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,ye ";, li- ,4 n o;''' be ed l's OS ": 30 Se ,t3d : 1 1 0, I') 10 1° 41 X 0 Assig Mil T 1 N . TN - G ST 1 N ra6 ing his rent, he is al,o ruuni.ig about iaa and enjoying- himself, without buviag a word to bestow,. Cabinet Minister as he is, on. the sufferings of his starving neighbaurs. His occu pation on last Tuesdaywas, we are told, to quiz the answer of Lord JOHN RUSSELL to the Ply mouth Address. We have read the quiz. and lowever praiseworthy it may be as a party oration, as the speech of a Cabinet Minister ; now l ' a ising.his rent; while his starving neighbours must payhirn a tax on their bread, it is worthy of this paragon of bread-taxers. He is thoroughly satisfied with himself; his conscience is clear be cause he is a Cabinet Minister, supported by C onsiderable majority of monopolists. He could boast, notwithsanding the oppression of the bread -taxers, that under great privations, which he imposes, and which he refuses to re. ! L i eve, the p at i ence of the people of England b ad " t een most exemplary ; and while he can boast of h itherto he will d o his duty towards them as lie has done it, and continue to tax the bread of his starving neighbours. He and the rest of the landlords will be just. towards the people. W hen they are convinced it is not safe torbe otherwise, and not before. - 0 find no news of rmportance in the Paris Journals. The following extracts from them in clude all the news they contain of any Eu rop•au interest : The Moniteur of the 30th publishes in its official part Royal Ordnance announcing variouslegal appointments. The following is the text of the proposal of _M. Ducos: " All citizens inserted the electors." are Jurydepartmental list of the " A:l c i t i zens are likewise electors who may not have b een entered on this list, on, account of the incompatibi lity resulting cruninell ~ from Article 383 of the code of instruction .„,The jo urna l of Upper Germany has a letter from lenna, which says that the Duke of Bordeaux's leg, Which has been set, is still a little shorter than the other. The Jourizal des Havre says—" We have been asto nished at not rceeiving for some time past any inft.)rma tion respecting the internal affairs of the Augustine Re- Captain Bordku, of the Jeune Raymond, which "as silence.' just, arrived f rom M onte Vi deo, accounts for this • "'We find i n hi s report the following passage:—` As for the for me political affairs o f Buenos .Ayres, it is very difficult s i de to give any p art i cu l ars of them, because the Pre lishet doe s not permit the slightest matter to be pub d of • A—s for th e U n i tarian, it is still in the same state Uneasiness.' " The 211oniteur Algerien, of the 14th, says—" an nounced that a caravan of 400 mules, richly laden, has inarrived at Con s t ant i ne from Tunis, without having been o lested ; complete security prevails in that province. " *---Const itutionntl. A letter from Gex contains the !followins• passage Such a quantity of snow fell at. Gex on Monday and caution}.'•Uues this wee k, t h at it. was necessary to take pre ho to suppo r t t h e roofs of the houses, two of which, wever, sunk The mini , - was so heavy on the trees, that the b ranches broke • and some of the trees them- Iseives were ' b ro k en, by t h e weight of this most 'extraor ilar.Y fall o f snow. We are informed that the damage suis much greater than that done by the hurricane last n , —mer, —Commerce. The Siecle of yesterday had the following article : " Odilon Barret has entered into a. formal engage irieut with his friends, to - pre - sent, or support, after the first debates in the Chamber are over, a proposition for restoring to the press those guarantees which have been 4s"blY compromised by certain provisions of the laws of "Npteinher and the late unexpected application of the law of th e 17th May, 1819. " On this the Moniteur Parisien observes--" The Siecle does not tell all it knows. It P tom the igha hthave add e d t h at a C omm i ttee of Deputies, chosen a most divergent fractions of The Opposition, has Undertaken the examination of the reforms to be intro dneed ei t h er i nto the September laws or into that of i P 9 . This Committee is composed of M. Berryer, from re Extreme Droite, Messrs. Mauguin and Dupont de 'E4re ifPtit the Extreme Gauche, M. Odilon Barrot from the Ganete Dynastique, and M. Billet from that fraction of the Ogfitre Gauche which sustained the Cabinet of the Ist Itilai:ClL The Archbi s h op o f T ours, M. de Montblanc,, died in that city a few days ago. Tiio persons just arrest e d by or d er o f- t h e Court of ~,,reers, were interrogated y es t er d ay b y B aron P asquier. The Debats. mentions the arrest of two persons yester. , ( lay morning, and adds, that the examining commission Of the Court of Peers met yesterday a . t the Petit Luxem bourg. "On Tuesday . evening,'.! says the Droit, " a German shoemaker, named Bauer, livi ' l our, Place St. Eustache, and several n!ilin the Rae ,du were d a rrested under a warrant of the Chancellor. In Bauer's l odginthere were found 300 political pamphlets, both 411 kre 6 nch and German, and a voluminous correspon wree, which h ave ex p ose d numerous b ranc h es connecte d dli the Secret Societies in France, of the Communists „ 1 " 1 ., (1 othe rs in llesse, Baden, the Rhenish Provinces, and - , aer t , These new captures are all r s oi uerim.ny. ""geil in the C - mciergerie:"—We mentioned the arrest of the wife of Boucheron, a few days ago ; it was for robb ery, it appears, not for a politic a l offence. A letter iron) Erzeroutn states that, when the British L 'egation was travelling towards Teheran, Messrs. Todd ;Ind Ablote, two of . the Attaches, were attacked by the liurds near Bajazlcl, and plundered. Mr. Todd was aid, Wounded in the hand. Billul Paella, Governor of Baja waS said to be the secret chief of the predatory band by which this attack was made. The Russian Consul at Teheran, attended b 100 Russians in rand C ostume, we n t out to meet SirJ. M`Neill. Just a g s the rencontre was about to take place, the Consul's horse became.. frightened, and run away with him, nor could nFie animal be stopped till after he had gone some Poe- The Consul then returned to the cavalcade, but all covered with mud, to the no small amusement of the Persian dandies. h A lett er from Constanti nop l e o f t h e 2 d i nst., in the ,4-;ebessde, e, says, of a b r illi ant " Acc ounts have been received. here, via victory o bt a i ne d b y t h e Circas alatis isunover the Russians. An expedition of about 30,000 !tle n h a d l a n ded on the coast, for the p ur p ose o f destroy ing the corn which had been got in . by the Circass-ians, from t h eir violent storm came on, drove the Russian vessels fro m _ l* ns profiting by this circumstance, attacked the Rus ,sliatns, and compelled them to retreat, without provisions, a, e e l the mountains and defiles, where all but 2,000 of t!l were killed or made prisoners." -This account of the The Russian loss is probably an exaggeration. erection of a second tower to the Cathedral at Metz going on with rapidity, and when finished will ! render this dding one of the finest in France. The fresco paintings on the inner walls, which have been cov ered with li me and plaster, are being restored. The churchesahut of Notre Dame and Saint Martin, at Metz, are to be embellished with stained-glass windows. lle Ch a t eau de Canna, one of the finest mansions in the depa rtment of the Landes, was entirely destroyed by gr e a few days ago. C 8„.," It w as observed, " says the Siecle, " that among the memb ers present at yesterdaY's sitting of .the Chain r°f Deputi es , t h ere were 95 Ministerial functionaries, a nd 13 functionaries belonging to the Opposition." preneThe C ouncil General of the Bank of France has voted wal o f t h e grant of 1,200 f. made every year p r o r enewal to 1837, to the Infant Schools of Paris, and lmoney:has been..paidinto.the Tr easury of the Coin ittatee of, Management, to be appli e d to the relief of the 4cligent Children received into these institutions. the Gitzette de France states that it has received a e ) !lati on to appear before th e C ourt of Assize; on the 11th ranuar i s t the same as th a t The G t against azette addthes, th National,at the charge againtake 3 trial st it on the came day. fl~serie..s of military marches is in course of publication Baffin. The 11th number, which has just appeared, interesting from its containing a march composed by frederiok the Great, one by the late King Frederica ;Villiam M., and others by the Princesses Albert and of Prussia, Prince Frederick of Prussia, and the rrineessll,4yal . of Sweden and Hanover. Th ey are all arranged for a fall -hand. " At the moment," says the Moniteur Purisien," when o , eneral Bugeaud was preparing to c o me over to France, recelkitlTmia One a the points of the territory sub- Jeet tol:our -government some important intelligence, which 9,y render ,his presence n ecessary at t hi s po i nt. Ile ha§ therefore r enounce d, f ur t h e moment, profiting of t his 6tige." eix An Alexandria letter of the 9th instant states that sailtof :the line have been laid up in ordinary by order of Mehemet Ali. • -110 IntSk-P A RIS, THURSDAY, DEC. 30. that Highest Lowest Last r teuelt Price Price. Prick Price. 6 per coral lltl 55 ... il6 60 ... li6 55 ... 110 60 4, i 3 per Cet!. ex div. 78 :0 . *7B 25 ... 78 15 ... 78 20 L l tti k t 1 o t ranee ,„ e ii n 'r'k:Meof. saares 5025 ...5025 ...1'.025 ...5025 get la'' n ank . ... 5. ........ 2 11 315 per Cent . tNnish ' Atti ' v ern'. ' 184 0 1° 2 3 434 7 . 1 2 1 1 - . 1 ° 2 41 :: if2. il P, t Pa55i,........ 5% .... 5% —... 54 ... 5 % 144'11111ese5 perCent . s . .. lloint t lt4 n -.... .1.. ...... .. ........... ..... 102% „. 102% ... 112% ... 102% RAILWAY SHARES. k li e ,. (i tzt e rrn„ in .. ..... .. 08 75 ..: 8 2 ,15 0 1 "to. L.ll .......... ..... 2OB 75 ... 210 g'tow n , 'K. 8... ........ .. rit44:... ............. ............. 467 50 ... 457 50 ... *7 50 ... 457 f.O I ttzeb - ' • •-•• • 50612 50 ... 507 50 312 50 " I t° Bare.: ......... -..... 230 .... 232 50 ... 230 ••• 222 30 Ho- let, JMlcitrE AND SUICIDE.—It is observed, in a s,;`r published.. in a Weekly Journal, t h a t ablewriter fruie and homicide very often go together. a Mr. Sampson, quotes a consider b_te number of instances in which murder h as derercon►nlitted ti er from a disregard of the mur _ It. l'- ‘ 8 own life, or an actual desire to get rid o f httCur Journarof Saturday evening recorde d combe- case at Mansfield, which will add to t h e r titi of ~ the writer's illustrations. Fromth e e aDitl c i "uo lie notices, he draws a conclusion . t ha t 0 _ suielti Puilishments, by gratifying the desire _ e t a ju4'courage and promote murder. If that b it supply °ll elusio - n, what a commentary does There is % the wisdom of our law-maker s! \ratio ;„ u pdoubtedly some . truth in the obse . r 7 filan g . ° ' i n it makes apparent a most beneficial A ncon; e i r t he character of man. At present no ted f:'el'able number of murders are commit "non " 3111 this morbid desire to get rid of t he bi, 9!llatiiac's own existence, which will prob.a -' !enate when the law ceases to supply its .gratify . ion. But whatever may now be the • case, undoubtedly in former, times life was fre quently taken from jealousy, from revenge, and from avarice, With a view to obtain worldly en joyments by committing the crime. The remark of the author we have referred to shows that crimes of violence in modern times from such motives are much ram- than is generally sup posed. That is the beneficial change in the cha racter of man, which his remark makes obvious. SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOClETY.—Sincethe establishment of this humane . Institution, 1,217 widows and orphans have been aided and protected by it, and '2,510 seamen have been provided with employment, who, but for the libe rality of the public, might have been confined to a workhouse or starved to death. This must be a great inducement for persons of property, and above all men connected with mercantile affairs to subscribe liberally. Our seamen are the great defenders of the country, the fisher population of England are amongst the most industrious of her sons—their lives are devoted not only to toil, but to peril of the ex tremest kind ; they must pursue their calling at all seasons and in all weathers—under all as spects of danger and suffering—and their gains, when successful, but scantily reward their exer tions. Under all circumstances they are objects of admiration;—when misfortunebefals them they have a tenfold claim upon our compassion. _ We trust, therefore, that th• appeal now made by the friends of the shipwrecked fishermen will not be urged in vain. • POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY.—We gave a favourable notice of this work when it was published, and we are glad to find that every London journal that afterwards adverted to it has expressed unqualified approbation of the plan and execution of the publication. Messrs. Kelly and Co. deserve great credit for having produced a Directory which surpasses any that has yet appeared. The press is unanimous in its favour, and we have no doubt that when the public have an opportunity of judging of its merits, they will find that the press, in this in stance, states the truth. We regret to state that Mr. Howard, the Editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, died on Thursday. He was the Author - of 4 . Rattlin the Reefer," and a number of other publications, which have been well received by the public. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public Optuton. Who runs may read." rouzzorz. The Droit, a Paris Journal, of Thursday, has the fol lowing :—" On Tuesday evening a German shoemaker, named Bauer, living in the Rtie du Jour, Place St. Eustache, end several other men, were arrested under a warrant of the Chancellor. In Bauer's lodging there were found three hundred political pamphlets, both in French and German, 'and a voluminouS correspondence, which have exposed numerous - branches connected with the Secret Societies in France, of the Communists and others in Hesse, Baden, the Rhenish Provinces, and other parts of Germany. These new captures arc lodged in the Conciergerie." The French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday elected MM. Galos and Boissy d'Anglas, Secretaries. These were Ministerial candidates. On Thursday,M. de l'Espee. another supporter of the Ministry, was voted the third Secretary. M. Ravin, of the Left party, was elected by agreement the fourth Secretary. Letters from Madrid, of the 23d ult., state that the Commissioners were to leave Madrid on the 26th for Paris and London, for the purpose of capitalising the over-due dividend warrants, and that two dividends will be paid at once on the New Three per Cent. Bonds, in proportion as they are issued. The bonds in the hands of Ardouin and Co. are to be withdrawn and destroyed. The Bank of St. Fernando was to advance to the Go vernment 24 millions of reals for this project, to be re paid by assignments on the public revenue. runx.xc -OPINION. The Advertiser has an article suggested by the circum stance of a great Anti Corn-law meeting in Manchester, and the object of the article is to show that the system of popular agitation on this question of questions must be resolutely persevered in. " Let vigorously-worded petitions," adds the Advertiser, " for the immediate and Complete abolition of the bread monopoly, be forthwith prepared in every city, borough, village, and hamlet, in the country ; and let them be ready for presentation by the time the Legislature commences its sittings." ' The Chronicle, referring to an announcement in Fri day's Times, that Lord Ashburton is about to proceed to the United States on a special mission, with the object of settling all existing differences between that country and our own, states that from his Lordship's con nexions, and the extent of his property within the Union, his personal influence must be considerable ; and adds, "we believe the mission originated in the best of mo tives, and could not be entrusted to a fitter person." The Times, alluding to the ladies who have taken a share in the Corn law agitation at Manchester, observes, " We have no time and no taste for enlarging upon this painful subject. Presently we shall have the petti coat politicians of Manchester schooling us on the most recondite questions of national policy." MONET—TRADE—COMIVICEILCE. Three extensive lines Of railrord are immediately to be completed in Austria. One from Vienna to Trieste ; a second from Vienna to Bavaria ; and a third from the same city to Dresden, through Prague. corrtmErwrill.Er ORM. In addition to the Members of Parliament who will attend the Glasgow Anti-Corn-law Convention on the 14th and 15th proximo, Lord Belhaven has signified his intention of being present. LAW AND POLICE, The Jury, in returning their verdict upon the late accident on the Great Western Railway, attached great blame to the inefficiency of the night-police on the sta tion, placed a deodand on the engine and carriage-train of 100/., and recommended the passenger-trucks in future to be placed further from the engine. Price Humphries, a wine-merchant in Berkeley-street, Portman-square, was finally examined at Queen-square on Friday, on the charge of fraudulently obtaining 197 gallons of varnish, and committed for trial. During the last fortnight, the cabins of several ships in the river have been entered at night-time, and robbed to a great extent. On old offender in this shape was suspected, of the name of Smith, who, on being cap tured, along with another man named Marshall, both Marine deserters, were committed for three months, at the Thames Police-office on Friday, upon clear charges of robbery. PINE ARTS. The new Liverpool organ, erected on the model of the celebrated chef d' oeuvre of Silbermann, in Strasburgh Cathedral, for a leading chapel in that town, is said to transcend the organs in York Minster, or the Town-hall, Birmingham. _ _ _ TIIE.&TIPACAL. Signor Tamburini not having been re-engaged for her Majesty's Theatre, has entered into engagements with a company in Italy, for which he departs on the close of the Paris Opera season at the end of Lent. SP ORTIIVG. A large party of sioiistiTen7 ainong whom are the Duke of Cambridge and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, are now on a visit to Colonel Conyers, at Copt-hall, Epping. The splendid yacht Theresa, has arrived at Naples, from Malta, with the Earl of Desert ; it is the only ves sel of the Royal Yacht Squadron, with the exception of Mr. Brinsley Sheridan's, anchored in the bay. coI:nem—FASHIONABLE. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst leave Tre ville-park in a few days for town. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland leave Trentham hall on the Bth inst. for Stafford-house. The Dowager Lady Ellenborough has returned to Stratford-place from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle are expected to pass a few days next week at the seat of the Duke of Sutherland, in Staffordshire. Sir James Graham arrived in town on Friday morning from Dorchester. The Marquis of Breadalbane has returned to Tay mouth Castle, Perthshire, from attending the funeral of his father-in-law, Mr. Baillie. Lord and Lady John Russell go to Bowood Park, Wilts, early this week. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe return to Wharncliffe House early this week, from Wortley Hall, near Sheffield. MISCELLANEOUS. George Palmer, Esq., of Nazing, is a candidate for the office of Verderer of the forests , of Epping and Hainault, vacant by the decease of Mr. Sergeant Arabin. The title is derived from the French verd, green, the chief part of the office touching the verd, to wit, the wood and grass growing in the forest. Twenty Peers have died in the course of the last year. On Friday, at noon, the Jews shaved,' bathed, and adorned themselves, to prepare for the new year, which is, in most countries, proclaimed by them with the sound of trumpet. Their feasts on that day abound with wine; meat, and sweet fruits of all sorts. The remains of the late Countess of Durham arrived in London; from the Continent, after a tedious journey from Genoa, the week before last. They have since been con veyed by hearse to Rushyford from London, and were de posited on Tuesday in the family burying-vault at Ches ter-le-Street. The new Police-court in Bow-street will be opened, it is expected, this day, for the transaction of the busi ness of the district, the arrangements being completed. LLOYD'S SHIPFWG LONDON, JAN. I.—Wind this day at noon, S. E. OFF MARGATE, JAN. 1. Black Nymph, Singapore. RAMSGATE, JAN. I.—Shl. Christian - Rio. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 31.—Wind S.S.E.—Sld.Bengalee, Canton ; British Merchant, Bombay ; Chilian and Secret, Lima; Mary, Demerara; Capricorn, Barbadoes; Coquette, Jamaica ; Ann Mondell, Trinidad ; Woodman, Sterne, Havaunah ; Richmond, Antigua ; Invoice, Hayti ; Wood stock, New Orleans ; Princess Victoria, Mobile ; Hark away, Virginia ; Lyna, Baltimore ' - Dauntless, Charles ton ; Mersey, James Lemon, and Rhode Island, New York ; Canton, Sierra Leone; William IV. and Ashbur ton, Azores; Firefly, Constantinople. Off port, Hope, New Orleans. The Belvidefe, Job, Bombay, has put back leaky, having been aground on Burbo Bank, and must discharge. -- - COWES, DEC. 31.--Acrd. Swan, Bingston, Rio. FALMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Wind W.—Sld. Duke of Cam bridge steamer, London, with 100,000 dollars on freight. Orr HASTINGS, DEC. 21.—Atalanta, Rotterdam, Batavia. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 31.—Ski. Tay, st., Barbadoes. SIINDEBLAND, DEC. I. CI., Constantinople. TTIE TT fc, LONnON COURT CIRCUt,AR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the whole of the Royal Suite, and Noble Visitors, and the Household, attended Divine Service, this morning in the private Chapel of the Castle. The Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce officiated, and preached. a most eloquent Sermon from the 19th verse of the 2d chapter of the Gospel accordin , g to St. Luke,— " But Mary kept all these things and pondered .them in her heart." This afternoon the Ven. Archdeacon Lord Charles Wellesley, Hon. C. A. Murray,. and some of the Ladies of the Suite attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal, St. George's. One of Dr. Green's fine old anthems wns performed by Messrs. Turner, Smith, .Mitchell, and French, in an excellent manner. Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert walked on the Terrace and in the New Grounds of the Home Park, afterwards his Royal Highness went to Norfolk Farm, pheasant shooting, attended by Viscount Sydney and Colonel Bouverie. Lord Charles Wellesley - (Clerk Marshal) has suc ceeded Colonel Arbuthnot as the Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie has succeeded Major- General Sir Edward Bowater as the Equerry .in Waiting on Prince Albert. The Queen honoured Mr. Partridge with a sitting yes terday for a portrait he is painting, by her Majesty's command. The venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce and Viscount Melbourne arrived on a visit yesterday. Major-General and the Lady Isabella Wemyss, Mr. George E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Mrs. Colonel Bouverie, had etbe honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle last evening. Their Serene Highnesses Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi lippsthal and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at G loncester-house. Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday, at the Fvreign-office. Mr. Studholme Brownrigg had an interview with Lord Stanley on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from Sir A. Woodford, Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches for Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of Jamaica, and for the Governors of the other West India Colonies, were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office. FLANDERS AND DUTCII MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEC. 30.—The Moniteur of this morning promulgates the law by which the budget of the revenue of the State for 1842 is estimated at 105,850,612 f. (4,000,0001.) Other receipts, not included in the above estimate, 14,482,223 f. BRUSSELS, DEC, 31.—Since the commencement of the year 1840 the cannon foundry at Liege has cast 454 pieces of cannon for exportation and 24,547 prgjectiles. The execution was attended with g r e at difficulties, Bavaria, which gave the largest order, being the Power which required the greatest precision in. the dimensions of its cannon. These difficulties have been surmounted, and while strictly observing the conditions which it had agreed to, the foundry has realised a profit. A part of the sum gained was paid into the Treasury two months ago; the remainder will be paid when the accounts are illy settled. The Monitenr of this morning promulgates the law by which the budget of thepublic debt is fixed at 31,473,615 f. and that of the dotations at 3,300,908 f. His Majesty has conferred tLe order of Leopold on several Greek functionaries, on occasion of the conclusion of the treaty of commerce between the Greek Govern ment and - the kingdom of Belgium. If we may give credit to a letter from Aix-la-Cha pelle,..dated the 23d, to a Frankfort paper, the iron rail way from Aix-la chapelle to Liege is in such a state of forwardness, that it is expected to be completed in the course of next summer. PERSTH, DEc. 19.—The Diet assembled here is very active. The subject of its last debates was the introduc tion of the Jury into - Hungary, which motion was re jected, though by a small majority. The minority in tend to give a separate vote, and, at all events, the sub ject will probably lead to animated debates in the next Diet. The Diet is at present engaged in a discussion on a project of laW, for the publicity •of judicial proceed ings, which will probably be adopted. The choice of Magistrates in the country of Heves, which was looked fur with intense anxiety, passed off at Erlau last week, contrary to all expectations, without any disturbance 4. All the persons elected are of the Conservative party. THE HAGUE, Dac. 30.—We learn from Arnheim that in consequence of indications of insubordination among the foreign workmen employed on the railway in that neighbourhood, it was feared that when they returned to work on the 27th in the morning, one disturbances would take place. By way of precautio - t, a detachment of sappers and -Miners, consisting of 3 officers and 50 men, was sent on the 26th from Arnheim to Bennekom. Tranquillity, however, was not interrupted, nor had any attempt been made by ill-disposed persons to excite dis order. A part of the detachment has, however, remained for the present at Bennekom, -and other measures have been taken to ensure the continuance of order among the workmen. Besides our King, it is said that the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburn- Gotha, the King of the Belgians, the Consort of the Qucen of Portugal, and some Members of the Royal Family of France, will be present at the bap tism of the Prince of Wales. PETERSBURG, DEC. 20.—The frost haring returned the day before yesterday (Saturday) the bridges were removed in the.course of the day. The river was covered with ice in a few hours. Up to this evening flakes of • ice continue to come down. DUTCH FUN W.—As:mature, Dec. 31. Mune,. Hits. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per ceat. Anuart Syndic,4% per cent 9 138 92 Ditto, ditto, 334 percent. 7o ;63,i - Commercial Company, 4N, per cent.... Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ....... 14 109.4 Loan 1837, 5 per Cent. 9 7,i1 9. % Exchange on London, One month l2 0734 Two m0nth5..«...,...11 9 131 Hamburgh, One month 35 813. Two months 35 4334 Dutch Papers, Jan. 1. BELOIAN UNDS—Bausens, Dee. 31 Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cant ......».«.«.» lol3s Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.... 3per Cent — 1013, Loan of City, 1932, 4 per . Cent. ........ Society et Commerce, 43.iper Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 per 7434 NationalSsciety. Exchange on Londsk (short) —Brussels Papers. Dee. 31. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Dec. 21. fit eper Coats. Metalliques FOUT per Cents.... .......... ••••••••••• ...... Three p.r Cents. ....... ....... ...... „ 75% Bank Shares l6ll —Allgemeine &Stung. Det. V 7. Thirty.seven---:- -._-.--(134c NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—The Thalia, 36, Capt. Charles Hope, is under orders for China, whither she will pro ceed on Wednesday next. When at Leith this frigate picked up an abundance of valuable men, with which she nearly completed her crew; she wants about 15 hands only. A few days since she was supplied, at the request of her Captain, with three of Rodgers' Patent Anchors, a bower, a stream, and a kedge. The Queen, 110, Captain Rich, was towed out of har bour on Thursday. It is expected that Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen will re-hoist his flag on board this ship on the 20th instant. The Powerful, 84, Captain M. Seymour, cane into harbour on Tuesday to be paid off. She will be re-com miSioned by Captain Nicholas Lockyer, C.B. The Snake, 16, Commander the Hon. W. B. Devereux sailed on Wednesday for the. Mediterranean. Extract of a letter from her Majesty's ship Dublin, Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 30th, 1841 :—" On the 20th October, as stated in my last letter, we left Rio, and we were parti cularly fortunate in making a good offing. On the following, in the afternoon, it came on to blow hard, and for the first time since I have joined the Dublin, - we were under close reefed topsails ; it continued to blow with more or less violence for the three following days. On the 25th it was more moderate, so that we could open the ports, and dry and air the ship: A leak having shown itself in the Admiral's cabin, advantage was taken of the weather, to ascertain whence it came and to stop it. For this purpose it was necessary the carpenter should be lowered over the stern on a grating, and whilst in the act of repairing a trivial defect, he providentially discovered a very important one. The head of the rudder was so much damaged by an extensive spring or rent, that it was impracticable to proceed in that state to Val paraiso; the ship's head was immediately put to the northward, the wind favoured us, and although we were then 550 miles distant from the port we had left, in nine days we made the passage there and back again, 1,100 miles." The Pandora packet, arrived at Falmouth, left Barba does Nov. 1. and St, Thomas's the 27th. At Barbadoes were the Rover, Sappho, and Fair Rosamond ; at Ja maica, the Comus and Magnificent. The Electra, from Port Royal, had called off Jamaica, and after landing specie, proceeded to Honduras. — We% regret to state, that the West Indies continued exceedingly unhealthy ; we are informed of the following casualties in the United Service, by death :—Mr. Crosby, Master's As sistant of the Firefly steamer ; Mr. John P.l'Lean, As sistant-Surgeon of the Rover • Mr. Alexander Scott, Assistant-Surgeon of the Fair Rosamond, and 11 of the crew. At the camp near Kingston, on Nov. 16, Captain Beresford, of the 60th Rifles ; and Mrs. Espent, the daughter of Col. Harrison. The Star (Mexicali packet), arrived at Falmouth on Sunday, with a freight of 5,000 dollars on merchant's account, and 150,000 on account of the dividends of the Republic. Her Majesty's ship Pilot left Vera Cruz on the 18th November, for Campeachy, to bring about a settlement of the adverse position of that province and Mexico, as to the attainment of which there existed little doubt. The Racehorse sailed on the 26th November from Havannah for Bermudit. The Star left the Tweed at Bahia. The Speedy, cutter, arrived on Monday, from the River, and returned on Thursday ; the Cracker sailed the same day for Jersey. The Emerald arrived on Wednesday from Plymouth. The Rose, arrived at Bahia from a cruise on the 11th of October, and sailed again for Rio Janeiro on the 17th October. The Electra arrived at Honduras from Jamaica, on the 9th November. The Vindictive, 50, Captain Toup Nicolas, C.B. is now fully manned, and will be ready for sea on Tuesday or Wednesday next, her complement having bean filled up by 40 volunteers from Liverpool, and 43 from Ply mouth. This fine frigate is exceedingly well manned, having more than 200 able seamen besides getter officers on board ; it is most most likely she will be appointed to attend on the King of Prussia, in the room of the Warspite, which takes Lord Ashburton to New York. On Tuesday, the Tyne, and on Wednesday, the Sa marang and Orestes, were taken into dock. The Caryl- MOll D A lc, , - Tiktf - UAA.Y 78; -1842; fort Was taken out of dock on Tuesday. The- :triadic-. dive was taken out of the basin on the same day. The Hingdove, 16, is in the basin, and ready for com missioning.. The Formidable, 84, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Part., is nearly ready for sea, at Sheerness. She may be expected at Spithead about the middle of the ensuing month. The Nautilus. 10, ;vas this week commissioned by Lieut. Sydney Thomas. The Carysfort, 26, was commissioned on Wednesday, by Captain Lord George Paula. The Hazard, 16, Commander Bell, sailed to-day, for China. The Driver, steam-vessel, Commander S. Harmer, proceeded from Woolwich to Deptford dockyard on Thursday, and was taken into dock there to examine her bottom and have her defects made good. The Vixen steamer, Commodore Boyes, sailed this afternoon for Plymouth, and will proceed thence to the Brazils. The ship Joshua Carroll, detained by her Majesty's ship Lily, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, on the 20th October. The Numa. transport sailed on Thursday for Barbadocs. In Harbotir.—St. Vincent, Victory, Powerful, Excel lent, Vindictive, Warspite, Royal George, Carysfort, Rapid, Nautilus, Adventure, naval transport, and Etth 6, steam tug. At Spithead—Queen, Thalia, Hazard. By the List of the Navy made up to-day, which will be found in our third page, it will be seen that there are in commission, as sea-going:ships, 25 sail of the line, 37 frigates, 40 sloops of war, 56 smaller vessels, 60 armed steamers, besides surveying ships and troopers. The sailing craft mount 4,440 guns ; the force, therefore, is pretty much the same amount under the Tories as under the Whin- ' s ; but during the autumn all the ships in com mission have been getting manned, and excepting the Queen, Formidable, Powerful, and Carysfort, which re quire about 1,000 men to complete them, the whole may be reckoned on as ready for instant sea service. The King of Prussia has conferred the order of the Red Eagle of the 2d class on Capt. Walker, now em ployed as Admiral in the Turkish service. .T HE FIREBRAND QUAKER" OF BRIDGEWATER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-My duty as a good partisan, being not to see the enemy careless in his posts and parties without turning it to account, I take advantage of the looseness of some of his movements, to try to advance the object of calling on the Libe rals, in various quarters, and by their various in terests, to lift up their heads and unite on the question of Free Trade for a general move. - The subject which now presents itself, is an article or letter signed " No Magistrate," in the Times of 31 December. To whatever extent a leading. Ministerial paper by choosing an article fin• insertion adopts it and makes it part and portion of the policy it maintains, to that extent the contents are appealed to as if they were pro mulgated by the Government. A " firebrand Quaker" as he is called, a borough magistrate, at _Bridgewater as would ap pear, is charged with exhibiting a placard in his window at the last election with the tbllowing :-- " Are the poor to pay 9d. per loaf, and the rich land owners to pocket the tax of 3d , which they invariably do ? Or are the poor to pay 6d. per loaf, and the Con servative landowners to lose the 3d. ?" In immediate juxtaposition to which, is the following commentary : " Could this proposal for confiscating the whole rental of the kingdom—for making the landlords lose' all, and falsely representing that all to be four times as great as it actually is--could such a detestable proposal possibly pro ceed from a person' admitted on all hands to be fully quali fied for the commission of the peace ?' Sure') it may be safely left to any honest man in the kingdom, what ever his politics may be, to determine on the quali fication of this firebrand Quaker for the magistracy, who at a period of general excitement could exhibit to the public so monstrous a lie—a lie, too, so likely to de lude and infuriate the people. Can any respectable man doubt fin• an instant that the exhibitor of this infamous statement was utterly disqualified fur any office which required a respect for truth and a reverence for the lives and property of his neighbimrs ?" It is one thing to enjoy the elegant amusement of calling a Quaker a liar, and another to answer to a man's own party fur having given the op portunity to an adversary to invite public opinion to determine, whether the honest Quaker was not proceeding in a course as consistent with religious iprinciple, and with the duties imposed on him both as a citizen and as a magistrate, as if be had chosen to de monstrate his zeal against,any other of the formu of evil-doing which are rampant in society. May this crocodile to Quakers have been im posing on the Times, and after all be some wag of the League's, aspiring to boasting that he at tacked the landowners through the columns of the Times? The position he has fixed upon them is this,—that all the rental of the kingdom is taken through the operation of the Corn-laws ;—that the Corn-laws are an invention for creating a class of men to be called rent owners, who otherwise and by the unaided course of nature would never have existed;—that they are a contrivance for causing a public loss, of dimensions with difficulty assignable or calcu lable, for the single object of giving a limited and easily calculable amount out of it to a happy portion of society the law creates for the express purpose of being the recipients. The League never said so much, but the Times has. And for any nice questions of authority, the Times must settle them with its correspondent. Meantime the assertion of the honest Quaker's window stands out avowed, defended, adopted, transferred to the hearts and heads of all in the country who to honesty join a certain quantum of intelligence. Combining this with the other portion of the letter, which is on the coup d'etat for creating Tory magistrates, may we not hope that the united effect will be to raise up a spirit of indi vidual determination in the places which have been the scene of operation, the end of which will be to promote the feeling of a general ne cessity for union on the question of Free Trade, as the means of driving out the common enemy. When the Neapolitans misbehaved, somebody said they must have more of the Austrian stick. The Tories are giving us the stick. Yours, sincerely, T. PERROET THOMPSON. Blackheath, Jan. 1, 1842. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEc. 31.—The trans actions comprise—Grand Junction Half Shares 975 ; Great Western Fifths, 101 ; Midland Counties, 85 ; North Midland New 36 : 1 v• MANCHESTER STOOK EXCHANGE., DEC. 31.—There continues to be a considerable demand for Railway Stock, and prices ar6 gradually advancing. The under. mentioned sales have been reported:—Eastern Counties, 9 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 284 ; Manchester and Leeds, 70 71 ; Ditto, Halves, 304 ; Ditto, Quarters, 31. 16s. 6d.; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 535. The St. John's New Brunswick papers, received by the Acadia, state that three attempts had been made during the week to set fire to houses in the city. Consols opened at 89$ 5 ; Three per Cents. Reduced 894 ; Threa-and-a-Half ditto, 991 a ; Bank Stock, 166 167 Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. Very little business doing at present. The settlement of the half-monthly account in the Foreign Market yesterday passed over without any casualty occurring. Spanish Active Stock opened rather - flat at 24- to 25 ; Mexican Bonds remain firm at 285 to 29 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 335 to 34 ; Ditto Threes, 20i R. The Continental exchanges were steady yesterday, at much the same quotations as last post day. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the present time. Consols are now quoted at 8n- ; Three per Cents. Reduced 895 5 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 994 5 ; Exchequer bills 14 16 prem. ; Spanish Active Stock, 25 ; Colombian Bonds, 22 ; Mexican, 284 29 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. have advanced to 34. No material alteration has taken place in the Share Market ; the following are the quotations :—Birming ham and Gloucester, 641 ; Great Western, 88 ; Ditto New, 61,1 ; Ditto Fifths, 10k ; London and Brighton, 39a ; London and Birmingham, 169 ; London and South Western, 59?,- ; South Eastern and Dover, 221 23. Consols, Account, 89 ; Spanish, 25k i ; Mexican, 29i 30. It is satisfactory, as far as the consumption of the sta ples of Colonial produce are concerned, to find that it had not fallen off last year, though, perhaps, a very different result might be exhibited were meat and bread to come within the category. It should be borne in mind also that the year 1840 was one of privation. The stock of goods in bond, except in a few cases, is not so high as at this time last year, a proof that our merchants have not been over trading. Very few have done a profitable business, however, during the year. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PaomonoNs—Commander—William Ward Terceral Johnson (late of Winchester), to the rank of Captain. Lieutenant—John Halliburton Murray (Flag Lieute nant to Sir 11. Digby), to the rank of Commander. Mates—Edgar Slade (1827), Henry John Giles (1831), Arthur Lucas Mansell (1835), James Beautine• Wil loughby (1837), to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain—Lord G. Paulet, to the. Carysfort. Lieutenants—C. Dyke, to the Cambridge ; L. de T. Prevost, to Vernon ; H. Bacon, to Calcutta ; E. M. Lev cester, to Indus ; E. F. Roberts, to Inconstant ' • W. Crawford (a), to Impregnable ; J. G. Bickford, to Rod nep ; C. J. F. E wart, to Monarch; H. G. Austen, to Ma gicienne; M. Bouchier, to Ganges; J. M. R. Ince, to Im placable; J. C. Johnston, from Thalia to Warspite ; J. Russell and F. B. Sleeman, to Geyser ; J. M. Potbury, to be Flag Lieutenant to Sir Samuel Pym ' • Thomas Bailey and Edward Courtenay, to I s is ; J. P. Davey, to Illus trious ; Hugh Berners, to Lightning ; G. T. Paterson kri om the Powerful), to Ferret ; J. Caldwell (from the Powerful), J. J. B. E. Frere, and W. R. Smith, to Carys fort ; A. P. Wilmot, to Wolverine ; Thomas A. B. Spratt, to Beacon ; Lord E. Clinton, to Harlequin ; H. J. Nourse, Gabriel Johnston, and R. Hill Wharton (additional), to Southampton'; Brook Young, to the Vanguard ; and George Snape, to Snipe revenue cutter. Master—George Heather, to Geyser. Surgeons—G. Munro, to Carysfort ; Robert M'Lean, to Geyser. Assistant Surgeons—F. W. R. Sadler, to Minden ; Dr. G. M'Kay, to Queen; Dr. J. B. NichelsOn, to Thalia, vice White promoted ;R. Douglas, to Calcutta. - Pursers—Charles Hillier, to Geyser ; Thomas Giles, to Carysfort. • Mates—W. T. Turner, to Serpent; N. J. Sulivan, to Fly ; P. E. Forbes, to North Star; William Armytage, to Dido ; 11. D. Blanckley, to Illustrious ; B. - Ilawkes (from the Excellent) to Thalia. Midshipman—G. Digby, to Thalia. Clerks—W. Bateman, to San Josef ; John Chapman, Cleric-in-Charge, to Pantaloon, vice Bateman. Volunteers Ist Class—G. Tuke, E. Grose, H. Lister, and W. Charlton, to Illustrious; J. Curtis, Dickens, and 11. Sheriff, to Queen ; D.. Spain, to Hazard ; T. Sullivan, to Fly. Royal Dlarines.—Second Lieut. F. W. Davis (from the Royal Naval College), to the Marine Artillery Companies. ROYAL AIARINES.—The following appointments and promotions have taken place in the Royal Marines:— Captain Robert Henry, of the Chatham division, to be Captain in the Marine Artillery, 'vice R. C. Steele, de ceased; First Lieut. Samuel Hawkins, of the Woolwich division, to be Captain, and appointed to Chatham, vice Henry; Second Lieut. J. L. Brainier, of the Woolwich division, to be First Lieut , and appointed to the same division, vice Hawkins. PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL. In our report of the meeting on the first Monday in November, it was omitted that the President mentioned having seen, in his recent visit to Milan, the walls covered with announcements of Lectures on Phrenology, and various Italian works on Phrenology in the booksellers' shops ; as well as marked heads in the. Museums of the Great Hospital, and of the Veterinary College; and that he had seen four marked heads in the Museum of the University of Pavia, amidst the preparations of Scarpa and Panizzi; and that•he had found phrenologists abound in all parts of the Continent. In the report of the meet ing, the third Monday in November, it was omitted that Swainson, Esq. was elected an ordinary member. First Monday in December--The Rev. David Wood, A.AI., was proposed as an ordinary member. A cast of Blakesley was presented by Mr. Deville. The President stated that • the general outline of the head resembled that of the majority of murderers in the Society's collec tion, and especially to that of Courvoisier;_and not only the heads of the majority, it was remarked, bore a re semblance to each other, but throughout the features of the majority of the worst murderers there was a strong family likeness, if it might be so called. The intellec tual development of Blakesley was very moderate, the forehead being narrow and retreating; the lower part of the forehead, however, the 'situation of the perceptive faculties, was better developed, though not in proportion to the sides and back. The posterior-superior, and the superior-posterior portions were very large; namely, firmness, self-esteem, and love of notice. The upper Surface sloped off .at the sides, making the summit keel shaped, such as is always seen in characters of great deficiency of moral rectitude. The sides above the ears were very large, namely, at the disposition to violence or destructiveness, and a cunning.or - slyness. The organ of the sexual propensity was large, and that of attachment of love of offspring, very large. With such a head Blakesley might readily have murdered Mr. Burdon from revenge, or his wife from the agony of forcible separation from her: Second Monday in December—Air. Logan delivered a Lecture on the lower propensities. Third Monday in December—T. E. Kerrison, Esq., was elected an ordinary member. . Prideaux, Esq., of Southampton, was proposed as a corresponding member. The cast of a female skull dug out of chalk, on Portsdown Hill (arms of ancient Britons, and other skeletons, being found in the vicinity), was presented as a pure specimen of the ancient Celtic head by Mr. Prideaux. The President stated, that the following were the rela tive sizes of the organs in the cast of Blakesley. The lower feelings stood thus : Disposition to violence... 5 In Courvoisier Cunning Love of property 5 do. Self-esteem Love of notoriety 5 do. Cautiousness 5 do. Perseverance Sexual love Other feelings stood thus : Conscientiousness 3 In Courvoisier '3 Hope 3 do. Poetic feeling .... ....... 3 do. Marvellousness 3 do. Benevolence Courage 3 do. Imitation Veneration or respect... 4 do. The intellectual faculties stood thus : Sense of things (observa tion) ,--.; In Courvoisier Sense of persons or form 4 do. Places Order 3 do. Colour Time 3 do. Tune '3 do. ....... .... 3 Language Casualty Wit Comparison The circumference of the head was ,.... 23i do. The resemblance of the two heads was extraordinary, and the circumference would have been the same in each, but for attachment and love of offspring being five, and in Courvoisier only three. For all the measurement! of Courvoisier's head, Dr. Elliotson referred the company to his little p amp hl et on Courvoisier, published by llighley, Fleet•street. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAG E PROM Sr. DOMINGO.—We lately gave the particulars of the coast by the extracrdinary voyage performed b y the schooner Whim, m, Captain Kerridge, of Harwich , which vessel, it will be remembered, owing to the death of the chief officer and f tl r i o e ms. illness t i lf m tlo go of to o he tchreewE,:gssh st say navigated Captain and one seaman, name d Lilly. The appren tice lad, named Last, who had a very bad l eg , was , after the Whim's arrival in the W es t India Import Dock, put on board the Dreadnought hospital ship, at Green wieh, where he is recovering ; but the p oor un f ortunate fellow will be unable to prosecute his profession as a sea man. The other seaman, an Irishman, w h o was unable from was unceremoniously lingering disorder sent t o a perform bouth is his dety on board, business, Captain, Kerridge enter taming a strong belief that part of his illness was feigned. Lilly, the other sea man,hghaas proceeded llantly brought to Harwich. In addition to the extraordinary and almost who the .ho Whimwi with C fr a o p m tai n St. Kerridge Doiingo , incredible duties performed by Captain Kerridge and Lilly, the latter acted as c ook, assisted occas i onally b y the master. Captain Kerridge's unparalleled and men ' torious exertions, as well as those of Lilly, the only,sea man on board able to work, have been justly appreciated by the owners of the Whim and several qtber gentleieen interested in her safety.,,Kgsex Sicnd4rd. . , INTEMPERANCE.—GIattony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by superabundance o f 9 ii, 4 fi re extingpished by excess Pf fuel, so is the natural heat of the body destroyed by intemperate diet, CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l66k ' India Stock 3 per Cent Red. 89,1 Ditto Bonds spm 3 per Cent Cons — !Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red 992 I Ditto New Annuities... New 3k per Cent — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 17 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001... Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. 17 pm Jan 1860 .. . 12 9-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2B India Stock for Acct.... Jan, 1860. — !Consols for Open 89,4 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... 109 'Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lOl Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cei !Russian, 5 per cent — I Chilian, 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 24k Ditto, 1824 .22i Ditto Deferred ... 121 Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 29i French, 3 percent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1637 Dutch, 2i per cent SIA Peruvian, I e 2.5, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 64k Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ...... ... 2Bi Cheltenham and Great Western (72i paid) 18i Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... ...... 9i Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... ........ ...10/ 16s 8d Great Western Railway( 65 paid) BB Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 61i Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 391 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) — Ditto New Shares ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... ........ London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) 7 London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 124 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ...... 26fr North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (15 paid) South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... ...... 23 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 92k Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3li AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.—Thomas Hogel was on "Wednesday last charged at the Liverpool police-office by a recruiting sergeant with having prac tised a singular imposition. It appeared that the pri soner was extremely anxious to enter the service of the East India Company ; but being one-eighth of an inch under the standard height he fixed to the crown of his head a hall of wax covered with hair. Having by this means elongated himself to the required dimensions, he was passed on Friday week ; but being ordered to attend again on Sunday, the in genious device was detected. Mr. Rushton said he knew of no law which condemned a man to punish ment For such an act as that committed by the prisoner ; and ho said that he thought the East India Company were not so very precise as to h e i g h t as i n h er Majesty's service. The sergeant, however, said that they were equally strict, and that the standard heights were the same in both services —five feet six inches. At the request of the sergeant the prisoner was cautioned not to repeat the offence, and was discharged, Mankind may be divided into three classes. Those who learn from the experience of others—they are happy men. Those who learn from their own ex perience—they are wise men. And lastly, those who learn neither from their own nor from other people's ex perience—they are fools. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The great importance of the subject affords us sufficient excuse for recurring again to the system at present pursued in the management of sal roads, particu'arly as at the inquest held yesterday, on the body of another victim to the late horrible catas trophe on the Great Western line, certain facts were adduced in evidence that arc by no means calculated to restore public confidence in the security of railway tra velling. It appears from the testimony of the engineers, their assistants, and their foremen, that all had done their duty most rigidly before the accident occurred ; and that nothing any one of them was able to do could have possibly prevented its happening. The engineers had no idea of a slip being likely to take place, because their assistants had given them no intimation of any thing of the kind ; and the latter were, of course, wholly blame- ICSS, b. cause the foremen had made no report to them which cou:d induce . a supposition that there was reason to apprehend, in or near the fatal spot, the calamity which so soon transpired. The foremen were, of course, innocent, because they (lid not see any thiog which caused them to expect what afterwards occurred ; and theref .re there is no one in fault ; and, however deplo rable the result, just such another event is likely to occur, any day in the week, on the best regulated railways. This would be true enough if the present system is allowed to continue ; but we would suggest that the process we have above describe 3, of foremen reporting to assistant engineers, who report to the principals, should be entirely reversed, and that the engineers should report to the assistants, who should in their turn communicate with the foremen, who are mere work men, and as such are well qualified to repair a breach when it has taken place, but are not likely to be enabled to make those scientific observations by which its oc currence may be foreseen and prevented. The duty now imposed on the chief engineer is to take a cursory glance at the line—that of the assistants is to make a superficial observation—and it is let't to the foremen to inspect minutely, with the view of ascertain ing where there is danger to be apprehended ; and they, of course, being little better than labourers, are wholly unable to draw scientific deductions, from which ap pearances that are trifles in their eyes would be found to indicate the contingency of certain disastrous results, that might, by timely precaution, be altogether obviated. We cannot take upon purselves to say, that if it had been Mr. Brunel's duty to inspect minutely instead of to view superficially the spot where the accident occurred, it would have been possible for him to have detected symptoms of the slip, and to have guarded successfully against it ; but be would undoubtedly have been more likely to have done so than the men to whom the duty of inspec tion is entrusted, and the public are assuredly entitled to demand that the greatest precaution possible shall be taken io a manner so much affecting their safety. If such things are liable to happen every day, we can only say that railroad travelling is a more hazardous matter than we have usually considered it ; since, if accidents that kill a dozen people at a time are incidents that no skill can prevent, or no caution guard against, the fashion of making wills before taking a journey of a few hundred miles will soon be revived, and insurance offices will begin to have new ?Les for persons accustomed to railway travelling. STANDARD.—We gave yesterday, in our Second Edition, the whole of the Correspondence between the British and United States Governments, as to " the right of search." It may be right to explain that the " right of search" claimed by Great Britain and the rest of the civilised nations of the earth is reciprocal, and that it does not extead beyond the ascertaining, by an in spection of a ship's papers, her right to the flag which she Vainks proper to display. From the acknowledg ment of such a right the United States indignantly re coils, upon what principle it is impossible to conceive without admitting suspicions which we are sure must be undeserved. Happily, the manifest necessity for the exercise of such a reciprocal right for the suppres sion of the slave trade has been so clear to the United States officers, employed in concert with the British and other officers on the African coast, that they have freely exercised it themselves, and agreed, by a written arrangement, to countenance its exercise by others. This closes ail com plaint as to the past on the side of the United States. If American vessels have been visited, they have been visited by the authority of the American officers on the spot, and volenti non injuria fit. The United States Government may disavow the acts of its officers, and there is too much appear aoi in the correspondence of an intention to do so ; but this does not change the state of the case as be tween the two countries. After the President shall have disavowed the acts and engagements of the naval commander, Great Britain, of course, cannot plead them ; but all that gentlemen's acts b_fore the dis avowal must be treated as the acts of the American Government. We think "too well of our trans- Atlantic kinsmen to suppose that this officer can be seriously condemned. He was sent to aid in suppress ing the slav e trade—be believed his mission a bona fide mission, and, acting in good faith, he agreed to an arrangement absolutely necessary for the execution of the service upon which he was Let least ostensibly) em ployed. Had he refuted his consent to the arrange ment for a reciprocal search, it is plain that he would have acted, not for the suppression, but for the pro tection and promotion of the slave trade. We confess that we cannot at all understand the reasoning cf the American Minister. We are unable to sea how any nation compromises her rank and independence by con cessions perfectly reciprocal, except the recusant nation claim a superiority to all others. COURIER.— It required no very intimate acquaintance with the precise nature of the instructions furnished to Lord Ashburton on the subject of his in tended mission to the United States, to hazard the statement so cautiously made yesterday by an evening contemporary, that " they specially regard three points, and three points only—the affair of the Caroline—the boundary question, and the right of search," these being the precise points of difference between the two Govern ments, and upon which so much acerbity and pro fitless controversy had been already expended. As assurance upon this point has been rendered doubly sure by the revelations of our Contemporary, sand as it is slow no longer doubtful but that Lord Ashburton's mission has reference to the objects, with a view to the accomplishment of which it had been specifically determined upon, we may be permitted to congratulate his Lordship, as well as the Government by whom he has been appointed, on the fact, that even the bitterest opponents of both are constrained to acknowledge the wisdom and appropriateness of the choice. " His appointment (says the Chronicle of this morning in its City article) has been favourably re ceived in commercial circles, and has given a tone of confidence to the holders of State Stocks. It will be acceptable to the Americans, as the Messrs. Baring have been for many years most extensively engaged in American affairs, and in fact the agents of the American Government in monetary operations. . His Lordship is besides a citizen of the great Republic, and one of the largest landed proprietors, too, in the State of Pennsyl vania. His talents as a man of business are well known. He is one of the largest householders in the United Statee, and Lady Ashburton (late Miss Bingbam) is an American by birth. As an executive officer, to carry out a prescribed line of instructions, few can equal him ; and such, we presume, will be his position in the discharge of his special mission." It is rarely that appointments are so utterly unobjectionable as to extort from opponents such valuable attestation to their seasonableness and beneficial tendency as this extract conveys. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CORONER'S INQUEST. READING, FRIDAY NIGHT.—This morning, at ten o'clock, a Coroner's Jury, consisting of twelve of the most respectable tradesmen of the town, assembled at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, to inquire into the cause of the death of Richard Woolley, one of the passen gers by the luggage-train which left Paddington on the morning of Friday, the 24th inst. Mr. J. Blandy the Coroner for the borough, pre sided. The Coroner and Jury having viewed the remains of the deceased, which were in the hospital, immediately adjourned to the public office in the town, where the evidence was proceeded with. The public office was crowded throughout the whole of these exceedingly lengthened proceedings, which lasted upwards of ten hours. Mr. Bartlett, solicitor, of Friar-street, Reading, at tended tor the purpose of examining the witnesses and watching the proceedings, on the part of the friends of the deceased. The examination of witnesses then commenced, and was principally to the same effect as that adduced on the previous inquest. Mr. T. Hardy Bertram sworn—l am an asistant en gineer in the service of the Great Western Railway Company, and reside at No. 2, Portland-place, Read ing. My duties are to visit that portion of the line under my charge, generally twice daily, from Reading to Lon don. I employ competent foremen upon short distances, who inspect the line closely, and employ other men, or gaugers, under them, also to inspect the line in all weathers. The foremen report to me any unusual ap pearance, or requiring anything in the usual processes of repair. On the Wednesday afternoon before the ac cident I remarked that the portion of the line, particu larly at Sonning-cutting, and it presented no change in appearance from the previous three weeks. Mr. Charles Owen, my assistant, stated that sundry drains ordered by me had been math!, and that he had made part of an under drain, in one slip, which was in the immediate neighbourhood of the great slip which occurred on Friday. I received no communication which rendered a detailed examination on my part, in any part of the cutting, necessary. I consider the slopes throughout the cutting were equally safe. Ido not consider the spoil bank on the top of the cutting accelerated the fall from its own weight, or contributed at all to the slip. I have examined the slip since the accident took place. The slip, in my judg- MORNING SUN meat, is to be attributed to water perforating from a small seam of gravel which occurs near the top. 'lhat seam of gravel had not previously attracted my atten tion, as it had only been thrown open by the slip, and then showed itself. There was no previous appearance in the ground to indicat e the pr o b a bility of a slip of this kind taking place. it was an entirely new slip in my opinion. Tire police are not under my directions, but I am authorised by Mr. Brunel to put special watch men upon any part of the line, by day or by night, on which the state of the works may appear to require them. The reports made to me by the foreman under me are made personally, and not in writing. In my opinion, no systems of precaution can be taken by the Company to forewarn them against accidents of this kind, better than are now adopted. Charles Owen teas then called in to be examined.— Upon being sworn, he said—l am employed by Mr. Bertram, as an assist int, to see that the repairs in dif ferent parts of the hoe, and the Souning cutting in par ticular, were properly dcnc. He gave me instructions about three weeks ago to go to Sonnicg cutting, and examine the slip which had then taken place, and see that the instructions he had given to the foreman had been carried out. I did so, and I found the drain Mr. Bertram had ordsred to be completed had been done. It was the duty of the foreman, Bothell, to visit those slips when I did not, to examine them. Bottrch's duty is to make his reports to Mr. Bertram. During the sixteen days I was absent I frequently irquired of Bot trell the state of the slips, and his report was satisfactory. The principal evilence in addition was that of Mr. Brunel. Triis gcntle:nan was examined at considerable ngth. He stated—With respect te the system of watching adopted at night, I consider that any number of watchmen will be more effectively employed when placed specially to watch any particular place where any change is expected than by attempting to patrol generally over a district in the night, and for that rea son this system is adopted ; my assistants have po sitive directions, et all times, without any limitation, to place watchmen at any point where they consider, from any previous symptoms, cr from any peculiar cir cumstance, that there is anything to watch for. At the present moment there must be about thirty, or more, between London and Bristol each night. These men being workmen, and in communication with the foreman, know better what to watch for, and are more likely to se-a any ci!enge, than the ordinary policemen. The Senning cutting I can safely fay, has given less trouble, end caused less anxiety, than the majority of cuttings on the line. Near the place where the late accident occurred, there was one of those superficial slips. I had seen it about three weeks before the accident. I inquired of Mr. Bertram and learned that he had given directions to have it drained, and I saw afterwards that it had been drained, and in passing . very frequently I observed no change had taken &ve. Upon examining the greater slip a few hours after it had occurred, I found the drain which had been cut round the old slip, and which marked its situation. I found that the fall of earth which had taken place was situated about 40 or 60 fact further east, and higher up the slope. It was a totally distinct matter ; the first was a sliding of the surface, the result, I believe, of the quantity of rain that had fallen; the other was a large breaking down of the masses of slope in a particular stratum near the top of the slope. The ordinary sliding down of the surface below this, which is the result of the blip, and not the slip itself, had spread over and reached the former slide ; but they were totally distinct, and the larger one could not have been caused by the small one. I can speak to the fact that the passengers' carriages are quite as strong as the luggage vans, for they were originally constructed for luggage, and since converted into passengers' trucks. I arrived at the spot of the accident at about helf-past eleven o'clock. They had not thee entirely removed the earth from off the rails. I examined the site carefully and particularly, because was surprised at so much mischief having been pro• duced by the comparatively small quantity of ground which had slipped, and I found some large stones which had slipped down with the clay, being part of a bed of stones which lies a considerable height up the cutting. One of these stones, probably two feet square, ap peared to have been on the rail just at the point where, I think, the engine first left the line, and I have no doubt that these stones were the cause of the accident, as I think the engine would have run through the clay, and the train have been stopped much more gradually. The engine wheels were not broken, but the guard, as we call it, was broken. By the Conceen—l do not think if more vigilance bad been used the accident could have been prevented. I am satisfied, most decidedly, that my engineers re ported everything which occurred, and, from reports made to me. from my knowledge of the cutting, and from what I have sec n so frequently passing through it, that this fall of earth has taken place without previous sy mptoms.__ By the Foreman—The result of all our experience upon the line has been, that the se slips have been caused ether by continued rains, or breaking out of some fresh springs. if the passengers had been in the hied car riages they would have eicaped, of course ; but, gene rilly speaking, it is cot a sate position for them, as they would be exposed to more danger than in front. [Mr. Brunel gave the same i easons for forming this opinion which were given by bins when asked. a similar ques tion at the inquest held on Monday last.] With re spect to the relative safety of the passenger trucks, I have to state that i have frequently travelled by them, and at one period I generally went by them once a week to Bristol, as being the last train out of London at night ; and, t, king the speed of travelling into consi deration, I considered them rattler a safe train than otherwise. By the CORoNER—The chances are greater of luggage train being t un into behind than before. By a Juror—There is a tail-lamp always behind the luggage-train ; but from the frequent stoppages of this train, the shifting of waggons, &c., there is still risk of its being overtaken unexpectedly. By the CORONER—If two or three empty carriages intervened between the tender and the passengers, they would not at all add to the safety of the passengers, io consequence of the comparative lightness of those empty trucks. By the CORONEII.—An accident is more likely to occur to the passengers by a slip at night than in the day time. A mere patrol along the line at night would not enable him to be an affective watch. It is impossible in the night, and by the mere assistance of a lamp, for a policeman, walking along the line, and without knowing what he has particularly to watch for, to detect any changes in the levels and rails, or any of the numerous symptoms of danger. Such watching could not be relied upon. It appears to me that the most certain way of securing safety by night is to use ail the means in our power during daylight to remedy any evil, and , detect any fr es h symptoms o pi movement, and then acing special watchmen at those place=, with a knov ledge of what they have to look for and that is the system which is followed. _ _ Mr. Russell, M.l) , wished the following question to be asked Mr. Brunel : With reference to the police force upon the Great Western Railway, compared with railways in general, is the police as large as upon other lines? Mr. Brunel replied that it was so, and that such, he believed, was the opinion of the Inspector-General of Railroads. There was no railroad in the kingdom which had a stronger body of police engaged. The CORONER Ural proceeded to read over the whole of the evidence, and remarked upon various portions of the depositions as he went on. The Jury then retired, and after being absent for nearly an hour, returned the follow i ng verdict in writing :—" The verdict of the Jury is, that Richard Woolley came by his death from a fracture he received on the skull, caused by the engine called the Hec!a, coining into collision with a mass of earth, having fallen from the slope of a cutting on the Great Western Rail. way, at Sonning, in this county ; alid they are of opinion that the accident might have been avoided bad there been a right police or watch on the cutting. They therefore p!ace a deodand on the engine and train of carriages of the sum of one hundred pounds. And further, they recommend that the passenger trucks be in future placed further from the engine." POST-OFFICE. A Treasury Minute was on Friday published in th• Gazelle, with reference to the Postage dues. The sub stance of it is contained in the subjoined schedule : Between any port in Ma , leira and the Canary Islands, or between any port in Madeira or the Canary Islands and the Azores, or between Madeira or the Canary Islands or the Azores and any port in the West In dies or North or South America, other than the West ern Coast (not passitz through the United Kingdom), Is.for each Ltter not exceeding half an ounce in weight. Between any port in the United Kingdom and any port in the Canary Islands or the Azores, Is. Bd. Between any port in the United Kingdom and any port in Central America or Venezuela, or New Grenada (ports in the British colonies or possessions, and the Isthmus of Panama, and on the Western Coast of South America, excepted), 2s. 1 d. Between any port in the West Indies or North or South America, whether in her Majesty's colonies or not (but not including ports on the Western Coast of South America), and any other port in the West In dies or North or South America (except the Western Coast), not in her Majesty's colonies or possessions (without passing through the United Kingdom), Is. Between any ports or places on the Western Coast of South America (in addition to any other rates pay able under this warrant for the transmission by packet boat, to or from the Northern or Eastern Coast of the Isthmus of Panama), Is. Between eight and nine on Saturday morning the family of Mr. William Turnbull, of N0.:27, Monta gue -street, Portman-square, fishmonger, was thrown into alarm by the discovery being made that the cook, named Lydia Malone, a widow, abgleodotsircit:,dhailiol flowed d em f p r t o e m d to commit suicide by cuttin g . her e : d i:r t. : r at with a razor. 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