The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-15 00:00:00

MORNING SU.II THE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES. The Next 1 olume of this unrivalled Collection, in a neatly bound rocket Volume, embellished with En,gravings, price es., (to be published with the Magazines at the end of the Month), will contain fiIEODORE HOOK'S humorou s St ory , ent i t l e d T HE WIDOW AND THE MARQUIS; Or, LOVE and PRIDE. Which will be followed by COOPER'S celebrated Romance, " HOMEWARD BOUND." *** Other Popular Works will continue to be published in regular successicn. This Collection now comprises the following, among many other celebrated Works of Fiction, each complete in one pock - et volume, embellished with Engravings, price 6s. •. J. .FENI3IORE COOPER.—The Pilot, Th e S l ay,. The Water- Witch, The Red R over , Th e L a st of the 1‘ °Means, The Pioneers, The Prairie, Lionel Lincoln, The Borderers, The Bravo, The Headsman, Heidenmauer, Precaution. • G. P. R. JAMES.—Darnley, De L'Orme, Philip Augustus, Henry Masterton. THEODORE HOOK.—The Parson's Daughter, Max well, Jack Brasr, Gilbert Gurney. Miss AUSTEN.—Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (in I vol.), Pride and Prejudice. MORlER.—ilaiji Baba, Ilaiji Baba in England, Zohrab. Sir E. L. BULWEIL —Eugene Aram, Paul Clifford, The ka.st Days of Pompeii. Captain MA RRY A T.—Peter Simple, Jacob . Faithful , Japtiet. in Search of a Father, King's Own, Mr. 1114hipman Easy, Newton Forster, The Pacha of many Tales. Hiss JANE PORTER.—T haddeus of Warsaw, Th e Scot tish Chiefs, The Pastor's Fire side. MAXWELL.—Stories of Waterloo, M♦ Life, the Bivouac. Mts. TROLLOPE.—Vicar of Vt'rexhill, Widow Barnaby. Mrs. GORE.—Mothers and Danglitets, the Soldier of Lyons. MARRIAGE. By the Author of " The Inheritance," and " Destiny." • INHERITANCE. DESTINY. * s o Any of which may be had separately. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. To be had also of all Booksellers. IFS MAJES A T U Y STR th IA e . EMPEROR of naving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS -I*RIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though hey are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ug LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at • LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIE rftIBU rioNs. Persons desirous to purchase for the Neat Distributions ass re:eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 15, When Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Comedy of EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT.—Lord Norlaud, Mr. Phelps ; Harmony, Mr. Macready ; Mr. Placid, Mr. Keeley ; Edward, Miss Vining ; Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mrs. Warner ; !Ira. Placid, Mrs. Keeley. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, Caled HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. - - Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance tit •b - egtin at Seren o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, 2s. 6.1. Pit 34., .Second Price 2.5. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr te is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. _ . _ Will be produced (for the first time in this Country) Mer cadante's Grand Opera, entitled ELENA ÜBER Tl.—The Character of Elena Überti by Miss Adelaide Kemble ; Count Übaldo, Mr. W. Harrison ; Sigifredo. Mr. Leffler; Count Stretton ; Boemondo, Mr. Clement White; Gualtiero, Mr. Wigan ; Imberga,Miss Grant. „ - After which will.be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, 'HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to le opened at half - past Six---the performances to isnamence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and S econd Circ!es, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may he had upon application. Pr;vate Boxes to be had so'.ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 147. New Bond-street. On 'Monday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, :with the Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. tipward4 of 30,000 persons have witnessed the Pantomime at this Theatre, pronounced the beit of the Season. THIS EVENING. JAN. 15 Will b. acted a New Domestic Mama, entitled MADAME LAFFAH3E, ,from Memoirs written by Herself; supported by the entire G2mPluY• After which, a ;Nautical BurJetta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Two Songs _ _ _ with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND' THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK OR OAS AND" KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charae toristic i &Amery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quairkt Urcases, , iageolons 'Sticks, magnificent; Panorama by Stun-- 14m Huline ; Patch, M. Ruchet ; Pan talgon, M. Lehman;- Flip, Signor Feliss Carlo; Clown, Mr.' Iltt4iu4hatu ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe.. Private and Pithlic.Boxes can be had of Messrs, , Sams, Eber , , Nlltch4l, Andrews, and Seguin, daring the run of this popu lar Pantoniime. ROYAL VICTORIA. THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSHALDISTON. Enormeux success, and Second Grand Juvenile Week, in con ' sequence of the thousands of Children that have witnessed the perrormance of the Pantomime as Second Piece; and First Week of " The Story of Geraldine !" THIS EVENING, JAN. 15, Will be performed, a New Dome s ti c D rama , i n Th ree A c t s, entitled THE STORY OF GERALDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Se ville ; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle. Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic. Pan tomime, entitled HARLEQUIN PETER WILKINS ; OR, THE KING OF THE AIR AND THE FLYING IN DIANS.—With new and extensive Scenery, Dresses, Decora tions,. Tricks, Transformations, and Effects—A new Nautical Panorama, to be entitled " Our Native Sea-girt Isle !" con sisting of Maritime Views aleng the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by th e Conde Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.— Howboll, Mr. Gardner ; Gimbo, Mr. Howard ; Aboulifan, Mr. James ; Irza, Mrs. Lee. Boxes, 2s.— Pit, h.—Gallery', 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-put Eight. THE RAILWAY S UN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND TIIE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 15, 1842. THE WEATHEIL—Noox, JANUARY 14. ROYAL GALLERY OP ICIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 32 1 Highest 34 I Lowest ........ 27 Darometer S.N.—Freezing Point 22 Deg HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 59 minutes after 3 I Evening 13 minutes after 4.• (1-v3iti qi o7/1 filt ba3b lash ail! 'J. • 41 1 ,16,,4 6 , 41 . 1141 ( I • - ,--zazzlas v • 02, 41-1141/ LONDON: quiaa SATURDAY, JANUARY 15:";1841: The case of the American vessel lately carried into Nassau by the slaves embarked on board her, about which the Times of yesterday wrote a war and defiance-breathing article, seems to us a clear case which cannot possibly cause any dis turbance between the two Governments of Eng land and the United States. In it there is no principle at issue which is assented to by one party and denied by the other. All parties and all Powers are agreed that every individual So vereign State may make what laws seem reason able within its own dominions, without, be they what they may, justifying the interference .of another State. America does not, and cannot, contest our right to declare that the soil of our dominions cannot bear a slave, and that by tread ing on that a man is, ipso facto, a free man. The Times, in filet, quotes Judge STORY, an American Judge, to prove that the doctrines of absolute sovereignty withih its ow n territories is the right of every nation. Neither State contends that it has a right to protect critninals or resist the demand of the other State to give them up. The only questions which can possibly be involved in the Nassau case between the two Governments are questionS,bf detail, such as whe ther the whole of the criminals havebeen given up, and whether some of them may not have been protected as innocent men. Details of that de scription must be the subject of investigation in the spot by the proper authorities, or by a Spe cial Commission, and, when the facts are ascer tained, there can he no doubt whatever that both Povernments, agreeing as t h ey do on the PrinciPleA, will soon arrange this trifling subject. The eise will bp easily settled by the principles knoWn on 4 ireeogn ise *I by both parties. In its 'remarks on this subject, the Times has supplied an ample justification of the resistance given by the United States to our claim to search their vessels, which that Journal has been loud, and even bullying, in condemning. Even yes terday it sneered at the United States "claim ing a surly and novel independence, destructive of all maritime security ;" which sneer has the demerit of being unjust, for the concession would put an end to security. At the same time, it is asserted as a general principle that "we claim most distinctly the right to pronounce for ourselves, finally and irresponsibly, where concessions to the comity of nations' shall end. The very meaning of independence is the power of so doing. There is an end of national inde pendence if we are not to say for ourselves, and nobody else for us, exactly how far a man who stands on English ground shall be governed by English law." A ship is, all the world over, and at all times, according to international law, a part of the ter ritory of the nation to which that ship belong.. It is, therefore, for the American Government, not for the English Government, to determine all points concerning American ships. That all the powers of Ch ristendom have agreed to declare the slave trade piracy makes no difference whatever in the rights of the Americans, since " every State is to pronounce for itself finally and irre sponsibly where concessions to the comity of nations shall end." Though all the other sove reign powers of Europe should declare a new maritime code, they cannot, united, without a breach of duty, compel the Americans to submit to it, for the "very meaning of independence is the power in a sovereign State of determining what concessions it will make to the comity of nations." America refute to concede the right of search. She does that for herself, "finally and irresponsibly," and England hastily and arbitrarily trenches on the right of sovereignty in the United States, when she persists, in spite of the refusal of the United States, to visit and search American ships. On this day week we published an account of an important. meeting of the woollen manufac turers at Bath, which amply confirmed the de plorable accounts we have from time to time published of the falling off of the woollen manu facture in Yorkshire. We shall not, we pre sume, be accused of exaggerating the import ance of this manufacture, when we content our selves with borrowing the following notice of it from the Devizes Gazette, a Tory paper : The woollen manufacture of England must, indeed, be a subject of deep anxiety, not merely to those en gaged in it, but to every one who feels an interest in the happiness and greatness of his country. For a long series of centuries it has contributed to that greatness and that happiness. Its raw material is the produce of our own fields, and of the labour of our own rural popu lation, and the conversion of that material into clothing first raised our hamlets into villages, and our villages into thriving towns. As it grew and flourished, and gave greater and g reater employment to capital and in dustry, it enabled England to extend her supply beyond her own limits ; while the supply of our own growing . population still conti nue d t o b e i ts great and pr i ncipal object. The population employed in the woollen manu facture has always been intimately connected with the population employed in the production of wool ; a bond of union between them has been formed 13q• palpable community of interest, and the strong sense of reciprocal dependence. Whatever may be the case of the cotton manu facture, then, with the prosperity of the woollen manufacture the prosperity of the agriculturists is deeply and firmly entwined. To them, therefore, it must be of great, though sorrowful interest, to learn, from the circular of a respectable firm of wool-brokers in Liverpool, dated the Bth instant, that a contract for the deliveryofupwardsofloo,ooo pieces of woollen goods for the East India market has been taken by a continental house on terms far below any English manufacturer's tenders. Perhaps our agriculturists will think themselves compensated for this, by selling the bulk of their wool abroad, which will probably come to pass. The circular says:-- The exports of wool to France, Belgium, and,America, have risen from 1,690 cwt. in 1840, to 7,210 cwt: froni Liverpool alonev and including 5,856 cwt. from the port.. of London, the exports of wool. to our rivals'in nuitinfitc - tures amount, in 1841, to .18,066 cwt. 'exclastvd exports of combing wool direct from the port of'DuMlit, which are regular and very considerable. When we. state besides, that the prices paid for these wools are such as to be quite out of the reach of the English manufac turer, we cannot look upon our position, as essentially 'a manufacturing country, without apprehension and alarm. The prices of wool, then, are now higher abroad than at home, and the flockmasters may be certain that as long as we continue to export wool, such will be the case. The price abroad, in fact, will, in a great measure, rule the price at home ; for, if a higher price could be got from English manufacturers, the wool would not be sent abroad.- Here, then, we find one large and important product of agriculture already reduced in price below the continental level; while its cost of production, owing to landlords' taxes, is much above the cost of production on the Continent. Wool helps to pay rent as we as wheat. By checking the prosperity of the woollen manufactures, the price of the farmer's wool falls below the price on the Continent; while, by keeping up the Corn-laws, all the farmer's out-goings are determined by the higher scale of English expenditure. That will tend to impoverish all the farmers who keep sheep. There is another and a very numerous class of our countrymen, for whose welfare great concern is professed, deeply interested in the question. The circular says : The present consumption of wool, both British and Fo reign, is much reduced, and from various causes. The revolution in the stuff trade of Yorkshire, produced by the disuse of hogg warps, and the substitution of the cheaper cotton warps to a vast extent, has rendered hogg wool nearly unsaleable,,and barely equal in value to wethers of similar fineness,. Failures to a large amount, amongst the consumers of fine yarns, in Scotland and elsewhere, have fur the present, depressed the value and checked the consumption of all super English and Colonial combing wools. But. the increase of foreign ma nufacturing.establishments, supported in many instances by. liri;isls s capital, ,superintended by B r iti s h wor k men , consumin.g;Brillsb woo), out-bidding ,B r iti s h b uyers i n the, ,§oani s b, and alm o st every ot h er fore i gn wool marker, and. supplanting British manufactures in alniost.e.vezi7.inarket abroad, becom e s every year more felt; and":_earaitiod, pa - be a main cause of the present de pression or British manufactures.. , At the Cape of Good Hope, in New South . _ Wales, in Australia, and in Van Diemen's Land, the colonists have for years past devoted their attention chiefly to cultivating - sheep, so that wool has -become one of their staple exports, Much of the prosperity of those colonies tam depend on the market they find for their wool, and they will suffer even more than the English farmers from the decline of the woollen mann.. facture. If they should find, as they will to some extent, a market on the Continent for their wool, they must of necessity take the manufac tured goods of the Continent in exchange. Those' " vast and expanding markets," therefore, which are to be extended at the cost of our people, by the Government promoting a systematic scheme of emigration, while it persists in destroying our inanufa - ctures by accursed Corn-laws, will be, as the United States, another ancient colony of ours is fast becoming, vast markets for the manu facturing industry of the Continent, and we shall plant our colonies in vain. Both the colonies and the mother country, both the manufacturers and Me farmers, will be deeply and permanently injured by that decay of our woollen manufac tures which is now unhappily in progress. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, a judgment has been pronounced which cannot fail to astonish and afflict hundreds of highly re spectable families in the northern districts of that kingdom. A Mr. SMITH was convicted at the last assizes at Armagh of bigamy. His Counsel, Mr. WitITEsiDE, objected that his first marriage was not valid, having been celebrated by a Pres byterian clergyman between an Episcopalian Protestant and a Presbyterian. Judge CRAMP.. TON, before whom the case was tried, reserved the point for the decision of the Irish Judges, who, on Tuesday last, pronounced their judgment, in presence of a very crowded court. There were ten Judges on the Bench, eight of whom decided that a marriage celebrated between an Episco palian Protestant and a Presbyterian, by a Pres byterian clergyman, was not valid, and therefore', that SMITH must be discharged out of custody. As this judgment will operate retrospectively as well as prospectively, in a country where some thousands of families have been so married, and where the fruits of such marriages arc exceed ingly numerous, it is impossible to estimate the amount of suffering which it may occasion. We regret it on many accounts, but chiefly because it will tend to unsettle men's minds as to the va lidity and force of the most sacred engagements. It opens a door to the widest and most heartless profligacy, as it 'leaves it at the option of any person so married to desert his family and the partner of his bed under the hypocritical pretext of flying from a state of fornication. It is true the persons so united may be married again by application to the clergy of the Established Church; but in the case of old decrepid people, who have reared up families, and who stand in the relation of grandsires to their descendants, what a deal of scandal would not such marriages cast upon the Church ? Regarding the judgment in a purely secular sense, it is of the utmost im portance as involving endless controversies re specting the rights of property. That this question will be early brought before Parliament we do not doubt. An Act of the Legislature is imperatively demanded to supply whatever is wanting in the validity of all mar riages already celebrated, to which the judg ment of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench ap plies. This Act, if quickly passed, may prevent separations and actions at law without number. It is for the Church of Scotland to determine whether she will consent to admit the invalidity of any marriage celebrated by her regularly or dained ministers, one party to which shall be of her own communion. For our own part we think justice and decency demand that in all mixed marriages it is enough to constitute their validity that the officiating priest be of the reli gious communion of one or the other of time con tracting parties. It might lead to abuses were a Church of England, a Presbyterian, or a Ro mnish priest to celebrate a marriage between per sons of another religious communion, or of dif ferent sects from themselves ; but were one of the persons about to be married to hold the tenets of the Established Church, the Presby tery, or the See of ROme, we consider the reli gious right of one or other of these priests to be undoubted. To grant a monopoly of mixed marriages to one class of priests is an outrage against the liberty of the subject, and a violation of freedom of conscience. A Roman Catholic, for example, marrying a Protestant, may not think a Church of England marriage binding, whereas the object of his choice may have scruples as to the validity of a Rornish marriage, Now, in this case, the monopoly claimed by the State Church necessarily leads to great domestic unhappiness. To the parties who contract mixed marriages it should be left to determine in the communion of what Church they would prefer their celebration, all and each being declared equally valid by the Legislature. But the most painful impression which this judgment of the expounders of the laws will make out of Ireland will be the effect which it must have in opening the eyes of the people to the defects which exist in all our social institu- tions. Here is the denunciation of a grave, civil, and ecclesiastical error, which has existed for centuries in Ireland, unknown to all who took part in it before the Court of Queen's Bench pronounced its judgment on Tuesday. Men and women mouldering in their graves, after a life of what they died in the belief was the perfection of Christian connubial happiness, are by this sentence denounced to their descendants as having' lived and died in a state of fornication. But what was the State Church doing all this time ? Wherefore did she not lift up a warning voice? But it is ever so. The Church is the last to find her tongue when her pecuniary in terests are left untouched. Give her the tithe pig, and letit be the fattest of the litter, and S,►TA N may, if he chooses, carry off the swine-herd without molestation. The Paseyites, alarmed at the flame which they have kindled in the University of Oxford, by putting forwar&Mr. WILLIAMS for the Pro fessorship of Poetry, are now anxious to with draw their candidate, and are using every means to induce the Garbettites to come to an amicable arrangement on the subject. A requisition to this effect has been drawn up and signed by 244 non-residents, among whom are five Bishops out of the seven who are members of Convocation; but Lord ASHLEY, the Chairman, and Mr. GREGSON, the Secretary of Mr. GAR BETT'S Committee, properly turn a deaf ear to the insidious scheme, and will admit no impu tation on the religious principles of their can- didate. "Let the galled jade wince ; our withers are unwrang.' , The excitement now existing, has arisen from circumstances over which they had, and can exercise no control, and should they withdraw their candidate, they have no security against the recurrence of similar difficulties. They, in fact, treat their opponents as rank Jesuits, whb have some sinister purpose in view, but which they dare not reveal. What a triumph to sincere Roman Catholics, who, when " railed at" by these men, " railed not again," to find them distrusting one another, like the treacherous leaders of bar barous armies. The watch-word of the Gar bettites is "No surrender;" and a contest, therefore, must take place. The names of .the five Bishops are—R. OXFORD, H. EXETER, C. T. RIPON, E. SARUM, and T. V. SUDOR and MAN. With the French Journals we have re ceived a report of the proceedings, up to post hour on Wednesday, in the Chamber of Peers, on the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne, of which an interesting summary will be found in another part of The Sun. These pro ceedings are remarkable, as showing that not a single Peer raised his voice against .the domestic tyranny of the Government. On the contrary, all parties seemed to agree that the Press could not be too much restrained ; that public opinion could not be too tightly restricted; that the dungeon and the guillotine could not be too often called :into requisition to crush the murmurs of the discontented ; and that the Government had nothing to fear, so long as it sacrificed the poor to the interests of . men of property. As compared with the Peers generally, M. GUIZOT and his col leagues are 'pattern's of - moderation. Not a Peer. asceikdedthe tribune who did not appear eager toconvinceTrance, that, if in office, his little finger would be thicker than the loins of the GUIZOT 'Cabinet—that if the Ministers chas tised freedom of opinion with whips, he was prelifftrdto 'punish still lesser delinquencies with sCoriiiUUS,. : ,„-; ."1 We have received this -evening, at six o'clock," says the Choriegri,:" a Sammons to appe ar before the Court of Assize on the 15th- of this . month. Thus only three days_ are allowed us to Rrepare our defence. It is true that the Bar thinks,. with reason, that it must be ex tremely easy. However, we have many documents to collect, for we must show to the Jury all the manifestations of the opinion of France, and of the European press, on the subject of the requisition of M. Habert. We are already engaged in collecting these materials, and we shall appear if our defence is ready. We shall not ask for an ad journment, unless the short time allowed us should not have been sufficient." The Committee on the Address asked the Government to communicate the treaty on the right of search. This communication (says the Constitutionneo has been re fused.—Commerce. BOURSE--PAsts, WEDNES D AY, JAL 12. list Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Prie,. 117 00 1 17 90 ... 117 80 117 95 9 per Cents. French 5 per Cent 5..."...... • 78 75 ig 80 ... 78 70 ... 7$ 75 Loatt 00000000 79 15 .•• 79 25 .•• 19 1 0 ... 7 9 25 cant of France 5360 u965 .”5360 LOBO Bank 5 1 :000( 000( . . s ta r :: 5 1 0. 020 25 :5 %20 5 . ..... 5 1 0 01 5 0 :7 10 25 20 , telelan Sank Belgian 5 per Cents. " 103 • 103 103 .. 103 a per Cents., 1940... 104 • 104 ... 104 1 0 4 3 per Cent 5..........•• 71 ... 71 ••• 71 ••• 71 ipsniah YZA 25% ••• 25( 2 52 Passive.. ." 57s “. —a " .5 New Def err ed Old Deferred • 6 ... 6 ... Neapolitan ........ 107 ... 107 10 ... 107 ... lin 10 —• 103% ... 104 ... 1033( ... 104 RAILWAYIHARira. It. Germain ••••••••••••••••••••• 857 50 c p. 837 50 ... €O 5 ••• 835 Versailles. R. 337 50 937 50 ... 937 50 337 50 2d5 205 .•• 205 20 . Innen •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 480 •.• 485 ••• 480 ••• 485 2 Orleans ..... 515 315 ... 512 50 513 75 Stresburgtoßale____ 2,6 25 ... 927 50 ... 22d 25 227 50 AUSTRIAN FUNDR.Z.VtIiNNA, J.N. 4. 106 torn per Cents. Three per Cents Dank Mani ....AJWasitAs Zatong. ha. I. ........ 75 *soft 1625 THE SUN, LOTDON.--SATpRDAY, JANUARY l5, 1842 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND publtr Optuton. " Who runs may read," ro REIGN. The trial of the editors of the National and the Ga zette de France, accused of attacking the rights of the King, and of exciting hatred and contempt against the Government, in an article published by the former on the 20th September last, and repeated by the latter, was brought on Tuesday before the Court of Assizes. The two cases had been united in one indictment ; but it being proved to the Court that M. Delaroche, of the National, was from illness unable to appear, the Court put off his. trial to another session, and ordered that of the Gazette de France to proceed forthwith. Upon this, M. Foueauld, the editor of the Gazette, determined to make default. and withdrew. In his absence, M. Tho rig-ny called for judgment. The Court sentenced M. Fouvuld to a year's imprisonment, and a fine of 4,000 E This is the first fruit of:M. Dupoty's conviction by the Peers orra charge of constructive treason. Verily Louis Philippe cannot too soon make out the Precureur-General's patent of nubility. He is already qualified for a seat .in the French State Hospital of Incurables. The French Newfoundland cod fishery for 1841 has been much less successful than that of 1840, which was by no means remarkable for its produce. From the port of Granville 56 ships with crews, amounting to 952 men, went out to the Great Bank. The aggregate amount of the take in 1840 was 4,030,782 fish ; but last year it was no more than 2,801,000 fish, weighing 7,000,500 kilo grammes, valued at 1,715,961 E, from which being de ducted one-fourth as the crews' share, there remained for the owners 1,211,971 francs. The cost of fitting out the ships for the fishery was 1,568,000 E ; conse quently there was an aggregate a !oss of 356,028 E, or 6,357 f. for each ship. A letter from Alencon, chief town of the Orne, enu merates the following series of deplorable events which have happened there within the last three weeks : —On the 20th ult., a maiden lady, aged fifty, threw herself, in a fit of insanity, into a well, and was drowned. —On the 25th, three men made a brutal attempt upon a young woman, but were defeated by the assistance brought to her by her cries.- , --On the 31st, a lady was wounded, but not dangerously, by her son-in-law, be cause she protected her daughter, who had fled to her to escape his brutal treatment. The infuriated man, to avoid the punishment due to his attempt, committed suicide in the night.—On the 2d inst., a countryman was robbed on the Champ de Foire, and so severely beaten, that he remained senseless on the gronnd for several hours, but at last revived.—On the sth, a captain on the retired list,. enjoying an adequate income, and much re spected by all who knew him, got np early in the morn ing, went to the principal entrance of the cemetery, and there shot himself.—And, on the 6th, Lecomte, a man condemned to death for the murder of his wife, was executed. On the interrogation of Mallet, the accomplice of Quenisset, by the Chancellor, Baron Pasquier, the Ga zette de France remarks—" This name of Mallet must have brought to the recollection of the former Prefect of Police of the empire one of the most striking episodes of his life. Another Mallet committed M. Pasquier to prison, and a cobbler, on seeing him pass by with the Duke de Revigo to the Conciergerie, cried out--' Good ! good ! the Imperial shop is broken up !!' M. Pasquier has had his revenge ; he signed the lists of proscription in 1815, and is now interrogating another Mallet, a con spirator." Madrid letters of the 4th say that M. Salvandy had made every preparation for commencing his return on the sth. The Finance Minister had read to the Deputies his budget for 1842. He states the deficit at 180,000,000 of reels. The revenue is from 7 to 800,000,000 of reals, of which the War-office absorbs 600,000,000. " The Pope," says the Diario di Roma, "has appointed Cardinal Patrizzi to be his Vicar-General for the city and diocese of Rome, in the room of the late Cardinal Della Porta Rodiana. His nomination must be gratifying to the Roman nobility, as his eminence is a Roman Prince by birth." There are very few local appointments made by the Sovereign Pontiffs, which ought to gratify the pride of the Italians. They share among them, and have done so for a thousand years, all the richest offices of the Romish Church. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times remarking upon the statement which ap peared in the Chronicle and Sun of yesterday, to the effect that Lords Aberdeen and Cowley had taken part with the King of the French against the Regent of Spain respecting the presentation of M. Salvandy's letters of credence, says, with more flippant pertness than becomes so grave an occasion :--" The opinion which has been formed and expressed by the Government on the proper and customary mode of presenting credentials to an in fant Sovereign and to the Regent, would certainly not deserve the importance which has been attached to it if it involved it mere point of ceremony. As such, it is ridiculous to exalt their determination on this point into the first great act of their foreign policy, and to extort from it a whole series of vicious and absurd inferences favourable to the pretensions of the French party, and hostile to the independence of Liberal Spain."l'he re conciliation of Europe with Spain will nut be hastened or retarded for. n single day by the presence or absence of a French.Analka,ssador.ak.Madrid." The Morning Herald, writing upon the same question, has the following. We may first remark that none of our Tory Morning Contemporaries seem so little trusted with the secrets of the Foreign-office as the Times. The Herald says :--"A . new question—a contemptible one, and sufficiently indicative, we admit, of a foregole con clusion '—has arisen between France and Spain ; and how has Lord Aberdeen acted ? H e h as pursued the same dignified and temperate course as he did in the Christina-Orleans-.O'Donnell movement; he has treated the question as one of etiquette merely, and has held the balance between France and Spain most equably. The .first demand of M. De Salvandy he has indicated to be perfectly inadmissible in a constitutional country. It has been withdrawn. The second demand he has rather hinted than declared to be in accordance with diplomatic form and courtesy, and recommended acqui escence to it by the Regent of Spain. Such acquiescence has been declined, and Lord Aberdeen has refused to al low Lord Cowley to mingle in negotiations for a com promise." The Morning Chronicle concludes a sound article on he Corn-laws with the following pithy remarks : " Within the last fifty years rent. has tripled or qua drupled. But all is not enough. The landowner, not satisfied with the protection which he derives from hav ing a commodity almost always below the wants of the community, calls for the exclusion of all foreign corn, and, in his insane avarice, threatens to cut up our foreign trade by the roots. The time has at length come when a stand must be made against injustice, On our manufacturing prosperity depends our agricultural prosperity. Whenever our towns are no longer in a condition to receive emigrants from the estates of the sqUires, down must come prices and rents, and poor rates must swallow up rents. Woe to the landowners, should this country ever be independent of foreign coun tries for a supply of food ; for it is on the inadequacy of the home supply that agricultural prosperity rests. Were the home market to be the only market for our manufacturers, the landowners would be peunyless." The Morning Post is a great stickler for monopolies in trade. The following is a specimen of its anti free trade lore :—" We term the principles on which our modern trade is based false, because these principles form part and parcel of the monstrous theory of free trade. Free trade means cheap labour. Free trade, therefore, implies the possession of power, by certain classes of capitalists, to grind down the order of la bourers to the starvation point, or below it. Our modern system of foreign trade is not, therefore, founded on the principles of justice nor of wisdom." MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. At the meeting of the London Joint Stock Bank on Wednesday last, it appeared from the report that the net profit on the half-year was 25,9231. 14s. 3d., from which a dividend of 64. per cent..per annum was recom mended to be declared. Prince Albert has given orders for six pairs of silk trousers and stockings to be• made by the silk-stocking makers of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, in answer to their address praying for his patronage to help their distressed trade. A combination has' been formed amongst the salt bacon-curers of Cork, and 800 or 1,000 have " turned out ;" several have been arrested. The debts already proved, up to Tuesday last, in Messrs. Hobhouse and Co.'s bankruptcy, amounted to 234,3641. 4s, 4d. The total invested for the benefit of the creditors is at present 40,0001. The next meeting is fixed for the 19th instant at Bath. At the last meeting of the iron masters at Dudley, it was determined to eontinue paying the men at their present rate of wages. No reduction consequently will, in the present state of affairs, take place, and the discon tinuance of the working of some of the furnacei will not prove so calamitous as apprehended. COMMERCIAL REFORM. At the first sitting of the Edinburgh Anti - Corn-law Conference, held in that city on Tuesday, among other eloquent' speeches and remarks, Mr. Hope, farmer, of East Lothian, said—" As a grower of corn, a feeder of sheep and oxen, I wish to proclaim to the public that I have no fear for the ruin of my order from the pale-faced working classes of our manufacturing towns being per mitted their just rights, to exchange the produce of their industry for food raised in foreign lands. PuBLIC impRoVEMENTS.. It is stated that 'Ministers will grant 10,000 h for the establishment of two normal schools at Edinburgh and Glasgow, with 1,000/. a-year for their annual expenses. PARLIAMENT ARY. Sir Robert Peel has issued his circular for the assem bling of Parliament, Feb. 3, when " public business of importance will be immediately proceeded with." d b m y ir letter,al Sir j h . a R s resigned omie y, who future ELM cTioNZI:r&IN G. was promoted claim to the promoted to th e ran k Sir R. Vyvyan, it i s s t a ted by a C o nservative print, will decline to com e f orwar d for Cornwall. Mr. Dawson also, re presentation. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A of Admiral of the White at the late brevet, died on Wednesday last at Leitrim. LAW AND POLICE. The gang of bread-stealers, whose illegal doings The Sun reported on W e d nes d ay , a s having helped hemselves unhesitatingly to the cakes and bread in the shops of Mr. Church and Mr. Cl ury , b a kers in the City, were com mitted to Newgate on Thursday, at the Mansion-hous e , on being again brought up , and these, to the number of 16, the Magistrate said, are likely to be transported. The other participators were severely reprimanded and dis missed. SYilliam Jennings, cabman, s charged at Cl er k en• w a I . s, for in th th e e fri s na tead of a well on Thursday fa v re, and vitheif fi oro ned ing 2os legal eightpenny A wretched-looking man, named William Jones, ap peared before the same Bench, for stealing three quartern loaves from a baker's at Pentonville. He pleaded dis tress, but was committed. JOhn Berry, a weaver's-reed maker, was again re manded at Worship-street on Thursday for a week, having fourteen banker's bills and cheques in his possession for which he could not account, while further inquiry is made. The adjourned inquest upon the death of James Skel ton, boatswain of the Helen and Mary, now in the London Docks, Captain T. Palmer, was held on Thursday The verdict returned was " Natural death by scurvy ax 4 .flF9pq ;" but their indignation was expressed on the condUct of the Captain, who had fed his crew on. rotten buffalo beef, while he had sound provisi.ns onboard, LITERARY AND SCIE - NTIPIC. - At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held on Monday, among the presents announced was a new Map of Amoy, from Mr.Wyld, and an Atlas of 500 Maps from Admiral DlTrville. John. Calvert, M.D., member of most of the philosophic and learned societies of Europe, died on the day of his 40th year, at Falmouth, last Sunday. Meteoric phenomena of great splendour have been numerous this season at Dunse. On - the 4th instant a brilliant one was seen in the west, near Procyon and Sirius. It assumed the shape of a full moon, which tapered to a point behind; its colour was white, inclining to blue, and it finally exploded into fragments, some as large as golf-balls, and others like rain-drops.: SPOUTING. About 1,000 persons, among whom were several mem bers of the Skating Club, were on -the round pond in Kensington-gardens on Thursday. In St. James's there were about 500, and in the Regents-park 400 or 500 per sons on the ice. One or two immersions took place, but no serious accident. COIIRT-FASHIONABLE. A marriage is spoken of between the Princess Maria Louisa of Orange, and the reigning Duke of Nassau. The bride is 18 years of age, and esteemed charming ; the bridegroom U. :The Duke of Cambridge returned yesterday to town from Petworth, Sussex, from his visit to Colonel and Lady Wyndham. Lady Peel and family arrive from Drayton Manor this n eck. The Brazilian Minister, Madame Lisboa, and family, have arrived in Portman-square, from Brussels. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn has been entertaining se' lest companies at Wynnstay, during the holydays. The son of Prince Polignac has arrived at Brussels. The Earl of Westmoreland arrived at his residence in Harley -street from Brighton on Wednesday, and will return to Berlin to resume his diplomatic functions soon after the Royal Christening. The King of Prussia, says the Hamburgh Gazette, will bear the title of Count of Ermansdorff while at London, and will not appear in military costume except on the day of the Christening, when he will wear the uniform of an officer of the Guards. MISCELLANEOUS. The King of Prussia embarks at Ostend for this coun try on Thursday next, whither the Chevalier Bunsen will repair to receive him. His stay here, it is said, will not exceed eight days. The order of the Knights of the Golden Spur, the pri vilege of creating which has been exercised in Rome by the Sforza family co-ordinately with the Sovereign Pon tiff for the last three centuries, has just been abolished by Papal brief, without any previous notice or reason assigned to the present Duke. A decision has just been given in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, which will carry alarm into manyy a family. All ma rr i ages i n I re l an d , ce l e b rate d b y 'Pr6sby terian ministers, where both parties are not 'Presby terians, are declared invalid. The Prepyterians in Ulster amount to upwards of 600,000, and we understand nothing was more common than the celebration of mar riages between Presbyterians and the members of other communities by Presbyterian ministers. The Mayor of Bath, in a letter addressed to the Morn ing Post, respecting the rumoured accident at Combe Down, says he has every reason to believe that the com munication was made by an unfortunate gentleman in curably deranged. He thinks the handwriting and sig nature bear a strong resemblance to those of the lunatic, who had been some time in a madhouse, but where he is now the Mayor cannot tell. RUMOURS or THE DAY. The King of Prussia's present to his godson, the Prince of Wales, will be a splendid royal mantle, lined with ermine, and decorated with the finest brilliants and jewels of the star of the Order of the Black Eagle. So say the gossips at Berlin. Not fewer than fourteen equity barristers are to re ceive silk gowns in consequence of the establishment of the new Courts. The following is the list, accord ing to the mast approved authority :—Messrs. Teed, Purvis, Koe, Kenyon, Parke r , V 4 ilb ra h am , W a lk er, Lowndes, Mathews, Loftus, Wigram, James Russell, Anderdon, and Roupel. At the Cabinet Council, held on Tuesday, the de tails of the measures to be brought forward in the ensuing Session were for the first time discussed by the Ministry in Council. The Corn-law Duke and the Kent Baronet were both present, and we may, therefore, guess pretty accurately what formed one of the principal topics of dis cussion. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in Claremont Park yesterday morning. Prince Albert afterwards went out shooting in the Park, attended by Lord Byron, Col. Bouverie, Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. George E. An son, and Lord Charles Wellesley. His Royal Highness returned soon after two o'clock. The Royal Dinner Party at Claremont last evening included only the Royal Suite. The unfavourable state of the weather on Thursday, throughout the day, prevented her Majesty and Prince Albert taking their accustomed airings. This morning at half-past eleven o'clopk her Majesty and the Prince, attended by the Royal Suite, are ex• petted to leave Claremont for Windsor Castle, where a Privy Council will be held. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester-house.'"" His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Keate and Colonel Jones, arrived in town at five o'clock yesterday afternoon from a visit to Colonel Wyndham, at his seat, Petworth-house, Sussex. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Somerset, arrived in town yesterday from Kew, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness fhe Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester -house. Their Royal High nesses returned to Kew in the evening. A Deputation of Sugar Refiners had an interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trtule., The Chief of the Micmac Indians, Mr. Joseph Mully, accompanied by two Indians; had an interview with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial -office. A Deputation from the Bank of Asia, consisting of Mr. Jardin, M.P., Chairman, Sir John Campbell, K.H.. Mr. Sheriff Rogers, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Brooking, Capt. John Hine, 11.C.5., Mr. Kingston, Mr. B. Williams, and Mr. Goldsworthy, had an i n t erv i ew w i t h the Earl of Ri pon, on Thursday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Irving and Mr. Colville had an interview with the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. De la Bache had also an interview with his Lordship yfisterday. "Mr. Meyers, agent for Barbadoes, had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-Office. • A deputation, including Sir John Easthope, Mr. Wynn Ellis, Messrs. Stowe, Biggs, and Gray, of Leicester, had an interview, on Monday, with the Earl of Ripon. A deputation from the lead smelters including Mr. Edmund B. Lyon and M r . I'. Mathew, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon at the Board of Trade. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Court will return to the Castle to-morrow, to lunch. During the absence of the Queen, the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Bedchamber Woman to her Majesty, and Major- General Wemyss, Clerk Marshal to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, have remained at the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal are in excellent health. JUSTICE IS WISDOM.—The Morning Post affirmed yesterday that justice is wisdom. That is our opinion; and, therefore, regardless of what ignorant persons (for ignorant they must be of the future) predict as to the consequences, we de mand the abolition of the unjust Corn-laws. They raise the rent and increase the incomes of the idle law-making classes at the expense of the industrious classes. They are a gross and pal pable injustice, and therefore must be, on the Post's doctrines, also unwise and inexpedient. If that Journal cannot prove the Corn-laws to be just, let it extend its own axiom to them, and denounce them as we denounce them. LLOYD'S SHIPPING LONDON, JAN.l4.—Wind this day at noon, S. OFF DOVER,JA.N. 13.—British Queen, Deccan, St. John' s , New Brunswick. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 13.—Wind S. to S.S.E. a gale. —Arrd. Hendrik Hudson, London for New York ; Bri tish Queen, Gladstone, Ancona ; Royal George, De Gruchy, Swansea, with damage, and loss of anchors, having been ashore. The Isadore, Dunbar, from Car diff to London, is ashore near Ryde, and bilged, and must discharge. It blew a heavy gale last night and to day from S. to S.S.E. BRISTOL, JAN. 13.—The Niger, hence to Africa, was totally wrecked on the Bar of Mozerado River, during a gale, 28th Oct. ; part of the cargo saved ; chief mate and four of the crew drowned. REDCAR, JAN. 13.--The Amulet, Smallwood, from London to Stockton, run on the rocks off this port last night, but was assisted off this morning and proceeded. LOVVESTOFFE, JAN. 13.—The Tyne, Pearson, in making the harbour this morning, got on the back of the pier. it is blowing a gale at S., and it is expected she will be ' come a wreck. DEAL, JAN. 13.—Wind, S.S.E., fresh.—Arrd. City of Poonah, Bad, and Walker, from Calcutta ; Glenelg, Biles, Bombay ; Morning Star, Ceylon ; Lively, Brazil ; Victoria,' Carey, Berbice ; Elizabeth, England, West Indies ; Duke of Bedford, westward. Arrd. from the River, Courier, for the Cape. STANGATE CREEK, JAN. 13.—Arrd. Lucille, Clark, Odessa ; Nora Creina, Malta ; Prima Donna, Patras ; Tom, Roberts, Leghorn. CARDIFF, JAN. 11.—Sld. Pomona, Leghorn. Some highly interesting experiments have lately been made at Portsmouth, for the purpose of ascertain ing the application and capabilities of the mantelet, lately invented by Lieutenant-Colonel Blanchard, of the Royal Engineers, to gun rocket practice, and the result has proved highly satisfactory. The application of the mantelet to so formidable a weapon of war as the Con greve rocket, originated with Lieutenant-Colonel Nlen zie6, R,H., comp:landing the Royal Marine Artillery. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, ITY,FRIDAY EVENING. The market this afternoon completely recovered its buoyancy, the purchases by parties, who took advantage of the reduced rates, i n c onjunction with the demand for s'o:k on behalf of the Bears, who seem to have been on the losing side this account ; and, finally, the cessation of sales by the Government broker, having conduced to this change. During the account, Consols have fluc tuated under lk per cent.. Consols for present transfer were to-day 884 to 891, and for the February account 891 to 89k. Exchequer Bills were 14s. to 16s. premium, and India Bonds 9s. to l ls. premium. Bank Stock .was worth 167 to 1661, and New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised an improvement to 99 and 99k. The feature in the Foreign Market was an advance in Mexican. Stock, and a decline in Spanish. The reve nue accounts of Surra y Rull appear, on the whole, not worse than might have been expected. Active Spanish Bonds were at 24i during the day, but rallied subse quently to 251. They closed at the former price. Por tuguese New Fire p er C en t s . were at 32k to 1, Mexican Stock at 291 to 291, and Columbian at 214 and 211. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 511. The Share Market was very heavy, although the sales were not large. Brighton . gave way to 13 discount, Great Western to 201 premium, and South Western to 19k remium. Loalon Joint Stock Bank Shares were at 2 premium. f T e improvement noticed l as t T ues d a y i n th e F ore i gn Exchangeswas not, supported this afternoon, as the sub joined rates will show:—Antwerp, 12 41; Paris, 25f. 75c. to 80c.; Hamburgh, 13 10 to 13 101 ; Amsterdam, 12 44 ; Frankfort, 150 to 1 ; and Trieste, 9 51 to 53. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Stock effected by the Government broker up to the present time have been to the extent of 900,0001., and it is generally expected that he has more to dispose of ; nevertheless the market keeps firm. Consols opened at 88/ 89 for Money, and 89' 1 for the February Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced are 891 1 ; Three-and-a-Half Ditto, 99k ; Bank Stock, 166 k 1671.' ~ . The Foreign Securities opened rather flat. Spanish Active Stock, 24/ 25 ;;;Passive, 54 / ,• Deferred, 121 i ; Portuguese Five jper Cents., 32k ; ditto' Threes, 19k ; Mexican Bonds, 29. Cape of Good Hope papers to the 14th of November have been received, but they do not contain any news of the least interest. Up to the present time no letters or papers from Liver pool have been delivered. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 13.—We have had - a dull Market to-day, the sales being only 2,500 bales, chiefly American, 511 to 6d. Nothing doing in export or speculation. LIVERPOOL SHARE. MARKET, J.N. 13.—The transac tions at the Stock Exchange this day, are—Grand Junction, 195 ; Lancaster and Preston Junction, 27 ; ditto New Shares ! 161 ; London and Brighton, 38. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 13.—We can not report any change in our Share Market ; prices continue firm, and Stock scarce. Manchester and Bir mingham, 28; Manchester and Leeds, 711 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 30 ; North and Sotith Wales Bank, 41. 75.6 d. The English Stock Market continues firm, and Con sols have further impro ve d s i nce th e opening to 89k for I money, and 891 1 for the account. Exchequer Bills are 14 16 premium, India Bonds 9 11. , There haVe been but two bargains done in the Foreign Market. Mexican 29 •, Spanish Active Stock 24i, flat. • Very little doing in Shares. Prices are lower. Great Western, 851 ; London and Brighton, 37; North Mid land, 711. The settlement of the account in the English Stock Market has passed over vvithout difficulty. Consols, Money, 89k ; Ditto February, 8 941 ; Mexi can, 291 ; Spanish, 24/ 25 25k. . There are in the advices from the Cape of Good Hope some serious subjects for reflection. The British colo nists complain that the settlement at Natal has too long been suffered to remain in its pre sent anomalous position, and that energetic measures are absolutely necessary, in order to bring emigrants to a proper understanding with her Majesty's Colonial au thorities, and to prevent their encroachments on the Caffres, who might resent it on the British borderers. The very limited extent of our commerce with various foreign parts, where under .a .'more liberal system of commercial policy, we might, perhaps have, an excellent opening for our trade, is shown in the returns before us of the shipping movements at the port of Bayonne during the past year. The num ber of vessels entered with cargo there was 308 of,jA -i , tons, and in ballast 217 of 8,400 tons. Ofthis large a single vessel on ly b ore th e English flag, whil4, were French, a good number Spanish, &c. The g m j sailed were 512 of 2,867 tons, of which 016 werfiAmi , and one of 140 tons English. a . `• 1 , 1, , . • :.. : tar:lr,, CLOSING PRICES. „,__ BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1671 India Stock ..... ..... .... 3 per C ;Ditto Red. B9B Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ~ 88i Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red........ 996 ;Ditto NewAnntrities... New 31 per Cent 99 Ex; Bills, 1,000b...21d 16 pm - New 5 per Cent — Ditto 50011:. Long Annuities toexpire Ditto I Small l7 pm Jan. 1860 .. 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859.... Jan.. 1860. 'FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... IPortuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent..,... ;Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... .. ~. !Prussian, 5 p er cen t. 'Menus Ayres,6 per eels 1 Russian, 5 pe r r en t Chilian_, 6 per eent..... IDitto, Metallic - . Colombian, 6 per cent.. --,...t4panish, 5 per cent 241 Ditto; 1824. Danish, 3 per cent..... -- Frencti, 15 per cent. —f. —c.. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. i Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 291 French, 3 percent —f. —e Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent 5l Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per c t. . Ditto, 5 per cent. ... .. 100 k SHARES. Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ......... .... .. 26 •Western Great Railway( 65 paid) B5l Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . 6Ol _ Ditto Fifth (4 paid)' - 10 London and Brighton (50 paid)— 34 • Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) .. Ditto New Sharei ( 2 paid) ... .. . ... . . London and South Western ' 58 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 2ll North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 911 COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 8 'Gibraltar .. ..... .... 46' Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 'Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 141 Venice - .• 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60' Palermo, per oz 1191 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon ' Marseilles ' 25 95 Oporto 52, Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres . .... Berlin-- ... ...... —.... 7 New York, 21 s l a y s s i g h t 46 1 Vienna, effec. A. 3M. 99 56 54 PRICES s el o ph F iarstru.rox, pzVoz. Trieste, ditto Madrid ... Cadiz Bilbao ... 36 New Doubloons ......0 0 0 Barcelona Seville - 36 Silver in Bars 0 4 116 11108 II -Banging, JAN. 12.. •• tnt.s2li Cant lOl ,l , 4 per Cent...„ 92 • 3per Cent. HEMS! AN I. IJ NDS— Actual Debt, 2% per Cei Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Loan of Thirty Millions, Thirty-seven. (LAO) lO2 Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent ........ Society ef Commerce, 45., per Cent O7 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent, ......... . . ......„ 76 NationalSeciety. O.llOO • • ..... MID .... Exchange on Londe,' (short) —Brussels Papers, Jan. 12. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY LEIGH TON.—We have to announce the demise of her Ladyship, which . took place at Bath on Saturday last. Her Lady ship, who was fourth daughter of the late Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart., of Alderley, was sister of Lord Stanley, of Alderley, and the present Bishop of Nor wich, and aunt of the lion. B. J. Stanley, the late Se cretary of the Treasury, and the Hon. W. 0. Stanley, M.P. The deceased lady married on the 25th of No vember, 1802, the late General Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., by whom her Ladyship had issue the present Baronet and several other children. SOUTHERN COUNTIES ANTI - CORN-LAW CONFERENCE.—It has at length been decided that a grand Corn-law Conference for the counties of Hants, Wilts, and Dorset, including the Isle of Wight, shall take place at Southampton just before the meeting of Parliament, and will be attended by Mr. Cobden, Lord Radnor, Sidney Smith, and a host of distinguished Anti- Corn-law advocates. The Rev. Thomas Adkins, the minister of the Congregational Chapel above Bar, in this town, who was one of the Presidents at the Manchester Conference, has drawn up an admirable circular, which will be addressed to, every Dissenting minister in the three counties, inviting them to attend the Conference. The Rev. Mr. A., ever since his return from Manchester, has beeu indefatigable in denouncing the iniquitous Corn-laws, and in organizing a determined opposition to them, for which he has been assailed with the most vile and disgusting abuse by the Hampshire Tory Press. FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—Yesterday a fire broke out, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, in the premises of Mr. Wishton, a boat and barge-builder, carrying on very extensive business at Bermondsey-wall, by which property to a considerable amount was de stroyed. Some of the wcirkmen had been engaged in preparing a quantity of pitch, when, either by accident or neglect, it boiled over, and the flames set fire to a quantity of caulking tow which lay near, and, in about five minutes after, the flames spread rapidly through a large shed, containing loose spars and timber. Mes sengers were instantl despatched to the different fire stations in the neighbourhood; but unfortunately, before their arrival, the flames had gained such an ascendancy that although the two powerful fire-engines from South wark-bridge were quickly in attendance, property tea large amount was destroyed before the . fire was extinguished. We are positively informed that a shameful hoax was practised on the Lord Chancellor when making out the list of Magistrates for this borough. It was confidently represented to his Lordship that a gentle man who had long held the Commission of the Peace for this city, and who always identified himself with the popular cause, was dead —and that there was conse quently no necessity for making out a new commission' for the 'gentleman in in question. The matter stood thus until the loud complaints made here on account of what was considered a partisan omission were heard at head quarters, when the affair was inquired into. The Chan cellor discovered that he was deceived, and the gentleman in question was restored to the roll of our local Justices. Public rumour fixes the authorship of this paltry hoax on some gentry, whose names we do not deem proper to publish for the present. Btit the fact cannot be denied. —Limerickleeporter. MORNING SUN .. 1 NEW ROYALIEXCHANGE. :, 7-1 (7A • CEREMONIAL FOR THE RECEPTION OF HIS ROvAr. - HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, AT THE GUILT HALL, LONDON, ON MONDAY,. THE. 17TH OF JANlfr ARIL', 1842, AND ON PROCEEDING TO THE SITE O F THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE, WHERE 1115 ROYA L HIGHNESS WILL LAY THE FIRST STONE Or EDIFICE. t7ll The Lord Mayor and Aldermen, with the 5 11046 the Chairman and members of the Joint Greshata mittee. and the princial cs of the Cororaion,ol London, will be in attendance er at the Guildh p all at t /a past one o'clock precisely, to receive 'his Royal,lligh . ness, who will be introduced to the Lord Mayor in"the Common Council-chamber, where William Tite, Fisq" F.R.S., the architect, will submit the plans a -thinew building to his Royal Highness. procession from thence to the site of the New Royal Exchange will he formed in the order subjoined. On their arrival at the site, the band will play then° . tional air till the Lord Mayor takes his seat on •thecatt?! and his Royal Highness his station by the side Ofiltle stone, where he will be attended by f our mem b ers of-the Committee, bearing the glass bottle for the coin, aOW brick with an English inscription incrusted thereon ; th e mallet, and the level. • The Chairman of the Joint Gresham Committee bi'llr" ing the trowel, will take his station on the side ' of th e stone opposite his Royal Highness. The architect will then take his station on another Side of the stone, and exhibit the models of the new E%' change. The Clerk of the Committee will take his place OPl 7 ° - site the architect, with the plate on which the inscrir Lion is engraved. The member of the Committee, bearing the ea° bottle, will hold it to Prince Albert, who will plac e therein the coin, which he will receive from Sir James Shaw, Bart., Chamberlain of London, an d M r . Joseph Thomas Pooley, E'sq., Master of the Mercers' Compaq' And His Royal Highness having deposited the same the well of the stone, the member of the Committee bear" ing the English inscription, incrusted on glass, presents the same to his Royal Highness, which, being read' hi Mr. James Barnes, the clerk of the Committee, his Roya l Highness will also deposit in the well. The Latin inscription, together with the translation , will then be read by the architect, who will deliver the engraved plate to his Royal Highness, which his RoY 4 Highness will deposit. The Chairman will address his Royal Highness on presenting him with the trowel. His Royal Highness then will proceed with the ceremony, spreading the mortar with the trowel. The stone will then be lowered to its place, under the direction of Mr. Thomas Jackson, the contractor ; i'k d e n the members of the Co mm itt ee , b ear i ng t h e l eve l low, mallet, will present th e m t o hi s R oya l Hi g h ness, toad' just and set the stone. The City State sword and mace will then be place d , - crossways on the sto ne , a f ter w hi c h t h e R ev. Hot Thomas, A.M., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, will offe r up an appropriate prayer, and the children belonging t° , the charity school of th e war d o f B roa d -street w ill al eb the National Anthem. The Lord Mayor, with his Royal Highness and the invited guests, will then proceed in their carriages to the Mansion House ; the Lord Mayor and his Be) Highness going first. • ORDER OF PROCESSION. •%: Police Officers to clear the way. City Marshalmen. Water Bailiff's Watermen in state liveries, Banners of the Arms of England. • - Banner, Mercers' Company. Banner, City of Lond ol4 Banner, Royal badges. The Union flag, The Lord Mayor's Beadle in state livery. The Lord Mayor's Bargemaster in state dress. Bargemen with Sheriffs' banner.. City Watermen with colours. Captain of the Navigation Barge. The Principal Assistant Water Bailiff City Waterman with colours. Junior City Marshal on horseback. Band. The Contractor, Mr. Thomas Jackson. The Architect, William Tite, Esq., . FR. S. Solicitor of the Mercers' Company—George Frederic' Prince Sutton, Esq. The Clerk of the Mercers' Company and. Joint G rash° Committee—James Barnes, Esq. Police Officers. The Under Sheriffs. Police WWI' The City Solicitor. The Remembrancer. The Comptroller: Voiceitlkeei;. The Two Secondaries. Police Officer!' 11 The Four Com mon Pl ea d ers .5,91 8 9 f o (<l 2 = , The - Common-Sergeant. (3440 a. ihcl, The Town Clerk. ..dyspeergfficers. The Chamberlain. Police Office*, 114 - nber..s of the. Joint Gresham Committee.. I,l4o,Beacile,, Masters of the Upper Beadle etietsCouipany.Mercers'Company.Mereers'CompoN, Joseph Thomas Poole)-, Esq., Accompanied by the Chaplain. thitrurtn of the Joint Gresham Committee, ,it Richard Lambert Jones, Esq., With the Trowel. f . • - A.? “Mr. Sheriff Rogers in hi s s t a t e c h ar i ot . Mr. Sheriff Magnay in his state chariot. Aldermen who have not passed the chair. The Recorder. Aldermen who have passed the chair. , Ae d, Banner of Princ e Alb er t. Th e R oyal S tanu P Banner of the Lord May Or. • The Suite of his Royal Highness Prince Albert.,, Upper. City Marshal on Horseback. _ Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's Household. The Lord Mayor. The Right Hon. John Pirie. llrs ROYAL lIIGIINESS THE PRINCE ALBFAT, In the State Carriage, Attended by al The Chaplain, Swordbearer, Water-Bailiff, and Con 'AP Crier. Pour City - Watermen. Four Water Bailiff's Waterrnen. Police Officers. It is necessary to inform the company who will horlo. ai r the Lord Afayor and the L a dy M ayoress b y dining 'IL them on Monday next, after the ceremony of laying first stone of the' New Royal Exchange, that, by the u, sire of Prince Albert, the dinner will be on table P eiSely at five o'clock, as the card of invitation specifies . T .E LAST NEW FASHIONS. The coats of the gentlemen are now buttoned close PI: to the throg,t, and th e h an d s are worn in the pec-ket. Blue is a fashionable colour for the face, and noses slightly tipped with a deep pink or crimson, gloves are not aorn, the ends of the fingers brought as near the mouth as possible ; and we seen a pretty substitute for cloaks, worn when it likely to rain, in a species of material sometimes usediv; making coal a n d p otato sac k s. Wh ere there are tilt' in a fa m ily, i t i s somet i mes customary to throw a (rr; pery of green bai ze , or somet hi ng e l se, over t h e shoulder of one of the tallest members, which hangs down in natural fold, but not very full, over the younger brancb!. We have seen a new styl e o f s h oe , very much Nit': indeed by the humbl er c l ass o f p e d estr i ans. I t i s fob ; shortened so as to l eave th e h ee l ent i re l y unencum be; and the front, or upp er -l ea th er , i s s li g h t l y s l as h e d in irregular pattern, so as to show the foot or stocking when the latter article happens to be used with it. We have seen a few grea t coats, b ut i n many ms . Ml le ; we have observed that these articles are worn only e j, substitutes for the usual s ur t out w hi c h i s di scont iet i when the warmer garment is adopted; and which be',., f the last thing out, it is presumed that the sur tout,: a i body coat, may be consid ere d to h ave gone i n, .at les for the present- The.holidays being at an end, boys' jackets are trio t i med as before ; and there is about the same quantity ‘ behind.as usual. During. Christmas: there good deal of open work about the mouth, and a r i spotted mat er i a l ; resem bli ng in colour a plum-pudding' was very 'generally resorted to for lining.—Punch. THE SILK STOCKING-MAKEII°:,, (Prom the Derby Mercury.) An address to his Royal Highness Prince has been presented within these few days from stocking mak ers o f N ott i ng h amsh i re and Derbyilli deploring th e d epresse d con di t i on of the i r trades a:. praying his Royal Highness to adopt silk stockiage ordinary wear. This address was received 02°66 grd cidusly, and the following answer sent to Tharaalf_"; 3 sop, Chairm an o f t h e meet i ng i n Derby : Windsor Castle, Jan. 7, 1842. Sir,—His Royal Highness Prince Albert 131 4 14 1 ceived the p e titi on o f t h e operat i ve silk stocking.tiaak_e! of Derbyshire a n d N o t t i ng h ams hi re, and has comnia4r me in reply to say that it would give his Royal gilt neas much pleasure t o b e a bl e to re li eve a trade w bic , is stated by so many respectable. persons to be in so 3 1 tressed a state. Since the accession of her prest Majesty long silk stockings have been invariably 1 1 ° . 5 at Court, so th a t no new or d er on t h at score can te0"0- to give a lift to the trade. The Prince command/ 131 j to send the two enclosed patterns of silk trousers so stockings which have b een ma d e i n E ng l an d , an d Whi cis his Royal Highness always wears, and to give you _an °, ll l der to make s ix p a i rs o f eac h pattern f or his WY' Highness's use ; and which, if you could prevail AJPi people to adopt, would be far more advantigeous your trade than the stockings. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, "To Thos. Allsop." " G. E. ANSON. ft The above does infinit e cre di t to t h e h ea d an d 108 of the illustrious Prince. A gentleman of Peterhouse College, Camblidg et , named John James Hopwood, was found dead on "J. ° lf t day evening, about eleven o'clock, on the pathway 16 ,%0 ing from, the fer r y over t h e r i ver to Chesterton. oil deceased was fo un d by two men, doubled up in a norr„vetl gutter, when he g ave s li g h t signs of life, and moan once or twice. It appears that the deceased had been 0 0 his way to Chestert on , t o j o i n a fr i end, with whonitse the morrow, he was going out on a shooting party. ; yie . was a native of London, whither an express was 01 ,7 0 4 f diately despatched t o hi s f am i ly, with the melanet'ded news of his death. M r. H opwood had been just exiin3l_,,-te for his degree, and was expected to stand high in t h e 54: thematical honour list. AN ABSENT MAN.—There is a man at - delphia so subject to fits of abstraction, that if you me et to meet with him in a crowd, he would probably abs":fle your watch from your pocket, and make off with it. then would be s e i ze d w i t h suc h a f i t of absence that ,„-rit might look after him for a month, and he would, ll . give you a chance of finding him.—Punch. S rg There is only one of the commandments women never break-.." thou shalt not covet thy !I"' beur's wife." I th niusi and tio n , r eps. ,self n t . husi lng veyec spirit getti, Who s , w as ileto; • 111 gory Publ half the r 11 ,e ad L on tion. t i ' l )3E , 4 •