The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

EVEN NG EDITION TO CORRESPONDENTS. is we do not mean to publish the letter from Dover, we 16111 make no remarks on its contents, further than to say that we cordially agree with the twenty gentlemen of that place who declare that honesty is the best policy. Our exertions are all directed to enforce that homely but admirable precept in high quarters. \ 0110 E. " THE CHINA SUN" Is RE-PUBLISHED THIS DAY, with the NEWS from CHINA, JUST ARRIVED. Price SIXPENCE. Orders received at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. IN PROGRESS, THE RAILWAY SUN. With a MAP of all the RAILWAYS in the United Kingdom ; containing all the STA TIONS on each Railway, atxl a great variety of Information and other particulars connected with Railways. THE CORONATION SUN, PRINTED IN LETTERS OF GOLD, WITH A BANK OF ASI A, Capital 1,000,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 1001. each. The terms of the Charter for the Incorporation of this Bank have now been settled definitively by the Hon. 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LETTERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE COURT AND TIMES OF WILLIAM 111. Addressed to the Duke of Shrewsbury, By JAMES VERNON, Esq., Seeretarysof State. Edited by G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of " Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV.," " Richelieu," &e. - " No library of English h istory can be considEed complete without these Letters."—Conservative Journal. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 ruts., OLIVER CR OM WEL L, Edited by HORACE SMITH,Esq., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. " A s'ory of most exciting interest, vigorously written, and presenting a singularly vivid and strikingpicture of the turbu lent times to whiclrs it refers. The distractions of that sad period, 'when the ties of kindred were so often rent asunder, the kindliest domestic circles broken up, and their happiness blighted, are eloquently and touchingly illustrated in the his tory of the Ardenno family. The blind devotion of the old Knight to the cause of the faithless and unhappy Charles, which leads him to cast off with fearful maledictions his only and beloved son—the exalted patriotism of his son, wLo perils his dearest earthly hopes in the struggles for his country's li berty—the surpassing loveliness of his affianced bride, who loves with enduring and unalterable affection, but the con summation *f whose fondest hopes is for ever blasted by those unhappy divisions, are all detailed with singular effect, and ar rest the reader's attentions s , ,ith an entertaining and pathetic in terest. The immortal Milton also is introduced at various points of the tale with happy skill, and with a genuine appre ciation of his lofty but unattiinable aspiration after a true re public."—Dublin Evening Post. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRF THIS EVENING, JAN. 7. Will be repeated Shakspere's AIIDSUMNIER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bott om, Mr. Barley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Ni.bett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. \V. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled TNE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, 'HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway Pantaloon, Mr. Mo-.-di ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. On Friday, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. On Saturday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the New Pantomime, Doors to opened at half-past Six—the performances to ^zolnmeare at Seven o'Clock. Ti skets and places for the Boats. to be taken of Mr. Grogan. at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may no had upon application. 13ress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 355. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, Zs. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, ; Gallery, Is. Private Boat to be had solely of Mr. And: errs, bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The proud pre-eminence acquired at this Theatre by the supe rierit• of the pantomimicaf effects, is more than ever realized by the amasing hit of the Royal Pantomime. The most brilliant overflows have been attracted by the present Per formances. THIS EVENING, JAN. 7. Will be represented a New Domestic Drama, entitled MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT. Martha Willis, Mrs. Henry Vining. 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 Belem) Family; Mr. Mouthby, the Original Cloen; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran •'oni's, at Paris, will perform ; concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramie Synopsis of Syria. THEATRE ROYAL VICTORIA. The best Pantomime in London. THIS EVENING, Jan. 7, Will be performed THE FOREST OF BONDY. The Principal Characters by Messrs. flicks, Coney, and - Hawn. " Dragon" by Mr. CONEY'S CELEB R A TED DOG. After which Raymond's laughable Farce of MR. AND 1115. WHITE. The l‘hole to conclido with the New Grand Comic Panto mime of HARLEQUIN JACK OF NEWBURY ; OR, BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP, AND THE OLD WOMAN Or: BERKELEY. Harlequin, Mr. Howell ; Columbine, Mademoiselle Gooder ham ; Clown, Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Ashbury. _ EXTRAORDINARY NOVELTY AND ATTRACTION. ROYAL VICIORIA THEATRE. The LESSEE begs respectfully to inform his numerous friends and the public in general, that he has, at considerable expense entered into an arrangement with M. LAROCHE and 31. NOEL, surnamed " Les Incroyables de Paris," Pro fessors of Gymnastics at the Royal College of Paris, who will rxhibit their extraordinary performances at this Theatre, for the first time in England on AIONDAY, the 11th instant, on , which evening will be produced Mr. .1. T. Haines' entirely new Domestic Drama, with beautiful Coast -Scenery, painted by Lenox Mtadow, and M'Farren, entitled, THE YEW TREE RUINS, or THE WRECK, THE MISER, AND THE 3IIIRDE.REIL Principal Characters by Mr. .1. T. - I.hi n e,s, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Dale, Miss E. Montague, and Miss Tetittfer. To conclude with the new Grand Comic Christmas Pantomine of HARLEQUIN JACK OF NEWBURy; OR BAA, BAA, BLACK SHE EP , AND THE OLD WOMAN OF BERKELEY. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Columbine, Mademoiselle Gooderham; Clown, Mr. Flanchird ; Pantaloon, Mr. Asbury. - 71111 H WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW, K rning 0 mimutes after '2. I Evening %7 mimics after I'. The Publication oft e Evening Edition of TEE SUN corn spaced at '2O minutes after Three. LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, IE4I. The news received yesterday by the overland mail from India and China is most important to the Government and people of this country. I n China the triumph of our arms has been most complete. The presence of a victorious British fleet in the Yellow Sea soon brought the E N/ . Patton to his senses, as from the commencement of our quarrel with China we constantly foretold it would. When circumstances render it impera• ti,ve upon nations to have recourse to that dreadful evil, war, to punish injustice or to resent injuries, humanity requires that it should be made on the most extensive scale possible, and by bearing down all chances of resistance, spaie the useless effusion of innocent blood. But to defeat tie Chinese in the field is not to realize the main object of the expedition against China. If th e Celestial Go p‘inmtnt, by a policy of fraudulent procia.tination . 13EATITIFUL PORTRAIT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, Can be sent by post free to all parts of the Empire. Price SIXPENC E. Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. ,I=eis§ N eo sr .s•-' _Ask • Zite —by a profusion of compliments and promises equally hollow and contemptible persuade the English to abandon Chusan, and to await at Can ton the settlement of all differences between the English and Chinese, the richest fruit of the expe dition will be completely lost. Having begun negotiations sword in hand, it would be madness on the part of Admiral EL LIOT to return it to the scabbard before all the demands which he is authorised by the British Government to make are complied with. One thing ought to be constantly kept in mind. Having acquired a footing in China, it is essential to the maintenance of our dominion in the East, that we retain it at any cost. Complaints are made in several letters of the insalubrity of Chusan, and we find it stated that a regard for the health of our troops will oblige us to abandon it. We suspect these complaints originate in evils not attributable to the climate of this fine island. After so long a voyage, it is to be supposed that the men indulged in excesses de trimental to health in all parts of the world. The last accounts from China informed us that on land ing they drank to excess of an intoxicating beverage which they had never before tasted, and which pro duced a terrible dysentery among them. Most likely the wells were poisoned, and deleterious drugs mixed with the provisions which they found on shore. These are ways of inflicting injury upon their enemies which the Chinese, from time imme morial, have not scrupled to employ as often as they have had opportunities. But if the island of Chusan be really insalubrious, there are plenty of other islands on the coast upon which the English could effect a permanent settle ment. It is only requisite that the island occupied have a good harbour, and be not more distant from Pekin than the one already in possession of our gallant troops. With a British force constantly on the coast of China, capable of redressing any wrong offered us, our merchants would be secured against insult or oppression, and our commerce would gra dually extend from the mouth of the Canton river to the entrance of the Peiho into the Yellow Sea, thus opening a direct water communication with Pekin itself. To trust to the good faith of the Chinese would be as preposterous as to attempt to read characters traced with a pen upon the face of a descending torrent. We would just as soon ac cept the offer of a treaty alleged to be written on a moon-beam, as a mere parchment scroll bearing the imperial sign -manual, and deriving all its value from Chinese adherence to the sanctity of written obligations. We sincerely trust that this is a point which has not been overlooked by Lards PA LMER. STON and AUCKLAND. About seven years ago there was, as there now is, and has ever since occasionally been, a discussion carried on in the public papers, as to the propriety of calling the Church of England the poor man's Church. It was then objected to the name by a Liberal Journal, that the rich had their well car peted pews, while the poor sat on benches or were crowded into the aisles, without seats at all. The curtained and cushioned seat of the squire, was contrasted with the want of accomodation provided for the poor, and it was maintained that it was a mockery to call that the poor man's Church in which the distinctions of the world were preserved, and he was treated as if he were not, even in the temple of the ALMIGHTY, equal to his brother of the dust. The difference between the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church, in which there are no pews, and all persons kneel equally on the same floor, was pointed out, and the name of a poor man's Church was shown not be properly applied to the Anglican Church. At the end of seven years we are happy to find that the Anglican priest hood are taking lessons from the liberal news papers, and proposing to restore to the Anglican Church the equality of a Catholic Cathedral or a Dissenter's Chapel. A writer in yesterday's Times, quotes the following passage from a charge recently published by the Archdeacon of LEWES : " The first measure which I would recommend would be to alter the distribution of the seats, by getting rid of those eyesores and beartsores--pews, and substituting open benches with backs in their stead. Many advan tages would accrue from such a change, over and above the power of seating a greater number of people. This increase in capacity would be very considerable in our country churches, where pews large enough to hold from 10 to .20 persons, in the best situations in the church, are often allotted to small families, and may be seen gaping well-nigh empty : for even they who rarely come to church themselves are not seldom most rigid in asserting what they conceive to be their right of excluding others from their pews. Meanwhile the poor who, owing to the obtuseness of their senses and and perceptions, need to be near to the minister, are thus driven to the outskirts of the church, where only dim broken sounds reach their ears, the connecting links of which they are unable to supply, and where, if they are not altogether out of sight, they can but im perfectly discern those accompaniments of manner and voice and gesture, in which so much of the force of preaching lies, and which are especially requisite to per sons less familiar with the power of words, and less easily impressed by them. We all know, too, how many jealousies and heartburnings are perpetually springing up from disputes about rights of pews, which would thus be extinguished at once. At the same time, for the sake of order and regularity, seats might be assigned to each family, according to its numbers, and one may feel assured that such an arrangemuent would be generally re spected. Besides, do we not all know what facilities and temptation pews affordfor irreverent belmviour during di vine service, what facilities they afford to the somnolent ? Moreover, the eyes of the congregation are not all turned the same way, directed towards the same object ; but people sit face to face, and thus are inevitably led to look too much at each other, which interrupts the cur rent of their devotional feelings. Above all, the ten dency of pews is to destroy the character of social wor ship. Instead of our kneeling all side by side, rich and poor, one with another, pews keep up those distinctions of rank, which in the presence of God we should de sire to lay aside, each family penning itself up within its high wooden walls, and carefully secluding itself from all contact and communion with its neighbours. Indeed, when one enters a church on a week-day, and sees the strange fashion in which the floor is partitioned out into large shapeless lidless boxes, one is involun tarily reminded of one of the ugliest objects on the face of the eat th—Smithfield• market when empty.' " I am aware that there are many obstacles which lie in the way of the change I have been urging, and which may for a time prevent its being generally adopted, All our selfish passions will resist it ; pride will resist it ; indolence will resist it ; the baneful love of ease and comfort will resist it. But an excellent example has already been set in the new church of St. John, at Lewes, where the whole centre of the floor is covered with open benches, for the poor, and pews on each side are so low as to be almost inoffensive to the eye. From various quarters, too, I hear that efforts are making to throw open the pews in old churches ; and I trust that ere long it will have been proved in several parishes, how much more favourable the change is to devotional behaviour in church, how it brings home to our hearts that we are all indeed brethren, all members of the same body, that we are all one before God, all one in Christ." The same point is also urged by Mr. Wolfinger, of Lewes, in his consecration sermon. He says, that— " To call the parish church the church of the poor man, when the accommodation afforded in it has no re ference to the capacity of the hearers, in an insult to the understanding and the feelings. It is like throwing a loaf at a hungry man, without thinking whether it will reach him, or whether he will be able to gather up the crumbs into which it may break. It is like saying, Depart y e; be ye warmed and filled: not w ith s t an di ng ye give Mem not those things that are needful. He with good reason blessesGoldc,ets for hat hearing,inthoCwh,urreetailuloititeer,e, he was preaching, the best places to those ' who ought to have that advantage,' the poor : and he anticipates an early day, when the laity and clergy of every town and village in England will take up this godly work in right earnest ; when every parish church will be so enlarged, or re-arranged, or multiplied, as to afford room for all to hear ; and when _, _......., . . stoeelfitatci o p n r s o u t; i e u, t r o s o of ur G p o o d o ,s rer brethren that we arc not 1::1 to their spiritual wants, gifts,bu rather that a p s ut w a e as little, t.Talue on ourgGod's mercies to our own souls, by self-denial and exertions to communicate them to others." • This passage expressly. proves much that The Sun, and other Liberal Journals, have urged against the poor man's Church. While the best places are preserved for the pews of the rich, " the poor are driven to the outskirts of the church." l'evfs de- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1841. stroy the character of social worship, " they keep I up the distinctions of rank ;" and thus the clergy themselves now confess the truth of the charges brought against the poor man's Church seven years ago. Their present complaints admit the justice of our accusation, and prove that in the poor man's Church the poor are not held to be equal to the rich, and are treated as an inferior race. All the praises which some nameless writer, quoted by the Times, heaps on the poor man's Church, describing it as open on Sunday, where a man, cultivated by learning, imbued with piety, addresses to the poor man's ear words of inspired wisdom, describing the music as for him, and the clergyman as his friend, who will come at his call in sickness and sorrow, is the mere themy of what the Church and the clergy ought to be and are not. How can the Times venture to place in the same column the passage we have quoted, describing the Church as hitherto appropriated for the com forts of the rich, and another passage to this effect ? A poor shivering shoeless wretch, dug from an alley in Spitalfields, is supposed to speak : " On the seventh day there is a house open to nre on the seventh day there is a door, which is free as the door of heaven ; there is a bell, which peals on my ear, and calls me to that house of prayer ; there is a seat, which is tree as the seats above, and into which I may enter ; there is music, which rises upon my ear, and rolls its sacred melodies for n c ; there is a minister, cul tivated, taught, and trained—a man who has con secrated his life, his powers, and his labours, to the work of the sanctuary who has been cul tivated by learning, who is imbued with piety, who has been trained in the school of man, and nurtured in the word of God. The man ad dresses to my ear the words of ancient, almost of in spired, wisdom ; he directs to MC the living eloquence of a human voice, and he beams upon ate the living energy of a human eye ; he calls me, by all the protes tationr of human reason, and all the appeals of Scrip ture promise, and all the consolations of the Gospel— he unrols them, he spreads them out, he unfolds them for me. It is for me that these services are ordered— it is for me that that music swells—it is for me that that music saells—it is for me that that eloquence is che rished—and it is for me that the gospel of God is un folded, and every seventh day declared.'" Archdeacon HARE flatly contradicts this flatter ing portrait, by declaring that the poor are shoved to the outskirts where they cannot hear what is preached. The shoeless shivering wretch would, in fact, be turned out by the rosy-gilled beadle if he had the temerity to intrude himself into such a com pany of well-dressed people as is generally found in a metropolitan church, and the destitute poor man no more dare to venture inside a church, partitioned into what the Archdeacon likens to cattle stalls, than he dare venture into Almack's or Buckingham Palace. Is it not matter of notoriety that the poor stay from church, because they want clothing to go thither ? The Anglican Church, of which the service is performed by rich gentlemen, which is frequented by ladies followed by footmen, and around which crowds of carriages and lacquevs wait for their masters and mistresses, is no place for the poor man. The Church is too opulent for him. The clergy belong to a class, with whom at present he is unfortunately at variance, and they have, whether foolisly or wisely is for them to judge, sacrificed their Christian usefulness for the sake of the wealth and dignity they have undoubtedly obtained. Many of the clergy arc ;Magistrates. How can the poor look for consolation to the stern Justice on the bench, eager at all times tdenforce game-laws and other partial enactments ? Many of the clergy are the nobleman's son, the squire's nephew, or the great landowner's nominee and man of all work. They share the amusements and occupa tions of their relations and friends ; they never mingle with the poor ; they know nothing of their toils or their privations but by hearsay ; they belong to a totally different class of society, have sympathy with the rich, and not with the poor. To make the Anglican Church a poor man's Church, even with all the popular reforms now proposed, with all the coaxing and blandishments with which a HARE may seek to invest it, the priesthood must be a different order of men, and must depend on the poor, not on the rich. The new Chartist Church, a specimen of which, at Birmingham, will be found noticed elsewhere, which was begun at Glasgow, and is to be propagated through the country, will beat the Church of England hollow in bidding for the support of the poor, and will soon, no doubt, earn and deserve the name of the poor man's Church. Formidable rivals, in the good graces of the poor, to the Reverend J.P.'s, to stately Archdeacons., and to opulent and lordly Deans, are starting up, and we would have them look, not to their laurels but their livings. The Post yesterday told some truth of the Tories, in an article which we copied into The Sun. They have been, it is true, very unpopular. They were, we must admit, too unbending, too cold and disdainful, too shy of making known the grounds of their harsh policy, contenting them selves by making their will our law—they were, as we all felt, utterly careless about satisfying the minds of the people and making them content with the law ; and the result of their conduct was almost universal discontent, which threatened re- bellion and revolution. They were themselves frightened at the storm they had raised, which was only appeased by their throwing themselves over board at the first hint from the House of Com mons. They made a great sacrifice for the good of the country when they retired from office in 1830. The Post, we must admit, also tells some truth of the Whigs. At least, so far as saying that the people are disappointed. This is a great truth. They are no better off since the Reform Act was passed than they were before, hut rather worse. The enormous mass of restrictive legislation which the Tories bequeathed to the nation has had more time to operate, and has produced more disastrous effects. It is I like a strait waistcoat on a growing youth, which becomes every day more narrow and irksome. The popular enthusiasm which conquered the Reform Act subsided when that victory was acheived ; the Tories then gathered together the fragments of their power, and have ever since laboured to keep their strait waistcoat on the nation. They have been but too successful. A want of power, united with a feeble will, has prevented the Whigs from enlarging it, and as the nation has grown, year after year, the restraint has been more and more felt in every limb. It is not proposed, we presume, to treat the nation like a madman, and chain it down to the narrow crib of 1830. If it be, discontent will increase, and the struggles to escape will every year become more desperate ; if it be not, the Tories themselves, in stead of thwarting the Whigs, should assist in re• moving the impediments to the national growth and the national freedom. The Corn-law averages, published in another part of our paper, state the average price of wheat for the week at 61s. Bd. per quarter, and at the same time the duty is 275. Bd., which represents at this moment the tax levied on the food of the poor for behoof of the landowners. Without entering into the immediate effects on the farmers of abolishing the Corn-law, after they have paid their Michalmas rents, on the pledge given by the landlords, but not guaranteed by the people, that they should be allowed to levy this tax of 275. Bd. in the price of their corn, we wish to ask the reader, and ask the public, what would be the effect on the poor of now abolishing the Corn-law ? The winter wheat is all sown, and the crop no longer much depends on future labour. Whatever may be the price of wheat, that will now have little or no influence on the next year's crop. To abolish the Corn-law would not cut off a grain of the home supply. To abolish the Corn-law would, however, at once let in all the corn that is in bond, and would cause large importations from America. It would at once lower the price at least 205., if not 305., and that fall in the price, giving a stimulus to trade, finding employment for the people, and enabling the poor to command more food, would at once ensure the comfort of thou sands, and the lives of many hundreds. We look only at this fact, and we affirm that the Corn-law is at this moment starving many persons to death. There may be a question between the profits of the farmer, the rent of the landlords, and the death by starvation of the people ; and great shame to those who have by the law raised the question, or put these interests in opposition ; but there cannot be a doubt that the present duty of 275. Bd. is at this moment keeping food from the people, and starving many persons to death. Electors of Walsall, we now dwell on this fact, for your especial consideration ! Men of humanity all over the kingdom, we call on you to reflect on it I Labourers—Chartists though you be—take it to heart I 'Mothers, wome❑ of all descriptions, reflect on the horrid fact I —your poorer countrymen, and countrywomen, infants, and old persons, arcstarvcd to death by law ! Unite one and all to secure the return, at W alsall, of a Corn-law Repealer, and so put an end to the odious and detestable law. Let the artisans and labourers unite, like the men at Bolton, and ad dress the electors of Walsall. Let the mothers of the empire petition them. Let the rich subscribe to relieve any honest elector from the thraldom of landlords or others, and enable him to give an honest vote. Let all classes of Liberals in every part of the kingdom now unite to command success by the force of public opinion, and make the Walsall election, what the Anti-Corn-law League propose to make it, another Clare election, to secure, as that secured Catholic emancipation, sa free trade in food. 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 Contetnporaries 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 no t b e passed by without notice., and without being turned to a proper account. To the observations of the Herold, 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 journal dins into our ears a great respect for the Bible ; it is loud against infidelity ; but w h en i t su i ts the policy of its party, it laugh s to scorn t h e pre cepts of inspiration, and pleads for murder at the gallows, as if murder had 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 this 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, wrought upon the 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 vulgar 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 people who generally commit great offences against the criminal law confuse the notion oftraosportation 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 PALEY, They constitute that all punish ments h ave failed. another proof of the deplorable ignorance of those who arc ever ready, reasoning from some theory or other, slowly and diliberately to embrue their hands in the blood of an unhappy ;critninal, 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 death and impriso nment, an d every ot h e r device to have failed, as th e equa ll y crue l pu nishments of 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 L)ersevering exertions of the Herald itself. We cannot, however, leave the sublectwitlMl' saying that we a re g l a d to see our C ontemporaries 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 family, 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• nistcred, 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 monstrate—not fancy—that it will be for the be nefit of the community. The French journals of Tuesday have all reached us, but they contain no news save the telegraphic despatches from Malta, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday. The project of law for granting 700,000 francs for the support of foreign refugees was adopted by the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday. • In the course of the debate, M. GUIZOT stated that the Government would employ its influence with the Spanish Regency to obtain a further ex tension of the act of amnesty, in order to allow as many expatriated Spaniards as possible to return to their own country. The Constitutionnel has a long article on the effect which the report of a probable alliance be tween France and Russia has had upon the English Journals. Our Paris Contemporary does not be lieve in the sincerity of Russia's professions of friendship, intimating, at the same time, that the day is not distant when such professions will be made in a more cordial spirit. For ourselves we are of opinion that Russia has made no advance towards an alliance with France other than those made by all the Great Powers. The etiquette of diplomacy requires that on the formation of a new Cabinet the Minister entrusted with the manage ment of Foreign Affairs should notify to the different Courts the appointment of himself and colleagues, to which answers are returned in as complimentary a strain as the change will admit. Now the ap poihtment of M. GUIZOT to the office of Foreign Affairs being regarded by all the Great Powers as a pledge given by France that the peace of the world would not be disturbed, naturally called forth from Russia, in common with Austria, Prussia, and England, strong expressions of esteem and confi deuce. But except this note, written as a matter of form, we firmly believe not a syllable was ad dressed by Russia to France, and not a word spoken or a hint thrown out indicative of a wish to form a separate alliance. The whole affair was purely an invention of the French Journalists. A courier from Aladrid arrived in Paris on 'Tues day morning. He was supposed to be the bearer of despatches announcing that the dispute between Spain and Portugal would be settled amicably. France continues her armaments. Germany, too, is preparing for war. A Correspondent of the Commerce, writing from Frankfort, states that he found Germany armed to the teeth. This state of things cannot last much longer. Unless these war preparations be put an end to war is inevitable. The latest advices from Madrid a►e of the 28th ult.—the (late of Spanish journals received yester day. The supreme Couit of Justice in Madrid had sentenced to death M. D. A. GA LIA NO, son of the celebrated Deputy and ex-Minister, for forging forty-three Royal orders for the payment of certain bonds. We presume the sentence will be commuted by the Regency. Accounts from Trieste, of the 21st ult., announce that for the last thirty-six years a more rigorous winter was not remembered Since the 15th of December snow had con tinually fallen, covering the country to the height of five or six fee:, and intercepting all the communications, even within the interior of the city. The Gazette de France makes this evening a very just observation :—" The moment," says that paper, when the Ministers choose to deprive Admiral Lalonde of his command, under the pretext of his representing an aron dissement in the Chamber of Deputies,,is precisely that on which they appoint another deputy to be Governor-General or Algeria. Is not this tantam.unt to saying to the elec tors of Exadeuil, that they are not to re-elect General Bugeaud." _ _ A letter which we have received from Toulon acquaints us with a fact which is more significant than the official phrases. The staffs of the ships of the line have not their full complement of officers, and yet the Ministry have just granted furloughs ; a midshipman obtained one on the 31st of December, and letters from Paris leave no doubt that several more will soon come from Paris. It is understood that General Bugcaud will not delay going to Algiers to enter on his government. Ile is already making preparations for his departure. Orders have been received at Toulon to send to Algiers the canaons with which the coast is now armed. Their place will be supplied by others sent from Toulon, Stras bourg. and Metz. . . _ It is said that the Maritime Prefect of Toulon has been directed by the Ministry to have the Nestor (a fourth rate) immediately armed. This cannot be done in less than five or six months.—Le Commerce. YIYS SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 7.—There has been a severe fr( a' dur ing the night, which enntinum Wind this day at noon, light easterly airs, and hazy. DEAL, JAN. 6 —Wind S. E., moderate.--The schooner reported yesterdayfon the Goodwiti Sands, came off on the flood without assistance. RAMSGATE, JAN. 6.—Arrive l d the Herring►, Stoddart, from Quebec, for New•castl',, with loss of bulwarks, fore topmast, &c., ard the master and three of the crew washed overboard. AYR, JAN. 4.—The Mary, Butterwiek, from Demerara to the Clyde, drove in Girvan Bay ye•turday, during a a gale, and went on shore no-th of that harbour, and it is supposed she will sustain considerable damage ; crew saved. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6 —Wind N. E.—Arrived the Wake field, from Quebec. Sailed the outward bound, about 33 in number. The Mary, Gress, sailed this mornii.g for (Mend, and has put back with loss of bowsprit, having been in contact with a vessel. The Mountaineer (steamer), hence to Swansea, got upon one of the Swilly Rocks, on the 4th inst., and it is expected it will become a wreck. ABEEDOVEY, JAN. 5.—A schooner, from Newfoundland to Liverpool, is on shore between this and Aberysttvith. GREENOCK, JAN. 3.—The Loyal William, from Jersey to Glasgow, was driven on shore upon Itierkip Point, last night, but is expected to be got off STRANRAER, JAN. s.—The James Dean, Wilson, from Montreal to Glasgow, parted her anchors to-day, and went on shore and knocked off her false keel. She is expected off without much farther damage. fluid., JAN. s,—lt has blown a heavy gale from N. W. to N. E. and East, during the last 36 hours. Several ves sels drove on shore last night between Cleaness and Grimsby. StTNI;ERLAND, JAN. 4.—The Londonderry, Tamer, of this port, struck the south pier in entering the harbour to day, and sunk. MARGATE., JAN. 6.—Off port, the Charlotte, from New Brunswick. DOVER, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Ann and Emilie, Flen drichien, from Laguna, with damage; Roland, Monte Video; Fredrica Louisa, Flogense, Rio Janiero ; Lisette, Ashling, Alexandria, United States. The Planter, Zyl stra, from Surinam to Amsterdam, put in here yesterday, with foremast and bowsprit sprung. COWES, JAN. 6.—Sailed the Sophia, Pingclly, for Ja maica. The Theodore Korner, Bringemen, irom Bata via to Rotterdam, on shore at the entrance of the harbour, has been got off after being lightened. HOLYHEAD, JAN. s.—The Fleece., Clarke, from Newry to Irvine, which was on shore on Parry's Island Rocks, has been got off, and supposed without damage. KINGSTON, JAN. b.—The Kuysna, Rowley, from the Cape of Good Elope, parted her anchors in the Bay yes terday, and in running into the harbour took the ground, and is leaky ; she was hove into a berth at high water. LEITH, JAN. 4 —The Sarah Jane, Maitland, from Cuba, was stranded at :he back of the Docks last night, but is expected off to-morrow. SHIELDS, JAN. s.—The Cowslip, Scott, sailed since 3d inst. for Savannt.h, has put brick to-day, the master rind carpenter having been washed overboard. 3. —The Nico lina Emilia, 11.inson, from Lynn, in running for this har bour got on the Herd Sand, but came off ►without as sistance. DUNDEE ROADS, JAN 4.—Arrived Amwell, Quebec. LONDONDERRY, DEC. 29.—Arrived the Mary Campbell, Simons, from Quebec. ABERYSTWITH, JAN. s.—The Robust, Meadus, from Newfoundland to Liverpool, was driven on shore near Borth yesterday, but got off after discharging nea►ly the whole of her cargo. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. s.—The Industry, Turner, from liolifleur, parted her anchors in Filey Bay yesterday, and went on shore, crew saved. HULL, JAN. 5. Wind N. N. E., strong breeze.—Sailed the Mersey, Walker, for Savannah. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE. O'CLOCK. - LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.— Sales were 5,000 bales at full prices, .500 on specula tion ;. 20 Egyptians, lOid. ; 70 Bahias, Sid. ; 70 Per nams, 8 d. 84d. ; 100 Maranhains, lid. ; 500 Surats, -lid. to sd. ; 250 Sea Islands, at 14. i. to 161 d. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, JAN. s.—Birmingham and Derby, 77 ; Eastern Counties, 9 ; Ditto debentures, ; Grand Junction Quarter Shares, 294 ; Great Western, 94i ; Ditto Half Shares, 63 ; Fifths, 44 ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 57 ; Brighton United Company, 44 ; South Western, 581 591 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 26 ; Manchester and Leeds, Hall Sim-es, 31 ; North Union, 13i ; Liver pool Boro ugh, 194. We have received Sydney Papers one day later, to the 20th August. The colony has advanced so rapidly within these last few years that there are many branches of manufactures which might now be established there with a certainty of succes3. Our immense resources if properly expended and developed would, we arc per suaded, enable us to maintain certain branches of trade --t,ne of them is the sugar refining, which is about to be established ; another ib the growth of vine and the manufacture of light ;wines ; another is the growth of silk worm and the planting of mulberry trees for their use ; another is the manufacture of iron, out of the rule material. Some years ago engineers were so seldom to be found here that it was difficult to pro cure the manufacture of any elaborate work for love or money. The case is altered, and the ingenuity of the engineer has created a trade in mills, boilers, and en gines, iron boats, and other works. - PORT PHILLIP.—STRIKE OF THE SAILORS.—W e have just heard that the sailors of Melbourne, following the example of the carpenters, have struck for an ad vance of wages, and that, as the demand is about 30 per cent. above the former prices, it is not the inten tion of the masters to yield. COMMERCIAL REMARKS.—FIour--No alteration has taken place since our last in the price of the article, and although there is a good supply and more expected, the large specuktors are determined to hold on, expecting a rise ; and unless some arrivals from foreign ports should take place, flour is not likely to he lower than the present quotation. First, 421. to 481.; second, 381. to 421. Spirits—The market remains very firm. Rum seems likely to rise a little. Brandy, 12s. to 12s. Gd. ; Ruin, Ss. to Bs. Gd. ; Gin, 255. to 28s. per case in bond. Wines—Very little in the market of good quality. Provisions—lrish Butter, Is. 41. to Is. sd. ; Pork, 61. to 61. 65. Tea—Firm. Tobacco-1 s. Bd. to Is. 101 Ale—Good samples 7/. to 71. 10s. in hogsheads bottled, 10s. Potter—Td lor's in }ids., 6/. to 6/. 10s, ; bottled, -Is. to 16s. Potatoes are firm, 14s. to 16s. Candles—This article is very scarce in the marke' English Moulds, 10(.I. ; Sperm, 2s. to 2s. 6d. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yes terday's date. Never in the memory of men has the herring fishery given S 3 bad a result as in 1840. BOURSE OE AMSTERDAM, JAN. 4.—The National Funds were firm to-day ; the Actions of the Society of Commerce, having been done at 1.594, tell to 158:i. The improvement of Ardoin's at Paris was a coun terbalance for the fall in London, which had no influence on the market ; they were after the closing 2•? 9-16 ; Coupons 18i The public are now anxiously waiting for the officia despatches from China, to ascertain the correctnes s of the intelligence received yesterday._ THE FUNDS. Consols opened at 891 s tor the Account, at which price they are at present, with little doing; Reduced 89 ; Exchequer Bills 7 9 prem. ; Bank Stock 161 16:1 ; India Stock '242 244. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active much the same as it left off, 241 s ; Deferred 12-a ; Pas sive G 1 s ; Portuguese 311 :12,1 ; Three per Cents. 19 201 ; Brazilian 701 711 ; Colombian 2:31 24 ; Mexican 28?,4- 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 504 ; Five per Cents. 981 4. StinttEs.—Great Western 30 31 prem. ; New 14 13 prem. ; London and Brighton 5,1 dis. ; Black. wall 4 31 dis. ; Birmingham 83 85 prem. ; Southampton 58 59 per share ; Greenwich 8 9 per share ; Croydon 12,1 13 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter Cheltenham and Great Western. 624 32.1- to Great Western Ditto Fifths _4 .... Di to 10,1 Mull and Selby - London and Brighton 5() —• 44 til ... to London and Blackwall - London and Greenwich .... . .. 20 Ditto Scrip London and South Western Midland Counties North Midland, (New) ____ JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial ... 25 3 7i to London and Westminster . ... .. 20 "(ALF-PAST ONE. Consols, which were in the early part of the morn ing at 89 ir for the Account, are at present become heavy,owing ton sale by an eminent broker to a consider able amount at 90 for the February Account, which caused them to recede to 891 1 1. Money is easy at present. By the liamb urgit mails, arrived last night, the ex change upon London comes 13 13 ; Go!d, 422 ; Metal liques 1033 ; Bank Actions 1,575. At, present Consols may be quoted 89 a for the opening ; Reduced 89i, have been 90 ; Exchequer Bills improved 35., may be quote 1 9 7 10 ; India Bonds, 10 dis. ; India Stock, 242 ; Bank Stock, 162, 163. In the Foreigh Market, Spanish Active is lower, receded from 24i to 24.;- 1, owing to unfavourable in telligence received in a private letter front Madrid by a morning journal ; Deferred, 12-; ; Portuguese, 81i ; Three Per Cents. 20 ; Brazilian, 71i ; Colombian lower 23i ; Mexican 28 1 1 ; Dutch, Two-and-a-Half per Cents. shade lower, 50 ; Five per Cents., 98k. In the Share Market some of shares are better, Bristol and Exeter, 38 ; Great Western, 95.1 I ; Lon don and Brighton, 44ii a ;;London and Blackwall 181 ; London: and South Western, 591 to 59 ; Midland Countlets, 84 ; North Midland Now ; 4:2i. BO URSE.—PARIs, TUESDAY , JAN. 5. I itst Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price, Price Frettch 5 I , er Cents 3 per Cents 77 50 77 50 ... 77 e 5 ... 77 4U / 1 1,,t of ' , lnner L .ffitte Bank ,00 It. Shares 5135 ...5135 ...5135 ...5135 oe.giAll ` , :ink 6 ~er Cents 9B ... s,B ... US ... !IS New Loan ... Spanish Active 25% ... 25% ... 25 ... 2514 Passive 6 .. 6 ... 6 ... 6 Neapo'it.tii Ronan a ) ... 09) 4 —• IL) ... 99,, PAIL WAY SHARES. it. ~ermain Ve•saillcs.l(. B 337 50 ... 292 50 ... 387 50 ... 392 50 L B . 305 ... 205 ... 302 50 ... 305 )deans . 3trasourg to Bale 247 50 ... 247 50 ... -- 45 ... 2V; 25 CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice MAULE and Mr. Baron RoLFE.I CIIARGE OF RAPE.—John Ckrisham, aged 30, was.in dieted fur aiding and assisting Peter M'Donogbue, in the commission of a rape on Bridget Lamb, on the 27th Dec. last. The prosecutrix was a servant out of place, and at the period in question, was residing with some persons named Carroll. On the evening of Sunday, the 27th of Die., the Cerrolls went out, leaving the prosccutrix in the care of the house. They subsequently returned accompanied by M'amoghue, with whom the prosecutrix had had some slight previous acquaintance, and by the pri. soner. The prisoner and the Carrot's then went down stairs, leaving the prosecutrix and M'Donoghue alone in toe room occupied (by the Carrot's up stairs. Whenithey were gone, M'Donoghue seized the prosecutrix in his arms, and she screamed out. Prisoner came up stairs, saw what was going on, and said to APDonoghue, " The Carrot's arc gone out—you will have plenty of opportunity, and I will watch on the stairs." The prisoner then left prosecutrix and M'Donoghue, who succeeded in effecting his purpose. Her cries at length brought persons to he r assistance, when M'Donoghue jumped out of the window and effected his escape, and has not since been heard of. The prisoner was given into custody on the following day. Mr. PAYNE addressed the Jury for the prisoner. Mr. Baron ROLFE having summed up the evidence the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. PAYNE took a technical objection to the indictment, and contended that the law did not recognise the offence of aiding in committina a rape. The offence was a rape at common law, and ought to have been so described in the indictment. It was the first tims such a point had ever arisen. It was most important to have it decided, and be trusted their Lordships would reserve it. The Learned Judges, having consulted together, Mr. Justice MAULS said they were of opinion that the indictment had been properly drawn up. Mr. Baron Roux ordered sentence of Death to be re corded against the prisoner, who was then reanoved. VICTORIA THEATRE.—His. Serene Ilighness Ow Duke of Brunswick, attended by his Aid-de. camp, paid a visit to this Theatre last night to witness the• per tormances of the Forest of Bondy, and the very succe isful new Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled, Ilarlefuin Jack of Newbury ; or, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, and ;She Old Woman of Berkeley. The house was crowded in 'll, l parti EVENING EDITION. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY). COLONIAL MARKET. There Was little b us i ness d one p r i vate ly, an d the . publ ie sales were of little moment, but in prices no material riation occurred. The arrivals continue small. TEA MARKET. There was little business done, but holders were 1 01 disposed to sell, and it was difficult to get Cotnrai Congou under IF. Bi. cash. TALLOW MARKET. There WU little• demand for Russian Tallow, either co the spot or to arrive, and prices had a downward ten" deney. The stock is exceedingly large. HAY MARKET. There was a good demand, and the supply being 00 14 full prices ware paid. Clover, 4/ to 61; Meadow 1 18 Y' 31 1.5 s to 5/ ; Straw, 32s to 345. Met. L.--We noticed in our last the reset.'' death, at an advanced age, of Thomas Hill, Esq., ra l9 ,' . hasty desi gna t e d b y hi s acqua i ntances ( amongst whom reckoned the most celebrated of the literary men, a rtists and actors, and the leading publishers of his time), " Little Tom Hill." His good humour, and certsiis harmless peculi ar iti es , ren d ere d hi m at a ll t i mes a come and an amusing associate. No one knew his ag e ' nor could lie ever be prevailed on to confe,'s it—a re. luctance which one of his friends ascribed to the ac c i. l. dent of the d es t ruc ti on o f hi s b apt i sma l reg i ster in t he great fire of London (1666) ; w hil s t anot h er charge, him with having once a d m itt e d t h at i t was h e w ho 111° contracted for supplying Guy Fawkes with gunpow c But upon thi s p o i n t h e was b an t er - proo f. Of l ate years ll was celebrated as the supposed prototype of Paul Pryer' f ,ct, h owever , w hi c h we b e li eve t h e aut h or h as neve r mitted. That he was the original 01 the good-natured in Mr. Hook's " Gilbert Gurney," and of many points 1 , 1 ; the charact er o f Li tt l e J ac k H o hbl e d ay i n M r . Poole' " Little Pedli ng t on ," is unquestionable. Of his resemblan c/ (accidental though it might have been) to Paul Pry, following is an amusing instance, and may he relied on true. Calling one morning upon Mr. —, the eminel'e bookseller in Pall-mall, he found him in his counting- 10 1 5 , along with a gentleman with whom he ( Hill) was utter; unacquainted. Presently Mr. was called out, ls'av i l.l the stranger and Hill t oge th er . U pon hi s re t ur n n i took his leave. " Pray, Mr —," inquired the gentleMalli who is that extraordinary person that bas just left us? assure you he has asked me more qusitions in theso ten minutes than I have been asked for the last ten monthS' o " 0," replied Mr. —, laughing, " That is Little I.° Hill, the supposed original of Paul Pry." At that idelY, tical moment Hill popped his head in at the counting-13 0 ' P ' door with—" Beg pardon—l forgot my umbrella Briyhtou Gazette. TII E WEATII E PA R KS.— The fro s i; has considerably increased in severity, and if " Murphy ' predictions are at all to be relied on, we are to have ff °l until Monday week next, the 18th instant, with on Stl G ' day, the 17th, " prob a bly th e l owes t d egree o f wint° cold." At six o'clock on Tuesday evening the thermoilc ter stood at 28 degrees, an d at twe l ve o ' c l oc k at n ight' had fallen to 26 degrees, with the wind north. Yesterdli morning, at six o'clock, it had fallen to 24 deg., but to wards twelve o'clock at noon, the wind having- for a tir' e shifted to the south, accompanied by a thick fog.parti° larly in the outskirts of the metropolis, it rose to 26 ( 1 1 Soon afterwards, however, the wind shifted back to t", north-east, anti commenced freezing most int e nsely, I", thermometer at stx o'clock last evening having fallen low as 20 (leg., 12 deg. below freezing point, with e'i c h ti , app earance o f a most severe n i g h t. D ur i ng yester d a y t," ) roads in the metropolis, owing to the intense frost vii ) : lc succeeded the fall of snow on Tuesday, were most si l l ? pert' and dangerous, and numerous accidents oceurre, In the Parks an d K ens i ngton - gar d ens yester d ay no thi ng of any particular interest occurred. ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR NO': TINGHA M.—We regret to announce that on Saturday welt ing last, another destructive and extensive fire occurred 0 Paplewick, nearly five miles from Notting ham. lo hour from the discovery of the fire, the roof of Forge-m l had fallen in, and in three hours it was a complete wt ec e d and scene of devastation and ruin. The engines s tmt from Nottingham, b u t a ll th e m i sc hi e f was d ose ; the Pr e miser were burned to the ground. On the 30th 1` 1 °1: 1838, two years and a month a ge , F orge - m ill was `"; stroyed by fire, and was afterwards rebuilt, and fitted i ti; with machinery of the most costly description. On tb occasion, in addition to the loss of the building and me . , nery, we are sorry to say a l arge s t oc k o f w h ea t, b ar ley, 0.t1 ,, and flour have been consumed ; what the amount of drool, is we cannot learn at p resen t, b u t it mus t b e seve ral th ° , o sands of pounds. There is no doubt that th e m ill has b ee r wilfully set on fi r e. Th e b u ildi ng b e l onge d t o the pl i o , of Portland, and th e p ro p er ty i ns id e to M r . Ch ar les cock, an extensive factor of Bulwell, and was insured the Norwich Fire-office.—Liacoln Gazette. t f EXPLOSION OF GUN POWDER .—O n Tueso morning last, an explosion of gunpowder, attended 01 ,., t i serious and fatal con sequences , took p l ace at t h e house ;f a man named Moult, residing at Spotland Bridge, 14 ,1 Rochdale. M ou lt w h o i s a coa l. m i ner an d s i n k e r, h a d f received a barr e l o f gun p ow d er , conta i n i ng upica r „ o of thirty pound s , whi c h w as plac e d i n an u pper ru" bil in the house; and his son, who had been in the hams of taking out small quantities, went into the room 15 that purpose at six o'clock on Tuesday morning ° LIO , a lighted candle, when a s p ar k f e ll u p on the g o o powder, which immediately exploded, and the roof o f blown from the house. The unfortunate cause e e the accident was found in the garden, a dis t r lll of eight yard s f rom t h e h ouse, a l ive, but tirearl'a,ool mangled. Two of hi s fingers were blown off, a nd f received the most ser i ous i n j ur i es i n t h e lower P.ar'tlie the abdomen. The unfortunate youth lingered In th s most excruciating agonies until eight o ' c l oc k of to , same day, when death put a p er i o d to hi s s ufferitTh re In the house where the explosion took place. t he h , were about fourteen p ersons , a ll o f w h om esca p e d w it , ) out injury. But if th e ba rre l o f gun p ow d er had b e l n placed on the ground floor of the house, instead c ( „ 0 the garret, the consequences would have been tu . ,, A lamentable. In additi on t o the i n j ur y d one t o bu iv .„ house, several lo oms i n a n adjoining h ouse w ere tirely destroyed. The dwelling of the collier was tu f back part of a d ou bl e h ouse , th e f ront o f w hich 0 0. 6 /j four, and the b ac k th ree B n :fl i es hi g h. Th e roo f s of b back arid front house were completely blown off; the pa r o : ' t wall which divid e d t h e garrets o f t h e f ront tenefu e from the back, was blown into the front, amidst three looms which st oo d i n t h at c h am b er. T he warps rte s consumed by the fl ames , an d the kerns broken bV bricks ; the windows of this room were all driven oat "/ the force of the powder. Th e co lli er ' s h ouse was a hes t of ruins, the whole front, as far as the lower story, li t e been blown into the gar d en . I n th e secon d c h am b er the ' 5 were three beds fell of inmates, but the floor above I ts driven down over th e b e d s , an d comp l ete l y protecte d th et a from the falling slates and timbers of the roof. THE PYTCHLEY .HOUNDS.—Our 1101.11 415 : amongst many other packs, b a d exce ll en t runs l as t wee"; commencing on Monday, at Buttock's Booth, by kilii ll . 7 two foxes and running a third to ground. On Wednesd a y ; they met at Oxendon, and found a ga ll an t f ox , directly, "; aterloo Gorse, which took across the finest line this gr a '' country could show. and f ur h a lf an h our t h e pace was ver , good, when the sc en t b ecame co ld er, b ut they hunted hi,,' several miles to Loathland Wood, where they killed, tholfg,"' by some it was not thought to be the same fox. On Fr i ; day they m e t a t Crick, arid showed a brilliant day's sP a . r to an imm e n se fi e ld o f sportsmen. T he fox was foun d i O , this famed cover, and at length got away, with the fo c i , close at his brush. The first twenty minutes, a few or% kept n ear t h em, w h en t h e pace b ecame slower, an d ot her" got up. After some difficulties, the pack again set to ru a ; iiing in earnest, and killed him in the middle of a fi `yo The time, about one hour after the fox broke cover. cannot help congratulating Mr. Smith on his sport, o' te c the difficulties he has had to encounter, and beg to add t.lia we were prepared to expect a good report, having late perused this g en tl eman ' s treat i se on hunting, " The Die ,' of a Huntsman," a second and cheap edition of which, " 11 observe, is just advertised. It appears to us entirely or'; ginal, and, amongst the engravings, the sketch of a eat when th e h oun d s are at fault, and the drawings of the fre" and the exhausted fox, &c., &c., are excellent.—F• l " - traeteft front the Northampton Herald of Saturday, -D tc.. 19, 1840.) DARING ATTEMPT TO OBSTRUCT A TRAI N ON THE MIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY. —On Tucad ,3 l Robert Hill Henry Welsted, Thomas Williams, William Bartram, and Henry Sutton, all labourers on the rail.vaP were brought before I. Hodgson, Esq., cliarged with 1)0' ing, on Thursday, the 24th of December, attempted t ° obstruct a train upon the railway. About half-past ni oe o'clock on the evening in question it appeared that thef e men went in a body to the Wigston station, and, in s threatening and violent manner, called upon the keeper t ° ro" m rain b s lieY weß t ffeao o ui inn p i,g:tg:tet e t )rds h dat e tott:oop. ( t ai r g:L a aeob i gde l yriatctiootseuhhssiieott:ene:rik,sicuendecgus:ttel; The Leicester, el a : ane n ain d mrg:ud.oup m rdwa.ege o do e m uil Flina e dgos u hsv ttNa.ne.vhrs, insist its: Theyitelu, the thisi d) p ck e une e sews t et p e ahaide d i sed; : tov roundly told him that, unless he did as was desired, he would dash his brains out against the gate. As the keepe r was resolute in his refusal, the party threatened th a t they would t ear up t h e gate, an d , b y flinging it on I" rail, ov e rt urn t h e tra i n . Thi s t h reat, h owever, was 1 0' , carried into effect, owing to the decision and firmne° of the keeper, who, partly by force and partly by en' treaty, persuaded them to desist, Finding that their Oja i here was defeated, the party walked towards Leicester . Foster, apprehending that some mischief might be done by the way, followed them until they had got as far a s the, Knighton viaduct. There he w as f or t unate l y t h e mea ns 0 1 saving the life of Bartram. This individual fell across th e rails at a time that the train was not more than 210 yards off, and was instantly dragged cif by Foster. These we re the facts deposed to. There were two trains then coming from Rugby within a short distance of each other, the PP senger and luggage trains. find the gate be en flung e° the rails as threatened, the destruction of life and property might have been great, and people would be found to el' claim against negligent drivers, &c. There was some tenuation of this outrage offered by the defendants. TheY stated that they were lather fresh." This was not con c i sidercd an a ggrava ti on, as i t m i g h t have been. They had also the benefit of a character for sobriety and steadio o ; 6 from Mr. Betts. Welsted was fined 5/., Williams 2 ‘,.' Sutton it., Hill and B ar t ram 15 s. eac h. Th e ent i re 0' the money was paid, and the parties left the office. rester Chronicle. THE LATE ACCIDENTS ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.-01) Monday an inquest was held on the bodice of three men killed on the Brighton Railway, under th e circumstances described in our paper of that day. T b° occurrence seems to Inv() originated in the chimney of al l engine used in the construction of the works having caug . " in " a heading," or tunnel, in progress, through not he:: ing been sufficiently lowered in ti me . Thi s vtas t h e fault of the men in charge of it, nam e ly, t wo o f t h e deeesscuci It brought down the soil upon th e eng i ne an d ten d er , an , caused them to be overturned. V er di ct —A cc id enta l cleat", with a deodand of Is, on thu chimney of the engin°. Pa at 10: fi n lai be th, Ger Vis ( cow retie is i n ever, V e ent( en t The Hot to t i 4 Vifi batil trade ►hat I 'nerd turn 14 altf level k eest of th, Att re i dnd nOwj i hg i n Chan lIPPe; aim Ye! th, Jul v. clu lel, Lo