The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. "NDER the AIANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTAL. THIS EVENING, JAN. 6. Will be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. I 1 ,rlo ; Flute, Itr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ' • Snug. Mr. F. Matthews ; Ilermia, Mrs. Ni3bett ; Oberon, Madame Vesttis ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Mushall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo-otii ; Columbine, Ali•s Fairbrother. To-marrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. On Friday, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to . ...ortnence at Seven o'Clock. 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Supported by the entire strength of the Company, After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Boleno Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Cloxn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran enni's, at Paris, %yin perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria. HIGH WATER AT LONDON :BRIDGE THIS PAY. kerning...... 2 minutes after O. Evening .35 minutes after V. ,e r. .r,,,,,....,....„.„, Zr,f)e atn+ LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, IE4I. The returns of the Revenue, which will be found in another part of The Sun, are not so satisfactory as we could wish, but quite as satisfactory as we could expect. The scanty crop, with the high price, of sugar, has limited the consumption of that article, and of all other articles subject to excise and customs duties with which it is used. A high price of corn, combined with low wages and lessened em ployment, has necessarily compelled the labouring classes to content themselves with bread and pota toes, considering themselves well off if they can get enough of the coarsest food to support existence, and has lessened the consumption of exciseable and foreign commodities. The revenue this quarter should, in consequence of the increase of taxation, be one-tenth nearly greater in amount than in the corresponding quarter of last year, the custom duties, however, are 398,3991. less, and the excise, instead of being a tenth, is scarcely one twentieth more. But we cannot forget that the deficiency in the excise last quarter was attri buted to a peculiarity in making up the accounts ; An d that a considerable sum properly belonging to t h e last quarter, must in consequence be reckoned in t hi s . The taxes being not easily escaped from seem to have yielded the calculated increase, but the excise and customs duties, which men can easily shirk, have not answered the expectation of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The worst feature we think of the whole is that, not withstanding the increase of 10 per cent. on all the taxes and duties operating for five months, the revenue for the whole Tear is 254,000/. less than for last year. We are afraid from these facts that the prosperity of the empire has attained its extreme height, and that it is quite impossible for the people to continue to pay, a; the Auti-Corn-law Circular states, both the fund-holders' and the landlords' tax, and provide for the Government. Such a condition of the revenue augments our hopes of the abolition of the bread-tax. One or other must be given up. Either that tax must be abolished, or thegiven up. Either that tax must be abolished, or the Govern the expenses of which have been of l ate ne cessarily much increased, must give up its revenue. In the present state of our foreign relatio ns and of our population we do not believe it is possible much to curtail the expense of the State ; and the conclusion therefore we come to is, that the bread_ tax must be abolished. Two Tory journals of yesterday discovered for the first time, and discovered by a paragraph in serted in the Lincoln Mercury, that the punish ment to which convicts, sent to Norfolk Island, are doomed, is worse than death. If these best public instructors were not themselves woefully ignorant) while they pretend, with a most dogmatic air, to teach all the world, they would know that the facts stated in the Lincoln journal are borrowed from the' evidence given before the Committee of the House of Commons on Transportation. The horrors which appear to have so much and so suddenly revolted our Contemporaries were a common topic of discussion in the press many months ago, and made such an impression at the time, that a change, if our memory does not betray us, was almost immediately made in the dis cipline at Norfolk Island. We apprehend, there fore, that the horrors which our Contemporaries have now written two long articles about, have been properly put an end to. But this speci men of their ignorance, combined with the arrogant manner in which they day by day lecture other people must not be passed by without notice, and without being turned to a proper account. To the observations of the Herald, which will be found in another part of The Sun, we have nothing to object, except that they would have been much better timed, had they appeared when the Report of Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S Committee was fresh in the public recollection. On the able, zealous, and persevering exertions of that journal to put an end to capital punishments, and to save human life, we shall ever be ready to be stow our humble praise, though utterly unable to reconcile such conduct with the support it gives to the bread -tax, which kills a great many more than the gallows ; and to the Tories, whose system of government is wholly based on coercion and cruelty, and cannot possibly co-exist with that extinction of capital punishment, and that profound reverence for human life which the Herald has for years justly and wisely laboured to promote. Its fellow Tory, the Morning Post, if it be much more igno rant and very foolish on the question of capital punishments, is at least consistent. It knows that the dominion of the Tories and the punishment of the gallows are one and the same ; and, with a true Tory spirit, it advocates shedding blood, as it advocates starvation. On some occasions that • 1,1 Bible ; it is loud against infidelity ; but when it suits the policy of its party, it laughs to scorn the pre cepts of inspiration, and pleads for murder at the gallows, as if murder bad never been forbidden. This is some of the language with which it assails that humanity, and that respect for life, which is the great superiority of our civilization over that of ancient Greece and Rome : " is tlsis the practical result of those appeals to mor bid sensibility, those performances of gentlemen of seri ous habits upon public platforms, when false eloquence, aided by hot rooms, wrou,ht upon dee hearts of women and of men of effeminate minds, and produced so great a sensation against the punishment of death ? A strange sympathy with robbers, coiners, and forgers, was created, and felony was made absolutely interest ing in the contemplation of the spuriously humane. Numbers of people secretly praised themselves for their tenderness of heart in abhorring capital punishments, and in subscribing to carry on agitation against what was classically called our Draconic code.' Not a few considered that they exhibited much refinement and a superior sort of civilization when they voted that it was vu►gar and shocking to hang criminals by the neck till they were dead. " We have, through the indulgence of a sickly sen sibility, refused to cut short the career of the criminal by a speedy death, before our own eyes ; but we have sent him away thousands of miles, to a sort of hell upon earth, where every dreadful passion of his de graded nature is wrought up to the utmost pitch of in tensity by misery and despair, and then the hangman has to do his office upon the miserable wretch, who is sent to his account with ten times the weight of guilt upon his soul that he had incurred when convicted in this country. " If c ipital punishments did but harden the hearts of some, upon the far greater number they produced an effect of terror—terror of the risk of such a punishment which they well knew would be incurred by certain crimes. The punishment of death is a dreadful thing, but wholesome, if it produces dread of doing what has been visited with such punishment. The new system, however, does not produce the terror which was pro duced by the old, for the class of penplo who generally commit great cffences against the criminal law confuse the notion of transportation beyond seas with mere exile." We do not defend the cruel punishments substi tuted for the punishment of death ; on the con trary, we heartily condemn them, and not now for the first time. That they have not succeeded is another proof of the general fact stated by t PALEY, that all punishments have failed. They constitute another plod of the deplorable ignorance of those who are ever ready, reasoning from some theory or other, slowly and diliberately to embrue their hands in the blood of an unhappy !criminal, or consign him, utterly regardless of the consequences, to some horrors like those of Norfolk Island. Here, for example, is the Tory Post, which just learns from a provincial paper two years after the investi gation has taken place, that these cruel punishments have failed, as the equally cruel punishments of death and imprisonment, and every other device to torture men have failed ; but while its ignorance is so profound it has the hardihood to sneer at bene volence as sympathy with criminals, and to recom mend the committal of murder as " a wholesome thing." But we will leave the Post with its Tory mockery of humanity, and its Tory advocacy of capital punishments, to the Tory Herald, which will be better able than we are to punish its love of bloodshed, and its sly insinuations against the persevering exertions of the Herald itself. We cannot, however, leave the subject without saying that we are glad to see our Contemporaries provoking a discussion into the rationale of punish ment. We infer from the general failure of crimi nal law, that the subject is very ill understood. Men have first acted from their blind passions, and then have invented a theory to justify their own conduct. Punishment, particularly corporeal punishment, even when administered in a private f am ily, where the parents have every possible op portunity of studying the disposition of children, of adapting it to circumstances, and of watching its effects, very seldom answers the end proposed, and very often, if administered with severity, produces the most disastrous consequences. If it fail there, how can it, when blindly and in the lump inflicted according to some general rule, without the least regard to character or circumstances, be otherwise than a complete failure ? We know from expe rience that it is ; and as it is also, as now admi nistered, of itself a cruelty pregnant with evil, and a Source of great expense to the country, and the parent of much misery, it is high time that our law-makers took the whole matter into their serious consideration, with a belief that they may possibly be wrong, and that they have no right to organize a'great scheme of punishment for whatever they may deem an offence, unless they can clearly de -1 monstrate—not fancy—that it will be for the be nefit of the community. The retirement of Mr. LYTTLETON has en tirely changed the character of the election fo r Walsall. It is no longer a mere party contest be tween a Whig and a Tory, but a fair fight between a Pro-Corn and an Anti-Corn-law candidate. This alteration puts an end to all prior engage ments, and leaves the electors at liberty to vote as they shall deem best for the public good. Scores of them preferring a Tory to Whig may have pledged their vote to Mr. GLADSTONE, who at the same time may desire to be represented by a sturdy Corn-law Repealer. The appearance of Mr. G. SMIT H in the field puts an end to the promise the y gave the T or y, a nd they cannot vote for a Pro-C orn -l aw man without brea ki ng t h e i r fi rs t pledge, g i ven , their child ren , and perh a p s , t o th e i r own hearts and the Corn-laws. without being false to the one true faith of a b o li s hi ng The electors of Walsall are called on to decide for or against a bread -tax. They arc asked to say whether or not that hostili ty which now exists be tween the different classes shall grow into To them an appeal is made whether the civil m :i Iu war. t.ae.. tures of England shall be permitted to flourish and THE SUN, LONDON, WEI;JNES )A Y, JANUARY 6, IS4I. make the empire great, or be doomed to decay. A more important question was never submitted to a constituency. Their decision will have great weight . It will give a heavy blow to the abolitionists, or i t will carry terror to the hearts of the bread-taxers. It will convince the Ministers that they would not find adequate support in proposing the repeal of the Corn-laws, or that something must be done. If the decision be right it will most probably procure the abolition or some modification of the bread-tax during the next Session. They must not suppose that one Member can have no effect. If all the electors acted on that supposition no exertions would ever be made. The supposition is not comet. One sturdy, determined man, by dwelling incessantly on the subject, by making motions at proper times, by presenting and reading parts of petitions, may do a great deal. He gives courage to others, and gathers fresh spirit from their support, and he and they together may become a host. Let every elector of Walsall act in the great cause as if the entire abolition of the bread-tax depended on his single vote, and succets will be certain. The result will have a powerful effect on public opinion, and the influence of public opinion over the actions of public men is paramount. Of the latter, the Morning Chronicle yesterday contained a me morable example. It announced the unconditional discharge of SARAH YOUNG, unjustly and ille gally imprisoned at Monmouth, at the suit of one Dr. LYLE, for tithes. No legal steps appear to have been taken to procure her discharge ; but a public meet:ng was held at Monmouth, at which Dr. LYLE's conduct was denounced, and the case was warmly taken up by the public journals. Public opinion procured her release. It softened the iron hearts of ecclesiastical proctors, and shook the well braced nerves of an endowed parson. With such an example [More the men of rvatsau, tl5O, may be thoroughly convinced that the power of public opinion is unbounded ; and if they, by placing Mr. G. SMITH high above his antago nist on the poll, demonstrate to the whole empire that the town population is resolved to support only anti-bread-taxers, they will convince both the Mi nisters and the landowners of the necessity of abo lishing the bread-tax. It has been over and over again proved in the Anti-Corn-law journals, that the bread-tax annually dooms hundreds, and even thousands of our people to death by starvation. Every elector of Walsall who votes for a bread-taxer makes himself acces sory to the deliberate, wilful, and cruel murder of his countrymen. How can he look on the suffering crowd around him, asking for bread, and give a vote for a man who deliberately consigns them to misery and death ? The bread-tax is emphatically the poor man's question. It is also emphatically every mother's question. The unenfranchised of Walsall and the women of Walsall must attend to their own interest, and prove, though they have no votes, they have much power. Let them aid the League, besiege the electors, and supplicate and implore them not to consign them and their fami lies to misery and death by voting for a sugar taxer and a bread-taxer. If the non-electors do their duty they may work on the humanity of the electors, and contribute to the success of the Anti- Corn-law candidate. Let us in parting say a word to the League. It invites the electors of Walsall to give an honest vote, and return an anti-bread-taxer to Parliament. To do that many of the electors may disoblige landlords, customers, and friends. Let the League then at once promise to do all in its power to pro tect and reimburse every elector who may be co erced and injured on account of his vote. Let it immediately set on foot machinery for inquiring into instances of coercion, and holding up the would-be tyrants to public scorn. Depend on it the highest men in the land writhe under the honest expression of public opinioii, and when the landlords and - other wealthy and influential persons at Walsall are well convinced that they will be gibbeted in the public Journals if they attempt to coerce the votes of the electors, they will abstain, will leave them free, and will not dare to take any dirty vengeance on a tenant for the honest exercise of his right. If the hints which we have thrown out be followed up by those on the spot, we hope that the enthu siasm of the inhabitants may be kindled, and Mr. G. SMITH elected by a most triumphant majority. Mr. O'CoNNELL, in the name of the Repeal Association, has addressed a long and carefully written letter to Lord CHARLEMONT, in reply to a communication lately made by his Lordship to the Repealers, wherein he expressed himself hostile to their favourite panacea for all Irish grievances. In this letter Mr. O'CONNELL has done little more than repeat the various arguments which he has urged from time to time in favour of Repeal, and which in substance amount to just this—first, that the " masses in England," if not decidedly inimical, are at any rate indifferent, to the interests of Ire land, and that were the case even otherwise, still they have no power to befriend her ; secondly, that the majority in the House of Commons which professes to be well disposed towards her, "is exceedingly restricted," and upon the important question of STANLEY'S Bill, " has been repeatedly against her ;" and thirdly, that the " Anti-Irish enmity in the House of Lords is perfectly trium phant, nor is there the slightest hope of diminish ing or mitigating that hatred." These are the chief points of interest in Mr. O'CoNNELL's let ter. As for the other matters of which he treats, we may dismiss them without a word, for they re fer in part to the proceedings of the last Irish Par liament, for which the great majority of our readers care little or nothing; and in part, to the " com mercial advantages" which would ensue to Ireland from Repeal—a theme which it will be quite time enough to discuss, when there exists the slightest probability that that measure will become the law of the land. With regard to Mr. O ' CONNELL'S first hypo thesis—namely, that the English masses are indif ferent. to the interests of Ireland, we again repeat, what we have often told him, that such is not the case. There may be a noisy body of political fanatics who are so—men of but one idea, and that a wrong one, who can think, speak of, look for ward to, nothing but the realization of their own engrossing crotchet ; but the sound, intelligent majority of the People take unquestionably a warm interest in the welfare of Ireland. And this they do from no chivalrous notions of justice or libe rality, but from a principle of strong common sense ; simply and solely because they see and feel that their own interests arc inseparably blended with those of the sister island ; and that one country can never hope to make a rapid advance in Reform, so long as the other is lagging at a distance in the rear. In deed, so far are the masses of the English people from being lukewarm in the cause of Ireland, that we agree with Mrs. HALL—who has lately had many opportunities of forming a sound judgment on this subject—that for the last three or four years nothing has been more remarkable than the rapid growth of kindly feelings between the two countries. The mutual prejudices so long fostered for their own selfish party purposes by the Tories, have, one by one, given way ; ar.d we no longer hold the scandalous doctrine, that Ireland is doe weakness of England ; but nobly and justly regard her as our strerimb—ruir pride—one of our maii pillars of Reform. Mr. O'CONNELL is right when he asserts hat the " English masses" are comps• ratively weak ! but does he suppose that they are weak only as regards Ireland, and quite strong enough to protect their own immediate interests? Not a bit of it. They are weak alike for the in terests of both countriws, and can scarcely, there fore, be blamed for not: doing that for Ireland, which they are unable to do iiior England. To the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's two remaining Repeal augraments, that little is to be expected from the Comamons, and absolutely no thing from the LordLs, our answer is—" Insist on justice to Ireland in the only way, and by the only means that justice can be obtained for her ;--that is to say, by recommending diligent attention to the registrations ; by explaining and popularizing—if we may venture to use such a term—othe true principles of good Government ; and exerting whatever influence you may possess to crush Toryism under whatever mask this political Proteus may choose to exhibit itself. In a word, devote to ra tional, substantial, ractical Reform, the energies you are frittering away on that vague chimera, Repeal; and we will answer for it that the majority of Ire land's wall wishers in the Commons will gradually but surely increase ; and, as a necessary consequence, her enemies in the Lords diminish, both in point of number and virulence." Such is our reply to Mr. O'CortNELL's two chief arguments ; but if instead of acting in this spirit, he still continues to agitate Repeal, he will be so far from strengthen ing the cause of Ireland, that he will be inflict ing on her injury in exact proportion to the converts he makes ; that which is now a mere phantom, will then become a substance, too feeble, it is true, to occasion: any very profound appro• pension, but quite strong enough to scare away from her side those who at present have every dis position to insist cn an ample measure of justice being meted out to the sister country. Maxim' Journals, Co ar. 2thli ttie., bac, arrirccl. The English Ambassador had prevailed upon -ES PARTERO to give up all thoughts of invading Por tugal. Spain was tranquil. The French Journals of Sunday have all reached us. The Moniteur of that date publishes several New Year's Day Addresses to the KING, for which space was wanting in its official columns of the previous day. They are, however, from learned societies, judicial bodies, end local corporations, and - therefore of no European interest, inasmuch as they touch neither upon foreign nor domestic politics. The Journals under the influence of M. TRIERS and his supporters, are indignant at the pacific language in which the KING responded to the Ad dresses of the Chambers and the diplomatic body. What is to every friend of humanity in Europe a source of the highest pleasure, is to them gall and wormwood. They estimate the greatness and glory of France, not by what happiness she can diffuse among the human race, but by what misery she can inflict upon them. Their trophies, like those which formerly embellished the capital of Persia, must be made of the skulls of those whom they choose to regard as their enemies. Higher and holier is the mission of a great civilised nation like France. In the eyes of wise men the trophies of war are but so many records of human wretched ness and human guilt. It is in the spread of edu cation—in the progress of the arts and sciences, which conduce to the elevation of the human mind and the comfort of human hfe—in the disappearance of poverty and the vices which it engenders in conjunction with ig norance—in the cultivation of sentiments of peace and good-will among men, that we can only discover the true greatness which covers a nation with glory. Besides, as was well observed by the KING in addressing the Deputies, France has no need to add to her military trophies. She has had blood enough upon her hands to make he sufficiently an object of terror to her weaker neigh bours. Any supineness which she may now appear to exhibit, will certainly never be attributed to liar. Her fame for prowess and for chivalrous courage is too firmly established ever to be shaken ; and we know no weakness which she exhibits more contemptible in itself than her constant anxiety to find in every trifling forgetfulness of claims flattering to her vanity, a pretext for parading an ability to do mis chief which nobody ever thought of disputing But we happily find in the patriotic sentiments of the KING, and in the enthusiasm with which the deputations of the Chambers heard those senti ments, powerful guarantees for the continuance of European tranquillity. The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the follow ng telegraphic despatch from French Africa : " ALGIERS, DEC. 22. " The tranquillity of the province of Algiers has not been disturbed since the last courier. Blidah, Mo s t aganem, h ave m The made predatory g r edaartrjrsyOnes lxocurMsioendeah s against all the tribes in the vicinity of those places." The same official organ announces the ,appoint ment of General BUGEAUD to succeed Marshal VALLEE as Governor Commander-in-Chief in French Africa—thus confirming the statement which appeared in yesterday's Sun. Th e Com merce accompanies this announcement of an ap pointment generally regarded in Paris as disastrous, with the following extract from a letter just received from Algiers. "It is curious," says that journal, "that this information reaches us just at the mo ment that we are going to send General BUGEAUD to Algiers, doubtless to sign the Treaty with ABD EL-KADER, which Marshal VALLEE rejects." The following is the information to which the Commerce alludes : " ALGIERS, Dec. 21.—As I have told you, it is cer tain that the Emir Abd-el-Kader would wish to have a truce tor two years, in older to obtain new resources, and recommence the holy war with some chance of success; he would be glad of a second edition of the treaty of the Talus; we must hope that he will not obtain it. When the Emir wrote to M. Dupuch that he wished to send one of his officers to accompany the sub-ictendant Massote to Algiers, it was easy to guess that he had something im portant to communicate to the Marshal. We have now got a new proof of the intentions of the Arab Chief, Some Sheiks of the environs of Milianalt having been authorized to wait on General Changarnier, Commander-in. Chief -at Blida., after having spoken at length on the miseries of war, asked him on what terms he would treat with Abd-el-Kadcr. The General replied, • France receives the submission of the Sheiks who come to place themselves under its protection, but it dots not treat nith the absent. I do not kn 9 wAbd-el-Kader ; let him conic and make his submission, and h e will be well received. If he is hostile to us, we shun make war on him, and de stroy him." General Changarrder Own asked the Sheiks if they were disposed individually to make their submis sior. They replied in an evasive manner, and withdrew. ‘. We know, however, for certain that the &t r.'. of Abd el- K.,cler is waxing pale, and that all the Arabs would come to us if they were not continually watched by the Kalifas with their regular troops. Whenever the enemy are not near at hand the Arabs of the Little Atlas and of the East come to the markets with their tents and their flocks, and place themselves under the French protection. The last markets at Bouffariek were attended by a great number of Arabs, who brought provisions of all kinds. The Civil Commissioner purchased 400 oxen, but paid the natives only half of the price, in order to be sure of their coming back again. The Arabs did not manifest any distrust." Count WALEwsKt arrived in Paris from Alex andria on Saturday. The Scamandre steamer, which carried him to Marseilles, encountered a dreadful storm which, by filling the vessel with water enough to extinguish two of the furnaces, completely destroyed the Count's despatches, which were reduced to a thick pulp or paste. most fortunate for M has thus M. THlEfts, who This is escaped an exposure w hi c h the present Ministers contemplated with m uc h satisfaction. Had his despatches to the Count been obtained, a clue would at once have b een found to t h e whole scheme of his labyrinthi ne po li cy i n E gyp t. The Committee appo;! I t l to examine the a Pro ject of law for fortifying Paris, have agreed to re- commend three very imp ortant points T he erection of a wall of circumvallation ; 2. The construction of strong chains of detached forts ; and, 3. The completion of the whole of these works in three years. These forts are to be constructed so near the city that shells can be thrown from them into the most crowded guar t2rs of the French capital. Heaven help the Republicans if they be not as mute as mice when these works are finished The following account of the proposed popular demonstration in favour of the Abbe DE LAMEN• NAIS on Saturday, is copied from the Mes.sagcr : " Oa Saturiay morning, about eleven o'clock, a gather ing of about 100 individuals, the greater part en blouse and casquettes, amongst whom were several National Guards in uniform, took place for the moment on the Place de la Bourse. " Having reached the Rue de la Michodieu, all the in dividuals forming the meeting ranged themselves along the Louse inhabited by M. l'Abbe de Lamennais A deputa. twit of fourteen, three of whom were in uniform. waited upon the latter. At the expiration of ten minutes the de putation retired, and the meeting then dispersed without utzering any seditious cries. " Nevertheless forty or fifty individuals, amongst whom were about twenty-five National Guards, rejoined each other on the Boulevards, and repaired to the Place St. Antoine, marching thieo abreaLt, and arm-in-arm. They passed round the July column, sipging the Mai uttering cries of ' A bas Guizut I' A bas la Garde Menicipale I' This second altroupetnent dispersed after wards in various directions. " These manifestaticns are culpable ; they arc an in ft-Mgt:mem on the respect which is due to justice and the law. The authorities have adopted measures in order to suppress immediately the recurrence of similar demonstra tions." By a royal ordinance, dated 31st ult., Rear- Admiral Hugon has been raised to the rank of Vice-Admiral, in the room of Baron Roussin, lately promoted to that of Admiral; Captain Dumont d' Urville was appointed Rear- Admiral ; Rear. Admiral Casy was to to take the command of a division of the squadron of the Mediterranean under Admit at Hugon; and Rear-Admiral Parscval Deseliene was to silt:cued Rear- Admiral Casy in the post of Major- General of the Marine at Toulon. The Moniteur publishes another ordinance in the war department, instituting two special and distinct committees for the infantry and cavalry, which had been hitherto united. The first ass composed of Generals Schneider, Schramm, Ropatel, Cubicres, Trczel, Tholnw, and Favier, and M. Melcion d'Arc, a military indendant; and the second, of Gimerals Near], Sparre, Audcnarde, Wolff, Latour• May bc>,4rg, Oudinet, and Wathicz ; and M. Denniee, a mili tary intendant. iiy a third Royal ordinance, inserted in the same (Acta! organ, the f,reign legion in the service of Prance hereafter to be divided into two regiments, to consist each of three battalions, aud of an effective force of 3,000 men each. Nu tordgners will hereafter be admitted into tho , e corps, unless they sign an engagement for five years. The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 29,h ult., an. flounces that M. Mazlum, the Catholic patriarch of the Greek rite in S) ria, had arrived from Rome at Leghorn, on his way to Paris. The Prelate was said to be charged ith a mission from the Pope to the French Government on behalf of the old Emir Bechir. A letter front Leghorn of the 23d ult. announces that Queen Christina sailed on the preceding day for Cwitta Vecchia, and that she would proceed thence to Rome, where her mother, the Dowager-Queen of Naples, had gone to meet her. M. de Rumigny, the French Ambas sador in Rome, was nearly recovered frcm his late il:ness. F UNDS—DitussEta, JAN. 2. Actual I)e:•t, 2N per Cent, Rothschild'., Loan, 5 per Cknt titi% Loan of Thirty 31i1Nong, 4 per Cent.... . . , . (l 4 'f) 1157i, --- --. 3 per Cent. — ---.Thirty.seven----- ...... 6814 Loan of City, Ihtl2, 4 per Cent PO Society of Commerce, 45., per Cent llO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..... .. ...... National Society. Exchange on Louttom (short) ......,. ll P 5 —Brussels Papers, Jan. 2. 4 USTRIAN FLlNDS.—Vietrivx, Dec. 24. rive per Colts. Metall:cities Fowl - per Cents. fillCei , itenti. ...” ... Bank - 4 har , s —Aagemelne &thing, Dec. 30 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The meeting of to-day at the Colonial Bank shows the advantages arising from an investment of capital in such bona fide undertakings as this, in preference to to bubble loans for foreign countries. Here a large dividend is obtained by the shareholders, while at the same time our West India colonies are benefited by the increased banking facilities afforded to their mercantile and agricultural interests. The Stock Market was firm to-day, but the leading feature was the improvement of 11 to 2 per cent. in Bank Stock. Consols were at 89* for the opening ; Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities were marked 891 to ; the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced 971 to 1 1., and the New Three -and-a-Half per Cents. 97k- to 1 ex. div. Exchequer Bills rose to 7s. and 9s. premium, and India Bonds to 13s. and 9s, discount. Bank Stock rallied 1 to '23 , per cent., being quoted 1581 to 160 ; and Long Annuities touched 13 to 13 1-16. The Foreign Stocks were not much dealt in. Spanish Active Bonds were at 24* to 3, closing heavily. Per tte.,;uese New Five per Cents. at 32* to 4 7 ; the Three per Cents. at 204. Brazil Bonds at 71 to ; I, and Co lombian at 23* to. The Share Market was brisk to-day and the follow ing were the more current prices :—Great Western 28 to 30 ; the New, 13 ; the Fifth, 71 to I ; the London and Birmingham, 83 ; the New 261 ; the Greenwich Scrip, 14 toe ; the South Western, 19* to 20*; the Midland Counties Quarter Shares, 51 ; the Gosport Junction, 71, and the Eastern Counties Debentures 31 to 4 prem. Brighton, 61 to 58 ; Midland Counties, 20 to 18 ; South Eastern, 151 to 15i; Hull and Selby, 6 ; Birmingham and Derby, 24f to 231 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 15 ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 32 ; and Eastern Counties, 134 to 131 discount. There was no improvement this afternoon in the Fo reign Exchanges. The rate for Bills on Paris was 251. .521 e. to 571 c. ; on Amsterdam 12 21 to 1; on Ham burgh 13 7 ; and on Frankfort 1484. We have still two German mails due. The following are the official ret urns of the exports of bullion for the week ending Thursday last .—Silver coin to Lintin 40,009 ounces ; Silver coin to Calais, 150,000 ounces. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.--The sales to-day are 3,500 bags to 4,000 bags, of which 150 are Sea Islands, at 16d. to 20d. ; 100 Egyptians, 0 9id. to Id. ; 100 Bahias, Bid. to Bad . ; 300 Peru vians, Bsd. ; !,50 Surats, 4id. to sd. Prices steady ; a quiet market. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, JAN. 4.—Eastern Coun ties debentures, 5a ; Chester and Birkenhead, 36 ; Glasgow and Paisley, 28-g- ; Grand Junction, New, '29 ; Lancaster and Preston Three-Quarter StILV CS, 151 ; London and Birmingham, 173 ; Quarter Shares, 274 ; South Western, 571 ; Midland, New Shares, 15 ; South Eastern, 12k. We have received Van Diemen's Land Papers to the 251 h July. The meeting of the Legislative Council is postponed from the Ist to the 15th August. In this delay there is an advantage seldom accompanying procrastination. It is no theft on time ;' it has given to Government an opportunity of presenting to the Council a Road Act free from every objection." SYDNEY.-Our last Sydney papers are to the 19th instant. The most important intelligence is the con tinuel decline in the Wheat Market. Grain has now fAllen to 96. 6d per bushel, the two pound loaf is Bd., but is expected to be 6d. in another week. The tide of emigration has commenced to flow to the W estern and Eastern World. Money Market.—ln consequence of vessels with general cargoes incessantly pouring in, business at this present moment is entirely at a stand still ; the ' Nloney Market is in a very depresse I state, the demand for cash is considerable in the extrem and e. The hanks have curtailed their discounts; thereby causing a great alarm amongst our commercial community, which, we trust, will subside without any serious con sequences ensuing. The price of flour has not changed since our last ; wheat is now selling at 9A. 6d. per bushel. We have received the Australian of the 18th of August, filled up with Eoglish news. It appears trona the New Zealand papers to the sth of July, that his Excellency, Captain Hobson, contemplated selling lands New Zealand at 12s.t,en acre ; but as Mr. Shortland r. El:aye forwarded information by the Bee, whi c h s..i!Ni for the Bay of Islands, after the arrival of the Drf,ugham, instructions from the Board of Commis sioners will be awaited. The following extract is from the same papers : " We publish with pleasure the following extracts from a despatch from the Secretary of the New Zea land Land Company ; they state that the Company have not been unmindful of their promises and ur in terest. The colony is now secure in a good supply of prov . hions for nine months. A public meeting of the inhabitants of the district of Port Nicholson took place on the Ist July, for the purpose of agreeing to a loyal and dutiful address to be presented to his Excellency Captain Hobson, the Lieut.- Governor of New Zealand. '• On the motion of Dr. Samuel Evans, Colonel William Wakefield was voted to the chair. He said the moment had now arrived, and he congratulated the colonists upon it. A statement had, however, been made, respecting the instructions of the settlers to his Excellency Captain Hobson, which demanded expla nation. One of their own body had asserted that they were prepared to resist the introduction of the British law ; that an organized force was established to resist even to the " knife." The gallant Colonel then called their attention to the immediate object of the meeting, by the presentation of an address to his Excellency Captain Hobson, expressive of the unabated loyalty and attachment of the inhabitants of Port Nicholson to the British Government. Colonel Wakefield then put the question, when the affirmative was carried una- " It is reported that his Excellency Captain Hob ion has purchased Mr. Cleudou's property at the Bay of hlands, on Government account, for 22,0001. and it is further stated that the property cost Mr. C. only twenty pounds a few years since." The New Zealand Island Gazette has the follon - . ing " RUSSELL, BAY OF ISLANDS, JUNE 10, 1840. On the night of the tla inst. information was conveyed to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor that several Europeans had been murdered at the ' Pah,' and that others would share the same fate were not immediate steps taken to prevent it. A party of twenty of the military, under the command of Captain Lockhart., were dispatched to restore order. On the arrival of the Captain he found a large body of the natives assembled under arms, and it was desirable to have a reinforce ment at hand. On inquiry it was ascertained that (luring the day two boats belonging tolimerican vessels had been ssized by the Pomsre tribes in consequence of a misun derstanding which had risen from the attempted cap ture by the crews of the boats of a deserter living at the Pah, under the protection of the natives, who refused to deliver up the man until they received a is ward. The representation made to his Excellency was unfounded relative to the murders. Captain Lockhart endeavoured to persuade the natives to return the boats but ithout success. Instructions were then given to the sailors to remove the boats, which was acceded to. The military were then returning, when an alarm was given that the natives were making an attack, and a cry of fire raised, and several shots fired in the direc tion of the natives caused much disturbance to ensue ; during which, it is to be regrew d, three or four mus kets wore discharged by the soldiers without orders, hap pily without effect, none of the natives being wounded, as was currently reported. On the foil , wing morning Pomare, with a considerable number of natives, waited on his Excellency, and expressed their thanks for the prompt assistance rendered by the Government, and their sense of gratitude for the protection, remarking that they had never felt so secure since the establish ment of her Majesty's authority in New Zealand. The masters of the American vessels likewise ten' l 3red their obligations for the timely interference of the military, Which probablyprevented a serious sacrifice of human life." Consols opened at the same quotations as they left off yesterday, 89 for the Account ; Reduced 89; 8. with little doing at present ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 pre.n. ; Bank Stock 157 158 ; India Stock 238 239. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active are the same as they left off, 24 _I ; Deferred 12i 13, Passive ; Ptiouguese 321; Three per Cents. 201 ; lombi4n 41 24 ; 111, xican 28i 29 ; China) 57 60 ; Brazilian 701 711 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. improved, 49 50 ; Five per Cents. 971 SHARES.--Great Western 271 281 prem. ; New 121 131 prem. ; London and Brighton 61 die. ; Blackwall 41 4 dis. ; Birmingham 82 84 prem. ; South ampton 571 581 per share ; Greenwich 8 9 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham 15 13 discount. I'IIICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 9O . .. 76 Cheltenham and Great Western. 624 304.- to Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths Gosport Junction London and Brighton London and South Western 3B,c 5B ... .. to 59 South Eastern and Dover The British Funds have continued inactive to the present hour ; the speculators arc waiting for the ar rival of the overland express from India, to see how affairs are going on in China, the sews from that quarter being expected daily. Consols are present is a shade lower than in the early part of the morning, and may be quoted 89 for the Openirg ; Exchequer Bills, no alteration, 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock, 1581 1591 ; India Bonds, 13 9 discount improved. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active also a shade lower, 24:1 ; in Portuguese nothing done ; Colombian, 2.3, rather lower ; Brazilian, 711 71, also lower ; Danish, 774 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, also lower, 49i ; Five per Cents., 97. The above market is flat, with scarce anything doing. In the Share Market scme business is doing, with a little improvement. Birmingham and Gloucester, 75 ; Great Western, 93i ; Gosport Junction, 421 ; Lon don and Brighton, 44i ; London and South Western, 58 59. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Rank Stock ... 16 - ) llndia Stock ......... ... .. 3 pi-r Cent. Red B9/ Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. Ditto Old Annuities 3. per Cent Red ..... ... 97, 1 4 Ditto New Annuities... - New 31 per Cent .. ... 971 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 9pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 9pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 ... lndia Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... — Consols for Opg B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. A astrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bonds .. .. BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ... Chilian, 6 per cant Colombian, 6 per cent ... 22% Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent..... 77% French,s per cent... —f. —e. Greek, 1825, spercent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5' per cent.... Freneb, 3 per cent —f. —e. ')itto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2% per cent 493 eruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 97g SHARES. Birmingham and Del by Railway (100 pd)... 76% Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (90 p) 75 Cheltenham and Great Western (62% paid) 30% Eastern Counties Railway Debs. (2 paid) 6 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 95 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ..,,... ... 63 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ... 114 Gosport Junction Railway . (35 pd) Hull and Selby (50 paid)... 4 t London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) 444 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 173 Ditto New Shares (24 paid) London and Greenwich Railway (2u p.Lid) Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid)... 34 London and South Western Railway ....., 59 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) . 10% South Eastern and Dover (28 paid ).. . 12 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam C F. 12 4%'Gibraltar Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2 U. 12 5 Genoa .. 25 BE, Antwerp Hamburgh........M.B. 13 10 Venice ... 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 40 iralermo, per oz 121 Ditto, 3 months 25 65 , Lisbon ... •—• ... 52% Marseilles.... 23 70 O por t o '.... 52% . Bourdeaux... ...... . .... 25 70 Rio Janeiro 28% Frankfort on Maine.... 149 Bahia 27 Petersburgh, 3 U 5..... 37 Buenos Ayres — Berlin. . Vienna, effee. 8. 3 M lO 3 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz i3ilboa 35 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville A very serious accident from the incautious use of fire-arms, and which might have been attended by the destruction of the lives of two persons, occurred on Sa. turday at Beddington. It appears that on the day in question several young men, who had been out shooting, entered the parlour of the Plough public-house, Bedding. ton, and after being there some time they commenced amusing themselves by discharging their percussion caps at the candles t. , ) extinguish them. It appears that at this time a loaded gun was standing in the corner of the room, and one of the party, named Francis Lovell, took it up, and, h lding it in the direction of the candle, pulled the trigger. The gun exploded, and the greater part of the charge entered the thighs and lower parts of the persons of two men named Laxmer and Burgess, keepers to Cipt. Carew, of Beddington Park. The wounded men were immediately put to bed, and a medical man promptly at. tended, and rendered them all the assistance in hie power, and extracted a great number of shot from their person,. Information of the occurrence having been forwarded to Croydon, Mr. Collier, an inspector of the R division of police, went to make inquiry, and he deemed it advisable that an investigation should take place before a Magistrate, and he directed LeaelLtn_attend at the -Town Hair,-Croy don, where Mr. Sutherland the Magistrate entered into an investigation of the circumstances, and the above facts were detailed iu evidence. Lovell, on being questioned by the Magistrate, said he was exceedingly sorry for what had occurred, and assured him that it was quite an acci dent, and he had not the least idea that the gun was loadel when he took it from the corner of the room. Inspector Collier said that, from the inquiries he had made, he had every reason to believe that the affair was the result of accident, and that Lovell had not the least idea of injuring the two men. The Magistrate said it was a most dan- gerous practice for persons to meddle with fire.ar;s, - anti , t was continually the occasion of most serious accidents, and in the present instance two lives might have beets sa crificed. The Magistrate having ascertained that the tie, wounded persons were going on favourably, ordered Lovell to enter into his own recognizance to appear at any future time, should circumstances render it nec asary. THE STORM OF SUNDAY MORNING.—A Correspondent at Southend has sent us (the Essex Herald) the following account of a severe storm which visited that place early on Sunday morning last, and which also raged here, as well as at Braintree, Ongar, and other plaes is the county with equal violence. At High Easter, the mill belonging to Mr. Fuller was much damaged, a large portion of the sails being blown off to a distance r,f thirty rods. Several trees have been torn up by the roots in Mr. Tufnell's park, at Great Waltham, and in other quarters, and a horse, we bear, was struck dead in the high road between Romford and this town. The storm was more severe than was ever remem bered at this season of the year, and was accom panied in many parts by a fall of snow and hail : al-SOUTHEND, JAN. 3, 1841.—The wind had blown very strong from S.W. this morning, with occasional flashes of lightning; at about half-past six o'clock it suddenly changed to the N. W. and a tremendous storm of hai!, rain, and snow came on, accompanied with thunder and lightning, which continued upwards of half an hour, the thunder rolled awfully and the lightning was very vivid. It passed off to the north-west, iv'filire the rumbling of thunder was distinctly beard upwards of 'an hour after. wards. During the str,rm a schooner went ashore on Nlak, t!nd a large ship on the Neic Saud, Several LqulD cliff cc , ilei r C2tIEGC fait give you further particulars, as the men have not re turaed," MORNIN G E i'1101.4 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.---Prince Albert. enjoyed :he exercise of skating this afternoon op the lake at Fr"X" more Gardens. Her Majesty participated in the amuse ment on the ice, his Royal klighne,4 driving her in a t le,!ge ; as were the Hon. Misses Cocks and Pager, by CaptAin Seymour and Dr. Pretorios. These Lafiws and Lord A Paget were in attendance upon her Majesty, and Mr. G. E. Anton, Captain Seymour, and Dr. i'rest ter:us were in attendance on Prince Albert. The Duchess of Kent has not left the Castle to-day. The Belgian Minister and Madame Van de W,,-er left the Castle this morning for London. The Earl of Fingal has succeeded Lord Lilford gs Lord in Waiting on the Queen, and Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Utway has . succeeded Mr. Rich as Gremn in Waiting. The Lord Steward came to the Castle this morning and left this evening. Lord John Russell arrived, at the Castle List evenieg on a visit to her Majesty. Last night the Officers of the Rifle Brigade sta tioned here, with the assistance only of the two Wse Mordaunts, performed the play of Charles the Twelfth, an interlude, and the farce of Me Wags of Witutsor. for the ',click of the poor. The house was crowded, not even standing rooni to be obtained. Tae perfor mance meat cif most admirably ; indeed there was so much of exullence throughout, that it would be unUr to particularise. These gentlemen played some time since, and r.t that time give to an excellent charity in this town the handsome sum of fill. ; en the present occasion the house was filled, and the Misses Mordaunt gave their service, in return for which generous conduct the same play and farce is to be performed on Friday by the same parties for the benefit of these ladies. ffs Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei mar arrived at Marlborough House, Pall Mall, on Monday night, from the Continent. His Serene Highness left town et nine o'clock yesterday morning, by the London and Birminghamlway, for Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, on a visit to her Mojesty the Quce° Dowager. Lord John Russell left. town on Monday afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. A meeting of the Commissioners for the Reduetion of the National Debt was held yesterday at the Trea sury. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-Gene ral, was in attendance on the Commissioners. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, &c• on Monday next, the I lth instant, the first di of Hilary Term, at his residence in Bruton-street. Dispatches trom the Governor of New South Wales were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. • _ The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council stit yesterday, and resumed the appeal " Kiellev v. Cars..n," from Newfoundland, relative to the privileges of the House of Assembly of that Island. Mr. Pemberton, Queen's Counsel, concluded his address, and was fol lowed by Mr. Henderson. Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel. commenced his address for the respondent. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord William Hervey, at the Marquis of Bristol's, is St. James's-square, from Suffolk ; Lord Hotbam, in Hill-street, from Sussex ; Viscount and Viscountess Leveton, in Grosvenor-square, from Gloucestershire; the Earl of EgUntoun, in Bond-street, from Badminton, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Beatifott; his Excel leney Baron and Baroness do Cetto, in Hill -street, from , Surrey; the Dowager Countess of Clarendon, in North Audley-street, from ; Deal Castle ; the Dowager Countess of Charleville, from a tour; Viscount Alford, M.P., from •: Devonshire ; Lady Augusta Seymour, in St. James's square, from Ick worth Park ' • Lord wad Lady Marybo - rough, in Saville-row, from Deal Castle, Kent. DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady Petre and Hon. Miss Petro, from Moe' field -street, for Thorndon Hall, Essex ; Baron Bourque ney, from Hertford House, for Broadlands, on a visit to Viscouni, and Viscountess Palmerston; Lord and LadY Kenmure, from Belgrave-street, for Brighton ; Lord Huntingtower, for Bath ; Viscount and Viscountess Fiiz elan, from Stanhope -street. for the Rookery, Dorking ; • the Countess of Minto and Lady Fanny Elliot, from the ' Admiralty, for Minto House, near Hawick, N.B. ' • the Earl of Cardigan, from Portmar*quare, for Deane Park, Northamptonshire; Prince Achille Murat, from the Gloucester Hotel, Piccadilly, and Berkeley-etreet; the Earl of Belfast, from Fenton's Hotel, for Ireland. CHANGES. The Earl of Wilton at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mow' bray, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Bretby, Derbyshire ; Lord and Lady Southampton, on a tour of visits, from Beaudesert, the seat of the Marquis of Anglesey ; Sir John Wyldbore and Lady Smith, at Bath, from Downe House, Dorset. Persons have been said to be able, by habit, to live without air a considerable time. Death generallf occurs at the latest in one or two minutes, when respiretioe is suspended ; but by habit some few divers of the Swint ming School at Paris can remain under water three Int' nutes. If the system is in an extraordinary nervous state of insensibility, the .11>i0 ce of air, like the absence of food or the admin, tie tion of strong agents, may he borne for a very long time. Even fainting renders sub' mersion less dangerous. Mr. Brydono (" Tour through Sicily and Malta") frequently saw divers remain, in the Bay of Naples, under water fur three minutes. In Pere " History of Ceylon," they are said sometimes to remain five minut es und er wa t er . S ome very grandin stances of exaggeration on this subject will be found in an amusing and useful book, entitled " The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death." M D'Egly, Member of the Royal Society of Inscriptions, declares that he was engaged to dinner for which the fish was to be provid e d by a Swiss diver, who got his living by plung;ng into the water and pulling the fish out of their holes. The dinner hour are rived, but no fish. Drags were employed, and the diver's body found. The curate wished to bury it immediately , as it had been nine hours under water, but M. D'Egly dee termined on attempting resuscitation, and succeeded in three-quarters of an hour. The Rev, Mr. Derbam, ir. 51110 " Physico-Theology," is more credulous than the Cote; he quotes Pechlin for the ease of a man pensioned by the Queen for having joined his fellow -creatures again, after remaining upright under water, his feet sticking in the muddy bottom, for sixteen hours, at Tronningbolm. Yet this is nothing ; for Mr. Tilesius, the keeper of the Royal Library, has written an account of a woman whom he saer alive and well, after being three days under water. And this is nothing ; for Mr. Burmann declares ho beard a funeral sermon at Boness, in Lithovia, upon an old man of seventy, who, the preacher protested, had fallen into the water when six:cen years old, and remained under it for seven weeks, Mr. Brydone was told that one diver, called Calas, but nicknamed Pesce, could live several days in the sea ; and Kircher asserts that this aquatic person could walk under water from Sicily to Italy. —Dr. .Elliotson on Human Physiology. Several of the most eminent of the London Dis senting Ministers have undertaken to deliver a lecture, in rotation, at the New Broad-strect Meeting Ho u se, at 12 o'clock on the Tuesday following the first Sunday in the month, " on those principles of Evangelical Protestantinn which are opposed not only to the Popery of Romanisms but to that more specious, though less consistent, P a pery of modern Protestantism, usually designated, of late, by the conventional term of Puseyism. Mr. Thomas James, Registrar of St. David's District, in the county of Pembroke, has been dismissed from his appointment. A correspondent informs us that a few months ago he became a party to an attempt to effect a marriage between Mr. George Williams, a merc e r at Havcrfordwest, and a Miss Williams, a minor, residing is St. David's; but before their plan could be carried into execution, Williams became a bankrupt, when letters were found amongst his papers, which so clearly showed the part which the Registry had taken, that the person into whose hands they fell deemed it his duty to send them to the General Register Office. Some correspondence followed. which was closed by a letter being sent to Mr James, no tifying his dismiesal from his office.— Welshman. AN EXAMPLE FOR, THE IRISH CLERGY.••••••• A letter is published in the Southern Reporter from. the Rev. Edward G. Hudson, Senior Chaplain to the Lord- Lieutenant, addressed to the Rev. E. M'Carthy, P. p. of Ardnagnihe, county Cork, requesting bis name to be put down for 1001. towards erecting a new Catholic chapel in that parish. This truly benevolent Divine states further, that-in the event of the present Catholic chapel of the place (Which is much.teo the_ _La w s stoegreglie tteceybeing converted into a national school for the cdu' cation of children of all denominations, he will in that case present the parish with an ample plot of ground, in a better situation, for a new chapel, rent free for ever, and make his subscription 2001. instead of 100/. In this letter Mr. Hudson thus expresses himself : " For some time past I have observed that the Roman Catholic congregation of Glenville has fir outgrown the accommodation afforded by the chapel; and I have often been led to admire the patient devotedness of the shelter terless externs in braving the storm and rain rather than forsake the vicinity of the house of worship during the Sabbath hour of prayer. Although there are many point, of religious belief on which our opinions are widely Ist variance, I have never permitted those opinions to inter fere with my duties as a landlord ; nor have I ever pleaded those differences as an excuse for neglecting that Christian charity which teaches us to do good unto all men—and which should especially prompt us to coatribu e to the wants and comforts of our fellow Christians when assem bling themselves together to worship God after the manner of their fathers." The Treasury are about to make the follov , - ing retirement , on sup , rminuat , d alloviauces:—.Cu-- tonis.—Two of the ..ote-t cominisse n-rs, some -1' the old long ro iat ~ffi - ers, sere: t u4l of the water side office , a. landing-waiters. &c., two surveyors, scv. clerks, and several principal officers a'outpors, 1111,1, Bristol, &c.—quite a turn-out in this and oiler public de- partments.—From a Correspondent of the Morning Post. STEAM-BOAT COLLISIONS.—On Monday af ternoon the Duke of Sussex steam-vessel came up the river from Southend and Sheerness, with her head knocked and apparently much damaged, and it was report,d th t ih, tearner had been struck by lightning morning, and damaged, but on inquiry it turned out that she came into collision with her Majesty's steanier Light ning. The collision took place at eleven o'clock on Sun day morning in Halfway-reach, below Woolwich. The • Lightning also sustained sonio injury by the collision. Both steame:s were enabled to pursue their course, and the Duke of Sussex arrived at Sheerness the same aftor noon, and landed her passengers, none of whom received • the least injory. A few days since the Planet. Graves end sir . r, iv i rut bird Of by a brig, vo”ci, drre - • sternpost, and ciid other damage to a considerable • besides driving the Planet into a schooner coming up, which also sustained much injury by the shock. .~ N i:. 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