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

-EVENING SUN (Aim • I 1N The S AL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) In • ession s at the Old Bailey commenced this morn• and hfseilersthe Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen, Th The e grand Jury having been sworn, ,i "e Itceoenea delivered his charge, and said the 171Idar whichh was lv• g before him contained the 11 -111 . enta s Lot prisoners; and nl he apprehended the number lobo _sue much auginented during the course of their_ e ire tn r i . • This would impose upon them a task of th ee e ,,P, g,tl_ ,i and be doubted not the Jury would perform it ektreudY, knowing that the result of their inquiries were it, the melv important. In general the cases comprehended . ie eaiendur did not present any matters of difficulty b e P2 . iht of law, and lie did not anticipate there would wertnfheulty in the discharge of their duties. There tli t ,: t t, t _ few eases, however, more serious in their nature f ei ren ., rest, and attended with sonic peculiarities of i t tvouluis,tauces, and ill consequence of those peculiarit i i . :_ m ar k s I Perhaps be necessary for him to make a few a►• • There was e • or rather four charges, klst one • •e, c,iltase, - • d orders, or *a ra _ e individual for tittering for ttieZ t , ) Ilad been defined as a false making of instru_- 111 4 '• ;,11ieh purported to be on the face of them good ttiiitnesiat;tiiit:ll,:vvith a view to fraud. Now, the' good ant, eh. Were instruments which were not ~ the face of them, t °•iv e se ,! n ; of a stamp, by which stamp it was necessary in consequence ot; eie efi 'nodits- to such instruments. But it had bep de_ inst_ti,ted on tile soundest principles, that where the forged itn`4rdneet wits uristamped, in cases where the law _lli Al% 14 P im p , no defence could be made upon that s Therefore it the case was made out to their . n _ tivietion it would be no answer to say the insiwit tietit4 . ista mped• e 14 1 . 4 ' 1 ' of this ~ . Re thought it best not to adver .t• the ft , C ase, because they would appear fully he yS'ithr, , and the observations he had already made h en % s Peet to the ease would be more fully miderstood ri0,..-ne facts were developed to them. There was a seine eharge Of stabbing and cutting with intent to do hteithrevous bodily harm, and where severe injury had were simpletete& 1 -le alluded to this case, although the facts fepres becauSe the party making the att . ack wes t ,iieits(tilla,initte,teletrodleira)ve4efn in a state of intoxication, and bound ' to say that intoxication 41 n s esen answe r to the charge Although the party was Wheth e tl , ll Its intoxicated - tiley would have to consider Previ n e s t ,ue faces when presented to them did not show a ;barge optention to do mischief and harm. Ther . e has . a L e 'tse ehtejsit assault with intent to ravish, and it was a 1141 "v th e NC reared to have been very much investigated . unaQegistrates. It appeared that the same in thoreu,bl;Nse ex;.uninations from time to time, in order esionilaii3' to elitit the whole truth. The whole of these l 'ould b e °us would be laid before them. Tle statements the whetherssarily ex arte and they would have to con th e , th e - P h . iead e ,, , .se statements were to be credited, and if a•vii to ;Onside9 their inincle as to that subject they would then smelt Pari; and whether that assault was against the will of the ''s the rase 144 - If, upon consideration,- they thought this and s t„, e ase, it i ' votild be their duty to find a true bill, t il e sh _Pt i tt i th e ease in the course of further inquiry. ,!e s , „ u t a t hot have trespassed upon their attention . with !ierehs•ttoservations but that the case was one of a pecu ,ikatedraise!er• Although the facts would be fully inves- L i g; Z t e '!„'re the Pet Jury, till it was the duty of p' ti f9 re rar th e ' til ti 0 . 2, , if they disbelieved the statement brought ,_,seri ee ,Lo throw their shield of protection over the Tat . 1 , 1 , 411 4 not put the accused party in jeopardy by a tt tne 4'47 .vas a charge of a serious character . against , I •,p o i e, of ad ministering, or attempting to edininis : 'lest e ! 1 to his wife. This case would require their ii!enitirious consideration. On the one hand, they l evo t h av e to consider whether there was reason to he i'''ith th„% t the party charged was the party supplied 'astitut;,'eleterious druz. • or whether the charge was b sa Y in hT s .falsoly frohi — Malicious motives. He should di t„, to sln , " k gm . ent of the facts presented, that it would - s 40 -4. nut the case to further investigation. He f i a h r dter t r ti e l ni in k L it Wits necessary to trouble them to h m a ie ny d Leth that it ;he would, however, venture . t l , ‘ "etiht lt was necessary that a majority. of their body_ 1,4 t t hat' our in any presentment they might make, anti • It hib i lnajority Should not be less than twelve of their t he t h he it t ' o r • th Vyith these remarks he would at once remit then t eo fl• duties, assuring them that the Court as rt. estituted or when the Judges came down, would 'Ni t : 5l , llll Y afford them any information they might re- The Pectin the several cases to come before them. 'lure any retired to theie . and had not ed with any bills when we w :A) gy resps. 0 , T he , , NE W COUR A . e kki ( I e ltY Jury were sworn in in this Court about 12 be ao.d soon afterwards adjourned. It was intimated : 'e le-'e Court that their labours this day would ,r,. tight J ,liai wit 7•• _ i - , IVI ARLBOROUG A II y. . ) STRriET i (THIS D placed at the bar, on Ale, . man, was , James Segress, ti lt th G gir, a young umpton th 1, 4 0 of robbing hi Grapes public-house i py to.,,,°illord of the Mr: n Old C '11;, utmost .4 his Prosecutor stated that time, and tN6tiservice for a considerable . Latterly, the prisoner had th b e een been his integrity. . hoOee was placed in ivit,._%ser, circumstances transpired firiuhattuisitiess were in the h i .',', S ta believe that some 0 . of robbing him daily. employed ind . u . c . e'd iliat,htrut,:lcaY. olt, on the house closi bo t in the bar, and on dun of euligaru, that remained in_ a them. The prisoner h . e counted the at the inst aut " w a Tt ho nl i isrd 2 . 2 , , ° the premises wh e e d n , ttr,:l,)2stoillii.ped him antl in sist a e l d li o i n his being Practfitethe.nPerlsohniesh 4l lUatitit issi ,l i g Cigars were found . in his T he YOl loose tobacco. The cigars cost aboul, for the kite 0413.91:0,i adniittt d °his guilt, and poc s k e e a t i sr 2 a d n . d eac l a la ls n :o . begged, not pro - seet,tehr's aged Mother, that Mr. Segress w was he ioelltr2s-r .14. Segress intimated that ho :gr. Ai el were on th e itte At4r said that robberies by servants. prisoner. inclined rekse, is he Bhould therefore commit the 40etb ------ ,„- ""1". . Sa -41.(1aY th E " . -r TO Sift PETER LAURIE.—On ht it-- accident happened to Sir Peter 44 ni b : y e been attended with serious consequences. I'l 111,-ii,;„'"l.lly Alderman was descending Laurie, which I ' l % t.,., q i ',e, hi lark-s uare preparatory to his ll p heavily the staircase r ed diat ely ti i;i t l i . u r. ith;4`ll hall he. sliqppeenear the t o op m , ,as and im fe me _. y t r. ', I ~ !1) 4,1 P fl . ight of steps. 11 he was attended by it ,t,,‘_-111811,44 esried to bed, where „sit examination _ % g ; %um ) 'vet' bevonshire-street.- " th e , red sev....._nat besides thedislocationsof h and other parts of d it i,niotly. ,iiielceontusions on the ribs wrist he had bones broken ; a 115•'„,,,,,p.„1 ~,,t ;,, are, howevetr,e !to resttlii"e,i;tiiernw days h n :•orthy Alderman will t rial duties. Btpoilittikelt IN .ris,, ° A m e L.—The follow', ri)„g sto ry i , , ,gE ..41AUNE . iiiitl4riii: ~' ~celneil from the Morning . b v "" (1 ditP„ 4'''' unaccountable act of piracy harbour, 4ttlieerec;'lo7, Tuesday evening in Falmouth istol ; having liera ll l , got 111 : 3S( ' 1 laldet6 b?igantine Brisk, of Pr- das'—cOrnA in the af tN7kst",•el-pr..waelgit and sailed -dunrt.in on g shorethe absence of t lvith4° N ll . o l4 al;loatt be°loh:l3, I las.' ' `a vi n l° ot - l v ier ship lying c ff loseby, to . , . .eltweit) inr three other leattgptains and o n going 0 , about 1,41144,,°" w ith th e . •tli ou t ow , n same party, found mate of the adjacent ilh ttti °h e ht)..._L't the harbour I?), the gitr, Yto eye7.oefore. harbor Sims _Proceeded imme his vessel was seen t hrt.: ll l l th e d Part of the rto night ; but no fur tillitelli;.,,,eilaleh on the following throw light ,litisit, ity stt) ..9 or clue could be obtained . to leeward, and only people. The It t) , ls I, 'IOUS proceedings of his which is ii "( 4 to 711 with a most valuable cargo,. rs and the trott4irl's ',.,lea„rl3' 20,000/. The ship's papt, ed to the pionsed. They t ve . t., :' gra,' °L nes anti money, are all exposed at t• t'llgjt,,,} but their object cannot be go_ the h o el Merely for the run to . Bristol, iv which v res; '4a:es the Captain to conceive that they t alliikt.'tt 'under o toaccomplish the - 4th -,- With - salt, and started . . thi,,,' stat e re'r (rather) without him , ember any thc. frb °L.tnind that he is not able to rem . . k!ol hi they c „3 ~. as to single lue" to ;kill„ Irse but he is in subsequent at 4'4 itoq Ir will pursue. 'rho wind, t if , the got out ehc V hey , the fol!owing day was most violent hs v 441 'but eallnot, therefore, tit, b lie, it (i either have put into a keeping Iv!, ''°glikhriven up Channel, probably his deter vi -14.,„ --., coast Captain'Sims expresses and have French port, or 91 1e r ni t u • th, N ever prose them for piracy of ' crew consisted r a ttsste4l4t,e, tliren: alaY be found. .Cue is light fo i , e i 150 toils and two boys, - whenever It t iv ohs. CITURCIT.— , Il 'e tide lILITARY' AND THE under the N ti l ; l4 )4. NieukftkTh, th.military in barracks here, the bbv,, r;;,iptain Lawrie, attended, Some references to ,),t4 iii h utch in the forenoon. preacher, Mr. Brewster, as is customary, tHt d,,1ngt,374 by the that Car,ain Lawrie bie ri l t his d it , .so insulting., Isitit.tat th e ( 1..‘, not to require t . he attendance of his ti only on al . - tN,ll7.th,t, tiLiYes t he which Mr. Brewster preached ; and 1 s t)) T s o b b l n at it s )i have be A e i n t. o a r _ j Riach, of the regi: I he attended in the .1 14 01,1. 311(4), ItT)‘(thejat7e9ltYl:), joined and took the cor_a ,liky hui.e7; or:1,111 fortnßigr litvster preached, and the I : ) , l \We lir o 7 was stliNcht as A let ' l ' Major Mach fully to de a c p d - In h t litttdlnive htil:ars,teP Captain Lawrie had taken. . i i th e ti , , n.that the Major il_ le time he was there, thet‘tiloola ha PS i n et ee in. atclduirtchtol fterwards said, t a order his ulr to call ,Likitilt(l4ltl The 140111 s ho li w Y e r ver, desirous that c h is men 'Nit hi"kllti every iSrbbath, has made arrangements o NrisrrPose with give rise r. the other minister of the 1, 1.11---1,11.1)(16811i/leivertiser. tllta,.-."-- ell-tiATES.--ST• MARTIN'S, LEICES- L'h eiVridaY evenino- summonses for non-payment tes, „.-.Nb4„1.,-crates, in the parish of St. Martin, ic . ester, ,7,t 1 Jut-: eYßieliard Frederick Eames, hatter, East •ga fllowin Dttisliittuete parish-, were served upon the u et ; if th ' ':'- Sar'un, grocer, Hotel -street, Churchwardens , kicks Qiiers ~...._jehn mannin„ grocer, Ilifili-str,? iers At ' i Print r d' ' tt • W. and G. Baines, am J. vi%r, har ill t ;, ) l) , ht t e,e ,• le'-.'aniii-NV. Stevenson, drapers,. ditto_u LhJ.• - st t , t, ' `tnniitn East -gates ;J. Swain, groe"'-'Lb uln as l ; Swain and Paddy, cheeseinoi?gers, io Ac e A, U nman Vigil.street ; 11. A. Collier, Mercury .,..r. streemitto ; j . i f o. nt hs i, 4. Pickard, ges?dre'sser, Market-place ; ' DN. , ditt,(l,i. l'..Bur i hoot and shoe-maker, Silte 441.-" und shoectnaker high-street ;W. Thirlby, W ill " th" . a f% al next, when Mr. Winks The b •e partie s are summoned pt, ?rob ot) , . nn ,e on ~ on, ay "° e. , an to the .summonses on behalf of the t4uotoon.-u)nere. are number of other recusants, not yet 0_ W.---Leicester Mercury of Saturday. 14 11 -4 4tt uoday night last a person with , * hi e h I°l St. Mary's parish in the crisis of a fever, . named John pect „.le had been sometime' indisposed got out of his 1)13 ' Cl; .1 threw himself into a well, where he was un i lz e p s - . tt i?wned. Ile has left six children.—Jersey T m. KlimB, reported that the King of Prussia, acco _ 1 / 4 4 tt i ,11 Prince .Albert, will pay a visit to this arsenal ;las v ielt, t Zen of war lying at Spithead early in the ensuing bee ' ," °thing, however, confirmatory of such a rumour 1 ° th e -,.," (knnuiunicated to the authorities of the town up preset hour.—Hanipshire independety. in this le pre -3 arose finned. ee this !nee to o had neigh inited arse lie dingly rd that render .3 )), one Ltov Lsed et kindly might 5 fixed Cow l iterest Y.) le bad ,v the it Avg{ rs al" r d , he e the end upo n y.''et cci in so fax en if tile, r, boo ,oneginti • Coln but lance . th e LVe I t , at he ab• lege d con' then (I for pu b ; not, pens orti rime been • ;ow' ,rial, j pol l lent; the,' fact, • ana but, uitY, issoi )uld bill . Rs ,tire the the add sts., •- 11, • ~ or ..,o'l ey, ,101 eel. ;1.1 701 d 'he, firitli no ,jt Ca Lye liis eft ,t , tr- on ce ii• C 0 ,F of • w . pr 9 I At al :of LLO Y U'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 31.—Wind this day at noon N.E. , DEAL, JAN. 30.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Hindostan. Redman, 'Calcutta ; Samarang. • Robertson, Madras. Arrd. from the River and ski., t )sbert, Dominica. The Caledonia, from Ramsgate to Southampton ran ashore on the Main near Sandwich Haven, but got off on the flood without assistance, and proceeded. ' LIVERPOOL, J AN. 30.—Wind, S.E., light.—Arrd. ' Heyworth, CaMpbell, Demerara ; Freeshaw, Laguea ; " Bornholm and European, Clelland, New Orleans; Roscoe. Huttlestone, New York, sailed 9th inst., Sld. Hudders field, Africa ; Elvira, Batavia ; Sawton, Calcutta I i'hi lontas and Lady East, Bombay ; Potter,Ceylon ; Huskisson, Africa; Jackson, Trinidad; Jamaica and Charlotte, Ja maica; Whitehaven, Antigua; Wolfrille and Dentnark. New OrleanS; Burlington and' George, Mobile; Ellen • Brookes, Pursuit, and Sophia, Savannah; Fyen, Charles ton; United States and Napier, Philadelphia; Indepen dence and Siberia, New York; Germany and Alhambra. Boston; Belle, Azores. Put back—Enquiro, for Genoa: with loss of sails ; the Stag, from Beaumaris to thi port, is wrecked near Leasowe Castle, crew saved. Tin wreck that was seen near the Zebra Channel was the Brunswick, of Newcastle ; the Albert (steam tug). towed it out of the Fairway, part then broke adrift, the remainder was towed into the River. The steam tug Albert was sent this afternoon to Pembroke, to tow the Greenock, for this port. Arrived off, Leonora. . WEXFORD, JAN. 28.—The Opoma, from Malta to Li verpool, is ashore at the Saltee Island ; six of the crew drowned. TARBERTi JAN. 27.—The Cardiff Castle, from Lime rick. to London, was driven ashore near this during gale yesterday morning, but is expected off after being lightened. One or two vessels, names unknown, are stranded on the Clare side. . . CARDIGAN, JAN. 28.—The sloop Mary and Ann, Watkins, drove from her moorings at New Quay Pier, 26th inst., want a-hore, hid has gone to pieces ; creii saved. Many ships are supposed to have foundered, the coast appears strewed with masts and spars. THEDDLETHORPE, JAN. 29.—The Hiram, Gibson, from Malaga to Hull, which was ashore at Saltfleet, was got off last night without much damage. The Margaret and Catherine, of Perth, was driven ashore a total wreck at this place on the night of the 27th inst. MILFORD, JAN. 29.—The Alicia, Dempsey, fron Youghall to Newport, is totally wrecked in St. Bride's Bay, two of the crew drowned. The Edward, of Wex ford, is on the rocks near Hag Point, and fiats with the tide. Sld. Anne, Elva, St. Domingo. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 30.—Arrd. Braganza steamer, Gibraltar. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 29.—Arrd. Velocity, Motile, Buenos Ayres. • PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Wind N.W.—Sld. General Brock, Africa; Jessie, Demerara. PADSTOW, JAN. ' 29.—The Favourite, Hoskin, which was stranded near Port Severn, on the 26th instant, has been got off and brought in. BRISTOL, JAN. 28.—Arrd. Emily, Demerara ; Mis chief,- Lisbon, for Liverpool, with loss of bulwarks and five of the crew, having been struck by a sea. OFF TORBAY, JAN. 29.—Tapley, Mallony, Calcutta. SWANSEA, JAN..29.—The mast and rigging of a smack of about 60 ton., supposed to belong to the Dart, were picked up thilmorning near the Scar Sands. YARMOUTH, JAN. 30.—The Friends Goodwill, Pear. from Shields to Ipswich, got in contact with a large brig in these Roads last night, and carried away main mast ; a jury-mast was rigged and she pro- ceeded. The Dispatch, Hall, ran ashore on the Cockle Sand yesterday noon, but got off without assistance in the evening with loss of anchor. The Daphne, Davison, from Shields to Guernsey, got on the Scorby Sandi this morning, but has been assisted off, ap parently withoutdamage. The I, and R. Jackson, Bell, of Whitby, was in the Roads with loss of sails, &c. FLEETWOOD, JAN. 30.—The Tom Scott, from Newry to Lytham, went ashore South of Rossall Point, 6th, but has been got off without damage. SHIELDS, JAN.. 29.—The Constantin, from South Shiells, which was ashore, was got off this afternoon. Bfr ILLTNG•roN, JAN. 30.—The Good Intent., which was stranded near here, has been got off with very little damage, and brought into the harbour. The Peruvian, from Shields to London, struck on Flamborough Head yesterday, and sunk ; crew and part of stores saved. HASTINGS, JAN. 30.—Arrived off Dart, Madeira. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 29.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrd. Gustave, Rio de Janeiro. Sld. Courier, Mauritius ; Berkeley, Jamaica ; Lady Katherine Barham, ditto ; Merander, Antigua ; Ontario, New York. .30.—Con queror, Calcutta; Castor (Dutch S. W.), Surinam ; „Acadia, Mobile: Some iron has been landed from the :)linidore, and a further quantity expected. Brutus, Shields to Jersey, has come into the harbour. , • Cowes, 'JAN. 29:—Arrd. Louisa, Naples, with loss of talwarks, &c., and has come into the harbour. Sid. London, Freeman, Jamaica. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, JAN. 29.-810. Aurora, Loss, Corunna. 014 e THE START.—Familien, Stenman, for Marseilles, with loss of part of deckboard; Veracity, London. FALMOUTH, JAN. 29.—Wind N. to N.N.E. —Arrd. Delight packet, Mexico ; Lusitania, Stewart, Smyrna ; Ellen, Teller, London, for St. Michael's ; Chas; Carter, Broad, Rio Janeiro, sailed Nov. 26 ; Mathers, Pander, Malta ; Braganza (steamer), Gibraltar, left 21st inst., Cadiz 22d,' Lisbon 24th, Oporto 25th, and Vigo, 26th ; Favourite, Harvey, Seville, with main boom sprung, and sails split; City of Limerickl (steamer), Moffatt, London, and proceeded for Dublin. Sld. Midas, Keir, Batavia ; Iris, Linton, .Ceylon ; Forester, , M'Arthur, Tobago ; Wm. Large, Hobbs, Trinidad ' • Alexandre, Bauche, Guadeloupe ; James Freeman, Ilindmarsh, Constanti nople ; Elizabeth end Ann, Wright, ditto ; Sandwich, St. Lucia ; "Julia, Rees, River Gambia ; Radical, Anderson, Constantinople ; Wisdraght, Van Lem man, Genoa ; John Gray, Wight, Ancona. Off Falmouth, Georgina, Brown, Oporto; Mary, Smith, Marseilles, and sailed for London. A sloop from the westward was seen near the Manacle rocks early this morning, and shortly afterwards disappeared. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 30.—A fire was discovered this morning on board the Hiram, from Palermo, and extin guished with little damage to the vessel. PORT TALBOT, JAN. 30.—A schooner is sunk to the northWhird of the Skerwithers, in seven fathoms; her top masts are out at low water; her main-boom has been carried into Porta-awl. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. A few days ago, a young man of Briey, in the Mo selle, was informed that a wolf had made his appear ance in the neighbourhood of the village. He immedi ately loaded his gun with ball, and went in search of the animal. It was towards nightfall, and seeing some thing move among the bushes in a likely spot for the wolf, he fired. '1 he ball took effect in the body of his own father, who happened to be at that very spot, set ting a trap for a fox, and his life is said to be in im mediate danger. Mme. de Puymontant was, a few days ago, burnt to death at the chateau of her husband, near Cintegabelle, in the Ilaute traronne, by her dress having caught fire from her approaching too near the hearth. She was alone when the horrible accident happened, and it was not discovered till she had become a corpse. The Toulouse papers state that all the Spaniards who stopped the Bordeaux mail, a few days since, have been arrested. They prove to be part of the men employed on the works of the canal near the former place. On Friday last, a young woman genteelly dressed ap plied to the keeper of the Tower of the Cathedral, at Rouen, for permission to go up. Observing that she was much agitated, the man determined to watch her, and twice saved her from effectin ,, an attempt to throw her self over the battlements. Ire induced her to return into the nave of the Cathedral, where she sunk on her knees in great distress. The keeper sent for a commissary of police, and being interrogated by him and the Procureur du Roi, she confessed that she came from Paris ; that having been promised marriage by a young man to whom she was warmly attached, and learning that he had mar ried another, deSpair had driven her to a resolution to destroy herself. The kind remonstrances of the Magis trate induced her to make them a solemn promise that she would relinquish her intention. The Journal du Loiret relates that Serein, the mur derer of the two children near Orleans, made, a few hours before his execution, confessions to several persons which put an end to all doubt as to the fate of his vic tims. He acknowledged that he was the murderer of his own nice, eight - years ago, on the very day on which she received her first communion, and who was found on the following day strangled in a field. Ile is also said to have admitted that he carried off a little girl from a fan bourg of Orleans some years ago, and, after having vio lated her person, threw her at midnight over the.bridge at Orleans into the Loire. His body has been dissected. The hinder portion of the brain said by phrenologists to indicate the animal passions, is. said to be unusually large. The following were the persons invited by Sir Robert Peel, to meet the liing of Prussia, at his residence in 'Whitehall : —Henry Hallam, Esq., Samuel Rogers, Esq., Professor Airev, the Astronomer Royal, Rev. Dr. Buckland, Sir John ilerschel, E. Land seer, Esq., Sir Martin Shee, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Robert Smirke, Charles Barry, Esq., (Architect of the Houses of Parliament), Right Hon. J. W. Croker, Wm. H. Hamilton, Esq., Sir Robert Inglis, Bart., Sir Robert Wilson, Sir Howard Douglas ' Sir George Cock burn, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir Henry Hardinge. It is understood that the King expressed a wish to meet some of the most dis tinguished men in the several departments of art and science. Mr. Colnaghi, of Pall-mall East, was in attend ance at Sir Robert Peel's house, with several of the best examples of the art of engraving of the English school, which were inspected by the King of Prussia with the greatest interest. SHAWLS FOR THE QUEEN.—Monday last, an order was received by t h e P rovost to sen d up some spe cimens of Paisley sh aw l s , f rom w hi c h t h e Q ueen m ight make a selection, with a view to give encouragement to Paisley manufactures. We need scarcely saythat all promp titude was exercised to comply with her Majesty's wishes. A committee of selection was speedily f rmed, and a great variety ofshawlswere submitted to their inspection. There were about thirty shawls sent, varying in price from fifty to two hundred and fifty shillings. The value of the whole amounted to 1571. ss. 6d. They were packed in cartoon boxes by Mr. Kirkland, and sent off by mail the same evening, addressed to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle., The goods sent were of a most beau tiful description, and the style from each house being wholly different, a great variety was afforded for taste and choice. FLOGGING IN THE NAVY. —We have been in fortned on good authority that since the Vindictive left this port on Sunday week three seamen have received four dozen lashes each ; thus the flogging system still continues to the disgrace of Old England.—llanpshire Independent. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1842 AMERICAN NEWS By the ,New York Packet Roscoe, which arrived at Liverpool on Saturday in 19 days from New York, we have received papers from that city to the Bth inclusive, four days litter than the former arrivals. The principal intelli- gence they bring is interesting to our mercantile classes. On the 3d instant, that portion of the PRESIDENT'S Message, which relates to the Tariff was referred to the Committee of manu factures in the House of Representatives, after a tie division by the Speaker's casting vote. The manufacturing interests are well represented in in the Committee, of which Mr. SALTONSTALL Of Massachusets, is Chairman. An important meeting of Iron manufacturers of New Jersey had been held, at which instances were brought forward of the treatment of the United States, when they were English Colonies, to show that England had always endeavoured to prevent them from becoming a manufacturing people. The conclusion, however, was, all we ask, is a reciprocity—if England will close her. ports against our produce, let us retaliate by levying duties on her manufactured articles. NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Jos. COWPERTHWAIT, SA MUEL JAUDON,' JOHN ANDREWS, and THOMAS DUNLOP, had been charged with a conspiracy to defraud the stockholders of the Bank of the United States; and, except ANDREWS and Cow- PERTHWAIT, who did not appear, were held to bail in $lO,OOO each to.appear before the Re corder. The Attorney-General of New York as sumes the direction of the prosecution. A Treasury Note Bill had been introduced, and proposes an issue, or re-issue of 5,000,000 dollars. The Bill, it is said, is certain to pass, as the majority on the fi►:st stage was 133 to 33, but the House of Representatives seemed in no disposition to hurry it to a conclusion. The pe cuniary e mbarrassmen ts of the treasury continued. The Bill for establishing a Fiscal Agent, or, as it is now called, the Board of Exchequer Bill, had been strongly opposed by Mr. Woonnunv, the ex-Secretary of the Treasury, and seems by no means popular. Attempts which have been made to promote repudiation in Pennsylvania have signally failed, not one repudiator was to be found in the House of Representatives. In Maryland a Bill has been reported, which provides for the resumption of payment of all notes and liabilities of the banks in twenty days after the passing of the Bill. A refusul to re deem, or the issue of post notes, forfeits the Charter of the Bank. Governor SEWARD, of New York, had opened the Legislature of that State by a long Message, which is said to have agreeably surprised the people by the statement that the indebtedness of New York is only 17,000,000 dollars. It re commends some alterations in the banking sys tem. He disapproves of rechartering banks; when the term of the charter expires, if the business of community requires the aid of another, a new one ought to be established. These Journals contain nothing additional of the Creole, or the right of search. The Illustrious left the Hudson on the 4th for Bermuda. The following are extracts:— The whole amount of banking capital in the State of New York is 23,559,374 dol., of which 18,409,374 dol. is subject to tax on dividends, and banks holding 10,836,145 dol. of this did not accept the Revenue Act of last May, authorising a loan of three millions. The whole amount of the loan taken by the accepting banks is 1,756,650 dol., leaving 1,343,349 dol. 32c., which has not been received. PASSENGERS TO NEW YORK.—The Health Commis sioner makes the following statement of the number of passengers arrived at the Port of New York for these two last years :- 1840.—Foreign—Cabin 4,324 Steerage 56,779-61,103 Total. 1841.—Foreign--Cabin 4,041 Steerage 53,293-57,334 Total. 3,769 Decrease. Passengers from domestic ports, by sea:-1840, 7,490; 1841, 8,920; increase, 1,438. The following is a comparative statement of the num ber of arrivals and passengers for the last seven years:— Ships. Passengers. 1835 2,094 35,303 1836 2,293 60,541 1837 2,071 57,975 1838 1,790 25,581 1839 2,159 48,152 1840 1,953 62,797 1841 2,118 57,337 The diminution in the number of passengers from foreign ports the past year was experienced in the early portion of the season, and is attributable to the apprehen sions which then existed in Europe of a war between Great Britain and the United States, in consequence of the affair of M'Leod. Fanny Elssler has taken the whole cabin of the barque Louisa, which is to sail from Philadelphi a f or Ha vanna h about the 12th inst. Sir Chas. Bagot, accompanied by a large suite, arrived in Albany on Wednesday evening, and took lodgings in the Eagle Tavern. In the United States District Court at Portland, it has bees decided that the tackle, apparel, and furniture of a foreign vessel wrecked upon our shore, and landed and sold separate from the hull, are not goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United - States within the meaning of the revenue laws. Also, that goods taken and landed from a foreign vessel wrecked upon the coast, are not subject to forfeiture under the 50th section of the Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 122, by being landed without a permit from the collector. The news from Venezuela was to the 14th September. The most profound tranquillity prevailed throughout the Republic. The question of defining the boundary line between the territory of Guiana and Venezuela,. had alone occasioned some little excitement, but nothing serious. • In the Republic of New Granada, Colonel Barriga ob tained a - complete victory 'over Band°, one of the Southern Factionists, who was at the head of 1,800 men. ,A large number of prisoners were taken, among them General Borrero and Colonel Cakedo. TRADE AND COMMERCE. SALEB AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 7. ,1,000 Illinois Bonds 9,000 1,000 Indiana Sterling Bonds 4,000 Indiana Bonds 500 New York s's 1858 2,650 Ditto Water Loan 1870 750 CorporatiOn 6 per Cents 97 75 Shares Delaware and Hudson b 3 96i 100 Ditto ditto ditto b3O 96-i 50 Ditto Farmer's Loan ... 750 Ditto Long Island 25 Ditto ditto tit 100 Ditto New Jersey R. It s3O 71 75 Ditto ditto ditto 60 ditto Stonington Railroad - l4 12 Ditto Union Bank 10 Ditto American Exchange Lank 6O 40 Ditto Boston and Providence Railroad BB 27 Ditto ditto ditto B9 _ _ _ 161 16d 18 18 s 30 511 35 Ditto Mechanics' Bank 25 Ditto Bank of Commerce Scrip s6Q 88-21 25 Ditto , ditto ditto B9 25 Ditto ditto ditto s6o 88 MONEY MARKET.—CITY NEWS. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, P. in.—A report was generally circulated in Wall-street to-day, that an injunction and other legal proceedings had been instituted against the United States Bank in this city. We find, on inquiry, that a holder of a small amount of Mississippi Bonds, en- dorsed by Richard Alsop, a non-resident, has attached the rents, &c. -belonging to Mr. Alsop, in the building. This was all that a legal process could reach. Exchanges on the South are a little improved to-day. Boston Philadelphia. 5l a —(Nashville l5 al6 Baltimore ... ...... ...... 4 a 44 Louisville ...._ lO a 104 Virginia 64 a 64 St. Louis l7 a North Carolina... Charleston l4 a ll'lnterior of Ohio 15 a Savannah ..... A ugust a Columbus —.l2 a Michigan —a Macon .... 13 a —Treasur Notes, 6 1 1 y 7 -, # a _ Union, Florida 45 a— l " " 5 2-5 Ia 1* South L. & Trust do 60 a ~ " 5 1 a Mobile 16i a—, " "2 I*a Montgomery 17i a 18 U. S. Bank Notes 50 a Tuscaloosa 18 a—l MARKETS, J AN. 7.—FLOUR—Six thousand barrels have been sold for export at 5,94 to 6 dol. This is the largest sale made for a long time. No change in any other article. PHILADELPHIA. SALES OF STOCK, JAN. 7. 1,280 dol. State 6's, 1864 SOO dol. do 5O 2,600 dol. Wilmington R.E. Loan, 6's, 1842 800 dol. Draft on New York lO5l 350 dol. Draft on Newark lO5 85 shares Girard Bank ll 5 do. Penn. Township Bank .. 20 10 do. do. do. 118 do. Philada. Wilmington, and Balt lB. THE COMING CONFERENCE ON TILE CORN LAws.—The meeting on Tuesday, at the Long Rooms, promises to be one of the most numerous and influential ever assembled in Southampton. The Earl of Radnor has consented to take the chair, and deputations from almost every town in the counties of Hants and Wilts, and the greater p art of Sussex and Do rset, v<ill attend. In addition to th e g entlemen we noti ced last week as ected. The hanadvinsegyperroalmoisther edto in l ff e t n ie d n t t h ia e l ir p a e s r s s i o s n ta s nce, Lord Ki nna i r d are exp meeting promises to be a most res pectable and influ ential in bearingsoineltandwilld on theoubtless great produ produce important results al question which has caused it,—Hampshire Independent, THE TORIES and the " WILD MEN.' While the meddling, arrogant, and rebellious sect among:the Scotch clergy, who have acquired the epithet of " wild men," considered them selves secure under the protection of Lord Advocate Rutherford, and -under-Secretary Maule, they coquetted with Peel and Aberdeen, hoping that the Tories would outbid their oppo nents and purchase their support and prayers at a higher price than the Whigs. To do Sir .R. Peel justice, however, he never gave them any encou ragement; he knew th e c h aracter of the men too well to trust them. He kept aloof from them while out of office, • notwithstanding the fawning praises bestowed by Chalmers on himself, and on the Sister Church—then, as well as now, all but Roman Catholic, and his still more exuberant commendation of the church-extending Sir Robert Harry Inglis. _When restored to office he takes care that there shall be no mistake on the subject, and through the agency of Sir James Graham, or rather that of the Under-Secretary, the grandson of an Archbishop with boundless Church patronage, he tells them in no very courte ous terms that he can dispense with their advice and assistance in appointing ntinistJrs to Crown livings. This was an unkind cut, after the old Whig Chalmers—the Pope of the Non-Intru sionists—had compromised his politcal and reli gious fltith, by making approaches to a party that he had often denounced, and by holding up to the , admiration: of his countrymen a Church which rejects his fellowship, and which the Covenawers resisted to the death as worse than Popery. This treatment, of course, has created a terrible commotion in the camp of the Non-Intrusionists. They know not to what hand to turn themselves. The law of the land is against them; the people begin to suspect their motives. The Town Council of Glasgow, located in the very heart of the district that -once gave .hem the warmest support, last week declared iff, and elected an Intrusionist in preference to a Non-Intrusionist clergyman. Rutherford and Manic, the Castor and Pollux . of the Non-Intru sionists, arc gone; and Peel, Aberdeen, and Graham are determined to humble to the dust the vain and .ambitious men who said in their liearts " We will ascend into heaven ; we will exalt our throne above the stars ; we will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the ,North." At a meeting of the Pres bytery of Edinburgh, held on Wednesday, the whole truth was disclosed, and consternation seized. every Non-Intrusionist countenance as Dr. Chalmers described the " Slough of Despond," into which they had fallen. After painting in glowing colours the splendid pros pects opened up by this precious Veto Act, and the admirable working of the system by " making daily advances among the population against that infidelity and vice which alike destroy the souls of - men, and the peace and good order of the commonwealth," he thus proceeds to paint the back ground of the view, not forgetting to bedaub it well with the trea cherous doings of the Conservatives : As far back as the year 1833, and a few days before the veto was first moved in the General Assembly, 1. mentioned in a company of friends, who were assembled for the purpose of consulta tion and deliberation, that as we had the power —which I conceived we were entitled to from the Act of William 111., which I conceived was not affected by the subsequent Act of Queen Anne —that as this poWer was in the Church to exer cise her free judgment in each particular case, in giving effect to the Wishes of the people, so my suggestion was, that we should resolve on a vi gorous and faithful exercise of that power ; and if a new law was necessary, so that the people should have a share in the initiative along with the patron, it would be better to make :direct application to Parliament—not that the Church. needed the authority of the State—and this is a misconstruction which is always put on thiS pro posed application of mine on the ground of a subtle misapprehension, which is not possible to be dis lodged from the minds of our opponents. I say, not that the Church needed the authority of the State to invest her with full power over her ministers and members in things spiritual, but to provide against being disturbed by the State in things temporal. The apprehension of being so disturbed was felt by me then, and it has been justified since by what has taken place in the case of Auchterarder. If others, men of great authority, had shared these appre hensions with me, the privileges of the people would have been secured, and the troubles of the Church would have been saved.--(Hear, hear.) 1 confess I had at that time—and I must explain how I have not the same fitith after the experi ence of the last few years—l had then great faith in the efficiency of the liberum arbitrium and I shall briefly state th e circumstances whichl then inspired it. Beside s th e E vangel i ca l majority which we still posse ss , t h ere was a growing res pect for Evangelical d oc t r i nes among t h e u pp er classes, and a greater d eman d for i t. Th e convic tion was increasing that popular educat i on , an d that the education of p r i nc i ple, was the grand specific for the moral a n d pol i t i cal d isor d ers o f our land, and that the lessons of the Gospel of Christ, which in all their depth and pecu liarity, were heard gladly by the common people, .were no longer denounced and nau seated as Methodistical, but .were held in favour by the high as well as by the low—by the single dispenser of patronage as well as by the great body of listeners in. our la rge an d fl our i s hi ng con gregations. That I; do not over-fate the disposi.; tion to foster and encourage these principles, is obvious from the experience of the first two years after the passing of the Veto. In that time 200 churches were called into existence, which could not fail, from the popular constitution of most . of them, to be filled with popular and acceptable clergymen. I did hope, when I saw that enter prise pushed forward -by the aristocracy, and (with a peculiar emphasis) which was as good as taken in hand by. the Conservatives them selves.—(Hear, hear.) I did hope, when I saw all this, that a purer and better initiative of the Ministry would bring back the godliness of other days, and that order, peace, contentment, loyalty —a general well-conditioned people, both moral and economical—in short, that all the blessings included in that godliness which lath the pro mise both of the life that now is, and of that which is to .come,—that these, resting on the solid basis of religious instruction, communicated in ourparish schools andwell-fi l led churches,would return and reign, and flourish in our borders. I need not say how all these goodly anticipations have been scattered to the winds. Even before the evils assumed their present menacing fl'ont, 'I saw that a re-action had taken place.- rifirst,saw it in that monstrous measure by which ,the,•contri butions at our new churches were seized, and thus, for the saving of a paltry penny by the heritors, all our hopes were nipped in the bud. But these were only premonitory symptoms. By this time the Veto-law was declared illegal, which, I I t ve e r i e either at great p a i ns to the Veto-law and the prophecies. of our deadly enemies, be fulfil, were lieve, e d s_om ti e la ' must be rescinded, or the Church Establishment must be rooted from its foundations. I have heard that great pains were taken in some quar ters to fulfil these predictions—that it cost con siderable trouble ere a prosecution could be got up; and this at least is evident, that while the first summons in the Auchterarder case •re spected only temporalities, the amended sum mons placed the Church entirely at the mercy of the Court of Session in things ecclesiastical. This amended summons was so extraordi nary when it was first put forth, that it met with the reprobation of a unanimous Commission. That unanimity is now so far broken th at pro bably one-third of the Church is on the side of the most unqualified erastianism. And, to thicken our difficulties, another case—how got up or by whom, I shall not venture to atfirm_the Strathbogie case, not only develops a plan of un disguised rebellion, but the actors in that scene are countenanced by wally of their brethren; and, to close this enumeration of the dangers which have gathered around us—fur 1 need not mto our mention the opposition quoad sacra churches, which, as th 6 o pposition to the collec tions was the most deadly thrust to our Church extension scheme, so this opposition to the quoad sacra churches is the most deadly thrust to the mechanism which alone would make Church extension efficient fur all classes. But to close this melancholy enumeration, it is now attempted by the most influential patrons to flood the Church with Moderates, and so bring back that withering regime under which the national vir tues of Scotland had well nigh expired. r e r f a r w ( n n obl dumb on the subject), This is the man w h o , with Sir James ic; f u o r n e c subject), brought forward the veto ordinance in the General Assembly, which has Created such confusion in that useful, venerable, and well constis uted ecclesiastical establishment, the Kirk of Scotland. The party, seeing they have DO hope of relief from the present Government — but, on the contrary, afraid that measures are in preparation for protecting those whom they have excommunicated and alqo preventing the repeti tion of such cold-blooded cruelties as they have inflicted on the ministers of Strathbogie—have resolved to overture the General Assembly against any legislative measure which does not recognise the fundathental principle of Non-Intrusion. The present Moderator of tke General Assembly, Dr. Gordon, therefore was put forward on the occasion, and though a man of a mild and amiable disposition, was made the instrument of the Non - Intrusionists in pro posing the following insolent memorial : " The Presbytery having considered the present cri tical position of the Church's affairs, as explained in the minutes which the General Assembly's Committee have published, resolve as follows : " 1. That the Church, during all her recent contend ings, has uniformly adhered to her fundamental prin ciple, that no pastor be intruded into any congregation contrary to the will of the people. "2. That while a proposal was recently made, as it was believed, on the part of her Majesty's Government, which was understood to be intended to leave the Church at liberty to act upon the principle of non-in trusion, in a form to which, although strongly disapprov ing of it, it was thought the Church might submit, it now appears that the proposal was not understood by the Government in a sense coming up to what was de clared to be indispensable, and that the only settlement contemplated has been on a footing which the Church bas all along repudiated as inconsistent with the prin ciple of non-intrusion. " In accordance with these resolutions, and inasmuch as there is ground for apprehending the introduction of a legislative measure for the settlement of the affairs of the Church, which will not recognise the fundamental principle of non-intrusion in any form to which the Church could submit, it is humbly overtured by the Pres bytery of Edinburgh, that the General Assembly do op pose and resist any measure w hi c h does not unequivo cally allow the Church in every instance to reject a pre sentee, not merely in respect of the reasons or objections stated by the parishioners against his settlement, nor in respect of their adherence to these reasons or objections, but solely in respect of the continued opposition of the members of the congregation, founded on a declared conscientious regard to the spiritual interests of them selves or the congregation. " And furthur — th — at the General Assembly, while they continue to give their earnest and favourable attention to the obtaining of such a measure as shall fully, and by a fixed rule, recognise the continued opposition of the ma jority of a congregation,. as a conclusive Freund for re jecting a presentee, do al take into their serious con sideration, with a view to the deliverance of the Church from her present difficulties, the propriety of seeking the abolition of the law of patronage, as especially in the construction now attempted to be put upon it, in volving a violation of the constitution of the Church and Kingdom secured at the Revolution, and unalterably ra tified by the Act of Security and Treaty of Union." A lengthened discussion took place, the result of which was, that Dr. Gordon's motion was carried by 41 to 17. The General Assembly (for the section at Edinburgh represent the Assem bly) will, therefore, not only resist any plan which does not recognise their favourite specific, but also call upon the Legislature to abrogate a law which is found mightily inconvenient in the way of their movements. Chalmers, Candlish, Cunningham, and Co., therefore—names as re markable for the alliteration of the words, as the Doctor's tripod of the Veto-law, patron, presbytery, and people—are resolved still to insist upon the consummation of their plans, and give'the whole patronage of the Kirk to the elite of the people. This is the term chosen by Dr. Chalmers. Why does he not use the Eng lish word elect, and also tell us how the elect are to 'be known? But that, would not suit his purpose. The Church has concealed objects in view, and we therefore warn the Government, and the people of Scotland, against their design: No one is to vote for a minister but one of the elect, and these are to be appointed by the liberum arbitrium of the Church. This is the real meaning of the insidious phrase now in the mouth of every Non-Intrusionist. The election-roll is to be revised by the Church, and a very select, expurgated list they will produce, if we may judge even from what they have already done, without taking into ac count the extravagant extent to which they will carry their inquisitorial research. They have debarred men from the table of the Lord for burying their departed relatives on Sunday. They debar men for not saying family prayers night and morn, for dancing, for reading certain books, for selling sweetmeats on Sunday, for keeping their houses open for the refreshment of travellers, for opposing the liberum arbitrium, and for every act which they may be pleased to consider a breach of the Divine commands. No in quisition so galling was ever established in any country. The following extract of a letter by a Non•lntrusionist clergyman will convince the in credulous that we do not take alarm without just grounds. It was written by the Rev. Robert APCheyne, minister of St. Peter's, Dundee, and appeared on Saturday, the 22d instant, in the Witness, the only organ of this tyrannical section of the Scotch Church. " such of the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway," says this " wild man," " as are favourable to the mails being carried on that line on Sunday are " infi dels, scoffers, men of unholy lives, the enemies of all righteousness, moral suicides, sinners against light, traitors to their country, robbers, and murderers," What can the Government do with such men but bind them with fetters, as lunatics? CLOSE of the DUBLIN ELECTION. DUBLIN, SATURDAY NIGHT.-At five o'clock the Assessor ordered the booths to be closed and the polling books to be carried in. As the books were being com pared, Mr. Smith (agent for Lord Morpeth), addressing the Assessor, announced that there were 400 voters ready to be polled for Lord Morpeth. Mr. KELLER (the Asslsor) reminded Mr. Smith that after five o'clock no votes could be received. Mr. SMITH—WeII, Sir, I tender thim, • m r . KEATIsc, on the part of the .cdnservative can didate, having protested against the interruption, and Mr. PIGOTT (late Attorney-General) having stated, with some warmth, that this course had nut been pursued at the last election, a conversation ensued, which was ended by 'rhe ASSESSOR, who decided that, according to the Act of Parliament, he could receive no votes after five o'clock on the fifth day. At half-past six o'clock he announced the day's poll to be as follows : Mr. Gregory 302 Lord Morpeth Majority - 43 The Mon SHERIFF then entered the Court-house, and proclaimed the state of the gross poll to be— Mr. Gregory Lord Morpeth Gross majority for Gregory Mr. Gregory having been in the usual form declared the successful candidate, the lion. Mr. Howard and Mr. ex-Attorney-General Pigott addressed the assembly, who shortly after quietly dispersed. THE SHAMROCK STEAMER. BRISTOL, SUNDAY.—I am happy to inform you that this vessel arrived here by this morning's tide, and has suffered very little damage, though it will be seen by Captain Ilyde's statement that she rode out the whole of the tremendous hurricane from Tuesday night to Thursday morning. Captain Hyde speaks in the highest terms of the Shamrock as a sea-boat. She is one of the best steamers out of the port ; during the whole of the time she had not three inches of water in the hold, though the hatches: were open. The only damage done to the engines is the loosening of one of the cranks, which occurred when the vessel was about forty miles from Dublin. The following is the statement:— . " 'We left Dublin at eleven o' c l oc k on T ues d ay morn ing; at eleven o'clock a t n i g ht we ' s i g ht e d t h e Bi s h op ' s light, and the wind veered to S.S.W., and blew a heavy gale with thick rain. At eight o'clock on Wednesday the wind shifted to W. and W. by N., and blew a perfect hurricane until one, o'clock on Thursday morn ing, when it moderated. Finding she could not make head against the gale, I got up the storm-trysails, and, with head to northward,. drifted the whole of that time. At four o'clock on Thursday morning, finding by my soundings of about twenty-five to thirty-five fathoms, and judging by- the drift, I supposed I was near Aberyst with. As soon as daylight appeared I found myself about ten miles to the southward of Aberystwith, and at nine o'clock that morning I made into that port. Having made such temporary repairs as were necessary, and taken in coals and stores, she was, ready to sail again on Friday evening, but on account of the dangerous na ture of the port for large-sized vessels, it was deemed prudent not to attempt to sail till SaturdaT morning. !hiring the gale we lost 400 pigs, but none of our crew. The man at the helm, in consequence of the heavy sea striking her quarter, was dashed from the wheel, but fortunately seized hold of her sail, and saved himself. The spokes of the steering wheel were broken to pieces, but the vessel did not lose a shred of canvass, nor sustain any material injury." .. Why do fathers and mothers, in speaking to their children, imitate dick infantine manner i ns t ea d of addressing: them in proper language ? A bachelor bag man in driving one day came up to a woman carrying a child, who asked in a polite manner, a ride. Th e bag man agreed to do so, on the condition that no nonsense should be tallied by her to her child. The woman, comfortably seated, in her happines s. forgot th e con t rac t, and thus addressed her little one :—" Georgie porgie, Ye are gettin' a fine ridie pidie." - The bagman pulled up his horse and said, " Good woman, you will be so good as step out of my gig and give G eorg i e porgie, a walk i e palkie. TAKING PHYSIC.—" Please, sir, I don't think Mr. Dosem takes his physic reglar," said a doctor's boy to his e mplory. " Why so ?" "Cause he's getting well so precious fast."—American Paper. 1 FRANCE. (FRON OCR CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, JAN. 29.—The debate in the Chamber of De puties on the Address is unusually long this year, and without being characterised by any struggle of parties on great or fundamental principles has been marked by much petty animosity and squabbling. The Ministers have, however, carried their points by strong majorities, and will no doubt remain in office till the end of the Session, if not longer. Their opponents are all divided, and are too . much occupied with their own rivalries to be able to unite in any well-combined plan for over throwing the Cabinet : otherwise there is no doubt sufficient dislike afloat to dislocate the Government, though the country would gain little in honesty or ability by a change. It is reported to-day that Ministers have already made up their minds to have a general election next summer : the Chamber has only one year more to run before it is dissolved de facto, and it is supposed that a certain degree of additional strength may be obtained by going before the electors in July, if by that period the Prefects have arranged and doctored the electoral hits acording to their instructions from Court. The financial measures of the Session will turn prin cipally upon railroads ; but it is not - expected that more than two or three of the lone-lines will be actually voted. That from Paris to Lille and the Belgian frontier ; the small line from Marseille's to the Rhone, near Beaucaire; and the Strasburgh line ; these are all which are likely to be definitively proposed by Ministers as lines to be undertaken by Government. There will he a branch to Boulogne-sur-Mer from the first line, so that communi cations between Paris and London will certainly be much expedited within the next three or four years. We may add that the Paris and Rouen railroad is going on ac tively, and will be opened nextyear. Its shares have risen considerably in the Paris market within the last two or three days. There is a push making among the Deputies of the south-western departments to get a Government grant fbr prolonging the Paris and Orleans railroad in two directions—one to Bordeaux, and the other to Nantes. A meeting has been held of the Directors of' the latter line, and an interview with the King has been the consequence. His Majesty, we have reason to know, has expressed himself strongly in favour of the immediate prosecution of the undertaking, but has not committed h;mself, nor given any specific promise, beyond that of offering to urge the point on the Mi nister of Public Works and the Cabinet. If France gives herself up seriously to these great undertakings, and if she would b e p ersua d e d t o put h er f a l se pride in her pocket, and abandon the ridiculous p!an of fortifying Paris,.. she would do more to promote her internal pros perity, and to give fresh vigour to the nation, than by anything else effected since 1815. The great scandal of the day is the affair of M. Le hon, which is only another of the many proofs afforded since 1830 of the low state of morality in the middling and upper classes of French society. M. Lehon was one of the most respectable men in Paris only a few months ago ; hand and glove with Montalivet and all Louis Philippe's people, and whose credit was as good as the Bank of France. One of his unfortunate creditors acknowledged the other day on the trial that he had suspected affairs to be going badly with M. Lehon for some time before the blow-up took place, but that he dared not say anything about it, since an action for libel would have been immediately brought against him, and the damages, which a complaisant and packed Jury, such as is always to be found in Paris, would, no doubt, have awarded, would have ruined him. The Journal des Debuts is remarked to have hardly made any report of this infamous affair, though all the other Journals have given the proceedings at full length. The reason is, that the editor is an intimate friend of Lehon. This man will undergo his five years' imprisonment, and that will be all ; for his friends will compromise the matter with the four creditors, on whose suit he has been con demned, and he will get off with what is a very inade quate penalty. Meantime his brother and his sister-in law affect grand airs, and show themselves even at Court, and where by the way one, if not both, of them have more titles than one to appear, and bid defiance to the world. This condemnation of Lehon to such a slight penalty for one of the most serious crimes that can affect a civilized society, and the sentencing of Dupoty for an imaginary crime, not even proved, and not even in cluded in his original indictment,—these two cir cumstances, coming one after the other, have pro _duced a profound effect on the thinking p ar t o f th e people, and have revealed the existence of a degree of political baseness and more weakness, which perhaps was not before suspected. The affair of Madame La farge—though she was as unjustly condemned as Dupoty has been- and the previous affair of Peytel, the notary, who murdered his wife and servants—to say nothing of the trial of General the Marquis de Brossard, or the affair of General Bugeaud, and the " boudjous " re ceived fromAbd-el-Bader—all these trials are such illus trations of the manners and morals of the middling and upper classes in France as cannot be witnessed, we are inclined to believe, in any other nation in Europe. Salvandy's affair is put on the shelf. Louis Philippe will not fight, even against Espartero ! He prefers pas sing the rest of his days as quietly as his conscience will let him, and he leaves all future troubles to his next heir. We repeat our prediction that the Duke of Orleans, on coming to the throne, will be found to ad o pt a war policy, and, as a young man, he will not hesitate to run the risk of foreign aggressions as the only means of preserying his throne. The Members of the Spanish Cortes, it will be perceived, speak out pretty boldly against France, because they on their side know that that there is no danger of a French army marching to Madrid to demand reparation. In one respect the Spanish and the French Deputies show themselves quite of the same mind, and much to their disgrace. Thus both vituperate Great .Britain to the best of their abilities for her endeavours to suppress the slave trade, and declare that she is grasp ing thereby at additional power on the sea. How in consistent is this on the part of Assemblies professing to call themselves Liberal I The only persons who have spoken boldly in defence of England are Marshal Se bastiani and M. Mendizabal. The Paris papers and the Parisian salons have been universally devoid of news for the last few days, public attention being much turned to the ceremonies of the christening of the Prince of Wales. The good people on this side of the water have no idea of what a good side board of plate is, and therefore the accounts of the banquet at Windior have filled them with astonishment. Musical parties are all the rage in the French capital at the present moment, and the musical world is all on the qui vice in consequence. The grandest parties in Paris are those of the Neapolitan Ambassador, the Duke de Serra Capriola, who has got the fine Hotel Ileauveau in the Faubourg St. Honore, and who admits only the height of fashion among his guests. The Prussian and Austrian Ambassadors -being absent, and Lord Cowley being one of the quiet species, there is hardly any gaiety in the diplomatic world ; and as Paris always takes the tone from the Ambassadors, this has had a damping effect on the Capital in general. We never saw Paris dirtier than at the present mo ment ; alternations of snow and frost and thaw and rain have accumulated such a mass of snow and mud in - the streets, that to walk is almost impossible. The only clean bit of pavement in the Capital is that which is laid down in wood on the English fashion in the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, and this is tolerably decent. THE 'HURRICANE IN IRELAND. LOSS OF LIFE. The following distressing accounts of the fatal effects of the late storm, are copied from the Limerick Reporter of Friday :—The roof of Mr. O'Shea, a bookbinder, buried his daughter Hannah in its fall ; she has been ex tricated, but life was extinct, and the inquest on her dreadfully mutilated body returned a verdict of " Acci dental death." In the adjoining house Mrs. Sarah Jane Dunne, the wife of one of the day police, had both her legs badly fractured, and the abdomen and back severely contused; She was conveyed in a pitiable state to Bar rington hospital, where she lies in a very precarious con dition, though some hopes are entertained of her recovery. In one house in John-street five persons were buried beneath the ruins, all of whom escaped with some imma terial bruises. In John-street, Francis Peaford had his thigh badly fractured. In the same street Mary Pea ford received a severe contusion of the back. In Corn wallis-street, Bridget Fallaher was severely wounded in the leg above the allele. All these were removed to Barrington's /lospital, where they remain under the care of ,the attending surgeons and physicians. was In 11 k r i a li r e y d : street, Mary Smith, the wife of a shoemaker, An inquest was held during the day, and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned. The chimney of a house in the English Town fell in, carrying away the roof to the first floor, and killing a woman of the name of Smyth. It is said that the village of Murroe was nearly demo lished ; and at Askeaton a house fell, killed one man, and severely fractured another. At Cork four poor women were buried by the fall of a wall in their dwelling. Judith Cunningham had her right leg literally smashed iu two, while the right temple i was opened, which must have caused her death ; she was borne to the shop of Alr. Jones, apothecary, where she expired in a few moments. The others, Mary and Ellen Sullivan,. and Mary Collins, were each frightfully bruised and mangled. They were conveyed as soon as possible to the South Infirmary ; the second of the suf ferers has since died. Another poor creature, Ellen Sul livan, of St. Barry's, lies in a most precarious state, baying both her legs fractured, a severe injury of the head, and many contusions of the body ; but little hopes are entertained of her recovery. THE STORM IN THE NORTH, ABERDEEN.—On Saturday last, the wind having gone round to S.S.E., with snow, we had a dreadful storm, which continued, without abatement., till Sabbath, when the gale moderated a little.; but, on Mon day evening, it increased, and all night raged with great violence. The snow had now fallen so severely, that all the roads were more or less blocked up, and communication much impeded. The Edinburgh mail of Tuesday morning did not reach the Post-office here till about four, P.M.—about nine hours out of course ; the evening mail arrived about half-past seven. HUNTLEY, JAN. 27.—We have had a most tremen dous storm of snow here. The roads are now partly cleared, but the mails are far behind their time. Yes terday was intended -for a cattle market here, but so dreadful was the drift, that not an animal appeared on the ground. Towards night, rain fell in torrents, and the streets were almost impassable. The answer to inquiries yesterday at Marlbo rough House was, " Her Majesty continues daily to im prove in health and spirits.' The calls of the nobiliti and gentry have been very numerous since her Majesty s return to town. SHEFFIELD.—We have great pleasure in an nouncing, on authority, that an official communication has been received from Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council, stating that the Privy Council have decided to advise her Majesty to grant a Charter of Incorporation to the borough cf Sheffield. — Shttfield independent. _EVENING SUN [ADVERTISEMENT) TO TIIE EDITOR OF "IIE SUN. solicit s7iVou'ertt:T, favour Siit—ln the lirnesof iiretinesday last, th_e 26th inst., there appeared an article from its Editor replete with scurrility and misrepresentation respecting the means we have taken to prosecute, to a successful issue, our strike. In reply to this, with a view to disabuse the public mind, an article, of which the following is a copy, has by its SOCIETY, pro f esse dly " fair play" editor, been refused insertion. ltln. u s s e w c. ith respectfully, are, Sir, yours We, therefore, respectfully • its insertion in your r n n e l yt iA e i r iAo lt ms lo oA n s . Ns, TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Our attention has been arrested by an a r ti c l e from your pen, in reference to our strike at the N ew Houses of Parliament, and other public works, which ap peared in your columns of Wednesday, the 26th inst., prejudicial to the cause - of humanity, in which we are en gaged, and not strictly true; we, therefore, now ask, what in a spirit of fairness we rely on your granting, viz., permission, through the same columns in which your article appeared, to lay before the public the other and true side of the question. Whether our of to annihilate cruelty the most consummate " has been simply defeated" in London or not—whether " open houses are provided by the union" for the quarrymen who, in various localities, manifest such a humane feeling towards their cruelly ill-treated fellow-men or not—or whether our delegates proceed from place to place in the performance of their " labour of love," " mounted" or otherwise, are questions upon which we shall not waste our time, or seek to occupy your pages in animadverting upon. Suffice to say, that, satis fied with the justness of our cause, we are as determined now as at the first Moment, and shall persevere, by every lauful means, to succeed. To "die of atrophy,' that is, from the want of nou rishment, is what we do not fear, the period of a "con summation so devoutly wished for" by our opponents is " very remote ;" and respecting " club law or " new police" law, the one we abhor, and the other we have no intention to offend. It is by sober, reflecting, and purely moral means,. by " surround ing those" who, in ignorance of the sacred duties of man to man, passively submit to insult and cruelty, " with a moral and social influence" that we intend to pilot ourselves to the desired haven. Contrast this with the following paragraph in your article :—" But for such a movement as the present, founded on misre presentation, and forming part of a systematic at tempt to establish a dangerous and unconstitutional tyranny, we have no compassion or sympathy ; and repeat, that it must meet with no compro mise, but be put down thoroughly and unflinch ingly, even though its progress were only to be checked by a. general steppe ye of trade throughout the country." hie business now, Sir, is to show that we have not used " misrepresentation." We preferred several serious charges against George Allen, foremap to Messrs. Grissell and Peto, our late employer and which they re fused to redress. We then courted, by every means at our disposal, public inquiry into them, and preferred, through the medium of The Sun, Morn ing Advertiser, and other of the daily and weekly press, to submit the whole case to arbitration; a deputation waited on Mr. Grissel, and informed him that we would concede our request, if by the evidence of Allen's victims and others who had witnessed his unfeel ing conduct., we proved that his conduct towards us had not been such as we had attributed to him. Mr. Grissell refused, asserting that he had lowered his dignity in deigning even to hold converse with them; and this, Sir, is not much like " misrepresentation" or a desire " to esta blish a dangerous and unconstitutional tyranny." The following, Mr. Editor, are the charges we allege against George Allen; we are prepared to submit them to any just arbitration, and to be content with the result:- Ist. Locking up the pump, or rather the door leading to it, to prevent those under his control from getting a drink of nature's beverage, with a view to compel us to buy beer of an inferior quality from a house he visited, and until we strongly remonstrated, was the only one per mitted to bring beer on the works. 2d. One of our shopmates had the unwelcome in telligence from Manchester of the decease of his mother; he informed Mr. Allen (the foreman), of his wish to go and see her interred, stating that he would have to be absent for a week or a fortnight ; when Allen informed him, if that was the case, he might stop . away alto gether ; with an assertion that he (Allen) would not keep a job open for any man that length of time under such circumstances. 3d. It has also been quite customary for Allen to order, in the most domineering manner, many a good tradesman to " pick tip his tools and be off," before he had been many hours on the job ; also for the most trifling mistake, have been discharged at a moment's no tice, without the least consultation as to whether they were blameable or not. Again, one of the men had his leg broken by a fall from a scaffold, and on his return to his work, expected, of course, as he had been lamed in the service of his employers, that they would continue to give him work. But, No : Allen immediately dis charged him, with an execration that he wanted none such d d hobbling fellows as him there. 4th. The same foreman told one of our shopmates, who had been at home ill for some time, and whose wife was also very ill, on his return to work, to go about his business, as he (the' foreman) did not want any men there of his description. We immediately made a col lection for him, to enable him to procure food for him self and his sick wife. sth. Another of the men had been called from his work to attend the death-bed of his wife, and when he came from that scene to his work, he was told to go back and die with her, and be damned. In fact, his general conduct has been so bad, as to be quite unbear able ; and, to terrify us, he has made a practice of threatening to discharge two or three dozen of us at a time, if we even complained of such conduct. These, Sir, are facts which we are at any time pre pared to prove, and, as there is convened on our behalf a public meeting to he holden at the White Conduit House, on the evening of Monday next, the 31st instant, we solicit the attendance of Messrs. Grissell and Peto, George Allen, or any of their agents in their behalf when and where every facility shall be afforded them to: lay their own statement before the public. We are, Sir, yours respectfully, THE MASONS' SOCIETY. THOMAS SHORTT, Secretary. INCENDIARY FIRE AT BORROWASH.—We. very much regret to state that a fire, the work of an in cendiary, broke out on the premises of Mr. William Meakin, of Borrowash, Derbyshire, on the evening of Thursday last, a t th e early hour of eight o'clock. It appears that at that hour Mr. Meakin was in his stack yard, when he perceived a fire in the barn, and which, from the ascendancy it had gained, defied all efforts to extinguish it, notwithstanding the active exertions of the neighbourhood. The barn is within a few yards of the turnpike-road, and it was evident that whoever had been guilty of the diabolical act came from thence, as the footmarks were dittinctly visible in the snow from the highway to the building. The barn contained a quantity of wheat, barley, and a variety of farming im plements, worth probably 801., all of which were entirely consumed, and, we regret to say, were uninsured.—Don caster Gazette. EFFECTS OF THE CORN-LAWS ON THE OBSERVANCE OF DIVINE SERVICE.—At the annual meeting of the Bristol City Mission Society, held last week, the Chairman, the Rev. T. East, of Birmingham, forcibly described the unchristianizing influence of the ruinous Corn-laws on the religious community ; he stated that, in the town of Birmingham, " at least 15 per cent. of the more steady hearers of the Gospel, and ?ft per cent. of the most pious attendants and members of the churches, had been rendered unable to attend a place of worship by the rapidly increasing poverty of the times. They had not clothes to appear in, and their children had no clothes ; and to such an extent did this state of things prevail in Birmingham, that they had been obliged to establish Sabbath schools for single streets in the town, in order to take in the poor half clothed children, who would otherwise receive no in struction." This alarming state of things, it should be remembered, is not confined to Birmingham alone ; it • exists at our very do, ! The Report of the Committee of the same Society stnted, that the visitors had to con tend with great difficulties, arising from their inability to meet the temporal distress which so greatly prevails in our city ; and, we perceive by an advertisement, that it has been found necessary, in the Tabernacle district, to solicit public subscriptions, in order, as far as possible, to render the labours of the missionaries and visitors available for the purposes of Christian instruction, for which they were designed. WHO WOUND UP THE CLOCK—On Tuesday morning St. Peter's clock was set going. Why? it may be reasonably asked. It' the Churchwardens were right in ordering it to be stopped, why not have the courage to persist in the act till, at the proper time, they could give an explanation of and defend their conduct ? If they were not right—if the Hate-payers have been seriously inconvenienced during the last three months by a contemptible desire on the part of some indiViduals to show their spleen and spite do the parish officers who gave in to a paltry feeling think they are now to emape unwhipped—" shake hands and make it up," becatice forsooth, when the town has been disturbed and the Church scandalised by their silly- conduct, they choose to set the clock going ?—Brighton Herald. THEVINDICTIVE.—Extract from a letter re ceived from an officer serving on board her Majesty's ship Vindictive, dated Portsmouth Dock, 30th .January, 1842 :—." We were in reality in a most, awful scrape from 9 A.M. to 10 P.m., when the unexpected and pro vidential shift of the wind (three points only), mainly contributed to our preservation. But for this, and the tranquil coolness of our commander, we should certainly not have witnessed Thursday's dawn of day. This is the fourth time in my career that 1 have been spared, when eternity, as I thought, was immediately before me. We were to have taken the flag of Sir Thomas Cochrane to China, but as the ship is found to be very much in jured, we shall not be able to refit in time to proceed with him." COURT ly OF SESSION. —On - Wednesday ithhioter o „ ro nine Judges were present in Court, a circumstance S which, we believe, has not oeeured on a regular sedcrunt day in the memory of any individual now ronne,etan with the legal profession. The four Judges aligen! indisposition were Lords Meadowhimlc, Moiler •Icf frey, and Cuninghame. Lord Moncreiff who expected to be out again to-day: LordinJeffrey, Engliid for has not been in Court since July, is now the benefit of his health, ay be re-established, so as to enable L ' ords Meadowbank his duties doting the summer sessioil t illi his ie h iis ol o i i s e about - u t t d t i enn both will ere long resume their s which all sh ir i i i c n er to ely pe h r oe rm e and Cuninghanie have t s (1 1 been c o o n tas e d. Lf b o ce r ae s ine o d m o n e n m e il b e u r cury. John Dunlop, db ß ati e ji ni h r e s refor Wednesday 2 y last,ears after diel an nt `S, t \\ W it+'„ Con" • Oc- xrin~ case , lease \