public acts and writings in the Grand. Duchy of Luxemburg shall be drawn up in the French lan guage, except such as have relation to the Germanic Confederation, and the administration of the fortress of Luxemburg. The Commerce says :—M. Thiers and his leading friends were present on Wednesday at the soiree of the Duke d'Orleans. We are assured that the best under standing appeared to prevail between M. Thiers and Count Mole during the evening. We find the following in the Gazette of Upper Ger many, of the Ist instant :—" Accounts have been pub lished in some of the Journals respecting the financial position of the elder branch of the Bourbons which are wholly incorrect. The Duke de Bordeaux ha no other revenue than that arising from Chambord. ThaDuchess of Bury is in debt. The Duchess d'Angouleme possesses, independently of what she saved before and after the re volution of July by the medium of the Duke de Blacas, a capital of a million and a half of francs in the Austrian funds, which was sent to Brussels at the peri o d of the flight of Louis XVI. The property which the Duke de Blacas has purchased in Austria belongs to the Duchess d'Angouleme, and if the Duke should die she would probably end her days in Germany. At the Imperial Court, where the Duchess d'Angouleme is the object of the most delicate attentions, she and the Duchess de Berri have the rank of Archduchesses. It is said h 1837,p r t ei s e t n t i w e t dt a h s e the marriage f d'Angouleme thepuked, w o h ri o e , an in s with the Austrian Archduchess, now Queen of Naples." ‘‘ A short time since," says a letter fronrColmar, "an inhabitant of Orbey, meeting thatlnTa teas nhedne tt pcsh resolvedaoua tf c r e c , Crooe t nnm o nne h tesnh i m tecr arde t t h wt efhodaer there e w himselfit h ht ee D v , I crimes a s. DsufferingDeschamps, h p as fromthe o mtmh Cure ei ttote d o r to h as the fromno m a h noa bridge ge s e a s l i nnewe va ea ti r on tehs , sem h or e . on his intention, urging him, at the same time, to rely on Divine mercy f or f orgiveness, and, having rece i ve d an assurance that he would nbt p erseve re in his design, left him. Hardly h a d he done so, however, w h e n the man threw himself i n t o t h e water. Th e Cure immediately and, hni after struggling a trugg % !i a n t g ery gforrsaoime.e„time with the torrent, rescued BANK OY BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. — On Tuesday an extraordinary general meeting of the pro prietors of this Company was held at the (dices in St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate, to receive a proposition from the Directors relative to the unissued James John mins, Esq., presided. A s eries of resolutions prepared by the Directors were passed unanimously:, y wh s ic hallh it b is provided that the 2 , 741 shares not yet issued e offered to the existing proprietors at the rate of one for every six, two for every twelve, and so upwards, on con dition of their paying on or before the sth of January a deposit of 10/ per share, and making further pay Ist mens t o th e amount of 404 per share on or before the o f they will be entitled to fax r c e to c o. e 2 i , eti e March, 1843, when whole arrear of dividends, which will at that time amount to 94 per share at the present rate of dividend, which is iarrnibcdcadilly, six per cent. per annum. The present number of shares is 20,000, upon which 401. is paid, making the capit a l subscribed 800,0001. A vote of thanks having b heisTfl mor n_ been passed to the Directors the meeting adjourned. Between twelve and one o'clock yesterdayCrhiattsrl,eswLasovienllt„hoe lug, street, a young Kensington man, named Gravel climb ing over the pailings of the Green Park into p twhen,hesp i i t c h e s r beingo p u e g r h forted the intoxicated, inside 0 f h he i s s lir e P ft ed th , depth of between four and five inches, and tor e b t " by his whole weight hanging on the pilce,int to t he of the state of dreadful suffering to St. George's wound of eight inches in length. lie was 0 a frightful eonve . ..yed in a Hospital, _ _ DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MESSRS. GREEN. WOOD'S STEAM SAW-MILLS, CIIAPEL-STR E ET, CURTAIN noAn.--LOn Tuesday night, between nine and ten, a fire broke out in the steam saw-mills, bel ong i ng to Messrs. Greenwood and Company, in Chapel-street, Curtain road. Immediately after the fire broke out, the fire engines were sent for and promptly arrived. From the combustible 'nature of the property on the premises, the flames gained rapid ascendancy. The engines were i e ns s t ag, the ed . b y fire, r got into active operation, and torrent s o f wa t er were h eleven o' c l oc k th e fi remen ue m o c e a w ed e e but not before immense g n o The fire commenced in the engine-house. The stock and premi ses are insured. At eleven o'clock a dreadful accident occurred to a man as sisting the firemen. lie had both arms severely frac tured, and was conveyed in a cab t o t h e L on d on Hospital in dreadful agony, 11111(41 i 5 led Of 4'501, flour tta )1y 0 and ea t o le' t their i 5 dl. ,res. ,7yer. it)e. be 1