The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

MORNING SU N EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ. The FEBRUARY NUMBER of COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, Contains the following Interesting Articles:— The Tower of Lanecb, a Ro- Phineas Quiddy ; or Sheer In mance. By the Editor. dustry. By John Poole, Esq. To Charles Dickens, Esq., on Chapters XX., XXI., and his Departure for America. XXIL By the Editor. Graduates and Under-Gradu- The School for Scolds; or, Me- ates ; or, The Proctor's Note morabilia of Xantippe. Book. By the Author of Diary and Letters of Madame " Peter Pnggins." • d'A rblay. Short Rides in an Author's Contents and Non Contents. Omnibus. By Laman Blanchard, Esq. Foreign Sporting. By Nimrod. On the Usefulness of Inuti- Recollections of Eton. By an lities. Etonian. Bajazet Gag, the Manager in Christmas in Norway.* Search of a Star, by DouglasiThe Student Life of Germany, Jerrold, E sq . (6oncluded. ) &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW ROMANCE. JJENRY 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 CRUIK- SHANK. - The FEBRUARY NUMBER, Price HALF-A-CROWN, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. CONTENTS : The Dead Drummer. A Legend. By Thomas Ingoldsby. With an Illustration by George Cruikshank. The Sultan Mahmoud and the Georgian Slave. By Isabella F. Romer. Be!shazzar's Feast. 4 1 11 C Phil Flannigan's Adventures. By J. Sterling Coyne. The Standard Footman. By Albany Poyntz. The February Saint. By the Doctor. Jonas Grub's Courtship. With Illustrations by Paul Pindar. The Bullet. A Story of Italian Brigands. With an Illustra tion 'ry E. V. Rippingille. Richard Savage. A Romance of Real Life. By Chas. White • head. With an Illustration by Leet.h. The Philosophy of Drit.king. With Illustrations by Alfred Crowtrili, engraved by Cruikshank the Younger. The Redbreast of Aquitania. An humble Mai. By Father Prou t. Stanley Thorn. By Henry Cockton. Same Ac coun t o f a Great Singer. By a Country Cousin. With Illustrations by Leech, engraved by Cruikshank the Younger. Malachi Aleac , r , m : a Caution to Te;-totallers. By Paul l'indar. With numerous Illustrations. &c. &e. &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. GRATIS WITH THE " WEEKLY CHRONICLE" OF SATURDAY and SUNDAY th e 29th an d 30th JAN., ASPLENDID SERIES of ENGRAV INGS, illustrative of the ROYAL CHRISTENING and its attendant Cerem inks. The Series will contain— The Baptismal Procession The Arms of the Sovereign The Ceremony at the Font The Arms of the Prince The Royal Banquet The Arms of the Knights of St. The Interior of St. George's George, both British and Fo- Chapel reign, The Interior of St G eorge ' s H all And a Splendid Historical Subject, allegorically treated. The whole forming a Magnificent Tableau of nearly 40 Subjects, drawn awl engraved by the first Artists of the day. The same Paper also will contain the Latest prrticulars of this in teresting National Event. Sold by all Newsmen in Town and Country. Office, 337, Strand. Price Fivepence MR. AINSWORTH'S MISCELLANY, ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Price Eighteenperce. The First Number of A INS WOR T H'S MAGAZINE A Monthly Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, and Art. Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTII, Esq., Contains the First Two Chapters of THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, by the EDITOR. With Two Illustrati ins on Steel, and Woodcuts, By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. PRELIMINARY ADDRESS. A few words to Richard Bentley, by George Cruikshank. The Three Sisters. By C. S. The Ladies' Page. Illustrated My Moustache. By Captain by George Cruikshank. Medwin. Sultan Stork. Being the One Fanciful Essays : No 1, A Thousand and Second Night. Flight upon Flying. By By Major G. O'G. Gahagan, ]Martin F. Tupper, Esq. H. E. I. C. S. With an It lus- With an Illustration by Geo. tration by Geo. Cruikshank. Cruikshank. The Snow Storm. By Charles An American Auctioneer " Go. Oilier. ing it ;" and the Indian Personal Recollections of Izzet Christian Dutch Jew Van- Mehemet Pacha. By W. kee Actor. By the Author Francis Ainsworth, Esq. of " Uncle Sam and his Pe- The Christening of the Prince ca iarities." of Wales. With Two Illus- Love and Time. By Laman trations by G. Cruikshank, Blanchard. With an " The Rhine." By Victor tration 11 , Geo. Cruikshank. Hugo. Legends of the Monts-Dores : Popular Sono- of the Bourbon- No I, The Pic Capucin. nais. By Miss Costello. By Miss Costello. OUR LIBRARY TABLE : - . Containing Correspondence from Mr. Buller Of Brazennose ; Mr. Tupper ; Songs by Mr. Buller, Juan Nunez, Eustache de Beaujolois, Adorno Buondelmonti, Olaus Henrikson, Karl Friedrich Doppenheim, and Max.. Adolph. Kempferhausen. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S OMNlBUS.—Sub scribers to this Publication are informed that " AINS WORTH'S MAGAZINE" has the advantage of a Transfer, by Mr. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK of all the most attrac tive features, Serious and Comic, illustrative and otherwise, which distinguished the " OMNIBUS" while published in a monthly form. London, Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar square. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, Will be performed the Play of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.—Duke of Milan, Mr. Phelps ; Valentine, Mr. .Macread7 ; Proteus. Mr Anderson ; Thurio, Mr. Comp ton; Launce, Mr. Keeley; Julia, Miss Fortescue ; Silvia, Miss Ellis ; Lucetta, Miss Turpin. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, ca l led HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors tt be opened at Half past Six, and the Performance to begin rt Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2e. 63. Pit 35., Second Price 2s. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pace Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, Will be presented. Sher:..4n . s Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. Walt-T Lacy; Faulkland, Mr. Cooper; Acres, Mr. Har- Icy ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Brougham; David, Mr. Alea slows ; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris ; Julia, Mrs. Nisbett; Mrs. Malaprop, Airs. Glover; Lucy, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK; OR. '-IARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. _ - Doors to to epened at half-past .Sit—the performances to c,mmence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 79. ; Second Price, 39. 6d. ; First and Second Ci r c' es , s s . ; S econ d P r i ce, 2 3. 6d . ; Pit, 35.; .Second Price. 2..; Gallery, Is. Ticket. 3 and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ter, till Fear, where Season Tickets may be bad upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andre ,vs, bookseller, , New Bond-street. Tomorrow, Elena Überti, with the Pantomime. ROYAL RREY THEATRE. UNDER TiiE MANA SU GEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Amazing attraction. First appearance of Mrs. Norma, and crowded Houses to witness Harlequin and the Ice Queen, the best Pantomime of the Season. THIS EVENING. JAN. 28 Will he acted Baines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, MRS. NORMA, with Bellini's Music. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint. Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun sing, &c. Hatlequin ' M. Httline ; Patch, M. Ro c h e t ; 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. LONDON FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1842. The Reverend JONAS DENNIS, " Prebendary , Bachelor of Civil Law, and owner of the moiety of the beneficiary interest ia a lease for a certain term of years of the rectorial tithes of the parish of S.iint David's, in the county of Exeter, and of the Manor of Rooksdon, in the county of Devon," has written, and duly published, a protest against the Commutation of Tithes Act, which the said Rev. JoNAs DENNIS denounces as illegal and unconstitutional. We reprint the Rev. Prebendary's protest for the amusement and edification of our readers. The Rev. Gentleman obviously belongs to the militant and cursing portion of the Church, for he proudly revolts against the authority of the State, and revives the practice of excommunica tion. He professes to be a member of the Pro testant and State-made Church, but he assumes the worst powers of the Papal priesthood. He is not, we believe, a Puseyite, he would pro bably scorn all communion with Rome, but he is determined to act on the principles of Rome. flow the people of Exeter can strug gle on with PHILPOTTS for Bishop, and DENNIS fur Prebendary, we cannot tell; in peace it is impossible they should live, unless they have no such thing as conscience. To obey both the Law and the Gospel, as expounded by the published writings and speeches of - the Diocesan and his Prebendary-, will be a harder task than to make bricks without straw. Commute your tithes, says the Law; you are, ipso facto, excommuni nicated, if you obey the law, says Prebendary DENNIS; and the poor inhabitants of the diocese of Exeter must be quite bewildered by now fol lowing the Law, and anon following the Church. No other Bishopric, we sincerely hope, can have two such men as PHILPOTTS for Bishop, and DENNIS for Prebendary. • The first reason assigned by the Rev. Pre bendary for the illegality and unconstitutional nature of the Tithe Commutation Act, is, it " did not obtain the previous consent of the respective Convocations ofthe Bishops and Clergy of each province." Accordiag to Prebendary DENNIS, therefore, the assent of the Bishops in the House of Lords to the Act, goes for nothing. It does not bind the clergy. The Prince Bishops must sit in Parliament by virtue of their own inherent or divine right to speak for themselves. Besides a vote in Parliament, they have a rote in Convocation, and must there be consulted before the two Houses can make a law affecting the Church. The priesthood are resolved,- there fore, at_least Prebendary DENNIS is, to give per petuity to the wealth of the clergy. They will accept ail they can extort from the State, they have no objection even to filch a little from the poor, but they declare, by the mouth of Pre bendary DENNIS, that there is no power in the State to interfere with what they possess. The worthy Prebendary states several other reasons besides the main one, that the Convoca tions were not consulted—why the Tithe Act is illegal and unconstitutional. It violates Magna Charta ; it is contrary to a statute of HENRY 111., which denouncesa sentence of excommuni cation against all who infringe liberties and rights, according to which the Parliament of 1836 is, ipso facto, excommunicated. It was excommunicated in the reign of HENRY 111. We can fancy that such obtuse people, on the subject of Church property, as the Earl of SPENCER and Lord J. RUSSELL will not hasten to confess, arid procure absolution, by promising to repeal the unconstitutional law; but Sir R. INGLIs, Sir A. AGNEW, the Earls of WINCH IL SEA and MOUNTCASHEL, Sir R. PEEL, Lord STANLEY, Sir J. GRAHAM, and several other priest-fearing men, if not already grey from age, will turn grey from grief, to learn that they have actually been excommunicated, cursed by the Church, banned from fire and from water, cursed in their loins and their joints, for the long space of five years. Moreover, the Act is illegal and unconsti tutional, says the Prebendary, because it is con trary to the Coronation oath, which the State Driesthood impose on the Sovereign. Whether she do justice between man and man is of no consequence ; the cardinal principle of all is, that she preserve to the priesthood all their rights and privileges. 'Without that, society will tumble headlong to ruin—with that, Prebendary DENNIS implies all will be well—men will be happy here, and saved hereafter. Before we conclude, we must remind Preben dary DENNIS that there is a class of persons called tithe-payers, who pay tithes unwillingly, and have much more respect for the secular than the ecclesiastical power. Unless the former made them pay tithes, it is to be feared that the excommunication of the priesthood would be as much disregarded as their blessing, and no tithes would be paid. Tithes are not property—they are a tax They are not the produce of the tithe-owners labour, but the produce of other men? la• hour. They belong naturally and neces sarily to the tiller of the ground, and are given to the tithe-owner because the law says he shall have them. In placing himself above the law, Mr. Prebendary DENNIS, there fore, also tramples under his feet his own right to exact tithes. When there is no other autho rity for exacting and paying them than the claims of the tithe-owners, whether secular or ecclesiastical, it may be doubted whether they will be paid fbr a single day. We respectfully counsel Prebendary DENNIS,. therefore, and all the tithe-owners, who must be aware that the terrors of excommunication will not enforce payment, to put their protests against the legality of the Tithe Act into the fire as speedily as possible. If they teach the commu nity that the Legislature cannot commute tithes, it will go hard but the tithe-payers will mem the lesson, and refuse to pay the unauthorised and arrogant demands of a sectarian priesthood. A meeting of the merchants, manufacturers and others of Birmingham, and of deputies from several neighbouring manufacturing towns, was held at Birmingham on Wednesday. Similar testimony was borne by all present to that which has been borne at all the other recent meetings held in the manufacturing districts, of decaying trade, falling Wages, and expatriating artisans. To give examples , : Mr. BOU LTBEE quote d the ease of a manufficturer whose trade with Ame rica has fallen off from 1,0001. to 601., and the reason assigned for this is, the Americans are manufacturing for themselves, They cannot buy our goods, because we will not take what they have to give us; and, therefore, they are driven to supply t h e i r own wants t h emse l ves , w hi c h we could supply, greatly to the advantage of both countries, better than they can. r SdOTT, the Member for Walsall, quoted We publish in another part of The Sun Cap ta'n TROTTER'S Report of the unfortunate failure of the Niger Expedition, addressed to the Lords of the Admiralty. It is a distressing record of the exertions of gallant men to effect a physical impossibility. One sad consolation only remains to the nation. The naval records of no nation in this world recount instances of officers and crews who surpassed in zeal, in strict discipline, in uncomplaining endurance of the greatest sufferings, and in acts of high individual heroism, the fine fel lows who composed this expedition. For what act of heroism performed in a field of battle can be compared with the courageous conduct of an inexperienced medical officer navigating alone a large steamer, and by his unexampled skill and fortitude saving the vessel and the lives of all on board? As the Report will be generally read, we need not here attempt an analysis of it. Captain TROTTER is of opinion that the Niger cannot be navi gated by white men, but yet with that utter regardlessness of self which distinguished our naval officers, he expresses his willingness to accompany another expedition next year. The Gallant Captain is now in London, and in direct communication with her MAJESTY'S Government, so that shortly after the meeting of Parliament the country will be put in possession of all the details of this unfortunate expedition. Much as we may regret the throwing away of sixty thou sand pounds, we are decidedly of opinion that no niggardliness should be exhibited in dealing with the pecuniary claims of the gallant survivors. The importance of the debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the Right of Search question, appears to be overlooked by our Con temporaries. The French Government, in con cert with the other great European Powers, hav ing guaranteed a right of mutual search, we may affect to despise, or denounce as factious, the opposition made in the Chamber of Deputies to the ratification of a treaty to that effect; but surely before doing so it would be as well to ask ourselves of what use would be a Treaty with France opposed to the national prejudices of a majority of the French people ? In an absolute Monarchy the ratification of a Treaty by the Government may preclude all regard for public opinion; but can this be said of a country which boasts even of such a shadow of a Constitution as France ? Would the Treaty hold good were we foolishly to embroil ourselves in a hostile contest with the United States'.' Most certainly, in the present temper of the French Chamber of De- -~~.~ t ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Splendid success of Domestic Drama, for which this Theatre ...._-- stands unrivalled and alone. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, 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 acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, THE WILD IRISH GlRL.—Shelah O'May, Miss Vincent, in which she will dance her celebrated Donny brook Rant, and sing several hurnourous chaunts, and a new Medley Epilogue. To conclude with the Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions, Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle I" con sisting of Maritime Views along the Coast of England. Aho, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the P an t om i me supporte d b y t h e Comic Talent of this--the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, 6 d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at. Half-past Eight. To-morrow, Geraldine, with The Wild Irish Girl, and Har equin Peter Wilkins. Til I I QUEEN n W A GER.—We exceedingly rej ; o.e e to _ t.„ . r0 ,,,, 11 „_ u 4 se t ti that . the answer to inquiries at Marlbo- Do : pg u er n cont. its morning was, her Majesty the Queen Gold daily to improve in health and spirits. The Medal, for 1841, of the Gresham Committee, .hhs.rently been awarded to an anthem of the Rev. W haver t g h a e l , M.A Rector of Astley, in this county. 'Nis second time the umpires, Dr. Crotch, Mr. Horsley, ls prize tt the Rev. Gn ti ft e n rn d Mr. Goss, have adjudged the Worcestershire Chronicle. MELANCHOLY " ACCIDENT FROM MAKING SLlDES.—Wednesday an inquest Hos pital, before Mr. Payne, on the was body held in Guy's n Bay ley, aged 77. It appeared from the evidence Mr. John de ceased was a retired tradesman, and iv that the c.l at No. 53, Lo w er-road, Rotherhithe. Abo u t ten o'clock on th e morning of Saturday se'nnight the deceased, who was in c , as good health for his advanced years, was walking along the footpath in Adam - street , Rotherhithe, when he - ---. fortunately slipped, and fell heavily, owing to a e l l which some boys had formed. The poor old - gentleman was raised up by some persons near the spot, and con veyed to a neighbouring surgeon's, when it was ascer tained that he had received a severe fracture of the left le • leg Ilt spitivitly removed in a cab to the above 11 hi .` Rt.S.Me severe nature of the injury, 114.; , a. d's age, hegrad u ally sank, and • y,, ; last. Verdict—" Accidental • • _ THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 28, 1842. THE WEATHER.—NOON, JANUARY 27. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 34 ;Highest 4l !Lowest 36 Barometer 29.67.—Wi n d W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 51 minutes after 2 I Evening ll minutes after 3. THE RAILWAY SUN cases from Stourbridge of the fall of wages, is NOW RE-PUBLISHING, in various t ra d es , f rpm thirty to fifty per cent. between 1838 and 1842. Mr. JOSHUA, PRICE SIXPENCE. SCHOLEFIELD stated that manufacturers in Shef field and various parts of Lancashire and Bir mingham, are preparing to remove their capital and labourers to Cerrnany and the United States. To refute the notion that the employment of ma , chinery was the cause of the distress, Mr. WALKER, of Wolverhampton, read a list of twenty iron articles, in the manufacture of which machinery was not used, but of which the prices had fallen, between 1836 and 1841, nearly cent. per cent., from the want of a market. All the persons present bore testimony to the great dis tress and suffering of the people. Strong resolu tions against the Corn and Provision-laws were unanimously adopted, and the meeting declared that they would use all peaceful and lawful means to procure the total and immediate aboli tion of these laws. Such meetings will not, can not, and dare not be disregarded by the 'Legislature. They warn the landlords, very emphatically, that they are ruining that trade by which their rent is created, and so impoverishing the other classes, that poor-rates, highway rates, and all other public expenses, will soon fall, almost exclusively, on rent. _ While we mourn over the increasing dis tress of the people, we rejoice to know that a bidder, and a better, and a more kindly spirit is inspiring the middle classes. A leading topic at the Birmingham meeting was the necessity of extending the suffrage, and the impossibility of guarding against unjust class legislation, as long as a small section of the community only is re presented in the House ofCommons. That alone was wanted, we believe, to reconcile the different classeS, and, once re-united, they will soon sub due their common oppressor. We must, however, remind the advocates of the Charter exclusively, that unlesss they can get food cheap and abundant, the Suffrage .will come too late. The people are starved out of spirit, before they are quite starved out of ex istence. Men, like other animals, are humbled, by hunger, and can be enslaved by those who possess the power to feed them. If we cannot speedily procure a larger allowance for all, we shall all be at the mercy of the food owners. Labour, in the great majority of cases, is ex changed for food, which is the first and greatest want. When food is scarce, nothing else is or can be thought of but how to get food; when food is abundant, man can turn his thoughts to other things, can cultivate his taste, improve his understanding, enlarge his sphere of enjoyment, and have time to devote to political duties. Let us try first, then, to make food cheap and abundant. It would be a glorious thing were the work men of London- next week to second the 'exertions of their fellows in the neighbouring towns, and enable the weeping mothers and the starving families of Bolton and Paisley to say, "the men of London have wrought out our deliver ance from the bondage of the landlords." It would be a glorious thing for the men of London to terrify the sordid and tyrant aristocracy from their prey by their earnest and solemn voices, and so achieve a great triumph for humanity, liberty, and civilization. If they unite with their countrymen, and demand the abolition of the bread tax, it is in their power to accomplish_ that great object. Scandalous will it be to the men of London if they do not efficiently aid their suf fering and starving countrymen and country women, by acting as proxies for them, and car rying respectfully, but earnestly, their prayers `o the ear of the SOVEREIGN. At the close of a case in the Queen's Bench on Wednesday, concerning the settlement of a pauper, the Court is reported to have said, " Although it felt strongly that serious inconve niences might arise from this decision, and that most probably the Legislature did not contem plate the case of lunatics when that section (of the New Poor-law) passed, still it thought that the words were too strong to be got over, and that the decision of the Quarter Sessions must be re versed." This phrase shows that the Court of Queen's Bench is at all times prepared to wrest the words of a statute, if they be not " too strong to be got over," to its own views of law. Instead of interpreting statutes by the ordinary meaning of words, and fairly carrying them into execution, the Courts of Law strain them, and, when they can, pervert or set them aside, substituting for them the common-law maxims of the Judges. 'Without entering into the difficult question, whether the Common-law or the Statute-law . be most consonant to equity and justice, we must remark that this statement makes the fact apparent, that there is in the country two sources of law, or two bodies of law makers, who give contradictory enactments, and who, in some sense, thwart each other. The Judges, under the pretence of carrying the law into execution, in fact, wrest it to their own ideas of what the law ought to be, when the words of a statute do not strictly bind them to one course, and are 'not susceptible of two mean ings. That, under such circumstances, there should be conflicting laws, and that the whole of our legislation, intended to be the rule of man's life and actions, should be a jumbled mass of incomprehensible and inextricable mystery, can surprise no man. The surprise is to find in society a sound principle which enables it to sur vive, and thrive under a system only calculated to engender that confusion which precedes de struction. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1842. puties, it would not. Now this is really the prac• tical question to be considered, and not the ab stract right on one side or t h e other. Now if France, who can employ as many cruisers on the coast of Africa as England can, is thus jea lous of the exercise of a right of search, what heart-burnings must it not occasion to Prussian, Austrian, Russian, and Dutch traders ? " But," say our Contemporaries, " the right of search is mutual; the power we claim ourselves we con cede to others." True; but is it not very like a mockery to offer to exchange a concession of power with a State whom we know to be inca pable of exercising it? The naval force of Hano ver consists of one ship of war employed in en forcing the pillage of merchant ships in the Elbe; now would it not be a mockery of the present state and dignity of CUMBERLAND'S last Royal Duke, seriously to propose the ratification of a Treaty for enforcing a mutual right of na tions found navigatin g t he coast of Africa? to the two search of all vessels b e l ong i ng Would not such a compact be a revival of the old one of the giant and the dwarf ? The Right of Search question is viewed with jealousy in France - and elsewhere, because one nation as sumesit out. Were it a con yaitna all the Powers ratifyi ng it should represented ou th e Af r i can coast by dithoon u ol d the f tbhee lead Treaty t r h r g - W b th ef e o obj ro e th ct e io v n o s io t o o o it f a rne, n oau e s lo q dn u a av l ioi n rd. u yj m uss b ot e ioc r oe o . d f s c ßa r pu u pit seO u r Contemporaries en tirely overlook this important point, and hence arise a series of plausible, but very egregious blunders. MONEY and COI-h-atclAL NEWS THURSDAY EVENING. The speculators have not to-day manifested any in creased desire to operate, nor has the market worn a firmer appearance as far as they are concerned. The chief business is still on account of the public. For immediate transfer Consols have been marked 898 to 89 . 4, and for the Account 891 buyers, and closing at that price sellers. The Unfunded Debt has been supported at 17s. to 19s. premium. East India Bonds were at 10s. to 12s. premium. Bank Stock got up to 1671 and 1681, and India Stock to 2478 and 2481. The New Three and-a-Half per Cents, fluctuated from 99 to 987, and the Reduced Three per Cents. from 898 to 898. The Foreign Bonds were fl a t to-da. Portuguese New Five p er Cents. declined t o 338 and -, but the Three per Cents. remained at 24. Active Spanish Bonds were dull at 254 to 25. Mexican realised 294, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 511 to 518. The Share Market presents no particular feature. There is still an absence of buoyancy. 'Brighton were atl3l to 13; Greenwich at 131; Midland Counties at 20; Northern and Eastern at 7; and Birmingham and Gloucester at 36 discount. Manchester and Leeds were 4 to 4i; York and North Midland, 428 ; Ditto New, 161; and Great Western 21 premium. London Joint-Stock Bank Shares were 24 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 26.—The sales of Cotton to-day are 2,500 bales, with a very dull mar ket ; the business has been wholly confined to the trade, bat without change in prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 26.—The transac tions at the Share Market this day comprised Eastern Counties 101. 6s. Bd. ; Grand Junction, 193 ; London and Birmingham, 169i'; Manchester and Leeds Half shares, 314. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 26.—We have had a very dull market, and no alteration in prices to report. Manchester and Leeds 72 73; Manchester and Birmingham, 271 27k; London and South Western, 58 58k; London and Birmingham, 169 170. By the arrival of a merchant vessel from Buenos Ayres, papers to the 19th of November have been re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house. The British packet of the 13th states that the intelli gence of the death of Lavalle has been fully confirmed. Respecting the fate of La Madrid, nothing positive has yet been known. Two Indians, who lately came over m the Cordillera, report that before their departure from Chili, a group of about twenty men had reached the first post-house there in great distress, and that in their passage across they met with nearly one hundred dead bodies, upon some of which they found considerable sums in gold. The last advices from Carmentes, to which quarter at tention is now directed, represent Paz and Ferre as hav ing retreated across the river Carmentes, upon the bank of which Gen. Echague had encamped. In Banda Oriental the Rivera Governmelit were taking active measures to avert the threatening storm. Among other steps a general enrolment of slaves was ordered to be made. Exchange on England 2 15-16 pence. The English Securities opened firm, with an advance upon yesterday's prices. Consols are 891 for Money, and 894 I/ for the Account. Exchequer Bills are steady at 17s. to 19s. premium. Spanish Active Stock firm at 251 e ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 334 34 ; Ditto Threes, 20 : f. The brig Messenger, Captain Ellis, has just arrived in the St. Katherine Dock from Boston, United States, and is the first vessel of a line of packets which will run regularly hereafter between Boston and Loudon; and if the experiment succeeds, new and large ships of the size and model of the New York, Liverpool, and London lines, will take the places of the present vessels. The Messenger has made a good voyage, and comes laden with American produce. There is little doubt of the ultimate success of this new line, as the rapid growth of Boston, the opening of the Railroad to Albany, by which the vast quantities of Western produce can be conveyed at a rapid rate ,to Boston, the Royal Mail steamers from Liverpool, the Eastern Railroad, which is to be continued to the Bay of Fundy, the numerous branch railroads, all continue to assist the trade of Boston, and we see no reason why a line of splendid packets direct to London, should not prove profitable to the enterprising merchants who have started the project. • The English and Foreign Securities are not quite so firm as at the opening. Consols are now 891 for Money, and 894 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced. Exchequer Bills, 1719. 89 ! p ; an d i t i t s o h Th Activer e e-a n d s - t a o - c ll k a 1 2 f, 5 9 4 94 ; ; Portuguese Five per Cents, 334 ; Ditto, Threes, 204 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 514 ; Ditto, Fives 1014. Little doing. The Share Market is flat, with little doing. Great Western 854 86 ; Ditto, New, 601 ; London and Brigh ton, 37 ; South Eastern and Dover, 27. Consols, Money, 894 4 ; ditto, Account, 894 ; Colom bian,l2l4a 22; Mexican, 294 ji; Portuguese, 334 ; Spa nish, 254. In the very late advises received to-day from Buenos Ayres, there is " food for reflection" to such of our mer chants as are interested in the affairs of South America. The long and ruinous contest between the Argentine ruler, Rosas, and the Unitari ans, seems lik e l y to b e early brought to a close. One, at least, among the host of ambitious tyrants, whose name is " Le gion," has ceased to desolate the soil of America, though, perhaps, the dragon-tooth may be too deeply sown not to bring forth another and another. The development of the resources of South American States to the benefit alike of themselves and the coun tries trading with them, can clearly never be accom plished until the horn of peace is held in sight where now the sword of war is fiercely waved; and it seems as if in the ascendancy of one superior tyrant, such as Rosas or Santa Anna, and the curbing of the no less restless though less able ones, that the safety and prosperity of such republics can best exist, at least under the present system of Government. BRITISH FUNDS. Fink St ock 1674 India Stock ~... ..... ...: 18 3 per Cent R e d B9l Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 894 Ditto Old Annuities ... 34 per Cent Red 994 Ditte New Annuities... New 34 per Cent New 5 per Cent. . — Ditto 5001... Long Annuities :,oexpire Ditto Small l7 pm Jan. 1860 ... 121 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859. 124 India Stock for Acct.... Jan, 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pei (tent. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pel rent — 'Ditto, New Ditto 33 Brazilian Bonds. .. Prussian, 5 per cent. Ruenos Ayres 6 per cea Russian, 5 per cent...,,, Chilian, 6 per cent..... ,'Ditto, Metallic ...... . Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent...-. Ditto, 1824.. ..... IDitto, Deferred.... • Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. — 4...... e, Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange............ f c Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 percent. -- • .... c Ditto, 6 per cell`. 1637 Dutch, 24 per cent. 51 Peruvian, 1825, fper ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 101 SHABAS. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 y) 64 86 Cheltenham WesternenhamandnaiGirweaayt( 65 paid) Western (72k paid) 14i Great Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Gosport Juncti on R a il wa y (50 pd) London and Brighton (50 paid) 37 London and Green w i c h Railway („ 8 4 584 London and South W es t er n ........... Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .•••••••• • 32 Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) 2 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 pig) O4 ... 2 . South East,:rn and Dover C-18 pai d • .•• 7 York aid) tu.i. JAN. 25. — 3lk Ditto nL an L d Nu No wA C r ys t h h. a A ur i e i Ns d D i ( a 5 n 1. 1 5 Bp ß am a iv i , l l : .; a . . y . (,‘ Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ............ ... 52 liothschild'E Lean , 5 per Can t.. .. ... ! . Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cen t . sper cent. Thirty.seven (1340) .................. 103 Loan of City, 1:131, 4 per Cent.... ..... Society of Conm9rce, 4 %per Cent ...... "*".. Bank of Belgium 5 per Cent... ......... 78% fiationalSaciety ................................... Exchange on London ( s hort) .................. - --Brussels Papers, Jan. 25* - - THE QUACKERY OF FREE TRADE is a phrase adopted by th e T or i es. Will they not soon speak of the qua c k ery o f t h e free winds of t h e atmosphere? Perhaps, too, they will describe It is at least c l ear g th ro e w f t r h ee of c p o l u a r n s t e s, ( a )t s ' qtluiaeckpelrayn.ets, .and the f ree intercommunication separated, and as that free intercommunication between. bodies of dinadinweiddubaylsN, paotuliit.eicaaslliyheseipreaerated, is as much or dained restricting bodies of men not politically of the free course of the winds. .Nature ordains is sorry, free trade; the supposition that fools of states men can mend her works, and promote the hap pinesstiia t w which l i mankind Nature regulatingblyiasmnot to say impious, quackery. ad made free, .4 , Ird ( - pfs: . zt.,•• CE:t(N grl 1 - •• „ , 'if ill MI! 0 4 1,t4; 14: 4 SUMMARY OF N PAIS AND i3tttiftr Optutott. " Who runs may read." PORMIGN. The Brussels Papers state that the interview between the Kings of Prussia and Belgium was most affectionate. The two Monarchs had early known and respected each other, and met as friends long separated by the necessi ties of their rank. Business, however, was not forgotten. The tariff was discussed, and the result is said to have been very gratifying to King Leopold. As the King of Prussia is, therefore, composed of squeezable materials, our people ought to bring the Corn-laws under his notice. Baron Bulow returned to Brussels on Monday—a sure indication that the two Kings parted on the best terms at Ostend. His Excellency left for Berlin on the follow ing day, in company with the Prussian Ambassador, at the Hague. = The Hague journals announce that M. de Wigner, Chamberlain of the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe Wie mar Eisenach, had had a private audience of his Ma jesty the King. M. de. Wigner was commissioned to ask, in the name of his Sovereign, the hand of the Princess Sophia of the Netherlands, for Prince Charles, the heri ditary Grand Duke, son of the Grand Duke and of the Grand Duchess Maria Pauloun, sister of the Queen of the Netherlands, and of the Emperor of Russia. PUBLIC OPINION. The object of the principal leadinc , article in the Herald is to sho w th a t i t i s t h e interest of England to cultivate as much as possible friendly relations with Germany, as represented by Prussia. "An alliance between the two great Catholic Powers of Europe," says the Herald, " would be dangerous in the extreme, yet the extension of French _and Austrian frontiers, at the expense of Germany, is a tempting, basis on which to exact it. Hence the great importance to England of influence in the Peninsula ; of her protecting Spanish and Portu guese independence, and of maintaining those insti tutions which weaken therein the power of the Pope and the Romish clergy. Germany has an interest in British power in the Peninsula ; she looks to it as a preventive against an Austrian-French alliance." The Times remarks, in reference to M. Thiers's recent speech in the Chamber of Deputies, " he has done good in attacking the bitter fallacy, which his own presump tion had endeavoured to propagate, that the advent o f the French arm i es was looked rward to by an import ant party in Germany as the signal for the regeneration of their count r y. Th e ti me f or suc h foolish delusions is fortunately past." The Chronicle is of opinion that Lord de Grey's pro ceedings must be made the subject of Parliamentary vestigation, no matter what may be the result of the Dublin election; for that his Lordship has shown himself a decided partisan--become, in fact, little better than the Chairman of a Committee in a contested election ; while the most glaring intimidation has been used to coerce every elector within the circle of vice-regal influence. The Post contradicts the report that the Queen has intimated her wish to confer the vacant ribbon of the Garter on Lord Melbourne ; and adds, " the very in dustry with which the Opposition Journals have dissemi nated the falsehood, it has been our duty to contradict, shows out too plainly how prone they and the party which they labour with so much zeal, and so little dis cretion to serve, would have been to misconstrue the fact, had it accidentally been true." The Advertiser recommend the Opposition to adopt a decisive line of conduct on the first night of the Session; and if the Queen's speech contains no distinct admission of the frightful prevalence of distress in the country, to move an amendment to the Address, and let that amend ment be pressed to a division. "We may be told," says our Contemporary-, " that this is an unusual course; we know it is ; but are not these unusual times ?" The Worcester Journal, speaking of the Royal Chris tening, says:—" There are many associations in English history with the name of Edward that render the name dear to us as, Britons, and which led us to hope that it would have the precedence on the occasion which we are now commemorating; but it has given place to Albert. The Dublin Evening Post, in an article alluding to Sir Robert Peel's difficulty in governing Ire'and, observes that Lords De Grey and Eliot have greatly increased that difficulty—" by throwing themselves headlong into the arms of the Orangemen. They were bad enough before, in all conscience. They scarcely ever made a move since they came to Ireland but a wrong one. But the present contest has tried them to the marrow. It was shoWn to them that their She riffs were not trustworthy—it was proved to them that they ought to invest the person whom they had already nominated to the office, with full authority. This person is a Tory as well as themselves, but Sir Edward Burrough is a GENTLEMAN. This they refused to do. The correspondence with the Castle, arising out of this transaction, will show how the Irish Administration have complicated Sir Robert Peel's difficulty.' " The Tyne Mercury says :—" Whenever a strike takes place in a manufactory, the landlords talk about cotton lords, and revile the manufacturer as if he were a per secutor and an oppressor, at the very moment when they are exerting themselves to obtain the removal from their estates of immense numbers of people to distant parts of the world, whom they are desirous of transporting like so many felons—men who have perhaps laboured for them and their ancestors for many generations —men who have been to the land precisely what the cotton spin ner, the weaver, or the warper, is to the manufacturer .' DIONEY - TMULDE-COXVEMETCCE. - To afford employment to the 4,000 or 5,000 labourers in Paris, who are out of employ, the Champs-Elysees are to be levelled, the model-prison in the Rue St. An toine to be proceeded with, and the outer boulevards continued. The opening of the South-Eastern Railway as far as Tonbridge Town is to take place in March next. PUBLIC REJOICINGS. The festivities at the sea-ports and dockyards on Tues day were as follow :—Holidays were granted to the Sap pers and Miners, and all the men undergoing punishment for light offences forgiven. At Chatham, 1,000 families were supplied with beef, bread, and porter. At Maid stone dinners abounded; and at Brighton, the clock of St. Peter's, the stoppage of which has caused such angry feeling between the Vicar and his parishioners, was wound up and set agoing. ELECTIONEERING. At the close of'the poll for the Walbrook Ward on Wednesday, Mr. Rowley was duly elected by a majority of six over Mr. Colman. The Hon. Col. Abercromby has resigned the repre sentation of Clackmannan and Kinross, owing to the bad state of his health. Gen. Morison has started in the Liberal interest, and it is understood he will walk the course. NAVAL AND MILITARY. New colours were presented to the 72d Highlanders on Wednesday afternoon at Windsor by the Duke of Wel lington, who, in his address, alluded to his serving in the same regiment in India in 1795, and spoke in high terms of its bravery and good conduct. Baron Humboldt and the King of Prussia's m cite were afterwards entertained by the officers of the regiment. Nine officers belonging to the Niger Expedition, one of whom is Capt. Trotter, who had the chief command, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday night, by the Warre, which sailed from Fernando Po on the 13th Nov. Major-Gen. Brown, C. 8., late of the Rifle Brigade, has entered on his duties at Head-quarters as Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces, vice Sir John Gardi ner promoted. Gen. Brown is one of the heroes of the Peninsular War, and was severely wounded at Talavera. The Earl of Mulgrave, Scots Fusilier Guards, has arrived at head-quarters, Montreal, to resume his duties as Aide-de-Camp to the Commander of the Forces. A meeting of the shipmasters, captains, and mates of vessels engaged in the merchant service was held at Liverpool on Tuesday, to memorialise the Government to appoint Boards of Examination g for ptptains a n d mates, previous to their being inducted into their re sponsible situations. The present irregular system was shown to occasion immense loss of life and property, occurring from wreckage and unskilful captainship. A memorial to the Earl of Ripon was accordingly'adopted. LAW AND PO LXCE, The matter of Mr. Hitchcock's bankruptcy was re sumed on Wednesday, before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd. With regard to the inculpation of Messrs. Cook and Gladstone in the bankrupt's practices, Mr. Humphrey showed that, instead of colleaguing with him, Messrs. Cook and Gladstone had been the first to strike the doc ket of bankruptcy against him, and it was they who first discovered the concealment of his goods. All along they believed the bankrupt to be, as he represented him self; solvent. The statement that they had received goods from Mr. Hitchcock by the " back door," was shown to be nothing " secret," as all their goods always came in there. Mr. Gladstone also utterly denied any clandestine dealing. The further hearing of the case was adjourned to Wednesday next. At Greenwich Police Court on Wednesday, G. Dixon, William Thompson, and Henry Norton, well-dressed young men, were committed to take their trial for pick ing pockets at the West-gate of the Hospital on Friday. On Wednesday W. Troy, a tall youngman, with his left arm in a sling, was charged as a begging i m p os t or. It appeared he had imposed repeatedly on Mrs. Hibbert, a lady of property in Hyde-Park-square, by telling her that he had broke his arm, and that ithad been so badly set by a surgeon at Highgate, he was compelled to apply at St. George's Hospital, when Dr. Hawkins broke it again and reset it. The wife of the impostor also told a pitiful story about a dead child; and this broken arm, on examination by a surgeon before the Magis trate, was found well and sound, and the prisoner, in consequence, was ordered to the - tread-mill for three months. No less than five daring robberies have taken place in Kent during the last week, in cottages on the high road. In the parishes of Staplehurst and Marden scarcely a night passes without a robbery. The excavators on the railroad, it is generally believed, are implicated in these numerous depredations. Delahunt in his confession states that for a month he was under an insane impression that he should commit a murder, and this idea clung to him with such tenacity that he wandered about the streets with a knife in search of his prey. He was attracted by the boy Maguire, while lie was trying to jump on a coal-cart in play. He enticed him, and in describing the murder, says " he seized the boy by the forehead, and having pressed his back forcibly against his thigh, drew the knife quickly across his throat, and then flung him from him." PINE ARTS. At a salt, of coins and medals at Mr. Sotheby's last week, a crown piece, being the memorable "Petition Crown of Charles IL, by Thomas Simon," was sold for 170/. to Mr. Baker, who collects for the Corporation of the City of London. Of this pattern-piece a very few were struck, and it commemorates the famous contention between Simon and the Roetteirs. LITERARY AND scn:rwrxrw. Smithfield is corruption .of Smootifield, it is de scribed in Fitz-Stephen's account of London, as a plain field: it is remarkable that it has continued a cattle market for more than six centuries. The widow of the late Alexander Duval, the author, has just had a pension of 1,500 francs, granted her by the French Government. Among the present Americanisms in use, is the classi cal and frequent one of the word sparse, from the Latin sparsus, used for scattered or thin ; as " the Western states are but sparsely peopled ;" " the trees are sparse," &c. The first dra ma tic titt nove EATRICAL Ity to be produced at Drury lane Theatre, is a two-act Comedy, called the " Pri soner of Warr, which is from the pen of Mr. Douglas Jerrold. The name of the new Comedy at Covent-garden theatre is the Irish Heiress," and it is by the author of " London Assurance," SPRING. Louis XIV. exce ll e d i n sp T orts and exercises ; he loved the air, lived much out of doors, and was the best shot in France. He used to follow the stag at Fontainbleau, after he broke his arm, in a caleche drawn by four po nies. From his attachment to clogs he kept seven or eight in his apartments, and fed them himself. The Essex Standard says :—We have to record one of the most successful day's shooting that we have ever heard of in this country. On Frid a y, t h e 14t h, T . Wh i te, Esq., J. P. Osborne, Esq., and W. W. Hawkins, Esq., bagged, in the preserves of the latter gentleman, at Alresford, 415 head of game in the short space of four hours ; consisting of 93 pheasants, woodcocks, 84 hares, and 234 rabbits." COURT—PALS/3X 0 NAB I.E. The Duke of Marlborough has returned to Blenheim from a visiting tour in Ireland. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers left town yesterday fur Windsor, to be present at the grand ball at the Castle last night. Lady Peel, and many other ladies of rank and fashion, went to the Queen's ball at Windsor last night. Lord Beaumont arrived at Mivart's hotel on Tuesday, from Carleton Hall, Yorkshire. The Earl of Ripon returned to his residence at Put ney on Thursday. The Marquis of Worcester arrived at Beaufort House on Thursday, from Vienna. The Marquis of Abercorn leaves town on Monday for Baron's Court, Ireland. IVECSCELE.AIITEOUS. To-day is the anniversary of the death of Sir ,Francis Drake, the celebrated naval commander, in 1596. itUPTOUR OP THE DAY. It is said that Lord Morpeth is about to be married to a fair American, named Appleton, daughter of a wealthy merchant of Boston. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. Lord Great Chamberlain's-office, House of Lords, Jan. 27, 1842. All Peeresses, on announcing their intention of being present on the occasion of the opening of the Session of Parliament, on Thursday the 3d of February, will have places reserved fbr them in the House of Lords, if the announce ment be made at this office before five o'clock on Tuesday the Ist of February. No Lady can be admitted, into the body of the House, except in full dress. No strangers will be admitted, except by a ticket from the Lord Great Chamberlain. The doors will be opened at twelve o'clock. (Signed) WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C. THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. Sir Henry Halford and Dr. Chambers visited the Duke of Cleveland about 12 o'clock yester• day. According to the bulletin which was issued at one o'clock there appears to be no improvement. The following is a copy : " His Grace the Duke of Cleveland is ex tremely ill this morning. " St. James's-square, Jan. 27, 1842." SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S DECLA RATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—ft appears that Sir James Graham, one of the Ministers, told the "Short-time Deputa tion,',' that " one thin.- was certain, that we mus t lay aside the notion thin; we could ever again become the workshop of the world." By what particular feeling or quality of the human mind as ordinarily constituted, must this declaration be supposed to have been dictated? What it bears on the face of it, ap pears to be of this kind. "We the predominant party in a great manufacturing and commercial country, or what might have been, have for six and-twenty years been doing our best to check its progress in those directions. We have levied a tax from the community, the effects of which have been sedulously directed to giving a premium upon foreign manufactures to the depression of our own. We now rejoice to say, that the result of our pains has embodied itself in the complete and unassailable superiority of the foreigner. 'We have reached the haven of our wishes. We have prevented the country from rushing into the commercial supremacy which it was in dan ger of; and we now exult in seeing the cause of apprehension permanently extinguished, in the extinction of the temptation. We trust to hear no more of this romantic attachment to trade; -arid the ground on which we rest our confidence, is that the heroine is cut up and made into a pie." If this is not the meaning of the Minister who for our sins assists to rule us, what is? Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackheath, 27th January, 1842. THE KING of PRUSSIA'S ARRIVAL AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Yesterday morning many thousands assembled in St. James's Park, to witness the arrival of his Majesty the King of Prussia, who was expected to arrive at twelve o'clock, but as early as half-past eleven, his Majesty and attendants arrived in three Royal carriages, but without any escort, and altogether in so private a manner as almost to have entered the palace gates with out being recognised ; indeed, many of the.spectators assembled waited for some time under the impression that his Majesty had not arrived. About a quarter before one o'clock the French, Austrian, Russian, and other Ambassadors, began to arrive for the purpose of attending the Levee. Shortly after one o'clock the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Corporation as sembled at the Mansion-house, for the purpose of pro ceeding in state to present the City Address, agreed to on Monday last. His Majesty returned to Windsor in the afternoon, and to-day he will come to town for the purpose of visiting several of our national edifices in the metropolis. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the even ing gave a grand banquet at Kensington Palace to his Majesty and Noble attendants, to which a numerous and highly distinguished circle was invited to meet the august guest. To-morrow the King and suite leave Windsor Castle with the intention of passing the remainder of the Royal sojourn iu this country in town. It is now definitively ascertained that his Majesty does not occupy the apartments of the King of Hanover at St. James's Palace, as was at first expected, an offi cial communication to his Excellency Count Kielman segge and Sir Frederick Watson having been received to that effect on Tuesday morning. The King having had apartments prepared at Buck ingham Palace, at the especial command of the Queen, his Majesty could not decline their acceptance, or his Majesty would certainly have honoured those of the King of Hanover, whose residence has been thoroughly refurnished, and partially re - embellished, for the recep tion of the illustrious stranger, at a considerable expense. We understand the suite of rooms selected by the Lord Chamberlain for his Majesty's disposal, are those previously occupied by the Duchess of Kent before the Queen's marriage. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and the Duke of Wellington give splendid banquets on Monday and Tues day, to his Majesty at Stafford House and Apsley House. Count Ernest Schippenback and several other officers of the Prussian army, connected with his Majesty's re tinue, are quartered at the Tower. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 26. (FRoie A CORRESPONDENT.) The Vindictive frigate, commanded by Capt. Toup Nicholas, in working to the anchorage of Spithead this morning, missed stays, and afterwards brought up in Beckelsharn Bay, near Chichester Harbour, on the top of high water. As the tide fell she touched the ground, and beat so heavily, that about three o'clock in the af ternoon she was obliged to cut away her mizen mast by the board. Notwithstanding her situation is one of great peril, but little appears to have been done either by the men of war at Spithead, or the Dock-yard authorities, beyond despatching the Lively cutter with an anchor and cable. SEVEN O ' CLOCK.-It is reported that the mainmast of the Vindictive has gone by the board. It is now blow ing heavy from the north-we s t, w ith every appearance of a most boisterous night. The Vindictive is one of the finest frigates of the British navy, and her l as t tr i p to attend upon the King of Prussia, is the first time she ever was at sea. The Warspite frigate, Capt. Lord John Hay, arrived yesterday, and is now at anchor with the Queen, Captain Rich, at Spithead. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week, ending Jan. 22, 1842: Passengers Merchandise Darlington, Jan. 26. £l,lOl 14 8 W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. DEATH OF MR. fi----UCROW.--We regret to have to announce the death of Mr. Ducrow, which took place at a quarter to nine o'clock last night,* at his resi dence, in the York-road, Lambeth. The greatest hopes were tack entertained of his re covery until the last paralytic at . The plinth has just been finished on which the pedestal is to be erected in Trafalgar square, on which the statue of the late Admiral Lord Nelson is to stand, and attracts much notice. The work will not be finished in time to have the monument erected on the 20th Oct., the day when the signal victory was obtained, but pro bably will be ready by October twelyemouth. MORNING- SUN COURT CIRCULAR. Queen and WINDSOR, THURSDAY. -- The morw Prince Albert took their usual walk tit's ing, and again promenaded in the afternoon. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of sho otll T in the neighbourhood of Cumberland Lot accompanied by Prince Ferdinand of Saxe bourg,. the Princes Augustus and Leopold he Saxe-Cobo urg , t h e D u k e o f W e llington) t' Marquis of Exeter, and Col. Bouverie. The King of Prussia and Suite left at a quarter, past ten for London, but returned to dinner' d The Lord Chancellor, C oun tess Jersey, an Lady Clementina Villiers, the Earl and Co unt°s of Westmoreland, and Lord and Lady Star:l lo [l l ' are expected to arriv e at t h e C as tl e to-night! ° a visit to her Majesty. nue.. The Marchioness of E xe t er , the Duke 0 . -- h - p r , Clench, and the Duke a n d Duchess of S ot " land, took their departure this morning. nel Mr. G. E. and the H on . M rs . A n son, &f a h and the Hon.• Mrs. A r b u th no t, Hon' Mary Cavendish, Mrs. Bouverie, and Mr., join :re Mrs. Harcourt of St. Leonard's Hill, will " the honour to the Royal Dinner Ci r cle tll evening. Mr. Moon had the honour of submitting t° the Queen and P r i nce Alb ert , an engra ving . 'i , ° ],e Cattermole's Picture o f th e B aron i a l Hall 1 0 i ds Olden Time, and received her Majesty's cow man . to engrave the Picture of the Royal Christeelov by Hayter. The King of Prussia left Windsor Castle 0 7 ) 1 , after ten o'clock yesterday morning, attendee the Chevalier Bunsen, M. le General IstiltV l ,l. g ', le Baron de Humboldt, le Comte de Sto' b f - e M. le General de Neumann, M. Muller, 1 -r ar i Megerinch, M. de Brauchitsch, and by th e ta io of Hardwicke, Lord in Waiting, and ( -l a P fin d Meynall, Groom in Waiting. His Majesq e - e ial Suite went to Slough, and left by a sP t - bey train for Paddington, from which terminus ". to were conveyed in three of the Royal carriag e ' ar , Buckingham Palace, wher e th e y ar rived a c l u ter before twelve o'clock. „; Of Her Majesty held a Court for the recep.• °- the Foreign Corps Diplomatique. f t he The French A m b assa d or, the whole led Foreign Ministers (including those accred it on on special mission), and also the dif fer a t Charges 'd'Affaires, resident at the Court) e se tended. The Ba ron d e Renduffe, Por tu g li s iay Envoy Extrao r din ary at t h e C ourt o f Pres s was also present. npref The Vice-Chamberlai n an d th e CoMptro,' el the Queen's H ouse h o ld con d ucte d then* lencies to the presence of the King. Th e ;or valier Bunsen, his Majesty's Minister rithe tentiary on a Special Mission, presenting 11 ,' or members of the COrps respectively to h,l s b „ige jesty. The Baron de Schleinitz, Prussian tii:r e to d'Affaires, and the Baron de Canitz, attaeora, the Mission, had previously arrived at t he a t er lace, and attended his Majesty, with the ° gentlemen of the Suite, at the reception. kr The Diplomatic Corps ha v i ng ret i re d, his jesty and Suite were served with a dejeune' or r At ten minutes past two o'clock the Co,r,Piae tion of the City o f L on d on arr i ve d at the"- ' 1 his to present an Address of Congratulation W b o, Majesty. Th e L or d M ayor i n h i s State 19,c11, and wearing his C o ll ar , came i n hi s St a te c e bty drawn by six greys, preceded by th e e 0 Marshals on horseback, and also by MitrsealiP and Footmen in St a t e li ver i es . His L° 11 : ~e 5 was followed by th e Sh er iffS i n S tate c arrA; and by a numerous deputation. veer Among those present were Aldermen Sir l ow Laurie, Sir Chapman Marshall, Sir George i „ho roll, Thomas Joh nson , Gibb s , L a i ns ony Johnson, and Farncomb ; the Recorder; 0. Sheriff Magnay, Mr. Sheriff Rogers; the C" se berlain, the City Remembrancer, the Ci t Yo a l- . licitor, the, Common Pleaders, Messrs. ~e ts lock, Gurney, and Ryland, and other Offi' er s, of the Corporation. Also 117 Comm en u s, of the City of London, including Mr. Ste sre t be the mover, and Mr. Wire the seconder, °, l f n ye Address; Messr s . King, R. L. Jones, Wheelton, Parker, Edwa r d H arr i son , and r -- wood. The King received the Address in the Lib Els Majesty was habited i n th e un if orm of the Lifsti Regiment of Prussian Foot Guards. His IVI,T a le wore the Ribband of the Garter with the appended, and also the Star of that Most 11.° . Order. The Lord Mayor and the very numerous t he , putation were conducted to his Majesty by th e Vice-Chamberlain, and the Comptroller of Household. The Earl of Hardwick e, Lord in Waiting'd e a Captain Meynell, Groom in Waiting, atte" i iier the King, as a l so hi s E xce ll ency t h e Che%ite• Bunsen, and the g en tl emen o f hi s Majesty's *-A.cl.- The Recorder then read the fvll • owin v dress : " To his Majesty the King of Prussia. „ ana " The Address of the Lord Mayor Aiderr.ne-' Commons of th e Cit y o f London, in OOP" Council assembled. od " May it please your Majesty, " We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Com m ,i,, ° ,l 7 er the City of London, in i pommon Council asseme, 1 _ 1 ; s " tio t o proach your Majesty to offer our sincere congrat. u 2 to to your Majesty on your Majesty's auspicious visit beloved and gracious Sovereign the Queen. " Deeply interest e d i n every event which o. Teets of Ro y domestic happiness of our beloved Queen and h e too. Consort, we hail with th e grea t es t p l easur e and ' 59 ; to tion your M a j es ty' s p resence as one o f t h e Spans( l' o ol Prince, who, we trust, will in the fulness of time sc o op the throne of these realms, the piotector of the r° and liberties of this nation. that " Permit us, Sire, to express our earnest wish in' your Majesty's presence in this country ma •y tend 0 0 , crease and perp e t uate a f r i en d s hi p and alliance so ( wed, tial to th e P rotestant i nterest, and eminently ca lce, et to promot e th e lib ert i es, the happiness, and pros pers' , } the British a n d P russ i an nat i ons. " By Order of th e C our t , ( Si gned) "H. WOODTHORI - e The Recorde r h av i ng read this Addres s, e' 5 t el I it to the L or d M ayor, by whom it was pres— to the K a mg of Prus s i a . <via' His Majesty th en read the following ArIS " Lord M ayor an d G entlemen, t W " I thank you most warmly for the interest you in my arrival in this country. °O. "I have se i ze d w i t h part i cu l ar pleasure the OS pie° ! nity which the ki n d i nv i tat i on o f the Queen has ae(c)lbir me, of showi ng th e hi g h regar d and s i ncere friee, eiv g I feel for your justly-beloved Sovereign, and of '' rat one of the Sponsors to the Royal Infant, whom I P • God may bless. doe to "It will be t o me a source of high gratifies Dr find that my visit to this country may contribute t gqiii crease and perpetuate th e f r i en dl y re l at i ons s o bu r r existing between th e t wo countr i es — relat i on s t he portant for the maintena nce an d d eve l opmen t 0f, 0 , 0 0. blessings of peace, and for the furthering of that W ale , tion which is fo un d e d upon Christian piety and vii ss ieg " I am glad to ha ve h a d thi s opportun i ty o f ex pre a nd these my feelings to the. Lord Mayor, Alderm , Commons of the City of London." 1,04 His Majesty handed hi s answer to the city Mayor, by whom it was delivered to the Remembrancer. The Lord Mayor then presented to the t he the Aldermen present, all the Officers 01 t he Corporation, Messrs. Stevens and Wire , 9 10 mover and seconder o f th e Address, ancLifjoa Mr. King. His Lordship an d t h e D e ptw" then retired. of The King of Prussia, attended by the Et r vir Hardwicke, hi s E xce ll ency the Chevalier sea, Captain Mey ne ll, G enera l Natzrnar, Pi c:e de Humboldt, Count de Stolberg, Geneil DZ . Neumann, M. Muller, M. de Meyerinck, an .re de Brauchitsch, left town ten minutes b e i - e three o'clock for H ampton Court Palace, teriee.-: "The Cartoons." Lord Ernest Bruce, o Chamberlain, and th e Ri g h t H on. G. n5";-;ed Darner, Comptroll er o f t h e H ousehold, resew ~i his Majesty on hi s arr i va l at BuckipP;r, Palace, and con d ucte d hi s Ma j esty to h , is - riage on his departure for Hampton Court. 90 d The Grand Wine Ci s t ern , t h e largest a de finest piece of plate o n recor d i n E ur ope, ll' by for his Majesty King George the Fourth) fes , Messrs. Rundle and Bridge, was used at the a l tivities at Wi n d sor C ast l e i n honour o f the J-;„, e re Christening: It s contents on t hi s occ asion, o 7 ce a forty gallons o f s pi ce d c l aret, an d i t w as In d h er in the Wat er l oo G a ll ery. Her, Ma j est y and Augustit, and Roy a l guests were serve d ft° s th e anddrank the health of his Royal High" Prince of Wales. de Many pieces of the Regalia were also ." use of at the Royal Festivities on this 0ce": 09. ..5, having been brought from town by " who le Rundle and Bridge, to whose custody th e x at ell of the R ega li a h a d b een committed imme,":, l the after the confla gra ti on i n t h e T o wer, by Lord Chamberlain. &rile d The ancient Salt Cellar of St a t e , richly a go.- with precious stones, pl ace d between he r uet jesty and the King of Prussia on the ban c iThe table, is the model of the White Tovver• lo os, embrasures in it are filled by miniature earn placed on carriages, wrought in gold. Chapel (foal The ancient font i n S t . G eorge s which his Royal Hi g h ness t h e P r ince of W r f i a t was baptised, had b een re - g il t , an d, togethe the ;v e numerous articles of plate displayed in terloo Gallery an d St. George's Hall, b ai s t ate il n. brought fro m t own w i t h th e R ega lia an Salt-cellar. 1 gig''' . Yesterday was the birthday o f his Reya hoess ness the Duke of Sussex. Hi s R o yal Ilig oo , o l received visits of congrat u l a ti on f ro m their Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and Duke of Cambridge. In the afternoon the Ro y _it Duke went to Ma r lb oroug h R ouse t o pay YW a ty 411'1 a ei oY