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The BALL in aid of the funds of the Society will take place at the British Coffee-house as soon as the necessary arrange ments are completed. --- ONUMENT TO LORD HOLLAND. NrA i i. no man ever li ve d more h onoure d an d b e l ove d than the late Lord HOLLAND, and no man ever died more sincerely lamented, a natural and anxious desire has been e s x_ ress e d, t h at his memory should be marked by some TE TI MONY of resp ec t, esteem, an d a ff ect i on. Th e following person s h ave sent their names for the purpose of giving effect, to the general wish of paying a due tribute to memory so oved and respected : R. R. H. Highness the Benj. Currey, Esq £lO 0 ) Dal e o f S ussex ...... £5O 0 John Allen, Esq The D uc h ess of Inver- Isaac L. Goldsmid, _ tress ..... ............. 10 10 Esq lOO 100 Marquis of Wellesley ... 100 Doke o f N orfolk Dill, Esq 2 t OC. G . Beauclerk, Esq 3O 0 ) 100 0 Christian Viscount Palmerston lOO 0 Chas. Baring Wall, E p sq, 2 2 6 0 5 0 200 0 Wm. Ord, Esq., U. 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V,.... , i..a y Evans, and Co. u.ls• ................ 10 10 Henry Tillbot, Esq.... 2 2 L i ° o criptions are received bv Messrs. Child and Co.. Tem _eo-bar ; Messrs. Coutt, and Co., Strand ; Messrs. Prescott, r Cund Co., Threadneedle street ; Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and c„ v ", -•lement's.lane ; and by the Bank of the British Linen -°rePaoY, Edinburgh. Ka "' I EI - EDITED by THEODORE HOOK, E sq . vr read/ at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with nu merous Illustrations by Phiz, PETER PRIGGINS; THE COLLEGE SCOUT. Henry C Elited by THEODORE HOOK, Esq. olburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 1118 MAJESTY the EMPEROR, of :_. AusTRIA havinc , AUTHORISED and GUA IVIDENM, yrkich b RANT E,EI) Several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY offer (though they are NO LOTTERIES) many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES. Are HEINE 'BROTHERS, at HAAIBURGH, e now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBU HONS. .persons desirous to purchase for the next Distribution, may re ‘e've, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS - 'ECTUS aml PATICULARS, upon addressing WITHOUT DE LAY a line to T HEINE, BROTHERS , at HANIBURGYI. ,by HE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, manage d an d guarantee d the Ausbrian Government, contains TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DIVIDENDS, Amounting to 1:954,888, R 15,000 The Dividend s b e i ng £ 6OO £7O 0 £37 10 7,500 300 50 0 37 0 ,800 2 00 42 0 36 0 1.200 1,800 15 0 40 10 35 0 100 39 0 THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. uNDER the A NAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIs. THIS EVENING, JAN. Will be repeated Ebaks's MIDSUMMER NlGHT'S pere DREAM. Theseus,' Mr. C oo p er; Q uince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Ali‘r. F. r ieY ; Flute, Mr. Keeley • Snout, Mr. Meadows • Snug, Matthews ; Hermia, ' Mrs. Ni,bett ; Ob eron , Madame silts ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; P uc k, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainfortli. T he N wch, EW GRAND CHRIS After TM hi AS PANTOMIME will be rep e TII E CASTLE OF OTRANTOeatcdentitl ; d OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. 1) Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway antaloon, Mr. Morolli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. On M on d ay, Th e Midsummer Night's D ream , w i t h t h e N ew Pa ntornhne. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to 2Qtreence at Seven o'Clock. Tilkets and places for the Boit.; to be taken of Mr. Grogan, 41 th e B ox - o ffi ce, f rom T en t i ll Four, where Season Ticket tay no had upon application. press Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. W.; First and Second Circles ss. ; .Second Price, :Is. (id. ; Pit, 3 s . ; S econ d P r i ce . sc_; Gallery, I s . • Private Boxes to he had so'ely of Mr. And; ews, bookseller 16 7. New Bond -street. Sp ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Seventh Night of the Grand Chriaitmas Pantomime, and Grand bioramic Annual. The principal Characters in the Panto -1:111rne by the B o l en° F am il y ; Mr. &tabby, the Popular n; Signior Fe lix from Franc un i s , at P ar i s : an d M P e ]Miss Sharpe, • - Will THIS EVENING, JAN. 2, be red a New Domestic Drama, entitl M ARTHA presente WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT ed . Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry 'Vining. Supported by the entire strength of the Company, After which will be repeated the New Comic Pantomime, HA RLEQUIN entitled G ANDER AND MY LADY OR, GOOSEY ~......7ANDER AND THE SPELL BOUND GOSLINGS. am• , TO CORRESPONDENTS. has, We b e li eve , not a r i g h t ; b ut t h ere are pa id gent s of both political parties to attend to the registra tu'n, and he should make his el,itn through one of them. til(ilL WATER Jl oh+i„ AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.NIORItcaV. 9.: . S. I Evening minutes at The l'ubl ieatien •f ' e livening EditiLn of THE SUN corn moteeti IA 20 minutes after Three. C, VA> nn, LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1841. as uur Tory Contemporaries are again speculating, the year begins, on the chances of their friends w illib ing, by some bye-path or other, into office. _, Y e ) however, can see no more hope for them now /4 " at the beginning of 1840. They were then to take office by storm, and Sir JOHN YA RDE BULLER led the assault, but they were shamefully beaten back ~nd never rallied for another similar attack. They certainly hovered about, blockaded the fortress, intercepted supplies, prevented egress, made a number of feints, but made no other at- tempts to storm it. We do not hear that they are now to repeat the assault. But what they failed in last session they seem to have no chance of ac complishing in the session which approaches. We do not mean to flatter the Ministry by repre senting the whole empire as in a most prosperous state, and by assming them that there is nothing to fear from the people and nothing to be done for them. We write no view of the past year because we find the retrospect by no means agreeable ; we cast forward no glance, but rather turn away our eyes, Pm we " dread and fear." Nothing has been done for the suffering masses, nothing is promised them; and till they be restored to a reasonable share of physical comfort, enjoying the present, and having well-founded hopes in the future, we must assert that the continuance of internal tranquillity and general prosperity cannot be relied on. But what Ministers may have neglected to do for the people the Tories will not accomplish, and what they have done amiss, the Tories would have done worse. They may have scourged the tempo rary ebullitions of a long-suffering people with whips, but the Tories would have scourged them with scorpions. One of their leaders is said to have declared that if the people did not remain quiet, there was a way to make them. Such a threat, however, ill becomes the Duke of WELLINGTON, who gave up his principles to avoid a civil strife in Ireland, and we hope the report is a foul calumny. It is not a calumny, however, that another of their leaders has been pointed out by them as the proper man to lead the QUEEN'S soldiers against the QUEEN'S subjects. It is not a calumny that the sword of the army was offered by a General Officer to cut down the political opponents of the Tories. It is not a calumny that the Tories have talked of reconquering Ireland. Neither is it a calumny that, had they been in power, they would have re- sisted every motion to relieve the national suffering, for they have resisted it in Opposition, and they would have attempted to quell any petty disturb- ante by the best blood of the people. If then we have little to praise in the past conduct of the Ali- sisters, s o far as the welfare of the masses is con cerned, and little to hope for the future, we should have had muck severely to condemn in the conduct of the Tories, had they been in office, and muse have looked forward with despair. We are not insensible to the renown which our successes ir. the Mediterranean, restoring the na tion to a full confidence in the efficiency of our fleet, and the skill and bravery of our sea- men, partially shaken by the perpetual and hoarse croaking of the Tories, has added to our country, already, externally at least, the most glorious on earth. We rejoice in the tranquillity of our colonies, and in the delightful conviction that the abolition of slavery has now fully realised the hopes of its warmest advocates, though the the present wealth of the planters, is very unnzces- sarily promoted at the expense of a large annual tax, levied on our people by the discriminating duties on sugar. We are proud that the name of England is carried with power and might into furthest Asia, extorting respect from those who have hitherto classed themselves as demi-gods, and claimed a servile homage from all other created men. But these, though they excite our gratula tion, are of that sort of shadowy and unreal great ness, which we censure the French for intensely seeking, and bring no relief for that state of desti- tution and discontent into which the masses are plunged, which we maintain might be easily re dressed, and which, remaining unredressed, is pregnant with danger to all our political institutions. The Tories, however, who are the main cause why these vast evils are unredressed, can have no quarrel with the Ministers on that ground ; and the present condition of the people, which, in the hands of a❑ enlightened and patriotic Opposition, would suffice to overthrow any Ministry, smites the Tories with helpless impotence. They cannot, dare not, take office, supported by the bread taxers, in the face o a starving people. On what point, then, can th now, however desirous, ex cept on the most factious pretences, differ from the Ministers ? They approve of the foreign policy. All the questions in dispute as to Ireland, except the registration, have been settled with great advantage to them. The parsons, it is said, collect their tithes in peace and with safety, and the Corpora tions are reformed, promising security and partial satisfaction to both parties. The registration, on the principle of which the parties do not much differ, is not of sufficient importance to _break up a Government ; and there is no longer, as far as we see, any important question on which the Tories can ask the representatives of the people to turn out the Ministry. To substitute Sir R. PEEL for Lord MELBOURNE, the Earl of ABERDEEN for Lord PALMERSTON, against her MAJESTY'S wishes, without any adequate cause, will not now be tolerated, either by the majority of the House of Commons, or the country. The Tories have, therefore, no better chance now than they had at the beginning of the last Session. Such also appears to be the opinion of the Tory journalists. We copied yesterday a paragraph from the Standard, which stated that the people generally were satisfied with the Government. In addition to this the Times yesterday said— We must not conclude, however, without referring to an opinion expresed by a very sagacious observer. True ; such a state of things would formerly have implied the certain debtruction of any Ministry ; but do not be sanguine. The present men have weathered worse storms than those now threatening them, and while their opponents propose nothing which interests the public at large„ that public will look on almost with indifference at the struggle between the two parties. Without surrendering our opinion, we admit that the experience of the last few years furnishes reasonable ground for the view taken by our friend. " 'Tis true, 'tis pity : pity 'tis, 'tis true." And what can the Tories propose ? To what are they wedded ? More Church ? Why the Times has told us we have already too much Church. More coercio❑ perhaps ? when that we have is found to be unbearable. They are in favour of the bread tax, will they double it ? They have talked of re strictions on the press, of burning down half our cities, of restoring the feudal dominion ; is either of those a great question whirl vill carry the public at large with the Tories ? They have nothing to pro pose. They can have nothing. They are for standing still while all around them is in co►nmo tion. We do not expect that the Ministers will propose much, but the Tories can propose nothing but measures which would provoke quarrels and re bellion. Repeal in Ireland, according to their own organs is progresLing, let them accelerate it by some measure like Lord STANLEY'S Registration Bill, and they may see it become revolution. There is one measure, a great and a noble measure, which deeply interests the public at large, a measure which would carry on its wings healing for all the national cala mities, and begin for our beloved country a new ca reer, in which the prosperity of her great multitudes would equal her national renown, a measure of jus tice, not to perform which is alike dishonest in the Legislature and the Ministers, a measure of free dom which expediency recommends and honesty commands—the Total Abolition of the Corn-law— ' which because it is a great, a noble, and a national measure, will not, we are afraid, to the eternal dis grace of our statesmen, be undertaken by either of THE SUN, LONDON, SATEIRDAY, JANUARY 2. 184 i. the two great parties. They struggle only for office. To the right-thinking people will be left the im mortal honour—and they will by and by achieve it —of crushing the vilest law that ever cupidity, in the disguise of patriotism, dared to enact. MR. HETHERINGTON has published a report 'of his trial on Dec. Bth, for a blasphemous libel, in which the whole of the authori ties cited in the defence are given at full length. It does great credit to Mr. HETHERINGTON'S abilities, and we earnestly wish it may be of service to him with the Judges, in considering their sentence which has yet to be pronounced on him, or, should that be more than a nominal punish ment, with the Government in inducing it to re mit the punishment. Society cannot be served by pu• nishing the mere trade agent in circulating opinions, and the law will receive no credit by being made the instrument for repressing honest discussion in stead of punishing crime. In Mr. HETHER INGTON'S case, his offence is the smallest conceiv able, even by those who object to free discussion in matters of religion. He did not write the work —he was not the original publisher of it—the author has not been prosecuted—the original pub lisher was allowed to escape freely on pleading guilty, and Mr. HETHERINGTON, who is merely the agent for selling a book published at Man chester, has been found guilty, and awaits, what ought in justice—as the offence is nominal—to be the smallest quantity of punishment. There is one peculiarity in this case, which does not seem to have been sufficiently noticed. The indictment set forth the passages which are characterised as blasphemous. The ATTORNEY GENERAL called a witness to prove the publication, but he called no witnesses, and he made no obser vations, to prove that the language was blasphe mous ; he left that, and so did the Judge, for the Jury to decide, by such light of common sense as they may possess. In their opinion, the language quoted is a blasphemous libel. They decided no matter of fact by their verdict, but matter of opi nion. They differ from Mr. HASLANI, and, then:- fore, Mr. HETHERINGTON is found guilty of pub lishing blasphemy. What is, and what is not, blas phemy, is a question very difficult to decide. It will be as well, we think, to place before the public, the names of the Jury and wise men who immediately decided, without any evidence, that this was a blasphemous libel. We copy them, there fore, from Mr. HETHERINGTON'S report:— From this it will be seen at a glance how dear to France has been the Administration of ALTHIERS. General BUGEAUD, ever memorable for prefer ring an invasion of Cossacks to an invasion of Prussian bullocks, on the principle of free-trade in beef, has been appointed Governor-General of French Africa, in the room of Marshal VALLEE. An article from the National on this subject will be found subjoined. The Silesia Gazette publishes a letter from the Uk raine, dated the 9th ult., which states that several thou sand peasants, living on the confiscated estates of Prince Adam Czartoryski and Count Potocki, in Podolia and K,sw, were to be transported, in virtue of i rnperial or. ders, to the barrens of the Chersonese and Tauris. All the nece-sary preparations were made to carry this barbar ous measure into execution. The Prince Royal of Bavaria arrived incog. at Trieste un the 19th ult., and embarked on the 21st in the Count Koilowrath steamer for Athens. The Prince travels under the name of Count de Verdenfels. The National, speaking of the nomination of General Bugeaud to the Government of Algeria, says : " The appointment of General Bugeaud to the Govern ment of Africa is equivalent to the re-establishment of the influence (now nearly destroyed) of the Emir Abd-el- Kadir, who may be called the creature of General Bu geaud, since it was he who made him what he has become, a powerful enemy : it is the cession of 200 leagues of coast of an immense territory in the interim ; it is reducing the province of Oran to the Mitidjah ; that of Oran to the banlicue of the town ; that of Bona to the surrounding marshes. We shall have in vain conquered Constantine, Setif Medeah, Cherchell. General Bugcaud bears, in stead of the sword, the pen of the negotiator of the Take, and he is going to efface at one stroke, as he formerly did, all the conquests which our brave army has bought with its blood, and which at least indemnified us in some degree for ten years of infamy.—. Gazelle de France. No mails have arrived. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 8. —The Tahiri:Bahiri, Govern ment steamer, which has this moment arrived from Syria, brings word that Ibrahim having attempted to extricate himself from the difficult position in which finds himself in the environs of Balbec, and to open himself a passage ac cross Mount Lebanon, had completely failed in this at tempt ; he was repulsed with cons:derable loss by the mountaincers,—Journal de Smyrne. It appears that thnrneasures relative to the Greeks set- tied in Turkey, which were resolved on by the Porte, in consequence of the refusal of the Greek Government to ratify the treaty of commerce concluded at Constantinople, arc going to be carried Into effect.—Journal de Slut ne. BO UR S . E.PARIS, THEIR/MA Y. DEC. 31. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price trench :`.. i.er Cents llO 50 ... 110 55 ... 110 as ... Ile 35 3 per Cents 76 so _. ;6 5J ... 76 5U ... 76 50 dank 01 trance iselgian !Sank 5 per Cent , 97% ... 07V4 ... 97k, ... 97 31.er Cents New Loan Outch 2% per Cents 54 ... s'l ... 52 ... 52 NpAinell Active V4S, ... '25 ... 24N ... 25 Passive 5% ... 5 . i ... ; 7, i, ... 5 % Neapolitan IbAnan .... ItN ... 99 ... 944 ... 99,, MAGAZINES-CONTINUED. MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Often as we have read about Venice, we know not that we have ever met with a description that gave us a more vivid idea of this City of Pa laces " throi:ed on a hundred isles," than is con tained in " Letters from the Continent," which form the principal attraction of this number of the Monthl N Chronicle. The writer tells us, that " living at Venice, is like being at sea, without any of the drawbacks and discomforts of an actual voyage ;" and then proceeds to relate the impression it made on him, in language replete with impas s►oned eloquence. " The First Love" is a tale, whose one leading defect is, that, though meant to be a direct transcript from life, it abounds in improbabilities. One or two of the incidents, however, are touching, and hit off with true femi nine delicacy. " A Visit to the House of Con:- mons," is a passable jeux d'esprit in rhyme. The present portion of " Sketches of Spanish Generals," furnishes us with a short memoir of Mina, the first and most celebrated Guerilla Chief in Spain. " French and English Alliance" is misnomered. It should have been entitled "An Essay on the March of Mind during the Middle Ages." FAILWAY SHARES. St Germain - 635 ...635 ...635 •..635 Ve saillt.s,ti, B 352 50 ... 3.!32 50 ... 382 50 ... 3,2 he Orleans . Strasburg to Bale 236 9i ... :236 25 ...:36 25 ... 236 25 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVEIiPOOI. COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—To-day being a particular holiday, very little business has been done in the Cotton Market. The sales Were 2.300 bags, at about yesterday's quotations. We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers of the 31st of October, but they contain no news of importance. We have received Jamaica Papers, by the mail, to the 28 . ,11 of November. The House of Assembly pregressed considerably, on Wednesday last, with the Militia Bill, the Committee hav ing reported progress on the 70th clause. A great many clauses, however, were taken from the old Bill, with slight modifications. We have received Demerara Papers to the 15th of No vemcer. BARB &DORS.—We perceive that a ptiblic meeting has been recently held at Barbadoes, by the merchants and others for the raising of " ways and means" to meet the expenses of the island, and for which an additional tax of two per cent. is placed on the goods imported into the island, and also a duty on the produce of the island ex ported. We learn, by a gentleman who has recently arrived from Hayti, that provisions of their own growth were very scarce, and selling at double the usual rates. No doubt the drought recently experienced in this and other islands, Lid extended to St. Domingo, and produced the scarcity alluded to. The Dutch mail has arrived of the date December 30, bringing the ptices from Amsterdam of the 29th of De cember :—Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 49i; Five per Cents., 961. Ardoin'a Spanish, 2lif 7.16. By accounts from Russia it appears that the cold is so severe, that several travellers have been found dead. The Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles gives notice that the port of Palamcs has been opened to foreign com merce for importations and exportations, which the French Consul at Barcelona confirms. THE FUNDS. The prevailing opinion is, that Messrs. Rothschild at Paris, with the bankers in the above capital, will take the French loan of 18,000,0001. Should this take place we have no doubt that part of it will find its way into this country, and in all probability will have the effect of de pressing the British funds; but the above loan will not be contracted it present, as the French Minister of Finance has a sufficient supply to go on with for soma time to come. The British Market has a firm appearance at present. Consols, which left off yesterday at 881 for the Ac count, are sat present 88i- 89 ; Exchequer Bills , 4 b premium ; ; at Stock, 157 158; India Stock, 238 239. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were the same as on the last post day. In the Foreign Market little doing as yet ; Spanish Active a shade better, 241 25 ; Deferred, 124 13 ; Pvssive, 61 ; Portuguese, same as they left if, 32} ; Three per Cents., 201, ex div. ; Brazilian, 704 7l ; Co lombian, 231 241-; Mexican, 281 29}; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents., 49i 49k, cx div. ; Five per Cents., 971 97i. Sll AltE3.—Great Western, 26 27 prem. ; New, 12 13 prem. ; London and Brighton, 65i discount; Black vt all, 4i- 4 discount ; Birmingham, 82 84 premium; South ampton, 56 57 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton r)0 44 London and Birmingham go . 171 to Ditto New Shares 24 .... 50 London and Greenwich..... . 20 ...... Ditto Scrip 2 31 to Midland Counties . JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia.. ........ ...... 25 ...... Ditto New Shares 5 ...... 11} to COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam C,, U. 1 1 2 2 4: G G e ih n r o a a ltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam Antwerp Ilamburgh... ....M. B. 13 10 'Venice ..... 47 Altona ............. ....... 13 10i Naples 39i Paris, 3 days' sight..... 25 40 Palermo, per oz 121 lYtto, 3 months 25 65 Lisbon .. 52} Marseilles... .. ...... .... 23 70 .Oporto . .. 52 Bourdeaux... , Frankfort on Maine.... 149 Bahia... 27 Petersburgh, 3 Us 37 Buenos Ayres — Berlin 7 0 INewYork, 21 days' sight 461 Vienna, effee. 11.3 M lO 3 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid .. . Cadiz 354 Barcelona Seville 3si Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bars 0 5 0, HALF-PAST ONE. The West India Mail has been brought by the Tyrian packet—the accounts from Jamaica are void of interest. freight by tne aeove arrival uouut. tua,ooo, doll.. a In ins z dates from Jamaica, 27th of October. A French paper received this morning, has the follow ing from Madrid to the 231 ult. :___ " The state of Spain is satisfactory, and affairs begin to revive, owing to the movements in public credit. After for were firme A c i c n o u t n h te, early receded pa r t to all the struggles and enormous expenses, in the space or three days 200 millions of reels (two millions sterling) were negotiated on the Madrid Exchange, in bonds of the active debt, which had reached the price of ,29 for money, of tieimorn and at Paris it is only 25. . ing at 88, s 89,88 , since at 88 . 89 which they arc firm again i ii for the Opening : Re duced 89 to 891. : Eichequer ills 4 6 premium ; Bank Consols i which Stock 157. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active is firm at 241 25 ; Portuguese 32 1 ; Thre e per Cents., 00 . & ex div. ; Colombian, 23i 24 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per: Cents. 49/ i es. div. _ I n Shares very little doing. Great Western, New, 62 ; London and Brighton, 44 1 ii ; Midland Counties 76 Consols have just been dune at 89 to i, with a firm market ; Spanish 25 to i. MORE SACRILEGE —A distinguished corres pondent sends us the following; important communication, to which we wish to draw the especial attention of our readers t--" We reg ret to sa y that, during the last week, two new attempts a t sacrilegious ro bbery have been made in the central dist rict. One was at Coughton, which was successful, the robbe rs having broke n open the chapel, and place the sacrilege in carried off several articles of Plate. The other was at the blasphemous lampoon published in our last. The villains entered through the same narrow win dew in the porch, breaking . wall, and removing the whichConve Convent a voef riseA th et to thetoir e,tli c same stanchions, then broke through the door. Fortunately every the robbers were w hen one of the nuns went into the chapel, to prepa re for matins. T h --e wretches fled ; but one of them left his hat behind him, which, we trust, may t s h ii i l n l g s of r v c a h l i u n e ca g, had been removed, and lead to their det ection. We cannot but suggest the pro priety of subscriptions being entered i nto , f or t h e purpose of °rffet o r nrs g o adequate these outrages, rewardsothe o fort he detection of the per n pal y means of preventing their repetition. B y means of such subscriptions proper c t i police agent , m ight be sent down from London to investi gate into the circumstances of these climes, now very in efficiently looked after by country constables."-- Tablet. TILE JURY. Special_.. Robert Savage, Esq., 11, Montagu-place, Bloomsbury. James Arboine, merchant, 3, Brunswick-square. William Fechney Black, merchant, Wilton-place. Charles Frederick Barnwell, Esq., 44, Woburn-place. Robert Eglinton, merchant, 29, Woburn-square. Common Jurors-- Charles Ricketts, stove.maker, 5, Agar-street, West Strand. William Poldon, licensed victualler, Villiers-street, Strand. John Osborne, confectioner, 401, Strand. John Johnson Ruffell, painter, 24, Church-street, Soho. Thomas Reid, baker, 24, Old Compton•street, Soho. Charles Phillips, ivory brushmsker, 20, King-street, Soho. J. Mabow, baker, 34, Greek-street, Soho. We see nothing in the names or occupations of these gentlemen which should make them proper judges of so important a question as the blasphemy of a particular writing. The selling of gin, or the making of cakes, kneading dough, or running bristles through plates of ivory, do not lead to rny peculiar fitness for judging so nice a question. We have great respect for the occupations of all these gentlemen ; they are all those of honest and indus trious citizens, of men who live by their own labour, and whom we therefore are much inclined to respect ; we only say that there is nothing in their occupations to give us confidence in their decision, that a passage of a book is a blasphemous libel. The general rule, which leaves to the Jury the decision on the nature of a writing charged as libel is of high value, and serves in political cases to protect the people against tyranny ; but, in such a case as a charge for blasphemy, if the Jury hap pen to be ignorant, prejudiced men, that provision of the law may be productive of much mischief. We cannot suppose, had the Judge been called on for his opinion, that he would have described the words of Mr. HASLANI, though coarse and rude, and wholly unwarranted by criticism or the courtesies of life, as a blasphemous libel. It is not customary, too, in England to make the persons who are patties to a suit Jurors to try it. '6 If," said the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, attacks on the Scriptures were to be permitted, what was to prevent the pious feelings of the com munity from being outraged ? Suppose a man were to carry a board through the stretits on which was inscribed in large characters, that CHRIST was an impostor.' Could it be tolerated ? Yet this, according to the defendant, was only free in quiry I" From this passage, it is plain that tl►e sum of the offence, though described as displeasing to GOD, is, that it offends the pious feelings of the community of which the Jurors are a part. Their feelings are supposed to be outraged, and it is to defend them that the prosecution is instituted. They are, therefore, a party to the suit, and yet they are made Jurors, quite inconsistently with the usual practice of English jurisprudence. That is a palpable injustice, and we hope that the Judges will not give effect, except nominally, as they must pronounce sentence, to such an ill-timed and un just decision. The news of the Convention signed by Commo dore NAPIER. at Alexandria was fully known at Constantinople on the Bth ult. It took Lord PONSONBY and the Porte equally by surprise. The terms of the Treaty by no means pleased the British Ambassador, who said the gallant Com modore was not authorized by him to sign it. The Convention was equally in bad odour with the SULTAN. What will they say to Admiral STOPFORD'S Treaty, which is subgtaot;.ny same as that signed by the chivalrous NAPIER ? Will Lord PONSONBY admit that Lord PALMER STON could authorize the signing of a Convention which virtually secures to MEHEMET ALI the hereditary administration of the Pachalic of Egypt? It is high tiro e that the attention of the Great Powers who called Greece into existence as a sove reign state, was directed to the atrocities perpetrated under the authority of King °TIM, and in the sacred name of justice, upon the unfortunate inha bitants of that country. Have England and France assisted in establishing legal tribunals in Greece only to revive the torture, and have they proclaimed the freedom of her flag that it might serve as a pro tection to the slave trade ? If the article which we quote in another column, from the leading Journal of Greece produce no effect upon the British and French Governments, we must carry our appeal against such barbarities to the great tribunal of the people of both countries. The French. Journals of Thursday find, in M. HUM ANN'S speech on the Budget, ample grounds for editorial anianadwrsion. Although the Finance Minister stat , :d that with a deficit equal to 6,160,0001. it was not his intention to impose any fresh taxes upon the couutry , the Journalists sup pose, and not, we presume, without reas on , that such an addition to the public burdens is only to be removed ultimately by fresh clogs upon agricul tural and commercial industry and enterprise. Es timated in British currency the gross income of France for t'ae finsalcial year is 46,480,000/., whereas the o sitlav is ,calculated at 52,640,000/. MOIVTIILY MAGAZINE. There is much that is good in this periodical mixed up with much that is unquestionably bad ; but the tares and the wheat are so blended together that it is almost impossible to separate them. The opening essay on " Foreign Aids to Self-Intelli gence' is specially open to this objection. In one passage, we are struck with the writer's sound sense, and even depth of thought ; in another, with his extravagant absurdity. The:: appears to be a want of discipline—of proper training in his mind. He catches a bright glimpse of the truth at times, but some cloudy crotchet quickly interposes to shut out the view. The essay is in every respect a most provoking one, for one half of it—so far as we can judge—serves only to neutralize the other half. " The Departed Year" is a poetical Masque, for which we are indebted to Mr. Heraud. There are several passages in it which show no ordinary powers of imagination. The spirit, too, that per vades it, is uniformly excellent. " Illustrations of the Millenium - is pious, but prosy. The " Eng lish Wits" is a biographical and critical notice of Sheridan, whose comedies, notwithstanding the sneers of certain small critics of the day, will always command admiration. In the subjoined re marks on this great dramatist we cordially concur : The varied abilities of Sheridan, his conversational tas. cinations, his high-wrought eloquence, and his elaborate wit, mlcvatc him as the representative of man in his lighter, happier, and more dazzling attributes. But it must be ace knowledged that wit, and the artifices of style, are sweet meats that delight the palate more than they nourish the body. In vain do we look, in the productions of Sheridan, for new principles, or new additions to man's stock of substantial knowledge. These arc foreign to their nature. Yet it might almost be gathered from a few straggling sentences that penetrate into deeper considerations, that his mind was also capable of severer investigations, if his youth had been passed in the study of sciences requiring retleation. But the youth of Sheridan was one of sue. eessful love, fast ripening hopes, and expanding fame ; and when he should have been struggling through learn ing, perhaps to the united fame of a Congreve and a Rochefoucault, his eagerness prompted him to se:ze at once a fame not more dazzling and far less substantial and respectable. However, that he created this reputation without an effort, proves that, with one, he might have attained to a much higher and more firmly based renown. But Sheridan in manhood had lost the power of making efforts, and habit soon reconciled him to a life in which his first youthful triumphs had been made. His subsequent attention to politics proves his taste for the exercise of the reflective faculties; and that he never struck out any great truths in political or moral science, is accounted for, per haps, more from his ignorance than from his inability. That these remarks do not over-estimate the dormant abilities of Sheridan, may be seen from some observations scattered through his works; but they are so entangled in other matter, that they cannot easily be quoted. The proper method of becoming acquainted with an author's talent, is by deducing it in detail from his life and works. But it is plain that the extent of his knowledge must he taken into account. The author, perhaps, makes an inci dental remark of the greatest importance, embodying, per haps, the embryo principle of a great science. The blow is vigorous, but ignorance breaks its force or turns aside its aim. Hence the importance of education, without which the eye for discovery, and the hand for invention, exist almost in vain. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The " Notes for the New Year," afford a brief' sketch of the state of the Army and Navy, mixed up with not a little grumbling. Indeed the writer of these notes beats all his Contemporaries in this respect, and though some of his complaints are well founded, there are others for which so much cannot be said ; and instead, therefore, of benefiting the service by constantly reiterating grievances, some great, some small, and some imaginary, may not the effect on those at the head - of the two Services be somewhat diminished ? It is gratify ing, therefore, to find exceptions to this ge neral rule, and if praise like the following were always given when due, we are confident the Journal would be a more efficient advo cate for the redress of wrongs. " The results of the Naval and Military Commission" says the " which excited an interest so intense and ex pectations so overcharged during the last year, while disappointing many, have yet been productive of benefit. On the whole we must accept as a boon the instalments offered by this Commission, which, though it have not redressed all wrong, has undoubtedly effected some good present and pro spective." In the Editor's Portfolio, an interesting account is given of the brass gun found on the walls of Tinghai, in the island of Chusan, in which it is very satisfactorily made out, that it was sent as a present by Queen Elizabeth to the Emperor of China about the beginning of the 17th century. It ap pears that the Richard Phillips whose name the gun hea►s, was one of the Royal gun-founders during the reigns of James and Elizabeth, and it is remarkable that in the year in question, 1601, a brass gun, answering the description of that cap tured at Tinghai, was cast by this gun-founder, being the only one of the kind cast by hint for one or two years before or after the year 1601, as the records preserved in the Tower show. The following is an extract from these records : "To Richarde Phillips another of her £ s. d. Mats ffownders of Brasse Ord naunce for the castinge and makinge of one cannon of braise of her Mts. =tall," &c xxij. xiiij. vj. THE SPORTING REVIEW. Lord William Lennox, as usual, has a very gra phic sketch in this number. It treats of turnpike men, cabs, coaches, omnibusses, and costermon gers, and we have no doubt the " pikes" will agree with us in denouncing it as too short by a half. This propensity to brevity, as well as to poetical quotations, are the sins that most easily beset his Lordship. " Fox-hunting in Canada," and two or three other articles, particularly " Chronicles of the Bri►ish Chase"' by Craven, are above mediocrity, but the most remarkable feature in the number that commences the series for the New Year is " a chart of the various meets of the Royal Hounds," on yellow paper, with Windsor Castle in the dis tance, and a herd of deer in the foreground, con taining all the principal places within a circuit of about 14 miles round Windsor. This is only the first of a series of maps of the chase, which is to be continued till it forms a complete atlas of the leading hunting counties of England. It will thus add another very useful and elegant ornament to this favourate Magazine of Sportsmen. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE. A considerable improvement, both in the matter and manner of this class of periodicals, has taken place recently ; and now that they are patronized, as is duly announced on their covers, by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, whose fondness of horses and dogs is scarcely less than her Majesty's well-known attachment to those noble and faithful animals, we may calculate on a still higher degree of improvement in these monthly visitors. The (old) Sporting Magazine of this month re minds us of The fine old English gentleman, One of the olden time," with some marks of modernism about him, insen sibly acquired by the spirit of the age. Its embel lishments are few, but good, and the literary con tents of the number maintain the Magazine's repu tation. The remarks " on Breeding Horses considered as a point of national importance," are judicious, as well as interesting. The New Sporting Magazine comes out this month in a sort of state, being the first number of a new series. It is rich in embellishment, and interesting enough in its narrative and fiction. Nimrod, we see, who is übiquitous, writing for all his friends, we believe, but the oldest, has contri buted a paper of agreeable gossip in his usual easy and felicitous manner, t e lli ng us how he spent his time, and what he saw in " A Few Days with the Quorn, the Badsworth and Mr. Foljambe's Hounds." Meyrick's " Marmion" is a somewhat worn subject, the Sportsman having for some months before gone into it. " Pete Whetstone" is facetious, but will not be understood by every body. Tom Acorn is great on the sin of poaching ; while those persons who are fond of foreign things will find in the " Duke of Tuscany's Stud Farm," as well as in " Turf Matters in America," much amusement. The cadet adopted by Ackerman gives us also an Almanack, and another new feature be sides, namely, a combination of agriculture and the raising and treatment of stock with our rural sports. THE SPORTSMAN. Of the class to which this Magazine belongs, it is by far the cheapest, and certainly by no means the woist ; for, attracted by a liberality which is its own reward, the Sportsman has drawn around him gentlemen whose productions would reflect credit, and impart character, to any periodical. As proof we may instance two papers, by Nimrod, a Biographical Sketch, and " A Visit to Melton," both of which contain the character istically pleasing conversation of " the old sports man ;" " Sports of the Fancy," a capital song by T. Dibdin " Tailors and Coats," too, as far as cut goes, is excellent. The opening fragment, or " find," by " A Foxhunting Parson," is a spi rited compound of fun and pungent irony, sub serving, we suspect, in the sequel, to something worth knowing by all, and by none more than sportsmen. We anticipate a good deal of pleasure from the progress of the story. - The other papers, generally are agreeable reading ; and the engrav ings, as usual, arc executed in the first style of art. The Wisbeach prize hunter, drawn by Davis, and engraved by Westley, is a gem, alone worth five times the price of the Magazine. We should like the original—not Davis's picture—but Rey nold's nag—fit " to go," some fine hunting day, in a good stiff country where foxes are neither fat nor few. THE COLONIAL MAGAZINE. Independently of numerous first-rate business articles on the present condition and future pros pects of our colonies, the Colonial Magazine foi January, under the superintendence of its able and judicious editor, Mr. Montgomery Martin, is em bellished with a fine view of St. Jean d'Acre, eleven wood engravings of scenes in India, and six figures representing the aboriginal tribes of Australasia and New Zealand. " England in 1841," with which this number commences, is a cleverly-written sketch of the policy of Great Britain, Foreign and domestic, but the writer arrives at conclusions which, to our thinking, his premises do not altoge ther warrant. " Continental India" is a brief but very interesting review of Mr. Massie's valuable work on that country. The " Progress of Manu factures among Foreign Nations" will convince such of our law-makers as take the trouble to peruse it carefully that the final effect of our Corn-laws, and other restrictive enactments, must be to ruin the manufacturing industry of this country. The notes of the month are numerous and well arranged. THE BRITISH FARMER'S MAGAZINE. (New Series.) This Number contains some useful essays on agricultural subjects, among others one "On the permanent Improvement of the Soil," by Mr. Cuthbert Johnson, which deserves the attention of farmers. The subject, indeed, is one of the utmost importance in farming, and we therefore recommend the treatise to all our • agricultural readers. The following is the conclusion come to by the writer : " The contemplation of such a field for the prefixable employment of capital, and of agricultural labour, too, is cheering in more ways than one ; for such researches must ❑ot only more and more convince us that the resourk es of agriculture are not nearly yet exhausted, but it must serve to convince even the mast despairing—the most timid poli tical economist, that there is hence some strong probability that the agriculturists of our country arc yet able to meet all the demands that can be made upon them for a suppl) of food; and, that they will continue •o do so, even if the present number of her children were more than doutled." Some interesting extracts on the cultivation of hops are also given in another article, with the amount of duty every year since 1711. DUBLIN UNIV.ERSITY MAGAZINE. The " Portrait Gallery " for this month—an idea which the Dublin University Magazine has adopted from Fraser—contains a whole-length por trait of Mr. Carlton, one of the most popular wri ters of the day, of Irish fictions. A. memoir is aflixcd to the portrait of this gentleman, whose abilities arc panegyrized in warm terms ; but, as we have but an imperfect acquaintance with his works, we cannot undertake to :ay whether or not the estimate formed of hint is a judicious one. To our thinking Miss Edgeworth and Banim arc by far the best Irish novelists that have vet come be the world, for they draw out national peculiarities more fully than any of their successors. " Ro mantic and Lyric Poetry of Spain " is a slight essay on a theme that has always—and no wonder —been a favourite with periodical writers. Seve ral speciinens of translation arc introducedin the couise of this essay, one of which, " The Ro mance of the Count Alarcos," has at least the merit of spirited versification. " Charles O'Mal ley, the Irish Dragoon," contributes some more chapters of his personal reminiscences. Time is a dashing, off-hand manner about this writer, that makes his various sketches very pleasant reading. SMALL WOOD'S MA GAZINE. This is a new periodical, and if we may form a judgment from a first number, we should be disposed to augur favourably of its success. The articles are numerous, both prose and verse, and they are just of sufficient length to amuse, without weary ing, the reader. One of them, a poem, under the familiar title of " Blind Man's Buff," is written in the terse, laughing manner of Lord Byron's " Beppo." It professes to be a story of the carnival of Madrid in the year 1834, and sets out—to use one of Froissart's favourite phrases — on the grand pas. " The Morning Governess" is a sketch quite as good as one on the same subject which appeared, if we remember rightly, in the " Heads of the People." ASIATIC JOURNAL. The whole of this number, which is a " supple. ment," is made up of a copious obituary, and of Asiatic matters of intelligence. Of course, there. fore, it furnishes no room for comment. BRITISH MAGAZI2VE. A Monthly Register of religious and ecele,ias tical information, carefully got up, and intended chiefly for clerical people. F'REEMASON'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Here is another new monthly periodical, exclu sively dedicated to a report of the proceedings that have taken place in the various Lodges of the Freemasons during the . month that has just termi nated. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NENVGATE AND LEADENEIALL. Tho supplies of meat were large, the trade very dull, and prices declined 2d per stone on all descript ions. Beef, 3s 4.1 to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 38 4d to 4s 81; Veal, 3s 10d to as 8d; and Pork, 38 6tl to 4s 6d, per stone of Blb. Game and Poultry in large supply, the trade bought very sparingly, and prices wore lower. A great portion was old. TEA MARKET. The market was firm for Free Trade, and a fair amount of business was transacted. Company's, Congou pro duced 2s lid per lb. cash. The deliveries from the ware houses were large. TALLOW MARKET. Thera was little business done in Russian, and prices al. awned a downward tendency; the nearest price vteis for P. Y. Candle on the spot ; and 47s 91 for delivery'The deliveries from the warehouses have bee n small this week. FRUIT MARKET. Prices arc on the decline for both Currants and Raisins; the demand very limited, and the stock large. SPIRIT MARKET. lsteilEl prices theic es week,hal, , e The demand steady for Ruin , and prices firm. B ran d y dull of sale, but prices were tirrn , WHITECIIAPEL 1111.A 1 MARKET. The demand fur all k inds of Meat wLs d ull, but the supply not being large, former rates were generally sup_ ported. Beef, 3s. to 4s. AI L . . ; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 4s ; Veal 4s. to ss. ; Pork, 3!. Od. to ss, ' WIII TECHAPEL ll AY MAR CET. was a goo d demand for Hay during • and although the supply has been large, been maintained.. Straw sells freely, and • Clover Hay, 51. ,to a ; Meador Ile pnues keep up. Straw, I/. 12s. to 11. 14s. OW tlay, 41. to 4/. 183. ; -- --- Si r F. Smith and Professor Barlow, the Com missioners appointed by Government to examine the com peting lines from Lancaster to Carlisle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, have made their report. This report settles the question as to the line to be adopted from Lancaster to Carlisle. EVENING ED BARON MOUN Baron Mounier having, as we on , England, where he reckons among h., individuals who have figured conspicuously in public affairs, our readers will not peruse without interest a brief biographical sketch of the life of one of the most honourable and distinguished men whom events have permitted to remain in the service of his country. Baron Mounier is of a family of Dauphine, and the son of an eminent orator of the Assemblee Constituante, who withdrew from that celebrated assembly when convinced that his efforts, and those of his friends, could not prevent it, from destroying the monarchy on pre tence of regenerating its ancient institutions and laws. Compelled to quit his native country, with other men whose talents had been equally inadequate to arresting, the progress of the most sanguinary revolution upon re cord, he returned to France only under the Imperial Government, by which he was entrusted with the ad ministration of a first-rate Prefecture. It was whilst his respected father was initiating him into the knowledge of public affairs that the early talents of Baron Mounier attracted the attention of Napoleon, who admitted him into his immediate ser vice, in the capacity of private secretary. In this ar duous and irksome office, which was but ill-suited to the independence of his character, Baron Mounier was in ,lchtcd to his merit for beinginaintained until the downial of the Imperial Government. When the Bourbons were restored, Baron Mounier was appointed Superintendent of the Crown buildings ; and when, a year later, , Napoleon invaded again the territory of France, faithful to his lawful Sovereign, he withdrew from his country, and returned to it only when Louis X VIII. recovered his throne. He was then reinstated in the Superintendence of the Crown buildings, and almost immediately after appointed a Councillor of State. About two years later his loyalty was further rewarded with a peerage, a dignity then the object of much ambition, but which has been di vested of almost all its prestige since 1 . 630. When the Duke de Richelieu was placed, for the second time, at the head of the Cabinet, be offered the Home Department to Baron Mounier, who, with a modesty very uncommon in France, declined it, deem ing himself too young for so important a station. He nevertheless bestowed his services on the department under Count Simeon, being invested with the title of Director-General of l'Adniliastralion Departemenlak ct dc la Police, and favoured with the unusual prerogative of a seat in the Council of Ministers. On the retirement of the Duke de Richelieu, which the death of that justly respected nobleman soon fol lowed, Baron Mousier also withdrew from the adminis tration of the kingdom, retaining only the superinten dence of the Crown buildings, his functions as a Coun cillor of State, and his seat in the Chamber of Peers. In this branch of the Legislature, wherein he still sits, he has throughout displayed a capacity, knowledge, and dili gence, of which many a bright rapport bears evidence. Upon Baron Mounier's visit to England, many com ments have been ventured by the journal of both coun tries. Spanish and Eastern affairs have been alternately assigned as the objects of a mission supposed to have been entrusted to bins by the French Government. If we believe a Contemporary, he has even successfully accomplished his task, which tended chiefly to make France recover her share in the settlement of the Oriental question, to substitute a treaty between the Five Powers and the Sultan for that of the 15th of July, and to procure, through the interference of England, an improvement in the political and social condition of the Sy Tian Christians. That any mis sion at all has been entru,ted to Baron Mounier is very doubtful. Ile has himself positively denied it, and we Lava. reeeked that as:uranee front one of his friends, who considers his visit to England as one of mere curiosity, or, as suggested, perhaps, by a desire to ob serve this country at a moment when its power is called into play by the great questians which attract the at tention of Europe. But even though confidential nego tiations had been con.initted to Baron 'Moonier, as they have been to equally exalted personages at critical junc tures, a man who retired front office many years ago is not likely to have taken upon himself the ungracious task of imploring the indulgence of the Allied Powers towards one which has deliberately seceded front them, of procuring its participation in an arrangement which it has striven to thwart by secret intrigues and overt threats, and still less of advocating cause of the Chris tians of Syria, whom that power would have doomed for ever to the galling yoke of Mehetn,A AMSTERDAM, DEC. 28.—We hear that a new organisation of the army is in contemplation, by which the number of battalions in each division will be reduced from four to three ; each battalion to consist of sixteen companies. The field artillery is to be composed of only one battalion of inhe companies. Great reductions arc intended in other respects, and it is said that at least 170 offie , rs. Inc.tly of high rack, will be pensiuced off. II NOVER, DEC. 20.-1 m Custams' Union with lirunsAi;k and Oldenburg was renewed on the 19th of this mouth fur several years. Tit E HAGUE, DEC. `29.—The first Chamber of the States-General agreed yesterday to all the laws re lative to the budget fur 1841. AMSTERDLI, DEC. 29.—M. Von Doom is appointed Vice• Pro,iticiit of the Council of State. O.her change- in the higher oaicca of State are spoken of. ST. PETEII;;BURGII, DEC. IS.---Ye-tcnbty the ceremony of the confirmation of the Princess of Ilese Darmstadt, and her admission into the pale of the Gree's Church, took place in the great chapel of the Winter Palace, when she rccei%ed the name of Maria Alexan dria'. To-day she was solemnly betrothed to the Grand Duke Alexander. The city is splendidly illuminated this evening.— Ilamburgh. Papers, Dec 2d. " Silver coin and bullion shipped at Dover from Dec. 13 to 31, were 699,600 ounces of silver, and 1,4:+5 ounces of gold. We have reason to believe that the christening of the Princess Royal is fixed fur the 10th of next month, the anniversary of her Majesty's marriage. FOOT MACE.—"Phis morning, at eight o'clock, a grand foot race for 100 guineas, between Captain Small wood, and James Cupthall, the celebrated groom, of rac ing notoriety, came off in the Regent's Park. The pedes trians started from the New-road, fronting St. Maryle bone New Church (each taking opposite courses), rand the exterior of the Regent's Park, up Great Albany. street, by St. John's \Vood Chapel, along the Parkroad, •to the starting-place, opposite Marvlebonit. Church. The distance, being three miles and three-quarters, was per formed in the space of 17 minutes and 10 seconds ; the groom beating Captain S. by the short distance of eleven yards. The Cork Southern Reporlcr says " the announce ment of the intended Aggregate Meeting of the Province of Munster has been received and responded to in a man ner that will afford the liveliest gratification to all Irish men desirous of seeing shivered to pieces the chains now forging, with unholy zeal, for their country's enslavement. From Limerick, Tipperary, Tallow, and different other localities, signatures have poured in, and assurances been received of the anxiety felt by every Liberal to take part, to the utmost of his power, in the effort for the preserva tion of Constitutional Government in Ireland. Clergy and laity arc, one and all, throwing off the apathy of which we have had occasion, in Previous articles on this subject, to deplore the existence. We hope and think that this manifestation of returning life is a real, not a fictitious one ; that it will be followed up by practical proJfa of the nation's perception of the peril that encompasses, and the duties that become, her. The meeting of the eleventh of January will afford one great oppoi tur.ity of doing so with dignity and effect." FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCK. —On Thursday night, about ten o'clock, the watchman and dockman stationed about the pierhead and entrance of the London Dock at Lower Shadwell heard the splash of a man in the water just above the lock-gates, and the cry of " A man overboard" being raised, many persona got upon the top of the gates and others on the quay, when they saw a man struggling in the water, who called out, " For God's sake make haste, for I can't swim." A man present immediately put down a long boathook towards the person who was in the lock, but in his trepidat ion he dropped it, and directly afterwards the poor knot% isap. peared, and nearly half an hour elapsed bcforh body it t v . o re uring . to get out of was dragged out of the water, when 110 was _ („t i d e ntified as the steward of the ship Caroline, bound to Cal • tta, lying in the coiner of the entrance basin, not more than fifty in. It is believed that yards from the spot where he fe ll d the en the unfortunate deceased was the dock by swinging his body round e the Istiding partition overhanging the water, and w a s Iperhaps not awhre he gone out o f the dock t hrough could have side wicket gate on the oppo site of the lock. The bod y was taken to the deadnousc in c Church y ard. \Vc regret to learn that Dr. Olinthus Gregory has suffered a paralytic stroke, and remains in a very pre- It IS not sayin g carious stat e. too much to designate this excellent man : I s a t re great Christian philosopher of the d a y, Ifis rein , . I . w . henever it may occur, will be felt as a loss to the ..eientlti e , the literary, and the Christian world, which unitedly they can but rarely sustain. —Leices. tershire M crew y . The Lath of John Hall, Esq., of Portsladc, took place, alter an illness of same weeks, in Brighton, on Tuesday lust. M Hall in - I Mr.was his if) I year, and was senior passer of the Brighton Union Bank, a Magistrate for the eastern division of the county acting on the Bench, and Treasurer to the Sussex County Hospital. ADULTERATION OF BUTTER.—Mr. Patrick Black brought under the notice of the Board the extent to which adulterated butter was sold in Glas• gow. Portions of it had been analysed by Pro fessor Thomson, who found one-half to consist of the ge nuine cruidle, and the other of oatmeal. But this was not all, said Mr. It., for yellow turnips, baker'i soda, and even weaver's dressing, were mixed up with the article for the purpose of imposing on the public. Mr. Black produced a quantity, which he had analysed hims e lf, an d only ene-halt of which app eared to deserve the name of butter ; the rest was o atmeal. In the discussion which followed it was s tated that many persons were in the habit of selling this butter without being aware of its adul.- teration. AU, or most of it, was Irish butter; and Mr. Burnet stated that there was a regular establishment at Londonderry for the adulteration of it. He would recom mend the Magistrates of Glasgow to correspond with the Mayor of that city on the subject. It was finally resolved to leave the matter in the hands of the Magistrates, with a r equest that they would apply a remedy to an imposition i alike mean and dishonest. --. Scots Times. , A WHITE BLACKBIRD.—Last week Mr. R. r Smart, of Melton Mowbray, shot a perfectly white black bird at Lung Clawson. .• 'o-tt 34 -C - ` 4 ' • t tri _ . 1g -- Idersta git his friends several I