The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-08 00:00:00

EVENING SUN NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Just ready; in 3 vols., post Bvo., . L i L NNE BOLEYN. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. By MRS. A. T. THOMSON. Author of " Memoirs of Henry VIII.," " Constance," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ELEGANT PRESENT FOR A LADY. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., 21s. bound, MADAME DE SEVIGNE, AND HER CONTEMPORARIES. Comprising SKETCEIES of above .ONE JUNDRED of the MOST IiMINENT PERSONg-oIiER--TISIIi.ST " To all who are not familiar with the mass of French Me moires, these sketches will furnish much amusing food, tend ing to illustrate a century of such social exhibition as the Court and aristocracy of France produced from the time of Richelieu to the date of a hundred years ago. These biographies are always characteristic, often personally curious and historically instructive, a n d th e b r illi ant ep i grams . j e ux d'esprit, &c. which rarkle over th e w h o l e , g i ve th e wor k a piquancy likely to ren der it exceedingly popular."—Literary Gazetto. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE BUDGET, No. IV. On Monday will be published , price 3 d. , THE BUDGET, No. IV., Contianing a LETTER to LORD STANLEY, on AOLONIZATIO.N, considered as a Means of Removing the Causes of National Distress. By a MEMBER of the POLITICAL ECONOMY CLUB. The Preceding Numbers of THE BUDGET contain : No. I. A Letter to Lord John Russell, on the Alterations in the Corn and Sugar Duties proposed in the Whig Budget. No. 11. A Letter to Lord John Russell on the manner in which the adoption of the Whig Budget would have altered the value of money, increased the pressure of taxation, and aggra vated the distress of the people. . . . No. 111. A Letter to ^ Sit: Robert Peel on Commercial Re form. Published by Smith, Elder, .z..nd Co., Cornhill ; and to be had of all Booksellers and Newsvenders. IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, !saving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain :ng LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS FITIBUrIONS. Persons deirOus to purchase for the Next Distributions may re7eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of #•1.5 ; 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. 8, When Her Majesty's Servants will perform the Comedy of EVERY ONE HAS HIS FAULT.—Lord Norland, Mr. Phelps ; Harmony, Mr. Maoready ; Mr. Placid, Mr. Keeley ; Sward, Anis Vining ; Lady Eleanor Irwin, Mrs. Warner ; Mrs. Placid, Mrs. Keeley. After which will he 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, 2.1. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price 2.3. Lower Gallery Is. 6d., Second Pr.ce Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. - UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, JAN. 8, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Ilarrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, 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 Co le opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 2..; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of 11r. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Feur, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 1137, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR, WILLIS JONES. Astounding hit—The acknowledged best Pantomime in Lon don—Hundreds nightly unable to gain admittance—The Sons of Syria and Felix Carlo surprise every one. THIS EVENING, JAN. 8. Will be acted a New Domestic Drama, entitled MADAME LAFFARGE, from Memoirs written by Herself. After which, a Nautical Burletta, entitled JACK JUNK ; or, a SEAMAN'S FIRESIDE.—Jack Junk, with Five Sea Songs, Mr. Walton. 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, Sce. 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. OSBALDISTON. Grand Juvenile Week ! The Pantomime played as Second Piece ! Novelties unequalled Attraction undoubted ! In terest unprecedented! and Suceeis enormons ! THIS EVENIN JAN. 8, 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 Hoplcy, Mies Vincent (tire acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy), 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 along the Coast of England. Also, a new Grand Dissolving Dibrama, by Childe, the Great Illu sionist ' • and the Opening of the Pantomime supported by the Comic Talent of this—the Popular Theatre of London. To conclude with THE HAUNTED INN. _ Boxes, 24.-I"it, 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TIIE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sian Office. Jan. 8. 184 2. TO CORRESPO.NDENTS. We have no recollection of receiving any lludihrastic line of a political tendency. A Portuguese Bondholder, who writes from Guis borough, will find his request attended to next week. THE WEATHER.—Noon, JANUARY 8. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 29 I Highest 4l 1 Lowest 27 Barometer 30.5.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point ;'2 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning. 5 minutes after 0 1 Evening .34 minutes after G. The Publication of the !Evening Edition of THE SUN com menced at 10 minutes after Three. ott :-ZUII/4 LONDON: SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1842. It is impossible to :read the concluding para graphs of Mr. STEVENSON'S last communication to the Earl of ABERDEEN, on the right of search, without being convinced that there is great danger of a war between this country and the United States. " If," says Mr. STEVENSON, " a power such as that which is now asserted by her MAJESTY'S Government shall be enforced, not only without consent, but in the free of a direct refusal to concede it, it can be regarded in no other light by the Government of the United States than a violation of national rights and sovereignty." We know that the PRESI DENT has adopted that view in his Message, and we also know that her MAJESTY'S masters, or Ministers, feeling alarmed at the probable con sequences of their own doctrines, have appointed Lord ASHBURTON, whose great diplomatic talents have been developed in .Bishopsgate streetWithout, an Ambassador Extraordinary to settle, if he can, this important dispute. It con cerns the whole people very nearly ; for, ar dently as they desire the suppression of the Slave-trade, they will think it notch too dearly purchased by a war with the United States—the cu d of which should it be begun cannot be fore.-Ken—if that could fur ever annihilate the piratical traffic. It is much to be regretted, we think, when it became an object of our Government to suppress the Slave-trade, that greater exertions were not made to induce the - United States to assist us in attaining this end. it is teue that the United States' Governaticnt was asked to become a party to the treaties by which other nations " had conceded a mutual right of search," but declined, for reasons growing out of the peculiar character of their institutions and Government, After they had declined, no efforts were made to de vise any other means by which the same object of suppressing the Slave-trade, carried on under the American flag, could be attained. How poor and unfertile are the resources of that diplomacy which costs the nation such huge sums of money ! Diplomatists, in truth, are guided wholly by precedent, and consequently, when new circumstances demand a new line of conduct, they either act erroneously, or they cannot act at all. What Lord ASHBURTON, the diplomatist, may accomplish, we cannot predict; but if Mr. BARING, the merchant, in his bargain ing days, had wished to buy from the United States the privilege of visiting American ships, for some special purpose, of which the American Government and people approved, he would no doubt have found the means of buyingit as easily as buying a large tract of land in the Union. The love of gain is not daunted by one refusal, and he would have presented the subject to the American Government in a great variety of aspects, till he and it had agreed to the terms of the bargain. But diplomacy shrunk back at one refusal, and Power immediately begun to seize and to use the very right which the American Government had refused to concede. The only effort made was an agreement between the Commander of an American vessel on the coast of Africa, and the Captains of English vessels, by which the former was sup posed to consent to American vessels being visited ; but that agreement was disavowed by his Government, and the first thing we learn from Lord PALMERSTON'S answer to Mr. STEVENSON is, that, in spite of the refusal of the American Government to concede the right of search, our cruisers had boarded American ships, detained them, and given the Captains and crews cause of complaint. After we have recognised the right of the American Government to protect Ame rican vessels, by asking it to concede a mutual right of search which it had refused, to act on our own views, and set aside a right we had acknowledged, must seem to the Ame rican Government very like a settled deter mination to treat it with contempt. Before we began to exercise our power, scores of plans should have been devised and offered to the United States' Government, by some one of which it would have been brought, as well as its intelligent people, heartily to co-operate with us in suppressing the nefarious traffic in men. Some of our Journals, we regret to see, are, in this respect, as bad or worse than our Ministers, and, without any regard to the customary laws of nations, or the repeated admissions of our own negotiators, that during peace England has no right to visit the ships of other nations unless the right be conceded, they recommend that England should establish an effective po lice of the sea, and, in conjunction with the liberty-hating powers of Russia, France, Prussia, and Austria, insist on visiting every ship which an officer of a man-of-war may re gard with suspicion. Instead of trying what good words and good management can effect, our Tories, in a very furor of humanity, are at once for making a new maritime code by their own will, and by the aid of the despots of Europe, for imposing new fetters on all trade, under the pretext that they are extremely anxious to protect the rights of the Africans. We trust our benevolent people will not be mis led by their own just and humane desire to redress the wrongs of the Africans, to disre gard the rights of the Americans, and will not be instrumental in exciting a war which would be more afflicting to humanity, and a greater hindrance to civilization, than the existence of the Slave-trade, in all its horrors, for another century. We must remind our readers that by the Par liamentary Return, No. 438, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on June 22, 1841, it was established that the income was de ficient in the years 1837, 655,7601.; 1838, 345,2281.; 1839, 1,512,7921.; and 1840, 1,593,9701.; or a total sum of 4,107,7501. The deficiency on the year which has just elapsed was estimated by Mr. BARING, on April 30, at 2,421,0001., and by Mr. GOULBURN, on Sept. 27, at 2,467,4321.; making, up to this time, an actual deficiency, ac cording to Mr. BARING, of 6,528,7501.; and ac cording to Mr. GOULBURN, of 6,575,1821. In the Gazette last night, the excess of ex penditure above the revenue, is stated by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, at 2,354,096/., for the year ending with the 10th of October, 1841. We may put the whole deficiency down, therefore, at 6,500,0001. To cover that deficiency no effort has been made, but by Mr. GOULBURN'S abortive loan. There is not the least reason to suppose that the expendi ture of the Government has been diminished in any sensible degree since the accession of the Tories to office ; and hence the present amount of the national revenue, and whether it be in creasing or diminishing, are questions which in volve new taxes or national bankruptcy, Let us look, therefore, at the revenue returns for the same period of which we have quoted the defi ciencies. The paper above mentioned states the receipt of the revenue, after deducting drawbacks and repayments, but not deducting the charge of collection, at, in 1837, 50,663,353/. ; 1838, 51,375,520/. ; 1839, 51,927,495/.; 1840, 51,850,0831. A continuation of this account is not made up for 1841, and we have only in the accounts pub lished on Wednesday the net produce of the revenue for that year, excluding the dead weight annuity, &c.; but we beg the reader to remark that the produce of the revenue of 1840 was less than the produce of 1839, though the increased rate of taxation operated over eight months of the year 1840. The returns published on Wednesday enable us to compare the net produce of the revenue in 1841 with that in 1840 ; and we again invite attention to the fact, that in 1841 the increased rate of taxa tion operated through the whole year, while in 1840 it operated through only eight months of the year. As we showed yesterday, that circum stance ought tohave made the revenue of 1841,col lected from th e Customs and Excise alone, exceed the revenue of 1840 by 538,0001. To this must be added the increase of 10 per cent. on the Assessed Taxes which, taking them at 4,000,0001., would (live for four months 133,0001., making a total of 671,000/., which the revenue ought to have been better in 1841, had things remained even stationary, than the revenue of 1840. But it was only 506,0951., showing an actual falling off in 1841 to the amount of 165,0051. That falling off is irrespective of the increase which ought to have been caused by an increase of population, and which, down to 1839, caused the revenue to increase, and irrespective of the augmentation of the revenue of 1841, by the new arrangements in the Excise, and by the extreme application of the collector's screw. As to the second, it is admitted by both parties that there has been such an alteration in the Ex cise ; but the Whigs affirm that it was carried into effect only during the last quarter ; the Tories affirm that it was begun before the sth of October, and showed its effects in the preceding quarter. In whatever quarter the effects may be placed, the result on the year's revenue will be the same. A fortnight's, or perhaps three weeks' revenue of Excise has been added to the revenue of 1841, to which there will be no corresponding addition in 1842. IVe estimated that on Thursday at 600,0001., which may well be doubled, for the balance in the hands of collectors, from which the sum was drawn, amounted on Jan. 3, 1840, to 1,574,224/. The new system, which reduces those balances, arid adds the sum taken from them to the revenue of the year, has thus swelled the revenue of 1841 above the revenue both of the preceding and succeeding years. The painful but certain inference from these facts is, that there is no probability of the reve nue now equalling the . expenditure, without an in crease of taxation. It is, at the same time, certain, from the consequences of Mr. BARING'S increase in 1840, that an addition to the rate of indirect taxation will add nothing to the revenue. Sir ROBERT PEEL has pledged himself to put our finances in order, and to accomplish that he must increase direct taxation, or, perhaps, esta blish a property tax. He must be sensible how mischievous that will be in peace. He has more than once declared against the practice of providing for the public expenditure by loans, and he has no other alternative, we believe, but to inflict on the country some addition to its direct taxation. The complacency with which Sir ROBERT PEEL and his supporters talk of the necessity of keep ing up the revenue to meet his and their de mands on it—as if their services, to the meanest Treasury door-keeper, could not be dispensed with—is well calculated to make the nation weigh the advantages of the Government against its enormous cost; and when both are put into the balance, the Tory Government, with its horde of mischievous officials, will in stantly kick the beam. The Sun has consistently and zealously advo cated that extension of copyright which Mr' Segeant TALFOURD proposed. We may venture, therefore, with no chance of having our motives misconstrued, to express a doubt whether lite rary men consult the public feeling in now urging forward legislation on that subject. We are told, however, that Mr. THESIGER is to take up the measure which Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD is no longer, we regret to say, in a condition to advocate. We see, also, that there are able and elaborate articles on the question in the Quarterly Review, and in Blach wood's Magazine, while the awful-condition-of- England question seems unworthy of notice. The distressed people will thus be taught that literary men are as selfish as the landlords, and have no sympathy with their distress. At present the authors of:the empire should be employed in counselling and advising the nation, if they are really to be its lights and guides, how it may navigate safely through the dangers which surround it, so as to avoid the engulph ing quicksands of despotism on the one hand, and the rocks of anarchy on the other. They may be certain of being better rewarded should they forego their own small advantages to a calmer season, and now take their proper station as the pilots of society. If, like merchants or money-brokers, they regard only the means of leaving a fortune behind them—if, while they talk and write of high-mindedness and pure aspirations, they display • only a sordid feeling, grasping after some doubtful advantage to them selves—they will only prove that they are not more noble-minded than the money grubbers, against whom they rail, and they will inflict an irreparable injury on the literary character. If their energies, too, are now to be employed in advocating a kind of Puseyite or learned des potism in Tory Journals, while they selfishly urge the Legislature to attend to their pecuniary advantages, they will perhaps make their calling contemptible in the eyes of mankind, and pre vent themselves from obtaining their wishes. Prudence, as well as patriotism—a regard to their own interest, as well as a due sense of their own usefulness, and what the country now requires, ought to make them think less of themselves, and more of the public. They should write less about copyright, and more about freedom of trade; so will they in the end find a Parliament and a public trained and tutored by them, grate ful for their services, and willing to grant them all which they can reasonably ask. If they must have Mr. THESIGER for their reprepresentative and advocate, at least let them caution him not to bring forward the subject till the Legislature can fitly entertain it; and let them not press what seems their private concern on the public, at a time when all the energies of the leaders of society are required to save it from great disasters. The Paris Journals of Thursday have been been duly received. There are some people who are never happy but when they are in hot water, and our good neigbours the French are certainly of the hot-water-happiness seeking family. A state of absolute repose is to them a state of torture. HAZLITT, when travelling in France, accounted for the sobriety of the people, as com pared with the English, by their inability to go through the soddening, still, and dreamy process of gradual intoxication. His the ory was, that deep drinking marks the grave character of a people, and their proneness to deep, continuous thought. Whether this be so or not, our Gallic neighbours are no admirers of that quiescent state which constitutes the ne plus ultra of John Bull's terrestrial hap piness. While the Eastern Question remained unsettled ; the rebels in Candia held out; the Christino rebellion raged in Spain ; Druses and Maronites were cutting each others' throats in Syria ; and the trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices occupied the Chamber of Peers, the French had excitement whereon to feed to their heart's content. But when the treaty of the Five Powers was ratified; when the Candian insurrection was suppressed; when liberty triumphed in Spain ; when the Court of Peers astonished Europe by its sen tence upon M. DUPOTY, we really felt at a loss to imagine how France could contrive to kill the few days which must elapse betbre the commencement of the gladiatorial exhi bitions 'of placemen and placehunters in the Legislative Chambers. We were not, however, long kept in suspense. An affair in which the late Mr. Simpson, Master of the Ceremonies at Vauxhall, was better adapted to figure than the Ambassador of a great nation in the nine teenth century, drove M. SALVANDY from Madrid, and set the French and Spanish Press together by the ears. Before this had time to lose the first bloom of its freshness, a sort of Court warfare was got up, between the Sovereigns of France and Russia, in a controversy about which all the leading Paris papers are chin-deep involved. Like rival beauties at a ball, or rival actresses on a stage, the Sovereigns of France and Russia are magnanimously occupied in devising little artifices to spite and annoy one another. Thus at the fete of the Emperor of RUSSIA, when all the diplomatic body assemble to congratulate his MAJESTY, all the members of the French em bassy were advised to be -seized with such severe colds that they could not exhibit their noses at Court ;—a proceeding which the CZAR was careful to retaliate when it was the turn of the Ambassadors to address Louts PHILIPPE at the beginning of the new year. This affords ample materials for discus sion in all the Journals of Thursday. That the facts stated are strictly correct, may be ga thered, notwithstanding the cold disclaimer, from the following article in the Journal des Debat s —the organ of King Louis PHILIPPE personally, and the members of his family : That M. de Pahlen, the Russian Ambassador at the Court of France, should have been recalled to St. Pe tersburgh, because in his quality of Senior Member of the Diplomatic Corps he would have had to harangue the King of the Revolution of July on new year's day, is very probable. That M. de Kisseleff, his substitute, should, on the same day, have been indisposed by or der, is also possible, and there is nothing in such pro ceeding's on the part of the Emperor of Russia to create astonishment. The Emperor Nicholas has accustomed us to his puerile ill-will and vexatious diplomacy. The refusal to join by official agents in the homage which France loves to pay to King Louis Philippe is, there fore, with the Emperor a very natural and ordinary occurrence. But what we do not know, and what we do not believe is, that the French Government should have sulked by way of reprisal, and that its agent at St. ' Petersburgh should have received orders to be ill on the fete day of his Russian Majesty. Wo cannot compre hend a war of this kind between two powerful natio ns . If they are unwilling to wage a war a coups de ca non , they do not go into a battle of etiquette, and fight with ridiculous weapons. This would be unworthy of France, and also of Russia, which is a powerful nation, and has not, without doubt, espoused the petty pas sions and empty anger of its Sovereign. We comprehend the unpleasant feeling which the Revolution of July may have created in Europe. We conceive the alarm which a change of dynasty was calculated to inspire in the mind of the Emperor Nicholas. In the first instance, France neither asked for his confidence nor his sympathy ; but time has rolled on. Prussia, 'Austria, England, all have by turns testified on every occasion the great and sym pathetic confidence which they place in our King and our Government. Will the Emperor of Russia alone persist in a puerile and personal enmity? Will he alone pro. test, by a systematic isolation, and by official sulkiness, against our glorious and inevitable revolution? If; which we do not believe, relations with the Russian Ca binet are no longer possible, upon the footing of ti good I •• • •• " * 4 O 4 10 * I. l .kV' AEI , 116 113,7:&" I- ' m • THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY B, 1842. understanding and reciprocal courtesy, France has only one course to take,viz., to discontinue all official relations. This is strong language on the part of a Journal so habitually temperate in the expression of opinions respecting Foreign Governments as the Debats. It is an open and direct attack upon the EMPEROR, whom it personally denounces as the enemy of the Revolution, and the personal foe of the KING. This is in fact true. NICHOLAS hates Louts PHILIPPE as cordially as the monks tell us the Father of Lies hates holy water. But let us hear what the Constitutionnel, M. TRIERS' paper, says upon this subject : As far as we are concerned, although the question is apparently a trivial one, we shall be always disposed to approve of whatever may be done against the insolence and ill-disguised contempt of Russia. We know that the hatred of the Muscovite Court is not directed against the French nation—it is against its dynasty, its King. But want of respect to the King is want of respect to France, and what offends him offends us. This is especially true as regards Foreign Powers. France will permit no person to show insolence or disdain for the King, and the dynas:y which he has elected. We approve, there fore, of the just susceptibility of the Ministry, and en courage it to persevere in its conduct; that is to say, to return to Russia disrespect for disrespect, insult for insult. As this promises to be a very pretty quarrel as it stands, we shall not interfere between the belligerents. The following are the only inte resting paragraphs in these papers : The new Prince of Monaco was, on the 27th ultimo, solemnly invested, according to ancient customs, by the King of Sardinia, with the fiefs of Menton and Rocca broma, and all their rights and appendages, as heir to his late brother. Prince Honore V. Prince Florestan did not appear in person, but was represented by Charles Athanasius Rey, Chevalier de Villa Rey, Governor- General, Colonel-General, and President of the Coun cil of State of Monaco, who bore the necessary powers to receive the investiture and take the oaths in the name of the Prince. The King was seated on his throne, with the Duke of Savoy on his right, and the Duke of Genoa on his left, the Prince de Savoy Carig nan and the hereditary Prince of Lucca being also at tendant. The King and the Princes were covered. On the right of the throne were placed the Knights of the Anuunciada and the officers of the Crown. On the left the Ministers and personages entitled to the grande en tree. Behind the throne were the Grand Chamberlain and the Captain of the Guards on duty ; at the foot was the King's Grand Equerry. On the right side was a table with the book of the Holy Evangelists and the Sword of Investiture. Opposite the throne were ranged the officers of the Gardes du Corps, the Generals who are the King's Aides-de-Camp, the Quartermasters-General of the Guard, and behind them the Court officers. The Prince's proxy being introduced with the accustomed formalities, and conducted to the foot of the throne near the table, Count Gallina, First Secretary of State of the Interior and of Finances, standing on the last step of the throne, read the Act of Investiture. As he pronounced the solemn formula, the King received the sword from the hands of the Grand Equerry, delivered it into those of the Prince de Monaco's representive, and then granted him the honour of the accolade in testimony of fidelity. This part of the ceremony being concluded, the Cheva lier de Villa Rey, kneeling before the Icing with his hand on the Gospels, took the oath according to the form as read by Count Gallina. The Act was then signed by the Prince de Monaco's proxy, by the Knights of the Order, the appointed witnesses, and by the Secre tary of State. The wife of Boucheron, as we mentioned, has been arrested on a charge of robbery. It appears that she had been received by a woman named Livet, herself in great poverty, and even receiving assistance from the Bureau de Bienfaisance ; and that according to her own account, she had taken a gown belonging to this woman, and pledged it at the Mont-de-Piete. Part of the money raised on it, she gave to her husband in prison, and the ticket she gave to the woman Livet. The latter has herself been arrested on a charge of mendicity, and un til she can appear in Court, the charge against the woman Boucheron is postponed. The case would not be worth mentioning did it not show in how low a class some of the accomplices of Quenisset were placed. A dinner in celebration of the birth of a Prince of Wales took place at Wiesbaden on the 13th ult., when the usual loyal toasts were drank on the occasion, Dr. Swift, of her Majesty's Royal Rifles, being in the chair. After passing the evening in the utmost hilarity, the company separated, well satisfied with the wines and fare provided by M. Schneider, of the Rose Hotel, which were most excellent and recherche. What added much to the interest of the occasion, was the circumstance of the fete being given in the apartments formerly occupied by Prince Albert, his father, his brother, and Prince Ernest, during their last visits to this fashionable and celebrated watering-place. We learn from St. Petersburgh that the frost re turned on the 18th ult., and that the Neva continued to be covered with floating ice till the 20th. The bridges had been removed. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1635 1630 Analo-Russian Loan 10834, les% Russian a per Cent. Ist series, Ci:rtificate Inscription, Ist Sertes 10•2.% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series — 98 Ditto in Certificates Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 87% /17 Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50% Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent — 78% N'swegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cent. months,Tw o l' 2% 102 k 3d.nish, New 5 per Cents. — m 9 0 . n 3 t 6 h % 5,.13 5. lb EXCHANGES ON LONDON. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Banix, JAN. 1. H vii . E m N ß N u z o b J E A C K . . B 4 . ._— .l l3 hr 6 e li Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 45. Per cent lOl9 1041 Prussian English Lean, 1830,4 per cent 101% iixchange on Landon, three months ti 19% —Prussian State Gazette, lin. L During Christmas week there was a vast in crease in the number of deaths in the metropolis' as compared with the previous week. During the week ending Dec. 25, the total number of deaths was 795, while on the following week they amounted to 1,037, making a difference of not less than 242. in one week. January is the most fatal month throughout the year, on account of the cold which carries off a great number of persons advanced in years, or of debilitated constitutions ; but this cannot be attributed as the cause of the large increase during the last week, for the thermometer was never below 30. which prevail s d ur i ng t h at season. The It arose, probably, therefore, from the g r ea t in temperancest increase of d eat h s occurre d among with dise ases o f t h e l ungs, being personsgreaatffee eted not fewer than 50 over those of the preceding we ek. Intemperance might have been the cause of this to a certain extent; about the others there can be little doubt, as they were caused chiefly by intemperance, diseases of the brain, diseases of the stomach, and diseases of uncertain seat. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council resumed their sittings this morning- in the Coun cil Chamber, and continued the hearing of a cause from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, relative to the will of Mr. Peter Rainier, for merly of the Albany, in the city of Westminster, and involving property to a very large amount. Sir William Follett was heard for the respon dent. The cause is expected to occupy the whole of the day.. Several gentlemen connected with the Board of Trade attended on Sir Robert Peel this morn ing at his private residence. BANKRUPTCY—(THIS DAY.) • IN RE BLARE AND MAUNSELL. Thi s ( l a y was Es ,pcadiett • ter the choice of assignees under 1.110 tint against the bankrupts, who carried on ex tensive business as iron-founders. The Solicitor to the fiat said, since the bankrupt Blake had passed his last examination circumstances had tran spired by which he thought he should be able to establish a clear case of fraud against him, and if the information he received were true, he thought it was a matter which might be brought before a Criminal Court. The Learned Commissioisnx said the less said in the preliminary arrangement of matters like this the better. When the assignees were appointed a closer scrutiny could be entered upon. Charles Jones sought to prove for the sum of 1,470/. los. for goods sold and delivered. The official assignee said he had reason to believe that some of these goods had been supplied after the docket had been struck against the bankrupt. Several proofs having been established, and others deferred until after the appointment of assignees, Messrs. Swainson and Bane were chosen. INSOLVENT COURT.-THIS DAY. IN RE T. E. CAREW. At the sitting of the Court this morning, the case of Mr. Carew, the sculptor, was called on pursuant to ad journment, and the further hearing again adjourned to this day week, in consequence of the indisposition of the Learned Chief Commissioner, who has been suffer ing from illness for some days past. Mr. Carew appeared in Court, and the bail was enlarged to Saturday next. No other cause of interest appeared upon the paper for hearing, and the Court was occupied during the morn ing in disposing of trifling bail cases. LONDON QUARTER SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) These Sessions commenced to-day, before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Mr. Alderman Brown, Sir John Cowan, and Sir George Carrol. The Grand Jury having been sworn and addressed by the Recorder, the Court proceeded to try assault cases. W. Pollard, a city policeman, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with assaulting Edward Thorpe, and was ordered to enter into his own recognisances the sum of 201. to keep the peace for twelve months. John Edgar, Elijah West, and John Brand, were con victed :of assaulting Mr. Stone. Edgar was fined 55., West 10s.. and Brand Is. Alfred Biggins, a City policeman, was convicted of as saulting John Wood, and sentenced to one month's impri sonment and hard labour in Giltspur-street Compter. On Thursday Mr. Baker held no fewer than five inquests on persons who had died suddenly. The verdict in each case was " Natural death." SUMMARY OF NEWS AND publir Opinion. " Who runs may read." POILEIGN. The statement of the accounts of the Bank of France for the last quarter of 1841 (made up to 27th ult.), shows the following results :—Active—the Bank had then in hand, cash, 191,837,996 f. ; in discounts and loans, 170,147,567 E ; branch bank accounts, 34,485,873 f. ; rentes, public securities, and reserve fund, 64,182,098 francs ; credits and various items, 287,026 fr. ; total, 460,940,563 f. Passive—The amount of bank-notes circulated was 222,849,000 E ; notes to order, 835,7001'. ; accounts current, 149,216,494 f. ; capital and reserve, 81,900,000 f. • different items, 6,139,368 E The discounts, advances, and loans made during the quarter amounted to 273,266,342 f. ; movement of accounts current (pri vate), 2,161,919,515 E ; ditto (public), 215,906,166 f. Ge neral movement of the caisses, 2,686,309,721 f. The following gratifying intelligence for the ladies is from the Commerce of Thursday :—" Among the Mem bers of the Chamber of Deputies there are 271 married men, 60 bachelors, and 125 widowers." The Espectador of Madrid confirms the statement of M. Sancho having been appointed Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. The same journal mentions the following nominations of Charges d'Affaires as having taken place :—M. de Sandoval at Copenhagen ; M. de Potestad at Quito ; and M. Viniegra at Athens. Advioes from the frontiers of Turkey, in the Augsburgh Gazette, state, that the Albanian and Turkish troops have been again committing excesses against the Chris tian inhabitants of Bulgaria, and that great discontent prevails. A letter from Athens, 10th ult., in the Leipsic Gazette, says that the Greek Government, after taking cognizance of a note addressed to it by the Great Powers, has determined on indemnifying the Turkish claimants of confiscated lands and property. For the lands in Ne gropont (Euboan), a certain sum is to be paid down to the Porte ; and for those near Thebes the price of pur chase is to be paid to the former owners, together with a guarantee of interest at 8 per cent. uptil the final pay ment of all their claims, which is to take place within two years. Af. de Butanieff, Russian Envoy at Constantinople, ar rived at Frankfort a few days since, on his way to Paris. PUBLIC OPINION. The object of the principal leading article in the Morning Chronicle, is to show that the idea of restricting manufactures, as alluded to in a Tory journal of yester day, is not only absurd, but absolutely impossible ; and that Sir Robert Peel is far too shrewd a man of the world to dream of countenancing, even for a moment, any such preposterous and impracticable project. "We are told," adds the Chronicle, " that Sir R. Peel has a heart, which is what is always said by vulgar people, when they want to coax some one into doing something particularly foolish. We have no doubt that Sir R. Peel has a heart; and it is even more certain that he has a tongue. But he has also, indisputably, some brains ; and he has not quite the heart that would enable him, despite the warn ing which his brains would give him, to enter on so stu pendous a course of folly and wickedness, as that of li miting the use of machinery." The Times observes, in an article on the subject of machinery, its moral and economical effects, and capa bility of extension, that no Committee can add anything to our knowledge, beyond a few speculations of selected individuals ; and adds, " there is no difficulty as to the facts ; we do not doubt the readiness of the Government to accept the view taken of them by the Ten Hours' De putation. The difficulty is, how to deal with those facts, when ascertained." The Advertiser, alluding to the returns of Lord Stan ley and Sir James Graham from their visit to the Duke of Buckingham at Stowe, expresses its opinion that they have found his Grace as dogged and inexorable as ever ; for, had it been otherwise, the whole town would last night have rung with the intelligence. The Post, In an article suggested by Mr. Stevenson's last note on the question of the Right of Search, states that this gentleman's proceedings in sending an official despatch on so important a question, under circumstances which precluded an immediate reply to it, would fully justify a departure from established usage, and the pub lication of the reply, without waiting for the printing of it. The Herald contains an article on the Slave-trade, wherein our Contemporary remarks that we must either demonstrate to the doubting world that free labour, when the supply is equal to the demand, in the tropics, is superior to, and cheaper than slave labour, or we must in reality abandon• all but the immediate object of the Emancipation Act. IV;ON3IIr=TRADE-COMMERCE. Mr. Robert Smith, the teller of the Glasgow and Ship Bank, in that city, has been taken into custody on a charge of embezzlement to upwards of 2,0001. ; and with him also Mr. James Wishart, wine -merchant, who is supposed to have received from the former, cash to the amount of 6,0001. After examination before the Ma gistrates on Tuesday last, they were both committed to the North Prison to be further examined. The forty-second annual meeting of the Commercial Travellers' Society took place on Thursday, when it appeared from the report, that the Society had relieved 1,150 individuals since its commencement, and there at present remain on the fund 201 members. The Duke of Lucca has granted his assent to the for mation of a company for making a railroad between Lucca and Pisa, to be connected with that between Pisa and Leghorn, which is now carrying into execution. NAVAL AND MILITARY. An elegantly mounted sword was on Wednesday pro sented to Capt. Robert Peel, at Tainworth, by the yeo• manry of that county, as a mark of their esteem. LAW AND POLICE. At Greenwich Police Court, 111Set4e, the landlord of the Freemason's Arms, and Mr. Ward, of the Fish ing Smack, both in Old King-street, Deptford, were summoned by a police sergeant, for keeping their houses open after 12 o'clock on Sunday morning. In the first case all the customers, according to the in former, had left the house by a quarter past 12. The Magistrate, on hearing this, at once dismissed the charge, and dismissed the other case without hearing it. These police inspectors and sergeants are very suc cessful in rendering this new force utterly odious to the public. At Kensington, six boys, between the ages of 11 and 14, were brought before the Magistrate. charged with stealing five sovereigns, the property of Mr. Rhodes, of Newland-street. The prosecutor admitted that his ne phew had taken the money, but said the other prisoners were also concerned in it. Three of them were dis charged, and the nephew with the others were remanded to the New Prison till Tuesday. The boys, of course, will be greatly impoved in character and morals by this confinement in gaol. A gentleman applied to the sitting Magistrate at Marlborough-street yesterday for a summons against the Directors of the Birmingham Railway. It appeared that a hamper of game had been sent from the country addressed to him, and a clerk of the Company admitted that it had reached the station, but co u ld no t now b e found. As railway carriages did not come within the operation of the Act of Parliament, relative to carriers, the complainant was informed that he should apply to the Court of Conscience. Samuel Richardson, the incendiary, pleaded guilty on Tuesday last, to setting fire to Pantield farm, and was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The magnetic disturbances which Professor Airey observed at Greenwich on the 25th of September last, and an account of which then appeared in The Sun, appear to have been simultaneous on the same day and the 26th, at Canada, the East Indies, St. Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope, at which last place the disturbance was greatest. Amongst recent geological discoveries, the coal of the island of Borneo is found to be very superior, and the mineral most abundant. Pulo Cheremin, an island at the embouchure of the Borneo river, presents on its coast a naked surface of coal, and it is from the glisten appearance occasioned by this cause, that it has obtained its name, which means " Mirror Island." COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and the Ladies G. and R. Russell have arrived at Naples for Nice. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are expected shortly at Montagu House, in order to attend the Royal Christening. The Earl and Countess of Haddington arrived at the Admiralty last evening from Brighton. The Earl of Westmorland is, we understand, on the eve of returning to this country from Berlin, in order to settle the affairs of his father. _ . Among the recent fashi o nable arrivals at Hastings are the Earl and Countess of Eglinton. The Earl and Countess of Fortescue and Lord Ebring ton have returned to Castle Hill, Devon, from Brighton, DUSICELL.A.NMOUS. A second, or rather a further slip of the preceding, took place yesterday morning on the Croydon Railway; the fall of earth was great, and covered the rails on both sides, to a depth of nine feet. To-morrow is the anniversary of the death of William du Bellai, Lord of Langei, a French General, in the ser vice of Francis I. He was so able a negotiator, that the Emperor Charles used to say of him, that " Langei's pen had fought more against him than all the lances of France.' The death of Colonel Basset, Governor of the Mili tary Knights of Windsor, which occurred last Friday, l ea ves the office open for the appointment o f Sir James Graham. Captain Cummins is spoken of as his successor. Sir Samuel Hannay, for many ye ars i n t h e service of the Emperor of Austria, died in that capital on the Ist instant. _ The Royal twelfth cake sent down to Windsor Castle was beautifully ornamented with some of the more re markable scenes for which Donnybrook Fair has 'long been renowned. At Berlin the chief topic of conversation is the King of Prussia's visit to England. lie is to depart for this country on the 16th inst. - SUl ClDE.—Yesterday a respectable young woman, of the name of Elizabeth Anne Godselle, who resided in Orchard -street, Westminster, drowned herself in the River, near the Penitentiary. It appears she had kept company with a young man for the last fifteer months. She had given her consent to be married, and the banns had been publishei several weeks since, but the young man, all of a sudden, left her, and went to settle in Edinburgh without assigning any cause. From that time she has been observed to be very melancholy, She left her residence this morning early, and was fol lowed at a distance by an acquaintance who was anxious for her safety, but before her friend could reach her the unfortunate woman threw herself into the river, and was carried down with the stream. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CI7Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 7.—We have had a fair, steady business doing in Cotton throughout the week, and holders have offered their stocks in just sufficient quantity to satisfy the demand without pro ducing any material change in prices. The common qualities of American are rather scarce, and command the full quotations of last week. Brazil have been more in demand, but the buyer has had decidedly the advan tage. Speculators have taken 500 American, and 250 Surats, and exporters 200 American, and 100 Surats. The sales to-day are 5,000 bale's, all to the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 7.—The follow ing are the transactions reported at the close of the Stock Exchange:—Liverpool and Manchester, 198 • Half Shares, 92 ; London and Birmingham, 170 ; 321, ' Shares, 57 ; New Ditto, 27. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN, 47.—Our market to-day has.evinced a greater demand for various kinds of stock, with little offering for sale. THE FUNDS. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange this morning. Consols opened at 801 s for Money ; and 891 sellers for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 18 20 prem. ; Spanish Active Stock, 251 ; Por tuguese Fives, 32 4 1 - ; Ditto Threes, 19 + PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 65 London and Brighton 50 ...... 38* to 37H London and Blackwall London and Birmingham 9O — Ditto New .. 2 ...... 284* London and South Western 3 B ll sB* to Midland Counties ... 100 Ditto * Shares South Eastern and Dover HALF PAST ONE. There has been but little business doing in the Stock to-day. Consols are now quoted at 89+ for the Account, and the same for Money, ex.-div.; Bank Stock, 167 168 ;- Spanish Active Stock has receded to 25 ; Danish Bonds are quoted at 814 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51; Ditto Fives, 1004. The Share Market is flat and heavy, with but little business doing. London and Brighton are now quoted at 37i ; London and Blackwall, ; London and South Western, 58+ ; South Eastern and Dover, 22. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols for Money . tind the ACCount, 89f ; Colom bian, 211 221 ; Mexican, 29+ ; Spanish, 25- 4 1 . QUARTER TO THREE. It is believed that bad the Bank of England's state ment been made up to the present time, its stock of bullion would look better than it does, though now ex hibiting alincrease. Some of the Sycee silver will doubt less swell the stock of the Corporation ; but, on the other hand, the public annuitants, who have not their thousands to receive usually prefer the "siller," and this may ease the Corporatian of a little of the " ready." All things considered, the Bank of England is in as safe a position as for some time past, and it is to be hoped will not have occasion to continue the contraction of its circulation, as such a course must check the improvement expected in our trade. There is, we believe, no fear at present of renewed speculations in foreign corn to any serious extent, and our mercantile interests are exercising the utmost caution in their operations. There is, in fact, nothing bearing the least semblance of overtrading at present, and the symptoms of improvement noticeable in the London pro duce and the Liverpool Cotton Market this week, we have every reason to suppose are based upon legitimate and not speculative purchases. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There was a moderate supply of Meat ; the demand was good, and prices as follow :—Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 2d, ; Veal, 4s. to ss. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. per stone. Game and Poultry were in good supply, and the demand was lively at our last quota tions. Eggs dull of sale at previous rates. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The trade was pretty good, except for Mutton; Veal dearer; in other things there was little alteration. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton, 2s. 4d. to 4s. ; Veal, 3s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. 4d. Clover, 2/. 10s. to 5/. Bs. ; Hay, 21. to 4L 6s. ; Straw, IL 10s. to 1L 14s. TEA MARKET. There was but a limited business transacted, hold ers not being disposed to submit to any further reduc tion. Company's Congou could not be obtained under ls. 9id. cash. The 'lowest rate for Free Trade was is. 9d. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. " xrTi: Prices keep up, with a fair demand. P.Y.C.' On' Abe' spot 48s. 61, and for delivery 495. per cwt. : OIL MARKET. :f (fn :- Fish Oils in good demand for home consumption, and prices firm. Pak Seal 421. 105.., and Cod 301. 10s. per tun. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum in better request, and prices firmer. Proof Lee. wards Is. 10d. to Is. Ild. per gallon. Brandy held firmly, and the demand improving. Corn Spirits dull of sale. WOOL MARKET. The demand was good for both English and Foreign, and very full prices were paid. METAL MARKET. A good demand for Spelter, and prices firm; 381. los. to 391. paid for parcels on the spot. Iron sold steadily at firm rates. Lead firm, and wanted. LLO YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. B.—Wind this day at noon S.W. STANGATE CREEK, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Burrells, Taganrog. DEAL, JAN. 7.—Wind A.M., N.N.E., fresh breeze ; moderate.—Arrd. from the River, and sld., Louisa, Campbell, New Zealand ; Royal Tar. Cape ; David Luckie, Demerara ; Nautilus, St. Lucia ; St. Barbara, and J. Clifton, Constantinople. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 7.—Wind S.E.— Sld. Ciro, Wm. Russell, and Romance, Pernambuco •, Clyde, Bombay ; Lawsons, Buenos Ayres ; Aylesford, Monte Video ; Young Queen, Rio; Asia, and Countess Loudon,:Mobile ; Sarah, Philadelphia ; Sarah, Virginia ; Avon, Savan nah ; St. Mark, New York ; Lava, Syra ; Catherine, Genoa ; May, and Berkeley, Africa. TORBAY, JAN. 6.—A schooner sunk by the head, painted black, with a red mould, on the stern the hlam burgh Castle, with a star on each side, was passed 3d inst., the Deadman bearing N.W. about ten miles.— Mem. The Juliane, from Jersey to Gibraltar, was aban doned 3d inst. five leagues W. of the Eddystone. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Johanna Cornelia, Batavia, Amsterdam. Sld. Thos. Coutts, China. FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind E. to N.E.—Arrd. War saw, Charleston for Havre. The Royal William steamer; from Dublin to London, and the Mary Ann and Martha, from Southton to Cardiff, got in contact this evening ofi the Lizard, when the latter went down, crew saved ; the stern and cutwater of the former is much damaged. ST. IVES, JAN. 6.—Sld. Cornish Diamond, Gazelle, and John Pearce, Leghorn. BRISTOL, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Eliza, Newfoundland. _ CLYDE, JAN. 6.—Sld. Grecian, Bombay; Howland, Rio. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind N.E., fresh breeze.— Arrd. Charlotte, Bruman, Monte Video for Antwerp, sailed Oct. 9 ; Horn, Smith, Honduras, with loss of boat, and other damage, during a heavy gale at River Roman latter end of October. Sld. H.M.S. Thalia, China. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Surprise, Newfoundland. KINGSTOWN, JAN. 6.—Arrd. Aurora, Liverpool for Plymouth, brought in by mate of H.M. steamer Urgent. SHEERNESS, JAN. 7.—The Saltrim, from London to Plymouth, is ashore on the Nore Sand, but expected off. LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING. M ANCHESTE R, FRIDAY.—DERBY. -15 to 2 agst Attila, 10 to 1 agst Chatham, 30 to 1 ag st Lord of Holderne ss , 40 to 1 agst Meteor, 35 to 1 agst Auckland (ta), 50. to 1 agst Seahorse, 50 to 1 agst Artful D od g er. CHESTER Cur.-4 to 1 agst Scott's lot, and 12 to lon the field agst two. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize Week Name of Railway. Miles Total. ended Opened. Z. a. d. Jan. 1 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 384 1,195 511 Dec.3l Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,485 6 3 25 Brandling Junction 25 606 1 7 Jan. 1 Chester and Birkenhead .. 2 Dundee and Arbroath 2 Eastern -Counties 1 Glasgow and Ayr . ..... ••••••• 40 1,118 4 11 1 Glasgow, Paisley, .& Greeno , k 22i 789 1 ö . Grand J unet., Chester &Crewe 1034 No returns 1 Groat North of England 2 Great Western 1 Hull and Selby 1 Lancaster & Preston Junction 20a 449 2 9, Dec.3l Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,129 19 0 Jan. 1 London and Birmingham ll4 11,716 19 7 6 London and Blackwall ..... 1 London and Brighton 1 Ditto Shoreham Branch .... 5 4 116 '2 7 4 London and Croydon 6 London and Gre enwich 34 799 1 5 1 London and South Western Dec.3o Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 592 13 9 Jan. 3 Manchester & Birmingham 1 Manchester and Leeds 1 Midland Counties 57 2,111 14 4f 1 Newcastle and Carlisle 6of 1,356 18 10 2 Northern and Eastern ... .. . 1 North Midland .. North Union 1 Preston and Wyre 3 Sheffield and Manchester....„ 7 442 1 3 2 Ulster 2 York and North Midland 23 1,339 14 9 HASTINGS UNION.—At the last sitting of Hastings M ag i s trates a man name d J ames Cloake, late relieving officer of the No. 2 District of the Hastings Union, was charged with defrauding the Guardians of several sums of money, by withholding it from the pau pers and charging it in his account as paid. There were four charges against the defendant, rendering him liable to penalty of 201. for each offence. It appeared - from the evidence that the defendant had carried on an extensive system of depredation on the unfortunate paupers to whom he was directed to affbrd relief. The Guardians had selected four cases for prosecution out of a great num ber which had been discovered, and evidence was taken which left no doubt as to the prisoner's guilt. He had nothing to say in answer to the charges, and the Magis trates, after censuring him severely for his conduct, con victed him in the full penalty of 201. on each charge, or three months' hard labour. The defendant, who said he had no means of paying the fine, was then committed to Lewes House of Correction for twelve months. _ _ Major Shaw has quitted the police force of this borough, having been appointed to a situation in the police of the City of London, under Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey.—Birmingham Advertiser. EVENING SUN FINE ARTS. POLISH GEMS. Our attention has been drawn to a valuable collection of Medallions, amounting to upwards of twelve hundred, all of them more or less an tique, which were for many years in the posses sion of the Kings of Poland, who kept gradually adding to their number during successive reigns —especially the Prince Poniatowski, a sovereign passionately- fond of the Fine Arts, who made such additions to the collection, that at length he could boast of possessing the most splendid and extensive cabinet- of Gems in Europe. On his death, this cabinet luckily escaping the grasP of Russia, found its way to England, and was purchased at a great cost, by a gentleman named Tyrrell, who has now for some time been engage d in the arduous task of giving proof impressions of them, which preserve with the utmost fidelity all the delineations and expression of the origi nals. A box containing five drawers filled with these impresssions is now lying on our table' we have carefully compared them with the Gen' s from which they are taken, and have been asto nished and delighted with their uncommon ac t '" racy, even in matters of the minutest detail. i Nothing but the most unwearied diligence, coin' blued with the most exquisite delicacy of touch/ could have enabled the artist to convey so Pe" fect a transcript of the original Medallions. Th e subjects embrace many of the most itnportali t and curious particulars of th e G r ecian and 'R°' man mythology—the achievements and adven tures of the celebrated personages recorded In fabulous and heroic history--and some of the best episodes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the 2Eneid. Thus recommended, we can conceive no • works of art better calculated to make•their im mediate way with the public ; to inculcate prin ciples of purer or more refined . taste; or to jai' part more various entertainment and instritet l 9 J a to a larger class of the community. To the ter and sculptor they will afford suggestions the highest value; the explorer of the myth°' logical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome will find that they help to throw light upon more than one doubtfal point; and the poet will be delighted with the inimitable forms of grace and beauty which _they spread out in lavish profusion before his eyes. %deed they may be said t° offer such a rare intellectual banquet as none can turn aside from with indifference, but those who are dead to all the finer instincts of our nature. Restricted, as the Medallions necessarily are, in point of dimension, it is singular with what 1101 ", form correctness the proportions of the huma n figure are maintained throughout them. T ile most fastidious anatomist can find nothing to nu' ject to in their treatment of the male and fett ol „ e form. Symmetrical arrangement is never for t/ ;. instant lost sight of. The truth of nature is nev e r once sacrificed to effect. All is in perfect kee,... l r -Y . ' ing ; and as for the grouping in some of the rn 0 . 41 "; crowded Medallions, never have we seen Sill thing to equal its chaste, classic beauty. ita t ',(l! then the forms of female loveliness that are Pr e ' sented to our gaze! The bounding,wood nyi l P ll9 ' who seem to move with so light and airy a stem' as scarcely to crush the flowers whereon they tread! The incomparable Venus Anadyornege rising in all the glowing freshness of youth a o ' health, and bearing evidences of the divinity ma tiie serene and lofty expression of her matellie'_ s , countenance ! Well may Canova have studie d these Medallions, in order to gather hints Kr his delineations of the f e m a l e f orm • „ I ,: e t has turned them to exce ll ent account , 7 e his imitations are i n no one insta°'-a equal to the original designs. We proce e to notice a few of the more remarkable Ge °l6 .„; No. 31, " Ganymede presenting a Cup of Nee r to the Eagle of Jupiter" merits special praisel ° ,. the exquisite manner in which the royal bird 0' Jove is finished off. The plumage, in particular; has all the light, feathery look of nature, wi thout one particle of hardness or stiffness. No. 44, "Jupiter asa is ß a u s l lf,nelrionsfsienxgptrheessSinena w i t h Europ back,"on his : will admit of. The an i ma l seems proud l fair burden, and scours across the wave at a Pr °- digious late, while Europa is, apparently, quit e resigned to his guidance. Her figure teems with youthful grace and flexibility of limb, and he r face has a true feminine delicacy of outline. P 1 0; 51, "Jupiter, in order to obtain the &yours °' • /Egina, changes himself into a flame of fire"- -i° this Gem the chief beauty consists in the figure ° f iEgina, who is running away from the e mbrace s of the combustible Deity, developing, in h er movements, the full, harmonious proportil of her rounded and agile form. Her h a averted face turned back in alarm on the P ilf t : suing God, is pourtrayed with consummate taie ti to No. 70, " Juno confiding the infant Mar' Priapus to educate," is a perfect study, so far 3 , 1 the grouping of the characters is concerned, an might be consulted with advantage by some of °ti o more ambitious modern artists,who think that Inc showy, meretricious colouring, unaccompar li with other requisites, will suffice to constitute the painter. No. 75, " The Cyclops presenting t h , e trident to Neptune," is one of the boldest a'', most vigorously-executed of the Gems. The 3 : titude of the giant, who is leaning forward 0° ledge of rocks, is replete with spirit, and' e ve g randeur; and there i s muc h f orce an d graee , who the figures of the pl ung i ng w i nge d h orses , w 1 are drawing the car o f t h e Ocean-Deity. i, 94, " Head of Pluto," has just the stern, ineO ti r able, gloomy ex p ress i on, w hi ch the ancient ",,re, assigned to the coun t enance o f t hi s God. 'a, " Pluto carryi ng o ff P roserp i ne i n a co d driga," co n t a i ns a remar k a bl y sp i r i te d gro uP .e , horses, the variety of whose attitudes will str i he every one who has the slight es t re li s h for the niceties of design. The subje c t i s cone eivea l p , the most poetic spirit, and the vigOur and ati ii _ N - 11( 0 , Lion of life breathe throughout the sketch. ' I . 11, " Atys changed to a Pine Tree"—this I ‘ - " e s ; dallion represents the act of transformatiodas. l % t commenced ; and the face of the victim, j og peering above the lower branches of the tr ee ii ,:g wears an appropriate look of horror and be vi o . derment. Near him, with her head resting a a small detached fragment of a rock, is s een n a slumbering female, whose relaxed muscles , right arm drooping heavily along her side, 5 ", , how profound is her state of repose. S es t i e i r . " A Titan destroyed by Jupiter with a Tim' d ie bolt"—the boldness and vigour of execution The played in this design is truly astonishing' rre_ . vanquished giant is writhing beneath the 1 sistible power of the bolt which has hurled hi m ;' to earth, and in his rage and madnes s i s ended" vouring to launch a huge rock at the Deity wll O ,- ; has thus coerced him. The convulsed workinX of his massive limbs, whose muscles are twisted and knotted, like so many snakes, convey a pro digious idea of physical capability, No. 16 9 1 " Tityus in Torture"—the expression of extrem e agony is forcibly depicted in this Gem, Whiet t represents the giant chained to a precipice, head flung back, and two ravenous vultUr'; pecking at his heart, which—according to t he old legend —grew again as fast as it was devoured'',; The countenance of Tityus looks quite and distorted from the intensity of his sufferinfx: No. 66, " A Head of Jupiter"—there is 40 alt of august dignity and repose in this • d' tii° countenance, which will instantly retain • , f reader of an emphatic passage in one 0 finest hymns of Callimachus.-- , -Such is -a brief, swollettJ. hurried notice of some of the Gems that /it" Series he most i strucks one e t u h i t ! o , s at in i ssu thisre to ni g a n t e t attract eaetttieonnt*i , only from the magic power of assoc iati o n who is . there that has not , at one perio d or v ibe s of his life, been charmed with the gloil oU ds an a d nd h poetic who 1: iy t will o g n i c o a t l delight s old Gre l e e c g e en ? find these, perhaps half - forgott en idealisms/ re v i v ed in all their freshness and b eaut y in I° , mind, by their embodiment in t his most aurae tive of all forms ? When the professional a ir ties of the day are at an end, a nd the overtaslced mind feels the necessity of some fitting rela/ I _,. t i on , which while it furnishes the means ° amu sement, is at the same time suggestive oft instructive hints, we can conceive 1 pleasure—and in this, people of all , professions may -take part with- equal zest-4" on to pore over such a cabinet of ciepo thelo greater r ades a " ----_. 11() \v be Certain" the F a ' or ro rn ti Pr rnit, ) rlsid e ticions r ~, ~. x::