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Stage Coaches, Omni . buses, or any other Carriage conveying Passengers or Parcels to sod from the following Places : TOWN RITIY.S.' Charing-cross... Portland- street . . North -rote . l4 Stepney Southwark 8 • SlOttle• st ruct York-strert, 3Jarylebone New Ketit• road Rat cliff ' MORNING EDITION. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1841. No. 15,077. PRICE bd. DOUSE WANTED. WANTED, in Westminster, the GROUND FLOOR of an Outer-building, or entire Outer building, One Story High, about 30 feet by 20 feet, in wh . ch Boilers may be placed. Offers will be received by the Comptroller of the Station?ry Office till Twelve o'Clock of Saturday, the 9th of January. Stationery Office, Jan. 1, 1641. FROM LAST NIGIIT'S GAZETTE. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS SIIOKT RIDES, ST. JAMES'S, D. 22, 1840. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Georzeline, jun., M.A., to he Domestic Chaplain to Royal Highness. De patches per Day. , Camd en T own . .. .. 2 South Lambeth .. . . , Camberwell Hackney' Birnet u()IINTWV RIDES. broinl ey 2 Despatches per Day, • . Liifi,d,t 3 Hampton Harro w Croydon .. 3 Woodford Bridge ..... ... ...... .. .. .. 2 Woolwich . Woodford Ilight,'ale Staintior e . • ......... ......... .. 1 Hounslow ........... 1 T% ickenli am K i1burn.............. ... EN.A N ell COUNTRY ILIDYS. Pons Hampstead to Edgeware Bexley to 131askheath Carshalton to Mitcham r ! Kingston to Wltndsworili ! . Kingston to Putney ........ .;. Fulham is Brompton 2 •,_ . , 'Woolwich to Deptford Norwood to Dulwich • '' Waltham Cross to Edmonton• • 1 •" - Harkin , and Ilford to Stratford I . , N.B. The " abeve Rides are employed every Day, Sundays • excrptrd. BRANCH COUNTRY RIDES. From Hounslow to Brompton I Despatch Daily. Hounslow to Kingston ...... 1 Barnet to Highgate Waltham-cross to Stoke New ington Croydon to Brixton N.B. These Rides are employed every day throughout the Year. Th, ie Conditions and full particulars may be seen on applies- Son to the Superintending President of the Twopenny Post office, General:Post-office. T, , nd ers are to be Sealed up and addressed to " Her Ma jesty's Postmaster -General," and endorsed " Tenders for con veying Twopenny P os t B ags ," an d delivered before Twelve o'Cloek on the Ist Day of February. NA/. Tenders will be received fur the whole or any por tion of the above lines of Road. By Command, W. L. MA BERLEY, Secretary. January 1, 1841. - ONDON AND WESTMINSTER A WATER COMPANY. To be Empowered by Act of Parliament, for which Notices nave been given. Office, 7, St. Martin'x-place, Trafalgar-square. Capital £600,000, in Shares of J..:50 each. 24, (in order to comply with the Standing Orders' £5 per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. (From whom the Directors will bo elected. ) Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Bart., M.P., Chairman. Major Adair, H. E. I. C. S. William Allen, Esq., Oxford-terrace. William Chaplin Esq., Lad-lane, and Easton- s q uare . John P. Clarke, ' Esq., Vincent-squar e , W es t m i ns t er . Thos. 41. Veer, Esq - , Lisle -street, and Kensington. C. M. Elderton ' Esq., Lincoln' s I n n-fi e lds. William Evans, Esq., Milbank. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Grey, M.P. William Gristhenwaite, Esq., Catnberwell-gro ve , Sir Henry Halford, Bart., M.D. , G. C. H., F. R. S.. F. S. A. Dr. Hamilton Roe, Hanover-square. Jain Humphrey, Esq., Alderman, M.P. Robert Keate, Esq., Surgeon to the Queen. John Lainsoo, Esq., Alderman. Captain 11 IacDougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton. 'W. A. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P. G. Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour -street. Hon. Col. F. H. W. Needham, Jermyn.street. • Dr. Paris, Dover -street, F.R. S F. L.S. Dani e l S tewart, Esq., Upper Har'ley.street. James Ituddell Todd, Esq. Portland-plac e . The lion. H. R. Westenr a,, M.P. The Hon. Col. J. C. Westenra, M.P. Joseph Workman, Esq., Greenwich. With Power to add to their Number. • NK ERS. M , essrs. Jone s L ISA. oyd, an d C o., L oth b ury Messrs. Drummond and Co., Charing-cross. ENGINEER. —Robert Stephenson, Esq. SoLtctTeas.-11Iessrs. Winter, Williams, and Williams, 16, B e df or d- row. The Report of Robert Stephenson. Esq., is now ready, and Mae prospectus, containing extracts from the Report of the Royal Commissioners, Dr. Roget, W. T. Brandc, Esq., and the late Mr. Telford, with the estimate of expenses ani profits, tai other information, may be had upon application to Messrs. Winter, Williams, and Williams, Solicitors to the Company ; t Mr. Paten, at the Works near Watferd ; to W. S. North herltae, Esq., Parliamentary Agent, 4, Parliament-street ;or to M. E. Wilkinson, Esq., Guildhall-yard. Application for Shares and Prospectuses, and also the Re- P!art, to be made to the Secretary, at that Office, 7, St. Ikar tin's-place, Trafalgar -square ;to the Solicitors ;•r to the Sub- Committee, at the Swan-with-Two-Neeks, Lad-lane. By GUS TAVUS WILLIAM BLANCH, Secretary, pro tem. ASYLUvI !m.EIGNI AND DOMESTIC LIFE OFFICE. 70, Cornhill, and 5, Waterleo-place, London, Establi s h e d i n 1824. isPersons suffering from chronic disease or irregularity of form, re gnancy er o ld age, are insured at proportionate rat es , th e 4/0 3' 1 11in being the Company which originally extended the be- Wits of lifts insurance in such cases. NEW SYSTEM. OF RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCES. The ut most advantages are secured by the smallest necessary outlay,_ the Policies being continued ear by y ear f the Whol e o f life, what ever t h e future health y of the assured, or at a stipulated slight increase of premium, up to the age of 70, when the rate remains stationary. Extracts from RENEWABLE TERM rates for select lives. &oil Ist yr. ---I 2d yr. 3d yr. 4th yr. sth yr. 6th yr. 7th yr. 1 7 i 1711 1 8 9 1 9 7 1 10 5 1 11 4 Extracts from the EVEN RATES for select lives, Prem 1 I 9 22 el 2 17 ► 4 2 01 6 10 9 ►n a 61 19 1 8 Two thirds y, ALTERNATIVE , onl of the even rates, whether for select or dia. *used lives, or f or the risks of foreign cLmates, may be paid frot h su m and th e b alance, with interest at 4 per cent. deducted TroM aum assured, FOREIGN, AND MILITARY AND NAVAL INSURANCE elimat e Distinct cla?sifications of places, a ccor di ng t o sa l u b r it y o f or vo ; a specific pri ce f or any part i cular place, or a voyage yages. Officers whose destinations arc not known, cove:ed to all parts of the world at a small but fixed extra rate of premium. ON DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF LIFE ASSURANCE. That it is erronmus to supriose Insurers are benefit e d even by " Equitable Bonuses," when the price paid for such i s con sidered, may. be seen in the paper on " Bonus Systems," to be had On application at the Asylum offices. G EU. FARR EN, Resident Director. XETROPO sodi J LIFE ASSURANCE ET Y. J DIRECTORS. ohn Allcard, Esq. Charles Hensley, Esq. Richard Low Beck, Esq. Joseph Hoare, F.i.q. Edmund C. Buxton, Esq. John Lau,. nee, Esq. William C . Esq., M.P. William JOO. Leacher, I . sq. James Dawson, Esq, J. Francis slauhert, Esq. Thomas Fowler, Esq. Joseph Pease, Esq., M.P. Francis Fox, Es % John Taylor, Esq. Thoma s H. Hall, Esq. John Travers, Eeq. Rent. Hawes, Jun., Esq., 51. P George Vaughan, Esq. The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Pre miums fall due on the sth of January next, that the same must belladd tsithin thirty days from that, date. The Premiums are payable Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, either of which several days constitutes the commence ment of the year to MEMBEIM Persons, therefore, desirous *f entering the Society, AS MEMBERS, en the sth of Ja nuary next, should appear at the Office on or before that day. EXAMPLES of the ABATEMENT of FORTY per Cent. already allowed on MEMBERS' POLICIES of Five Years' standing. Annual , Iteduc. 1 Wmild as. Date of Sum Premium Premium tion of sure, at the p o h cy. Age Asmired paid for jon Si x th P rem i um i ncreased , First Five Payment. Sixth age of the ______. _ _ Years. i Y ear. party. ..—_ ---• __ 11435. . E. .E. a d: £. a. d. £. ad. L __ s th Jannary 16 3009 6.9 12 6 53 3C'S 9 0 101.5 :)6 , 2000 113 6 8 68 0045 6 R 661 _ 02 10no 11 s 4 42 17 o`2B II 4 32P 16th March - n 111'0 24 17 6 14 1i 6516 0 :145 41 5001 171 010 102 12 668 8 4 1685 0 3000 141 15 0 85 1 0 511 14 0 1040 ...."---77-------___ The Tibor° shows a result admitting of advantageous compa rison with any other institution for Life Assurance. All Mem bers' Assurances effected during the year 1835 and tho early part of 1836, have received the above rate of abatement, which has been made upon data justifying a confident expectation that the same reduction, at least, will be c o nti nue d t o th ose Merab ers, and that all' others, after having paid ire annual Premiums, will become entitled to an equal abatement. A Reduced Table of Rates for Assurances not claiming Profit. Pri RICHARD HEATIIFIELD, Superintendent. n ces - street, Bank, Dec. 1, 1840. WILKINSON'S ANTI - CORROSION PAINT. REMOVED from 63, Upper Thames-street, to 54. WAT LING-STREET, near Que en - s t ree t, Ch ea p s id e . PR. 'WILKINSON particularly recommends his Paint to lc Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, wbe wish to paint their houses of Roman cement, ;tueco, or brick walls, as a preven ?:n to damp or sea spra, in exposed situations; it will not Vmuster or peel off as common paint. On tiling, to represent al ing, iron hurdles, roofs, conservatories, hot-houses, fences, 'arm, or any out-buildings, it will last four times as long as "'orornon paint. It is so simple in it s use , th a t any labourer can lay it on. To ship-owners for their d ec k s , b o t toms of yes-. sels, &c., it will be shown, as well as to the public, to be supe rior to any pai n t in use, b y test i mon i a l s Of its lasting fourteen year on wood and houses, twenty years on iron (see the South wank •bridge)• The publi c are - p ar ti cu l ar ly guar d e d i n g i v i ng their order s for Wilkinson's Anti-Corrosion Paint, that no ot her col our may be imposed upon them for his. A liberal allowanc e to the trade. NFIRMARY for the CURE of STRIC. R TURES of the URETHRA, SYPHILIS, GON . OR- Iin(EA, GLEETS, and all DISEASES of the GENERA TIVE aid URINARY ORGANS. Notwithrtan,ing the above Institutic is closed, Patients bay eoutinue to receive the GRATUITOUS ADVICE of the Sur (Er. Courtenay, 42, Great Ala r lb oroug h- s t ree t,) by ap g at his own hc:ise instead of the Charity. 'lour s of Attendance, from Eight to Ten in the Mornings an 'l front Seven to Ni ne i n t h e E ven i ngs. On Sunup; in the horning, but not in the Evening. 164 PRIVATE PUPIL. AVACANCY for a PUPIL is now open in the FAMILY of a CLERGYMAN of long experience, residing t ;velve miles from London, the number of ‘T hose Pupils is iimi'ed to five or six. He can offer the most satisfactory References to Noblemen and Gentlemen whose sons have been under his care. Letters to be directed for the Rey. R. 11., Post-office, Pe tersham, Surrey. NEW CHA RIOT to he SOLD, and also a new TIRITSCH KA ; or either of them to be Let on job for any period required, with option to purchase. They have patent axles, C springs, imperials, cap-eases, rumbles, and all the usual appendages usually attached to highly-full:4lH carriages. be seen at 43, Crawford-street, Bryancton-square. FOREIGN AND BRITISH SPIRITS. Cash Prices:— per Gal. Brandy, old Cognac, soft and high flavoured.. Od. Rum, old Jamaica English Gin, excellent quality and 'strength 6.s 9s. 4d. HENEKEY, KISLINGBURY, and CO. Gray's inn Establishment, '23, High Holborn. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, in one volume quarto, 600 rages and 17 useful plates, including a beautifully-executed Railway Map of the United Kingdom by Dower o trice IL 11x. 6d., r IHE RAILWXYS of GREAT BRITAIN A and IRELAND practically Deser,bed and Illustrated, By FRANCIS WHISHAW, Civil Engineer, Member of the Institution of Civii Engineers. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall-court. NEW NAVAL NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THE NAVAL SURGEON, By the Author of _ _ " Cavendish," The Flying Dutchman," &c Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. WORKS in course of Publication by Messrs: LONGMAN, ORME, and CO. I. I%I'CULLOM'S GEOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL, and HISTORICAL DICTION ARY. 2 vols. Vol. 1, Bvo., with Maps, 405., cloth lettered. TEIOMAS M E'S POETICAL WORKS. Edited by HIMSELF. Vols. 1,2, and 3, foolscap 870. Price ;is. each, cloth. 111. pROFESSOR LOW'S ILLUSTRA TIONS and DESCRIPTIONS of the various BREEDS of CATTLE, HORSES, SHEEP, &c. Atlas 4to. Parts I. to VI., 21s. each. iv. SAVAGE'S DICTIONARY of PRINT -ING. NO,. I. to IX. 18. 6tl. each. THE CABINET CYCLOPiEDIA. Vol. CXXIX. ; being the History and Natural Arrange ment of Insects. By Mr. SHUCKARD and Mr. SWAIN SON. 6s. Completing the CABINET OF NATURAL HISTORY. VI. THE LONDON MEDICAL GAZETTE. Prat 111. of Vol. I. Session, 1840-41, Bvo., 3s. Also published in Weekly Numbers. MIRROR-NEW VOLUME. THREE PORTRAITS. COMMODORE NAPIER, Mehemet Ali, and the Emperor of China. THE MIRROR Volume, comprising the numbers from June to December, 1840, price ss. Ott., contains, in addition to the above three portraits, with interesting Biographical. Sketches, upwards of 50 other engravings of popular interest—a Street in Pekin; James Town, St. Helena; View of Singapore; the Church of St. Bartholomew, London ; New Front to the Adel phi Theatre ; Bunyan's Pulpit ; St. Jean d'Acre, &c. ; ant its usual variety of choice, original, and selected literary contents. John Limbird, 143, Strand. This day, Saturday, Jan. 2, 1841, is published, price Sixpence, Number I. of THE PEOPLE'S MAGAZINE, A Monthly Jourcal of Religion, Politics, and Literature. Edited by J. R. STEPHENS. CONTENTS: Thoughts on the Times—Homely Readings from the Holy Book —The Old English Yeoman (Poetry)—The Monk, a Talc, from the Swedish of Karl Aug. Nicander—The Crumb Basket ; or, Scraps from aty Letter Drawer—Present State of the People—lntolerance Rebuked—Feelings between the Rich and the Poor—Owenism—The Papists—Slowness of National Reform—The People should be amused—The New Poor Law (I - o•try )- 44 What are we t`o do r' . —lle aiways went to Church ! (Poetry)—Tidings and Tokens, Month by Month. Leeds : printed and published by J. Hobson, at his Ge neral printing and publishing offices, 5, /11arket-street, Brig gate. London : J. Cleave, I, Shoe-lane,Fleet-street. Man chester : A. Heywood, 60, Oldhatn•street. Sold also by all Booksellers. On the Ist of January, was published, Price 1,. PART XIII. of CORNER'S HISTORICAL LIBRARY. Being the Completion of the HISTORY OF DEN MARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY, By MISS JULIA CORNER. Embellished with a beautiful Historical Engraving on steel, descriptive of the narrative, an accurate Map of those Coun tries. and containing about 100 pp. of letter-press. Six Volumes of these authentic and beautifully-illustrated Histories, peculiarly adapted for Schools, and for Family Read ing, are now published; any one of which may be had sepa rately, at the prices named ; or at 6d. per vol. extra, if gilt edged. for presents. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, to June, 1840 ; with Five splendid Engravings on steel, and new Map. 3s. 6d. bound. THE HISTORY OF IRELAND, to September, 18 , 10; with Three splendid Engravings on steel, and an accurate M a p. 2s. 6d. bound. 'I'HE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, to September, 1840. Embellished with Three splendid engravings on steel, and a Map. TUE HISTORY OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, to the Year 1840, with Three fine Engravings on steel, and a Map. 2s. 6d. bound. . _ THE lIISTORY OF FRANCE, to the Year 1840; with Three beautiful Engravings on steel, and a Map. 2s. tid. bound. 'HIE HISTORY OF DENMARK, SWEDEN, AND NORWAY, to the year 18.11, with an accurate Map of those Countries, and two beautiful Engravings on steel. 23. 6d. bound, will be ready in a few days. A liberal allowance to schools ; and a Prospectus of the work sent to any part of the United Kingdom, post free, upon application. England:—Dean and Munth.y, Threadneedle-street, London. Ireland :—Tegg and Co.,—and Machen and Co., Dublin. Scotland : —Griffin and Co. Glasgow. J. Menzies, Edinburgh. And may be obtained of every Bookseller in the United Kingdom. NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. Jest published, price ss. APRACTICAL TREATISE on the CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE QUENCES. By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, AI.R.C.S.L. And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Care of Strictures of the Urethra. CONTENTS. CIIAUTER I. Causes of Strictures. Divisions of Strictures. Symptoms resemble those of Stricture. Consequences of Strictures. CHAFTVK Iv. Of the Treatment of the Mala dies Consequent upon Stric ture. CitA PTER Of the Different Diodes in practice for the Cure of Strictures, by the Bougie, th, Catheter, the Lunar Caustic, and Cutting In T Arutnents. The Author's Mode of Cure. APPENDIX. Cases Illustrative of the Su periority of the Author's Alode of Cure over the Trem ' ment by the Bougie, Cathe ter, Lunar Caustic, and Cut ting Instruments. CHAPTER 111. On the Diseases where the Sold by Bailliere, Medical B Sinipkin and Marshall, Statior rine •street, Strand ; Barlow, I g:nale, Liverpool: and all Book; lookseller, 219, Regent-street ; ners%eourt ; Orr.vilyn, Cathe 3inningliam; Ross and Night :sellers in Town and Country. BOOK SUPPLIES FOR THE NEW YEAR.— The commencement of the new year offers to Families, Reading Societies, and Book Clubs, a favourable oppor tunity tor making their arrangements to be supplied regu larly with all the valuable and interesting New Publica tion, Magazines, and Reviews for perusal ; and to assist them in this object, Mr. Bull, the Librarian, has just published his " New Library System and Circular for Ja nuary," which can now be had gratis, and postage free throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. They com prise—l. Full descriptions of all the valuable New Publi cation', up to the present time. IL A complete view of the best modern literature. 111. The best plans for the establishment of Rending Societies throughout the king dom. IV. The most. advantageous terms for supplying Families and Societies regularly, and in any quantity, with whatever Books, Magazines, and Reviews they may desire for perusal. All applications should be addressed to Mr. Buil, English and Foreign Public Library, 19, Ilolles street, Cavendish-square, London. ANECDOTE OF ARIOSTO.—The father of the poet having been displeased with him, reprehended his conduct with unusual warmth and severity; Ariosto listened to the reproaches with an abstracted air, but replied not, and his father left the chamber. Gabrieli, the brother of Ariosto, who was present, urged the same reprimands that their father had used ; when Ariosto immediately satisfied him that the condemnation which he bad incurred was unmerited, by explaining the misconception of their parent. " But why not have communicated this fact to our father, and so have exculpated yourself?" was the na tural question of Gabrieli. " Because I was thinking all the titre he reproached me so angrily, that the scene then passing might he successfully used in the comedy I am writing,—the Cassaria ;' in which I have introduced an old father admonishing his son, and mine furnished an good a model, that I forgot the actual, in the composition of the imaginative."—Lady Blessingion's Idler in Italy, Vol 111 The Earl and Countess of Kenmarc have ar rived in town, from their beautiful seat, near the Lake of Killarney, for the season. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 1, 1841. Corps of Royal Engineers—Gentleman Cadet D. Galton, to be Second Lieutenant, vice D'Alton, deceased ; Gentle man Cadet 11. W. Barlow to be Second Lieutenant, vice "'reeling, promoted; Gentleman Cadet IL Y. I). Scott to be Secos , l Lieutenant, vice Ord, promoted ; Gen tleman Cadet G. D. Burtehael to be Second Lieut , nant. vice Le Mesurier, promoted; Gentleman Cadet G. Ross, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Tylee promoted ; Gentleman Cadet W. M. Inglish to be Second Lieutenant, vice Moody, pro. moted ; Gentleman Cadet J. R. Mann to be Second Li: it tenant, vice Simmons, promoted. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentleman Cadet J. Gibbon to be Second Lieutenant, vice Thomas, promoted ; Gentleman Cadet J. R. Anderson to be Second t Lieutenan', vice Graydon, promoted; Gentleman Cadet P. F. Gother Scott to be Second Lieutenant, vice Olthichi, promoted ; Gentleman Cadet S. M'D. Calder, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Christie, promoted ; Gentleman Cadet W. I'. Pollock, to be Second Lieutenant, v:ce Denis, promoted; Gentleman Ca det G. Neville, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Pack, pro moted, Dec. 18. BANKRUPTS. JACOB MAGNUS, linen-draper, Ramsgate, to surrender Jan. 6, at seven, and Feb. 12, at nine, at the Albion Hotel, Ramsgate. Sole Aldermanbury. WILLIAM CONYER, THOMAS RIDSDALE, JO SEPH SENIOR, RICHARD STAPLETON, BENJA MIN TURNER, EDWARD BAILEY, JOHN MILNES, WILLIAM .MAYAION, RICHARD SHAW, JOSEPH CASTLE, SMITH OLDROYD, JOHN BREAREY. JOHN DEN TON, and ABRAHAM ELLIS, woollen millers, Batley_ Carr, Dew sbnry, Yorkshire, Jan. 12, at two, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the. Commissioners'-room:, Lcec Hall, Aldermanburv, London ; Scholes, Dewsbury, Yorkshire. THOMAS TANDY, needle-manufacturer, 11.ulditch, Wor cestershire, .Jan. 14, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the New Royal Hotel, Bir m i ng h am . N e l son , New -court, Middle Tempe, London ; Browning, Redditch. EDWARD BENNETT and JOHN FREDERICK BENNETT, wine -merchants, Canterbury, Jan. 9. at eleven, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. Smith, Chancery-lane, London ; Walker, Canterbury. ROBERT PHILLIPS, wire -worker, Canterbury, Jan. 9, at eleven, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. Smith, Chancery-lane, London; Walker, Canterbury. JOSEPH DOBSON, drysalter, Liverpool, Jan. 14 and Feb. 12, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. llridger, Finsbury-circus, London ; Francis and Dodge. Liverpool. WILLIAM HENRYSUMMERS, broker, Sackville atrect, Jan. 12 and Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Lombard-street ; Cattlin, Ely-place. JOHN MOORE, grocer, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham Jan. 15, and Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Thompson's Arms, Sunderland. Cooper, Sunderland; Loveland, Syrnond's Inn, Chancery-lane, London. JOHN AUSTIN, coach p-oprietor, Manchester, Jan. 21, and Feb. 12, at t en , a t th e Commissioners' Rooms Man. cheater. Milne, Pa rr y, Milne, an d M orr i s , Te m pl e , Condors ; Oswald, Milne, and Sons, Manchester. JOHN WOOD and THOMAS WOOD, cleth manufac turers, Leeds, Jan. 15, at nine, and Feb. 12, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds. Robinson and Barlow, Essex, street, Strand, London ; Ward and Son, Leeds. NOAH HEDGES, tailor, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, Jan. 8, and Feb. 12, at two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Poole and Gamlen, Gray's Inn-sqaare, London ; Williams and Barker, Bristol. JOHN STRICKLAND, THOMAS POWELL SIIAW, and FRANCIS MATTOCK, cheesemongers, City, Jan. 16. at two, and Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Van Sandau and Howell, King -street. Cneapside. THOMAS TREANOR, hardwareman, Birnsingliam, Jan. 13, and Feb. PA, at one, at the New Royal Hotel, Birming ham. Phillips, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury, London ; Partridge and Taylor, Birmingham. JOSIAH LEICESTER, printer, Manchester, Jan. 21, at two, and Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Bower and Back, Chancery-lane, London ; Banting, Manchester. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. and W. Harrison, Austin-friars—R. Harrison, W. Har rison, and J. Sadler, Austin-friars--R. Goolden and C. Wil liams, surgeons, Maidenhead, Berkshire—W. Wills and E. Allen, surgeons, Totnes, Devonshire—R. Campbell and J. Taylor, linen drapers, Ipswich—J. Hill and H. h. Gisborne, surgeons, Derby—D. Scott and J. Bailey, corn dealers, Preston, Lancashire—A. Roxburgh, G. Ashworth, and W. M. Bart, calico printers, Know-mill, Lancashire—M. D. Lindo and H. De Castro, indigo brokers, Fenchurch-street—T. Cheshire, G. Shorthouse, and T. Teare, lamp-black manufac turers, Aspull, Lancashire (so far as regards T. Cheshire) — J. Latham, A. Hibbert, R. Harrison, and W. Harrison, mer chants, Pernambuco (so far as regards R. and W. Harrisou)— J. Weller and I'. Wilton, sail makers, Limehouse—G. B. and E. Thorneycroft, iron masters, Staffordshire—J. Hill, jun. awl W. V. Hill, surveyors, Southampton—R. Watkins and 11. Askham, tailors, Regent-street, St. James's—J. Robinson, W. Robinson, and W. Sanford, silk manufacturers, Milk -street, Cheapside—T. Warlters, W. Warlters, and S. Lovejoy, auc tioneers, Farringdon-street (so far as regards W. Warlters)— W. TheobaLis and R. M. Atkinson, silversmiths, Salisbury court, S..IU - ory-square -J. and J. a. Kyan. Southampton row, Bloomsbury—D. P. and R. Hughes, chemists, Burling ton-place, Old Kent-road—A. and S. Macmath, linen drapers, Brighton—M. Brown and 11. A. Taylor, timber merchants, Neweastle.upon Tyne—J. Shaw and G. Yale, earthenware manufacturers, Longton, Staffordshire—J. V. Desgrand, J. Fordati, and J. Cexhead, general merchants, Size-lane, Pucklersbury—W. Arter, T. Arter, and NV. Arter, jun., mer chants, Barnstaple, Devonshire—J. Cunningham and A. H. Holme, architects, Liverpool-4. Smith and E. Buckle, attor neys-at-law, Rugely, Staffordshire—F. Rackham and J. E. Puest, sugar refiners, Gowers's-walk, Whitechapel—G. S. Pedter and A. Squire, chemists, Fleet-street—W. Felgate and W. S. Stockley, ship insurance brokers, Birchin-lane—J. Moody and 0. Lewis, tea dealers, Brabant-court, Philpot-lane —C. Burgett and J. J. Iselin, general merchants, Mincing lane—E. Thornley and M. Ratcliff, milliners, Liverpool—S. Lang, H. T. Pearce, and B. Smith, merchants, Liverpool (so far as regards 11. T. Pearce)—J. W. Gibsone, J. NV. White head, and NV. Meyer, merchants, Liverpool (so far as regards J. W. Gibsone)_T. Phillpotts, J. Lloyd, jun., and A. 11. Phillpotts, merchants, Gloucester—J. and T. W. Meeson, lime burners, Gray's. Essex—J. Brown and J. It E. 11PDon nell, distillers, Graigue, Queen's County, Ireland—J. N. Tomr son, B. Gurney, and W. Caird, apothecaries, Exeter—NV. Macleod and L. Houston, merchants, Liverpool—J. Phillips, W. Phillips, and NV. Featherstonhaugh, China-clay mer chants, Shaugh, Devonshire (so far as regards W. eather stonhaugh). SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JOHN SCEALES, baker, Leith, Jan. 7, at two, at the Chambers of T. Shiels, Leith. JOHN ISPCLELLAND and CO., merchants, Greunock, Jan. 5, at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Greenock. JOHN YOUNG, dyer, Paisley, Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the Returns made in the week eliding December 29, 1840, is 40s. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation into Great Britain, THE RIVER. In consequence of the rapid thaw which commenced on Wednesday night, and was succeeded by heavy showers of rain, there was a general break-up of the ice on the river yesterday, and the navigation of the shipping, steamers, and craft received very little interruption, and a number of vessels of every description arrived and departed in the course of the day. Several coasters and colliers, which ware kept out of the Pool by the ice, also came up in the afternoon with the tide, which brought up a considerable quantity of drifting ice, which appeared soft, and offered little obstruction to the passage of ships and barges. At low water there were vast masses of ice and large icebergs on both shores, a good deal of which was taken up by the flowing tide and dissolved. The change of the weather hap pened very opportunely ; for the navigation of the river was almost entirely suspended on Tuesday. From Ha nover-bole-stairs to Rothcrhite-platform there was a con tinuous field of ice, extending nearly one-third over, and the watermen cut out a passage through it to get their boats in and out of King'a..stairs, midway between the Platform and Hanover-hole. The floating engine, lying off Rotherhithe, was ice-locked, and was cut out by a steam-tug and taken to St. Katherine's, where there was comparatively only a small quantity of ice. The engine was moored in a place where it could be soon got attost in the event of its services being required. At high water on \Vcdnesd.ty evening the quantity of ice in the river wss enormous, and from the Regent's Canal entrance, to the Shadwell Dock on the north shore, there was a complete block. The Dundee steam-ship, from Dundee, got under weigh at three o'clock, and her passage through the Pool was attended with considerable difficulty, as she encoun tered large icebergs and fields of ice flowing up with the tide. The Vivid, Captain Agars, from Hull, arrived at St. Katharine's at one on Wednesday afternoon, after a 26 hours' passage, with 35 passengers, and went through the ice, which she met in large quantities in the lower part of Gallion's Reach, in fine style. Captain Agars reported that there was a large fleet of colliers in the lower part of the river unable to get up, and passed 300 sail of vessels in the Swin. Yesterday, many of the colliers were able to get up into the Pool to discharge their cargoes. If the frost had continued 48 hours longer, the navigation of the Thames would have been entirely suspended, and coals in creased to an enormous price. The thaw was proceeding last night, and much of the ice seen drifting on the Thames in the morning had disappeared. The Gravesend steamers still continue to depart from Blackwell. WINTER AMUSEMENTS IN CHINA.— The amusements of the Emperor of China's Court on the ice, during the severe winters of Pekin, are thus given by Van I3raam, who was one of the Dutch mission which pro ceeded from Canton soon after Lord Macartney's embassy : The Emperor made his appearance on a sort of sledge, supported by the figures of four dragons. This machine was moved about by several mandarins, some dragging be fore, and others pushing behind. The four principal Mi nisters of State were also dawn upon the ice, in their sledges, by inferior mandarins. Whole troops of civil and military officers soon appeared, some on sledges, some on skates, and others playing at football on the ice ; and he that kicked up the ball was rewarded by the Emperor. The ball was then hung up in a kind of arch, and several mandarins shot at it, in passing on skates, with their bows and arrows. Their skates were cut off short under the heel, and the fore part was turned up at right angles." These diversions are more in the spirit of the Tartars than of the Chinese, whose original habits were more effeminate and quiet. A person who has recently passed the Simplon states that, at the village of that name, up to the 15th inst., the thermometer had not fallen there more than 10 degrees below zero of Reaumur, or 91 above zero of Fahrenheit. FROM TIIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the .71fOrning Chronicle.) We this day lay bef o r e our rea d e r s important addi tional information respecting the case of Mr. Hill, in the Ecclesiastical Court of Exeter, and the resolutions agreed (al at a meeting on Monday last in Monmouth, with regard to the case of Sarah Young. Mr. Milieu has supplied us with the opinion given by Dr. Add ons in the case of Mr. Hill, from which it will be seen that the omnipotence oj Parliament, to use the well-known expression, is impotence in regard to the Ecclesiastical Courts. Parliament may pass an Act, prohibiting Courts from entertaining suits fur tithes for sums under 101., but if they ehoose to entertain suits for a smaller sum than 101., a party can only have the benefit of the prohibition by appearing at the citation, and then the iniquitous Court refutes to allow hint costs, which are always high. In bringing before the House of Co.m mons, in 1839, his motion respecting Ecclesiastical Courts, Mr. Hawes observed that it was often extremely difficult to ascertain over what description of causes any particular (Ecclesiastical) Court operated, and much inconvenience resulted from this uncertainty. In the majority of the Peculiar Courts, and perhaps in all, there neither were nor could be efficient and experi enced judges, officers, advocates, or practitioners, the emoluments being too small, and the number of causes too few, to secure those requisites for the due adminis tration of justioe. The consequence was, that nn con fidence was reposed in these tribunals ; and delay arose and expense was incurred in applying for letters of re quest, and in resorti'g to other means of escaping the jurisdiction." As a proof cf . ignorance Dr. Lushing ' ton stated that the.prantiticreirs of one of these Eccle siastical Courts did not know that an appeal lay from its jurisdiction. But all this ignorance is displayed at the expense of the unfortunate persons subject to the jurisdiction. The Court may, through its igno rance, put a party to great trouble and expense ; but the Court itself is vested with impunity. The Court itself may be composed of a knot of clergymen having the same interests as the suitor, and suits may be entertained, in the very teeth of an Act of Parliament prohibiting them ; but though it may be obvious that the suits arc entertained for the purpose of obtaining incomes to the members of the Court and the practitioners, through enormous costs, y:t corrupt motives cannot he brought home to any one. If' the members of these tribunals avoid doing what no man not a downright idiot would think of doing, they may perpetrate all sorts of iniquity with impunity. We remember, in the case of an action brought against an inferior tribunal, hearing Lord Toaterden observe, that errors of Judges ought to be viewed with indulgence— that it was more important that they should act with confidence on the opinion they entertained, than that justice should be parsl, zed front hesitation and anxiety respecting the consequences of their deci sions. In the case of Judges, like those of our su perior Courts, under the eye of an intelligent Btr and public, a charitable construction of conduct can be productive of little injury ; but in such dens of ini quity as the Ecclesiastical Courts of the country con fessedly are, the doctrine of Lord Tenterden (of which they would be allowed to avail themselves), must give impunity to the most revolting injustice. Mr. Hewes's resolution, that the inferior Ecclesiastical Courts shoitld be abolished without delay, was carried, but they still exist, to the great oppression of the community. They may know that they are flying in the face of an Act of Parliament. ; but they know that the oppressed party can only secure himself by an outlay which ren ders submission to his wrong the more prudent course. They feel that they are vested with impunity. Par liament cannot protect the people from Courts de. termined to set it at defiance, trusting to the difficulty of distinguishing between venial and cri minal fallibility. The only remedy worth any thing is to abolish such Courts root and branch. In the resolutions agreed on at the Monmouth meeting it is stated " that the Ecclesiastical Court of Llandaff, which has been in the habit of issuing citations for small amounts of tithe, has displayed a want of respect for the laws of our country, and exercised a power dangerous to the liberty of the subject, which ought not to pass with impunity." But we suspect this and every other Ecclesiastical Court acting with the same barefaced disregard of the law, may count on impunity. This opinion we deliver with due hesitation ; but as the con duct of the Court of Llandaff has excited much indig nant feeling in Monmouth and the parts of the county adjacent, and a subscription has been set on foot to enable , the Widow fou.g to obtai7, redress, if redress 1, to be had, it is not impossible that the point will be decided respecting which we are in doubt. If any degree of in•quitous practice, short of barefaced cor ruption, brought home to a judge, can serve as a ground for punishment, it is to be found in the prac tice of the Ecclesiastical Courts. In the " Plympton Papers," published some time ago by the Camden Society, a curious light is thrown on the conduct of Empson and Dudley, who, it appears, played very different parts from what might be inferred from the statements respecting them in our common histories. These gentlemen, like the practitioners in our Ecclesias tical Courts, proceeded according to law. They hail the same objects in view, the acquisition of plund.r, but et they set law less at defiance than the Ecclesias tical Courts have done. To be sure, they flew at higher game than Widow Young, and the other unfor tunate cottagers caged by the Bishop's Court of Landaff, and hence their deathless renown. No man in England can long hope to oppress the rich with impunity. Ex cessive fines and excessive bail figure conspicuously in the Bill of Rights, though, in comparison to the inco.nes of the parties, heavier fines and heavier bails than those which led to the clause in the Bill of Rights are of every day occurrence in our Police Courts. But no thing can be too heavy for a poor man, and nothing too light for a grandee. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF MR. HILL'S CASE-PRACTICE OF THE ECCLESIASTI CAL COURT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sia—Mr. Hill has been the victim of two tithe suits in the Exeter Ecclesiastical Court, in both of which may be seen the worst features of this inigeitous tribunal. The first suit arose from his vicar claiming agistment tithes, which Mr. Hill alleged were exempt under his composi tion. The vicar demanded a certain sum fixed on by his surveyor, and would never give the particulars of the a mount I _ Mr. Hill, refusing to pay unless he know what the de mand was for, was cited on the 24th of September, 1839. Oa the 11:h of October the libel was filed ; but this de daring generally (like a bill in Chancery), and not spe cifying the particulars of tithe due, of course it could not be seen what were the items in dispute, and rather than wait fur the issuing a eommission to take evidence, when the expenses would be 301. or 401., Mr. Hill yielded to the vicar's demand, and paid 11/. costs, although only the second step in the suit had been taken, and the amount sued for did not exceed 141. The libel fills ten sheets of paper, and commences, " In the name of God, amen, eac." Need I condemn this blasphemous prostitution of the name of the Almighty Giver of all goodness to sanction so wicked an extortion ? The eighth and last article is a specimen of the document : " Also. the party proponent doth say and allege that the said Joseph Hill, in the years libelled, was a parishioner and inhabitant within the parish of ti.— libelled, and did there hear divine service, and receive the Slcrament, together with his wife, yearly, or at least ought so to hare done, for which there is due and payable to the vicar li belled at Easter, yevrly, or near thereabouts, four pence a piece for every communicant, for and in lieu of their ge neral oblations." . - The Vicar, flushed with the success of his first suit, in the January following issued the citation in question for the quarter's tithe then due ; but the demand being under 101., the suit was dismissed, as I have beforelmentioned. The following is Dr. Addams's opinion:— " I think that the defendant must appear absolutely. If the libel does not set forth that the yearly value of tithe subtracted exceeds 101., the defendant must object to its r. if es w p h e e e n t) the plaintiff having admission, and then the Court (u n l ess , i ndeed, it directs should dismi s s th e de f e ndantt le h a c : l e i e o l rteof"obirtemh reformed costs the or does not plead the annual value of the tithe subtracted to be above 101. If it pleaded that the annual value of the tithe sub tracted is above 10/., but that fact is not proved in or dis proved by the evidence at the hearing of the cause, the result, 1 apprehend, should at all events be, that the de feudant is entitled to his costs, though the plaintiff may 71,D)wocc‘tuorr'stiCiemniemsiiu:sintbstel,avt ktaFe.seer,nb t.toh4aayn't prove some tithe subtracted and recovered accordingly. (Signed) " J. ADDAMS. B M 4 r o .. " flill could not get "dileldthteo an illegal demand, costs; and the idea of the defendant submitting to a suit, of incurring 40/. coats. cause heard, is so tmuhnoatnni run neu monstrous, le thatr evidence isk t I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Exeter, Dec. :30. 11. C. MILLET. MEETING ON BEHALF OF WIDOW YOUNG. At a meeting held at Monmouth on the 98th of Decem ber, for taking into consideration th e best means to be adopted for the ltbera.ion of the widow, Sarah Young, now a prisoner in the county goal of Monmouth, where she has been detained seven months for alleged contempt of the Ecclesiastical Court of Llandaff, whither she was illegally cited at the suit of the Rev. Dr. Lyle, of that place, for 3/. Ws. slid to be due for tithe, the following re solutions were adopted : That the citation of a p oor Wi dow fur a small amount of tithe to an Ecc l es iastical Cou rt, contrary to the Act made " That the Ecclesiastical Court of Llandaff, which has been in the habit of issuing c itati ons for small amounts of unconstitutional. such proceedings, is both unch r i s ti an an d unt:tit ns to prevent tithe, has displayed a want of respect for the laws of our country, and exerted a power dangerous to the lib. , rty of the subject, which ought not to pass with impunity. " Tnat this meeting pledges itself, by bringing this par • cuter case beton/ Parliament, by petitioning the Legis lature, and by using every lawful means, to endeavour to abolish the power usurped by the Ecclesiastical Courts. " That a Committee be now appointed, with power to add to their number, with a view to effect the liberation of the widow Sarah Young, who has already suff.!red seven months' imprisonment tor alleged contempt of the Eccle siastical Court of Llandaff, whither she was illegally cited fur 31. 10s., said to be due to the Rev. Dr. Lyle_for tithe. That a subscription for carry inf.; out the above reso lutions be immediately opened. That James Bromage, Esq., banker, M.inniouth, be appointed Treasurer ; and Mr. E. iiiehardi, Secretary, who is requested to forward the resolutions to the public papers." (From the Morning Advertiser.) The year 1840, with all its wars, and rumours of wars—with all its political struggles and political fears —has closed upon the nations of Europe, and gladly would we hail the 1841 which has dawned upon us, with renewed hopes of peace, tranquillity, and increased civilization ; but although much of the storm that " lowered" over our beloved country has been die pelted by the glorious achievements of the wooden walls of Old England on the coasts of China and Syria, it would he uncandid not to confess that others are ap parently rising up which may introduce the year 184'2 in a far less bloodless manner than the year 1840 has closed. We allude not to the quarrel between England and China, which, we doubt not, will be brought to a successful, though tardy, conclusion—we allude not to the affair between the Porte and Mehemet Ali, nor to that between Spain, and Portugal, which will, in all pro bability, share tne same fate ; but to the political rela twns which subsist between the different Powers of ItairOpe, oat' the - desire for war which exists' iss.; more than one country of the great European com munity—a desire which we c innot characterise as otherwise than insane, but which nevertheless exists to a much greater extent than is generally believed. In the good faith of Russia in her professed desire to insure the integrity of th e Ottornati empire, we nev e r had the slightest faith. Though driven into the quin tuple treaty by the diplomatic genius of Lord Palmerston, her object was evidently to bring v.bout u , collision between France and England, and while they were engaged in settling it, to enlarge her overgrown empire, at the expense of both or of any other country upon which she could place her paws. Tuffs hope failed her in consequence of the extraordinary and unequalled successes of our fleets on the coast of Syria, which gave her no time for weaving a web of mischief ; but, untired of a game of reckless ambition, she is no sooner foiled in one plot than she prepares another, the objects sad the ends of which are undefined,but, nevertheless, may be guessed at. Her object is now, to all appearance, to make love to France, and by placing herself in a sup posed position of saying " attack us it you dare," to pur sue her own schemes of aggrandisement, and bid defi ance to Europe to assail her. Her intrigues with the Court of Persia are well known—we are credibly informed that her agents arc no less active at Pekin—there is no question that the ten days' deliberation of the Turkish Divan respecting the dcckeance of Mehemet Ali, was the work and manufacture of her hands, and now we find her kissing the feet of Louis Philippe in order to engage hint in one of the most unnatural alliances that was ever formed between country and country, as the following extract from a Paris paper will prove i—" We are enabled (says the Pressc) fully to confirm the receipt, by the French Government, of a most friendly note from the Russian Cabinet. It is not only in its written despatches that the Russian Government evinces a de sire to renew an amicable intercourse with France. M. de Barante, our Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, loudly proclaims the unusual kindness and particular attention with which the Emperor Nicholas has treated him for some time. It is evident that Russia does not deceive herself respecting her present relations with Great Bri tain, and that she is only seeking an opportunity of breaking off with her. Should this rupture take place, it would be an immense event, since it would leave Eng land in precisely the same predicament in which we found ourselves after the treaty of Landon. We think that it now depends on the skill of the French Government to take in that respect a signal and durable revenge." From all this it is perfectly apparent that Russia means, in the first place, to make a tool of France for the fur therance of her own private objects, and, in the second, that the war party in France would submit to the dis grace of a despotic alliance in order to revenge them• selves upon England ; but what natural tie is there be tween France and Russia ? Neither the one nor the other are naval states, which, by co-operation, could meet England Upon t6o 6rond 6oeo.tt or • h their principles of government are as antagonistic as the poles—in fact, there is no ground for any common bond of union beyond a mutual hatred of England. and a desire to reduce her power and influence in the four quarters of the world. This is a folly on the part of France for which she will not readily forgive herself when she discovers that Russia is using her as a tool for the attainment of her own purposes, and destroying her influence as a great Power in Europe. We hope that this Russia mania will speedily evaporate—that the Government of France will see that its natural and most powerful ally is England—that no ground of na tional quarrel or separation has been given— and that civilized States ought to unite together to prevent war and to preserve peace, as the greatest encourager of the arts and sciences which tend to the benefit of mankind. Should the event be unfortunately otherwise than we wish—should an unjustifiable and insane combination take place between France and Russia to the prejudice of our country—we have only to say that England will again buckle on her armour as she did of old, and with a world in arms against her, as she had in the times of Chatham, give her assailants a remembrances which they will not speedily forget. (From the Morning Herald.) The, letter which we published yertcrday from our correspondent in Paris, contained some curious illustra tions of the truth of those opinions, which the Herald alone, of the daily press of London, has expressed in reference to the recent " settlements" of the Eastern question, as well as in reference to the really hostile nature of the desigas of our professing " ally," Russia. In all things, Russia is, by the very necessities of her position, and of that scheme of policy to which her posi tion has given rise, the " natural enemy" of England. W e state this circumstance, dispassionately, merely as a fact that ought never to be lost sight of. It is a fact, which warrants no deep hatred on our parts towards Russia—and, certainly, warrants no violence of lan guage. Russia has her own system of political action ; and that system, she advances with consummate energy and skill. 'rite present Emperor of Russia is a man of extreme prudence and ability ; but he is only carrying out designs that were formed before he was born—designs that will be prosecuted with an unflinching zeal, after he shall be numbered with his predecessors. Russia is, beyond all question, the most formidable of the anta gonists with whom we can be called on to cope. Tue executive Government of Russia is, for its objects, the most effective in the world. The diplomatists of Rus sia far transcend all their competitors in aptitude for business, and in tact. On the military and naval re sources of Russia, it is unnecessary to make many observatious. Her navy has been absolutely created (so to speak) within twenty years. The next twenty years. if th-y shall be equally well employed by Rus sia, must witness her navy unquestioned mistress of the ocean. At every point, the power of England interferes with the designs of Russia ; and so long as an intimate alliance subsists between England and France—so long, indeed, as England shall be true to herself—the progress of the -great Northern Power must be necessarily slow. Still the mere slowness of her progress never interferes with the settled pur pose of Russia. She is ever where vigilant—everywhere prepared to act, where action is expedient —every where prepared to refrain from action, when action is not advisable. The influence of Russia has been exerted against England in India—in Persia—in Canada —in Turkey—and in France :—nay, some observers— men, too, not devoid of acuteness—fancy that they can trace Russian influence in some of our domestic dissen sions. An alliance with France would, in a remarkable degree, promote the designs of Russia. England, by destroying the Turkish fleet at Navarino, placed Turkey, in fact, at the mercy of Russia. By our operations on the coast of Syria, we have removed the possibility of any interference on the part of 'Mehemet Ali with the schemes of our northern " ally." In order to play thoroughly the game of Russia, we have, now, oily to provide for ourselves full occupation, by go ing to war with France ; and then, in all probability, Russia will exhibit less of reserve as to her ulti mata objects, than she has, hitherto, deemed it prudent to employ. England is naturally an object of envy and dislike to almost all the other great nations in the world. The wealth of Eng'and—her vast co lonial possessions—her commercial and trading enter prise, that is so apt to interfere with the domestic in dustry of foreign states :—these arc all reasons why the other Powers should long to witness the annihila tion of the sources of England's prosperity. It is not on the part of France and Russia alone, that we have to fear demonstrations of hostility.. In India, we have many formidable enemies among the native Princes. Persia is now decidedly hostile. With China we are actually at war. The United States of America ' will seize the first favourable opportunity of a!,- ' tempting to wrest the Canadas from us. Russia will never forego her designs on Turkey. France has not forgotten that she once had colonies which now acknowledge the sway of England. France, moreover, has not abjured her passion for creating a colonial empire on a far more extensive scale than she has ever yet attempted. Now all these nations have a common interest in opposing England. With our neighbours in India and China, we are already in volved in hostilities. The lapse of a bri e f per i od may involve us in war with Russia, France, and the United States. These Powers have, it is true, no bond of union apart from their opposition in interest to England ; but that may prove a bond of union quite effective for its objects. A combined movement by France, Russia, and the United States might deprive England of the sovereignty of the seas, the navy of the United States being manned almost exclusively by English seamen. Any one disaster on a great scale might prove, in fact, a prelude to the dismemberment of the British empire —for unfortunately the means of defence and of aggression now possessed by England are far from being commensurate with the necessities of her position. It is well that the rulers of England should look calmly at all the dangers that really threaten the country, whose destinies arc com mitted to their hands. Much has, it is true, been re cently done towards placing our navy in an effective condition ; but far more requires to be done. Our coasts are still nearly defenceless. Many of our ships in commission—aye, some even of those vessels which played so distinguished a part in the bombardment of Acre—are very imperfectly manned and appointed. These things require, assuredly, to be thoroughly reformed. No economy can be so false, or so costly, as that, which would withhold from a great nation, in times of peril, the most effectise means of repelling danger. Three months of a war, which should be conducted inefficiently on our part, would cost us more than the most expensive navy woulJ, in a quarter of a century.- Os boasted "settlement" of the Eastein tarif f in short, at ho distant time, to bring us into collision with France, or Russia—perhaps with both, and, it. may be, with the United States simultaneously. It is our business, at all events, to be prepared for such a contingency--to shun Russian " alliances"—to culti vate friendly relations with Prussia and Austria—to add immediately, and on a large scale, t o t h e e th e ir2ney of our navy—to prot ec t ou r domestic and colonial in dustry, and to lay less store than we have been in the habit of doing by our foreign trade. If England shall adopt such a prudent course, she may smile at any alliance which Russia may form with France :—if not, England may find that there are in store for her days of darkness and disaster, such as she has never hereto fore known. (From the Times.) The Parisian journals have not mitigated one particle of their hostility to the British name and nation. The provincial press rivals that of the metropolis in the spirit of hatred and vengeance, of irrational hatred, and ven geance utterly unprovoked. If there were any justifi able cause for such animosity, however, we should suffer not only in self-reproach, but in reputation, for those in juries to France by which it might have been occa sioned, still there would be some reasonable prospect that a becoming acknowledgement and reparation on our part might extinguish the unfriendly feeling. But we have, fortunately, no such ground of hope. We have offered France no injury. Her resentment is gra tuitous. It springs exclusively from the frustration of her own intended wrong, and she clings to it as to a sentiment the public disavowal of which would be a self-conviction of her previous injustice before the whole world. What, then, remains for us What concession on be made by the individual or the na tion which has neither committed nor meditated en croachment on the rights of a neighbour ? In Wed nesday's Times we gave an outline of our opinion as to the causes now in action for the overthrow of M. Guizot. With the ignorant, prejudiced, and headlong multitude, it is the passion for war at any price which he opposes, and that is at least an honest and manly, though mis taken motive. But it is far otherwise with those who look no otherwise at M. Guizot's policy than as it may tend to the stability or abridgment of his own power, and who affix no importance to his unpopularity but as it may facilitate their efforts to undermine and super sede him. It is rumoured very generally that M. Thiers is expected in certain quarters to promote so much of the Paris-fortification project as will suit the convenience and advance the schemes of Royalty. In any community but that of France such indirect and sub tle courses would scarcely be thought worthy of credit. Nl.Thiers, it is well understood, has forfeited all chance of being endured as a Minister by the head of the house of Or leans. His attempt to precipitate Louis Philippe into a war, and his offensive and disreputable endeavour afterwards to charge it as a crime against his Majesty that he had stantly been provoked had Thiers remained in office, were quite enough, in any other country, to have made the late Minister of Foreign Affairs an outcast from the in tercourse of all honourable politicians. If Louis Phi lippe now, therefore, stoops so low as to employ this personage, thus discarded, as his agent in a p articular service where the King had notoriously an end to carry which no true friend of free Go verninent would ever deign to promote (we allude distinctly to the erection of detached forts round Paris), either Thiers must exhibit a turpitude, or Louis Philippe will have committed a folly, for neither of which can a precedent be found in the annals of any neighbouring nation. As for the chimera that M. Mole, the anticipated successor of M. would, by striking the earth with his staff of office,raise the Pande monium of a Russian alliance against England, we attach no faith to it, and entertain no such fear. The Emperor Nicholas knows his men. His Imperial Majesty is familiar with the name and career of M. Mole—he knows Louis Philippe and France herself as intimately as either is known to the other—and we mistake him much if he will not pause for some time before he en gages himself against England by the solemn obligations of a treaty with France for his only friend. That the French rave incessantly of such a treaty is no preof that it over will take place. That Russia would gain by it any advantage equal to the value of the paper on which it was signed, is what we do nut imagine. That Russia, having but recently signed and executed engagements with Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and the Porte, for maintaining the integrity of the Turkish do minions, and for reducing the Egyptian ruche to the condition of his vassal, would or could now, in open contempt of every principle on which also has just affirmed the equilibrium and the peace of Europe to repose, and in flagrant and disgraceful violation of her own honour, form a league with France, in direct hostility to the Allies with whom she has throughout been co-operating, and for the defeat and ruin of ob jects whose importance she was, within these two years, the foremost to proclaim, we hold to be mon strous and incredible. The French war party, through those discreet mouthpieces, Messrs. Thiers and Jaubert, has declared that France had in view three tangible and legitimate pretensions to enforce, as against Europe ge nerally-1. The exclusive protectorship of Egypt, and of all the other secondary powers in the Mediterranean, by the ascendancy of the French flag. 3. The seizure of the island of Minorca, to form a new link 'n the chain between France and Algiers. The exMion of the French frontier to the Rhine, and the defeazance of the treaties of 181:5, to which Russia was a prominent and comrnandingparty. Now let us ask any man in his senses, is it rational to conceive that the E:nperor Nicholas would, on the proposal of M. Mole, a Bonapartist employe, or out of complaisance to Louis Puilippe, whom he re gards as an usurper of the lawful Boerbou crown, be come the member of a p trtnership with that usurper and his Minister for abandoning to France the sole do minion over Egypt, the possession of Minorca, or the frontier of the Rhine—the last. mentioned prize to be wrested by force from the German Powers, the ancient friends of Russia—some of them endeared to her by bonds of the most sacred family alliance, and none of them more interested than she is herself to restrain France rigorously within the limits assigned to her by the grand European confederation of 1813 ? Who but a Bedlamite would believe such nonsense ? Tire Paris papers are indeed quite edifying in their con struction of a certain despatch, which is alleged to have come from St. Petershurgh to M. Guizot, wherein the French Government is courteously as sured of the regret with which the Court of St. Pe tersburgh perceived that France had isolated herself from the rest of Europe on the E astern question, and the satisfaction with which his Imperial Majesty would see the French Government even now disposed to make itself an approving party to the final settlement; of that important quarrel. And this is bolstered n d puffed U4p into the assamed groundwork of a of • between Russia and France, to the detriment Great Britain ! Why, was there ever such trash imposed upon the credulity of mankind ? (,From the Globe.) _ _ " Eighteen Hundred and Forty-onc has commenced its course, with the Whigs in possession of Downin - street !" is the dolorous exclam ation of the Tory reps.P g Varying the date,the mortify in g truth ha s been expressed as each new year has dawned, for the last sevenrevolutions of the sun round our globe. To relieve the mortification inflicted by the exclusi )n from place and power to they have been doomed, they have sought consolation predictions of a coming change. , rile month, the week, the day beyond w hich it was absolutely impossible for the Ministers to retain office, was spoken of with as much certainly as itit had been ma d e matter of special revelation. It is true that the Tories N st ith renuously laboured to fulfil their own predictions. v in the history of m a perseverance unequalled Opposition, ali they have attacked, ob structed, assailed, and maligned the measures of Govern ment, even at th e r i s k of their own ruin as a party ; exhibiting the novel spectacle of the leaders in one House attacking with vehemence, as deserving of the rejection and condemnation of Parliament, the very measures which, in the other House, were pronounced the most politic that could be adopted under the cir cumstances to which they were applied. Thus stul tifying their own proceedings, and in the blindness of their party violence presenting the humiliating spectacle of a party panting for office, yet avowedly at logger heads among themselves : the very men who could constitute the to-be-formed Cabinet, like a rope of sand —without agreement on the most important measures of Foreign, Colonial, and Domestic Policy, on which they must have been called upon to legistatc had they been in office ; and differing on which as a Government, as they did d:ffer as an Opposition, they must inevitably have fallen asunder by the force of their own dissen sions, even though no pressure from without had put their internal weakness to the proof. Such is the condi tion of the great Tory party at this moment. (From the Standard.) It cannot be doubted that the feeling which caused a few Radicals at Walsall, to throw themselves upon the wretched Anti Carn•latt League for help, and the antagonist feeling which reduced the suppliants to a number so contemptible—it cannot be, but that this It idical despair and this Conservative confidence prevail in other boroughs, circumstanced like Wal sall ; and these aro the boroughs which have hitherto furnished the strongholds of the Ministerial party. This happy change, mark, is not the work of great men and rich men ; it is the effect of, first, and immeasurably before all other causes, the improved effieleney of the Church ; next, of the honest exertions of the despised and insulted Conser vative Press, which, under every positive and nega tive affront and injury, has laboured to preserve the aristocracy and gentry, in spite of themselves, or, to speak more justly, in spite of some of their leaders. if any one wants to know whether the hangers-on upon political leaders on the independent press have made converts to Conservative principles, we can furnish him with an easy test ; let him go to one of those hangers on, and ask " What kind of Ministry do you wish fur ?" " 011,a Conservative Ministry, to be sure ; but then we must have none of your impracticables—none of your men who will yield nothing, who will always speak what they think, who will even confess what all the world be side pratises, without confessing: none , i n s h or t, o f . your Dukes of or Lurat • is Si,— ~ ;" we leave blanks, to bo filled up by theitilligorikV , : on. Go next to the honest Conservative of the work big class—who is a Conservative by the exercise of his understanding unbiassed by a hope of private gain—ask Lim the same question proposed for the hangers-on, and you will hear something different from the scoun drel cant of the latter. " What sort of Ministry do you wish ? " A Conservative Ministry without doubt—but an honest one. A Ministry, if you please, of all impraelicables—of men that will never yield anything, because they will never refuse anything which they ought not on principle to chfend, and must not in any case compromise with prin ciple. In other words, a Ministry whose resolutions aro liberal and moderate, but immorcable—a Ministry which will not dispute a matter three years, and in the fourth slip over to the adversary, leasing all who followed it to flounder in the dirt through which they are dragged—a Ministry, in short, composed of men who will say what they think, and avow what they do. Such a Ministry and such a Mi nistry only is worthy to direct the destinies - of .a nation of true-hearted men." This is the way in which the Conservatives of the middle and working classes reason, and this is a manner of reasoning which they certainly have not learned from the hangers on or official expectants, but from the honest Conserva tive Press. The meaner aspirants to place of course nar row to the utmost the sphere of competition ; and this they do compendiously enough by the exclusion, as " impracticable," of all honest uncompromising men ; and in this they have naturally the aid of the enemy, who hate and fear such men, and such men only, and rejoice to see them displaced from the proper station of guidance. All this, however, will not do. The people will prevail, and the people will have a potential voice in the selection of their Ministers. Why do we rejoice in this, and why is our journal " the most democratical journal in existence?" Because we believe that the destinies of England arc the highest and noblest that were ever allotted to a nation, and be cause we see that the people, by whom this glorious future is worked out, too often under discouragement by the hostility or defection of its choseu leaders, is unlike any people that ever lived. (From the Courser.) We have read with some interest " the Report of the Sub-Committee of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Directors on matters of interest in reference to the proposed railway conference."- As the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company has had more experience, from the greater length of time that line has been constructed, than any other, everything that emanates from its management is entitled to consider ation, and still more so from the acknowledged ability of Mr. Booth. We cannot, however, admit that all the late accidents have been attributable to any of the three instance, that (the most serious of any) which occurred on the Hull and Selby line, three on the North Mid land, and the late accident on the Birmingham and Derby junction line ; each of which arose from want of proper precautions on the part of those in charge of the line itself, either by themselves or the contrac tors they employ. Regular signals on each sde of every station to prevent trains coming in on one another —a good and well-placed light in the front and rear of every night train—and a blue light for ac cident or necessity—would meet all the purpose for the due care and protection of the passengers. We still think, as we have before stated, that a sub-enginernen should be employed on every engine, under the regular driver, and a superior man to the fireman. We doubt the probability of making, as a general rule, the class of men who are employed as stokers into such enginemen as the public look for. Three men in the charge and working of an engine and tender, particularly if the tender has a break, cannot be too much ; and the trifling additional expense of a junior engineman on the working engines, would be more than compensated for, by having always ready a young and yet experienced man, to fill any vacancy. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (THURSDAY, 31117ENING.) TIM ES.--Ttic great feature in the stock-markets to day was the settlement of the account in the foreign funds which was marked by a considerable pressure for money, particularly among the dealers in Spanish, in which secu rity the transactions during the account just closed have been extensive, and the fluctuations net unimportant, the lowest price of Ac:ive in the fortnight having been 224, and the highest 251, at which it closed this afternoon. In Portuguese bonds the extreme variations have reached 2 per cent., but the price today is nearly the same as at the commencement of the account. The South American se curities have generally been depressed and flat, but seem now to be recovering, more especially within the last two days. On the whole, the settlement went off easily. The Snare.market has, notwithstanding the prevalent scarcity of money and the anticipation of its continuance, not only maintained its ground, but in almost all instances railway shares have improved in value, and in some gf these the advance has been considerable since the settlement in the middle of the current month. Speculation has of late been much directed to this department. Heavy complaints arc male by nautical men of the inefficiency of the transport service, which, though thoy arc by no means novel, are well worth adverting to oc casionally, as an aid in keeping the Government depart ment which regulates that service to its duty, The de fects complained of arise, according to a Correspondent,_e furnish from trusting to crimps and people of that elm:holm:Has supply of seamen for the transport vessels, is sent t ' . soon as the ship is taken up, an order able hands to work it. Instead of looking out for y one w ho comes in their seamen, these persons engage any . s t h e y will engage way, however incompetent, providLL e, usually made to to lay out a certain portion of the advance seamen, in dis them in bedding, clothes, "s e ct' , in it orgenerall y gust at this system, will not a cquit . ev ery dein-laity is th rown in engage at all, bat if they do, Iships put t o owe ~, Ica the their way. The conscqu r I • •• a i%ass exists on account of sea, that inure or less n; the bad crews, and h ence "ri-F s e I frequent putting back into port by these _ trew i s , which every rea d er o f t h e sh i p- ping news must have observer. of lat e . A s regar d s the owners of such v essels, the p olic y i s decidely wrong, as the badaeamen, through these delays, are rendered much more expensive than good ones ; and when the probable sacri fice of human lifa it may cause is taken into account, the conseque nces may he dreadful. Iu regard to supervision before commencing the voyage, too much vigilance cannot b e exercised ; nor indeed can any regulations be too strict arc meant to insure efficiency in so important a service. I ': e t n i t r i s t u h ti c i c s i t c a n t: y o f o the E Indian uiop ea army,European to A those cm o il f i officers addition and of the medical service, mentioned the other day, is the man ner in which it is at present disposed of. It is remarked in the Indian journals that tho army w,s originally main tained for the protection of such native States as tell itvo the hands o f the East India Company, and that it was augmented as those possessions increased, until after the M shratta war, when the most rigid economy :was adopted, and a variety of reductions were made. Now, during the past year a native Sovereign has been placed on the throne of Cobul by tlx Indian army, a line of outposts has been esta blished . along the western bank of the l a d u s, to e ff ect which an Euro peanth regiment t.f her Itlajesty's servi ce , four Lae regiments, and other details of the Bomb a y army h ave been selected for the duty , while the Ist European Regi ment and two Native corps occupy the island o f K arra ck and the peninsula of Aden. This removal of troops from the Bombay , presidency has not been followed by any increase to :the establishment, further than the raising of one Eu ropean regiment, though the troops withdrawn have, us the r ag6rek, amounted to 10,000 men of all ranks, while at the last dates from India four native regiments were or dered to relieve those stationed on the western bank of the Indus. It is said that a few years ago it would hardly have b e en believed that native troops Would have been cantoned at such a distance from Ilindostan, an , .: the feeling on the s pot is that native regiments should speedily ba formed to assist in conducting the untiee of those who arc withdrawn from India,