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MORN ING SUN THE NEW NOVEL. DM T OR T ; Or, the OLD ENGLISH NOBLEMAN. In 3 vols. post Bvo., IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, Njw Burlington -street. Published this day, T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CL. CONTENTS.: 1. WHEWELL'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES. R RUPPELL'S TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA. & LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THOMAS FULLER. 4. THE KING OF HANOVER AND THE STADE TOLLS. 1. COMBER PHRENOLOGICAL ETHICS. fi. CATLIN ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 7. THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. 1 LORD ALVANLEY ON THE STATE OF IRELAND, AND PAYMENT OF THE CATHOLIC CLERGY. 9. MISS FERRIER'S NOVELS—CORRECTED EDITIONS. 10. FINANCIAL MEASURES OF THE LATE, AND INTEN. TIONS OF THE PRESENT, MINISTRY. London: Longman, Brown, and Co. Edinburgh A. and C. Black. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, slaving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED severs/ DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though hey are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain. og LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBU TION& Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions say receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspeare. Duke, Mr. G. Bennett ; Antonio, Mr. Phelps ; Bassanio, Mr. Anderson; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready ; Portia, Mrs. Warner ; Nerisia, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, caged HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN.. NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORI) OF LONDON STONE. Doors tt be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin ;t Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, Z. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price Z. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Chr stmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, lARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to t e opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress BOICS, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 25. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Ticket 3 may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrea's, bookseller, 157. New Bond-street. ItOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Harlequin and the Ice Queen, the acknowledged best Panto mime of the Season ; 50,000 persons have already witnessed and applauded it to the echo. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20 Will be repeated Haines' New D►ama, entitled ELIZA BETH LAZARUS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." Everything New. After which, A SALT-WATER YARN. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Enormous success of " Geraldine !" another new and affecting Domestic Drama, for which this Theatre is so widely and Do eminently distinguished. THIS EVENING, JAN. 20, _ _ Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledzt4 Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan- totaime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS; 6R, - THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DlANS.—Witia new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions; Tricks, Transformations,. and Effects—A now Nautical Panorama, to be entitled Our Native, Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views aleng the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE LOTTERY TlCKET.—Worm wood, Me. Gardner; Capias, Mr. James; Charles, Mr. Sea man • Susan, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, is.—Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-put Eight. To-morrow, Geraldine, Harlequin Peter Wilkins , and The Lottery Ticket. THE RAILWAY SUN BEING OUT OF PRINT, WILL BE RE-PUBLISHED IN THE COURSE OF THE WEEK. Tll E CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN. ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 20, 1842. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of " respecting Anthracite Coal, is an advertisement. " F. y."—The proceeds, of course, will be expended in furthering the object which the Committee profess to have in view, but we are not aware what arrangements have been made. We declined to publish-the letter of William Vaughan, because it casts strong imputations on parties at a dis tance, with respect to transactions of which personally we could know nothing. THE WEATHER.—NooN, JANUARY 19. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 29 ) Highest 34 1 Lowest 2B Barometer 30.05.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning-- 47 minutes after 6 1 Evening 8 minutes after 7. ~.,..;›, ~ ,• . ..-.' ''''' . ref's'', N,.S- 4 ii. trs:;) etfr i -'''r, ...tt C I 4,..-4 , ,lipr" `"'"..- ' ~'... , i ' ' • lir gib 143 s ........ _...,- ot ' ' tlbt _Salt LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1842. At the period when the Army Brevet and the Iga.Tal promotions were made, the Spectator has tened to praise the Tories for fairness, justice, li berality, and all manner of virtues, particularly praising their disinterestedness and disregard of aristocratic influence in not promoting a son of the Duke of NEWCASTLE and a brother of the Duke of St. ALBAN'S. Last week, however, it found out that the Tories had promoted both these young Noblemen before the general promotion, and gave them seniority above all the older Mates included in the general pro- ) motion. It had praised its friends, the To ries, too, for having introduced the practice of Gazetting Naval appointments for the first time; but it has now found out that they only Gazette such appointments as the public are sure to approve of—namely, those for gallant conduct or long service—and lead their friends astray by not Gazetting such as are made from family influence- It cannot be otherwise than indignant at being tricked, but it, nevertheless, praises the Board of Admiralty as having, on numerous other occasions, looked only to merit. This renowned Board of Admiralty, however, seems unacquainted with the claims of . the Navy, or negligent iu supporting them. We are no advocates for profuse promotion, but if either service must be stinted, let it be the land service. I man i s not fit for much active service at sea after he has reached his 60th ye ar . NOW we find that the Naval Captains promoted to be Rear-Admirals in November last all received the former mentioned rank prior to 1808. As not one in a score was made a Post-Captain before he was 25 years of age, the youngest of the Captains then promoted to be a Rear.. Admiral must be 57 years old. Probably the majority of them are far above 60; while the *or* of the Admirals and vice-4 druirals 13 :Mt eiove "verging on 80. TO im- pose on such men the onerous and active duties of commanding a fleet, is neither just to them, nor worthy of the country. Under such circumstances, when a great pro. motion was to be made, the Admiralty should, at least, have procured for the sea-service a share equal to the land-service. But while there were only 40 Post-Captains promoted to be Rear : Admirals, there were very nearly 80 Colonels promoted to be Major-Generals. The promo tion in the other ranks was of like inequa lity ; and, with all deference to this much ; praised Board of Admiralty, we think such a fact is a strong proof that it has not attended to the interest of the officers at head-quarters. In the Cabinet the Army had its gallant and ve teran Chief to see justice done to it; the Navy had only THOMAS Earl of HADDINGTON. The Noble Duke was aware that the more the Navy could be kept short, the less grumbling there would be at the expense of the Army; and he probably induced THOMAS Earl of HADDING TON, not to insist—after he had agreed with his official advisers to a different course—on including in the promotion to Rear-Admirals a considerably larger number of Captains. Should the country require to send large fleets to sea, it will then be necessary, in order to have Admi rals who do not require nurses, to make a large promotion. As the time for the meeting of Parliament approaches, it is incumbent on the Liberal party to form some plan of operation which shall unite the whole, or the greater number of them, under leaders, in order to obtain from the Parliament a specific good for the people. That is neces sary, not only for success, but even to preserve the party from falling into battalions of free companies or sharpshooters, who will injure each other more than the common foe. At the same time it is unhappily true that the Liberal party is somewhat destitute of leaders, and is already split into little sections, each one of which seems to aim at conquering by its own peculiar mis siles, the whole Tory phalanx, expecting to mo nopolize for itself all the glory of victory. But whatever may be the views of gentlemen in Parliament, whether they are in office, or desire to get into office, there is but one question which fills the length and breadth of the land. All the community is now divided into Pro and Anti-Corn-law men. That one question, con trary to the expectations of the Tories, and con. trary, perhaps, to the wishes of some Whigs, like AARON'S rod, will swallow up all les ser questions. Since 1838 it has grown, month after month, and year after year ; it first caught the Whigs, and now the Tories are fain to say there must be some alteration ; it began with the political economists, it now embraces all sincerely religious men ; it was ushered in by science, and heralded forward by feeling, it is now adopted by justice and religion; it was no bigger than a man's hand, it now fills the atmo sphere, and hides every other object. The vast distress of the working classes, the decay of the capitalists, the resolution of the people, press the question with irresistible force on the attention of Parliament. Even on this question the members of the Li beral party in Parliament seem to be divided. Articles have been written in the public journals, the sources of which are undoubted, and speeches have been delivered recommending totally dif ferent courses. At Edinburgh, Glasgow, Man chester, and Leeds, the sentiment of full justice and no compromise has been loudly cheered ; and Members of the House of Commons, and those who influence them, have recommended that on the very first day of the Session, regardless of the plausibilities of Sir ROBERT PEEL, whose avowed object is to gain time, and fritter away the attention of Parliament over many objects, some notice shall be given of a measure for the total and imme diate abolition of the Corn-laws. In Lon don three of the most influential of the Liberal Journals have recommended that a fair hearing should be given to Sir ROBERT PEEL, that he should be allowed time to work out his own schemes ; that he should he aided in his attempts to achieve any petty improvements he may propose and in short be helped to impose, by means of Parliament, those chains on the people, he has now been five months in forging. Betwixt these two parties we cannot hesitate to choose, and declare decidedly with the first for immediate action, and for demanding a full mea sure of justice. In our judgment, on the very first night of the Session Sir ROBERT PEEL should be pressed to name an early day for the discussion on the Corn-laws, and, if he either postpone it to an in definite or a late period, if he refuse to explain the nature of his measure, or if it fall short of what the people now demand—notice should be immediately given of a motion for an early day for the total and immediate repeal of the Corn laws. The state of the country warrants that course of proceeding, and the public will back the Member, be he who he may, who adopts it, and who forces on the discussion before con senting to a single vote of supply. The people are clear-sighted and resolute, and they will no longer be trifled with. If the Liberals in Par liament, follow the Peelite suggestions of the Morning Chronicle, the Examiner, and the Weekly Chronicle, they will lose the support of all the ear nest portion of the people, already not favourably disposed towards them, for ever. If on the con trary they take a bold and decided course, they will assuredly carry with them those sincere and religious men who have latterly throughout the country given a new tone to this contest ; they will most probably increase the boldness and de termination of their friends, and rally around them the great multitude of suffering, but now dis jointed and wavering, capitalists and labourers. A bold heart, energetic in the good cause, taking up just ground in the House of Com anon*, will, soon make all the suffering classes forget all minor differences, and unite as one man for the total and immediate repeal. Certainly bold measures must also be taken by the people, if they would save themselves from greater evils. At present the ministers of re gion who denounce the Corn-laws aro only threatened with prosecution, and with whipping at the cart's tail—let the Tories gain head in Parliament, and let them fancy themselves safe in their tyranny, and these threats will speedily receive their execution. At present the barracks are only building—let the Tories believe that they can without danger fill them with soldiery, to overawe the people, and free public meetings will be at an end for ever. The Tories are yet smarting under defeat. It is understood, as is na-. tural, that the leading man of the ultra Pro-Corn law party is Lord STANLEY, and the former ca reer of that Noble Lord assures us that he will spare no exertion, and stick at no means, to give fu - 11 swing to his own lordly will. Nor must the constituencies be idle at this period. The Liberals of Lambeth take a deep • interest in the sufferings of the people of Stock, port and Manchester, and they must give their representatives to understand that compromises now, for any party or personal purpose, cannot be tolerated. The bread•taxed martyrs of Shef field must plainly inform their Member that their all is at stake, and that he must not risk the loss of Corn-law repeal, because Sir R. PEEL says he is favourably disposed to the emigration crotchet. The half-starved electors of Leicester, whose trade has gone to decay,, must intimate to those whom they send to Parliament, that if they mean to ask future support they must merit it. At Edinburgh, Mr. STURGE emphatically warned the people against traitors in Parliament, and the constituencies may prevent treachery, by at once signifying to their representatives what they must do, or resign their trust. The Liberal party, we believe, would prefer for a leader that Noble Lord who has already ably served them in that capacity ; but if family interests and party ties link him too closely with the bread-taxer&, the Liberal party will look out for another. Some one, probably, may be found of equal experience and of equal eloquence to the Noble Lord -(none can surpass him, we be lieve, in meaning well), who is not se Much We call attention to an able and excellent article in the Westminster Review, of the pre sent month, the principal points of which will be found extracted in another part of The Sun, under the head " Claims of Prerogative and Wrongs of the Subject." It relates to the case of the claimants for losses in Denmark, and clearly illustrates what we believe to be the fact, that it is much more easy to obtain justice, in some par ticular cases, in the most despotic nation in Europe, not even excepting Turkey, than it is to procure redress from the Government of this country, unless some private job or interested motive of some one or more of the Ministry be not connected with the concession of it. The delay in granting relief to the sufferers by the Danish reprisals after the repeated favourable decisions of the House oil Commons, to whose arbitration the matter was expressly referred by the Government, is a great cruelty, more espe cially as the case has now become a constitu tional one, involving the privileges of Parliament, and even of the Crown itself, whose authority the Chancellor of the Exchequer virtually has, according to precedents shown by the article referred to, for paying these unfortunate claimants. shackled by family and party ties, and who will be willing to place himself at the head of those who are determined to achieve the con quest of the Corn-laws. Whether the Noble Lord be the leader of the party, or any other peison, it is certain that the whole of the Anti-Corn-law party will only support bold and just measures; and it is equally certain that no man can be the leader who does not take a bold and decided course on the opening of Parliament. The series of articles which have appeared in the Morning Post on the discomforts of the fac tory system, all end in the conclusion that our manufactures must be curtailed. Out of its affec tion to the factory operatives, therefore, the Post would put them out of existence, or pre vent them from rearing families, who should, like themselves, find continually extending em ployment in increasing manufactures. This is extremely kind in the Post and the Tories, and cannot fail to recommend them and their schemes of policy to the support of the operatives. The Anti-Corn-law men would repeal all the ob structions to their getting a living, and allow them to take their chance, and fight their way in this world which has been given to u s all. The Pro-Corn-law men have such a desperate love for the operatives, and such a horror of their deplorable and uncomfortable existence, that they would put an end to it by suppressing the factory system. Pious priests of political Moloch ! their intense love for the people make them sacrifice the operatives, that they may no longer live in the squalid misery of manufac turing towns. They are like monomaniacal mothers, who murder their children lest they should want food. With all deference to the Post, we cannot believe that the factory opera tives will regard the Tories as a loving mother, or be willing to suffer annihilation at their hands. We direct attention to the additional evidence we publish elsewhere, from the Leeds Times and the Manchester Guardian, of the still increasing distress. It will hardly be now supposed by any classes that the Corn-laws keep up wages, but if there still be such a wild visionary in existence, we hope, if he can read, that he will study the account from Wigan of mill-owners announcing that they must lower wages, or shut up their mills. In fact, while the duty on corn is up wards of 20s. per quarter, wages are everywhere falling to the level of the wages of the lumper fed agricultural Irish. The deepest distress per vades the working classes throughout the whole empire. There is no spot, we believe, exempt. It is for the working classes, who at Norwich, Wolverhampton, Bath, and other places, have declared that they want justice, not charity, to consider how they can remove the dire plague which smites only them. This is for them a question of life or death ; and, as they now de mean themselves, so will they obtain relief, or be thinned down to the exact numbers which will suit the avarice of the law-makers. The times are critical; but we have been informed that a plan will shortly be laid before them by which they may probably extort from the Tories that justice which the Whigs so unadvisedly de nied them. Their success, we believe, will depend on themselves, for it is only by their errors or their consent that they can be com pelled to remain the half-starved slaves of the landowners. THE WAR IN SYRIA.—The public will be happy to learn that the Gallant Commodore Sir Charles Napier has written a history of the late war on the coast of Syria, which may be expected to appear in a few days. Having himself been the life and soul of the expedition, which drove Mehemet Ali out of Syria, and filling the rank of second in command, no per son can be so competent to supply all the details of that brilliant campaign as the Gallant Commodore. Moreover, it was by Sir Charles that peace- was negotiated with Me hetnet Ali ; and it cannot but greatly interest the public to learn all the details of a negotiation between two such extraordi nary diplomatists. The future historian of our Naval annals will owe a deep debt of gratitude to our fighting- Commodore Napier. It is announced that Lord Ashburton is to leave London on the 28th, to remain three months at Washington, then to visit Philadel phia, and return to England about the end of July. This is a nice arrangement for a party of pleasure. It looks' very little like business. How can Lord Ashburton and the Tories tell whether he may transact all the affairs, for which he is going to Washington, in three weeks or six months? Is he to stay three months at Washington, and then travel into Pennsylvania, whether the American Govern ment will negotiate with him or not ? Such a nice arrangement, so suitable to enable the Noble Lord to visit his transatlantic possessions, seems very like a nefarious job. Lord Ashbur ton is to visit America at the expense of the country. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WE DNESDA Y .—Th e Q ueen an d Prince Albert en j oyed equestrian exercise this morning for some time, in the new riding school, attended by Lord Charles Wellesley, and Colo nel Bouverie. _ The French Journals of Monday have a. reached us. They are unusually barren of poll tical news. M. DE SALVANDY, the noted diploma tist, was expected to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday. The letter of M. CHAM BOLLE, the Deputy, avowing himself the writer of the article in the Siecle, was read in the Chamber of Peers on Monday, but no further notice was taken of it. The responsible editor will there fore have to bear all the brunt of the Chamber's wrath. The debate on the Address of the Deputies, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, was com menced on Monday, but it presented no feature of interest. The Right of Search Treaty was generally condemned by the Deputies. The in terest will begin with the Spanish question. The Echo du Nord mentions the following unexpected circumstance; resulting from the bold defence made by the widow Boulanger against the two robbers who as sailed her in her lonely cottage at Beau Marais, near Calais, and of which we gave a full account at the time. " On New Years-day, while the good widow was enter-. taining her family and friends, an elegant carriag e d rawn by four hor s e s d rove u p to her door. A servant in handsome livery got down, opened the carriage, and a gentleman with a lady and two ydunger ladies alighted and entered the humble dwelling. The gen tleman, announcing himself as Lord Gainsborough, told the widow that, having heard of her heroic conduct, he wished, on coming over to France, to view the theatre of her siege and defence, and express to her his admiration of her courage. The widow Boulanger then related to the noble family all that had passed, showed the broken door and windows, her ditch tilled with water over' which she had to make her way in her escape, and then said that the arm chair in which his Lordship was seated was for a considerable time occupied by one of the robbers. Lord G. replied that he wished to reward her presence of mind and resolution, and begged her to accept a couple of guineas as a testimony of his admiration. One of the young ladies, as a token of her satisfaction, took off a valuable shawl, and threw it over the shoulders of the old cottager, whom they then left, overcome to tears by so much condescension and kindness." The Prussian State Gazette of the 11th instant an nounces officially that M. de Geissel, Bishop of Spire, has taken the oaths as coadjutor and administrator of the Archbishopric of Cologne with the right of succes sion. The same Journal also publishes a letter to the Archbishop, Baron Droste de Vischering, relieving him in direct terms from all imputation of having used secret revolutionary practieee. The new Coadjutor will return to Spire till next month, and then go-to Cologne. The Correo Nacionatstates that while Rubini was at Madrid he sung in a .concert given by a society for the relief of distressed religious sisters and military invalids. The receipts amounted to more than 16,000 reels (4,000 fr.), and Palafox announced, in the name of the invalids, that, with the genuine spirit of Spanish gal lantry, they gave up all their share of the profits in fa vour of the religious sisters. The Borsenhalle of llamburgh mentions the death of the father of the student Frederic Staps, who twice at tempted to assassin a t e N apoleon. The old man was a Protestant Minister, a n d was aged 84. A Toulon letter, in th e Constitutionnet, says th a t Admiral Baudin, the Maritime Prefect, has just caused several persons, employed in the dockyards, and various departments tinder his control, to be arrested on charges of fraud. The Saone at Lyons froze so suddenly the other day, from the stoppage of the floating ice, that seven barges, six of which were empty, were caught in the ice, and the loth inst.;' were crushed and sunk. pr A essu g r e e n b d e a i r n m g e e , excessive, were on duty at Maulevrier, in the Maine-et-Loire, a few days ago found a poac her armed, who fled at his appearance. The gendarme pursued him, a Report sayssultphielurCcomomnptearncye,h(ecldthae but he turned round when on the point of being taken, and discharged his fowling-piece point-blank at the gen- 14 On the darme. The latter was killed on the spot, and the mur- Shareholders of the Sicilian derer, though immediately followed by two other gen- general naeeting, and declared the Company dissolved, . Majesty in darmes, who were at hand contrived to escape. M. A. Taix, one of the responsible managers, in The press in Belgium h ' as during several years been which much interested the meeting, gave just eulogiums increasing in productiveness. In 1837 it produced 180 to the energy of the King of Naples, i n ° PPusing the original works, in 1838 210, in 1839 290, in 1840 320, . pretensions of Eti an d in this affair. Re also paid d ue and in 1841 348. They were . divided as follows : homage to the high probity of his Sicilian General history 5, histo r y of Belgiu m 43, literary his- executing the : Convention which followed - the dec i sion of tory, philology, and bibliography 6, literature 52, bio- I the French Government, after it had in as a graphy 16, fine arts 11, .grammar and lexicology 10, mediator. M. A.,Taix then mentioned the- satisfactory. juridical and legislative sciences 13, medicine and sti r- condition of the Company, and alluded to the zeal shown gery 17, travels 3, theology and-philosophy 7, commerce, by . the Duke de Montebello in its behalf. Before sepa industry, and administration 7, botany 3, political, reli- rating, the meeting, after having expressed its eatisfac gious, and other pamphlets 57, public instruction 7, nu- , tion at the voted mismatics 3, mathematics and meehonics 6, statistics and : thanks to the Ifrench b as a ctor for 13,10 able as.., “ political e °n °ll/7 2 ' ac aderak essays 41, ];dry 1, gen.- ' I sistauce." • Aoble conduct of the King of Naples, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal are in excellent health. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Lucas with another sitting, for a full length portrait, to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam bridge and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, took their departure yesterday from the seat of the Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, to honour the Earl of Car digan with a visit at Dean Park, Northampton shire. Lord Ashburton and Mr. Hume had interviews with Lord Stanley at the Colonial -office. The Earl of Beverley, as Captain of her Ma jesty's Guard of the Yeomen, of the Guard, has appointed Mr. Ellerthorp, 'the Clerk of the Cheque, as his Secretary. The Cabinet Ministers dined last evening with Sir James Graham at his residence in Hill -street. Lord Ashburton transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were also re ceived from the Governor of Ceylon. Despatches for the Governor of West Australia were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office. - LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING. MANCII[ESTER, 4 tvEsDAY EVENING. The attendance this forenoon was superioito anything previously seen during the winter; and the room might, indeed, be called crowded. The business gone through was, however, much less than might have been expected under such circumstances. THE CHESTER TRADESMEN'S PLATE.—The accept anceshloansgbeerelnayh• e l a 2 r t t o ily l ahgacahinescti stilnieceSoquurirehiastt.whsiocoh to be decl are d on t h e Ist February. No one fi l% g 'il u l re an h j e . to 30 was offered against any other. Galaor was backed at 500 to 20, and also at 500 to 15. Una at 40 to 1 and afterwards . at 35 to l't the taker would have gone on. Bellona appeared to us to be second favourits ; an influential gentleman being open to accept our quotation. Rory O'More, Rodanthe, and Cormorant are " close up." As well as we could glean, the average prices against the horses most in force to-dat were as follows :—The field v. any thirteen for 1001.— o ffered several times, take fift een . 6 to 1 agst M r . D awson 's lot—off 12 to 1 agst The Marquis of Westminster—off 10 to 1 a gs t M r. Bell ' s Th e S q uire—off 200 to 11 agst ' A ny other—of 20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton ' s B e ll ona — no l ayers 20 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Cormorant—off 20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Rory O'More—off 20 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Rhodanthe—off 25 to 1 agst M r. Vans i ttart ' s Galaor—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Mustapha Muley—taken 33 to 1 agst M r. 'T een ' s Una — taken 50 to 1 agst M r. Edd i son ' s Ruler—taken. Sleight-of-Hand, L anerco st, and Cruiskeen, were not backed. W e s h ou l d say 2 5 t o 1 would be laid v. any o f them ; 200 t o 10 was o ff ere d v. the Young-un and Poten tate, coupled. T " DERBY.—Nothing was done direct on the lead ers; 23 to l was offered v. Robert de Gorham, but two points more were wanted. Auckland would have been backed in several quarters, but the outside offers of 500 to 20 did not exactly suit; 2,0 00 to 30 was taken upon Baronet, and then offered ; 450 to 10 was laid v. The Artful Dodger ; 500 to 15 bid v. The Meteor -40 to 1 wanted ; 1,000 to 25 agst Johanna offered ; also 40 to 1 agst Defier —takers of 50 to 1 ; 25 to 20 on Attila v, Chatham —taken. graphy 1, periodical miscellanies 29, annuals and alma nacks 12, the scenic art 4, and various other works 11. The number of journals remains very nearly the same, for though some have ceased to appear, others have come forth to supply their places. The reprint trade has assumed a great extension in Belgium, being occupied in nine-tenths of its business with French works. Thus a Belgian Company is now selling for lf. 40c. the same work which M. de Balzac sells in Paris for 7f. 50c., and which other Companies in Belgium self for 3f. There are 2,000 subscribers to the works issued by this Com pany, and they receive a volume every week at the price of 70c. Another Company is publishing, under the title of Tresor Historique„the best works of French con temporary historians, at lf. 25c. for the octavo volume. Thus Thiers's History of the Revolution, which sells for 40f. or 50f. at Paris, and for 20f. or 30f. by the larger Belgian Companies, is sold by the Company in question for 12f. 50c., and it is illustrated with 10 lithographic portraits. There are 2,000 subscribers to this work, and it has returned a profit of 2,500 f. in ten weeks. The historical works of De Barante, Mignet, and Villemain, have been equally successful. The Cardinal Prince de Croi, Archbishop of Rouen, has just given 3,000 f. to the poor of that city. The Augsburg Gazette has th e following from its Paris Correspondent : " Notwithstanding the persevering efforts of M. Hu mann, and the considerable reductions in the army ex penses made by Marshal Soult, the Budget about to be presented to the Chambers will show a deficit of 30,000,000 f. If we reflect that, during the last year, Algeria alone cost 130 , 0 00,000 f., a deficit of this extent considering the state of derangement in which the Ad ministration was found on the accession of the Cabinet of Oct. 29, will not appear to be so very great." The following is from a letter from Vienna of the Bth of January :—" Since the sth of this month, Henry of France (The Duke of Bordeaux) has been out every day in a carriage, and descended (without being carried) the staircase of the palace which he inhabits. These trials have restored to the muscles the strength and pliability, which a state of forced repose had made them lose. Dr. Wattemann seems to be certain that by the end of the month, the Prince will be able to walk, with the assistance of only one person. He conti nues to receive many marks of attention. The Emperor sent one of his aid-de -camps to compliment him on the new year. All the Archdukes have visited him, as well as Prince Metternich and the members of the diplomatic body."—Gazette de France. It was affirmed yesterday at the Foreign-office that the Cabinet of the Tuileries had addressed to the Spanish Government a note relative to the French resident in the Peninsular.—Coastitutionntl. The English Journals have not arrived. The concession of the right of search creates a great sensation in the journals, the most inclined to optionism, which have preserved the least spark of feeling for the national honour. Thus the Americair pub lished at Brest, the port which saw Duconedie return as conqueror, but paying with his life for his victory over the English flag, cannot allow that such a stipulation has been agreed to. The refusal of 111. Guizot to com municate the treaty may already prove to the Americair, that its hopes are ill-founded. What is honourable is not concealed in this manner. The Moniteur has said that the treaty was not ratified ; this is.an additional rea son for examining it, since it is still time.—Commerce. BOURSE —PARIS, MONDAY, JAN. 17. Hest Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price. Drench 5 per Cents ...... 117 90 ... 118 ... 117 85 ... 117 95 4 per Cents lO2 20 ... 1.12 20 ... 102 21 ... 102 `.'o Lo 3 per an Cents .«.. 70 90 78 9 0 ••• 78 as *•• 78 85 79 35 ... 79 35 .. IS 35 .. 79 35 dank of Franc e .... 3360 . 3 , 6 Laffitte Rank 5.000 f. Shares 5025 ...5025 —5025 ...5025 4eienin Rank Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cents., 1940 105% ... 105% ... 1054 ... IVS , St ipanish Active ..... y 7) ... 254 ... 5 Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% 5 ' Portuguese 5 per C ents. Neapolitan . lO7 60 197 60 ... 107 60 ... .07 60 ................... 104 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104 RAILWAY SHARER. 810 ••• 840 ... 810 ... 848 Versailles. K. B 337 50 237 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50 L. 8..... .......... 213 15 ... 206 15 ... 206 15 ... 206 15 %mien ........ "•.. Orleans ....... 513 75 ... 515 513 75 515 itrasburg to Bale, 232 50 ... 232 50 2.10 230 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1842. SUMMARY 0 r tit Fl 'i,•l AND Pubttt Optutott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. We publish the following anecdote, on the authority of the Constantinopolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle :—" Within the last two monthi no less a per son than the Centre of the Universe, the Shah of Persia, ' was conversing with a distinguished European, and the subject of Egypt and Acre having been touched upon, the King of Kings exclaimed, " Mashallah ! I know all about it. The English are a wonderful people ; they talk little and do much. The French are also a wonder ful people, they do little since Napoleon's time, but they talk a great deal more. Now see ! The English suddenly sent many ships to Acre, and Jo! that impreg nable place quickly disappeared ; they likewise sent some red-coats into Syria, and lo ! the army, of Ibrahim melted like the summer snows from Demavend ; they also sent ships and men- to the Celestial Empire, and there also they spread panic and received tribute. In the meantime the French made many speeches, and called Mehemet Ali Paella their soul, their brother. They also collected great armies at home, and sent forth many ships more than the English. But the sol diers did not move, and the ships sailed towards opposite shores ; and then when they heard that Acre had fallen, and their soul, their brother, was devouring immeasure able dirt, they hastened to call back their ships, and to build walls round Paris for their soldiers ! Why did they do that !" PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald returns to the subject of the Times' ill-considered article on the King of Prussia's visit, observing : —" The Times is ashamed of the inso lent ribaldry, with which it noticed the forthcoming visit to this country of the King of Prussia. It was forsooth —only nobody discovered its meaning, in spite of-its being so widely read—in ridicule of the Herald ! It is a mighty pity that the writer could not render his object palpable without making his Journal contemptible, and damaging the party it so unwillingly and on compul sion supports." The Chronicle contains an article suggested by the Times' hint about the expediency of prosecuting some of the clergymen, of the late Edinburgh Anti-Corn-law Conference, for sedition ; the object of which article is to show the Government that the people of Scotland would feel their honour engaged in standing by their ministers ; and that the people of England would cheer, With their sympathy and their approbatio n , th e e ff or t s of men embarked in the cause of justice, and defending the rights of discussion and the press. The Times gives its opinion on the perplexing case of the brig Creole in the following terms:—" In the matter of compensation, where they really can hope for no con cession from the British Government, they (the Ameri cans) have the reason of the case and the authority of their own writers flat against them. On the claim for delivery of the criminals, on which they may possibly (for it is not yet clear) have reason with them, they have, first, no reason to assume that their claim will not l be freely acceded to; and, secondly, if it be not, their own law, at all events, speaks with so much indistinct ness and contradiction on this head, that they are almost debarred from claiming what would be abstractedly their due. They can scarce demand with much confidence for themselves what they are so backward to grant to others." The Post advocates the prosecution of some of the more earnest speakers at the Edinburgh Anti-Corn. law Conference. "We grant," says our Contemporary, " that the punishment of such stupid, noisy dunces, might elevate them into a kind of notoriety, which at first they would like. But still, for the sake of public justice, we think they ought to be punished." On the question of the Creole brig, the Advertiser is of opinion that America must declare that not only is the slave trade not piracy, but likewise that it is lawful, be fore they can exhibit a tittle of right to the trial of the offenders in question. " Till this question were set at rest," adds the Advertiser, " we know not on what pre text she could demand, or the British Government sur render, the African victims." The Glasgow Argus thus refers to the Anti-Corn-law agitation now progressing in Scotland :—" The people of Scotland are, pe r h a p s , no t so rea d y as their neigh -I?ours in the South to embark in a career of public agi tation. SLOW BUT SURE is a saying that may be aptly applied to our countrymen, and we are well satisfied that, having once become awake to the fearful conse quences that flow from the laws which enhance the price of food, and which prevent the industrious of the land from procuring the means of subsistence, they will be the last to withdraw from the contest, until their righteous purpose has been finally accomplished." The following is from the Tyne Mercury :—" The railroads, all the new facilities for commerce, the steam packets, the immense increase of steam and all other communication both by land and water, and manufac turing automaton power, are sufferin from the present state of commercial intercourse, and it is their business to increase their traffic, not to see augmented duties from Russia and from America, with both of which we are threatened, and that too in consequence of our abo minable Corn-laws—so that in truth they are made the instruments of our obtaining a repeal of those laws." Alluding to some recent political statements in the Dublin Tory Journals, the Dublin Pilot says :—" They have, in point of fact, avowed that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is a party to the nomination of Mr. Gregory —that he is most solicitous for his return ; and, as if to give currency to the statements, his Excellency permits his chief steward or butler, or by whatever other name Lord Jocelyn is known in the household, to go about the town on a canvassing excursion, begging votes for the Conservative nominee. Now, this we take to be exceed ingly wrong. The late Administration eschewed all con nection with candidates and committees." The Brighton Guardian contains an article on the ap proaching Session, from which we take the following passage:—" Sir Robert Peel, with his usual policy is for compromise and delay ' • but compromis e an d d e l ay will suit n e ith er t h e bread taxers nor the anti-bread taxers ; and as his lot is cast in with the former, we are afraid that all the powers of the Government will be emplored in upholding and vindicating the present sys tem of plundering the industrious classes by laws; and if such should be the case, which God forbid, nothing can save England from a terrible revolution, or the most frightful commercial ruin." MONEY—TRADE —C 021*MERCE. By the report read at the meeting of the St. Katha rine's Docks Proprietors on Tuesday, it appeared that their accounts showed an increase of 1,0824 11 s. 2d. for the last year. The tea-trade, notwithstanding the obstruc tions in China, had increased 37,553 packages. The re turns of shipping showed an increase in British ships of 71,493 tons, and a falling off in the foreign tonnage , of 35,487 tons. ECCLESIASTICAL. The over-crowded state of the burying-grounds at Leith oblige fifteen or twenty cartloads of surplus mould from the different churchyards to be deposited in the sea weekly. The shore is constantly strewed with washed-up coffins, coffin-handles, and other relics of mor tality. _ NAVAL AND MILITARY. A new fixed light was erected on the est pier of Calais harbour on the first day of this year. LAW AND POLICE. The Crown debtors look forward with anxiety to the 25th instant, the day of the Royal baptism, in the hope of liberation. On:Tuesday, at Guildhall, James Adams, the young man who was apprehended at Childs' banking-house when he was uttering a forged cheque for 901, was dis charged, as the Solicitor for Messrs. Childs believed the prisoner had been made the innocent dupe of some person. At Queen-square, George Blarsdel, a genteel-looking young man, was committed to take his trial for stealing two great-coats from the waiting-room of the Vice-Chan cellor's Court, the property of two of the Ushers. Wm. Lewis, alias Livermore, who described himself as a lieutenant in the navy, charged some days ago with stealing a watch and 23 sovereigns from a young man employed in Deptford Dockyard, was fully committed for trial. It appeared that the family of the prisoner was very respectable ; that his father lived at Croydon, and his brother was a wine -merchant in the City, who, on the facts being communicated to him by a policeman, said his brother had given an immensity of trouble to his family for years, and that he was transported to Ber muda fourteen years ago, and that since his return from transportation-he had been going on as bad as ever. FINE ARTS. A statue in memory of Bichat, • the celebrated physi cian, is about to be erected in the town of Bourg in the Ain, the place of his nativity. Liszt, the musician, was to leave Berlin on the 10th, to pass six weeks at St. l'otorOurgh, and *cc p 0 -AfaccivA M. de Salvandy made his appearance in Paris on Monday. Of the importance which he att ac h es t o hi s fool's errand to Spain, some idea may be formed from the following extract from his last despatch to M. Gui zot :—" The King's embassy to Spain, after having fought a hard and obstinate battle, could effect no more. It, however, brought back the body of France safe and intact from the combat." The body of France, indeed I M. Salvandy writes as if he had been one of Madame de Pompadour's footmen. It is a pity M. de Salvandy was not au Ethiopian dwarf, for -no man could better fill the office of one of the guardians of the Imperial slipper. The Chamber of Deputies on Monday commenced the debate onthe Address in answer th the Speech from the Throne. MM. Bechaud and De Came were the first speakers, and b9th denounced the foreign policy of ,the Cabinet. In particular, both pointedly condemned the right of search on the coast of Africa guaranteed by the Five Powers. The following resolutions have been adopted by the Council-General of Commerce on the question of iron duties : " Ist. An assimilation of the duties on iron entering by sea to those on iron entering by the northern fron tier; that is to say, a reduction of 3f. per 100 kilogrammes. " 2d. A reduction of 31. (in two annual reducti o ns), commencing from Ist January, 1844, on iron made with coal, and on iron made with wood. " 3d. No special reduetion to be made on rails for rail roads ; but Government to be strongly urged to establish a liberal system of drawbacks on steam-engines made in France with foreign iron. " 4th. That all tools made in France should be subject to a similar reduction of duty as raw iron." The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has unanimously voted thanks to the Government and the Regent for hav ing refused to allow M. Salvandy to present his creden tials to the young Queen. The Senate had previously adopted a similar vote. Thus all Spain is opposed to the pretensions of King Louis Philippe - . Advices from the Mauritius to the 14th October, quoted by the Bourdeaux papers, state that all French priests had been ordered out of the island by the British authorities. A concert was lately given at Madrid for the benefit of distressed religious sisters and military invalids, at which Rubini sang a number of airs. The proceeds amounted to nearly 3501. LITERARY AND scxENTxrsc. The friends and — ad - mirers of Sir Humphrey Davy are endeavouring to promote a plan for a statue to his me mory, and the front of the Athenaeum Club-house is spoken of as an appropriate site. Efforts also are making in Cornwall for a like purpose. SPORTING. In Kensington -gardens on Tuesday, the ice was upwards of two inches thick, and from 1,000 to 1,500 persons were up - on it. There were large numbers on the Serpentine : 800 to 1,000 were in St. James's Park, and a greater number in the Regent's. In the latter park, a concus sion took place between two skaiters, and one of them had his skull fractured. 0 OURT-PASHIONABLE. A grand ball was given at Naples on the sth instant, in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales, and the brilliancy of the fete could not be surpassed. Among the company were Don Sebastian, and his nephews, the sons of Don Carlo; who return to Rome next month. The Duke of Richmond .left town on Saturday for Goodwood Park. The Marquis of Hertford has been suffering during the past week from a severe cold. The Earl and Countess of Darling-ton have arrived in town from Ponton Hall. The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough have arrived in Paris from Barham Court, near Maidstone. _ Viscount Melbourne has been visiting Viscount Pal merston during the past week at Broadlands. Lord and Lady Carrington have returned to town from Lincolnshire. The. Earl of Aberdeen has been invited by the Queer to Windsor Castle, during the stay there of the King o Prussia. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry en tertain a succession of visitors during the week al Wynyard Park. MISCELLANEOUS. The present is the second occasion ofa visit of a reign ing King of Prussia to this country. The last visit was in 1814, when the father of the present King came over with the Emperor Alexander of Russia, now twenty eight years ago. Costa Rica, the late scene of the earthquake in Central America, is called the' The Rich Coast,'' from its actual fertility, abounding in gold mines, cocoa, pasturages, sugar, and corn. San Jose, the capital, contains about 16,000 inhabitants, and has.. two fine harbours. The whole country is mountainous in the extreme. Owing to some new regulations of the Ironmongers' Company, with regard to the letting of their Irish estates, no less than 360 tenants are on the point of being dispossessed of their lands in the manor of Lizard, in Derry. Most of them are linen-manufacturers to the Coleraine market, cultivating flax on their ground ; and are nearly all Presbyterians. A man named Jupp, who kept the Star at Reigate, threw himself under the Brighton train, at Redhill, on Monday, and was smashed to pieces. The cause of this determined suicide is not known. The relation of two Queens, viz., Mrs. Wyndmore, cousin of Mary, Queen of William the Third, as well as of Queen Anne, died in Emanuel Hospital in 1772, having been supported fifty years on charity. The anniversary of St. Paul's conversion in the year 85, A.C., falls on the day of the Prince of Wales's christening. The Prince's nurse, Mrs. Brough, is to have a com mission in the army for her eldest son. RUMOURS or THE DAY. Not fewer than seven candidates for the vacant see of Chichester, are mentioned. They are Dr. French, the Master of Jesus College; Cambridge, an electioneering friend of Lord Lyndhurst, Mr. Anderson, Dr. Hook, an ardent Puseyite, Dr. Wordsworth, Mr. Arch deacon Wilberforce, Archdeacon Lyall, and the Rev. John Peel, a canon of Canterbury and a brother of the Premier. LETTER TO SIR R. PEEL. Chateau de Talhouet, Pres de L'Orient, France. Sir Francis Mackenzie presents his compliments to Sir Robert Peel, and takes the liberty of addressing him on the subject of an alteration in our British postage from ld. to 3d., which Sir Francis, before lea ving E ng l an d, was assurd by one who believed himself possessed of true information, would be proposed on the opening of Parliament. Mixing as Sir Francis does with every variety of society, in both Scotland •and England, - he begs to assure Sir Robert of the unpopularity of such a measure, and that the public opinion is decidedly favour able to a 2d. postage, which, without being — so - high as to check the. present amount of . correspondence, would at once double. the Post-office revenue now re:. ceived ; ,whilst a 3d. postage would be most unpopular, and deemed oppression by, the lower classes, thus Pre- - vented by the triple postage_ from continuing that friendly communication between distant friends and re latives so deserving of encouragement, as, producing the best and kindest feelings of human nature: Sir Francis also takes the liberty of asking Sir Robert Peel if he is .aware that a combination exists amongst. the master manufacturers to continue, if not increase, the dissipated and vicious habits of their operatives ? Sir Francis has more than once heard it asserted by them, that if temperance habits prevailed' to any extent amongst the working classes of our manufacturing towns 'the ruin of England must follow. It is scarcely six weeks ago that Sir Francis met, when travelling in the railway from Nottingham to Leicester, an extremely respectable and intelligent manufacturer, who paid, he said, above 1,000/. every Saturday- evening to his work men, every shilling of which he believed was spent in debauch .or unnecessary expense before Tuesday morn . ing, when they we re compelled to return again to work, only from the craving desire to- repeat the same indul= gence of the grossest appetites. This gentleman had ab stained from all fermented liquors for the last six years, on account of his health; and Sir Francis and his family having happily embraced the principles of total abstinence above two years ago, with the best effects, in all the towns and villages near his country residence, thought it a duty, as President of all the Northern Societies, to press this gentleman to sign the abstinence pledge—. powerful as his example would be amongst his people, and not requiring any sacrifice of taste or habits on his part, but no arguments had any effect. His reply was, that it was his wish, and the interest - of all master ma nufacturers, to conceal rather than make knowir his tem perance habits ; for this reason, that so soon as an ope rative became converted from habits of vice and drunk enness, so common to their class, they immediately com menced saving money; which, after a few years' accu mulation, was invested in manufacturing operations, in conjunction with their .reformed brethren—that the union of such working reformed men enabled them to manufacture goods of a better quality and at a cheaper rate than master manufacturers and large capitalists could do—who were thus in danger of ruin, caused wholly by the reformed habits of those men, who, whilst degraded by intemperance, were the sole source of those immense fortunes often realised by master manufacturers of large capital. He also said that he feared temperance and good habits were creeping on too fast already, and that unless checked, and an alteration should take place, twenty years would not elapse ere the investment o 1 large capitals and the making of large fortunes would be at an end. How different is the treatment of their labourers by landed proprietors, who always take the strongest interest in the encouragement of sobriety, savings' banks, provident societies, and every other means in their power to render them independent and virtu ous. Which population, therefore, deserves the greater encouragement, the manufacturing or the agricul. 7 tural? Which is fittest, from their habits, to defend our country if called on to oppose a foreign enemy? Yet, any one wbo has within the last twenty years travelled frequently through Britain, must see even now, at this time of general complaint, the immense increase of build ings in all the manufacturing districts over those which are agricultural. Sir F. can, for instance well remember the picturesque town of Lancaster wholly defoid, but a few years ago, of a single tall smoking chimney-top-- observe it now, despite the continual cry of distress, and examine the changed state of its population, debased by those vices which ever accompany manufactures. Does the same misery and vice accompany an increase in agricultural population even if it were doubled in number to what it now is in Britain? Belgium,'Jersey, and Guernsey, an s w er th e quest i on an d speak for them selves, and at once decide in favour of the agricultural population. Is then that better race of men to be at once sacrificed by the enormous change, the sudden, un avoidable ruin, which would accompany the admission of foreign corn at a duty of eight shillings? Sir F. has ever been, and hopes over whilst life remains, a Re former of all abuses where they are proved to exist, but at the same time he knows the danger of even the best reforms if too suddenly made. The introduction of fo reign corn at once on a' duty_ of only Bs. would, is well districts all men who poalraenda,ccquouairniatendd, sHviuthngtahrey,coscren.: p k r n o o d w u n e n to g np oarta render ityh se eno then, t e ,; -hal f u ywahog Ti whole of landed gradual aoluragr decreasepi agricultural I p ot proprietors r e at t r e s dittyb a n population.l fo r r u p_ a t d m , ih nil sion of foreign grain? Why not lay on at first a higher duty than B s ., an d gradually reduce that duty by one shilling yearly? There would then be time and facts by which the question of such difficulty as that of our Corn-laws could be truly and well decided. The re duction of one shilling duty annually would soon show what was best for the greatest interests of our coun try, and we could proceed or retrace our steps as might be proved most advantageous to the nation without that vio lent contention which at present disturbs Britain. Sir Francis has always stated in.society his opinion to be in favour of a gradually falling duty on foreign corn, and seldom has that opinion been opposed, which induces him the more willingly to intrude his ideas on the much occu pied and valuable time of Sir R. Peel, who will, however, he trusts, forgive the intrusion, perhaps, when he knows it to emanate solely from the sincere desire he entertains for the virtue and happiness of his country. To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, &c. &c. MORE CONVERTS TO CATHOLICITY.--On Thursday last, the Feast of the Epiphany, the two eldest daughters of Thomas Tennison, Esq., of inistiogue, late of Rock Hall, were publicly received into the bosom of the Mother Church by the Rev. Mr. Butler, C.C.—Kilhenny Journal. ST. JAMES'S PALACE.—Tuesday several of his Majesty's (the King of Hanover's) light baggage waggons arrived at the apartments of the King, in the Ambassador's Court, from Kew Palace, laden with de corative furniture ; and although much mystery is ob served by his Majesty's domestics on the sukect, it is believed that the suite of rooms is in a state of prepara tion, to be placed at the disposal of King'Frederick Wil liam of Prussia during his approaching visit. The suite forms a very magnificent coup d'ccil, and the sleeping .rooms, dining-rooms, and kitchens, are eligible and con. venient., A number of workmen are employed in em bellishing the apartments, which have not been occupied Bice the departure of his idtje4ty for Epilmr,l4lB37. • The increased quantity of South gea;haleborlei;eol to some extent, supplied the deficiency Of 11 1,11 . 0,,.' bone ; but inasmuch as the former is of a c oarse q and not applicable for Many of the purposes for 0 0 6 northern bone is used, the northern has i n i ll . CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. - • - .94 Bank Stock 167 ; India 5t0ck.......;.''! 1 51 3 per. Cent Red. B9i Ditto .... •••••' <, 3 per Cent Cons B9k ;Ditto Old Annuities 3a; per Cent Red 99/I 'Ditto. New AnnuOieli 1 6 r New si per Cent 9Bl Ex. Bills, 1,000 L•••" 1 61 :0 New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/..t . ... Long Annuities toexpire Ditto SnialL..." < Jan. 1860 ... 12 9-16 Bank Stock for kee*" /, Oct 1859 ;lndia Stock forAcct'''. Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. ~„t Austrian,Portuguese, per cent.... 5 per Belgian, 5 per cent lO 3l Ditto, New Ditto ......... Brazilian Bonds 6si Prussian, 5 per cent' . Buenos Ayres, 6 per cez Russian, 5 per out .... Chiliani _6 per cent — Ditto, Meta11ic.......... gli Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per °O lt ...... Ditto, 1824. 22i Ditto, Deferred ....... .7 . „,e' Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. _f. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange ............ / 6 , Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent. ' Ditte, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 2k per cent. ..... . 10 0 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. ..... SHARES. - Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 01 61 Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... ••• I 81 Great Western Railway( 65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) —• 57i London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90) .. . ..... 811 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) . London and Sotith A'est'ern ......... . .. . ... Manchesteritnd Birmingham (40 paid) •• oN Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) ...... 27 South Eastern and Dover (48 paid)... ••• •• 911 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) vpICS I FASHIONABLE INTELLIG- - • ARRIVALS. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Edvi , ard Petre, a t the don Hotel, from Beaufort Castl e , No r th Britain ; ci pi* Liverpool, at Fife House, Whitehall, from Mo te o l3 ,,i Sussex ; Sir E. Buller and Bailey, Esq., from Ago shire ; ord Dorchester, from the Continent Of t % cor j Montgomery, at Kingston House, Knightsbridgei'o tain Berestord, M.P., from Dulin ; Sir Cl' ir clvir 4 L Lady Grey and family, in Portland-place ; 141 1 i F c if vale, in St. George's-place, from Bretby Pa r- „d Henry Lennox, from Himley Hall • Lord n'" in ' e Hawarden and the ikon. Cornwalli ' s Maud e, is tb, George's-place ; the Hon. Twistleton 1' ; Albany, from Broughton Castle, Oxfordshir e ; 0.0 .Tynte, Esq., at Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-stre et ' tour ; Hodgson, Esq., at ditto, from ditto. DEPARTURES. n ,itre e t, Miss Franks, from the Waterloo Hotel, Jerlo:r, for Hatfield ; --; Allen, Esq., from ditto, on a t°' --- THE ROYAL CHRISitENIN, U h ;t O) WINDSOR, TUESDAY . .—The excellent bands oi regiments (the Royal Horse Guards and the 72 7„ landers) in garrison at Windsor, have been 0 111 ,; i grall to be in attendance at St. George's Hall during t" y f banquet on the evenino• of the christening. The 'tY e xtrea. l s l po' ( occupy the Music-gallery, at the western the hall, facing the Sovereign's throne, Nyb ich n i ' being very considerably enlarged for the oecas' °- ',. f il r e ; The two combined bands, which have had se ve iy r ieLy hearsals together of the various pieces selected V I re e o negatedi'rif Albert during the past week, will consist of number of instrumental performers ever cons Rill gether in one a p ar t ment at the Castle. There upwards . of sixty performers, as follows 72d High- Horse ° -ti • landers. ... 2 ... 0 2 • 3 - .2 : . 2 Clarionets Flutes Hautboys Bassoons Horns Serpents Ophicleides Trombones = 3 Trumpets 2 Cornet a Piston with with bass, side, and k e ttl e d rums , tr i ang l es , CYMbl i, , 10 0 The musical department, in St. George's iNf° been entirely confided to M r . J. R. T u tton, of the ion de o Morse Guards, and Mr. Rix, of the 72d Ilig ll l a lte r (the masters of the respecti ve b an d s ), who r - ' e l nately conduct and lead during the evening. 0 0 "; WooLwicn, JAN. 18.—The Firebrand stesre", e Commander John Neale Nott, was expected to 1eA",,,1 t`' moorings at half -past one o'clock to-day . to P c°c - i e ras sil ' Ostend, to be in waiting to receive the King of can but has not yet sailed at half-past two o'clock, 704 sequence of some defect being discovered in he l :f r t. when she got her ste am u p an d was rea dy to sil ti te numerous party went on board the Firebrand were th eleven o'clock last night, several of whom ;0 5 guests of the Lord M a y or y es t er d ay, a fter h sent at the laying of th e f oun d at i on stone of the , 4 Exchange. The Shearwater and Lightning steam-vessels , '''tes' Washington and Bowen, commanders, have th° .r .,„ !A y ( up, and ready to sail from their moorings, to ° of the squadron destined to accompany the 03 . 0 Prussia to this country. who tits CROWN DEBTORS.—The un f or t una t e persons .* in confinement as debtors to the Crown, look ° l 'd th ° most intense anxi e ty . to the 25th instant, the d a Y r io. t 0 royal bapti sm . Th ey h ope, upon such an oees bes" t, f be allowed t o p ay t h e grate f ul alleg i ance o f thei. l o rde outside the d oors o f t h e i r pr i sons. It i s sa id that tn_ fit , for their lib era ti on may b e expected on the 24th Wiz' rogr e l l: P. t tk). , The . most extensive arrang eme nts are in king ''': day on throughout the country, for the purpose of T l ` which the Royal infant is to be christened ° t t his general . rejoicing, and it is gratifying to see tb;,',ltt° will not only be done by the ,: - entri, tritdesinea,thit"si th e more respectable portion of the community, bu t ',., t 1 r poor will also be enabled to join in the gene");itig joicing, and that in all the principal towns of the eigh dom, by the consideration of their more wealthi n c oar bours, a plentiful and exce ll ent di nner , a nd °the-,coal forts, will be provided for them. At .AylesburPlll;6crir mittee of the inhabitants was formed, and a su m' t he tion entered into, to provide the town and poor 10ketS; 0 /110 1 1 e io and warm clothing will also be distributed more necessitous. The inhabitants of the town wi e veo have a public dinner to celebrate the auspicil s „i' . 0 I ' At Buckingliatii the poor will also be ree' - „ i : 4° similar manner, a very considerable subscrilot'h-av'ing which the Duke of Buckingham contributed s ° l " '•ji 0. 15° been entered into for that purpose • and there wl e 01 be a public dinner upon a very grand scale, an d t f i f o' 3 will be closed by a ball, gratification being thus 3 : : :f th e to all, rich and poor, old and young. In filarll - pry other principal towns itißuckinghainshire sir,,o ceedin,, , rs are to take place. At Hertford it is Xn" ey eli to give a quantity of beef and pliunluddixig W MORNING SUN - • MONEY and COMMERCIAL N E CITY, Although there was no lative operations in En g li s h Stocks, the public ea:P ie cep t. ward as steady buyers, a nd p r ices averaged 1,..1 e ,, : r o . s io advance on the rates o f y es t er d a y, for money e ss, dispositionWEDNESDAY to enter into E 1470;, ' i The unfunded debt al so s h owe d considerable firm for money being easy eno u gh f or a ll p u rposes. Cons or the immediate transf er were firm at 89 to 891: an d 4 5 , to Account at 891 to 891 ;, E xc h eque r Bills were A Tier 18s. premium ; and East Indiaßonds • lOs to 1 2 s* st r oc mium ; Bank Stock w as fi rm a t 167, and India its, realized 2461. The New Three-and-a:4 - 14f Pe r were at 98+ to 99*. wet s er . The Foreign Market was not brisk, but pric es t his firm for all the Stocks except Sp an ish, and eve n f t he would have ruled hig her only that the 8.114'11 the Commissioner from Paris was not known until from termination of business. The Actives ranged fr , t3 l eu to 24i ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were 3' , v 22 f, the Three per Cents. 201 ; Colombian Bonds Wer e io si, and Mexican 291 to 30 ; Belgian Stock was at and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brough t 51 were Railway Shares were rather flat. Greats terno 191 21 t. Birmingham Thirds 251 ; and South w ester l ; B s; premium. Brighton were 12+ ; Bristol 'lna ~,..„z etfei j aciel and South Eastern and Dover 21 discount. Bank of Ireland Shares 15 to 15f premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) w • 0 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 18. -- ; , e ,, 11 31se" had a dull inactive Market to-day, and this be in g j e i 5 cheater Market-day, the attendance of the tr 3, slender. 'The sales are 3,000 bales, at steady r e a ;ter LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 18.- - ' 1 1 11 „ c oisro and Preston Junction, 27 ; London and Biri n rgouth 321. Shares, 571 ; Ditto, New, 281; London eill u s i 19s• Western, 581 ; Manchester and Leeds, 4 Shares',"Hype MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. have had an increased demand to-day for our fo r Banks, and a fair business done in R a ilway 5t0e,•405, caster and Preston, 271 • ditto Three Quarter z'terp, 161. 18s. 9d. • Midland &unties, 841 ; South 6,1, 0 27+ ; Manchester and Leeds Quarter, 31. 1 7 s• 500 3L 18s. ; Manchester and Leeds Bonds at 1 , 0) 4 .34 Lancashire Banks, 41; Manchester Assurance, 9 , -_,"fos, Both the English and Foreign Securities opelleueter with a slight advance upon the closing prices of 7, i for day. Consols are now 89* f for Money, and 891' the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 16 18 prem. t h e Spanish Active Stock, 24+ 251; Portuguese -- T hre e are firm ; the Five per Cents. are 34h, and the - per Cents. 20i 4.seetej There has been but little business O s° t ioe . in the Stock Exchange up to the present. the, Consols are now 89* for Money, and 89f i see Account ; India Stock 246 k; Ditto Bonds, 10 12, sto cl‘ Exchequer Bills 16 18 premium. Spanish Acti ve t or e has improved to 25 to* ; Portuguese Five per Ce n o si; firm at 34f ; Mexican Bonds, 291 ; Belgian' 51t; Brazilian, 65 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Ditto, Fives, 1001. Nef tire Very little doing in Shares, Great Western a Pr 611 ; London and Brighton, 381 ; Manchester e,,,Dtero mingham, 28 ; Midland Counties, 821 ; South P and Dover, 27 ; York and North Midland, 94., , Consols, Money, 89* 4 ; Do., Account, 8 9 l011' lombian, 22 22+ ; Mexican, 291 1 ; Portugues e, " • Spanish, 24125. 1)0 1 : It is to be regretted that the Greenland and d e ceit Straits Fishery should exhibit such symptoms ° l e ft In the year 1821, upwards orninety whale-shin . e sse' single port of Hull, and the total number 0 ' w oe. engaged in the trade in that year miry than 200, whilst fort many years the gluo n ,' toot whale fins averaged, in weight, from 600 to 7 r o f Of late years the number of ships employed, and fre ° captured, have very much diminished, as apPe"'!" of the following table : Qua st y , No. of Ships. No. of Fish. W 1 '3l. 1838 39 466 .. .......... :.. 8 1 1839 41 .......115 ............... 15 1840 1841 ~js pp ~~ a TRt! Al ~~ sL._ `) .o? N, 1 2 4 air '44 / 7=,' 4e, • -• q A 45 1 r, fel 'kw ~.. ~~ w 4. 44 9 1. P ,it et, IT4s. I LoG 444 :51t C»- h. .fkl W I Z 7 ,I.?' • ~~:•r ; ~~~~ ~~~ !`