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military instruction to our youth, and of preserving and improving that science upon which our safety in war must at all times depend. In an age remarkable f.r the extent to which human inventions, in all departments, have been carried, and in which the art of war has under gone essential modifications, from the introduction of new agents and the improvement of those pre viously existing, it would indeed be a reproach to the intelligence of our country, and a reflec tion upon the tendencies of our free institutions, if we refused or neglected to avail ourselves of the only means by which we can give to the bravery of our citizens the aid of that science which is alone necessary .to render them equal to the skill of the cohorts that may be sent to our shores by a European nation. The time has . long since passed, if it ever existed, when mere valour could compete with discipline and science. If education be necessary to prepare for any profession, surely that of arms cannot be an exception. As it is, in its nature, one that cannot derive any support from private interests or individual employment, but is wholly public in its uses, the provision for acquiring it must be made by the GoVernment, or it will not be made at all, or not in a manner, and to an extent adequate to the exigency. It will be perceived that the works for the improve ment of harbours already authorized have been arranged into two classes—first, those of great importance and im mediate necessity ; and, second, those of perhaps equal importance, but in respect' to which there are no pecu liar circumstances so urgent fur speedy action as in the first class. The plan of proceeding gradually, with a due regard to economy and the condition of the Trea sury, and with reference to the just and equal claims of the different portions of the country, will, it is believed, he more likely to accomplish a greater amount of the desired improvement than any other mode. The total estimates fur the works of the first class arc $375,000, while the very moderate sum of 11:3 0 ,0 00 is asked to preserve those of the second class from decay. It should not be inferred that any intention exists of abandoning many most valuable and important works fur which no specific estimates are submitted. On the con trare, the very recommendation to preserve them, pro ceeds from a desire for their completion at the proper time, and in due course, in reference to the principles be fore stated. I cannot refrain from calling attention to the case of the wounded Cherokee Indians, to whom the faith of the nation was pledged by the 14th article of 'the treaty w i,2l the Cherokees, of the 29th of December, 1835, to nrov i c L , pensions to such as were engaged on the side of the United States, in the late war with Great Britain and the sonibern tribes of Indians, and who were wounded in such service. The few who remain have ap plied in vai❑ to the Pension Officer for the promised re muneration; but it is to be hoped that justice, although tardy, will now be rendered to them. Since the adjournment of Congress a Treaty has been 'concluded With some of the bands of the Sioux for lands not included in any previous negotiation, and another has been made with the half breeds of the Sioux, for a cession of the lands set apart to them by the 9th article of the Treaty held at Prairie du Chien on the 15th of July, 1830. A treaty is now negotiating with the \Vyandots for their lands in the State of Ohio, which, it is believed, will soon be brought to a conclusion. The attempts to negotiate with the Sacs and Foxes have utterly failed. As the causes of this failure are believed to be tempo rary, or such as may be removed by arrangements with other tribes, renewed efforts will be mado when a pro pitious occasion will offer. Measures have been taken to execute the Act of 1834, in relation to intrusions on Indian lands, for the purpose of preventing the sale of liquor and unlicensed trading, which it is hoped may prove successful. Respectfully submitted, JOHN C. SPENCER. To the President. CHARGE OF RAPE IN BOSTON. At five o'clock yesterday afternoon, a German, by the name of Simon Fisliblet, who keeps a shop at No. 42, Ann-street, for the manufacture of furs, muffs. &c., was bought in on a warrant charging him with committing a rape on a young lady named S. Manning, under the following circumstances. The complainant, Miss Man ning, who is a girl of about 18 years of age, stated the case as follows : On the 30th of September, I worked for the prisoner. In the evening the outside door was locked by the tailors, working in another part of the building ; I asked him to unicek it ; he said it was too late to do so ; he then locked the inside dour of his shop, and said he wanted me to lie down upon the table ; I replied that I would not, lie urged me hard to lie down, and upon my refusing, he undertook to do it by main force. I then run to the front part of the building and got up to the window, and tried to excite the attention of the people outside by tapping on the window ; he pulled me to the back part of the building, shut the outer door and locked it; he then spread some of the cotton and fur used for manu facturing muffs, upon the table, and placed me down upon it by main strength ; he wrestled with me until my strength was completely exhausted, and succeeded in forcing me down. la the struggle and agony I lost my senses, and as soon ao I recovered myself I got down from the table ; he had forced _Lae in the meantime. I sat up in a corner of the room until near four o'clock in the morning. The pr.isoner was asleep in the back part. Towards morning he e,z.rried me back by main force, and put me on the table ag - ain ; he struggled hard with me, but I did'nt quite faint ::way. I think this time he did'nt succeed. Ire used me v,:_ry bad indeed. About six o'clock, when I went home, 1 AO to prisoner, .‘ What can I tell the folks where I board ?" lie replied, " Say you worked all night." I first mentio;_led this ease tour weeks after wards to Mr. Marshall Smiti:, who works for Mr. Liver more, 51 Long- wharf. Ile said be would take it up and see that it was prosecuted, but he never attended to it. I also mentioned it to Mrs. Bugbce, 8, Boylston-street. The witness told a very straightforward story. The cross-examination elicited little of interest, except prov ing that witness had lived at a great many different places ; that prisoner, before accomplishing his purpose, swore he would marry her, but she refused him as a h usband. Clarissa Frith, who worked for the prisoner, said on the 30;.11 of September Miss Manning had done little during the day, and proposed working later than usual in the evening. 'Witness and the rest of the girls quitted work at ten o'clock, and rode home in a carriage, leaving the complainant alone with the prisoner. No defence was attempted. Justice Rogers and the Counsel for the defendant held a brief conference in the Judge's private room, and the prisoner was then com mitted to prison, without the privilege of bail, to await his trial in March next. The offence is punishable with death.—Boston Mail. Dec. 9. SUNDERLAND YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION. At a meeting of the Committee of the Metropolitan Young MQn's Anti-Monopoly Association, held on Thurs day evening List, at Hart's Hotel, 159, Aldersgate-street; Mr. White in the chair. _ _ Mr. H. Preston, Jun., (one of the Secretaries to the Society) laid before the Committee a letter which had been received from Mr. William Cock, of Sunderland, stating that he and his friends were about to form a simi lar Association in that town, and requesting their aid and co-ope r ation. Res o lutions approving of the plans detailed in Mr. Co k's letter, which contains several valuable suggestions, having been passed, the Secretary was directed to com municate to him the same. The other business of the even ing having been disposed of, the meeting adjourned till Thursday next. We would wish to see the example which has thus been so nobly set by the young men of London, Manchester, and Sunderland followed up in other towns, more parti cularly in the agricultural districts, where want of infor mation upon the first principles of political economy exists almost to an incredible extent. RAILWAY MANSLAUGH.TERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Quo(' facit per alium facit per se. -Sin„—Allow me, through your columns, to implore Coroners' Juries to do their uttermost to protect human lives from the diabolical negligence and nonchalance of railw a y officials, of high, and low, and every degree. Railway Directors have been expostulated with and warnedon the subject of placing passengers between en gines andluggage-trains, but, for the more easy-detach ing of such trains as they arrive at their several stations, these warnings have been despised and sneered at, and nine liveS, on une occasion, have been the forfeit to Railway Company's convenience and callousness ! I ! Now, Sir, tell juries to punish such manslaughters by verdicts to that effect against the Managing Directors, when persist ence in a given cours e , a ft e r warning, as in the late case, c an be " fatally" proved; and rely upon it Coroner's war rants and their consequences, would be worth a thousand dcodands—l am, Sir, your constant reader, ANTI-JUG GER NA U'r. London, Dec. 3 1, 1841. THE ROYAL ExcnANGE.—The amphitheatre or pavillion, to be erected on the occasion of laying the first stone of the new Royal Exchang e by Prince Albert, and described in the Times of Thursday, will be nearly 300 feet in circumference, 62 feet high in the centre, and contain seats for 1,200 visitors. These scats will rise from a platform 40 feet in diameter, of a cir cu l ar f orm , to increase by ten concentric rows of sittings to the dia meter of 100 feet. This enormous space will be roofed with canvass, lined with scarlet and white drapery, so as to have the appearance of a beautiful round tent of vast dimensions, supported by a pillar in the centre, and we understand Mr. Benjamin Edgington, of N 0.2, Duke street, Southwark, is now preparing it. Linder his superintendence, with his well-known experience and capabilities, there is every guarantee for its being securely done, and erected in the very first style. The readers of this paper, who may be afflicted with jthettmatism or Gout, will find important informa tion relative to its cure, by perusing Bell's Life in Lon don, published Jan. 2, 1842. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. —WOOLWICH DEC. 30.-920 ILEGIMENT, OR GORDON HIGHLANDERS. —By private letters from Dominica, dated 9th Novem ber last, it appears the yellow fever and black vomit had prevailed to a ' ()Teat extent, and thi s ga ll an t co rps has lost several officers, and a number of its best and cleverest men. Two officers of two companies, and three ser geants of one company, who had been in the habit of paying it, all fell victims in the course of one week. Thirty-nine rank and tile had died previous to the 18th October, and there were upwards of thirty men in the hospital at that date. The disease having somewhat abated, it was hoped that it would have ceased entirely, but about the end of the month it returned with twofold severity, and no less than fifty-two men of the garrison became its victims, and there were a great many hopeless cases in the hospital at the date of the latest letters. The . village of Jurnelles (in the Eure) has been alarmed by th e a pp eara n ce within it of a bear. It is be lieved to be** , Pra , --'—' , .iarped from a menagerie recently es.}." BAHIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPAN Y. Yesterday the Half yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company was held at the George and Vulture Tavern, George-yard, Lombard-street. At one o'clock, the chair was taken by Mr. Benson, when a gentleman inquired whether there was not an objection to the interference of any other than Pro prietors with the business of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN said certainly, that none but Pro prietors could interfere with the proceedings. Mr. Cox, a solicitor, said that he attended on the part of a Proprietor, Mr. Farmer, and he hoped that no person who was not a Proprietor should be allowed to vote. Those who had taken scrip and had not signed the deed were not Proprietors, and he con sidered that the course pursued by the present Direc tors was very unfair, in not producing the deed at the general meetings, so that it should be known who were Proprietors. _ . _ A DIRECTOR said that the deed was always in the room. No one could vote who bad not signed it. But gentlemen who held scrip might sign it whenever they pleased, aad thereby become entitled to vote. He was not aware that any gentleman who was not a share holder would interfere in the meeting, nor that there was any such person present, except the members of the public press. Mr. Cox insisted upon his right to ascertain whether the meeting consisted of bona fide Proprietors of the Company or not. Several Shareholders protested against his interrup t ion of the business of the day, and at the same time assured him that no one was ever permitted to vote who had not signed the decd. The holders of scrip were entitled to their dividends, but not to vote until they had signed the deed. After some further interruptions, Mr. Cox at length gave way, and the business was opened in the usual manner by the Chairman reading the advertisement which called the meeting together, according to the pro visions of the Deed of Incorporation. The minutes of the last quarterly meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. KERRISON, the Solicitor and Secretary to the Company, then read the Report of the Directors, which was of considerable length. The snort im portant points were, that the Brazilian subscribers were greatly in arrear of the British, as regarded the pay ments on their shares ; that Mr. Armando, the Bra zilian agent, not having pressed for the payment of the calls due in Brazil, nor having brought with him, in his last visit to London, the moneys, amounting to 14,600 milreas and 353 reas, which he had received on behalf of the Company, but left after him in the hands of a Bra zilian house—but at the same time expressing a wish to purchase, on the part of his ow n firm or of the Brazilians, the interest of the British Shareholders—the Directors in Lon don thought it expedient to take the agency out of his hands, in order that he might be in a better condition to negotiate, for himself or others, the proposed pur chase, than if he were an agent of the Company. The agency was transferred to the house of Beevor and Co., who were instructed to take measures for obtaining from the former agents their cash balances, and from the Brazilian Shareholders the amount of their arrears. Several important reductions were made in the expenditure of the American esta blishment. One vessel, the Todos o Santos, which was never fit for the service, had been sold, but the terms of payment bad not yet been agreed on.— (A laugh.) A timber-built steamboat was under re pair in August last, and was expected to prove a ser viceable boat. An iron steamer, which, having been originally built for work between London and Graves end, was never quite adequate to work upon the Atlan tic, but it underwent frequent repairs, and was kept up to the work. On the whole the information received from Brazil up to the date of September last, gave reason to hope that the property of the Company would before long become a valuable one. The cash in the hands of the bankers at the date of this Report, was 6,2571. 3s. 9d. independent of all securities, and the moneys which might be recovered from Brazil. The Directors in conclusion solicited a continuance of the confidence of the Shareholders until the next half yearly meeting in June, when they hoped to give a more encouraging amount of the Company's affairs. A supplementary Report, consisting of a recent com munication from the new agents, Messrs. Beevor and Co., in which it was stated that great dissatisfaction prevailed amongst the Brazilian Shareholders occasioned by the false impressions made upon them, by the im perfect information, and great dereliction of duty on part of the late Superintendent and a person indi cated in the Report only by a blank. Measures been taken, however, to remove all misapprehension, and a new charter, of an advantageous character had been obtained from the Brazilian Government. _ On the motion of Mr. KEMP, seconded by Mr. Hor- RINS, the Report and Supplement were unanimously adopted. A PROPRIETOR inquired when would the Chancery suit come on for hearing ? The CHAIRMAN said it stood 24th in the list, and was likely to come on next term. Another PaoPaivrott asked was there any hope of an arrangement being come to . ? _ _ . . Mr. Fox (solicitor for Mr. Farmer) said, that the defendants would come to no compromise.—(A laugh.) The suit was altogether a paper suit. Several Proprietors—We shall see that.—(Hear.) Mr. Cox said that there was no ground whatever for bringing a suit in Chancery against the late Direc tors, on the pretence that the vessels purchased for the Company were unfit for the waters of Brazil.—(Oh.) Mr. STURTZ (of Brazil) said that he could bear tes timony to the fact that they were unfit. Mr. KEMP said that there could be no doubt what ever that the late Directors bad mismanaged.—( Hear.) He did not think for a moment that they did so inten tionally. No man would accuse them of that. They were men of too great respectability. But they had mismanaged, and the Shareholders were the sufferers. Mr. SAUNDERSON (a Director) said he was surprised that the Solicitor for one of the defendants should say that the suit was a " paper suit," whereas the late Directors had proposed a compromise of 6001.—( Hear.) Why they had gone back from that offer the gentlemen knew best themselves.—( Hear.) Mr. FARMER said that he was the defendant who refused to accede to any compromise, because be had not in any way departed from his strict duty.—(Hear.) After some irregular conversation, and the usual thanks to the Chairman, &c., the meeting separated. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered in the week ending Dec. 25, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:— Weekly Total. Average 1838-940 CAUSES OF DEATH. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l4l 204 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l2B 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of __ Respiration Diseases of the Heat and Blood-vessels 2O 18 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other _ __ Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c, Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles Diseases of the Skin, fAc Diseases of Uncertain Seat 94 103 OW Age, or Natural Decay 6B 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 19 25 Causes not specified 7 8 Deaths from all causes 795 - 48 60 5 4 e Weekly Deaths Average Population Deaths Weekly enu- in Deaths merated the 1 , -3e-9-41. lea Week. West Districts—Kensington, Saint George (Hanover -square), West minster, St. Martin in the Fiukts, St. James North Districts—St. Mary-le•bone St. Pancras, Islington, Hackney 163 365,660 139 Central Districts—St. Giles and St. George, Strand, Holborn, Clerk enwell, St. Luke, East London, ___ West London, City of London ..: 190 373,806 139 East Districts—Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Si. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 2ll 292,496 193 South Districts—St Saviour, St Olave, Bermondsey, St. George, Southwark, Newington,Lambeth, Camberwell, Rotherhitbe, Green wich 223 438,060 223 Total 926 1,870,727 795 It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensineo n Fulham, Hammersmith(Chapelry) , St. Luke (Chelsea),"Pad: dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890; and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, and 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING Dec. 18. I Dec. 25. 53 ° Mr ' 31 30 43 37 30, 1841. Highest Lowest Daily Mean .... General ltegister Office, Dec. STATUE AT ROUEN TO GERICAUD THE PAINTER.—A statue to the memory of the painter Geri caud, has just been opened to public inspection at Roue n . Gericaud had no European celebrity, but h e had great local fame ; and his principal work, "The Shipwreck of the Medusa," was much admired at Paris. The monu ment, which has been erected in the Cimetiere de l'Est, and is constructed of the purest white marble, is one of the simplest in that entire locality, but its effect is de scribed as admirable. It is due to the chisel of M. Me i . The deceased painter is represented in a meditative re cumbent posture, holding his palette and pencils. Upon the pedestal are engravedthe names of all the subscribers and (more prominently of course) that of the painter, who was oorn at Rouen in 1771. On the lateral faces of the pedestal figure scenes taken from the artist's chief works, and on the principal front a bas-relief in bronze of the Naufrauge. This commemoration of " art by art" exhibits a peculiar fitness ; it is a potent education of the popular eye ; and confers at once an advantage on the living and an honour on the dead. LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1842. In casting a glance over the past year, with an endeavour to pry into the future, we shall direct attention to principle, rather than parti cular facts. We shall speak little of party inte rests, and much of those of the public. We shall consider men, not things; and the words " Whig" and " Tory," and the names " MEL BOURNE" and " PEEL," are to be considered more as signs for principles than the names of men. -The change of the Ministry, the triumph of the Tories,_.and, the defeat of the Whigs ; the substitution of PEEL for MELBOURNE, and of one set of men for another in all the offices of Government, is the great event of the past year. Happily for England, her Ministers are not changed so frequently as to make those changes unimportant; and, considered as a change, not only in men, but in the principles on which our affairs are to be conducted, after the %Vhigs had been ten years in office, we agree with the Tories in considering the change in the Admi nistration as the most remarkable domestic event of the year 1841. What does that inform us of the past?—what does it indicate for the future? The Tories say, great honour and great hope for them. Conservatism has triumphed and will continue to triumph. We read the lesson some what differently. Lord MELBOURNE and his friends grew lukewarm in the Liberal cause— they became Finality-Conservatives, and natu rally, therefore, gave up their places to the heads of the Conservative party. They could not go vern on Conservative principles; and Liberal principles—making progress with the age—they had discarded. Party and public necessities, in deed, made them concede sundry measures de manded by the Liberals, but they had gene-. rally adopted Sir It PEEL'S policy of standing still, not the Whigs, are and theof t ho organs. principle aos . The I c li h s a f n r g ie e n o d f s, Ministry was in fact no triumph of Tory principles ; all the tri umph which they could achieve they had gained when the MELBOURNE party declared for finality, and declared emphatically against the total repeal of the Corn-laws. But after they had so declared, the necessities of the State compelled them, though still at the head of the Government, to make concessions to the popular demands. They became quasi Ballot men, and quasi Corn repealers, There upon the Consery atives took the Government from them, and tlicy were forced to give up their newly embraced Conservatism. They became then re-converted to Liberalism, and will now probably march with the spirit of the age. The change of the Ministry was therefore much more an accession of strength to the Liberal cause than it was a triumph of Conservatism. To those who still believe that the Government re gulates society, to get possession of the Ministry is all in all. To those who know that Government must submit to society, the fact that the Con servative Whig 3 have been obliged to adopt more advanced principles, and therefore made way for the Tories, is evidently a triumph of those prin ciples. So we read the past—what for the future ? From no trick of statesmanship, but from sheer and stern necessity, the Whigs were obliged to take up the question of commercial reform, and the reduction of monopoly-taxes. That brought the question to issue, and will fix it on the public mind till it be finally settled. We have the authority of Mr. CHRISTOPHER for say ing that One point has already been gained. The Corn-laws must undergo Parliamentary revision. The Tories yield, monopoly lowers her black death flag, and if Liberalism could triumph over Lord MELBOURNE and the Tories, when they were acting on the same principle and could force on such a concession, why should we not hope for its continued progress, now that it has detached the Whigs from Conservatives, and brought to a Parliamentary and public issue, the great question which for four succes sive years the Conservatives have refused so to try ?. It; as we affirm, the change of Ministry denoted a necessary accession to the Liberal cause in the past year, we see in its further progress to the beginning of the present year, no reason to dread its continual and great advancement. Of the final and even speedy success of the great principle of free trade, around which contending parties are drawn up in battle array, we have firm, and we trust well-founded hopes. Within a few days Europe has resounded with praise of the Five Great Powers for concluding a treaty to suppress the slave trade. That treaty may not put an end to the nefarious traffic, but it is invaluable as the general testimony of mankind against vio lence and wrong. The treaty is the homage of the constituted authorities of Europe, to the de clared opinion of the most enlightened of their subjects, which, however strange it may at first seem, like the discoveries in science of a NEWTON or a DAVY, is destined, like them, if founded on truth, to become the common creed of all man kind. That treaty, indicating the progress of the constituted authorities of Europe in rectitude in the past year, warrants the hope that the princi ples of robbery and violence, which they stigma tize by the treaty, will be speedily excluded from their Legislation. To subsist rather by violent pltinder than by peaceful art is characteristic of savage life, and thatprinciple, though banished from our manners, is still, like many other ancient errors and crimes, embalmed in our laws. The age is most honour ably distinguished by directing the bulk of its energies to the peaceful acquisition of wealth. Never before were the talents and desires of mankind so wisely and incessantly employed in producing useful objects, and in improving those arts which contribute to the physical and moral well-being of the species, as now. That general ease and general comfort have not resulted from these untiring and skilful exertions, has not con vinced the people that in them there is some principle of illusion and mockery. They will not believe that the light which comes from heaven leads astray, and they accuse the errors and crimes which are embalmed to the law as the causes why these vast and well-directed energies have not produced their appropriate effects. Until we become aware of the present peaceful and industrious tendency of mankind, we cannot be sensible of half the mischief which has been inflicted on this generation by the Le gislature's pertinacious adherence to ancient and unfounded prejudices on the subject of commer cial intercourse between different nations. The defeat of the Whigs on a branch of this great subject, has brought, in the past year, the natural principles of trade and the political quackery of those who attempt to regulate it, face to face, and tile next year wilLmost_assuredly see an ap proximation to the complete victory which the former is destined to achieve. When we consider the vast energies of our in dustrious and peace-loving people all directed to the honest supply of their own wants; and when we know that a great abundance of good pork and beef can be brought from North and South America, and laid down in Manchester for 2d. per pound, we certainly feel bitter re gret and indignation at the immense sufferings which base legislation, and nothing but base legislation, has inflicted on them in the course of the past and preceding years. But now that principles are brought face to face, and there is a certainty of the ultimate triumph of the truth, which, like the heavens, is permanent, though it may be occasionally obscured by the mists and clouds of error, those vast and peaceful energies inspire us with the brightest hopes for the corn ing time. Who can tell at what low price, and in what rich abundance, food and clothing may be supplied to an ever-increasing population, by all the civilized people of the earth directing their exertions to the attainment of that bene ficent end ? Nor will the lesson which the unmerited suffering inflicted during the last year on our industrious people by those whom they maintain in idleness and opulence has taught them, be thrown away. Undoubtedly the coming year will see them earnest and re solved to throw off the trammels of an ab surd and cruel commercial legislation which has perverted the admirable mechanical inventions of civilised man into curses. When that legislation which forms the only obstacle to boundless pros. perity shall be swept away, the future, if not the next year, will see a greater diminution of poverty and crime than statesmen have ever hoped to accomplish by a severe poor-law and a cruel criminal code. Having said so much of the past and the fu ture as to the State, we would say something of the Church, but our limits compel us briefly to ob serve, that the great event of the past year is the schism amongst its own members. Gradually falling, as the endowed clergy have been, in the estimation of the public for years past, the dis putes amongst themselves must accelerate their downfal,j and procure an ascendancy for the Voluntary principle. In this schism both parties appeal to the people. One claims to have made a discovery by studying the Fathers, the other in sists that its predecessors in the reign of ELIZA BETH and JAMES, knew all that it was necessary to know, and it will not go beyond the Protest ant Articles. The dispute is kindling in the land a spirit of inquiry into the rival claims of both parties, which cannot fail to be productive of a rich harvest of knowledge that must stifle the dominion of the priesthood. If the close of the year 1841 sees the Govern ment in the hands of monopolists, it sees them receding from their principles, and overwhelmed by the enormous responsibility they have assumed. If it sees the Church still in existence, it sees it rent in twain, and ill able to resist the storm which is gathering against it. If it sees the people disunited and oppressed, it also sees them awake and roused to the fact, that the ex clusive cause of their misery is one-sided, unjust, iniquitous legislation. They are now thoroughly aware of this important truth, which is the certain precursor of their union and of their success in putting down that system which they justly affirm has been a dire curse to them. There is very little news ofinterest in the Paris Journals of Wednesday, except that the accom plices of QUENISSET, who were condemned to death, are making fresh revelations in the hope of escaping the guillotine. In consequence of certain disclosures made by them to Baron PASQUIER, President of the Court of Peers, six fresh arrests took place in the Fau bourg St. Antoine, on Tuesday evening. It is reported that DUPOTY is involved in these accusations ; nothing, we think is more natural. The Peers will endeavour, if pos sible, to implicate DUPOTY as a principal in the crime of treason, for the purpose of turning the attention of France from their former in famous verdict. In Wednesday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the four Vice-Presidents were elected. The result of the election was as follows : PUFAIJIIE 246 votes. CALMAN JACQUEMINOT 176 BIGNON DUFAURE and CALMAN are of the middle, or PASSY party, JAGQUEMINOT Conservative, BIG NON the same. VIVIER, M. TRIERS' candidate, had but 113 votes; M. TRACY also had 30. A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at the Tuileries. The leading members of the diplomatic corps in Paris met yesterday for the purpose of preparing the speech which is to be delivered to the King on New-year's-day, by the Marquis deßrignolles. There will be grand receptions at the Tuileries of ladies and gentlemen on the evenings of the 3d and sth of January, on occasion of the new year. The sugar question was again discussed at great length by the Councils of Commerce, Agriculture, and Manu factures on Monday. On this occasion M. Pauwell, with a view, as he said, of ensuring to the colonial interest the preference as to the supply of sugar, but at the same time guaranteeing the security of the existing interest of the manufacturers of beet-root sugar, but without any protecting privilege as to the future, made the following propositions :-1. That the manufacture of indi genous sugar shall be free, like all other manufactures, on paying the same duty (45f. per 100 kilogrammes) as on colonial sugar. 2. That the protecting duty of 25f. the 100 kilogrammes for either one or the other Alan only be continued as re gards an equal quantity to that produced in 1841. 3. The excess to be as for new establishments, subject to the entire duty of 45f. 4. All protection to cease at the expiration of ten years, and the two rival manufac tures to be placed on an equal footing as to duties." Pauwell observed that it' the manufature of indige nous sugar could support a competition with colonial sugar at equal charges, the result would be _ perfection and cheapness for consumers ; that if the ten years' pro tection alluded to should not suffice to enable the manu facturers of indigenous sugar to compete successfully with the producers of colonial sugar, they would, at least, be sufficient to give to the former such profits as would enable them at the end of the ten years to recover the capital which they have embarked, and save them from ruin; that if, on the contrary, the progress of the native manufacturers should be fatal to the interest of the colonial sugar-growers, the latter would only have to substitute the growth of cotton, coffee, or any other pro duction suited to their climate and soil for the growth of sugar.—Galignani's Messenger. " We guarantee the accuracy of this news."—Le Commerce. The National says—" We are assured that the chief clerk of the Court of Peers went yesterday evening, at nine o'clock, to the prison of the Luxembourg, to an nounce to Quenisset, Colombier, and Just-Brazier, that their punishment was commuted for that of transporta tion. We are further assured that they will be removed from the prison of the Luxembourg this evening, or on the night of the 29th." La Presse contains the following article :—" A letter from our correspondent at Algiers, dated the 21st of December, informs us that important events oblige General Bugeaud to remain in Africa, and will prevent him from profiting by the two months' leave of absence which he had asked for, and obtained. We quote the following from the Constitutionnel:— " In 1793 the number of men and officers employed in the French navy was greater than at any former period; it amounted to 104,920, of whom 69,196 were officers and able seamen. The law of the 3d Brumaire, an. 4, fixed fifty years as the age at which sailors were entitled to their discharge from the service, instead of sixty years as previously. This, of course, made a certain reduc tion. In 1815 the number was brought down to 83,000 men, of whom 51,966 were officers and able seamen. In 1836 it was raised to 90,511, total, and 52,433 officers and able seamen; and in 1840 to 98,706, total, and 55,992 officers and able seamen, from the age of eighteen up to that of fifty." The Corresponsol of Madrid states, that at Barcelona the association of cotton manufacturers has come to an agreement that no member shall have clothes made of any stuffs but those manufactured in Spain, renouncing from this moment all purchases of foreign goods, but allowing themselves three years to get rid of their stock on hand. A letter from Alicant of the 18th inst. states that four companies of the regiment of Navarre had arrived there to assist the authorities in the maintenance of order. Quiet had been restored, and it was expected that the municipal elections, which had been interrupted by the late tumultuous scenes, would be resumed on the 26th. At Barcelona the majority of the new municipal coun cil are in favour of Espartero. Leave has been given to the Members of the late Republican Junta to return to Spain. A Belgian diligence, running from Brussels to Metz, was seized a few days since on the French frontier, on ac count of its containing a considerable quantity of tobacco, which was attempted to be smuggled into France. The vehicle and horses have been confiscated and sold. The forest of Pierrefeu, near Toulon, having become infested by wolves, the authorities ordered a general chase, during which, on the 19th instant, one of the beaters fell in unexpectedly with a wild boar, and was torn by the tusks of the animal in four places. An artery was severed, and the poor fellow died from loss of blood before he could be carried out of the forest. A Berlin letter mentions that, on the 20th instant, the King of Prussia dined with the Count de Nassau, ex- King of the Netherlands, and a numerous party, com posed of the Princes of the Royal Family, Ministers of State, Diplomatic Ministers, and other personages of high high distinction. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prat, Price. Trench 5 per Cents ll6 40 ... 116 60 ... 1 t 6 40 116 50 4% per Cents ......... 106 2 i ... 106 15 ... 106 25 106 25 4 per Cents lOl 05 ... 101 05 101 05 ... 101 05 3 per Cents. ex div 7B 35 78 35 ... 78 25 ... 78 30 8 ink of France .... 3375 —3375 ...3360 ...33 C Latlitte Bank 1.0001. Shares 1007 50 —1607 50 —lOO7 50 —lOO7 50 5,000 f. Shares 5025 ...50'25 ...5025 qpivian Rank ....... 790 ... 790 ... 790 79.1 Belgian 5 per Cents. Her Cents., 1840 103% ... 10:1N ... 103% 3 per Cents 72 i 0 72 10 ... 72 10 ... 7 = i 0 ipanish Active ......... 24% ... 24% ... 24 1 4 ... 24% Pam., 556 ... 514 ... 514 ... 5 Ohl Deferred Neapolitan .... 102% ... 102% ...102% 102% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Vetsmiles.L.lS 2lO 215 210 2.0 R. B 340 340 ... 335 335 Rouen 457 50 ... 457 50 457 50 ... 457 50 Urleena Strasburg , o Bale . 226 25 .. 227 50 ... 226 25 ... 227 50 BELGIAN I. UNDS—Baussata, Dec 29. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IOI% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 92 3 per CenL ..... --- 71% (1240) lOl% Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent. ........ Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent — Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ........... National Society. ........ ................. — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Dec. 29. Thirty-seven. SUDDEN DEATH OF THE EARL OF FALMOUTH.— Our Falmouth Correspondent writes us as fol lows :—" We are informed that the Right Hon. Lord Fal mouth died suddenly at Tregothnan, Cornwall, on Wednesday morning, when in the act of dressing himself. The Noble Earl had his title conferred in 1821 ; he will be succeeded by his only issue, Lord Boscawen Rose, one of the Members of the western division of Cornwall, a vacancy in the representation of which is thus created. The late Earl was in his 55th year, having been born in May 1787. He married Anne Frances, daughter of the late Henry Bankes, Esq. The present Earl,. his successor, is in his 31st year. The late Peer was Recorder of Christchurch and Truro ; but he does not ap pear to have held any other public appointments. The doings of the Marylebone Vestry and the de scriptions about the wood pavement of Oxford -street, are becoming public nuisances. We Nave more useless talk about them than about the Repeal of the Union, or the Northern Boundary Line, and if we may judge from appearances, there is as much chance of one of these important points being settled as another. If, however, the inhabitants of Oxford-street will act with vigour, we have no doubt the the Vestry must yield ; and the meet. ing held on Thursday night, leads us to believe that this will be the result of the contest. The public are utterly sick of these endless experiments which have been carried on for years in that great thoroughfare. They know that jobbing is the cause of a ll th e d e l a y, and that it can be p u t down only by a hearty and una nimous declaration on the part of the inhabitants. It is evident that something must be done to remove the evil, or Oxford-street will soon become as unfashionable as it was in bygone times, when it was the highroad to the Tyburn gibbet. If the Vestry wish to be convinced, let them turn their attention to the various kinds of pavement introduced within the last few years, and par ticularly to the different systems of wood pavements brought oat by several Companies , illustrated in a little pamphlet, written by Mr. Lee Stevens, and published by Richard Spencer, High Holborn. The object of the writer is to prove from experience, as well as theory, that an economical, safe, and durable surface of wood for streets may be adopted as a useful substitute for stone under most circumstances, and he certainly makes out a good case. He examines at length the different systems hitherto in use, gives calculations of the expense and durability, as well as in contestable proofs of the conveniences, of wood pave ments compared with granite or any other stone. The subject is treated with great skill, and the treatise alto gether evinces more practical knowledge on this modern discovery than has yet been exhibited. We refer the Marylebone Vestry to the details and calculations, and give only one extract as regards economy —an important consideration on a line of street a mile long, and subject to as much traffic as any in London. Mr. St.wens, to wards the conclusion of the treatise, says :—" C ompare d with the Macada m i ze d portions o f Oxford-street, Picca dilly, and other places of equal traffic, the economy of wood paving is as prominently evident. These cost at present from 2s. 6d. to 3s. per yard, per annum, to keep in repair, to say nothing of their first construction ; and the wood paving, for terms of twenty-one years, can be laid down, and kept in perfect repair, at an annual charge or rental of 2s. 3d. per yard—being a saving of from 10 to 30 per cent. per annum." -tc2, 13,1 , NiltZ l i K4 iimix3ooF6r-r7 „a- -..' • -- ' 011ie N. MR. LAING'S NEW WORK. This day is published, in l vol. Bvo., price 365. cloth lettered, NOTES of a TRAVELLER on the SOCIAL and POLITICAL STATE of FRANCE, PRUSSIA, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, and other Parts of Europe, during the present Century. By SAMUEL LAING, Esq. Author of " A Journal of a Three Years' Re sidence in Norway," and of " A Tour in Sweden." London . Longman, Brown, and Co. H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and' at LUBECK, Ore now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS FRIBU PIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions say receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upo n addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,000/., 18,000/., 9,0001, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &e., to London ; 3,600/., 800/, and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,6001. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,2001. to Portleaven Harbour ; 9001., 700/. and 6001. to Li verpool ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. to Hull ; 9001. and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 6001. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 600/. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 1, _ _ When Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Comedy of EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT.—Lord Norland, Mr. Phelps ; Harmony, Mr. Macready ; Mr. Placid, Mr. Keeley ; Edward, Miss Vining ; Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mrs. Warner ; Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Keeley. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORI) OF LONDON STONE. Doors to be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin at Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2t. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price :Is. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Price Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, JAN. I, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison; Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr. Leffier ; Ada l gisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotil da, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, 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 be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. _ The most extensive Christmas Novelties ever produced. All the talent of London. Grandeur and expence unequalled. All New. THIS EVENING, JAN. 1. Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING SHAM.—With gorgeous and charac teristic Scenery, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun ning, &c. Harlequin ' M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Splendour—Novelty—Attraction and Interest ! Undoubted ! Unequalled ! Unprecedented; THIS EVENING, JAN. 1., Will be acted, SUSAN HOPLEY ; or, THE TRIALS AND VICISSITUDES OF A SERVANT GlRL.—Wil liam Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Dicky Dean, Mr. Paul ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent (the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy). After which, ROBERT MACAIRE.—Robert Maca.ire, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Jacques Strop, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with 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 along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Diorama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ; and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. Boxes, 29.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-put Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN lS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 1, 1842. TO CORRESPONDENTS. What does our Correspondent " Judex" say to the facts proved by several witnesses, that slips had been appre hended on the line for several days previous, and that all the watchmen were in the habit of leaving at ten at night, and not returning till six in the morning ? THE WEATHER.—NOON, DECEMBER 31. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 38 Highest 4O y Lowest 30 Barometer 29.95.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 31 minutes after 4. I Evening 54 minutes after 4. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND publit 14) pinion. • " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. Six more arts for high treason have taken place in Paris. Just-Brazier and Colombier, to save their heads, are multiplying accusations, at the especial desire of old Baron Pasquier. In the election of Vice-Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies the Government has again triumphed. On Wednesday the election took place, when MM. Dufaure, Calman, Jacqueminot, and Bignon were elected. They are all Ministerialists. Letters from Athens of the 10th of December, an nounce the appointment of the Director and Committee of the Bank. The Director is M. George Stavros, a French agent, and the names: of the Committee, MM. Vrannes, Roujoux, Mestenet, Autonopoulous, and Ker gousis, all partizans of France. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Advertiser contains a leading article, suggested by Sir Robert Peel's late interview with the Deputation of the Short Time Committee of the West Riding of Yorkshire ; the object of which article is to show that the Tory Premier must either break at once with the great monopoly faction, or be involved in its ruin. The Times, in commenting upon the various facts and arguments adduced during Sir Robert Peel's interview with the Short Time Committee Deputation, recom mends the appointment of a Committee of moderate men of all parties to inquire into the state of the nation ; adding that " the nation has a right to expect that a strong Goverment will take this responsibility on itself." The Chronicle recommends the constituency of Dub lin to return Lord Morpeth as their Member for the city, in consequence of the death of Mr. West, observ ing, "no man who has ever administered the affairs of Ireland has, in doing so, won so much general esteem and respect as Lord Morpeth." The Morning Herald contends that the general tone of Mr. Christopher's speech has made a favourable im pression on the country; and that it has " satisfied all moderate, sober-minded politicians that, if the wrath of party politics be allowed somewhat to subside in the torthcoming Session of Parliament, the real difficulties in the way of an improved Corn-law are not great." In remarking on the late accident on the Great Western Railway, the Post expresses its opinion that " at present the railroads seem to have too much power, and the various persons concerned are far too despotic, and too apparently self-confident in their modes of pro ceeding." The - Derby Reporter, in noticing some points in Lord Melbourne's reply to the Derby Address, says :—" It would be well for the interests of the people if all grades of Liberals would unite to attain the useful and practi cable, instead -of each riding his own hobby after vision ary, or at the best doubtful, objects. We hope, how ever, that the experience of the past has not been lost upon the multitude, but that it will serve as a beacon for the future to guard them against falling into the same fatal and disastrous error." In reference to the present distressed state of trade, the Liverpool Journal makes the following remarks With the exception of one or two houses, very pecu liarly circumstanced, we believe that there is not a manu facturer of watches in Liverpool who will not admit that for the last three years, he has yearly lost money in his business. We know some one who formerly paid 501. a week in wages in Prescot, who now find that as much as they can do is to keep on a few of their best work men, at the barest wages, to save the manufacture from entire extinction." The Wills Independent thus antic& to Mr. Christo pher's Corn-law scheme :—" Mr. Christopher's plan of taking the averages is as open to frauds as the present one. In his speech the Hon. Gentleman acknowledges that, by the mode he proposes, the agriculturists would incur the imputations which they now direct against the Corn-factors and .millers, of entering into combina tions to regulate the averages.' No doubt they would, and justly too, for it is as plain as the sun in a cloud-, less noon-day sky, that the object of Mr. Christopher and his worthy confreres is, by keeping down the aver ages, to keep out of the market every grain of foreign w heat except at actual starvation prices." 1110- NEY — TRADE—c6IKIVIERCE. Within the last four years there has been a decrease of 838 public-houses in the. City of Glasgow. The Dundee trade is brightening. Flax and yarns are doing well in both the French and Russian markets. A great meeting of the clothiers of Wilts, Somerset, and Gloucester, will be held on Thursday, the 6th of January, at Bath, to take into consideration the state of trade, and the condition of the working classes. Lord Ashburton is about to proceed on a special atis-' sion to the United States, with a view to settle existing differences between that country and Great Britain. ECCLESIASTICAL. . _ Although a commission de tunatiTo inquirendo sat lately upon the Bishop of Ossory, and found him child ish and incapable of managing his own affairs, yet all minor episcopal functions have been still administered throughout his importahr districts, and sundry reverend gentlemen have been presented to valuable benefices, upon the sole responsibility " of the Lord Bishop of Ossory." _ _ AGRICULTURAL. The floods in Essex have done sad havoc to the arable lands. The forest adjoin Barrington Hall has been inundated to the depth of iourteen feet. In Hertford shire , Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire, and all the flat countries, the farmers have been immense sufferers. The late Mr. J. B. West,,M.P., for Dublin, fought for Conservatism with great spirit. In the election of 1832 for Dublin, he was in.a minority of 300 votes ; in 1835, of 223 below Mr. O'Connell, but was seated by petition. In 1837 he was ousted by a minority, but at the last election had a majority of 168 votes over Mr. O'Connell. He did not sit in the House of Commons more than a year and a half. A piece of plate was lately presented to Commander Somerville, R.N., th rough Sir Edward Codrington, raised by a limited subscription from 369 flag-officers, captains, commanders, and others, as a tribute of their esteem for the honourable and zealous manner in which he ad vocated their interests before the Commissioners on Na val and Military Inquiry. NAVAL AND MILITARY. _ _ The 92d Regiment, or Gordon Highlanders, are suffer ing dreadfully at Dominica, under yellow fever and black vomit. Officers and men to the number of 39 had died previous to the 18th October, besides many being in the hospital. LAW AND POLICE. Thursday, Thomas Barker, who had been previously examined at Guildhall, on a serious charge of plundering his employer, Mr. Kent, wholesale brush manufacturer, in Falcon -street, was fully committed to take his trial. He had been in Mr. Kent's service for nine years, and had commenced the system soon after he got the employ ment. The prosecutor had reason to believe the defalca tions exceeded 7001. At Union Hall, Henry Reeves, a coach proprietor, was fined 40s. for rude conduct towards a married woman, and assaulting her husband, in Blackfriars-road on Thurs day morning. The defendant said he could not deny the statement made against him, and expressed great re gret for his conduct. Williams and Slawson, who committed the Chirk murder, were taken at Coventry on Christmas-day. They have been examined at Shrewsbury, and remanded to to-day, when it is understood they will be committed. Two men were fined 201. each at Thames-street, for creating a disturbance at the Stepney station of the Black wall Railway, on Wednesday night. They appeared to be intoxicated, and on the clerk refusing to give the one who appeared the most in liquor a ticket, a scuffle en sued, and defendants assaulted both the clerk and the porter on the platform. FINE ARTS. The Countess de Rossi, during her residence in Hun gary, has produced a cantata, called Il Nallfravio For tunatu, for a soprano and chorus, which she has sung at the concerts of the Empress and the Princes Esterhazy and Metternich. _ _ Several hundred pieces of ancient coin, of the age of Constantine, were lately dug up in the town of Ancaster, situated on the old Roman highway. Rossini has just put a finishing hand to a magnificent Stabat. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci have been lately dis covered by M. Delecluae, carrying back a knowledge of the steam-engine to the 15th century. On a page of one, there are five pen-sketches of the apparatus of a steam-gun, which he designates the Archaonnerre, and the invention of which is attributed by him to Archimedes. The planet Mercury will be visible for a few evenings after sunset about the 15th of February. King Henry HI. was very profuse in his expenditure in edifices and the necessary decorations. For these he chiefly employed foreigners : Odo Filius was master of the works at Westminster. William, a Florentine, and Walter, were the chief painters. The shrine of Edward the Confessor was executed by Petrus Cavallo , a Roman sculptor. SPORTING. onet he county n h t i y s of Dublin, was Mr. G. A. Poll a o e e e k i , d c e l n e t r i k liy of friends while shooting on his father's estate last Tue s d a y w ti o ie un p d ea ed ce byy r at Meath. Thirty shwa were lodged in his thighs and legs. COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Marquis of Westminster is still suffering from illness ; consequently, Eaton Hall has been dull this Christmas. The Countess of Jersey had a select evening party on Thursday. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle leave Castle Howard on the 14th January, for Grosvenor-place. They come up expressly to attend the christening of the Prince of Wales. The Duke of Marlborough has arrived at Moate Park, in Ireland, from Blenheim. Lord Brougham left town on Friday last, for Cambridge. The French Ambassador leaves Manchester House, on Sunday morning, for Bowood Park, Wilts. Viscount Canterbury is passing the holidays with Mr. Sanderson, M.P., at Gunton Park, Norfolk. Lord and Lady Maryborough have arrived in town, from Deal Castle, for the season. Lord Ward arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Thursday, from Himley Hall, Staffordshire. MXSCEI.XANEOUS. The 1,0001. deodand awarded upon the Great Western Railway accident goes by a grant, made in the reign of James 1., to the lord of the manor. Mr. Palmer,-Mem ber for Berkshire, is the present lord of the manor. RUMOUR OT THE DAY. The report is current in well-informed circles that the title of King Consort will be conferred on Prince Albert. The Tories no doubt will try to make amends for their rude conduct towards the Sovereign and her husband, ar.d we should not be surprised to learn, that when the title is granted, Colonel Sibthorp will be instructed to move for an additional grant of 30,0001., to maintain the newly-acquired dignity. COURT CIRCULAR. W A li, INDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince walked out this morning on the Castle Terrace, an the new grounds of the Hom e P ar k. Her Royal ness the Duchess of Kent also took walking exere in the forenoon. Colonel Wemyss and the Hon. C. A. MurraYJ the Royal hunt this morning, at New Lodge. of Viscount Melbourne is expected at the Castle n visit to her Majesty. The Hon. Sarah Mary Carel lv arrived on a visit to her Majesty in the Castle. o i The Royal dinner party at the Castle this afternef„ expected to include Mr. George Edward and the 1 3 _7 t Mrs. Anson, Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt (St. Leon a ", Hill), Hon. Mrs.. Arbuthnot, and Colonel Bouverie, the Royal Horse Guards. efi t His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, att e by Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday, afteroes from Copt-hall, near Epping. His Royal High° visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucesl e . r e t Gloucester House and in the evening left Comb° House for his residence at Kew. r 11+ A Quarterly Meeting of the Commi ss i o ners w r ,i Reduction of the National Debt was h e ld yesterdNi the Treasury. The Commissioners present wer e 0, Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Chancellor of th e Excheq u o Sir John Pelly, Governor of the Bank of Englatlay, Mr. Cotton, Deputy Governor of the Bank ;,.. d Higham, Secretary to the Commission was i n atteea,riy Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadoes, Sir Robert Wilson, and Mr. Ellis, late M.P. for Ne,7 o i. had interviews with Lord Stanley yesterd a y a t the ti nial-office. Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, the Earl of Aberdeen yesterd a y a t th e F ore i g n' OP A Sir James Graham arrived in t own y es t er d a y ing from Dorchester. Despatches for Sir C. Campbell, Governor of ee l , were sent off yesterday ev en i ng f rom t h e C o l on i a ll Despatches from the Governor of N ew Brunswiel‘, Nova Scotia were received yesterday at the Colod office. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE"' CITY, FRIDAY EVENV ' The Funds close this year with a firm appearance' spite of the adverse circumstances which have open upon the Money 'Market for some months past, thee! of the country is evidently by no means depreciato u i the public estimation. Money seemed easier to-daft, the Unfunded Debt was hi g h er — v i z ., 12 s. to 16s. p , East India Bonds were 2s. to 3s. prem. Consols iniP k to -k percent., being at 891 to 891, for the ope Bank Stock was firm at 166 ; Reduced Three-s„' Half per Cents. ranged from 991 to 991, and the v per Cents. were 891 to 891. The Foreign Market improved slightly, upon th e ; tlement of the Account, and it seems that the specu l a are rather anticipating a risi ng mar k et during Jain Spanish Active Isonds we re 25 to 2 5 1 ; P ortugues e 331, and the Three per C en t s . 201 ; Mexican 13 op were less in request, but imp rove d, notw i t h stan d l 281 and 28k ; Colombian were at 211 to 211 ; Five per Cents. were marked 100 to 1001. The Railway Shares were n o t ver y animate d , butt supported the improvements in all cases, and in went rather beyond it, Great Western were ~ 2 5, 16 New 12, the Bir m i ng h am 781, an d t h e South U7O 211 prem. Brighton were 10, and Manchester soli mingliam 12 dis. ; London J o i n t S toc k Ban k were 21 prem. There was again a good deal of firmness in the r" ? of the Foreign Exch anges ; bill s were d one as foll°"ij Paris 25f. 721 c. to 75c. ; Hamburgh, 13 101 t° 4/ Antwerp, 12 31 to 4 ; Frankfort, 150 ; Amste 12 44 to 1 ; and Trieste, 9 52. (From The Sun of Last Night.) yt , LIVERPOOL COTTON MAR KET , DEC. 30.—We„,r had a fair demand for Cott on t o -d ay, t h e sales attWri 6,000 bales. Prices are firm for all descriptions. y LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, DEC. 30.—T9 ness at the Stock EXchang e thi s d ay h as b een to a 10 extent. The transactions comprise —Eastern CO', B,i ; Ditto, Debentures, 10 11 8 ; Grand 3111;' 196 ; Great Western 201. Shares, 10} ; Londo* „ Brighton, 391. "T a l o4 . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 30. ri - „47 a very fair demand in this Market for Shares_ t• ora te, this day are :—Lancaster and Preston, 27 ; M an y'' and Birmingham, 28 281 281 and 281 ; Manches o o Leeds, 70 ; Ditto, Halves, 30 ; North Midland. United States Bank, 18s. ; Alliance Bank, 171 L I: of Manchester, 41. 25., 41. 2s. 6d., and 41. ; Union Pra, Manchester, 61. 1 Is. 3d. ; Manch es t er A ssuranc e, IrJ , 6d. and 91.35. 9d. ; South Lancashire Bank, 41. 65 'Cif The English Securities continue exceedingly fir ll , l o sols have further advanced this morni ng t o 89/ k f fol t Opening ; Three per Cents. Reduced to 891 1 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents., to 99/ 1 ; Bank 166 167; Exchequerbills are 12 14 prem. ri s : i ' The advance in Spanish and M ex i can Seca 4 fully maintained. Sp an i s h A ct i ve S toc k is novi!siti Passive, 51 6 ; Deferred 12} i ; Mexican Bonds A ' Portuguese Five per Cents. are 33i i; Ditto Thr p e?, The Hamburgh mail, with th e l e tt ers an d Tuesday has arrived. Exchange comes I schillil9 o s the quotation being 13 144. Gold the same tel e 0 By a private ship from Barbadoes pap ers to w ‘. November have been rec e i ve d, w hi c h state th at ' season of the year, usually d enom i nate d t h e 10 use ti months, has passed over w ith ou t th e slightest etb It alarm to the inhabitants of this island. We 10 :1,4.- thankful, too, for the cess a ti on o f d roug h t, and tulef tiful showers which hale, fr3in time to time, f a j t ei our land. We regret, however, that this fal g iff weather has not of late contin ue d th roug h ou t the f r j many parts of which are suffering n ow f or want ° 00 On the whole, however, agriculture is in a fa v ,°e ° state, and with some good rains now thi ngs wou ld very well!" it 6 To-day being settling day i n th e F ore i gn mark 01 brokers are busily engaged in arranging their al/ and, up to the present tim e , n o diffi cu l ty h as b 0 0° 4 ' perienced in the settling. Sp an i s h A ctive Stoci' sli 25+ ; Deferred, 124 ; Portuguese Five per Cent s ' . Colombian Bonds, 22 ; Mexican Bonds, 281 -.1. 0 Consols are firm at 89/ 1 ; Bank Stock, 16 6 .4 Bonds, 2, par. ; Exchequer Bills, 14, 12, 15 pre 'G The Share Market continues to improve. oil Western are 881 ; Ditto New, 62 ; Ditto Fifthstdi t London and Brighton, 391 ; London an d Birall': 1681 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28} ; Nor'' . land, 721 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23. The Markets are all firm. 14 ll' Consols, Account, 891 ; Exchequer Bills 1., Mexican, 28} :1; Portuguese, 33} 34 ; Sp a nish, 2 7'0 1 0 The accounts from Germany state that a great t io9 attention has been paid to the subject of emigr:' 14 the New Zealand group called the Ch a th am Islaa°'',o . V A are said to have been disposed of by the Coinf01,10) to a merchant of Hamburgh. Such a sale, it see ° o l o o probable, however, the Gove r n ment o f t hi s coati ;gts„l never recognise, and if th e G ermans w i sh to erl)6,Fll which from personal experience we know theY s them seek politi ca l f ree d om, an d agricultural pr°,lo in some of th e B r i t i s h co l on i es, where their Vl' honest, industrious, and enlightened men, is 0 do and deservedly appreciated. Nothing has been heard yet of the steamer frolla Se. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. • le Bank Stock 166 India St oc k ..... ......... 3 per Ceut Red. B9i Ditto Bonds •"... 3 per Cent Cons Ditto Old Annuities ." A 31 per Cent Red.. 99i i Ditt o N ew A nnu itiesl 16r New 3i per Cent 'Ex. Bills, 1,000/... 31 1, 6 0 New 5 per Cent ._ Ditto 5001 ....•••'' 1° Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small. 0 1 Jan 1860. ...... ... 12 9-16 Bank Stock for Ace' .. -•" 1 Oct 1859 Jan. 1860. _ , Corsets for O pen ....... '' FOREIGN FUNDS. 1 ' 5. 4 Austrian, 5 per cent.... (Port uguese , 5 per eeii , Belgian, 5 per cent — IDitto, New Ditto....'". 53 Brazilian 80nd5.... -Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per eel 20 Russian, 5 pe r ce nt.... -1 Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Meta Me....... '...• 25 5 , i Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent." .. , '_, Ditto, 1824. 2li Ditto Deferred.•••''''f. - id ' G Danish, reek, 1 3 82 pzr 5 c p e e n r t . e . e . n .. t _.— E Fr x e c n h e a n ' h French , .................. ...3 . , ~..:.; Mexican, 5 per cent 2B& French, 3 per cent. Zi Ditto, 6 per cent, 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent * . '' . 11— Peruvian,l 25, 6 per ct. 15} Ditto, 5 per 'cent. •"" . • SHARES. ' 9 pi Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ......•• vy 11' Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... ....... • --' 9 0 Great Western Railway( 65 paid) .......•••. 63 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ••• 101 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 3O London and Brighton (50 paid) ' osi London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ..... .. ... . London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) ......... ..• 0 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ...... 2 0 Northern and Eastern (35 paid) •• • 111 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) ...... ••• 231 South Eastern and Dove r (43 paid ),.. ...... ill Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) - ;i1. Ditto New Shares (15 paid COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERD A Y) 4 6 40 Amsterdam .....C. F. 12 74'Gibraltar ... Ditto, at sight ......... 12 41 Leghorn ... ........ • ..... 6. 6 Rotterdam„.. ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa .., ............. •''' 3 1 Antwerp l2 7 Ililan ................••'' 41 Hamburgh M.B. 13 131 Venice ..... ..............1191 .. 40 Altona Paris, 3 d a y s ' s i g h t ... 25 55 Palermo, per oz •. ' bli Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon ............... 51i Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro ..........•••' ' 2 6 Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia ............... ..i . Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres ...... : . i;t. ,4t' # Berlin..... Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 952 Philadelphia .................. 9 Trieste, ditto 9 55 IPRICES OF BULLI O 2 4 1/ a Madrid .. Cadiz Bilbao .. 36 New Doubloons .•••• . 0.. . j 4 il Barcelona Seville GOB' THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE 4 ., WESTERN RAILWAY.—The f o ll ow i ng .zufferers , : l l - rio s i l severe injuries they sustained on th e mor ning e, at last, are in so exceedingly dangerous a state recovery is considered to be hopeless :—Thole o f t' kins—serious injury to th e grea t t oe , a portio n 00' bone having been rem ove d. Eli za Barnes—hie e ''lo 4; , i , the scalp. Thomas H ug h es — concuss i on of th e &P ea r Elizabeth Carpenter, who experienced a severe sion of the leg, is sufficiently far advanced toviti r oll', covery, as to be abl e t o l eave t h e h osp i ta l in the a , op of a day. The slip at the Sonning cutting exte n re col, wards of sixty yard s i n l engt h. F rom t h e gr eat P a y tions adopted by the C om p an y, no f urt h er dangerbet elvis new to be aprehended. Eighty n3en 139 ,1 0 01' er since the accid p ent, employed b the Cc w/ r making the necessary repairs to the slopes. - 0 1# What is Pussey-isin, Ma ?" said - lilt cO i quisitive girl to her mother, •' anything abtt t t bioi Ma ?" Aye, child, a cat or a cat's tat for au ' know." MORNING SUN THE- SUN, LONDON SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1842. MORNING SUN ---,F' ° 1 % I