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MORNING SUN Just ready, in 3 vols. 9vo, HENRY DE POMEROY. A ROMANCE, By MRS. BRAY. Author of " Whitehoods," " Trelawney," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. NEW NOVEL by the AUTHORESS of TEMPTATION . Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo , THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES A NOVEL. By the Authoress of " Temptation." Henry Colbura, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, JAN. 19, Will be performed the Tragedy of THE GAMESTER. — Beverley, Mr. Macready ; Lewsen, Mr. Anderson ; Jervis, Mr. Elton ; Bates, Mr. G. Bennett ; Stukeley, Mr. Phelps ; Mrs. Beverley, Mrs. Warner; Charlotte, Miss Ellis. After which will be repeated the New Christmas Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND DUKE HUMPHREY'S DIN NER ; OR, JACK CADE, THE LORD OF LONDON STONE. Doors TA. be opened at Half. past Six, and the Performance to begin et Seven o'clock. Boxes 55.. Second Price, r 6 i d„ ce, Second Price Pit 35., Second Price :b. Lower Gallery is Wee Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. To-morrow, The Merchant of Venice, and the Pantomime. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, JAN. 19, Will be revived Mrs. Inchbald's Comedy of WIVES AS THEY WERE AND MAIDS AS THEY ARE.—Lord Priory, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir William Dorilion ' Mr. Cooper ; Sir George Evelyn, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Mr. Bronzely, Mr. Charles Mathews; Miss Dorrillon, Mrs. Nisbett ; Lady Mary Raffle, Mrs. Glover ; Lady Priory, Miss Faucit. After which will be repeated the New Grand Chr stmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, ,SARLEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to eommence at Seven. Dress Boxer, 71. ; 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 Fear, where Season Tickets may be bad upon application. Private Boxes to be had soiely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 157, New Bond-street. To-morrow, Norma, with the New Pantomime. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Harlequin and the Ice Queen, the acknowledged best Panto mime of the Season ; 50,000 persons have already witnessed and applauded it to the echo. THIS EVENING, JAN. 19, Will be repeated — Haines' New Drama, entitled ELIZA BETH LAZARUS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." Everything New. After which, A SALT-WATER YARN. 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 ming, &c. Harlequin, M. Huline ; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Enormous success of " Geraldine !" another new and affecting Domestic Drama, for which this Theatre is so widely and so eminently distinguished. THIS EVENING, JAN. 19, Will be performed, a New Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled THE STORY OF GERA.LDINE ; OR, THE TWIN ORPHANS OF ST. PRE.—Henri, Mr. E. F. Sa ville; Huntingdon, Mr. Dale ; Claud, Mr. Seaman ; Jemmy Cottle, Mr. Gardner ; Davy, Mr. Paul; Geraldine, Miss Vin cent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a New Grand Romantic Aerial Comic Pan toraime, 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. To conclude with THE LOTTERY TlCKET.—Worm wood, Mr. Gardner ; Capias, Mr. James ; Charles, Mr. Sea man ; Susan, Mrs. Howard. B.r;xes, 28.—Pit, le. —Gallery , 6d.—Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-put Eight. To-morrow, Geraldine, Harlequin Peter Wilkins, and The Lottery Ticket. NEW STRAND THEATRE. OPEN EVERY EVENING. Brilliant Success—More Novelties—Extraordinary attraction. First appearance of the British Cup Bell Ringers, four in number, who perform the most delightful music on Sixteen Bells of peculiar construction. MR. JACOBS, the ROYAL VENTRILOQUIST and GREAT MAGICIAN, will thin week surpass all his former dons, by the New Feats he purposes introducing. His Ne cromancy deceives even the most acute vision ; and wonderful, truly wonderful, are the wcrds used by all beholders. His Ven triloquism is unequalled; and his imitation of twelve persons the greatest novelty of the day. To which are added :—The Classical Groutinge . of the-THREE PATAGONIAN WON DERS—The- Comic Dance of the UNITED SERVICE CLUB—And Mona. ROSSEAU, the Celebrated FRENCH EQUILIBRLST 1• Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Boxes, 2s. 6d. • Children, Is. 6d. Pit, Is. 641. ; Children, Is. Gal lery, 6‘. Clo-e .Ten, Minutes to Eleven. COSMORAMA ROOMS (ROOM 7), 209, REGENT STREET, THE IVORY MODEL OF THE TAGE MURAL, . . _ or Crown of Edifices, at AGRA, in the East Indies. " There is at present an Exhibition at 209, Regent-street, u elaborate a Model as was ever perhaps presented to pub lic view. It is a copy, in ivory, of the celebrated 'rage Mahal, one of the most remarkable edifices in modern Agra, erected in 1650 by Khan Shah Jehatt, the fifth Great Mogul, as the cemetery of his favourite wife, Sultana Mehd Aliya. This mausoleum is built entirely of white marble, an i some i dea may be formed of its splendour, when it is stated to have cost in its erection 60 lees of rupees, or 75C,0001 The Model occupies a space of nine square feet, and its height is six feet. It is the work of Indian artists, and while in point of extent it is unmatchable, it is also one of the finest specimens of that minuteness of detail and delicate manipulation for which Indian ivory working is so noted. The amount of labour bestowed on this model must have been immense. It is not the hasty pro duct of a day,' but the result of many years' patient applica tion. All the multitudinous carvings and inlayings of the ori ginal building are expressed in the copy with every appearance of exactness ; nor is the resemblance limited to the outside alone: tho interior is also finished in the same minute style, and contains the tombs of the Shah and his Consort, exqui sitely and elaborately worked. On the whole, this model pre sents a surprising and beautiful effect, and forms one of the most interesting exhibitions in the metropolis. "-_Morn. Chron. Open ,from Ten to Six o'clock. Admission, Is. Book, 6d. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHING, PRICE SIXPENCE. TB E CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Jan. 19, 1842. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Review of Mr. Maillard's book on Texas was writ ten subsequent to a careful perusal of it, by a gentle man wholly unacquainted with the writer's disputes with any party relative to that country. His opinion of it remains unaltered. We cannot, therefore ad mit any controversy in our columns on the subject. _ THE WEATHER.—Noox, JANUARY 18. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 22 i Highest 3B j Lowest 24 Barometer 3002..—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Writing ;0..12 minutes after 6 I Evening 30 minutes aftcr fti LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1842. In the domestic history of a great commercial people, the laying of the first stone of a mercan tile edifice, which will form the centre of the commercial world, is an event worthy of joyous commemoration; and it therefore affords us plea sure to be able to refer to the dinner at the Mansion-house on Monday, at which the Consor t of our beloved Sovereign, the Cabinet Ministers, several of the clergy, and the civic dignitaries were present, to show how very generally such an opinion pervades the public mind of England. The enthusiasm manifested by all classes on the occasion of laying the first stone of our new Royal Exchange, was a genuine tribute of re spect paid to the spirit of British commerce. Many guests at the Mansion-house dinner, no doubt, thought only of the presence of an illus. frious Prince, who is daily more and more endearing himself to th e people of his adopted country ; some others went there impelled by an appetite for turtle-soup and cham pagne i but the majo r ity of the guests, lay and clerical, s ought . only t o con nect their names with the foundation of au edi fice sacred , to the principles of a free commercial intercourse with all the nations on the face of the earth. Whatever the landholders may say, they have here an indication of the avidity with which the Throne and the Altar cling to the ad- vantages of peaceful commerce. They may, if they A 4 .please, call the Royal Exchange the Temple of ) .. _ . 2 , folatititut we. challenge them to point out a f any other character, at ivhic . h there _ 54, ' was a greater concourse of Tory Cabinet more abinet dis Minis ters,tin.. or at which a Tory guished himself than did the Not ßig but tutthatßev. wDie.. B LOMFIEL D on this occasion. highly ap p r ove of the conduct of the Cabinet, and his Prelatical Lordship of London. Com merce is the soul of Great Britain, and whatever contributes to elevate its character at home, and to extend its ramifications abroad, claims the countenance and support of the Government, the clergy, and the people of this country. The new Royal Exchange is an emblem of free trade—of the advantages which nations derive from extended commercial intercourse. No blood-stained trophies are destined to defile its walls; and its thronged halls will attest the progress of civilization in every part of the world to which its ramifications may extend. Of the speeches delivered at the dinner, the best we can say is that they all breathed an earnest desire for the continuance of peace. The Duke of WELLINGTON acknowledged that 'he had seen enough of war, and trusted that the sword would never again be drawn in his day. We cordially reciprocate this wish, which we are well assured is the wish of every honest man in this country. Lord Mayor's dinners are so proverbial for sumptuousness that no room is left for any comment on yes terday's entertainment at the Mansion-house, save that the Chief Magistrate, despite his party politics, conducted himself with a degree of ur banity towards all his guests, and with a kind ness towards the public Press throughout, which cannot but add to the admiration universally en tertained of his Lordship's excellent private cha racter. It was properly and forcibly represented by Mr. SMITH, in pleading against CHARLES SOUTH WELL, at Bristol, that religion is the great re straint on human passions on which society de pended for its security. Hence the State establishes and pays a public body of clergymen. This opinion is very generally promulgated by the landlords, and by all those who, enjoying the advantages of positive institutions, rely on laws enforced by religion for safety and protection. Whatever weakens its power over the mind is, therefore, severely condemned ; and to punish Mr. SOIAHWELL for putting forth writings ac cused of producing that effect, was the object of prosecuting him. We must, on this account, call attention to a passage in the speech of a Dr. TAYLOR, delivered at the Edinburgh Conference, as an illustration of the effects of the Corn-laws in weakening the influence of religion on the mind. That they keep grown up people from church, and children from school, on account of the wretched poverty they induce, has been proved at every meeting at which the condition tof the people has been described. That they, therefore, deprive the young of education, and the mature of religious admonition, is one of their most certain effects. But, besides this, they are in their own nature so contrary to the precepts of religion, that religious teachers find it ex tremely difficult to enforce the doctrines of re ligion without attacking the authority- of law. Dr. TAYLOR said, and we have no doubt that si milar observations must have occurred to a great number of those whose ministration lies with the poor— That the privations of the lower classes, and suffer ings, tend to harden their minds against religious im pressions was so fully his conviction, that he declared he felt himself very much hampered and fettered in his attempts to inculcate doctrinal and practical Christian ity on his people. A few details would best illustrate the point. A minister surely did not go beyond the range of his commissio n w h en h e en j o i ne d contentment; but he felt that at present he could not do so without at first attempting to demulce their spirits, as Baxter ex presses it, by a clumsy and awkward, and, in other cir cumstances most unseasonable preface, setting forth what contentment does not imply—thereby very likely commencing a train of reflections and awakening emo tions which he feared might go far to nullify the sub. sequent exhortation. When speaking of the bounty of divine Providence in satisfying the wants of everything that lives, he had felt constrained to say that the des titution many of them were experiencing proceeded from laws enacted not by God but by man, and rect contravention of the divine law; and thui,'initead of 1 calling forth gratitude to the Deity, there . was' thinger of exciting resentment against a portiOn'of their fell w-` creatures, an effect exceedingly to be deprecated, but still necessary to be chosen as the least of evils ; for, at all hazards and at all costs, the government of God must be cleared from imputation and suspicion.— (Cheers.) He had felt restrained, when conducting public worship, from, in so many words, blessing God for filling our hearts with food and gladness, lest, instead of exciting feelings of devotion towards the Giver of all Good, it might only kindle indignation against those who intercept his bounti es , an d are regardd by many of the people as being to them the auth ors o f a ll ev il. Again,. he, for on e , hed that the ordinances of religion are, -by the appointment of its Founder, to be main tained by the contributions of those who enjoy them— that it is the part of Christianity that he who is taught in the word should communicate to him that teacheth in all go'od things. But how could one inculcate this on people in such circumstances as we have been hearing of ? Might they not reply, " That law of Christ has been, for the present, practically abrogated, in our case, by a law of the British Legislature ? The Corn-laws have, in the meantime, suspended that ordinance of the Savour, as fir as we are concerned. We have no good things, in which to communicate, and therefore the passage does not apply to us?" Or how can we at present call on them to honour the Lord with their substance by contributing to the cause of missions, when it is manifest that, though their circumstances were vastly better than they are, they might at once cut us short by quoting the Scrip tures, " If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he !lath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." Nay, though there is clearly no proper connection between a scarcity of the bread that perisheth and the free and pressing offers of that which endureth unto everlasting life, yet the mere juxta position of the two will, in some minds, augment their aversion to the latter. Just picture to yourselves a family in want—the unemployed head of it, with his wife and children, sitting shivering around, not the fire, but the place where a fire should have been, enduring the cravings of hunger, and well nigh maddened by oppres sion—conceive a minister, in these circumstances, enter ing the dwelling to urge them to seek the salvation of the soul us the one thing needful, and who that has any acquaintance with human nature, or any sympathy with its kind, will not see that he must feel embarrassed and impeded in the discharge of the appropriate duty of his office ? - So the "ministers of religion cannot preach the hope, of .salvation,to those who are enduring the cravings , a, , hunger; they cannot - call on their congregationsv-to bless' GOD for his goodness, lest, by contrast,' - they excite anger against men; and they cannot inculcate contentment under the dispensations of Providence without the risk of exciting re volt against human authority. Those ministers practically and daily feel that the pfe• cepts of religion and the law of the land are at va riance, and at length they have been driven pub licly to take a part, and at " all hazards and at all costs," as Dr. TAYLOR says, " to clear the government of GOD from imputation and suspi-- cion." We are bound, as the Conference is as sailed by our Tory ContemporarieS with much' ribaldry, to express our cordial aPproi , al of its doctrines, and to assert that those who yin dicate, as it has done, the authority of, reli gion, render to society, on the principle of their opponents, the most essential service. The mo.. nopolists maintain that if the authority of rell ° ts ion be destroyed, society will be endangered and that can only be preserved by getting rid 01 unjust laws, which contravene it, and bring, at one and the same time, the authority of law and religion into disrepute. We are bound also to vindicate these gentlemen from the censure of our Tory Contemporaries. The Times calls on the LORD ADVOCATE to pro secute them, because the Rev. Mr. MARSHALL asked—were such laws as the Corn-laws to be obeyed? The Post, with brutality commensurate to its fear, declares that they ought to be whipped at the cart's-tail. Those who, by means of the laws, would punish men for dif fering from them in opinion, would be assassins if they were not also cowards. It is not new in the history of Scotland that the beloved minis ters of the people are subjected to contumely by the minions of faction ; but it will be some thing new it such insults and injuries as those heaped on the people and their ministers by the Tory press do not fire their blood, and make them ten-fold more zealous and more vehement in denouncing the irreligious laws against which they have now tak , 4l their stand. Those ministers have emphatically declared that the Corn -laws are an unrighteous robbery; that they are a national sin ; and they have asked, Ought such laws to be obeyed ? This is their - offence. They did not give the answer• We will boldly say, that ldWs of that description ought not to be obeyed. They ought never to be enacted. We have said as much before. We have already put the case of another HEROD orderipg the assassination of infants, which order men would be justified in resisting. The .minis ters of religion in Scotland call the Corn-law a national sin---a monstrous iniquity; it is, therefore, an action of the same species in their estima tion, but, perhaps, not quite so atrocious, as the law of HEROD; and they would not be consist ent if they did not conclude that it is a crime to obey such a law, if it be possible successfully to resist it. It is useless for the Tories to rave about se dition, and men having too much liberty. The really seditious persons are the men who make iniquitous laws; those who have too much liberty are the law-makers. Their despotism can only be met by an assertion of liberty on the part of those who think it wrong to be bound by their decrees. For them is claimed the power not only of making laws, but of de ciding on the propriety of: obedience. But the claim cannot be realized. It is impossible to deprive men of their right and power to decide for themselves, if they will take the consequences whether or not they will obey a law. That cir cumstance cannot be altered ; and if the Anti- Corn-law men were able to resist the Pro-Corn law men, they would be justified in doing it to morrow. " The justice," says Paley, " of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other. But who shall judge of this? We answer every man for himself. In con tentions between the Sovereign and the subject, the parties acknowledge no common arbitrator, and it would be absurd to refer the decision to those whose own inte rest, authority, andfate are immediately concerned in it." It is one of the worst consequences of the Corn-laws that they provoke inquiries into the duty of political obedience—into the right of property—into the authority of the law, as con tradistinguished from the authority of religion, at a time when the people are almost maddened by hunger and despair. From such investiga tions no danger can arise, when people are pros-. perous and well fed ; but now to provoke them by threats, insults, and injuries, is full of danger to the commonwealth. On their heads be the guilt who maintain the law which withholds food from the people, and assert for the law givers a power to make such laws unquestioned and unresistcd. The laying of the first stone of the New Royal Exchange excites, by a comparison with the past, some little regret for a very marked alteration in the relative position of the citizens. Queen ELIZABETH was received and entertained by Sir THOMAS GRESHAM; Prince ALBERT was received and entertained by Mr. Alderman PIRIE, who, though an estimable man, has not earned for himself a niche in history. So far as the building is concerned, Sir THOMAS seems to have been represented by Mr. LAM BERT JONES, and he is a gentleman even less known to fame than Mr. Alderman PIRIE. " The Queen's Merchant," as Sir THOMAS was called, was, in his time, perhaps a greater man than ROTHSCHILD and BARING united. We are told that he at one time so operated on the exchanges on Antwerp, that he saved his Sove reign vast sums of money. On another occa sion he managed, by his extensive commercial correspondence, to exhaust the tills of all the merchants of Genoa, and lay up in idleness for a whole season, because funds could not be ob tained to equip it, an armament that was to be directed against. England. Mr. Alderman PIRIE'S services to the State are limited to a few adjudi cations on the Bench, and those of Mr. LAMBERT JONES are better known to the Corporation than to the public. Though some of our princely merchants, who may be compared to Sir THOMAS, took part in the festival, they dishonour the City by standing aloof from alt civic dignities. To that, perhaps, we may attribute the alisence of every other ora tion on the - memorable occasion than the Chap lain's prayer, which, besides being tinged with the superstition so profitable to the clergy that GOD can bd bribed by men giving him their sub stance, was not sufficient to commemorate such an important event. Neither the LORD MAYOR nor Mr. JONES was competent, we presume, though it could have been admirably done by Mr. JONES LLOYD, to pronounce an appropriate discourse on the immense advantages of com merce, to which the City of London was about to erect a temple. For the honour of their call ing, the princely merchants and princely bankers of the metropolis ought, like Sir THOMAS GRES HAM to share the duties and the honours, of the Corporation, and if possible restore it to its . an- cien t dignity. It may be useful also to notice that the leading idea of the ceremony, performed by the father of our future Kings, himself all but a King, assisted by great statesmen, is that of political power protecting and honouring traffic. It was ex pressed by the Chaplain in the first sentence of his prayer, when he spoke of the ALMIGHTY, whose vicegerents on earth Kings are, " having raised up great cities, until their merchants and traffickers are the honourable of the earth." It was reproduced when Sir R. PEEL, the First Mi nister of the Crown, referred to that foundation stone as " the centre of attraction to which the commerce of the world will gravitate." It was re-echoed, when the journals of the day de scribed it as "inaugurating with fitting honours the spot where the greatest merchants of the greatest city of the greatest trading people ever known, are to congregate for time to come." It was the professed homage of all the instruments and organs of political power in the State to the huxtering and bartering of humble tradesmen. So considered, too high honour, in return, cannot be rendered to the Royal Prince, to the dignified statesmen. and to the bishops and clergy gene rally, enriched by traffic, who, by their presence, acknowledged their duty to protect and foster, in accordance with justice, the meanest industry of the people. But the statesmen and the clergymen, who by their presence, acknowledged their obligations io traffic, must either have been the most ignorant or the most unfeeling men alive, if they could witness the ceremony without sorrow, shame, and remorse. The Chaplain spoke of " God having prospered our commerce ;" the yeports, which..we . yesterday published of the state of trade in Scotland, and which we have of late frequently published, of the lamentable con dition of a great Portion of industrious England, Convict the Chaplain of an error, or the deposi taries of political power of a crime. Commerce is- - Ro..now, prospering. From all sides, we have the most, deplorable accounts of distress. Traffic is only the exchange of the- surplus products of induStry, - a:nd can only increase as they increase. BUt the "statesmen who then honoured traffic are the patrons of -restrictions which limit and cur tail it. By a policy not susceptible of defence, they wilfully doom-to:decay, and probable anni hilation, those manufactUres'which are the pabu lum .of traffic. There stalks around them the gaunt evidence of their guilt, and they . em blazoned it by their display. The leading idea brought before the public by the great ceremony : seems only to have been conjured up to brand with reprobation the political agents, who assisted at it. We have received the Paris papers, together with Madrid journals of the 9th instant. All the important paragraphs contained in them are given in our Foreign Summary. The following is the article for which the re sponsible Editor and Printer of the Charivari— the Paris " Punch"—have been condemned by the Government, the former to two years' impri sonment and a fine of 1601., and the latter to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 801.: " The cross of the Legion of Honour has just been given to M. Hebert ; there is a talk of granting the same to the executioner. This is the recompense for his efforts in procuring the condemnation of Dupoty—an easy triumph. The jury would not have been convinced by that mixture of gall, bile, absurdity, and extra vagance, M. Hebert's requisitory. But the Court of Peers Leing an exceptional tribunal, could not be con vinced by eloquence and logic, both exceptional. So that M. Hobert's was an easy triumph, and the racotppense nc t very brilliant. A Cross of the Legion of Honour is the • . • 4.4 ' .u, „,, • ;- 4 , 4,- s ett .zAttli. TAE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY l9, 1842. pay for consigning to the dungeons of Doullens a writer of the independent press of Paris, as a moral conspirator. A cross of honour for each head crushed by the hydra of the press—such is the Ministerial offer. Who wants a cross ? The Procureur-General must have expected something lbetter. A mere star and cross is not pay enough for having invented a new crime, which brings down condemnation, and requires no proof of moral crime. Richelieu paid Laubardement better ; he may have des pised him, but he enriched him. Why not enrich M. Hebert ? Deutz got 400,000£ for betrayine , the Duchess of Berry? Why, then, give so little as a riband to the lawyer that has caun ht , Dupoty ? A n orator lik e Hebert is not to be had every day, who perorates so freely his criminal rhetoric, and who leads his audi tors through a, series of clap-traps and fear-traps, lulling them with sounds of the scaffold, and with flowers of eloquence all savouring of blood. This is not to be bought by a riband, but with gold. He would have preferred a useful grain of millet. We saw yesterday a veteran of our armies, who tore off his cross, att dashed it on the ground with disdain, exclaiming, " Never will I wear it again ; I might be mistaken for the Procureur-General Hebert.' " The Department of Finance has just published the statements of the amount of the receipts of the indir ec t taxes in 1841, compared with that of 1839 and 1840. The following is the general summary ; The first nine months of 1840 show an increase of 43,525,000 f. above the same period of 1839. The last quarter shows an increase of 1 4,759,000 f. above the last quarter of 1839 ; total -increase 50,284,000 f. The re ceipts in 1840 having exceeded that of 1839, the increase in 1841 above 1840 is 33,038,000 f. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND iittbltt tifiptnton. Who runt may read." FOREIGN. The following is the King of the French's reply to the Address of the Chamber of Peers, in answer to the Speech from the Throne :—" You know the value I set on the sentiments which you have just expressed. They form a new pledge, added to the many you have already given to France, of the confidence which the nation has a right to place in that salutary union of all the powers of the State, which constitutes the strength of our institutions, and demonstrates the impotence of those who may still dream of their overthrow. With that union, with your loyal co-operation, we shall continue to follow the line pointed out to us by our duties and our oaths, ,and thereby secure to our country the enjoy ment of all the blessings and advantages which Provi dence has bestowed on it." A French Cabinet Council has discussed the question whether the Chamber of Peers will condemn M. Cham bolle, the Editor as well as the gerant of the Siecle. The result was to inform the leaders of the Upper Chamber that the Ministry was ready to engage in the combat for them or the Deputies, and demand permission to imprison M. Chambolle, Deputy of La Vendee, nay, that they were pretty sure to get the permission voted, but that the Ministry must leave the responsibility and initiatiVe to the Peers. Count Mole is said to have gone to the King and dissuaded an attack of the kind on so eminent a member of the dynastic Opposition. The Augsburgh Gazette publishes instructions for the Censors,. issued by the Prussian Government, forbidding them " to obstruct any serious and discreet inquiry after truth," and reminds them of the edict of 1819, which bids them " repress all that outsteps the common bounds of religion, which is a g ainst morals and go o d h a bi ts , all fanatical introduction of religion into politics, and all that may affect the security of the Prussian State and that of the Germanic Confederation." A free expression of all that respects the circumstances of the country is to be pdrmitted. Also all fair criticism on the adminis tration. This well-meaning, though unmeaning edict, is dated Berlin the 24th, and signed Rochow, Eichlen, and Maltzahn. The Leipsic Gazette states that the Ottoman Porte had just received intelligence of an insurrection having broken out at Damascus. The troops sent against the rebels were repulsed, and forced to take refuge in the citadel, whence the Governor was bombarding the town. The Christians and Israelites took no part in the insur rection. The following project of law has been presented to the Spanish Cortes • " Art. 1. AU the interest of the Home Consolidated Debt, as well as of that in circulation abroad, due and to fall due at the half -yearly terms anterior to the I s t o f January, 1843, s h a ll be capitalised. " Art. 2. In exchange for these interests, there shall be delivered from the National Sinking Fund Annuities to the bearer, at 3 per cent., for a sum equal to the whole of those which are at present in circulation. " Art. 3. These annuities will commence to take effect from the Ist of January, 1842, for those who shall demand the capitalisation of the interest of 1841 and 1842, before the 30th June next ; those who shall make their demand after that date, shall only have an option for the second half yearly term, provided they make it in the course of that term ; and the same shall be the case with the following half-yearly terms. - ".PEDRO SURRA Y BULL. "Madrid, Dee: 31, 184 I%" • - 711111IZMO - OPIVIZOW. The object of the principal leading articles in the Morning Post is to uphold our colonial trade, and con demn the manufacturing system, which, we are assured, is " rotten from t o p to bottom. In order to create this hideous fabric," adds the Post, " we have most grossly neglected the interests of our colonies. In order to prop up this hideous fabric beyond the period of its natural downfal, we are modesty required to sacrifice the very foundations of our home trade." The Times makes a clumsy defence of its unlucky article on Saturday respecting the King of Prussia's visit ; and takes the opportunity of loading his Majesty with a vast, deal of superfluous panegyric. In another article, our Contemporary, alluding to the late Con ference at Edinburgh of the Scotch Dissenting Minis ters on the subject of the Corn-laws, hints pretty broadly that_ it would not be . amiss if the. Legislature were to punish them for sedition ! The AdOertiser is of opinion that the 'Ministerial Anti- Corn-law meeting in Edinburgh is on e o f th e mar k e d signs of the times, which, if Sir Rob er t P ee l b e hi s own friend or the friend of his country, he will not disregard. The Herald contains an article on the affair of the Creole, wherein it states that neither wa,r nor diplomacy will settle the distressing question arising out of the Slave-trade and slavery ; and that "there is but one mode by which they willcease 'to plague the Government of either country, and that is, the ahOlition of ilareryin the United States. To this it must come at last—the sooner it is accomplished the safer, it will be." The Chronicle thus alludes to the article in the Times of Saturday on the subject of the King of Prussia. " The Times believed that an attack on him might not be dis agreeable to its party ; while for that Journal the sub ject had the peculiar attraction of affording it an oppor tunity of flattering the most vulgar prejudices, which it sometimes dignifies by the name of national feeling, of the lowest class of its readers. Your genuine bully, however, is not without his share of cunning, and so the article of Saturday was framed so as to afford an oppor tunity of sneaking out of it, should it appear advisable to do so." MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. From statistics already laid before the Glasgow Con vention now sitting, the following appear, among other facts:—At Dundee, out of a total of 3,331 weavers, there are 554 partially employed, 1,458 unemployed. At Aberdeen two mills, one employing 500 and the other 300 hands, had stopped within the last two months, while the decrease in the custom-duties was 2,0001. for the first time. At Kirriemuir, 400 unemployed, and po verty very great. At Bankfoot, 273 without means of support; at Largs 176. Examination was again proceeded with on Monday be fore the Bankruptcy Commissioner into the affairs of William Hitchcock, linendraper, and further hearing adjourned to eleven o'clock on Friday next. The equalisation of the •duty•betwee-n East and West India sugars, has increased the shipment of that article 250 per cent., while, at the same time, the whole of the Presidency of Bengal has-consumed its own produce, the importation of the foreign product being wholly prohibited. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT'S. The proposed improvements at the West-end are to commence at lady-day, or as soon after that period as possible. The line of Coventry;street, through Cran bourne-alley, will be continued; - inid a vast number of houses on the Marquis of Salisbury's' estate will be p u ll e d down. The line of the intended new street w ill' b e com menced in Castle-street, Long-acre, where the h ouses ' w ill be first pulled down. ELECTIONEERING. Sir Charles Lemon has now positively announced him self a candidate for West Cornwall; the requisition was signed by 1,700 electors, besides whom there are many who have given promises to vote. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A strong snow -storm and wind drove no less than 14 vessels ashore on Thursday upon the Sunderland coast. The damage they sustained is great, and two of the crews were saved by the life-boat From the report , read at the meeting of the Royal Naval BenevolehtSeciety - on Monday, it appeared that the : - receipts and disbursements left a clear balance of 7281. 3s. 4d. .General Scott, of Malleny, the 'Oldest officer in the British army , atta i ne d h i s 9 7th year on Thursday last, which wa s c el e b rate d b y a d i nner at Balerno. He is five years the senior o f even L or d Lynedoch, and has served in most q uar t ers o f t h e globe. LAW AND POLICE. The new Police -court in Bow-street was opened on Monday for the despatch of business. It is very comme dions, and forms an agreeable contrast to the old, ill ventilated, dark, and confined chamber so long the chief police-office of the metropolis. At Clerkenwell, James - La wall, aced 42 , was charged with havi ng d eserted and crue lly treated his wife and children. It appeared that the poor woman, who refused to enter the workhouse, was in a dying state through starvation, ancrthough she had three young children in the hovel in which she lived crying for bread, the hus band would make no exertions to provide for them. He was committed to the House of Correction to be kept at hard labour for a month. Two starved farm labourers, who came from Ashford, Kent, were brought before Mr. Rawlinson, at Maryle bone, charged with stealing a quartern loaf. On en tering a baker's shop one of them asked for a " big one," broke it in two, handed one-half to his hungry comrade, and both commenced eating it with great . avidity. Th ey had no money, could -get no work, and took the bread to save themselves from starvation. They were remanded. Two men were charged at Lambeth street with driv ing a gig at a furious rate on Sunday night along the:E ast India Dock Road. .Th e _h orse , it appeared, in attempting to clear a. sidebar, got e n t ang led and broke it s l egs - i n two or three plum The men were both intoxicated, and one was fined ss. for being drunk, and the other 2/. for furious driving. At Union-hall, William Yates, charged with com mitting between thirty and fort/frauds on charitable institutions and private individuals, was committed for trial. FINE ARTS. , Wood-carving, which has been long in neglect, is re viving in France, and some highly-wro u ght s p ec i mens now adorn the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and the porch of St. Germain des Pres. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Mr. Conder has invented a new " Messenger propel ling engine," the uses of which are likely to be important on railways. The species of propulsion which distinguishes it, will entirely supersede the machinery which is always at work on the Blackwall and other railways, where 18 miles of rope are constantly being wound and unwound. The French Government have already appointed a Com mission to examine the engine, with a view to adapt it to the new lines of road in France. 0 OITILT-FASHION.A.BLE. The Marquis of Anglesea arrived at Uxbridge House on Saturday, from Beaudesert. Earl Grosvenor arrived on Monday from Motcomi,e Park, and in a day or two proceeds to Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle leave Castle Howard on the 26th for town. The Earl and Countess Delawarr arrived in - Upper Grosvenor-street on Monday, from Buckhurst, Sussex. Mr. Hope returned to Mansfield-street last week, from Deepdene. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton arrived at the Clarendon on Monday, from Beaufort Castle. IVIICELLANEOUS. Sir Robert Peel, at the Mansion-house banquet on Mon day, paid a high compliment to the Lady Mayoress, who stood, as he expressed himself, " at the head of the female society in the City of London;" and, speaking of the benevolent Mrs. Fry, who sat at his left hand, he observed, " Her presence would do honour to any com pany: she had visited the abodes of vice and misery, and done all in her power to alleviate human suffering, and diminish contagion." RUMOURS 01' THE DAY. It is confidently rumoured in the diplomatic circles, that Prince Ferdinand, consort of her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, has been invited to be present at the ap proaching Royal christening, and that his Serene High ness is daily expected in London. The Morning Post is, we believe, mistaken in supposing that the descriptions it has quoted of the condition of the factory labourers under tbrmer Tory Governments is causinc , great chagrin in the Anti• Corn-law party. All who wish well to the labourers are glad to see the Tories take that view, though they are very sensible that it is only taken now, for the first time, as a means of warding off an attack on the Corn-laws. There is no intention of benefit ing the people; but they will be benefited by the confession implied in the Tory charges, that they are not as well off as they ought to be. At the same time, the Post must be very ignorant if it be not aware that pictures equally dark could be drawn of the condition of the peasantry, and on better authority than Mr. Gaskill's book. The Report of the Poor-law Commissioners teems with passages indicative of distress, misery, and immorality in the agricultural districts. There is a great probability that the condition of the labouring classes will be permanently improved, now that the different parties accuse each other of having treated them ill. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by his suite, arrived at the Castle from town between eleven and twelve o'clock last night. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex paid a visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert this morning. The Royal Duke arrived from Ken. sington Palace shortly before one o'clock, and remained at the Castle two hours. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ar rived at the Castle this morning, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton has succeeded the Countess of Sandwich as the Lady in Wait ing on the Queen. The Marquis of Ormonde and the Hon. Nelson Hood have succeeded Lord Byron and Sir Frederick Stovin as the Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty. Her Majesty and Prince Albert inspected, this morning, a finished line engraving of " The Italian Pilgrims coming in sight of the Holy City," from Eastlake's picture, submitted by Mr. Moon. Her Majesty and the Prince were graciously pleased to express their unqualified approbation. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, left her resi dence, Clarence House, St. James's, at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, oft a visit to her Ma jesty at Windsor Castle. A Deputation of machine-makers, including Mr. Jenkinson and Mr. Curtis, of Manchester. Mr. Fairbairn, of Leeds, and Mr. Hackie, of Bury, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister on a Special Mission, left his residence iu Carlton house-terrace, yesterday morning, for Ostend, to receive his Sovereign on his way to this country. The Spanish Minister transacted business yes terday at the Foreign•office. Despatches from the Governor of the Mauri tius, and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at' the CO-. lonial-office. THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. The following is a copy of the bulletin issued yesterday at noon : " His Grace the Duke of Cleveland is in much the same state as yesterday, having passed an indifferent night.—" St. James's-square, Jan. 18, 1842." FOLLIES ON MACHINERY." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In a late conference with some of the working classes in one of the manufacturing towns, it was ascertained from them that, the following was among • their articles of faith; so far at least as a derisive hum on its being sub mitted as apocryphal, may be considered •as evidence. " That if a stop were - put to the use of stamps or machinery in printing cottons, the same quan tity would be manufactured as at piesent, and the working classes employed to paint them all by hand." When a prime minister makes his stand on the question of Machinery, the , operatives must not be questioned too narrowly on the use they have made of their oppo►•tunities of knowledge. But the inference from the wanderings of both will be, that this will make a fine subject on which to overturn the general Alliance of the " Ex. tinguishers" whether rich or poor within our land Yours very sincerely, T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Blackeath, Jan. 18, 1849. SNOW STORM,DETENTION OF THE MAILS.-- The weather, during the whole of the past week, has been exceedingly severe. The frost, which set in with unusual keenness, continued with unabated severity until Thursday, and yesterday morning our streets were covered with snow to a depth of two or three inches. The Carlisle mail failed to arrive, and we then entertained no doubt that the snow must have been unusually heavy at both extremities of the county. About five o'clock in the afternoon the mail from the north, by way of Carlisle, arrived, being two hours after its time, and we then learned that the Lon don mail had been five hours behind its time in reaching Carlisle, though we could not ascertain on what part of the road the principal interruption had taken place. The Ulverston mail, which is due about half-past ten in the morning, has not yet arrived, although, at the time we' write, it is three o'clock on Saturday morning.—While even Herald. THE DULNESS or HIGH LIFE.—The fol lowing passages in the Memoirs of the Duchess of St. Albans, contain a sad and home truth:—" Few persons have seen so much of the various aspects, I may say of the two extremes of life, as myself ; and few persons, therefore, can be better judges of the difference between great proverty and great wealth; but, after all, this does not, by any means, constitute the chief and most import ant distinction between the high and low states. No— the signal, the striking contrast is not in the external cir cumstances, but in the totally opposite minds of the two classes as to their respective enjoyment of existence. The society in which I formerly moved was all cheerfulness, all high spirits—all fun, frolic, and vivacity; they cared for nothing, thought of nothing, beyond the pleasures of the present ho ur , and to those they gave t h emselves up with the keenest relish. Look at the circles in which I now move ; can anything be more weary, stale, fiat, and unprofitable,' than their whole course of rife ? Why, one might as well be in the treadmill as toiling in the stupid, monoto nous round of what they call pleasure, but which is, in fact, very c h eer l ess and heavy work. Pleasure, indeed ! when all merriment, all hilarity, all indulgence o f our natural emoti ons , if t h ey b e of a joyous nature, are de clared to be vulgar. There can be no cordiality where there is so much exclusiveness and primness : no ! all is coldness, reserve, and universal ennui, even where this starchness of manner is unaccompanied by any very strict rigour in matters of conduct. Look, now, at those quadrille-dancers in the other room ; they have been supping, they have been drinking as much cham pagne as they liked ; the band is capital ; the men are young and the girls are pretty; and yet did you ever see such crawling movements—such solemn looks, as if they were all dragging themselves through the most irksome task in the world ? Oh ! what a different thing was a country-dance in my younger days !" LORD MORPETH IN AmErucA.--Lord Mor peth, it is said, came to this country to loOk after, a very beautiful and accomplished woman, the daughter of one of the Boston merchant princes, Mr. Appleton, we believe. A few years ago she travelled in England, became acquainted with the_ Gallant Howard, and the re suliivas; that he fell deeply in love with the American. It is so, nygood Lord P , ---New York Herald. MONEY Ind COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The public securities evinced more firmness, in the absence, however, of any extensive purchases. When once the Government sales are suspended there is every probability of a steady improvement in prices. Consols for immediate transfer were quoted 88i to 89/, and for the Account 89/ to 89/. Exchequer Bills were a shade higher, viz. 15s. to 18s., and India Bonds 10s. to 12s. premium. Bank Stock realised 167, and East India Stock 246/ to 247. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 984 to 99, and the Three per Cent. An nuities 891 to 89/. The market for Portuguese Bonds again exhibited an improvement to-day, but Spanish Stock was flat, and in the other Foreign Bonds there was no alteration. The New Five per Cents. Portuguese advanced from 33 and 334 to 34 and 341 for Money, and touched 34' for Time. The Three per Cents. rose to 19i and 20-1-. Spanish Active Bonds were 241 ; Mexican 29/ ; Colombian 221; and Brazilian 65 ; Buenos Ayres Bonds were 198 to 20; and Peruvian 15 to 15f ; Dutch Five per Cents. brought 1001 to 101. The Railway Shares also manifested less inactivity. Great Western were 23, the New 1 ; the Birmingham 80, the New 27 ; and the South Western 19?,- to 20 premium. Brighton were 118,and Eastern Counties 14 discount. London Joint-stock Bank Shares were 24 pre mium ; and National Provincial Bank of England / to discount. The Foreign Exchanges were not quite so low to-day. Bills were negotiated on liamburgh at 13 104 ; on Paris at 25f. 771 c. to 82ic. ; on Frankfort at 150 to 150 ; on Amsterdam at 12 4i to 4 ; on Trieste at 9 52 ; and on Antwerp at 12 4 to 41. The following are the official returns of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last:— Silver coin to liamburgh.... .... 10,000 oz. (From The Sint of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 17.—The busi ness in the Cotton Market to-day has been very dull, the sales scarcely reaching 3,000 bales, of which 500 have been taken for export. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 17.—The transac tions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise—Eastern Counties, Debentures, 101. 9s. 2d.; Liverpool and Man chester, 1971 ; Ditto, 321. New Shares„ 57 ; Midland Counties, 89 ; North Midland, Thirds, 1G ; Paris and Rouen, 13k. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 17.—The market has been dull and very little business transacted. London and Brighton, 37 to 38; Manchester and Bir mingham, 271 to 28; Manchester and Leeds 711 to 721; ditto Quarters, 31. 16s. to 31 17s. (2onsols opened at 888 89 fur Money, and 89i for the Account ; Three per. Cents. Reduced 89-i ; Ditto Three-and-a-Half Ditto; 99i s ; Exchequer Bills 15 17 premium. Spanish Active Stock, 244 25 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 33+ a ; Ditto Threes, 194 201 ; Mexican Bonds, Very little business doing. The English Stock Market is firm. Consols have ad vanced to 898 for Money, and 892 fr for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced are 894 ; :DittoiThree-and-a- Half, 9.91 ; Exchequer Bills, l 5 17 ; and India Bonds, 10 12 prem. Spanish Active Stock is steady at 244 ; Deferred, 12 ; Colombian, 221 • Portuguese Five per Cents. 348; Ditto, Threes, 20i a ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 508 51 ; Ditto, Fives, 100;1. The following are the only transactions in the Share Market during the morning :—London an d B r i g ht on , 381 ; Ditto, South Western, 59 ; Bristol and Exeter, 25. Consols, Money, 89 to 89*; Account, 89 891 i; Mexi can, 2911; Colombian, 221 f t ; Portuguese, 34+ k; Spa nish, 248 25. There are rather satisfactory accounts from the manufacturing districts to-day, and it is pro bable that we are gradually progressing to wards a better state of things. Money here, in the London market, has fluctuated to some extent lately, but on the whole we now call it easy. It is clear the private bankers are in a safe and unembarrassed position, as they have been the chief takers of the heavy amount of stock, in all more than one million sterling, sold in a few days by the Government broker. It is supposed too, that the Provincial Banks are less straitened than they were, the partial run upon them in some districts having ceased. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 167 India Stock ' ' ...Sr/ 3 per Cent Red. B9i Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9k Ditto Old Annuities ... -- • 3i per Cent Red 99i Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,0001, ...2id 18 pm , New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001.... l7 pill Long Annuities toexpire , Ditto Small l7 pm Jan. 1860 .. . 12i Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 l2i India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. ...... ..“ Consols for Open .... 891 t - _ _ _ FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent !Portuguese, 5 percent. 54 Belgian, 5 per cent — Otto, New Ditto ' 34A Brazilian Bonds. .. lPrussian, 5 percent. .:. -:- '. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cest i Russian, 5 per cent .• ' Chilian, 6 per cent... ~ !Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent.. ;Spanish, 5 per cent 24; Ditto, 1824. — ;Ditto, Deferred l2l Danish, 3 per cent — ;French, 5 per cent. —f. —u, Greek, 1825, 5 per cent I Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29i 'French, 3 percent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 —,batch, 2! per cent. 5l Peruvian.lB2s, 6 per et. 151 'Ditto, 5 per rent. . ..... 1001 SHARES% Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ..... . ... .. 25 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... Great Western Railway( 65 paid) BB Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ... 10; London and Brighton (50 paid) 384 London and Birmingham (90) ......... ... Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Dii to Quarter Shares (15 paid)... ...... COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-. YESTERDAY. ) Amsterdam CF. 12 7; Gibraltar . .......,. 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa Antwerp l2 7 Milan Hamburgh; M. B. 13 14 Venice 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per oz 119; Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150;. Bahia I'etersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres -- Berlin.... ... ............ 7 New York, 21 slays sight 46; Vienna, effec. fl. 3M. 955 Philadelphia i 56 Trieste, ditto 9 1 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid .. 36* 'Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9. ' Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona . 36 New Dollars... 0 4 9; Seville LLO v IFS SHIPPING LONDON, JAR. B.—Wind this day at noon. S.W. RAMSGATE, JAN. 17.—The Eden, Kennison, from Poole to Newcastle, struck on the Kentish Knock yester day, but came off and sank in seventeen fathoms water. Crew saved. DEAL, JAN. 17.—Wind W.N.W., moderate.—Arrd. General Palmer (transport), Westward. Arabella, Mau ritius, sailed Oct. 8. Arrd. from the River, llaidee, St. Vincent's ; Robert and Pet, Malta. OFF DOVER, JAN. 17.—Ellison,Brown, Sierra Leone, Nelson, Le Gresley, Rio. OFF MARGATE, JAN. 17.—Amelia, Nicholl, Calcutta ; Sabine, Dorie; Messina ; City of Rochester, Odessa. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind W.N.W. Arrived her Majesty's ship Hastings, Lisbon. Arrived off, Earl of Clare, Cape, sailed Nov. 9. .COWES, JAN. 17.—Arrd. Francis Lawson, Sierra. Leone, -with loss of main-yard ; Nile, Havre for Ame rica, with main-yard sprung. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.—The Hamburgh brig, from St. Übes to Rio, which was in contact with the Frances Ann, arrived here from the Mauritius, was the Emm a Louisa, and not the Albert, as reported. GLOUCESTER, JAN. 7.—Arrd. Galloviden, Malta. POOLE, JAN. 15.—Arrd. Nelson, Newfoumland. OFF SALCOMBE, JAN. 16.—E. D., Patras. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 1 6. Arrd. Cou rier, Gallipoli. The Oak, from London, which was off port 14th inst., with loss of bowsprit and other damage, has been towed in. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind N.W. to N.—Arrd. the Manley, Ridles, Ancona. Sld. Louisa Campbell, New Zealand. FALMOUTH, JAN. 16.—Wind S.W. to N.W..—Arrd. Midas, Kier, London for Batavia and Singapore, with loss of three boats, bulwarks, &c., 12th inst., in lon. 9. Eleanor Clark, Odessa, leaky, cargo heated, and with loss of bulwarks • Conte Ortemberg, Vuvocich, Trieste ; Margaret, Southampton, for Vigo. CLYDE, JAN. 18.—Slci. John Mun, Savannah. Coax, JAN. 15.—Arrd. Earl Grey, Douglas, Malta ; Majestic, Rowland, Messina. Sld. Elva, Newfoundland. DUNDEE, JAN. 15.—Sld. Helen Symers, Havannah. Bum, JAN. 17.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Sld. Niagara, Cole, New Orleans. SOUTHWOLD, JAN. 17.—The Mary and J. Marsden, Crooks, which was stranded 18th November, has been repaired, and proceeded. YARMOUTH, JAN. 17.—The Spring, Thomson, from Hull to London, was in contact with the Mary,Williams, of North Shields, this morning off Cromer, the former lost mainmast and bulwarks, the latter had stern and jib-boom injured, &c. The Spring was towed into the Roads by the Mary, and has since been brought into the harbour. NEW LIGHTHOUSE AT CALAIS. The following has been received at Lloyd's : " Admiralty, Jan. 14. " Sir—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to transmit to you herewith copies of a translation of a letter received from the French Go vernment of the erection of a new Light to be shown at the end of the West Pier of Calais Harbour, on and after Ist Jan. 1842.—1 am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " To the Secretary, Lloyd's. " JNO. BARROW. " NOTICE TO MARINERS. " Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, Jan. 1, 1842. "‘ NEW CALAIS LIGHT .- The French G overnment h as given notice that on the Western Jetty Head of Calais Harbour, which has been recently extended 269 yards, a small fixed light is now exhibited, and is visible at three miles distance ; but in bad weather it may he im possible to approach the extreme end of the Jetty, and in that case it will not be lighted. Until the Ist of May next this light will be shown and extinguished at the same time as the tide-light on Fort Rouge, but after that date the new light will continue all night.' " At the Mansion-houge banquet on Monday, the Lady Mayoress and the female gilests were accom panied from the drawing-room to the Egyptian-hall in the following manner :—Prince Albert walked arm-in arm with the Lady Mayoress; Sir Robert Peel with Mrs. Fry; the Marquis of Exeter with lirs. Somes; the Earl of Haddington with Miss Fry; and. the Duke of Wel lington with Mrs. Melville; and the Duke of Buckingham ; with Mrs. Pidgeon. MORNING SUN LITERATURE. FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 56. -': Chapman and Hall, London, 1842. By an Address prefixed to this Number, :We learn that the Foreign Quarterly Review has lately passed into new hands, and that henceforta, it will be conducted with increased spirit. " cost," says the editor, " will be spared to securc::i contributions from gentlemen who occupy highest literary positions at home and abr02.,.1, and to procure from them such articles as ftlitYy.' at the same time, both suit the taste of tht British public, and contribute to internatiatr a 4 instruction." If the Review be carried on Irk this liberal spirit—though we must confeso.vg) have a sort of inherent distrust of literary Prt ) ,'; spectuses—it can scarcely fail of meeting wi ta :, public encouragement, but indeed it will not doing amiss, if it do no more than maintain 06:: high and impartial character it has already ae7l - The present Number is a good, thou by no means a first-rate, one. The first article on " Egyptian Hieroglyphics," discusses on6.°,Ft two abstrutip perplexing points with an air. (),, learned pretension, which, however, is not altcr. gether . unwarranted, for the Reviewer evidently- understands as much of his subject as is eye,.; likely to be understood. If his essay be heavy , the fault is not in him, but in his theme, for, the first place, it is intolerably backnied ; an d : secondly, nothing definite or conclusive can eve l „ be arrived at, for almost all is guess-work as re' garde Egyptian speculations. The notice 01 . " Barante's History of the Dukes of Burgundy; is an agreeable subject, lightly and dexterous i l . canvassed. This celebrated Duchy cuts a coir spicuous figure in the history of the middle ageOP• and its Dukes were for many a long year thoro. Kingsin the sides of the of France. Indee d' ''. during a portion of - the reign of Louis the Eleventh, Charles the Bold was his rival ill' power, and almost in extent of dominion, an: scarcely concealed his intention of throwing of the shackles of France, and erecting Burgunut into an independent Monarchy. The Reviesire; , should have entered more fully into this part his subject than he has done, for it is full of in''. terest. " Roepell's History of Poland" is to the full as entertaining as the topic will admit o . t , for the annals of this ill-starred country It7' nearly as barren of instructive or amusingmatte t . as those of Russia, and only begin to posser, value about the close of the seventeenth centurk,,: Poles and Muscovites were alike barbarous whg''. the rest of Europe was emerging from darkneOjt and who can take interest in the monotonous• cords of barbarism ? " Sweden As It Is" givei".".. detailed account of the present state of conirnere . o x : and manufactures in that rising kingdom, o „.°Y , ' condemns its celebrated King, Bernadotte, : f° incessant boastings that he is the savior 9i Sweden, which the Reviewer observes, ".kt excited great bitterness among almost. eveu class." The notice of " Kohl's Sketches of -6 ° . Petersburgh," furnishes . us with more curious de tails respecting this imposing metropolis that"! o .e . have yet met with, notwithstanding the nutrr: rous " Travels," " Visits," &c., to Russia, W 4 , 4: which the press is constantly teeming. houses, it seems, are rarely more than one or t'fi i ,C: stories high, but they make up for want of Neigh' by the immense space ofground which they cove t ; " To form their foundation," adds the Revievie: "requires a little fortune, owing to the swatniii... character of the soil, into which so many Pi: must be driven before a solid scaffolding can P: formed, that an entire house might elsewhere by. constructed for much less money." Nothiug we are assured, can equal the horrors of a Ru g ; sian street when the frost breaks up. Man weeks elapse before " the six months' accumulit'. tion of snow is able to wind its muddy coil through the gutters into the Neva, and Whilej: this intermediate condition, the streets are 0 , 1 with a sea mud, such as the liveliest imaginatiogrcl a:Cockney would vainly attempt to picturet? hinkSelf:" Yet, bad as the thaw is, the frosj_ .a l scarcely less annoying, for clouds of snovrtOwL, are then throWn up by the horses, forming a•lig;', powder more disagreeable even than the titis!_ 6 4 l summer; noses, too, are in the habit of freetol2 without the knowledge of their proprietoro , that to pall a man's nose in the street is not, insult him, as with us, but to do him. the greA,,,tv posSiblekitidness We co3clude with a desq?l::' Lion of the river Neva, which, says the Rev„ . lieil a century ago was known to few but the Pe.- t ;' men of the Finnish marshes; while noWy fame fills the world, and its chrystal waters serY to mirror lines of palaces among the most suLIT.; tuous that this earth has ever seen :" The Neva is a river of about forty English mile*A , length, and is the channel through which the Ladog. Lake pours its waters into the Baltic. Just before reael! n i ing the Gulf of Finland, it di v id es i n t o a. multitude," arms, of which the pri nc ip a l are, t h e G reat an d Littl: Neva, and the Great a n d Li tt l e N ev k a. Of these ,. tfr . P Great Neva is the most i m p ortant, b e i ng i n some t`rL more than twice as broad as th e Th ames at Wate rloo? bridge. It is impossible for a river to be of more in 1 1 34 :5 ance to a city than the Neva is to St. Petersburgh, ..; boundless is the a ff ection ex p resse d t owar d s it by the,a habitants, and probably felt by mos t o f th em , The Peterdnugher maintains that no other water on the fal of the globe is so sweet to drink ; that with none Otte can coffee or tea be made in such perfecti on ; and t"i . first thing presented to a friend on his return from a i °11 ; ney is generally a glass of Neva wat e r. The Etnre%l Alexander is even said to have always had a quantitAii Neva water bottled up for his use in travelling. Neva, moreover, abounds in a variety of deliciou fis h," serves to cleanse the capital of its impurities, and Plt Le 4 it in easy connectio n , n o t o n ly w ith f ore i gn coun tries, br•• even with some of the most remote provinces of the et l i pire. For nearly s i x mon th s o f every rea r, _ t h e belov . , i , Neva is bo un d i n i cy f etters ; f or ear l y in N ovem ber navigation closes, and it is rarely before the beginning t ° ,' • the middle of April that the water has acquired S tiu. ;` cient warmth to enable it to burst its bonds. This t a , ment is anxiously looked for ; and as soon as the citt% masses of ice have glided do wn th e r i ver f ar enou gh make it possible for a boat to pass from one side to th other, the wished-for event is announced-by a discharr s , of artillery f rom th e f ortress. Be i t night or day, t",g Commandant of the fortress, accompanied by the otfic e i, of his staff, and arrayed in all the insignia of his rain embarks in hi s gon d o l a , an d crosses over to the riitinio palace. The Commandant is immediately admitted W ho his Sovereign' s p resence , to w h om h e an nounce s that' t i winter has reached its close, in token of which he rocu ° l, to his gondola, and pres e nt s hi s M a j es ty w ith a erY a s h — ,„ e , goblet filled with the sparkling water of the Neva. hea ls Emperor drains off the uninebriati ng b um p er t o the hen, of his capita], and retur ns th e go bl et t o th e Commanu,%. filled with gold. Such at least was f ormer ly th e practi c ' but it was found that the goblet h a d a marve llous te -„-: ; dency to increase its dimensions, till at last the Ear ror's potatory powers were scarcely equal to the task if; posed upon him, while his .privy purse . was at the OP' . time made sensible of the expansive quality of the C° l ' l ,i mandant's goblet. A compromise was at last deer' .t expedient. The Emperor fixed the officer's do:tota' s , 200 ducats, and since then his Majesty has found it l es , difficult to comply with the periodical usage of his Water drinking predecessors. • . PENNY MAGAZINE. C. Knight, London, VW' This is the first volume of a new series of a P 6 74 riodical which most deservedly has met with large and constantly increasing circulation. J . 7t is embellished with numerous choice wood eq/ gravings, some of which are take n fr om th e belTs paintings in the Dulwich Gallery; while otligM under the title .of " Chaucer's Portrait. GalleW furnish us with clever sketches of the prin.cil 33 . :7 i characters in the tales of this incomparable'. 3 " tx thor. The literary portion of -the work, is in' respect inferior to the pictorial, containing, t 0, ,; ther with several piquant original ar ticles,' tracts of fitting length from books of voyages an travels, natural history, and science. The'Ma_ l :'; zine, it appears, is br oug ht O ut under theti, tronage of the Society for the Diffusionof Use' Knowledge. ;~~ CHAMBERS' LONDON JOURNAL, roL „ Chambers, London, 1842. The chief fault we find with this MiscellanY,,i; its name, which would lead one to suppose th',.; it was under the direction of the Messrs. C 4 414; hers, whose "Edinburgh Journal" has PP 9V ,, n'e i, such a successful speculation; whereas it nothing to do with them, but is, in fact, a Pe ;t fectly distinct publication. As a miscellanYl e s is by no means devoid of interest, for the artic` o are well-selected, but in the majority o f instanc e s those which profess to be original, are the lO rsi of the collection. Mr. Newman of the Bridge-house, on Mancl.T, _presented to the Lord Mayor a splendid gold 0 which is supposed to have belonged to Sir The 11 3,4 Gresham, and was found in the bed of the river London-bridge. It is inscrib e d with a com mercial 1 0 ' o , and the initials T. G., and its weight is nearly one (l e d The gold is very pure. Th e City Antiquarian, St !, o f that it was washed down the Thames, at the fir 7 ol e London. His Lordship wore th e r i ng f or the firstleit on the day Prince Albert laid the first stone of the -17 ' • Idol Exchange. cl 4 Monday evening, between five and six the following serious and alarmi ng ca b r i o l e t aceiclet - : curred to Sir Henry Web s t er , res idi_,,m , in Dorset-r•%:(1 Waterloo-place, Regent -st ree t : —Si r Henry, accomp an ist. by his groom, was proceeding from Pimlico jil t° his James's Park, entering by Buckingham-gate, drivingai, cabriolet, drawn by a high-spirited horse, when h e It- a dentallydrove thewheel o ver ahigh loose stone which ferce g. the wheel with great v i o l ence against some 'high in' The collision was so great that Sir Herlry wa s .,n r e - allt out of the cabriolet with great force; the gre°` - u o rse• from behind the cab, and fortunately secured the n a. Sir Henry sustained some severe injuries, but was en bled to walk home. Th e shafts and cab were in pieces. NY'• INCREASE OF PRESTON CASES OF . 0 - 4 - 4 ° 1 ' 1 2; —1835, 18 ; 1836, 27 ; 1837, 84 ; 1838, 103 ; !•''''"7 3 4 detP, 1840, 160 ; 1841, 144. So much for crime anu bread.— The ostruygle. ~~ andt to tl fob Sep ; of B° 'sl galls 'Yeti; Ono] tOl O c,