The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-31 00:00:00

EVENING SUN SABBATH OBSERVANCE. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY COMPANY. . AT a• - SPECIAL MEETING of the LONDON LAY UNION, held on Saturday, the 22d January inst., for the purpose of taking into consideration the evil consequences likely to result from running Sabbath trains on the above. mentioned railway ; it was unanimously resolved: " That it is manifest from the word of God, that the great Creator and Sovereign of the world has never relinquished the one day in seven which in the beginning he appropriated to himself as his own peculiar treasure. Nor has he intimated the least abatement of the sanctity with which the whol.e of that day should be observed. " That hitherto Scotland has been honourably distinguished by the comparative sacredness with which that day has been kept ; and which, under God, has mainly contributed to the morality and religion of her people. " That being ourselves witnesses of the deeply injurious and demoralizing effects produced by railway travelling on the Lord's.day in the vicinity of this metropolis, we should consider it the greatest calamity that could hefal the beloved land of our fathers, if this unhallowed Practice were once to obtain a foot ing there. " That we hold the morning and the evening of the Sabbath to be equally sacred with those portions of it usually appro priated to Divine service ; and consequently we -cannot for a moment countenance the use of morning and evening trains, even were we assured.that the evil would stop there, and not, as we are eonvinted, be merely the precursor of continuous travelling throughout that (lay. " We, therefore, most earnestly entreat the Proprietors to withhold their sanction from the baneful Resolution adopted by the majority of the Directors, and thereby wholly prevetitthe running of trains or traffic on their railway on the Lord's-day, as they look for the Divine blessing upon their important under taking—a blessing without which no purpose of man can sue ceed—as they desire the continued prosperity of their country, and as they value the interests of immortal souls. "Is the name and on behalf of the Committee, " WILLIAM HAMILTON, Convener." THE NEW ROMANCE. HENRY DE POMEROY By MRS. BRAY. Author of " 'Whitehoods," " Trelawney," &c. in 3 vols. post Bvo, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. WITH TWENTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS by RIPPIN GILLE ; LEECH; PAUL PINDAR; ALFRED CROW QUILL, engraved by P. CRUIKSHANK; and G. CRUIKSHANK. The FEBRUARY NUMBER, Price HALF-A-CROWN, o' BEN.TL.EY'S MISCELLANY. CONTENTS : The Dead Drummer. A Legend. 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London, Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar square. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIA'T'ION GA ETTE, published every Satin-day, price 1 1 / 2 d., esta blished as the o gan of the National Association, and having for is objects the creation of an enlightened Public Opinion in favour of the People's Charter—the political, social, and moral improvement of the people—the opposition to every mo nopoly—and the universal education of the millions, uncoil-, nreted with any sect or party, as proposed in the pamphlet entitled " Chartism," written by Messrs. Lovett and Collins. The present Number contains the National Remonstrance. The History of Representation, by M. Guizot, translated ex pressly for the Gazette; and other subjects of interest. PubLshed by If. Hetherington, 13 and 14, Wine-office court, Fleet-street ; sold by J. Cleave, 1, Shoe-lane ; W. Lovett, 18.3, Tottenham-court-road; J. Watson, lb, City road : C. Westerton, Knightsbridge ; C. H, Neesnm, 166, Brick-lane, Spitalfields; J. Collins, 51, Charles-street, 13ir• mingham ; Heywood, Oldham-street, Manchester ; Smith Cleveland-square, Liverpool ; Mrs. Mann, Leeds ; 'pinker, Huddersfield ; Ibbetsun, Bradford; and to be had of all liberal Booksellers in town and country. THEAT4E.ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.. THIS EVENING, JAN. 31, Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Play of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, from the Text of Shakspearc. Duke, Mr. 0. Bennett ; Antonio, Mr. Phelps ; Bassani°, Mr. Andersen; Lorenzo, Mr. Elton; Shylock, Mr. Macready; Portia. Mrs. Warner ; Neris.a, Mrs. Keeley ; Jessica, Miss E. Phillips. To conclude with tkis Gra s nd Comic Christmas, Pantomime, ea led. HARLEQUIWAND DUKE HUMPHREY!S DIN.. NER ; OR; JACK CADE, - THE LORI) OF LONDON STONE. Doors be opened at Ha'f past Six, and the Performance to begin i t Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 2!. Pit 35., Second Price Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr ce I s. Upper Gallery 13., Second Price 6J. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. EVNINg, JAN. 31, Will be performe THlS d Ehalis E pere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.—Theseu 3 , Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley Flute, Mr. Oxberry ; Snout, Mr. Meat dovrs; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Ilermia, Mrs. Nisbett; Oberon, Madame Vestris . ; Titania, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Puck., Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which will he repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomirre, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK lARLEQUIN AND TUE DUN COW. Doors to to opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7a. ; Second Price, .33. 6d. ; First and Second Circ'es, ss. ; Second Price, `2s. (3d. ; Pit, :35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Bor-otHce, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be bad so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Elena Überti, with the Pantnmimv. iIOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER TIE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND AIR. WILLIS TONES. -- The only Pantomime on the Surrey side of the water, over by a Quarter past Eleven. Attraction beyond conception. Crowded Houses nightly. Great - hit of " Norma." THIS I'!:VENING. JAN. 31. Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti tled ELIZABETH .LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, 3llt S. N Etst A, with, Uel ini's Music. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled RARLEQUIN. AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING THAW With gorgeous and charac teristic Seem rv, spkordid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Trieks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ming, &c. Harlequin ' M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Mis, Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantominie. VICTORiA M THEATRE. UNDER TH ROYAL E DIRECTION OF R. OSBALDISTON. Continued triumph of " Geraldine!" Immense success of " The Wild Irish Girl !" and revival of the Grand Romance of " Ivanhoe," with all its original splendour—Combat of Twelve, Conflagaations, and startlirg effects. THIS EVENING, JAN. 31 Will be performed a New Domestic Drama, , in Three Acts, entitled 11-I.F. STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORP HANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville ; Huntingdon, Mi. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardn er ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknovi lodged heroin e of Domestic Drama. After which, 'III E WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May, Miss Vine' nt, in which she will donee her celcb-ated Donny brook Rant, and sing several butuourous chaunts, and a new Medley EpiLigue r To conclude with the Grand Romance of IVANHOE.— II a ihne, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Isaac, Mr. Dale; the Black Knight,Mr. Seaman ; Wamba, M r . Gardner; Rebecca, Airs. Lee. Boxes, , Pit Is.— Gallery, 6d.—H a lf -price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eig ht. To-morrow, Geraldine, with The Wild Irish Girl, and Ivanhoe. LONGEVITY.-011 Saturday the remains of Mrs. Mary Painter, who hal reached the advanced ag e of 94 years, were interred in Limehouse Churchyard. The funeral of this ancient dame caused a large assem blage of persons. The chief Inowrner on the occasion was Mr. Bertanin Blaby, usher of the Thames Police court. The sister of the deceased, Elizabeth Simpkins, who was upwards - of 90 years of age, died a few weeks sgoat Brackley q Aortharpntp sjiire. The two sisters retained the ft:44o-g fac s a short perio a .' .ttlee until within deFt ( hs, atid - ftre natives of War haveickshire lived . ol trt hef e til t mernh j ra At the same family y s©, `Q' and 400 years ; and an Iknceitor of tiab the. a-6,0t 105. I J: s THE AILWAI SUN compared to th e sur f ace of our island, has corn- O IS NOW R RE-PUBLISHING, pelled the mass of the community to engage in earelbl and minute agricultural occupations, and PRICE SIXPENCE. in minute manufactures, of which the great and striking feature is, that man enlists in his service a prodigious amount of mechanical power. When we look at the many sources from which the use of that power enables us to draw our subsistence, we cannot fail to adopt the conclusion, that the great progress. of knowledge, in modern times, has been to enable man to overcome nature by studying her laws. If, about the sixteenth century, the importa tion into England of the fine arts and literature from a more advanced nation, the extraordinary discovery of America, the influx of the precious metals, and the improvement of agriculture, rendered it then fit and proper for the educa tion of, the upper classes to be chiefly directed towards literature as a means of improvement, the different circumstances of society since have required a different education for those classes. But the system then established has been, with trifling alteration of detail, dogmatically adhered to; and the Universities have, to the utmost of their power, resisted all attempts to effect changes and improvements in education. They stand in the same relation to society now as the monasteries stood to society in the sixteenth century. While the circumstances of society have required a different education for the upper classes, our rulers have been only anxious to hold fast by ancient insti tutions, the form of which, at least, has been pre served, but man has been dwarfed into moral insignificance. The simple, but noble, and correct system of BACON and LocKE, though it be vilified by mystics, teaches us that the mind is framed, corrected, and informed, by the external world.We refer to that as the ultimate standard of all truth. It corrects, as a model, all our thoughts, when the mind is most developed and most accurate, therefbre it is but a reflection of external nature. To make it that as much as possible is the great object of communicating knowledge by the old and the instructed to the young and the igno rant. What, then, can be thought of a system of education for the upper classes, intended chiefly to preserve a conformity to ancient errors, and prevent the conformity of the mind to existing changes in society? Is not that a miserable mass of superstitous jargon and absurdity ? and does not such a circumstance account for the slow improvement in the education of indivi duals, particularly the upper classes, while the progress of knowledge, far from being less than in the sixteenth century, has been, since then, rapid beyond example. There could not, of course, be much improvement in Latin, Greek, and logic; but in chemistry, in mechanics, in astronomy, geography, in all the useful arts and social sciences, the progress of the community in knowledge has been greater in the last than in any previous hundred years. In these ought the upper classes to be instructed, and of many of them they are kept in ignorance. These observations may enable the reader to form a tolerably correct notion of the value to the public of that Puseyite theology which is now causing a schism in the Church; of its value to the authors themselves that can onlybe estimated by their vanity and self-esteem. They are no doubt delighted with it on account of the pains 't has cost, and the notoriety it has gained them. 'TIE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 31, 1842. THE WEATHER.—NOON, JANUARY 31. LOYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE -STREET. Thermometer... 42 1 highest 42 1 Lowest 32 Barometer 29.85.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point P,2 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, M0rning......:39 minutes after 5 i Evening 55 minutes after 5. We learn from good authority that the ru mour in circulation, of its being the intention of the Ministers to levy a property tax is well founded. If that were to be the adjunct, or the forerunner of free trade—if it were intended a s a substitute for some other taxes—if, while rent and public annuities were made to pay a fair quota of the public expense, proportionate to the vast protection they receive—and if in dustry were to be untaxed and set free, a pro perty-tax should have our hearty support. But if it is to be levied, as we understand, in addition to all other taxes, in order to raise the revenue up to the expenditure, and leave the giant monopolies of food and sugar un touched, and the increase of the revenue is not to be obtained from the augmented resources of the people, then a property-tax will deserve, and will no doubt receive, the most strenuous op- position. ....., at A ." ....x...., , . . . . ; I * • .„-au, 4, 4 - s . E& . < 0 ›,..2.,, ,,, , ) f-,-' -, „ 4„_ :k e t.- 3 5, , , ~,„ ..,.. \ --- 4 , --, 0, .:. ---- ..!, Jim ,§-ata. LONDON' MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1842. It is observed in the Edinburgh Review, re cently published, in an article on the Pictorial History of England, "As there is nophenomenon so marvellous, and ao circumstance sr eventful in the whole course of history as the progress of knowledge, and especially of education in the sixteenth century—in England, to speak more F precisely from the reign of HENRY the SEVENTH to the middle of that of ELIZABETH—SO it is scarcely satisfactory to our vanity to reflect on the very slow addition to that progress which has been made in all the years that have since elapsed." If this be • strictly true, it is indeed wonderful, and not flattering. But it is not true that the progress has not been much accelerated since the reign of ELIZABETH. The writer ap pears not to discriminate between the commu nity and individuals. The progress ofknowledge is in the community, and is latterly very rapid; the slow addition subsequently is confined to the improvement of the education of individuals. His comparison does not apply to the same class of phenomena. If the proposition were confined to the " education exclusively of the upper and middle classes," as he seems in his mind to con fine it, by immediately after asking whether those classes are more educated than they were in the days of ELIZABETH, we should not dissent from it. In those days, ".though a new direc tion has since been given to education," indivi duals were as much trained, and their faculties, bodily and mental, as much developed, consist ently with the knowledge of the community, as they are at present. In our time compendious processes have been found out for more easily ac quiring certain branches of knowledge, but indi viduals are not now more nor better disciplined, consistently with the knowledge of the age, than ey were then. Another correction of this writer's view is obe found- in the sort of .knowledge and dis cipline which were then and now extant. Com paring the haughty , Baron shut up in his castle, ignorant of letters, the prey of furious passions, 'indulging chiefly in the chase, in gaming, or in war (such was the whole genus at the beginning of the war of the Roses), with the polished courtier, addicted to literature and the cultiVa tion "of the gentle arts of the, reign of ELIZA BETH, the change is undoubtedly one of the greatest which can be traced in the character of man in the course of such a short period. the reign of ELIZABETH there has been nothing like a similrar change in the pursuits of the upper and middle classes. They have undoubtedly gone on cultivating letters, and eloquence, and the fine arts ever since, as they cultivated them. in the days of ELIZABETH. At about that period, too, was fixed the scheme of moral discipline and education, through the instrumentality of the Church with the Universities, which has since undergone comparatively little change, except in details. Now, it is clear that there can be no extension of the cultivation of letters corresponding in im portance to the change from non-cultivation to the, cultivation by models previously established other nations ; and no extension of a species of moral discipline equal in importance to an entire change in the scheme. It has been clearly impossible, therefore, that any such vast change in the education of individuals could take place between the days of ELIZABETH and our times as took place between those days and a period 150 years before. The Reviewer seems to us unconsciously to have given himself a very satisfactory explana tion of the - comparatively stationary condition of the upper and middle classes, which is of no in considerable importance at the present time; and to bring which before our readers is our mo tive for adverting to this . subject.. In speaking of ~ ,the system which the ReforMation displaced, it is said "the learning of the monks was worse than no learning. at " xh fifststep.towards the improvement of• mankind was-the entire re moval of that miserable mass of - superstition, jargon, and absurdity, which pd.Sted"bY the name of education in the middle ages ; • a system under which advance was hopeless, learning unlovely and unloved, and mind transmitted nothing but the laborious barbarism which it had inhe rited." "It • was," he adds, " through the teMpOrary decline of the schools, uni versities, and professions, such as they had lieen;- that , the. sixteenth century was enabled - to beCOme 'a learned age." He calls the previous system a miserably wrong system. "It sub stituted conformity for truth." " T he Church enforced, instead of teaching obedience, com pelling%men to abnegate their judgment and their will, instead of directing where to distrust and control them—a system under which Con stitutions lived on while man was dwarfed into moral insignificance." Such remarks are nearly as applicable to the system which was esta: blished at the Reformation, and has been fol lowed till within a few years, and is now fol lowed, as far as possible, in the. English Church and Universities, in whose "hands the education and discipline of the upper classes arc exclusively placed, as to the system which it superseded. The Protestant Church has carefully imitated the Roniish Church of the middle ages, and has substituted conformity for truth. It has en forced that conformity by bribes on the one hand, in the shape of rich preferments, and pe nalties, in the shape of exclusion from political rights, on the other. It has enforced, evenwith out teaching obedience. It liar, as far as it could, compelled men to abnegate their judgment and • their will, and has dwarfed them into moral insignificance, in order that the in stitutions of the Church might live on. The error which had rendered the education of the middle ages an abortion, was repeated at the Reformation, and a miserable mass of supersti tion, jargon, and absurdity, was subsequently, as before, taught and enforced at our Universities. There useful learning continues unlovely and unloved, and mind transmits to mind little more :lian the laborious barbarism which it has inhe rited. Conformity is still the main principle, but whether it be ctinformity to reason or su perstition, is a question of Very doubtful nature. Individual man does not fashion society ; it is mainly determined by the progress of popula tion. The same portion of the surface of the earth, for example, cannot subsist an equal iiumber of hunters as of agriculturists ; thus the number of mankind in relation to the sur face of the earth, determines at all times the Pursuits and occupations of the majority of every society. A proper education for individuals iN every age, su b s id uary to t h e i ncu l ca ti on o f th e principl es o f justice, which are as old and more indestructibl e than the hills, must accordingly consist In training them, and developing their iliculties-consistently with the mass of the occu pations of society. In our country the great number of the people, oors. The property-tax levied during the war was thrown off by the landed gentlemen, in spite of the Tory Administration, because it had been originally levied as a war-tax, and they would not submit to it in peace. We presume that they will not have the hardihood now to sup pose that the community is to submit to this tax, in addition to all other taxes, in order to' keep up their rents. On this subject it will not be far o-often that the Government and the landed aristocracy are almost identical, the great bulk of the public expenditure going into their pockets and the pockets of their dependents. Though they may contribute, therefore, some share of the proposed new taxation, it will bear only a small proportion to the benefit which they exclusively will derive from it,' They cannot, we repeat, have the hardihood now to propose and carry a property tax, which they threw off in 1815, because it was a war -tax, in' order to promote their own advantage. It is a generally received theory that an in crease of taxation necessarily raises the price of commodities. That is one of the grounds on which the landlords resist free competition as against themselves. Ouly a few days ago we observed a very elaborate article in a Tory Journal based on that theory, and we can un hesitatingly say that it is generally adopted by the Tories. It admits, we think, of some doubt, particularly where competition is unfettered. We cannot see how increasing taxation raises the cost of production, which ultimately deter mines all price. It certainly takes a portion of all the commodities taxed from those who produce them, and leaves less to re ward them for their labours. It diminishes? therefore, rent, or profit, or wages. If the tax can be thrown on the consumer it diminishes the Means of enjoyment, but it does not add to the labour of producing commodities, nor in the long run raise prices. But those who maintain that it raises pricer, now mean, it is said, *to increase .taxation, and, on their own theory, as'well as on the opposite theory, to enhance the difficul ties which already oppress and almost over whelm the productive energies of the nation. Were the additional taxation to be wholly confined to rent and property in the funds, it would be of little consequence, but it i s to be extended, it is said, to all property, and in clude capital vested in machinery as well as in land. The consequence, of course, will be, when ever the produce of that machinery comes into competition with die produce of foreigners, to drive still more than at present our manufacturers out of the market. On a portion of the capi talist's profits being taken from him by the tax, he will,be less able than now to compete with foreigners. Whatever explanation be adopted— whether taxation raise prices, or whether it only dbninishes rent, profit, or wages —to increase it now will add, to the national embarrassments. Should this project be seriously entertained we presume it will be announced in the Speech from the Throne. In that case we also presum e the Whigs would move an amendment to the Address, as the groundwork of their opposition through the Session, setting forth the superior advantages of their own principle of increasing the resources of the cottntry by reducing taxa tion and altering the tariff, to the Tory principle of refusing to amend the tariff and adding to the burdens of the country. We have some reason to believe, and to hope, that such will be the course. It is clear that the Whigs and the Li berals can effect nothing, with or through the Parliament, by themselves. The majority of their opponents is too great. They must make way by operating on the publi c m i n d , and by getting `leir own opinions backed by the people out of . To conciliate them and win their sup ion, a bold, a frank, and a clear line of policy, made known to them so that they can under stand it, is indispensable; and that line of policy should be' indicated by an amendment to the TUE SUN, LON DON, MONDAY, JANUARY 51, 1842. A Commissary of Police went on Saturday with a wri t to the resipence of a Mr. G , who arrived at Paris a few weeks since, and there seized numerous papers and various articles, among which was a tele graphic alphabet, traced upon an an autozincographic plate, from which several copies appear to have been taken. In his examination, which took pl ace a l most immediately, M r . G declared that what he was re proached for haying in his possession was nothing more than a series of signs agreed on between himself and various houses with which he has commercial relations. We have received the Barcelona journals to the 21st: The Captain-General Van Haien, had just received from the Regent the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic. El Popular, a republican Journal of Barcelona, fol lowing the example of its colleague, El .Huracan of Madrid, has suspended its publication.—Commerce. BOURS—PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 29. lint Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Prier. french 5 per Cents llB 55 .. 118 55 .. 118 30 .. 118 35 3 per Cent, 79 40 -. 79 -10 ... 79 20 ... 79 25 lank 01 France Laffitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1017 50 ...1017 50 ...1017 50 ...lel/ 50 5,000 f. Shares 5027 50 ...50Z0 ...5027 50 ...5030 Belgian Bank 1811 Belgian 5 per Cents. S per Cent:., 1840 105% ... 105% ... 105 1 q ... ler% Varnish Active 25% ... 24% Passive 55% 5% ... 5% Neapolitan Roman.... 5H 103 % ... 103% ...103% g A itILWA 01 ARES, St. Germain ....... 847 50 ... 887 50 ... 885 ... ::5 Versailles. R. n 3 lO ... 240 337 50 337 50 L. 13 2 OB 75 208 75 208 75 ... 208 75 f i t ; 5 0 2 5 2 3 8 2 g 2 5 2 3 7 0 50 5 22 30 7 50 Rouen ..... 505 ..• tO5 49S 75 ... 498 75 Orleans . Strasburg to Bale THE ENEMIES OF 41FROVEMENT.--4.‘ IV said Mr. Chrikopher; " at the Meeting. held at Bos ton, on IVednesday, of the Boston Agricultural Association, " it were true that foreign corn could be bought for 265., the lowest maximum duty compatible with safety to agriculture ought to be, as he had before said, 30s. the quarter." Just in proportion, therefbre, as the Americans, or any other people, by skill and care, may grow corn at a less and less cost, just so must the landed aristocracy insist on raising the duty and preventing the result of their exertions from reaching the people. Suppose the Americans were to pass a law, that, just in proportion as our manufacturers invented and improved machinery and produced cotton-cloth cheap, just in that proportion should the import duty on cotton cloth be raised in America. Should we not, would not all mankind say, such a system was a relic of the grossest ignorance and barbarity ? Now, our Corn-law, as described by Mr. Chris topher, is still more foolish and mischievous than such a supposed law in the United. States, inas much as food is more essential to .existence and wellbeing than:cotton-cloth. Mr. Christopher; at Boston, spoke of a clamour against the growers of Corn. No such clamour has been got up or has existed. The clamour has been against the owners of rent, who have no more to do with growing corn than with preserv ing the sweetness of the atmosphere. GOOD AND BAD LAWS.--A writer in a Tory journal, one of your would-be sagacious philoso phers, observes, " that almost all, our good laws are older than the Revolution of 1688. Almost all our bad laws have been - enacted since that period." This philosopher fimrets to mention how many very bad laws, enacted prior to 1688, have been abolished since that period. What laws we now have, of a prior period, have been carefully pre served from amongst many bad laws, and pre served becaus e th ey are suppose d to be g ood. That a prodigious number of bad laws have been passed since 1688 we do not deny; many of the good laws, pa sse d i n t h e same p er iod, are those which repealed the bad laws of a former period, and they are quite tbrgotten. The case may beil lustrated by a comparison with literature. A few books, of great worth, are selected and preserved from amon g st th e mass w hi c h t h e s tream of time I washes away. If a man were, therefore, to say that all the good books of the world were writte before 1700, and that all the bad books have bee. written since, lie would in — ak - ea similar assertion as to literature to that which the Tory writer makes as to laws. At the same time we hail with pleasure the admission from a Tory, that the Statute -book is crowded with bad laws. PROTECTIO N A FFORDED By THE C LERGY .— One idea now i nculcated on society by the lovers of priestc ra f t , i s that the priesthood protects t h e people from th e oppressions of the upper c l asses, and notably from th e governors o f society. W e are grateful t o t h e Tories for the a d m i ss i on t h at protection is now necessary against the rulers of society, but i t i s a mistake to su ppose that the priesthood, who no longer possess much indepen dent power, and are here the servants of the State, can give such protection. The priests are now the allies of those - against whom it is pre. tended they protect the people. They protect them as the dog protects the sheep from the wolf, to deliver th em w i th greater• c e r t a i nty to the knife of the b utc h er. Th e people will b e grateful for the admission that they need protec tion against their pretended protectors, but they Will cast about to protect themselves. Address, should the Speech afford the opportunit we have described. New York Journals to the 10th inst. have been received this morning. They contain no political news of importance. We subjoin the latest account of the state of the Money Market : The sales of the Stock Board presented the usual fea tures, and prices fluctuated to some extent. Delaware and Hudson fell 1 per cent; Indiana Bonds,i; Harlem,k; Long Island rose*. At auction a sale of 3,571 shares of Harlem Stock were sold at 94 a 9i, which is 4. to a above the market rates. They were bought in by kr. Gourlie. This Stock was pledged with J. Ward and Co., to secure two loans of 44,500 dol. each, made in 1835 and 1837. These loans fell due Oct. 10, 1841, and Jan. 10, 1842. They were issued at 50 per cent., consequently, the 3,571 shares amounted to 89,000 dols. This stock is now transferable, and forms tin addition to the quantity upon the market. The packet ship Albany, for Havre, carries out 96;000 dols. in specie. The ship Albany, which sailed to-lay for Havre, car ries out 96,000 dols. in specie. S ALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. $2,000 Corporation Bonds ............ 2,000. Illinois Bonds, IVO s 15...... 4,000 Indiana Bonds 150 Shares Delaware and Hudson 50 Ditto Mechanics Bank ....... 25 Ditto Phenix 8ank........__ 50 Ditto Farmers' Loan... 50 Ditto Ohio Life and Trust 55 10 Shares Merchants' Exchange Bank . 25 10 Ditto New York and Erie H . . 25 25 Ditto Canton C 0... ................. ...s 30 19 25 Ditto Mohawk R. R.... ...... ...... 975 Ditto Harlem... 100 Ditto L Island R . 50 Ditto Stonington 1t........... 10 Ditto New Jersey ...................... SECOND BOARD. 100 Shares Harlem.... .......... 2,000 Ditto Indiana 2,000 Ditto Illinois.. 6b ; b3O 52 We have received Madrid Papers of the 22d inst. There was a stormy debate going forward in the Chamber of Deputigs on the Address, but no other news of interest. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all reached us. The tedious debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Address has at last been brought to a close. It was adopted on Sa turday by a majority of`Bl---10 votes being given for, and 156 against it. On Friday M. BILLOUT made a regular attack on the Government on the subject of the Press prosecutions. The Ministers pretended to be taken by surprise, and never did they make a more miserasle defence. We shall to-morrow endeavour to do justice to the spirited conduct of the Opposition on this oc casion. The Augsburgh Gazette says :—" We learn from St. Petersburgh that Count Cankrin has left the Adminis tration of the Finances, and that the department is to be divided into different sections, each having • its own chief."—lt is reported that on the 13th inst., New Year's Day in Russia, the Empress of Russia was so much in disposed that no Court was held. " The Emperor of Russia," says a letter from St. Pe tersburg, " has resolved to allow several more Poles who took part in the revolution to return home. Among them is Prince Oginski, who, for several years past, has subsisted in France as a bookbinder." A letter from the Island of Bourbon, written on . the 13th October to the Messager, Says :—" The interesting solemnity of administering the communion to 120 blacks has just taken place at St. Denis, in the presence of nearly all the public functionaries.—At the Assizes of St. Denis just finished, two persons have been con demned for ill-treating slaves : the one to twelve months' imprisonment, and the other to the same durance for five years. Both are deprived of the right of possessing slaves for ten years." The Court of Cassation will be engaged to-day in considering the appeal of M. Ledru Rollin and M. Haureau against the decision of the Court of Assize of the Department of the Maine and Loire. The affair of the Gazette de France and the National is fixed for the 14th of February. The Moniteur of yesterday, the 28th, publishes the following note, the object of which is difficult to divine :--" Sweden, as one of the eight contracting Powers at the Congress of Vienna, had taken part in the act, by which it was agreed, in the month of February, 1815, to arrange measures for the total suppression of the negro slave-trade. On the 15th of June, 1814, a treaty to this effect was concluded and signed at Stock holm with England. Subsequently the accession of Sweden and Norway to the conventions of 1841 and'lB33 between France and England was proposed by them, but declined at Stockholm, where on the 21st of May, 1836, a direct. treaty with France was signed, con formable to that which has been concluded with Eng land."—Constitutionnet. UM MAR Y OF NEWS AND Public eptliton. " Who runs may read." POREIGN. The French Chamber of Deputies voted on Saturday the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. The whole number of votes was 396, of which 240 were for the Address, and 156 against it. There was a most stirring debate in the French Cham ber of Deputies, on Friday, on the question of the Crown prosecutions of the press. M. Billout headed the attack on the Government and the Peers, and acquitted himself with singular ability. He was opposed by the Minister of Justice, who cut a very sorry figure on the occasion. PUBLIC °PIN lON. The Times concludes an article on the Dublin Elec tion with th 4 following remarks on the apparent pacific termination of the Liberal and Tory contest :—" We cannot but congratulate the country on the quiet with which this election has passed over. How much of this is owing to the consciousness which all entertain of the presence of a Conservative Government, and how much to the hope expressed by the Lord Mayor that the con test might go off in good humour, and how much to actual fatigue and satiety in those whose profession it is to provide against such a tame contingency, we do not pretend to pronounce, though our readers will probably divine that we do not attribute any very extraordinary weight to the second of these influences, which we may feel pretty sure would scarcely have been exerted if the contrary course could have been advantageously pur sued. But, whatever be the account of this tranquillity, We hail it warmly, and heartily hope it may prove a happy omen and example.", The Morning Chronicle has the following remarks on the perplexity of the Tory Cabinet :—" It is perfectly clear that whatever assurances party newspapers and party runners may impudently give us as to the un paralled and unbroken unity of the party, the Tory party is at the present moment agitated by the most violent internal conflict of opinions. The whole party has, undoubtedly been changed, and materially changed, by the Reform Bill. It must be a very small, and, from its stupidity, a very insignificant portion of the party, that believes that the Reform Bill had made no change ex cept that of rendering it less necessary to conciliate some few boroughmongers, and more requisite to spend a good deal of money in bribery ; and that, with the exception of this difference in the mode of obtaining a Parliamen tary majority, the policy of the party will be to use and to keep power, just after the same fashion as in the days of Perceval and Castlereagh. The great mass of the party, though meaning to govern in the same spirit, and with the same ob s ects as before—though as determined as ever to repress the people, and enjoy the sweets of corruption, are convinced that their task is one of far greater difficulty than it used to be, and can only be suc cessfully achieved by the wise conception and steady execution of a definite and consistent policy." The following insolent attack upon the honest Pro testants who have addressed the Archbishop of Canter bury against the Papistical ceremonies of the Puseyites, is quoted from a leading article in the Morning Post : " We hear that the laity in some parts of the country are signing addresses to the Archbishop of Canterbury, calling upon his Grace to institute an inquiiy into the schismatical conduct and heretical teaching of the Low Church, or self-styled Evangelical clergy. Some such addresses are greatly needed to counteract the Low Church heretics, who are petitioning against those whom they call Tractarians. One person in every parish can draw up an address, and getting it signed in the shape of a rou n d robin, direct it to his Grace at the Palace at Lambeth, to which place many such will, we apprehend, be addressed during the ensuing week. The instances of clerical irreligion among Low Churchmen, or Evan gelists, are glaring. We have heard of a church in Birmingham in which the preacher•never condescends to be present at the prayers. Despising prayer, he remains in the vestry conning his sermon." The Morning Herat thus hints at the expediency of the Tory Premier opening the Session of Parliament by having recourse to the Walpole system of extensive bribery. Granny forgets, however, that it is now the country, and not its representatives, that must be bribed; and that the first bribe must be the repeal of the Corn laws :—" Sir Robert Peel may, it is quite certain, have the support of a considerable body of the nominal Oppo sition if he choose to bid for it. There is, indeed, lie doubt that many of the older Whigs who still attach themselves to that fragment are in his heart even now, and will refuse to be driven into any violent opposition. The influence which Lord Stanley and Sir James Gra ham still have amongst their former associates is great ; and the deadly blow aimed by Lord John Russell at the landed interest has shaken the ,allegiance of many of his adherents. Moderate measures from Sir Robert Peel will complete their secession from the Opposition benches in the course of a session or two. But the Right Hon. Baronet will not, it is to be hoped, be too eager to secure at once that support which is sure to come at last spon taneously. Sir Robert's first duty is to keep his own party together—leis next to conciliate his opponents." The following sensible remarks on the Corn-law ques tion are from the Morning Advertiser :—The question of the Corn-law monopoly is now much narrowed. For merly the ground of conflict between the free traders and the monopolists was,' whether or not there should be a fixed duty or one variable on a sliding scale ' • and had thi: point b een se t t l e d i n f avour o f a fixed duty, the other question, 'What ought the amount of the fixed duty to be ?' would have started up and led to an equally fierce contention between the people and the landed in terest. Now it is a simple question of repeal cr no repeal.' The monopolists have to thank themselves for this. Their refusal of Lord John Russell's proposal of a fixed duty of eight shillings, has brought the question toThis shape.: Bitterly must the landed interest regret their folly—folly for themselves, but crime as regards the .people. It is a wise ordination of Providence, that injustice a l ways b r i ngs i ts own punishment. If the oli garchists still persist in their opposition to the eAinetion of the corn monopoly, they will inevitably ensure their own destruction. The only source of regret is, that in the convulsion which would necessarily follow the re jecting of a motion for Corn-law repeal, the whole country would be, involved in the same ruin. To the country, however, it would be some satisfaction to think, that even in the assumed case matters could not commer cially be in a much worse state than they now are." The WeLhman, after proposing the question t' What is Puseyism," supplies for answer—" It is Popery some what diluted—diluted and partially disguised for the pre sent, ic order to render it the more palatable to those who, may still have some misgivings about receiving it pure and unalloyed as the article issues from the grand labo ratory on the banks of the Tiber ; but containing the genuine quintessence of all that constitutes the mys tery of iniquity.' " The Dublin Evening Post, after making strict calcula tion S -on the true amount ii)f numbers , that should have Polled at the election, shows that by the proceedings at the hustings, in the booth.M alone, ," 1,000 electors have been disfranchised, us Practictllly 'and eftZettilly as 4f. Lord de Grey had placed a regiment of soldiers at the hustings, to drive them off at the point of the bayonet." " This splendid opening," says the Leeds 7'imes, " of the bread-tax Parliament will be highly appropriate at the present season of calamity and distress among the people. The display of the Royal and Aristocratic mag nificence will be a comfortable sight for the millions who are in want of food. The full dress ' Peeresses and La dies will be a joyful thought to the many mothers who are now weeping in agony over their starving children." MONEY—TRADE—COIVIDTERC E. The Delight packet, from Mexico, arrived at Fal mouth on the 28th, with a freight of 900,000 dollars, the greater part of which is to be trans-shipped into the Shannon steamer, for London. At Bolton trade has had no improvement ; at Brad ford the market has been dull, with few buyers; at Hud dersfield improvement n 'ay be reported, but not extensive ; at Halifax gloom prevails, as also at Leicester; Leeds has been brisker in the cloth trade. PARLIAIVIRNTARY.' The address of the House of Peers, in reply to her Majesty's speech, will be moved by the Marquis of Aber corn, and, seconded by the Earl of Dalhousie. The ad (ll.oB'4 of the House of the House of Commons will be moved by the Earl of March, and seconded by Mr. William Becket. • }. I I 6 ECTIONEERXIM. The final close of the. poll at the Dublin election, as announced by the •Sheriff; gives Mr. Gregory a gross majority of 390 over Lord Morpeth. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Evening schools Ibr the instruction of working men have of late greatly multiplied at Rome, and the govern ment has become active in the education of children and apprentices. - • • NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Delight, one of the old 10-gun brigs, just arrived from the South American station, will be paid off imme diately, as will several others of that class as they arrive. Four Royal Artillery waggons, with an escort, left Woolwich on Saturday for Windsor, to be employed in removing the plate back to Buckingham Palace, and four other waggons will proceed on the same service this day. LAW AND PO LICE, The case of Mr. Carew, the sculptor, came again be fore the Insolvent Court on Saturday, when Col. George Wyndham said he was present, together with Sir Chas. Burrell and others, at the opening of the will of the late Lord Egremout, and no paper or document whatever was found in which the name of Mr. Carew was mentioned. Mr. Carew•, who was afterwards examined at considerable length, stated that his annual income from Lord Egre mont was 1,700/. a year for life, clear of labour and ma terials, at the same time Sir R. Westmacott gave him a salary of 1,200/. a year ; besides which, by his. own pri vate engagements, he made from 500/. to 8001. a year. Showing his total annual inc►me to have been from 3,4001. to 3,700% per annum. The further hearing was postponed till next Saturday. A batch of omnibus drivers were fined at Marlborough street, on Saturday, for loitering in Piccadilly. The tines were, for the first offence, 10s. ; for the second, 20s. ; for the third, 30s. • and so on. The 88th session of the Central Criminal Court, arid 4th during the present Mayoralty, commenced this day. It is supposed the number of committals will be nearly 300. An inquest was held, on Saturday, on the body of Jacob Simms, Esq., one of the Magistrates for the county of Essex, and an extensive shipowner and India merchant, who had-committed suicide on Thursday. No reason for the act could be assigned, and the Jury re turned a verdict of — Temporary insanity. PINE ARTS. At a meeting of the Numismatic Society on Saturday, a Report was read on 2,050 Roman coins, lately found at Ancaster : as also a paper on a vast-quantity of nobles of Edward 111. and Richard 11., lately found near Lon don : those of Edward 111. were of great beauty, and were struck to commemorate his victory over the French in 1340, THEATRICAL. Monsieur Perlet, and the entire corps dramatique of the French Theatre, arrived at the Custom-house on Saturday. SPORTING. At the turn out of the Royal staghounds on Thursday, two hinds were killed after short runs : on Friday a fast run of only two minutes brought clown the stag ; to-day the hunt will be at Stoke• common. unless Prince Albert and the King of Prussia hunt in the Great Park. COURT - FASHIONABLE. The Duk e and Duchess of Bedford hav- arrived in BJgrave-square, from Woburn Abbey. Lord Palmerston left town on Saturday for Fansanger, to visit Earl Cowper. The Earl of Westmoreland left town yesterday for Apethorpe, the family estate in Northamptonshire. Sir Charles Grey, the newly-appointed Governor of Barbadoes, embarks at Blackwall to-day. 'Sir Robert and Lady Peel left Whitehalhgardens yes terday, on a visit to the Queen at Windsor. It is fully expected that her Majesty will, on the Court leaving 'Windsor, give permission for the public to be admitted by tickets, under proper regulations, to view the state apartments, furnished and embellished as they are at present. 'the Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges com menced their meetings for the season on Saturday. A messenger arrived at Woolwich on Saturday, con veying intelligence that the King of Prussia had post poned his visit to that. place until Friday the 4th inst.. The Queen Dowager has recently presented a gold watch; chain, and seals, to Mr. Robinson, the head of the booking department at the Euston station of the London and Birminghain Railway, for the attention shown by that gentleman on the occasions on which her Majesty has travelled upon that line. Her Majesty has likewise honoured Mr. Creed, the Secretary of the Com pany, with a similar mark of her Royal consideration. ____ _ MISCELLANEOUS. Upwards of forty men are now busied in painting and decorating the interior of the Pavilion at Brighton, for the reception of her Majesty and Prince Albert. The tides have been unusually high, since the late hur ricane, on both sides of the Thames, and the cellars of many houses have been flooded. VISIT OF T.HE KING OF PRUSSIA TO DRURY-LANE. • His Majesty the King of Prussia will honour " Old Drury" with his presence this evening. Her Majesty Queen Victori a , w i t h hi s R oya l Hi g h n e ss Prince Albert, and several branches of the Royal Family, are also ex pected to be present. The performances will commence, by order of his Majesty, at six o'clock instead of seven. The King is to dine with the Duke of Sutherland in the evening, and his stay at the theatre, therefore, probably will not exceed two hours. MONEY- and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI7 Y, 7'WELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 29.—We have had a dull Cotton Market to-day, the sales comprising nearly 3,000 bales, all of which have been sold to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 29.—A very indif ferent business has been transacted at the Stock Ex change to-day :—Grand Junction, 195 ; North of Eng land, 80 ; Eastei n Counties, 8f ; London 'and Birming ham, 169. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 29.—We can not report any material change in our Market, although we continue to have a fair demand for several kinds of stock. By the arrival of the packet-ship Roscoe at Liverpool_ from New York, we have received advices to the 9th instant. The deffression in the Stock Market still con tinues. Indiana Fives were down to 18i 19 ; Illinois Sixes, 16i 17; United States Bank Shares had improved to 3 ; Bills on London, 8i 9. The following was posted at the North and South American Coffee-house : Cape of Good Hope Papers have been received to the Bth December, from which the following is taken : " PORT NATAL.—A proclamation of hisExcellencythe Governor has been promulgated in the Cape Town Go vernment Gazette of the 3d inst., of which the following is an extract :—I have therefore deemed it expedient and necessary to declare, as I do hereby proclaim and -declare, that the said emigrants (at Port Natal) have no right or claim to be recognised as an independent state or people ; that her Majesty will not recognise them as such, and will not permit or suffer any portion of her stbjects to form themselves into an independent state or people within'any of the said territories ; and .that, in obedience to the orders of my Sovereign, I shall resume the military occupation of the same, by sending thither; without delay, a detachment of her Majesty's forces.' " THE FUNDS, The English Securities 'opened, 'at .the leaving off prices of Saturday,pmsols . being•BB-k•B9 for Money, and 89ff for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 17 19 prem. Spanish Active Stock .4iperieci flat at 'a decline of per cent., the quotation being no w 2414 ' • Passive 5; 1 2 - ; Deferred 121 ; F6rtuguese..Five per Cents., 33f ; Ditto Threes,. 191 20. Very little doing. PRICRS OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. a. IT WAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great We - stern Ditto New Ditto Fifths London am Brighton 5O 36 ... .. to 35i London and South Western 3Bl 59 Mitlland C ;unties ... North Midland South Eastern and Dover .. . . .. . __ HALF-PA,ST WV E. The business doing in the Stock Exchange has been to a very limited extent, Consols have receded since the opening to 89-, 1 3 - for the Account, and 884 for Money ; Three per Cents. Reduced are 89f ; ditto Three-and-a- Half, 994 ; Exchequer Bills, 17, 19 ; India Bonds, 9, 11 premium ; Bank Stock, 1672. - - Spanish Active Stockremains flat at 24i ; Mexican Bonds are 234 ; Portuguese Fives, 3:3 4 1 ; ditto Threes, 20 ; Dutch Two-and-a 7 Half per Cents., 51f ; ditto Fives, 1014 • The following are the only quotations in the Share market :—Great Western, 84i ; ditto New, 59i ; ditto Fifths, 91 ; London and Brighton, 35i i ; South West ern,-59 ; North Midland, 71. TWO. O'CLOCK. Consols, Money, 88i 89 ; Ditto, Account, 89i Mexican, 29k; Colombian, 21/ 22; Spanish, 241 QUARTER TO THREE. The American accounts are not considered more cheering. THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of Wheat were small, but good of Barley and Oats, and there was very little Corn fresh up. English Wheat sold very slowly at former terms ; in Foreign rather more was done. Barley very dull at previous rates. Beans and Peas unvaried. Oats slack at former prices. Flour dull of sale, and ship parcels rather lower. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURINGLAST WEEP, wpeg. I Barley. oats. , Flour 4,5534r5. 10,173 qrs. 5,951 qrs.) C,739:saucs • 13,718 --- i 2,289 brls English Foreign PRICES OK BOARD OF SFIP. Whcat,Red (old) White (01d)..... —s• —B. -.------ Red 1841) -- Fine Ms. 635. Supertine ...... 665. 675. Vhite (1841)....5i5. 58s. Fine Ms 62s -- Superfine 'Os. 735. ---Foreign free 56i. 7tis. lyr :38s. 40s. Barley 265. 328 -- Grinding `'6s .30s. --- Malting 3s. 368. Malt s6s. 60s, .--- Fine New 625. 645. Pease, Grey, New 30s. 328. ---- Maple New. 51s. 335. --- White .348. 365. ---- Boilers 365. 38s, Beans, Small (new)......,, 38, 40s (old) ........ 42 . 465. Tick (new) . ........ 28 3W (old) .......... 38,. 4rs Harrow (new) 325. 34s Brank Oats, Iced ................. —*. —1 NCA ......... ••• 16, 213 Poland ................. —s. Potatoe ---. New 20, 25*. ew 213 275. Scotch 26s. 265. Irish ....... Flour Tow n (per sack) 555. 625. Seconds 52..545. Nrrth Country sos 54i. Bran 7s 8& SMITI :FIELD: The supply of cattle was good; of Sheep, Calves, and Pigs, m'derate ,• the trade was brisk, and all qualities met with a good sale at the present prices :—Beasts, 2,680; Sheep, 20,600; Pigs, 220; Calves, 72. Beef, 3s. 6d. to 48. Bd.; Mutton, 4s. to 55.; Veal, ss. to 6s. 6d. Pork, 4s. to ss. 6d. TEA MARKET. The Market was firm, but the demand was limited, the trade waiting for the public sales. Common Free Trade Congou ls. 100., cash. TALLOW MARKET. The operations in P. Y. Candle were fair and at firm rates. 48s. 3d. for P. Y. Candle on the spot, and 48s. 9d. for delivery in the two next months. OIL MARKET. The market wgs firm, but the demand was limited : stocks are small, and likely so to continue. Linseed Oil 336. 6d. per cwt., and Pale Rape 525. per cwt. leas THE SUN —We observe. iv.iol _much .at the spirited pro wietor of The San: Pi who has here , cofore placed the public under great obligations, by his exertions to furnish early reports of liroceedings in Par liament, is prepared to renew and redouble his efforts during the ensuing important session of Parliament. We trust that he will realise the reward which such ex ertions deserve:—Sheffield Independent. MOST EXTRAORDINARY RAILROAD Acct- DENT.- - On Tuesday last as the morning train of cars from Philadelphia was rushing clown the grade near Warren, Pa., with great velocity, the end of the broom before the engine struck a turn-out, and threw the engine off the track with a tremehdous shock. As the ground was frozen, it proceeded nearly one hundred yards into an adjoining common, drawing the passenger trains along with it. Here the engine in running up a: steep bank upset, and with it one of the long cars at tached, tilled with passengers, and a glowing red-hot stove. Singular, indeed to relate, not a passenger was injured, which may be considered a most extraordinary and unparalleled event. One of the men on the engine had his leg badly cut. Carelessness or recklessness was the cause of this fearful accident.—U. S. Gas. --- The laws of England have been the subject of eulogy to many sagacious and learned men. I find them often dilatory, often uncertain, often contradictory, often cruel, often ruinous. Whenever they find a man down they keep him so, and the more pertinaciously, the more earnestly he appeals to them. Like tilers, in mending one hole they always make another. There is no country in which they move with such volocity where life is at stake, or where pkoperty is to be defended so slowly. Can it be wondered that, upon a bench under so rotten an effigy of justice, sat a Saggs, a Jefferies, a Finch, and a Page I—Law has become in England not only the most expensive, but the most rapacious and dishonest of trades.—Landor. INDISPOSITION OF M. BLAKE, ESQ:, M.P. —Our youthful Representative, Mark Blake, Esq., of Ballinafad, lies dangerously indisposed from the serious effects of influenza and inflammation of the lungs. The most distinguished physicians are in daily attendance on Mr. Blake, and we believe they are inclined to think his case not altogether hopeless.—Moyo Telegraph. EVENING SUN . L W INTELLIGENCE. - • CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY•) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF .STAMIFORD• The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in this case, which was argued a short time since upon motion to take a petition of re-hearing, which had been presented off the files of the Court. His Lordship, after shortly adverting to the circumstances of the case, which we have already given, stated his opinion to be that the parties were entitled to present a petition of re-hearing , and dismissed the motion. WOODCOCK V. RENNECK.. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave jUdgment in this case, which was an appeal for the judgment. of the pre' sent Master of the Rolls. The question in the case arose under the will of a person named Linton. His LordshiP • Ordered the judgment of the Court below to be affirmed' BLUNDELL V. GLADSTONE. • Our readers will recollect that a short time since this case was argued before his Lordship, with reference to the will of a gentleman named Blundell, who had amassed a large fortune, and resided in the neigh; bourhood .of Liverpool. Ills Lordship intimated on Saturday that he should this day state the course he intended to pursue with respect to it, and accordinglY this morning, on taking his seat, his Lordship Stated that he considered the matter of suchimporlance as to render it necessary to have the subject argued again by 0 " counsel on each side before two of .the Common Lair Judges and him - self upon the point that was raised at the bar as to the admissibility of certain parole evide"c e ' Mr. Justice Matteson and Mr. Justice Maule had kindly consented to attend the Court on any day that migh t be convenient. Thus the matter rests at present, as no day is fixe d for the hearing. This being. the last day of-Hilary Term, the Court proceeded with appeal motions, but no case of interest came before his Lordship in the course of the morning• ---- - ---------- i-- VICE•CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) THE EAST INDIA COMPANY V. THE COOPERS' COMPAN I :i • His Hoeounprouounced judgment i n thi s case . He lin , already expressed his o pi n i on th at t h e prov i s i on by W e . • - plaintiffs of the ground in question, explained as it was . ' by the lease, and the expenditure of money 25 years af ter its commencement, could not, on this record, ,I.' e deemed acts of part performance sufficient to take We i case out of the ope ra ti on o f t h e S tatute of Frauds ; 81 1" that if the plaintiffs could not sustain their case urn one or other of those grounds, he was prohibited by se t- , , ; , , ,it i tied rules of l a w f rom en f orc i ng t h e agreement allege d in;,;1,74f the bill. That opinion disposed of the whole case, so far, o f t ., :: as it depended upon any supposed original contract en' „4-tr, titling the plaintiffs to a license to alien. But if the.' Coopers' Coopers' Company, with notice of the lease to Trinder, lia° e t stood by and allowed the plaintiff's to expend their moue :=0 in building upon the premises, that might give the ISI ainti I,,## an equity to an injunction , preventing the Coopers' Cobh; 41 pany from availing, theMselves of the forfeiture ; 1 1 , further than that lie could not go, unless the expel" - ; ture could be considered as an .act of part performanc e ' ~ An injunction for such a purpose, however, was not the ~ object of the bill. The bill sought in effect to have i i :,., I declared that the plaintiffs ought now to be in the same..mty position as they wouldlave been in if the Coopers' Coln' -i 3 l , pany, after the execution of the case of, the 30th o f Oe' tober, 1770, had granted a license to alien to Mr. Trie der, which, according to the decision in Dumper's case , would have foi• ever discharged the proviso in the leis° against alienation. Being of opinion, therefore, that li° could not, in that suit, make any such decree, he 03 ; stained from expressing any opinion whether the allege' agreement, as set out in the bill; admitted of that eon - struction or not. The only question which he h a d then • to consider was, whether ; when the bill was framed for the specific purposes he , had mentioned, he ought t to give relief found e d u p on an equ i ty which was I n" ; set up in the bill. That the Counsel for the Cooper s Company had in s ist e d h e oug h t not to do, and, 1.11 strictness he thought h e oug ht not to d o i t in thellart" cular case before him ; • for, independent of the fram e and scope of the bill to which his attention had been directed during the arguments for the Coopers' Cow: pany, the expendit ure by th e p l a i nt iff s was imma t e rial, so far as the equity o f th e p l a i nt iff s ' case d epen d e d upon .t01;11 their right to the s p ec ifi c p er f ormance o f an agreement' .4' A whereas, upon _the equity t o w hi c h h e thought thert ej might be entitl e d, th at expen di ture as a matter of fact' I,ifr . and under the circumstances in which it took place, will Al of the very essence of the case, and a decree founde d ~P; upon it might - be a.. surprise upon the defendants, and ,: i ll' , work , ilOistice. He thought, therefore, that justic e ', iil 3 . would , be: best consulted by his dismissing the bill ; bu t, ,, - 1- if ' being of opinion th a t th e plaintiffs might have an e qui t y not set up by the bill, h e t h oug h t the order of disnussiaa 'should be' accompanied by a d ec l arat i on t h at it s hot" be without prejudice to any other bill which the p i l au- 0 : tiffs might be advised to file. DUKE V. APPLEBY. . hbill' ,6`.f, IBS HONOUR gave judgment in thi s case . It was a filed by a mortgag ee t o f orec l ose a mortgage, t h e snor t ' , • gager having be come insolvent, and his interest in th e equity of redemption being vested in the provisional as signee_ It was admitted that a decree of must be made, and the only question was, w heat -'I ' ' by the provisional assignee was to have his costs paid ,old ' • to mortgagee, and the mortaee was to be allowed , them to his debt. His honour refused to allow the COst,',',.• foreclosure.be . . QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) EX PARTE THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANI% Mr. TALBOT applied for a writ of certiorari to bring up into this Court the inquisition taken by the Ma ; Y °l. of Reading, at Reading, on the body of Richard Wool . leY' who had died at Reading of the injuries he had recelvel 4 4 1 ;o 1 .; in consequence of the dreadful accident which occur''' . ' i c iA The at the Sunning Cutting on 25th December last. Coroner had levied a deodand on the carriage and en" ; gines, which th e L earne d C ounse l contended he had 1 : ( i right to do, i n a smuc h as th e acc id ent h ad not occu rr • within the boundary of his jurisdiction. ,He might has!: a right to hold th e inqu i s iti on , b ut h e h a d excee d e d jurisdiction in levying a deodand. Application had been made to Mr. Justice William's on the subject on Satin— day, and the Learned Judge had directed the application to be made to the full Court. The COURT at first granted a rule nisi, but after sortie time, the Judges having consulted together, Lord DENMA N said the Court is of opinion that the • writ had better go at once to bring up the inquisition. The LEARNED COUNSEL then said he had made fin application,' in- a case of a similar nature, to Mr. Justice, Williams ; :On Saturday, who had granted a rule Perhaps, in that case, the Court would order the Writ to go at once also. • Lord DENMAN—YOII had better apply to Mr. Justice - Williams on the subject. CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST THE SUNDAY TIME S ' THE QUEEN V. CHAPMAN AND OTHERS. On the first day of this term, the Attorney-Genera l had obt a i ne d a rule calling upon the defendants, th e printers and proprietor's Of the Snnglay Times 'newspape r, to show cause why a criminal information shoUld not be • filed against then? for the publication of a libel reflectiar on the character of Mr. Grove, one of the magistrates of , the Greenwich Police CoUrt. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL this morning showed caus e against the rule, and said that the proceeding a roie out of certain proceedings which had been taken before Mr. Grove, in his magisterial capacity, who had, in ; t he month of October, i ssue d a warrant f or ejecting NIP' Graham from certain premises occupied by her, fo r which, however, no arrears of rent were due. On t he • 3d November, the Police-officer applied.to Mr. Grove u'; • the subject of the e x e cu ti on of t h e warrant, trod stating that Mrs. Grah am w a s near her confinemen," • and requesting to know whether under those chew" stance the warrant was to be executed. Mr. Gro' e having had medical evidence tendered as to the clang' rous state of Mrs. Graham, directed the warrant to 1 1 executed. Mr. an d M rs . G ra h am were remove d , a " a week after Mrs. Graham was confined of dead child. It was in relation to these • circua l- • stances that the article in question, which imputl to Mr. Grove, that he h a d acte d w i th haste, ar, inhumanity, that the articl e i n * quest i on h ad been writ ten. Now, in showing cause against the rule, he w ouk, first of all call the a tt en ti on o f t h e C ourt to the Ac t °t Parliament under which Mr. Grove had taken 1 1 1),° 11 himself to act. H e con t en d e d h e h a d no aut h ort ki , whatever to act. The tenaiitcy ought to have be e° determined, and the warrant ought to have bee,, , u issued by the J us ti ces i n , P etty S ess i ons assem bled Now Mr. Grove wa s s itti ng a l one , and although; unde r the Police Act, one magistrate was en a bl e d t o do 1 01 - 1 11 acts previously requiring the presence of two, yet it " S t. ' expressly p rov id e d t h at no mag i strate should, under th° )11', Act, be competent to do acts required to be done at Pear, or Special Sessions. He therefore conceived it, at ' , events, extremely doubtf u l w h et h er Mr. Grove ha t ` r; any authority to act at all under that statut e ' [ ll' o , tli Ile, howev er , h a d t h oug h t proper to do so, and had • t!'Y issued his w arrant on t h e 6th October, which warrant. fiP4 he had not set out in his affidavit, and therefore it " i s. impossible to kn ow w h et h er i t was i n accordance the statute or not. Application bad been made to 311. ' f af4. Grove in behalf of Mr. Graham, and the state of MI # l l Graham was rep resen t e d t o M r . G rove b y a mc dica man. Mr. Grov e h a d or d ere d hi s warrant to b e exe cuted nevertheless, and it would be for the Court to say, uncl e ! ,f 0 7 0 1 the circumst ances , w h e th er M r. G rove was i n a p os'; tion to apply to the Court for a criminal information 1 ) ,J 1 The article was a comment upon a report which had l , 1 04 0 , appeared in one of the daily journals, of what had Pass e d ' -; before Mr. Grove on the occasion in question, as, ~./t/J o i the truth of which report was verified by ~";, fidavit. Mr. Macdonald, the surgeon had rc prsented to Mr. Grove that the consequen ces f of the removal of Mrs. Graham would be the death e l, either herself or her child. She was confined awe * , 4 after, and the child died. A letter from her husband stating this fact had appeared in the Morning not in the S'unday Times, and it was the comment that account of which Mr. Grove complained. , (The case was prOceeding when we went to Press.) Advertiser,o Y.) COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DA WELD V. WARD, ,AND SHOOLBRIDGE V. WA"' he This was an issue from this Court, under the Tit o Commutation Act, to fi x th e mo d us o f tithe of a parish. l. Kent, of which the defendant is the rector and the On tiffs represent the p ar i s hi oners, w h o res i s t the reet damn s. The issue was tried at Maidstone, and the ve r t diet was in favour o f t h e d e f en d ant. M r . Serg al : Channell since obtai ne d a ru l e n i s i f or a new t r ial, 0 0 111 t which Mr. Sergeant Bompas showed cause. Their Lordships thi s d ay gave j u d gmen t. La ping read over the notes of the trial, S of The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that the Court - • opinion that the case ought to undergo another con_ sl deration, and b e sent d own aga i n. —Th e ru le for a nul , trial was therefore made absolute na His Royal Highness the Duke of Suss ex the Duchess of Inverness entertained a distinguish circle to dinner last evening at Kensington P alace, eluding the l e adi ng members-of the corps diplomatique a y ,iT 1 5 th be ~, k et t o y the dt tt thi t tht ar } )i, lv kW! Ns I„,s I